skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I work for Microsoft because I really like their web products.

Cool! Good to have gigs we like.

> "step 1. buy a mac". Is that really more enabling to the 2nd and 3rd world developers Jeff mentions?

Eh. Linux is just fine for Rails dev. The Mac thing is mostly a hold-over from earlier days when TextMate was the default editor, and because most Rails shops expect it. In fact one of the most "enabling" scenarios here is to take a cheap, lightweight Ubuntu dev laptop and ssh into a dedicated development server, do all your editing on vim or emacs.

> I also listed some reasons that C# is not really a non-starter for open source.

Yeah, but it's a hard sell is it not? When considering tech stacks to risk your entire project's future on, what's the practical difference between "Not Really A Non-Starter" and "Really, Really a Non-Starter"? Not much.
I also don't think Adria overreacted. It was a microaggression. Jokes like that foster the uncomfortable boys club environment that is so inherent to tech. Were the jokes explicitly sexist? No, but in an industry that has more than just a bad track record, stuff like that is not okay. Context matters.
Thanks, Matt, I certainly agree that Lucy deserves every bit of her fame. :-)

Yes, it must be the Wikipedia article. (Of course I'm the one who put her there.)

It was interesting to note that the aspect ratio of her photo fits the tall photo space in the knowledge box better that most dog photos which tend to be more horizontal.
Who says it was tech? There were several examples of both extreme sides using this as a standing ground for their cause.

You can't use these kinds of situations to gauge reaction because the vocal minority yells louder than ever.
Yeah, that's at least in part because of the stat()/lstat()-blowup.

After the first run most of the stat data will be cached in-memory anyway, but tens of thousands of unnecessary system calls hurts even with the actual data in memory...
Stop trying to make Haxe happen, it's not going to happen.
Show HN: A simpler way to watch videos
What do you think of videowatchr.com? Comments welcome.
John Scalzi rebuts this pretty well I think:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/08/31/the-sort-of-crap-i-don...
You've never seen Anonymous go nuclear on white supremacists? Or back when they were trolling Tom Green's live web show? etc.

The fact that this is a "Women in Tech" issue is what generated so much publicity, and the publicity is what draws the trolls. If two posters on 4chan's /b/ board had some exchange where one named-and-shamed the other over a penis joke, and he ended up losing his job? I don't think it's hard to imagine Anonymous coming down hard in the perpetrator, whether male or female.
Which emails are those? Besides our weekly digest I only see two emails sent from startups interested in you.
I'm in the Portland area and recruiters call/email constantly. I have a hard time believing it's not the same for any major metro area.
It doesn't make IE6 any faster, but the code will still run. I suspect that's what they mean by "backward compatible": it can't work miracles, but will at least do no harm.
>When a critical hole is discovered in a system that manages the identity of the 400M wealthiest people on Earth, I'd expect this story to be ranking a little higher than page three on HN.

Apple has disabled password reset, so at least they've managed to control the exploit before it got out of hand.
Plus the panopticon of everyone else with access to the data. I think we'll be able to broadcast our recordings publicly, and if so then tools will exist to take advantage of all the data in the public broadcasts and then we'll all be able to look into each other's lives in an equal way. People who don't publicly broadcast may well be shunned.
> (The baby boomers generation) really did a large portion of the work involved with building out the physical infrastructure that allows our economy to operate as it does today: buildings, roads, power lines, mining, machinery, warehouses, etc

> How can we forget there was an entire generation of people who turned the 1940's USA into the one of the 1970s?

The baby boomers were just entering the work force in the 1970s. You are conflating two generations.

Everywhere in the US that I am well familiar with (Portland Oregon, Minneapolis, Southwest VA, San Jose CA, greater Los Angeles) built most of their infrastructure between 1945 and 1970(schools, roads, highways, bridges).

Anecdotally speaking, the infrastructure that came after 1970 consists of strip malls, suburban housing and airports. some highways were built in LA and San Jose. The 85 is the only one i can think of off the top of my head though. Lots of road projects to widen, adjust and fix earlier mistakes though.
> Since March 20, she has not published a single tweet. There have been no new posts on her blog. She’s been silenced. Congratulations, Internet.

Please give us a break with the martyrdom. Nobody has silenced her. She is free to continue posting to her blog and Twitter.
Then it would have been about Christianity, or about how technology culture is repressed and not sex positive.
On my Windows 7 there's a big huge bar behind the tabs. (This was also there on OS X, and that's worse because of the OS X menu bar which is unremovable)

I really really want an easy way to squidge that background bar down a bit.
Protestant like baptist or something? I guess maybe they could have stirred up some outrage from the religious crowd, over some sort of perceived religious slight? But most issues these days likely to offend fundamentalist protestants are likely to offend fundamentalist catholics too... I don't really know; what are you trying to get at?
It's not exactly hard science to generalize from a three week visit to a part of the City of Berlin, which is the most heterogeneous place it's gets when it comes to trying to define The Germans, yet i think your observation seems to be quite in line with mine, assuming you traveled from and to the trade fair (ICC) and the usual start-up neighborhoods.

