skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome!

To head off the "it's unfair" crap that this is sure to bring:

At my local programming group there are a few women in their early 20s. Each of them was told in their high school education, explicitly, that girls don't need to know math or logical thinking, that it was for boys.

One was part of a school system that graded girls on effort in math, and never given valuable teacher time or feedback or help, because "they will go on to the humanities anyway" and actually learning the stuff "would waste time" for the teachers. She is really interested in programming, and struggles with the college classes she's taking because the basic mathematical thinking was denied her. It isn't that she can't grasp it - the other day when started going over code exercises, she just needed some explaining and practice on variables because her algebra teacher didn't care to go over it with her. Her programming teacher doesn't want to "coddle" her. But with a bit of explanation and basic concepts review, she grasped it just fine, and deduced implications on her own. You know - getting it.

What the heck does this have to do with anything, blah blah unfair I predict you whining. Well, it's this -

If someone is denied the chance to do something, and the system she is part of is the reason for denial, then perhaps a good response is to provide the opportunity by other means. Boys aren't being denied. In fact they were explicitly getting something extra as a result of being the girls being denied.

So we give the girls the same thing. We don't give it to the boys, they would then be given extra, and not the same chance. That is why this sort of thing is needed.

Oh, BTW all of the women I am referring to are from Illinois, some in more rural parts, some in Chicago.

And yes, we need to fix the system that does this to prevent future occurrences. At the same time, let's provide these girls who are being denied a chance as well, instead of writing them off.
Wow, here’s a pretty good explanation that makes sense:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=17197603&po...

“The problem is that the message app, thinks the phrase will fit in a one line bubble, but it actually puts the last word on a hidden second line.

It works with these two phrases because they are the exact width needed, and it is not based on character count, but character width. For example, "l" is skinner than a "w".

…

Even the phrase "I old ube the next Obamac " will truncate the last word, because the string width is exactly the same, because all the same characters are being used.”
Tell me, givig your insight, how many successful businesses have you done? Im not being pedantic, but such statements must come from someone who has built at least 2 businsses following such system.
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'let' is coming up for that purpose.
Hey thanks!

I finally found what was going on. And fixed it!

Thanks so much for the help. I actually used that tool :D.
It's pretty well documented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_substance_abuse_...
Don't be so sure of that, I went to pick up a glass in NYC yesterday and the staff had the exact conversation of when you were going to have this jailbroken. It is just funny that it was literally done within 24 hours.
As you're alluding, half the battle with knowing when it is "safe" to hop off the treadmill is having a very good idea of your expenses. About 10 years ago, I spent a year or so recording how I spent my money to the cent. I found that it delivered a lot of freedom, even if I didn't live frugally, since it allowed me to know exactly how much money I would need going forward, and plan accordingly.

Since then. my life has changed a lot, to the point where the confidence in predicting my expenditure is wearing off. I'd describe it as a slightly panicked feeling of having to work harder, since I'm trying to cover the worst possible situation that my mind can invent. I probably should invest the time to collect another set of hard data...
This defaults Num, Read, and Show to Integer—I try to avoid defaulting because it’s kind of a language wart. And speaking of golf: same length but one fewer import by killing the fmap.

print . sum . map read . lines =<< readFile "somefile.txt"
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What do you mean? Can you access the MySQL account and FTP account without User + Password?
I remember finding out the story of WinAmp's creator (Justin Frankel) making a winamp plugin that basically "blocks" AOL AIM advertisements after his company had been acquired by AOL. Just hilarious.

Frankel has programmed a Winamp plugin that blocks out the advertisements in AOL's AIM instant messaging program. The ad areas are currently used to advertise AOL features; install Frankel's plugin and they're replaced by plain white boxes. Start playing a tune in Winamp and the boxes turn into a graphical display that changes with the music.

Even better, Frankel released the software on a hidden page on a server belonging to Nullsoft, and thus to AOL. The description of the software made no mention of its AIM-modifying effects, though the name of the plugin is AIMazing.

http://techreport.com/news/1211/winamp-creator-nullifies-aim...
What if you have to jailbreak it to get it to go where you want it to go?
> It all depends on where you live. I doubt where he lives (Longmont CO) is that expensive. There are plenty of places in the USA where 25k will go a long way.

Yeah, but that's one of the constraints I'm talking about. There are many worthwhile places to live on the planet that would be out of that range.

> I don't get why people on here are so negative about it. Don't be bitter because you live in the valley and spend 2k+ a month just for a crappy apartment.

I'm not and I don't. :) He just happens to be espousing a (rather extreme) philosophy that I disagree with, and I think people might want to think twice before following in his footsteps.

