skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an easy statement to agree with because it is obviously true. I agree with it too! Who wouldn't agree with it? The problem is, that advice came packaged with another piece of advice which was much worse.
I assume it was intended to be sarcastic. If so, I would point out that better condoms -> more people wearing condoms -> less spread of disease and fewer unwanted pregnancies. Good things in Western Civilization, but even more important in developing countries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V6vNEDMzgw

"I'm co-opting the term money shot, because I think it's very valuable... we all know what it is, if you don't know you can google it because I'm not going to talk about it, but if you co-opt the concept what you come away with is the content people actually care about and that is what people pay for in porn..."

If you can't talk about the title it's probably not a very good one.
toms.com uses it.
Does Heroku Postgres support PLV8 now? In the questions section of the presentation, he doesn't mention it as unsupported, but as recently as Sept 2012, it wasn't [1] - has that changed?

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12593080/heroku-hosted-po...
Why I will never write another email without thinking about pronouns and power
Isn't it what a cafe is for?
Why was the title rewritten and the thread effectively killed?
When most people sleep, they typically "fall unconscious". That means, they go mindless.

Meditation is being mindful.

It is actually possible to enter sleep states while being mindful. This is one of many methods for entering lucid dreaming, and I suppose, some folks might call it dream yoga.
I declined to accept the new, abusive user agreement terms of the new Delicious management.
Only Friend People Who Know You Personally On Facebook. WHAT?
Especially because this is a fundamentally positive story. It's not all crusaders and combat out there.
Diamonds are carbon based but you can't use them to grow vegetables.
I have been trying, and failing, to understand the moral justification to prohibit all forms of "public shaming." Could you help me understand your viewpoint?

It seems to me that public shaming can be used for good. If a speaker at a conference says something racist, and from the audience you immediately call it out, causing that speaker to feel shameful, apologize, and carry on, then that seems like a good use of shaming. If a speaker should make overt and blatant lies in order to use the public stage in order to defame someone else's character, then surely a massive outcry of booing is morally justifiable, and the speaker should not be able to use "I was shamed" as a justifiable way to retaliate against those who booed.

The PyCon procedures even say that the organizers may cut a presentation short and throw the speaker out, should that person's presentation be against the Code of Conduct. If public shaming is prohibited, and if the speaker feels shamed by the staff response, then can't the speaker rightly exclaim "you are shaming me in public and you must stop!"? Why should the staff be allowed to shame someone in public?

However, you seem to think that any form of public shaming should be prohibited. What are your opinions about the scenarios I listed above? Can you describe the moral reasoning you used to help decide which forms of public shaming are appropriate and which are inappropriate?

Otherwise, I don't see how saying that "She publicly shamed the wrong guy!" is, by itself, enough information to tell if what she did was okay or not. Also, under the US law that applies to workplaces (PyCon is not a workplace), all honestly made statements concerning possible civil rights violations are given protected status. If PyCon were a workplace, then this public complaint would be completely okay, and both legally and morally justifiable.

Because I cannot come up with a good moral reasoning ("don't do things that cause others to feel bad" is not a good moral reasoning) for saying that this is anything other than ok, I conclude that it was ok.
But Thomas Jefferson considered copyright a monopoly unlike other property rights, since he was concerned about allowing any monopoly, yet he obviously wasn't talking about abolishing private property.
You have no control of the layer thickness through this process, and their supercapacitor design actually uses the graphite oxide that isn't turned into graphite as an insulator between the graphene sheets (their supercapacitor is planar, it does not use multiple layers). So no, while you can get graphene from a pencil and sticky tape, that's useless for this application.
Your Phone vs. Your Heart
Looks interesting! My biggest initial dislike is that the author-profile data seems extremely messy. For example, looking up my supervisor, who has a fairly unique name, his publications are split across a full 10 separate profiles: http://scholr.ly/results/?q=michael+mateas&x=0&y=0&#...

It realize it's a rather tricky problem to fix, since not every pair of identical names is actually the same person. Doing a vanity-search on myself (http://scholr.ly/results/?q=mark+j.+nelson&x=0&y=0&#...), there are 5 profiles with precisely the same way of writing the name ("Mark J. Nelson"), but only 2 of those are me.

If that data were cleaner it'd really increase the usefulness of the profiles. May take quite a bit of magic, though.
If you found this story amusing, but are a little bit daunted by the loquacity or infamy of his novels, I'd strongly recommend trying Nabokov's Lectures in Literature, which expands on lectures given at Cornell, and give you a wonderful introduction to his world, and introduces the writers he considered canon. I always remember this passage from the end of the book, addressing his students, because of the outrageous metaphor:

Now the course comes to a close. The work with this group has been a particularly pleasant association between the fountain of my voice and a garden of ears – some open, others closed, many very receptive, a few merely ornamental, but all of them human and divine.

