skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Area Man’s Intelligence Probably Just Too Intimidating For Most Women
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I still want Chrome, Firefox, and MongoDB stickers too. Feel free to send me some :)
And in Sudan she would be a child soldier or a rape toy. What does this have to do with what actually happened?

Living in the US without health insurance is a ticking financial and health bomb. Even I, as an immigrant, knew that. That's why I paid through my nose to have insurance for me and my family when I was an independent contractor.

She lived day-to-day, didn't bother to plan even short term future, it's completely her fault.
Did you teach your boyfriend how to quicksort your knife collection? Way to go, brothe- uh, friend.
Totally agree with you, and just having done the String class, I am appalled at how many different kinds of return values you can get from methods. If that's not bad enough, then PHP will throw a curveball at you with its 'this method may return falsy values'.

That's the kind of thinking I've avoided here, trying to explicitly return a boolean value, or results.
So the take-away is that american schools value their teachers less than restaurants their dish-washers. That's a great lesson about the state of academia.
The answer in this case is for her to use a local e-mail client. That way, updates are entirely under her control.

I know it's not perfect, but little ever is.
Funny you mention that, just started working on something now. It's slow, I'll tell you that much. Noticeably slow? Not so sure.
I have to agree with point #1. I hated the small compose window until I realized I can minimize it, browse/search my Gmail and then return to finish.

I can't say I agree with your other points. Sometimes, you need to write a long email and there's no way around it. an email provider should not be trying to re-invent how people use email, they should embrace how people use email and make it better.
Although I don't know the specifics for Braintree, it's not contradictory to accept VC money for bootstrapped companies. If a startup goes from 0 to 10M revenue without taking any outside investment then that puts them squarely in the bootstrapped camp. However, if they then realize they're in a winner-takes-all market and that they need a lot of money in order to scale up, then they can still accept VC money at that later stage.
What is constraint model programming?
Duquesne officials say there are no immediate plans to
allow adjunct professors to unionize, despite professors'
vote to do so.

I was under the impression unionisation usually happened against the wishes of employers?

It's hardly realistic to expect employers to act with their employees' best interests at heart.
That's exactly my point. What if it wasn't a few lines of code, but something with a hefty investment in, then Google comes in with their own and just puts them top of the list because they can. Users don't get the choice because Google prioritise their own.
This is helpful advice for how to treat your first few users. As for where to find them, the advice is "don't worry if this method won't scale" and "identify a core/goal user group". What I hoped to learn, and expected to find with this article title, is: how to identify this core group, and how to reach them?

(The Quibb example seems to explain how she made sure the early users would enjoy it, but not how she identified or found them.)
Dilbert : 404 not found
> This means that if large triangles could be ‘drawn’ in space, their internal angles would add up to less than 180 degrees.

I wonder if this could somehow be done with the voyager 1 and 2, although I imagine this would involve setting the two voyagers up to look for each other - something that may well be many orders of magnitude outside what is possible, though they still seem to be able to contact us.

Also it may not be a large enough distance, but I'd guess its the largest available to us that we could actually test.
BrainTree has been bootstrapped since it's beginning until October, 2012 when they raised $35 million. And the guys at 37 Signals sure love BrainTree since, that is what they use to process payments for 37 Signals. Also, BrainTree was featured in their famous 'Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud' series http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2800-bootstrapped-profitable-...
US has social safety nets, she just didn't bother to use them. She didn't bother to pay for health insurance. She didn't bother to finance her IRA/401k. She didn't bother to find a full time job with health insurance.

> But it does highlight the fact that working in academia can be a worse career than working in retail.

Working part time in either without paying for private health insurance will end up the same.

And yes, being a teacher doesn't pay much, but she didn't bother to advance her career over what, 60 years? She basically did the same thing she liked day after day, and expected the society/country to take care of her needs.

I agree that it would be nice to have a single payer healthcare system in the US, but that's not how it is.
another reason to use Gmail only via IMAP in my Thunderbird...
It's pretty atrocious, especially for a power-user.

The new "mini" compose windows are just insane. It's email, not IM chat.
Where exactly is that idea expressed?

EDIT: Fine, if you read into the preface where he talks about his programmer friends I guess they are all male. That's hardly hopelessly mired, it's more like an unfortunate choice of description. I bet the author would assume women programmers feel the exact same way about their partners as well.
Ha, yeah.

When I'm in the US, I deliberately navigate to a European Google site (usually google.co.uk) in order to get their onebox flight schedule search results. I really enjoy seeing a full timetable of published flights for the week when I do a search for "[flights lhr fra]". Doing the same search in the US, and seeing the new Google Flights ad instead of the old timetable onebox, is infuriating.
1. I had thought about that, but then I thought I'd go sort of like the Javascript route where everything can be modified (well, mostly, anyway)

2. Specialise the types more how? Why would I want to hide the actual value - although I suppose I'd want to make sure that no external object can modify its value directly.

