skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinions:

"my dick is pythonic" may be low brow, but low brow humor is just part of communication. I fall on the other side here.

grey areas here I agree with you, professional settings should not have low brow humor.

but "you’re the hottest.” here I disagree.

I wouldn't call that relatively tame. That's gang mentality against a visible minority in the community.

What's so frustrating about the status of women in technology is there is nothing I can do about the bottom 1% of my male demographic ostracizing women. Short of asking they be removed.

I'm glad he was removed.
This wasn't the case at my school, as an undergrad.
Writing software is not cheap, or even close to free. Even if you can host it for a low price, there are still other associated costs that people ever talk about. Mostly the time spent trying to win the freemium lottery (and getting acquihired).
Key takeaway: "But, if they can't protect my fucking email address why the hell should I trust them with my clients code?"

Who else provides a product/service similar to github enterprise (internally-hosted dead-simple git repo and access system)? I've tried gitlab but it doesn't have quite the same polish.
Move fast! Break things!
The coolest thing I've seen with bitcoin is the reddit bitcointip bot:

http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcointip

The second coolest thing are twitter tip bots.

It's amazing what you can do with a digital-native currency. Creating accounts on the fly is as easy as sending an http request to the bitcoind client.
Ask HN: How to replicate Elon Musk's physicist approach to innovation?
Physicists: When Elon said that applying the framework of physics to innovate was his 'secret sauce'-- What does he mean?

He expains this at 18:22- http://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_mind_behind_tesla_spacex_solarcity.html
Let me sum up:

How to get banned from PyCon:

1. Get drunk
2. Heckle a female presenter during a public presentation
3. Light up a pipe full of weed in the middle of the audience

The rest of the article is irrelevant.
Mid 2012 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD here and ST flies. Never had performance problems. An SSD is the single best upgrade one can make to their machine.
India’s World Startup Report Released. Future Of Technology Looks Bright There
Yaxi, the Uber for Mexico, shows best practices for mobile app support
The sand-boxing problem is not infecting people with binary's they don't want. It's a social attack where users installing bonzi buddy style addons that have both wanted and unwanted behavior. Or people just clicking yes to download that video viewer software, etc. Because, in the end all sand boxing does is buy's you a popup which people are trained to click on.
kerkhoff principle; encryption should not rely on keeping an algorithm as secret. a key can be changed, an algorithm not if it's widely in use
This analogy would only work if Apple gave away the Mac Pro for free, everyone switched to it because it was free, and then Apple announced they needed all the Mac Pros back because they were done providing free Mac Pros.

But it's not. If you have a Mac Pro now, you can continue to use it as long as you want. Google Reader disappears in July.
Cyprus MPs reject EU-IMF bailout tax on bank depositors
SocialSharePrivacy - jQuery plugin
The problem with this is the 0.004 per minute charge. A US call cost from 0.007 and up (flat rates) this will only save up 0.001 to anyone who will use SIP.

Then there's this issue with Apps developed in Plivo cloud not being that much 100% compatible with the open source plivo framework.
Google Makes Animated Gifs A Permanent Part Of Image Search
Ah, the famous "send it to everyone in the loop". Made a smiliar mistake once myself, sent it 7 times per recipient in the list, getting bigger as it looped :(
I think he means Google could've have open sourced Reader if they wanted to.
Ah, my bad. Misunderstood the parent comment.
Pro-tip: Victim blaming and sexist generalizations don't help your argument.

Edit: While I'm glad you removed the remark about "fugly chicks", your attitude still enforces an exclusionary environment.
I'm not a huge international policy wonk, but I don't get how these suits (this one and Omega vs. Costco) reconcile with the rules of the WTO (of which the US and Thailand are charter members).

Doesn't the National Treatment Policy state that imported goods shouldn't be treated differently than locally-produced ones? And doesn't restricting the first-sale doctrine on imported good break that very rule?

I'd love for someone to explain how this relates to international law that we're supposed to be following. I'm always curious abou this stuff, and I can't find anything good in my Google searches.

(I realize that the WTO is rather toothless, but still.)
The Mac Pro is no longer sold in Europe.
Show HN: A simple game that uses EmberJS
Costco won in district court on remand. The theory was that even if it was infringing copyright, using copyright to block physical goods was an abuse of copyright.

So Costco still won in the end.

Omega was appealing the decision last I heard.

Cr_ppy Omega watches are overpriced anyway.
Maybe I should have linked to the internal legacy version of the code (https://github.com/HubSpot/asset_bender/tree/master) instead of the new in-progress v2 (https://github.com/HubSpot/asset_bender/tree/future)?

