skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment sounds really condescending considering it sounds like you have never lived near LA to be that judgmental about any of your parent poster's supposed inaccuracies.
Thanks very much! You just made my day!
Perl doesn't actually use PCRE by default, though it's an option in 5.10.

Incidentally, one of the reasons that PCRE is faster is that it uses a JIT in newer versions.
Taking fairly random speculation on the internet from a stranger--which contains no suggestions whatsoever on whether to take any financial action at all--as personal investment advice is the sort of behavior that could lose some keen programmers a lot of money.
How to Tell an Android User from an iOS User
Paul Graham explained his reasons in an essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
> The user generated content literally disappears in 10 seconds, and you are left with... nothing

It doesn't disappear, and whilst it might disappear off their servers I can guarantee that won't be the case in the future. At some point a court is going to force SnapChat to preserve a user's photos on their systems, probably someone under a wiretap or surveillance. I wouldn't be totally surprised if this hadn't happened already.
I'm looking forward to the first really big instance of ass-biteage from that. Where ubiquitous "national security" surveillance gets undeniably linked to a spectacular display of for-profit business interest or insider trading.

If I were a corporate IT/Security type, I'd have a firewall config ready and waiting for the day it becomes clear that corporate secrets (hopefully somebody else's first) are finding their way from employees GoogleDocs into competitor's hands. I'd quite likely consider the collateral damage of blackholing every Google IP address, including search (and advertising), to be easily justifiable in the campaign to keep corporate data out of gmail/googledocs/gdrive et al.

(I wonder if that's an opening for someone like DuckDuckGo or Blekko? Become "the search engine that's still allowed from behind corporate firewalls", because you're not offering the sort of end-run-around-IT-policies email/apps/storage that Google/Yahoo/Bing all have available?)
You know how the Soylent guy wants to have tap water and tap soylent in homes of the future?

In my humble opinion, I think we need tap sriracha in homes of today! Down with soylent!
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Looks like there's residential pretty close by: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Huy+Fong+Foods&hl=en&ll=34.09...
How to create highly effective teams, Devoxx style
so, nobody asked, because they assumed it was a trade secret? Hilarious.
I was once surprised by a burger in Vegas that had a sauce made from Ghost Peppers[1], also known as Bhut Jolokia, which is about twice as potent as habanero, but feels far more painful.

On the scoville scale, the ghost pepper sits very near the top, with a rating of ~1 million scoville units, which sits comfortably above the average consumer-grade pepper spray. Eating it ... tastes like pepper spray.

That said, since then, I've decided to build up a tolerance to it. I've always enjoyed spicy foods, and the spicier the better, but the ghost pepper has proven to be a tough nut to crack, as I've yet to get past using it in fairly small amounts in flake form.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_chili
i disagree. to create tasty hot sauce, one must first create the universe.
Yes I've been, and those leaks substantially date back to before the switchover I just described. In fact that was my point. They used to be about transparency and now they have a different political agenda.

Did WikiLeaks ever leak the documents describing Ecuadorian network surveillance equipment they were trying to buy? It was leaked to WikiLeaks first but they, for some strange and surely innocuous reason didn't publish it. It was eventually leaked by BuzzFeed instead.

How about the promised massive leaks regarding Russia? [1] Not only have those leaks never panned out, but Assange now has his own TV show on the RT channel run by the Russian state, which is a far cry from how Russia described him in 2010, as a "petty thief running around on the Internet." [2]

If transparency, and transparency alone were the goal, I wouldn't be able to ask about these. But transparency alone isn't the goal. Assange has his own political agenda to push, Wikileaks is his instrument to do it (especially after he pushed out DDB). It should then not be surprising that when Assange's political ends were altered, that the focus of Wikileaks shifted as well.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2028283,00...
[2] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/30/moscows-bid...
Browsers that don't implemenet SNI also don't implement HTTP 2.0. In fact, the upgrade to HTTP 2.0 on existing ports requires SNI. It is impossible to implement HTTP 2.0 with SNI.
It might have led to real justice instead of ruinous warmongering

If allowing Japan to continue its (quite brutal) invasion of China is what you call justice, I'm not sure we are seeing eye to eye here.

