skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That seems more like a rhetorical tactic than a genuine issue?

I ascribe it to something else; Mayer is a female CEO, which I think causes many people to assign to her responsibility for championing women in the workplace. When she fails to live up to this standard which has been imposed on her, people cry foul.

Another relevant example is her interview awhile back where she mentioned she didn't really consider herself a feminist. This was met with far harsher criticism than I think any man would have received for making the same statement - "Oh really... which of your equal rights do you want to give back?!"

This is why I don't think the claims of hypocrisy are just a rhetorical tactic. People are genuinely disappointed in her failure to live up to the standards they've imposed on her, which they imagine that as a female CEO she has also set for herself and is implicitly broadcasting to the world.
It's actually "dotne", not "dotnet". Strange.
Heyzap has started paying-out to game developers in Bitcoin
Nice. So both times that you noticed this, was it malice on someone's part due to which the tools were patched? I have just never heard or encountered such a situation and am frankly paranoid about something like this happening to one of the tools I use.
I smell the uncomfortable truth.
I also saw it as a cautionary tale to people in our line of work.
I just checked it out. After a while, the page destroys the rendering in Chrome. I think it's related to the ever growing background (it actually stops around 50,000 pixels).

http://imgur.com/a/AR1l0
I would imagine that taking care of one's children does not require constant interaction. If that is the case then one could WFH for 8 hours a day but space out their time so that they can attend to their children's needs as they arise.
The Ordinary Life
It's closure for those that took over his projects and for those that worried about his sudden disappearance. http://words.steveklabnik.com/closure
I would love to see something like this. I think this shouldn't just be limited to one city or industry though. Assuming that this is successfully attempted in one city, it might be a good idea to try it in other cities while focusing on various industries that speak to the existing core competencies of that city. So for example, a Detroit version of the Autonomy Fund could focus on funding autonomous individuals within the automotive industry.

As for choice of initial tech hub, my vote goes to Pittsburgh. The population size is [roughly] what you're going for at ~300K. The housing market here is great. It already has a tech-friendly local government. Plus Carnegie Mellon is here, ready to feed top young CS talent directly into the autonomous positions.

For what it's worth Pittsburgh was also voted as the most livable city in the U.S. a couple years ago [1]. I might be biased since I live/work in Pittsburgh and take CS classes at CMU, but by that same token it also means I'm speaking with first-hand experience.

[1] http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/news-brief/its-offici...
> Evolution is not about gaining complexity but about fitting to (current state of) the environment

I'm glad you cleared that up. Here I was thinking evolution and its "goal" is still a mystery to science.
You still need to infuse some idiomatic elements of the platform to give it a coherent look and feel. So why not write some native apps? You can always just use Mono for most of the non-view code.
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer: Should he stay as boss?
This was essentially the reason is started my own businesses, or co-founded businesses. I was sick of all of the above. Then, eventually I got sick of the whole money grabbing nature the software business. It was just all about making someone else rich quick.

I was going to quit the software business entirely, but a chance meeting led to finding someone who actually cared and wanted to make a difference, as well as being positioned to do so. And we ended up starting Akvo.org, and now all is a hell of a lot better.
The null object pattern and Maybe/Option are different concepts. The most important point: A NOP for some type T exposes T's API directly, while Maybe/Option has its own API (and the type system enforces that Option[T] can't be treated as a T).
Lol @ "An applicative watching a functor apply a function" and the image above it :)
blossom.io uses it in production and there has been an interview on infoq.com lately: http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/04/blossom-dart-switch
It's quite simple: school ends at 3pm. Somebody needs to pick up the kid. After that my 6 yo is perfectly capable of entertaining herself for few hours while I continue my work. And why would you assume minimal commute? For me that's 2.5 h a day, and that's not a lot by NYC metro area standards.
My familiarity comes more from Slate Magazine, and especially it's sister publication DoubleX, where the child-care aspect was heavily emphasized both in articles and in their bi-weekly DoubleX podcast.

However, I strongly agree with your analysis of her nursery as a CEO perk, which might like her high salary is simply much better than what normal employees have access to. This is why I disagree with the claims of hypocrisy, as I alluded to in my original comment.
"HTML is for marking up structure of the document" - exactly. The trouble starts when you start trying to use it for app's GUI.
I was at the SXSW gaming expo last month and they had a booth about this merit badge at the event.
matt@ the site's address. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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>The shift in policy affects roughly 200 of Yahoo's 12,000 employees.

I see this statistic and I'm reminded at how much of a disingenuous uproar the policy change caused. Every time I read comments regarding this issue I'm more convinced the real issue is who issued the policy, and not the change itself.

