skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two observations semi-related to this topic...

>"The intellectual and physical seduction of young female students by older, male professors—usually in the humanities, and in the throes of midlife crises—is so common in movies and books that it’s become a cliché."

I thought the midlife crisis in general was something of a cliché until I watched a string of friends, one after another seemingly lose their damn minds as they hit 40.

>"Johnson said the professor-student power dynamic was to blame, more than gender."

I'm currently heading into my mid-30s and taking college classes for the first time. I've been having a hard time adjusting to that power dynamic.

I'm used to treating all other adults, even the ones I work for, as peers. It's tough and at times aggravating to deal with folks who insist on a certain constant deference due to the student-teacher relationship.
epic, I'd love to see angular and ember sdk extensions.
A couple of other things I've noticed:

* No way to copy text from other people

* No way to create hyperlinks (which would be awesome)

* Emoticons seem to disappear

* New people are very confused by the badges

* I had a weird bug where it kept asking me to wait 5s before posting, I hadn't touched it in ~10 minutes. It had been cycling between "Need 1 more person to unlock this area" and being unlocked for some of that time too.

Seeing the usage pick-up has been fun! Looking forward to seeing how things progress.
You are thinking in the wrong framework. Before sophisticated audible language, drawing and hand symbols were the norm. At the point it could easily been argued literacy was a luxury or niche item reserved for academics and what not. Coding is positioned to be the same, not being able to control machines fluently without needing a midldeman will both be expensive and socially crippling if technology continues the way it is.

Moral: If you dont have a back to the basket post game like Chris Bosh, learn to code basketball joke
In this hitpiece, we have Slate denouncing half of a profession because of things said on Twitter, then quote people with an agenda (again from Twitter) to emulate a balanced discussion of the extraordinary claim.
The other side of this coin which makes me uneasy is: if HN is the only place that get traction for certain projects, what does that say about the value proposition of the project? In other words, is what we have here a self-validating pyramid? Do non-HN people actually have a need for new software that isn't already supplied by the big 4?
I've always used this app. The only thing I think that's weird is the default text size. I actually like the fact that you can't post. It probably reduces the amount of times I would make a completely worthless post.
No, professional mass market writers are entertainer. Not sure how else to say it.
My hardest bug ever
Why This High Power Jammer Is Suitable For Military Using?
So, let's hear your defense of this. EDIT: Well since you have the power to channel the mind of the beltway security gnome, let's hear their defense of it.
That's node vs bare PHP, which has limited utility. Performance drops like a rock if you use any kind of framework - see cake, CI, symfony all at the very bottom.
I've learned Facebook and LinkedIn can produce really disappointing results.

Over the last couple of weeks we've been pushing hard to develop awareness for a worthy cause (special needs education tools). Details here:

http://www.tommyteaches.com/special-education.php

(Yes, taking the opportunity to also get a little attention on HN. Sorry, this is important.)

Analytics tells us that LinkedIn, in particular didn't have good engagement. A few strategic posts on CraigsList probably did ten times better LinkedIn.

The best results we got have been due to friends, family, neighbors and local teachers making a push to reach to their immediate connections (their friends, family and co-workers) to have them engage. Also some blogs produced results here and there.

In general terms building an audience for just about anything on the internet is really hard these days. Luck can be a factor, but more and more it seems to require a lot of hard work and "street smarts". For example, I contacted every host at a local TV station with slightly different versions of the same story in order to see if anyone would be interested. Call it A/B testing. One was, and that helped a bit (just a bit).

Good luck with your app. It looks interesting.
I can't think of any other way off hand. I'm assuming you don't like cells because of edge cases where two people could be near each other but in different cells? If the cells were carefully selected it might not be too big of a problem. For example, you could put each college campus in its own cell. But that could take a while and you'd have to drop the one-mile guarantee. I'll let you know if I think of anything else. I don't think it has to be a dealbreaker for an otherwise great idea!
There are lots of doctors who don't accept Medicare patients because the reimbursement rates are too low.
"Step over on people, be dishonest." Shows how many psychopaths go to /b/.
Following the rules simply for the sake of following the rules only does not make you better than anyone else, or noble, or good, or any other such thing. It makes you obedient.
No wonder they wouldn't let me use the username "jrockway/../../../../../etc/passwd".
Also the bottled water debacle[1].