I agree with you that people that spend so much time at work that they don't have time to spend with their family should probably think twice about that too. Just because I said I disagree with one extreme doesn't mean I agree with the other extreme!
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Interesting read, but I have to disagree with one of the tenets of the article. At one point he suggests that people should almost inevitably relocate at some point to a less-expensive area of the country in order to save for retirement.

Wealth is relative. You can increase your own in only one of two ways- either earn more or spend less. Obviously his advice is the latter, but if you fall into the former category (and let's face it, if you're a frequent visitor to this site you almost certainly are) then that is probably terrible advice.

I happen to live in D.C. and I can tell you that things are very good here. The job market is one of the hottest in the nation, real estate prices are astronomical and ever-growing, and most people you interact with around the city are above-average wage earners compared to the rest of the country.

Yes it is expensive to live here, but a rising tide lifts all boats. If you want to prosper, it helps to sell in a market that is ripe with people who have the means to buy what you are selling. That could be your skills if you are looking for work or a product or service if you are trying to get something started. All things being equal, a strong economy helps all participants. If you move to the middle of Kansas, chances are you'll spend a lot less, but you'll probably earn a lot less too.
The global package index meant (for me) that pretty much everything I installed broke something else I needed. Once they've got the sandbox stuff working (and when you can start a repl in that sandbox, imo it's nearly useless if you can't), it should be much better.
Semi-delusional.

Some people have become fantastically rich building products with no idea how they were going to make money. Way way way more people have gone broke doing it.

For every Zuckerberg there are a thousand homeless guys mumbling to themselves and pushing around shopping carts.
so true. rails on top of mongo. You could build that in a weekend.
I've made my switch away from Winamp since they use Bento as their default UI. now I use AIMP, come with Media Library and Tag Editor :)
http://www.aimp.ru/index.php
He's also willing to move far from family to have his dream life. He did choose wisely in moving to Longmont, CO, the much cheaper suburb of Boulder, CO. Were I looking for a place to live with no family or other external considerations in the selection, the Boulder valley/Front Range of Colorado would be #1. To get a reasonably priced home you can't be directly in Boulder, but there's lots of land in the Front Range plains, and thus, plenty of homes.
Unfortunately, CSS does not support a "has", "contains", or "parent" selector, which would be required to support this.

.button:focus + .tip, .tip.open, .tip:has(a:focus)

One line of jQuery should solve:

$('.tip a').focus(function(){ $('.tip').addClass('open'); }).blur(function(){ $('.tip').removeClass('open'); });
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Easy fix: Apple should stop announcing new products at WWDC. I doubt they will; WWDC is as much about a stock price bump as a conference for developers. Still, if they could make it unappealing to fanboys, John Gruber, and (insert-gadget-blog-name-here), it could serve the community.
True, but fewer places as naturally beautiful or outdoor-friendly that Boulder Valley. There's a reason that Colorado has the lowest obesity rate in the country. There's just so many great athletic activites.
Full explanation here explains how it works:

https://github.com/apenwarr/blip#readme

As a point of comparison, my results are:

- gstatic.com ~75ms
- apenwarr.ca ~150ms
- wired ethernet network
- ADSL
- paying my ISP $52/month + taxes

Has anyone had luck in persuading their ISP to "do something" about poor latency?
Momentum vs compatibility in open source
SASS could help you generate the required CSS, but you would still need some kind of customized markup, dynamic call to a SASS function, or JavaScript if you wanted to support a truly arbitrary/dynamic/database-driven number of buttons.
They've already done this. Two years ago they announced WWDC would become software focused and that it would be unlikely to have major hardware announcements.
One thing that struck me about this article is the anti-pattern : Describe the distribution in words, then don't show the chart / graph.

I refer to "Twice as many successful entrepreneurs are over 50 as under 25; and twice as many, over 60 as under 20. ... ". That takes a bit of parsing and visualizing to actually make sense of, and is pretty central to the topic of the article.

That sentence describes some sort of log-normal bump distribution. But you'd want to compare it to the some-sort-of-lognormal distribution of population per age to draw a conclusion.

The assumption may be "our readers are too math-dumb to read a chart". If true, why is that? Most people can read a map, so I wonder what percentage of people can read a population distribution and make some sense of it. How can it be improved?

[ I created GridMaths.com [ early demo stage], so I'm actually interested in how to get Math concepts across to young people. ]
Thanks a lot! Sumit (my cofounder) is sending you a mail. Lets connect.
Are these 'features' not available in the US ?

Because they are standard here in Australia/NZ and IIRC the UK. Almost every major service center will loan you a car and provide a valet service. And the Annual Service Contract is typically thought of as a 'lock you in' scam to prevent you from getting cheaper servicing through third parties.

