skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no physical barriers that prevent women from operating in tech. There is no requirement to lift heavy machinery. There is nothing about operating a computer that requires a masculine body structure nor is there anything in the female body structure that prevents it. There are many individuals in the tech field that took to programming because it satisfied a curiosity, not because "you're x and you're required to learn it." Tech [due to the typically socially isolating nature] is typically [I guess now you can say traditionally] discouraged to everyone.

I never claimed that women were "deserving of the attention." I also never stated that the harassment is ok either. My opinion about where I perceive most of the harassment coming from is misjudged. I'm stating that there is a problem that they don't know how to communicate what they want effectively. It's impossible to learn social skills in a vacuum. It's even worse when the opposite gender expects those skills and they aren't there.

It is ok for a guy to be interested in a girl that he may work with and express this, it is not ok for the guy to refuse to accept and keep persisting. You can't just go from being cold and strangers to knowing each other better without someone making a statement/action.

Motivation is a big deal, I'll agree. But pushing younger girls into coding camps isn't the answer, thats not going to build motivation. If that model worked you'd see professional girlscouts.
Which of the approximately 200 pre-existing, owned, tested and reviewed models over on cnx-software.com are you referring to? I'd rather take my chances buying something that already exists at a fair price, not last-generation vaporware sold at an unfair premium, targeted at those who don't know any better.

As for reliability, there are definitely some designs out there with heating issues and flaky wifi (missing antenna is common), but overall manufacturing quality doesn't vary much at any price point. It's not like these sticks are cheap because there's child labour involved, they all come from a small set of factories that rely more on volume to stay in business than anything else.
Do ternary operators really make much of a performance difference compared to if-else statements? I'd imagine they're not implemented much differently when it comes down to the instruction level (you still have the conditional branch). If they do make a difference, I'd hope the browser makes the optimization. Nevertheless, as you mention, this may not be the case.
Here's what I meant:

(def nouns #{"apple" "book" "house"})
(def text "My apple is red.")

(defn noun?
"intersect word with nouns and see if we've got anything."
[word]
(not-empty (intersection (set [word]) nouns)))

(defn nurblize
[text]
(let [words (split text #" ")]
(map #(if (noun? %) "nurble" %) words)))

(nurblize text) ;=> ("My" "nurble" "is" "red")
I think you hit the nail on the head. Very helpful article - I have passed it on to my less technical co-founder as an idea for our approach. Thank you.
I feel I have to defend your comment here, as t

The conviction for gross indeceny was socially backwards, yes, but the establishment (which Turing was not a part of )
Completely fumbled his genius - just look at the treatment von Braun and others got because their rocketry work was valuable.

Had the establishment recognised the value of Turing I am quite sure records could have easily been expunged.

But they did not aNd there is no reliable indicator we have learnt our lessons
Develop Faster: Set Up Your Git Fork and Merge Network
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Some people may prefer to avoid using Google services.
http://whether.io - Australian Store only.

I've made about $100 in around 6 months. No advertising beyond initial push on social networks.

Made about $40 in first week (all people I know, I assume). Now I get around 1 purchase each week.
It's a product that people are willing to pay for and in return people get an accountable manufacturer (or at least a sympathetic community of other buyers) rather than a random Chinese producer. How is this abusing Kickstarter? The market being flooded clearly wasn't enough for them. They're buying exactly what is advertised.

I don't think manufacturers should feel bad for pricing a product comfortably (what a disaster it is when a Kickstarter project underestimates its costs), since anyone is free to undercut them at any time on the same service.
Sadly this still leaves you with a rather crippled subset of the real thing. I.e. "copy mode" instead of proper scrolling, no native text selection, and very noticeable latency and glitches.

