skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and their first name too? Lisa...

and then there are languages, like Nordics and Slavic, where the last name reveals your gender - Sigmundsdottir (daughter of Sigmund), Politkowskaja (f) vs. Politkowski (m), etc.
Ok then. After the author has employed his own strategy for defying and embarrassing the most militaristic and far-reaching government on earth I'll be happy to hear about how it all worked out for him.

Its easy to think about coulda, shoulda, woulda when fear for your life is removed from the equation. Snowden must have balls of some unimaginably dense substance. Personally, I'd rather put on a bright red shirt and beam down to to the surface in search of tritanium than do what he did. I'd have better odds I think.
Even if you're one of those "living Constitution" people, at the very least terms like "cruel and unusual" must be defined relative to the broadly accepted social mores of the time. And treating solitary confinement as torture isn't just early on the curve, its something only a tiny minority of hyperliberals would consider to be true. I don't think the Constitution should be at the leading edge of social thought. It should lag behind until ideas are so clearly accepted as to be "obvious." Otherwise, it becomes a tool for peddling minority social viewpoints, which undermines its legitimacy in other regards. We're already feeling the effects of that today.
At the constraints you provided (same size) the whole notion of "better" is extremely subjective. Small speakers can only reproduce a certain range of frequencies (think of it like trying to make 10 m high waves with a spatula) so they will all produce "colored" sound i.e. distort the signal. People perceive some coloration as being better than another and Bose's technology is all about making their coloration pleasant for most people. However, "most" is not "all" and some people don't like their coloration. Not to mention that any set of big speakers produces orders of magnitude less coloration.
You are absolutely correct, of course. I was using a C-ism.
Subhas Chandra Bose too; albeit not in sci/tech context.
Not the texture. The logo (http://pipeline.valvesoftware.com/images/logo_final_gray.png). The <div class="clearfix"> it's wrapped in ends up being 1x0 in Safari.
That's because parenthood ensures that companies have future customers, while hobbies don't. Facebook stock isn't worth much if all the 13-25 year olds that buy the crap advertisers peddle on it is a shrinking demographic!
Seriously, the website is crappy. No doctype, images for quotes, the hidden text in the FAQ is completely unnecessary and the site looks like crap on mobile devices. I'm 16 and I could do better than that. In fact, I claim that my websites already looked better when I was 14.

That said, the video looks quite nice.
Disabling web fonts in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome
Nothing is stopping the users of those Linux distributions from grabbing the source code and dependencies and compiling any program not in their package repository, or from grabbing a different package manager like pkgsrc, and many proprietary Linux programs that are tied to a particular distro e.g. Steam have been shown to work on other distros with minimal effort.

And in regards to the BSDs, what exactly are you referring to?
If it's Wayland, that's being ported. If it's KMS drivers, Intel has been ported and radeon is in the process. Nouveau probably won't be ported due to the fact that they already have a pretty stable binary Nvidia driver.

The only two things I can think of that aren't compatible with BSD have both been designed with exclusively Linux by the developers heading those projects, SystemD and ALSA, and even then the BSDs already have suitable substitutions with those, init and OSS.

So, since there's greater cross-compatibility than ever before, how would you suppose that another nix war would erupt?
I never did it myself, but this behavior is very useful if you want something to be used across invocations, like a cache.

To limit its size, you can use the ideas on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2437617/limiting-the-size...
I didn't have any problems with it whatsoever. I think you're being too picky.
In your experience, are there still major ISPs that don't respect DNS TTL?
The extension is available in the official Chrome Web Store. Apparently, Google doesn't verify extensions for malicious behavior – or maybe such behavior is even desired …
First of all, taking patio11 too seriously is a sing of having inadequate mental representation of so-called reality.

Ironically, there is some unintentional truth is his blogpost - one really shouldn't call oneself programmer, because what he described is a dumb coder. Programmer could realize what is blogging, not vise versa.)

