skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story went a bit further than "attempts to bring people's attention". As it is pretty clear by now, Richards is a crusader, repeatedly blowing things out of proportion and raising big controversy out of most mundane things, and in this case it cost somebody his job. So while indeed she did nothing nothing comparable to death threats and other such filth, something more that "attempt to bring attention" did happen.
I am curious if anyone could comment on what QC could mean in terms of AI/NLP.
A Subaru Impreza is considered a small car ?????? It's more than 4.3 meters long !

I have a Renault Twingo (3.4 meters long), and before that I had a Maruti 800 (3.2 meters long).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twingo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maruti_800

That's what I consider a small car :) . My father had a Fiat 600 (the original one), and now has a Suzuki Maruti Alto/A-Star

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Alto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_600

The current best-selling car in Uruguay is the chinese-made Chery QQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chery_QQ
It is. I paused/deactivated AdBlock and it worked perfectly.
I always assumed we call it the "grandma test" because by the time it matters grandpa's probably already dead.
I am trying not to get personal here, but you are guilty of just the sort of discussion that I find both embarrassing and narrow minded.

By narrow minded I mean you are deliberately cherry picking individual points out of context and trying to imply something negative or even the opposite of the original post.

For example you say:

> " a part of you would be quite happy if you never saw a female in tech again. Even a sane and moderate person can see in this post a suggestion that you would like to see women actively driven out of tech - all because you are offended about Adria Richards."

Yet you very conveniently skip over the part where I say "a bigger part of me would love to see more women in tech".

You are also putting words in my mouth. Nowhere do I express an opinion about Adria Richards herself.

You say other things as well but I am not going to defend myself any further or hijack this thread more than I already have.
sounds really exciting, keep up the great work!
Show HN: Retina Icons for Caffeine (weekend project)
Caffeine is the one app that doesn't fit the icon style in my OSX menu bar so, over the weekend I made new icons to match the style and to make it retina-ready.
Is it just me, or are half the resources (i.e., slides for most lectures) missing?
Ideas are cheap, execution is key
In the US -- there is no "minimum amount when authorities check bank accounts" -- they can't legally do that. You are required to report all income to the IRS regardless of source and it's generally not a good idea to mix personal and business accounts. An LLC, EIN and bank account take about 1 hours worth of paperwork and you're generally set to start exploring the business side of an idea.
The pejorative implication is that it applies to someone whose tastes/fashions are outside the mainstream merely for the sake of being outside the mainstream.

There's a further implication that those tastes are just as much a result of groupthink as the mainstream tastes.
Don't forget mergers. I spoke about this problem recently at Matt Turck's Big Data Meetup (http://vimeo.com/60598560). Quantopian provides zipline powered backtesting over fully adjusted intra-day data (minute bars) for free.
There's more i wanted to say.
Make your case and stick to the strongest point and strongest point only. Do not answer to any question momentarily, even to the easiest ones - make pause, thnk 5..10 seconds, then answer. Stick to that pause. Never lie. Answer only yes or no answers - yes i did, no i did not. Never ever ever, under any circumstances answer yes, but or no, but. Never. Again, never hurry. Do not settle. Those kind of cases are built to bully you to settle. Even judge will press you to settle at some point. Do not settle, see it through. Keep your plan. Write it down. Stick to it. And you will be fine.
To my knowledge, PyLadies has not engaged in discrimination. It isn't discrimination to make groups which encourage minorities to code or get involved in the Python community or whatever.

Men are not being hurt by the existence of PyLadies in any way.
As a group seeking to give women a safe and comfortable entry into tech, I can't imagine any scenario in which supporting PyLadies would add to the problem. It may bring more women into tech who are then the subject of such misogyny, which is a depressing thought but would hopefully continue to force the issue into the public eye.

More women in tech is a win for everyone — including employers. To be swayed from helping a cause like this because of negative social repercussions signifies, to me, a desire to hop on the bandwagon as opposed to a true desire to get women in tech and fight to ensure they are seen as equals.
I'd be interested in seeing an automatic deploy script for this service to teraform a new dedicated server instance.
Not really. I can't hold onto my poker chips from a casino for 10-20 years and have a reasonable expectation of the chips themselves increasing in value. With stocks (or better yet, an index fund), I can.
> Users of this build of Firefox must directly interact with a site or company for a cookie to be installed on their machine.

There are not many users that don't interact with google. While I don't expect the chrome team to add this to their feature list (even as optional), if they did, it would not really hurt google. It would actually hurt all the other "smaller" players.
Oh boy. Bit of overgeneralizing in that article.

First, if you have direct reports, especially if they are mangers, odds-are that you don't have a team. You are a middle manager. I conclude you're not a team because you're having special meetings to communicate, instead of letting communication happen organically (because you are already working informally in close physical proximity)

In this case, if you don't have a team, you need one. So follow all that advice in the article. Plus there's a bunch more advice about creating a team that you should find and follow.

