skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Help funded YC startup reinvent software testing
We are a pair of YC hackers, and we're building testing as a service. We are in Alpha and have >400 companies waiting to use us.

Let's address the elephant in the room; testing sucks. We agree. But _reinventing_ testing is a serious challenge. It involves solving many complex sub-problems, and touches on practically every discipline within CS. We're taking a super-complex, multifaceted problem and making it simple.

We're looking for full stack engineers who care deeply about simplicity and elegance in interfaces _and_ in code.

Our application is written in Ruby (+ Grape) and Backbone, but smart hackers can adapt, so we're more interested in what you've built than what you've built it in.

You will be one of our first hires, and will be treated like a co-founder. Friendly debate and strongly-held opinions are the foundation of our company, and we like people who are capable of both.

You will be integral in shaping our company culture. We have music constantly playing in our office, we hold weekly hackathons where the only rule is it can't be work, and we cycle / swim / gym every day.

If you are our first hire then email us at letsrevolutionizetesting@gmail.com. Send whatever you think would help us understand who you are and why you're awesome; Github and Twitter links and previous projects you worked on are great.
David doesn't seem to harbor any particular hostility towards Scala. As far as I can tell, he has serious qualms with certain aspects of the way that EPFL and now Typesafe run and have run the Scala community, and have managed the evolution of the language itself, but he loves the language nonetheless. Thus why he has sunk a great deal of time into the Lift community, into keeping it alive, into speaking about it, is currently sinking still more time into the next phases in Lift (Lift 3) and how to push the foundations that Lift 2 laid down even further with that, and why as far as I know it is still his language of choice for many projects, including telegram and Visi.

You state "the server side statefulness of Lift" as a reason it would behoove people to avoid Lift, without bothering to explain why that is a reason to avoid Lift (it isn't--see http://lift.la/blog/lift-state-and-scaling). You state the language "supposes [you] don't know how to program HTML/JS" again without explaining how that is the case (it isn't--I am very good at both, and have never felt as much freedom to use those skills unfettered by server side concerns as I have with Lift; that's anecdotal, but if you make some specific complaints, I'll be glad to address them). And last but not least, you argue that David is hostile towards Scala without providing a single shred of evidence to support your statement.

In the future, it would behoove you to provide evidence for your claims.
When Silicon Went Hollywood Went Hollywood
Sure it is, if you have a predicate for "scumbag?".
100% agree. Obligatory http://contrastrebellion.com/
Ship it...

But please use basic security.

Bcrypt, etc.
Heh, probably their RAT clients don't support Linux.
Awesome Career Advice From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder
Define "tech startups".
That's only for ruby webapps, so not exactly a replacement for Hacker School.
The Inspiring Story of Lego
If you ask women who work in tech, and if they feel comfortable telling you the truth, many of them will respectfully disagree with you. Just because you do not perceive bias or discrimination does not mean it is not there. I was recently at a women's event at the Southern California Linux Expo and everybody had a story to tell. I am glad Hacker School is explicitly trying to be welcoming, because I'm sure there are talented women out there sitting on the fence about whether they are "good enough" to take a leap of faith and do something like this.
Right Said Fred
Who's upvoting this? It's a nonsensical smear campaign, has been outed as such by every commenter in this thread, yet it's still making it to the front page.

I've had a Dropbox Pro account since 2008, after trying both SugarSync and Syncplicity. Dropbox is the only one who's never corrupted my data. They're the only company I'd trust to backup my most important files. It's not worth $10 /month to risk years of work somewhere else.
I'm sure my aunt had her own stories about chauvinism, etc. But that didn't stop her from what she wanted to do. And during her time, it was much worse for women. I'm not implying that it's good today, but if she could do it then I'm sure other women can--and I want to see them do it. My point is that she didn't care what other people thought, she forged her own path and became a success. Not so different than anyone else trying to succeed in the world, regardless of their sex.
The difference is that faculty tend to believe (rightly) that academic freedom gives them the right to communicate freely relative to the average employee.
Such as http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~ritschel/Papers/TemporalGlare.pdf as seen in http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/01/lens-flares/
It's an issue of copyright which means at best its a DMCA violation as long as he filled out his forms and registered his agent.

The owner of the site is in all likelihood not very liable and as long as he complies with the DMCA it's unlikely to go to a higher court where the whole concept of the site could be shutdown.

The whole defamation thing is silly as the 'antibullying' people really pose little risk to the site.
When I've been involved with a public university there are lots of disclaimers and notices that stuff done via University email is not private and isn't subject to requirements for a warrant should the institution want to review it, etc.