The point is that we'd rather gather feedback and hear from the community before we assume that everything we've done internally is exactly what other people and companies need. And sure, it would be awesome if we had a super polished version ready for anyone to use, but we kind of want to gauge interest before plowing ahead on v2 in isolation.

ps: About the forks, I'd love to get them merged upstream, but I have the feeling that they diverge more than the owners would like. But yes, we need to have that conversation (and suggestions are welcome, I'm pretty new to the ruby community).
I'm assuming a lot here, but I would think that ST's userbase would be tech-savvy enough to know that XP isn't going to make the cut 12 years later (in addition not to be using it for that long for any kind of coding/repo management).
No update on their status blog as yet: http://stackstatus.net/
I think that analogy is a bit of a stretch. The Mac Pro is a product that you purchase. Google Reader was a free service that was dependent on someone else.

If Apple decides to kill the Mac Pro line, the Mac Pros that have been sold don't suddenly cease to function. But on July 1, Reader will no longer work neither on the website nor on any of the apps using the API.
A petition to Play Haven to give Alex his job back: www.thepetitionsite.com/374/323/889/give-alex-reid-his-job-back/
How is this different than tap(e)?
The Unregulated Work of Mechanical Turk
Well from my experience at an American university(though not in the US, so this may not apply). Some professors will assign graded homework problems by simply referencing the page/problem number of problems to solve. If you have a different book or edition then you simply cannot do the exercises.

Also, as for requiring the newest edition, it's because bookshops may not have older editions in stock, so you cannot require an older edition. Therefore, the only way to make sure all students can get the same edition of a textbook you have to ask for the newest one.

Yes, it sucks. The solution is to scan the problems you want to assign and make them available as PDFs to students, but most professors are too lazy or don't have time for this.
Pro-tip acknowledged. Comment updated.
I assume you mean http://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview Admittedly I didn't realize they offered an internal version. I'm going to try this out!
So wait, this guy was smoking some weed (I assume) in the middle of a con and got banned. Why is this even questioned? Whether you agree with smoking weed or not, he committed a crime during a PyCon event.
TL;DR: Heise released a MIT-licensed plugin for displaying Facebook/Twitter/Google+ buttons with user's privacy in mind (click-to-play). So far in German, English version under way.

See [1] for the English article and [2] for the HN thread.

[1] http://www.h-online.com/features/Two-clicks-for-more-privacy...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5394005
> It is tiring to translate thoughts, experiences, and feelings into a digestible and understandable format.

This is a very telling statement-- it's also somewhat ironic, given that one could easily interpret this as a passive aggressive jab at OP's "inability" to communicate. One could ALSO interpret this as a general sentiment about the importance of vocabulary. So either you did not communicate this point precisely enough, or you intentionally left it vague as some intelligent ploy to poke at the flaws in your own argument. I'll go with the latter cause it sounds more meta.

The actual issue is that it isn't about difficulty. It's actually impossible to translate thoughts in a predictable manner across racial, gender, and cultural lines. We are not machines, and so people interpret statements, and, in some cases, jokes, in the way that they are brought up to interpret them. In a victim-culture, jokes are usually interpreted as malicious devices. The problem here is that while some call for equality and understanding of other cultures/genders/races, this usually only applies to the cultures that are victimized. Equality is a two-way street, and understanding semantics is an important step to equality, because in order to respect, you must first understand. Just because culture/gender X makes a dongle joke, does not mean that culture/gender X meant the dongle joke as some insult to culture/gender Y, even though culture/gender Y might interpret it that way. We (all) have to put effort to understand things in the right contexts, so a dick joke between two guys (with no assumption that women are eavesdropping) is just that-- a dick joke between two guys-- it is not an assault on women (especially given the fact that it seems like it wasn't even meant to be heard by anybody else). Some leeway ought to be given to the interpretation of words, just as you should be reading the OP's text as it was intended, not simply as the words aligned on the page.

That said, I actually love how this very statement ties back to the original issue at hand so perfectly, even though it was some tangential argument about semantics, so thank you for pointing this out.
Have you tried the mercurial command line? I find it very easy to use, it has a low barrier to get entry, and works the same on all platforms.
TortoiseHg is an awesome Mercurial client, what are you talking about?
> I wouldn't call that relatively tame. That's gang mentality against a visible minority in the community.

I put it in the box of things that could be brushed off in a more equitable society. But it probably sounded like I was downplaying it since we're in agreement.
Fair enough. I didn't want to be harsh, but whenever something new comes out I like to try it right away. As of right now, it's looks too involved to get started with.

Sort that part out asap if you want people to give feedback and try it!
I suspect that accident data doesn't compensate for driver demographics. This is imprecise because of a lack of data, so scores that are 'close' are likely within the margin of error.