But if you have a team, you need to separate two things: the failed promise of performance from one of your team members, and the underlying reasons this might be happening.

You should absolutely hold people publicly accountable for the things they have committed to doing. Invite the team as a whole to own the problem instead of just one person. Many heads are better than one. The team is a tremendously-powerful problem-solving machine. Give them this problem to see what they can come up with.

However -- and this is a big caveat -- people might be missing commitments for reasons they do not want to share publicly. They may have a health problem. They may be having domestic problems in their marriage. They may have a private issue which prevents them from doing well in a certain type of work.

In this case, after publicly acknowledging that there is a performance problem with the team (which should probably happen on a continuous basis until the team either adapts or it gets fixed) you absolutely should comfort and counsel your friend offline in these other areas, assuming your conversation is welcome. And this counseling will probably consist of reminding your friend that either this obstacle is overcome or their relationship with the team could terminate.
China High-Speed Rail Nears 10,000 Kilometers, Plans To Expand to 50,000 By 2020
I have found it is convenient to use RequireJS's shim features to load libraries that use AMD rather than looking for AMD versions. For example, we use MathJax off their CDN and they do not provide an AMD version.
... Steve Jobs did it, when he ordered all remaining air transportation way back when and blocked everyone else from using it. It may have been before the iPod.

Tim Cook is a bit of a logistics genius as well.
The notion that you will get laid because you bought a $160 suit is about as dishonest as it gets.
Do not heed this post. Under no circumstances should you take it public before it's seen a courtroom unless you have been advised to do so by a competent lawyer.

(It is no-true-Scotsman territory to note that no competent lawyer would ever do this. It is also accurate.)
Seriously, you're an idiot. If you escalate to violence the only thing you will achieve is that on top of being sued for whatever he's being sued for right now he's going to:

First, maybe he is an idiot, maybe he isn't, but I definitely don't think it is fair for his comment to be discounted as highly as it is, as quickly.

(1) hand a very large trump card or a free victory to the plaintiff in the other suit

I am no lawyer, but I doubt highly that a physical altercation will change the facts of the original lawsuit, so your assumption here seems false.

(2) quite possibly end up with a record to boot,

quite possible, but that record will stand as a message to future hostile parties. I'm not saying that's always good, it may prevent him from getting a job somewhere, etc., or it may not.

Violence is rarely the answer, but to be so flippant and assume it never is and say "you're an idiot" is really misunderstanding the power dynamic.

In America, the punishment for violence is high relative to the value in almost all cases but there are definitely situations where being a violent aggressor will payoff. I'm not advocating it here, in this case, or any other, but taking that option off the table completely is immature and shows a lack of understanding of how the real world can work.

To support my claim, I'll give an example of where violence was used effectively against me.

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1) I had a car repainted when in high school (it has a lot of random damage and I needed to prevent it from rusting.)

2) I negotiated with an independent body shop

3) I had it repainted

4) They didn't do as good of a job as they described.

5) I came back to the body shop, my car was not there, one of the workers had taken it out on a beer run. He came back with the car and he was still drunk.

6) I confronted him in a professional but frustrated manor.

7) His coworker threatened me.

8) I realized I wasn't going to fight this guy without a weapon and decided to back down and just drop it.

The threat of violence worked for him and his coworker. Without it, they had zero negotiating room and the driver would have likely been fired. Could I have gone to the police? Maybe, but they likely wouldn't have done anything.
But a request is still a request. It might not make sense to include referer data in the case you mentioned but that does not mean every cros request will fit that description.
Assuming you mean 16 feet (not inches), the barrel can be intact but that does not mean you have a working gun.

The firing mechanism on a gun that size is incredibly complicated and bulky, and would be easy to disable by removing, locking, and/or welding key parts.
"Hipster" is basically just an insult. There is no group of people who calls themselves "hipsters", and in fact nobody agrees on who exactly the hipsters are. A tattooed bike messenger might insult a heavily bearded, Carhartts-wearing beer brewer for being a hipster, who might in turn mock the girl with the heavy glasses and the polka-dotted dress who works as a barista and spends her weekends digging through thrift shops for being a hipster, and she might then laugh at the couple down the street with the Subaru and the chicken coop in their back yard for being hipsters, and they might groan when they see the bike messenger and his friends at their local bar and complain about how all the hipsters have taken over. None of these people would think of themselves as hipsters, but someone two states away might refer to them all as hipsters when making fun of the neighborhood they all live in.
I would think it's relatively easy to swap in refined data after the fact. The attraction here is the process to consume the data.
I only saw 1 idiot (sans the online ones). Who were the other 2?
Hi! Thanks so much for your support.

