skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Responsibility is the wrong word here. If women want certain behaviors to stop, it is logical for them to explain exactly what they don't like. Expecting already awkward men to read minds is self-defeating.
Conceptually, it's good. But in practice, it's just an analogy. Immutability in programming languages is enforced at compile time and run time. Something like:

val x = 1;
x = 2;

is an actual error and the compiler/runtime will give a "you can't do that".

Immutable infrastructure, on the other hand, would require read-only enforcement on all aspects of configuration. It can be done, but not easily, and someone always has root. So what you're really talking about is the ability to reconstruct an environment programatically from scratch, with no manual intervention, which is laudable but not exactly immutable.

This is the sort of thing that makes me appreciate the 12 Factor App idea (http://www.12factor.net). Rather than trying to make configuration immutable, make it impossible. Don't rely on the existence/continuity of a filesystem at all. Don't use configuration files.
That is your issue with Firefox or your setup. I never had this for at least one or two years now, even with misbehaving scripts.
Did you take the time to search through open tickets or create a new one so that Firefox could improve?
It's more than that. (spoiler alert)

Generally, only NPCs get to be stuffed into the fridge, so we don't actually feel sorry. This one is different.
It's definitely blurred. Not sure if it's from the filter, or just a specific way that FF does upscaling.
Ehm....

How about "Women perform better under anonymity." Has maths anything to do about it?

Really, it does not look like they factored the 'maths' term out.
So you deploy a new physical server to the rack? Bundle the OS image with the deploy? Ghost it with the OS image before deploying? The article is light on explaining the "how" part.
plus it turns an underground darknet into something taxable!

thus fully transforming an anti-establishment force into a plaything for speculation and extraction for the 1%.
It even actually says just that right at the bottom of the article.
man, I was expecting some good content with such an interesting topic.

I'm hurt.
I really like this idea, but the pricing (to me) is astronomical.

I'm guessing I'm not in your target market, though. That is, someone who would use this for say, RSVPs to church events or something. Though, your demo would tell me otherwise. I'm a little confused about market fit, I guess.
The biggest problem with this is the apparently large number of designers out there that design for the web but have no idea how web pages work. It's not just that they don't know HTML or CSS coding, but that they don't how it works in the browser. I've had numerous discussions with designers of why their pretty design is simply not workable on a web page, not including the fact of the rendering differences between browsers. They expect pixel perfect matching of the mockup and almost always fail to understand why this is incredibly difficult to do. Plus the fact it's a wasteful exercise to begin with. The visitors are not going to care that the last sentence in the third paragraph breaks differently between IE, Firefox, and the mockup.

Forget about trying to explain how a responsive site works and that, yes indeed, they need to design several versions of the same page as the layout will change as the media queries kick in. The main reason for doing so is to prevent surprises when they look at the site on their phones. But since they don't understand how it works they can't design for it anyway.

I've always felt, based on job interviews with prospective designers, that the schools train backwards. They start with design concepts and at some point they introduce web design almost as an afterthought that barely touches coding. If a student wants to be a web designer they should learn how to code HTML and CSS before getting heavy into design. That way they know what they're designing for.
It wasn't an accident—they wanted to appear similar to Java (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Birth_at_Netscape):

> The final choice of name caused confusion, giving the impression that the language was a spin-off of the Java programming language, and the choice has been characterized by many as a marketing ploy by Netscape to give JavaScript the cachet of what was then the hot new web programming language.
plus, you've saved yourself all the sad grumpy comments from the regular grumpy boringly sad commenters.
I do not use Google products either, but you need to add more companies to that. You can't use Facebook, or Yahoo products.

Funnily enough I stopped using Google products because they keep alienating me with their decisions like the Real Names policy or killing Reader. Taking my privacy back is an added bonus.

That also means no Android phone, although FirefoxOS phones look promising.
U.S. intelligence community is out of control
I love that article. Now I use the term "snowflake server" all the time as a blunt criticism, and I find it's really sinking in on the management and ops people who hear it. Great analogy.
I think the point made here is quite interesting: instead of relying on (puppet, chef,...) to do the "deltas", always generating the whole system from scratch. This has a couple of advantages:

* You make sure everything is automated

* You can always trust the resulting system works; if it were to be built from scratch
I just hope you're right about the rearguard action which might now get underway. Apparently the US nomenclatura seems to think that privacy is a privilege only for Americans - and then only in a formal sense. Hit them where it hurts, in their pocket. Best part is that not paying to be bugged is something any of us can do as a tiny pathetic action which might turn out not to be so if there are enough of us.
christianpascu is asking for the citation! They made an observation, and asked if there was any evidence to support that.
All I get is a black background
Firefox/22.0 Linux
Viber testing new business model, hijacking your cellular calls
I think it's a great idea, and am with anyone willing to stifle such intrusive surveillance, but my main question is, how do you prove this?
This is actually the same logic anti-abolitionists used prior to and during the American Civil War: "we're providing them a service! We're giving them food and shelter and sometimes even wages, which is more than they could attain on their own." (The parenthetical after that quote, of course, is the subtext that this is true because African-Americans were literally incapable of being self-sufficient. America was racist.)

