skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hipster is a subculture which has been around maybe ten years. It's fairly amorphous, and any dictionary which mentions it is almost certainly not quite correct.

I'd reckon that the key characteristics of hipster are some fuzzy idea of "authenticity", as well as a certain styling of preferred art. This often manifests itself in preferring bands that are just getting started and various curios that reflect a more primitive time. Unsophisticated bikes and a preference for 'irony' are also hallmarks of the idea.

Your mileage will vary.
Can't use XFT fonts. Doesn't set 256 colors properly. The blinking cursor is retarded and seemingly cannot be disabled. Those are kind of dealbreakers for me.

On the plus side, it feels really snappy. Impressive speed indeed.
I think you're taking it too personally. Step back and look at the big picture. PyCon was by all accounts a success and this incident a minor distraction that's gotten way too much attention and blown out of proportion.
My initial reaction was this is great, women are underrepresented in tech. Thoughts that came afterward: this is a horrible overreaction to what happened at PyCon over dongle-gate and this reinforces the boys club by making women a protected class (no pun intended).
I know how you feel... I didn't start until I was 21 and I'm 25 now. If you try to compete with somebody who has been coding since they were 10 on pure coding talent you'll lose.

But that's fine. Use your cross-functional skills to your advantage... whatever you did from ages 8-21 when combined with the coding you did from 21-present is likely just as (if not more) valuable than the skills a person who's been coding since childhood.
And they are all terrible. Seriously, I have tried every single one of them, and none have the look and feel, and capability for instant updates of Google Reader.
The reason we don't have more females programmers is because they have less interest in it and less aptitude for it on average. And this will never change. For my dense readers I'd like to clarify that this doesn't mean that every man is better at programming than every woman, just like saying that men are taller than women doesn't mean every man is taller than every woman.

Back to the topic at hand - women are not as good at programming and also not as interested in it as men. If you find this sexist, don't like it, and don't want to accept it, take it up with the universe. Or to paraphrase Richard Feynman: You don't like it? Go somewhere else... to another universe, where the rules are more psychologically pleasing.

There is no hostility toward women in technology. There is no "sexism." Just the opposite men are biologically predisposed to pampering women and our field is no exception. Men willing to pamper women is the only reason why initiatives like this "charity" event are even possible!

Btw... Don't you ladies get offended that you are need of charity to make it in tech? Apparently not!
Internal use only code should be documented as well as any external facing code. It's easier to read through a readme or wiki than track down the person who owns or knows something about the code you want to use.

We use:
internal wiki (confluence),
readme's,
rdoc - javadoc - etc.,
PR's on github enterprise

This works pretty well. For reference we have hundreds of devs. Most of the time you can find some sort of documentation in at least one of the above locations.
10,000 hours, can be put in from ages 21 to to 28 too.

I enjoyed the lax pace of doing it over ages 5 to 28 though.
Probably about as soon as I can open up a discussion about women in tech and not see the first comment mention her.

shrug This story didn't have to be about her.
It is the hjkl of line length.
Hipster is an older word that has been co-opted more recently to describe a contemporary subculture, so it's not surprising that dictionaries have it wrong. Also, the subculture itself is a little bit difficult to pin down because many of its members (as judged by outside observers) wouldn't identify as hipsters, necessarily. More can be found at Wikipedia, although the page is of mixed quality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%28contemporary_subcult...
At fancy bars they want you to buy the $15 cocktail, but they'll begrudgingly give you a $10 Bud Light if you insist.