Our recording is currently still in beta right now, but we're coding so fast that are hands our virtually bleeding. We're looking to continually improve this feature and one of the long term goals solutions we see for this is WebRTC which should be very exciting. Keep on following up and we'll be sure to have more updates soon!
Thank you, ersii. I was wondering why my karma ticked down.
Well, so easy a caveman can do it!

Except the product will also looks like it's designed by a caveman.. :D
But pretty cool for the everyday idea man out there
Why the hate? at least they are doing something..

They are hiring people and allowing them to share their work in the opensource space, whats bad about it?

PS: i'm a Brazillian too
Does anyone know what Chrome does for 1st party vs. 3rd party cookies? Are they doing this too yet?
Yeah (interdictor or ikilled007 from lj)
Yeah you are right. But it's so good to have 'Pickles' in products. And you can't stop adding more and more.
No retailer pays manufacturer-direct prices. Retailers pay wholesale prices, which are usually 1/2 to 1/3 (or even less!) of the manufacturer-direct price. The substantial discount reflects that the retailer takes on the bulk of the risk associated with marketing and actually selling the apparel.
Yes, yahoo finance prices can be quite messy and sometimes even wrong for the reasons you mention. I wanted the code to be portable so that's why I used them.

We have the same strategy on Quantopian though (https://www.quantopian.com/posts/olmar-implementation-fixed-...) where we have 10 years of minutely data, adjusted for splits and dividends. It seems to do quite well.
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> The problem that HBR misses here is making the issue "about Ted" rather than "missing the deadline."

I disagree; I think HBR makes the issue "about the team's working relationships and accountabilities to each other". The only way I can think to effectively discuss such things is with concrete, timely examples.

The problem with TFA, in my opinion, is that it tells the manager the first steps to take towards exploring these issues, but doesn't give enough guidance to help them navigate & facilitate the discussion (which is definitely of the high-risk / high-reward type).
Seed Finance Survey 2012
I have a question if you care to answer. I was watching "Overview and Introduction to Lisp" (link below.) I was struck by the idea of a function taking a function as input and transforming it to another function as output. My only experience with something similar is JavaScript, but the idea of a function doing function transforms is new to me. Is this the fundamental thing to understand about Functional Programming?

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
The State Monad isn't really mutating state though, it's really a monad for composition of incremental operations upon immutable data structures. The ST monad is for 'hiding' mutable variables and ensuring their state doesn't violate referential transparency.
Chrome will probably never make this the default, unfortunately. But, this is an option in Chrome.

Settings > Show Advanced > Privacy > Content settings... > Block third-party cookies and site data.

It's not exactly obvious, of course. :-)
The way I read it, all their money in the second largest bank (above EUR 100K) is on hold, until all the loans, and investments are unwounded. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/25/cyprus-resolution-... No one really knows how much they'll get back. That's a lot of uncertainty, they essentially screwed one bank's customers over and sent the insured accounts to another.
Apparently sharing a joke with a friend now qualifies you as an "idiot".
... and it did not occur in the workplace. SendGrid is not and should not be responsible for what happens at PyCon.
PyLadies are pretty cool, they host some amazing events! Thanks for the free food last year @pycon!
I wouldn't consider counter-suing in this case to be the dark side. In fact, it may be the best way to get legal representation with little out-of-pocket spend, since the lawyer could work off a percentage of the potential damages.
That's not clear at all. I highly recommend reading this essay for a more careful look at what Richards has actually done by way of promoting gender equality rather than what her detractors (both civil and hateful) are saying about her:

http://www.technologywoman.com/2013/03/24/digging-beneath-th...

What is clear is that a huge number of people who thought it was totally unacceptable for Richards to identify inappropriate behaviour at a conference in the manner she did (or, according to some people, at all) have been silent or supportive about the massive and sustained outpouring of hatred, rage, vulgar insults and detailed threats of rape, bodily harm and murder that Richards has faced since then.

Indeed, the GP comment actually equated what Richards did with what has since been done to her (the word "equally" has since been edited out), and an earlier posted reply by the same user (reply since deleted) suggested that since no one has actually raped or murdered anyone, there is no harm other than the firing.

I really don't know what to say to someone who doesn't see the harm in a full-spectrum blizzard of abuse, hatred and threats - not only to the direct target but also to any other woman who is unsure how to respond when she sees or experiences something inappropriate.

More perspectives:

Courtney Stanton, A Woman Walks Into A Tech Conference http://www.buzzfeed.com/courtneystanton/a-woman-walks-into-a...

Sarah Milstein, I Have a Few Things to Say About Adria http://www.dogsandshoes.com/2013/03/adria.html

Matt LeMay, On PyCon http://mattlemay.tumblr.com/post/46004653389/on-pycon
From 2009: No Flickr iPhone App? That's Lame. [See Flickr's Response]
For hosting tea parties at my summer home, silly!
>> Have you ever been sued by your startup?

Yes I have been in exactly the same situation.

