skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feeling of seeing your easter egg in the wild more than overcomes this fear ;) My only tip: if possible make sure it's a CLIENT SIDE easter egg. I know someone who pulled server side files as part of the show. The easter egg went semi-viral and topped the company's logs as most requested resource!
Fully agreed.
We try to design processes to post-engineer how good project managers do manage...
Well der.

New observations: Don't put your hands in a fire, water is wet, etc etc.
GCC 4.8.0 released
Wrote up some of the cool tools I've been using for analytics
>I also frisson to music

I think this is pretty common. I mean, there's even a term for it, "give the chills"[1] - eg. "Listening to this track gave me the chills".

[1] http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definition/give%20the%...
Hah, what a brilliant anecdote! Thanks
Ah, ok. Makes sense now. Got caught up a little too much on "page" :)
Maybe I'm naive to Java's open-source community, but from the outside I don't envision it to be as active as Ruby's (at least outside of Android), even with Ruby no longer being "the cool thing".

Actually, that was my view too. In my previous job, I had used C, C++, Prolog, and some Haskell for four years. My outside view was that the Java opensource ecosystem is boring. My current employer uses Java almost exclusively, and I have to admit being surprised how much high-quality open source libraries are available, packaged up for Maven.

I still think that Java is so-so, but the open source ecosystem is quite strong, and there are really excellent IDEs (such as IntelliJ IDEA).
No, but they are different. And women get murder threats as well.

Additionally most things posted on the internet by a man is simply a post on the internet. Anything posted on the internet is a post by a woman on the internet.
To put it in perspective, PBR and crappy t-shirts are still more popular than Python or Ruby.

Popularity only matters to those seeking fame.
Do you have any mathematical modeling and insight behind those numbers? Or is it intuitive guessing?
>I'll commit suicide long before this kind of "technology" arrives.

That's kind of strong...

>It does nothing to advance the human race except make them lazier.

You seem to believe that humans are supposed to use their muscles to do stuff. But why should we not voluntarily "evolve" to become intelligences that control our environment through our brains and harness it through minimal interactions? Is our goal not to discover everything and discard unimportant distractions such as opening the fridge and going to the mall from the seeking of knowledge?

It's a matter of opinions, but just remember that this is not intrinsincally bad. If we can alter our bodies to become detached from physical needs such as feeding, sleeping and everything that we do to prevent our deaths, I can say I'd embrace it.
I've made lots of individual mistakes, but I can't think of a class of advice I used to give that was mistaken.
Yes, which is why plenty of people think that capitalism is inherently flawed. A system which rewards production over anything is a system in which those who can't produce as effectively will be punished. Unless you truly believe that production is the end-all be-all of human existence, that's not a fair system. (There's also the problem of capitalism being really bad at properly valuing things but that's neither here nor there.)

But what you're missing, Mr. Jiggy, is that the biases we're talking about extend way beyond "industry". They infiltrate every part of our culture. Politics, media representation, religious attitudes, the values we teach our children, on and on and on.

This incident with Adria is happening the same week that a number of news organizations were criticized for reporting on a rape trial and sympathizing with the rapists. CNN, NPR, Fox News all ran stories about how much it sucks to have your life ruined for raping somebody. Some even disclosed the name of the 16-year-old victim, so that people could email her rape threats the same way they've been writing Adria. And this wasn't an ambiguous case of "did they rape this girl" – the people shot video of the rape and posted it to YouTube with the tags "rape" and "offensive". Still we had people asking if the raped girl "was asking for it", and writing hatefully that she's just a "slut who ruined two good boys' lives".

I get that you feel there are other imbalances at play in society, and believe you me there are! But please don't make this about which particular imbalance is the outright worst one. Ours is a hugely misogynistic culture, and this unfortunate incident is triggering not only a huge bout of anti-feminist sentiment, but also convincing a lot of people that feminists are just assholes who need attention at the expense of innocent men. Which is about the opposite of true.