3. Like in the constructor? What about for Number, where you can pass it an int, double or float?
I used to do a Google search for [mlb standings] and click through to the top search result. Now I just look at the onebox Major League Baseball standings results instead.

I've also noticed the results of a search for [Olympic medal count] steadily improve every two years so that I no longer need to click through to any search results to see the data I want.
That's not true. The lady worked part time. Most dish washers work full or longer time work shifts.

The academia pays alright, you just have to do the hours. She didn't.
Minimize the gradient ...
I have done a large Backbone.js project for my last employer. I was on that for about 18 months. I have not done a project with both Backbone.js and AngularJS in the same project. I know some people do that but I truly cannot think of anything Backbone.js brings to that party.

As for Backbone.js by itself... It's OK, I liked it but we had a large project with as many has half a dozen people working on it at its peak and the problem we got into was all of the huge gaps in Backbone.js that you typically fill with other software (two-way binding, validation, templating, AMD, etc.) and if you don't figure out your solutions for all of those gaps before you start every developer in the group ends up filling it his or her own way. Especially if you're under a time crunch and writing really fast.

We ended up with a working project at the end and it was way faster than their old solution but it was a chimera. Every part of it appeared to be a different animal. With AngularJS a lot more of those parts are part of the framework itself and there's less room for that kind of problem. I'm using it for large project work now and liking it a great deal more.
Also in competitive gaming Swedish teams and players were among top, like Ninjas in Pyjamas.
This is great! Thanks ptomato
It does say something that he doesn't realize his ideas could also apply to relationships where the tech/non-tech roles are reversed; the possibility just didn't occur to him.

Imagine an article about teaching other people how to, I don't know, paint with watercolors, and the author kept assuming his audience was women, teaching their hopefully attractive, fit boyfriends how to do it, even though it might seem like an impossible task.
The parent comment? I was the top level commenter on this. Do you mean the article itself? It reads:

"The kernel is written in C, however how did the kernel get compiled without a compiler installed?"

And...

"If the C compiler is installed on my machine before the kernel is compiled, how can the compiler itself get compiled without a compiler installed?"
Outlook mail also sucks totally. It's quite impossible to find some of the key buttons with it, like the send button. I have complained about it, but as far as I know, there's no fix for the problem.

https://plus.google.com/106938703242944328523/posts/AU5F7oeV...

I have added red marks to the screenshot, so it's bit easier to find those buttons.
You actually don't have to minimize it, that's why it's on the right hand side. You can copy/paste directly, even dragging text with a mouse.
It is even more complex as the width of a text in most fonts also varies with the specific order of the characters because of kerning (VAI takes less space than VIA, because the A is placed closer to the V in former) and ligatures (for example the dot of the i in "fi" is often swallowed by the f).
not going to happen ,because PHP relies to much on native extensions. If a fork doesnt work with them , it will not be successfull.
The best one can do is move to Python , which works on an httpd server and is a real multipurpose language, and it has a lot of support on shared hosts.
Inside Dropbox's quest to bury the hard drive
At 83 she almost definitely qualified for Medicaid, so she did have health insurance. However many health insurance plans have limits and high deductibles or disqualified expenses that can send a low income person bankrupt anyway. Quick quiz, which treatments for ovarian cancer would your plan cover and what are the deductibles? How does that compare to a plan you could buy on the individual market as an 83 year old woman?
I would do private tutoring. I bet it pays much better too.

Considering she worked very relaxing hours, she could spend 10 hours a week searching for new clients.
Getting access to the equipment required to duplicate their fingerprint is much harder...
Has there ever been a Free Hardware Foundation or an effort in this direction ?
Except laboratory error reduces the claimed reliability of DNA massively (to one in a few thousand levels, iirc - not one in a million).
I not sure about that, her obit didn't mention a husband and also if she were a widow she should have been receiving survivors benefit from social security.
Having read the article, I think it would be good for you to quote something out of it that is blatantly sexist. So that your comment doesn't equal a mixed insult to the writer based on a general feeling you had at times.
And also, not to nitpick, but namespaces are (still?) basically a joke in PHP, and as for late static binding, well, same boat as you, my friend :)
If you're interested, when I was working on a lib like this, each method had two versions, to* and as*, eg:

$string->to_upper_case() # change the original
$string->as_upper_case() # keeps original, and returns a new upper case string
Interesting plot of the rank of this item:

http://hnrankings.info/6429640/

It seems clear it's been flagged, but I have no idea why, and would appreciate it if someone could enlighten me. I'd've thought this was of interest to programmers, but clearly some people think otherwise, and I'd love the opportunity to learn why some people think it's inappropriate for HN.

