skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it's a bit offtopic, but as I have not found myself a good pet language that I'd truly make my favourite yet, being a 21-year old university student, is there any other reasons of studying, learning C++ as an all-around language, than being in the game industry? The dream of working for a company like Valve has pushed me into learning C++, but I am not so sure anymore whether that is a good choice due to both the horror stories and simple statistics. I want to make the best possible investment in my future and so these kind of articles are strong manipulators.

I do love programming, even more than games, so it wouldn't be a problem for me to work at something less gamey. But should I nonetheless continue with cherishing C++ and making it the best language for me? Your replies are highly valued. Also, I do understand, that in reality, it's unlikely ever about just one language.
The FBI replaces websites it takes down with a graphic containing their logo, they might use the 451 code if it becomes standardized.
I think you're being too hard on yourself. I live in Boston and have friends who were in very real danger, and I still had that same thought go through my head. On the merits of the the thought, we should not accord much weight to the "it's too soon!" line of thinking. Nor is the tragedy of a death proportional to its media coverage. So you aren't being monstrous.

But more importantly, having a thought you aren't proud of is no mortal sin, nor is publishing it honestly on the internet. You're supposed to feel conflicted and confused; something bad happened and we're all going to have a wide range emotionally-charged responses.
Great project that Jaime have in his hands. I used myself on my RoR projects and it's very useful. Nice work, keep it up ;)
I have a bunch of the very early ones, the differences with early ABS are:

- changed shape slightly, some warping

- the colours faded

- they became quite transparent

- they don't bind at all or very very loose

The early ABS ones are about as good as new other than being dirty and a couple of scratches. No discolouration, they bind just fine, no warping as far as I can measure.
It's an issue that evokes strong passions, we've all been there.

Sorry if I made too big a deal about it. I'd just spent half an hour browsing comments on Reddit, it left me a little hyper-protective and self-righteous about this place.
According to the article, it's already available on the Google Chromebook. So presumably, there are people out there capable of testing this out.
That's assuming normal traffic flow. As someone famous said "quantity has a quality all it's own" - in large traffic flow conditions (as is the case with an evacuation), are all the same security precautions taken? Can they be sustained without a huge bump in the security staff? If new security staff are used impromptu, will they follow the same stringent standards?

I agree with VLM - these people should have been secured in place and not herded through a chokepoint in a rush.
Yeah, this is a problem, especially with Instagram. As a random aside, watching this has been a really interesting look into how viral marketing is done.
Mob-mentality. Unfortunately naturally occurs whenever a group gets to be about the size of a mob.
Since then the Boston Commissioner of Police has confirmed it as a non-controlled explosion during a press conference.
don't trust that your cell phone will work, the authorities are quite capable of disabling cell access in the area.

That is a very important item that many will overlook. To the person bemoaning what rights they will lose, well its not like your going to lose more, just be reminded of ones you lost and did not even realize, like that of a working cell phone.
Perspective is always something that one should maintain, but I can't help but roll my eyes at any response to bad news that invokes the phrase "white western people". It makes your viewpoint seem politically motivated.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5551069
I'm not going to knock the story (oddly I was checking my home's year on year power reduction just before I read it) but I have to wonder if there is a connection to the previous story about SuperDaE (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5274345)

Specifically the bit that purportedly showed a screenshot of "Control power to individual outlets" on the MS network?

I know, probably coincidence.
AEDPA is designed to keep people from spamming the federal courts with frivolous habeas petitions, particularly in capital cases. It has 'anti-terrorism' in the name, but it's almost entirely about the 'effective death penalty' part.[1] Among other things it's heavily focused on forcing federal courts to give more deference to state court judgments and avoiding situations where prisoners invoke minor technical violations in order to argue that their detentions are "illegal." It doesn't limit habeas rights--it creates stricter procedures for invoking that right that are less susceptible to abuse.

[1] The "terrorism" part seems to come from using the example of people like McVeigh to argue for procedures to keep people from defeating a death sentence by filing endless habeas petitions.
Triage numbers

FAMILY MEMBER HOTLINE:

617-635-4500

POLICE TIPS NUMBER:

(800) 494-8477

https://twitter.com/E3Chicago/status/323909398915317761/phot...
This is a dangerous game. Some HR managers and hiring managers won't have the time or the know-how to fact check that sort of thing. Others will. The expected value of the dice roll isn't worth the risk.
How A Young Community Of Entrepreneurs Is Rebuilding Detroit
You know, if you had called her a third-rate philosopher the sentence would have a beautiful linear 1-2-3 progression to it. Consider that for next time.
Fuck off. How much blood has the western world lost to achieve freedom, privacy, and a government by the people for the people? We cannot continue to allow the enemy to terrorize us into giving up our liberties.