Again, if you want to start a thread to discuss other flaws in the system, be my guest! Hacker News doesn't see nearly enough of that conversation, in my opinion. But that's not really what this post is about.
Half-a-billion internet-connected devices and counting
new with desktop 6.0 SP3 (the latest version): KDE 3.6
> "Being black or homosexual will work against you if you want to work in industries with strong institutionalised stigmas"

Racial and sexual discrimination goes much, much further than industries with strong, institutionalized stigmas.

The problem with discrimination is that sometimes it's so casual and so subtle. You do not, for example, have to hate black people to contribute to discrimination.

The struggle for being black or homosexual isn't so much being kicked out of a store, or barred from membership in an organization, or being actively hated in an environment - it's the subtle, everyday, casual things that stack up quickly. It's the furtive look, the different way people treat you, that little flicker of fear when they see you, etc etc.

This is the problem with explaining privilege - there are very few big, ugly examples you can point at (say, a cross burning on your lawn), but instead there is an avalanche of little things, each one of which is insignificant by itself. Death by a thousand paper cuts.
Oh come on. Of course that won't get you arrested. You must not be aware of the American cult of Free Speech. Speaking out and being an insensitive asshole is just that, nothing more. It's your actions that determine criminality. Unlike China sometimes, right? ;)
So how is this one user mining 10% of the network?
http://mineforeman.com/2013/02/15/67117-identity-reviled-its...
I really want to give this a go but would like to have it set up to shadow the state of our repos in Github. Anyone have any experience with doing this?

Also, when will the docs be updated to reflect the obviation of gitolite?
I take offense with the following part of the article:

"Other repressive nations that have developed local versions of Linux include North Korea, which built the KDE-based Red Star OS to help wean it as a nation off of an unfortunate dependence on Windows made by the capitalists over at Microsoft."

China is a "repressive nation"? Says who? Britain, the leader in colonialist aggressions, mass slavery and blatant interventions to third nations?
Message to Adria Richards
DongleSec has spoken...
Who is John Scalzi and why should I listen to him scolding people?
Why would you delete stories that you think are fake, without any facts indicating they are fake?

I can't articulate it well, but for some reason this strikes me as a odd, especially since these stories ended up being true.
Alright, alright, have my money then. :)
I know that but much of the authentication and post receive stuff is hard coded to point at the GitLab API.

If you could abstract this it'd be great.
fail youtube videos are the most fun!
Clear and open about it. Good.
Old, and I don't particularly agree with it, but:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/14/googlepedia_announce...
I actually just thought it was a given[1], but it isn't relevant to my argument. Consider it replaced by "Telling women that not getting drunk will lower their chance of being raped" or "Telling women that not rejecting advances will lower their chance of being raped" or something else that you know is unfortunately true.

[1] Even among 'friends' (acquaintances?), chances you will be hit on are higher when wearing 'less' and considering hitting-on-and-being-rejected is a common precursor to rape...
DongleSec has spoken...
Don't know what is so scary about that. I am willing to bet less than 0.01% of "name[s] on Wikipedia..followed by a birth and death date" aren't the actual birth and death date.

Seems like just an oddmatch caused by an overzealous relative that happened due to the incredibly large amount of data Google processes.
Apple introduces two-factor verification for Apple IDs
Wow that's a list of negatives - which city was this? In London I didn't win, so cant comment on your after win experience - aggressive staff sounds totally the opposite of my experience - Wi-Fi needed improving as did food portions although neither stopped me - see previous post - also I believe they're being fixed
I'm not exactly sure how it's supposed to be pronounced, but it's the romanized Cantonese name for this mythical beast (pronounced more like "chee-leen" in Mandarin): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qilin
Rows, not columns. But more so than really large tables, I find MySQL will tip over even on smaller tables, not very hot tables, if I want to do the work without downtime.