Entering the war made a mess, but so would have staying out of it. The mess was already in motion, it was too late to avoid it either way.
It is all about vision. What is their vision of the future?

1) Make a cool buck, and chill out in Costa Rica.

2) Make cool companies forever.

3) Make Snapchat HUGE and somehow remake the world with it or something else.

4) Asteroid mining.

If (1) is good enough, and guaranteed, then all options are still on the table.

Only if (4) scale projects are the goal should they sell now. If any other vision is really what they have in mind, they are set.

I personally would aim for (4) or (5) :-)
color terminal? You definitely should feel lucky.
because he's not one of them.
Mathematicians have a relatively fluid relationship with notation. Since higher math is constantly introducing new abstractions, or applying new techniques to old abstractions, new notation is introduced, or old notation reused in a slightly different way in a large percent of papers that are influential. I think mathematicians would happily admit that.

That said, it does bring me back to a math class where a professor, after realizing he needed to introduce a subscript, to a subscript, to a subscript of something that had both a subscript and superscript already, made a comment along the lines of "please excuse my poor notation."
I'm not so much suggesting to act like a full dev shop as I openly disclose to my clients that I'm the only current full time employee, but instead to present yourself as a company to whom they can hire and get professional results in return. Unfortunately this does admittedly get abused by people who sub-contract work offshore, but unless your the new guy on the block your portfolio generally starts to speak for itself.

Took a look at Lambda (good design work) - how do you differ from a good recruiter connecting freelance contractors with 6-12 month gigs?
You bring up an interesting point with the "front end" comment. Do you see the future of web development as being more heavily geared towards developing Single Page Applications (In JavaScript or otherwise)? From what little I know of it, it just seems to be the way to go, going forward. But would like to hear the opinion of experts.
Peppers are particularly difficult to cook with. Their oils are what is spicy, so you get variations based on growing conditions as well as how you prepare it. To reduce spiciness, remove all seeds, rinse with cold water and put it in a cold salt water bath for a couple of hours. Not enough to change the flavor, but just until you start to see the oils collect on the surface. This only works with raw peppers. If you then lightly sear the outside, you can get more of the flavor without the spiciness getting into the rest of the food as much. With the right sized pieces, you can then pull out the spicy chunks and still have the nice flavor.
Well, and one the Germans can trust too, unless the Internet is artificially split back up across political boundaries :P
Certainly they could disable the feature in firmware if it was a real inhibitor in their target market.
Well people have varying abilities towards algorithmic thinking, abstraction/generalization, spatial reasoning, creativity, focus and attention to detail, etc.
I honestly don't understand the point of analyzing the gender/race/whatever.

I agree entirely with the fact that people should not hire solely on the basis of a github account, but this has really nothing to do with gender or race.

I mean, sure, it's a trend and with a lot of data everybody can self-proclaim himself as a statistician but just analyzing a bunch of stats and drawing conclusion isn't really making a point (causation/correlation etc etc). Saying that women or black people or LGBT members don't have time to contribute to OSS because of "other reasons" is, in my opinion, even more discriminating just for the sake of doing it. If they want to, they can contribute, they can find the time. Personally, I am a graduate student pursuing a higher degree, I work as a teaching assistant in university, I have a lot of assignment, work on my thesis, publications and a lot of stuff going on in my life, and yet I still find those couple of hours every night to hack away. Sure, my sleep schedule can get messy and I have to renounce to a lot of social activities to do that, but I do it.

I don't see any difference with my life schedule and the schedule of another person, be it a woman, a poc, a LGBT militant or whatever, we all have our own interests and this has nothing to do with "what" we are, just with "who" we are.

