skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We probably had to pick between big infrastructure projects that benefited ordinary people (e.g. bridge maintenance, universal health care) and big infrastructure projects for the military industrial complex (e.g. a bewildering variety of fortified / mobile / densely packed / widely spaced ICBM launchers, enormous early warning systems, fleets of bombers capable of flying high or low, fast or slow around the world and back with multiple thermonuclear weapons, enough aircraft carriers to control the world's oceans and rotate for maintenance and shore leave, an even larger number of nuclear submarines to launch ICBMs, hunt rival submarines, perform covert intelligence-gathering missions in "enemy" waters, and protect the aforementioned aircraft carriers, SDI, etc.).

You can only spend more money on the military than the rest of the world combined and undertake so many other projects.
> There's no good reason that we should treat men and women differently

Men and women are already treated differently, the point of these is to try and apply corrective actions to lead to better gender balance and hopefully, down the line, social consciousness changes leading to balance in the first place making the grant unnecessary.

If you don't like this grant, help fight for a more equal treatment at the root.
It's a good option to consider if you want to live in a modern city without taxes (it comes with its own catches though).

It's not modern in many regards though. Homosexuality is illegal. Sex outside of marriage is illegal (if you get raped and report it to the police, you can be arrested & tried for having sex outside of marriage, if you kiss your different-sex-date in public, you can be arrested and fined). Alcohol is very legally restricted. etc.

I haven't heard of a lot of startups in the Dubai area though.

The cynic in me thinks it's due to the socially conservative environment.

As Paul Graham said ( http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html ):

That's the connection between technology and liberalism. Without exception the high-tech cities in the US are also the most liberal. But it's not because liberals are smarter that this is so. It's because liberal cities tolerate odd ideas, and smart people by definition have odd ideas.

Conversely, a town that gets praised for being "solid" or representing "traditional values" may be a fine place to live, but it's never going to succeed as a startup hub.
Believe the Hyperloop
To the killing? It was partly replaced by G52IFR, which focuses on Coq, and also partly because the university seems to enjoy killing off modules from departments that don't do HCI. Human-computer interaction is currently eating the department.
Thanks for the answer - I had seen something similar somewhere but it hadn't gelled. I'm still not completely clear how this would apply to products that were very cheap or ad-supported. Maybe just with a lighter touch? Note: this is academic to me at this point in time as I'm not doing sales.
Well technically he is worth something like 6-7 billion dollars right now but I believe almost all of that is made up of stock in the companies he owns so if the companies were to end up failing then he would lose most of it and I don't think he plans on selling any of his stock any time soon.
That's wrong: attending to conferences does not make a huge difference in the process of becoming a good programmer. Much better to use the same money to sponsor a primary school program to make kids understand computers and programming for instance.
A standalone parser written in C is a great asset. Pretty much any language worth mentioning has C bindings, so they are now just a bindings implementation away from having a reasonably fast (the fact that performance was a non-goal notwithstanding), standards compliant HTML parser. This is an improvement over the status-quo where most languages have bindings to lxml which is fast but has made-up error handling and a tendency to deal poorly with quite a lot of content, and some languages have slow, native implementations of the HTML standard parsing algorithm (I wrote much of Python's html5lib so I am aware both that it is slow and that it is non-trivial to speed up).

Compared to Gecko and WebKit, this gives you just the parser, which is significantly simpler than the whole engine and all you want for many applications.
> But I think it's more like 3% in reality?

Depends a lot on the community & conference, there's quite a bit of variance.

But the mean is definitely much closer to 3% than to 30%: PyCon 2013 prided itself on its progress on gender-equality and gender-parity[0] and it had 20% of women attendee (up from 10% in 2012 I understand)

[0] bolstered by gender-equality sub-communities such as PyLadies
Not to mention traction is a very subjective thing, especially for b2b companies.

And even after you get traction, the type of traction begins to matter. For example, you can go sign up 100 paid customers for your product in a week by contacting your Dad's rolodex. You may have see that as traction; most VCs are going to have major questions about how you'll get your next 1,000 customers and why you haven't proven any of those channels yet.
Reminds me of topblacktalent.co.uk
Personally I consider extracting meaning from the crawl part of the indexing step. That just comes down to how you define it though. In reality its blurry as you need to do some pre-indexing during the crawl to extract meaningful data and as you say there are a lot of edge cases.

