skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In defense of "awareness campaigns" (I had a roommate who was a health educator) the statistics about whether one is more likely to be raped by a stranger or an acquaintance are very, very widely reported.

> Focusing on "date rape drugs" presents a vastly inaccurate picture of the real risk factors

I don't disagree but I think a presentation regarding date rape drugs is normally given after alcohol has already been discussed. An educator who discussed date rape drugs first, or in isolation, would most certainly be Doing It Wrong.

A lot of what leads people to that inaccurate picture of the risk factors, I suspect, is the natural human tendency to assume that none of the people I know would ever do something like that. Not to mention the assumption that familiarity with alcohol implies some sort of mastery over it. You can lead a horse to data but you can't make him drink, or something.
AngularJS 1.2 and Beyond
Taste buds?
Your argument here seems to be that if he believes what he says he does, he shouldn't be saying other things that you don't expect him to say.

If I'm reading you correctly, your comment is a nice encapsulation of David's points about politics on HN.
Hadoop engineering support services primer
Do you really need explanation as to why you shouldn't be needy and obnoxious? I find it hard to believe that you need some empirical evidence to prove this point.
Obviously the best job candidates are the ones that scoff at the prospect of learning something more than is absolutely necessary.
Something else: if you ask me questions, I answer them, and you keep asking the same questions, it becomes clear that you aren't actually listening or wanting to get a deep understanding of the topic. Continually asking shallow questions and not showing a desire to get better will irritate me quickly.

Probe me to get an understanding that would be difficult to find just by doing a quick documentation lookup and I'll be happy to help. But if your questions continually come from answers that were covered in the "Quick Start," god help you.
> I haven't yet tried Go, but I don't see how it could match the performance of C# API with a single function. C#'s async methods offload any IO to the process IO completion port threads, thus freeing the current thread to do more work.

Go generally uses synchronous functions, but a function in Go can be the subject of a "go" statement (sharing the name of the language should give an importance of how central this feature is), which causes the function to be executed as a goroutine (that is, asynchronously using an M:N threading model.)
When I read proposals to limit the in-apps because they hurt gamers, I always wonder if this is the kind of proposals that lead to prohibition in 1920s.
> note: this post has been closed to comments; comments about it on other pages will be deleted!

That's not a good sign. :)
Judging from the number of job ads where companies and recruiters tout their principals as "former Googlers" or "Stanfords," or "Facebookers," this would seem to be a petard upon which Google et al have hoisted themselves through their corporate branding via their "smart" hiring practices. That branding is transitive, but it winds up fomenting a kind of credibility bubble among those they hire.
TOX is just the project name.
The product name is yet to be decided.

This is still a pretty heavy argument about it on the 4Chan threads.
Show HN: Create, publish and make money on your own iOS publication
Incase he doesn't reply, I'm fairly sure DanBC lives in the UK. Here is a recent widely publicised case:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/21/ched-evans-loses-ra...

In April, the 23-year-old striker was jailed for five years for raping a teenager who was too drunk to consent to sex with him
Redis is a data store and is limited by RAM. Groupcache is a distributed cache. They are not comparable?
Nodedit Client-Server model JavaScript IDE
The markets see millions of forced new customers about to come in. A massive gov mandated increase in market cap.

There are two possible outcomes.

1) They find a way to cap the hi-money costs (approvals, delays, mandated procedures that are below today's level of care, etc.)

2) Eat the costs, then cry for a (I'm too big to fail) bailout.
Also, I think it's worth noting how great the Obihai is. It's a great little ATA with a ton of features.

My only complaint is that the Obi can be confusing from a consumer perspective. It's not clear, from their marketing, which services are on the Obihai and which are from the operator.

So yeah, the little Obihai is a kickass little adapter. It even does direct Obihai to Obihai mesh networking; a neat little trick.
I copied this sentence as well - it doesn't seem self defeating at all to maintenance one's infrastructure, just part of life.

it's interesting that we both copied that sentence because I just looked at your SN and I'm amused by the fact that I was about to paste the same quote from here at the Causata office :]
Maybe Amen ( https://getamen.com/) will buy this?
It's a matter of context. In the broadest sense, nuclear reactions are an energy source. In general, I agree with you, but it's easy to see the difference between electricity and compressed air. Compressed air is an intermediary in the sense that wire-transmitted electricity is, but it's used in very limited contexts.
Reminds me of the drama revolving around phpVirtualBox from a while back:

http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/a-cry-for-help/

Software and technoloy should be a joy and a light, not a curse.

For those who would like to start the usual “VC, funding, mentor” or “charge for the damn thing” mantras — please, spare it. We’re not in the Valley where it might be super-easy, and, after all, not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. We just love making a good RSS reader.

