skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad this sparked a discussion :) And I really appreciate people donating to Ashana's indiegogo! To add to a couple points:

- Ashana and I definitely did the majority of heavy-lifting, however I want to highlight that I was amazed by the amount of support I received from friends and the tech community. I've only been in SF 1.5 years and I don't have family out here. Friends + acquaintances stepped up big time to mentor her, tour her around their office and even give her internships while she was here. Ashana went to visit 30+ tech offices over the last few months. It sounds small, but exposing her to Google, Facebook, etc can have a big impact on what kids set as goals for themselves. An article cannot capture everything over the last 6 months, but trust me, a large number of people, including people I didn't know well, surprised me with how amazingly supportive they were.

- Ashana is just one girl and there is a much broader issue that requires scalable changes. But, a) I want to give some credit to Big Brother Big Sisters for setting up this program. It does scale, and hopefully, our story and others like ours encourage more people to get involved as Bigs. b) One lesson this taught me is that people WILL step up to help if it is easy for them. E.g., if you say "help poverty", people don't know where to start. But if you say "my little sister needs some more mentors and I'm really busy at work, can you take her to Google for lunch next week?" Pretty much everyone says "yes" in my experience, because it is easy to do and the impact is more measurable. I truly believe (most) people want to do nice things if it is straight forward. --> I don't have a specific recommendation on how to scale that yet unfortunately, but I did find it to be interesting learning and wanted to share.

I look forward to other thoughts people have - especially ones with suggestions on how to scale equalizing opportunity.

-Felicia
Pretty sure they already do that. Fictionalised by Martin Amis in Yellow Dog, if I remember correctly.
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If they could answer your question, they probably already fixed it. You need to figure out the solution for them. You probably also need to figure out the pain point.
> Hipster hate isn't about being different, it's about a perception of dishonest attention-seeking.

Isn't this the same justification that's used to shame the "pseudo" geek girls?
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$500k and a year later, they have a very limited game prototype and no money left. Meanwhile, an amazing, polished and content-rich game like Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP cost $200k in total (and the initial estimate was $110k), including development of it's own graphics engine. Something's amiss?
Or, home equity... (?)
Java has gotten faster in the last decade, but it's still not used for games where performance matters.
Please, give me a break. I installed Quickoffice acquired by Google to read documents. I don't assume that I need to read any description.
I don't think unpaid internships should be illegal. I worked in a lot of unpaid internships early in my career, and it helped me build my skill set. In some cases, a position didn't exist, I just asked if I could work for free to learn. Those are jobs I wouldn't have had, much to my detriment, if the employer feared being sued or fined for not paying me.

I think this is particularly important if you're trying to learn how to run a company rather than learn specific job skills.
If anyone is interested in this kind of stuff, there is a fantastic book called Racing the Beam [1] from MIT Press. Here's a bit of the book's description:

"Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost discuss the Atari VCS itself and examine in detail six game cartridges: Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars' Revenge, Pitfall!, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. They describe the technical constraints and affordances of the system and track developments in programming, gameplay, interface, and aesthetics. Adventure, for example, was the first game to represent a virtual space larger than the screen (anticipating the boundless virtual spaces of such later games as World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto), by allowing the player to walk off one side into another space; and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was an early instance of interaction between media properties and video games."

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam
Then those few super-delicate astronomical systems can sync up their own leap seconds.

Leap seconds are a terrible, idiotic thing because some people want to have their NTP servers lined up with sundials. There's no legitimate purpose for them in use for computer nor civil time.

Proposing a leap hour seems like the best way. That way we can nod to the people that feel the sun's position matters, while knowing that in thousands of years someone else can deal with the issue.
Cloud Benchmark: mysql/RDS with Provisioned IOPS
Ask HN: How to win your dream girl?
Off topic but I think I'd learn more on HN than anywhere else online.

Im 23 and I've gotten to know this girl over the last few years. She is the only girl I know who is into Carl Sagan, Jurassic Park, Game of Thrones AND also happens to be drop dead gorgeous (she could easily be a model). She is funny, witty, and kind to all living things (except bugs, she is a girl).

But MORE THAN ANYTHING, she supports my dreams of building a successful company that improves quality of life for millions of people every day. She critiques my ideas, designs, and encourages me when things don't go as planned. So...

I'm a little unsure of how to do this as I've never felt this way before. There are lots of guys trying to win her but she hasn't fallen for any of them...yet. I want to win her before it's too late and while we're both still young and hopeful. What would you do in my shoes or what did you do when you were in my shoes?

Please and thanks for any feedback. I know it's random but if not HN then where. :)
> They also have no debugging support.