Also, stadiums and strip clubs.
Just because I'm feeling bored today, here is that same loop (around line 388) "cleaned up" to work inside 80 columns. I added a "metricGenrator" abstraction to the API because it seemed like a sane addition to clean up the "too many arguments to mean()" problem, but all other changes are is pure syntax. I dare you to argue that this isn't more readable than the original:

my_stats = {'Modified': {'+': {}, '-': {}}, 'Control': {'+': {}, '-': {}}}
for condition in 'Modified', 'Control':
for strand in '+', '-':
st = my_stats[condition][strand]
kc = kc_stats[condition]
kc = kc.metricGenerator(metric, ref_pos=ref_pos, trim=opts.exp_trim,
coverage_ceiling=opts.coverage_ceiling,
strand=strand)
st['mean'] = kc.mean()
st['median'] = kc.median()
off = st['stdev'] = kc.stdev()

if use_se:
kc.setOpts(ref_pos, metric, trim=0.0,
coverage_ceiling=opts.coverage_ceiling, strand=strand)
off /= sqrt(len(kc._getMetricData()))

st['spread_lo'] = st['mean'] - off
st['spread_hi'] = st['mean'] + off
my_report_row.extend(st['mean'], st['median'], st['stdev'],
st['spread_lo'], st['spread_hi'],
st['coverage']])
We use a combination of an internal wiki and formal documentation (our software is used to collect data during clinical drug trials for new drug applications, so certain FDA rules apply to our processes). Currently, the formal documentation is made up of Word documents (no, really) that are managed via projects in Team Foundation Server.

We are currently moving in the direction of using JSDoc on our latest project (since it is entirely written in JavaScript), and we will likely have our internal auditors sign off on the format for use as our software design docs.
Right click -> Options -> Behaviour -> Cursor blinking -> uncheck.
For me the point in using a terminal emulator over the GUI shell is that I don't have to move my right hand from the keyboard on to the mouse. This (Terminology) seems cool but all the extra features have to be accessible with obvious and non-obscure keyboard shortcuts. That would make it a very considerable choice as a main operating shell
I think this is great, and I'd like to add: If you are cash-poor, as many startups are, there may be other ways to contribute as well.

I'm the CEO of a startup here in Austin that uses Python. A couple weeks ago, another post here on HN led me to PyLadies, where I sought out the local Austin chapter. Turns out Barbara (mentioned in the article) runs the PyLadies Austin group.

I noticed one of their weekend workshops didn't have a space listed yet. Since I run a coworking space here in Austin (http://opportunityspace.com), I emailed Barbara and asked if she wanted to use our space for a meetup. She emailed back, super excited, and we're now hosting their Intro to Python workshop on April 6. (It's free for women in Austin who want to learn Python; RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-ATX/events/99059532/)

There are many ways you can help and take the initiative. More smart coders benefit us all in this industry. Even if you don't have a whole lot of cash, I urge you to reach out to your local PyLadies chapter and see how you can help. Their website and chapter list is here: http://www.pyladies.com/
Your product is like a sandwich: most will buy it without the pickles
I'd support this if the hellban expired for new posts in a few weeks. The kind of person who makes such unwanted contributions isn't likely to stick around longer than a week without getting a rise out of people, but a genuine user might.
Ask HN: Besides stock options, how can you share upside with early employees?
From observation, it seems many companies use the complexity of stock options and liquidation preference to obscure the valuation of stock options for employees. Are they other more transparent and less complex financial vehicles that can be used to share company success with staffers in a way that is equitable. Does anyone have direct experience administering or receiving these alternative benefits? What are the related tax issues?
More evidence that overnight success takes at least a couple of years :) a hearty congratulations to Mr. D'Aloisio.
I completely agree, which is why I qualified it with 'relative to male programmers'.

