skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rubbish. It was about objectifying women. It had nothing to do with lonely developers. These were two boofhead Australians who sadly exist in my part of the world who used women's bodies as a joke so they could get a quick laugh.

There are too many "men" like this in Sydney. I use the word "men" loosely.
(Post author here) Absolutely -- I developed my entire setup in Vagrant. It was fantastic, especially in the early stages where I'd just share my playbook folder into the guest machine and run them locally.
Not really. Just expressing a point of view.
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The pictured "other sex" could as well be the "same sex" for all you know -- OMOPHOBIA! CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!

I'm just joking, of course, and I agree that this app was immature and not deserving of any space at Disrupt (and goes doubly for Titstare, horrifying). Still, this whole PC thing sometimes can feel like walking on eggshells, as I've just demonstrated to you.
There's quite a few good free ones of varying perspectives

http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-availab...

Esp:

http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=...

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html

http://alex.smola.org/drafts/thebook.pdf

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and MLPP errata: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/errata.html
Apparently, we are in this future where everyone is a world-hero for 15 minutes.
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This is quite a clever product from Sony, it's a good reuse of existing technology and repackaged for a different market. There's plenty of casual gamers who won't want to invest $400 into getting a PS4, but want something they can play some games on their TV and get access to streaming services, so it's great for their needs. It's great for gamers who may have to share one TV with their PS4 on, but have access to another so they can continue gaming without having to unplug and shift it.

Sony seems to be putting some really strong ideas forward at the moment, it's interesting to see.
Office ran on Windows, which itself ran from MS-DOS. Doesn't seem particularly different to me.

The comparison to Word is completely invalid, because Word is itself one of the applications, while the browser isn't a webapp.
That pricing model isn't for Ansible. Ansible is open source and free to use. The pricing model you are referring to is for Ansible AWX, the web based UI for Ansible. This app isn't open source.

There are no separate versions of Ansible such as what Nginx has done. Ansible AWX adds no further functionality to Ansible except for the UI.
(Post author here) Re: agents -- yep. I should've called that out explicitly, as it further supports the provisioning vs. ongoing factor in my decision-making.
Nobody is saying its a crime. But that doesn't mean it can't be a piece of a larger course of action that is itself a crime. Circumstances are not irrelevant.
Science buzzword bingo!

Does look awesome though.
I'm tired of seeing everything linked to sexism in tech. Moreover, sexism isn't a female only problem: try (as a male) to get a job in a kindergartn or a nursery school.
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Amazon is not making a free smartphone
i actually thought it was true that amazon might make a free smartphone.
very handy! Thanks a lot
I would add to that two classics with free PDFs available from the authors' websites:

1. David Barber: Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning

2. David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms

[1] http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.barber/brml/

[2] http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/

Both require a willingness to immerse in the mathematics. But the maths isn't hard, even for someone like me who hasn't formally studied it since I was 15.
Cards can be used at many contexts, for many purposes. Self-contained tweets is good for small talk and social content sharing, but RSS-like snippets that link to external articles are also a valid option.

Technically, cards are not far away from any other previous content-delivery system; what's specific to them is their structure - centered around easy-to-scan bits of content, that can be directly linked to. This makes them more apt for social sharing and aggregation than the classic web of interlinked whole pages. Some have pointed out how they increase the granularity of content.

I also foresee them being used as the basis for an end-user development platform, a la Bret Victor's interactive drawing (but not necessarily geometric), as this structure is friendlier and simpler than semantic markup. I believe that this metaphor could close the gap that "Visual Basic", widget-based languages had respect the need to use imperative languages to define behavior.

That "cards can be manipulated" is actually a good thing. It allows both the content creator and the end user to select which tools to use for handling the content. In web pages, snippets can only be manipulated with whatever tools the content platform provides; conversely, RSS feeds are entirely handled by the client, and it's difficult for the content provider to specify some suggested tools (other than cues to some pre-defined microformats).

Imagine a system where users could share content cards like they do on current social webs, but where they're able to define new simple automatic procedures in the way that Victor's "programming-by-drawing-comic-strips" allows for, and I think that's the future of the user-facing side of the web. Hypercard shows that the card metaphor is a good basis for this; and the standards are finally mature enough to make such a system possible on the web.
If you're new to ansible, I just released a quite extensive set of roles (basic server setup, security hardening, firewall, mailserver, nginx from source, oracle jdk, scala, monit, ...) on github [shameless plug]. I was missing these when I started out, so I hope it will help others.
There's even a complete personal cloudbox setup (including an extensive idiot-proof tutorial) based on this included, as well as a vagrantbox to test the others.

https://github.com/pjan/the-ansibles
If it was about the same sex, would it make it any worse?
Well CALO yielded SIRI, as in on the iphone. That project had a number of parts, one was an AI personal assistant, another was meetings, and another was some kind of integrated battle control center.