Also, fuck off with the "whining nerd" shit.
Boston Globe video of the first two explosions (warning: intense)
I wouldn't trust the NY Post at all. They're also still reporting 12 dead even though everyone else is saying 2.

http://www.inquisitr.com/620300/ny-posts-saudi-national-stor...

Also denied about 15 minutes ago by the Boston Commisioner of police.
This might be a place where the Red Cross might be able to improve their services by creating an AppEngine or EC2 instance to handle the traffic?
People often pay double the cost of the house, so on average (for the life of the loan), half of your mortgage payment is equity. In the beginning the vast majority (90%+) is interest.

Here's a calculator I whipped up: http://instacalc.com/1737 (adjust the numbers as you need; this is a side project of mine).
Is anyone able to watch the videos to the end? They seem to stop mid way for me- all of them. And I have a pretty fast connection.
You're asking for a solution to the problem of people killing other people.
We have people getting blown up all over the world. We don't need your pious bullshit right now.
I asked about the security measures and they answered with:

"We appreciate the response, and we can assure you that we have implemented all appropriate measures to provide the maximum amount of protection to our customers."
I know this is WAY too late to be helpful, but I wonder if hitting the HOME key would have put you back at the start of the line.

Either way, completely unacceptable UI for sure.
This article hits home for me. I graduated from a Top 20 university here in the UK in 2009 with a First Class in Computer Science. I have always been the type that never really knew what they wanted to do with their life and made the mistake of not forcing myself to pick a career path.

The first year after leaving uni I worked in a job unrelated to my degree. I left and decided to take the grad scheme slog that is so common. I applied to 10-15 big companies' grad schemes in their Tech departments (IBM, MS, investment banks etc) and reached at least the first in-person interview for around half of them. I had a few offers but turned them down since I realised I was not passionate about the role (big mistake).

Since then I have spent the following 18 months unemployed. I work voluntarily at my parents' business, again, in a field unrelated to my degree, while doing some freelancing and hacking on some personal projects.

I am scared to apply for programming jobs now because of the gaps in my employment and lack of 'formal' experience. I have a massive fear of the rejection, mixed with a good amount of Impostor Syndrome.

It's a vicious cycle. I am scared to apply and be rejected, which is in turn adding to my unemployed period and making the situation worse.

I have had some savings which meant I could survive unemployed comfortably (probably worked against me in hindsight), but it is quite a depressing realisation and I feel as though I have wasted my degree and am starting from scratch.
You should really have linkbacks to the text/photos you're pulling in.
The BPD already shot this down. Don't breathlessly follow the initial reports; they're chaotic, reporters are incentivized to jump the gun.
Culprit? I think Patsy is a better word.
> And I don't necessarily agree it's too early to discus the consequences of this. The authorities on the scene are handling the immediate situation, and there's very little to be done from 2K miles away.

I agree. Chance are, the friends and family who are directly affected by this aren't going to be trawling through comments on HN--there are more pressing concerns.

The rest of us, and maybe this will sound equally harsh, need to divorce ourselves from the emotional impact if there's nothing we can do (or donate to the appropriate organizations if so inclined). Right now, there's little that can be done, and even less information still. That leaves the most objective option as what we're doing right now: That is to say the discussion of potential policy changes.

I'm not sure this event is significant enough to affect anything on a large scale (e.g. TSA on every street corner), but you do have to wonder what changes might be made to future marathons as a consequence. I don't necessarily think that's harsh as much as it is objective.
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It's a tricky question to address. It doesn't help that the people addressing it are obviously not entirely clear on the concept of an unbiased sample. To quote the fine article:

But let’s say a larger percentage of the pitches came from women. Then people are also assuming that of the pitches that came from women, 100% of them were awesome pitches that organizers passed up solely because the presenter would be wearing a bra.

No, people are assuming that pitches from women and men are on average of equal quality. It's an assumption borne out by experience. So we do need to ask the question why there are less women. If indeed 95% of the proposals were from male speakers, it's not a problem with the conference. If there were more than 5% of the proposals coming from women, but the final selection looked like it did, the organizers should take a look at their process - something is likely to be off if that's the case.
You can effectively leverage 100x with stock options. You can by deep in the money LEAPs (long-term options, expiring 18 months-2 years out) and effectively have the risk profile of the stock itself. You can then sell and roll those over to longer-term expiring options every 6 months or so.
Ah. *whoosh
Nice. I wonder if any UK providers do this
> By shared tech I assume you mean tools and engines?

I was doing tools, but not engines. UI toolkit stuff, asset pipelines, a bunch of metrics gathering. At the EA studio I was at, being on a game team was a better career path if you want to get more clout.
This is mere seconds after the explosion took place, with the smoke still drifting through the air. Already they've made it to the side of the most obvious casualty; I can't really see the basis for your comment.
10 out of the 11 killed at Eniskillen were civilians.

