skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's better to have too much detail than too little. At least it's trivial to strip away data if you want, but we can't add it back in if it wasn't there to begin with.

Also, it seems that sexual orientation has different spreads across genders (judging by other studies), which is why I added in gender.
E.O. Wilson is Wrong about Math and Science
Netflix Adds A Landing Page On Xbox To Feature Its Originals
I have to see it to believe it!
I understand how people could be not aware of this (most children's books don't cover the subject after all) and I can understand why it might make some people uncomfortable (although it does not make me uncomfortable, unfamilar things of can make people uncomfortable. I get that.)

What I, for the life of me, cannot understand is why someone, after being informed of it, would reject the notion entirely. Where does that come from? How does someone ascribe so much importance to the concept of a gender/sex binary? Just imagine if people reacted the same to the concept of political ideologies neither republican nor democrat... I cannot fathom it, nor any reason for it.
I'm sure some people are just crap hoarders. I've got a 128gb ssd and my data backup size for the last 30 years is about 12Gb including music and photos leaving the disk about 60Gb used.

1Tb? Never shall I fill one.
The only question is what are you legally? if you are legally a man then you are a man no matter what you think you are. If you are a woman , then likewise.
I'm fine with GNU echo being so much more robust, besides most of the time the shell's built-in echo is the one actually called.

echo --version vs /bin/echo --version

What I can't understand is the terrible malloc() implementation in glibc still being there after all these years.
How to Provoke National Unrest on Facebook
Gender as you define it does not exist. It's a completely made up concept. I don't have to accept that it exists just because you have a word for it. Only biological sex exists.
Why isn't echo allowed to use getopt(3) option parsing (as noted in a comment of some versions)?
How is this Arch's fault? The user did the same thing he/she normally does on Linode. This is a case where the Linode ops really understand Arch and everything just works (the 'linux' package isn't installed on the image) but the provide the latest kernels. On DO I also originally ran into this issue but support never gave a clear reason as to why, from digging around it appears to be with the 8139cp/too kernel modules (they don't load). It seems like some kind of version issue but I haven't had the time to play around with this more.
So, he does know some, but chooses to ignore them because why exactly?

My initial guess as to why was that a lot of type systems research seems to be more focused on systems that are only really accessible to other researchers (i.e. not usable by rank-and-file programmers).
Are they? "Male" and "Female" would usually refer to gender in this context.
I think scared is appropriate, inasmuch as it's a synonym for afraid. People want to choose a career they feel they can succeed in, and many women feel afraid that they can't succeed in tech, for a lot of reasons. Men feel it too, but being a minority in a field complicates things and probably makes it more likely for women to drop out or not choose tech as a career path in the first place.
You young tech geeks should look at this classic: Not just because the writing and acting were amazing, but you may get a kick out of the character Orac in the show who is a high level AI device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orac_(Blakes_7)
Yes, it is: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLine...
we seem to have stabilized at 7
Curious why each pad is limited to <18 users? Will firebase have a hard time syncing more than those users?
Basecamp Delivered is Headed to Atlanta
I spoke with someone in Grande's (competing ISP) network planning division and he explained that getting into new buildings downtown was very expensive / difficult given Austin's telco requirements (have to dig up streets, etc.). Is this also the case for Google's fiber layout, or is there any speculation that buildings (condo and apartment) downtown will see this service?
It's basically a brand new currency. Of course it hasn't settled down yet. It wont for a long time. Maybe the price it's being sold at is increasing so much, because they're worth a lot and they haven't reached as high as their stable value is going to yet?
You should be aware that a hefty percentage of software developers use OSX, I'd say 70% around here. They are easier to use for everyone, not just "people who don't know computers", and one of the best unix environments for development.

They are certainly (specially iOS) not aimed at people who like to spend hours messing with a thousand settings screens, buttons and checkboxes - self-proclaimed "power users".
No, I dont work for DO. I'm just using their VPS to do some testing and to compare it to Linode (I use both).
Source: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/snapshot-and-backup-...
This app is not available in my local iTunes Store. Does it perhaps only do US airports?
> The interesting thing is that linode started out as a cheaper alternative to slicehost

Linode have been around since 2003. I think Slicehost was founded later than this (in 2006 according to a quick search for their name.)
Are you willing to provide services for a BTC denominated amount?
More to the point, some confuse 'I never need this' with 'Nobody needs this' and jump from there to 'Anything that implements this is bloated'.
yeah, but they could access the tool all from their own mobile devices, with their own user accounts ;-)
That's right, you're not a 'provider', you're a 'relying party' - but you are unconditionally relying on the bootstrap mozilla service. You're not supposed to swap that out and rely on some other service, you're supposed to look at the assertion provided by the browser (or the javascript shim right now, while we bootstrap). Who you verify the assertion with depends on the user's email address.

