skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not certain that commit size is a good measure of expressiveness. Even not counting obvious outliers like javascript (oops, 3241245 people had a commit with jquery inside), it will be very dependent on the cultures in the different languages.

Some languages have users that are less mature in VCS usage than others, some languages have users that spend a lot more time writing tests (which create larger commits) etc.
Distance.js - Calculate the distance between locations
The city spent $2.2M for the compactors, including installation and a service warranty. The estimated cost savings from the spend was $13M over 10 years; if they saved $900,000 in the first year that looks like a reasonable estimate.
The 'passive objects' were chosen to be women because 90%+ of the attendees are men. The organizers know that this will appeal to them.
The team currently behind Digg does have experience in this space, though: they previously developed News.me, a Flipboard-alike, shuttered when they decided to put all their resources into Digg.
Referrers are used exclusively for tracking purposes
and carry zero positive benefits for the users.

This is short sighted. Sites can respond to referrers by improving themselves and better adapting to what users are looking for.
It's hard to tell if the fact that CoffeeScript is #6 (the highest ranked major language) and Javascript is #51 (second to last) is a reflection on how much of a shift CS is from JS, or on the quality of methodology and metrics in the OP.
Premium domain names (of .com tld suffix) are nearly impossible to come by, and if you're interested in buying them some will literally run into the millions (last month I tried to engage with a domain seller... I was in my mind convinced that I'd pay up to $500 for the domain he owned, imagine my surprise when the guy gets back to me with a '$650,000' counter-offer). So now a lot of startups (without much funds) are flocking to .ly, .io, etc. domain suffixes, coming up with clever puns to name their startups, etc. all to avoid paying ridiculous amounts for domains. Yes, I don't exactly have a good opinion of people in this domain squatting business as you could have guessed.

The .ly domain name for startups has become somewhat of a fun fad, there isn't much rhyme or reason to it.
Anti-hot-linking may be dumb to protect the content, but it's very useful to protect others from abusing sites as if they were free image hosters.

I run a small site, and we would occasionally get hotlinked by random people searching for images on Google, which would kill our bandwidth caps. If it weren't for referer filters, we'd have to hide any image for unregistered users.

That said, keep just first-party referers would be fine - we'd just block any image request without referer.
Start with the Chambers recommendations:

http://www.chambersandpartners.com/USA
Nasdaq will pay $62M in cash to vexed Facebook IPO investors
> I saw so much hate that I was ashamed to be a male and in tech, yet I also saw so much narrow minded reporting and deliberate distortion of events from many so called feminists and feminist activists (not all female btw) that a part of me would be quite happy if I never saw a female in tech again.

So because there was an incident revolving around a woman and varying degrees of of what people consider feminism, you'd rather not see a woman in tech again? So if there is some new incident in the future involving a person of color, you'd rather not see people of color in tech again? Surely you can see that this attitude is really dismissive and while you may not feel so about pycon, in different circumstances this line of thinking is used to dismiss situations in which people suffer harshly, such as sexual assault or domestic violence.

> We all lost in that affair - male, female, tech, non tech.

I can't really say I agree, the people that really lost out the most are the two people who lost their jobs and have had the professional reputations damaged to varying degrees.

I would also like to point out that you feel you'd rather not see women in tech again, but you don't seem to feel that you should be excluded from tech. If that is the case, is it true that you have suffered as a man as much as women have if the pycon incident makes you feel women do not belong?

> A part of me doesn't even want to think about it again for some time until the dust has completely settled. I would rather not even see articles like this.

This is unlikely, because despite how hyperbolic some people have been about Adria Richards, sexism in tech is a real issue that affects people, so there will continue to be articles and dialogue about it.

> A bigger part also realizes that there are real issues with sexism and would love to see more women in tech and understands that the only way that is going to happen is by honest and open discussion.

Saying there are "real issues" with sexism implies that you get to define what sexism is, but that would be problematic to say the least. Also, openness and honesty in the context sexism (not with the pycon incident, mind you) generally may expose people to physical violence and harassment, so dialog isn't the only tool in the kit worth using at times.
You're right, it's a bit off. Remember that good programmer I mentioned? She actually did get interviewed (for the same job I'm in), but she didn't get selected.
Woah - Stop.

This is horrible advice, for more than a few reasons.

First - there is almost never a dynamic of "equals" at a boardroom table. There is always a recognized hierarchy, defined or not. Given that, a senior member critiquing a member junior to him but senior to others at the table undermines that person's position in the group. Unless you are into discarding team members, that's not a smart thing to do.

Second - Nobody likes to be critiqued, and it takes a lot of maturity to accept it and more importantly to properly (and positively) correct the behaviour in the future. A "private" situation where the person doesn't need to worry about saving face creates the best possible environment for this happening.

