skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hoe is a garden implement. I'm really surprised that the author included it in the group. Specifically, the hoe gem is a tool for building gems. The utility uses other farming/hoeing metaphors like sow.

I can't get behind you on the 'porn star' debacle. The vast majority of non-gay, male-oriented porn is horrifically misogynistic. I have a lot of respect for Matt as a Rubyist, but that choice was a poor one. I'm not suggesting we put him up on the cross here, but we should all be prepared to acknowledge the truths about pornography and what it means to incorporate that in to what is supposed to be a professional education experience.
Yeah, that admittedly colors the whole thing a very ugly shade (ed: and then the rest of his Facebook behavior too.. ick! classy guy, that one) - but then again, politically-incorrect banter is one of the hallmarks of a "male space". Can you have one without the other? No topics are off limits. The other person's religion, politics, body attributes, whatever. It's all in good fun.
This was a very enlightening chapter in Modern Times. I truly enjoyed Johnson's work, despite his clear (if transparent) bias towards British colonialism.

In general, private armies, political assassinations, and other forms of political violence seldom lead to good outcomes: other examples would be Lebanon during and prior to the civil and (not to Godwin this) Weimar Germany with government-funded but ruthless and private and political Freikorps, as well as KPD/SPD/NSDAP/etc... paramilitary organizations. Finally, if a government enacts and enforces laws and decrees contrary to the constitution and human rights in general (i.e., it is no longer a constitutional state), introduction of political gives government forces both an excuse and the means to start acting fully extra-judicially.

I'll note that I'm saying this as a individual with classical liberal/libertarian political leanings and as a strong supporter of a right to bear arms. My view is shared with by David Friedman, an anarcho-capitalist (a view that I don't subscribe to, but respect): http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/07/in_case_of_revo....
Hah. Agreed.

I had hoped this would relate to things that might actually be possible.
"every self-respecting geek has one"

I realize Jeff's just being...poetic, but really it's just an excuse to buy toys. Spend your money on what makes you happy. If more gadgets, or that 6th purse, or 20th pair of shoes does that, great. If you want to define [part of] yourself by your possessions, do that. But don't judge others by the lack of theirs.
A more interesting question to me is whether that acerbic, non-PC focused culture is or can be divorced from occasional sexism or even marshaled into explicit opposition to sexism (here I do not refer to donglegate as a real instance of sexism). and thus kept without any essential modification.

After all, obvious sexist drama bullshit is certainly a distraction from any business of real interest. But this is not the same thing as someone yelling about privilege.
UPDATE: As per popular request, SublimeDash has been open sourced on GitHub - https://github.com/broizen/sublimedash

I'll write up a short guide on how to add a new module as well as requested modules like Google Calendar, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

I'm very encouraged to take SublimeDash to the next level with all the positive feedback from you guys!
Thanks!
How long until this happens to the United States?
Reeder, backed by Feedly.
Who, while in a position of completely unofficial power, is still de facto representing part of the Ruby community on the internet

Perhaps people should be encouraged to stop assigning value to other people based on nothing more than their visibility. Maybe, instead, assign value to the content of their work, be it code, blog posts, presentations, etc.

Someone who starts or runs a forum is just that. They are not a [thought|community|whatever] leader or spokesperson, however much they may think themselves so.

This is just intellectual laziness. These people represent no one but themselves, and people should stop suggesting otherwise.
oh look! flagged off the front page as per usual on hacker news.
Startups and government reinvention
Meteor for the Enterprise: Scoutzie's Internal Dashboard
Interesting article but this is nothing new. Russian villages have been dying for centuries- life was always better and easier in the cities. Putting forward gypsies as examples of a "Russia left behind" is disingenuous at best- gypsies live in their own societies by their own rules all across Europe.

Frankly I'm a bit tired of all the negative coverage of Russia by the NYT, The Economist and other respected establishments. I can drive through the Appalachians or towns in the South or Detroit and describe an "America Left Behind"- but we all know that those places do not represent the USA as a whole.

Edit: Russia has problems everyone knows that, I would just like to see more balanced coverage- talk to the middle class that has grown in the cities, the startup people in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities, compare how things are today to how they were in the 90s.
"Globalist banker" is a euphemism for the same old tired "Jews control the world" trope peddled by the John Birch society.
Does anyone use http://www.geckoboard.com/ for this type of thing, out of interest?
more important than "where do we put our carbon". that's an engineering problem, at best.
i've owned many Fenix lights over the years and many more custom LED lights before this. (any CPF members remember Arc LSH-Ps?, rare-binned Luxeon stars and low dome optics :)

my current EDC (every day carry) is a Fenix LD01 - it's amazing what a single lithium AAA can deliver with current regulation circuitry (pun)

http://www.fenixlight.com/ProductMore.aspx?id=50&tid=10&cid=...

interestingly, i also carry a pocket USB3 SSD since all my apps are portable/truecrypt and i need those low latency 4k random writes.

