skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... Wow.

I propose that we shouldn't have a hostile workplace and you only want there to not be a sexist workplace. (Title VII protections include race, color, religion, sex or national origin, pregnancy, age, and disability discrimination, all by the same language. You only want to focus on sex discrimination?)

I propose that non-sexist jokes can still be a form of sexual discrimination. You require that a joke be sexist before it is seen as discriminatory ("The question is whether or not the joke was sexist.") even though the law doesn't have that requirement. So you actually think that the current laws are too broad?

If the men only tell non-sexist and tasteless poop jokes to women in the workplace but tell each other non-sexist and hilarious poop jokes, might that indicate a sexist workplace culture? I think it can. But it seems that you would say it cannot be, because the jokes themselves are not sexist. Is there ever a case where non-sexual jokes can be part of a workplace which discriminates on sex? If so, might this incident be another such example? Why or why not?

I propose looking to the law as a place where these issues have been well discussed and fleshed out. You say to ignore laws and, I assume, ignore all of the relevant and diverse case history? There's some wonderfully interesting cases. Can a man sue other men for sexual harassment, even if none of them are homosexual? Is sexual desire a critical requirement before sexual discrimination can take place? Should there be provisions to prevent retaliation for claiming discrimination, and if so, what constitutes retaliation? Are anti-retaliation restrictions limited to financial considerations, like being fired, demoted, denied a promotion, or denied wages, or can a reassignment of duties "constitute retaliatory discrimination where both the former and present duties fall within the same job description"? (For example, can you assign the men to the worst locations and the women to the nicest, even though both are doing the same job?)

Even if you disagree with the court's conclusions, the questions discussed therein should be part of your repertoire.

I propose that laws are part of our culture. You say the law is barely relevant. I assume you think that changing the laws won't help improve our culture? How do you resolve the disagreements that will inevitably arise, when someone claims sexual discrimination but another says it isn't?

Or do you think the laws we have now are good enough, and we just need to change the culture to match the laws? I can agree with that. What is it that you want to change, and how would that change have affected this incident?
It is universal in theme, sure. Not magnitude.

Google Earth alterations of military installations != great firewall.

Show me a military that's cool with open aerials of their bases. The U.S. just got lucky that they had a bit of jurisdiction over the first company to do it. Don't act as if it's asymmetric due to other nations having a larger conscious, it's not. It's just a simple lack of power.
So I would like to ask: when do you, the individual HN user, care about political issues?

I care about political issues a lot. So much so that I ran for Lieutenant Governor of NC back in 2008. So much so that I'm a dues paying member of a number of political organizations: NRA, Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Foundation, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Grassroots NC, and the Libertarian Party among others. But that's not what I come to HN for.

What would you like to see more/less of in submissions, and why?

When I come here, I'm mainly looking for news, stories and discussion related to technology, startups, and - even more - the intersection of technology and startups. General "geek" stuff like science news (Higgs Boson article, life on Mars stuff, etc.) is also marginally interesting, but that stuff isn't what compels me to visit here.

The "silicon valley drama" stuff is also engaging, but - to be quite honest - it's a bit like eating fast food. Fun for a while, but probably not healthy over the long run.
False headline. They weren't hunting for a man with an umbrella, they were hunting for a man with a gun, who turned out to only have an umbrella.

Here's the much more comprehensive reporton which it is based: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/03/20/2521320/man-mistake...

Strangely, although some sentences are lifted word-for-word, there's no link to or credit of the original article, which a) amounts to mild plagiarism and b) prevents many readers from getting valuable context (such as the explanation of a 'partial lockdown' being that schools merely locked their outer doors until they received an all-clear from the police). to provide only half the facts while omitting any link to the source borders on dishonesty.
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He censored the domain name with * :-)
This is very true. I advise everyone who is young and in the field to move to a tech hotspot. Otherwise you appear to be screwed.
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True, you are no Bill Gates, or even Marc Andreessen. I think you would still qualify as a successful founder who posts here, though.

How successful? Depends on your perspective. I thought I had relatives who I would classify as "extremely successful" and "rich", and they sold their companies for... high 5 figures. :) I must admit, my vision gets a bit blurry when it comes to distinguishing between numbers with 8+ figures...
Really. This has gotten to be a serious problem with science-reporting lately. Headlines suggest deterministic certainty, article itself says, for example, "probably a speeding comet, US scientists say." (Not even "some US scientists" or "hypothesize".)
XKCD-style plots in Matplotlib
How do you do the DVI video capturing? Framegrabbers and IP KVM modules are dead expensive, AFAIK - and how do you handle reformatting?
Don't forget about a replacement for the M4: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-19/army-carbine-progra...