I did like the way the story paid a sneaky homage to Nabokov (as lenazegher mentions below, or soon to be above), in capturing the dry humour and sly wit which pervade his writing. A lovely little epitaph for a charming writer.
I'd be glad, wouldn't it be cool? Probably he also shows it to neighbours. And you could tell everyone "I live two houses from the firetruck".
> It is not impossible to find employment in tech with a felony conviction

Perhaps not in the Valley, but I don't believe the OP provided his location.

I'm not in the Valley and I speak from experience when I say that it is extremely difficult to find employment in any industry w/ a felony conviction.

Due to the nature of the information we sometimes have access to, it is (in many cases) more difficult to find a job in the tech industry.
Electrons don't like graphene, its like trying to stick electrons onto a hunk of wood - which also has a large capacitance. The real story isn't that graphene has magical properties, its that graphene can be tuned and engineered.
I had no idea CiteSeer data was open! Thank you!
I'm a member of a thinkerspace. It's called a math dept. See also: library, cafe.
I like its interface better, but find its coverage, at least in my area (AI) to be so much worse than Google Scholar that I rarely use it. New articles sometimes don't show up for years, and inconsistently.
UX archive - different patterns by different applications
Many white Christians find gays offensive as well -- I don't care what they find offensive, them being offended doesn't give them rights.

If the talk referenced "My Two Dads" -- they would be welcome to be offended, and leave.
Pretty hard yea, especially with an "Ask HN" post
It turns out there are no actual aircraft carriers for sale on eBay. I am disappoint.
Cool.

Though I say the "passive" "active" distinction isn't all that useful. When you are sitting still and breathing, your are actively observing the sensations. There's lots to see.

Lying, sitting, standing, and walking, are all different vehicles for practicing mindfulness. For some people, walking is too stimulating and need to sit. For others, sitting is too restful and one easily falls asleep.

I've mentioned this elsethread. Formal practice where you set aside time and make a commitment creates a ritual container for the practice. It creates a timebox from which you can bind your resolution and intent to practice. You can make this more or less elaborate -- and some people need elaborate.

The formal practice is to give you a chance to realize insights which you then integrate outside the timebox. As the saying goes, mindfulness doesn't end on the cushion.

So if you're able to be mindful in all the things you do, that's awesome. There are lots of people who are like you. And there are lots of people who need a more formal container for their practice.
In somewhat rural areas, you see standpipes sticking out of plenty of bodies of water (generally if they are big enough and near the right road).
Looking closer, it's under a cc-by-nc-sa license, so can't be used by commercial forks (and therefore isn't Free by the FSF or Debian definitions). But it's available for research purposes, or for use by noncommercial forks.
I guess with cracking the intent is crucial. Ie were you just curious and forgot to respect the boundary, or were you in it for personal gain. The first would make good NSA agents once set straight, the second much harder to trust.
While 2+2 will remain 4 under every gender, race and social status, it is important to realize that there are insights that aren't taught out of a textbook. If all you are doing is building objective software with the basic tools of software development, you are no better than a code monkey.

Etsy needed women because their customers were women. They needed engineers that would help them understand or uncover the point of views of their customers. At the end of the day you are serving people, not machines, and it makes more sense to optimize for the needs of customer, instead of assuming every programmer with git experience make a good engineer for Etsy.
Salsa, the offer was to receive a free ticket with your upvote. There was no incentive to vote more than once.
Let me be the first to say: Yuck!
I'll agree that it's dumb but, unfortunately, it is sometimes necessary if one wants to eat.
WTF?

Do you have any context as to what is going on here?

The guy in the middle of the picture that's smiling at the camera is not the perp. Most people who just saw the picture, without reading everything that everyone else wrote, think that he is the perp.

Where did I write that I disagree with all forms of public shaming, and that they all need to be prohibited? However, posting up pictures of many men, with one of them clearly staring at the camera, and saying "he jokes about dongles" is wrong when the guy that is at the center of the photo and is staring at the camera is not the guy that joked about dongles. That's defamation. Case closed.
Well, ironically they are using 'all sexuality is oppression' as a tool of oppression. From another article on HN right now [1]

"Judging a book by its cover is the new tolerance. We throw people into the stocks based on feelings while ignoring intent and assuming victimhood. This is why I fundamentally disagree with equating offense with harassment: it provides unlimited ammo and shuts down discussion rather than giving people the benefit of doubt. It elevates the exception to the norm, by presuming the worst."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5433390
For prototype condoms, or in general? Presumably they would stress test in a simulated environment, as well as perform human tests with participants who do not require them to be effective. (IE using alternate methods of birth control and having been screened for STIs.) I would imagine they would use volunteers in committed relationships. Or are you asking specifically how one would go about testing a condom's effectiveness?
> The Dart VM being faster than JavaScript can be a problem in itself. But with SIMD you'll get a lot of "Only usable in Dart VM" for a lot of apps (mainly games) written in Dart, because then the necessary speed for many game operations gets possible.

