skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try to avoid the no true Scotsman fallacy. If you say you are a feminist, I accept. But what I say stands: every self proclaimed feminist I've met always get offended at the stupidest things. One I know even had a diatribe towards Carlin about the "personhole cover" because of his insensitivity. The usual stance many in this category take is equality regarded in Animal Farm: they are just "More Equal"

<added> I live in Indiana, and had this haopen to me: I went into a car dealership, looking for a used car. Dealer walks up asking if I wanted to test drive or ask questions. Later on in negotiations, he went hardcore slimy. Along with that, said ,"You can trust me, I'm a good Christian."

That was enough to get me to leave on the spot. Usually people with self-proclaimed titles are to be distrusted, or t least listened to with a very critical ear. It's also similar if I run around calling myself "Ub3r Haxx0r". Most of you would justly call BS.</added>

Then, I have also met many who fight for women to be equal with men. They usually aren't much for the labels, yet will fight ferociously for the rights to be equal. Equal pay is the big one right now, considering pay parity is apart by 20%.

Best said by a friend: when a woman hits a man, and the man hits back, and nobody gasps in astonishment, we shall be equal.
There's a better way. Anywhere Angular expects a function it will take an array as well. The array can be the usual list of dependencies and a function.

Here's a working version: http://jsbin.com/onevaz/1/

For what it's worth, I agree that the docs need to reflect this.
" Was I the only one that missed the part where the article explains why "It's Still the Platform to Beat"? "

I don't think you missed it; I think you dismissed or disagreed with it.

It's here: iOS has undeniably great, intuitive touch-based gestures and a straightforward layout.

And here: “It’s that simplicity, combined with a deep developer and app ecosystem, that really has given iOS its power with users.”

And here: One of the biggest benefits of the current iOS platform, from a developer standpoint, is that no matter what type of app you’re creating, you can find a few hundred existing examples of what works. And that isn’t always true on other platforms

For example, WNM Live CEO Brian Hamachek said when his company decided to create a Windows Phone app, there was “not much we could use as a basis for how it should be laid out, we had to come out with own path — which can be a little risky.” As for Android, Hamachek said it’s “like the wild west” and that there really isn’t much of a standard user interface to go off of, which isn’t good for devs or users.

Apple’s human interface guidelines make it easy create an app that looks and feels like an iOS app.
Would these be chroot jails?
In my mind it's a harmless crime. If you are doing something unethical then you risk turning off customers with your scummy behavior. If you have the superior product, then you are doing the customers a favor. If you have an inferior product, then the customer will simply switch products again.

I don't think a 'gentlemen's agreement' is needed.
I want to give your brain a hug.
A film I just bought to play on my fairly high-end setup damn well better not have my name anywhere in the picture.
Psstttt... don't tell anyone... but all of the conference dramas ever have been "tempests in a teapot."
Thanks for clarifying... I hope dropbox improves this.
Do the neo-luddites not realize that we are on cameras all of the time anyway? Except most likely when you are in your home. Although there is a chance you are on camera there as well without your knowledge.

You cannot go out in public without being recorded on video and haven't for years and years already. It's great that google glass is helping awareness of this issue, but I think it is not targeting the right things.
We need a phrase for bizarro-LMGTFY situations where someone googles a few words and links to unrelated content simply because they were in the first page of results.
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Desktop programs are an issue, but they can be ported.

The biggest problem is all the websites that serve ActiveX plugins. Web apps are supposed to be platform-independent, that's one of their biggest advantages, but Microsoft sabotaged that with ActiveX. Microsoft did a tremendous amount of harm to internet users by producing so much platform-dependent web software.
FYI - she took your picture and published it, without a model release . . . technically, per the letter of the law - that is illegal . . . just sayin'
Also I think it depends on who's hands the data is in, maybe it's a false sense to comfort but I would rather Google or Facebook have access to my data and a Government agency who seem to be motivated by suppressing exposure to information they deem 'unfit' for their citizens. But i completely agree that questioning that trust is important.
Such stuff is a challenge for code reviewers. Reminds me, just to bug my code reviewers, I'd put in things like:

// TODO Remove this comment
So perhaps what I’m saying is that at some point you have to kick when down, at least if a vendor is always down. Every marketing campaign I’ve ever been involved in ran for longer than 2 weeks. And in my example I was not joking - we were paying for a service that had roughly bi-weekly, unplanned downtime of multiple hours, for many many months. A marketing campaign would have inevitably run concurrent with a downtime.

