skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a blog post on this recently: http://jeweledplatypus.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/text/conferen... - the strategies there aren't going to fit with all conference styles, but they can be adapted and used as inspiration for other ways of thinking carefully about conference experience. Here's also what seems to be the main place to look: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Resources_for_conference_... - and the Ada Initiative website has more. I'd be curious if there's anything you can think of to add to the wiki page to help it show up in searches better; I agree that making these resources easier to find would be useful.

I didn't get the sense that you were asking for positive examples in a silencing/derailing way, but it's a pattern that happens with this stuff in general.
Wow, that Photo Investigator after shot is terrible: http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/cc/ad/2c/ccad2c57-d... Are we supposed to read that glaring hot red on a cluttered map background?
> AirBnb could've avoided this discussion entirely for the cost of a crappy IKEA bed. Eat the $350

This is what AirBnB did for us. I rented an AirBnB house with some friends, and after we checked out we got some bogus charges from the hosts (plumber's fee… it's our fault they have poor plumbing?). AirBnB told us they ruled in our favor and we didn't have to pay, they told the host they ruled in their favor and gave them the money.

Another anecdote to the pile.
Oh, of course, and I didn't mean to imply anything about those people either. I was liberal with their interpretations. I just found it amusing and got a good chuckle out of it. =)
We sent our first hire a King Cake from Goldbely — and he (along with his family) loved it!

Goldbely is a great way to gift someone something special.
I can't wait for the autonomous car manufacturers to start suing the crap out of each other for patent infringement. And by "can't wait for" I mean "dread".
I would very much like to see a revival of this project:

https://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/

For a variety of reasons.
I recalled a similar story involving local transit agencies in the US. Apparently a troll named "ArrivalStar" has been suing local jurisdictions for having the gall to add bus arrival information to screens at bus stops.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/a-new-low-for-pat...

http://dc.streetsblog.org/2012/04/16/patent-troll-sues-trans...

http://www.masstransitmag.com/news/10977955/patent-trolls-ta...

Sure enough, the "Dovden Investments" discussed in this story is just a shell company for ArrivalStar. See:

http://arielkatz.org/archives/2823
Baby Really Sings the Blues
iOS 7, now with less design.
I don't think they actually have a higher failure rate than other large scale web applications. They are just very open about their failures and data. http://status.github.com/ reports an uptime of 99.8% for the month. Not _fantastic_ but very very good.
"Sometimes an investor will ask you to send them your deck and/or executive summary before they decide whether to meet with you. I wouldn't do that. It's a sign they're not really interested."

I am both surprised and relieved by this advice. I see some investors over optimize on deck creation and presentation skills. Personally, I have not seen any correlation between how fancy the deck is and subsequent success
Is locking people in a cage not enough for you?
1.5 PB is pretty huge for most people outside of supercomputing. The biggest dataset I ever worked with fell some way short of that (It was approaching 1PB, I think, although we were not too sure how much data we had exactly, and it might have been slightly over, depending on how you measured). Even handling small(er) working sets could be a challenge in organisation, since we only had a small compute cluster (& associated infrastructure) to work with.
Ah, it looks like I misunderstood the point. Thanks for the correction.
That's a little misleading. The structured light pattern is indeed generated by a laser, but the distances being measured are not distances to the object, they're displacements of a structured pattern (eg, predictable dots) seen on the object with an infrared camera.
"Somebody" needs to write a git caching proxy. Google searching comes up with a couple of attempts, neither looks production quality.

I'd suggest a rule of thumb where a build ought to be able to complete without any resources that you don't control the uptime of. As the number of such resources increases, the amount of time the build can not actually be built will tend towards 100%. A git caching proxy would be great for that sort of thing. A generic DVCS proxy would be even better.
Previously, wasn't it just follow Apple's style guide or go home? If so, what's happened in iOS 7? Are Apple just being far more lax in enforcing a style guide or is the style guide out of the window now?
They may be subsidized but I could see myself making enough money where I wouldn’t qualify for the subsidy if it was income based but not making enough money to be able to easily afford one if they were six figures.
Whoops! Didn't see that, good catch ;)
19:23 UTC. kken synchs the initial commit for his new repository.

ooops?
This reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode called Valley of the Shadow (1963) [1]. A small town possesses a device that rearranges atoms to create or fix anything. The scientist who gave it to them told them to keep it a secret until mankind is totally peaceful. One day, a reporter's car breaks down near the town and he ends up proving that the world isn't ready for the technology.

Of course, you could argue that he reacts so badly because they try to trap him there forever...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Shadow
You're right on both counts. On the first point, I was trying to say that there are legitimate reasons to wait for a lead, and waiting for one is not always a matter of vacillating or stalling.
It's worth noting that the students in the article have already expressed some level of interest towards school. Unless they wouldn't be in 'lukio'.