It's the price you pay for emulating a 35 years old piece of hardware[1] inside an emulator of the same...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100
Am I the only one who finds almost all music distracting - I like to listen to it not ignore it. If I am going to concentrate I need to use all my brain cells (I only have a few left you see), so I listen to nothing.
Business needs a new type of agency partner
Kindly shut the fuck up.
And we shouldn't discuss him based on his self-established public persona in a public forum? I worry that we're building a culture of internet builders that excuse boorish behavior because someone has a platform or something we need access to. I may be wrong to call him a dick in general but his reaction in this case can certainly be called 'dickish'.
Plan9port claims to be a port to Unix like systems, not just Linux. The site lists OS X, SunOS, and several BSDs in addition to Linux.
Contrary to what the author believes and would want us to believe, at this point I really don't see how is Google going to "come and get me" with the data that I choose to give it to them. Yes, I have given my credit card number to its Play Store, but I have given that to like 15 other services on the internet who just charge me when appropriate. They have my personal emails, its machines read them and show me ads, which I block with adblock plus anyway. It is training its natural language processing algorithms by reading my emails, and not giving me a share of them. I'm fine with that. It's giving me a really unmatched email service for that cost, and I understand that. It is acting according to its privacy policy, which it is trying to unify across its products. I believe so far, except one or two occasions they have been pretty fair to it.
It's not like a criminal is going to give you a call letting you know that they're getting in so you get prepared. Fun exercise: did guns save more lives or took more away?

EDIT: this is for gp.
shut the fuck up.
Startpage and Ixquick are really the same thing:

"Startpage was released in 2009 in the United States as a new name for the Ixquick search engine. Because the name Ixquick can be somewhat difficult to remember and spell, people asked us for an easier name, and we were happy to oblige. Startpage uses Ixquick's search methodologies and privacy features, and is governed by the same privacy policies." [1]

[1] https://startpage.com/eng/company-background.html
> You can easily use it on your Mac in Safari by changing your hosts file and in Chrome like so.

Using Chrome to help you quit google? ;)
Make one and send it to pg.
For anybody who wants to go for Android without Google, try Replicant, an Android distribution only running free (libre) software through its whole stack. http://replicant.us/about/
Crap. That wasn't my intention. Didn't know about this collocation in english :D
Amazing Rendering of Metroid by Photoshop Master
And, honestly, when you look at the number of people involved/directly impacted, this is a much bigger story for PyCon, IMHO.
About the only assurance you're buying is that when a production run goes bad, it's an American rather than Chinese accent saying the words "your money is gone, this is what you get unless we find another $50k somehow. Sorry"
I think that would be great! Personally I use the news:yc [1] app on iPhone (no affiliation). It works well and the author updates it when there is a parsing problem.

[1] http://newsyc.me/
some more points:

maps - replace them with OpenStreetMap, that could even be used offline

news - my http://w3dig.com/ aims on replacing this in the long run

play - I dont have it installed on my phone, and only use apk's I compiled myself

youtube - I host videos only my own server, but I still watch yt, if someone sends me a link

security - google blocks many one click share hosters, claiming that they are attack sites. I have this firefox/google service off since that time.

chrome - I prefer to turn of google features in FF, I wont switch to chrome, not for money or good words

analytics - a 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts might help ;-)

apis - ouch they are really evil. Sites wont work, if you turn them off, but google will monitor you if you leave them on.

... the evil big brother google is much bigger then just search
I don't see why aesthetics mandate a rewrite of the Thunderbird coebase. Maybe their team should instead improve Thunderbird?
Secret Laws of Startups (Part 2) - Build Right Team
Yes, it would be really hard. For as much as I love HN, I think it does not stand to the standards of what it is: a meeting place for hackers.

When we work on the web, we focus on being semantic, conscious about the actual web in which one size does not fit all, usability and design. None of which HN has: tables, it doesn't work on mobile (and the links on the submission aren't clickable) and you can't undo your vote. I understand another hacker value is protoyping and MVP-thinking, but when you have a vibrant community a few years old, that's not the case.

Maybe the hacker thinking on HN is doing it yourself, maybe you can come up with a browser extension that fixes this stuff.

In the meanwhile, you can use ihackernews.com for when you're on the go.
Also a validation of market.
In general, I agree with your comment.

