skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my hobby programming server, I primarily use it to serve different web applications on different domains. The server is a proxy to web applications that listen on different ports on the server. This allows me to multiplex different web servers and relieves me of finding modules that glue together nginx and various programming languages.
Kant was wrong.
If you want to travel the world, you absolutely do not need to have had as much professional and financial success as the OP. Not even close.

To get started, read Vagabonding by Rolf Potts.
The Secrets of the Fractal Organization
"The idea that these companies just randomly happened to fire these people coincident with high-profile, contentious events (for unrelated reasons) is actually absurd."

It's not at all, really. Especially Adria, who called herself an "evangelist" at SendGrid. If your job is to evangelize something in a positive way and instead you piss off a bunch of people (fairly or unfairly), you're not really doing your job.

Both of these people, Mr. Dongle and Adria, will land on their feet -- trust me. This is simply the sort of story that has just enough detail to push people's buttons and just enough lack of detail so we can fill in the blanks with our own fantasies and prejudices about who the people involved are and what actually happened.
My favorite word starts with an f and ends in a uck. It is indeed firetruck.
For some time, I was keeping a collection of items like this under the tag "decentralization-stories" at http://del.icio.us/kragen/decentralization-stories. Of course this was deleted.
Yea I did. I think you did a poor job of defending her in the case of the podcast. From TFA:

"In the blog post, Adria even admitted that she made a mistake in mentioning it on her podcast prior to talking with the organizers, and apologized for doing so."

In that case, she did something wrong and apologized for it, and there wasn't a public shit-storm. In this case, before she had an opportunity to really apologize, she got attacked by the Internet. So, AFAICT, there are two publically known instances of her doing something wrong, and doing something wrong in the exact same way: "going to the public before confronting someone privately". How many times do you need before it's a pattern?

Edit: clarification
There is definitely a lot of "orientalism" surrounding Buddhist practices. And yet, there are other ways to approach meditation. I entered meditation the same way I entered running: I saw people around me doing running and enjoying it, thought I would see if I enjoyed it too, did a little research, asked some questions, and tried it out. And yet running isn't for everyone.

If you were ever to try meditation, you sound like you might get the most out of Mindfulness in Plain English. The author presents meditation as a practice which serves a philosophy. The philosophy is that as a species we suffer from our emotional attachments to the outcomes of events, to the objects around us, etc. In geek parlance, we have stress responses that were appropriate in our evolutionary environment but are unadaptive to modern life. Meditation is a practice that helps us override these stress responses, and for many people meditation is a better tool than attempting to override those stress responses with thoughts. And even if you don't consider yourself particularly stressed, a Buddhist might suggest that overriding those responses can help remove the weight of attachment from your decision making process and make you into a more rational person.
I personally don't think public shaming is the right answer to this in the first place, regardless of whether the right person was shamed (makes it worse that the wrong guy was shamed), and please don't construe this as defense of the practice, but news organizations (in particular, Fox News) engage in the same practice with much more vitriol.

She apologized and expressed remorse for the fact that he was fired. That's why I concluded that she wasn't trying to screw the guy over but rather wanted to draw attention to the general practice:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399047

"I'm sorry to hear your employer deciding to not to work with you on this and I hope they reconsider, bring you back on and dealing with it constructively."
I object to the idea that what we need to do in tech is create a "kinder, gentler" atmosphere appropriate for delicate-minded women-folk. That's not what's keeping women out of tech. It's the very real worry that they won't find good mentorship, won't be taken seriously, will be passed over for promotions, etc. Fixing those problems requires a laser-like focus on, well, those problems. Diluting that focus by waging war on all the other things that might offend people, things that don't go to those core issues, is a losing proposition.
Don't deliberately lie to employers who ask about your criminal record. The only ones who won't go absolutely apeshit on you when they find out are the ones who would hire you anyways if you just told them in the first place.

What does "go absolutely apeshit" mean? I contend that there's risk of termination, likely without severance. Anything more would expose the individual in a way that most people would avoid.

Also, "employer" isn't a monolithic concept. The players all have different motivations. Maybe HR dings everyone with a conviction. He hides it, gets through the HR wall. His boss likes him. He gets in, does great work for 9 months. Then HR finds out. His boss has to fire him. His boss isn't mad at him (maybe at the situation, but not at him). In that very plausible scenario, yes he's fired, but he gets a decent reference.

If it's between the risk of getting fired later and not being able to get a job at all, then you take the former.

