skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too late to edit my previous post, but I'd like to add:

When speaking in the general case, I think it's worth thinking about using gender-neutral language. The attitudes in the article that home improvement and all things handy are "manly" things are worth challenging, and using gender-neutral language is a simple step you can take.

The sentence "What ever happened to learning this stuff from good ol' dad, or your grandfather?" tacitly reinforces the idea that handiness is a man's skill because it is in line with that norm. Phrasing it in gender neutral language makes it clash against the norm, and that clash encourages the reader to pause for a moment, consider the norm, and possibly conclude that there's no inherent reason that a mother or grandmother couldn't be the handy parent. Or that both parents could be handy.

Why does this matter apart from political correctness (which I find obnoxious when it's for its own sake)? Getting over the idea that cooking is a woman's role or that repairing things is a man's role encourages people to pass on knowledge in ways that doesn't reinforce these traditional gender roles.

If a person lives their life without ever having these challenged, and then passes knowledge on to his or her children in a way that reflects the roles, the cycle continues for another generation. Then we have another group of boys who can't cook or sew and another group of girls who can't hang a picture or replace the fill valve in their toilet. If you think those are worthwhile skills for all people to have, please think of how your choice of nouns and pronouns reinforces or challenges the attitudes that lead to people deciding what to teach their children.

In case it matters to anybody, I'm a guy. I can cook, but my sewing skills are self-taught because (in my specific case) my mother didn't teach me. And obviously I didn't pick up on the gendered language before the edit window ran out. It isn't my intention to make you feel called out; rather, writing this was in part an exercise in figuring out for myself why it matters so that I might be more aware of my language in the future.
That's a valid concern but sensors and computing hardware is becoming so inexpensive it's possible to have two or more redudant systems that check each other's results before causing an action (or if one fails).

That is how the space shuttle's computers worked based on 1980s technology, I think there were six of them checking each other's results.
My implementation is currently based on a slightly modified version of JGit.
Yeah I like the flexibility of nodejs and thats the reason I want to try it. It seems too cumbersome to setup an IIS website etc just to try some simple stuff.

As far as ORM go EF is kind of OK but its not really mature even at its current release. IMO NHibernate is the way to go, and boy its a good way... There are also others that are even faster than NHibernate but its the most fully featured and easily extensible so I just love it
The perception and/or reality of safety.

Suburban flight in the US didn't occur until long after cars became ubiquitous. People had the means to move to suburbs for years but didn't do so en masse until the urban cores started to rot.

People moved out of cities when they became shitholes, and people stay out of cities out of a perception that they are shitholes. Said perception may be true or false depending on where you are.

There is also the issue that for people with families, many urban centers have in the past few decades reconstituted and cleaned up, but without the infrastructure that families are looking for: e.g., schools.

Suburban living is all about being safe from criminal hordes outside the gates - whether real or imagined.
meryn this is an opportunity for you to properly design a benchmark and write your own blog post.

EDIT: I meant to imply that most people who write benchmarks usually aren't experts in every language/framework in the comparison, so it would be nice to see someone who is competent in both .NET and in nodejs put together a benchmark.
Cost, I'm guessing. A studio apartment in Manhattan becomes a 5-bedroom house outside of the city. If you're willing to sit on NJ Transit or the LIRR for 3 hours a day, that is. (I don't see how self-driving cars are going to change commute times. There will still be traffic, and they'll still only go 60 miles an hour.)
Just to note that opening it up on Github doesn't necessarily entail a loss of control.
I don't see any claims of a "significant role" in that article. They show that these pesticides applied directly to the brain are damaging to the brain. But I didn't find any convincing claims that (a) these pesticides actually get transported to bees' brains in large quantities (they only talk about the amounts inside the entire body) and that (b) this is actually the primary reason and not just one of many contributing factors.
I am basing it on the influence a person's environment has on them. At the workplace or university, a person is more likely to encounter influential peers and mentors.

Telling me a developer is likely to get the same kind of experience working bit jobs as a contractor in high school as they are either doing the same while pursing a CS degree, or working in a development team is preposterous.

Edit: I just realised you're the OP. Add "gaining some maturity" to the things you'll get from the above.
Not really. At least here on HN there was very little sexist backlash, most just concluded that she was an asshole.
In other words, there are frequently cases in which IRS tries to take what does not belong to them? If so, it only proves the point that people are scared by IRS and it is IRS that spreads soul-killing FUD.
This benchmark makes no sense at all. Just a trolling of an official troll.
I doubt he, or I for that matter, would want to do work for you anyhow, so there's that as well. There are those who don't gauge the quality of a product by the number of buzz words the technology stack contains. You should re-evaluate your techno-elitism for your own sake.
They are using the ace editor: http://ace.ajax.org/

There's some bootstrap and other jazz, and obviously a server-side component to perform the LaTeX rendering
Actually, Hamburg and Bremen are likely to be the least successful states in Germany with the larger southern states (Bavaria, e.g.) usually taking the lead when it comes to economic strength and wealth. And while there might be some sort of engineering tradition, that doesn’t mean said tradition is a prerequisite to form a diverse economy.

