skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lists under "Reducing Friction" aren't comparable.
In the first list, point 1 and 2 should both be in the second list as well. Point 3 and 4 are the same thing.
Also, often the link in the email would open a page that would automatically do the action for you.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the only real difference seems to be that the button doesn't have to open a new page to perform the action.
I agree with you here. I expected my comment to get many more downvotes from the anti-everything-except-lisp-go-ruby-other-hipster-languages HN parade.
For a few years I used each of Wily on a Sun box, then Acme SAC on Windows, and now hosted Inferno on Linux. I could use acme from plan9port, but I prefer Inferno because the whole environment gives me other nifty OS stuff like Inferno's shell sh and /env, which I make use of for the build tool I'm writing. The trickiest part of using Inferno is dealing with the different paths to files depending on whether you're running under emu (emu uses /n/local for files under host /, and / for files under host's /usr/inferno), or on the host (host uses / for files under emu's /n/local, and /usr/inferno for files under emu's /).
I don't know about the accuracy of those numbers, but I'd think that comparing the cost of building ONE rocket to the cost of building or expanding a plant to build cars at scale is not apples to apples.
You can use perlbrew to install any version of Perl your heart desires in a local directory of your choosing. You can also install multiple versions and easily swap them.
Because people learn differently. I learn a ton from google searches every day at work but new topics are better served by a structured program.

When I learned Rails I paid $100 or so to Hartl and another $30 for the Obie book. That's one hour of consultant work to have people who know their stuff tell you about it.
I too wonder about this question :)
I always find it very hard to draw, and erase, tiny details on whiteboards. It's like the pen has to be drawn in a certain direction and you can't overlap lines without smudging them. Also the pens are always very thick. I can't imagine drawing with a whiteboard pen on something so small.
I find it impossible to believe that a tech company would turn down a brilliant "woman programmer" just because she was a woman.

This is a failure of your imagination and experience. "Tech companies" don't turn down people. People turn down people. People sometimes turn down people because they're women.
In-browser IDE for PhoneGap with build in cloud?
That's the wrong link.
Isn't a major point of these websites that you can exceed the low filesize cap of email?
Shops have proper authorized terminals, that have authentication keys. The terminal sends the key to the card, then the chip on the card replies with its own details.
You cannot read bank cards with commercial NFC readers that you can just buy.

If you manage to get a proper shop terminal(which are only given to proper registered businesses) then yes, you could theoretically skim peoples' cards in a bus or any other public place. The only problem with that is, that you can only charge at most 15 quid, and you cannot get the card details back, so you can't use it for internet payments. And because the bank has your details they can very very quickly track the payments back to you and stop you from stealing money(and not even pay out any money to your account).
So yes, the trouble is completely not worth it, which is why probably no one will do that.
The Sound of the Big Bang (Planck Version)
I never said I could not or would not accept arguments against PHP. I fully accept that PHP is somewhat broken. I merely expressed that I'm tired of hearing "PHP SUCKS LOL" and watching many PHP articles get flagged, while other languages with as many problems (cough Javascript cough) get upvoted and the same people say nothing about the problems with these languages.

edit: clarity
Physics Phd
So im currently a Computer Science major at UCSC and was thinking of doing a Phd in Theoretical Physics, do you think its worth it? or would it be better to just learn by myself?
> Perl5 users won't switch to Perl6 because they're working on Perl5 code and don't want to change their habits.

I will.
This is one of the most thoughful comments I've read on vim and Emacs. I too have been using vim for about 20 years, and am just starting to learn more about Emacs. It is helpful, thoughtful comments like these from people who have actually used both editors that make leaning a whole new editor seem like a reasonable, non-religious proposition. SLIME helps too.
How can

Crucially, according to reporting by The Washington Post, the FBI proposal would apply even to “Internet phone calls conducted between two computer users without going through a central company server.” In a paper published Friday by the Center for Democracy and Technology, more than a dozen prominent computer security experts warn that such a requirement would be a disaster for the security of online communications. be enforced.

You cannot fine an open source project.

This is very bad idea - if you have to explain to non tech people use the analogy of FBI installing dormant microphones and holding keys to any person house with the promise that they won't abuse it.
This singlehandedly almost and should have killed my startup. And the problem was so evil.. not all mainboards got it at the same time.. it was a bell curve distribution, and it started with simple lockups that a reboot could fix (which required a customer service trip). Then the lockups would increase with frequency until it no longer turned on, at which point my company had to replace it with a new mainboard and sometimes chassis for free.

Worst 4 years of my life.
Why does the graduates argument pose a problem for women while its so often celebrated when men skipped college or dropped out of college and became successful within our field?

Is there a large pool of women who download python, work "learn python the hard way", and put some repos on github?