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Flash-Drive-SDCZ80-032...
What a surprise, tptacek defending Google no matter what... /s
You are agreeing with the person to whom you are responding, that foul language is not sexism.

"Check your privilege" is virtually never a helpful thing to say.
Go read his other public timeline posts then where he reveals the depths of his misogyny. And then remind yourself that this person is representing the Ruby community on facebook.
I think it comes down to, which is worth more? Keeping that acerbic culture or being more inviting to women? Don't get me wrong, I totally understand the fun of reading/writing completely inappropriate ranting (well sometimes -- I'm a bit uncomfortable with "The other person's religion, politics, body attributes, whatever. It's all in good fun.").

On the other hand, being more inviting has advantages both selfish (more women around, good for both social reasons and for their talent) and moral (giving opportunity to women, and anyone who isn't into caustic banter, for that matter). If you love programming, imagine being deprived of it because you felt unwelcome in programming circles. I think it's kind of wrong for those of us in places of leadership to deny opportunity to people for the benefit of our fun.
MIT Organizational Chart
It would be interesting to see how the Chinese envision an international currency. Essentially fiat currencies regard tax payers as asset-backed securities, and create value by issuing government backed bonds. With no tax payers and no central body (or a joint venture with unconstructive bickering) you'd run into some fundamental issues. You could: 1) peg existing currencies to it (good luck getting buy in)

2) peg the currency to physical goods (gold, oil, etc). Fiat currencies have distinct advantages which make it optimal for modern trade.

3) use treaties to regulate government sovereign bonds with the global currency
Stanford Organization Chart [pdf]
Your post is based on a lot of actual and epistemological assumptions that are either incorrect, or undefended. For example:

> This is done because most home users could never afford internet, if they had to pay for full price.

There is an epistemological problem here about what "full price" means, which is subjective. I would argue that "full price" is simply "whatever AT&T/Comcast charges you". You seem to want there to be some "other" type of price that is the "real price".

Perhaps you are saying that ISPs make more money from business customers than from residential customers. Perhaps this is true, but the fact that it is convenient for the business model of an ISP to charge some customers more does not mean that other customers are not paying "full price".

Perhaps you are saying that residential customers are being provided connections that are below cost. But in an efficient market, an ISP could of course decide not to serve residential customers. Seeing as how ISPs continue to serve residential customers, it must be because residential customers are in fact paying enough money to cover the costs of the services they receive (e.g. "full price").

> The reason it's cheaper is because you agree to use it very lightly

You seem to be suggesting that the primary factor in network costs is use, but all the sources I read (for example this one)[1] suggest that connecting the last mile is expensive, and routing an arbitrary volume of packets over that pre-installed copper is extremely cheap.

If this is true, then it is the residential market that is subsidizing the high-margin business connections, because the sprawling (profitable, predictable) residential networks are the ones that are shortening the last-mile distance to (sparser) business links.

> What some people try to do, is 'cheat' that system.

There is an epistemological assumption in here that "the system" is fair or impartial or acknowledged in general by society or based on objective costs, or something.

> Home users never pay for most of the speeds they get.

I've covered this earlier, but just as an additional argument, I did a cost comparison, and consumer vs business class in my area for my ISP is merely double. Those packages all include website hosting, Exchange, Sharepoint, static IPs, 24x7 support, etc. Just as a point of comparison, market rates for 2GB of Sharepoint hosting are $25/month, hosted Exchange is $20/month, 24x7 support is who knows, etc... So fair to say, very little of the additional revenue could possibly be going to network costs.

[1] http://www.muninetworks.org/content/solving-middle-mile-avai...
University of Illinois Organization Chart [pdf]
Ask the person who wrote it. Whether he was a man is irrelevant. Men are also raped. Any person's motivations for naming their software something offensive are personal and not representative of an entire gender.
>What he said about women trying to make a progressive movement all about their vagina?

It's an outburst. So what? Maybe it's humor, maybe he has some kind of pathological issue with women. It doesn't matter because there is a valid point being completely ignored so people can moan about how "women unfriendly" the post is.

>What is that even supposed to mean? How is the ruby community a "progressive movement"

Firstly, I don't think the Ruby movement is progressive, mostly because it's a shitty language. Secondly, the point is not whether Ruby is or is not progressive. Even if you accept that it's a retrogressive movement his point stands because it is a general one.

>There was no point here. He was just lashing out at something he's afraid of and frustrated by.

I beg to differ. There is a real trend of PC activism aiming to protect sensitive little flowers of various kinds against offense. Your attempt to psychologise the guy is just a cheap tactic to avoid this point.

>Asking that people act nicer does not make something a "politically correct thought police 'safe space'".