Anyway, it yielded a lot of high grade speech recognition research and AI research, which companies are battling to license. If you recall Yahoo's weirdly overvalued purchase of Sumly, that was part of a deal to acquire a license for this kind of tech.

I suspect the most credible opponents to this startup would be MS bundling this kind of functionality into Outlook, or some other big company exploiting this expensive but already licensed tech.

But what you get here, is first to market, and attack on specific verticals (i.e. social services, and later related services). You can't be scared off by 'what if we have a competitor'. If you don't have a competitor, your market probably doesn't exist. That is what I'd worry about here.
That sounds like a great idea. Do you already have a rough overview of what it is going to cover?
Disappointing to see apologists for their behavior here. At least they have apologised:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/an-apology-from-techcrunch/
Not everything is. Sexist things in tech get linked to sexism.
So it's time for a 'Show HNtM', which shows HN the Money :)

That said, Show HNs are one of the most exciting parts of why HN rocks, even if they don't yet make money.
This is just cheap & short-sighted

At $50/month, it would take you a year to recover the cost of building it yourself on your company's dime. A time cost you should be spending on something to increase your company's revenue, instead of trying to save them $600 a year.

"I wouldn't pay 2 Starbuck's coffees per month, but I'd pay the price of a cheap cup at the gas station"

C'mon, man - everything on the internet isn't free.
> I hate printing paper that says "Tutor available" with my name and credentials on it.

Are you willing to take a 40% cut in your rate for someone to do this for you?

I think this illustrates nicely why the market is a graveyard. It's competing with a super-simple task that cannot be replicated at scale.
Assuming males masturbate only to women = heteronormativity.
Assuming only males have penis = cisnormativity.
Shaming a person expressing their sexuality = slut-shaming.
+1 for Sequel Pro - it's amazing. Makes it far too easy to edit the DB directly instead of using migrations :)

Edit: 'to' => 'too'
It's more about objectification of women it doesn't matter if it is lonely developers doing it. It is disrespectful. What are the women who attended this hackathon supposed to think. Do you think they would feel like they are valued for the ideas and knowledge they bring, or their tits?
Edited to "someone else".

In any case, "walking on eggshells" is what you do on stage anyways.
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He's been hellbanned. Thank goodness!
How many failed projects does it take to learn how to code?
Interesting, but I wonder why they explicitly mention only the DualShock 3 controller. Would not the DS4 be the better option, considering the PS4 connectivity and the launch date?
The headline says "Database management in single PHP file".

Is this correct english? Im not a native english speaker. To me it sounds like it should read "in a single PHP file".

Same with "Replace phpMyAdmin by Adminer and you will get tidier user interface"
The Hacker Community's greatest flaw -- a total disregard for predecessors -- may also be its saving grace.

On one hand, we guffaw at those "old timers" who worked in assembler, Fortran, C, or even Perl. "They could never have even imagined what they were missing," we might think to ourselves as we re-discover continuation-passing style while coding our latest, greatest node.js-based file server.

On the other hand, I think there's a good chance that Alexandra, and the rest of the next generation of programmers, will one day think that "rockstars", "ninjas", and "brogrammers" are as ridiculous and outdated as talking sock-puppets or anthropomorphic paperclips.
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Let me understand, anything sex-related which isn't expressed in scientific or moral terms has to burn in hell, right? Mainly because it is "objectifying" and insulting.

Sometimes having a good laugh is a lot smarter than creating a political situation out of nothing. I think this is the case.
Interesting, but how can one write a compiler with "hybrid recursive descent" ? I remember learning that most programming languages aren't actually generated by that class of languages (I don't know about Delphi specifically, but C++ and C are both not recursive-descent-parseable).

What's hybrid about Delphi's parsers ?
News (local Hungarian media mostly and/or BBC) and comic books (maybe it is funny but I love them!)
We're managing fifty hosts and applications under Ansible, due to treble by 2014 Q2.

So far, I see no need to use AWX.

I can't ensure you of anything but why not install it in a test instance and give it a try?
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It wouldn't have caused World War III no more than conflict in Afghanistan could have... Rusia had no significant allies, and it's not in a position to really enter a war. There is nothing for people in charge to win in this.
You need to learn that what is considered (possibly socially) acceptable behaviour amongst your friends, is not necessarily acceptable in the workplace.

If you want a definition of the workplace, it includes hacker meetups, youtube videos, presentations etc. where people of all social groups come together to discuss or create code. I have a very twisted sense of humour that many would find offensive. At work though I keep that side of myself under wraps, not out of a sense of fear but of respect.

