skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's look at that problem from a few different perspectives. I claim that it's impossible to design a better condom while still being a condom.

If you want to avoid STDs, you need some sort of protective material that keeps all fluids at their place. So, there's no other way than having this sort of material.

Exception would be to have some sort of material or liquid that:

- kills all bacteria and viruses
- thus prevents STDs
- has no health side effects
- avoids pregnancy

But then it's not a condom anymore, but a STD-reducing liquid.

To make a condom more pleasurable, you need to make it thinner or to "enhance" it by adding some sort of chemical that emulates a vagina to a certain degree and heightens the sensual experience.

Thing is, while it seems possible to increase the sensitivity of a penis with certain chemicals, you cannot design a condom that increases the PSYCHOLOGICAL sensitivity. There's a difference in having sex with a condom and without a condom. And the problem of that is the condom itself, no matter how pleasurable it is.

So, the ideal condom is probably not much different from the current condom, material-wise. Maybe the ideal condom is the same product but with an entirely different marketing strategy to get the psychological factor right. Or something along the lines where people get educated on how to train their mind sexually to increase their pleasure despite using a condom. Though I don't believe that this is possible on a broad scale.
Or more likely to me, the barbecue sauce company recently launched a marketing campaign that influenced you to buy one (and the campaign is continuing on Facebook where you see it now).
Well, I wish I hadn't replied since you edited your comment to say something quite different to what I was responding to. That said, if I was wagering money on the age of when any tech employee in Silicon Valley gets married and starts having kids, I would pick 33.
Firefox honours important in CSS animations, no one else seems to
I was hoping for a well-reasoned and insightful post, but unfortunately this is not. The author appears to not quite understand how Dart works, with its optional static type system, and how Dart's imports work.

I started laughing when reading that apparently having an IDE instead of using a Text Editor would alienate "a whole bunch of developers".
Which is it? Do we want laws that are so archaic they test their own relevance ... or do we want laws that adapt to the changing world in which they're designed to apply? More often than not, we see the legal system trail far behind the technological realities of the society they're intended to regulate. While I'm no fan of legislation for the sake of legislation, I'm happy to see a more forward-thinking approach to these types of things. And yes - there currently are laws on the books banning things like entertainment systems in the dashboard to help prevent distracted driving.
Ask HN: suggestions for a college Startup Club?
A friend and I are starting a Startups Club to meet other students interested in entrepreneurship.

We haven't nailed down the specifics, but some ideas are:

- guest speakers from local companies

- discussion of general tech/startup news

- critique of business ideas

- practice pitches and presentations

- some sort of activity for practicing business skills. For example, each team has 2 hours and $5. The team with the most money at the end wins.

- Hackathons

Any other ideas? Thanks!
They don't have access to that :)
I love the interactive nature. There was a Sequence Diagram I wanted to draw but too lazy to draw it. As I stumbled on this page, I just drew a complex Sequence Diagram in minutes. And it was fun!

Feature request: State Machine diagrams.
This article is full of "What?"s.

In the next section, the claim of lawyers not being able to disrupt is quite short-sighted. Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Plessy v. Ferguson, etc. etc. are all court cases, brought by lawyers, that have caused a significant amount of disruption.
- Fragile

I've never had a condom break or leak in 20 years of sexual activity. I tend to think of them as pretty much unbreakable. Maybe I've luckily chosen only good quality condoms in all that time? (Mostly Durex Extra Sensitive, but I try new ones all the time, in hopes of finding something better.)

- Comes in few sizes, beyond that, you're in 'specialty shops' territory. (Really, I don't care about shapes, flavours, bells and whistles, I care that it fits!)

This is absolutely valid criticism. Fit makes a big difference in how pleasurable their use is, and also whether there is risk of the condom slipping off (and probably poor fit increases risk of breakage).
I come from a PHP background too and in my opinion Python is far easier to use, whole stack. I wrote about it here http://blog.jmoz.co.uk/learning-python-the-pragmatic-way
definitely just like iTunes and Remote ;)
I'd really love a web service where I can do this for various kinds of UML. All desktop apps I've used for this are just awful.
Theory: the fields you mention, law and medicine, (historically and still) convey a higher social status on the member. There's also a relatively well trodden path through apprenticeship, successful practitioner, and eventual transition into other stable/respectable paths (politics, judiciary, hospital administration) as your career winds down.

Software engineering doesn't have that (yet?)
Vegetarian diet more healthy? In what criterion? Lean body mass? Sprint speed? Hint: vegetarians are known to be slow [1]. I think whether vegetarian diet is more healthy depends on personal traits: gut flora, genetics, even climate one lives. Basically there is no such one-fits-all scenario for a diet.