(It may well just be my environment, but it is fairly standard RDS on AWS.)
Onda v812 vs. Ipad 3 - Is One Better Than the Other
Congratulations - you've just passed £3500!
Yes, jumping to conclusions, arguing with pure conjecture, having no patience nor empathy. Those are things that I often bump into when discussing about various things in the internet. It's hardly new.

Claiming that someone is a troll requires evidence. Simply because someone disgrees with you does not make them a troll.

Recognizing when someone is being disingenuous is an art, I think. Human beings have evolved complex mechanism for it through body language and facial gestures, which all are missing from internet discussions.
I don't think she is really whining; she's just using dry humor.

And she is raising an important point, and one that keeps recurring with Google: what do you do when their automated processes are not enough?

She should not have to edit Wikipedia to resolve this situation. That is not a reasonable expectation of anyone.

In fact, she chose the only solution that usually gets through to Google: blog/tweet about something and get enough exposure.
"Things like this" aren't an issue. Dongle jokes are not a social injustice. Feminists often do a good job of identifying social injustices and when they do, it's worthwhile to treat those injustices seriously. This is not one of those times.
I do walk to the local grocery store. I don't own a car.
GCC 4.8 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes | http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html

GCC 4.8 release | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5386795
Ooops, that should be "LESS than 3 years ago, closing to 3 any day now". It was introduced on April 2010.
It's not like using that strength to open the fridge is beneficial in any way. You're not going to pump iron flipping your light switch, man.

The more time I save managing the daily nuisances of my house, the more I can spend on my exercise routine, and other things that require actual mental effort.
I read a fiction book (probably not translated to English) where there was a tribe who used tastes and flavours as a language. That's right: they didn't talk, instead they mixed drinks where they would put all the words, grammar, punctuation and even the fine print.

And food was for tales and epics.

They were also blind.
Did Mozillians' responses to Opera's switch to WebKit not convince you that a monoculture is a bad thing on principle? I suggest that you read this and think twice about wanting one engine to rule them all.

https://blog.mozilla.org/sfink/2013/02/14/browser-wars-the-g...
Exactly the article I was contemplating writing. Thank you!
Again Passcode bypassing Flaw in iOS 6.1.3 latest release
Integrating Rails and Node.js with Redis
Your comparison is odd. If you are poor, you are poor. So a poor woman, poor black male and a poor white male would be equally poor.

Seems to me more interesting is the risk of being poor. I think you'll find that there are a lot more poor men than poor women. I guess this is the case because 90% of homeless are male, and men tend to be more prominent on the extremes (more rich men and also more poor men than rich/poor women). Feel free to research the actual data, though.
Perhaps you are not aware-- that is precisely the same situation as in the United States until Roe v. Wade in 1973. The phenomenon you're describing is pretty common knowledge in our left-wing political circles; on the right, it is deliberately ignored.
I don't understand how the engine in my car works.

I might complain to my mechanic that it won't start. To him, diagnosing a bad spark plug and swapping in a new one is a simple matter of five minutes, but to me it might as well be heart surgery. That doesn't mean I was wrong to complain.

She knew something was wrong, but admittedly didn't understand all the details. She complained to bring it to the internet's attention, after which it was swiftly fixed. This doesn't mean she's done anything foolish or wrong - she was simply pointing out a problem.
Yes, the fact that a reasonably well-respected writer and English professor doesn't understand the inner workings of Google's infobox means that her blog post is terrible.

This arrogant and dismissive response highlights the problem even better than her mild and humorous complaint (which, for the record, I didn't see as whining).

Perhaps she did understand that editing her Wikipedia page would correct the problem but also understood that Wikipedia's policies frown on editing one's own page, even to correct factual errors such as birth and death dates. Or perhaps she was entirely ignorant that she could even edit Wikipedia. Or perhaps she knew but didn't care and only wanted to write a humorous and potentially thought-provoking blog post.

