skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google gives 10 emergency codes that you can keep in your wallet and use them to access your account in these kind of situations. Does Microsoft have a similar feature?
Smell is a safety feature. It helps you avoid rotting food, rotting bodies, things contaminated with feces, unexpected chemicals, smoke and fire conditions.
Stop listing features. Start gaining customers.
This is to use it on a friend's device to find your device. Apple also provides a similar app.
On a per-capita basis, the Netherlands is at the top with far more electronic surveillance than almost any other country, and the U.S. is at the bottom. (This may be only domestic LE surveillance, can't remember.)
Invoice in binary? $0110110001 per hour? That's $433. The whole thing is weird.
1) That is an awesome feature, especially being able to ring on max volume when you've silenced your phone earlier. Given my phone is usually on silent, having friends call it to find it between sofas has never worked for me.

2) I hate it when websites hijack my browser's hotkeys. Google, Alt-Left goes back a page in your history in basically every browser I've used, why did you think it necessary to rewire that for Blogspot?
An interesting side-note about the Falklands, the restrictions on reporting resulted in this wonderful quote from the late BBC correspondent Brian Hanrahan

"I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out, and I counted them all back" [1]

[1] - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/20/brian-h...
I swear by Boards of Canada, which, judging from the criteria you listed, might be right up your alley.
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There is currently an online petition in the UK for a public enquiry into this: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/51959
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The lady, while attractive, does look like she's headed to a cocktail party rather than work. Though it's not really my place to tell women not to dress up or "appear attractive."

Contrast it with her actual profile picture on the site, both are flattering but completely different in what they communicate.
That depends if you're just buying the pills from the spams or going to the hardware store and building your own pumps etc.
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To those that think these look spammy - this is exactly the fucking problem. They are not spammy. It's just that spammy ads have been objectifying women on the Internet since, oh, forever...and now it's an improper association. I hope this gets sorted out real soon.
I can understand completely why the ads were banned. Mind you, I'm female myself.

Most female developers simply do not look as 'picture-perfect' as the one Toptal decided to use in their ads or at least not at work.

That particular photograph looks too staged and is not particularly suggestive that it was shot to be used in a technical career context.

Toptal chose an outlier to represent the majority and that is dishonest to the user population targeted by the ad.

Florencia, the developer pictured in the ad should've supplied different pictures or the company should've asked for them itself, preferably pictures with more work-appropriate clothing, like a t-shirt, shirt or blouse of some sort.

I seriously doubt any female programmer goes to work in that sort of attire, not only it would be over the top in 99% of the cases, it would be damn uncomfortable.
I think there would have been a significantly smaller chance of rejection had they gone for the profile picture on the engineer's toptal page, not the "professionally" done headshot.
Where do you draw the line between front-end developer and engineer? If you write a hello world, you are writing software. WP themes are a mess and they require a lot of PHP code.
Caveat emptor: using core.async currently results in even less useful exception traces.

Which is why we're releasing async debugging in VS 2013. Guess the Clojure team has some more work ahead of them. ;)
How many times are "computer dudes" hit with pictures of attractive women to encourage us to buy hardware/software, attend conferences, etc?

I think the culprit you should be pointing the finger at is advertisers and marketers, not the average computer programmer (who may or may not be male).
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To be honest, I actually find the copy rather disturbing -- it reminds me of the copy I've seen used to advertise sites that provide video chat services.
I get this state for a while on a speedy connection and current machine: http://cl.ly/QbEs

Chrome dev tools show a bunch of other images being loaded before the one that matters gets taken care of.
(at 10s I get the image for the initial timeline point: http://cl.ly/QbZx and here is what's happening beforehand: http://cl.ly/Qbee)

Looks like this is partially thumbnails (which take a while despite their small size - not sure what's going on here) plus some larger images that aren't the first timeline point's image.
Cough... http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
Good point. Certainly the product matters most but I can see how it would be very confusing when explaining to a peer. Thanks!
Yeah, finding the homepage should probably be easier to do from the blog. I normally try to link to the homepage in the first couple sentences of the post, but not always, and not in this case unfortunately.

Edit: and I agree we could have done more with marketing. We were new entrepreneurs at the outset of this, and did a lot of things that I would completely change now that I'm a bit more seasoned. Marketing would be one of those things.
I too tether without paying (Nexus 4, to my laptop). I don't usually do it too heavily and until recently hadn't had any trouble from T-Mobile.

