skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do avoid saying this about a woman, about, say, Marissa Mayer, present CEO at Yahoo. Her personal and professional lives are rightly evaluated separately.

They aren't, though. When she announced the "no remote working rule" she was criticised for having babycare facilities next to her office, allowing her to care for her child at work. And it was a valid criticism- she was subjecting her employees to conditions that she insulated herself from.

If you are evaluating a person as a whole (which the article is), you can't ignore their personal life without also losing a lot of important context.

Think about what you're saying. I hope by now you are aware that women rightly object to this kind of mixing of the personal and professional

I think they object to being unfairly singled out on that basis, not that people shouldn't ever take someone's personal life into account in general.
AFAIK no. If the drive hasn't been unlocked with the proper keys it just refuses any reads/writes.
"Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days"
http://abstrusegoose.com/249
This is the single most frustrating thing I experience when I freelance from time to time. It is also the reason I don't use that thread.

I am often willing to give decent sized discounts for people who communicate well. I'll take the cut in pay for someone who is courteous and responds in a somewhat quickly manner. I should NOT be more excited and engaged about your project than you are. It has gotten to the point lately I will turn down sizable jobs because of their lack of communication. It isn't worth the hassle.
Don't forget Florida!

130,000 people are expected to immigrate to Austin in the next 2 years. Insane!
Go 1.1 Function Calls
Also a quick win (ironically), don't use the .io extension unless you're actively targeting the indian ocean territory because Google doesn't include it in it's list of Generic TLDs.

See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
New Look, New Purchase Flow in Google Play
But is it better than your dad not going to Mars and instead being able to work on your parents marriage?

-Also a child of divorce
I'd like to meet the person who would buy a book titled "Teach yourself computer programming in 10 years."
Amazing how drastically things can change in a couple months. This is an interview with the founder two months ago, http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/02/18/5-minutes-...

"We see so much growth that we’ll be past 100 million users in the next two years. There’s such a huge shift from desktop to mobile that the potential for growth is unlimited."
What does "medically a man" means ? I mean one undergoes a re-assignement because one wants to change its legal status right ? now in my home country however (France) , I dont think there is a third option , but you can legally change your sex. And that's fine.
AT&T Counters Google Fiber In Austin. Offers 1 GBPS fiber
I spent a lot of time trying to give it out for free. People are not interested and it gets me very ugly personal attacks. I don't mind helping people but the degree to which people are ugly is a genuine issue, and not of the "my feelings are hurt" variety. I am fairly thick-skinned. And because no one will engage me in discussion, I am unable at this time to move forward on figuring out how to effectively communicate what I have done. That is a non-trivial issue which I cannot solve in a vacuum. So you are basically being an asshole to me over this, which is hardly new. Your remarks amount to an unfounded and unwarranted personal attack and contain zero helpful, problem-solving value.
I hope that at least 1/2 of this money goes to making videos that feature Jason's signature end-of-video "Creeper Smile"

I've never met him, but I love that guy!
Just checked, you can now enable SSL, but by default it is not enabled. No doubt most people don't have it on. Therefore, Yahoo is still an insecure email service.
> Users don't want programs to be consistent, they want them to do what they want them to do.

That comment nails it.
Ok, thanks for the honest feedback. I'll do better next time.
I started at 12 with C++, then I went over to 13 and learnt some Python, then I learnt Lisp at 16 and that's when I started to actually learn programming.

I know this sounds like a "lel Lisp is superior to your blub lang" but it's more of a "I actually went past procedural programming and stupid OO with Lisp and it felt like I finally actually knew something about the stuff I did".

Dunno why I'm typing this out though, oh what the heck, posting it anyway.
>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

Except that quite a bit has gone on in haskell, and is in practical real world use right now.
Social media = productivity? Recent research says yes
what plugin do people use for highlighting brackets and parentheses? the default underline mode is faint and not very helpful. i have heard of one or two, but i'm curious to hear what people on HN use. thanks!
This shit again? And this time with such a bullshit title...