If not, then just as there is a small pool of female CS graduates, there is also a small pool of female autodidacts.
And most of those Wordpress/etc installs are going to be of applications which assume they're in a normal hosting environment, where they're running on Apache with a filesystem they can write to, connecting to a MySQL server, etc. How well will this translate to GAE? I'm not sure.
I use this on a regular basis, its great. It's not full documentation, it's a quick reference "cheat sheet" and perfect for it. (I have no affiliation with ProLoser)

I'd love to hear what BrianPetro is talking about beyond a fly-by cheap shot and group advert.
Yeah, the standard libs lack consistency but that is annoying for about the first 1-2 months and then you get used to it.

However, a lot of modern PHP frameworks(Doctrine, Symfony2) are quite nice to work with.
Using the mouse or keyboard is a rounding error compared to the time and errors I save by keeping the commands I use in per-directory guide files. I type out a command once, then later modify it slightly repeatedly to suit new needs, and highlight it and run it.

I've never found navigating to and selecting text with keyboard commands as fast and forthright and mindless as just moving the mouse and clicking to locate the cursor and select a range of text, and I used Emacs for 11 years. Also, since Acme binds common operations like cut, paste, and execute to mouse chords, I don't leave the mouse to do these things.

I don't dig candy-colored text, so the lack of syntax highlighting is a plus for me.
How exactly do you plan to do a PhD in theoretical physics with a background in CS? Sure, programming will come in handy and everything, but there is still physics to be actually done, especially in a PhD.
Yeah, I know TIOBE - when I said "popular", I mostly meant "what most companies make the most fuss about". (As in "we must move out ERP system to Java! Quick!" :-)) C kind of seems to evade this kind of popularity nowadays, it seems to be forgotten by many, almost like a second level of machine code.
I downvoted you because of

a) The poor formatting of your post as a stream of conciousness

b) The condemnation of a language based on a single relatively minor bug

c) The unsupported assertions and unrelated criticisms like not enabling strict by default
Netcat Examples
I've taken upper division physics classes but not enough to get a bachelors in physics
For what it's worth, I'm looking for a senior sysadmin in Cambridge, MA. I have not yet seen a single resume from an identifiable female, and would certainly welcome a good candidate. (Of any gender, or whatever: gender is not linked to Linux and networking skills in any manner I'm aware of.)

Could it be that my ad is putting women off? I don't know. I'll ask our existing female employees.
And it's one of the few novels that realistically portrays the lives of software developers. The book is set in the mid-1980s, so it's also an interesting look back into programming in an earlier era (nostalgic for those of us who were there).
That's the point of Google allowing you to email links to your Drive files, not the point of this project. This is to let you get files into your Drive/Dropbox/Skydrive via email. That will still have the limit of whatever email service you're sending from. My servers have no size limit, though the "free" limit is just 5MB per email.
My Shanghai
How is it possible that things like this are going on in this country? We go around expounding the virtues of freedom, feeling superior in our knowing that we are a paragon of ideological tolerance. We routinely go so far as to intervene in international conflicts in order to tip the scales in disfavor of despotism. I don't see how running a surveillance state can be compatible with everything we proclaim to stand for.

I read '1984' in high-school almost twenty years ago now but the important topics are irrelevant to a fourteen year old. After recently re-reading this book I felt very disturbed and wished I hadn't read it. It's interesting that things seem tolerable living under a total-information-awareness government right up to the point just before you're arrested. The thing that disturbs me about this book is the sense of utter betrayal. If I had more time I'd go through an analysis of the numerous levels of betrayal that unfold.
Generally $50 here in Canada.
It strikes me as even more work to send an email than to move/copy a file into the synced folder on my desktop. I'd also have to remember to check my file's size before attempting to email it since emailitin caps files at 5MB.

Is there a confirmation or error email followup?
Not interesting at all. He doesn't understand what nix is doing or why, and just points out all the ways that it's different from Debian.
Personally, my hope is that we'll be able to target the browser through this effort via emscripten (asm.js) and PNaCl.
After reading some of the insightful comments above, I'd like to add that it would be good to round out your skill set beyond web development. Learn C, it will teach you great things. Learn Linux (and read the source code), you'll learn a lot about how complex systems work.

If you do go down the path of university, then make sure you stray outside what they teach. Challenge yourself, because that's how you improve, and you'll also differentiate yourself when someone is looking to hire you.
Got a pair of Android smartphones running cyanogenmod?

Install this app and start stealing credit cards today!
http://sourceforge.net/p/nfcproxy/wiki/Home/
Python 15 in 5 years
Ruby 36 in 7 years
PHP 341 in 14 years

No one claimed that other languages are flawless. Besides that the biggest problem are not vulnerabilities in the languages; the biggest problem are vulnerabilities in products build using the languages and PHP makes it especially hard to write correct code because of its many quirks making it (almost) impossible to be aware of all edge and corner cases.
Google I/O 2013 - Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns
Is the best culture for a startup one of hubris and poor emotional intelligence?
Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in
Considering sexism and racism in your own industry to be "special interest" topics of no interest is probably the surest sign of being a proud beneficiary of those dynamics. They're of paramount concern to anyone who doesn't benefit. I'm not at all disagreeing that more advocacy based on race would be useful too, but I do disagree vehemently with the idea that the solution is to cut off discussion.

