skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem with this blog entry -- besides the fact that posts like these garner all sorts of self-pats-on-the-back from men who already outnumber women exponentially, thus making those dealing with these issues feel even smaller than they already do -- is that no one is asking for special treatment.

A thousand times yes. It's an argument which warrants skepticism if for no other reason than the fact that it lets men off the hook.

And I too grind my teeth because I suspect there's the implicit dynamic of, "here's a woman who disagrees, therefore you don't speak for all women, therefore we can round file talk about inclusion and feminism." It enables even more reflexive contrarianism.

Fundamentally, even coming from a woman, these arguments boil down to "have you tried not having feelings?" Or perhaps more accurately: "I don't have a problem; have you tried being me?" It's not in the least bit actionable.

And apropos of your third para: in general if the premise of your argument is that you have to adopt the arguer's attitude, background, and/or worldview wholesale, discarding your own, it's a failed argument. It's part of the antipattern wherein women are expected to adopt male attitudes and behavioral patterns in order to get by. (Which is itself yet another way in which men can declaim responsibility.)

Anyway, I thank you and Dan for the high quality conversation here. I'd avoided looking at this comment thread for obvious reasons, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Very nice. I think this could work for mobile as well. Select an input box, and have a tab for email, phone, or URL keyboards/pads.
According to Titor though what ever he did in our time would not directly affect his time. He traveled through time to a parallel universe(our universe) where things are pretty similar to his time with some differences.

According to him the farther back or forward in time he goes the more things change.

So, with that said, we might still be screwed. But maybe we can find an IBM 5100 and solve this problem.
That's funny, where I'm from the policy is called "jQuery".
Meaning that over the long term no large pot of money goes unlooted. The public doesn't have enough influence to stop, say, some form of nationalizing of 401k accounts into pension plans wherein what they are invested in is decided by government employees. Large segments of the public would even go along with it. That then turns into looking like just another tax and entitlement because the funds can be siphoned off and spent immediately, much like social security.

The present status quo regarding finance in the US cannot continue indefinitely. Sooner or later the obligations cannot be met. There are all sorts of failure modes and unpleasant things that can happen along that road, as more funds are sought, or various institutions collapse, and the looters become ever more brazen. Some form of prettified confiscation of 401k accounts isn't anywhere near the worst of them.
This seems to go contrary to the idea of managed processes. Wasn't Heroku supposed to abstract the idea of host all together ?
Not all services support unix domain sockets. It's one more option on the table, but I agree that domain sockets should be favored in most cases.
> “John Smith” <john@example.com>

Why would email clients copy a string like this? In my entire history of email copying and pasting, I don't think I've ever wanted that text.
Stop obsessing about college degrees for the 90% of coding jobs that don't require complex algorithmic work. Hire smart people and train them on the job or hire smart motivated self-learners.
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It is still abstracted, nothing changes from the point of view of most applications.

It just opens more possibilities and increases the isolation.
when I use the word "disrupt" it means forget market prices and market mechanisms, because we are "disrupting" this market.

example startup: "We found 1000 tons of diamonds and have a wholesale buyer. we'd like to dig it up." market mechamism: whole diamond price, mining equipment price, purchase orders ,etc.

example "disruptive" startp: "We found a way to pull diamonds out of thin air without paying anything for them. As we no longer need any wholesaler our route to market is direct to consumer at 100x volume. we are the mcdonald's of diamonds."

See the difference? One is the existing mechanism. The other is something new.
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Is the use of OpenJDK along with any Java code free for commercial use?.. Or do companies that use OpenJDK have a chance to have Oracle charge them for using its technologies?..
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The "Compiling Javascript" loader takes way too long (at least on my system) to not give any indication as to how long I will wait or whether it's still doing anything. At least a "this might take up to X minutes".

Demo itself ran halfway ok, clicking on 'Benchmark' (which I had to guess was in the upper pulldown) immediately froze everything for me (Firefox on Kubuntu).

Still: I do appreciate a demo that even kinda-sorta works on gnu/linux.
"HTML5 is supposed to solve the problem of writing for different devices and browsers, but designers have found that the standard has its own complexities"

WTF?!!!
This is great info - thanks! :-)
Whoops.

[1] What is the modern equivalent of a mixtape? MixCDs are almost equally archaic. A mix-playlist??
Surely burning that methane is "in-system". Methane has a 20-year GWP of 72 and, unless my chemistry is far more rusty than I think it is, 1 mol of methane will burn with oxygen to form 1 mol of CO2. From a global warming standpoint, it would actually be wildly irresponsible to not burn that methane. In fact this seems to be the basis for the EPA's "Landfill Methane Outreach Program".
Edsger Dijkstra - The Poetry Of Programming
Madeboards have created 3D printed custom-made surfboards
The 2070 problem is going to be much more serious. The only stuff still running code then will be stuff we're terrified to touch like reactor control systems and such.