[1] http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/nestles-wet-dream-they-mark-...
Learnt myself some Erlang
What happened to the Go on EC2 data? It appears to be missing.
Oh, it's just three or four USB stacks you have to mess up: 1) Windows (hey, they've found bugs exploitable in every Windows from 95/98 up to 7!), 2) Linux, 3/4) Phoenix/Award BIOS.

Assuming a government is the adversary (and we ALL know that the NSA sits on a very comprehensive list of exploits!), then this part is actually the easiest.
"We're outraged that you were doing that without permission.

"Here's permission.

"Bwa-ha-ha-ha!"
So therefore, shut up, follow all stupid rules without question or delay.

That's what I'm getting from your posts here.

Sorry, but over in the real world, the only thing that gets stupid shit dealt with is people complaining about it. You want to talk entitlement? Who are you to say that the other guy has no right to question something that doesn't fit their internal logic?
For what it's worth, this "tricky power dynamic" isn't new -- except perhaps in the genders involved. Sexual tension between male professors and male students has over two thousand years of history behind it, and an 18th century scandal at Wadham College, Oxford led to the following poetry:

There once was a Warden of Wadham
Who approved the folkways of Sodom,
For a man might, he said,
Have a very poor head
But be a fine Fellow at bottom.

I write this not to excuse the behaviour of the cited professors, but rather to point out that it's a professor/student issue, not necessarily a male/female issue.
This depends entirely on what the customer is asking for, and how they're asking for it to be done, and whether or not they even care about fancy tricks or plain websites/web apps.

Non trivial example: client wants drag and drop uploads. What browsers support this functionality? Oh we can't do that in browser X Y and Z. Is that a problem? Oh, it turns out it is because manager A promised this to the CEO and she runs IE7 due to corporate IT policies. Crap. OK trade-off time, what should we do? Drag and drop for chrome that my boss runs or just stick to old school uploads? Use some plugin from jquery.com? OK let's do that. Now we have apparent 'automatic fallback' via the plugin but... boss wants it to display the image for confirmation in newer browsers, shit... Does the plugin support this? Yes? No? Let's say no now you're looking for another off the shelf or a roll your own.

Now you can say what you want about 'it should just work bler bler it's easy' but if you extract this attitude out to all areas of a software project you end up with the inmates running the asylum pretty much overnight. Like it or not, but the team or individual you are working with all have varied skill sets and you have to make work with what you have. The trick isn't 'just make it work with javascript off', it's 'deliverer something in the timeframe and on budget with the resources available' and those are different every time you embark on something.
Interesting that the "link-baity" title worked much better on HN.

(I consider any title which tells me what X "needs" or why / how X "must" do something to be link-bait)
Tabs vs Spaces: It Doesn't Matter
It's a monopoly where everyone is a shareholder.

... 90% of whom don't care if the product is any good or not.
Crowdfund Kudzilla: A Kudzu Covered Monster
> "Ortberg didn’t say why she thought some professors craved the attention of their female students to the degrees detailed in the Twitter thread, but Saxena had some ideas.

> “I think if your job is to command the attention of a room and instill knowledge into people, then you're probably going to thrive on receiving that attention,” the Tulane graduate said. “That just comes with the work, right?”