I agree - running attack ads after 1 random catastrophic event is in poor taste. But at some point - 3 in a year?, 3 in a month? - it becomes reasonable, and tasteful, to tout uptime as an advantage.
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Memory Feats Anyone Can Do
This is fantastic. It's super easy to use and understand (for a developer anyway). The only thing I could ask for is autocomplete so I wouldn't have to look at the API.
> Openbeta from Betaworks (a new medium company)

This looks like a placeholder for a company/productname/tagline. Could not be any more bland.
"like" it... bringing the buy to the FB "like".
Congrats on the release! I wish there was a node version of you guys.
For me, the worst part was having gxx symlinked to clang. What happened was, the first time I had to compile software that needed real gxx, I went fiddling with paths and symlinks to get that software working. Then, months later, I had to compile something that needed clang, so I fiddled some more, and just for kicks, tried to keep track, so I could compile the original software that required gxx. That all worked fine, if painful and time consuming.

Later, I was surprised to find the Ruby Gems use gxx, make, and autoconf. I thought it was a pure Ruby code package manager, that would just tell me to install some native library if it wasn't there, but no, it wants to download and build for itself using gxx.
I like this, I really do, but is there any way to easily offer smaller batches at higher prices per sock? I understand that it is easier to make in bulk.
Hey, I never get a downvote arrow ...
The reason DRM has to be obscure is to make it hard to extract the key. If the key can be safely store in a hardware component, the need for obscure software goes away, and there's no reason VLC could implement this.
Sure. Sometimes. It can be an exclusionary factor too.

The point of privilege discussions tho isn't to eliminate all privileges. It is to recognize them, and work towards eliminating the implicit ones, by making them explicit. And to further decide which ones make sense and which ones don't.

Assuming that someone is respectable based on skin color or iq or gender or whatever is a privilege that doesn't make sense. Assuming that someone is qualified to gain the benefit of an institution of learning based on a shown track record of learning well does - IMO.

Recognizing that I have opportunities because I was unfairly given a pass by the cops when I was holding drugs, even though my buddy who wasn't was searched, is not self-flagellation. It is a simple fact of what happened. Recognizing privilege isn't an act of self hate. Using my privilege to influence the reduction of privileges that make no sense isn't self-hate either, it is an attempt to reduce the absurd. It's recognition that things are fucked up, and trying to correct it.
I'd love an Ottawa one, but that might be asking too much. Also willing to drive to TO, as long as it's on a weekend
“Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches in the Literary Journalism program. Her works appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, The San Francisco Chronicle, More, The Village Voice, The London Review of Books, Huffington Post. She was Jerusalem correspondent of The New Yorker, and is currently a contributing editor at The Nation.”
A dark future for HTML. I can't really describe the melancholy I feel when thinking about this. In 10 years, we'll be reminiscing about how the web was once an open platform, and we'll kick ourselves for having said at the time, "I hate DRM...but then again, I do like netflix!"
Business is driven by investment and investment is driven by savings, and a falling dollar hurts savers.
This is why I left shitty sendgrid for mailjt. Fuck her and sendgrid. She's not a "developer" she was there for marketing.
even if the hole knowledge graph would be filled out by humans, there would still be errors in it, thats just how it works with this sort of big data. No way you could design a computer algorithm which does this job without a single error
Everything that's on Netflix is on The Pirate Bay (or other torrent sites) for free. By your logic there'd be little incentive to subscribe to Netflix at all today.

So how come Netflix has customers? Either you're wrong or some piece of the puzzle is missing (if so, what?)
By his own schedule, he has allocated a month of his time per $12,000 funded (to me this is a rate).

I'm not saying he should take a pay cut. Just that if this is common, then the nature of Open Source has changed.

It seems to be the best of all worlds; Good rate, choice of project, open source, low risk.
Grubhub did raise $50M a couple years ago: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/20/food-delivery-search-engine...

While not a direct indicator of success, I assume this means they are posting some encouraging numbers.

I think a lot of restaurants don't join these services, because it costs them money on each order, and they have to find a way to deliver the food, which is a distraction. For this reason, these services sometimes have the least common denominator in terms of the restaurants that are willing to deliver (i.e. restaurants that don't get enough real world traffic).

What evidence do you have that these services aren't popular, and how do you define popular?
I think you shouldn't wait so long ;)
I would still stick by my bet as worded. For every Jimmy Wales, there are ten of thousands of people who have no odd circumstances. Combined with the much higher volume of data about recent and more verifiable people than those from a time where records were fuzzier and the fact that Wikipedia is a moving target regarding accuracy, I don't think 1 in 10,000 is unreasonable. Just the pages of every athlete competing in a major league currently would offset most anomalies.
I don't think I'd recommend rsync as a replacement for Dropbox, as rsync isn't as elegant and doesn't replicate the functionality of Dropbox. (I use and like both tools.)

You might consider also recommending Unison as a Dropbox alternative rather than rsync. Unison is probably better at multiway synchronization.
On grubhub I put in my address and get:
"You have 1 restaurant you can order from."