GNU echo simply does a lot more than the other echo implementations. And believe me it's much more useful in daily usage. That's why the GNU tools are so successful. All the minimal (often broken) utilities you had to use on commercial Unices were no fun. So everybody installed the GNU stuff.

I use -e and -n options of GNU echo regularly. Even if

echo "foo\nbar" | remove-trailing-space | expand-escape-sequence

would be the "UNIX way" of doing it.

The only thing of poor quality here is the submission title!
Baltimore, MD; Reston, VA; Austin, TX - Videology - FULL TIME, INTERN, CONTRACTOR (H1B maybe if already in US)

Videology Group - http://www.videologygroup.com/

Internet advertising startup looking primarily for server-side Java developers (if your Java is rusty but you're good, drop us a note anyway). I was working for a start-up called LucidMedia Networks, which got acquired by Videology. The Baltimore office is a .NET shop, but the Reston office is Java on *nix (Mac for dev, Linux in production, and no plans to use Microsoft anything for development). Our stack is Java on Spring with MySQL and some NoSQL stores on AWS. We have some big projects in the works involving big data and volume as we scale globally and across mediums (video, mobile, etc.). Currently, our Reston platform alone handles 4 billion ad requests a day.

Contact me directly at sahil_lmn@yahoo.com.

I actually got hired through a HN "Who is Hiring" thread, and I hired an intern through these threads (using user name sahil_lmn previously). These things do work!
We will probably try restricting/modifying the free plan over time. For better or for worse we are easing into the payment stuff.
I would have thought this is just because Java forces you to catch most exceptions. It's only the RuntimeException subclasses (which includes NullPointerException) that are unchecked. And a good deal of those are quite obscure. I really wouldn't expect to see many occurrences of FileSystemAlreadyExistsException or MalformedParameterizedTypeException.

There are also the Error classes (including OutOfMemoryError) that wouldn't automatically be caught, but there aren't many likely candidates there either.
> No, healthy sites should not have 30-50% search traffic.

I'd argue this really depends on what type of set you're running (and what the purpose is).
There's also a sexual orientation poll going on now [1]. It's been killed [2], so no more comments, but voting still works.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520651

[2] I have no idea why
I agree there are certainly other models that would make sense, given that this is probably a library that's going to be incorporated as part of a larger project rather than a standalone piece of software for in-house use.

It seems reasonable to have a predictable price up-front, particularly one that can be transferred to a client as part of an overall project budget if necessary.

It also seems reasonable to have a more transparent level of scalability. Something like per-domain pricing might make a lot of sense as an approximation of buying it once for each project where it'll be used.

I suspect a commercial project like this is mostly going to be used by larger organisations who aren't going to sneeze at real money, because there are too many good-enough alternatives for the little guys. That being the case, if you want to allow for increasing value as a project grows, you could do something like per-(public-facing)-server instead of per-developer and just make as many in-house machines as you want free.

That might be awkward with cloud-based projects that activate and deactivate instances on the fly, so maybe just band it "$x for up to n public servers/instances at once", "$y for up to m public servers/instances at once", "for more servers/instances contact us for special rates".

Licensing is always a mess, unfortunately. I think the best you can ever do is probably to present something that is clear in what is covered, realistic in what it costs, and reasonably consistent/predictable.
Possibly Tichy is a vegan.
Another hostile meme environment: "icanhazcheezburger"
Lean canvas meets social enterprise - please comment on our first cut
Kansas's Self-Destruct Button: A Bill to Outlaw Sustainability
> 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.

That's circular. It tries to say that women are a minority in tech because they drop out in larger numbers than men, because ... they're a minority. I don't this logic stands up under scrutiny.