The real lesson here is probably that, while size is not a sufficient prerequisite for economic stability, it might well be a necessary one.
Edit: properly moved the original as a reply to abraininavat.

On the topic of your post: I was (more or less) using effeminate to mean "not masculine", with maybe some connotative meaning thrown in. This seems to be standard usage based upon my extensive perusal of the copious amounts of information available at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/effeminate
Analysts are changing their minds about Apple
Its not only that. For me, Visual Studio, the best single piece of software ever made, should be made available too - which unfortunately probably ain't gonna happen. It just saves so much time and makes the process such a breeze, that it was what converted me to windows to begin with...
The article is also referring to the poor in third world countries living on less per day than either of us would spend on a pack - or a stick - of gum.

Raise someone's income from $237 a year to $500 a year and I'm not surprised there isn't a marked increase in "sin" consumption, because they're still living on peanuts even by those standards.. Raising someone's income from $15,000 to $20,000 is not the same thing and it's a much bigger assumption.
But GM crops aren't bee pollinated, they're wind pollinated.

There is so much GM hate by people who have only read or heard soundbites. My experience with GM crops has been that they have resulted in massively reduced levels of pesticide spraying (from an agricultural background) with the side Benicia thet the farmer saves money and insects are spared
Unless cellphones and microwaves were suddenly introduced in 2005 then that is rubbish.
Shippin’
That's fair. I shouldn't judge the entire community based on its loudest online members.

In any case, the sentiment in the article resonates with me, because it matches my anecdotal experience outside of online communities. I haven't seen the converse in the feminist community, but that's also anecdotal.
The opening details his father's expertise with all things home-repair related; his mother is mentioned (in an aside) as being able to use a saw and hammer.

Then you have the following (admittedly out of context):

> I looked on in horror as my foreman taunted my friend who seemed to be driving a nail for the first time in his life: "Aw, c'mon, sister! Why don't you just hit it with your purse?"

> Even if their own fathers were in the trades, my male clients, especially those who are younger than me, tend not to have worked alongside their dads, much less taken a shop class. They're more likely to have taken AP classes and played sports.

> While I must admit that part of me sometimes wants to say, "It's okay, little buddy, Daddy's here now,"

I should note: I do not think that he's arguing that lack of handyman skills is effeminate; as I said previously, he might not (probably does not?) believe this intellectually. The impression I get reading the article, however, is that he does believe it at an intellectual level. Obviously YMMV, etc.
This is great!

Left the tab open after opening - kept hearing that damn beeping sound!
Man, I feel daft for never hearing about this before. Thanks for the resources.
I think human driver overcompensating for braking ahead, and human reaction time creating traffic "waves" contributes significantly to traffic. (At least that's what I've heard).

Also self driving cars wouldn't need as much distance between cars to be able to stop safely so you could physically fit more cars on a given stretch of road.
I think people are giving the guy a much harder time than he deserves, but the praise of phpMyAdmin made me scoff. I hate that program.
Thanks! What are they using for the PDF viewer?
I must applaud today's teachers. As the parent of two young children (5 and 8), I was surprised by the pace of learning expected of kids today. The problem is that not all kids learn at the same speed due to several factors, most importantly in my opinion is parental involvement. I was very proud when my son showed exceptional aptitude for reading and above average ability in math very early on. However, this also exposed several issues with the regular public school system. Teachers and schools are evaluated (at least in Florida) by how much they improve standardized test scores year over year. The bi-product being teachers understandably feel compelled to spend the majority of their time focusing on the slower learners. My heart broke when my son repeatedly came to me and said he was bored in class and wanted to be more challenged. He was in kindergarten. His teacher was incredible, and truly cared for each student. She recognized that something needed to be done for my son and recommended that we have him tested for gifted or possibly find a school with programs for advanced children. The problem is that gifted programs in Florida do not officially start until second or third grade, and I cannot afford a private school.

My wife and I began searching for other options. Thankfully we found something that I don't think enough parents know about, a charter school. A charter school is a public school that has a separate board from the county school board. This allows them some freedoms in education that a regular public school cannot implement. Other differences include less funding from the county (for charter schools), required parent volunteer time (in the case of my kid's school, 20 hrs per family), and the inclusion of programs that are being cut from most public schools (art, PE, music, and Spanish).