The bottom line is this: by collectively changing our behaviour to be less offensive (from the point of view of gender, sexuality, race, religion etc.) then people from those groups feel more safe and secure in that environment. If women truly felt comfortable to enter into the currently male dominated tech industry we get a bigger talent pool to choose from - the competition and skillset increases. Now re-read that sentence substituting 'women' and 'male dominated' with any minority/majority pairing and we start to see how much bigger we can make the number of available programmers.

It may seem dull to have a workplace that's so sterile and inoffensively humourless, but it's work, not a bar.
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"Titstare" was designed to allow men stare at women's breasts. In other words, for one reason only: objectification of women and their body parts.

If you can't see that here, I'm not sure what else to say to you!
Yes, it is a bit strange. I'm a native speaker and I would have said "in a single PHP file" too.
> i can't see how a woman could find it offensive

Irrelevant. If you want to know if women find it offensive, ask women. Stop dismissing things because you manage to fail to see them.

This is an area in which you should probably check your intuition with other people.
So..

"TitStare" - sexist
"DickStare" - not sexist

Got it.
Toy company creates Breaking Bad inspired 'crystal meth lab' play sets
Not surprised that the most pandering stuff (especially "Don't Fly During Ramadan") is at the top.
It's interesting to see how differently these are all implemented. I guess it depends on what's at the other side of the api and how much work the developer wants to put in to data conversion.

When you flick through the first few examples you see that the result from querying a lib could be a nested dict, a bunch of objects or an lxml.etree. Every time you approach a new api, even with the help of a library so you don't have to deal with the transport, you still need to learn a unique set of data structures.
It's not about women at all.

sigh

In an already male-biased community the non-inclusivity of demos like these put out a very specific message to women: this is not for you.

The tit staring demo puts out a worse message: this is not for you—you are just a sex object to us.

If you were a female hacker how would that make you feel your work will be judged by your male peers?

Turn it around in your head, if you can, to a position where all industry and powerful roles are controlled by women and an important industry is dominated by women. It holds a conference where there are demonstrations of things that are women-only and where a man's role is reduced to that of sex object. Add to that a lot of cliquey female sex jokes where men are often the but but you are expected to laugh along and shrug it off. Is that a conference you would want to attend? What if you felt you had to to further your career?

If that doesn't work turn it around to Jocks vs Geeks. Imagine you had to go to a Jock conference to further your career. Where the demos were all about football and the jokes were about weedy geeky types. Now imagine that you had to go to conferences like this if you wanted to further your career and you had to put up with an undercurrent of secret sexuality where jocks joked about having sex with geeky boys and demonstrated technology to spy on their genitalia. Even if I was gay I'm sure I'd find that intimidating.

The world of tech needs to move away from this stupidity and be at the forefront of gender equality like it is at the forefront of a lot of new thinking.

Technology can only bring about a better world if the people who create it understand what a better world looks like.
The presenters should not get a response such as "the audience laughed at the numerous tit-related puns." or "The audience found it hilarious." Instead they should have instead met deadly silence, not booing, nothing. Don't feed the troll.

Yes, they had inappropriate ideas, yes, they should not have been let near the stage - but why did we give them the response they were after?

Respecting women doesn't start with pointing fingers at other people, it starts with the individual doing so.
Specifically, it makes the women in the audience feel like they are only wanted for their tits and nothing else. It throws away the rest of the woman and says, we only need the tits.
I think that one is driving the others (in the first video it looks like the motor is only powering the middle gear)
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Who's saying that? Certainly not the article this post links to.
//i can't see how a woman could find it offensive //

Feminism won't be required the day men understand why a woman would find it offensive. Imagine being a man in a room full of women in a society ruled over by women and all women are laughing at a penis stare app. Today you'd say "Oh I would find it funny too", but that's male privilege. We live in a male dominated society so you fail to see why women would not find a tit stare app funny.
> try (as a male) to get a job in a kindergartner or a nursery school.

Problems in other industries are no justification for ignoring our own--is this an argument you are seriously making? Really?
Ouya just got owned. At least, for me, anyway: I wanted to get one, I'll get this instead due to vastly better game quality, and a great platform for indies as well. Nice move, Sony.
If you have twenty users for this system, it is likely that "you" pay more than $50,000 every other Friday. (Substantially more if they're techies.) I say "you" in scare quotes because much like software payroll just comes out of a budget and isn't "your" money -- spend it or don't spend it, your call, but either way it isn't in your pocket. Your personal financial situation is influenced in a much sharper degree by whether your unit actually accomplishes business goals or not.

If you have 20 employees, many, many, MANY things with less certain value than this software cost you more than $100. Many of them are just costs of doing business which you ignore because $100 is chicken feed and moves no needle at the business.
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And i do totally agree with you on this. Both presentations were pointless, stupid, superficial and idiotic.