You know, I really don't think it is nearly that complicated.... In the wise and misattributed words of Sigmund Freud, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

Anyway, just an FYI, the link goes to the second page of the article for some reason.
FWIW, in this use-case the limit is the wifi or more likey your internet connection speed. You don't really need blazing disk read/write speeds for your "Dropbox clone" - if you can read and write data as fast as your adsl connection goes - anything more is "wasted". As a general purpose file server though - yeah, a 'Pi isn't going to stream multiple HD videos to all 4 bedrooms on your home network.
That also happened in "American History X", more or less. I'm not sure if basing foreign policy on Hollywood movies is the best idea.
Well gee, it's just not half as interesting if gender politics aren't involved. :)
Heh, a coffee (I find it funny because I'm now at 5-6 mugs per day :-))...
FAA Says Fliers Can Use Devices During All Phases of Flight
I've never seen a male professor who seemed to get off on attracting adoring female fans but I have seen the inverse and opposite - female professors who go out of their way to play down being comfortable around young males to curb (so they say) inappropriate behavior or giving off that impression to others
Anything about too many cooks in the kitchen?

I'm just wondering how they can so straightfacedly say that it will take one month to fix what is clearly not an easy problem...
Wow, am i mistaken here or are we witnessing the shift to an computing landscape where fpga's with hardcores like arm are the de facto standard vs asic's of today?
And will this remove xilinx from the throne of fpga market leader?
Looking forward to reading about a Somali YC for early stage pirate groups.
The jump from frontend to backend isn't insurmountable as you make it be. Many programmers are competent at both. There is shared knowledge and knowing both trades actually makes you a better developer, as you can reason about requirements and architecture in a more holistic way.

I would suggest you only quit your job if you find another one where you can be in a mixed-talent team and take on both roles. This way you get paid and learn.
The advice is good; I think that the "(in a startup)" part is not even necessary.

Being in a not so easy situation during the past I'd add one more general advice: Show that you care.

It's not that your partner won't forgive you if you forget a birthday just because a birthday is a day you should never forget. It's, I think, that such days are "frontiers" and ignoring them gives the impression that you just don't care.

So, try to show that your job is not the only thing you care about in your life. Surprises, even little ones, significantly help.
We already have mountains of evidence that government secrecy is 99.999% trivial and petty. It's there to protect against embarassment, not terrorism.

Read the Wikileaks documents. Triviality. Small-thinking. Nonstrategic low-value goals being pursued. The diplomatic equivalent of spam. Read it, and you will be convinced there is no bear in the woods, no boogie man under your bed that the NSA can't tell you about.

And that last 0.0001%? We can afford that price for freedom. Total transparency won't hurt America at all.
I don't think it's a simple problem, but it is interesting.

You might try a clustering algorithms like k-means. Or perhaps there is a graph theory way to approach it.

But I suspect every solution you come up with will involve some trade offs, so there is something to be said for the simple solution you implemented.
how well does a DSP mine bitcoins?
True, but replacing (potentially) incompetent workers with very competent workers will probably help, as long as they're allowed autonomy.
Not hosting in the US removes an attack vector, and a particularly nasty one. If I have to choose between being spied on passively, or having armed thugs with guns come in, ransack my house, and steal my equipment with the hosting provider's blessing.. well, you can see where I'm going with this.
Google Voice by itself uses minutes. It's not a real VOIP app[1], but more like a hack that uses google as a phone proxy.

[1] Like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snrblabs.g... or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moplus.gvp...
Improve your Git experience
Show HN: Pitch optimized for crowd-investors (i.e., to go viral)
You are claiming some "silent majority" is with you. And you are doing it in a forum that contains a lot of thought leaders. Color me unconvinced.

This is utterly the same as the people who claimed reddit was irrelevant until reddit readership got to be some huge percentage (70M, about the same as Pinterest) of the population.
> Are they aware of what they're doing or is it all classified and contracted out?

Much (most?) of it is compartmented. One engineer is only working on a small piece of the whole system and almost never is aware of the scope of the entire project.
The Graduate came out in 1967, after all.
What don't you like about OS X's Hi-DPI scaling? It works pretty sensibly for me -- I actually prefer to run my rMBP at ¼ native, because the text is astonishingly sharp.
Honestly, that's what I began looking at also. Django and Rails are compared frequently - even if those comparisons aren't hostile.