It definitely makes a difference where in Berlin you stay. Jaywalking is highly localized and time depended. (The hilarious construction site crossing at Unter den Linden, which many are forced to walk for the lack of an operating U-Bahn is not the norm.)

The red light phases here are actually manageable to wait through, no comparison to feeling the you-shouldn't-even-think-about-walking-here attitude pedestrian traffic regulation radiates in most of the US.

The real equivalent to jaywalking is crossing the red lights by bike, if you opt to going by foot you're not in a hurry in the first place. And yes there are quite a lot of bikers out there, even in the current perpetual winter.

That said Hamburg's comparably long pedestrian red-light phases seem to be way more nerve-wracking to the average Berlin trained pedestrian than I ever imagined.
The problem isn't even with the original parties anymore, all of whom seem to be reasonable people. It's the mostly anonymous commentariat who are using the facts to support previously held intractable positions.
This is shocking to me. An entire generation of people have slipped through the cracks, and I had no idea this sort of disability-gaming was occurring. Is this common knowledge?

One reason SSDI has grown so much is because the rules changed in 1984; David Autor, who is quoted in the article, did an Econtalk interview about this: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/04/autor_on_disabi.htm... :

continuing disability reviews (CDR). So, previously a CDR was essentially a de novo evaluation of the case. In other words, you start from scratch and try to reach a new decision or not. Congress said: Well, now, CDR, to terminate someone based on a disability review you must prove that they have recovered from whatever state they were in at the time they were given benefits. So, if they were given benefits by mistake, that's not sufficient. They have to have recovered from whatever that state was to lose benefits. It really raised the bar for the SSA to administer any awards it had made.

The whole podcast is worth listening to, and Autor's work worth following, if you're interested in the issue.

Autor has also found that much of the growth comes from people in their 50s or older who don't have a high school degree—in other words, older people with few employment opportunities. In such circumstances, SSDI often looks like a better alternative than basically being forced out of the labor market.
I have to object this comment.

Previous life expectancy levels were based on poor public health levels and tended to be solved by improvements in public health. It is entirely reasonable to claim someone dying at fifty today is dying prematurely due being overworked.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy...

"Life expectancy increases with age as the individual
survives the higher mortality rates associated with
childhood. For instance, the table above listed life
expectancy at birth in Medieval Britain at 30. A male
member of the English aristocracy at the same period
could expect to live, having survived until the age of
21

1200-1300 C.E.: 43 years (to age 64)
1300-1400 C.E.: 34 years (to age 55)
(due to the impact of the Black Death)
1400-1500 C.E.: 48 years (to age 69)
1500-1550 C.E.: 50 years (to age 71)."
This would actually be extremely useful. Even a basic tagging system would make the site a lot more useful to me (though who gets to tag and whose tags get taken seriously would probably have to tie into the rep system, so it'd hinge largely on how interested the most active users here were in accurately tagging entries).
Innovations in Financial Technology: Wisdom of the Crowd
HTC One to be available in Germany next week
Putting someone in front of a computer gives them the freedom to google (true story: I used to do a paper exam, and then I found one person was googling when I was in the bathroom and left the guy unattended for a few minutes).

"Whiteboarding is a weird, artificial environment that's not going to represent the coder's natural behavior in the wild."

You don't use a whiteboard when you code? I love them. The whiteboard is a nice tool for doodling and free exploration. I used to print out code and write on it, but I found that process to be much slower than the whiteboard.
The problem is that simply saying that we should treat it as background noise is functionally indistinguishable from defending it. Bad behavior should be called out and discouraged.
What was the actual underlying correlation?
Great technology, but you guys will know a lot about my business and my users and I'd like to be convinced that you won't do ill with this data...not that I don't trust you, but it would be more comforting if you made your policy towards the information you collect more up-front and clear. But great job.
Ahhh....I think the two concepts (buyers market vs. talent shortage) are related.

It's a "Buyer's Market" right now for average talent. And honestly, most start-ups only need average (competent) talent.

But if you need above-average talent, there's a perpetual shortage. Speaking from experience (and I'm NOT a name you've likely heard of -- I'm just a generalist who is good at low-level through high-level code and API design and have a resume that reflects that), once I get through a technical interview with a company they usually are inclined to make a position for me, whether or not they previously had one available.