A programmer (one who understands how things works and why) will easily avoid such scenarios like ending up in a coding sweatshop or toxic things like PHP, Java or JavaScript. It is obvious that one should avoid certain things, like one avoids scams, frauds or just wrong things.

Real programmers, such as rtm, pg (god forbid!) sysoev would always find a niche for oneself and a project to do. The difference is that they themselves would choose what to program and why, not someone else.

Another point is about whose opinion one should value and why. Programmers usually does not care what "talking-heads" are broadcasting, intuitively and correctly anticipate that there would be zero useful or even interesting information for them. It is like to read, say, Oracle's press-releases and PR pamphlets about mysql instead of actual Changelog files.

So, right, do not call yourself programmer if you're mere a coder or blogger. There is some truth in it.)
Now that Valve has caught on to this technique, other game companies are going to have to step up their game if they want to stay competitive. Working people like mules? Pssht, that's nothing. I suggest they take some advice from advisors of PhD students. Also, I'm willing to provide consulting services if/when I graduate.
I find the final p Mail Chimp extremely hard to distinguish, especially at smaller sizes. The p looks like its saying Chimyo instead of chimp.
I agree with the others, 3 to 4 months is nothing. As a comparison, it took my current company 2+ years to make enough money that I could live on and 5+ year in order for me to call it a success. Many times during this 5 year period we thought about closing our doors but we knew we had something, the problem was that what we were selling wasn't exactly what our customers wanted. We pivoted a few times and finally something hit. We haven't looked back ever since.

You are probably right that inventory systems are awful for small to medium businesses, so you have a business somewhere. There are others in your space so that always good validation (http://tradegecko.com).

This is what I would do:

1. Learn everything you need to know about the inventory pipeline within small businesses. How they order stock, warehouse it, receive orders, ship it, etc..

2. Blog the living hell out of what these small companies do and how you can make their lives better. This will help your SEO which in my experience is much better than AdWords.

3. If you don't already have one, produce a roadmap for your product. You won't always be able to stick to your roadmap but making one will do the following:

- Help you understand how different you are compared to your competitors. What makes you (or will make you) so special? Why should I buy from you?

- Help with conversations with potential customers that you are committed to them in the long term by showing them a roadmap.

4. Stop blogging about how you failed. I don't want to buy a product from a company that may close tomorrow because they're going to fail!!! I want to buy a product from a company that screams success. Your customers don't give a shit about how bad you are at business, they care about solving their problems.

5. Keep your product simple, be great at solving one need. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't add a contact manager if you're customers are asking for one, but that the contact manager you add isn't at the same level as salesforce has it!

6. Get known in the inventory management community. You'd be surprised how small and thigh nit these communities are. Sure IBM is huge, but they only have a handful of individuals performing outreach.

7. PR, PR, and more PR. Bug the living crap out of every tech blog, inventory management blog (big enterprise types and small types) and every other blog that fits. Don't pitch them "Have you heard about us!?",. Pitch them stories that their users want to read, and by the way, you got your data from Rakasheets.

8. Slowly integrate with e-stores and shopping cart platforms such as shopify.

9. Last thing, be patient! A company isn't built in 3 to 4 months, it's built with years of sweat and most importantly love for what you do. You built a product, which is far more than the majority of the people hanging around here have done. Be proud and "grind" on.

Good luck!
Interesting

On the premise of Bose equipment being "good enough" it should be measurable (in real units, not "audiophile unicorn units"

Makes me wonder if it would be possible to have a better bass response exploiting non-linear effects and doing some "magic" (that is, some heavy signal processing and feedback loop including a mic)
Looks like someone (Gaben) finally got around to reading Ender's Game.
This. Nothing would cement widespread sexism more than forcing everyone to work around a highly visible influx of unqualified women. We've already seen outsourcing reinforce racism, as bottom-feeding scammers exploit clients' inability to screen out unqualified contract development shops, and the rank and file here assume there are no smart people from that country simply because they only got to work with the bench warmers hired at random by the lowest bidders.

