skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It sort of sounds from some of your posts that you think that there isn't as much of a problem with sexism in the tech industry as people make it out to be - is that correct?

In a way. I believe that there is low participation of females in the tech industry workforce, but only a small part of it is due to chauvinistic sexism of the kind journalists typically write about in order to get good soundbites. A lot of it (I believe) is due to the low social respect accorded to people in science and technology in this society, the lonely basement-dwelling-male-nerd stereotype, etc.

> It's very hard to put yourself in another's shoes like that if you haven't had the experience of living it

To clarify, I have had people show overt or covert racist attitudes towards me (I'm a person of colour), but I don't believe that the outrage-hungry attitude of the journalist industry is going to do anything to cure them. Something else, like some of the staged experiments on Upworthy that showcase racial bias, or even reverse (anti-male) sexism can help spread awareness about our cultural biases.
That was my impression as well. I've actually signed up and found the main interface beautifully simple, too.

By trying to post this on Reddit, though, I've discovered a surprisingly negative comment that also seems to have a point: http://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/1o1abq/...
And I, for one, am glad.
After-tax income then. Or you move to Singapore.
It seems like it would be relatively easy to perform traffic analysis of this protocol. If you can see the traffic of a reasonable number of nodes (as I'm sure the NSA can) then can't you just watch the messages being inserted and retrieved and work out who the sender and recipient is?

Obviously this doesn't help with the content of the message, but in many cases just knowing who's talking to whom is a good part of what you want to keep secret.
I will. As soon as my son becomes a teenager I have every intention of remaining asleep beyond 7AM. Until then, I'm at his unlimited, energetic mercy.
The hack itself is primitive (I guess most of the obfuscation contest entrants used this trick at least once), but hacking into the official CVS repository looks more suspicious. More so that nobody have noticed/reported this break in.
Should Fox News only have news about foxes? Although...
On your pricing page: for Enterprise plans, instead of saying "$ TBD/mo", you should just say "Contact Us" in both spots.
Ah, I was wondering why the major version number had changed.
Also, the source of git would also reveal a problem when examined. To get around that one starts hypothesizing the sort of globe-spanning conspiracy against which one might as well give up ("well, maybe all my compilers (not just gcc, all of them) are also backdoored to backdoor themselves, and each other if you cross-compile, then backdoor git too...").
Here is the bug for the "Edit as HTML" feature: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=895561.
Ask HN: Do you misuse apps?
Do you quickly check if you have a working internet connection by looking at CloudApp (exclamation mark on cloud = no internet connection)?

Do you ever write MON, TUE, ... in front of the task in things even though you're using the 'Today ' tab?

Do you misuse apps? How and how often?
One of the main points the author makes is "There are 2.3 million Americans in our prisons and jails. That is too many. "

Might I suggest the US stops putting people in prison for possession of drugs for personal use and a lot of other relative minor offenses?
Yes. Yes. Basically this doesn't differ at all from buying an audio workstation software (Reaper from Cockos) and a VST plugin (The Oddity from GForce). Coming from Linux and OSS just easily gives the first impression of "how dare they charge for that?!".

So, as I said: all good :)
I created a project using the Ruby sample app, but that's about as far as I got (same Setting up Environment problem that others are reporting).

I thought I'd try deleting the project I created, but it doesn't seem to do anything. It's also very weird to have a checkbox to delete the project, and then clicking "Save".
awesome, thanks. I have no idea why that wouldn't be on by default. Can't imagine anyone getting annoyed by having it there.
> you can do ctrl + r to achieve the same thing.

C-r will (usually?) invoke reverse-search-history (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Commands-F...) in bash (and I'm sure some other shells also).
I'm old enough I remember how crappy American cars were (due to non-innovation/cheap gas) and how Asian manufactures ate them alive with cheap, efficient (for the time), dependable cars. Detroit is now bankrupt and it took 20years (70's to 90's) for the American manufactures to recover.