I hope I live to see it.
I can't find it at the moment but I remember reading a study showing that even with the cost of fixing Y2K issues it was still an economically sound decision to use two digit years given the historical cost of storage. In other words it was cheaper to fix the problem in 1999 than it would have been to buy enough mainframe storage in 1979 to store the extra two digits.
Akka calls them lightweight threads, but they really aren't as they can't be blocked. In short - they're not implemented as continuations.

Basing the implementation on real lightweight threads gives you selective receive and other goodies mentioned in the post, while maintaining the API simple. I think Quasar/Pulsar are much simpler than Akka, and they will stay simpler for said reason.

All in all, Akka feels a lot more complicated than Erlang. Also, Scala isn't everyone's cup of tea, and Akka doesn't mesh well with Clojure.

Quasar tries to join the power of Erlang with the power of the JVM. Pulsar tries to join the beauty and elegance of Erlang with the beauty and elegance of Clojure.
I think the kind of disruption the author is referring to is Joseph Schumpeter's "creative destruction" or Schumpeter's gale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Harder than it looks: rounding a float to the nearest integer
Well it's the standard format for displaying both the user's name & email address together (and part of the SMTP spec). But yeah - typically you just want the real address part.

In Gmail at least you can get what you want with some careful highlighting - but Apple Mail doesn't let you copy that portion at all. Hence this feature :)
> Is there something like a web framework for it?

Yup. It is called 'awful'. :-) [0]

It is still more bare bones compared to something like rails or django but we are continually improving it. It is very straightforward and easy to get started with, and it is already quite powerful. You can do most things in it as easy or sometimes even easier than in more popular frameworks. You do have less web-framework-specific libraries to work with though.

edit: awful can also be done with SXML which prevents XSS attacks be default.

[0] http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/awful
I definitely agree for large applications.

But for quickly spinning up a few light service endpoints, Node can't be beat. Especially if you are using JSON-based persistence like MongoDB or CouchDB, using JSON all the way from database to the client is a huge win. I get tired of writing lots of JAXB POJOs to map my JSON objects to and from, especially early on in development when those definitions change rapidly. That's why enjoy using Node, especially for "toy" projects. Less boilerplate and more productive quickly.

Side note: I find myself wishing Node had Annotations and AOP... one of Java's coolest (though oft-misused) features IMHO.
Are these filters better than what Photoshop/Gimp/... can do?
Probably the statement should be that comparing mean and variance are only relevant if both metrics follow the same distribution. In the absence of distribution information (and it is usually absent in empirical tests like that) quantiles would help to do a better job at comparing performance.
Just to clarify the simulator is now version 3.0, not the OS itself.

Here is a link from Mozilla explaining whats new in the new version of the simulator:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/firefox-os-simulator-3-0-r...
"other" at coarse granularity, or "other" at fine granularity?
Heroku engineer here. Thanks for the suggestion, we will definitely consider it in the future.

Meanwhile, there is an add-on that does exactly this: https://addons.heroku.com/proximo
There are now Visual studio project templates for Nancy
Contribute and we'll see what it does in round 5 ;)
I completely understand your point, but I think it's fair to say that most .Net code will run on Windows server, and that pretty much everything else will run on some kind of linux flavor.
Just like you have a "keep the default framework setting" approach to help compare very different frameworks because that's how the majority of people will use them, you may very well assume that comparing frameworks on their preferred OS is fair enough.

I know that i wouldn't mind switching to a windows+.Net environment if it proved to be much much faster than what i'm using right now.
There seems to be some debate about whether particulate matter has a net-warming or net-cooling effect. It's difficult to estimate empirically, because there are so many uncontrolled variables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling#Aerosols
How do you find the 'smart people'? (not that a college degree implies that someone is smart). Being 'smart' isn't enough to get the job done.
Probably easier to just use a whitelist policy, no?
This is business as usual for me with ASP.NET. IIS Express has to start, then the app to load, then to initialize, then to compile the views.

And don't get me started on the Azure Compute Emulator.
jQuery with an optional Angular directive in another git repo.
So Instagram pictures do not end up at Facebook? I thought they did, shows in how big need I was for an explanation :)
> "What's the points of this? I've been doing the same thing since the 80s by piping four shell commands together?!?" - is not really constructive.

> Letting people know you are unlikely to use the code/product/gizmo is also constructive, especially if you can manage to tell why.

