skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking about the Federal Circuit specifically, but point taken.
The problem she described is a bit tougher to solve than simply saying, "don't hire booth babes." "[W]omen who are pretty but not models, dressed in normal street clothes" describes a pretty big percentage of the general population. Under her definition, "If you have 'booth babes' ..., I'm not going to buy your product" is essentially the same as saying "If you have women selling your product, I'm not going to buy it," which isn't exactly an enlightened position to take.

The problem the OP faced was that people at the conference were generally sorting people into the general categories of "technical and worth talking to" or "just trying to sell me something" and would make the Bayesian inference that a random woman they came across was in the latter category.

I can see two solutions here, neither of which is very good:

1) In order to promote gender equality, everyone at a conference should avoid judging people based on their gender. This would be ideal, but it's hard to fight casual statistical inference.

2) The conference could make sure that the people selling stuff at the booths and the people attending the conference have similar demographic profiles, so a random woman you encounter at the conference is as likely to be technical as a random man. In practice, though, this would mean preferential hiring of men for the promotional jobs.

Really, we need an option (3) of "get more women to be developers" but that's hardly news, and not something that can be solved in short order.
I think one of the key things Justin is doing while he's making this list is that just keeps asking, "How can I do this?" Turning all these tasks into questions of how, is a powerful short-circuit in your brain to get you to stop saying, "I can't do this."

Daniel Pink's latest book To Sell is Human helped brings up another interesting aspect of this. He highlights a study in the book where people were able to get more things, I believe it was puzzles, accomplished when they got themselves into a questioning mindset.
And my several years of experience that involved hiring actors and models tell me that there is an endless supply of pretty people of either gender happy to wear a variety of outfits.
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Show HN: An Amazing Site Made with Classic ASP
To start, this is my first post on Hacker News and I'm very happy to be here with you.

I'd like to present a project to HN that I've been working on for a little over a year now. The site's server-side code was written completely in Classic ASP. The site's feature set was selected entirely based on user feedback. And this is the result:

http://www.ep1x.com

Some of the more interesting features I've been able to custom program are as follows:

+ Automated and scalable contests.
+ Proprietary currency.
+ Store to spend currency in.
+ Stripe payment integration to collect store's shipping costs.
+ Bookmarklet to make posting images fast and easy.
+ Twitter-like social networking tools and user profiles.
+ Responsive site design.
+ Commenting and reply system.
+ Voting/Ranking system.
+ EXIF data scraper.
+ Multiple color themes.
+ Custom browsing, sorting, and filtering.
+ A ton of other stuff...

I'd love for HN to provide feedback and ask me questions about the development. I'm also trying to get more people to contribute images because that's what makes the site have value. If I could get only 10-20 people to regularly post images, then the site could entertain tens of thousands of people per day.

Thanks for checking out Ep1x and I look forward to your comments :]

Kevin Bikhazi
Agreed, I'm overdue for my 50,000 mile check up.
I had the same sort of thought. What are they thinking will happen here? I mean it would be great if this actually pushes the customer service issue into an action but that doesn't seem to be part of their "core competencies" to use some last century marketing speak.
really love this quote!
> In my mind, this is similar to an antivirus company saying "hey look at all these nasty viruses out there, but we find and destroy them effectively."

I'd upvote such an article if it had the technical depth/layman readability of a Cloudflare puff piece.
I think the major source of OPs discomfort at the conference was that she is surrounding herself with gamers. I'm just saying gamers spend time playing video games they could be spending interacting with other human beings, going out. Two things that many gamers significantly undervalue. So they get weird.

I mean I don't really know how else to put it. No group of grown ups standing around at a conference would notice the number of "booth babes" and then get upset. Something which happened to gamers a little while ago.

So a bunch of pretty girls who probably didn't like being there in those places very much to begin with lost their jobs. The hyper insecurity of attendees at these conferences and previously mentioned "weirdness" are contributors. Many, from my research of the opposition to "booth babes" are insecure that they are not regarded as adults due to "booth babes" being around. Even some people in this thread have stated that they don't like being marketed to as knuckle draggers.

Well. The gaming industry is largely populated by adolescents, that is why the marketing that is chosen gets chosen. If they were adult enough to not mind the presence of "booth babes" and just enjoy themselves at the conferences, investigating the technologies they are interested in things could be a lot better.