I proposed "odds and evens" because I don't think either of us know which is the better strategy (lie vs. disclose) and I think mixing is the way to go.
...which I think is also wrong. the person sitting to the left of Reid (not to the left of the picture) is also wearing a PlayHaven shirt, which is what was described in the offending blog post. I don't really feel like revisiting the whole thing, but I'll bet $5 that the fellow in the grey shirt is not 'Mr-Hank.'
Way to miss the point, very impressive indeed!

michaelochurch brings up a great point that having even the most minor slip in your records will too often result in a disproportionately, unreasonably unfair reception in the job market:

I don't know the details and I'm not a felon, but I think
it is pretty fucked up how any felony leads to long-term
economic disenfranchisement, so I sincerely hope this
advice helps.

There is something wrong in the system that things are that way, and really I don't see anything abjectly wrong in one doing what he suggested, when you're in a position where the odds are overwhelmingly stacked against you and you've still got to somehow provide for your family.
Sounds a little like a university library. Yes.
I think you've hit a nail on the head here. I grew up Los Angeles, and for us, driving 60 miles round trip for dinner was totally normal.
Previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4607098 (2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=627476 (2009)
Start your own freelance business and get a bit of reputation by doing low-level work like web design for local pizzerias, restaurants etc. - no one gives a about convictions when hiring a web designer.

It's how I managed to stay afloat (although, I am in Germany).
Spot on. For most people, Microsoft products are what your boss tells you to use. Psychologically, there is just no appeal in buying them outside of work.

Microsoft was smart not to call XBOX "Windows Console" or such, but probably silly to call their mobile OS "Windows Phone".
"This is a shame. Within the frivolous details we debate so much religion holds a wealth of wisdom and value that anyone can apply to their lives and benefit from."

I have to agree. Many of the fruits of the Enlightenment[1] have been very positive, and the oppressive and totalitarian aspects of what passes for organized religion deserve to be rejected in the strongest possible terms.

However, the viciously anti-religious attitude that the Enlightenment has spawned and which has had a resurgence recently thanks to narrow-minded bigots like Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, the mainstream media's relentless focus on church scandals, some forms of religious extremism and supposedly religiously inspired terrorism (all of which I condemn in no uncertain terms) has led a lot of people to reject all of religion wholesale -- which is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

There are many profound, thought provoking, inspirational, and beautiful ideas, images, and messages in religion. And there's an incredibly wide and varied range of different types of religion -- to an extent that most people are simply not aware of.

Despite what we may see on the news or read in books by the likes of Dawkins, Hitchens, or Harris, religion is not all about domination, pedophilia, or unquestioning obedience to some leader or dogma.

Unfortunately, many people do buy in to such myopic visions of religion, mostly through ignorance and propaganda. As a result, they're really missing out on the parts of religion which are positive, constructive, profound, and even liberating.

That said, I'm not a believer myself. I'm agnostic, but a student of the history, techniques, and beliefs of religion (among many other things). I want to learn about every aspect of religion -- good and bad, light and dark. Few fields as large as religion are as simple as they might first appear.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_enlightenment
I don't find it very surprising that providers of security awareness programs don't agree with Schneier's arguments against their offering.

But since they have a strong financial incentive to disagree with him I'm doubtful about their arguments.

Their arguments were also not convincing to me. Let me quote a random and very shallow bit from the first linked post:

"An education and awareness PROGRAM is not a one hour CBT and clicking through something. It’s education and awareness just like your HR department helps you navigate to your expenses."

That sounds desperate.
bsnes is now distributed with / renamed to a project called "higan", which is a multi-system emulator. See:

http://byuu.org/higan/
It's more than just a pop culture reference. The fairly short abstract stated "how thinking like a porn director will help you achieve the ‘money shot."

And, yes, obviously, Adria has the right to not attend. She ALSO has the right to say that you shouldn't have a talk that celebrates something that many people find utterly vile is not appropriate. I don't think Adria was ever alleging that what they were doing was illegal.

We would all hopefully object to someone having a talk called "Taking Naked Kiddie Pics" with a line about "how thinking like a pedophile can capture people's imagination". I would hope that people wouldn't think it was inappropriate to speak up -- even petition -- against such a talk, right?

That's my point.

[NOTE: I am NOT saying that porn is as bad as kiddie porn. Of course it's not. The analogy I'm drawing is simply that we DO think it's okay to speak up about things that we think are vile or morally wrong. Many people (religious conservatives, etc) see porn that way.]
And… Sold! To the condom company!
>On the face of the article: No, I wholeheartedly disagree. Less is not more and don't believe anyone telling you that. This guy is claiming that now that he has less time he is 6X better at his job due to 'unconscious cognition'.

I think becoming a parent, like everything in life, just taught him some lessons: How to manage his time and looking at the big picture often puts things into perspective. Both these things help with efficiency.