If you want 50% of qualified candidates to be women, you have to find the nerdy girls in middle school with the aptitude and give them the latitude to develop the obsession the way boys can. Nobody who starts in college because they're chasing dollar signs is going to be very good.
The Sickening Snowden Backlash - The Daily Beast
I'd like to switch back to Firefox, but it's such an unbearably slow hog that I cannot force myself doing it, and I'm not even using anything JS intensive.
I saw Mail Chimyo but now I see MailChinys as well. The one thing I don't see is MailChimp.
A dark room
Guys, please keep this stuff on /r/programming. The signal to noise ratio on HN is already bad enough.
> I think they'd favor the candidate/party who would educate their children.

Coercing other people to provide education is not the right thing to do. There are other economically reasonable ways of providing education that don't infringe rights.

A nice side effect is that a market for education would, in the long run, commoditize high-quality, affordable education. The market has worked well in every industry that has remained a reasonably free market.

The US K-12 education system is currently pretty bad except in well-to-do areas, and higher education is a massive bubble.

After all, isn't not stealing the first thing we ought to be teaching our children?
Don't be negative, all I am saying is that there are things that can be done to improve the situation, and there are many companies out there that are actively trying.

I wouldn't know that Sigmundsdottir would be revealing the gender, and many other wouldn't either. (I'm not saying that it can't be improved even further)

Edit: I have a slavic last name that doesn't reveal my gender (on the balkans, last names are the same for both male/female)
"I think you're being too picky." Oh well, screenshots following...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cfftfq8ubq4rn5q/Foto%2013.07.13%20...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/axsg6e27byqy1y6/Foto%2013.07.13%20...
In The Cloud OS Debate, OpenStack’s Success Inspires Backlash
Anyhow, I would've contacted them directly and help them sort it out but I can't seem to find any contact details.
Go tell Canon. The 5d has been one of their most successful cameras for years.
No, octopedal is plainly better -- especially given people's fears of spiders.
Scale PHP on Ec2 to 30,000 Concurrent Users / Server
You took those with your phone, right? Do you always browse with your phone, or did you specifically pull it out just to test the site? (It's OK if you did, just curious.)

If you can explain it, I'd like to know why anybody ever browses on the phone unless you're literally travelling or on the toilet. I just don't get it. A tiny screen and no keyboard seems like a crappy way to experience the Internet when you could use a big screen, but everybody is saying it's the next thing. (Perhaps it is purely economic and I'm being a bit of a Marie Antoinette here?)
Considering Telstra is storing so much data already, are you really not scared of the implications of that?
Font transformation in iOS 7 Beta – from light to regular
The Road To Resilience: How Unscientific Innovation Saved Marlin Steel (2013)
Snowden video from Moscow airport
I took these screnshots on an iPad. And yes, that was the first device I visited the site on, because in the morning during breakfast, I use it to read some news or look for interesting stuff on HN.
It depends on the definition of "talented". If "me myself and everybody like me" then it's very logical.
Windows Phone Missing App - Meteor
WP Missing App is service for Windows Phone users, that allows them to list apps they are missing on their phone. User can vote for apps, they want to see on Windows Phone. It will help developers working on WP apps to find the target, and will provide a platform to appeal companies to work on WP apps.
In Firefox, typing /downl[return] will open a link titled "download" on the current page

Using ' (Quick Find within link-text only) instead of / (Quick Find ) is even faster/easier.
Seems like BitTorrent Sync would be a likely alternative.

http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
Then you looked at the wrong projects. Look at a Symfony2 or Zend Framework codebase (which are the most popular frameworks) and you wont find much of a difference to Rails or Django. Imo Symfony2 is better structured than most of them.
Children are not automatically assigned a SSN at birth.