The remedy is not to care about that. If I had to choose between being scared and having a boring life in which my gifts weren't fully exercised -- well, that would be much more scary. So even if we compare scary things, as I see it, being a member of a minority is rather low on the scary list.
Awesome upgrade.

I did notice though after the migration (512->1024 Dallas) I'm now on a node with the older CPUs (model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5630 @ 2.13GHz ) as opposed to the E5-2670s mentioned in the blog March 18th.
Interesting question. So if I use this to display site metrics for me and my team, is that a commercial use? I'm not selling that service but in that example I would be using it to provide a visual indication of how the site is doing which helps me do my job.

Generally pricing isn't particularly challenging, people exchange money for perceived value so identify the value that you add and charge for that.

So places where you might be adding value;

developer training - A common source of value and one which a lot of non-community FOSS members appreciate. So folks who aren't part of the community or know much about anything find it valuable to have someone who will answer their stupid questions in a timely fashion without insulting them. That could certainly be charged on a per-developer level and annually.

data-hoisting - (see what I did there? clever huh?) basically there is value in getting your data from X hosted on Y. So lets say I periodically scrape all of the stock prices for the DJIA and want to provide an interactive chart for that. A data hoisting service would provide a repository for post-processed and chart friendly data. You can price that with visualization support almost on a contract basis.

custom visualizations - there will be people of course who want to visualize something in a way which is unique, consulting services for them can be quite valuable.

ad-sponsored charts - something between hoisting and foisting but there are charts that people "check" very often (like the 5 day weather forecast, or the traffic delays on various freeways). You can certainly create pages which display visualizations of these and also are "sponsored" by an advertiser. The trades of bit coins for example, rent prices by zip codes, basically changing data sets of interest to both a number of people and to people who would like to advertise to people interested in that data.
The benefits over a spinning disk are in no way insignificant. You might not see them, but they exist. I am at 80% utilization of a 512GB SSD in my rMBP, so any new capacity is welcome.
That's the only question in a legal context; it's not clear why that would be the only question (or one at all) in social contexts.

Your comment seems to suggest that you don't realize that one's legal gender status can and often does follow one's gender identity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_transsexualism
Wow, that sounds like... Microsoft. What happened to Google?
I think some of it is background, some of it is knowledge, some of it is time to acclimate to new knowledge, and some is Cognitive Inflexibility (https://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/why-conservative-f... and http://mprcenter.org/blog/2008/11/06/media-framing-conservat... ).
It wasn't really that complicated! Gender does matter when it comes to sexual orientation as I believe more women identify as "non straight" than men. I did worry that I wasn't being inclusive enough, but didn't want it to get too long.

What was interesting, is that there's 20% non-straight guys, which is 4-5 times higher than the general population. This is really interesting to me.

I think it got flagged to death because it came across as backlash, which it wasn't.
Great stuff from a great Waterloo team!
I'm using BracketHighlighter.
Can someone explain to me the opposition to red light cameras? I don't get the problem with giving people who break the law fines for it, but maybe I haven't looked at it the right way.
I'm not a doctor, nor do I really do any sort of gender studies research as a hobby, so I do not know what "medically" would mean in this context. What I do know is that "legally" is basically worthless.
Scientific applications. Large data sets. Huge databases. Samples for musicians.

However, I think the most important reason for me is my huge collection of Steam games. Currently I have Steam installed on a HDD instead of my SSD, because my SSD is only 256GB and Steam is over 800GB. Heh. :P
This is pretty cool, but $300 is a lot to pay, even for commercial use. There are a lot of free client-side charting projects out there. Charts.js was a recent one on HN: http://www.chartjs.org/

While this new one does offer interaction between charts, that wouldn't be too hard to add into other existing free projects that have event systems to hook into.

I'd say $50 - $99 would make it more worthwhile.
-- snip --

Now, Apple pessimism is even stronger. No matter what they release and no matter how well it sells, they won’t win over the press, the pundits, the stock market, or the rhetoric. Not this year. They could release a revolutionary 60-inch 4K TV for $99 with built-in nanobots to assemble and dispense free smartwatches, and people would complain that it should cost $49 and the nanobots aren’t open enough.