I hate this false belief that "good RSS reader" and "RSS reader that you have to pay for" are somehow diametrically opposed to one another.

Best of luck to the team. I hope everything works out.
Another interesting possibility would be to use a Star Tracker[1][2] for absolute fixes to sanity check GPS / recalibrate the INS periodically. And it has a long and storied naval tradition!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control#Star_tracker

[2] http://opci.com/ocns.htm
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When I use Helpers, Partials, Presenters and Decorators
There is some differents ways to have a better organization of your views. Partials and helpers are the standard methods. There is also Presenters and Decorators. It can be a little bit confusing to know how and when to use it.
i may have come up with a truly clever proof but it won't fit in an HN comment.

my homepage amirhirsch.com is an interactive graph of the zeta function (and partial sums) along a horizontal slice with spacings of .05 between 0<Re(s)<1
I was bothered by the title too, but reading you and the OP, I realized that in the same way MBA is a generalization that generates both bad (arrogance) and good (intelligence) impressions, so is the word "hacker".
And YC is built upon the idea that make hackers develop business and entrepreneurial skills is a good thing, so why not the idea of making MBAs develop programming skills is something equally good?

Myself, I am not a MBA, but I related to this stereotype more than I relate to a hacker (I studied Economics and my carreer is on non-profit management). And I learned to code and created a web app, a B2C SaaS, in 5 months. From zero knowledge to publish the site to first sale in 5 months.

I would not put a lable like that on me, even less claim bragging rights on this, but I think both me and the author are good examples that people may easily and quickly change whole carreers that were decided when we were less than 20 years old. And that is a good think.

That a hacker may hustle and achieve to create a business from their code and a MBA may hustle and achieve to create a code from the business he imagined, are both sides of a new and welcomed coin. Why not celebrate them both?
I'm surprised this one didn't make more of a splash.
Me too.
Can't even bother to get simple things right.
Google Voice™ Calling on the OBi202, OBi100 & OBi110

http://www.obihai.com/googlevoice.php

$40 - $70 on Amazon depending on model / features.

http://www.amzn.com/B007D930YO
I always wanted to know why would anyone want to hide their code at all? If you making a library you would never know how people going to use it. Why don't expose public interface using naming conventions and let the people freedom to break it when they really want to. I sometimes found myself using methods and variables that intended to be private because I wouldn't achieve needed functionality without touching them.
Just imagine what if Backbone had all model's attributes private - that practically means that you wouldn't be able to extend a model or to inspect the model's attributes in the console. Of course you can say that adequate programmer would never do that, but that's exactly my point - you have to rely on programmer's ability to write decent code, while if everything was public you would also rely on your ability to hack things, yes this can be messy and you can shoot your leg, we all know that, but we all grown ups and we know what we are doing.

When I read about symbols in upcoming ES6 I can't get rid off the sense of anxiety because I fear thing would get worse, the only hope is that browser vendors would implement some means to inspect private state of the objects that use Symbols.

By the way, this was one of the reasons why Guido van Rossum had chosen not to add private state in Python: https://plus.google.com/115212051037621986145/posts/7wpbQTPR...
Browsers will still support HTML5 and JavaScript when you finally get around to proving RH? Optimistic! ;)
Avoid the Perils of Get-Rich-Quick, Work With Those Who’ll Play the Game Again
>This is still a pretty heavy argument about it on the 4Chan threads.

The only reason that occurs is because all the non-technical lurkers want a way to contribute.
You can now cast votes alongside your Congress member, in real time
> If I can unstick them when they are stuck, that's great. If they get stuck every fifth line of code, or on simple problems, that's terrible.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I give leeway to the new hires to learn the domain-specific stuff, but it becomes quickly obvious if they aren't picking up on the material. I had a guy not understand that "4883-381" would not be interpreted by Python as a string without the quotes after 8+ months of working with the language. At one point I caught him trying to put arguments outside of parenthesis. I realized he had basically been copying and pasting the entire time, banging his head against the wall until something worked. I almost went postal.
Those time stamps are from 2013, much later than parent's links from 2012, or am I missing something?
I remember listening to an interview Marissa Mayer (now CEO of yahoo!) from I believe the audio book: In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.

Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/In-The-Plex-Google-Thinks/dp/145587572...

She told the interviewer (I believe Steven Levy) that they train future managers by sending them all around the world and spending a ridiculous amount on each one, but they only expect one of every five or six to be there within three years. They want those type of people because they are ambitious and they want the Google ideology everywhere so they are happy to do it. Essentially, even if you can only get an employee for a year, Google usually highers the best and brightest so they'll probably achieve great things AND when they move on there will still be a connection to Google (and spread Google ideology).