This is the first time I've seen this benchmark, and it was really really interesting to see how Djangos performance degraded as more queries were executed. They mention that the lack of connection pooling is likely a big factor. I never realised how much that could affect an application.

These results are really interesting!
Is this Ars Technica's 2013 version of the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast scare in 1938?
A Combat Veteran's View Of Latest NSA Information
You should just make the text from 1 to 2 miles show at 50% alpha, and the 25% alpha from 2 to 3 miles.
It's been adequately described farther down the thread by others, I think.
Sabu, for example, would almost certainly not be granted a clearance, even at the classified (lowest) level.
Yes, because corporations are made up of Martians who hate Earthlings... no, wait, corporations are made up of people.

Stop all corporations and non-person entities from contributing to political campaigns! Stop unions! Stop the Sierra Club!

Still with me?

Are we down to allowing only individual citizen donations to political parties?
Ask HN: What are you doing for Halloween?
What are you doing?

Handing out treats/tricks? Going Trick-or-Treating? Helping at a haunted house? Sitting alone in the dark programming?
When I was in college, the spy agencies were around recruiting. I said no!
Thanks a lot! That video especially is very illustrative. And Jonathan Coulton is great, although the concept of an "ASL song" kind of baffles me.
(Go) Proposal for Package-wide Imports
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We are looking for a proactive Senior System Administrator who can bring the amaysim platforms to the next level of stability and maturity. We want someone who is willing to think outside the box, to drive our platforms forward using existing and emerging technologies.
You did read that the NSA trains their people to shout "9/11!" when questioned about the need for what they do? Or did you not get the joke about the cow?
> It can only handle the latest OS for so long

That would be reasonable if Google wasn't touting 4.4 as something that can run on devices with half the memory that the GNex has. In the past people have always made hardware excuses for why Google stopped supporting Nexus devices, but this time it's crystal clear: they just can't be bothered. 2 years is the lifespan of a Nexus.
It is a local government, to be fair. And honestly? The current legislative landscape means there's almost no functional difference between public internet and Comcast internet. There's still the pretext of a warrant in specific cases, but after that? Bring out the trap and trace gear and the NSA black box for everything else!
New GitHub repos per year, by programming language
Non-cloud = my clumsy way of saying operating on private servers with no 3rd party storage (and ideally no connection) necessary.

Looked into Aero, but I am pushing towards an open source alternative to be used, or at least where the implementation is fully controlled/configured by us.

I agree, unison is great and I think is the way forward towards a private dropbox solution.
In particular, they're making significant individual sacrifices in order to do the work they do. It's not the same sacrifice as doing IED patrol in Afghanistan, but anyone doing high level crypto for NSA could likely make more money and have a cushier life in the private sector.

Where does the funding come from? From the tax payers. Who gets spied on? Everyone and their dog. So yeah, they're making a sacrifice, but even bigger sacrifices are forced on just about everyone else.
"with Andy Garcia" - was Al Pacino but either way that's an interesting comparison. Hadn't thought about it that way before.
Posting as someone who's lived in the heart of Belltown for the last 3 years... even Belltown isn't that bad. Avoid 3rd, especially around and Bell Street and the worst you'll have to deal with is some rich yuppie trust fund kids from the east side. (which, arguably, is worse than what you'll find on 3rd.)
Google says it's cracking down on third-party Google Voice apps
Believe me I'm aware of that. I always sort of felt that picking and choosing the parts of a religion in which you believe is almost worst, however.
Google SREs have a lot of experience managing very complex systems with very little downtime. There're certain architectural patterns and practices you can use if you want to keep a large distributed website highly-available.

Oracle I'd imagine is there for expertise with specific technologies.

Also, it's worth remembering that these are specific engineers who volunteered, and not their employers. So a lot is really who was willing to do it.
Congrats! Keep hustling
Ah, now I see why it has 500 million lines of source code.
I think in the grand scheme of things that is a very minor complaint and a testament to how far android and in this case HTC have come.
If the 'Pi is just a "cloud storage appliance", there's no need for it to care that the data is encrypted.