3 out of 3 killed in the Harrods bombing were civilians.

How many civilians were kneecapped or murdered in Eire and NI?

But sure, go ahead and believe that the P/IRA were the good sort of terrorists.
Has any named official confirmed the cell service shutdown? I'm hearing the opposite.

The original shutdown report I heard was attributed to an unnamed BPD source. This is obviously a particularly easy rumor to spread when the networks are all jammed up with callers.
That doesn't accomplish anything useful. A day or two from now, someone who hasn't yet seen the thread will wonder what the "deleted" part of the conversation was for.

The best thing to do if you disagree with the position of the OP's comment is to upvote other siblings. Personally, I think this discussion is interesting because it addresses in real time the implications of what this attack might be (if any).
"No, it could mean better technology, maybe better security, maybe MORE security."

Is it cold to point out that we are already living in an age of more security? There were paramilitary police teams at the marathon, ready to take on a small army -- but the attackers found a way to plant their bombs anyway.

When the TSA was established and billions of dollars were spent on securing our airlines, a tiny minority of people were saying that if another attack occurred it would not be on an airplane. Now we have seen another attack, it was not on an airplane nor anywhere near an airport. We do no need another massive security bureaucracy designed to prevent marathons or city streets from being attacked, because that will just push terrorists to attack something else. There are far too many ways to attack a country as large and developed as the United States to have a sprawling bureaucracy for all of them.

"I hope no new laws come of something like this, but if it means reducing the chance that this happens again, I am all for it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_by_whiskey

"We can't let ourselves become 1984, but we can become safer, smarter, more efficient with regards to security."

Every time we become "more efficient" about domestic security, we sacrifice our rights. What makes you think this time will be different?
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> Will it be all police cars, dogs and jersey walls from here on out?

The video from the camera man on the ground at the finish line shows countless cops at the finish line. All that police presence did not prevent the detonation.
Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled Watch Device
Again! I seriously start to lose trust in the startups' security of the Silicon Valley...
So Silverlight is getting EOL in 8 years. Will they keep updating it with new versions til then?
My take on that article was to find some middle ground.

It makes sense to at least be informed of the latest news but there's no need to keep compulsively checking news websites while they are in full "Death Toll" mode. It's probably best to wait 24 hours until a clearer story is available.
Really PG?

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/323909260826259457
I was about to argue that making something up about this was beyond the level of inaccuracy that NyPost might stoop to, but then I realized I do not know. I guess we will find out soon enough.
But the interest is tax-deductible. So you should also include tax savings in your cost-benefit analysis.
totally agreed that this hardly helps with hiding a bomb, but still a really interesting response, upvote from me : )
No, people will always kill other people, that is the unfortunate truth of human nature. That doesn't mean there aren't multiple problems here, and each one with multiple solutions.

Our lawmakers know just as well as we do, that more laws won't fix events like these, but better messaging ("See something say something"), better trained police officers, etc.. these are things that are controllable, changeable, and have a hugely positive impact on preventing horrible things like this from happening.
>One way to look at percentages is as a quota. "20% of our speakers this year shall be women!" Right or wrong, a lot of people don't like this. Another way is to use percentages as an indicator of how well your outreach is going. If you have, say, 5% women/minority/whatever speaking in the first year of your conference, that metric could act as a swift kick up the butt that you're not doing enough outreach

You present it as different things but it's exactly the same flawed idea.

"An estimation of your outreach" would only be different from quota if the number of good conference pitches sent in by men was equal or near equal to the number of pitches sent in by women.

Since the number of women in programming are far less than the men, that is obviously not the case (their respective total number of pitches would be unequal and hence their respective total of good pitches would be unequal).

Unless men and women Python programmers are something like 50-50, you cannot have something like 50-50 men and women Python conference speakers. At best, a fair outreach should be M-F, where M/F the respective male and female Python programmers ratio.

And that's assuming (and it's not guaranteed by any law of physics) that men and women Python programmers, in aggregate, are equally good and passionate with Python and doing conference worthy stuff with it.

Which might not be the case at all (it doesn't even have to be because women are, say, less nerdy and obsessive with coding: just assume, which is very plausible, that male bosses in the workplace don't assign them interesting enough problems in their Python work, and prefer males to be project leaders etc. Then, following that, fewer women will have interesting conference pitches to make). And there are 1000s of other factors like that.

Finally, not every field needs to have 50-50 representation anyway. We don't lament that there are far fewer women boxers or rugby players than men. Or that there are far fewer women coal miners or truck drivers than men. Or that there are far more women in fashion that men. Or than there are far more women in biology than men, etc etc.
That's an endless loop. Recursion would be the forum pointing to itself.

