skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our high school programming teacher was a math teacher who knew to keep the kids in the back -- the ones who finished reading the textbook in the first hour or so of class -- completely alone. We didn't cause trouble, and we were quite helpful to the other students in the labs.

At one point we were asked, politely, to stop crashing the county's mainframe (which was the platform we were using). So we stopped.

Girls? I don't recall girls. They must have been there; I don't think we noticed. We certainly didn't harass them, and we probably tried to help them. We were geeks and tools and had no idea how to interact with 'em, for the most part.

The OP's story saddens me.
Really, don't bother trying to contact them, it's not worth it. If anything their business API is less sketchy than their actual sales tactics.

We had two different conversations with them and the first time the rep quoted us a rate that worked out to $72 per 1000 map impressions. The second time we spoke to a different rep who, when asked the differences between the free plan and the business plan, told us that if we were currently on the free plan outside of the ToS there would be "consequences".

Edit: I should add that afterwards we immediately switched to MapBox. Straightforward pricing, and it feels great to know that we're supporting the open source community.
I worked on Precog. Here's my explanation:

It's an analytics platform for big data. Basically, you upload lots of JSON, use the custom language (http://quirrel-lang.org/) for analytical queries and the platform will handle efficient storage and querying of your data.

There are also has extras like a library for charting and reporting query responses using JavaScript and an IDE for writing Quirrel and uploading data.
This is a super excellent font. It was my font of choice for years and years. I've only recently switched to Meslo (https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font) but more for the sake of change than any complaint about Anonymous Pro.
> I can only imagine that the reverse is true.

It sure is (from China): http://i.imgur.com/LA7OXTD.jpg

And from Korea: http://i.imgur.com/7CUoaaQ.jpg
It's not as much about "evil boys" in general, like other commenters have pointed out similar jokes are heard in all classes. But it's much harder when you're the only girl, guy, white kid, black kid, ect. Even if it's an innocent joke it starts a me against them mentality.
But then there's all the women who take a programming class for the first time who aren't friends with industry experts. And even if this teenager is willing to give it another shot, I wouldn't blame her, or anyone, for feeling left out, and believing this is what the world of programmers is like.

I know I made that mistake in high school: I actively dissociated from the male/techy-dominated "CS" kids in my school, due to the culture of the "nerdy male" that they cultivated, and only took my first course because I was lucky, and at a "Welcome to your new college's science programs" presentation was wowed by a CS professor's presentation. And I only stuck with it because again, I got lucky, and most the students in the intro course had little to no experience and didn't consider themselves computer geeks, and the course was much more about problem solving and new modes of thought, rather than being an exercise in "learning to program." And it didn't hurt that the course was taught by a woman who was excited about the material.
Their tagline is: "The open communications layer for the Internet".

I'm curious, what's open about it?
To go a little further - at a glance, it's not clear if they've been fined yet or not, but either way there's soft costs to all of this - being in the news in a negative light, some patients will go elsewhere, their insurance premiums are going to go up as a result of the breaches, etc etc.
That article on the Gervais principle blew my mind and I'd suggest that everyone reads it.
Yes I know what happened at Lavabit. And seeing the Google/Yahoo execs going to prison to protect their users was exactly what I had in mind. I'm not saying I expect them to do it, but it would be admirable. We could get into hypotheticals about in which scenarios would this even help... and I admit that in many scenarios it would be futile, but for some scenarios, it would be an option, even though it would come at great cost.
I've experienced a lot of adversity. But at least as an adult you can do something about it.
>Why can we not agree that employing people to perform research is a good thing?

There are lots of good things that aren't worth what they cost.
Happily we solved this issue but we are really seeing a degradation in the level of service provided by Microsoft to customers.
Because of this I have tripled the number of buzzwords in my business documents, thereby convincing the boss that I am a goddamn genius. My promotion takes effect tomorrow. Thanks, Buzz-Grade!
lets not compare 18th century science with what we have today

My point precisely! I was comparing the human situation, and explaining the difference in philosophy. You on the other hand seem to be keen to expound the wonders of today's technology. My point is that it's not that great, even if it's better than the 18th century, and nature still rules over us with little remorse. Becoming arrogant again about our doings, we shall yet again be put in our place ... history makes this clear. But with what damage to millions of years of biology?
The Tech Intellectuals
> There probably aren't a lot of ways to peg the CPU at 100% for minutes on end in ChromeOS while not in dev-mode.