Still, I feel like your comment is a gross mischaracterization of exactly what slavery was.

Who is truly, a slave? The one that works in crap conditions because if he don't he will get deported, or the one that although he could not quit (unless he was abused, the law allowed it in those cases) he had anything he might need because the law said so?

You're equivocating the need to work to live with being legally considered a piece of property owned by another human being. These are unconscionable differences: maybe from not an economic perspective, but from a human perspective.

Slaves could be killed in the same way you could throw your computer out the window if you're frustrated.
You need some familiarity with the world, though, to get many of the jokes ("In what universe would someone like Hermione get sorted anywhere but Ravenclaw?" - "Ron's just..." "You just don't see any good reason for him to exist?" "Yeah.") and also knowing the story allows you to anticipate certain realities before Harry gets to grip with them. For example, we all know that Voldemort is Professor Quirrell, but Harry doesn't (at least not as far as I've read).

Background knowledge definitely helps with the enjoyment - and imho is the only reason why you'd want to read the JK Rowling books or watch the movies! I mean, I don't dislike the books (I've read them), but they're not much more than decent entertainment (with some of them dragging on, and on, and on).
Most dictatorships have a semblance of normalcy. They need to have some kind of economy. Typically, people are not cowering in their huts fearing being bulldozed over at any moment. People can even prosper under dictatorships, like say, in Chile, back in the 70s. There might even be cases where most people 'have it good'. But it also means that a group or person makes all the big calls and has power over the judiciary and can intimidate or coerce the legislature.

It also means there are informant systems which keep an eye out for 'troublemakers' (opposition ideas) and people don't open up completely about their dissatisfaction.

Christopher Anderson[1],[2] is left of center and he felt disappointed to put it mildly, at what he saw in VZ.

[1]http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/capitolio

[2]http://5b4.blogspot.com/2009/08/capitolio-by-christopher-and...
Netflix does it right IMO: they have an automated process that builds a complete AMI from source control. http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/06/netflix
I prefer this definition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIq9jFdEfZo&t=2m0s
This is a case of selling the shovels to gold miners. This is only a way for them to unload their 11mm position in Bit coin to a greater fool. Once the Feds determine that Bit coin is a money laundering service, all these shares will be worthless. If you aren't smart enough to trade actual Bit coins, why would you buy a derivative of one?
I agree with your citation needed for such an extraordinary claim as parent's. However, I suspect that there is a selection bias in looking at women "in science". Because of social barriers to women entering science, those that do would tend to be the more driven ones, as the less driven ones, who might have entered science in a gender neutral world, would not have.
I recall hearing that the Army used simmilar reasoning for lowering the academic requirements for black high-school graduates (relative to white ones), because they found that at the same level of academic achievement, the black ones tended to do better in the army. The common explanation for why this was the case was that because black students had more barriers than white students, they would have to be more qualified just to be able to have reached the same level.
Pitching Your Pre-Seed Company
Sure they have. Look at banks and other major enterprises, it's exactly the same.

My point isn't about engineers; the same can be said of architects or designers or even middle managers. If you have a team that you trust, having any number and grouping of them able to come together around a problem will produce results. A team being "flexible" does not make them "cogs".
Good title of the post. :) Sms sounds ancient though, there must have been people that tried this 10 years ago. Why did it not work for them?

I would have thought this plugs into whatsapp though, but maybe the messaging market is too fragmented and it wouldn´t be worth for you building it for every single platform (Facebook, Gmail, sms, whatsapp ...)
I only mention flat UI and bootstrap because 90% of these 'startups' I see are god awful poorly laid out defaults.

I miss actual design on the web, something fitting to whatever theme or persona the website hopes to engage the user in.
This is also a similar thesis to what Joshua Foer writes about in Moonwalking with Einstein. One key takeaway is that whenever you're in a new environment, or doing something new, take time to appreciate your present surroundings, not worrying about the past or future. This way you can help extend the sense of time as well.
In Canada, where I live, your comparison would be correct (though not in the US). I happen to disagree with the way Canadian law works in this regard, too.
TomHardware's browser benchmarks are pretty comprehensive. However, what annoys me about this test and this headline, is that Chrome 28, with its new faster Blink core, is literally a week away from being released, which means Firefox will only have its 15 seconds of fame (or rather a week).

