skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking your analogy to its logical conclusion, Google should have hired a looper to kill Wilentz in the past.
If Steve were around he'd be telling us all how nobody wants to wear a computer.
I did read the website. It had one sentence on it. "Dongle is a funny word. Buy this shirt and support women in tech. 100% of profits will be donated to Girls who Code."

If you're targeting females, why post this to a site that is mostly comprised of men?
As someone who uses both (one personal, one work), but still finds myself gravitating towards iOS pretty much every time I have a choice, my view is that there are definitely a few places it could do with a bit of sprucing up.

The most obvious is clearly the lack of any form of live tiles/desktop/widgets. There's a few apps that I would love to get more information straight on the desktop than just a badge with a count of "actions" on it. The calendar, for example - at leas it actually shows today's date - but being able to show the next meeting at a glance would be great. Or being able to show a live stock ticker etc.

The other biggie for me is default apps. It's great that we now have Chrome on there, but I'd love to be able to get any browser link to launch that rather than Safari.

The skeurmorphic v flat thing is really just window-dressing though. Sure, there's a bit of reskinning that could be done in some of the apps, but if that's one of the biggest problems that people have with a UI that's 6 year old, then it's doing something right.
I haven't used the Django ORM in over a year and I'm pretty happy with Flask + SQLAlchemy for the moment. That said, I instantly backed the campaign when I saw it. South has been a tremendously helpful tool I used in virtually all my Django projects since its inception and I'm glad I can finally give something back.
Of course there is a gap (if you count the right way anyway), the question is, what does it mean? I argue that jumping to the conclusion that women are being discriminated against is wrong and aslso counterproductive.

As for /r/mensrights I really can't comment. I do think men have a problem, though.

Divorce court: aren't divorces rather common?
When I say "state" I mean the US "states," not the US federal government. The "province" level in Canada.
South can often fail for reasons that are surprisingly silly, at least in my experience. Though it's still pretty useful compared to having nothing.
Print yourself as a gummi bear at Tokyo's FabCafe
Most .NET devs (myself included) really enjoy the Visual Studio Environment. So, if you prefer a text editor like vim, it may not be the right tool for you.

The debugger is hard to beat (as Jeff mentions). C# has kept up with most features (LINQ, dynamic, async/await, etc) that are available in Ruby, and the CLR is quite fast. The core libs are also very solid. ASP.NET MVC is very comparable to Rails.

There are a bunch of downsides as well, but they are well-covered by OP.
I suspect in the long run most of the bitcoin economy, if there continues to be such a thing, will work through payment processing services.

These will resemble the banks of today, in that you'll have an account with the service and they'll manage moving your money around for you. Some of this may end up just decreasing one account and increasing another within the same provider.

A lot of people assume these payment services will be just like banks, but that's not necessarily the case. There's certainly room for innovation, and so far there's nothing whatsoever that would require them to be subject to any particular nation's regulations. We'll see how it shakes out.
This makes me really want to introduce some Easter Eggs into our codebase...
Perfectly aligned with the Michael Scott usage, then.
Rob -- good article. I've shared it with a couple of people I'm close with in an attempt to help them understand what my life has been like for the past few years. I've been suffering from chronic pain for a little while now, mostly in pretty much every area of my back. I've been through the medial wringer, much like yourself... more doctor's visits (everything from osteopaths to rheumatologists to spinal surgeons, etc.), MRIs, and x-rays than I can count, usually without much luck. I've been on all sort of medications: anti-inflammatory, anti-seizure, opioid, biologic, etc. Nothing even made a dent. I've always worked on getting better, but only very recently did I decide to make it my #1 priority. Since then, I've probably read a dozen books on pain, some of them enlightening and some of them just pure garbage. That included everything from Dr. John Sarno to medical textbooks on the spine to hokey new age books that advocated crystal patches. When I started reading about trigger point therapy and postural recovery, everything clicked for me. Since then, I've been extremely vigilant in taking care of my own trigger points as well as making big strides in my sitting, standing, and walking posture... addressing structural issues. Since then, I've been able to reduce my pain from an average of 6 to a probably a 1-2. I've also reduced my medications to one Tramadol a day as well as some light supplementation (Magnesium). I've made such fantastic progress that I've considered changing my field to one where I can help people in similar situations. I understand you've come to embrace your pain, but it's never too late to cure yourself.
I'm with you. Apple has a history of making UI that's pretty much only useful in commercials and store demos. A lot of the Mac OS X dock is under that umbrella.
As a parent, I am completely compassionate to your families situation, and obviously I was not referring in any way to you, your son, or your son's condition.

So, while I can understand why that word has a personal sensitivity to you and your situation, I obviously was not directing any of its archaic meaning toward you or your son - so I can't apologize for offending you.

What I can say, is that I appreciate how you simply informed me of the fact that it does hold offense for you and suggested I select a better descriptor, which in the future, I shall do.

