skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a white male, 5'11"
I often feel unsafe when riding in a subway car alone at night.

before I get hellbanned: I'm trying to make a very real point, sometimes the only solution is to avoid such a situation. short of learning karate and packing a gun I just have to avoid the subway at night.

I'd like to note that I too feel unsafe around heavy drinking, people do stupid things and I wanna meet my grandkids, so I will often not go out with people who I think will get crazy.

I agree though that in general women have to be a lot more careful about their company, and this is true of all cultures and circles. I remember being very surprised in high school when my mother would make me go out to pick up my sister (born a year apart) who was at a friend's house only 3 blocks away at night, when I used to walk twice that (and this wasn't a particularly "bad" neighborhood).
I would like to second Eloquent Ruby. Russ Olsen has a magical way of explaining things in a very simple manner.

I will always read anything he writes. Love his style. Now that I am thinking about it, I feel like re-reading that book.

The most important thing to remember, when you are learning programming for the first time, is that the process is very, very long. You make A LOT of mistakes and it can be INCREDIBLY frustrating. But....once you push through, and actually validate that you know what you just learned and actually figure stuff out...I think there are very few highs that rival that rush.

It's weird....but it is EXTREMELY satisfying. I think because the journey is so hard, that makes the discovery of the solution all the more pleasing.

So, I would say....just prepare your mind that you have a lot of long nights, and problems that may take you days/weeks/months to "fully grok". Once you get in that mindset and are prepared to slog through, you will make it and be much better off for it.
It doesn't sound like anyone is really 'hungry' for success at this company. Is the source of funding from this Co-Founder not limited in any way? Are you being paid?

Sometimes the best thing to do before just walking away is to set some goals with very clear expectation and consequences. One of those consequences can be that you will leave. This way, if you are interested in saving your relationship with these guys you can avoid dropping it on them out of nowhere. Who knows, maybe they'll turn around. But I can feel your frustrations. It's no fun babysitting co-workers.
Excellent point and I'm a bit embarrassed not to have included them! I'm adding it to the post as we speak. :D
Just pull the repository to a secret staging repository and then back up the staging repository.
April 13th. https://www.facebook.com/events/337629019680637/?ref=22
Let's start with a base assertion: Human beings are wired and programmed to reproduce.

Yes? Everybody agree? Assuming I didn't lose anybody there.

Onward: tricky business about sex, particularly from men (who I think are programmed in a much more culturally-unfriendly way when it comes to sex; multiple partners, ogling, and so forth), is unfortunately going to happen. Kind of like farting. It's noble that most of us can keep it under control in the workplace. Guarantee that even the quietest, most reserved, shy, never-an-HR-issue male employee, even ones who openly fight for feminist causes here, has occasionally looked at cleavage and thought, "boy, those are great tits." Equally so if the man is gay, just the opposite gender that produces that reaction. It happens. Everybody does it. Women do it too. You are programmed to admire the reproductive and aesthetic traits of the gender(s) that arouse(s) you. You shouldn't be ashamed of it.

Nothing so far has been controversial, I hope. I might have lost a certain group at the end of the last paragraph. Let me finish quickly while they start typing:

It's unreasonable to expect both men and women, biologically, to completely suppress sex in any form whatsoever. That culture expects us to is, I think, a bug in culture(+). There is something broken here on both sides of the gender divide, and I don't know that we understand as a culture how to fix it. Through some horrible perfect storm of social issues among the average programmer, I think we just see this problem amplified to the moon and back. I've been to construction sites. Visit one sometime. Talk to the workers.

I feel like for countless years culture has been at war with humanity. We shame sex across the board, we shame farting and burping, we shame natural odors, we shame hair in certain places for certain genders, we shame vulgarity, we shame picking our noses... the list goes on and on and on. Where's the culture that understands its members are human beings with flaws?

Maybe, just maybe, I feel like political correctness and attempting to 'fix' human beings has done more harm than good. Maybe we're acting appropriately and reacting inappropriately. Fair point?

(+) The source of this bug is a patch committed by a religious working group, and that patch should be reverted, but that's an argument for another time.
Nascent awareness of sexism and corresponding initiatives to deal with it aren't something that's limited to software at all. Science, academia, and the skeptic/atheist community are all in the midst of similar changes right now as well.
GiveSpark hasn't launched yet ... or at least, at this point, they still have a signup landing page
Agreed, Finland is a very homogeneous country, but you just have to look across the Baltic to find a very similar country with similar immigration levels to the US (Sweden), which I happen to be from. Now the difference is what kind of immigrants the US gets versus European countries. The US has a much higher ratio of skilled immigrant workers. It's very difficult to get in to this country without a STEM master's degree, I'd know. Almost nobody moves to Sweden for the reason to work. They move to Sweden because they might be killed in their home country if they don't leave, and it's one of the few countries that can't turn away immigrants who face threats to their lives. Now look at Portland, which I also happen to live in. It might have a lot of immigrants, but come ON! Are you really using Portland as an example of a dysfunctional place? Portland? Personally, I think this is one of the best places in this country. If I'd go by the correlation then I'd say more diverse populations result in better communities, but I wouldn't go that far.

