skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My rephrasing of that is, "If the working world is systematically biased against women, was it biased against Sandberg? Why did her male bosses and mentors choose her to be the exception? Would female bosses and mentors have made Sandberg's success easier to achieve?"
STM in Haskell
Samsung's Tizen can run android apps.
It's super effective.
As always, very beautiful work. Congratulations and thank you for contributing this back to the OSGEO community.
When a lock only stays shut as long as it's the biggest, and everyone is pouring thousands of tons of molten steel in just to keep the lock big? Hell yes it's a waste of resources.

A single lock is much closer to encryption than it is to 'race the world' levels of proof of work.
Good god, their design is amazing. Visually it is just beautiful to look at and ascetically pleasing. Is it based on any framework or library?

http://mapbox.com

And the tour:

http://mapbox.com/tour/
Do you use any static analysis tool to verify these rules? For example, in the company that I work for we use MISRA C along with PC-lint (with some MISRA add-ons)
His reviews would've been a lot funnier if Arsdigita didn't crash and burn years ago.

>He doesn't get into the question of whether the investors from 1980 are happy now that they own less than 70 percent of the company.

They should be happy considering GE's value rose 4000% during Jack Welch's tenure at GE.[1]

When Jack Welch became General Electric’s CEO in 1981, the company was worth about $14 billion. When he retired 20 years later, GE was worth nearly $500 billion.[2]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch

[2]http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/jack-welch-and-...
Yes, and then because companies start using NoSQL or whatever for problems they could have done fine in mysql they start asking for NoSQL experts when they are hiring.

This makes devs think that they need NoSQL experience and therefor they will find ways to shoehorn NoSQL into whatever problems they are currently solving.
I don't think you really understand how the protocol works. The transaction rate is rather small and handled entirely by general purpose CPUs. The proof of work uses a fixed-size input made by hashing all the transactions in a block.
Hmm. I guess I got the gist that you've expressed. That makes me feel a little better, thanks. That last sentence was the puzzler.
Given the spat at OGC with regard to Geoservices REST API, its high time that we ditch OGC and start a clean standardization body. We need futuristic standards and that can take the geospatial industry forward, not as in ESRI. I see that the team at Mapbox is ideal for that and lets hope that can take the lead
Kudos.

I got more info about AWS internal here than following jeff bar and other AWS evangelists in last 5 years.
One is hardware assisted, one is not?
It's good to hear that Cal's grad program is good. I'm in undergrad here right now, and I plan to start researching next semester so I can integrate myself a little more into this side of things. Any advice? If you haven't left yet I'll buy you lunch if I can pick your brain.
how would the computing power of botnets compare to this?

Granted, its more about network resources than calculations of the bitcoin kind.

According to [1], botnets control bots by the millions, and have the capacity to send billions of spam mails a day.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet#Historical_list_of_botne...

edit: grammar.
> that's not the point. saying left-handed people make 20% more than right-handed people is equally (if not much more) dubious.

The sentence before that is "Hardly anybody knows anything about why some workers succeed more than others." His citation of the US News report is meant as an example that there is a lot of confusion on the subject. He is using it specifically to illustrate that dubious claims are flying around.
Agreed it is from crazeal's code. but running something on debug mode is completely unacceptable.
Pretty outrageous to hear the IRS is doing this.
What is the advantage of using yoused over craiglist?
One on one web development mentorship is the core advantage of Bloc: http://www.bloc.io
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Because I think this type of design invites the player, instead of frightening or intimidating them. Visual clutter can discourage potential gamers (especially the casual audience I have in mind).

The lack of clutter (along with a well-designed game) also suggests the designer thought deeply about the necessary components.
Why would an owner need to take "the time to sit down and work on a new site" if he's paying you to do it?

I think that's your issue right there. Your software is designed to let owners create their own website. They don't want that. They don't have time for it. But they do have money.

Crowdsourcing is one solution. But you need to work in compensation somehow. Maybe host a competition for anyone that frequents that restaurant to design the site then give a prize?
ah. so being methodically retarded is all part of his plan. how clever!
"I didn't want to say anything, but, I heard this Greenspun guy is a maaaaaaaaaaaajor douche."
That's the Snidely Whiplash version. Some other reasons:

+ The character of work and the workforce changed markedly in America over the years, from an economy where a man employed by BigCo could reasonably be assumed to work for BigCo until the day he died, to an economy where men and women work, labor force participation is often interrupted, and stints exceeding 3 to 5 years at a company are unusual enough to be remarked upon, to say nothing of 40+ years.

+ Defined-benefits pensions come bundled with a few other expectations, such as lifetime employment and tenure, which are sort of on the outs at US companies.