It's almost identical to what I went (and still going) through with having kids. I got much better at 'mind hacking'. I could be playing with the kids or making dinner or whatever and my mind is hacking away at solution to problems.
Jesus Christ already!

The price of living in a free society is that you develop a hardened exterior. You don't get to hold a monopoly on being offended. Taking these little offenses and making them 'taboo' or even worse illegal belongs in the realm of dictatorships and theocracies.

If putting 2 words together to form "Money Shot" is so powerful that it hurts your soul and torments your mind then you really may have a problem. Learn some self discipline and control and stop trying to bend the world to your will.
I imagine a fair amount is wrapped up in inXile, but he is a millionaire several times over: he's the founder of Interplay, which went IPO in 1998 when he owned 45% of the company and he left in 2002, long before Interplay started tanking.

To be clear: I think it was a smart move for him—regardless of his net worth—to use Kickstarter, and I think it's an even smarter move—PR-wise at least—to put some of his own money into the Kickstarter (albeit in the end a bit pointless: he could've just cut that amount off the top of the asking amount). I just think it's silly to think people who can self-fund can't use it.
Shadow? New to HN, and had noticed that it had dissipeared since I saw it. Some terminology I don't understand?
Please also give it a try and read Gogol's "Dead Souls". I don't know how to explain it, but I think is the book that best explains the 20th century (even though it was written in the 1840s). Yes, Gogol was that good.
It may still be a good idea for security reasons. Suppose that an Nginx process is exploited. If it runs under a certain user ID then the exploit likely does not travel past that user. You can make the Nginx user ID different from the actual user ID so that it only has read access.
just watched the video - good stuff, he also mentions these two resources at the end
- http://www.postgresguide.com/

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yhfW1BDOSQ (Christophe Pettus "PostgreSQL when it's not your job.")
Can anyone explain to me why Nabokov lost interest in Epstein at the end? The ending to this article confused me.
I dunno about that, but something I want is a space that has little one-occupant rooms with no particular furnishings aside from perhaps a beanbag, a frosted window or indirect lighting, walls painted a neutral colour, heavy soundproofing, no electrical sockets, faraday cage shielding, and a door that locks. They should build a few rooms like that into every office. Somewhere that you can go and switch off your external attention and think or meditate.
Since human nature is so malleable, while we're at it, let's build a culture where men don't care about women's looks, women don't care about men's social status, parents love other people's children more than their own kids, and wearing stripes with plaid is the height of fashion. Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.
But Orwellian states are eventually falling, because people rebel against oppression. Perfect totalitarian state can be a one of which citizens are not aware.
Well, I would certainly expect the 'attempt at informal logic is ... laughable'. I wrote it to be ridiculous.

I guess I shouldn't have bothered with the reply, as it appears to have triggered a pissing contest over Logic technicalities. Or perhaps you think a dispute on mechanics is going to erase the problems inherent in the idea that selective power assignments to individual agents based on uncontrolled genetic factors is required to determine whether or not an act of sexism is verifiable sexism.

The efforts to redefine sexism/racism/etc as power-dependent are philosophically problematic. I'm rather uncertain we'd get anywhere on the issue.
In CS, CiteSeer/CiteSeerX still has quite a bit of usage, though it's been losing users to Google Scholar due to the latter's wider coverage and better search. A shutdown of Google Scholar would likely inject fresh interest. Also, its code and data are all under open licenses, so a third party could jumpstart their own fork if they don't like the way the primary developers are overseeing it.
Ask HN:  Novels about or featuring malevolent AI?
I am looking to read some good hard SF about malevolent AI. Any suggestions?
It's a tricky discussion in this thread because we're mixing together the questions of "Is this allowed (constitutional)?" and "Is this a good idea?" I believe that in both the Filburn case and in your hypothetical FOSS example, that yes, Congress has the power to regulate them.

But that doesn't mean it's a good idea. At some point, the elected representatives in Congress have to make a law to regulate the interstate commerce. In Filburn's case, a majority of the democratically-elected officials in Congress decided that price stabilization of crops was important enough to restrict growing "private stashes" that weren't going to be sold. If supporters of Filburn didn't agree with that, then they would have to elect new representatives to do overturn the law. (Which by the way, will probably finally happen sometime in the next decade.) But there is zero support in Congress for restricting FOSS, even when it competes with commercial software. The benefits of FOSS to all Americans are so obvious that it won't happen.
This comment on Reddit is quite interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1awnzx/so_you_know_th...
I try to, once or two a week
There's a profound difference between 'refraining from obvious and offensive references' and '"kinder, gentler" atmosphere appropriate for delicate-minded women-folk.' References to porn or sex or virginity or rape or molestation or fondling or groping are not appropriate for a tech conference, and some of those topics are not appropriate for any sort of discourse (as we saw with Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" remarks)