A new mother canceling work at home while simultaneously raising her own child in the office is not hypocritical. It supports her position. And yes, a private nursery is a perk she receives as CEO.

A CEO gets a nursery: Outrage! CEO gets a private bathroom, private airplane, private car, meetings on the golf course, etc: normal operating procedure. I wonder why the nursery gets singled out for ridicule?
I don't think the conclusion is correct. You'll get a login page for any claimed domain -- something someone at Yahoo may have done defensively.
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SwarmLocal: Flash mob? Revolution? Endless possibilities
Node/JS won't necessarily render HTML faster. There are libraries to bring DOM interaction into NodeJS, there's also PhantomJS, and previous attempts like Aptana's server. All of these have been very heavy, and didn't scale well. PhantomJS is probably the best current option, but doesn't tie directly to Node, and still not as fast as string based templating.

Regarding string based templates, they are really implementation dependant, and there are tons of options available. Right now some common ones for NodeJS are probably Bliss (Razor inspired), Nunjucks (jinja2 inspired), Mustache/Handlebars and Jade (Haml inspired), and EJS (similar to PHP, or classic ASP).

Probably the most broadly available is Mustache, which has implementations in about every language under the sun, and probably could make a decent benchmark to compare string processing in different languages.

All of the above simply bring me, to use what you feel comfortable with and what feels right.
Yeah easy to comprehend in hindsight, obviously. Sorry didn't want to hate against PhD students, but I don't like the institution of a PhD. Most PhD thesises I have seen are just a waste of time of the PhD students. Less in science PhDs, more so in social studies, business...
Given the way that hovers over employees, I think there's a fair case in there to unofficially rename the product 'Spectre'. -.-'

shudder
I'm kind of surprised, actually. There are still plenty of ways to differentiate your product in the server space, particularly when it comes to high availability. My company (Probably in the top 20 in the US in terms of revenue) pays outrageous amounts of money for servers because that's what it costs to fill your data center with DC powered high availability hardware.

I don't think we ever buy from IBM, though.
Some people in the irc room believe that he is doing just fine; that this was an event to ensure that the character/role _why is returned to the public domain in an orderly manner. The original maintainer of the _why persona appears to be doing okay and in good spirits. He gave people combs and a triumph message on the website.
Java is really not the greatest example here. In fact, the source article here is basically saying as much by calling into question some of the Java conventions.

I think you'll find in a language like Haskell that a lot more information can be embedded in types than in something like Java.
Not to mention that she paid for it herself.
As someone who’s blind and who has a friend that was recently paralyzed I have no problem with the ban and have nothing but contempt for this person. I’ve been fortunate that I have never needed to fundraise to obtain assistive technology. I have no issue with people that chose to do so though. A wheelchair accessible van with hand controls can cost upwards of $50000 and in order for that independence you need to get the money somehow. I don’t think Twitch should be required to refund donations since there was no specific contract stating what the donations were going to be used for. I think there doing the right thing by refunding everyone’s donations though.
You did misunderstand: you took a friendly illustration of an alternative way to use Maybe as some kind of absolutist degree. Well, put down your sword. Much of the time when you have Maybe you also have a sensible default value and you want to use that rather than live the rest of your life inside Maybe. fromMaybe is just a handy way to deal with that case.
This is very true. If there are only a handful of people in a small town who have your interest, you're kinda out of luck with meetup.
I think with proper vetting you would be able to find engineers who would put in an honest effort in those circumstances. I just don't think it will be easy to convince investors of that.
There is a large false dichotomy between science and religion, that 'Christian' biologist does give a large degree of more information.
Question for Steve: How did Summer of Code go? I understand you mentored a student who developed for Hackety Hack a few summers ago?

By the way, I'd love to contribute to Hackety Hack :)
Doubt it, based on the timeline. Doesn't sound like he accessed the systems at all beyond implementing the rootkit and/or patching things up.
I like the idea; however, don't like the relocation. Not that I have anything against a Midwestern town but artificially designating a city to build a "tech hub" has rarely work. Many places have tried but failed. I don't see how it would be different this time. You will get more takers and talents if location is not an issue.
Ah, you Perl guys and your "there's more than one way to do it". :-) Disclaimer: I'm a Perl guy and I agree.
Not nearly as exciting as the microphones they had installed all around the building to monitor discussion amongst teammates. :)
Just signed up, it looks interesting and is something I will need really soon, thanks!