So, if tomorrow Google added support for browserid to Gmail, and jo@gmail.com tries to log in to your website, he would claim to be jo@gmail.com and pass you an assertion to that effect. You need to check that with Gmail. Of course, Gmail being popular you've probably already checked the assertion of many people claiming to have Gmail logins, so you already have the Gmail key cached, and can verify the assertion without any http requests to anywhere.

Right now, Gmail does NOT implement browserid, so the assertion which you receive will be that jo@gmail.com is vouched for by the mozilla browserid service, so you will end up checking the URL you've hard coded.

But if it's hard coded we can't proceed to the next stage, which is the distributed promise of browserid. AND, it puts lets less pressure on the likes of Gmail to implement browserid because no one will be checking gmail.com/.well-known/browserid.
Quite a bit more difficult? Not at all. Maybe if you build your app like the iOS version. If you follow the guidelines and actually understand how the GUI works on Android, you only have to build it once and it works everywhere.
So much of it is Western culture. Here's one great example of another culture where women are not so much "welcomed" as they are just people - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HanselminutesPodcast203WomenIn...
can somebody explain to me why this is so much better than openid ?
Have some spare time for 50% ownership of a website (or 4)?
I guess their automated forward system regex-greps the IP out of the complaint email and then forwards the mail to the applicable customer(s), so this system actually is realtime.

Also, it places the burden of dealing with spam on the customer, so that the hoster doesn't have to do spam-filtering.
I'd rather not discuss my legal gender.

However, that doesn't state your gender definitively. Intersexed folks exist, people who were mistakenly mis-assigned gender by their genitals exist, and you can change your legal gender, at least where I live.
I would imagine it comes down to the POSIX definition and the need to echo everything but -n and not eat it.
Frankly, I find this "first world problem" kind of attitude insulting to the developing world. You want to know who is solving developing world problems every day? The citizens of those countries. I spent most of last year in Turkey, which is rapidly developing. The problems I saw that they faced were largely the same ones I'm facing in the valley. (Frankly, I think Istanbul is more hospitable toward the destitute than San Francisco!)

As to why most software developers aren't working on harder problems, however, is that harder problems usually require more up-front investment and require the investor to take more risk. Without a previous record of success, it is difficult to get that trust.

SpaceX and Tesla don't happen by someone without a track record. Be a little easier on those who are trying to establish one. :)
> What I can't understand is the terrible malloc() implementation in glibc still being there after all these years.

Now you can't lead off like that and not tell us what is so bad about it, and what I should use instead!
Why promote Yahoo!'s email service? They still don't use SSL after you are logged in right? Sending your plaintext session cookie over the net, allowing people in your coffee shop to hijack your email. Nobody should be encouraging people to keep or get Yahoo email accounts.
me too . is it a bad thing ? i dont know , would you assume i'm black ? you'd have no way to guess i am.
Thanks! I was surprised at how long it got, but hopefully the exercise is good for learning real-world SQL in general (beyond just the cohort use case). Would love requests for future posts topics if there's anything you want to learn.
BOOM! MANSPLAINED!
If you have a laptop with a optical disk drive, you can remove the drive and replace it with a second hard drive for backups alone. You can even make it a 1.5TB HDD and use something like Time Machine for multiple version backups that backup all the time. That way you don't have to carry anything.

Most of your billable hours would be saved that way. I also have an external HDD connected to my laptop dock that does automatic backups whenever I connect the laptop to it, and I have crashplan for 'offsite' backups. I don't use my second HDD in my laptop as a backup hard drive although.
It's also a legal minefield. There are a lot of people who'll feel they might have been unfairly overlooked in favour of the candidate with the [arguably] inferior resume due to sexism/racism etc, when actually the arguably inferior candidate came recommended/cheap/first.
In no way am I projecting a preference for everything should be free. I specifically said I was willing to pay, but per developer makes no sense to me at all.

I build a commercial product myself that I charge for.

My point is that per-developer licensing doesn't make sense on any level... just because "that's how people have always done it" doesn't make it a good idea and that type of pricing doesn't allow me to compare the cost to the value. Instead of thinking, this product is awesome and I can use it on my 5 sites for $X.. I have to think, ok I have 20 developers and 5 of them work on site A, 7 on site B and the rest float around so how many people would need to be developing with the library, etc etc.

Right? or am I missing something here and am crazy? which is entirely possible.
Yay yay yay! :)
I think he was referring to DigitalOcean, not Linode.
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> What if I told you that I find the term sausage fest offensive and it makes me feel unwelcome in this community?

If you said that, if you took that position, I would strongly recommend that you do what you can to ignore those kinds of feelings.

It's my belief that women have a natural place in science and technology, but caring too much about social trivia and language (as with the recent PyCon episode) represents a pointless diversion that can only hold women back.