The charter school my kids attend has individualized learning plans for each student. Basically at the beginning of the school year (as well as each quarter) teachers assess each student individually in reading, writing, and math. Students are then grouped within the classroom with other students of similar ability. This allows teachers to focus on each group and meet their educational needs rather than marginalizing the lesson for the entire class. Yes, this adds a lot of work to the teacher's everyday planning, but the benefits are tremendous. The kids learn to work together when they are not the current focus of the teacher, and teachers have a better pulse on each student. Fast learners are continually challenged, and slower learners are given more focused attention. Best of all, the students, teachers, and parents are all invested in the school.

Parents, be an advocate for your child's education. The regular public school system is broken in America, but there are options other than private school.
"Very little" is provably wrong.

All the threads had vile posts that were an embarrassment to the community.

Luckily the very worst (which also tended to be from very new accounts) tended to be downvoted to hellban status, but there were some deeply unpleasant comments that got voted up.
I have a TI-99/4A somewhere (perhaps in my in-law's basement) and I'm really tempted to dig it out. My first computer was a heavily modified ZX-81, but my first computer with a real keyboard was the TI. Both were amazing platforms for learning, and really the only downside was the use of a cassette recorder for storage. Anyway ... thanks for bringing back some great memories.

As an aside, the inductor isn't so much used to "tune" the frequency of the crystal as it is to make sure the crystal's impedance is matched properly. You can "pull" a crystal's frequency slightly, but you'll also notice the amplitude of the waveform drops significantly as you move away from it's natural resonance.
Your blog post was about a technical skill, bragging about your non-technical skills is not a rebuttal.
I don't really like this article, and I think it draws too many conclusions that are indefensible.

However, I do think there was a great deal of misogyny associated with one aspect of this entire debacle: the DDOS on SendGrid.

It's one thing to unleash outrage against Richards via social media (although posts threatening her with violence are disgusting and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law). But to take it to several levels of indirection and to target her employer with a DDOS to me is misogyny.

Where was the outrage and the DDOS on Playhaven for originally firing the developer? The Internet Mob completely forgot about Playhaven's role in this entire thing, and clearly focused on Richards and wanted her and everyone associated with her to pay on every level they could. If I remember correctly, there was a petition that was asking Playhaven to reinstate the fired developer. There were no violent tweets to Playhaven or the CEO, from my understanding. There was no such petition to fire or reprimand Richards, there was only threats of violence and a complete shutdown of her employer.
The entire border security force falls under the home ministry. They buy large amounts of defense equipment. Get your facts straight before making a mountain out of a molehill. Recommendations at that level are the same as endorsements - and are also necessary for deals to go through FYI the particular deal I spoke of did not go through.

There's no point arguing this as I'm not really trying to prove anything here. India's defense deals suffer from large amounts of corruption and there is no question about that.

To say that certain people are only attracted to certain kinds of corruption as your post says is almost laughable.

It's also strange that you just registered to say all of this on a hacking related forum. Makes me think of you as the same person as rikacomet. You certainly don't have any credibility.
Actually, that's not really 15 hours of programming a day.
This period is called "piscine" (swimming pool). That's the same "marathon" as the one you face when you're an epitech student.
During your first month at school, you'll learn, from scratch, how to use a UNIX shell and C programming by coding various things, such as some str*() functions and implement various functions for linked lists manipulation. If you've never programmed before, you may spend ~10 hours on this. Else it will just take a few hours. 15 hours is because some exercises can change at the last minute, just before the deadline which is around midnight every day (for example, at the last minute they may ask you to return 42 instead of 1 in some function, and the automated checking script will check whether you return the right value).
There seem to be a couple of these services popping up. This one (http://www.findexp.com/) services the Braves games at Turner Field in Atlanta. I can't really see more than one of these businesses taking off and I would think Ticketmaster would get involved if it proves lucrative (either by integrating it into their own app or acquiring one of these companies).
Serious thanks for releasing this - it's been great to work with and really enjoyable to use as an entire platform for auth. We integrated it with our own openID service but great to have the functionality there if we want to open it to other sign-ons. Are you expecting any major changes once OAuth2 is final?
There is no coincidence that suburban flight coincided with desegregation.
One thing I find confusing: is it git or Github support ? Because if it's git, you may want to change the logo. The octocat is representative of Github only.
Because they're cool. And they can play Parsec:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec_(video_game)
I had an idea for website called "Global Voices" (domain will be glblvcs.com) Users from all over the world will enter their email and subscribe to a micro-newsletter that comes out every Friday night. By entering their email they're also automatically entered into a "lottery".