For the specific case of Go however, there is an easy solution: open source. Just as there are vibrant communities and multiple compilers for other languages, there could be for Go (if there is enough reason for communities to form). Unlike Reader, which requires some infrastructure to maintain, Go---once open sourced---would not.
Maybe it would be easier if he open sources HN, as a stylesheet alone won't cut it when the layout is table-based.
Agreed, unless the fixed number is zero.

You ban anyone selling banned items. I think vendors would respond quickly by self-censoring, especially the big guys.

Assisted-opening knives are a tiny fraction of Amazon's sales. If assisted-opening knife advertisements cut off Amazon's entire account, as has happened with Knife Depot, I'm pretty sure that Amazon would de-list assisted-opening knives.

A zero-tolerance policy, coupled with ample forgiveness for infractions, would be fair. Alternatively, you let anyone advertise anything.

Anything in-between turns Google into a kingmaker.

(NB - the very notion of censoring listings at all carries its own troubles, not at issue here)
nice; VS too (well, not sure if elegant) using an extension: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SimultaneousEditingForVisualSt...
> But they were very valuable.

...if you say so :)

> But to paint them all indiscriminately with the pejorative term "disturbed" is to misunderstand their nature.

I meant the following definition for "disturbed":
interfere with the normal arrangement or functioning of

Sorry, I suppose I should have made it clear. I can see now why I need to be careful using this word. So to return, I connected to the fact that drugs are an intoxicant, perturbing the natural functioning of the nervous system. Using them to achieve a desirable result is... well, let us be polite: it won't become an acceptable form of "treatment". Their unpredictable nature that you mentioned is essentially the strongest argument in this debate.

> It's also a bit arrogant to put ordinary consciousness up on a pedestal as if it was the ultimate and best form of consciousness and the rest were lacking, wrong, or immoral in some way.

No, it's just logically self-contradictory to expect that by perturbing a system you may improve its behaviour. Any argument you may formulate in those terms should and will be discarded. As for other possible arguments in favour of drug use... well we only have what we have so far.

> From their perspective, it is the ordinary state of consciousness which is "disturbed", and the enlightened state of consciousness that is healthy. Who are we to insist otherwise?

We are hackers :p
I've always felt there are two types of learning.

The first kind is where I'm learning how to do something completely new: ride a bike, multiply matrices, juggle, regular expressions, whatever. My brain must be building new algorithms--it's creating new brain software.

The second kind of learning is where I'm learning new facts and figures: the state capitals, the characters on Game of Thrones, the top fifty dirty jokes, etc. This is my brain filling in a database or hash table.

The first kind of learning definitely hurts a lot more than the second.
Ask HN: Server-side Analytics, and Tracking RSS?
Hi all!

I'm building out a blog at the moment using a static site generator I'm writing (in Pharen[0], if you're curious. Quite a lovely language actually!). I've created a script that will write out an Atom based RSS feed.

What I want to do is track subscribers, without relying on Feedburner or anything Google (after the reader debacle, I just don't trust them with my data). I also want to have a generic analytics service, self-hosted preferably.

Now, I've seen Piwik[1] and OpenWebAnalytics[2], which both look excellent. I'm more partial to the latter. However, they are only client-side as far as I can see, which means I can't inject anything into my RSS script to track readers!

Does anyone know of decent server-side analytics software, or client-side that I can send a request with the info to be tracked? Can OpenWebAnalytics perhaps do the latter?

If it has to be hosted, so be it, as long as it's not too pricey. I don't mind paying for quality.

Cheers!
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no love for startpage.com?
Ah, my mistake, I misread the sentences; thanks.
I admire your consequence in replying :)
Show HN: My kickstarter for an ergonomic tablet accessory
Here is the link:

http://kck.st/14pxko9

Please show your love for it there or hate for it here. I like hearing everything.
I have a question about it: can anyone tell how it deals with redundancy?