The other part consists of students who are normally thought to be worse in school. In contrary to their lukio peers, they do not have matriculation examination and therefore do not contribute to the statistics shown on the article.
I think this is probably more of a TV/movie thing than much based in reality. We're no tougher than anyone else, but I could see how you may think we see ourselves as such if you just watch our movies/shows.
Hi, Max. CTR doesn't have an IV. It has a nonce. IVs need to be unpredictable; nonces only need to not repeat.
Sailfish gains two-way Android compatibility
I've never been to prison but years ago I went to jail in the US for violent acts and weapon charges and wouldn't wish that on anyone. My co-defendant in the trial was charged with greater crimes and did 8 years in prison out of 13. I went to visit the guy about once a month and I can say one thing for certain - he will never be the same. And not in a good way.

I know a lot of guys like him. The US prison system is not worried about rehabilitation. It's about punishment and removal from society, regardless of how you come out. It's a terrible place meant to scare the crap out of you and that's basically it. And now it's one big industry.
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WordPress Security Based on Facts and Statistics
Once you know more about the most common WordPress hack attacks it will be easy to improve your WordPress security and protect your blog or website from such attacks.
"Open source has had the reputation of producing good imitations, but not innovation. Perhaps Cassandra’s origins as a hybrid of Dynamo and Bigtable did not disprove this, but Apache Cassandra’s development of lightweight transactions and CQL are true industry firsts."

Cassandra's misleadingly named "lightweight transactions" are, at best, a novel implementation of a feature that has been around for a long time - Compare and Set.

We wrote a blog post about this called "Those Are Not Transactions". http://blog.foundationdb.com/post/60455516312/those-are-not-...
It also helps in containing real virus.
What do you mean? Feels like 1998 as in it is simple, easy and works? Doesn't have enough javascript errors to prevent you from making purchases?
I would love to know what game is worse because its 32-bit instead of 64-bit.

And what great 64-bit games are there?
- And where your income tax is up to 60%: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2008/nov/16/sweden-tax-burd...
It could be great to have something like this for SVG!
It's a fantastic time to buy an expensive house. Interest rates are so low due to the Fed that money is essentially free. I will be keeping my 30 year mortgage for the next 30 years.
Is it? I mean obviously you can choose to be nice or nasty, but maybe in the same way that obese people can choose to exercise and eat healthily. Some people are definitely nicer than others by default.
I agree that this is an issue with third party libraries, not with my own code. But C++ libraries can be a real horror. Every single one of them comes with its own peculiar memory management idea. Recently I started to use rapidjson. It's insanely fast but that's not the only insanity. It basically screams for memory management bugs.
No not at all. We keep local mirrors of everything that we pull in and integrate off that. Never a problem.
I expect you'll buy the app [the new version] and this will allow you to download the old version from an older device logged in to your account.
Really happy to see a post like this. It was an awesome post too... However, as an adult over 30 who just learned to code, I can say that it was not as helpful as it might have been, primarily because it makes the author sound as if he is brilliant--and clearly--most people thinking about approaching programming are far from starting a tech start-up at 30+... Much less 19!!!

I am obviously old enough to not have benefitted from a CS course in HS, is it did not exist. So, to have gone 8 paragraphs deep into this post and still there was no mention of a particular language or medium to learn left me quite dry. Again, not to take anything away... I'm just saying.

The way I learned to code... Codecademy/google tech talks/web/books: in this order. I decided to focus on Javascript because of ECMAScript 5, NodeJS++ gave JS a new look and promising future. Codecademy got me off and running fast but then I finished all the courses and still felt like I did not know sh1! The tech talks helped me understand the context of -this- and that. The books were for Ninja-hood.

I hope more people write about how they learned for those of us coming from other industries and majors. Perhaps I will blog of my travails of a bootstrapping, indie, tech start-up... At the moment, still busy playing catch-up and learning to code.
A successful failure event probably should go unnoticed :)
As a freelancer, would you find this useful?
I've been working on http://availability.is as a side project for the last week or so. It's intended to be a simple means to let people know when you're available for work and for clients to find freelancers with the availability they require.

I've had fairly positive feedback within my circle of followers and I was wondering what people thought to the idea here?
What I mean is ease of editing in a typical CAD tool: Solidworks, AutoCad, Sketchup, etc. STL is imported as a solid blob and you lose all the individual features from the source model.
I'm glad to see open-zfs.org for exactly the reasons you mention.

I've been runnning MacZFS for years, but it's currently way behind at zpool version 8, zfs version 2. At one point I put a FreeBSD machine in the basement, with plans to stream snapshot diffs for backup, but the version mismatches prevented me from doing this in a smart (zfs-based, rather than rsync-based) way.