When I moved into my new apartment I used it more than usual (maybe 2-3 GB over a few days) and they started redirecting my traffic to a "Pay for Tethering" site. It's just user-agent based though so very easy to circumvent. Other than than I have had no issues.
There's a field to change the bitcoin exchange rate over time.
Oh, sure, some may know enough and care enough to do something about it, change browser, change root certs — whatever is needed. But this isn't about them, this is about society at large. This is about whether your mother, your father can use their webmail account without being spied on: would you want all your emails to and from them available because of a MITM attack on someone who is not you? (I realise email is not a great example, with emails typically being transmitted in plaintext between SMTP servers, but is reasonable in the generic digital communication sense.)
What I can't get my head around is who the hell complains about a female image beside an ad online? Someone needs to get a life.
I don't think it's the fact that the women are intrinsically attractive, but rather the fact that they're consciously choosing the pose/makeup/lighting in order the emulate the design language of the adultFriendFinder-style ads. (It's not like the glamor-shot trend of the 80s was the result of some evolutionary genetic shift that made every woman temporarily look like that.) The fact that most of the copy could apply equally well to sex trafficking doesn't help much either.
>ads have been objectifying women

in all kinds of media, before the Internet, since forever.
Another up vote for RavenDb from me. I also like MongoDb as well though.
Those ads definitely look spammy, and I am sure the versions with men on them look spammy as well. They would look spammy with the pictures sliced off entirely.

The specific objection to the women's pictures is troubling of course. Hard to move my opinion of LinkedIn any lower than it is already though... Sleezebags being sleezebags... more at eleven.
How many times have you heard people justify sexist marketing strategies by explaining that this is "what works"? Because it does.

Because of the average computer programmer.
We made money from matching our job seeking users to companies. We contracted with companies to do this. If you go to the hiring? link at the top you can see some of that. Most of our sales outreach was direct though.
Travis Goodspeed is one of my favorite bloggers. Definitely worth checking out if you like this kind of stuff: http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/
Sony Xperia S, probably others. Plenty of phones have non user replaceable batteries.
> they also don't look like women ready for a day at the office.

Really? How do you judge that? Why do you say that?
When I worked at fashion startups in New York, women did wear outfits like this, including the engineers. The engineer in question is in Buenos Aires where both sexes tend to have a bit more flair.
My thoughts exactly. The blonde in particular looks extremely similar to the kind of women in sleazy ads where the goal is to get you to think below the waist.

It's true that there are women could do just as well in engineering as in modeling. But using hot stock models to play on the worst tendencies of viewers is also a problem that debases a site, so I can completely understand why LinkedIn would not be okay with those ads, even though they happen to not be stock models this time.
The images look reasonable to me, and I'm a female software engineer. Sure, she's wearing an interesting top (it could be a dress, but could also just be a nice blouse), but it's nothing beyond what I might wear to work. She's wearing the tiniest bit of makeup, very discreet and professional. And her facial expression is fairly neutral -- there's nothing especially sexy in it. Banning the account seems uncalled for.
"Passive income" was once the province of people who accumulated wealth and now were reaping the benefits of good long-term strategies. That is honest enough.

Being a marketing middleman can be an honest enough niche, too.

That these particular marketing middlemen, with an intrinsically ephemeral revenue stream, would try to steal the term "passive income" to glamorize their take tells us a lot about the nature of the business, right? Fraud. Lots of fraud.
One reason airline food is so bad? Your own tastebuds
HN contributions only amounted to about 5% of the total score. Mostly it was Github contributions (measured by number of forks and watchers and a couple other things) and Stack Overflow participation.
It's kind of like the scene in Annie Hall -- "I have Marshall Mcluhan right here!"
Wondering how involved it would be to add a script to do that in elinks.
That's the most expensive set of Chromium extensions.
I swear I'm not a grammar nazi, but I did just spend the past 10 minutes thinking about ideal user interfaces for zombies and vampires. Thanks for that...
How about Hacker Jailed For Shipping Web Browser With Secure Encryption? That sounds crazy, no? Yet the US has limited availability of encryption before, so why should it not do so again?
> That's true, but consider this: the fact that it's true is, itself, a confirmation that (a) institutional sexism exists in our programmer culture, and (b) sexism is pervasive. How strange would it sound to say "that male engineer's handsome picture sure looks spammy"?

Attractive female images are frequently used in marketing both to women or men, and this is not remotely unique to "programmer culture", so the fact that pictures of attractive women in a particular presentation recall underhanded marketing in the minds of members of the "programmer culture" is not much of an indicator of institutional sexism (pervasive or otherwise) particular to that "culture".