Quoting from the Social Security office: "Must my child have a Social Security number? No. Getting a Social Security number for your newborn is voluntary. But, it is a good idea to get a number when your child is born. You can apply for a Social Security number for your baby when you apply for your baby’s birth certificate."

A couple of decades back, the law was changed to require the SSN for any claimed dependents. Most people, of course, want that ~ $4,000 deduction, so hospitals often distribute the birth registration form.

For what it's worth, I was also born in the 1970s, but didn't get my SSN until jr. high, as I recall.
I certainly hope not! They're going to need it when Cyber-Cthulhu gets loose.
> All sorts can happen between source and binary.

True. But also true of firefox. But you can install chromium and firefox from source and be sure that apart from your compiler nobody planted anything in your browser.
Escaping Google's gravity: How small search engines define success
Dito, some of your mentioned issues also came to my mind - there def. is a lack of information on the site which would come in very handy!
That would be cheaper, yes.
Oooh this looks nice.

I'd love a tool that could integrate with Jailbroken phones and Cycript to provide run-time introspection on actual devices though.
Correction: now all we have to do is extrude drills from it and we'll be ready for when the Anti-Spirals attack.

>8-D
I don't agree to that. Current elections are costly, slow and bloated, meaning they can't be conducted often. Internet voting could allow for new forms of democracy altogether.
Sorry, that's a typo.

shouthappiness.com
There's a lot of X software, but (alternatives to) the most popular software are already available on Android, and I'm afraid that lots of existing software isn't exactly optimized for a small screen and a virtual keyboard. Can you say a bit more about why I'd want to install X?
Just because it's a robot doesn't mean it's a Strong AI that would be capable of understanding the Three Laws.

(Let alone that the Three Laws are necessarily the best core ethical code to stick in your bipedal sentient robots.)
Depends on your age. When I was at highschool, IBM PCs were just hitting the market. So games developers were still very much a couple of nerds in their garage. This meant that the industry was relatively level pegged (ie I could leave highschool and write a relatively professional game). However these days kids don't have that opportunity (generally speaking of course. There's still your Minecrafts and other indie games that have gone on to be hugely successful for their developer(s)). These days the entry bar is so much higher that I think that's part of the reason so many students are drawn towards web development; where it costs next to nothing to set up a web dev workstation and anyone can throw together a professional looking site. And because of that, the more lower level programming industries are missing out on talented developers.

I appreciate that the Raspberry Pi foundation was set up in an attempt to readdress this issue, but I for one consider myself very luck -perhaps more so than this generation of kids- to have grown up in an era where school kids had the same (dis)advantages as the games studios. And I think it was that which cemented my desire to work in IT at such an early age - as I felt part of the industry even though I was just throwing together silly BBC / Amstrad BASIC, and later DOS games in Pascal, for my own amusement.
Anyone noticed that related videos are very interesting? (About real pipelines).
By that metric, car insurance companies are also sexist - they charge individual men more because stereotypically men are riskier. Of course, that stereotype is based on data, but so is the stereotype that women take more time off when they have children.

Why is it legal to discriminate based on data in some situations but not others? I think the only solution is to remove the logical justification for discrimination: force men and women to take equal parental leave.
How Apple's App Store Changed Business at Its Core
>Presuming for a moment that all the information collected by NSA is, in fact, public information

That's a huge, and wrong, presumption.
Russian official says no asylum application received from Snowden
9 Industries that Obama Policies Will Actually Help
>If this treasure trove of personal connection graphs, cell phone discussions, location information, is all truly public and not subject to a judge issued targeted warrant, then, why shouldn't this public information be available to any member of the public?