There's already a popular project very similar to this called The Listserve.

http://thelistserve.com
Regarding the second entry, 'electric pair', I don't get it: Emacs has the amazing paredit. Working with paredit feels like semi-structural editing.

I'm always amazed by people complaining that getting parentheses matched is "hard" or some other non-sense: when using paredit not only is it trivial to get right, but it also does feel like being in some distant future where text editor will allow real structural editing.
I find all the framework comparisons or this technology vs. that technology somewhat interesting, but quite often useless in terms of decision making. Evaluating very specific routines and functionality of framework A vs. framework B is roughly equal to evaluating the performance of carburetors in two racecars. If the only thing I'm interested in is carburetor performance, then I doubt I'm going to win many races.

What comparison do I find useful? The one that incorporates everything my application must address -- db queries, page rendering, cpu activity, memory consumption, operations, maintenance, etc. Given that I need lots of things for my application, single-point comparisons just really don't provide me with much value.
Facebook Phone? Android Event Teased
The concept's been done before: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
If I had to guess, I'd say better public schools, less crime, and affordable houses (which also makes bigger houses more affordable as a side effect).
I couldn't agree with this more. In Rails, I'm used to using omniauth, and plugging in any number of provider gems that deal with the subtle differences between how Dropbox and LinkedIn and whatever implement OAuth...and having them all hook into whatever Rack based framework I use (Rails, Sinatra, etc)

Rauth is a good start, but without a library that couples it to a full web stack, I'm spending a lot of time hooking it into my flask app and trying to make sure I don't make mistakes managing my session variables, etc.

Perhaps I'll start up a rauth-providers repo to catalog this stuff.
When the top comment is from someone whose source of information is "his step dad, beekeeper", pointing out the problem as "the pesticides" (although which ones, amongst a broad array of substances, are not specified. All of them?), I'd say it's a very serious question.
Please tell me you are going to opensource / release this, this would be so awesome for some Minecraft Related projects i'm doing ( Gigantic PVP & RPG Servers ) I just can't go >600 Players w/o lag on a decent E3 Series.
pdf.js: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

NOTE: If you do decide to build your own thing, I think it would be cool if you could run LaTeX in the browser directly (I guess you could do this by building pdflatex with emscripten)
Agreed. It would be pretty evil to bind it to hovers on clickable elements.
I am, of course, over-generalizing. I don't see it as mocking me specifically... but honestly, this piece read very similarly to a class of articles / commentaries / whatever, that one commonly sees in the wild, that seem obsessed with asking white, male Americans (and related groups) to engage in pure self-deprecation, attribute everything good in their lives to "privilege" or luck, and feel no pride in their accomplishments.

Maybe it hits close to home for me, because while I was born in the US, as a male, in a marginally stable family (my parents didn't divorce until I was 16), I feel like I've overcome a tremendous amount of adversity nonetheless, and when people - who I expect are largely more prosperous, more affluent, etc. than I am - come out and start talking like I should be apologetic for my circumstances, I chafe at that a bit.

White? Yeah... "white trash". America? Yeah... North Carolina: rural North Carolina... very rural North Carolina. Family? Yeah... my dad dropped out of school in 8th grade, never really learned to read, worked back-breaking manual labor jobs his whole life, the majority of which kept him away from home for months at a time. I barely knew my dad as a kid, and we went through more than one period of being on food-stamps/welfare/etc. while he as between jobs... my mom had some mental health issues and threatened to kill herself not infrequently, and may have tried once. Etc., etc., etc.

Now, no matter how hard my childhood was, I know there are people who have it worse, even much worse, especially in 3rd world countries. And I am sympathetic and I do want to help make the world - as a whole - a better place, for them as well. But damnit, any insinuation that I had some sort of easy path to success by virtue of being white, male and American just rubs me the wrong way.

Like I said... "we all have our own cross to bear".

Oh, and I tend to take things too personally sometimes. :-)
I definitely think that Richards' actions were completely wrong in this incident.

But where was the outrage to Playhaven for actually firing the developer? Any rational person would recognize that Richards wasn't directly responsible for the actual firing of the developer. The fact that Playhaven escaped any sort of consequence for firing the guy based on a single tweet to me is telling.
Yes definitely. Due to the setup at my school kids were split into 3 groups from the year ~15 onward for math classes. Great. In the final year, for reasons beyond the scope of this post, the 3 groups were combined again.

I folded a vast number of paper planes during maths that year...

You really can't expect a teacher to stand in front of a class so diverse & expect results on all fronts. Its impossible.
My thoughts exactly. If you're going to declare something production ready, but don't have the nuts to call it 1.0, I don't believe you.

Maybe 0.6.1 just has a nice ring that 1.0 doesn't quite get.