Looks like this central coordination point ought to help the porting of features/versions from the Linux branch to the Mac branch.
Building a single-page app, one page at time
Yay. This is what our current healthcare system is giving us. And it is impossible to talk about alternatives. You morons are going to die of hubris. Basically.
"bi-weekly"... Do you mean twice a week or fortnightly?
Out of curiosity: who else would be in contention for "best manager of the generation"?
There is a lot to be said for really big engineering projects :-). I found the cassions idea to be particulary cool although welding on a bunch of cassions on the damaged side seems like it will be quite challenging. Now that the "hard" part is done though, the rest should be pretty boring from an external perspective.
Do you have source on this, since I cannot recall any standardized assesments which would have been done nation wide in Finland on 8th grade.
So how hard was it for the developers to support iOS 7? If they used the correct core UI elements, the transition was seamless[~], right? Because with Android (until recent versions) such a major update in UI would have been a disaster (not that develoeprs care much, there aren't even strict UI guidelines).

[~] edit: -smoothless | +seamless
That depends on what level of book, and what you want to learn from it. On "how real distributed systems are built", there isn't a really good book available in my opinion. I liked The Datacenter as a Computer, but it's scope is fairly narrow and is more focused on global infrastructure issues than software design issues. On the math behind distributed systems, Nancy Lynch's book Distributed Algorithms (http://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Algorithms-Kaufmann-Manage...) is my favorite, but it's getting to be quite out-of-date.

Absent a book, there are a lot of great resources online. High Scalability(http://highscalability.com/) has a good amount of quality links to distributed systems content, and some editorial content of varying quality. In general, it's a good site to follow if you're interested in how distributed systems are being used in industry. I also like to follow Aphyr's blog(http://aphyr.com/), Daniel Abadi's blog(http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/), and Henry Robinson's blog(http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/) and Peter Bailis's blog(http://www.bailis.org/).
It depends what market segment you're looking at. If it's the 'Electric Car' market, Telsa are pretty much the leaders in this segment apart from a handful of super-micro city cars.
If you mean the 'Performance Car' market, apart from one or two niche offerings and prototypes, the usual manufacturers should be spooked by Tesla's potential to realise and implement new technology.

Musk makes no secret of his positioning in the market and going for the price point that they have. But there are hundreds of different cars at the same price point of the Model S, none of which are even in the same ball park.

The necessity for the incumbents to appeal to the mass-market is exactly why they should be worried, they're business relies on so many manufacturing synergies to reduce price, adapting all of those chassis and systems to cope with electric drive and self driving is going to be a challenge if they're to sell to their exist mass-market customers, at a price they expect. Tesla doesn't have that problem.
Awesome, thank you very much for the effort.
"Apparently we're too primitive to get beyond the juvenile practice of cutting off our nose to spite our face"

Don't be too hard on yourself. A conservative coalition that includes a right wing populist party that want prison to be less about rehabilitation and more about suffering and punishment just won the general election here. The next four years will see how much impact they can have on the system..
> One of my favorite Wired articles ever was back in '08, "High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas"[1]

I actually came to post about this, and was pleased to see your comment in the top spot. The writers of this article (and many other great reads) have since started their own magazine--called Epic Magazine--and feature this story as one of their primary attractors. Perhaps more relevant to the Hacker News crowd, they use a really neat display format for their amazing (but true) stories: http://epicmagazine.com/2013/08/deep-sea-cowboys/

Highly recommended.
The D in github stands for decentralised.
They remove the most connected nodes at each step. The one thing this algorithm is not usefull for is for finding hightly connected nodes.
Networking - Good vs Evil
I so love that article! On multiple occasions I have played with the thought of turning Titan Salvage into a physics based simulation game. Haven't got the right vibe yet tough.
I had this discussion with my friend. Would automated fleets of cars make sense? If traffic is three times as heavy during rush-hour as it normally is then you would either have to have a lot of cars sitting idle the rest of the day or raise costs for rush-hour so high that it wouldn’t make economic sense to use a self-driving car service to get to and from work. I’d be interested if there’s any statistics on traffic volumes for areas including cities and there outlying suburbs in the United States to see what the economics of a service would have to look like taking into account daily variations in traffic patterns.
> If you know the biases..

indeed.

> for instance by asking people directly..

a terrible way of accounting for bias. people are often unaware of the bias they impart on what they say.
Their cost-of-living link just leads to OECD stats that are used as basis of computing PPP.

So the cato article makes 2 mistakes: applying the PPP normalization twice (once by using "PPP normalized income" and a second time in adding the ~30% from the "cost of living"), in addition to ignoring what you get in exchange for the taxes that lower your purchasing power.
Intel And Apple: An Interesting Tidbit
I usually don't, but in this case the title irked me and sounded like they were advocating just that. Otherwise, what was the point of the blog post (since coding tests are completely standard in the industry)?