Because I don't want anybody to fucking know I'm having an extra-marital affair. How the fuck is that your or anybody else's business?
Whether employees of a particular company have children or not is irrelevant to demographics on the national scale.
there are no facts in your comment. Please cite your sources. Not only that, my hypothesis hasn't been debunked or disproved.
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Doesn't genetic testing allow you to determine where your ancestors came from to an astonishing degree? I'm pretty sure there are lots of valid ways to define a race. The question is how useful it is. Also in the past a lot of people have been lumped together inappropriately, for example apparently the genetic diversity in Africa is the biggest of all continents, yet all people from there were lumped together as "blacks".
I have a Bose system in my A4, and it's not bad at all. I still prefer my headphones at home, but for a car audio system of the mid-2000s, it's pretty good. I thought manufacturers mainly stopped using it over license fees.

It is obnoxious that it's a 2ohm system where everyone else uses 4ohm, so you can't add/upgrade/modify easily.
Was MailChings for me, admittedly with an odd "g", but this part is definitely worse than before.
There must be an awful lot of anti-male sexism in HR departments to keep the percentage of men so low.
Agreed, Bose always make good products and all awesome product comes with a price tag.
Compared with graphite/etc, it absolutely is true. A project is judged against its competition. The things you are talking about (UI, scaling, graphs, etc) are not my concerns with it. I don't doubt that it is "very good", for at least several values of "good", but that is missing the point.

Right off the bat, here are differences between barrier to entry (ignoring the "enterprise" stench and consulting/contracting emphasis for the moment):

Installation:
Graphite:
Homepage -> links to pip / github / launchpad
Zabbix:
Homepage -> Downloads -> Download -> RHEL binaries?!?! -> Oh nevermind, sourceforge link.....

Sending metrics to the system:
Graphite:
Homepage -> documentation -> getting your data into graphite
Zabbix:
I'll be honest, I just gave up.

It just gets worse from there. I don't want to become my companies "Zabbix guy". I want something that I can just get working as rapidly as possible with as little heartache as possible. Particularly heartache that seems suspiciously intentional considering the number of ways you can find yourself on a "hire us to train you!" page on their site...

Zabbix reminds me of all the things I hate about working for a PHB who makes technical decisions at large corporations. Maybe that is an unfair take-away, but that take-away is entirely their own fault.
>And, yes, we know that other languages have flaws, too. But aside from perhaps PHP, the flaws in other languages are almost never as outright stupid as they are with JavaScript.

Citation needed. There are tons of languages with huge fucking flaws to blow your code and kick your dog.

PHP and Javascript are relatively harmless (if a little brain damaged). At least you don't get buffer overflows using them.

You think C++ has a better design, for example? People forgot how bad Python used to be, pre 2.4?
I browse websites often from my phone even when I've got a laptop 6 feet away from me. Usually when I'm on the sofa flicking through twitter or email etc...

It really doesn't take much to at least make sure your website is accessible. If it doesn't work properly it's likely I'll give up and not even bother trying anywhere else.
I dislike the last example he gives, even though the reason may be a decent one. Having Doc Comments in Java, for example, is great because Eclipse (and other IDEs) will actually explain to you what a function does when it does code completion and the format for those comments looks exactly like that example.

Overall, there are some very good points expressed in the article. I feel like the fact that new programmers are taught to comment a lot is good (completely uncommented code is often horrid, and let's be honest, new programmers often won't write good code). Perhaps there should be a stage later on (and maybe there is) where programmers with more experience are taught that they should actually avoid comments in general and just write good code (with the exception of doc comments, as I mentioned above).
It could be a hassle to keep comments as up to the date as
the code they are meant to accompany, that I totally agree but I would argue with these main 2 reasons on why I prefer to comment as much as possible and update them as often as the code:
1) I am fairly certain that the next maintainer of my code would appreciate a well-written piece of code with proper explanation for especially clever portions or just plainly horrifying practices done for a production bug fix which must go out in minutes and the poor soul responsible for that already forgot about fixing the fix :).

2) Someone may remember every lines of code that they wrote in the past 3 months or so but I would not. I tend to forget code rather quickly so my comments serve as a memento to my future self, meaning I would do well to keep my comments up to date.