+ Defined-benefits pensions are highly correlated to workplaces which are toxic to work in, because you'll frequently find yourself surrounded by clockpunching deadwood whose sole goal in working is not doing anything to upset their chances of making pension. If you've worked in government or a union shop, you know what I mean. If you haven't, try doing software development for a week in a union shop, then evaluate whether receiving a pension is sufficient to have yourself sentenced to doing that for 40 years.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but there's Hacker School: https://www.hackerschool.com/
Maybe it refers to Erik Meijer?

A famous Haskell developer that went to Microsoft to work on Visual Basic team and started there the LINQ project?

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/emeijer/papers...
In August 2008, start working on my startup idea with my best friend who is also a co-worker at the day job. We work nights and weekends.

April 2009, I quit full time, start working 20 hours a week, and work on the startup 40-50 hours/week

2009-2011, continue working on startup full time, with occasional part-time contracting (less than 40 hrs/mo).

March 2011, my cofounder quits, I give up soon afterwards. We had zero revenue, zero traction, and no plan.

I screw around with a couple of ideas, and try to understand how we wasted the last 3 years.

I contract some more, realize I can't go back to big corporate life, and start another startup. This time I decide I'll do something "easy", with a clear path to revenue. We're going to charge people early. First line of code gets written in September 2011. We have beta users in December 2011. We turn on payments in April 2012. We sign up 14 paying customers in the first month.

We grow steadily, and raise $1.5M in December 2012. There are now weeks that where we add more customers than we did in the first few months. We'd be profitable if we stopped hiring.

It's been incredibly difficult, stressful and tiring. You need tenacity, but not too much, as my three-year wander in the desert showed. You need to not give up in your goal to be successful, but be able to give up on individual strategies.

You need people to support you, and you need to repay their support. My then girlfriend, now wife nearly left me several times because early on I didn't know how to handle the stress, and I didn't know how to unplug and have a nice night to repay her for putting up with my stress and inattention for the rest of the week. I don't think I could be successful without her.

My complete failure on the first startup was caused by not having a clear plan for how the startup was going to succeed. We should have done a better job identifying who the customer is, how we were going to charge them, and how we were going to reach them. Additionally, the first startup had large amounts of technical risk. (It was using some advanced machine learning, when neither of us started knowing machine learning).

I'd call myself a machine learning expert now, but that definitely wasn't the case when I started. There's a saying, "in machine learning, you learn, and the computer doesn't".

The other major failure was that we didn't evaluate our progress, in terms of business metrics. Each month the product got better, and we understood the algorithms more, but no progress was made on traction of any kind, or customer development. You should read Lean Startup before you write a single line of code in your startup. We should have given up after 3 months, or even a year of no progress. Instead we wasted 3.

Unless you're curing cancer, all startups have market risk. For first time entrepreneurs, I'd recommend against things that have both market risk and technical risk. And if you have technical risk, you'd better be an expert at it, before you start.
Tech pioneer Bill Gates still lugs around a giant bag of paper books
> saying left-handed people make 20% more than right-handed people is equally (if not much more) dubious.

That was his point! Sheryl Sandberg has a particular thesis and cherry picked some numbers from some study to support her assertion. He mocked this by cherry picking another. I'm pretty sure he doesn't particularly know (or care) if right-handed people are more successful in their careers.

This may be fair or it may be unfair criticism, but the fact that Sandberg threw a whole bunch of references in doesn't automatically mean her assertions are supported by science.

>if you ever find yourself arguing that someone's references are likely wrong because they are in the humanities... well I just want to punch you in the face really..

Your reading comprehension is suspect. I certainly didn't argue this, and neither did Greenspun.
Perhaps he packs a lot of data in his carrion luggage.
Samsung developing 5G telecommunication technology, to roll out year 2020
I'm not fan of Dots, actually. While Eliss and Letterpress have their own rules and strategies (similar to Braid, for example), Dots feels too much like a Bejeweled clone to me.

Maybe I didn't give it a fair shot? What do you think?
Sorry, but this sets off my bullshit detector.
If someone compromises your server he also has access to the routines decrypting the ssh keys.
How do you encrypt them?
Oh, great! :)
I guess as a software engineer I can be a little pedantic, literal and detail oriented, perhaps to my own detriment.
Samsung Announces World’s First 5G mmWave Mobile Technology
Well, except that it's a web site. That's why I would be attracted to this: it's something that I can send to anybody and it will always, always work. No hassle.
Those are numbers assigned to his tropo account (at $3/month per number for a Tropo production account); Tropo doesn't allow for sender spoofing on SMS.