Obviously the F35 is more important though. Who honestly thinks the future of air warfare will be with drones.
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You may not, necessarily, but Javascript Frameworks 1) aren't necessarily exactly MVC anyway and 2) if you're using the MVC in both frameworks, that's sort of the wrong way to do it.

Using Django as the example (which has its own stack behind it) and Backbone as the front-end, the only part of Django I really end up using, from an end-user's perspective, is the ORM and JSON serializers.

The way that backbone works is that your 'models' don't read to or write using the database, they read and write using APIs that you define with your normal framework. So, where in Django, you might execute a .save() on a model to commit it to the database, that same .save() operation in backbone will execute a PUT or PATCH request to your API endpoint to which its bound.
Endorsements are mostly a joke.
there's vague implication something bad might happen

Vague implementation: 'people get mugged down that street, I wouldn't got here after dark.'

That's a far cry from 'there's a man walking around with a ski mask and an assault rifle.' Sure, it was a false positive, but that's a pretty specific claim, don't you think?
Ah my mistake, I was referring to the 360 release of Geometry Wars (I've never actually played it, mostly coz I've never owned a console!)

The original was 10 years ago now. Think about that for a moment! Some of the people who are actually old enough to buy a game with their own credit card now were only 8 years old when Geometry Wars first appeared. Crazy.
I think you misunderstood. What you're describing is a culture of education. What I'm describing is a culture of intellectualism. Knowing things for the sheer joy of knowing things. To quote from HN, gratifying one's intellectual curiosity.

The people who know the most and, moreover, learn the best, tend to be those who love to know and learn. It is that which is so rare in our society. The Tweet, the press release, the short pithy blog post; these are consumption disguised as learning. I come to HN to learn -- unfortunately even here I suspect that maybe a tenth of the articles teach me something.
I think there are a few different issues here. First off, I agree with you that to be charged with conspiracy as Anaya was - in other words, to be equally responsible as if he had committed the crime himself, a more specific awareness should be required.

However, I do believe that it should not simply be OK to provide a tool to someone in full knowledge that they will use it to commit a crime. Perhaps more granularity needs to exist in the law for these cases. (Or maybe it even does exist, but was not well applied in this case, possibly due to a poor defense. IANAL.)

Finally, there is the issue of arbitrary and unjust laws concerning technology. I do not disagree with you there at all, but it is a separate issue. It doesn't make sense to say, "It's OK to help people break laws, but only the unjust ones." Instead, the unjust laws themselves should be challenged. Obviously I don't like to see anyone go to jail due to an unjust law, but that doesn't mean that other laws should be distorted to work around it.
I'd agree with you that it feels like it ought to be a crappy system, but out of curiosity, I just went and checked out my own profile. To my surprise, the "aggregate" of all of my 85 endorsements is fairly accurate. The top 5 are solid, and almost in the same order I'd rank them. There are a few which as you say, I wouldn't endorse myself for; but, only one of them made it to the top ten. I'd say that's not too bad since it a small sample. Maybe they don't need to change anything.
The conventional x86 way of doing it was to spill to "the stack" and I'm told that their chips actually specially optimize that nowadays. But it's all very weird, deep magic in a lot of ways.
this happens all the time. some friends of mine run pagerduty.com and they were funded by ycombinator after 4 applications and interviews.
> Did you want a skilled programmer, or someone who memorized their Foobar Enterprise Framework cheat sheet? Because you're only interviewing for one of those.

People who ask common/simple insert language/framework here interview questions are sometimes looking to see if you at least minimum care enough to memorize the answers. Alternatively a sideways answer might work, like "I find that's no longer necessary since..." or "I'll be attending a 3-day dev conference that includes that topic..."

That said, it makes it look like they don't care enough about interviewees, when they put so little effort into the questions asked. To hire a skilled programmer, you need to present yourself as a skilled interviewer.
And seriously, keep out of the bike lanes ! We are not going to slow down just because there are drunk tourists standing oblivious in the bike lane. It's just common sense.
You should keep doing consulting and similar "starter" activities if that's your strong point: Other "problem solver" jobs are marketing and sales (the ultimate starting point), information architects and any sort of tech consulting.

http://www.personalitypage.com/html/ENTP_car.html
> Making things public works.

How does this episode not serve as a pretty glaring counterexample to that principle?
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We have very similar problems in the UK. The number of people claiming Incapacity Benefit grew from 0.75m to 2.75m in less than thirty years. Two-thirds are claiming for reasons of mental health or back pain. In the most impoverished parts of the country, nearly 20% of the population is officially "too sick to work".