But they're not. Things are weird. Interactions are stressful and now marketers need to awkwardly conceal their attempts at marketing.
This we here time to time from these successful people. Is it safe to assume that, justin carries around a notebook with 100s of small tasks and executes them one by one ? I always wonder if these people talk about breaking tasks as small as possible then what kind of system do they use ? I can not imagine using todolist app or something like evernote for this kind of huge projects.
Straight up Lie. Talking with Google Engineers, and Amazon Engineers they say this is not happening. So unless someone picked a fight with CF, it is more likely CF is just having a bad day.
Hi Rob, I just sent you an email regarding this. Thanks so much!
I understand it would not have been necessary, but I think this would have been a good opportunity to put one of those self-driving cars to use. Lots of potential obstacles and the (not really a concern) health risk factor.
Lexcycle got acquired and murdered.
Also, many of the issues that the OP touched are serious that need to be addressed by the community (i.e. sexism). Discussing this issues doesn't make us negative people, is just that those are real problems that need to be solved.
Oh I agree on the ROR. I was addressing the silly notion that there is anything remotely hard about finding he-babes to do promotional work. If you are going to say, screw any moral considerations, I am just going to do what's best for my bottom line, that's fine... it's the dishonesty that I find distasteful.
Account creation by email was the reason I started a Posterous blog, then they moved away from that focus.
Really, Google?
You had to kill the Gmail Compose page?

I value single-tasking.

There is nothing more distracting than an open email inbox.

Sometimes I have a thought I need to communicate. Sometimes it takes me a while. Sometimes it takes concentration.

That is why I had your Gmail Compose page bookmarked. I could go straight to a platform to communicate my thought without running into the biggest distraction available.

Will someone please, please, please make a reasonable Gmail facsimile that I can pay for, so that I don't have to put up with these arbitrary changes? First the "new look"... now the dead compose page... what next? Why does Gmail keep fixing things that are not broken?
By my count Javascript is around 5 years older than amd64. If we had gone with native client back then we'd be stuck with pre-SSE x86 or maybe they'd have been forward-looking and gone with Alpha or Itanium with emulation for "legacy" systems.

Also, why the false choice between asm.js and NaCl anyway? The article makes a pretty compelling case for "neither".
It seems more correct to say:
"You may achieve anything you set your mind to"
rather than:
"You can achieve anything you set your mind to."

Many people have set their mind to things and failed. Many have done so and succeeded.

Either case is clearly better than being overwhelmed into motionless atrophy.
Everything is so pristine and untouched. If it were the US, it would have all been looted and graffitied long ago. But I'm afraid by publishing the condition of his town through Google Maps, the mayor has pretty much assured it won't stay pristine very long. Japan has its share of thieves and vandals too.

Plus hordes of amateur photographers and urban explorers will be trying to sneak into the place, radiation or not.
>It has been discussed but there is no plan as far as I know [for a latency free, precise GC]. It has been estimated that it would take months (probably a year) before a usable version would come out (if someone works on the subject of course).

That's the best Google can do?

I'd take old time SUN any day...
It's even more frustrating than that, currently, because when you finish a Kindle book, it asks if you want to tweet about it or post it on Facebook. I don't, but I very much want to post my rating of it to Goodreads, and that isn't currently an option.

This fixes a big hole that a lot of people (at least, a lot of people on Goodreads) have been clamoring for.

Definitely an obviously good acquisition.
Indeed, it's important to look not just at the average performance and performance extremes, but also the distribution of performance.

Standard deviation helps with this. Also, often times looking at the latency at the 50, 90, and 99th percentiles is valuable as you can see events that would make your users unhappy. They're a very tangible series of metrics.
How to build an adventure game staring Wheaton, Pirillo & NixiePixel.
Nobody's talking about Shelfari, which hasn't changed since 2008 when Amazon acquired it. It got frozen in time.
This guys card is black is that good?

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Namie+town,+Fukushima+Prefect...
You might like workflowy (https://workflowy.com/).
I would rather have a talkative, witty, intelligent person at a vendor booth as opposed to an attractive, non-talkative, non-witty, non-intelligent man, but perhaps that's just me.
Now if Amazon will just buy LibraryThing and Discogs I can beam my obsessive library catalog consciousness up into the Amazon mothership.
Hmmn. It's just an odds game isn't it?

Our sales guy came to a conference and between the talks was desperate for people to talk about something other than code, anything else. And everyone seemed happy to oblige once aware.

Seems to me like these are just examples of people taking branch prediction optimisations.
I'm thinking those bikes & the VW beetle will be the first to go...
So no more software patents? Or at least no more cryptography patents?
This would overturn every video/audio/data compression patent. Every Encryption Patent. It would over turn every Google Search Ranking Patent. It would limit patents to physical things.

Under that system even many physical devices would not be patent-able. The math that goes in to Battery charging optimization. Silicon Chips would not be able to patent XOR, NOR, OR, Gate logic.