To use your example, a score of 101 would be close enough to 99 to be indistinguishable. However, a score of 140 would be distinct enough from 99 be noticeably worse or better.
I dropped learning EmberJS before i started it a month back mainly coz of the complexity. But this guy uses EmberJS for this game. He also provided a reference to BackboneJS game. After going through both codes realised, EmberJS is quite good and better if you really get the understanding.
Then we have to ask, bad for whom? For those who take loans certainly it's bad. For those who loan, it's great. Inflation creates a reverse situation. It is possible, I would imagine, to create contracts that adjust for the fluctuations in currency valuation, but it is unwise to blame deflation for all the bad luck of those who take loans. Deflation would only mean that people taking those loans would think really hard about the prospects of any future profit they are hoping to get from investing the loaned money. Which means we'll have a more, not less, stable economy.
It's more because people stop investing

If the real rate return of investments over any period of time is on average less than simply hoarding the currency (an inevitable consequence of a permanently deflationary economy) your economy is screwed up.
This is why we're reluctant to deal with women.

You don't know if they're going to be sensible or fly off the handle at whatever random neo-feminist triggers they have.
Freedom of association. You are free to invest or not invest in a corporation. You can be a customer or not. You can be an employee or not.

The idea that a group of people (organized as a church, club, corporation, partnership, union, political party, non-profit, etc.) can only 'speak' as a group by getting every 'member' to explicitly sign a document for each and every instance of 'speech' or expenditure of money is entirely unworkable.
VLC for iOS (source — actively being developed)
I agree with this; I don't see why the New York Times should get any special privileges because it's a "journalistic organization". But that just means everybody should have to abide by the same rules; it doesn't mean the rules should allow corporations to do things with company money that many if not most of their employees and shareholders would not agree with, just because those things happen to be "speech".

But the New York Times and Citizens United are both corporate entities. Few would question the NYT's right to publish editorials that promote specific political opinions and candidates, correct? What can you say about the NYT that you can't say about CU?

If they want to express opinions as a large group, they can all sign the same letter or petition. Using company money to do things that only some of the company's owners or employees would assent to is not "free speech"; it's misuse of company money. That used to be called "embezzlement", not free speech.

Your argument has a trivial workaround, which would have been put into widespread practice if the Citizens United decision had gone the other way. Every corporation in America would have added a line to its charter similar to whatever line in the NYT charter causes it to be considered an editorial publisher. If necessary, a similar line would have been added to every employment agreement signed by every corporate employee upon being hired.
Climbing the Cliff of Programming Education
What Makes Ruby Tick
That's a definition that suits your view but is not commonly shared. The item typically needs to be sold below cost and there needs to be intent to drive out competitors. Neither is true here.
How didn't this get more attention?
Getting Your Javascript Under Control
I think ultimately it will serve the role of "specie gold"

I agree with this. (I don't understand the blinded token idea.)

I think it is quite easy to imagine that banking services are build on top of BTC. These would be account receivables against banks, much like current accounts and CDs in USD or EUR work today.

The transaction features of bitcoin are amazing, in my opinion, if you compare them with gold bullion. Granted it can take up to hours for a payment to become fully confirmed, but this is the cryptographic specie being transfered from one individual party to the other. It is a lot more direct on this account than even a fast bank transfer, because in that you still only have a receivable against your bank, much like equivalent ones in todays credit system denominating in USD, etc.

Plus you have the safety that no-one can inflate much value out of the currency, because it is specie-based. At least not for a very long time.

(Unless the "closing of the bitcoin window" trick is pulled again. "Closing of the gold window" was the language the was used euphemistically, when redeemability of USD into gold was ended in 1973.)

If you wanted instant transactions, that is just as easy as today, with a lot more pressure on banks to make transfers real-time, because one main business model would be to beat transaction speed. And that has an upper bound of max. a few hours in plain BTC.
Hard to find another place to go when there's always someone that seems to forget the meaning of the word "context".

And you just deleted your line about "fugly girls" being the only ones to complain... if I'm so fugly for wanting people to be more considerate to each other, boy, there are a lot of people out there that are willing to hit on me anyway, inappropriately.
The court of public opinion
That's ideal.

What we need is enough schools and teachers with an incentive to contribute to a public domain textbook system. Each contributor should write a good presentation of a specialty or a favorite subject. Then the whole book will be among the best textbooks possible.

And the textbook cartel will collapse in the USA and the less developed world while students have better books for free.
As a recipient of that email (several times), it's apparent a script went bad that had all users on the To: line, though still iterating through each company account. IMO it looks like a pretty basic coding error ... something that should have been checked before sending of course. No real account info aside from email addrs and company name was exposed.

Github did follow up with a "sorry" email. Note that it wasn't all true enterprise users. I did trial enterprise, but my company stayed with the hosted version only. Also, lots of the names on there were evidently @github test users and others I recognized as tire kickers (knowing they use only hosted GH as well).