(I'm not saying that great female programmers shouldn't be in demand.)
Transparency and background images are great for making screenshots to show off your customized desktop. For actual daily use, they're absurd.
Looks neat. Could be a service i will use in the future. Only thing i noticed is that you use flash to record the videos. In my case, this is broken because of the peper flash player from chrome. Is it not an idea to use the getusermedia API where supported?
Wikis are great for intra-company documentation, although they do have a tendency to "rot" over time. If you're documenting code, a VCS that lets you check in documentation/wiki pages along with the code is a good idea (e.g. http://www.fossil-scm.org/)
So, we ship anaconda with our own package management system, called conda. Conda is open source and was created because for scientific python, we need to manage versions of non-python libraries (blas/atlas/mkl,libhdf5, etc..). But you don't need to use conda if you don't want to. Conda is just what we use to install stuff. You can use pip on top of Anaconda if you would like, and we even have functions to turn whatever you did to your anaconda environment into a conda package if you wanted to.
The Audacity of a Ninth Grader
The main use for something like LLJS is to allow you to target asm.js with new code that you write. It's true that it's probably not the best idea to completely rewrite a 3d engine in it (right now), but it gives you a quick way to rewrite core parts of an intensive app (like a 3d game) for high performance. There are "inner loops" that could benefit from a small amount of LLJS.

As the post says, it's a proof of concept and a way to open up asm.js to people who want to tinker with it without compiling C code with emscripten.
Thanks. Guess I was kinda quick to jump on that one.
Reminds me of TermKit. http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/
What Ms. Richards has done to those 2 young men could have been much worse. She used her position in the developer/twitter community to intimidate and to cause harm to those 2 men. She knew what she was doing and the same outrage that Ms. Richards experienced, would have been the same outrage those 2 men would have received if what she did originally wasn't wrong.

She could have said that they were talking about rape or molestation and it would have been her word against theirs. They would have been hauled into jail, considered guilty and their lives would have been ruined, even though they are innocent and practicing their natural right to speak to each other.

She overheard a private conversation between 2 consenting adults and nothing was directed towards her or anybody else. She should have kept her mouth shut.

Ms. Richards or anybody with similar capability or visibility, should never be trusted in any community or group. Is the not what any group or community needs, ever.

Her actions were meant to intimidate, cause harm and censor a private conversation.
PyLadies has existed for years, and the auction was announced and organized before PyCon even happened, and took place before the entire internet went apeshit.

These are facts you may find useful in deciding how to view this event.
making this for my kindle
http://readlists.com/c130caf3/
Because you're a brainwashed fool.
Russian Tycoon Aims to Make Immortality a Reality Using Robots
Let's pretend I'm at that shop with a large recruiting budget, and a $10k check is only an e-mail to accounting away.

I also just watched a massive blow-up and bad press around Adria Richards, PyCon, and this issue in general. I'm naturally wary of my company being connected with or supporting these virulently negative forms of misogyny and feminism of which the entire donglegate episode seemed to spring.

What would $10k would be funding, and the good press that would come of that? Reading http://www.pyladies.com/, they appear to put on study groups and other events, but their "Code of Conduct" is higher billed than an explanation of what PyLadies actually does with funding.
Yeah. "Crazy wisdom" :-D

The writer who introduced me to that idea had this story. He was able to rest upon stillness even while standing or moving. He's a martial artist, so that means that he doesn't telegraph his intentions.

He once taught a workshop. Some dude, a police officer I think, came up to him later to tell him something. The officer said, "You know, I noticed that you are completely still. Then when you move, there is movement. I don't see any telegraphing. Then you stop. It is really freaky."

The teacher commented, he thought everyone else looks freaky.

I'm not there yet, where I can stay in that state of stillness when standing, much less moving. I've had a taste of it though. Enough that when I'm there, I see people moving. Their body language! So much twitching, and jerking, whether they are martial artists or not. It's like these weird influences in them that they don't know about, animating them. They look like they are possessed.

I'm actually going to adapt a paper-and-pencil RPG system based on this observation. That the way people normally are, is insane. That is, modern adults are insane in socially-acceptable ways. So starting characters would start with a wisdom of 1, maybe 2 if they are lucky. And any actions they take that they do not fully experience (modelled by rolling the wisdom dice pool), they gain a derangement. It's just that characters also start with derangements. Derangements are awesome sources of drama -- like, say, the TV show, Once Upon A Time.

I think this is where the Buddhist teaching of compassion comes in. You know, "how do people live like this?" They can't, you can see the suffering. It's not even their fault, though it is also their choice.