Load a webpage with just one or two screenshot-sized animated GIFs. Browsers are really bad at this; I wonder how many years it's been since the GIF rendering code was touched in most implementations.
I regretted that as soon as I hit the "reply" button... but really, that's the way it is in my house and I meant it innocently. Bernice was literally watching that show a couple of years ago while I installed the Hercules S/370 emulator and the MVT 21.8F Turnkey system on my Nokia N900. Mainframe on a handheld! I was laughing like a maniac while she wondered what in the world I was doing in my office.
A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs
Try Inconsolata. I actually think Inconsolata somehow looks better in Putty on Win7 than on Mac OS in iTerm2.
Breaking news is probably the worst invention we've had so far. Unless something is killing me right now, I don't want to know about this not-quite-news-thing until most of the details (preferably all of the details) are totally sorted out and presented in one serving.

Instead, we have "Breaking: We don't know how, what or why, but it looks like something bad happened... probably". It sucks and it stresses me out for no reason except ratings.

I've started moving away from TV altogether for news just for that reason. There's a set time of day I take in news and that's about it for news for the rest of my waking hours.
Personally I hate the entire format of publishing a paper. It's more spinning a story then actually detailing useful information, and the single longest exercise of my PhD program (which I dropped down to a Masters from) was a result of a group publishing many papers on a subject and never actually detailing their method properly (turns out the whole thing is dependent on partial oxygen pressures, so the detail of "lightly placing the lid of the vial on top of it" - mentioned nowhere - is spectacularly important).
$36,000 / 120 months = $300/mo. If it lasts 10 years, that's a pretty good ROI.
Arthur Weasley had something a lot like that ...
The discussion you introduced was about salespeople - guys (mostly) who have a quota, who "carry a bag." It's a highly-paid profession in which Harvard and Wharton MBAs are underrepresented. Enterprise hardware and software salespeople can make well over $400K.

Whether or not the upper ranks of Facebook used to work for Rajat Gupta is hardly relevant to the question of how much salespeople make!
Sudoku2go: sudoku grabber and solver using OpenCV, JavaFX, and Scala
That is the least convincing security statement I've heard in a long time. So what if we have root access? You can still log everything or compromise the vm under the hood -- and there really is no way to prove otherwise AFAICT (trusting trust and whatnot). In this case, the NSA would least of my concerns!
Battlefield 4 PC system requirements detailed
But at the same time, simply entering is not going to get the feds after you. And while standing on someone's lawn and staring into their living room certainly has a stigma, it will never get you put in prison for decades. (For the weev analogy pretend they have some financial documents on the table in the living room.)
Blurred Backgrounds: Tiny and Powerful
So much wrong with this comment.

First of all, you need to go do some remedial math. The percentage of DWTS watchers who are women is no predictor of what women do. This fallacy is called confusion of the inverse, and it's a probabilistic variant of the better-known converse error.

Second, even if 99% of women were to be DWTS fans, it has no bearing on anigbrowl's comment. The reason that "while your wife watches DWTS" is part of the problem (as anigbrowl identified) is that it implies that (watching DWTS) is to women as (checking out 1130 sims) is to men. It implies that in situations where men do interesting tech things, women watch TV (I assume "DWTS" is some kind of TV?). It's basically a put-down against women collectively. Note that if someone were to be putting down humanity collectively, I wouldn't complain.

Third, "politically correct" is a label principally used by reactionary dullards to dismiss arguments or objections that they see as excessively leftist. It's equivalent to calling someone a commie. Mind you, some people are communists, some people are knee-jerk excessive leftists, etc... but if that's true in a particular situation, you can just explain why it's true. Calling it "political correctness" is just a lowbrow dismissal.

That's a lot of incorrectness for one 20-word sentence.
Are mac monitors more allowable for different resolutions? I've always thought that a resolution is fixed for a monitor, or am I wrong?
hga is female.

(Actually I don't know hga's gender, but wow - I have never seen an example of gender stereotyping as explicit as that on HN, and in a discussion about sexism in programming too. I'm really hoping your comment was supposed to be ironic)
802.11n in your house is 100mbit.

Mobile devices have been used as misdirection throughout the NBN debate, because very few people are uploading large YouTube videos from their smartphones over 3G and for anything that's got some level of production to it they'll be working on it on laptops and desktops at home and the like.
I find this very weird. I wasn't even aware of such a situation until I started reading about it online. Back here in India, Computer Engineering is one of the branches of engineering with a high amount of female students. Thanks to that, I wasn't even aware until some point that there was a scarcity of women in tech.
The Entrepreneurial Spirit of Dhani Jones
One word: Bauhaus.

Despite having its heyday before Hitler's nonsense, there's so much of modern style that school influenced. There's no reason we can't have traditional materials and blend it with modern sensibilities.

Maybe cars and planes can do with a bit less of it (though I don't mind a wood dashboard), but a carefully curated blend of wood with a nice grain, a sprinkling of glass and a dash of metal on the side can absolutely work well.
That's why you factor in job placement rates. Degree-mills are already a problem.
Why is it even possible for DLLs/applications to disable ASLR by themselves, shouldn't that be decision for the OS or admin?
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Blatant advertising aside, this is nice timing for me. I'm currently trying to get our business number switched over to SIP. My first approach was to go with Plivo, a YC startup -- but their documentation is awful and their UI doesn't make up for that.