-- snip --

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

"You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
By exaggerating, misrepresenting, or just completely fabricating someone's argument, it's much easier to present your own position as being reasonable, but this kind of dishonesty serves to undermine honest rational debate."
I hope you're kidding. Describing an explanation as a mansplanation can only isolate women. I hope you recognize that there is often no meaningful distinction between solidarity and isolation.
Lots of countries have speed cameras which are fairly automated. In the UK they tend to be placed in areas of frequent accidents (where speeding is definitely dangerous) and trigger at around 10% over the speed limit.

Rather than use algorithms to assess the general traffic speed, why not just have sensible speed limits?
Looks interesting. Might try it for the incoming interview sessions.
A big drawback for me is that I can't use my browser's back button after opening the page because the history is flooded.
In exchange for "butchering" the connector, the drive is significantly smaller. As an rMBP owner, I feel that that's a perfectly cromulent trade-off to make. Somebody has to be first; since Apple is invested in improving their hardware in ways unconstrained by the requirements of "bolt 'em together" OEMs, it makes perfect sense to me.
Take the Pessimist's View
The cable modems my company provides has built in 2.4ghz, and the company has full admin rights to the modems local admin interface (the customer does not)...
Oh well, another machine reboot. :) Still, need to wait, "Your position is 272 out of 293" :D
Is it really that simple to raise 12 million dollars of funding - for a company which can be destroyed pretty much overnight by Apple. Do the investors not think about this? The world really has gone mad.
Mostly OT grammar nerd musings:

I use male singular pronouns for people whose sex I'm not aware of because English male singular pronouns are actually also its neuter singular pronouns (I believe this is true for several other major languages, as well). Hence, for a noun that has gender, but whose gender is unknown, the correct pronoun is "he", rather than some silly construction such as "he/she" or the at worst flagrantly incorrect, at best vastly confusing singular "they". (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Universa...)

"One" is also a reasonable alternative, though its odd construction means it can't be used as a drop-in replacement, and it can often sound awkward, overly formal, or antiquated.

When political correctness became a big deal, people bent over backwards to avoid using "he" as a gender-neutral pronoun, overcorrecting so much that they forgot that "he" isn't necessarily masculine (the universal "he" started losing favor in the 1960s). It was similar to the guy that got fired for saying "niggardly" (a synonym for stingy) because it sounds like "nigger", despite the fact that the similarities are meaningless and entirely coincidental.

Depending on how PC the crowd is, I'll sometimes use one of the incorrect constructions to avoid ill-placed ire.

Interestingly, Baltimore primary school students have started using "yo" as a neutral third person singular (http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-yo-pronoun.aspx - Warning: autoplaying audio ads, and a fullscreen ad that covers the page on load). While I don't like "yo" for purely subjective reasons, it is an interesting linguistic development.

EDIT: fixed the spelling of "niggardly". Thanks, jcromartie.
If the user consents to receiving special deals or time limited sale announcements, I don't see the harm. But Apple's TOS seems at best capricious and unevenly applied. I'd like to see them pull Southwest or another popular brand who offers announcements of sales. By that token, they might as well pull Twitter, Mail, and other apps, since they all have the potential for pushing advertisements of time limited sales.
Which, unfortunately would cost another $20 a month (+ $5 a month extra for each additional site with SSL).
I think it's a better example of flawed analogy, but it's still an entertaining anecdote.
Google App Engine 1.7.7 Released
Actually, they don't "need" to because they don't have any competition. Why invest (which is always a risk) when you can continue to rake in profits by doing nothing?
Wow - about ~2 years ago we had to convince Comcast not to give us a /29! At least they could be convinced - AT&T couldn't.
But who uses echo(1) anyway? It's not portable. Code quality aside, that much should be obvious from this gist.