End result - a little egg on face for Github, one very sad day for script kiddie email coder, and an indication (if complete) that Github has << 3000 GH Enterprise users.
I was asleep while this happened, can someone post a copy of the message or whatever it was? There's absolutely no context any more.
I think you can compare the Mac Pro to Sparrow (which Marco mentioned in a footnote). It's not even enough for a product to be profitable. If a product's development team can be redeployed to some even more profitable (or "strategic") use, you may be saying goodbye to a perfectly good product.
Wish it could be my new google reader... but alas, no rss feed input...
I've participated as a judge at CodeDay in SF and Seattle. The games and applications the kids are building are much more creative than apps I've seen at any hackathon.

CodeDay is all about execution, no business models. The teams build something awesome in 24 hours and leave believing that they can use technology to build games and apps that can change the world.

I was skeptical the first time I was invited to be a judge, but then was blown away by the quality and the passion the students had for apps and games that are pretty much nothing but awesome. All that matters to these teams is that the product was awesome.

Here's an example Psychadelic Frisbee Hospital: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th4qAg9q81U

This team would have failed at any other hackathon. Some of the team members had never written a line of code before the event. Nothing but pure awesome.
I think your tone here is a little more combative than the article deserves.

>If anything, I hope talking about it reduces these sorts of incidents without anybody feeling like their rights are being reduced as well.

This (along with >I'm not fighting the decision to ban me) read to me like a guy who wants to spark a dialogue on what should be considered appropriate at these events.

Context is a huge issue here. I wouldn't come into any hacker-culture event with an expectation of professionalism and maturity -- maybe I'm not the majority.

What is the majority for PyCon?
I presume the underpinnings of Reader (search, caching, etc.) are so tied to Google tech that open sourcing it would either be impossible or lead to a neutered version that was useless.
Two men were victimized. Full stop. This doesn't help end victimization of women. This is insane because it's so self defeating. All this does is give ammo to the people who were against the changes being made this year.
>I really do regret the comment and how it made Adria feel.

Boldly speaking, you are a moron. She might feel offended, but i don't think she has any right to be upset.

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

>@skwashd you should put something in your pants next time...like a bunch of socks inside one...large...sock. TSA agent faint
Well, that's the whole point - you never, ever assign anything "by page number" since you don't rely on any specific textbook being used or available.

You teach a specific topic; and supplementary reading and extra information on that topic will be available in any reasonable textbook of that subject. You might recommend a textbook that, in your opinion, explains it clearest; but in a few of my college years I managed without reading a single textbook as the lectures + prof's online notes + my work experience covered almost everything, and the rest could be looked up online or simply asked.
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The interesting thing to me is that Google is throwing away a human-powered recommendation engine; Google Reader was people putting together their own equivalent of something like dmoz.org, volunteering analytics on prioritization.

Perhaps the organizing being done was too tech-focused to be of enough value in any other category, or Google is confident enough in algorithms to drop the parallel system. Or, as was stated, their wasn't enough participation at all.
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try google charts e.g. https://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#line_chart
My first thought was, "How is this different from all the other online power spreadsheets?" But then, buried in the footer of the homepage, I saw two very interesting links:

Unit Testing - "Finally, automated unit testing for Spreadsheets." [1]

Revision Control - "Revision Control For Spreadsheets. Track changes the way developers do." [2]

[1] https://www.fivetran.com/labs/spreadsheet-unit-testing

[2] https://www.fivetran.com/labs/spreadsheet-revision-control
Auto-play wouldn't engage the viewer. Tapping does. A call to action ("keep tapping!") isn't so exciting if you take away the action ;)
3K email addresses, not "emails".

Also known as a non-issue (if you want to hide that you are using a service, you need to use a dedicated randomly generated mail address).
Using Google's Closure to Compile and Verify your JavaScript
thats awesome, its a crowdfunding site that is crowdfunding another crowdfunding site
Nobody's questioning it. I'm not sure where that impression came from.
I'm currently a Highcharts advocate, but this looks quite promising. Would love to see a comparison between the two (not sure if I have bandwidth to do it myself).
I dont have the original post, but the author wrote earlier today that due to copyright/licensing issues with his previous employer he had to take down the project he had released as open source.

Also, just wanted to say hi--remember me? You gave me karmawhores years ago, just wanted to say thanks again!
I'm in the same boat. I played around with BitCoin in the early days and never really cared for the coins I earned. I wiped the machine I used and only recently realized they were gone forever. Apparently I just flushed a few hundred bucks, meh.
> I think your tone here is a little more combative than the article deserves.

It's entirely possible it sounds combative. It's not intentional.

> Context is a huge issue here. I wouldn't come into any hacker-culture event with an expectation of professionalism and maturity -- maybe I'm not the majority.

A big part of professionalism is avoiding certain low-value behaviors because some people you might like to get along with are bothered by said behaviors. Professionalism doesn't have to mean putting on a suit and spouting buzzwords.