Personally, my girlfriend is a computer scientist (although we work on separate fields), she doesn't have github and doesn't contribute much to other projects but she still codes a lot and works on interesting academic projects and stuff. In many ways she's much better than me and nothing would stop her from making a github account and contribute to other projects, just that she doesn't. It's not in her interests and has nothing to do with her being a woman or not having time.

If you want to base your arguments on gender/racial issues, I find it ridiculous to do so in a semi-anonymous environment like github where nobody needs to know anything about you, as long as your skills are there.

Rant aside (it really bothers me, I am a huge supporter of gender equality and all those issues but I don't like people blaming everything on that), I entirely agree on not requiring a github account to hire people.
I worked at a couple big enterprise companies where all our installs of Visual Studio and dev tools were hosted on a separate secure network that we had to RDP into to do development. (Company had famous theft of source code).

I wonder if there's something to be said for getting web-based dev environments working well enough in a private cloud setting....I could see that as a future. And then the bonus of not even caring which device you access it from.
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine. - Richard Stallman
It's because it really is an American invention loosely based upon a Thai hot sauce.
I did a PhD in art history, and I can assure you my ex-colleagues still do a lot of vetting of Renaissance painters. Their books and papers might make it to the Google Books or Google Scholar silos, one day: the findings in there, are still unretrieved by semantic web technologies. Present day’s search tech serves social chatter and pulp much better.
Apple Could Use Bluetooth Hotspot For Wireless Sharing With iWatch
I have. The problem has always been the onerous approval chain in big companies, or crappy recruiters who fill the offer with discretionary bonuses that add up to my asking price.

With startups I can actually negotiate and get results. With big companies every major hike in the offer needs to go through a long approval chain. In a few instances I've been off the market by the time they came back to me.

I've also had less jerking around with the aforementioned bonus structures from startups. With big companies I've consistently gotten "$Y base plus up to $Z discretionary", where Y + Z adds up to my asking. I've taken one such offer before and gotten completely shafted (i.e., highly positive performance review, bonus nowhere to be found). Startups are much, much more willing to simply pay my asking salary as base.

My impression with big companies is that their recruiters are their greatest liability. I've had recruiters ask for my salary be lowered because they're paying for my move. No thanks, I know exactly how much a move costs and it's nowhere near the (permanent! not one time!) reduction in salary. Things like that make a negotiation go south quickly. When it comes to smaller companies I've never been treated by HR/recruitment like I was born yesterday, whereas that experience is the norm with big companies.
What? 40 billion habitable planets in our galaxyW
Especially if they didn't fix any of these ridiculous defects: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/05/visual-studio-is-it-g...
$6 an hour using CompuServe, IIRC. Dang I'm old.
There are some great books to build up some intuition and rigor in all branches of math, with no prior knowledge:

* How to Prove It (Velleman)

* Algebra; Trigonometry; F&G; The Method of Coordinates (Gelfand)

* Geometry (Kiselev)

* Calculus Made Easy (Thompson)

* How to Count without Counting (Niven)

* Introduction to Probability Theory (Hoel)

* The Little Schemer (Friedman)

The proceed to more advanced texts like:

* Naive Set Theory (Halmos)

* Linear Algebra Done Right (Axler)

* Geometry Revisited (Coxeter)

* Infinitesimal Calculus (Keisler)

* Concrete Mathematics (Graham)

* Information Theory, Inference and Learning (MacKay)

* SICP (Abelson)
Ah, that's actually a great idea. Going to try it on my Surface RT :) It would be awesome if I could do some simple hacking on my tablet for those occasions I have to wait or when I'm in an airplane or something :)
Thank you. There are some technical issues, but I believe it's all feasible.
The average peak is pretty good but it's no surprise in a developing country that there are many people who wouldn't have access to the best connections so the average connection speed is low.
because the metro is way faster. and Taxis in Singapore are really inexpensive (at least compared to the US or Europe).