I had just decided to give up on Plivo and look for another service when this came along.
I don't think this should be downvoted, since of course it is also technically possible for Amazon to snoop on your EC2 servers. However, Koding's generic privacy policy and 404ed terms of service are not that inspiring on the matter.
Then the price should be fifty dollars. Make it about status.
Can't edit my comment, and no one will care at this date, but...

s/First Law/Third Law/

Obviously the quote I posted is the corollary to the quote negativity posted. Derp derp derp.
NSA actually just went out of their way to try and take this analysis down.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/crypto-prof-asked-to...

Streisand effect anybody?
This Impossible Software Can Make 3D Models From a Single Photograph
About three years ago I got in contact with some very nice people at NASA and/or the USGS (I don't recall which agency ended up being the end-point) for what, at the time, was some of the best data available from the joint ASTER missions they ran with Japan.

The process was essentially to fill out a form and send them a new, unopened hard drive. What I got back a few weeks later was about 125GB of high resolution GeoTIFFs. Along with it were PDF's explaining how the data was rectified and cleaned up as well as information for how they encoded the data.

The process and interactions really impressed me with the quality of people involved in agencies like the USGS and NASA.. just like the people who provide API's in the tech industry, they're usually really in to what they do and interested in hearing how other people are making use.

The data is totally out there and you can get your hands on it without a) breaking terms of service or b) needing any sense of entitlement or self-righteous "ethics". I think the article hit the nail on the head. In that ignoring the data freely available reduces its viability. Projects like GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, the deactivated OpenAerialMap are all incredible sources of information that we can't afford to ignore in favor of the easy way out
Linus Torvalds: Remove RdRand from /dev/random
>Losing ASLR on a single DLL does provide that very specific known-address code.

I don't know how to respond to this. The word 'specific' means something. If your exploit needs a certain sequence of code, and the little dropbox hook doesn't have it, then the exploit's not going to work.
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It's certainly possible to run a GNU userland on top of NaCl, though it would be highly nontrivial.
Announcing the launch of the Open Education Alliance
Retina screens in particular are usable at various resolutions. I find myself often switching resolutions on my Retina MacBook Pro, depending on how much screen real estate I need. Which was what inspired me to build the app.
You are really inconsiderate. And way to be a bully and pick on their weight because you didn't get your way.
How is this different/better than using something like Elastic Search? Does it handle real time upload/searching or do you have to bulk upload, process the data and then run your searches?
And we've also seen antimonopoly actions against companies abusing their power position.
A closer translation would be: Why choose Confucius to "represent" Teacher's Day?

It's an opinion piece on this bit of news: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-09/06/c_1326973...
Buying vs renting is definitely not the best investment. You must consider that the down payment put into, e.g., stocks can earn a serious return (perhaps enough to pay the rent), while you avoid property taxes, maintenance, etc.

From Shiller himself:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/business/owning-a-home-isn...

In fact, a study (I can dig up the source if requested) found that owning a house vs renting has very, VERY rarely made financial sense in the last 50 years in the USA. Yes, real estate exploded, but so did many other investment vehicles. Keep in mind you can rent a ranch-style home in the suburbs, not just metropolitan apartments.
Dispense with the class markers and terroirs.

I wonder how many self-professed wine snobs can even tell reds from whites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rmm-xqRHGw
Five Giants named in Dream Team
Saw this too. I suspect each row refers to a specific head-to-head test of 3 designs. If so, you should only compare statements within each row, and not vertically.
I would honestly like to see what happens if AMD makes a heterogenous CPU. one with say 4 arm cores and 4 x86 cores. where you could shut off the x86 cores if you didn't need them.
The Second age of Mobile
Except the project is deployed over a span of 10 years anyway, so the upfront cost is already divided by that. You mention "you want fiber, but not your family" - but again, you're ignoring the fact that you and your family likely won't live in that house, with what opinion, for the next 40 years.

It's saving $20 billion, but still spending $20 billion and possibly more. Spending 2/3rd's the cost, with no upgrade path (FTTN does not upgrade to FTTP easily) is a terrible deal. We're keeping power and maintenance costs of the old copper network, you're splitting the type of plant you need to keep (since you have fiber, copper and coax all over the place), and you still haven't escaped the need to trench cable (since a huge amount of that copper needs to come out of the ducts to ever support 25mbit ADSL2, or needs to be completely rerouted to get the distance to the exchange to under 1.5km).