I'm not sure why his company would run an internal SMS voting campaign, and not limit to phone numbers from the employee address book, but I'm guessing they'll start that pretty soon.
Agreed. It is quite amazing what modern ANSI SQL has built into it. If one picks the right storage engine, an appropriate schema design and is rigorous about data quality, the flexibility and performance is incredible.
I'm subscribed to Pluralsight training. Maybe only a few courses might be relevant but it's a relatively cheap entry cost for the possible ROI.
Not sure if I agree with the section about curly braces being vertically aligned. I have seen production code with both and it honestly comes down to personal preference. If you think about aligning the start of the function/if with the closing curly brace it kind of has the same effect as stacking the curly braces.
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check out BRIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC

STRATFOR:

"Because India's population will surpass that of China in 2030 or so, even as India's population will get gray at a slower rate than that of China, India may in relative terms have a brighter future. As inefficient as India's democratic system is, it does not face a fundamental problem of legitimacy like China's authoritarian system very well might."

-- R. Kaplan

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/india-china-rivalry
This is bad???

Sandberg confirms that “A is Average” at Harvard. Her brother David, a neurosurgeon whom Sandberg admires because currently “he splits child care duties with his wife fifty-fifty”, was also a Harvard undergrad. He takes “a class in European intellectual history”, skips all but two lectures and all but one book, gets tutored for three hours and receives an A for the semester (p32-33). The guy’s success is attributed to the general confidence of men. Sandberg does not consider how likely it is that her brother’s confidence would have resulted in an A in a physics class at Caltech.
There no 'shitty conditions'. Not by what I perceive and experience.

People who opted to stay in India to reap the benefits of the IT boom in the 90's are in something like a million times better conditions than the guys who left to the US in the 90's.

If you want to be super rich, this is the time to be in India. And it will be at least for the next half century, there is too much room to grow and there is far little genuine competition.
The thing is, there is yet to exist any tool that allows TDD of desktop UIs beyond the toy examples people come up with web applications at conferences.
As a counterpoint to a lot of the outrage, it's worth noting that the rules around 501c4 organizations are fucked.

As Ezra Klein points out "The IRS was wrong to target the tea party. They should’ve gone after all 501(c)4s."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/10/t...

The fact that this has become a political issue is a huge failure of governance, not politics.
Ah, the "that's only true for the US..." meme, which always lacks any kind of graph or reputable article supporting the assertion. I don't actually disbelieve it at all - Samsung have a lot of different devices on sale - but the trite assertion that 'marketshare = victory!' is entirely pointless. No, I won't search for it myself. You asserted it, so the burden of proof lies with you.
What version of ruby, rails, db & which web server are you using?
It's hard to say the problem is ruby being slow until you isolate the problem. A guy I work with wrote a gem called dev_panel we use to find the bottlenecks.
I haven't looked at ree in a long time but I think the most recent version is built against ruby 1.8. Erubis hasn't had an update in over 2 years.
Bangalore today is nothing like when you were a kid.

The amount of effort you would expend to take you to 'getting somewhere' in the US, will take you miles ahead in India these days.

As I said the demand is huge, genuine competition is no way existent.
Great post, thanks for taking the time to write it.

I took a similar route– quit my PhD program to join a startup at which I had interned the summer prior– and slowly find myself missing many aspects of grad school.

Will probably end back there at some point– if only there was a magical place with the best parts of grad school and the best parts of the startup world...
Yes that is what I was thinking..
India is too large a country with dysfunctional democracy and bureaucracy which is hard if not impossible to fix. Indian states are liguistically, culturally and ethnically separate republics. The true way out for India is to follow an EU style governance formula, where ethnic states become autonomous republics with a common parliament, common currency and common defence mechanism. Indian states once released from the shackles of a centralized bureaucracy can perform much better and develop faster. States like Kerala, Tamilnadu and Gujarat can achieve developed nation status with in few decades at most. Kerala alone can become a $250B economy from the current $65B if only it is allowed to mend its own affairs.
This is a classic approach used in Russia and other countries against anti-ruling-party organizations, but I had (probably naively) expected USA to be better than this.
"Apple's first party apps significantly behind Google's in my opinion."

Care to elaborate?
I don't know why people are so critical of Greenspun. Maybe I'm the only one who finds cynical curmudgeons amusing.
Hi - It's not enough to compromise the Bastio servers. Some of the data facets needed to successfully decrypt the SSH keys are stored securely in the browser. This is why we can't deploy OS users or keys if a Bastio user is not logged in and active.
> The CPI is determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a group of professional career civil servants.

Who get their instructions from congress and promotions for being politically helpful. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex.a... gives a not-very-conspiration-theory view of this. The fact that revisions to CPI computations always originate in congress and always have the property of (on average) reducing the inflation rate supports the government manipulation thesis in a non-trivial way.

> I don't believe that the BLS is part of any such conspiracy

They are either part of some coordinated effort to make data look better, or are grossly incompetent at a level unseen anywhere else in the government. For example, every single job claims number in the last 2 years at least (perhaps more) is revised upwards about a month or two after publications (without getting any attention, whereas the original, wrong, numbers get a lot of media attention).