Thanks!
I think that is actually his point. If you don't have to turn your head to the side to look back, at your speed, etc., the road ahead stays at least in your peripheral vision, at most an eye movement away.

I mean, have you seen how some people fiddle with their radios while driving? Personally, I'd be happy if at least a part of those people had the chance to keep their eyes on front while they do that. I might be biased though, due to the german speed limits and not being a driver myself :)
I am a brain, wired permanently to a pretty primitive first-run body. It works okay, but it's all downhill for the next fifty-eighty years or so.

Why on earth wouldn't I want to upgrade that?
As a man, I would love to wear a "Fork My Vagina" shirt and watch people gawk.
I found the scroll bars very frustrating. They are so small that I could not drag the bar around very easily (reminds me of default scroll bars in Ubuntu these days). The contrast is so bad between the part that is dragged and its background that it took me a few seconds to actually make out which is which. The contrast of some of the text being grey on a darker grey background in the right sidebar was hard on my eyes. That part wasn't as annoying to me as the scroll bars though.

I do like the idea of this. The functionality seems to be there.
> This will be taken care of if/when we eventually have real artificial intelligence

Considering that "non-artificial intelligence" makes the same kind of mistakes, I find that an odd claim.

Mistakes happen. Quite frankly far fewer of them happen in the modern world, due precisely to technology like this. What has changed is actually the converse: automation has become so good that we expect it to be flawless. No one would have found it "surprising" (annoying, sure, unless it was in the context of a zazy madcap comedy film) in 1962 to be mixed up with someone else's biography based on a name confusion.
I don't always associate a track with color. But when I relax and close my eyes with headphones on, my mind does involuntarily paint a whole universe of colors and shapes inspired by the music. Well, Vivaldi's four seasons paints distinctly worldly scenes. But Beethoven paints very abstract things.

And I love music, but hate to have it playing if I'm trying to concentrate on anything else.

But I never thought myself synesthetic. Just plain introverted. So now I wonder if this type of "over-stimulation", or increased sensitivity, is somewhat shared between all introverts and people with synesthesia?
A serious game about sweatshops … you won't find it in Apple's App Store
Interesting. As a Quebecois, I can attest to the fact that we often seem castrated on sexual subjects, and europeans are seen as more casual. Quebecois girls are often seen as "easy prey" to europeans, as they are not used to be around men who are being openly seductive. Before you gloat, though, we also hear horror stories of europeans (especially mediterraneans) who are unable to respect women, so I suppose there is probably a healthy middle-ground somewhere between the two.

As for sexual perversions being worse where sex is considered a sin, that makes a lot of sense. Japan would be a great example: genitals are censored, yet they make some of the weirdest most perverse porn one can think of.
Not cans. The contents of the cans.
Others have responded to parts of this already, so I won't repeat their points. But one issue that I haven't seen anyone comment on is that race and sex are very overt traits, while family wealth and IQ are a good bit less obvious at a glance.

Being born in a poor family makes life much harder, no question, but (e.g.) if a straight white man from a trailer park does get into a good college then the people around him won't immediately guess his background (and judge him for it). A lot of them will make the high-probability assumption that his family is similar to their own, and that implicit sense of kinship will go a long way toward making him a welcome part of the community.

A person who's black or female in that same environment could hardly expect to have the same experience: those traits are in most cases obvious at a glance. If a teacher or a peer has a prejudice against both "blacks" and "people from trailer parks" (consciously or unconsciously), the black student will definitely suffer from it while the poor white student may luck out. And there's little chance that privileged white guys will unthinkingly assume that a black student is actually white or that a woman is actually a man and thus feel that implicit sense of kinship.
Let me guess, you think it's racist to have "master" and "slave" databases.
Ask HN: Why is there no V8 engine-type project for Python or Ruby?
JavaScript was slow until Google worked its magic with the V8 engine. I'm wondering why I haven't seen any project out there trying to do the same for Python or Ruby.

There are different implementations of the Python and Ruby interpreters that do speed them up a bit from their reference implementations (give or take). But, to my knowledge, there is nothing that really compares to the speed boost V8 gave JavaScript.

Is there a technical limitation/reason? Or has it just not been explored yet?
For better or worse, the word "cynic" has changed meaning over time. My usage matches definition #1 here:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cynic?r=75&src=re...
No problem. Shooting from the hip: it's a neat idea but feels too much like an add-on, and not like a full-fledged company.
This really does not sound like a good idea. I come from a third world country/region too and I would hate having an HN for my own region. What is the purpose? I want to hang out with the best and the best are here in HN not in some backwater forum that none of the top echelons of HN will visit. It will just become a ghetto. Who in their fucking right mind would want to live or hangout in a ghetto.