If you're wondering why as a young or male or white person with no "political" concern for the rights of others would still consider this useful information, the answer is that bright women and minorities are underpriced and undervalued, and understanding how to create a workplace that respects them will allow you to attract the best talent.
If you're at your desktop, absolutely it's easier to use your synced folder. But what if you're on someone else's computer? Or on mobile? Or just have an email someone sent you.

If you go over the size limit you will get a bounce message. I'm not absolutely set on 5MB being the free limit - I'm interested in seeing how well that works, and how many people it converts to paid customers (if any) - I still have to pay for hosting, so it would be nice to get some level of conversion, and $3 a month is cheap enough that it's not a big barrier for most people.
I saw it just adds a param when you change country, like:

https://pricenoia.com/htc-one-32gb-silber?country=US

And also looks it understands amazon codes diretly:

https://pricenoia.com/B00BFUS8C6?country=US

Easy to add in a greasemonkey script.
What do You Desire? (Slightly NSFW)
School experiment finds cress won’t germinate near router (Danish)
If you use lein repl and emacs crashes, your repl will stay up and you can reconnect to the same session.

Yeah, I crash emacs a lot...
"Welcome to how it feels to be a woman, or a person of color, or gay, or any other person who his regularly discriminated against by society and a culture that elevates the white male simply for being white and male."
I'm not white. At all. I understand discrimination for having been at both ends on several occasions.

"By ignoring the problem and not talking about it, you're perpetuating it."
Either I agree with you or I'm part of the problem? And you call me narrow minded!

"Every time that you don't say something, or you make an argument like this one, you are sending the message to people who are being discriminated against that the people who say something sexist are okay to do so."
Did you even read my comment? I said I'm not spending time pondering why there aren't women in tech, because I don't necessarily want more women in tech. That's, by definition, the opposite of sexist.

Do I think women in tech face some challenges that men don't? yes. (Incidentally, I also think that men in tech face challenges that women don't. It goes both ways). What I'm fed up with is people instrumentalizing the sexism issue to create more drama, problems, and good ol' American hypocrisy (we prefer the term "political correctness").
Good job! You've discovered that the problem isn't one of women not getting into colleges.

Edit: I'm not saying it's not part of the problem, but the problem is obviously not just that.
You comment is very condescending. You should not be trying to infer from the parent comment that dageshi is some kind of naive newby programmer who doesn't understand.

dageshi made some valid comments about the role PHP fills and you dismissed them and instead focused on calling him/her out for being a bad/poor programmer.
Thanks so much. I'm getting a new site up soon to write some articles and musings. If all goes well, it'll be inescapable around here.
Also, if you run a command that prints a lot to stdout (eg tracing) it will make emacs unhappy. That works much better in the lein repl terminal.
For me, the reason why I decided many years ago to give Emacs a try is the nice integration between Emacs and REPLs; it's really nice to be able to press `C-c C-l` (or something equivalent) and have the content of the file loaded into the currently running REPL. This makes experimentation and incremental development much more fun.
I would think they care if the capabilities are used against them like if a group such as LulzSec exploited it or something.
I'm actually attending HAMK University of Applied Sciences which only produces engineers for different fields.

I'm sure the "bigger players" like Aalto Univeristy or University of Turku are of higher quality, but I can't judge since I've never attended neither.
I tend to start the repl at a command line and then connect in. That way my repl session isn't tied to the emacs process, and if I do something stupid in emacs I can disconnect and reconnect without issue.
I think it's important to note that Xamarin is closed, and you are tying yourself to a third party platform that is outside of your control - and possibly outside of your best interests.

You may decide that it's a fair trade off, but it's very important to understand and acknowledge that there are many externalities involved in this decision that may cause you trouble in future. There is a reason OSS is so highly prized...
It's ironic that he responded to my comment with nothing but "PHP SUCKS LOL". :P
Web Crawling and data Scraping Service just Launched
I don’t know your physics classes, but how often have professors said something along the lines of ‘that’s an open question’ in these classes? If that wasn’t the usual response to any sensible question in class, then those are likely insufficient to get you started with a PhD. YMMV, of course.
How so its not like its the War on Terror Game as played on the IT Crowd.

Apart from the usual nutter MPs (the usual rent a quote mob) there is no real problem with that game.
A Profanity-Laced Video Game Password That Breaks Everything
mg is super nice, but I wish it had unicode support.
It seems Tesla takes advantage of all kinds of government subsidies, loans, and windfalls. Is there a place that summarizes the government programs that Tesla takes advantage of, or how much of their revenue is from selling the carbon credits they get to other car makers?