And foodler... didn't look legit enough to give my address to.

I would love to use a site like this, I do order pizza online when I can. The problem is that awesome services like this generally take hold in the west coast and will make it to Ohio... probably never.
I am a reporter with Mother Jones magazine, and I would like to speak with you directly about the incident as reported by Adria (there's a lot of misinformation floating around, I want to get the facts straight.) Mind getting in touch? dliebelson@motherjones.com
The biggest problem in many such cases isn't really the name, but the reaction to complaints. Perfectly the name would be fine from the get go, but if it wasn't, people say "hey, that's crap", organizers change it, case closed. Real crap starts when people start freaking out that "OMG feminism has gone insane!", and it's that reaction that is the real symptom of big problems. All because someone deemed the name more important than the likelihood a woman would feel welcome in the conference proper.

Similarly in the case of PyCon: joke was crap, someone called it out. Instead of an apology and admission that it shouldn't have happened, two people lost their jobs, and a lot of whistleblowers will be discouraged from speaking out. All because people think their freedom of joke making is more important than the likelihood a woman would feel welcome.

People do know those aren't complaints about direct harassment – just about a lot of individually tiny things that, once taken together, breed an atmosphere that encourages harassment and discourages participation. And sure, some women can deal with that – but they shouldn't have.

Also, a dong joke wouldn't be an issue in a perfect world, but we're not living in one.
In fairness to the hacker, that machine was probably the 20th one he hacked that day. I've seen it dozens of times - hackers hack boxes but they have so many that they just become careless. You'll see root shells running right off low ports through inetd because they just want convenience and don't care if someone else "steals" the box from them.

I wouldn't be surprised if the hacker accidentally killed SSH through a complete lack of caring due to glutted inventory of hacked boxes.

Presumably, OP was fairly dependent on this box so I don't necessarily understand their carelessness.
Have you looked into expanding to the UK market? I don't think you understand how big the market is for colo(u)rful socks here!
So... if the attacker would not have had deactivated SSH by accident they would not have noticed?
It's really cool, I just would appreciate an alternative to github to login.
wow, how did it go from "Apple, Google: Google Now not submitted to App Store" to "Google admits it lied about submitting Google Now to Apple"
It's great for washing down spinach.
> Note: This was at a time when we didn’t have version controls like git and people didn’t commit for every small feature. Change list sometimes varied between 10 lines to 25 files during a refactor.

Does this mean you weren't using version control at all or you weren't using a distributed version control system? The former would surprise me since CVS, SVN, and similar tools have been around for years and are a lot easier than emailing patches back and forth.
Policy is the documentation, not the source code.

You can read policy. It may not be accurate.
> Additionally, a central bank can (and should) act to stabilise the value further. When there are financial crises there are a variety of powers that can be used by a central bank to try and mitigate problems that could be exacerbated in a currency without this feature. Having a central bank with a variety of monetary powers is therefore a positive.

Right up until that central bank wipes out the middle class when 40 years worth of bills (i.e. inflation) finally come due.
I used to use padrino for my projects. I'm one of the few people who actually finds thinking in callbacks easier and I like using the same language in both the client and server so I switched to node. I think you guys are a fantastic project though!
what about this one? https://github.com/nicholas22/jpropel-light
I disagree about the adequacy of the analogy. The more apt analogy would be if I know he is susceptible to upper body takedowns. Sendgrid didn't do their homework and decided to treat a technical problem like a PR problem.

We are talking about email services not rocket science. Nor is it the case that an vindictive ex-employee took advantage of some inside knowledge to take their servers down(which would still be negligence on my book). They have been shown to be unable to deal with the basic hazards of hosting and email service. Plus instead of trying to learn and solve the real issue (hey we all have much room for growth) they decided to defuse the situation with PR.

tl;dr
Besides, unlike some lame-ass startup with an executive team that's clearly never solved hard problems, I've actually run e-mail before.[0]
I mean seriously, do you want the executive team that fires someone because they can't handle a bit of adversity then claims victimhood?[1]
[0]: https://twitter.com/tunixman/status/314887921956184064
[1]: https://twitter.com/tunixman/status/314887439216955392
It is refreshing to read the perspective of how a non-techie views Google and tech. It's a viewpoint that's important to remember.
I basically want to get this verified:

Can you verify your identity as the employee let go by PlayHaven?

Can you verify that you are one of the two people pictured in Adria Richards' Tweet?

Were those jokes made as Richards described? Are there any differences between her account and what you think actually happened? (I know you've addressed this a bit already, but I'd like to hear more.)

Is Alex Reid one of these employees in the photograph, who was making a sexist joke? (It sounds like he wasn't.)

Can you confirm that you were fired because of the jokesmade at the conference?