Why are you so quick to defend an algorithm which produced a wrong answer and detract a reasonable and intelligent human being?
I also have a Windows Phone 8 (Lumia 820) and indeed, in comparison the iOS UI is very stale. What I do miss is polish of applications (both Microsoft's and third-party), e.g. Facebook in the people hub does not work well (blocked feeds show up again, I cannot like comments, etc). 1Password is only a ghost of its polished iOS version.

Also, the battery life is sh*t. My iPhone 4 usually lasted four a five full days, while the Lumia is often gone in 12 hours during a work day. It's very inconvenient when you have a long commute.

Currently Apple still makes up the lack of innovation with polish. But time is ticking away...
OK, I object to the misuse of the term "cynic."

http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/in-praise-of-th...

Cynics would point to the very things Scalzi does.
On my side it is just colors bursting out just like the winamp hehe. But sometimes, when I do very heavy/intense parts in my music, I try to imagine how well it would fit a firework final hahaha, sounds and special effects must be well placed, I don't know how to describe it better :) and I can imagine the positionning of everything related to the fireworks or colors, depending how I feel at the time I guess haha
I admit, the suicide part was far-fetched, but tell me once that you'd like to sit in front of a computer all day, absorbing knowledge endlessly.

No food.
No walking.
No sleeping.
No sex.

Tell me that you would want that.

Who wants to be a brain?
While I generally agree with you, the OP was using unix time - UTCiness is built in.
Or just use Google chat and this:
https://github.com/mattlong/hermes
Of course, until Google pulls the plug.
I switched from IE to Firefox and, looking back, I don't regret it, for the very same reason. Mozilla is the only non-profit and Mozilla is by far the best FOSS browser. Besides, Mozilla keeps pushing for new and better schemes and is one of the few companies that won't track your web usage.

I just wish more people knew about these. Most people just look at the speed with one tab open and pick Chrome.
As public figures (celebrities, politicians) have found out, once the information is out there, how it was obtained seems to be unimportant except in court. It won't really matter what your expectations were when it goes public.

I do find this tragic but the way it is these days.
From paper tape to BBS door games: "Global War" creator Joel Bergen
You can in fact fire people for a wrong reason.
Absolutely on point. I use my iPad in the mornings for HN. I've had cases of such nonsensical text auto-contortions when posting that I've been asked if I was a native English speaker. It's embarrassing.

For business communications I have to be super careful not to look like a total idiot. This, to the point that my signature on iOS devices says something like: "My apologies for spelling and other errors. This was typed on an iPhone, which is not an accurate typing device".

My other pet peeve is the lack of cursor keys. I absolutely detest having to touch the text for editing. It's horribly clumsy and, as far as I am concerned, a huge step backwards. Everything doesn't have to be touch.

I see us migrating to Windows 8 tablets. They are far more usable and practical, keyboards are welcome (and normal) and a huge variety of them will be available. Want a 17 inch tablet (yes!) no problem. And, of course, you can use standard Windows programs and write them without asking for permission.

The more I look at what MS has done the more I see the genius of it all. I was quite negative about W8 when I tried the preview but have warmed-up to the ecosystem now.
> What a bad article...

But a good reminder of just how little understanding most people have of The Internet.
I think the UI is much better, but as a developer it's still windows underneath, so it's still pretty useless to me.
Actually it's a great article for exactly the reason you give for it being a bad article.

She has no idea how to tell Google to stop saying to the world she is dead. There are "this is wrong" buttons that she clicks that don't do anything, apparently.

This is actually the point of her article. She doesn’t know how to fix the problem and Google (the robot) isn't providing tools to fix it.

Yes, you and I know that if she goes to a high traffic site such as wikipedia, google will scan that very quickly. But that's a hack, albeit a very simple one, but still a hack requiring a lot of knowledge of how Google, and the web, works.
Haha, indeed. Nobody here feels victorious. It's a lot of trekking through mud all around.