This judge doesn't have the authority to make such changes to patent law.
I know this is a very sensitive topic given the language chauvinism that is prevalent in India. There are at least two villages which speak Sanskrit (just Google it). It was definitely the case that there were more speakers of Sanskrit (Vedic+Classical) and people who have Sanskrit as their mother tongue. People sort of resort to gymnastics to deny the obvious. As long as there are people speaking a language natively and people genuinely interested in it, I don't think you can call that language dead. But I agree, Sanskrit speakers are on the decline and it is a bad thing.

http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&b...

But surprisingly, today in Mangalore, there is one unique family where all the members are using Sanskrit as their mother tongue and they all interact with each other in this language only. Seems highly improbable but nevertheless, it is true.

I think one reason for the decline is that you need to be pretty intelligent to learn Sanskrit (vs say Tamil or English). I sort of feel that the human race itself was more smart a few thousand years ago. (See http://rt.com/usa/news/intelligence-stanford-years-fragile-5...)
We've talked about versioning, and I think feature detection is probably the best approach. If the user agent publishes a list of supported asm.js features via a standard query mechanism (note that this is a feature list, not browser detection) -- e.g., ASM.SIMD === true -- then apps can negotiate content accordingly. This might entail compiling multiple versions of your codebase for various versions of asm.js, but that's an acceptable price to pay for VM evolution, IMO.
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I work with Python but mainly with light statistics (numpy, scipy, pandas and some other libs), SAS is used to work with large datasets (mainly because that's the policy of the bank I work).

I do not work with CFD anymore, 5 years ago I left the field and returned to Brazil, CUDA/OpenCL was just a promise back them, it was fast but no one had included the technology in their solvers.

The problem for CFD is that generally some simulations could take weeks to run, using python here would just add some more weeks just because of the overhead that the language have, if time or energy consumption is a problem people would just stay with what they have right now, for small stuff people use whatever they want (and I used Python back then, these days they use OpenFoam), for performance it will be C, Fortran or C++ compiled with the best optimizing compilers for at least a decade more. In these large problems data transportation and storage was a big problem.

Generally people use C++ these days, Fortran is only important in old codebases (although Coarray Fortran was a buzzword just like CUDA when I left the field).
There are a lot of tree/subtask todo apps, although I don't know of one exactly like you listed. Perhaps try Nozbe? http://www.nozbe.com/tour/
Current asm.js is just for C/C++.

I think that's a dangerous way of putting it. Asm.js is just a spec and can (and ought to) be emitted by things other than Emscripten.
> The probability of a marriage surviving also decreases in a relatively linear fashion.

How did you arrive at this conclusion? Looking at the rates, it is definitely far greater than linear, indeed the 5 year survival point from point X is constantly increasing (81% survival first 5 years; 90% years 15-20). Also bear in mind that "survival" includes not dying, which might throw inferring divorce rates off by a few percent at 20+ years.

Extrapolating to 25 years, you'd get a 49.5% divorce rate.

Again, demographics must be accounted for. Almost the entire audience here is in the higher education demographic which has radically lower divorce rates; you're looking at sub-30% divorce rates.
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That gives me an interesting idea. Do you think it could be feasible to mine ore from space and then drop-ship it to some low-depth (a few hundred feet at most) part of the ocean? The heat from re-entry would likely turn the metal into a molten blob, and the sea water would rapidly cool it.
They are 40% of the way there with LibraryThing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibraryThing
Honestly? Wikipedia has a decent overview.

The tl;dr versions:

Story: A story is literally a story about what you would like your project to do: "I want to be able to find and read news", for example on HN. That's what they call items entered into pivotal.

Use case: One way someone might use your project to accomplish a task. "I would like to reply to an email" for example.

Acceptance test: A test, manual or automated, that is the criteria for whether something is acceptable for a given use case

deliver: There's a button, it says deliver, you click it. Usually means making something available for testing

deploy: Put your project onto a server where other people can use it

unit test: An automated test that tests a very small amount of code, a 'unit', and is used for making sure that unit works correctly. C.f. acceptance tests above, which test a much larger amount than one 'unit'. An example would be a test that tests one function, one method, or one line of code.
Why Fox News is less to blame for polarised politics than you think
Open Access places like PLOS, BMC journals, still cost a sh*t load to publish (~$2000). Michael Eisen and the likes just found a new way to make moneys. If any of these dudes are in the business of science and not making money, they would charge no more than $500 per article.
Wasn't at a booth, and I'm not very comfortable with the solution to this problem being "dress differently."

Also, lots of gentlemen are highly trained to keep their eyes up so they aren't accused of staring at boobs. I'm not sure if any of them would read my shirt anyway.
Show HN: Redstone, a distributed Minecraft server that runs on Node.js
US PTO inducts Bob Moog to Inventors' Hall of Fame
It's a shame that Amazon didn't invest in creating a Kindle API rather than buying an existing service. I built http://kindred.it to load up my highlights via xpath because I was so frustrated with the kindle.amazon.com UI - it seems they could benefit much more from creating an API and letting great services be built rather than acquiring what will likely be Shelfari mkII.
I agree that your DNA is a big integer , but I don't agree that you're just a number. A number alone is meaningless. The data contained in an MP3 or JPEG alone is meaningless without an interpreter that converts that data to a song or an image. Similarly, the data of your DNA is meaningless without an interpreter that converts that data into a human being.