One huge benefit of fiber is that we don't need to worry about distances from exchange to premise - as long as it's under about 60km it'll work.
Not sure what HeidiSQL supports but Database.net [1] has what in my mind are the most important features: a tabbed SQL editor and field name completion.

[1]: http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm
I think we're evaluating the circumstances with different criteria. You're looking at the story and relating it to a thin-skinned woman who can't handle non-politically-correct humor in the workplace. I'm relating it to a 16-year-old kid who hasn't had the time or experience necessary to develop the thick skin and snappy retorts that would shield her from her peers' disrespect. She's not getting passed up for a promotion; she just wants to learn programming. It's entirely within the job description of a teacher to notice, step in, and set standards for behavior in the classroom. Even when they're not met, they communicate more than tacit acceptance of bad behavior.

I completely agree that people in general, and women in tech specifically, have to be thick-skinned to survive professionally. Nobody's advocating HR thought police--they'd be unnecessary in this case anyway--or politically-correct automatons. We're talking about kids. Kids! Surely it's not totally out of line to suggest that they could learn better behavior than "get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich". Surely there's a better response to the whole situation than "that girl needs to suck it up and learn how the world works".

For what it's worth, I remember the first time those trite cliches were thrown at me, and they felt neither trite nor cliched. They hurt. I thought I was part of a team, among equals, brothers-in-arms, friends, and I wasn't. I was different, I was other, I was less, I was not welcome. It's a paradigm shift that happens in an instant, and it can be pretty shattering--great for killing enthusiasm and developing thick skin in the future, maybe, but not for learning things in a programming class.
You can try the Microsoft EMET toolkit to force ASLR:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2458544
I like Source Code Pro, but it lacks italics. That's really the only downside to me.

I love Monaco also, but only unaliased at about 10pt. Otherwise, I use Menlo or DejaVu Sans Mono usually.

I've known about Anonymous Pro, but have not given it much usage yet to decide if I like it more than others.
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Why not spin up an Ubuntu VM in VMware or virtualbox? I'm not knocking the koding terminal, but "I want a Unix environment without dual-booting" is a fairly standard VMware use case.
I just went through several interviews before accepting a position. At various companies the following was said to/asked of me.

"Why should I take on the liability of adding a women to my engineering team?"

"I've never had a women answer any hard math questions correctly so we can skip those." It was great when I insisted we walk through them together, he got one completely wrong and couldn't remember the basics.

"I normally delete any resumes from women applying for engineering positions without actually reading them." =recruiter who didn't know I was within earshot. I assume he was forced to bring me in by HR. Which is yet another annoyance. I don't accept token female positions. See below.

"I need a women on the engineering team so the guys don't have to deal with the women in marketing." - actual job offer.

"Do you plan on having children?"

I recently left a job, because I couldn't get my other team members to stop leaving commit messages like "fuck heroku in it's whore ass', 'fucking cunts'. The hilarious part is that my background is in porn, I wasn't offended, I just couldn't figure out what the fuck they were committing. When I asked them to write more descriptive messages they said I was too sensitive. The guy who took over for me constantly emails me and asks if I remember when x was done....

I'm very active in my local tech community and I spend my free time teaching, so I know that 99% of guys in tech are not like this. (at least on purpose) But the attitude is accepted and even defended, which is obvious just reading the comments on any article involving women in tech on HN. But, it doesn't happen to them so how are they to know that I hear the 'hilarious' Tits or GTFO joke hundreds of times. The only reason I've started to become vocal about it is because I hope that it gives someone a little insight into what we have to deal with. I'm not at all a SJW and hate the concept of check your privilege. I think SJW are actually making women in tech look like weak victims.
The biggest risk of this kind of lifestyle is when parents get older they will be disconnected from their kids. (Kids will do just fine... all they need is some inevitable exposures to technology, albeit with some steeper learning curve...)

I actually know someone (not really my own contact directly) with similar lifestyle and what I have been observing is that she is so isolated from information inlet that she started developing high sense of skepticism as with current standard of technololgy adoptations by her peers, she'd be often last person to know everything. (I guess this also gives plenty of time to think about things, and every little things becomes very very big deal for her, but then that might be just her personality. She does show some hostility to people who are "informed" and they tend to become a target of complaints for just about anything...)
Hilarious, Ingenious Emoticons From a Wizard of Net Art
Like everyone, I've read a lot about the aftermath of Snowden's disclosures. This is the first time I've read an official condemnation from an industry leader. Amen.
GitHub contributions 8-bits
The talks for me:
$ git init
$ touch 'README.md'
$ git add 'README.md'
$ DATE=$(stat -c %y 'README.md' | sed 's/2013/2000/g')
$ git commit -m 'Initial commit' --date "$DATE"
$ git remote add origin https://HOSTING.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git
$ git push -u origin master