[1] Louise Burke - Clinical Sports Nutrition
I don't know about no protection. It would prevent most transmission from male to female, as I understand STI's (it's been a while since sex ed class). True that it wouldn't help when there's open sores and such on the penis though.
It's not always a business. Open web wasn't a business, linux wasn't too. Both were highly disruptive.

Programmers can create disruptive products. That's what some of them are able to accomplish.
True but probably worth discussing again in light of "adriagate"
His paper shows that countries who held onto the gold standard longer were more likely to adopt protectionist policies.

It wasn't abandoning the gold standard that allowed for recovery, but the protectionist policies that went with it.
As an aside: apologies for the fact that this comment is repeated a couple of times below, I was posting it from train wifi, which kept cutting out, so I was unaware it hadn't posted the first two times. By the time I realised the 2 hour limit for editing/deleting comments had passed.

Sorry!
Whether it solves that problem appears to depend on your definition of the problem. To me, it appears as if every library required by every application was stored together with said application, and that every version of every library and application ever installed was also stored. That’s surely nice if you have large disks, but it is neither going to work for phones nor for (sensibly-priced) SSDs.

I agree, though, that it does look like an interesting project, but also have to admit that I’m quite happy with the state of package management in Debian – including the idea to force everything into the dpkg/APT framework.
Poll: Do you meditate?
Do you meditate? If so, how often?

Other questions that would be interesting to have answers to: Why do you meditate? What kind of meditation do you do? How long have you practiced? How long is each meditation session? Do you meditate alone or with others? What effects or benefits have you experienced?
I meditate two or more times a day.
I meditate once a day.
I meditate two or more times a week.
I meditate once a week.
I meditate once a month.
I meditate often, but not on a regular schedule.
I rarely meditate.
I tried it once or twice, but it wasn't for me.
I tried it once or twice, and want to do more.
I have never tried it, but would like to.
Startup weekend http://startupweekend.org/
Keep in mind that Glass doesn't provide a full overlay of a person's vison -- you need to adjust both focus and look in the corner of your field of vision.
They can't track you if you use Ghostery.
HackerNews is super slow from AWS
In the last couple of days HackerNews became super slow to access from AWS (~5 min average to load a page).
Any idea what's going on? is it intentional?

*checked @Virgina region
My money is on the facebook widgets embedded in other sites this guy visits. Like buttons, login buttons, perhaps a comment widget or three.

Many users may not realize that you don't need to actually click these widgets in order to be recorded by them. Unless you're using a blocker (e.g. Ghostery or DoNotTrackMe), your browser is pinging facebook every time they're included on a page.

Visit a few gay porn sites that have those widgets embedded and facebook can make a pretty educated guess you're gay.

Do porn sites not embed these things? Ok, how about any number of LGBTQ blogs, news sites, advocacy sites, or even sites that just show things that appeal slightly more to a gay audience than average, such as men's fashion or disney showtunes.
Ideally the solution should work for porn too.

At the moment condoms aren't really any good for sex that spans 3-4 hours, and as porn is such a substantial influencer the solution should use that influence to it's advantage.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5328993
Foursquare and Waze would make a great combination. Waze already shows me location-aware offers from every Taco Bell in the area.
Its not too unusual for a republican to be in favor of a sales tax. Income, capital gains, property, and inheritance taxes are another story.
The reaction to Glass is somewhat ridiculous for people who have no idea how they work and have never used them. Even more ridiculous is the government trying to ban or regulate something that isn't even available yet, and might never be available, or, as the naysayers say, be a complete market failure.
Argh! Ack! I am offended by your use of the word douchebag. You did not stop to think. Where is your filter? Argh. Ack.

"Common sense" isn't as "common as we like to think, is it? "Public" is a state of mind.

Adria was overhearing a conversation not meant for her ears. It was her error.
Almost sounds like a university library outside of a university. I would certainly be in support of that, but as it'll be nowhere near anywhere I go, I'd find it hard to put actual money down.

Now.. I'd totally love one of my own, just need to save up for that bigger house ;-)
GOP lawmaker seeks 'virtual Congress' with telecommuting plan
view-source would still work right. so
I don't think there is. I did it on a case-by-case basis.
Trying to Tackle the Concerns of a Freelance Economy
I have never tried it, and have no interest in it.
If Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are included in those statistics, the age is closer to 35.
Warren Ellis at Cognitive Cities Conference [video]
He concludes by saying he is sticking to JavaScript because modularity is important to him...
One tweak: I would only count views by people who upvote at least one comment in the thread. The reason being that people who read all the way down to the bottom are more invested in the topic and more likely to upvote in general, while lurkers may all read the top 10 comments and leave without voting.
I will admit, I don't manage my time tremendously; I get up late, I go to bed late. However, the time in between is spent doing the things I mentioned before, not on idly flicking between youtube, facebook etc.