The issue is currently the most contentious of many welfare benefit reforms, I suspect in large part because discussing the issues raised in this article are almost totally taboo. Everyone knows perfectly well why disability rates are 10x higher in the poorest parts of the country, but there's a political taboo that prevents anyone from saying "Incapacity Benefit was used for decades by governments of both parties as an accounting trick to keep down the official unemployment figures".
From what I know about Biden it would probably be better if he did not make these trips. He seems to be a very good politician but as I have learned more and more about him I seriously doubt he has the ability to make sound decisions. Not that he has a lot of competition in his profession.

How about we just send the experts next time.
If what you say about the gov seizing money is true

Well, it's not exactly a conspiracy theory, it's all over the news about Cyprus that the Parliament voted (and rejected) that measure[1], which was proposed by the Eurogroup (and others, IIRC).

why wouldn't they try and take some sort of legislative control over BTC? Why wouldn't they make it illegal or do some other thing with the law to make it harder to use without running the risk of a knock on the door? No country is just going to stand by and let a new currency disrupt them.

My argument wasn't just about Bitcoin, but in any case, I certainly wasn't suggesting a situation where half the population or so would suddenly turn to BTC.

That said, while they could illegalize Bitcoins, preventing people from actually using them would be much harder than just telling a few banks what to do. To buy Bitcoins you just need to make an online payment to some exchange (e.g. Mtgox) - you don't even need to run the Bitcoin client.

So to enforce that illegalization, it would take up much more time and effort to implement the technical and legal counter-measures, and it would either be largely ineffective (see "fight against file sharing") or politically hard to implement (e.g. very large number of arrests).

Finally, this is all mostly irrelevant, because the real reason this measure was proposed wasn't because the money from Cypriots, but because there's a lot of money from wealthy Russian business men which would get seized as well, and which definitively won't be using Bitcoins.

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/plan-to-seize-deposit...
Geez, this post is full of complete nonsense and FUD when it comes to programming languages and their performance characteristics. I won't comment about the language design (I kind of like C#, but it's beyond the point), but the facts:

* C#, and specifically microsoft implementation of it is absolutely horrible. The AOT part is ok, but the JIT is incredibly dumb. There are good reasons why it is the way it is, but it's ridiculously slow compared to Java (and yes, you're legally obliged not to do this comparison)

* MRIs Ruby GC collector until 2.0 had bugs which prevented it from having good performance, even asymptotically. To be honest, CPython had it until 2.6 too. That means that if you allocate objects rapidly you can end up in a O(n2) situation where each n allocated objects end up taking more and more time.

* Ruby and MRI in particular is nowhere near good performance. But you can throw more hardware on the problem always.

* I would like to see some data about "StackOverflow is fast because it's on .NET", it definitely does not fit with my view of how fast/slow libraries/VMs perform.

To be honest, language speed often does not matter. Java has pretty decent VMs, like hotspot and yet a lot of Java code is horribly slow, because libraries are badly written (think eclipse).

Also I'm personally terrified with ruby's security stories recently (and yes, it's both ruby and rails at fault)
"The company has an office in eastern Washington state that's basically a call center, full of headsetted women in cubicles who make calls all day long to potentially disabled Americans, trying to help them discover and document their disabilities"

Why am I not surprised that getting people on disability has become an industry. I very much believe that governments should look after people who need help but there seems to be a significant lack of accountability when it comes to disability.

Does anyone know the details American of politics of disability? Welfare, social security and health care are constantly in the political news but I do not recall seeing much about disability. As someone who regular consumer of political text I find this surprising. Especially given the size of the program.
Some topics (gun control; Palestine; drugs) are never going to have decent comment threads. Everything that can be said has been said, people have entrenched opinions, people are not going to change their minds. But, on top of all of that, people feel very strongly that they are right and other people are wrong.

That makes these topics intensely interesting for people taking part in the discussion. People get drawn in. Not only do they make posts in the threads, but they write on their blogs and submit those too. Watching borderline flamebaiting isn't so interesting for people on the sidelines. The topics don't use new information; the same biased data gets churned out each time.

In theory HN could do these discussions well. Very smart people with different thinking could discuss novel potential solutions. That doesn't happen. Churn through the recent threads and you see a few people with dead accounts making vile comments; a bunch of people with downvotes bickering pointlessly; a bunch of people talking past each other; and a few people making reasonable points.

I don't care about 'political' articles, but I dislike tedious Political discussion with party lines.

EDIT: after a "big" event it's really tedious to have very many submissions. You get articles from each person involved, and all the tech blogs, and people commenting on the tech blogs, and maybe the companies, and then other people commenting all the way through subbing their blogs too. Each of these threads say pretty much the same thing. I'd happily leave 3 threads up, but it'd be great if all the others died.

I want to read at least 3 articles a day which are totally incomprehensible to me. If HN isn't giving me content which is way beyond my capability then something is wrong.

What submissions I upvote: Any YC posts; almost all Show HN posts; almost anything that has any code; some of the science stuff (from good sources).

