skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love vagrant but I'd be interested to know if any pure designers really get much use out of it. It seems a shop that is so well-run as to provide a great vagrant setup for designers would also be a shop that creates project separations/workflows that don't require designers to have a running environment to do their job.

(yes, only in unicorn-land are code-bases separated so cleanly that developers are far-away from application logic...but I'm just speculating that a scenario in which it's more beneficial than time-consuming to setup a turnkey Vagrant solution for a pure designer is also a rare scenario)
Thats because to enable that feature you need to access private APIs, and then won't be allowed in the app store.
God is perfectly just. Jobs are CIA torture. Never again. God is perfectly just. You guys are so fucked. I'd advise you stop worrying about me and worry about yourselves. You are so fucked.

C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

s about the tenth hour.

1:40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was
Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

1:41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We
have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said,
Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is
by interpretation, A stone.

1:43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth
Philip, and sai

-----

Can't you see the lighteneing shooting out my ass? What the FUCK is your malfunction. What possesses someone to pick a fight with an omnipotent time-traveling being? You are to stoopitedest life forms ever. Is simple -- don't fuck with someone who out classes you in power.
I wrote that. I didn't mean it literally. It’s a response to Bryan saying that failure to be sensitive to gender issues would be a firing offense at his company. We take it really seriously, and I’d like to point out that two of our senior leaders are women and we are proud to employ talented women engineers. If this remained an issue, I’d need to find a way to rectify it with Ben, and that could get as serious as firing. But he understands now. In the rest of my post I make the point that jumping to firing him publicly was not giving him a sufficient chance nor crediting him for his efforts elsewhere.
From Joyent's blog post [1]:

> But while Isaac is a Joyent employee, Ben is not—and if he had been, he wouldn't be as of this morning: to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered would constitute a fireable offense for me and for Joyent.

For comparison, here is bnoordhuis's comment from the pull request thread [2] that the post is referencing:

> Sorry, not interested in trivial changes like that.

Honestly, Joyent's post strikes me as a horrible overreaction and attempt at character assassination over what should have been a small matter. Rejecting pull requests that only correct typos or comments has been standard practice for the Node.js project for a long time now--this isn't the first one to be closed for being too small of a change, a fact that Joyent, as the main driver of the project, should be aware of.

bnoordhuis followed standard procedure, yet Joyent tries to cast him as being intentionally sexist and a terrible person. Seeing such immature behavior coming from their corporate blog--calling him an "asshole", saying he should be fired, insinuating that they wish they could kick him out of the project--has pretty much destroyed the respect I had for the company.

[1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

[2] https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015
Let's Talk about the History of Gender and Pronouns
Computer science course fills seats, needs at Harvard
4 hours left to get lessons on electronics, from Zero to Internet of Things kit
Having never worked on an e-commerce store or anything like it, do those sorts of products usually exceed their schedules?
That is in no way relevant to this article, it's enough to have people promoting fad diets on articles where it is actually relevant, without this too.
> Final Fantasy XIV is a re-launch of a failed 2010 MMO. Final Fantasy XV, due out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the near future, is actually just Final Fantasy Versus XIII

And yet the only Final Fantasy I'm looking forward to is the X/X-2 HD re-releases. After the horrible XII and XIII, of which I never would have even finished XII if it wasn't for bubble auto-leveling, XIII sits unfinished and XI was basically just destroyed, I just stopped caring about anything new SE was putting out.

I used to buy consoles based on where Final Fantasy was, now I just ignore them if they show up on a Playstation and don't care if they jump to the XBOX.
Remember how vicious the Node.js "community" were to outsiders who critiqued event loop blocking?

Whatever the technical merits, I think this incident will do significant damage to the perception of Node.js as a serious platform to build on.
I almost woke up the baby, am literally laughing with tears right now.
Project Euler is down
> I think you guys are maybe confusing the tough Dutch culture as being insensitive to some hot issues.