It seems to be distributed. If you are running Plan 9 on 3 machines, and one goes down, what happens to the rest of the system. Does it become unavailable?
I was looking into these recently, thinking the A15 dual core + T604 Mali in the Samsung chromebook was getting pretty good ($250 http://amzn.com/B009LL9VDG )... but the Acer chromebook, with a crummy intel celeron and HD 4000 is faster ($232 http://amzn.com/B00AG0BLWU - see the top review). But you can't buy an bare intel PC for $70.
Been down this road before where somebody pointed me to: http://ihackernews.com/
> every single time a woman speaks up about inappropriate behaviour, she ends up paying a terrible price in harassment, abuse, threats, and hatred.

Are you sure about that? That sounds a bit of an extreme statement. Most disputes in life are handled privately and quietly. There is very little need to sensationalize everything.
My point is that they are missing the essence of what made Reader effective: RSS. Email for updates? Following on Tumblr instead of a prominent hyperlink with the cross-platform RSS feed? It's like they don't know anyone who ever used it.

When Prismatic came out with an opportunistic spiel, even though they had nothing anything like Reader, it really rubbed me the wrong way. This hype piece feels the same, almost like a car commercial (bare bones! ultra fast!) or an Onion piece about how every co-founder in the Valley is starting a social news sharing service.

I think the key ingredients to a GR replacement are an open API so it is not beholden and can be on all your devices -- as mindcrime notes -- a focus on RSS, basic and friendly sharing, and then surely a little curation magic that Digg must know already. It's probably fine if Digg gets there in a few months. But for example theoldreader is there already.
Philadelphia has a lot to offer, I'm from the suburbs of Philadelphia and I find myself going to the city almost every weekend. Lot's of great bars (especially on South Street), the Philadelphia museum of art, and all of the historical landmarks make it a great place to visit. Philadelphia also has a huge resurgence in biking, if you go to Philadelphia on a nice afternoon you'd be able to spot hundreds of bikers. It really isn't as bad as people make it out to be, just don't stray into the more crime riddled neighborhoods (North Philly, West Philly, Camden, etc.)
The same sort of behavior from Linus has been bothering me as well. Linus may hold the keys to something many people want access to, but that doesn't justify his recent behavior. When you are in a position of authority, you should hold yourself to a higher standard.

When 500 Startups didn't have the influence it does now, Dave McClure's schtick may have made sense as a marketing ploy. But the days of needing over the top rhetoric to get attention are over.

Compare Dave McClure with Jack Dorsey. Who would rather work with and who sets a better example for the technology industry to follow?
Good point. Changed the title along the lines of your suggestion.
Bitmessage - a P2P communications protocol to send encrypted messages
Predictably Irrational - Are we in control of our own decisions? (video 2008)
I went to the site when they got de-indexed. First time in 4-5 years.
BM-oqP41c8hK1YpawSWjJc6wAn7JN4WH2q5i

:)
Wall Street worries about PayPal's real-world expansion
http://feelthemusi.com - allows you to stream audio from YouTube on iPhone

About -$20 per month.
I put on Netflix on the background (iPod). Play tv series. Currently watching Top Gear and The Wonder Years.
Charting drone strikes
It is open source found a GitHub Mirror here https://github.com/wting/hackernews

And the site gets rendered in this file
https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc

The main problem is HN looks like a science project to me and has proven that arc can be used to power a site like this.
It works and thats probably enough for pg right now :)
the first interactive reaction diffusion back in ~1995: http://draves.org/bomb/
among many other CA type algorithms.
In this year alone 4. In total since I started 20-ish. Not all have been tech. Most have made money.
I like to put on Netflix on my iPad, but only if I'm doing something that doesn't take too much thinking.
Sure. It's been stated many times that Hacker News is for anything that might be interesting to hackers, not just "news" (anything that happened relatively recently.)
> No objects = no subtyping.

That statement is patently false.
what source has no possibility of inaccuracy?
Let me get this straight.

The would-be pitcher said, "May I pitch you?" "Sure, in 15 min." Then during that 15 min in an interview that the would-be pitcher had no way to follow, Dave McClure said not to pitch him. Then he came back to listen to the pitch and it went horribly because Dave didn't want to be pitched.