Still, the point here is not about sexism, but about (as you mentioned) idiots being on stage presenting something they had to keep for themselves or for their local meetups.
Did they issue you a W-2 wages summary last year?

There is reason to doubt that they are even paying the payroll taxes to the state and federal tax authorities, that they should be withholding, if they are not issuing a proper pay stub.

Indicate you are also reporting the failure to disclose the withheld taxes to the state wage and labor department too. This is illegal, to not give you a pay stub.

This kind of behavior taking advantage of employees is the reason there are laws against it, and the reason there are unions.

File today for unemployment compensation.

Check the online corporations filings for the company with your state's secretary of state. See if the corporation is in good standing, and who the officers of record are of the corporation, and the official address of the entity.

Find a new job. The ship is sinking.
Genuine question: Is there a dickstare app? And if so, is it not also considered sexist?
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It is about sexism.

Tell me that this is not sexist?

https://mobile.twitter.com/HateYouCards/status/3767351904348...
As we all know, most illustrative game theory exercises are highly simplistic. I should have been more careful in my language choice stating that this was a variation of the classic prisoner's dilemma.

Why this is a master's lesson in strategy is two fold:
1) It cuts to the heart of the matter that all strategy is based on credibility. One would just need to look around at current events to see this play out.
2) It also illustrates that making the punishment guaranteed and removing all doubt of misunderstanding are essential.

Thanks all for the comments. As far as wavesounds, you jump to conclusions.
Really? It's impossible for you to see how women at a tech conference could get the impression that they aren't valued for their ideas and skills when an app to look at tits gets a prominent spot?

I sometimes think that the persistent claims of sex discrimination in tech are a bit over-the-top, but in this instance it's quite obvious. This stunt was very poorly thought out.
Just wait until the guardian learns about shake weight.
Personally I think the "fluid" responsive design for article snippets is a mistake; but then I hate multi-column feed designs, so that may be just a personal preference.

Apple got it right with the iPhone menu structure, which was inspired by the iPod (maybe they nailed it because it was not card-based). There, columns always maintain the same positional relation (there are menus to the "left" and sub-menus to the "right"), so you can always remember by muscle-memory where a particular item is located relative to the others. Re-flowing similar items breaks those relations.

Responsive pages make sense when the side columns are used for side content (i.e. "aside" tags, headers and footers, navigation...) - there, placing the sub-content above or below the main content to show it on a narrow screen is not a problem, since the moved card was subordinate to the main article anyway.
A devil's advocate expresses a point of view. Specifically, they express a point of view that they do not agree with.
And to me this sounds as racist as any casual sexism I hear in the workplace. Why did you need to re-iterate -- in a negative manner -- that they were Australians, and that this somehow explains their behaviour?

OK -- I wrote that before realising that you are also living in Australia (and I assume a male citizen), but I'm still not sure that makes it any better...
Is it possible for a beginner to find work in the USA or Western Europe?
I see many kinds of job offers from across the planet and many are very interesting (at least for me). I have a few years of experience in programming, mostly in Java and C# but I have also some knowledge in Python, Ruby and Scala as well. I am curious if it is possible for a "beginner" to find work in another county, especially in the USA. I would not say that I am a "true" junior, but 3 years of experience is not that much, even if you are passionate about the work you do.

I would be glad if anyone who had succeeded in finding work abroad (especially from Eastern Europe) could share their experiences on this question.
They did the same thing with the Sony Dash http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/01/sony-dash-review/ . Had it been an Android clock rather than a Chumby clock it would have been extremely useful.
Rumor has it he started singing down a megaphone in the general direction of the Russians "You're beautiful"... like a siren of the sea the Russians fell under his intoxicating spell as surrendered the air field. Either that or they surrendered to make him stop.
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adminer rocks. Drop 1 file and you can manage your DB. Especially useful when you quickly want to look at a client's site's DB before getting your hands dirty.
Would you mind if I forked it and rewrote it in Scheme? (Seriously).
English libel law is substantially more friendly to the plaintiff than to the defendant.

I referenced US libel law as a counterpoint to the rest of the world because I thought you were not thinking of the US. There have been several high profile cases of journalists and scientists saying true but defamatory things in the UK about quacks and charlatans and being hounded in the courts. In response to this, the UK has actually passed legislation attempting to remedy the situation, but this has not yet taken effect.
I'd say the word 'single' is redundant as it a PHP file. How about "Database management in a PHP file"?

But then it doesn't have as much impact emphasising the simplicity of it.
I did not see that directory at all. I tried to Grep to see if some process creates the directory, but I couldn't find it.