Would you want to be treated by a doctor who fainted at the sight of blood? I think you would prefer one who didn't care about that, who looked beyond it to something more important like a diagnosis and a cure. By the same token, people in science and technology need to be able to look beyond the petty annoyances and focus their attention on more important things.

Wouldn't it be ironic and deplorable if history recorded that an entire generation of highly skilled women didn't enter the ranks of modern science and technology because they sometimes overheard ambiguous remarks about "dongles", "forking" and "sausages"?

To say this in the most concise way, what price sanctimony?
With the speed of SSD improvement, if you can afford to sit and wait, do so.
Part of the reason is standard options, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520962

Another part of the reason is that GNU code, historically, tried on purpose to look different at the source code level from other Unix systems, to reduce the possibility of accusations of illegal copying.
> (Frankly, I think Istanbul is more hospitable toward the destitute than San Francisco!)

That shouldn't be surprising, Zakat is one of the pillars of Islam...
Try tcmalloc.

Among the many problems with glibc's malloc (when I tested, anyway) is that it slows down considerably as soon as you start up a thread, even if you immediately shut it down.
I find the FreeBSD one more embarassing, to be honest. The GNU version just does a ton of annex stuff (hex handling, usage(), etc). I have no idea what the hell the FreeBSD one is trying to do.
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Transsexuality is a lie. Sticking a feather up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Good day!
Stupid. "This orange is a poor quality apple."
Yeah, I think if it makes sense for the site, you should focus more on making it fully crawlable. Generally, humans should be able to find all of your content, too.
Wasn't really my point.
GNU userland is more usable and complete. It's also occasionally a little gilded.

When working on Solaris or OS X, one of the first things I do is get the GNU utilities into my path ahead of native ones. That way, I get the same environment on all 4 platforms I use - Cygwin, Linux, OS X and Solaris.
He did say "OSX lately", and I agree. Snow Leopard was probably the best version of OS X, it's just been downhill from there. I don't want/care for things like Launchpad being in my OS.
If you hate red-light cameras, you’ll really hate speeding ticket robots
> if you are legally a man then you are a man no matter what you think you are.

Do you mean "legally a man", or "medically a man"? It is trivial to conceive of legal systems that fly in the face of what is plainly reality. The law can, and at various times and places has been, written by bigots and/or the uninformed. Who cares how it classifies things?

As for "medically a man", while it is possible to be "medically a man" or "medically a woman", for any reasonable definition of "medically", there are more than those two options.
Since people like storing stuff, capacity is often more important than boot speed.

I prefer capacity.
Accidental Empires, Chapter 10 — The Prophet [Apple 1980-1990]
If you want to give out your cure, then just give out your cure for free, without all the preamble and mystery. If you aren't just saying "the way to cure cystic fibrosis is XYZ" (whatever XYZ might be, even if it's 'ocean air and diet coke') then the rest is really just excuses.
There are multiple legal documents that can be used to establish sex or gender. What happens when a person's driver's license is in one sex and their passport in a different sex? Better yet, what happens when the person has an "X" as their passport gender?
Only if that one party is Republicans, apparently. California is currently run by Democrats and, lo and behold, now has a projected surplus.
I love this for so many reasons.
So because they're mentally ill, the whole rest of the world has to affirm their delusions?
Have you tested dropping or severely limiting the free plan?
> If North Korea scares you, then you really, really want to be scared.

North Korea isn't itself very scary. What is scary is the fact that over decades they have threatened to attack everyone around them, and the surrounding powers have responded by extending food and economic aid, in a repeating pattern. The North Koreans know this -- they know it works -- so they do it again and again, and their citizens remain captives of a throwback regime. That's what's scary.
Google Gets Competition: AT&T Announces Plans for 1Gbps Fiber in Austin, Texas
Hmm, so far I haven't experienced anything like this. /me crosses fingers.

How long ago was this?
I see what you mean now. I understand, but don't know how I could fix this. _Can_ this be fixed with the current state of Persona?

Specifically:

>Gmail key cached, and can verify the assertion without any http requests to anywhere.

Would love to read some example code if you have some. Thanks!
Even Google is using it ;)
Maybe it's complicated by the fact that many people transition after the point where they already have ideas or plans for their future careers. One woman I talked to actually transitioned in between getting a job offer at a major tech company and starting the job.

For the record, she said that everyone was really open and comfortable with it, and one of the first things her boss did was make sure that all her IDs and employee records were updated to reflect her actual gender identity, which was awesome.
yep I can recall after a year or so at my first job I was considered a bit flash because I used mixed case in my FORTRAN hollerith statements just made the prompts look nice on our PDP11's

In fact having basic prompts whit told the user what the next input was was an innovation I refactored some of the senior guys code to add prompts he was a bit sniffy.