BTW really nice design
It's weird to see people so flagrantly posting stuff without a copyright license. Is it just because _why only put their past work on the internet temporarily that people feel like it's OK to distribute this new stuff freely?
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Lots of things can give a maybe - lookup in a container, for instance - that might be lower down in your code.
But there has to be some characteristic that certain species required many evolutionary "steps" to get to. For example, there were no humans OR poplars one billion years ago nor the possibility yet since their / our ancestors hadn't yet made the scene.
Someone lies and steals, is "rehabilitated", and right out of jail you catch them in a major lie again and still have a spec of trust in them? Wow.

My first thought is that when this guy got out of jail, he'd have a nice job away from being able to steal large amounts of money. But greedy people like OP and the business owner let it slide for a few bucks.

I should have gone into high stakes accounting and financial work. I could have hit and run down pedestrians, stole millions of dollars, killed a girlfriend in my home, etc... and people would still let me handle their money because I could save them about 2%. No one would bat an eye. Heck, people will even defend me!
Thank you, will check this out.
From the first page of the updates yesterday:

"Now I want to make it perfectly clear that these papers
and all my other works in life belong to the general
public. In fact, I also would like to turn myself over to
all of you as well. This was actually done several years
ago, but in an embarassingly disorganized manner. I like
what you've done with the character, but I'd like to step
into his tattered suit for the next hundred pages and a
day. And after that, I'm yours again. Do what you must
do! I always enjoy seeing what happens to me."
Emberwatch
But that's precisely why you abstract it; so you can switch to Error in need be...
Yahoo shuts down six products
Depends very much on the age of the children. A friend has three, 6-10 years. It is not so easy to work from home when they are five or less. Try with someone else's kids and you will see.
Pittsburgh would be a great choice, I agree.

Do you think the local government would invest?

As I work on the idea, I'm starting to realize that it needs to involve public and private investment. The problem seems to be to convince investors that we can audit the programmers. I'd probably need to hire a well-known programmer as, at least, an advisor. Even if he didn't want to make the decisions and conduct the interviews, it'd be huge to have his name on the letter.

The cities where I see the best odds of this taking shape are: Austin, Pittsburgh, Madison, and Portland. Apologies if I missed one; there are plenty of other good places, but those are the 4 that would be the big targets.

I agree that one city is just a start. The concept needs a pilot, but ultimately the goal isn't to make one specific city a new Silicon Valley (if that happens, I've failed) but to encourage more equidistribution of talent and, as a nice side effect, also squeeze out the real estate assholes (who take advantage of the fact that our career needs force us to crowd into expensive cities).

Once it's going multi-city, though, I'd need someone else to run it. I could be the lion for a couple years, but eventually I'd want to get back into code.
Summer of code went really well. I had a fantastic student that contributed so much.

I'd love to have more contributors on Hackety. Development is basically frozen while we re-write Shoes to pay off the technical debt involved. (CORRUPTION really spoke to me...) So the best way to help is to get on https://github.com/shoes/shoes4 and shoes@librelist.com and start pitching in!
The internet has basically become a place for disingenuous uproar. There should just be a site called disingenuousuproar.com
We're not talking about babies here. My six year old can take care of himself just fine if he's fed and has an adult around in case of emergencies. I have worked in my home office for hours while he played in the rest of the house, watched videos, etc.

Daycare can be $500/week, for the privilege of simply having an adult be near my kid. If telecommuting helps me avoid that cost, it's a significant incentive.
> finding it hilarious, a la Krusty's portrayal of FDR from that Simpson's episode http://youtu.be/5kJ3v_fKygE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NcT1Q6QxU
IMO you don't need a team of only unicorns. In fact, ego management will be very difficult if you miraculously manage to build such a seemingly perfect team. You need a good balance between leaders and "followers", who can be great people, but not superstars.
watch the video if you haven't seen it. the funniest thing in the world was his lame excuse. also hearing his girlfriend say Oh my god and tries to play it off and signal him in code.
> If I work when I'm at home then I can't, by definition, take care of my children at the same time.

Our telework policy spells that out and working from home to avoid child care is not allowed. I'm not sure how strictly they enforce this -- I don't have kids -- but then they also only allow us to telework one, maybe two, days per week.
The issue is that news.ycombinator.org is meant to redirect to news.ycombinator.com.

However the SSL certificate used is only valid for news.ycombinator.com thus it triggers an SLL error with browsers.