Yes, building performance improvements into the Dart VM that go beyond something that is found in most JS engines means that there is the possibility that (given equivalent hardware) some things that peform acceptably on the Dart VM won't perform acceptably when relying on Dart-2-JS.

Which would be a problem if there was a barrier to other browser vendors incorporating the Dart VM, or adapting it to platforms that Google doesn't support. But there's not, and the whole point of Dart -- and why there is a Dart VM -- is because Dart is an effort to provide an alternative to JavaScript, with dart2js as a mechanism to make development in Dart useful even before Dart VM adoption takes off.

But dart2js isn't the long-term goal, its a tool to get passed the problem that without runtime deployment, no one will develop, and without development, no one will deploy the runtime.

> I don't want back to the "Best viewed in IE 5.5 and 1024x768 Pixels" times.

And I don't want the web to stagnate because we can't do anything that might work better than what exist now.

Good thing about new efforts being open is that they avoid both problems.
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. I recently interviewed Proof Eyewear (http://www.iwantproof.com) on what the experience provided (I'll post it here once it's published next week). During the airing of the show and the following weekend, they could barely keep their site standing (over two million uniques in 24hrs), and the past few weeks since airing have seen huge increases in business.

Random note -- the application is sent to a @yahoo email address... I find that kind of funny all things considered -- SharkTankCasting@yahoo.com (http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/casting)
Also, it is chicken and egg. You need a pool of qualified people to pick from to promote the best. If only 20% of your workforce is women, the chance of the "best" person coming from that class is obviously reduced, you could decide to promote an unqualified or underachieving employee as an act of social justice, but you risk losing the qualified or better achieving employees as a result.

Nursing is a bit of an inverse of tech, 93% women. Nursing has great and growing salaries, similar educational requirements and massive upward mobility... yet men still make up less than 7% of the industry.
Share Tank is also interesting because to even go on it, I believe you have to give 3% to the network no matter what the outcome of the show is, investment or no investment..
Good choice, Nabokov placed Kafka's Metamorphosis second only to Ulysses as a 20th century novel (as of 1965):

http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter05.txt

My greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose are,
in this order: Joyce's Ulysses, Kafka's Transformation, Biely's Petersburg, and the first half of Proust's fairy tale In Search of Lost Time.
I think the difference is that rooms are a focus of HipChat, and an afterthought / hack in Skype. Similar to how individual, "not in a room" conversation is an afterthought in HipChat.

In both cases you can technically do it, but the app doesn't go out of it's way to make it easy or well-supported. If you find you're using your favorited lists to chat more than one-on-one conversations, I'd really recommend trying out HipChat.

For what it's worth, we regularly use Skype at our office as well as HipChat. They both excel at what they were designed to do, and we don't necessarily see a problem with using two tools if it means you don't have to shove a round peg into a square hole.
You mean most western countries?.
"Many white Christians find gays offensive as well"

I am not homosexual and I don't find gays offensive. Nonetheless, I would be incredibly disturbed to be hearing about "homosexual haskell" or "faggot functions". It's not appropriate in a tech conference, regardless of your sexual orientation or opinion about sexual orientation.
My degree is in audio tech, not computer tech. I have always found the latter to be far less challenging in the gender bias department, and had a much easier time, in general making a career "in computers." I do have experiences where I was passed over for positions where men with less experience were hired (I trained them). Also where male peers received training I was denied. Also where I was harassed until I resigned while I was pregnant. I've been asked if I was okay with working 40 hours a week because I have kids or what my kids would do during the day while I was working. Even writing one sentence per experience would make this response tedious.

I have no personal examples of being paid less, because I've more or less felt I was being paid enough to make it not worth asking anyone else what they were being paid. From what I understand, that is a big no-no. The examples I have of women being paid less are from other women in tech, a couple of these for which there is direct proof.
In most workplaces in the US, across every industry, if you publicly castigated a coworker or employee the way Linus did Mauro and did not own the company, your job would be in jeopardy. I used to do this a lot in my early 20's, and was routinely disciplined for it (I've since grown up a bit). This article appears to reframe that fact in terms of the sensitivity of women, but the issue obviously has nothing to do with women.

Linus gets away with talking to people like that for the same reason Marco Pierre White got away with throwing a pot full of hot risotto at Mario Batali: because he is a revered auteur.

You are not Marco Pierre White or Steve Jobs, acting like them is not a step in the direction of becoming more like them, and social forces in your workplace that keep you from throwing risotto or hurling obscenities at your coworkers are in fact doing you a favor. They are not a symptom of prickly gender sensitivities.