Third - If being "outed" is a consequence of action, the result is that action itself becomes less desirable and behaviour more conservative. This is a bad thing if you are trying to create a business that grows. If you aren't making mistakes, you aren't doing anything at all. The goal is not "no mistakes", it's "as few mistakes as possible".

Forth - High performers are already harbouring guilt when they fail. They are their own worst critics. There is nothing served by reinforcing these negative feelings. Poor performers and/or slackers are only going to rebel against being made a fool of.

Fifth - The assumption is that "Praise publicly, critique privately" is somehow commonplace. I can tell you that outside of the military, nothing I've seen seems to indicate that, and I've been working for some 20 years now.

I could continue but I think that's long enough. I must say though that I'm disturbed that the author is a psychologist.
Go is only ever going to be as useful as the community works towards making it useful. We are trying our best to implement all the boilerplate code and solve all of Go's short comings.

Go is a very young programming language and unfortunately there are alot of cases where we have to implement pkg foo, bar, baz, because pkg quux depends on them. There are going to be many places where things break at this stage in Go's life, however that shouldnt discourage using Go for real world projects, because many of yesterday's bug end up being debugged and patched today. Go is a great investment for your company, and I hope you and your team reconsider using go for your projects after go 1.1 comes out.
http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.1

If you guys need help, feel free to join us in #go-nuts on freenode's irc server. IMHO, The best feature of go is, arguably, the helpful evangelist-like gopher community hanging out in IRC. We wouldnt mind helping you guys with your issues, but you have to help us help you.
How is that a better experience? This is a legitimate question, I don't think I understand what you're referring to.
I don't know if I would say it is the fundamental thing, but it is certainly an important fundamental thing. I think if I had to pick a single most important fundamental thing I would say it is composability. That is the underlying reason behind things like monads and lenses for example.
You chose this.

You chose to drag the Adria incident (unnamed) into an unrelated thread, perpetuating the toxic discussion (the one about Adria's incident) that you claim not to want to hear about. But you weren't responding to someone else here. You went there first. And you set the tone.

You chose to open with 'I actually don't quite know what to think about "Women in Tech."'

You chose to say that a part of you doesn't want to see women in tech at all. You didn't, for some reason, choose to reflect on whether this was rational or needed to be said publicly.

You chose to say that you don't want to see articles "like this." Though this article isn't about anything offensive at all.

You chose all of this. Neither your words, nor their inflammatory meaning, were made up by anyone else. Then you chose not to rethink or climb down from any of your inflammatory remarks. And you chose to respond to correction by escalating and getting personal.

That attitude is the real problem that created the Adria mess. You are the same kind of person you are complaining about. And it has nothing necessarily to do with "women in tech."

Please stop the oversensitive, resentful whining about others and take responsibility for your own choices.
Feds Bolster Cyber Espionage Defenses
It's a trump card because there would then be a second case against the defendant. He could say "Settle my first lawsuit and I'll drop assault charges on you", if you don't you'll be broke AND in prison.
Do you know what data is embedded in your product?
If everyone listened to the nastiest comments on reddit, nothing would ever happen. For anything you can imagine, there is some group who will delight in shooting it down.

I say this as someone who reads reddit quite a bit.
I used to care a lot about tabs and pane splitting in the terminal emulator. Then I discovered terminal multiplexers: screen, then tmux. Now I don't want those features in the terminal emulator anymore, as they overlap and even conflict with the terminal multiplexer.
Sure, in theory.
Affirmative action is not the reason racism exists. For example, slavery was a violently institutionalized form of racism. I am pretty sure slavery did not begin due to affirmative action.
Siggis ZX81 web server, running on a Sinclair ZX81
Looks very good - just had a quick look at the REST API - is it not possible to get a full list of all videos? (sorted/paginated maybe) - I'm thinking there would be use cases where you'd upload videos in the dashboard and then import them to a website later.
Starting a Soylent-like experiment of my own
Framework for scientific computing in Java
Catalano is a framework for scientific computing in Java. Contains several ports form Aforge.NET and Accord.NET.
Carnegie Mellon roboticist suggests humans brace themselves for robo-innovation
Why children say "pasketti" instead of "spaghetti"
We are indeed hardwired to focus on downside risk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
I am curious as to how well rails handle the test of time with respect to remaining within the tolerances held at their first installation?

Assume you install 1000KM of high speed rail, which provides a smooth and comfortable ride. Barring natural disasters, such as an earthquake, how long will that rail remain as comfortable/smooth as day-one given normal operation?

Is this less a function of the rails and more a function of wear on the train cars?