I'm not sure - I may suffer from the same problem the article is describing, but I definitely feel that reducing (or changing) the workload (at least the mental workload) would allow me to manage my time better.
Is this substantially different from a member's club for technologists? If so, it's a pretty established concept, you just probably want to attract a younger demographic. Wikipedia link is not NSFW, btw.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemens_club
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"Microsoft is associated with corporation and money and monopoly."

This is a good point, but I think it'd be closer to the mark to say that Microsoft is associated with work.

People are often forced to use Microsoft products when they are at work. They frequently have little say in how these products are selected or configured. They're told that The Company has made those decisions for them, so they should just shut up and learn to love them, all hail The Company.

This is not an association that will make people leap joyfully to buy the same products when they are deciding what to spend their personal money on.

This is part of why I have been baffled at MS's insistence on branding Windows 8 and Windows Phone, both of which they desperately want individual consumers to buy into, as "Windows" products. Windows is work. Products to be sold to individuals need to be positioned more like play to be appealing.
Even worse is the "Why not try X, your friend Y is."

This was especially fun in my case when, under the heading "You might like" I had: "<girlfriends name> just signed up on <dating site>". :)

I don't entirely mind them profiling me based on what I choose to put on Facebook. But leaking it to my friends is weird.

(I know you can restrict the audience for everything you do, and I actively do this, but it is soooo easy to slip up).
From the Wikipedia article:

"The price of gold from the Treasury for international transactions was thereafter raised to $35 an ounce ($587 in 2010 dollars) resulting in an immediate loss for everyone who had been forced to surrender their gold."

That is theft, plain and simple.
Do you think not even seeing "that password can be cracked in 5 minutes" won't get them to add a few more characters?
The real problem with this approach is that when you reload the page all comments will slide around the page and you can't find the ones you've read already, unless you account for that by hiding read comments or something like that.
Except that the people that are hit hardest by this likely aren't paying income taxes, because their income is so low.
The answer depends on how one defines "smarter". If "smarter" means being able to organize things that naturally tend to become disorganized, then yes, programmers are smarter than lawyers.

Programmers thrive by creating local violations of entropy. Lawyers are entropy.
Compensated compensation is explicitly sanctioned in the Constitution.
at least he took advantage of the downtime to upgrade some stuffs.
First time I've seen someone actually try and defend Javascript's non-existent roll-your-own module system against languages which actually have proper built-in module systems as first class.
Fake, these guys are corrupted and benchmarks are rigged :-P

</joke>

Long live to Nginx !
I've only written a small amount of dart so far, but speaking as as a cranky C++ developer with not much recent experience with web development, having a thicker standard library is very useful. Specifically the platform has grown so much over the years it's hard as a newcomer to discover the well lit path. With dart:html for example, it's much more straightforward - they have done a lot of work simplifying the very broad set of DOM APIs. I understand there are various JS libraries that provide this, but as a newbie which one do I pick?
"think the KDE sysadmins were stupid"

The problem is that they were not stupid, they were too clever for their own good. A stupid sysadmin would follow the 3-2-1 backup rule and have on hand at least 3 backups of the data from the past 24 hours (or sooner, if backup strategy necessitated it). The KDE sysadmins and devs thought they were super clever and could avoid this rule from operations 101, and then found out the hard way that they could not.

This is really 2 separate discussions. One is the intricacies of git. The other is ignoring operations 101 by not making proper backups. Having over a decade in ops experience, I am more focused on the latter discussion.

As someone else here said, if they had followed a braindead checklist of how to do proper backups they would not have had this problem. Standard operations procedure will save you, even if you had made faulty assumptions about your architecture.

The main point is this: they broke an ops 101 rule. They had clever reasons and assumptions for doing so. These assumptions turned out to be wrong. Now people are arguing the point. It does not change the main point, that if they had followed the ops 101 backup rule, possible disaster would not have been knocking on the door.
Twenty Reasons Why You Should Use Boxer (Instead of LOGO)
I visited the UK late last year and can confirm that your card readers can still read the magnetic stripes on our outdated American credit cards if they absolutely have to.
There's also no reason to believe that following directions is the only reason someone would read while driving, but it's not illegal to have newspaper sitting on the passenger's seat.
It also only applies to the upper tiers of society. For poorer people, they are going to be able to save less because essentials cost more, and go further into debt if a catastrophe strikes.
This is a very stupid question! So I guess you are not a programmer :)
It is actually a good book and definitely worth getting,but it really should have been called Pandas for Data Analysis.

While not directly covering the python libraries mentioned such as scikits learn this is a good into to some concepts in machine learning.
https://www.udacity.com/course/cs373
In addition to the other issues brought up, there's the problem of pubic hair getting stuck in the film reducing it's effectiveness and making removal painful.
>but high fructose corn syrup, and diet soda would be illegal

Might want to check those facts.