For basic crawling it really is as simple as while links download link though.
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I agree that Python is a general-purpose language that could replace much of the Java code you see around, but I never got the feeling that it is particularly well-suited for the web. For one thing, with significant whitespace, it's harder to embed snippets of code in HTML or vice versa, so you have to work with a templating library right from the beginning. Some will see this as a blessing in disguise, but for very small projects or mostly self-contained components, having logic and presentation in one file is much more productive.
My complaint is not the name (though the changelog RC1->RC2 is a bit much). I find it strange to only have the RC downloadable from the main page, the way I see it the currently stable release should be the main download and standard documentation. By doing it this way there is a risk of of users within BS3 and also possibly slower uptake in apprehension of other potentially incombatible changes in upcoming BS3 releases.
It works, it's just that the new Maps beta is a UI bag of suck made for flys and arachnoids : http://i.imgur.com/6j6xPIe.jpg
And having more women attending opens conference organizers to the needs of women attendees, driving the possibility of less "pioneering" ones attending.
Or try the UK version....
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.492159,-0.19092&s...
Autoworkers of Our Generation
Guess people got tired from all these now-i'm-here-now-i'm-closed little SaaS CRUD projects that everyone and their grandmother is building using same tech. And people hate promotions that are not said to be promotions openly, but wrapped into a thin transparent cloth.

IMO you'd be more welcome if you made 2 separate posts, one to thank, one to show the project, but maybe don't mention any discounts for HN in the post in an attempt to incentivize checking of your site.
Alon Levy thinks that anybody that is not a 'transportation engineer' should stick to minding their own business. His agenda is shining through pretty strong here and his dislike for Elon Musk (who apparently succeeds in areas where he's not qualified to succeed in the first place) is as strong as it ever was. The more successful Elon Musk is in his endeavors the more vehement this kind of attack seems to become.

It's quite possible that there are valid criticisms embedded in between the vitriol but I wished he'd stick to the factual stuff and leave his bias out of it. Calling Elon Musk a crank is an insult given what the man has already achieved and reflects poorly on the writer.

I personally think that the best way forward with the hyperloop is to create a scale model, the tube and carriage could be (virtually?) wind tunnel tested and valuable information would be gathered that way offering a path to verify the design one step at the time starting with the hardest part, the aerodynamics.
Agreed.

Where are the grants for women to work in the building trade? Or for men to work as nurses? Both are under-represented in those fields.

Plenty of fields have a gender imbalance, but they don't present it as a problem.
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>That's precisely what I'm disagreeing with. Not everyone sees configuring a system as "merely tedious busy-work". I for one like setting things up.

And what you're saying is precisely what I'm disagreeing with. I'm sure there are people that like those things (mostly beginner's with Unix and such, tinkerers etc). It's a form of passtime.

That doesn't mean it's challenging in any creative way. It's a boring ass brain puzzle that tons of people are solving again and again.

The sense of "accomplishment" of getting the dependencies to build X right, might be valid if you just started building things and getting to know how compilers, libs etc work, but it's grows old very quickly for normal people and it's a false accomplishment after that initial stage.

Actually saying you enjoy that is like saying you like boilerplate code, because that's exactly what it amounts to.

>It might not be the kind of fun and challenging you're looking for, but please, try not to state state opinion as fact.

Sure, you can find people that like everything, even the most boring ass shit. I'm sure there are people that enjoy calculating logarithms manually too. But I wouldn't call such bizarro outlier fun as fun in the accepted sense.

But it's a fact (I've seldom seen anyone state the opposite, tons of texts from Stack Overflow to blog posts support this) that most programmers/hackers tear their hair out to get rid of those "fun" tedious configuration/setup/figuring dependencies etc work and move to the real part.

I've actually never read an interview with a hero programmer where he said that he likes those parts of programming -- but have read tons of those that say the exact opposite, from Alan Kay to Jamie Zawinsky.

Actually a large part of programming is exactly about removing (automating) those tedious parts.
It's a video encoder, hardly a 'developer tool'.

As for steady income of money, true that this type of funding isn't of the steady pay-check variety but if you can continue to add value to your project then it could become a long term income.

Either way I'd say the vast majority of open source desktop software today is done without any compensation and during developers spare-time, things like kickstarter opens up possibilities for them to actually make money while doing what they would likely have done either way, and it can also give them the financial opportunity to work exclusively on the project for a period of time.
> I'd rather live in a world with this grant than in one without.