Many similarities today. Incumbent manufactures mostly ignored (or produced paltry efforts) electric. Only now after the threat is getting established are they responding.

All cars will be electric someday and all manufactures will have electric cars (or be out of business). But until then, there is room for a new player to emerge. Honda, Toyota, Nissan weren't known before the last automotive disruption either.
I often wondered about sleep recommendations that focus on the amount of time. I realize that if you try to sleep for seven hours instead of six you are likely to get more sleep. But my problem is that not every person is getting the same quality of sleep in that period of time. If I sleep seven hours I may be getting as much rest as another person who sleeps six or a person who sleeps eight or nine hours.

Sleep is another of those things that is not one-size-fits-all and I guess having a sleep study done is the only way to find out for sure what you need individually.
The article is here: http://law2.byu.edu/jpl/papers/v19n2_Jon_Adams.pdf. It seems accurate, glancing through it. The material starting at page 354 describes the border search exception to the 4th amendment, and the material starting at page 369 describes how Miranda does not apply to routine questioning at the border.
This is in no way a good test.
Yes, Rubinius takes longer to load than MRI. It'a also JITed, so it needs time to warm up to start screaming.

Also, this is in dev mode... did you disable Rack::Lock?

MRI can only handle 1 request at a time, Rubinius can handle whatever your concurrency level is (assuming you've removed Rack::Lock from your environment)
The US Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, looks like a fortress downtown. Adjacent to the building, one lane of a busy street has been closed by concrete barriers for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_...
GCC already does this for you (with the -M... options that others have mentioned). Don't re-invent the wheel.

.i is the extension for pre-processed C source. If you re-use it for something else build-related, I guarantee you'll regret it.
Tips for optimizing your customer development cold calls
Rodney Brooks on Cars As Robots
Good idea, thank you :)
They both work for Mozilla, no? I do remember Mozilla acquiring them. Some major contributor to Firebug did leave for Chrome IIRC[1].

It's more like Mozilla cannibalizing itself, than anything else.

[1]http://www.chromestory.com/2011/07/firebug-guru-joins-chrome...
“Help Kids Dream Big,” Says Teach For America’s Annis Stubbs
Odig or circular dig
That is absolutely true. I meant super + r.
That's the proposal. Sentence them to the lash instead of to prison. ;)

Decriminalizing drugs is a good first step.

Back to the topic at hand. A public lashing is probably a better solution for non-violent crime than prison. Something to think about.
While I can't imagine much discussion here that couldn't occur on SO, I did want to say thank you for posting this. I found it quite interesting.
I think he meant C-l .
Something a single doctor doesn't usually need to worry about with a single patient is the rumourmill and mob justice. If you're providing aid to a desperate area, PR is an important facet of what you do. This can spill over into ignoring or papering over what may seem to be minor details at the time.
There's a border court where you can appeal the idiotic decisions of any customs agent. The trick is finding out when they are in session, which is once a week at the Canada/US border but all points of entry have this same court but it is hardly advertised. I overturned numerous bans from entering the US, in fact the judge each time rubber stamped me in
>but I shouldn't use it because it isn't FOSS?

Yes.

>Fuck that

Have fun when it's no longer supported in a year or two.
Gist title is Ruby 2.0 MRI vs Rubinius 2.0
While HN Title is Ruby 2.1

So which is correct?
3 things I saw at the Mozilla Summit that blew my mind
It isn't nearly as bad as you think. I have no numbers to back it up, but most burnouts (my own included) happens because you work to hard and take on much more work and responsibility than you can handle. It is really easy to let free software consume way to much of your life. IME those kind of burnouts outnumber those caused by toxic behavior 1000:1.
thanks 300 bps, I am pretty sure I will do something similar to that in the future, but right now this is really not useful for me at all.
The prison system isn't big because people think it's a good idea to have a lot of people in jail, it's because the private prison lobby ensures that various laws (like possession of drugs) keeps prisons full.
Thank you for the feedback, really sorry that workspaces are down right now ..
sorry.. I have updated the test with ruby-head
Ruby 2.1
MRI 2.1
Rubinius 2.0
Game of thrones now on Google play
Wine, Girls, APP
Hi guys, we are working on a mobile app that may allow you drink good wine and meet girls...at least I hope so :)

This is how the app could work:
http://youtu.be/LJ4rj9E0FkM

This is a "teaser" video...not very serious :)
http://youtu.be/6Orzp0Frl1c

If you have a minute, your opinion and help will be precious!
A US Citizen can not be denied entry at the border by CBP. He can of course be interrogated by customs and agriculture.

