skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't think anyone can deny that this was a thoughtful, reasoned take on sexism in tech"

I can. It was a reasoned, thoughtful take on a single teacher's inability to effectively discipline a male dominated classroom, and how this lack of discipline severly impacted a woman's hopes for her child. Nothing more.

To say that this is "sexism in tech" is an extreme reach. I dare say dishonest.

Back when I was in grade 9, my friend and I were the only two boys in 'home ec.' It was always only us two in the cooking groups because the girls wouldn't ask us to join their groups. Should I take this to show the inherent Misandry in the entire culinary arts field? Of course not.
It is awfully difficult to get a technical TL;DR version from a website, whose target audience is programmers. I think explaining what this does concisely and technically, preferably on the front page with code examples etc would be really useful.
> The law is imposed upon you whether you want it or not. With the kernel you're free to take it or leave it.

Its not always as black and white. There are times when you are forced to use the kernel, maybe a default on your shared hosting that cannot be changed or a restriction put by your team's Administrator for security.

Forking is not the effective answer either, its just not practical, its too complex to maintain and upkeep with the new changes. Like you said, in practice nobody does this. Had this not been the case, we would have seen less whining about PHP's problems and more forks to fix it.
Call me Victorian, but I have seen some earthships near Taos..and they just don't catch the eye like a normal house. I guess that's relative.

They _do_ have great passive qualities to them, but this _can_ be done with stick-frame construction, it will just cost you more (and be slightly less "environmentally friendly").
There's definitely an argument for both sides. Having a cofounder to balance out the work is key but maybe it depends on the person/type of company?
Twitter - when all you have is only one line, everything you try to say sounds like stand up comedy oneliners. The majority of which are of dubious quality.

Also are BI so big that they require a CTO or title inflation is in full swing.

We are must also solve the problem why someone can be fired for something non work related and out of company time in general. Because it will grow bigger with time.
It's not whether the author is going too far as a parent, but that that she is not handling the situation appropriately. She showed bad faith by not ever actually talking to the teacher. She sat and accumulated complaints about this class only to blast the teacher on the internet after the fact. That's not productive and it betrays intentions other than helping her daughter succeed.
I recently discovered whatis and I love it.
I think you'd have to have your server receive the hook, and then notify the client side using websockets/long polling etc. Pusher makes that really easy.
After seeing all of the complaints about that event on Twitter, I was definitely surprised to find no mention of it on HN. I wonder why this wasn't worthy of discussion here.
Exactly. We already had the MVP--the key here was boiling down our product into a value proposition people could quickly understand. Rather than saying "we can match an ISP to a location and company" we said "you can figure out if an employer or ex gf googles you"
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I thought of this issue over a year ago. See:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...

https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/SDcoemc9...
THe words privilege and advantage aren't really interchangeable.
How green is a Tesla really?
Empty platitudes, not particularly well written.

"Make the world more relevant" -- what does that even mean?
"Up to 7 different methods are used to verify the phone's proximity to the computer. These include GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, QR codes, and our unique technology, based on audio signals."
A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies
To be sure, this is a Mel Gibson joke that is funny if you heard the tapes. Still, not the kind of thing you tweet from an account linked to your job unless you feel incredibly entitled and secure.
Where did you get the idea that "believing in anything" is the reason he got fired?

It's quite simple (and already explained by rit). He posted numerous messages disparaging various groups - blacks, women, gays. He is responsible for hiring within the company. This places Business Insider in an utterly compromised position and in danger of lawsuits.
( I am not following this closely, so please correct me if I'm wrong)

Did he really get fired for tweeting "feminism in tech remains the champion topic for my block list. my finger is getting tired."?

someone gets fired for saying he blocks people talking about $topic on his twitter timeline?).

wow, if that is all he got fired for, then (imo) this is political correctness gone crazy.

EDIT: ok there is a whole history of weird tweets. see http://valleywag.gawker.com/business-insider-ctos-is-your-ne...

Whoa I didn't know you could use the word 'nigger' in polite/public conversation in the USA.

Above judgment withdrawn. The guy is nuts. How did he get to be CTO in the first place?
They are also easier to use and much more straightforward than hooks. And if you use something like Socket.IO the adoption of WS is irrelevant.
haha, I think I defended a nutjob. I get it but seriously, he got aked to step-down for anti-feminist post not for this seemingly hurtful comment toward a community. Good Job BusinessInsider! (for choosing sides)
When does any male get an audience for whining? If anything there is a huge social stigma against men complaining about anything because of their "privilege."
I agree with everything said in this post. In our lab for example all grad students were required to present at the conferences, yet we had to pay out of our pocket to attend,to register, travel, etc. Our lab did some fair amount of field work but to get to the site we had to use our own car and pay for gas. Our adviser got a grant for this project, yet we had to pay out of our own pocket. No one dared to say anything because few did and got kicked out of the program.
You think adding laws is going to solve the problem?