I'm glad that gnosis occasionally pops into Y(HN) to post stuff like this. It has always generated a lot of interest and discussion, and a great chance for people to thrash out what they think meditation is. And who knows? Maybe a few people will give it a try and find that they are more sane.
You "would rather not even see articles like this" -- just because it reminds you of that other controversy, which this article had the good sense not to mention?

As you note, the previous controversy had no real winners. Well, we all keep losing when that connection is reflexively made. Sure, it's natural to recall personally, but it doesn't need to be strengthened with constant mentions and fresh complaints.

I suggest going with your first impulse, give the thought some time off, and skip such articles if they make you feel bad... rather than the second impulse, picking at the scab.
I'd be interest to see the same heat map with an overlay of average median income for each district. PBR might be a hipster thing, or it could be more of an indicator for a lower-income district.

Also, I wonder if chains were included as they could skew the results.
Solar-Powered Trash Cans Saved Philadelphia Almost a Million Bucks Last Year
Stop the Enterprise Software "Leading Provider" Mad Lib
Then people just shouldn't say what's on their minds? That's not a very good attitude to have if you want to gain any understanding at all of the actual state of the industry in terms of who believes what. Suppressing opinions doesn't get rid of them, but it does make them almost impossible to change, because you now have no idea not only what people think, but who holds opinions you consider worth challenging.
PyCon had 500 women out of 2500 attendance. Gave away over $100,000 in financial aid. Gave away 2500 Raspberry Pi's. Thought kids to code. Raised $10,000 for the PyLadies. Gave permission to publish amazing online videos etc.

And then you have these 3 idiots (and more online idiots) that steal the spotlight and everybody focuses on them. Sigh. Let's focus on the positive stuff!
I've built parts of LLVM itself,

http://kripken.github.com/llvm.js/demo.html

Which translates LLVM IR into LLVM bitcode, and then emscripten can translate to JS, all in the browser.

No reason clang couldn't be compiled too, I imagine someone someday will do it when there's a need.
This new material is 0.16 kg/m3, presumably if it's filled with vacuum.. Helium is 0.17 kg/m3 at 20°C and hydrogen is 0.09 kg/m3. At the same time, air is 1.2 kg/m3.

So, the volume of each needed to lift 80kg (which would have to include the person and whatever structure to contain the material), is 80/(1.2 - density of material) m3. So:

Helium: 78 m3, or sphere of diameter 5.3 m

Graphene aerogel: 77 m3, or sphere of diameter 5.3 m

Hydrogen: 72 m3, or sphere of diameter 5.1 m
Maybe ... I'm not looking to learn a foreign language right now, so aren't the target market.

But my first thought was that this appears to use some kind of machine translation ('import from any website').

So how reliable is this as a source for learning a language. If I was going to invest time & money I'd want to trust that was I was learning was accurate!
I resolve merge conflicts as well. Every system I've ever used gives you one file with delineated chunks (<<<<, === >>>). Never once have I said "this is too difficult - I need three windows open." And even if I did say that sometimes, I can't imagine optimizing the character width of my code for that one use case.
Oh, I'm not negative of meditation because it originated in another culture. I'm negative of it because it seems like a mystical practice that's only more popular than Christian prayer in the US because it originated from an "exotic" culture. Christian prayer is certainly popular in the US, even to the point where it could be said to be "highly valued," but I would never try to use prayer to make myself more productive in the way people tell me to use meditation.

Meditation is pitched as a tool, and I (try to) evaluate tools based on their objective properties and effects, not based on their exoticism or wow-factor. This applies equally to meditation as it does to, say, dynamic typing.
How a sea of self-help books deepens Korea’s intellectual vacuum
Things in parts of NYC are extremely expensive. Doubly so if you're in an upscale club.