In regards to that US Lawyer, read this always entertaining blog post [original site nomadlaw.com down for quite some time, quoted verbatim here: http://greyenigma.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/i-am-detained-by-...]
Obamacare site hits reset button on passwords as contractors scramble
Ahhh that's pretty cool!
The premise is incorrect. Lavabit had provided data for lawful intercepts in the past. The government continued to press for unfettered access to all of Lavabit's data which then forced the shutdown.

Lavabit offered to develop a more involved solution for the government in order to prevent unfettered access to all of their customer's data. The court's assertion that the government could trust Lavabit because Lavabit didn't trust the government is both childish and assinine.

Source: same article as parent post.
Doesn't matter for me. I hardly get much deep sleep due to anatomical issues essentially blocking my airways. I can't afford the surgery (even though I have insurance) nor will my government contribute to it (even though it would increase my productivity multiple times over, meanwhile they throw trillions at universities offering useless degrees).

But yes, we have a culture that doesn't value sleep. I know of people who schedule emails to be sent in the middle of the night just so they appear to be working all the time. Construction can begin at 7AM in NYC, waking up hundreds of people in surrounding buildings. Gas leaf blowers emit one of the most stressful drone sounds out in the suburbs, causing stress to dozens of neighbors, so one man can clear a pavement of dead leaves quicker.

And just this morning over Manhattan, a helicopter hovered at 6AM for at least an hour. An hour, sitting there, hovering, for God knows what reason, awaking possibly thousands of people early, causing possibly millions in lost productivity today.
> I have to point out that your nursing/teaching example is a terrible one, as nurses and teachers aren't considered the "professionals" in their field - that would go to the traditionally male dominated fields of doctors and professors.

I would disagree -- both doctors and nurses are considered every bit as professional as each other (these days nurse practitioners are getting more responsibilities than ever before), and both work in a field where science and technology are widely used.

Are you saying that somehow, all the nurses were told when they were younger, "You can't become a doctor, you have to become a nurse?" Or could it be that they chose the nursing profession because they can work part-time more, and have slightly more defined work hours and less middle-of-the-night calls than doctors?
Because when you call people "bitter and jealous", based on misreading their post, you get called "foolish" in return?

Stop whining.
I think I done this "hack" several times when I started coding and scratched my head for a while before realising I was missing an equality sign!
This reminds me of watching Ray "boom-boom" Mancini pummel Duk Koo Kim. When Kim died, I decided I really didn't care to watch boxing anymore but even Howard Cosell's boycott of boxing didn't have much impact on viewership.
Eh... There's plenty of people in America that rejoice in disproportionate retribution. We have a huge culture problem. Not everything is a corporate conspiracy.
Indeed. If we chose to treat drug addiction as a disease instead of a crime, we could vastly reduce the current prison population levels. We would see an overall reduction in violence too. Gangs and organized crime would still exist, but without one of their major funding sources, they would have a dramatically lower impact on our society as a whole.

Of course, the law enforcement complex and the prison industrial complex may not like to see their main reason for existence (and funding) reduced, so they are likely to fight changes to the War on Drugs. And if people are smoking more weed, maybe they're drinking less alcohol, so there are other interested parties who, by the way, have lots of money for marketing and lobbying.