Went all the way, they filed every possible paper they could file, but they did not succeed. Based on your description, I don't think that in your case it was actually filed yet (correct me if I'm wrong). In some cases they will just try to scary you, but if you don't break - they won't file. If they do - well, find a good lawyer (somebody already mentioned Grellas here).

Right now the first thing that you should do is go and talk to SEVERAL lawyers. Find the ones that have free initial consultation, spend 30 minutes with them, they will tell you what your options are. If there's a possibility for a counter suit - you should probably do that.

Also, read your employment agreement several times. In a lot of cases there's a statement that the defeated party will pay attorney's fees. In a lot of cases there is a statement that the company will pay all the fees except first $100-$500. And in a lot of cases the case must be filed with the arbitration, which is much cheaper and if you don't have money to pay for your lawyer - you might have a better chance there.
How can you publish an article on hipsters without covering Austin or Portland?
Air Freight is used extensively by Zara.
You CAN stop, it's just very difficult to hold back and deny your product the latest and greatest when you're already at full-speed :)
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I have to admit I have been using transparency more lately. It is great when you are quoting something or trying to duplicate a ui in html.

Granted, it is much more heavily used in screenshots than it is anything else. :)
the picture changes every half-hour. Someone put together a gif of all the frames here[1].

[1]: http://primis.org/time/output.gif
You're quite right. The ‘accident’ of 80 comes from the ability of a typewriter to space into what were usually margins.
Sadly, TermKit is pretty much in hibernation due to too much criticism:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/137kd9/18_month...
Subtyping isn't just for the benefit of Java compatibility. What makes you think that?

Such arguments are in general hand-wavy and born out of folklore or personal biases and I hate to appeal to the popularity argument, but in the presence of overwhelming popularity of languages that do have type-systems with subtyping, you do need at least some sort of proof that subtyping is bad in one way or another. Even GHC has extensions for subtyping, without being burdened with Java compatibility.

And what are you comparing Scala with exactly?

If you're comparing it with Clojure or other LISPs, well that's like comparing apples to oranges, because there's a world of difference between techniques used in static languages like Haskell/ML and Scala on one hand and LISPs on the other. "flatMap" in particular is not something that you see often in Clojure. You don't quite see many instances of monadic types in languages like Clojure either. Scala's Option[T] or Haskell's Maybe are impractical in Clojure so you'll never see it in Clojure unless you're looking at code that was written by a Haskell developer. Etc...

Compared to Haskell, Scala does have some disadvantages, however even if you're learning it for learning's sake, it's easier to get started in Scala because of the ecosystem ... you've got everything, including capable IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and people that complain about SBT never tried Cabal, plus with the JVM you can always use Maven or just plain Jars manually copied in a directory.
Don't Let Best Practices Kill your Project
And this is why I contacted Hackbright Academy about being a mentor for their program. Anyone else who feels like this should consider doing the same.
I was going to email you but you don't have contact info in your profile.

Small tip: Please change the link that the logo on that top of your blog goes to. The self reference to blog.hwatermarquee.com is silly and pointless. Change it to www.watermarquee.com so folks can easily get from your blog to your actual site (without having to click the "give it a try" link... which scares me because I assume it's going to dump me off at a form to signup rather than the site for more info.)
The three people directly involved came out looking pretty good to me. The companies who started firing people and the horrifying online mobs that followed were the only parties I'd classify as 'idiots'.
yeah, for now you can not scroll down... I will add this request to the list of issues ;-) thanks for the feedback!
Is it compliant with HTML standards to have
input type="framebase"?
I like Xamarin's products. I am currently involved in a Xamarin.Mac project and I definitely prefer coding with C# over Obj-C. It's a very nice combo of having things like LINQ, nullables, properties, etc and yet you're still truly coding against/with Cocoa. You can't use Xamarin's products without first having at least a working knowledge of Apple's tech.

My reservation is the cost. I bought MonoTouch when it was first released and wrote a game for the iPad with it[1]. If I wanted to release that game now though, I'd have to re-buy MonoTouch, which doesn't sit well with me. But if you're not a hobbyest then the cost is pretty irrelevant IMO.

[1]https://github.com/city41/optix
Open DNS Resolver Project
How to make Chrome understand the SASS/SCSS in your rails app
Uh... no. All you have shown is that it is within human nature to do something you don't want to do because you are being forced to (because you fear being killed or being beaten, or because you are desperately trying to survive).
Their blog post indicates they're trying to go beyond that, to include social media content:

"We want to experiment with and add value to the sources of information that are increasingly important, but difficult to surface and organize in most reader applications — like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, or Hacker News. We likely won’t get everything we want into v1, but we believe it’s worth exploring."
It is my understanding that Google uses separate domains like doubleclick.net for serving ads, not google.com, so they won't gain any particular advantage there. Of course, that could change.