Also, the BLS job birth-date model is not public, is officially stated to not apply except in times of economic calm, and yet is assumed to be correct 100% of the time.

> As far as Bernanke destroying the USD, the US Dollar Index is up substantially over the last year.

Well, other central bankers can play the "drive your fiat currency to zero game", and they started to do that too around 2007. If you start looking at 2000 (Greenspan, granted, Bernanke wasn't the first), the DXY has dropped 30% or so. (Not that I agree with DXY as a measure of USD strength, but that's what you chose).
Are you seriously (and erroneously) conflating libertarianism with Ayn Rand's Objectivism? And do you honestly think that, should someone have libertarian political views, we should disregard their opinion?
Ask HN: Any web app for HN on mobile, with login capability?
I'm trying to browse HN using Firefox browser on my mobile phone. I'm looking for a HN clone, but with login functionality available -- so that I can upvote, etc.

There is huge bunch of websites mentioned here:

https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb/wiki/Hacker-News-apps

But, all of them (that I tried, anyway) are read-only. Meaning I can't comment or upvote. Of course, the default website (news.yc) allows login. But it isn't that great on mobile because it requires constant zooming and panning.

So, my question: any website that acts as a clone of HN and offers login functionality?

PS: I'm looking for web-app, meaning a website to use on my browser. I'm not asking for android/iphone apps.
Consider a master's program in CS. Many programs are fine with work experience, and relatively little-to-no research experience.
Reminds me of a quote I read somewhere about simulation models (specifically referring to Agent Based Modelling) saying that (heavily paraphrasing): "A lot of models are great random number generators"... or "garbage in, garbage out".

I suspect a lot of these people doing "big data models" are as you say, ignoring the importance of having solid assumptions.

Oh well, that's exactly in part what brought down the financial collapse: A bunch of kids get a formula (Blach-Scholes) and believe blindly in its magic powers so they apply it to everything. Fast forward several years and we've got what everybody knows.
Yes it is. Because Sandberg never says she admires her brother because of that fact. She says she admires her brother, and then states that fact about the brother. Greenspun is the one who makes the false connection. Here is the full quote:

I should have understood that this kind of self-doubt was more common from females from growing up with my brother. David is two years younger than I am and one of the people in the world whom I respect and love the most. At home, he splits child care duties with his wife fifty-fifty; at work, he's a pediatric neurosurgeon whose days are filled with heart wrenching life-and-death decisions…

With Greenspun's logic, you could equivalently claim Sandberg admires her brother because he is a neurosurgeon.
Door: Minimalistic HTTP proxy server w/ auto-reloading and static file serving.
From the article:

> as he watched the screen, he simply made up the story in his head

It'd be fun to try this! Watch a movie you haven't seen before, muted without captions, and just make up a story about whatever's on the screen.

EDIT: I don't mean to minimize the plight of deaf viewers. I think it'd quickly lose its novelty and start to suck if this was the only way you could watch movies.
You misunderstand the purpose of mining (which is really a misnomer). It is necessary to do a distributed, hard-to-manipulate verification of transactions. Creating new bitcoins is just tied to it as an incentive. "Mining" will continue after there are no more new bitcoins. The incentive will change to transaction fees.
I'm no longer at Berkeley, but I'm sure there are any number of professors or grad students who'd be happy to talk to you. I'd talk to Armando Fox if you want to get into research, he works with a lot of undergrads. He also runs a website (Research Match? something like that) which lists projects looking for undergraduates.

The CSGSA also hosts an undergraduate "research mixer" which is a chill way of speed dating a bunch of projects.
To be fair though, it's vastly closer than anything else around. You can get shell access—and it's a bourne shell, with environment variables, piping, control-structures, etc (it even has emacs-style command-line editing!)—add a C compiler, etc, on an unrooted Android phone.

It's not really Linux the way we usually know it (just the non-standard filesystem layout ensures that), but typing "cat /proc/meminfo" into a shell and seeing the expected result, and using ls, printenv, df, etc, to explore, really makes it feel pretty familiar to someone used to Linux or other unix-style systems. [It also seems to use the standard linux/unix group mechanism for granting app permissions: if you type "id" to the shell, you'll see the permissions the terminal app holds listed as groups it belongs to.]

The end result is that it really does feel like "Linux with a twist" rather than something alien.
Bloomberg LP grew up in a different era, when a client of a communication service had no expectation of privacy from the company running it. You think telegraph operators weren't snooping on what was being transmitted? Do you know what the song Wichita Lineman is about? Think the mailman doesn't keep tabs on who's subscribing to Playboy?

Times have changed, though, and the expectation now is that users have absolute privacy from their service provider except on a need-to-know basis, and Bloomberg is going to have their work cut out for them adapting their systems and culture.