I'm not implying anything political with this comment, just genuinely curious.
There is no scenario under which that wouldn't happen eventually. Tesla needs cash to fuel its next vehicle programs and growth. If it didn't get it, the growth story Shareholders should be glad, as I am, that they were able to raise at the price they did. They shown they can convert cash into value. They need to do it.
I can predict who will win the Eurovision Song Contest tonight
No, but it would win huge bonus points if it did, over other chat apps. I think we all know Google won't bring OTR encryption to Hangouts, though, which is most unfortunate.
For a low brow show it has a lot of high brow jokes.
"Either I agree with you or I'm part of the problem? And you call me narrow minded!"

Yep. I'm pretty narrow minded when it comes to thinking everyone deserves the same chances as I got.

"Did you even read my comment? I said I'm not spending time pondering why there aren't women in tech, because I don't necessarily want more women in tech. That's, by definition, the opposite of sexist."

Is it? You're letting the status quo be because you don't think it's having an effect on the tech we produce? On the problems we're trying to solve? You think that people not mentioning repression, how they are being made to feel uncomfortable and not at ease, is a great way to produce the best products?
The article doesn't say anything about that. I could be wrong, but I'm surprised if you can legally dilute a public stock.
Can you expand on this a bit. Dilution itself is usually not a problem when fundraising, the expectation is that the new funds will increase the Net Present Value of the company more than the dilution. Are you saying this is not true or is there some functional reason why dilution is bad in this particular case?
Is this still relevant for Hangouts, though?
Your text: 3078 characters, 539 words
Bullshit Index :0.24
Your text shows some indications of 'bullshit'-English, but is still within an acceptable range.

That's good to know.
I use Google Drive, so I can only speak to that.

If I'm logged into my email on another person's computer then I'm already logged into drive. Similarly, for me having a file in my inbox is effectively the same as having it in Google Drive. I can access it from any device.

I guess I'm outside your target audience. I wish you the best of luck.
Replace programmer with nearly any profession and replace women with any minority group in that profession during the 80s and the article will largely be the same. It's the same old story (which is disturbing on a few levels). Male programmers will be defensive because they are villains in this anecdote. The article polarized men as evil and women as good, their perspective of reality does not align with this post 2000 femininist narrative, which is why so many bristle at articles like this. However I'm sure male or female programmers can empathize with the misery of a belittle workplace environment. It's frustrating and definitely can urge you to lash out.
Upstream Color
Thank you.

Always briefly describe the thing you're writing about.
Wow, it seems most of the comment here, as of now, decided to overlook the parts of the article that explicitly state problems that are most suffered by women. For example, how this woman had a boss who stroke her hair, or how another boss hated to hire women. That kind of pressure does not exist for most men in the industry.

I think the problem really is that those examples happened to her nearly 30 years ago and then she goes on to say, "Women today face a new, more virile and virulent sexism" because supposedly VCs only fund male hackers.

This does not mesh up with many of the collective experiences of those who started working in the last decade or two. It seems impossible that sexism is worse now than it was in the 80s.

That isn't to say that sexism doesn't exist. I've run several startups and I'm constantly vigilant towards this stuff. I've had to occasionally call out male employees for making inappropriate comments. They tend towards being sexual rather than sexist, but it always shocks me when it happens. But compared to ongoing physical sexually harassment? I can't see how it could possibly be more poisonous now than thirty years ago.

Now it could be that sexism is worse today and the misunderstanding is around how men vs. women classify the severity of various sexist acts. If so, that is an article I'd like to read.
It's being planned already:

http://applicants.mars-one.com/
I dimly recall reading that RAM needs to be balanced against battery life.

It'd be cool if we could "power down" some RAM dynamically, energy saver modes and so forth.
"I'm sure you've heard this before, but all you have to do is ask whether you can build a Turing machine in whatever language. If you can do this, then you can compute answers to the same things computed by any other Turing complete language."

But you can't do the same things that you can do in other languages.

Computation is pure.
In the wake of Google I/O, a short retrospective on Anticipatory Computing
Convict Conditioning - how to get strong with less
This is about the Kitchen Nightmares meme this week, to which I would reply that the business is not yet destroyed. In fact, they are pivoting in response to the attention:

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/05/kitchen-nightmares...

I wouldn't be surprised if Ramsay returns there for even bigger ratings.
Two different versions will definitely live at different paths, since the path contains the content hash. The path doesn't have much to do with the user name; that's a separate issue.
There's no such thing as bad publicity!

Wrong.
Canada trying to lure Silicon Valley tech workers | World news | The Guardian
Demo of Mozilla's Social API coupled with WebRTC