Thanks,
Dana

dliebelson@motherjones.com
Cool idea and I'm a big fan of the simple design. I have a friend here (Austin resident myself) who has been painfully vetting options this month through CL.

Looks like some of the filtering tools don't work -- I selected a min and max age of 23 and 30 respectively and the results shows people beyond that range. Screenshot: http://puu.sh/2lZ6m

I also think it would be a good idea to take a few pages out of Airbnb's book of how they handle reputation and let people link their Facebook account, as well as offer a background-checking service for people to help boost their marketability. A references function (like Linkedin) would also help.

Best of luck!
Interesting. I thought Unison wasn't actively supported any more?
It does look like the better choice - although lacking in Android / iOS implementations from what I see.
I wonder if the modern customer is more nuanced than that though? We've all been fucked over by capitalism, it's refreshing to see companies not be douches about it.

I'm really happy with Sendgrid, but this really gave me a good feeling about who Wildbit is, and now I'm inclined to give them my business.
Are you looking for a 100% solution? If so, you'll never find it.

Instead, you need to think about how you make offerings cheap enough and compelling enough that a sufficient number of users will choose them over pirating.

There will always be pirated content. However, thankfully, most people are also more or less honest and well-inentioned. The two balance out to a great degree. So what tips the balance is how you treat your customers – does it become painful to deal with your product because of all of the DRM? Do you treat consumers like criminals? Is it significantly less hassle to pirate than it is to buy/rent/view legally (and likely pay for)? If any of those are true, you will tip the balance away from a completely successful business model.

Every business model has inefficiencies in the supply chain. Much of it falls under what's called "shrinkage". Sometimes it's from theft, other times it's from spoilage, weather, etc. The truth is, just like in heating, cooling, power production, engine design or anything else, you can never achieve 100% efficiency and in the case of consumer-facing products and services, I suggest you re-evaluate such pursuits before they ruin what otherwise would have been a profitable business model because you've alienated your customers.
Real world speeds will undoubtedly differ, as the article describes, but it's at least an improvement over no data or the 'peak' data speeds that operators like to quote that bear no relation to the actual speeds consumers experience.
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He'd be cashing out immediately, but this gets his property seen by a great number of people who wouldn't otherwise care.
Rethinking our onboarding checklist
Puppet and Chef are great tools, but my first entry into AWS management was a little more attainable without having to learn anything new.

I simply set up the instance to automatically download the current codebase from our 'production' repo on every boot, automatically install requirements, run database migrations, etc. Then freeze that AMI as the production AMI.

If you migrate your databases off of the instance to RDS, don't use EBS, and manage user uploads and static assets to go straight to S3, then what you end up with a very easily load balanceable configuration.

To set up load balancing, just spin up two of those instances, attach them to an elastic load balancer, attach the load balancer to your elastic IP, then you ought to be more redundant and management free. (Note, this doesn't fix your security issues, though you could very easily bake a nightly apt-get run for security updates into that image).

After that, you want to look into Fabric (or language-specific alternatives if they exist) to allow for remote management of your machines for things like bouncing web services, pulling new code deploys, etc.

If you want to sidestep all this management altogether, I'd strongly suggest looking into something like dotcloud - http://dotcloud.com/ - which effectively does all this for you.
Hi this is Greg from AngelHack. I'm not sure if someone posted that or if that's just your personal comment. If you're interested, we act more as a pre-accelerator, designed to get people ready for incubators like Y-Combinator, TechStars, or AngelPad. We've helped teams make connections before and we've built this out so we can continue to help teams. We're doing our part in the larger eco-system, should you ever need our help we'll be there for you to.
Congrats on the release! Excited about the new http_router, and the new app as a gem feature!

When I saw you guys at the meetup in SF, there was some chatter about concurrency features being added, did these make it into this release?
I had an interesting hallway discussion with a SAP integrator who mentioned that SAP sort of starts from this view, but then weirdly feeds back in on itself. One of the ideas of SAP is that business processes do have the kinds of pluggable, formalizable patterns you mention, which can be modeled within SAP. And the official idea is that you go from documenting these processes to formalizing them in code. But then over the years SAP's code starts to become a sort of de-facto framework for "this is how you run a company", and people actually start patterning business processes on how SAP models business processes.
You could just agree not to be a jerk...
Hey, someone explain to me what happened here... seems like twitter bought Posterous to shut it down, and the founders took the money and basically started the same product with a new name and a pay model.
Idk about you, here's what I found:
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
Very cool. Reminds me a bit of RoboCode that was created a while back from IBM DeveloperWorks (http://robocode.sourceforge.net/). This should be a fun way to practive JS.
He might have misestimated the project scope, so there is still that risk (and perhaps that pads the number?).

It's not clear to me what he'd do if it took longer than he thought (return money, finish on his own time, go back to the well for more support)?