I had the same problem to varying degrees with other parts of this article, which (with only minimal pejorative intent) I'd describe as mostly shit-stirring. But the Linus/Mauro thing seemed as good a place to make my case as any.
I can't believe that Warren Cook didn't make the list. His story is far more outlandish than any of these. He was one of the highest paid employees at the company my father worked at, the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, ME.

He claimed to have a Master's degree from a prestigious university, that he was awarded the Navy Cross(1 step below the Medal of Honor) and that he played for the 1968 U.S. Olympic hockey team. No one fact checked a single qualification that he listed on his resume, they just hired him.

The sad part is, after they discovered that he was a fraud, they still wanted him to stick around. From what I hear, he did a pretty good job.

http://archive.bangordailynews.com/2003/09/30/jackson-lab-of...
A 10x profit multiple on companies at the average growth stage that Shark Tank companies are at is insanely low. I've always felt that the entrepreneurs who take a deal are completely screwed. The smart ones take the huge publicity jump from appearing on the show, turn down any deal offered, and seek money from the inevitable inbound investor generated post-show airing.
If you significantly increase the bus's weight your going to want to change the suspension anyway. So, really it's just a question of how much of a conversion are you doing. With a bus you can just rip out the seats add a bed and a fridge and call it done as you keep the weight about the same. However if you going wild and thinking about adding your hot-tub then I think a firetruck may be a good option.
It's not that you can't; indeed you can. But actively looking for results means the sort of outcome dependence which you are trying to avoid through meditation.

In the Eastern religions this is very much what is referred to as "faith"; the study and analysis of meditation in this manner is intellectual, but meditation itself if very much anti-intellectual and seeks for the non attachment of intellectual concepts (a difficult concept to grasp for those of us raised in the rationalist philosophies of the West).

It doesn't mean that you can't measure it; it means that, aside from the sensations which come to you of well-being and effects that come to you from direct observation, you shouldn't be using it as your primary guide to the effectivity of meditation. Fortunately there's 3000 years of incredibly descriptive and academic Buddhist and Hinduist texts which talk about this in amazing depth, and have zero usefulness for your personal progress.
Also current users of Samsung phones would be pretty upset if they bought a new one and couldn't download the apps they've already purchased via Google Play.
Interesting -- found the source for that:

http://a.abc.com/media/primetime/sharktank/SharkTank3OpenCal...

"I further understand and acknowledge that I will be required to enter into further agreements with Finnmax
LLC (“Producer”) relating to the business that I may present to the sharks for possible investment (my “Business”).
Among other things, those agreements are currently anticipated to provide that as a condition of my participation on
the Series, Producer, Sony Pictures Television Inc. and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (collectively the
“Shark Tank Entities”) or their designee(s) will receive an irrevocable option (the “Option”), to do either of the
following or neither, at their election and in their sole discretion:

1. Receive a 2% royalty of the operating profits of my Business or

2. Receive warrants that give the Shark Tank Entities or their designees a 5% equity interest in my Business. "
I'm in Chicago (well, no, I'm in Los Gatos at the moment, but my experiences are drawn from Chicago).
Assuming the Ghostery team has identified and coded in all the trackers they use (and that assumes Ghostery isn't actually spying on its own users, and selling that to FB - I don't think that's likely, but who knows?).
Cloudflare down in the UK?
Most job applications nowadays have a clause at the end where, by signing, you give them permission to perform a background check (with no way to know if they actually will). In addition, most also state something to the effect that omission == lying. Thus, if you "forget" to mention that you were convicted, it's the same as if lying -- which, of course, is grounds for immediate termination.
Another excellent team strategy is being generous with your abilities. Aim to appear average, but secretly prop each team member up without letting anyone else know. Maybe you fix a bug for them and don't tell anyone, talk a strategy through with someone and let them take credit for the results, or take a hit for someone you supervise knowing you can make up for it later. People eventually figure out what's going on and the team will back you later when needed.
So now all we need is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CERN-cables-p1030764.jpg
Curious about the "willing to work 40h" question, seems fair to ask?
Yes, they do -- I have one.
Dang... what can't you do with Sublime Text? I've been using it for 9 months now and the plugins keep getting better.
My favourite testimonial was a generic 'I like this product' that was signed 'anonymous'. Yes, the product is so good, I won't put my name to it. Maybe if the testimonial said something specific, but as it stood it was pretty laughable.
What if we twisted the analogy the other way - what if the talk was "What my two dads taught me?" and the tagline was "Erlang -- two of everything is better".

Some people would find that absolutely inappropriate, pushing the homosexual agenda in a conference, violating their religious sensibilities. Do you think those Christians should speak up, start a petition, try to get the talk banned... or maybe just not go to it?