Also, from the ex-Google employees I have talked to they don't feel they can make a big enough difference and would rather join a startup. That's probably because they vet the applicants so well to get ambitious individuals they end up losing them because they want to start or join a new company to both make more money and make a larger impact.
That's not what "zero knowledge" means. In the context of STS or, more generally, DH, a ZKP is something you'd add after DH, to verify that one party or the other had arrived at the expected DH result.

I don't think I'm nitpicking: I see where you're coming from but I think you might be entirely wrong.

I don't know what it means to "prefer" DLP crypto. Over what? I just don't understand what you're trying to say with that last graf.
Exo: Protein Bars Made from Cricket Flour
Exo will introduce to the West one of the most nutritious and sustainable protein sources in the world: insects.
The parent is describing perks (free food). You're describing benefits (health, retirement).
> Google is known for its rigorous entry testing: Potential new recruits are asked trick questions like "How many golf balls do you think will fit into a school bus?"

That is a stupid myth, nobody asks these questions, at least it's not for software engineers.
Okay folks, "just do it manually" is not a solution. This is technology designed to make doing it manually obsolete. We're trying to design systems that can eventually run without human interaction, so saying a solution to this problem is to have a human just do it isn't viable and doesn't make sense and is fairly obvious, to boot.

The story here is that we thought we had designed a system which can do this without human interaction, and now/whenever it was discovered we're realizing we're not done yet. That this can be done by a person with a compass and a map is not a comment worth the text it's written with.
Phil Fish and the Internet’s war against creatives
Just using the articles numbers 40% of IR energy -> 4% of sun's energy, which would mean 10% of the energy is in IR, which matches fairly well with eyeballing this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Spectrum.png
Black Hole Proxy for Selenium Testing
When was the last time a corporation was "loyal" to its employees?
Yeah that project is right at, or perhaps very slightly beyond, my abilities at this time. Which is what makes it such a good project!

My favorite part of this implementation is it shows the cutting edge of modern FPGA development style, where you have soft cores and smart peripherals and the boundary is extremely fluid and blurry between them. Is that in the softcore or "discrete" logic in the FPGA? Well it depends which version of the bitstream you load into the FPGA... In the future this is how all microcontroller and video card and motherboard and such development will be done... you want a different ratio of shaders to anti-aliasing tech, or a new "hardware" supported codec, well just upload a different bitstream... May as well get used to the future of hardware development now rather than waiting.
I disagree. Many of us don't want a job so much as to get paid for what we want to do anyways. Give me work that excites and interests me over pay/perks any day, within limits of course.

I've never even applied to google before because they have a bad reputation of sending people like me to work on ads. Do you work to live or live to work? How you answer this question determines what you'll value more.
XKCD 1190 ("Time") has finished
I do not understand how this achievement gap, as you call it, actually matters or is holding men back when men hold most of the advanced degrees, and wealth in this society.

Well, at the moment women are earning more bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and yes, even Ph.Ds than men. That doesn't immediately erase a pre-existing gap among the older generations, but it does tell us that in the future we still won't have equality -- we'll have simply replaced one gap by another.

The goal really ought to be to start raising generation after generation of kids where boys and girls are equal in educational opportunity and achievement. We've thus far failed at that goal, and I don't truly understand how someone can call themself "feminist" whilst thinking that's not something that "actually matters".

The prevalence of people who do call themself "feminist" and hold such beliefs is why I shelter in my warm, snug anonymity. Pointing out such contradictions does not typically result in calm discussions.
I find that any time an article references a "generation" it is the product of lazy writing/thinking. Plotting individuals along some imaginary scale based on when they were born is only slightly more useful than using horoscopes.

I say this a "Gen X'er" (I think. I was born in 1976 as a product of "Baby Boomers" so I've never known exactly what personality traits I was supposed to exhibit.)
The idea is good, but it would be more targeted to women than men.
edit: 6 refugees per $billion GDP.
This is totally uninteresting for anything other than PR unless it is cheap. Land for solar-cells is not the primary cost of solar energy and won't be for quite some time.
This shows the solar spectrum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Spectrum.png

Visible light ends at about 700nm, so it looks to me (doing an approximate area comparison) as if there is about twice the total power in the spectrum available in the infrared as compared to in the visible.

The article (sorry, it's behind a journal subscription) doesn't say outright in words what frequencies are most absorbed, but from looking at their absorption spectra I would assume that the band gap is between about 650nm and 850nm. I am a materials scientist, but I don't know enough of the acronyms they're using to say more than that. The only other major part I understand and knew to look for is that those efficiencies are measured under one sun of illumination (a lot of the really good looking numbers are done under tens or hundreds of suns).

Convoluting those absorbance spectra with the solar spectrum to get an approximate maximum power input looks to me like something along the lines of 1/2-2/3rds of the total power as is in the visible spectrum. Definitely not negligible.
Self-driving cars will set off an economic and cultural earthquake
> The goal really ought to be to start raising generation after generation of kids where boys and girls are equal in educational opportunity and achievement.