I've read that the Netherlands have a racist Santa Claus tradition and even some politicians are defending it against change. :/

Edit: found the article
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/protests-sparked-...
Seriously you need to update your knowledge... not knowing about a mars exploration satellites?
Here's the Syllabus: http://d2o9nyf4hwsci4.cloudfront.net/2013/fall/lectures/0/w/...
This is awesome news. It's great to now have so many countries doing space exploration. Can't wait to see what they find.
From what I read, it is the legal fees from "privatized" complance monitoring.
Latin is still in daily/weekly use in those Catholic churches around the world that celebrate the traditional form of the Roman liturgy, or use the Latin edition of its modern form. Many clergy and laity alike study, learn and treasure the Latin readings, prayers, chants and hymns that form such an important part of the Western Church's heritage.

In Saint Louis, Missouri, USA we have a church where the traditional Latin Mass is celebrated daily, the Oratory of St. Francis de Sales[1].

If you're not familiar with how the traditional Roman liturgy looks and sounds, there are a number of video recordings online[2].

[1] http://www.institute-christ-king.org/stlouis/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c32brXXx5k8
> you get your PhD and you fail to get a teaching gig? There are all sorts of other jobs who would love to have you.

You've actually tried that? Even in a STEM field? So
you are speaking from first hand knowledge?

There is some evidence that outside academics or
industrial 'research' really aimed at just publicity or
'luster', a Ph.D. will do somewhat less for a resume
than a good felony conviction. Why? Because people
without a Ph.D., that is, nearly everyone else, just
does not want a Ph.D. around. The people without a
Ph.D. commonly make lots of excuses, e.g., a Ph.D. is
too bright to be successful in business, cares only
about far out pure theory, hates anything practical,
is no good at anything practical, always wants to
go for big risk, low payoff blue sky stuff, just want
to publish papers and make it back into academics,
won't work on our practical problems, won't be happy
here, etc. There is also the "failed" term; who
wants to hire a 'failure'?

In an organization, a lone Ph.D. is in a very poor
position, basically feared and/or hated by everyone
else. Not good.
Ask HN: Would you pay $10/year for an ad-free Goodreads-like service?
After Amazon's acquisition of Goodreads a lot of people deleted their accounts. if there's a similar ad free service, would you pay $10/year? a Yes or No is enough
Apple lost a little ground to Windows 8 and tablets, where it of course dominates with iPad. This makes sense because some people were able to ditch their laptops almost entirely.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/10/09/mac-shipments-cont...
> the behavior must be motivated by an attitude the decision maker disapproves of

people get fired for attitudes all the time: "not being a team player", "having a giant ego", etc. being against hiring assholes is not being the "thought police".

> Suppose for the moment that you and I have the same politics with regsrds to the underlying issues

this is not a political issue for any reasonably scoped definition of the word "political". supporting gender neutrality in technical documentation is not some political stance.
Not reddit. Not funny. From what I read he wasn't driving. Carry on.
When did Ben say pronouns should be gendered? I saw nothing on GitHub like that, yet the Joyent post mentions it more than once.
These sorts of "exploits" have also been used in Pokemon and other games for extremely fast tool-assisted speedruns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UnB1fomvAw (Pokemon Yellow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDx6gzvLqWs (Super Mario World)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CvJqzYpWms (EarthBound)
Building a liquid crystal display (LCD) [video]
"If you are a "failed" PhD? which is to say, you get your PhD and you fail to get a teaching gig? There are all sorts of other jobs who would love to have you."

That might be true for some fields but not all. I am looking for a teaching gig with my phd and coming up with nothing. At this point I would love to find one of these other jobs that would love to hire me.
Writing an entire game in ASM must be a pain.
I was reading an article somewhere when i came across this stat: that americans have spent 10 times as much as indians have put in this mars probe, i mean how is this possible 10x ratio doesn't seem to be justifying either india is real cheap when it comes to scientific instruments or americans are overspending... and former case doesn't look like a possibility considering that mostly the government companies are manufacturing the spare parts for such missions btw i would like to congratulate the Indians if that stat holds any truth.
"Pretty much every piece of technology and algorithm that I use has been known since the 70's and the only thing I do is hook up those technologies in various ways to accomplish a goal. To say that it is "novel" or "unpredictable" is definitely a mischaracterization."
I've been using Crunchbang Linux and I prefer it over Linux Mint, Ubuntu, etc.