"Our goal is to create an inclusive, respectful conference environment that invites participation from people of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, religions, and sexual orientations. " https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/diversity/
It means it doesn't have a [dead] thingie on top, and the link out to the original article still works so that all of us can still argue with each other, but as far as the rest of HN is concerned, this thing is unfindable.
So, they had 4, and now they have 20 female engineers. That sounds like quite a small sample size and quiet a lot talk about that.
Because I don't always think rationally. :)
I was practising meditation quite a lot, and I fell out of the habit. I'm now using it as a precursor to trying to sleep, and it helps a lot (I presume by unwinding excitement and/or depression at the thoughts I was having just before coming to bed). The last couple of days I've fallen asleep and woken up in the same position (this never happens) and I attribute this to deeper sleep from calming myself beforehand. This many be nonsense of course.
If it's a (successful) placebo, then surely it's worked just as planned?
This attitude of "you can't measure it, don't even try" really bothers me. You can measure the benefits of both meditation and sleep, and there have been studies that do so. This wikipedia article is pretty well-cited, and outlines many of the studies that have been done on meditation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation
Indeed, this is true. Thanks for this. The realization that it is also in the best interest of an airline to reduce emissions, especially as the price of oil increases, really helps make me feel better.

Not flying doesn't really reduce emissions though... Those planes are going to fly whether or not you are on it.
How about we throw around "they have now 16 more female engineers" instead of "OMFG 500%"?
According to wikipedia [1], it was originally the scene in a film that took the most money to reproduce. And is used in journalism and many other fields.

The relation to porn is of course obvious due to the presentation's subtitle, referring to something as a 'money shot' should probably not be considered pornographic in intent, in my opinion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_shot
In some high profile cases, people haven't even lost their jobs (e.g. http://readwrite.com/2012/05/03/10-executives-who-lied-on-th...) and the damage was limited to their reputation and bonuses. I'm surprised there weren't more shareholder lawsuits or similar in the case of CEOs. Obviously if your employer is a government lying can result in jail time but other than that it seems the worst that happens is you get fired or lose your bonus. What else have you seen?
You may very well be right. All the more damning to her.
The purpose of putting someone in jail is REHABILITATION. That's right, all caps. The moment someone is released from jail, the legal system sees that person as having a high probability of being rehabilitated (true, not always the case, but that's the fault of the US legal system), otherwise he/she would have not been released. Unfortunately nowadays a big percentage of the population in the US is mentally challenged blood-lusting self-righteous fanatics. So you self-righteous "rockstar" developers that have been posting bullcrap in this thread, you can go fork yourselves. As for the OP, you will have no trouble finding a job. Don't make it public unless explicitly asked, and say no more than necessary. Good luck!!
To be clear, what she did was this: she saw something she thought was utterly vile and morally reprehensible being seemingly "celebrated" in a talk. The talk wasn't necessarily happening yet; it was still being voted on. She mentioned in her podcast that there was a talk on this and suggested that her listeners vote on it.

Suppose the talk referenced something about how to beat your wife. Do you think it would have been so terrible to handle it that way?

Sure, maybe it's better to talk to the organizers together. But come on, surely you can understand why one might handle it that way -- especially since the talks were still being voted on it.

If this was wrong, it was only a very mild transgression. It does not form a pattern.
This is so awesome. I used to make my mom drag me around town to various fire stations so that I could look at their goodies. I was obsessed with that stuff as a kid.

Congrats on doing it! I myself have a bucket list item to grab an old Crown bus (the ones that look like twinkies) and drive that beast all around the US.
i did ask for apis, because i thought that laybe, as javascript is at the core of their UI, they would hardwire stuff directly to native code to speed things up. that's just wild guess, because it seems so suicidal to me to have a whole OS GUI written in html5/js right now.. especially when you know that Samsung is selling so many cheap smartphones.
Our hackerspace is largely this during open nights. Too many people to actually do anything practical (www.edinburghhacklab.com)
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It's sad to see this shadowed, since even after a week we as a community haven't fully come to terms with what happened.
Wow, I started at 10 minutes a day.

Did you have much difficulty working up to sitting in meditation for 1 to 3 hours?
"Context" in Perl. Values undergo implicit conversion when assigned depending on whether the LValue receiving the assignment is a scalar or a list type. Perl functions can detect context at runtime (using "wantarray") and may vary behavior for different contexts.
nope. using 3d css transforms sometimes speed css transitions up by making sure 3d graphic card is used. that's a secret tip i learned on ios and it works on android as well.