And by "usually" I mean that I've gotten a job offer from more than half the companies I've ever interviewed with. Feels like a Seller's Market to me, and has for 20 years (with the exception of the 6 months following 9/11 when most of the US was in shock).
I hope thats not some dystopian sales pitch for Soylent Glue.
Has anybody ever had a situation where someone left work for an extended period of time because of "stress" - and what did the employer do about it ?
Rant: MVPs and "Failed Ideas vs Failed Execution"
If I need a pencil to write something down, I don't want to give my email address to a company that says they are building a pencil and will let me know when I can buy it. I need a pencil now. I'll look elsewhere.

Quick rant on a problem I see far too often in the startup community. Startups take a decent idea, push out a hollow landing page or MVP, get bored/give up too early, and then pivot or start something else. This is then generally accepted as "it's been done before, and it failed", as if the idea itself failed - when the fact is that the piss-poor execution failed.
This is why I look negatively at MVPs and landing pages for non-existent products. While theoretically a smart way to gauge interest or spend the least amount of time failing, in practice they promote uncommitted, piss-poor, spoiled, ADD execution. If you know you're solving a problem, stick with it and iterate until it people like it.

So next time someone tells you "x has been done before many times, and it failed" - remember that decent ideas aren't what fail, it's the execution that fails.

Take a critical look at your idea (not your failed competitors) and move forward.
Author mentions that her action was probably an over-reaction -- which is where I stopped reading the article.
Wow, surprised that there's no comments here yet about the visual design of this page. I really enjoyed the long, scrollable page, with readable typography and just the right amount of flair with the headings. It's also a well implemented responsive design.

This type of long, scrollable design seems to be growing in popularity these days -- e.g. the NYTimes Tunnel Creek article [1] or AirBnB's annual report [2], and I think it's a good trend. Even though this NPR page has less special effects than those other two examples, it's still a fantastic reading experience, and I'll take it over a standard paginated article any day.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...
[2] https://www.airbnb.com/annual/
> It was a mistake to "release" Ember itself as a 1.0 before Ember.Data was ready.

I would only agree with that if ember.js were useless without ember-data or a similar data-persistence layer. I don't think it would be wise to delay the release of Ember 1.0 RC simply because ember-data is still in alpha. Not everyone is going to be using ember-data, and releasing ember without it lets them solve the data persistence on their own.
BTW I'd like to thank the guys at Zurb for producing Foundation. The whole Pinode site took less than 45 minutes to write, of which we spent about ten minutes on the design and the rest on the jokes. And we'd never done anything with Foundation before. Definitely a fantastic framework for putting a product site together quickly.
Comparing her to Kathy Sierra is insulting. Kathy Sierra was an innocent victim. Richards used her position to bully others.

Yes, the backlash is distasteful and disproportionate, but if you're the one gleefully lighting the fire you are not just the victim if you get burned yourself.
News from Anonymous - YourAnonNews prepares to host and fund its own site.
I like the cut of your jib, but most rules (including laws) exist to keep people in a state of fear.

The people in charge don't care if you transform yourself into a robot to cope with the fear, so long as they get their pound of flesh or whatever it was you promised in exchange for the job.
I remember Cas (the game's author) from waaaay back in the day on Java game programming forums. Always seemed like quite a character, but as far as I know he's been plugging away at indie game development for at least a decade. His company has a really slick asthetic. The games they make aren't really my cup of tea (genre-wise) but they look fantastic.

http://www.puppygames.net/
A specific logo design is as protected as any other original image you can create. That logo can contain words or shapes that are protected by trademark. They're not mutually exclusive protections.
My whole point is that the place in the design space a carrier with less spectrum is forced to compete from is less efficient than the place in the design space of a carrier with more spectrum. The carrier with less spectrum is forced to spend more capital on building cell sites, spend more money on operating costs for more numerous, smaller sites versus less numerous, larger sites, spend more money debugging inter-cell interference, etc, all just to match the other carrier in performance at a given capacity. The carrier with more spectrum has more capital tied up in spectrum holdings, but that's a totally non-depreciating capital asset that's by and large cheaper than network infrastructure to begin with.

And I'm not writing off T-Mobile based on their current spectrum position. I'm writing them off based on the trajectory. If T-Mobile has to burn more capital deploying an LTE network with much higher density to achieve similar performance, then they are going to have lower margins than VZN and AT&T. Lower margins means less capital for building out the N+1 generation system.