Its more a sign that people's mental spam filters are driven by what spam actually uses, which itself reflects marketing more generally, which in this particular area reflects the fact that marketers have found that people generally, regardless of sex, respond well to images of attractive women.

It's possibly the case that among the biological, cultural, and other contributors to that general response are probably some things that could fairly be labelled "sexism", but its certainly not a simple and direct link.
> What makes you think the smell of sweating bodies can't be hardwired to smell unpleasant?

Because smells are not hardwired [1], we are nurtured into being distasteful of the scent of sweat. One nice example of this that I like is that you can find infants happily playing in faeces without being disgusted by it, it doesn't bother them the sligthest.

[1] http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Nurture-plays...
There's no possible way this is the same LinkedIn that puts up thumbnails of female users and then tries to tease me into a Premium account with the good 'ol "wondering who's been looking at your profile?" sales trick?

It can't be.
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Ubuntu is going to use the same driver blobs that Android does.
Unfortunately, attractive women are often used on spam ads (dating website). This has nothing to do with the fact that they don't believe they could be engineer, it's about the fact that it look like one of theses spams ads.

Also why do they show attractive women? Why not every type of women and every type of men? I'm curious to see their entire set of pictures and I'm pretty sure we will wee more attractive women than anything else. If there's someone who actually push the stereotype, it's them. They want to attract men using attractive women, like all these dating website ads.
when you set up hetzner + aws combination, won't lag time cause failures when communicating between AWS RDS and Hetzner server ?
What ever happened to Summly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445498
Germany scraps old surveillance pact with US, Britain over NSA leaks
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I'm guessing ... Statistical inference? Sure, there are exceptions. But the [recognition that something is an] exception proves the [general validity of the] rule.

The OP didn't say "that woman is not qualified"; he didn't say he'd reject her for a position on sight; he just said that based on the picture, he would place a low estimate on her being qualified.
This is an excellent example of angry, prudish anti-sexism being sexist.

Americans need to get over themselves and recognize that sexuality and attraction are part of what makes life wonderful. Persistent sexual harassment and coercion are not acceptable. Appreciation and recognition of beauty are life affirming.

That said, I think the ads are in poor taste, not because they are women, but because they are quite obviously intended to be sexy. If it were a man in a tuxedo winking in the camera I'd feel the same way.

I don't think they should be banned. Toptal should eventually figure out they are getting horny men clicking on their ads instead of funded companies.

I think LinkedIn recognizing that the presence of women were the problem is abhorrent and they will be issuing apologies shortly.
A P2P currency might help people allocate resources more effectively (to solve problems like the ones that you mentioned). Right now much of our wealth is flushed down the toilet when stolen through taxes and inflation and given to bankers and other government corporate welfare recipients.
> the fact that it's true is, itself, a confirmation that (a) institutional sexism exists in our programmer culture

This has nothing to do with the software industry and it has nothing to do with female engineers. It's an "Internet advertising" thing. If you put a picture of a hot girl in your ad, it automatically looks like porn/scam/spam simply because that's what porn/scam/spam advertisers do.
Running an apartment building with 151 rooms is a business, not retirement. You have control because you have responsibility. You employ people to manage this, but they need to make a profit.

The article makes some funny arguments about adding value. You can raise occupancy from 80% to 95%, you can raise rents, you can cut expenses, you can hire new management. There is some previous owner who is selling this apartment building, why is the occupancy only 80% and not 95% now? How do you expect to raise rents, cut expenses and still have people move in?

And even if you can do that, and hire a new management team, can you really consider this retirement? Instead that's running a successful business.

Instead of "How to retire at 30 with $1 million" it could be called "How to purchase a business that may generate a profit by putting 1.3 million of 4.3 million dollars into the down payment."
Perhaps, but it's an insane solution in a competitive environment where the other major players have actual monopolies and are using predatory pricing to enter other markets.

Apple has clearly overreached, but this kind of remedy is not about restoring competition.
> but they also don't look like women ready for a day at the office

They look like a few of the women that work in my office. What counts as "ready for a day at the office" from a headshot?
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Not to be a word choice nazi, but I think you mean either "word choice nazi" or "spelling nazi" rather than "grammar nazi", as the post you responded to was grammatically correct but apparently used "dead" in place of "deaf".
Well, it is in fact "unnatural". Seriously, lets cut the PC nonsense; how many gorgeous female software engineers do you know? They are an exceedingly rare breed, and it can be proven statistically considering the low number of females in the industry and cut down further by the low number females in general who would be considered attractive. I have yet to see one myself after ten years.
I think this would fit the reserved 1% of the cases and would be perfectly acceptable and probably even encouraged. I imagine an otherwise wide gap in type of attire could create possible tension in the work group, of varied nature.
Why is this being downvoted? It's clearly true.
Agreed - it is not always true. But I would rather have a team building successful products rather than the other way round.
Regardless of your opinion on the adverts and whether they should be allowed or not, they're pushing it being surprised that they got banned.