Gender wars notwithstanding, that's not how you compare possible worlds :-) A more correct comparison would look like "I'd rather live in a world with this grant than in a world where the same money was spent on saving rare wild geese".
Also pade 120 of this Pdf is reported to work

http://images.apple.com/support/security/guides/docs/Leopard...
I'm pretty sure anybody can apply.
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I wish I had the time to write cleaner code at work - the company ethos is to strive for progress and not perfection, as that could come later... Buncha nitwits. At least there's the open source community, who tend to follow style guides in their respective programming languages. I tend to follow those guides if I contribute to that project, and reading up on the different style guides for the same language has given me a decent perspective on what is generally expected. Following those is a good way to write clear, concise code. I also tend to try to explain the code I'm writing in the actual code without needing comments (I still do comment code though), so any function/variable/property names are verbose in that respect. My usual goal for this is to make the code clear enough to be understandable if it had no comments at all, but add comments in anyway to elaborate on what is happening.
Nah, it's just PR bullshit. Did women ever complain that tech conferences are too expensive to attend?
He doesn't. He "hates" sycophancy. The fact that you think its Musk he hates sort of proves his point.
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Currently it's just a straight fork - https://github.com/jbrooksuk/gumbo-parser

I'm giving it another crack now.

You can see my first attempt at https://github.com/jbrooksuk/gumbo-parser/commit/d64f78b125f... - unfortunately it's not quite there. I can't figure out how to send back the struct created by Gumbo.
Dependency Injection in Play with Spring
"They will never guess that your domain name is visual.ly"

No, but they shouldn't ever need to guess. The overwhelming majority of traffic will come from either people clicking on links in email or social recommendations, navigational searches, or people seeing some sort of marketing such as print media or business cards. If people are actively talking about your startup then they'll specify the domain more carefully. Anyone you lose because they go to the .com and immediately give up probably wasn't very interested in the first place.

I would argue that a good, single English word domain with a .io or a .co TLD is going to result in a stronger brand than something that's been crowbarred into an available .com by adding an extraneous word or dropping a vowel.

(I hope so anyway, I'm working on a .io right now. :) )
That this article can claim to be error handling "done right" is a great illustration of the immaturity of the node ecosystem.

Stop and ponder that express can't even return a 500 on exception without a lot of customization. (Which this example doesn't even address.)
Usability nightmare: Why Korean websites suck
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> I wonder if google is allowed to scan mails it has received but the user hasn't yet opened

Well, this is how anti spam filter works
And the 11th tip is to use a code review tool, not to specifically use the example one (although the plug/mention is a bit heavy-handed)
You've just found Google's business model !

Seriously though, this is better done by locals who knows the place than by some Google minions.

I think the business model will be selling it to famous landmarks and malls, who have to do it for brand reasons (and then trickle down on the famous scale).
See the examples, Burj Khalifa (big ugly tower), Everest, Grand Canyon, Venice, highly touristic places.

Expect Eiffel tower, Liberty Island, not beautiful "treks".
gorilla arms
http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
To be fair, that's all stuff that "real" email clients already do.
This is why I decided to back Mycestro [1] and skipped on the LeapMotion.
While it won't support multi-hand (unless you have 2 devices) and multi-finger stuff, at least it should be able to easily recognize any motion I make with it on.

[1] http://www.mycestro.com/
Ironically bulk of all the Python out there is web code.

In fact Django, Twisted and Zope is all the Python code there is.

Scripting was never Python's forte. Scripting is all about succinctness, power and providing as much power with fewer constructs and restrictions. Which happens to be exactly the very opposite of Python goals, and some thing which more or less as a mission statement Python tries to achieve. This is why Python will likely never be a very successful scripting language.

Python was always a web language for frustrated java programmers who couldn't put with java's problems anymore. Much of Python's success is in web frame work area. Which was previously Java's territory.
Thank you for the most hilarity I'm likely to encounter today! That's a great article.
Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers
Not disagreeing, but the tool mentioned is not from Rational, it only integrates with the Rational workflow tool.
Maybe if you typed www dot malenursingscholarships dot com into your browser ... ?
I'm curious as to what was the motivation behind this project at Google. It seems to me that the only benefit of writing something like this in pure C would be performance gains over existing parsers, but it specifically says in the README that parsing performance was not one of the goals.
Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6356
Your first mistake might be assuming that people are rational
Bravo to the man for standing up for what's right. No form of coercion like that should be allowable.
Firstly, because I trust Lavabit. For two, because he recently shut down the site instead of doing that. It's not definitive, but it doesn't make sense to me that he'd decrypt one user's data but shut down instead of decrypting anothers.
I live in a house with aluminum siding and foil wrapped sheathing.
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... But only in Bash 4. This doesn't appear to work with stock OS X (Bash 3).
Definetly slower. Also, there's some features I miss from the old maps, like navigation on the map while on StreetView and the measurement ruler (from labs). But you don't need to switch to Bing as you can still change to the classic google maps.
My first impressions with the Leap is similar. Got one, played around with it, felt kinda useless, haven't "touched it" since.
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There is, but it used to offer only free apps.