By my reading, these two statements contradict each other. The quote you claim is not constructive seems to me to be saying the author sees no value in the hypothetical contribution, as it offers no additional power and less convenience than what he already uses, and therefore he won't be using it. Isn't that exactly what say is constructive in the second statement I quoted? If I'm misunderstanding you here, can you explain what I'm missing?
I think you're missing the point of the question.
Seems a big part of this is is a lot of the proponents thought the comparison was really a Ford vs a Corvette, I dont think a lot of people were really internalizing exactly the ramifications of the order(s) of magnitude difference in performance. Which is why this kinda benchmark is pretty helpful.
Only anecdotal evidence here, but I've noticed a lot fewer people reposting everything from Instagram onto their FB profiles. I see a lot more of my friends using Instragram as an autonomous social network, and at least among my friends, it seems like Instagram's user base is still growing aggressively.
Keep in mind you want to avoid premature optimization of both the back end and the front end.

This is a great tip for a validated concept, but at the MVP stage, I wouldn't consider it priorty #1.
> facebook could own the biggest social networks out there.

ftfy. if they know what they are doing, they'll just merge the data into one network, and keep the user experience on the frontends the same.
Never mind, of course, that this has happened. Executive Order 6102, I believe it was.
There is probably something good in German, but it will be 18 letters long.
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When you copy from outlook, it copies that unless you first double click on the contact then select just the email address.
In middle America, businesses don't realize that you don't need a Computer Science degree to be a systems administrator, much less a CRUD app developer.

It's weird that the same society who thinks "little Johnny is good with computers, he can do x/y/z" has trouble even letting little Johnny get an interview if he doesn't have a CS degree.
I love the fact that Mozilla keeps pushing javascript to its limits. They seem to be doing a lot of things really well lately, this is awesome!! Plus you have Firefox OS, which pushes web-standards to native mobile. Now I just wish the devtools would get up to paar with those on chrome/chromium and I'd be switching back to FF in a heartbeat.

I wish google would stay on board with JS since they have the engineering power to do a lot in this area, but to me it seems after V8 they've kind of abbonned JS in favor of Dart (As oppossed to supporting asm.js). For instance, I just did the "try anyway" in chrome 26.0 linux and everything crashed. Did anyone get it working in chrome?
This is awesome! I wished I could run cause its slow to walk around but then I discovered you can alt-tab to another window and keep the event for W active
Someone mentioned the benchmark in the Yii forum a while ago [1], but it seems nobody wanted to submit a pull request for Yii.

[1] http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/42168-fram...
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200k over four years, less taxes, which will be maxed because you'll realize all of the earnings as income in one year. So around 30k a year take-home. Maybe slightly more than the standard 10-15% salary bonus of an intermediate engineer at BigCo, but it's not why the guy is working at the startup, or at least I hope it isn't for his sake.
The far bigger plague is the way honest, legitimate questions get met with shaming and ridicule instead of knowledge-enhancing answers.

Take these honest, legitimate, and perhaps well-intentioned questions. Take every man who is skeptical of this whenever a woman brings up her experiences. Take arbitrary levels of skepticism as well as standards of proof, since we're talking about varying individuals.

Multiply all that, and try to imagine answering that nearly every time the topic comes up.

It's a rhetorical DDoS, effectively. And people get sick as shit of it, given (among other things) the difficulty in determining who's even operating in good faith.

In general people get frustrated that the questioners expect the questioned to take sole or primary responsibility for educating every single skeptic. You might feel like you, personally, are being shamed, but to be honest, this rounds down to a subset of male behavior, in aggregate.

For me, the solution is to give women in particular the benefit of the doubt when it comes to things like this. It makes these discussions a hell of a lot more fruitful, and I've learned a hell of a lot since.
Just replace "disrupt" with "steal". Then decide if you're ok with being a part of that redistribution.
Hello bilbo0s.

Thanks for taking the time to dig in and provide some feedback. As much as possible, we want each test to be representative of idiomatic production-grade usage of the framework or platform. Furthermore, we have solicited contributions from fans of frameworks and the frameworks' authors. A side objective is that the code double as an example of how best to use the framework or platform.

All of this means we fully expect that the implementation approaches will vary significantly.

The multiple query test has a client-provided count of queries, so in most Java cases, we create a fixed-size array to hold the results fetched from the database. I wrote the Servlet and Gemini tests, so I can confirm that behavior in those tests.

We are not Vert.x experts and we have not yet received a community contribution for the Vert.x test. However, it is our understanding that idiomatic Vert.x usage encourages the use of asynchronous queries. The question then is: how do we collect the results into a single List in a threadsafe manner? Is your JsonArray alternative threadsafe? Admittedly, using a CopyOnWriteArrayList gave us pause, but we are not (yet) aware of a better alternative.

The Onion test was contributed by a reader and admittedly its compliance with the specification we've created is perhaps a bit dubious. We want a JSON serializer to process an in-memory object into JSON. I'm not certain if the Onion implementation matches that expectation, but the test implementation nevertheless seemed sufficiently idiomatic for his platform.