I flag obvious spam; after recent events I left 5 threads untouched by flagged the rest; I flag items which are clearly partisan politics.
Are you in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere? Because there's nearly always a number of web designers out there serving even small-ish towns, sometimes even a shop or two. These designers are always looking for web programmers, because the freelance guys they use come and go. If you're a halfway decent coder, you'll have 80% of the small-town freelance market beat, and the other 20% will already have remote gigs. Sure, 90% of your work will be laying out HTML/CSS, in my experience, designers are terrible at it, but it beats flipping burgers.
"The bitcon economy is growing fast."

Perhaps it is, but don't think it's what you meant :)
can't I do most if not all of this through various Google services without having to branch out between multiple tools&apps?
Amazon's EC2 service's most expensive data transfer to-internet option is 12 cents per gigabyte. So at most $1 to give a customer a direct download of a product with no marginal cost that he paid hundreds of dollars for. I think it would be reasonable to expect a small company to do this too.
Thanks BTW. I wasn't mirroring anything but good to have checked.
If you're in a small town, you need to network more. My preferred method of doing so is to hang out at Starbucks and shoot the breeze with whoever walks through the door. Eventually a job will fall into your lap.
Absolutely. As a grad student about to graduate from a prestegious biomedical institution I'm looking at no new grants for the next (few?) years. The NIH is likely zeroing any new grants in order to maintain current grants. Guess what industry I cannot graduate into!

The upside I guess is that I will likely attempt to create my own company instead. A far riskier proposition. But I'm on the far end of the spectrum - few of my peers are doing that though - they're finding jobs in other industries.
Web accessible servers are cheap and easy to come by these days in the form of cloud instances.

AWS will even give you the first one for free.
Compromise: one-way missions to Mars for a select group of politicians.
I downloaded the Linux version of the demo a few days ago from your site. Maybe it's a Linuxism or version-specific.
I agree that this is an Internet wide problem. And yet, I suspect it is worse for women.

This abuse is generated by the "long crazy tail" of the Internet populace. In general, this crazy tail is mostly male (testosterone/societal/genetic influences). Therefore, the crazies are more likely to sympathetic to people like them and less likely to be able to relate to those far outside their own identities (among this set, women), and so the abuse level will be higher.
Looks like a great tool and I'm looking forward to putting it in action.

But, what's with the robot and spaceships blowing up a city in the background of your site?
There is some strange mental block that makes it difficult for people to understand that technological progress does not and will not result in mass unemployment.

Here's a clearer example with humans instead of horses:
200 years ago, Shoemaking was one of the world's largest industries. Today, it represents a very small fraction of the world economy and almost all shoemakers have been replaced by machines.

What happened?

As shoemaking machines became commonplace, shoemakers were suddenly unable to compete. Some of them found other jobs, some of them became destitute. Most were probably able to keep shoemaking until they retired, as the shoemaking machines took a while to roll out.

However, the Shoemakers' children and other children in that generation were perfectly aware that shoemaking was no longer a viable industry. No one born after the popularization of shoemaking machines studied to become a shoemaker.

What is the result?

First, we now have less expensive, higher-quality shoes. This is not always an effect of mechanization, but it usually is. Second, we don't have mass unemployment.

Why do we not have mass unemployment? Because when you replace workers with less expensive machines, one of two things happen; either the factory owner makes more money, or shoes start to cost less. If the factory owner makes more money, they spend it on a yacht or something. If the shoes cost less, the consumers have more money to spend on food or books or whatever.

So, there are now very few people employed in the shoemaking industry, but all the shoemakers' children can now go into the expanding yacht-making or food-cooking or book-printing industries.

Recap: Mechanization does not cause long-term unemployment. At worst, it causes unemployment for a single generation of workers. Ultimately, decreasing costs in one industry contribute to the growth of other industries (either via increased profits for the wealthy or decreased costs for the non-wealthy), so there is not a significant net change in employment.
> making Monday the first day.

Right. If Monday begins the week, shouldn't it be on the left? Which is the "beginning" in a left->right language such as English.

Bangladesh is a Muslim country with a Friday-Saturday weekend, so I understand that they might want to lay out their weekly calendar differently. But I just want to see my American (Saturday-Sunday) weekend in one contiguous block. Is that too much to ask?!
It's interesting to see the developing world adopt GNU/Linux. Venezuela created Canaima. [1] Turkey created Pardus. [2] Iran has announced plans for a national distro. [3] Russia has announced plans for its public sector to use free software. [4]

I suspect, though, that many of these initiatives are simply exercises by universities or government IT organizations to understand the technology, rather than to advocate for its use.

[1] http://canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve
[2] http://www.pardus.org.tr
[3] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/03/security_fears...
[4] http://open.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2010/12/27/421556