Amazon, OTOH, does have paid app purchases, and so does Baidu.

http://www.itproportal.com/2013/05/07/amazon-beats-google-pl...

It seems Google is going to offer paid apps soon:

http://www.thebeijinger.com/forum/2013/05/02/google-play-sto...
There are some advantages to the customization options that Express offers.
Sometimes when there's an exception, you might even prefer to have the server fail and restart, so that it doesn't stay in an undefined state.
If you're hosted on Heroku, like I am, then they take care of the error message for you. If you have several live servers, they also do the load balancing while the server restarts.
Gotta say, I'm finally now more comfortable using Firefox's Dev Tools rather than Firebug...mainly because Firebug has become a slow piece of crap and FF's now runs at more or less with the speed of Chrome's tools.
The Art of Computer Programming, Knuth.
Okay, so this is over the top and not very constructive.

However, there is an underlying pattern that annoys me too. There are literally thousands of people working in innovative transportation ideas, why is the barely researched idea of a relative amateur like Musk receiving so much attention?

The same applies to the Soylent story: people who have been working on the problem for decades are being ignored in favor of self-promoting entrepreneurs who's ideas lack depth.

The great irony is that the cheerleaders for these entrepreneurs are the same people that bitch about the lack of scientific knowledge in politicians and the lack of attention for science in general.

I can perfectly understand that this pisses people of who have been diligently working on these problems for decades.
It's not noise from other WiFi devices that cause problems in denay packed environment. The problem is the available bandwidth is consumed by other devices. Bluetooth uses the same frequencies as WiFi, but overcomes the problem by using frequency hopping and a method of adapting to the environment.
"Come attend our seminars. We have so many guys attending, we are now giving cheap tickets to all females!"

Kinda sounds a like a reverse advert for a (scam) dating website.
What are the needs of women attendes?
"to be paid after the conference"

"All applicants will be notified ... 3-4 weeks prior to the event."

How likely is it that this will increase participation, rather than just wind up just effectively refunding people who would have been going either way?

If you apply, and receive confirmation 3 weeks prior; it's pretty much guaranteed that travel/accommodation/ticket prices will all be higher than they are today. Maybe even 1000 EUR higher.
It would be amazing if we could put these in the Oculus rift someday. Are there any plans for that?
How about "solve problems people care about"?
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A bridge across the Irish Sea and four other amazing plans
Both of those exist. One example of each...

Women in building trades grants:

http://www.state.nj.us/governor/news/news/552012/approved/20...

Grants for men in nursing:

http://voices.yahoo.com/top-20-nursing-scholarships-grants-m...

(Note for the later its a top 20 list - implying there are more than 20 such grants).

If you would like to make an argument, please do the tiniest bit of fact checking before you make wild claims. I mean, I opened 2 tabs and typed into the search "grants for women in building trades" and "grants for male nurses". Basically your wanton ignorance is showing.
Funnily enough, I'm coming to America soon.
I think combining a kinnect and several leaps with an Oculus Rift might be great. That way you can use your own body motions within the rift. The kinnect would be for gross motions and the leaps would be for detecting fine motions.

What do you guys think?
Are 'intelligent' people less likely to hold religious beliefs?
Yeah; actually you are the only one in control of your feelings. Turning it off is a matter of maturity; one day you may (god willing) smile when you hear children.
Hacker 'shouts abuse' via Foscam baby monitoring camera
Thanks for clarifying the semantics :)
"ramen profitability" - LOVE IT!
Upvoted, bookmarked and thanks! Always in the look for alternatives to Google.
Bored people shoot track, put pennies on tracks, drop water balloons from freeway overpasses, put potatoes in car exhaust pipes, and on and on. Its important to consider the most random variable in the safety equation - bored people.

I'd say all these concerns warrant putting the damn thing underground.
In the Netherlands just such a service where you can order food from a lot of different places is very succesful: http://www.thuisbezorgd.nl/en/
You say it's not supposed to yet my quote was taken directly from the first line of the campaign page.
Single command line retrieval of dependencies, single command line to update them. And you don't have to remember the exact git url.
Seriously. With a proper cycle mount with force feedback and swaying you could get very close to a real experience.
Actually I probably would consider it. I like and trust mozilla as a company more than Google. Also Firefox has some extensions I would like to use such as No Script. I would probably still use Chrome for development hough.
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You think the only people interested in classical music and literature are "some scholars maybe"?
Its a small enough data set to know exactly how much damage was caused by this disclosure. How many wallets were returned to scammers? Anybody? Zero? I'm thinking zero.

In that case this was a non-issue.