Not a chance.
I tried to watch some of disrupt - but the live-stream crashed FF every single time, so I gave up.
I would like a device (hardware) that somehow captures each individual energy item and its usage in the house and records it on an app. So for example, I want to see on a given day, which bulbs were used, for how long and what was the energy consumption.

Bonus: If the device/app can also record that an item was used while not needed. For example, master bedroom light was on while the room was empty for 60 mins etc.
You can't downgrade to any version below 6.1.3 on an iPhone 3GS once you've already upgraded there.
Yes, that makes up the majority of my income. The companies pay for the legal rights to use/distribute the games, or to "sponsor" them as it's known. Sometimes they want some branding or an API integrated, too.
"1. Making the world more beautiful."

I think the world was more beautiful before there were billionaires. Nature is being quickly destroyed by humans, and capitalism isn't helping.
How are we suppressing his differences of opinion? Are you suggesting the BI isn't allowed to hire or fire whoever they want?

>> In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though.

You'd put this guy in charge of your business?
They started it but no ETA yet:

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...
"Shipping Beats Perfection" Explained
How can we use Typescript in the real World?
"In that respect people do make good buys when the house goes up value: It means they largely locked in their housing costs at a lower rate and their insurance is paying off."

No, the rent vs buy question is a lot more complicated than that. Renting can be and often is financially better even over the long term when house values are appreciating at historic rates, or even faster. As just a couple more factors to consider, property tax and maintenance costs go up as property appreciates and along with inflation, respectively. Remember that renters don't make any downpayment, and that that money and early term savings over mortgage can be invested in assets that tend to grow at rates much faster than house values.

And the rent vs. buy issue that's hard to resolve is for comparable homes being rented or owned. The fact of the matter is that many people buy more home than they need, when they could have happily been renting a smaller home, and trade up only when necessary, skewing answer more toward side of rental being more cost-effective. (You could do this with a house, too, but people tend to buy more house than the need at the time, perhaps partly b/c of practical difficulties of selling a house and the large commissions that get paid to brokers.)
I hope you choke on a razor blade. That's my honest view.

Oh, wait, that's an offensive and horrible thing to say. Maybe we need to be held accountable for our opinions.

Now, I guess, the real question is whether my first statement is sarcasm or not.
Additionally (as unclogged tables will cause total data loss on failure as opposed to just missing some updates) you can alternatively tune, per transaction, the durability of your changes: PostgreSQL lets you tune the durability of individual transactions using the synchronous_commit variable, letting you go entirely asynchronous (where you toss data at the database, it returns immediately, and will be saved to disk during the next ganged commit).
We are pushing some copy updates to the homepage, most of the technical details were in docs. TL;DR coming to the homepage soon, but the gist is:

REST Hooks itself is not a specification, it is a collection of patterns that
treat webhooks like subscriptions. These subscriptions are manipulated via a
REST API just like any other resource. That's it. Really.

Thanks for the feedback!
:( Did anyone else expect this to be about EVE Online?
> why people who believe in meritocracy are termed anti-feminists?

Because merit is an individual quality, and feminism is a collective ideology? Just a guess.
I also would've liked to see a discussion of hash lists and hash trees, because they seem fairly difficult to implement correctly. At least for hash trees my research has shown there isn't much help implementing them correctly, except for maybe reading the bittorrent source, and there are all kinds of subtle things like some sources recommending you use a different hash function for leaves that are on the sides of the tree, etc...
More to the point, a change like this is very likely to be _noticed_. Both in terms of the complexity that would be required to make such a change in the microcode, and if the logic screws up and tampers with the wrong XOR, it will cause a bug that people will search for and eventually discover that the CPU was screwing up XOR under some circumstances. Remember the firestorm over the FDIV bug?
Ask HN: $2k to $3k a month part time, but is it sustainable/ethical/scalable?
Skip to the tl;dr below if you want the short version.

For the past 10 months I have made between $2,000 and $3,000 a month (Gross Profit). I do this part time (nights and weekends) as I have a full time job. My business model is simple. I complete digital projects for local small business’s using freelancers. I make money by placing a margin on what the freelancers charge me.