We're certainly open to more opinions on that matter.
It's worth noting that philosophy's questions very often treat theistic worldviews with a significant amount of irreverence. A lot of these questions are relatively worthless when you can answer them with, "Whatever God decided on."
Sitting in a hole in the ground is from whence it came. Trash collectors should be getting substantial carbon credits. Their credits should increase the deeper they manage to bury the stuff. Sending it into the atmosphere, especially near the Arctic circle, if atrociously bad.
OK, just discovered you can double click for the dude to walk over there too ;p

edit: although there is no path finding
It's not mentioned in the article, but this is the same tech as Premier (https://premier.mobileworks.com) under a different name. The easiest way to try it is to send a task to premier@mobileworks.com, or to use Nathan Kontny's excellent product, Draft (http://draftin.com)!
I'm just going by what I heard people have been getting from some of my friends. Obviously it depends on how a given company is set up. Obviously.
A single dictionary word .com is almost always worth $1500. Buy it now before the price goes up and you have to fight for it later. Better than spending it on beer and other stuff that makes you fat.
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It's actually now the default for new accounts.

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/03/amazon-ec2-update-virtual...
More importantly they've got a section specifically for accessibility.

Well done.

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/accessibility/settings
They're probably better than what Photoshop/Gimp can do on your smartphone. Producing professional-quality portfolio pieces isn't the main use case here :)

(Speaking as someone who also doesn't quite "get" Instagram.)
gold is a superior investment vehicle, because the government can't take it from you.
> in the system

That doesn't make it better. We have too much carbon in the atmosphere. We should be growing corn for the sole purpose of pouring it into oil wells and coal shafts.
Same thing whenever those "useless" organizations like the World Health Organization monitor/quarantine people and animals showing new strains of the flu. Afterward, I inevitably hear a "well, that sure was a dud... all that expense and trouble over a flu that didn't turn out to be a big deal. They're just trying to scare us to justify their jobs." Infuriating.
If you're continuously restarting, you're doing it wrong. That argument became invalid about 4 years ago I think around the time Eclipse Helios was released.

Now-a-days, starting a Tomcat or TomEE JVM in debug mode with Eclipse gives you the ability to hot swap probably 95% of your changes. It doesn't supporting adding completely new functions or changing declared fields. JRebel does support this though.

As a matter of fact, if you're in a stack frame and you pause the execution pointer with a breakpoint, you can completely change the code of the function and the JVM will discard the current stack frame and then restart the functional call. Essentially, you can rewrite your code, while it's executing, without losing your stack.
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CircleUp (https://circleup.com/), downtown San Francisco.

We are an equity based crowdfunding platform for consumer products companies. We help non-tech companies get the funding they need. Featured in WSJ and NYTimes.

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Looking for Full-Stack / Front-End Engineers, and Designers.

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On a recent story about AngularJS, one of the top comments was someone noting that they think poorly of AngularJS because the website for the project "looks like a Bootstrap site".

To which I say: Who gives a shit.

I say the same here. The site looks fantastic, and I would love if my local municipality had something as clean and functional, whether or not it looks like a wordpress theme.

Too many want to be world weary. They want to announce that they can see under the covers and thus are above it. I don't get it.
So you're saying that MVPs should be of mediocre quality?
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From the article:

> A dyno should let you run any application or set of processes that you would run on your local machine or on an old-school server.

As soon as you allow multiple processes per dyno the abstraction becomes less clear. It means that now a dyno is more like a small VPS and I have to know which process is on which dyno for communication.
ooo oooo Niche Alert* run a contest insta-scam, and woefully have people tag your spam page for free airline passes, or gucci bags.
This is standard behavior for Outlook.
I don't think that better function that works actually works flawlessly; when passed a NaN or -Infinity, it triggers undefined behavior.

Still, this is a nice article.
It doesn't work for me. I downloaded Nightly using the provided link, but when I open the URL it still says unsupported browser. It also doesn't have the option to 'try anyway' like Chrome does.
We're beyond the MVP stage... and I think when you're competing with well established players in a big space your best option is to compete on product quality rather than marketing, cost, etc.

It's also worth noting that this is a form that can get filled out dozens of times a day by many of our users. It's not some obscure settings page.
Good for them. Astrid is best todo/task app I've ever tried...and I've tried many. In fact, testing out todo/task apps is a great way to procrastinate.
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Those agreements usually are for a certain number of years, not forever. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare, Dodgeball was acquired in 2005 and Foursquare was started in 2009, the same year Google shut down Dodgeball.
v8 doesn't look abandoned to me: there have been 19 commits so far today to the public v8 repository. https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/list