Unless your purposes is something else this is just a terrible idea. But if your purposes is really something else why the heck call it a hacker news.
Plenty:

A wallet service which you've entrusted your coins to can obviously do recurring payments (bonus: can't hurt you any worse than your total deposit).

Your local wallet software could do this (in a more user-friendly fashion than programming a crontab to invoke bitcoind).

A credit card would work, regardless of whether you settle your account with the credit card company in bitcoin or dollars.

The Bitcoin protocol supports future-dated transactions, but which can be canceled by a user at any point before the future date; so for a 'subscription', a user sends a few transactions worth $X future-dated to each month for the next, say, 5 months. The service holds onto them, and tries to commit them when they mature; if the transaction works, the user gets access for the next month. (See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=22772.msg287925#msg2... https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script )
I don't understand the concern. It's a real problem and if someone wanted to do it for free, they could have and would have. Here is a guy who offers to do it if he get's paid a minimum amount. Fine. No moral issues.
Yes, China is a "repressive nation." Especially when it comes to technology, e.g., "The Great Firewall."

No, Britain is not a "repressive nation." The British government surely takes some repressive actions, but not to such a degree as to be labeled a repressive nation.
Thanks for the book recommendation. I went to buy it off of Amazon and got a reminder of just how screwed up the book publishing market is screwed up. The electronic version is almost $3.00 (22%) more than the paperback.
What's the point in opening a fridge remotely if you're not there to take food out?

Jokes aside, I get your point, but I have concerns. The more we dislocate our physical presence from our environment, the less our environment will require us over anyone else. Your fridge, by needing a physical operator to share its location in space, provides a safeguard against someone on the other side of the world hacking it and ruining your food.
I'm glad to hear otherwise! I have a few friends that are Java nuts, so I'm glad they're not as nutty as I thought!
My worry is that even though it's an Easter egg there, it could very well be used to introduce malicious code inside the production code.
The iPhone is stale in the same way that the 911 is. This years 911 is better than last years, and this years iPhone is better than the last one. But this isn't about the iPhone, it's about iOS. A lot of the discussion has focussed around the devices themselves but that's not the point of the matter.

iOS in some respects is stale. The 'look' has been the same since the first iPhone came out of box. Is that a bad thing? Sure, to some people it is, they want new and fresh and different. That's not how Apple works though, they settle on a design paradigm and iterate repeatedly until they think it's time to move on.
People will speak about discrimination against those who low IQ enough to be considered mentally handicapped, but there is a great class of people with IQ of say 80-100.

My peeve really is the "straight white guy" meme which seems to suggest "hey, you are straight and white you have it easy" which is necessarily going to alienate huge numbers of people from the debate.

I think the intelligence example is especially important because intelligence is such an amazing tool for overcoming over disadvantages.
Is she not aware that anyone can edit Wikipedia?
Google Glass Sparks Rise of Neo-Luddism
As someone who just returned my Surface RT for an iPad Mini (lack of LTE was a dealbreaker), I'll say this: Metro is pretty, but it's not all that functional. It has really low content density. The gestures are very well done, much better than iOS, but as a whole I think it's at least one revision away from being competitive functionally.

That said, it's heaps better than Android.
yes, I know I have read somewhere that this is "recommended" for REST apis, but I'll be damned if I can find the source.
Not only is it looking stale, but it feels stale. The silo workflow for iOS is so bad for accomplishing simple tasks that require cross application integration.
I can count on one hand the number of crashes I've experienced with CM (both 10 and 10.1) over the past few months on my Galaxy S 3. Have you tried updating? I did have a few issues with a stable version that were fixed in newer nightlies. Plus, fact is, it's an understaffed volunteer project; you can't expect it to be perfect or base your opinion of all of Android on it.
My understanding (and it could be wrong) is that ASICMiner has made their own asics for their own use. They are not selling them.

Their business model is that they have a sub-pool in a larger mining pool, and they financed their operation by selling shares (denominated in Bitcoin). The shares pay out weekly dividends, based on the awards the mining pool provides to them.

There's a couple (very, very tiny) bitcoin denominated stock exchanges, and on some of them you can buy ASICMiner "passthroughs". These represent shares in ASICMiner that are controlled in large blocks by an individual. That individual passes through the dividends to the passthrough shareholders, minus a small management fee.

It's an elaborate system, but I guess money finds a way, even when it's bitcoin.
I am a 5'6" white guy weighing 120lb. I don't feel fear walking through dark parking lots. The shortest path between my house and the closest grocery is through a large, poorly lit lot. The better lit street route would add, oh, about a minute to the walk.