I'll admit that diverse populations do create problems, but I think it's a cop out for people to blame that for any little problem you might be facing. Man up and take some responsibility.

And this is the point where people start using size as an argument, and how states within the country differ sooo much. I've had long discussions with several people saying that New York and Texas are as different as France and Germany. Which is just ludicrous and shows how little they know about the world.

Btw, Russians and Finns are not closely related in any sense. If you said that to a Finn they'd probably kill you, just giving a heads up. Swedes and Finns are more intertwined by history and culture than related in the genetic or language sense. If you told a Finn that they're related to Swedes they might kill you slightly for that too.
Nice:

Accessories
330 gallon water tank for the onboard misting system
Onan 4000 watt generator
Air Conditioner for the sleeping/VIP room
10,000 plus led lights
Safari style front window frames
> you'll love looking at the code to two very popular and powerful JavaScript projects: Underscore.js, Backbone.js

Is that a joke? I can't stand reading the source of those two libraries, even with the pretty two-column documentation. There have got to be better examples of readable JavaScript.
I had to dig a bit to find similar info for U.S. law, but it appears to be true here as well:

http://openjurist.org/866/f2d/1242/united-states-v-cache-val...

"The district court determined that under Utah law the relationship between a bank and a depositor is generally that of a debtor to a creditor, citing Walker Bank & Trust Co. v. First Security Corp., 9 Utah 2d 215, 341 P.2d 944, 946 (1959). United States v. Intermountain Region Concrete Co., 636 F.Supp. at 284. Under this widely accepted principle, the depositor retains a right to withdraw those funds, which is usually described as a chose in action..."
To be honest, I don't think that easy/difficultis that helpful, especially when people usually know where they want to go. Although this text-based answer is not as impressive visually, and could be improved with automatic linking or perhaps using a map to select origin and destination countries, I think it's better to give the information in textual form to avoid misunderstandings.
That's a very good point about the unlimited funding. I am being paid, but I think the co-founder has deep pockets to keep this thing going. Which is almost unfortunate, because it means no one is desperate for this thing to be a success.

I'll try to think of some goals I can set.
Thanks a lot for this post. As a relatively new web dev mostly working in jQuery (I get stuff to work right and be relatively fast, but thats about it), I've been very curious about where to go next.
My startup is in digital advertising (includes desktop, phones and tablets) space. And I know digital advertising is hated by users. There are three main reasons, online ads are obnoxious, obtrusive and invade end-user privacy. Lets step back and understand how come advertising was considered as glamorous and it turned into evil with digital medium.

Advertising for years operated on the "purchase funnel" concept [1][2]. Top end of the funnel is occupied by big brand advertisers whose goal is to create awareness for the brands/products. If you create enough awareness, end-consumers will eventually buy your products. Generally, brands/companies with millions of dollars in advertising operate at the top end of the funnel due to financial resources they have at their disposal. At the bottom of the funnel there are low end marketers whose sole goal is to find right customers and make immediate sale.

Other mediums like TV, Out of the home, Print (big magazines not newspapers) have top of the funnel advertisers pouring millions of dollars. Due to nature of the medium, you don't know who is watching/viewing your ad (targeting is very limited). So they engage in creating awareness and eventually prospective customers.

In digital medium, it's easy to track who is going to be end-user so low-end of the marketers came into play where you mostly get banner ads like deals, discount offers to make sale immediately.

Unfortunately, digital advertising ecosystem so far has built around low-end marketers as customers. Due to this advertising on digital sucks. Banners are terrible way to advertising for big brands who are not particularly interested in immediate sale. Result- we haven't seen big brands doing huge campaigns in digital arena. The share of digital advertising in overall advertising pie is very small.

To cater, low-end marketers we have crazy level of targeting and people feel violated when it comes to privacy.

Innovation (to address aforementioned problems) is happening in digital advertising, albeit at much slower pace. We are seeing new ways of advertising. Video is attracting bigger brands who are interested in creating awareness. There are some other interesting solutions popping up (we are building one, sorry for shameless plug) where by catering to different set of customers with different objectives we don't have to build user behaviors by doing crazy data mining. I'm optimistic, as big brands and top end of the funnel advertisers come into the play, we won't need crazy targeting and invasion of our privacy. Don't forget digital advertising in current state is utterly broken and everyone inside industry knows, we will definitely see much better solutions in next couple of years.