For clarification I do NOT do software development. It is pretty much restricted to web development (editing and creation), graphic design (marketing materials, labels, logos etc.), and white hat/lite SEO (article creation, keyword optimization, etc).

I bill myself as an ALMOST all inclusive digital services provider. All of my clients completely understand my use of freelancers and are fine with it. I have only had 3 clients during the 10 months and am currently only working with 2 of them. I have connected with all 3 of these clients through word of mouth. No marketing has taken place. Hell I didn’t even have a website until a month ago and even now it’s just a landing page with an email capture on it.

Here is my overall question. Is this a sustainable/ethical/scalable business model?

Obviously if I can get the clients I could do this indefinitely but will other companies buy in to my use of freelancers? How do I market to businesses aside from just knocking on doors?

Is using “outsourced” talent and then placing a margin on it unethical because I am so greatly undercutting local talent?

Can I scale this? I have run the numbers over and over and the more people I hire the smaller the profit margin gets. Finding other people with the knowledge, skills, and dedication that I have to “replace” myself will be a significant challenge.

Should I quit my job and try this full time?

TL;DR I started a business using freelancers to complete digital projects for local small business’s. Should I quit my job and do this full time?
but two-factor authentication doesn't explain how the actual authentication happens... it's just that there is more than one method in place. being able to peer review the security algorithm/how it's implemented is definitely important.
It's too bad that Linux and OS X don't ship with a very useful intro man page. Here's what SunOS's used to look like:

http://www.manpages.info/sunos/intro.1.html

Note the list of commands.

I guess you could ls /usr/bin and just start reading their man pages.
This sounds pretty much like the polyfill Socket.IO/SockJS do to create a socket atop polling-based transports.
Business Insider seems like a dumb company. We all need to standup and support the hacker - Pax Dikinson. He was talking for himself and not for his employer after all.
Somebody just lost the privilege of being senior management over acting like someone who can't lead by example and put his firm in a bad light.

He didn't lose his job as night watchman. You want to be a leader, you have to act the way you expect people in your company to act.

If you think this is just 'political correctness', you're wrong. It's about leadership and not having a company culture of being a bunch of a-holes.
I get it, but seriously this thing got escalated because of feminism BS.Yes he is nuts, but why on earth send a wrong message? I am not saying he getting demoted/fired is illegal, all I am saying is so much hatred for him on HN is hypocritical.
Apple built Google Glass-like prototypes, says former Senior VP of iPod division
It is pretty fantastic.
I don't get this. He has a pretty, IMO, hateful view of the world. I don't care if he is honest if he is also a sociopath and a fucking asshole.

Use this filter. If you were running a company and came across this type of personality, would you want them in your company?

What if they were anti-gay? Anti-white? Anti-immigrant? And not just held those views but basically YELLED them in PUBLIC while using your company name? Yeah, common sense says you need to get rid of them.

No, BI is better off without him. I would say the tech industry as an entity would be much better off the less of these people we have in it. It has nothing to do with honesty, but empathy, intelligence, and common sense.
It needs to decrease over time. This girl is at the end of her high school experience, she should be handling social interactions with her peers on her own.
The bitcoin network can conspire to reverse a transaction. The accidental block chain fork demonstrated that the plurality of participants will do so when it is convenient for them.
he got aked to step-down for anti-feminist post

Citation needed. He was asked to step down for being an abhorrent human being who posts abuse about a number of groups of people (including women) and leaves his company vulnerable to lawsuits.
I'd like to ask why I get dumped to some shitty article I didn't ask for: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016456/this-note-taking-system-...

I get a "301 Moved Permanently".. wtf

So instead: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
[A]pparently in 1987, 42% of software developers were women, and computer programming was considered a female position in the 1960's.

Yes, and those female programmers in the 1960s were referred to in ads that said things like "What has sixteen legs, eight waggly tongues, and costs you at least $40,000 a year?" In those days programming was considered a menial and lightweight clerical task -- perfect for "women's work". Once we realized that programming was actually hard, the boys took over.
I'll bite because I've seen this sentiment generally on HN. Basically, everyone knows the way to get rich in a gold rush is to sell picks and shovels rather than mine for gold. Start as an application, then become a platform.

The cynical view of how this works is: start doing something, find out you can make a little bit of money doing it, decide you can make a lot of money by essentially selling services around doing that something for other people that do that something already or might be interested in getting into it, and then make that your business.