Anyway, I think that the fact that systems have imbalance is why we need to talk frequently about what imbalance exists, and how we might fix it. It's also why we should stop this irritating habit of turning everything into a system of processes and functions that don't allow for human error. Plenty of people in the tech community think that a series of rules is the end-all be-all cure to every problem, and refuse to admit that rules often cause as many problems as they solve. Learning to listen and empathize with other people is a more valuable trait than ever, because there are more ways than ever to get away with not doing it.
Are non-django field types like (postgresql hstore) going to have some love as part of these migrations? If not, a proper and standardized way to write plugins to extend it would be awesome in order to be able to migrate "nonstandard" field types.
Cue the advent of the No-chamber: http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/No-chamber
Adware Trojan for Macs Spotted in the Wild
Poll: Six weeks on, are you still using Mailbox?
> blowing it into an incident of systemic misogyny and
> rampant sexism that is worth losing a job over seems to
> me way out of proportion.

I agree: the response was out of proportion. I think literally every entity directly involved in this situation could have handled it better.

However, just because the response was out of proportion doesn't mean anybody needs to defend the men who were sitting behind her, or strain their credibility by pondering how - how? - these men could have possibly known that the person sitting directly in front of them, several feet away, could have heard their sexual jokes.
The easiest way to shadow the state is to add gitlab as a remote to the repos and possibly automate this with a cronjob.

Important docs on master should be up to date.
Lack of progressive thought on diversity? If you want an argument about dongle jokes creating an unwelcoming environment look elsewhere. The most sensitive among us don't set the rules. https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
When our brains encounter certain issues (politics, religion, racial issues, favorite editor) it automatically goes on the defensive and start filtering out everything and starts immediately thinking how to come up with bullet points to deflect the arguments. That prevents us from listening.

With respect to those kind of topics there are very few if any who can approach it with a clean slate. So it takes considerable effort to try to ignore all that baggage and listen.
Dying honeybees could set off global food crisis
You just demonstrated another difference in C vs C++ mindset.

C doesn't need so many changes like C++, that is the fact and advantage. C++ introduces huge bunch of new stuff, you know add, add, add, then fix, fix, fix. At the end you get overengineered buerocratic 'give me my 5%' language.

So, in C99 some stuff are very useful like variable length arrays, restrict keywords, variadic macros... these are not cosmetic. And btw, even for that you don't need C99 to c89 converter, if you want c89 compatibility use macros. But, hey, macros are ugly, right? They are ugly but they don't make my eyes bleed as some stuff in C++.

So yes, i'm twisting your arm, sorry about that, but it needs to be twisted ;-)

P.S. Your compiler is your choice, just don't force others to use it.
I was hesitant to choose Python 3.3 for a new project with Django 1.5 because of compatibility issues with add-on libraries. I've been able to get South working from the tip of the hg repo, which was a big one for me.

Thanks for working on this, it makes me much more comfortable with my Python 3.3 decision knowing migrations will have first class support in Django. I just sent in my contribution.
Speaking of stale UI features, when will they trash cover flow? I've never once seen someone use it intentionally or successfully.
I would think these issues are more to do with CM. For additional anecdotal evidence, I have had my Nexus 4 since it came out and I have not had the issues you described and I have never had to reset it.
Asked my team to review their Jenkins passwords and Jenkins user rights...
How to greatly boost the sales potential of your website's product range
Wikipedia has to have sources.
Looking forward to that! After the previous hackathon we made many improvements to GitLab Vagrant VM :-)
github: dennisferron
I think you're attributing opinions to me that I never expressed. I'm just saying that poking fun is a perfectly appropriate response to this particular absurd situation.
The major difference is that I can run a NaCL process(es) inside my own userspace process without kernel support, and that a failure in my sandboxing won't also be a failure inside the kernel.
It took a few times for me, but it happened on forums and Twitter many months ago.
Ha! I wish. But if you tell me the song I’ll gift you a Komachi 2[1]

1.	http://www.amazon.com/Pure-Komachi-Series-9-Piece-Knife/dp/B... , for the first person. Also tell me when where the song ends (the file name is very evident).