I don't really see a lot of innovation here. I would like to see the car notify Telsa of a specific component fault then they come out to house/work and fix it on the spot. Or do servicing at night time and on weekends.
Oh wow .. never knew that. Thanks for letting us know.
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The request meeting sends 3 specific times for the other person to accept one, thus making it easier to setup a meeting with them.
"But when the attorney general says, 'I don't want to indict people,' it's the Wild West. There's no law."

How long has it been since we've actually had an AG that really went to bat for the American people? I feel like more there than anywhere, we've been failed by every administration for a good long while.

Yes, the blame goes much, much deeper, but so many of the problems (be it banking or privacy and liberty related issues) all end up at the feet of the attorney general and we've not had one that's been a champion for the people for far too long.
It would seem pointless to have an education faire for an industry rather than a profession. "Come and see what you can do working in the Water industry!" -> you could be a hydrologist, a lawyer, a receptionist, a pipelayer, a sysadmin, a farmer, a payroll officer... it's nonsensical, given the context. It'd almost be easier to list the jobs that can't be shoehorned into such a broad industry.
Combobox, then. They stay open once you click so you don't have to drag, but I've seen many users do the "click-and-drag" with it anyway.
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the frog has not boiled yet
Thanks a lot ! :)
Perfect, You now have copycats: https://github.com/ogt/boxchareditor
If anyone is interested in generating this type of documentation but for larger projects you might want to check out Groc

https://github.com/nevir/groc

It handles multiple languages and keeps your document structure in the navigation.
The original mac menus: click, hold, drag mouse to option you want, release mouse. Still works like that now, but the Windows-style click-release-move-click works too.
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you should definitely 'bother' and start working on it. start focusing on ideas for monetization while you build it. if you can't come up with an idea, perhaps a future partner, mentor, or investor can help you flush out the idea. key is to find and deploy your monetization plan asap, as it's becoming a much more important metric every day.
Too often, bigcorps acquire successful smaller companies, then try to micromanage them in ways that negate the attributes that make them successful.

If you've bought a goose that lays golden eggs, why would you mess with it? Just collect the gold every day and shut up.

You'd think they'd learn to act like a shareholder and keep their hands off day-to-day operations, just stepping in to support the acquiree when its management asks for help that the parent's in a good position to provide, like expansion capital or coordinated marketing.

Of course, all of this is predicated on the acquisition's actually laying eggs consistently -- the parent corp needs to make it clear that they'll come in with a heavy hand of micromanagement, or disband the acquired business unit altogether, if its financial performance is bad enough.

All of what I've said so far only applies when the acquirer's primary target is the revenue the acquiree is generating; it doesn't necessarily apply to companies that are acquired for specific assets such as talent, branding, or technology.
While it does produce leet, the "th" sound doesn't exist in the original hebrew, so it's kind of appropriate.
Ask HN: Are you going to stay away from Parse after the Facebook acquisition?
Why or why not?
If everyone took such advice, they'd all be working for only ten or fifteen out of their 80 years of life, instead of 40 or 45. So you'd only need a third as many total jobs to provide full employment. And those jobs would be focused on things that actually benefit their consumers.
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Weird coincidence, I just rediscovered his site today. Keeps getting better.
Yes! I remember this happening but wasn't able to find any reference to it.

I remember that I was already impressed he'd taken someone else's MP3 player, put a GUI in front of it, and sold it to AOL for hundreds of millions of dollars. But when I saw Nullsoft immediately release the AIM adblocker after being acquired by AOL, I knew they were truly amazing.
Except it's not called jailbreaking on an Android device.
A) 'Edge cases'? 'Few cases'? Ha.

B) I like how you elect to stay mysterious on this point. Since you didn't bother to actually clear anything up and explain where you're coming from, you sound just like yet another pride-wounded MRA mouth-frother.
Want to ace anything in life, charm your way through everyday conversations and problems and more? Be relentlessly empathetic.
I'm sorry, we're not talking about a locked down iOS device here.
Please keep in mind that most people's income is below US$2000 per year.
well, maybe the big part of what kills women's interest in programming/CS is the unnecessary nerdiness that comes attached with it. As if watching starwars or Dr. who or reading marvel comics is essentially related to competency in CS. Note that this is largely a US phenomena. I am not making a judgement about the value of said material, just that they need not be bundled and presented as part and parcel of computing.
The reason why I use Winamp (and can't stand almost every other music playing program I've found) is because Winamp has the Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio DSP plugin. Being able to adjust the playback speed (affecting pitch and tempo), among other things, is a killer feature for me.
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You buy expensive makes then, I really hope you know that you're way above what most people spend on cars. Most cars don't have those chips yet. The only sort of mainstream car I've seen with a chip in the key is the prius, which starts in the low 20s new.
Do more browsers currently support JS or CSS3? (eg up to jquery 1.9 or similar) Not sure I've seen the stats on that as of yet and I'm curious.
> Wouldn't it be very different if one developed the tools while under employment of a certain company

Basically, yes, stuff done on company time is definitely theirs under 'work for hire'. Totally agree with you.