I would absolutely not walk through there if I was a woman. I don't really mind the small chance of being robbed -- a small chance of being raped is a completely different thing.
That was a very succinct and eloquent argument - thank you.
To me it says that small businesses are the long tail, but large businesses are also interesting and valuable in their own right. Both are going to be around, and a "healthy" distribution is probably good for us.
Technical details aside, I don't want to be tied into paying for a service in a currency that fluctuates 30-50% a month. I think that's by far the biggest problem bitcoin currently has.
Discourse typo
I'm a big fan of this investment model. I don't really contribute to open source, my contribution is mostly bug reports and being willing to help the real contributors track down issues.

Stuff like this is how I contribute. I, either personally or via companies I've worked for, have done this kind of thing a lot: approach the developer and ask for our bug or feature to get pushed up the priority queue. Sometimes it's a small tip but one company gave out a $10K contract for a bunch of work.
Done is More Than You Think
You say "turned into" as if it hasn't often been exactly like this.
That's not what the concept of privilege means, though!
No, not "Google pulling one page"... Google. The whole thing. We've been talking about the difference between grabbing one page and grabbing thousands+ of pages all along... are you reading what I'm actually saying or just knee-jerking here?
Fair enough.

> No, but for Apple you don't need to do this because you only need the code if you're accessing their website so you have to have internet access. I don't think I ever use the Google Authenticator without internet access.

At work, I have no cell service but can still use my laptop. I don't want to use their wifi with my phone due to proxy server setup hassles. So I think it's still a valid use case.
As a South African, I am excited by the prospect of this. That said, I'm often frustrated by the signal-to-noise ratio that so often accompanies discussion about technology and entrepreneurship in Africa. Often, I hear substance-free palaver [1, 2] about how X can be done to solve some problem or alleviate some woe in Africa. As a result, I hope that this site will focus on real entrepreneurship - like M-pesa and the Silicon Cape, and less on enthusiastic but ultimately futile or non-actionable content.

[1] http://africa2point0.org/web/index.php/en/
- "creating an enabling platform for African entrepreneurs to flourish"

[2] http://www.newsofrwanda.com/featured1/17405/oxford-universit...
"As of this time no releases of GCC 4.8 have yet been made."
Every startup should know the advantages of remote usability testing
I'd say it's because we are stuck with javascript for a certain domain -- viz. code running in a web browser.

Python and ruby on the other hand are two choices out of many, each of which have thier strengths and weaknesses. While it would be nice if every language was as fast as possible, as a practical matter where speed is a major issue, programmers simply pick a more perfomant language. in a world of limited resources and diverse choices it makes the most sense for each language to concentrate on its strengths rather than to be the best at everything.
Mobile Productivity for Normal People
It would be interesting to discuss and share some news in a different language other than English. I had in the past stopped my self to publish some interesting stuff because I am too lazy to translate content.
I'll add my data point:

Stock nexus 4, haven't had a crash in a month of use.
Aren't the exchanges only necessary initially, for some definition of "initially"? Surely the goal is that, eventually, enough people are mining (or even receiving bitcoins as payment for labor) and trading among themselves for goods/services without any other currency in the picture.
But other researchers were more cautious about the results.

Well, I'm glad the headline made that clear.
> It all comes down to Google’s algorithm (a word I use carelessly, and frequently, but whose meaning is obscure to me, though I feel it is something mathematical)

Loved this. Amusing reminder of the fact that most people do not speak our language. :)
Did you consider github enterprise or atlassian stash? I personally think gitlab is preferable, but github and bit bucket offer internal deployments.
It's hosted using Arc, the open source variant of HN.

http://arclanguage.org/
Anyone can build anything really, so long as it conforms to the bitcoin protocol as implemented in the other clients.

So yes, you could probably write some sort of crypto-system that allowed continuous authority for a signed-address to be given a certain amount every so often, on request.

You wouldn't want to right now though, with the volatility in the value we're seeing right now you'd be a fool to agree to pay the same amount for something next month as you do this month.
There was at least one effort, sponsored by Google, to make big performance improvements in Python:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unladen_Swallow

I'm not sure sure if any of that work ever made it into current CPython or not though. At any rate, they never met the ambitious goals they started out with.

On the Ruby side, I believe that the JRuby guys have done a lot of performance work and have created one of the more performant Ruby implementations. But still nothing like V8, which is unfortunate.
I'd love a HN for Europe with moderate activity.
I don't know whether you'll find it useful, but when I wrote a migrations add-on for Rails, I spent a lot of time learning how to query Postgres and MySQL for the status of current foreign keys, indexes, and "check" constraints, including special extensions like "where" clauses on indexes. If you need to do something similar, perhaps you can borrow the queries from here:

https://github.com/pjungwir/db_leftovers

If that seems useful and you have any questions, please let me know!
https://twitter.com/andrewgodwin/status/315123380275773440 wow
The Importance of an Integrated Online Identity.
I don't really get why you'd draw this out all the way here, but OK.

:p
There are some smells and tastes that I have invented, over half of them are awful, but some of them I wish I could communicate to people. The best I can do at the moment is explain the shapes and colours over time...