However, I would expect that Harvard, being a private institution, and desiring to make its faculty members feel secure, would adopt a standard that's more stringent with respect to institutional access, and that its members, feeling that they're part of the good ol' Harvard crew would feel as though there were an additional informal standard layered on top of any official policy.

In any case, I don't think public or private institutions are likely to treat email at all like private enterprises, and I'm not sure why one would think that is so.
I'm working on a project right now with PHP's built in functions and the help of Google Chrome developer's tools Copy Xpath functionality:

$html = file_get_contents($url);
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$elements = $xpath->query('//*[@id="resultCount"]/span');
There's an embarrassing amount of douchebaggery, for sure. But I'm not convinced that the reason women are misrepresented in programming is as simple as stopping a few assholes from putting slides with misogynist garbage on them at conferences, etc. If only it were so simple. I think it is rooted in deeper problems that expand well beyond the realms of our little bubble of software engineering. The same could be said of many fields that men are largely absent from as well by way of self-exclusion.

To be clear I support the Hacker School/Etsy program completely but took issue with the fact that the parent claimed that it's completely obvious that the reason women have a small presence in software engineering is because of discrimination by a minority of people in our field. I think a lot more women than men simply end up not having an interest in the field due to larger societal issues with gender roles and the way we raise our children and the paths put in front of them, and this is a problem worth solving and programs like this help break those assumptions down. The fact that there are dumbasses who think because there aren't many women in the room they can act like children is a symptom that happens way late in the game. The assholes will evaporate once the deeper problems are solved.
Http://www.writelonger.com/show/2kPne
> how did you learn the command line?
I grew up with it
Goodreads has only two written reviews with positive scores and two negative scores without written reviews: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13707578-paleofantasy

There seem to be no reviews of any science bloggers that I can find - but from reading through the article it seems that the author and me share many grievances about the myths perpetuated by some of the paleo-diet-folks (I'm a biologist, myself).

Regarding that Amazon-review: It was posted on the 5th of March, but the book is only going to be published on the 11th. Did he/she get a preview-edition? I somehow doubt it, the reviewer doesn't seem to be the kind of person who receives copies for review.
Is this post sarcastic?
I'm in a similar boat (just newer), what I'm learning is to start getting it out there. Even if it's complex, work out your message and condense it to it's simplest form so that even if the product isn't done you can show people where it's going.

Then try to find people who resonate with that message. If they really believe in your vision they'll sign up for beta, and start paying as useful features come online. But you have to communicate the essence of your vision first.

I think the idea if polishing what you have so it's always usable before moving into new features is also pretty liberating, so you can show rather than tell where the vision is at today
You should not use "logic" of a programming language for configuration, rather you should use "literal data notations" of a programming language for configuration.

Javascript -> JSON,
Clojure -> EDN,
etc
I'm not that familiar with NeXT, what are you referring to? SGI's Indycam was the first time I was exposed to hardware that had privacy designed in.
the right answer depends on whether you suspect others have already figured it out as well. many discoveries are nearly simultaneously made by others because the components to the solution become available.

remember that powerful countries have secret teams working on this stuff.

so you should remember that your technique may already be in the hands of various good guys and bad guys.

thus, immediate disclosure may be for the best. anything else puts you in serious physical danger. because if you haven't released the secret yet, then kidnapping or killing you may keep the genie in the bottle.
What if you sleep in the morning?
Tell your ideas to take a hike
If you didn't care you wouldn't have brought it up. :)
For every copy of Windows 8 Basic sold, Microsoft saves $2 by not including. That adds up!

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/142796-how-to-play-dvds...
As is often the case with controversial reviews, the comments on that review are fairly eye-opening.
Frankly, I'm surprised they even bothered to do the censorship client-side. I always assumed _all_ my messages and calls were sent to the skype server, where they most definitely did keep a copy of the data (I can, after all, see my message history.)
Interesting review and idea, although I have no idea if it's true. Makes me wonder what other area of knowledge that is filled with garbage.

I note that my programming skill(in term of producing tangle results) and mathematics are probably the only thing I trust in absolutely.
The Amazon review is not by someone who is a verified purchaser of the item under review, nor does the reviewer appear to be, from the reviewer's other reviews I've quickly glanced at, someone who is deeply familiar with the science on the subject. So, yes, the topic is inflammatory, but I wouldn't think less of the book based on a "review" like that. I agree with you that it would be good to read reviews of the new book by scientists who research those issues.

(Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, after noticing that some "reviewers" of his first book seemed not to have actually read the book, added section headings in the table of contents of his second book designed to trip up lazy reviewers. He detected several of those, even among people who review books for professionally edited publications for mass audiences.)
Steve was an amazing business man.
Dennis Ritchie was an computer scientist / innovator.
A computer scientist will innovate things and build things.
A business man will glorify things and sell them to the people and hence people are more in contact with the business man then the scientist which will lead people to praise business man more.
Do You Really Have to Go to College?
That's a tough one because it is beyond clear that --and I am going to use that word-- innovation does not originate in government, master plans or even companies with huge funding.

Make a list of all the major products in the last fifty years, the companies they came from and how they got started to prove the point.

I can't think of a single major scientific discovery in any scientific field over the last, say, 500 years, that was originated or planned by any government or government agency in any country or culture.

Typical examples given are such things as power plants, roads, bridges, water and sewage distribution systems and such large infrastructure projects. These, I argue, have only been created at such scales mostly out of two positions: war-time strategic needs (autobahn and US highway system) and the "natural" evolution of human settlements (as they got larger the infrastructure was a must). In other words, I have never seen any proof that any government engaged in some kind of a long-range master plan to build and deploy infrastructure in support of specific future goals.

Well, except for China.
Straight, young, hip women are just as likely as men to want to meet and do stuff. Spend some time in the OKCupid community and there's plenty of action.

But to take it to Grindr level of connection matching money needs to be involved.

The colloquial saying for prostitution is that the money is so that after they leave. That's what makes it a business transactions, you remove the emotional capital.

The inverse then of creating a connection, hypothetically, is to have money to show that you're a serious candidate about meeting someone. The money could be put into escrow for disbursement to do something at a later point, but at least you get bought in enough to see the flop. Anything thereafter is up to you.

That's how Grindr for straight people could work.
Hi, I'm looking for a technical co-founder for an innovative media startup. I've spoken with a couple of majors; however, they'd like to develop the efforts within their respective corporations (I'd be an employee), so I'm building a startup.

I'd like to communicate initially via email, if you're interested. I'll send an email to you with contact details.
"Let [us] not use FDIC as a crowbar"

Who's "us"? I don't work for or have any power over the government or FDIC.
Douglas Adams' 61st birthday doodle by Google
Ask HN: female being perceived as less convincing on tech subjects? 
Let's say you don't know the lady you are talking with and she starts sharing her opinion on technical things like car, tech, tools. What's your first reaction to such within say...first 5 min into conversation?

What I really want to ask is: To people who know lots about car and tech savvy, when a new idea is being talked about, do you prefer a guy or a girl talking about it?

To put it in context: we are making a short video for target audience who are mostly car guys. We wonder which narrative voice we should go for.
>But overall richness is not desired as much as precision.

Richness and precision are not at odds with one another. Attempts at understanding language through precision is precisely why AI has failed miserably when it comes to actual understanding of language. I promise you that figuring out how to model all the various contexts and connotations that are associated with language is the big breakthrough that natural language processing has been waiting for.

That being said, one can have a precise discussion regarding these admittedly emotional topics if we clearly define all of the relevant contexts that are involved. But anyways, this has suddenly turned into a discussion about race unintentionally. So instead of going into great depth, I will cut to the point which will hopefully clarify my problem with your type of reasoning.

Words like racist and sexist have a certain power in our culture. If you call someone a racist, they immediately become defensive because it has become one of the worst things you can call someone. This is precisely because of the connotations involving hate, inferiority, violence, etc. Now when you attempt to prune all of that cultural context from that word (by defining it as generic discrimination based on race), and then label programs geared towards minorities "racist", you are intentionally wielding that cultural context to stigmatize something that would not otherwise receive that negative connotation. You are changing the definition without simultaneously changing the cultural connotations that give the word its power. This is what is so despicable about altering the meaning of these words: you are using unconscious associations between racism and evil things to stigmatize things you simply don't like by forcing a new association in the minds of your audience by way of the old label. The "evil" connotation is then unconsciously transferred to the thing you don't like.

A clear example of how the degenerate definition is useless, and frankly absurd, is the case of doctors that check black patients for high blood pressure, heart disease, hypertension, etc. This is your "technical" definition of racial discrimination, ie "racism". But it is absurd that this should carry a negative stigma by falling under such a label.

Without proper context, words lose all meaning.
The faculty shouldn't be stunned. Harvard has been reading the e-mail of students for a long time. Why should the faculty be any different?

I'm fairly certain they read my e-mail in 2003 (which I wrote about in my book). Judith Kidd, then a member of the administration, happened to know that I'd hired lawyers in a meeting before I had ever told her. While it's remotely possible that she learned of this from another source, I think it's highly unlikely.