Use printf(1) instead.
Ahh, the old "let's compare ourselves to third world nations so we look good".

That's about as useful as comparing a sporting team to the one that always finishes bottom of the ladder... it just confirms you're doing fine, when in fact you are not.

What I was saying was, in the context of a developed nation like The United States, using public money for private profit is evil, and if it were not done, the average standard of living would increase and poverty (which is an enormous problem in the US) would decrease.

In the context of a first world country, doing that is very evil.
But being scared isn't necessarily the reason for the ratio. The fact that the ratio exists isn't itself an argument for a particular explanation.
The people might by friendly, but aren't the taxes quite high? Last I read, the state+federal together added up to almost 50%.
The books that don't claim to teach you in 24 hours/21 days/etc are the 'teach yourself in 10 years' books :)
IDF is tomorrow; they should give an SSD roadmap update. My impression is that Intel is getting out of the consumer SSD market.
Petition: Pass a global wealth cap of $1 billion per US citizen
Well polished everywhere and looks great, but... is there really a demand for this?...
Hmmm, I'll have to check out the iPhone app. I have not tried the Harmony -- very hard to spend that kind of money on a remote that my kids will be throwing around :)
If you're looking for a free tool to analyze your site for titles/descriptions/broken links/etc, Screaming Frog SEO is great.
bear in mind that Google has acknowledged that keywords in URLs "help a little"

Actually, Google released an EMD update[1] in order to fix that issue.

[1] https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/251784203597910016
> It's quite a bit more difficult to develop apps for Android, since the ecosystem is so fragmented and there are many different device types to take into account.

Bullshit. As someone who develops for Android, this is nothing more than FUD thrown around by Apple fans/developers. Unless you're making a game or something, fragmentation is absolutely not an issue anymore.
Maybe it's just the luck of which rep sets up your account. I wouldn't presume that they ever look at the form or decline a request.
What You Should Know About California’s Retroactive Tax on SMB Investors
Good overview of this backwards tax rule.
Is this actually an issue? I'm very doubtful.
I'm still of the opinion that "gender" should refer to the grammatical concept alone, and this new usage should get its own word. It irks me even more when people use it as a synonym for "sex".

But I'm pretty lonely in that opinion.
You think I'm wrong but you wholeheartedly agree? Funny. Every situation is unique but bottom line: you can't receive content without a connection. Most apps NEED a connection to function. So an error message "No Connection, Retry?" is both common and expected behavior.
Highcharts isn't free either, at least for commercial use.
It is a saying, I mean he will not be remembered as a present and attention giving father.
I bet Chromebook Pixel and Surface Pro users would love it too...
Nice. Between Jetstrap, Divshot, and Easel, there's no shortage of WYSIWYG Bootstrap apps. The question is which one will offer the best options for creating code for an actual dynamic website. I.e. it would be great to use something to do all the design of Rails site, but it seems like it would involve a lot of copying and pasting.
In my case, it's because my gender is not important to my identity and the constant harping about "women in tech" means that people pay way too much attention to my gender. I'm just another person!
I love you, too, BrainScraps! I made this for you: http://i.imgur.com/xNOzWJz.jpg
So a combat veteran born with a penis, but who lost it in combat is no longer male, simply because he no longer has a cock?
Really?

I've had 4 SSD drives fail across 20 desktops and in all cases the data loss has been total. I've never seen, heck or even heard of, an SSD drive go int read only mode.

Is there some special tinkering you need to do to get one to go into read only mode?
DigitalOcean VPSs go for 512MB, 20GB disk at $5 per month/0.7¢ per hour.

Prgmr is also really great too, 64MB for $5/month (by comparison, 512MB for $12/month). Run by an HN fellow, so that's also a plus.

EDIT: goodness gracious, i didn't realize that literally everyone in this thread is mentioning DO when I wrote this post!