Why did they make the test immediately after Firefox was out? Or do they repeat the test immediately after each browser version comes out? In that case I'm looking forward to the test with Chrome 28 included.

I'm not saying Chrome 28 will necessarily win in the next one. I just find it a little strange that they did it without waiting a bit more for the next Chrome version, too, before writing a headline like that. It just reminds of me those polls who turn out a certain way depending on how you ask the question.
Google Glass: Gimmick or Revolution? Infographic.
Telescoping Contact Lenses: Magnify Anything with a Glance
Designed more for correcting degenerative eye conditions rather than spying, University of California’s Joseph Ford leads a team in developing a new telescoping design for contacts that allows the user to magnify images by almost 3 times.
The future? Pay attention, hombre. This is the fucking present.
Designer here. The specific downsides addressed in the article, IMHO, can be a problem of process, not tools. On my projects (I work at Hashrocket, RoR shop) we put clients through an initial look & feel phase to nail down general palette & styles, and move forward with PSDs that are approved prior to HAML/SASS slicing and actual implementation.

However, we always (always always) treat the PSD step not as Final Design, but as a high-fidelity communication tool - the next step after our wireframes (which are as un-designed as possible) and story cards. When requirements change, we loop back as far as necessary; for small changes, new stories and in-view UI adjustments suffice; for more fundamental changes we'll go back to the PSD.

Don't get me wrong - being able to maintain design quality in the face of change is one of the most difficult aspects of being a designer on an agile team (and getting design involved in the entire delivery process is absolutely essential) but the tool you use to build initial design isn't necessarily going to solve that challenge for you.

Personally I find it healthy to be able to concept layout & UI without making stylesheet & DOM structure assumptions. Designing via code, for me, blurs my focus - when I'm making decisions in Photoshop, I'm aware of the CSS that will be required to replicate it, but I'm not having to actively execute on them. Designing and coding take very different parts of the brain for me, if that makes any sense. Try drawing a picture while listening to a podcast vs. reading a book while listening to a podcast.

> “When it comes to products, user experience trumps pretty pictures. It’s not easy for most designers to do, because you have to rebel against everything you’ve been taught as a designer: fight the pretty pictures, fight the urge to tweak your drop shadows or find the perfect border-radius.”

This is more than a little patronizing. Delivering a polished, professional design and being flexible to changing requirements aren't mutually exclusive goals.
> "Does a painter paint a painting of his painting before he paints it?"

Yes, frequently! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_%28art%29)

I'm also trying to push designing in the browser, and it's how I do all my personal projects. Just pointing out you may get a retort from a client if you keep using that example.
Google Reader did nothing to contribute to "scatter" since it was closely related to gmail in function and interface.
Visualizing 3 Billion Geotagged Tweets
"Aren't mutual's non-profit?"

No, they distribute the profit to policyholders, who are effectively shareholders of the corporation. I belong to one, for auto and home. I get a dividend each year of 20 - 25% of the yearly premium, which is competitive even without considering the dividend. It's not open to the public.
Which would require that you already got it of course :)

Building an argument often takes a little bit of context.
Alien 'Star Engine' Detectable in Exoplanet Data?
So your complaint about HTML is simply about typing it? You've piqued my curiosity, what's so horrible about the syntax in that you dislike typing it?
"Texting for education, health, advertising, and much more.
Start the conversation."

My mind kind of checked out after reading that; I assumed I would not find this interesting, but I scrolled down a bit, and saw the demo, which was really cool.

"Automate your Text Conversations" or something similar, really large, with your video right underneath should be the first thing someone sees on the site.
I agree it is a bit self-promoting, but I think the concept itself, as-is, without technical details, is worthy of a HN discussion.
Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
How Google have lost opportunity to get millions of Google+ users
Do you hire internationally ?
MIT Project Lets You Spy on Yourself
Actually not; Firefox beat Chrome comprehensively in the overall test. Chrome actually came 3rd in the list - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-ope...
I used Chrome from when it came out until recently, when I switched back to Firefox.

I gave up on Chrome because of Flash crashes, general crashes (two or more per day), and pages showing up as plain, pale blue pages (instead of the web page content). Maybe I had too many tabs open and not enough RAM (3GB). Either way, the tabs were too small to show what the pages were, which wasn't helpful.

Firefox has worked perfectly, and it doesn't feel any slower, so I've no complaints....
Apple made £68 million in the UK last year, paid £0 corporation tax
[video] why we do what we do
Newsroom NSA episode predicted this.
Observable Properties and functional programming
Which is why I think there should be some attempt at a formal body, the EFF is in the right place to spearhead an attempt at implementing something along those lines.
(Disclaimer: I used to work on Chrome. I'm more than a year out at this point but I still talk to Chrome developers.)