When emscripten is passed the debug flag, it will generate source maps, which will let you step through your code, although inspecting variables still isn't a solved problem.
I'm imagining a lot of shattered screens and broken Kinect cameras.
I'm curious to know how many applications come in via a direct tweet from Elon Musk. Once someone gets a job working on Autonomous driving with Elon, I'd love to hear about it
never heard of this kickstarter, went and grabbed an early Turtle.
I thought any unpaid work in a Developed country would be illegal.
Round half to even, of course
Ask HN: How do you get hired for a senior role without "experience"?
I was reading some history on immigrants from Europe to America and how their entire future existence depended on keeping a portfolio book safe. If they lost that then, well, they got to start their lives all over again from the bottom of civilization.

Imagine if you had a large amount of knowledge, a tremendous amount that would rival any senior technical lead in the field of your choice. You don't know everything but you know you have more knowledge about your field then most the people in the room.

The problem? You have no "experience". Whatever history you had of how you gained your knowledge is gone. Your past is unknown to this new group of people and nothing you say about it makes any sense to them. The only thing that makes sense to them is the knowledge you have of your field.

The obvious answer is to start from the very bottom and spend years fighting your way back up from your pigeonholed existence. But, what other options are there? You know a lot but you have nothing to show for it.
You are massively overestimating for everyone but the top top tier. Neal Stephenson has mostly cult following.

Also 38 studios showed what happens when you let your ego fund a studio - not nice.

So while I don't doubt that he will be able to provide some funding, probably the sums needed are way too big for him to bridge.

I am a backer of the project - lets hope that if the project is doomed they will at least release the assets to the community that funded them.
Global helium shortage in prospect as US reservoir in line to close next month
A few months ago I'd have been happily hitting the downvote button along with everyone else, mumbling to myself about how crazy you sound. Today, however, I wish you weren't being downvoted because you're half way to being right.

I strongly doubt the intent of things like Google Cloud Messaging is to intercept all your data and siphon it off to the NSA, GHCQ, and others. GCM is an incredibly useful service that has been designed to make it easier to write apps that use less power by eliminating polling. When you don't have to poll you can keep the mobile radio in a low power state. But the trouble is, you are indeed passing data (possibly even sensitive data!) through Google data centers when you're using GCM and it's equivalents.

The tech industry seems to trust Google less today than it did this time last year in light of the Snowden leaks, and quite rightly so.
> So far I could not find a programming language that does not have similar (or worse) scissors. It's more like "pick your poison" type of choice.

Ada? I've heard that it is very big on safety, and that it is in the C ballpark efficiency-wise.
Northern Europe has harsher winters than I care for. You can freeze to death in the snow...etc. And the odds are long against me moving there any time soon. I can readily go anywhere in the continental U.S.

I have actually seriously considered such things. I have previously lived in Europe. I have been willing to consider living potentially anywhere in the world. There are substantial obstacles for the average person for up and moving wherever the fuck place name you pulled out of a hat.
Agile in the sense you are describing really has the wrong name. Agile implies fast; from Apple's Dictionary:

able to move quickly and easily; able to think and understand quickly

Agile should have been called Adaptable or some other name that has less implication of speed and more implication of accomodation of unknown or changing requirements.

No putting that toothpaste back in the tube at this point though.
At least the iOS7 lock screen seems useful. The #1 use of my phone is as a music player. Android somehow thinks it should only show media controls while I'm playing music, and for a minute or two after I put it on pause. FFS, just make my entire music library accessible and always on the lock screen.

Between that, and having maps auto-unlock if you're in nav-mode -- that'd solve about every dangerous car-phone situation I run into.
I think these "vulnerabilities" are silly. The lockscreen on the phone is the equivalent of a screen door: it's meant to keep the bugs out, and to signal to the outside world, "Hey, this is a closed door, behave appropriately." But no one is going to be surprised if burglars are able to get past it.
I think he was being snarky in the "don't play video games, go do stuff" kind of way.

fleitz: If interesting new ways to interact with games/computers isn't your thing, that's fine. But telling us all to f'off and go learn to fence really doesn't accomplish much.
Unfortunately the day fluctuates, and is actually lengthening over time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuations_in_the_length_of_d...

We need at least one unit of time which is fixed and unchanging in order to do scientific calculations, and we have chosen the second to be that unit.
I worked on a title for the 3DS. I don't have experience with the N64, so I can't speak for their policies around that time.
> I installed Quickoffice acquired by Google to read documents. I don't assume that I need to read any description.

QuickOffice was always a MSOffice formats editing tool for mobile devices. Its never been a generic document reader. You assumed, for no discernable reason, that it was.