References:
[1] Purchase Funnel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchase_funnel
[2] Understanding the funnel: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/01/understandin...
Apple forces each iOS app to have its own independent system for managing files
Yep, skip those pesky IE compatibility issues, except, if you expect to target IE <= 8, you should definitely get the shim library at the link below. It provides compatible IE functions for all the common native JS methods and functions that missing in IE <= 8. Then you never have to worry about IE again.
https://github.com/kriskowal/es5-shim
I've been conditioned to avoid fights that I don't feel like fighting in this industry. That's coupled with a pretty good knack for how someone is going to read a comment (but I failed elsewhere in this thread, if you look for name). Not sure that makes me a white knight.
With a 1.77 child per women it make 188k€ of deposits (not capital) per household. It's a lot.

Since the GDP per capita is around 28k€, 62k per capita seems insane to me.

> Why would a country with 68B Euros on deposit be begging for a 10B Euro bailout?

Because most part of these 68B is not owned by citizens but by foreigners, and is suspected to be dirty money from russian criminals.

Anyway since the european laws protects any deposits up to 100k€, if these 68B€ are really all legitimates personal deposits, this extraordinary tax will just have no effect.
Until there are TV & radio ads addressing the issue, I wouldn't count on the case taking up too much mindshare.

Let's see if it comes up during the debates in Springfield (a poor city with a large minority population).
Wealth redistribution in action.
" I have serious doubts about the team and am doubtful that the product will be successful "

That's a sign to go. If you don't believe in the team and the product, then why are you spending time on the startup?
They weren't talking about me, they were talking about themselves.

Often, when people (myself included) write comments we're making an instant, gut reaction. We might have only read the title, the tl;dr, or heard second-hand. But it ignites our insecurity and we lash out. We're no longer wrestling with the author's thesis, we're focused entirely on ourselves.
For Rails, I'd recommend, in this order

1. Agile Web Development with Rails
2. The Rails Way

I've heard good things about "Beginning Rails 3", but I haven't read it myself, I'd pop that up to the top of the list if Agile Web Development with Rails isn't working for you.
Can Adria be fired for stating publicly that SendGrid supported her complaints when in fact the company didn't support her complaints?

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/314452708549603328

If I have an employee who accuses an innocent co-worker of sexual harassment publicly and goes on to state that I support her accusation, when in fact I don't, can I not fire the employee?
Meh, I had to read all 3 pages to read that the author just didn't load the word list properly :(
Mostly because it's very quick to compute millions of hashes, meaning that it lessens the time required to crack a bunch of passwords - of course, this might seem like the last of your problems if your system has been attacked, but most of your users probably have the same password for every site they use, including Paypal, etc.

Something which can be scaled to take a lot longer to hash can make it expensive and practically unfeasible for someone to crack more than the simplest passwords.
well, its a salt, too. just not so random. ;-)
If you keep blaming demographics for everything, then you're giving up. How about, instead of blaming demographics, blame the lack of integration programs, lack of free education and opportunity for everyone, regardless of income, lack of equality in education quality. If a certain demographic comes in as poor individuals and you do nothing to help them, then that's where they'll stay.
I think this is a case of Democratic politicians being afraid to criticize one of their own, as Ortiz is a Democrat with significant political ambitions.

The GOP has plenty of tech-friendly elected representatives despite the GOP's low share of the tech vote (Issa, Moran, Paul, Amash, etc). Tech freedom issues have a natural home in the GOP's free market wing. One of my hobbies (along with many other folks) is getting together the GOP with the tech industry.

I still can't over the fact that both of California's Democratic senators cosponsored PIPA and we haven't done anything about it. If we had elected Fiorina, maybe we would have had one less cosponsor from our state. That shows me that the tech industry still sucks at politics.

Silicon Valley's Democratic representatives in the House (Lofgren) are great on tech issues. But we get our asses kicked by Hollywood and unions at the state level.
How i wish i could afford you to work on my logo.
Amazing idea, but you probably need more data. I got married recently and we haven't got around to our honeymoon yet. I did a few queries which were relevant to me and they didn't have any information. (Indian citizen, tried cyprus, egypt, indonesia with no results. A few other results were helpful).

Also, like someone mentioned, a map showing all the areas you can visit without visas would be much more helpful.
Aweee, don't feel bad for me. NBD. People like me are really good at not failing. I'm measuring with this thread before I make a decision to do something. Internet advice as a collective unit of measurement is still useful and valuable. It is a sin to ignore useful information. Every little bit helps ;)

I've also found it incredibly difficult to ask google this type of complex question. So I posted it here instead.
If the title/label is very long, can you make a tooltip to show the whole label/title on :hover? Much appreciated.
I always do.
Here is my technique -
Feel your breathing. Say OM in mind while inhaling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om). While exhaling, increment your breath count `x` [x <- range(1, depends on you)]

Advantages of this technique:
Track of counting breath - keeps me awake :).
It is simple. No need of specific place, you can try on office chair.
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This strikes me as more old-school GOP
Canonical announces customized Ubuntu for Chinese Government
> If you want to become smarter on a specific topic then you must study that specific topic.