"i know what to type when " which is ok for an experiment at 3 foot scale but scaled up to 1:1 where filling the rigs tank cost 20K (about 1/2 the cost of a house at the time) making sure you didn't blow a run was more important.
Go typically requires 2-4 times less code to do the same thing:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware
Hmm, I guess they could offer 2,4,10 packs to make the total cost reasonable.
Maybe you're referring to Internet access only, but the over-compressed picture quality on Uverse is horrible, especially compared to easily-obtained OTA in the Austin area.
EA voted worst company in America
Really? Rapes in India; North Korea generally; wars in the middle east; letting our own homeless and elderly starve or go cold; school massacres; Ponzi schemes destroying the retirement of countless people...

...all this, and making profit using public services is the epitome of evil to you?
The trick for great transitions and effects is that they should not be noticeable to the user. This can make or break a great app and at the end of the day this extra sugar should not be the main focus of the app rather help achieve the main purpose. I've seen a couple of apps that go overboard on this kind of effects and it distracts/annoys you.
>I am a cis female

actual female
Could not read it, for some reason the article refused to scroll on my Android browser (the standard one on Android 2.3.x).
Are Marvell controllers any good?

My old Marvell SATA controllers were dogshit.
> Git is faster

This is a bold claim, and depends on a lot of variables. On very large repos, git is completely unusable.
Maybe they're too smart to go into tech. Said (only half tongue in cheek) by a father of a smart daughter with no interest (so far) in tech. I don't think its solely parenting as my son is nuts for tech. And its not the lack of role model as I met the wife when she was in a Z80 assembly programming class, back when that tech was only somewhat obsolescent. Several years remain of copying mommy in all other ways, this is not a teen rebellion thing.
Not in London. I'm still on the Xeon L5630 after the migration.
This is going to be awesome, I feel lucky to live here (double lucky that my neighborhood is a prime target).

I'd love to connect with some hackers in KC to hear how Google Fiber has affected them. Does anyone have any resources about KC startups, what Google Fiber opens up, etc.?
Curious. I wonder how far back it goes.
Since when does "has more lines of code" equate to "poor quality"? This reeks of trolling, flagged.
There are definitely providers that give you that.

Checkout www.lowendtalk.com/.

BuyVM.net is also very reliable and competitive for what you get.
Twilio launches Multi-user support
I liked SL for it's stability and performance, but nothing changed much in my workflow after ML. Sandboxed apps are nice, now I don't have to worry about every download. Launchpad doesn't do anything unless you launch it, and it can be disabled.
It goes deeper than Zakat, but that is one element. I'd say that there are issues of shelter security that are solved through slums. As bad as they are made out to be, it is far superior to have a roof over one's head than no roof. Staples are much cheaper, allowing someone to survive on a minimal income. There isn't any restrictions on street sellers, allowing everyone to have a marginal job. The cost of labor is lower, which inhibits the automation and efficiency that we see here.

As Turkey gets wealthier, many of these problems will arise. Homelessness is truly a first world problem, for example.
They were of mixed generations; most in their 30s, and a few older than that.

If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say it had to do with the fact that most of them were from Asia. My gut feeling is that Latex has a bigger following in the "western" world than the "eastern" one. Again, wild conjecture on my part; especially since I have not yet spent any time in an Asian country myself.
I have a dream, that one day it will be rare to hold sexist perspectives like the one you just described. In my dream world, the importance of people feeling welcome is independent of that person's gender or that person's sex. I don't know what you meant to say, but what you said is that gender is among the things that you consider most important about participants, when deciding if their feelings matter.

The type of bigotry you just exhibited is way, way down the list of priorities. But most of the higher priorities are complicated and nuanced[0][1], but the thing you said is just straight-up wrong.

[0] E.g. affirmative action is complicated and nuanced.

[1] E.g. assuming a randomly-selected conventional-looking women at a tech convention is not a developer is... totally horrible, but also rational, given the distribution.
I cant understand why the poll was taken down! Maybe we can make another simpler one? Without gender? It may be a little oversimplifying but it would be more viable regarding the platform. The starting options could be: Gay (Gay male/ Lesbian), Straight, Bisexual, Asexual, Queer, Pansexual . ?
Not surprised at all that this translated to "...is not Plan 9" (I would've counted "was not written by DJB", too).

There seems to be some kind of computer nerd pecking order, similar to the "Trekkie->Larper->Furry" sequence. Lispers->Smalltalkers->Linuxers->9fans? (With Niklaus Wirth standing on the sideline, shaking his head)
Incompatible with the rest of the world is a pretty good, if non-standard, definition of "worse" in my book.
This is hilarious. "Just buy this other thing and other thing that needs more power and you have to plug in externally and add a a pound or two to your laptop bag instead of getting the internal part that does exactly what you need because I think you 'ruined' your purchase."

I just replaced the HDD in my MacBook with ANOTHER HDD. Did I just ruin your day?