Maybe you should re-evaluate your assumptions about the need to read descriptions of apps before you install and run them.
Is this diagram horribly put together? Quite possibility yes.
> Native will always fundamentally beat non-native, that's a plain fact.

I believe so, yes.

Assuming there will be 9 billion web users sometime into the future, non-native will be enough for most of the stuff though.
Furthermore, how optimized was the C#.NET version? C# will even let you drop into C++ if you want..I have a feeling the C# version may not have been tuned effectively.
You don't make very much money writing Science Fiction novels.
You could just as well say it offers people suffering from those circumstances the chance of a better life.
I'm in the US. My data plan is capped when I'm on my carrier's network, and unlimited (and much more expensive) when I'm roaming. Typical US carrier.

This highlights a good point: it's not just the number of bytes of data, it's the cost per byte. Many data plans have an explicit cost per byte, but even ones that don't will have an opportunity cost: if your app is sucking up a portion of my bandwidth, you're preventing my other apps from retrieving data. Even if my data was free, my bandwidth is limited.
This has got to be one of the worst implementations of d3.js I have encountered in the wild...
Kara Swisher published a similar Obituary;

http://allthingsd.com/20130919/tragedy-amazons-first-cfo-and...

Another very sad day.
This is why government funding of science is so important. The government funds long term projects that couldn't possibly be 'brought to market' by a private company: weather data, gps, even that old chestnut, the internet, the postal service.

The timeframe is too long, so we collectively decide to pay for basic research with the understanding that some chunk of it might be useful at some time.

Basic science is not an activity that jives well with the profit motive (again, because of the long time frames), yet it is a required foundation for the 'value add' products that companies are good at bringing to market.

So, the question is, do we want to continue to invest in long term thinking via the government? Do we want to structure other institutions (foundations, corporations, non profits, universities) in such a way they have an incentive to undertake long term projects? Can we have individuals take part in this? Do we want to abandon big projects with uncertain return?
Perishables should list when they were packaged, created, whatever. Then I can decide how to use the eggs (for example). Less than a week? Fried eggs with breakfast. 2-3 weeks? Hard boiled eggs. Longer? Cookies and cakes.
Responsive vs. Adaptive Design
The anchor system predates QML by some time. Delphi 4 introduced anchors and constraints in 1998, for example.
Every time I read a "scathing" attack on C/C++ for being the worst language the author ever heard of, I hear Jack Sparrow's reply in my head "Ahh... but you have heard of me".

Somehow despite the litany of crippling deficiencies, C/C++ have managed to be the foundation of every piece of technology a consumer or a computer professional will ever touch in their daily life. But yeah, other than that, we should all be using.. oh, I don't know, scala or haskell or something like that.
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Is there something shady I don't know about techcrunch?
Indeed, this is exactly the niche that Rust is targeting: C++ performance without C++'s pitfalls. But it'll likely still be quite a while before it's battle-tested enough for everyday use.
I would ask her to Dinner, emphasize that its "just you two" and then just show her a good time. If she appears to be weirded out, or tries to invite other people etc, that probably means she doesn't feel the same way you do.

If she does agree, then that means she's open to the idea and needs you to take the lead. During the date, make sure you go by the 3 event rule, meaning you take her to 3 different places before the end of the date. Examples: Restaurants, Bar, Park, , Dessert Shop, Gas station, Your house, Her House, Friends House, some random store, etc.

If she tries to bail after Event 1, probably means it didn't go well.

Good luck and remember to have fun and not be needy.
A Hospital Tells Police Where Fights Happen, And Crime Drops
Even less than that - it affects only systems that are both built to last for hundreds of years and have no maintenance or communications possible for hundreds of years and aren't smart enough to carry a bit of code to do an approximate adjustment themselves. Which should mean no systems at all.
With C#, did you try using manual memory management? I wrote a rather high-performance (50K requests/sec, 550K ops/sec) daemon in F#. The big trick was to use my own mem management when it makes sense. I had a ~1GB managed heap, and 12+GB unmanaged.

For instance, you can stack-allocate many objects in C# (strings and arrays, for instance), if you're willing to give up the safety (and if C++ is an option, then you are willing). You can manually heap-alloc managed objects, too, although it gets tricky if they are nested objects. After all, the JIT is just taking pointers to objects and doing stuff with them - it doesn't care where the memory came from (just remember the GC won't scan your manually allocated stuff).

The CLR (unlike the JVM) has native capabilities built right into it. People should take more advantage of such things instead of only trying fully safe C# and then deciding to dump it all for no safety.
Yeah, most of the time my Android is on a WiFi network (office or home) and the cell data connection is turned off. My battery can last a pretty long time if I'm not away from my WiFis much and I don't have the screen on full brightness.
>System agnostic, immersive, inclusive, what not. Love it.