Of course this is all theoretically consistent with the status of wireless as a market that breeds natural monopolies. VZN has a spectrum edge right now that's moderate nationwide, but fairly substantial in many major cities. That edge in spectrum holdings means they can serve more customers at a given performance level for dollar of capital spent on infrastructure. That means when the next spectrum auction happens, they'll be able to acquire even more spectrum and enlarge their lead.
I'm a very generic white male with absolutely no real notability and because I have some degree of worth in a very small part of the internet I've had people threaten to drive to my apartment and beat me up because I did something they don't agree with -- they never do, but the threats happen. Entirely possible that Adria's gender or race contributed to this, but it definitely happens to white straight males too. You're looking at the wrong end, don't look at the victim, look at the aggressors: anonymity and distance is the cause. There will never be any recourse for those that threaten, so they'll do it until they're blue in the face.
Very good article. I have just one thing to add: If you don't tell me a salary range up front, I have absolutely no incentive to even talk to you. I have no desire to go through an entire interview process just so I can find out that you'll be offering me a salary that's $100,000 less than what I'm currently making. It would be a huge waste of both your time and mine.
My current company isn't very old and they start new projects in Perl all the time. I'm leaving in May to go freelance and my first contract is with a startup in London who's work is in Perl. I also know about http://www.nestoria.co.uk/, a very successful startup that's written in Perl. Still, these are anecdotes and not data.

I hear about new Perl companies and positions all the time, but given that I've found myself specializing in Perl and watching the market (since I'm going freelance), I might be seeing this more than most. That being said, everything I've seen about Perl suggests that the language's main issue is that it's been so successful that many competitors have arisen and taken some market share. (Of course, the language can be quite ugly at times, but I try to encapsulate the ugliness when I can, so most people don't see it in my code).
Dart has special data types for the VM. They clearly want to target the VM for fast applications that aren't very usable compiled to JavaScript.
You should check out http://www.northbranchmerchants.com/
Instagram game
New game based ontop of Instagram. Clever algorithm gives anyone a shot at being on the Leaderboard. (Not just Justin Bieber :P )
appleid.apple.com is where you go to set up 2-factor auth.
SimCity to License Blizzard's LocalServer Technology
Ugh. See, and if my mom asked that, I know she's looking for a barebones high-level explanation that she can grok, so I can be a bit fuzzy. But when an interviewer asks me that? I can't tell if they're just screening out the dummies, or if they actually want me to talk about packets and handshakes and DNS protocol.
> she's an attention starved cry-baby

From what I've read, petty much epitomizes everything I couldn't stand about dating in San Francisco. Too many self-absorbed, uptight, ultra-feminist, unattractive weirdo girls with a chip on their shoulders...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF2rq6WaC_4
What about testing your skills?

You completely skipped this somehow. When I was in charge of technical interviews at a large corp, we had complete morons come for interviews, that's after HR screening. Any one of them could breeze through your 10 steps, because they don't require any knowledge. Literally anybody can listen to your problems and have a free lunch at a Chinese buffet.
Right, the old "take it or leave it" proposition. But is it actually better for our society to have all of these people living on the street? Becoming homeless? Going to our emergency rooms for medical care? Or, better yet, forcing them to become dependents on the next generation for food, shelter, and (expensive) medical care?

Realistically, those are the alternatives. A large subset of people have insufficient education or qualifications for a desk job. And note that "being old" is itself likely to disqualify you from a lot of jobs.

Remember, this amounts to $13,000/yr, which hardly qualifies as a sinecure, and health insurance. Do you think they're likely to be able to get a job which includes health insurance? Because otherwise "get a job" is a non-starter.
Not only is the culture of anti-intellectualism to blame, but so is the prevailing culture of intellectualism. It is hardly feasible for the majority of the workforce to get a PhD or even a Masters, which is still the cultural baseline for work in many intellectual fields. With the rising costs of education, even a BS is out of the question for many people, and it is not even an appropriate choice for many who would otherwise be inclined to intellectual work. Until we have widespread acceptance and a proven track record for more non-traditional forms of education, the rest of the cultural change you describe will be stagnant at best.
And yet this article completely misses this:

> Then the internet erupted, as male developers saw one of their own attacked for something that just about every man can envision himself doing.

There were plenty of female developers that also expressed outrage, that also admitted to making similar jokes. The root cause of this entire debacle is that everything keeps being framed as a battle between all male developers vs a lone female developer.
Talking about anecdotal ITB observations, two weeks ago the streets around the travel trade fair at ICC looked like some 2nd row parked open air museum for diplomats car choices made in the eighties, with the number of exhibits in the triple digits (Not including the chauffeurs). That's not the norm :)
The original title of the op-ed was "How do I raise a boy not to be a rapist?" but I see that they've since changed it to "How do you talk to your son about rape?"
To clarify, the author is listing features that differentiate Yammer from twitter, which it started out as being most similar to (but a private, company / organization internal usage version of).

Unlike email, Yammer or other twitter-like platforms are ambient, one-to-many without demanding each person's attention, and length-limited. It's easy to put a message out without being interruptive, and get attention to it / responses from whoever's available. I find it pretty valuable.
This is a deal-breaker for me. I'm very interested in Heap, but an analytics tool that ignores (or breaks) a non-trivial percentage of my users is a non-starter.

I mention this because it looks like Heap devs are monitoring this thread--Heap addresses real problem for me that I'm willing to pay money to solve. Codegeek's post literally stopped the sale.