Chrome wins some tests but loses the most on the start-up benchmarks, which is a real bummer. There was a time where we'd spend literally days figuring out why startup regressed by a handful of milliseconds, and this test shows an end-to-end test taking nearly six seconds.

One idea I saw mentioned is that there may be a bug related to how Chrome reads the system proxy settings (something about an API change between Windows 7 and Windows 8). I think most of the Chrome developers are still on Windows 7; the bots that are tracking startup performance are definitely still Windows 7 as well. So maybe that number is more of a single bug than a systematic thing.

All of the above is not intended to diminish Firefox's impressive results -- just thought I'd provide some background! What these sorts of tests show most is that competition pushes browsers ever faster. If the proxy theory above is right, then maybe this test will inspire Google to invest more into Windows 8 testing, which ultimately benefits users.

(Edit: Firefox won other tests too, I also didn't mean to say this was the only factor.)
Did you read the linked article? Linda Boreman/Lovelace was forced into pornography at gunpoint, abused, raped and forced into prostitution. Only misogynists have no problem with that, or with joking about it, whether at work or elsewhere.
Golang multipart file upload example
Read Google's financial releases if you want to see evidence of their declining revenue per click, of follow the news [1][2][3]. Its a combination of factors, the market is maturing, there aren't too many people left who don't advertise on the Internet, and other sources are getting more market share (Bing, Facebook, Etc.)

> I'm glad that folks like yourselves are in the
> market as I say but until someone develops better
> algos and better results (for the majority of
> queries) it's unlikely that folks will get
> angry enough to move or see a viable alternative.

Actually one of the things Blekko has taught me is that search market share is no longer about search quality. At Blekko we demonstrated that we could provide better results in important queries and that how we did that would scale as we got larger. But we didn't get a lot of traction. Microsoft however (who we talked to) were so impressed that they essentially ripped off everything we were doing and put Bing on that path.

Now on the one hand I should be outraged Microsoft ripped us off [4], but I'm not. Its been interesting to see how much time and money they have spent making our strategy into a 'full size' search engine, and realizing that we were not going to be able to raise close to a billion dollars (which is what they will have easily spent by now) to take it to market against Google. The Bing challenge, the editors picks, the whole thing taken right from our playbook. And while I believe they are having the best success they ever have against Google to date (its a good strategy), there is another 3 years for it to run before consumers think that they are equal services. And there is a whole lot of dirty politics between here and there.

As for market share, its a curious thing. You can earn it or you can force it. Look for more and more "search defense" going on, for example non-Google searches getting harder on Android, or in Chrome. Conversely non-Microsoft searches in Windows products. With people like Firefox getting played in the middle (try to search on Google on Firefox on the standard Linux Mint distribution for example :-) Gone are the days where simply having a better product will let you win that prize. Way too much money involved.

[1] http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/weak-ad-revenue-pulls...

[2] http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/24/1553214/the-decline-...

[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/04/18/google-tops...

[4] It would have been polite of them to have at least offered to buy us out :-)
How are you going to survive? I could build this in a weekend and be profitable charging a quarter of the price. If this catches on I imagine someone will do just that.
Confessions of a product hacker
Yeah, let's just stop automating things. /sarcasm
Why even bother yourself writing article on such a trivial findings?
Nope, the classic fridging is: build up a female character and put her on a bit of a pedestal for feminine virtues (check, modulo the character's age, but it's unchanged canon so I can't blame EY), make her a love interest for the male lead (check and not canon), and then callously fridge her so as to motivate the male lead and give the antagonist a moral event horizon moment (check).
Insights into the 2013 iOS Developer Survey
maybe even this will be gone by the time the final version comes out.
You don't have to be a "Seriously Formal Agile folk" for a "spike" to be a useful concept. It just means that for a certain feature, you admit that you really don't know how hard it is, so you give yourself some time to get a better sense of it, usually by doing a quick and dirty version of the feature that you may or may not end up using. I'm sure you've done the same thing for years without needing a word for it, but hey, it can be useful to label concepts.
Nobody mentioned tinytinyrss - I found it to be the best rss reader as a google reader alternative.

Its open source and also has an android app that rocks.
good idea. wrong pricing.
Nope, It is a common issues with Firefox although it has been greatly reduced in the last year or so.

The project to fix all this is called e10s. Moving Content, and UI etc to seperate process as well as OMTx ( Off Main Thread Everything ) where Firefox Dev trys to do everything in async style and move them off Main Thread.

Progress has been slow. But at least they are working on it
Actual benchmark story from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970429
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

As the baby boomers move through the pipeline, you'll see the labor supply drop.

Also, structural issues:

http://www.businessinsider.com/michelle-meyer-on-the-labor-f...