The sad fact is that the USA isn't really seeing the worst of it. I read stories about the cartels in Mexico and just cringe. We are destabilizing our neighbouring nation, our important trading partner and ally over this issue.
I used that for quite a while before I discovered Modific (https://github.com/gornostal/Modific). Similar functionality, except you can hit a shortcut and see what was on that line before the change - pretty useful stuff!
HP to ban working from home
>> But why is it on Hacker News? <<

Are you new to Hacker News? The stories are posted by people who frequent the site, and stories like these are on the first page constantly. I would suspect such things are important to the Hacker News readership. You could make theories why, but that's for another post.

>> And why did the submitter use the term Pinay? People barely know how to spell Filipino... <<

Well, now I know what it means, getting a little educated with my news - can't hurt. I don't think a place like Hacker News should be dumbing down the language, or spelling, of its posts.
Rails 4 is thread safe and I used puma as server
Also the app is in production mode
and the db pool is 16
They are still down today.
Why it shouldn't be a pain to get your iPhone app translated
Be Intehaan (Race 2) | Nishant
He's teasing apart what are seen to be the traditional purposes of prison:

1. Retribution.

2. Rehabilitation.

3. Removal.

In particular, he argues that the first purpose can be replaced with corporal punishment for most crimes. The second purpose is still an open question amongst criminologists because it seems some criminal personalities cannot be changed; which leads to the third purpose of removing such people from the general population.

It's all a bit hypothetical, though. Short of amending the Constitution I think any scheme of corporal punishment would be seen as cruel and unusual. You need to remember that the substitution of prison for all other punishments was to prevent abuses of corporal punishment by vindictive governments. That problem doesn't just go away.
hey, I'll try that, but I got the feeling since my HD is encrypted. I can only do it by restoring. I may try to get a 2.5 1TB HD here in denmark. Anyone know a cheap place where I can get that? I know everything is expensive here.
Breakthrough in the War on Drugs - Posner:

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2013/05/breakthough-in-the...

Alternatives to the War on Drugs - Becker:

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-th...
You're Deciding How Well You Want To Do It
Most visited site by country
Or community service or a fine as they do it in other countries?

There are primarily two things that contribute to the high incarceration rate in the US:

(1) Incarceration for petty offenses. Heck, pre-trial detention contributes a lot.

(2) Disproportionately long prison sentences.

Corporal punishment isn't a great alternative for either. If anything, it reinforces the brutality of the existing incarceration regime.
In other words, an example of selection bias (or, media bias[0]). It's important to remember that pretty much every story that is in the news is by definition something that almost never happens - otherwise it wouldn't be "news".

(I find the lack of understanding this concept to be a source of lots of dumb discussions both on-line and off-line)

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias
ABC News would be awesome...
maybe, but the police really can't do much in this case.
Looks like a great job, and good man for giving a shout out to the free alternative as well. As an existing user of Kemayo's plugin, what are the most compelling reasons for me to buy your version? An elevator pitch, if you will.
No, I didn't but that's pretty handy since it doesn't hide the new prompt.
It Was DPR, in the Tor HS, With the BTC
Nearly all of the GOP states refused to play ball and are just defaulting to the federally made site.

I have a feeling one state's site will be the best and will perhaps be mirrored to other states within the coming decade. This is clearly not an overnight problem, but in the end, once each user gets their insurance they should never need to visit again unless they want to switch.
> This is in no way a good test. Yes, Rubinius takes longer to load than MRI. It'a also JITed, so it needs time to warm up to start screaming.

This is a fair point. You should run ab multiple times over a longer duration of time. 5 seconds seems like a short time to declare an absolute winner.
Prison shouldn't be used for punishment, prison should be used for rehabilitation. It's a lesson almost every other 1st world country seems to understand.
How well a convicted criminal is treated directly correlates to how likely he is to commit another crime after he is released.