Thanks in advance!
As much as i hate this Gmail design, the reason I see for these changes are to make UX friendly in mobile devices mainly tablets
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The main cost is less clarity: the build steps aren't isolated anymore, so it's harder to pinpoint issues. There's also obvious risk of my script not interpreting all options correctly.

Actually, I've just disabled VOLUME statement in the script, as it seems to be a no-op in Docker. Only trace it leaves in the image is setting image's command to '/bin/sh -c "#(nop) VOLUME [\"/data\"]"'.
Does it really matter what happened before?

She deserved some compassion. By any reasonable point of view this was well-liked competent teacher who gave 25 years of service to her employer. She happened to fall through the social safety net.

Sadly, the way things are going, such miserable endings are going to become far more common when our generation becomes elderly.
Chrome downloads this http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html as torrent.
quick tip : google.com/ncr for no country redirect.
Indeed, PHP desperately needs some standardisation. At least with your string class there'll be no more needle/haystack confusion :)

If I find a bit of free time I'll see if I can contribute anything to this, as while I've all but abandoned PHP, I'd still like to help bring a library like this in to existence :)
Sim City Expansion Announced
I am astounded as to how people can manage release of expansions for something (and find buyers for it too) that is so unstable. I think they have barley managed to iron out some serious issues in Sim City and they already want to release an expansion. I think a greedy act like this should be banned.
I don't like it also. But we will get use to it.
I am astounded as to how people can manage release of expansions for something (and find buyers for it too) that is so unstable. I think they have barley managed to iron out some serious issues in Sim City and they already want to release an expansion. I think a greedy act like this should be banned.
> then had the common sense to realize the idea was silly

No, that's not what happened. Post-Perestroika economy collapse and massive inflation happened. The R&D funding crashed to absolute zero across all domains and Buran was just one of the casualties.
Thorium is the future of clean energy
I will literally pay $100/year for an email service that was gmail pre-recent redesign. I cannot stand it and can't find a substitute.
I agree, it really feels at times that GNOME UX people somehow got in charge of Gmail.
The iPhone’s Fingerprint Sensor Has Already Been Hacked
The lady worked part time, granted. However, I would expect a high-skilled job such as teaching to pay enough for a living even on part time - 3,500 USD for a whole course seems a bit on the cheap side for me.

Then, there's a couple of other factors that come into play: The university only hands out part time contracts, so they're in a position to keep the wages low: Demand too much, no problem, we'll take another teacher for your course next year. I dispute your notion that academia in general pays enough. The given university pays an average of 20 - 25k to 75% of it's teachers. That's about half of the average wage in the USA. Even if they're working part-time that's still way too low for a job that requires university grade education. That's the people you entrust your childrens education to, not your dishwasher.

I assume that most of those 75% would love to have a full time job at the faculty, but the faculty obviously doesn't let them. So they either have a second/third job or live on scraps. Neither of those options is even remotely beneficial to the students education.
Me too. But I write 10 short emails for every long email. Why? Because writing short emails is faster so I get more of them done!

I think Google is definitely on the right track here. I love to be able to compose emails while still clicking around for context in the background. I am perfectly fine shift-clicking to open a new compose window because that is the exception not the common case. Similarly, I don't often change the subject or use formatting in emails, so I don't mind clicking an extra icon to open up those options.

This whole movement about how unequivocally Terrible the new Gmail UI is is the biggest tsunami of nerdrage I've seen in quite some time. But here's the thing: there is a reason and justification for it, and it does work for some people, and there's no going back; so it's time to either adapt or move to some other client with a traditional UI.
You can book me for a mock phone interview
And Google's version doesn't use Flash so it's actually useful on most devices.
In Soviet Russia, charts flow YOU!

But seriously, these look just like the flowcharts that were all over CS in the seventies. And the code that's generated (based on the examples from edent and dchest) is basically unmaintainable GOTO-hell that looks like what you get from decompiling code without symbols...

I'd be curious to see what gets generated for the parallelism stuff, tho.
Demo: (only 1 min)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8b8d8kSNQ
Ubuntu dash search results are Not anonymous
Your help would be highly appreciated - there's loads to cover yet, and God knows what other horrors PHP has in store.