There are two very different goals stated there and they may not be compatible.
When people are not allowed to patent the end result.
I would answer: "Thanks, but I have an special diet and I cook my meals." :D
Isn't that what the code review process would be for? Let a junior developer create a solution on their own, review their work and provide constructive feedback in a way that would eventually teach them that resources like W3Schools are not to be wholly trusted?

On the flip side of the coin, there are also terrible mentors and senior developers who will gladly pass on bad habits just like W3Schools will. Independant research is a good thing.
Problem with Google Maps' iPhone implementation (double-tap, then slide) is that it's unintuitive.

Source: I didn't know it existed before now. (It's awesome btw, thanks!)
OP here.

As a newcomer to VoIP, a lot of it is confusing. I don't consider myself dumb or technically naive, and I've found it pretty difficult to get my head around how all this stuff works.

The Obi is so close to being an awesome consumer device and it was no problem for me to set up, but it's not at the "I can buy this for my parents" level of easy yet.

(FWIW, people like windexh8er totally don't help this situation. Well-reasoned suggestions and links to good documentation would serve the community better than trollery.)
I don’t understand that reasoning. If that’s valid prior art, then patents for functioning time machines won’t hold up either.

I think you’d have a point if it pertained to a design patent. If some movie used a tablet that looked exactly like an iPad, 10 years before Apple produced it, then surely Apple’s design patent for it would be worth zilch. However, the pinch-to-zoom patent describes an implementation in minute detail.

IANAL though, perhaps someone with proper credentials will be so kind to enlighten us.
Tried to submit this but 75 day old thread appeared:

http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/

Final frame:

http://xkcd.com/1190/

Alternate animation:

http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/

Dialogue from the time wikia:

http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Dialogue_from_the_Comic
20 great years of Linux and supercomputers
Having spent a fair amount of time in PhoneGap, I recall one of the tricky bits of using stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString to call into JS land was that it could block, leading Apple to impose a 5 second timeout on that particular API call. Is that still the case? I recall that making loading large objects created/fetched via native code more complicated.

Congratulations on 2.0, regardless!
Probably they cannot feel fulfilled professionally in the current company. I heard that some took the entrance to Google to earn the title "former Google engineer" and then get better positioning for investment.
Nope. {{hug}} elicits --> "Comment - Please only use letters, numbers, and punctuation."
I think it's more like: "Building a simple app is hard, but doable"
Congrats on the progress made so far. I'm eager to see how things shape up.

Would love to see a community project analogous to this one develop in the e-mail space since too many users find PGP to be cumbersome, despite some very nice implementations. Bitmessage and I2P's bote are both very interesting, but the prior project needs more experienced security people working on it (and some serious refactoring), and the latter suffers from the perceived issues of the "darknet" (not an issue for me, but...).
Also, loyalty to an employer used to mean a lot more in the days (which are long gone) when employers actually had loyalty to their workers. These days, most employers will be happy to fire you, with no prior notice, if they think they can find someone who'll do the same work for less (e.g., temp workers who get no benefits, or offshore workers), or if they want to show Wall Street a quick spike in profits to boost their sagging stock price.
You are completely right and that's all there really is to it. That's why things like this happen: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/16/world/asia/china-elite-childre...
Maybe they should do just what I'm doing.

Sit in the thread monitoring progress. Then congratulating progress when it's made.

Or, if they want to contribute without causing arguments. Go upvote this on Reddit, WOT, Twitter, and whatever else in a way which won't cause a shitstorm in /g/.
Yes, I understand. I'm just questioning whether it's worth the effort trying to collect solar energy in these scenarios.
It was posted here a couple of days ago, with lots of discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6113636
you are missing nothing. But you can also see the development of the logo into what it became.
There were also many doodles and whatnot in threads for weeks before this logo was developed.
This was my favourite Reader replacement. I suppose losing it serves me right for not donating earlier!
Excellent analysis. This is exactly where I am personally. It's interesting because you really want to have those kind of people as long as possible as they have the fire and passion to make things better, but they will leave.
They support IE7, which I believe Bootstrap 3 has dropped.

If you don't do the comparison yourself, you're at risk of losing out.
Minority report's UI was functional - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YTQJVzwlI
I am wearing paper bag for the rest of the day. Not enough caffeine in the morning.
> my first reaction to this was "bah, software patents. I love living in the EU."

Your second reaction should have been "Oh wait, we have software patents as well in the EU."
I was hoping someone (else) would mention Padlipsky.

In my dissertation, Elements of Networking Style is the reference for the OSI section (which was needed because everybody is still using the damn terminology).