If so then the fault here is all Dave's. If you don't want to be pitched, say so up front. If you said that you're willing to be pitched, show up for it mentally.
> But it seems quite sound from the perspective of many non-ordinary states of consciousness, animism[4], panpsychism[5], pantheism[6], panentheism[7], various types of shamanism[8] and religions which hold animistic, pantheistic, or panentheistic beliefs.

Excellent, doctrines do tend to be self-contained. IF X, THEN Y. In the mean time, I bring up an important fact: we have always depended decisively on how well we coordinated our ideas with reality, for the purpose of achieving technological efficacy. In this light, the doctrines you enumerated are undesirable. Judging by the rate of success, the former, scientific doctrines you enumerated are more workable and, as such, preferable for the purpose of adjustment to the conditions of empirical life.

> Do you accept the evidence of your own senses while in a non-ordinary state of consciousness? If not, why not?

We accept evidence that is reproducible. I will stop here and not answer the other questions that you followed with, out of politeness.

> So, "sound" or "unsound"? It all depends on your point of view.

See above.

> I'm just open to the possibility. Anything is possible, and I'm ok with that. I didn't use to be. I used to be quite dogmatic in clinging to what I considered to be a "scientific" and materialistic world view. [...] Who knows? Who is to say? I'm certainly no authority.

Take much care to ensure that you are not merely being open, like a scientist is to new evidence and a better "map" for the "territory"; but rather that you are doubting everything. And as someone once eloquently put it, there are two ways to glide easily through life: to believe everything, and to doubt everything – both ways save us from thinking. (There's also another less polite quote about being open minded)

That aside, I think you have gathered an extraordinary amount of very interesting knowledge in your pursuits, and I think that in itself was as incredibly useful affair.
> None of which HN has: tables

...spacer gifs, font tags, unquoted attributes, no doctype.

I just had a rather nice little reminisce in the html source. All it was missing was a <layer> or two and I would have been right back in 1997.
The reason so many varieties of these Android sticks exist is the SOC manufacturers involved are often only supporting Android in their BSPs. How that came to be is a wildly interesting topic in itself, and one that isn't talked about much.

Basically Freescale, Rockchip, Allwinner and a bunch more names I don't remember provide reference designs that boot Android out of the box. Of those names I believe only Freescale make any serious effort to support Linux directly at all.
NSFW - language - Andrew Auernheimer
Auernheimer revealed a security flaw in AT&T’s iPad user database, allowing him to scrape the data from 114,000 iPad users. The information was later on given to a journalist. In January 2011, the FBI did an investigation and filed a criminal complaint
The Ocean Cleanup - Boyan Slat
Apple Drops Science as Core Market, Web Page Deleted
Yeah, if dude thinks going from CA to NY is going to increase his autonomy or decrease his tax burden, he's got a painful lesson coming.

There are so many things that can be done to address this sort of thing - too bad he's probably "saving money" by not paying for legal or tax/accounting help.
Discovering news was never RSS's sweet spot for me. What it's great for is tracking deeper content from handpicked sources regardless of popularity.
Not quite. Their information pages might not make this immediately clear but currently Ixquick aggregates the results from several sources while StartPage uses Google exclusively (hence the "Enhanced by Google" logo).

For a bit of fun try comparing the results they give you for the same query.
In tort law, the losing party pays both lawyer fee. In other types of law, this is not the case.
Gmail isn't self-hosted or open source. He wasn't just saying both are popular. Unless you meant something else?
Windows worst nightmare: Regular people (i.e not HN readers) using Android on the desktop.
Cut the guy some slack, he lives in Montana. Space and distances are hardly a rare commodity in Montana.

It's OK for other people to have a bit of fun. Really, it is.
Higher in actual number is almost always going to be relative to the population, isn't it? Per capita is more accurate while it still is lacking for comparison purposes.

I agree that murder, as one type of violent crime, is more prominent here in the US than in the UK on a per capita basis.

Crime stats are most definitely open to a lot of interpretation between countries, actual reported statistics vs unreported, varying definitions, and more.