A lot of projects are done as evening/weekend work which is on shaky legal ground - similar to bootstrapping a company while employed. If you have a side activity which is making money, it's simplest to stay quiet about it.

Among the limited sample set of "people I know", it's considered extremely crass for a company to try to pull an undeserved IP grab. Such a company would find it really hard to get self-motivated people after pulling a move like that. Because everyone has side projects.

Although some are diligent about getting "my stuff versus your stuff" spelled out in contract, it's often a "gentleman's agreement"...

As an aside, I wanted to point out that it's really common for security companies (or simply, "groups") to keep internal tools and only release them to the public when they've wrung all the "juice" out of them - e.g. publicity value exceeds the value of the results.

I think this model is not too far off what was described originally.
If ANYONE can figure out how to cancel a living social account, let me know. What a fucken crap site.
How long has it been since we've actually had an AG that really went to bat for the American people?

At this point, I don't think it's terribly inaccurate to say that AGs seem to go to bat against the American people more than they do for them.
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I found the references to geek pop culture items odd, what does liking Star Wars, Doctor Who or comics have to do with working in IT? I have nothing against those things (nor would I consider myself of fan of them) but, I certainly don't think someone who doesn't embrace geek culture is any less intelligent or less able to fit into the IT industry as this story seems to imply. I don't presume to know the entire situation for the girl in the story but, to me it seems as if this she was dismissing her peers in much the same way they where dismissing her.
Slightly OT nit-pick here...

PRIMARY SUBMITTER: Whats it worth
SWSISS FRANC TRADER: ive got some sushi rolls from yesterday?...
PRIMARY SUBMITTER: ok low 6m, just for u

Uh, what. Assuming this is a real transcript, and without some very compelling proof that PS actually fixed the price, I think that this is obviously, literally, a joke. That is, SFT and PS are bullshitting around, a bit of gallows humour about the possibility of price fixing.
it's not quite a good analogy. Hermes bag is related to fashion. Starwars in unrelated to computer science.
The words "fooled by randomness" come to mind. He got lucky, and thinks that he didn't.
I agree with you, and want to thank you fleshing out the thoughts on this topic for me to consume.

Here are my questions/concerns (and I know that no one is claiming this is universal solution to everything).

This type of thing is a [great but] local/temporary/band-aid to a systemic problem, and that mismatch, combined with the murky territory of gender, seems vulnerable to problems. How do transgender-ed people fit in this, they could certainly be/have been targeted by the same anti-math-stuff discrimination?

If you have a group/club for each under-represented demographic (female, black, trans, etc.), does that, in some way, promote some sort of isolationism?

What if this/a service/hacker-space is the only one in the area and/or the only one offering a specific thing (python vs ruby, or the only one with google glass or focused on UX)? Is it then still 'fair' to deny access to an individual based on something like their gender?
Of course, females are systematically under-valued (if thats the right term) in this (and many other) fields, and so this is a drop in the ocean on the global gender/computer score board, and its not like it is their fault that no one else teaches UX or Lisp (having limited options at all to start with is sub-optimal), but it is not like said individual probably has anything to do with this type of repression. I guess this question regards how much the average 'male' (gender is vestigial and evil, see: post-genderism) human in computers has a leg up due to general repression.

This is not to dismiss the fact that having gender exclusive clubs might foster a more trusting or encouraging environment or something for some. Thank you for your time.
That was an interesting watch.

I can't help but feel the tribunal would inevitably lead to holier than thou attitudes, they would vote on surface behavior rather than intent and effect. To put that in context, I used to play Planetside with a clan called Obsidian Empire. We had a player there that was the most vial, crude son-of-a-bitch I had ever seen (well, heard). If you screwed up he'd be on you fast. But he was so outlandish that really everyone loved him.

Addressed in a setting as puritanical as the tribunal, he'd never make it. People are likely to vote on shortly adopted principles and on the surface behavior, rather than what message the player actually sent to who the player was talking to.

it's disinfectant, for sure, disinfectant gets rid of alot of problems. Serious problems in fact. It may sound incredulous to argue against it when weight against disinfectants benefits. I'd bet allot of the hackers reading this would rather my friend simply not be such a prick.

I'm glad it's there, but I would prefer a system where a good intentioned friend would survive the process.
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Most articles on this topic take the starting position that 'most IT workers are male, therefore the industry must be putting up barriers to female candidates.' However, I wonder if it's not more accurate to say that society puts barriers in front of anyone who's interested in an IT career, and males just find these barriers less difficult to circumvent. Nobody wants to be called a 'geek' but it seems more catastrophic for girls and women.