I use EncFS to encrypt on my laptops/desktops/servers/phones/tablets, and have BTSync sync the encrypted partitions to a machine at home that doesn't have EncFS installed. I'm using an old Mac Mini rather than a 'Pi, but the same principle works - the Mac Mini serves my archive/backup needs for my synced data (it's using software raid1 over two drives for reliability, and does TimeMachine backups to a rotating set of external drives for archiving), but none of the data on the Mini or it's drives is of any use if hacked/stolen, since if doesn't have EncFS or the crypto keys.
I had the honor of having lunch with Dr. Sloane once. By the end, the paper tablecloth was COVERED in sequences scrawled in pen. He was grinning and telling everyone at the table about different properties and new sequences being worked on.

OEIS was awesome before that, but seeing how much he really, really loves sequences made it even better. You can feel the love between every comma.
Not before we lose a big chunk of the high tech industry and start to ask why. It takes a $100Billion pin to prick the bubble they live in, if not more.
> Nestle engage in really shady practices - pushing formula

Engage? It was 40 years ago (or 29). I think it's time to move on.
My moral compass suggests (s)he has the high ground. If there's varying mileage, it seems like (s)he's simply asking for an explanation - a point-of-view paper. And obviously no such thing exists. Not one that can be taken seriously.
I suppose. Even if you don't disclose the combination, I imagine the jury would be quite curious how you came to be in possession of a safe but not its combination.
Academic devops horror story in one word: Ruby.
The feature phone of this generation.
I am as baffled as you are, which is why we started keeping track of monthly readings. One of my acquaintances has a store selling electrical goods, and he too was very skeptical. We have a refrigerator, an electric cooker, water heater, TV, a PC, and other usual stuff. I used to leave the water heater on in the winter months. A faulty thermostat in the water heater is my best guess. I'll try this hypothesis out this winter, and probably buy a new one in summer. Anyway the possible culprits are few, so hunting it down should be easy.

(But the A/C unit's consumption is believable - it is rated at 1.8 units per hour, so around 5 hours usage for 30 days should push the usage up by 300 units.)
And Snowden came from the builder side of the house, so all we are seeing in his document release so far is classified capabilities, not the intelligence that they collected, or any plots that they thwarted.

The folks who do know that stuff are still following their own rules, so they can't tell us about them.

So we are all operating from an assymmetry of information. I'm really, really against the capabilities I've learned about so far, but I think it's likely that there are actual results that help NSA leadership rationalize these sorts of programs.
This chip will probably cost $8000 or more. equivalent asic's will cost much less.And yes,the problem with ASIC is the higher development cost(NRE), but companies like baysand and especially easic offer low NRE chips with performance/price close(r) to ASIC.

The nice thing about those companies, is that this low NRE and possibility to do low volumes , might open ASIC's to startups and niche applications.

One such example is VMC that builds bitcoin mining chipsets using easic.
I can't help but wonder how much this would have impacted Bunnie's laptop design if it were available when he began work.
That is an impressive amount of wrong to pack into a single 9-word sentence.
I haven't used the app because I have an android phone so I don't know how it works, but is there any way to have someone outside of the 1 mile radius ask to "join" people within another radius? Or would that break the idea of the app.
thank you! took the words right out of my mouth
Um, wasn't this like 3 or 4 decades ago? It might be time to move on.
HTTPS everywhere carries a cost to Google -- crawling the web. There certainly are increased costs associated with crawling an HTTPS-only internet, and the search appliance no doubt prioritizes HTTP over HTTPS.
Huge percentage? Really?
you've got a lot of great feedback my friend! im worried that ill somehow miss some of it on here in the future.

if you dont mind please email me: ryan - at - soundtribe.com
No it doesn't - it only demonstrates that products can succeed despite poor code quality.
I looked you up before referring to you as a "he", but if your preferred pronoun is "they", I'm happy to respect that.