There's very little evidence that sucralose and aspartame are in any way harmful, despite a considerable search effort spanning decades. Sugar alcohols and sweeteners like acesulfame potassium have a clean record too, excepting some digestive discomfort until you build a tolerance to them. Xylitol is actually good for you.

As for HFCS, research suggests that it's only a problem because of how much of it is used. There's no good evidence that it's actually more harmful than any other simple sugar. HFCS is a problem because it's about the cheapest way to make food tastier, and eating loads of sugar is bad for you.
One major drawback is you can't control output buffering and gzip with phpfpm (LAMP stack equivalent) You cannot flush head, the user has to wait until the whole page loads before rendering.
Food contamination with horsemeat, mad cow disease. What can you do?
> Doesn't this seem a little sexist?

Had the article been: "How Etsy Replaced 50% of our Male Engineers with Females" you might have cause for concern.

If we were using startup lingo, we'd be saying that Etsy is disrupting the traditional labor market by finding a supply of software engineers where one didn't (or didn't seem to) exist before. We wouldn't assume that the labor supply remained exactly the same size, and that every software engineer position staffed by a woman meant one less software engineer position staffed by a man.
What if it's not a TV, but a human being?

Just pointing out there are some concepts more sacred than property.
I don't know anything about that, but I'm guessing you're trying to scrape HN. I use the "unofficial API" instead: http://api.ihackernews.com/

It works, but has its own problems, specifically intermittent 500 failures. So I wrap all my requests in something that can retry them: https://github.com/leknarf/hn-notify/blob/master/hn.py
Using Graphene to build supercapacitors is not a new idea as this video suggests. Here is an article from 2.5 years ago in PhysicsWorld describing another team doing almost the same thing:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2010/nov/26/graphen...
This was my first reaction, too! ;-)

Here's Wikipedia's example 'Hello, World!' program:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Hello_World.21
> How about we just stop dictating people's lives?

But then what would politicians do all day?

Seriously, "making laws that dictate people's lives" are the things they can point to to say they're doing any job at all. They have a strong incentive to make those kinds of laws. What is needed more than anything is to remove that incentive.
Ask HN: Overcomming a federal conviction (computer fraud) for decent job?
First time posting here. Had to use pastebin because I wrote beyond 2k char limit. Apologies for the annoyance of an extra-step. Please read and respond.

Thanks.
mod_wsgi usage is not recommended.
Thanks, searched a bit more and found some more info on SO by the author of Lo-dash: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13789618/differences-betw...

Saw and updated some benchmarks, quite impressive: http://jsperf.com/lodash-underscore/6

Edit: added some benchmark
I would think that we want laws that react to real problems that come up, as they come up, once enough data has been collected to prove they're problems. Then, the law is enacted, the data is measured again, and we see whether the law solved the problem. :)
Not rolling back some changes they made long ago is not very impressive a defense.

> Larry Page is still the current CEO of Google.

'Still'? Schmidt was CEO for a large chunk of Google's existence. And yes, Page does seem to be the problem. I'm reading _In The Plex_ now, and maybe it's just me projecting, but Page seems to come off as a autistic asshole with problems and the book speculates it's related to his father's death.
Please explain how confiscating people's gold was necessary to save someone's life. How is the life of the person stealing worth more than the person he is stealing from?
You have a very narrow view of things if you don't think people are having kids (yes, even in the valley).
Even if you don't think the government should be prohibiting dangerous substances, you must surely concede that prohibiting actually dangerous substances* is still better than prohibiting safe substances.

* Leaving aside that the most common artificial sweeteners aren't actually dangerous substances
It is a really thick book not a paper. And while it doesn't hypothesize about protectionism as far as I remember, if you really want to argue that the gold standard forced countries to embrace destructive trade policies in a statistically-significant way, you are not doing its advocates any favors.

Realistically, Eichengreen's argument is considered so solid these days that even fringe nutjobs with an anti-FDR or anti-Keynes agenda don't tackle it straight on. Instead, the typical plan is to insinuate that fiscal stimulus doesn't work because the US did not achieve full recovery before WWII.

Of course, anyone who has taken even an undergraduate course in US economic history should know that fiscal contractions on the state-level throughout the mid-1930s basically offset expansionary fiscal policy on the federal level (the seminal paper is E. Cary Brown's "Fiscal Policy in the Thirties" [1956]). This is why no-one in mainstream economics believes fiscal policy was truly expansionary in the US during the 1930s. That said, if you're asking why this is relevant that is a good point, since the important thing about leaving the gold standard is not that it led to immediate INFLATION so much as that it stopped DEFLATION and began the slow process of recovery. And this is the observation made by the piece and it is absolutely correct: once the United States left the gold standard the country's near double-digit annual deflation stopped and its process of recovery - however slow and faltering - began.
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http://microjs.com/

http://www.jsdb.io/