The US have some of the worst recidivism rates, which is another reason for those large numbers of prison inhabitants in the US.
Firefox OS 1.1 considerations + Geospot webapp with native notifications
If it is true that he was reduced to the powerless role of chairman early on, then what should I make of the story that he spends a full work-day at both twitter and square? [1]

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-says-hes-working-...
Your car is about to go Open Source
there is less money in mathematics than in the sciences, unless you're the NSA or similar ;)

that said, i have a history as a math and physics geek and am disappointed to see a more limited patronage of mathematics compared to the sciences. mathematics would not have advanced the same way it did without substantial patronage from the european ruling class.
These border issues affect America as a business environment which is highly relevant to the startup scene (check the stats on how many startups are founded by immigrants, not to mention the effect on the large number of migrant tech workers).

Civil rights also tend to find a captive audience among hackers, I guess because it is (lately more so than ever) tied into freedom of speech and by extension, freedom of information.
Yeah I live in Boulder now. Before that I lived in Silicon Valley. In terms of startups, Boulder feels a lot like Silicon Valley to me but much smaller. Denver (not too far away) has a good startup scene as well.

The nightlife in Boulder exists but it is pretty chill in my opinion. I think it is because most people here actually do stuff outside (i.e. hike, bike, ski, etc). The nightlife in Denver is a bit better and I would say it is typical of most larger U.S. cities. To be fair, I did not go to school in Boulder so I cannot comment on a university student's version of nightlife.
Where are you staying?!? I've lived in and around NYC my whole life and never had any experiences even remotely like that. Perhaps you need to choose nicer hotels? Every country has some bad areas.
What if the tool automatically sends a new public key for next message within every current message? Or the public key can be recycled after certain period of use say 1 week. Would this make the emails look anonymous or still can be tracked?
any scheme of corporal punishment would be seen as cruel and unusual

Presumably, as soon as it becomes established, it's no longer unusual; it's the new norm. It wouldn't meet Brennan's four principles on what is "cruel and unusual" and as such wouldn't fall foul of the 8th amendment.
Can you post a link to the app? Have you considered running the TechEmpower benchmark app? https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Hah, that's what make this "hack" so popular - it's very easy to miss, even for seasoned programmers, when just glancing at a code.
Gasoline independence? You realise that they have large amounts of oil?
Reliable benchmarking is hard. There are actual journals about measuring computer system performance.

Some questions:

* How is startup time controlled for?

* Why only one run?

* Why so few requests?

* Why no warmup period?

* Why this particular configuration?

* What is the OS, hardware configuration?

* Why is it running in a development environment instead of a test or prod environment?
Did some Sierpinksi triangles for TOH a few years back: http://www.exocortex.org/toh/
Tech Investor Co-Investment Behavior Visualized
When would you make over a bash script?
I've read chunks of the site, but I'm still not entirely clear on what advantage this scheme has over RSA encryption of standard SMTP mail (via PGP/MIME on the local machine, say).

Is the main advantage that a given identity isn't tied to a specific server here? Is that a big enough gain to justify an entirely new protocol and ecosystem of clients? I assume I'm missing some other benefits.
What I’ve learned from my first 30-day GitHub streak
Simon Peyton Jones on Lenses: compositional data access and manipulation
Rails 4.0.0 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000

This most likely means Rack::Lock is used in your test.
Unless you're using your real name this should not be a problem. Also many will use this client with VPN/Proxy.
Ukko: Shamanistic front-end HTML5 boilerplate and collection of useful chants.
As a game developer who sells virtual goods, I don't care how hard it is to implement my payment solution. I care how easy it is for my users to use and how many will use it. Stripe claims they are easier to implement. I don't care. They have to show more people will buy if I use Stripe instead of PayPal and that just isn't true. PayPal has far more people who already have accounts and who just have to type in a pin or password to pay. Compared to typing in a whole card, the increased number of users who will buy is really big. Make your users have to do anything difficult and they just won't most of the time. That's the facts of life on mobile. They especially don't like to type.
Bootstrap operation from hell [1]

[1] - https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...
I'm somewhat surprised that Warshel was included instead of Berni Alder, as a more self-consistent group of scientists from a field point of view, and given Alder is largely seen as the father of MD.