The reason why Harvard (or any university) is not your average employer is that academic institutions, and particularly those with big brand names, are supposed to be beacons of free speech in this country. Professors should be able to discuss or investigate pretty much any [legal] topic they want to without fear of censorship or other repercussions. The notion that the administration could spy on faculty (or students for that matter) without notice could have potential chilling effects that are actually fairly serious.

But am I surprised? Not at all. The Harvard Administrative Board has been and continues to be an abomination. Despite all of the scholarship on the subjects at the law school, due process and transparency remain foreign concepts to these people.
My ex-wife does. (She loved Tomb Raider, too.)
Is the flagging of any and all Microsoft positive stories also an abuse of flagging?
This bring up a good point. When reading documents (not so much posters, etc), I'd rather put the user in control of the display font. They can choose whatever is easiest for them to read, and it's uniform everywhere they go. For example, a friend of mine has his firefox set to use a fixed-width font on all pages. This is something no graphic designer would ever do, but he likes it.
In fact, why doesn't one of the credit card companies simply implement their Verified By Visa thing with two factor authentication, which you can turn off for merchants at whom you recently made physical purchases and previously used shipping addresses?
This is precisely what I came in to post. I've heard people in India talking of cleaning their toilets with Coke better than pesticides -- don't know about cost since I don't drink.
1) no, but I do notice this seems to be more pervasive in the USA. I have very good female friends in tech here. NONE say they notice sexism.

2) again no, and I point to 1, I am talking about my personal experience

3) For fuck's sake, really? Every woman wants to be a programmer, but we men are way too sexist to let it happen. Did you get you 'Prevent your woman from attending CS whip' yet? I sure like to use mine! That is what is fucking happening in the world. My entire post was about MY experience with women in and out of tech. Not some grand generalisation about women. But having a freaking PG idea that men and women are 100% equal, biologically is pretty dumb. Men are attracted to different things than women, and it is POSSIBLE (only possible) that CS is one of those things.

4) Why not? How many Portuguese CEO's on Silicon Valley are there? Or black CEO's? Or do we just care about the women but not native american men? Or asian? Or brazilian? Heck, if any grant should be given, it's probably to out of NY people (men and women) as they have the most to lose by moving there to attend Hacker School.

I'll tell you one thing, you can get many women here talking about being discriminated against, but honestly, as a man, I probably been more discriminated than them. I decided to take a break a while ago from CS to work with special needs children. For that I needed a degree in either elementary teaching or kindergarden teacher before getting my specialisation. I chose kindergarden. I can bet you a million bucks I was more discriminated there than any women at a Python or Ruby conference (I was sexually assaulted, I had parents refusing to let me be with their kids, I had internships refused, had bad grades as I couldn't turn in some papers as I wasn't allowed to do my job).
Now I've read that article I can clearly hear myself saying "Comic Sans is the typeface of a talking dog" countless times over the next rest of my life.
Does MODE_MULTI_PROCESS make Android shared prefs thread safe?
Are you saying web developers aren't developing to a specific target audience? Or do you mean that if you don't have metrics yet then you might as well use someone's global numbers?
Would it be possible to add a retina favicon as well?
That sounds like a good way to kill innovation: make it impossible to distribute (and possibly develop) software without consent of a CA.
"There are times when you do not want to be unserious and insincere, and some people are, and its embarrassing. Comic Sans is just a vector for that, but if you find fault with it, its still the people who are at fault."

I don't understand what this means, could you clarify please?

I love your Surrey Police links and comments. I'm not sure if it's in poor taste to laugh, but frankly I find them hysterical!
"Father does nice thing for daughter. Internet embroiled in controversy over this bold act of political activism"
I'm talking about the new TR that just came out. Many things have changed since the original.
As I mentioned, and I think others have as well in other threads, this seems more like a USA thing. And I would say some of them were comfortable telling me the truth as some of them in college I was dating. In the work place I never dated any, but was close friends with some and never heard a complain. Actually, thinking about it, while the ratio is skewed in the programming front, where I worked, there was a tendency (albeit small) for women to be more represented in higher level positions. Heck, I just accepted a job leading a team at a startup where all programmers are men, but both C level executive are women.
Scumbags all around in this case, unfortunately. The lawyer representing the other party in this case installs malware on the computers of people trying to pirate (one of his other) client's porn. The malware demands a paid settlement on a timer or it will lock access to the computer.

I shit you not.
How about Trajan, the Movie Font?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8
I noticed the article said they use the VNC feature and the Device Manager and My Computer Properties window to find hardware info like serial numbers. I've heard of that forum before, I think 90% of the community found it by typing "how to hack" into google, and the other 10% are profiting in some way.