It's not that the beer is more expensive, it's that the cost of the labor involved in serving it to you and the real estate you're consuming it in cost more.
What does that have to do with PyLadies?
A primeira licitação a gente nunca esquece
Yes, this is valid concern. It has happened here that you just ask to the judge, that could he/she help you to go through the case. So judge actually did help, stepped in when something needed to say or similar. If you behave well, judge has no reason to dismiss or belittle you. Actually, if this is clearly a bully case, it is easy to win judge to your side. I did exactly that.
Apparently the fascination is ending:

"According to Polk's data, the large mainstream sedan segment has plunged from a 5.8-percent share of the US car market in 2008 to just 3.5 percent in 2012. That sales drop is enough to put this most American of car bodystyles behind the minivan segment, a market whose own sales slide has been comparatively well documented."

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/03/24/large-car-market-witherin...
Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Slashdot [2006]
I read it as a lament that an unhappy situation had provoked unhappy thoughts. The unhappiness of the thought serves as evidence of the unhappiness of the situation.

But I agree that we should move on.
Develop iPhone and iPad Apps in Java with RoboVM
For a big codebase, yes, compiling C/C++ using emscripten or such is a good idea. But if you want to write a tiny part of a normal JS application in something faster, lljs is convenient. Sort of like you would write inline assembly in C perhaps.
Can somebody explain the appeal of Google Reader and why people are making such a big deal of it shutting down? I've tried it a few times, and I just don't see the appeal.

RSS readers are a dime a dozen, and Google Reader is mediocre, at best. The interface isn't great, it's tied to a Google+/GMail account, and there's no way to subscribe to RSS feeds on an internal network.

I feel like I must be missing something.
Yeah, I've always considered Expect to be sort of a canary. As soon as you realize that you want to use it for something, you realize that there is something rather wrong going on.

Even so, if you've got to get the job done and can worry about architectural issues at a later time, expect is great.
For any leaders reading this:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/essential-drucker-peter-f-dr...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker
You can't get blood from a stone. Sounds like he is trying to bully you. Try rational means and as necessary it might make sense to take it public if you have enough of a chorus of people saying this is not warranted and have exhausted all other means.

Try to get some pro-bono help first.
Add to that "gafapastas".
I think the relationship between PBR and hipsters is not that hipsters like PBR, but rather that dive bars sell PBR, and hipsters like dive bars (because they're cheap, "real," and not mainstream).

As someone from Portland, OR that went to college on the East Coast, I drink a lot more PBR in college than in bars at home. At home, Hamm's, Old German, Rainier, and other beers are common, cooler, and just as cheap. PBR is just cheap.
Interviews: What I'm Thinking While I'm Interviewing You
Show HN : Another chrome extension for bufferapp
Firebug-esque inspection feature for iOS native apps
Pedestal – An open source tool set for building web applications in Clojure
I expect that Currents won't live very long. I don't see what value it adds in that space with competitors such as Pulse, Zite, Flipboard and a lot of others. Is anyone actually using Currents? If so, is it any good?
Video is not a technical problem, but a legal/political/economic one (technically good codecs covered by patents & corporations unwilling to adopt to other codecs).
Why do you think this has anything to do with Adria Richards? PyLadies was receiving donations well before any of that blew up.

If you want to argue that PyLadies is hurting women somehow then you are going to have to provide better evidence.
I don't know about allergies, but I was under the impression that improving hygiene standards was directly related to the polio epidemic of 1916 [0]. I was surprised that it and maternal antibodies were not mentioned once in the linked article.

[0] http://www.virologyj.com/content/pdf/1743-422X-4-70.pdf
I don't know if Flipboard can work for me since I have no way to try it, but none of the others come even close to what an RSS reader lets me do. It's good that you've found something that works for your needs, but RSS and RSS readers fill a large niche that has no equivalent tool. I would love it if Digg could better integrate what Reader did with what all the others try to do. Feedly and NewsBlur fall short in a long list of ways.
If you are really serious, you would contribute to or set up a grant program like Etsy did with Hacker School: http://www.etsy.com/hacker-grants