So we're not just the data in our DNA. We are both our DNA data and the biological processes required to read that data, parse the information, and construct every part of ourselves (hat tip to mom for the initial power supply).

I think it's a valuable introspection to consider that the data set used to build each of us is representable by an integer, but we should not fall into the trap of believe that that is all we are.
In a perfect world I would like to see this problem solved, and would have posted a solution if I knew one. I am super eager to hear solutions.
> Scan the Internet for PG backed applications, identify high profile ones, prepare automatic scripts, etc.

it rather works like:

- take exploit

- spread it over the whole internet and calls home where it sticks
It implements oauth 2.0 draft 16. http://www.slideshare.net/jace/user-management-with-lastuser

It's not complicated to break down the UI as you need it.
Alan Turing did that already; see his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem.
There won't be identical treatment efficacy, because cancer treatments work better the earlier they are started. Early diagnosis is not a data problem, it is an inherent part of why the U.S. gets good results fighting cancer.
> attempting to browse the modern web with a
> 90s browser is futile

I think the inverse is what we're talking about. Will we be able to browse NaCl sites in future browsers (possibly after an architecture change away from x86)? As it stands, we would probably be able to browse a 90's site on modern browsers.

It sounds like if NaCl compiles things down to ASM x86 (or really AMD64) (?). If that's true, then it's possible for things to not be forward compatible. I'll admit that it doesn't seem likely, especially after what happened with Itanium and AMD64/x86-64, but we could see things move towards ARM.
Show HN: Instant for Asana - a faster, easier way to access your tasks.
>I think you're mixing two things up: the rich start out just like us... they went to college, got a job worked their way up

No, they didn't. Some famous outliers did it, but the idea of the rich starting from the bottom like everybody else is more myth and "American dream" than reality.

Most of the super rich had money for several generations. You also don't much get to hear a lot about them, as they don't run companies personally.
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I wonder if this might be leading toward an eventual merging of Gmail into Google+. They both already have very similar chat functionality. Such a merging might not suit Google Apps users very well, though.
Thank God, we can finally implement cryptography without worrying about being sued! Well probably not. Or something. All software is math anyway, but I doubt that courts will care about that detail.
Besides Apple, I see Readmill [1] as another serious competitor. It provides the social integration on top of an ebook reader. However it's lacking in its catalog selection.

[1] http://readmill.com
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I use Workflowy exactly for this purpose, to reflect in data the mental process I was talking about in the original post.
I commented earlier that I thought I recorded this aircraft at night on (1/13/13), people already bashed me saying this aircraft has only flown 2 times blah, blah, blah... (ever hear of military testing? They don't tell the public)

Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3VqiPhsnMM&feature=youtu...

Why do I think it is same aircraft? When reading the OP article I immediately identified the artists night time rendering as the same aircraft I recorded in the video (video quality does not do it justice, but in person I can verify it looked identical to the artist rendering). Separately, the aircraft I recorded is by far the fastest thing I have ever seen, not in some UFO conspiracy way, but that I fly aircraft, attend airshows (F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18), saw Space Shuttles land (breaks sound barrier at low altitude) and I can saw I have never seen anything move as fast as the aircraft in my video.
Earlier this year I was billed twice in the Play Store. I emailed customer service, and they replied and removed the charge in about an hour. I also purchased a Nexus 4 on launch day, and none of my interactions with customer service were particularly unpleasant. Granted, others may have had different experiences, but I'm not sure why it has become so trendy to mock Google's customer service.
> I think the inverse is what we're talking about. Will we be able to browse NaCl sites in future browsers (possibly after an architecture change away from x86)? As it stands, we would probably be able to browse a 90's site on modern browsers.

Given PNaCL, the answer should be 'yes'.
What happened to other social reading sites like Shelfari that got acquired by Amazon?

Amazon has a strong motive to prevent any alternate review service from gaining traction as those Amazon reviews drive sales.
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Generally by the time you are working on a truly giant project, you are using project management software to coordinate all the minor todos of each individual (and you have already gone through the process of breaking the larger tasks down into bite-sized pieces). This post was more a reflection of how I tackle initial, seemingly insurmountable problems at the individual level.

In order to manage this personally, I use Workflowy (http://workflowy.com), which is a good semantic representation of nested to-do lists, which is essentially what you are creating for this process. Yes, my Workflowy contains hundreds of small tasks. They aren't necessarily executed in order.
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