Now that it's recovered I see that it was just to shill the author's particular coding test.

Yawn.
I thought that ambiguity of meaning only applied to "bi-monthly", but a quick search shows I was wrong.
I don't think that I said anything particularly controversial, though I realize that every company can't be like Apple.

Apple has lasted 37 years, and has a cash balance of 150 billion dollars. Jeff Bezos' Amazon is 19 years old and has a low cash balance due to famously razor thin margins.

Apple's model is clearly sustainable for them, but not necessarily for others. Do you disagree with that?

With regards to the new iPhones not being shiny enough, perhaps you should withhold judgement until the devices go on sale.

See also:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/rethinking-the-ipho...
http://www.marco.org/2013/09/15/iphone-reactions
[Corrections] Really happy to see a post like this. It was an awesome post too... However, as an adult over 30 who just learned to code, I can say that it was not as helpful as it might have been, primarily because it makes the author sound as if he is brilliant--and he clearly is--most people thinking about approaching programming are far from starting a tech start-up at 30+... Much less 19!!!

I am obviously old enough to not have benefitted from a CS course in HS, as it did not exist. So, to have gone 8 paragraphs deep into this post and still there was no mention of a particular language or medium to learn left me quite dry. Again, not to take anything away... I'm just saying.

The way I learned to code... Codecademy/Google tech talks/web/books: in this order. I decided to focus on Javascript because of ECMAScript 5, NodeJS++ gave JS a new look and promising future. Codecademy got me off and running fast but then I finished all the courses and still felt like I did not know sh1! The tech talks helped me understand the context of -this- and that. The books were for Ninja-hood.

I hope more people write about how they learned for those of us coming from other industries and majors. Perhaps I will blog of my travails of a bootstrapping, indie, tech start-up... At the moment, still busy playing catch-up and learning to code.
A real possibility. Probable, even.
There is a reliable indicator of whether or not people found the post useful - the number of points the submission has. To be honest, I find comments like yours far less useful, and they are not infrequent either.
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But there is no D in github.

...oh.
My favorite thing about these essays, is summarized by PG's remark in this one: "sorry, we think you're great, but PG said startups shouldn't ___, and since we're new to fundraising, we feel like we have to play it safe."

The card it gives to inexperienced players. This whole thing feels like a way to even out the information asymmetry inherent in these transactions.
Its back now
I agree with you in all except this:

> The current danger is in 3d printed firearms, which are getting better and better every day, and which have been 3d modelled by designers in 3d programs.

It was probably discussed here many times, but where exactly is the danger? You can (and could have for years) make better guns with CNC milling machines and/or random metal scrap lying around your backyard, and getting ammo (which seems to be the real problem) is not getting any easier with 3D printers.
On the contrary I think we're entering a temporary period of apps looking closer to each other than they did pre-iOS 7. Hardly any apps used the stock controls anymore as they looked so stale, whereas many of the new designs are taking Apple's lead, at least for now.

I can imagine that the same process will begin to repeat itself as we get used to this new style.
For adaptive cruise control (varies speed based on the car in-front of you), some will only take you so slow. Some auto makers can have the adaptive cruise control bring you to a full stop (for something like stop-and-go traffic).

Then a step up on the "drifting out of your lane" is one that will attempt to keep you in your lane (Acura and Mercedes have this, goes by the name "Lane Keep Assist"). [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0KRWJwA2Q
Not a lot (any?) of "top 50" most commonly used apps in this comparison yet. Plenty of examples of bad, non-standard design in the depths of the App Store.

Just as with iOSes before it, there will be skilled and unskilled interpretations of the design language.
Or they can simply buy the technology from Continental. (Disclaimer: I work on ADAS systems for Conti).
Offline reading with the NewsBlur iOS app
the shadows and gradients were very good and directing your eyes on what is import and what is not important.

the flat design gives more elements equal footing. instead of the interfacing being able to accentuate the important areas to look at, you now have to know the app (or screen) and know where to look.
I'm not sure there's _any_ amount of money they could give me that'd offset the risk of getting hit with a false-positive dawn raid.
Woah. I independently came up with something similar. I used to wonder what kind of advice I'd give myself if I could go back in time. At some point, I realised that I could change it around and project myself forward in time instead and imagine what future me would say to me right now. What the advice lost in accuracy it made up for in actionability.
There's a movement in some law circles towards "Restorative Justice" which I think is even more forward thinking than Norway's prison system. It focuses on the victims interests instead of the governments (imagine this applied to Aaron Swartz).

> Restorative justice (also sometimes called reparative justice) is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of the victims and the offenders, as well as the involved community, instead of satisfying abstract legal principles or punishing the offender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice
Evanston, IL.
You don't take phages back out of the person, so the source is not under evolutionary pressure to affect humans -- each batch is "seeing" humans for the first time.