Yay! Let's cheerlead the democritisation (read: degeneration) of computer programming! The "open", democratic people got everything wrong, which is why the browser has such a laughable hodge podge of features. Hooray for people who took web programming instead of OS design at college. WOOO!
I wonder if they can harvest Helium from spent nuclear fuel in any great quantity to combat this.
Why is a tiny modular house the best way to build for several hundred people? Do they stack, or is the idea that universities in Sweden have acres of space waiting to put these on?
Also, an initial test run of 22 units arranged in blocks of eight, how many blocks of eight does it take to arrange 22 units exactly?
The problem is that internships can very, very easily turn exploitative -- not just to the individual but to an entire class of individuals.

If this company just let you tinker at their offices so you could learn, that seems fine. If you were producing production-quality work for free, well, that's a more complex problem. In that case, you're devaluing the work itself (giving away for free what would normally be sold). And while it's not going to have a huge effect if just you do it, if this scenario was allowed to become the norm it would impact the paychecks of everyone in your industry. Except the owners, who would love the overall cheaper labor.

And, just to say it: It's this sort lack of labor protections that lead to ever-widening income gaps. If companies aren't bound to pay employees fairly, the middle class gets poorer and the wealthy owner class gets wealthier.
Only if you like writing all your libraries yourself.

To answer a little less flippantly, you'd need to add some sort of "unsafe" construct to the language, because most of the nice, high level abstractions have nasty low-level stuff buried in them, and because of the way C++ templates are compiled, that's all code that will be included in any program you write. In short, all "new" code is built on top of an awful lot of "old" code, and if you were going to make a huge breaking change like this, you may as well write a new language and libraries ground up (like Go or Rust).
This is odd, you say setting passcode lock to "5 min" worked but "immediate" didn't. Someone else said the exact opposite. I've tried both with no luck. In the video the person appears to also hold the "home" key while cancelling (or a just tap split second prior, maybe?), too but no mention is made of this.

Not that it matters to the resolution of the vulnerability - I'm sure Apple will be in a position to repro and fix it - but I wish for the sake of my own curiousity that these things are described in more detail.
Tried this with both "immediately" and 15 min on iPad Mini. Reproduced it every time.

As a side note, one can use this bug to access contacts list and send email on behalf of the owner (via share menu in photo stream).

Edit:

Just found out that I can tweet, post to facebook and send email just by using Siri (if that setting is enabled). Although, this might be the correct behavior.
If some system is so disconnected that their direction/location can't be adjusted remotely every few years or so, then the current leap second data doesn't work for them anyways - they aren't scheduled far in advance, and that system won't get the info when a new leap second is announced.

By the way, do solar panel servos really have the proper sun-time set in them? I mean, if one panel is 200 feet west of another, is its clock set to be 2 seconds later?
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Haha, that was confusing.

Skimmed half the article trying to figure out how they expected to make a game out of clang/llvm in the first place, only to realize it has nothing to do with that project.
This government is out of control. These are the bad people working against us. We the people have a right to know what the government is doing.
> From a purely technical perspective it's not very interesting or irreplaceable, the way that OpenVZ or lxc are.

Obviously I am biased since I work on Docker. But I completely disagree. I believe Docker has the potential to be quite important and quite irreplaceable (in other words: useful!), although in a very different way than openvz and lxc. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't be spending so much energy working on it. And if you don't understand why developing Docker is a lot of work - actual engineering work, not marketing, although that is important too - well one of us is overestimating his understanding of the topic :)
Essentially Mossberg and Kara Swisher needed the WSJ affiliation more than WSJ now needs them. Should be interesting to see how much power they wield going forward.
A few more related stories on a bikeforums.net thread

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/913789-Fatality-on-...

"A 50-year-old woman was riding her bicycle downhill on the northbound lane on Skyline when she collided with a minivan that was making a turn toward her lane."
It's cool to see the ".int" TLD for once---by far the most obscure of the original seven (.com, .edu, .gov, .int, .mil, .net, .org, [and .arpa, if you're old]).
For us non-gamers, who is Day[9]? <:)
That control, like the permissions approval dialog, is a blunt tool. Sure, I can turn background data completely off, or I can let my apps run wild with it. There's no middle ground and no per-app control (unless the app developer provides one.)

KB of data could be reasonable, depending on how often its being fetched. But the OA specifically mentioned retrieving several MB of data for use "during the next few minutes." If that's an app that doing some kind of news feed to an always-running widget, and it's grabbing images and stories in case I might want to read them, it can really add up.
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