The hidden (and incorrect) assumption here is that this is unconnected to PC activism.

>And claiming that asking that people act nicer is "co-opting of male spaces" is a pretty pathetic attempt to play the victim card while simultaneously trying to exclude and marginalize women who have contributed tons to the tech industry.

"Pathetic", "margenalize", "afraid", "exclude", etc. And you say this is unconnected to PC activism? His post didn't marginalize anyone. It was making a fairly specific point that your defense mechanisms are preventing you from seeing.
Hayek is an interesting character because "The Road to Serfdom" is not really his finest or clearest viewpoint on markets at all. I saw a video interview with him (you can find it on youtube if you want) where he just restates what I did that the economic calculation problem renders socialism unable to coordinate production effectively.

Russia as compared to the United States is still a backward country. Their wealth is nowhere near the United States and certainly didn't gain any ground during the Cold War period. It doesn't take much, if any, "growth" to force a nation as large as Russia to build a large military-particularly when you don't actually need to figure out the logistics of that army fighting an actual war (since Russia could never have done such a thing against the United States). Add to that forced labor and the basic confiscation of whatever you need to accomplish your goals and it all is pretty straightforward.
This isn't about reality, it's about politics.
I have had the light for a few years and really like it. I have both the single mode version and 3 mode version and like the 3 mode a little more. the tradeoff is that the head is slightly longer and the high isn't quite as as bright. the extended runtime and practical use of low output is what I use most.

http://www.amazon.com/Light-Version-80-lumen-Keychain-Flashl...
Name That Blue
They need to stop with the scrolling effects for the big images. It just flickers, stutters and is all together a terrible experience.
Please note that I am not the OC. It seems like you wrote in the wrong thread (for instance, I didn't use any ellipsis on my comment)
World government and world currency are not the same. The Chinese government wouldn't really want either though, given the games they play with the Renminbi.
Three things.

1. I don't maintain a Facebook account because it's either family bickering and arguing, spam I don't give a shit about, arguments I don't give a shit about, or trolling. What some guy says on Facebook concerns me absolutely zero and it is completely not worth my time. So no, I won't be reading his timeline. Because I can't log in.

I'm good friends with someone who is an absolutely face-blistering troll on Stormfront; everything he says online has to be part of his "act," if you will, so it would surprise me very little if this guy's entire Facebook schtick is keeping up his act. Welcome to the Internet.

2. I hope you read my other comment and stop treating women like they need to be protected from everything, because you perpetuate exactly what you hope to destroy with a blog post like this.

3. You got the pants trolled off you and want to argue about it with someone, and no, it's not going to be me. And now that your thread's been deleted from HN, it's not going to be anybody else here, either. Seriously, your reaction to the guy's post is absolutely comical given that you were being trolled, and is exactly what he wants you to do. Plus, now you've given him an excuse to ban you.

I'm going to add a fourth thing:

4. You've spent more of your life talking to that guy, me, HN, and your blog's readers about this topic than you should have, by a mile. Focus on things that can actually make a difference, like listening to what women want to see change in the industry instead of projecting your penis onto the industry from a position of male authority.
I pay $70USD a month for a barely functioning ADSL line in Australia that might hit 40KB/s on a good day. It's literally faster for me to walk to a place in the city that has fibre and upload files there.
Because when what you're offering is more fungible than what the other party is offering, then you have greater discretion to set terms. In other words, since the employer is buying a service from the employee, the employer gets the say.

If you went to a store to buy fruit, and they would only give you the fruit two weeks after you bought it, you'd walk out. You've got the cash, so they need to meet your timeliness terms, not the other way around.
I didn't bring up the term "ad hominem". Please stop putting words into my mouth. You are very determined to do anything but address anything anyone's actually saying. Your defense mechanisms are showing.
A secret seed is not sufficient to prevent DoS vulnerabilities. That is one of the things the creators of SIP hash demonstrated. You can create collisions with MurmurHash3 that work regardless of the seed.
Obama should sell start selling indulgences. Every non-violent federal offender has a one-time opportunity to have their case dropped for $100,000. I'm pretty sure lots of people could pony up the cash through friends and family, if necessary. As a bonus, save costs on the Justice Department.
Yeah that's totally fair. I live at Geary and Stanyan, and made liberal use of the 38L and 38[A,B]X busses, which cut that time down a lot. I used to go to the gym every morning before work and could be door to door on the 38BX in about 25 minutes most days. If you can get a seat on the busses, I kinda enjoyed the time on my phone or with a book, but that's not always possible too.

I commute by bike now, which is certainly the fastest way to get around the city - perhaps just not the safest or least-sweaty way.
Can you explain how you use them?
I'm particularly curious what they're using these interactive stories for. Refining design or technique? Gauging user interest? Putting processes into place to speed up their development?