As a sidenote, I read somewhere recently that there is some method to the needle/haystack madness. Basically, for strings, its needle/stack, and for arrays its stack/needle. Thought I'd share that.
I see where you are going with that. But he does write from his own perspective and doesn't set out to approach your specific concerns. In his case I hope his girlfriend doesn't teach him about medicine at all so he doesn't get any ideas. Except for the real basic parts, because who knows, that could be useful at some point. But not because he is a man, of course.
The issue here is not only the depth limit, but also:

* performance overhead of each layer, however small

* disk space for files removed in intermediate steps (scenario: ADD huge-ass source tarball, commit, RUN compile+install+remove, commit - user has still download the huge-ass source tarball to use the final image which doesn't have it)

* there's often just no need to publish intermediate layers; there may even be a good reason to not publish them (say, I distribute a program compiled with a proprietary compiler as a step of the build, but can't distribute the compiler itself)

* simplicity of having just one image for user to download and for publisher to distribute, rather than whole chain (this will be more important when we are able to use anything else than the registry to distribute images)
I always find it amusing when media outlets try to gin up controversy by pointing at other people arguing and saying something like "Hey, there's a big debate over here!"

Never mind that they have this huge megaphone, that they choose which stories to run or not, and that it's in their best interests to have as many people as possible arguing about it in public as possible while linking to their article -- the faux storyline is that some other people think some issue is important.

I think education in the U.S. is in bad enough shape already. The last thing it needs is more vested interests with political agendas involved.
I watched my mother attempt to deal with Windows 8 and she was quite confused by it. What makes it worse is that Microsoft (and most others) are now actively trying to get users to sign up to things they don't need to and make this the 'easy' path.

My mother is smart enough to know not to randomly sign up to things but this means she now has to try and navigate the 'advanced' path through a UI.
I totally agree with exactly those points. What's going to make me finally leave Gmail and migrate everything to... where is it I can migrate my stuff to?... well, I'll leave when they take away "Chat" and replace it with "Hangouts" like they did on Android where "Hangouts Replaces Chat". The LAST thing I want is Hangouts, chat is meant to be quick, private, light weight and how Hangouts "replaces" that I'll never understand. I'm unreasonably bitter over this, I know.
Oh, I absolutely agree that the US healthcare system is absolute shit, but there are ways around it.

She should have planned for it long before 83. I started planning my finances for retirement at 25.

She should've been eligible for Medicare, but I guess she didn't pay medicare taxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)#Eligib...
Sounds like a great tool for programming numerical algorithms. You get the code and a flowchart for your paper all at once.
"It's fud until you or someone else posts evidence that the fingerprint is sent over the wire"

It absolutely isn't. Even if just the hash were sent over the wire (or if it were possible for the authorities to extract it over the wire), it would be perfectly possible for the authorities to run the same hash algorithm on their candidate print and see if the hashes match. Such evidence would likely not be admissible in court but 1) it would be enough to give the authorities a tipoff, 2) for matters deemed important enough, secret trials seem to be all the rage these days.

I would be _very_ surprised if there were no backdoor in iPhones for the authorities. Even their "secure" area. The U.S. authorities simply do not take no for an answer when having a "talk" with a vendor producing a widespread "security" related product.
Synthetic Spider Silk Capsules Assemble Themselves
How is the crime/education in Mexico City? Is it comparable?
Hardly any valid points IMO.

1. No Space to write

What? The text box expands as you type to fit the content. I would be very frustrated if it took up most of the screen space for no reason at all and I couldn't see the email I'm replying to.

2. Edit subject (when replying)

When you reply and edit the subject you're starting a new conversation. It's what the big "compose" button is for, except now your conversation starting email contains junk from other emails. I'm happy if this UI change discourages people from doing this.

3. Formatting (when replying)

First valid point, hiding this under a button makes no sense to those who use formatting. I'm just glad if I receive less HTML emails because of this change.

4. Adding cc and bcc (when replying)

Second somewhat valid point. Although I think it's still intuitive while keeping the UI uncluttered.

5. New email (compose)

You have several options to make the area larger. I love that I can look up other emails while composing a new one without the need to open a new window. In fact, I would like to see this while replying. The "feel there is no more space to write anything" is a ridiculous argument to hinder a useful feature.

edit: I would even make the point that if your emails are most often so long that they take up most of the screen you're doing communication wrong.
It's not the drawing of them in space that's the issue. Remember, you're in space right now in addition to being on the earth.

The issue is in making the measurement. The 180 degree problem is really complex.
Slate’s redesign: the process and technology that went into our new look.
I'm in the UK, works fine for me
Every deployment ever (simplest ways to avoid gotchas)
Or ctrl-click for a new tab.
The homebrew handheld that failed a decade before the Ouya
Read the article. Leaving aside the absurdity of expecting 83 year old people to work, this woman wanted to work and was let go.
Thanks for providing that link...that's what I was remembering, but couldn't find it.
Do you know if there is an active indie game development scene in Sweden? I looked around for some swedish indie game development focused sites and those I found seemed pretty dead, like indiegamedev.se.
Me too.

The web version is just when I am not at home or without my laptop.

This is a nice advantage of native applications. I get to control when I upgrade.
Couldn't you fix that with an USB sound card? My headphones included quite a nice compact one.