> After a couple hours we logged in and simply re-enabled all of the disabled ads, including the female ones. In a few more hours, they were all approved, and continued to run smoothly… until a bigger issue arose.

Either take the hit or try and win the argument, if you just ignore the decision like they did then what could they have expected would happen?
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This is crazy! Comparing Florenica Antara's photo from her TopTal page (http://www.toptal.com/resume/florencia-antara) to the one they posted you can see that they did use the more glamorous image (or she provided that one to be used). So what! Using glammed up photos is standard professional practice. The photo they used is not sexy or exploitative any way.

One argument against it (as pallandt mentions) is that such people are outliers, i.e. it's probabilistically unlikely to have a female developer dressed in that outfit. Apart from the fact that this hypothesis is scientifically untested (there may be some truth to it), how does it make it any different than, say, the other practice of using "she" to refer to a common coder (the chance of a randomly picked programmer to be female is much smaller than male). No one I know complains about that!
The iPhone is a /lot/ more complex than a disk drive, with a bunch more ways to talk to the world. (Also, I don't know if the iPhone has a secure boot ROM. It might, whereupon Apple blew it somewhere else).

This stuff /is/ hard. I sat next to a bunch of folks doing this on a console platform and the techniques and exploits were, in a word, breathtaking. But if you know what you're doing and your scope is limited -- to a smallish device, for instance -- you can make it very hard for someone to crack.
But if you choose to wake up and do nothing, how long is that income stream going to last?

I think with the tech industry in general, things move along too quickly for these types of 'passive income' to be stable for more than a few years. After a while, if you're not keeping up with the changes, the stream will die out. Unlike, say, passive investments in the stock market (although there's more volatility there, of course).
I think that the damage is already too great. They are probably already in all the hubs, exchanges and its not like they will give them back. It's no surprise that they are collecting all the cell data too, whether it be metadata or content. Who knows what kinda stuff they have in the actual hardware beside the repeaters they have on the fiber cables.

My question is how do we enact a change. The genaral public (non-tech people) may not fully understand the implications of what they are doing and how much of our data thy are taking. If the large companies are just going to bend over how do we do something?
Okay, but that's like complaining that spammers have made it so you can't say V1@gr@ in subject lines. In both cases, sure, its an inconvenience ... but what the hell were you trying to do with such an improbable string/picture in the first place? (Trust me the engineers in the picture were not chosen at random!)
>HP's CEO in 2011 was mind-bogglingly stupid and of course, killed off Palm

Oh Yeah.

What's happening with Enyo these days anyway? It looks like the project is kinda dead.
In many companies, developers have to dress "professionally", especially if they work in parts of the office where customers might show up. Where I work, t-shirts are not considered to be work-appropriate clothing, even for developers.
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Oh, I see, jQuery and PHP aren't real programming, she doesn't spend enough of her day designing schemas or building iPhone apps or whatever your arbitrary definition of real engineering is?

First of all, real engineers design bridges and machines, and when they screw up, people can die. What does that have to do with whether she is fit to appear in an ad? Why does being attractive disqualify her?

Your post is disgusting and made no more appropriate by your use of a throwaway account.
It could, but to me it looks to me like a normal outfit a 20 something woman would wear in Manhattan.

This reminds me of working with crotchety gen-X and above sysadmins. They complain about "hipsters" but the people they are talking about are wearing standard issue clothes from the mall that everyone in that age bracket wears. They don't realize that wearing a "JavaConf 1999" fleece, bat-belt, cargo shorts and Tevas is not what other people consider normal work attire.
Key point here: Fashion startup. I'm not trying to argue that women never dress like that anywhere else, but I think you've got a very skewed viewpoint.
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Florencia's picture on her own profile is a bit more casual: http://www.toptal.com/resume/florencia-antara
So if it's so difficult to change all of these products - from soap to toothpaste - why not attempt changing how water-treatment plants work so that they do screen out floating matter?
The difficulty only changes every 2 weeks or so though.