Really impressed either way.
That is pretty awesome. Although getting an Uber X to jumpstart you only costs $8, but for the peace of mind and range of coverage, the $75 is probably worth it.
I believe that my DNA "data" is intrinsically insecure; pop cans, hairs I leave just from being in a spot, etc.

If someone wants me genome, it is fairly trivially for them to obtain it; I believe the benefits of sequencing outweigh the risks.
It's been spelled out like 6 times in this thread that this crisis creates contradictory legal obligations for the executive branch that are logically impossible to fulfill.

If you're really not understanding that, perhaps you should consider rephrasing your objection as a humble question.
> As a CEO it's really hard to understand why an employee doesn't have the same commitment.

Oh lawdamercy, cry me a river. Getting a new job is a PITA, and most employees aren't going to jump without very strong reasons.

1. they got another offer to good to refuse. You should be happy for them.
2. the company does not feel financially stable. That's your fault, bubs.
3. they're being treated badly or morale has flatlined -
that's definitely your fault, twinkletoes.

This article is essentially telling the departing employee to bend over, for free. Good one.

Here's some better advice to a CEO:

1. don't take it personally
2. give the employee an opportunity for an exit interview *with you*.
Don't fob the job off onto some underling.
While some departing staff will decline as they don't want to
burn imaginary bridges, most passionate staff will give you an
unvarnished look at the company.
3. talk to other seniors in the company and try to determine if the
problem is individual or systemic.
How long as the NYT been in beta anyway? It seems like quite a while now, and really look forward to the official release.
I find that even at 20 it's very easy for me to cause joint issues after several years of inactivity. If you do too much too fast it'll cause problems no matter your age - although I'm sure age is something that you should take into consideration.

If you're concerned, there are alternatives like swimming and biking that are lower impact.
"This account has been suspended.
Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources."

Yay cloud?
"The U.S. military provides security guarantees which liberate a large chunk of global demand, e.g. Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the EU, for consumption. And the U.S. financial system lubricates the global flow of capital, goods, and services."

You don't actually believe that? The sole function of the US military is to protect US interests - no one else's! How would you feel if the Chinese navy parked itself in the Gulf of Mexico claiming to protect the free flow of global commerce? You would correctly proclaim that to be nonsense. Some goes for the US military. Don't believe the propaganda...
You really shouldn't be considering job-hopping if you can't absorb two weeks of lost income.

This article isn't talking about low-class, factory work where most employees are living paycheck-to-paycheck. This is the middle class, and you're expected to bring a little stability to the table. If you can't do that, it's your fault, not your employer's.
Oh yeah, I don't mean there were not more that were over the top, I just thought the point was better made in brief.
The person to whom I responded feels, as evidenced by his sarcasm, that the entire issue is trivial. We clearly do not agree. You're both unable to see the other side of it.

I can see from your other comment on this thread that further discussion on this with you would be an uphill one so I'm signing off now.
Sorry, misogyny means hating women. Perversion of
language won't help you.

We don't speak ancient Greek. In modern English, misogyny means hatred, distrust, contempt towards women. Reacting to a post from a man asking "could we be more respectful and inclusive of others" with something about being "coopted by women who want to make it all about their vagina" definitely expresses a distrust and contempt towards women.

Of course, you can always parse semantics apart and say "well, he didn't say all women". That's not the point; misogyny doesn't require that you qualify all hateful statements to include every woman in existence. But that quote, in response to a man asking if we could be nicer and more inclusive, definitely states a fairly contemptuous attitude towards women.

when it contains a valid point

It has no such valid point.

No one is coming into the Ruby community, or the programming community, and trying to make it "all about their vagina". In fact, they're asking the opposite; that there's less emphasis placed on their vagina, and more on their code.

And calling programming a "male space" is inherently exclusionary. He is dismissing in one fell swoop all of the women who do code, who are part of the community.

Asking that people be nicer, and maybe consider the effect that gems named "rape_me" and "retarded" might not really reflect well on a community, with a defensive knee-jerk reaction about "politically correct thought-police safe spaces" is not a "valid point".
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I don't defend the guy, but here's a hint: what are some of the basic differences between men and women?

The whole concept of 'male space' is a big troll
I believe you're thinking a bit too US centric if you assume that regulations are there to keep out people of colour...

I questioned your premise that cities were "designed" to be expensive, whereas I believe they merely "become" expensive through basic laws of supply and demand. The reason cities such as London and San Francisco never grow ever taller skyscrapers is because of planning laws and regulations that restrict supply - not, a free market of supply and demand.

London is a good example of such in that it has ancient viewing rights that restrict the height of nearby buildings, the classic case being that no building can be higher than St. Pauls (a relaxed principle nowadays, but still enforced sometimes). This is a major reason why the old houses in London haven't been knocked down to be replaced by a whole skyline of skyscrapers, but instead are massively expensive properties compared to the rest of the country.