I honestly don't know why you'd want to have a car there given the crazy costs.
My intuition tells me there exists a more causal link between airborne chili and jalepeno peppers and burning eyes than exists between a roller skating rink and burning eyes.

Yes, people actually do get watery eyes from cutting onions. It's not just that they are sad and blaming it on the onions out of shame.
I think the biggest item missing when discussing BI is the huge change in behavior you have among those making near to the proposed BI payment. I suspect the marginal value of selling one's labor would increase significantly against the opportunity cost of increased subsidized labor. That is maybe you are willing to work 40 hours/week minimum wage at a shit job compared to the alternative of unemployment. But if the alternative is just BI that that is better than the shit job. But these people still have the time to work and a willingness to earn more - but the bargaining position is different. So I suspect you would see raises rise for lower-end full-time positions, causing fewer of them to exist and spurring more automation while at the same time see lots more low marginal value jobs that have wage values below the new equilibrium point - such as more temp/part time positions where people can quickly enter/exit the job market when they need some additional cash - which in turn further raises the prices of semi-skilled labor since it will be more sparse. This would even further incentivise subgroups to enter low-effort training to capture these wages.
I am getting tired of seeing physical building codes thrown around in comparison to software. I've looked at residential building codes, because I've done my own work like building a deck, framing and finishing my basement, and researching how to build concrete & steel suspended floors, or wood floors - seeing what their spans are - seeing how lightweight steel framing vs wood framing works - it's quite fascinating. (I was considering designing my own house, but the wife shot that down)

And there is simply NO COMPARISON in complexity to software. In physical building, you over engineer and get redundancy. You also know that almost everyone builds plumb and level, rectangular rooms, with easy span and shear calculations. You also know that wood follows a predictable strength pattern. So you put in enough nails of the right length, to enough wood of the right thickness, and you're good. How much intelligence do you think you need to follow a building code? Building materials and techniques change GLACIALLY compared to software. (A good thing!)

Whereas in software, one single bit flip will just fuck you up.
Moto G aims to be the $200 smartphone you actually want
Love this story.

Robert has just re-marketed himself by simply switching his workspace and by using a legal entity to represent himself.

These tweaks have had a positive impact on how he's perceived by clients, and how he perceives himself. And now we can sell more confidently, earn more money and have more fun. Win.
Obligatory link to "Mad Men"-era Google
http://www.masswerk.at/google60/
A lot of it is environmental issues. Currently the codebase for the CMS developers is managed by global TFS repos. While the pure HTML templates are done by each local office in SVN repos. Good times.
Give it a few more months and it'll expire naturally. Such is the way today with our scandal-fatigue.
It's the responsibility of Sriracha to not reduce the quality of life of others. How is it any different than pollution? If Sriracha is pumping irritants into the air and it affects neighbors, the should be doing a better job of filtering their exhaust. It's not fair that their property value drops because a neighbor isn't being responsible.
That women, far from having extra privilege in this area, felt extremely threatened at being made to be naked, knowing that this level of vulnerability had no upside for them. Whereas men had no particular concern, because their photos would not likely be misused.

Frankly, the suggestion that women have more power in this sort of situation is so wrong-headed that I honestly can't imagine how anyone familiar with Western culture could come up with it.
To counter your Biggie lyric with a Kanye lyric:

See you're, unbreakable, unmistakable /
Highly capable, lady that's makin loot /
A livin legend too, just look at what heaven do /
Send us an angel, and I thank you

http://rapgenius.com/Kanye-west-hey-mama-lyrics
The contention over Wikileaks has never been about relevancy, but their methods, e.g. editorializing when they claim to merely be leaking.
Well I think you're being a bit harsh. He definitely headed out thinking he needed just capital. But once YC seemed interested he probably starting thinking "hmmm, rather than just capital maybe spending 3 months under these guys wings and everything that entails is the smarter way to go"
How does this compare to Heroku? Heroku is just a wrapper around traditional AWS..?
You're saying basically that investing money in developing your product to gain more customers is a waste. You're also saying it somehow makes more sense to develop two different applications for two different platforms and depend on a THIRD service's platform (Facebook).