I just wonder what the 50K KM rails will ride like in year 2060.
This is one thing I myself was considering writing, as there is no reason why today's terminal emulators, which I spend most of my time on my machine, shouldn't be able to also display media. This will team up with ranger very nicely for the ultimate terminal-foo!
Being A Woman In Tech
So he is unhappy because he feels bad about women not wanting to be in tech? How exactly is that reassuring to women who know that this person takes a position that women do not belong in a space that should be open for everyone and that this person will probably end up enforcing that attitude (or at least others who share the same thinking and don't have an issue enforcing that attitude).
>Giving the rest of the team a common enemy and a 'mark' they need to make sure they stay ahead of is effective and commonly used in military training.

Of course where you see this used to its most effective form is when the person that is "marked" is expendable. You'll see it in basic training where everyone knows that person is doomed and it's either the team pulls them through or they are failed. You'll never see it once you get to a proper unit.

If you are doing that in the boardroom of your team, you should probably review your hiring practices more than anything else.
> Is this because some of the third party resources are only authorised for use by certain sites and rely on Referer to establish whether a given request qualifies? Given that there is no security or verification for Referer headers, that seems like a rather broken model to start with.

It's just a first-order approximation to defend against hotlinking. Disabling referes wholesale has mostly worked out for me (via about:config, not an extension), but very rarely I have to turn them back on or switch to a backup browser profile or whatever.
I don't think I was hateful, I actually gave them credit on the tech culture it's building..

Some of the comments were from people who didn't understand where this was coming from, if it was legit or not.. Obviously, people don't pick Open Source PAAS without getting a bit of context and that was what the comment was about.
Would it remove the problem to have men in revealing clothes, too?
this is great that this information is out there and people are now taking it seriously. I presented about this at APRICOT last month: http://www.apricot2013.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/58878...
Please all network operators! Clean up the open recursors in your network and implement BCP-38!
"hey I see you played a video... here's a CTA"
... there are some alert()'s lying around in your "cases"... guessing they were meant to be removed :)

Is the USP here the video recording? If I was comparing to services like zencoder, transload.it, pandastream etc

[1] http://zencoder.com/en/
[2] https://transloadit.com/
[3] http://www.pandastream.com/
In this situation, why would solar power alone account for ANY cost savings? They just replaced traditional garbage cans (that require no electricity/power at all) with compactors that run on solar power and send out an electronic message when they are full.

It's not like the previous garbage cans ran off of electricity from the local power grid, or required gasoline or something to run, and now the new solar-powered units yield a cost savings because they are off-grid. They were just regular old trash cans that sat there and did nothing but hold trash, no electricity required.
Odersky is a truly brilliant language designer.

However, he tends to talk slooooowly and methodically (him being German/Swiss is probably related), which makes watching his videos kind of unfun, and there are no slides.

There's an hour of lectures, and I'm pretty sure I could say the same stuff in a 10 minute video at most.

I mean, this kind of way of teaching is really ancient and outdated; why would you subject yourself to 7 weeks of watching boring videos, when you could just read his whole book RIGHT NOW in 1-2 days, and then read other books, tutorials on websites, etc.?
BioShock Infinite: a masterpiece of interactive world-building and storytelling
Back to the future, the app
XKCD MMO World Game
Euro Bailouts: Savers Be Warned - Your Money's Not Safe
How so? We know women as a group have a hard time accessing and existing in tech spaces already for a variety of reasons, so why wouldn't some of the reaction that was misogynistic be a deterrent?
Doesn't appear to be doing anything for me,

noasm 285
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noasm 269

That's all that appears in the console. Network and everything looks fine, no 404 or other errors.
What's wrong with using youtube for this purpose?
What’s Next in the Techonomy?
Maybe he knows what Lynn Root did at last year's EuroPython[1][2] or how she complains about being only asked to talk about women issues[3] but when she got a spot in the lightning talk section she canceled it blaming the last day's "drama"[4].

[1] http://www.roguelynn.com/words/really/

[2] http://www.roguelynn.com/words/a-memorable-europython-for-th...

[3] http://www.roguelynn.com/words/my-un-talk-at-djangocon/

[4] https://twitter.com/roguelynn/status/221217138688536577
It's because meditation is practically useful in a variety of ways.

Much like mathematics.

> Why do people in the US practice meditation? Is it because they rationally considered all available peer-reviewed evidence,

More likely that they practiced it and saw some experiential benefit.
I was making a video CV recruitment based Startup. We used the API from Youtube and were thinking of changing to a paid plataform.
We had to options, Framey.com and framebase.io. We almost choosed framey, but I left the startup.

If the founder of framebase want a good advice from someone who used to be a potential customer, please change your pricing. Don't charge for minutes, minutes don't mean anything. Charge for numbers of video, even 1 minute videos. It's much better to know that I can have 1000 videos. And really choose what kind of charge you wanna make. If it is based on watched time or recorded. These are two different markets.
Confusing XKCD (explain-xkcd crashed due to traffic)
When I read the quote from the Pedestal site, it echoes to me similar quotes:

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

or

“Any darn fool can make something complex;
it takes a genius to make something simple.”

or

“Every solution to every problem is simple.
It's the distance between the two where the
mystery lies.”

or

“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious
and adding the meaningful.”

or

“Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.”

or maybe even

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I
did not have the time.”