This would contradict almost all current ideas on learning and education as far as I can see. Not many people think concentrating on rote learning creates a more educated society.

> Chess does not make you smarter. Chess makes you better at playing chess. Nothing more nothing less.

Chess is about problem solving and logic. I see no reason why it wouldn't help like abstract maths helps outside of the specific field of abstract maths.
Indeed. For this reason I refuse to teach chess to my children. Instead I'm teaching them go. I find that it has much simpler rules, more complex strategy, more varied games, less memorization at my level, has a good handicap system, and uses areas of your brain that chess simply doesn't.

But in the end it is a game. If they enjoy it and learn a way of thinking, great. But I will not encourage them to master it either.
If your point is that it's possible to do things that produce more egregious emissions, that's obviously the case. But that doesn't really justify anything. Billions of people, each making what they consider to be minor environmental indiscretions, adds up -- if we can speak in general terms about the math for the time being.
I'm beginning to wonder if this is actually universal. I've lived and worked pretty much all my life in India, and something like what the OP describes would be pretty much unthinkable there.

Disclaimer: I grew up in urban and small-town India, in a lower middle-class and middle-class environment. I have no first-hand knowledge of how it is in rural scools. Also, anecdotal evidence, so feel free to take it all with heavy dpo

Math and the sciences in school: Every memory of school I have has girls and boys in equal measure doing well in math and science. The teachers's pets are all the kids who do well in class, the well-behaved ones who were focused on studying. In our early teens though, you could actually see the girls doing better than the boys in every subject. This pattern continued through college as well. Most guys handled
this situation by relying on their female classmates for notes and help with schoolwork. I did the same.

College: My engineering class had something like a 40% female to 60% male ratio. This varied
by specialization. The mechanical engineering department had a grand total of 3 female students and a 100 male students. (This was because Mechanical Engineering was perceived as something physically demanding, and the jobs involved factory floors in far-flung remote towns and villages.) The computer science department had somewhat more than a 50% female student ratio. On the whole, apart from the Mechanical Engineering department, every department was hovering around a equal distribution of females and males. Note that this was not deliberate on the part of the administration. Engineering school admissions in India are purely a function of score in State-level and National-level entrance exams.
For that matter, the faculty was also a fairly even mix of male and female teachers.

From the OP's post : "At an old job, someone in authority pats me on the head to dismiss an argument I’m making about something at work."
In an Indian setting, this would be near impossible because Indian culture is terribly touchy
about men touching women in general. So the condescension would probably be expressed in some
other manner, possibly verbal.

Plus, with close to half the employees being female, there's never really a sense of female
co-workers as a minority in the workspace. And even in the few all-male teams I've been a part of, most of the men have spouses or sisters who work in tech. This means that no one
thinks of male techies as the norm over female techies.

Conferences: Just like the workplaces, there's a good mix of men and women at these. And alcohol is hardly ever an issue because no one serves alcohol at these events in India, not
even beer. It's a bit of a social taboo.

Another thing to note is that in India, engineering, and specifically, software, is something
of an aspirational field. It's considered one of the most desirable careers, and everyone
wants in.
You can do upserts as a single atomic statement using the WITH statement:

https://gist.github.com/paul/855efdecaaa2ec4deec7

You can also use it to perform a "find or insert" as a single atomic action:

https://gist.github.com/paul/75ec84d131e36492b17b
> I've always felt the real benefit of being on Shark Tank is the amazing publicity that the show offers, no matter whether or not a deal is obtained.

That's probably why the producers of the show get a 5% equity, no matter whether or not a deal is obtained.[1]

You'll notice that sometimes a presenter is very careful not to mention another company they have, typically one that's moderately successful. It's not because they don't want the sharks to get it piece, it's that they'd end up now giving up a 5% equity stake in that company too.

[1] http://a.abc.com/media/primetime/sharktank/SharkTank3OpenCal...
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The 500 Startups Index – 369 Companies and Counting
Title is just a skosh editorialized.
Basic Step On How To Upload And Install PHP Script
What is CDM?
And MS SQL Server Compact Edition is the Wordpad of databases.

(I'll just see myself out...)
Yes, Go is really interesting. I think there are reasons to teach both. Again, in moderation.
Really nice. I'd remove the hover effect from the disabled button style though. You want to communicate with the user that the item is not activated and having a hover just makes it a light colored button.
Why People Reformat Email Replacing ‘’ With [at] In Webpages
>like sending selected text to an external script

If you program in a mac, you might want to learn about 'Services', which is a way to do whatever you want with selected text in nearly any osx app.