/end nitpick
For what it's worth, I upvoted this question despite so many comments bemoaning its existence.

The facts will be fleshed out over time on the regular news, so I see less value in comments just parroting that. Rather, (if this is to be discussed on Hacker News at all), I'd prefer it to be about the ramifications of the event, and especially how it relates to technology, or laws/regulations that foster the development of technologies.

I'm a Bostonian (at work about a mile from the explosions), and I wish everyone would just cool their jets a bit until more is known about what's going on.
> But when you suggest that no work is accomplished in any meeting, you're wrong.

This is where we disagree. Talking about work isn't tangible work. Talking unblocks work, to a point.

> I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience with meetings; it must be common or the stereotype wouldn't exist.

Given that my experience spans roughly 15 years, major corporations, small and large startups, in both management (director, VP, and C-level roles) and engineering (software, systems) I'm inclined to trust my experience that meetings are generally a work-substitution mechanism and a means of furthering political/social career advancement, and bad PMs (which is, sadly, most of them) are the worst offenders of them all.
You do realize you just linked to a NY Post article right?
I've never run a marathon, but I've attended several supporting runners I knew. I spent my time at the finish line watching the runners come across.

Pretty much everyone who finishes is some level of fucked up. Their body chemistry is way-the-hell out of whack, with problems from dehydration, hyponatremia, glycogen depletion, and boosted or dampened immune system reactions. Usually there are people at the finish looking for trouble cases and shunting them directly to the medical tent. (Because the runner might not even recognize that how bad a state they are in.)

I've had hyponatremia once after an ill-advised hike, and I literally couldn't form sentences out loud.

It doesn't surprise me that people weren't reacting in a normal way, because they weren't in a normal state of being.
It's great to see Netflix pushing for HTML 5 media encryption, it's one of the things the orignal spec for these elements lacked. Once it becomes standard across the browsers we'll hopefully see more media publishers come onboard supporting HTML 5.
Yes, you do.

The Debit Card was used in a Credit transaction, so Visa's general protections still apply. You can dispute any of the transactions if they were done through credit (which online ones are nearly 100% of the time).
Just to add a +1 to point #2, I didn't even really like writing when I started my blog, and my first blog post sucks[1]. 9 short years later, I'm an author of a book that has done pretty well[2], and I LOVE writing.

1. http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/my-first-blog/
2. http://designforhackers.com
Good news. Looks like someone upstairs noticed and knocked it to the bottom.

Thank you, moderators.
That seems like an overly complicated way of doing something that could just be done with a timer. (I don't mean to provide tips of any sort, but that seems kind of obvious to me.)
> I mean, why pay hundreds of dollars for HD TVs, period.

Can you get a good HD TV for less than "hundreds of dollars" (not sure where the limit is, $199?) that is any good, though?

Sure, there are cheap TVs. The cheapest LED TV in the 40-44 range on Amazon is $349, and it's some cheap no-name brand I have never heard of. It's probably not very good.

Of course, most people probably don't know much about what differentiates TV quality. I frequently see people watch horribly badly calibrated TVs (with things like motion smoothing turned on), and I frequently see people watch non-widescreen broadcasts stretched to 16:9. Whenever I ask, they say they don't see any difference, and some people even get upset when I offer to fix the settings.
I have used it. It does work pretty well...
That's a lot of lucky people, all getting the most excellent Python version ever released: http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3. And this at no charge!
So much for quitting news.
Google Person Finder:

http://google.org/personfinder/2013-boston-explosions/

Hopefully this can put someone's mind at ease. :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_recursion
When "their qualifications" results in a selection rate of men approaching 100%, I think that's prima facie case that one of the most important qualifications is being a man.

Furthermore, (% of industry that is women) x (% of women interested in presenting at a conference) is exactly what I was referring to when I talked about "outsourcing" the discrimination - the filter was set upstream.
Authorities ID suspect as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospital

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/authorities_under_susp...
Oh hell yes. I feel very closely aligned with his philosophy, and this message is so well delivered, its almost cathartic to watch. For anyone who has tried to have new ideas in the face of closed minded people who strangle ideas before they have a chance to grow- this video is your antidote.
I had the same feeling when I saw GetAround launch (car-sharing). But then I thought about it some more, and realised I'm way more attached to my apartment then my car, and AirBnb seems to work just fine..
If you're not for the third world then you have no idea at all about REAL suffering.

A bomb in a sports event? That's suffering people eat for breakfast around other parts of the world.
This is a rumor BPD shot down after NY Post ran it.
Good point. I misread tomjen3's original comment.
My understanding is that it has already been axed. Microsoft supports product versions for 10 years after their official release. You can expect to see bug fixes, but no new versions.