This is also a problem given that about 50,000 pages our indexed on Google under https://news.ycombinator.org.
http://www.girlgamer.com/zine/article/2677/
You are confusing Austrian economics with anarcho-capitalism. Many anarcho-capitalists subscribe to Austrian economics, but certainly not all Austrians are anarcho-capitalists.
I agree that at least my use of the word "art" wasn't sufficiently explained (isn't that always the case? ;)), but my other 2 conditions were definitely present in the original text. I am not trying to "win" this argument by artificially narrowing the definition, I am honestly interested in finding more artists with the same qualities.

Regarding the artists you selected, I am not familiar with all their major works and I will definitely look into their artworks more thoroughly later, but at first glance all of them can be categorized as Audi-Visual-Software art / Internet art / political activism using code as art / etc. Put differently, I could imagine seeing all of them in connection with the Ars Electronica selection for example. Would you really label _why with any of these genres? Or suggest that his work might fit in the Prix Ars Electronica categories? To me his work has a very distinct feel from all the artists you listed and belongs in a different genre. I tried to capture this distinct quality in my above definition, where the most important aspect is definitely that the art must be "about software" (and more specifically about code). His works are all much more introspective than what I have seen elsewhere.

The best allegory that springs to mind is this: While other artists often used code ingeniously to look at many different aspects of technology & culture, _why was the first artist who used code to look back at code and its development process itself and also necessarily the developer cultures around it. This is probably also one reason why he was so tied to the Ruby community. I could understand if you find this definition to be too narrow, but to me this "closing of the loop", this self reference is a very distinct quality.
Find the thing you're most passionate about, do it on nights and weekends
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I consider it controversial if the reasoning behind a policy is one the CEO isn't required to endure because of perks.
Hmm, then I guess your kids are better behaved than mine:) I've tried this and it was so disastrous that I'd never let an employee do this.

There is just no way you can get proper work done if you are responsible for looking after any kid under the age of 12:)

I agree it may save money and time but I've never seen anyone not have it affect their work. You must be a rare individual:)
I think WFH is key to making good products, for focus and an external view. If Yahoo is still making peanut butter, getting internalized viewpoints isn't going to help improve external product development and perception. Groupthink is heavy in the office which is bad for external views of product. Also this concentrates employees to one locale, again lending to internalized viewpoints of how things are.
I think you may also want to see this in the context of the US, where the Boy Scouts are an extremely bigoted organisation.
Expensive? 1 image a minute for a 40 hour work week is 2,400 images or 120k a year. We're talking screenshots so they aren't large files (you don't need a high bit rate), probably in the range of 500KB which would mean a whole year is less than 60GB. 3TB hard drives cost ~$130 these days and have room to store 50 employee years of screenshots. If money is that tight you can always compress the images and get double or more for your cash.

As for processing, you need to find a new computer if you can notice a screenshot being taken.
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Probably a good call. I had never heard of any of those six.
Show HN: OS X service to query Wolfram Alpha
The author is more clever than you realize. (Go scan it)
Ah yes, Theory X and Theory Y. I would like to believe that defection rates will be low. Are people going to abuse the system? Occasionally, yes. My feeling is that the defection rate will be low enough not to compromise the project. If someone uses the fund to build his career, then goes off to the Valley, good for him. "Alumnus Bob is now VP/Eng at Facebook" is part of our pitch.

The trust issue is why local governments might be the best place to start:

(a) they know they're not technologists and can't evaluate 10x programmers. I can. I think I can either (i) establish that I can, or (ii) bring someone more established and better than I am to do the vetting.

(b) even if they fail, much of the money goes back into the city, which means it's not totally spilled on the floor. Fail case: those tech bozos made fools of themselves, but they ate at local restaurants for a couple years.

It wouldn't only be local investors. I don't want short-term investors in this, though. I'd take a Buffett-esque approach of having the share price around $50,000. Value investors only, because talent takes time to ripen.
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Thirty day standby sounds kickass.
Of course, addA = liftA2 (+) is even more general.
Except contrary to NaN, the type system encodes where it can exist and what its span is.
Should have been clearer; my usage of inexplicable is generally sarcastic, which doesn't always come across in text:

There's a class of programmers who spend a dispropriate amount of time debugging the very buggy code they just wrote.

That's certainly work in some sense, but most of us prefer to write less buggy code to begin with. With me, that means I spend what some view as a dispropriate amount of time thinking problems, where that amount of time is often measured in minutes, but the point is that I'm not typing anything, hence in their eyes I'm not working.

There's a great anecdote about a Bell Labs mathematician who e.g. worked on hard problems that directly applied to building and running Bell's systems and networks. A boss type once complained that he wasn't working because he spent a lot of time sitting and thinking (his real/direct bosses were very happy with that, though).