When I read the title of this thread I see none of these.

note: the title is now fixed, but I'll keep these quotes here
Maybe they're just stimulating the Hawthorne Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

Or, as one of my more cynical co-workers put it, they're blurring the lines of management so that no one ever knows who or what exactly failed.
"assuming here you meant to say 'sex-positive'"

Yep.

"This incident does reek of sex-negativity."

Again, it's all about context. Feeling negative about sexual discussion at work and at conferences does not mean that you can not promote positive attitudes in your private life and among your friends.

I don't find the specific example that all this originated the best representative of the attitude, but you do not have to be okay with every childish/naive dirty joke in every environment to have a healthy attitude towards sex.
http://www.bodhilinux.com/
Youtube has an API that is free, and it's pretty good.
But if you're linking to an image on your own site from your own site, the proposal not to send Referer headers across domains to third parties wouldn't do any harm.

In other words, if your interest is in blocking unauthorised hotlinking, can't you just assume anyone who doesn't include a Referer is equivalent to someone sending a Referer from a malicious site and decline the request?
Nope. Plenty of sincere MRAs in tech.
I did the interview with Alan. Let me give the larger context. The interview was done shortly after Kay had shown a presentation done 50 years ago of one of the very first GUI programs. He wondered then and later in this interview why GUIs had essentially not evolved much in the intervening period, despite the huge jumps in technology in other areas.

With me, he discussed how UIs were uninviting and mystifying to people who don't know how to use them (children and seniors). In addition, he felt the Web provided very little that would foster the individual's learning on his/her own terms.

So while I suspect he'd agree with many of the comments posted here about the Web, he was not primarily speaking about protocols and bits and bytes, but by the end result: a presentation quality that only serves up what a TV can do, rather than deeply engaging individuals.
We use doxygen + markdown for high-level documentation. This way you can edit the documentation in a text editor and put the markdown files in version control. And with graphviz and mscgen you can even create some standard graphs. The doxygen-generated html documentation is then put inside a wiki automatically.
Hah! Take that, Python aficionados!

-- Perl user
People often seek out excuses to confirm preexisting biases and prejudices. Sexism, racism, etc.
Sorry, you're right. I think I forgot to misspell "referrer" the first time I searched.
Finally. Third party cookies provide almost zero value for users. Only use case is for log in on iframe-embedded apps such as Discus comment boards, but the ones you use yourself can be counted on one hand so adding exceptions isn't such a big issue. Adding some UI that shows that you are logged in to Discus on a particular web page would just good imo. I think the "From visited" option is an excellent trade off as a transition period until a better option for embedded authentication is available.
H.264 is royalty-free for free web broadcast, so I don’t think YouTube has to pay a per-video or per-user fee. Google probably has to pay a fee per encoder, but that seems like a relatively minor cost. They probably also have to pay a decoder fee for every copy of Chrome downloaded.

If Microsoft’s pulling strings at Nokia, it’s probably because Google hypocritically tried to screw them over using Motorola’s H.264 patents:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/22/one.patent.rem...

Does it really seem like Google’s acting in good faith here?
If your assertion is that PyLadies would use these funds to encourage that type of behavior, that seems counter-intuitive to their purpose (plus on their CoC page, it outlines that photographic harassment is not allowed, among many others). If you are genuinely interested in what they'd do with the money, you should contact them instead of making the suggestion that women should stay where they are, alienating those of us already working here and furthering the logic that they shouldn't even bother.

I don't have a problem with honesty for honesty's sake, but it doesn't change the fact that it's hurtful, if not the exact opposite thing to do right now. If we had an equal balance of men and women in this field, we'd have seen this whole thing go down differently.
It looks like it's changing throughout the day...
>Then people just shouldn't say what's on their minds?

Well, there's "shouldn't because someone said so" and "shouldn't because it's counterproductive." So maybe not?

>Suppressing opinions doesn't get rid of them

Refraining from expressing them certainly helps prevent them from spreading; there are a lot of opinions about women, blacks, etc. that I would have never formed on my own if I hadn't heard them all the time from my father while I was growing up. One of the things that helped me to grow out of those opinions was simply to not repeat them, _especially_ if I was around people who might have reinforced the opinions by agreeing with them or "defending my right to have them".
Yeah, I agree — I really doubt it's that large of a shift, as I mentioned under "Specific language effects." I find it hard to believe that JavaScript could really be less expressive than C and assembly.
I'm trying to make it work with Assets Pipeline and Compass with no luck. Any ideas?
Now I want to see the same thing, but based on the length of the commit message instead.