Instead of just making one simple web 1.0 mobile site that works everywhere, doesn't limit your customer base, and takes less time and money to develop.

And it's not nonsense. I'll bet you that some basic research on demographics of the user base would show a clear separation in the economic disparity of cab users vs lyft users.

Why the separation? Easier access to cabs. Poor people will find it more difficult to access the internet or a smartphone, but they can get easy access to a plain-old telephone or desktop internet access.

The assumption is based on socioeconomic class differences, and is perceived rather than actually noticeable in difference, but i'm not going to repeat what you can find on wikipedia. The other aspect is that rich people may be perceived to tip better.
I'm glad we agree :)
Yeah, unless they've been examined by a doctor, it's hard to overstate the power and seeming realness of psychological symptoms that may simply be triggered by a bad smell.
Weak argument here man

You're explaing why people are basically racist and xenophobic. Congrats. Unfortunaely, this makes your posture politically untenable / incorrect and dangerous. It also paints VCs with guilt by association. Because, ya know what? they are certainly sexist and racist based upon the data. Unfortunately. Bad news for this argument is tha VC cash comes from Public Pension funds and other LPs which politically cannot support such institutionalized bias against protected classes. Of course, the loophole is that VCs are not employers. So they are legally entitled to be as rascist, mysoginistic, and otherwise discriminatory as they damn well please. But don't go around publicising it.
Slide incorrectly attributes the "premature optimization" quote to Hoare, but it's Knuth's. http://hans.gerwitz.com/2004/08/12/premature-optimization-is...
Open-sourcing our code to ensure privacy for our long-term archiving service.
US law is not classified. The exact ways that the executive enforces and upholds the law sometimes is, but the law itself is not.

That was what led the initial opposition to the Patriot Act, FISA Amendments, etc. was that they would make NSA programs like the ones that have hit the news substantially (if not completely) legal. That's apparently not what Sensenbrenner had intended when he drafted Patriot Act, but it was exactly this kind of issue that was raised at the time by privacy groups and promptly ignored by policymakers.
I've seen stuff about Canada that I'd say is completely about transparency. As for other material, the organization vets and authenticates documents and has always taken some time to do so. It doesn't surprise me that non-English language stuff is slower.
DOES US GOV PLAN MASS MURDER,
You want to dispose of soapy water!?! What are you, some kind of environmental terrorist? Get a hazmat team in here, STAT!

-- California
Looks like the removed it in Maps 7.0 a couple months ago http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/12/whats-really-new-in-... I haven't used Android since then which explains my confusion
This article isn't talking about people who ate lead paint, though. It's talking about people who might be brilliant programmers, but don't have the opportunity, time, and money to contribute to OSS for one reason or another. Someone who doesn't contribute outside work doesn't necessarily have less merit, unless we accept that merit really means being of a certain social class.
All good points. Now how do I find co-founders in El Paso? I am highly motivated and will never give up but I can't find anyone here to match that passion. I don't really want to settle on someone just so I can have a co-founder. I want to work with people that are as motivated about my product as I am.
I'm no history buff, but I think that's unlikely.

It's true the US had an isolationist movement, and even business ties to Germany, but it would have eventually entered the war against Nazi Germany. After all, it was already supporting its allies (UK, Soviet Union, etc) via materiel through the Lend-Lease program, before the attack on Pearl Harbor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-lease )

Also, without wanting to diminish the participation of the US in the war, most of the effort was done by other countries, such as the Soviet Union.

Doubtless the final shape of Europe would have been different if the US had entered the war later, but Germany would have been defeated anyway.