My question is: is this really all that bad in and of itself? Is someone selling picks and shovels in a gold rush necessarily selling something people shouldn't buy? Are they inherently less trustworthy because they get into the picks and shovels business?

The argument is often made that you can get the same information for free elsewhere. Well, that's what I always say about college and why I think it's a horrible investment, but obviously people disagree with me there. But why is college more legitimate? Because it's been around longer? As far as I can tell, colleges are selling picks and shovels in a gold rush that ended 20 years ago. At least the Game Maker racket is just getting started :-)

The best argument of course is that the vendor has the incentive to hype the prospects of their industry, often an industry in which success is faaaaar from assured (like every industry). But I don't know, how does this rule apply here any more than it applies to any other industry where someone is trying to get people excited about the prospects of a future technology/industry/event/whatever?

And for the record, I have no affiliation with the OP, I just don't think it's particularly fair that just because you are offering information products around some potentially dubious business opportunity that it's a valid criticism to essentially say "oh, he's selling picks and shovels, so he must be a douche" (I'm paraphrasing of course...)

Other side anyone?
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Increasingly, professional typeface designers working today are coders as well. The OpenType format for fonts allows designers to program font behaviour, often in pretty sophisticated ways. These range from standard typographic niceties like automatic substitution of a pre-defined sequence of glyphs with a ligature, to contextual substitutions of alternates to make a handwriting font more natural-looking, to even more creative explorations of the possibilities of the OpenType format.

In addition, many designers are taking advantage of scripting to automate parts of the design process. For example, Mark Simonson, the designer of the Anonymous Pro featured here, wrote a script to help you in generating pangrams: http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/pangrammer-helper-...

This example is only tangentially related to the typeface design process, but if you're interested about the intersection of typeface design and technology, you can look up videos from the Robothon conferences to see what the possibilities are.
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As a developer, I have the know-how to create a course with Google's Course Builder or with edX, but are there any tools for creating MOOCs that are as easy to use as, say, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook? I think there is a lot of room for easier tools that don't require expertise with AppEngine or VirtualBox as Course Builder and edX do. Teachers should be able to focus on the teaching part, not the programming part.
tree does this, don't know about suppressing the actual tree, but it tells you number of files and dirs printed at the end.
Archeo Announces New Marketplace
Unix and Common Lisp are similar in many ways:

1. Both are operating systems

2. Both are conceptually simple.

3. There is always nice command that does what you want but you somehow forget it. I can't believe that Common Lisp has just 900+ symbols but I routinely forget some of them when programming.
In more or less normal models, yes; but as I read the Tardis paper, the whole point is that it is not a more or less normal model.
paging @FalseMedium
Author here, We're very proud of what we're building so we've put up a new video showcasing our IDE.

I'd appreciate any/all feedback and we're here to answer questions.
Teachers are the leaders of the classrooms.

Same as with all leaders anywhere, in addition to their main goals (teaching the material, sailing a ship, etc.), they must maintain discipline and right any wrongs.

If anything goes wrong, they are the ones ultimately responsible.

It is not fair, but being a good teacher requires more than just the ability to teach a specific subject.

These qualities can be taught, and this woman's letter contains some good insights for the teacher.
That sounds kinda malicious and not at all like a good idea.

If you don't want to support old IE, then don't support it. If you have to support it because enough of your customers still use it, then why would you want their browser to crash?
Not sure why people are trying to defend this immature little man-child. No one is saying that he's not allowed to tweet what he wants to. Then again, it's perfectly legal to fire him for almost any reason, and that's what happened.

TL;DR; if you're an asshole, then sometimes unpleasant things happen to you.
How do you know it is just SRTM?
Yes, I didn't express myself clearly there.

I was thinking of how the chip's output could possibly be used to attempt to predict the output of the PRNG and so be used in something like a side-channel attack. I'm not thinking it's highly likely, but with an organization of mathematicians and code breakers like the NSA has I wondered how much an advantage that would give against random keys, key exchanges, etc.
I too am disappointed about this.
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I've spent some time trying to identify common traits in the Forbes list of billionaires and other similar lists of the world's wealthiest.

Best example of survivorship bias I've seen in a long while.
I don't even...

Would you say that black people in America have it harder than white people, perhaps in some places more so than others? If so you accept that people are treated differently based on externalities. People are treated unfairly. People are mocked, hurt, threatened, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

And you want to tell me that it offends you when they say some people have privilege?
Replaces the current day of the month with []:

$ cal | sed "s/.*/ & /;s/ $(date +%e) / [] /"

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