It's super lightweight, incredibly efficient, and gives me just what I need.
Actually, most Catholic churches now is celebrated in their region's language, after Jean Paul II's Second Vatican Council.
Venus seems to be much more cursed than Mars - at least when it comes to Soviet probes trying to take photos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera#Venera_9_to_12
Not all people belong to the categories "Male" and "Female".

Luckily you won't be fired for this post, but be warned for the future.
>You've actually tried that? Even in a STEM field? So you are speaking from first hand knowledge?

Me? no, have you? I don't have a degree at all. I've worked with a few PhDs, though, and I have several family members in the 'failed academic' class who still putter about teaching a class here or there but mostly work in industry.

I don't think they could be classified as failures by any reasonable measure, well, except for the failure to make tenure.

I mean, if you measure success by job stability, then yeah, academics are super rich, and working in industry is a failure... but that's not how I see things.

More to the point, if it was really that big of a deal? you could just leave it off your resume. It's certainly better than a felony in that regard.
I don't think your explanation for why we refer to countries as though they are females is necessarily complete or correct. In English, countries and ships are both "she". German famously has countries as male ("Fatherland"), but that is by no means the only example. In Russian, and I believe Portuguese, ships are male ("He's a good ship.")
Me neither. I vaguely defend myself by noting that HN seems to be fairly US-centric, and since I live in the US, I tend to hear more about things like SpaceX launches (watched the two aborted ones this week) than I do about the Indian, Chinese or Japanese space programs.
It is such a loss to the movie industry and considering his popularity in f&f movies and the fact that he died in a car crash its more painful. He will be missed always as an actor we will miss you paul, RIP paul.
Wow, Joyent comes across very poorly.

For the record, I support using gender-neutral pronouns; I actually support the original pull request. But it seems inarguable that:

1. It's a minor change
2. Node.js, like many projects, rejects minor changes
3. It was rejected for being a minor change
4. Joyent reacted amazingly unprofessionally

In particular, I have concerns both with the way the initial decision was reversed (this seems like an abuse of Joyent's power over the project), and in particular with their remarkable blog post. Following a project's guidelines on accepting a commit is "gobsmackingly inappropriate"? Really? I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that attitude from someone in Joyent's position. And as for their pointed comment that they would have fired Ben if he worked for them...really? Boy do they sound like a barrel of fun to work for. "Follow the rules or be fired; unless it's a rule we decide isn't important, then we'll fire you if you do follow it. Have fun guessing which one is which!"

I use Node.js professionally, and I will continue to do so for now. My opinion of Joyent, however, is dropping rapidly. Node.js will either grow beyond them or die.

Edit: Rephrased the language to better reflect my opinion. Had too much hyperbole in the first draft.
I'm sure that the power company could say to them "we're not doing DC any more" and force the businesses to fix the problem by installing their own rectifiers or upgrading the elevators but obviously the power company still thinks it is more cost efficient for them to continue to provide DC to these businesses than to cut them off. I'm sure that when the time comes that the power company doesn't think it is cost effective any more then it will turn off the DC.
>That might be true for some fields but not all. I am looking for a teaching gig with my phd and coming up with nothing. At this point I would love to find one of these other jobs that would love to hire me.

what is your PhD in? I thought that all physics academics eventually ended up programming. I mean, i guess if you are an English major or an art major, that would seem a bit like plumbing, but eh, it pays the bills, and it's something that most smart people can figure out how to do.

Amusingly, from what I've seen, fresh physics majors have more programming experience than fresh computer science majors. And way more linux/large scale systems experience. Most of them even know how to use basic tools like ssh; something you can't say of many CS grads.

I've really got no real experience outside of the computer industry, so for all I know, everything everyone says about a PhD being a huge black mark is true in other industries, but it sure seems pretty unlikely.

Seems like you could do an experiment, much like the 'Mr. Kim'[1] guy did about his name and gender; leave the PhD off your resume and see what happens.

[1]http://whatwouldkingleonidasdo.tumblr.com/post/54989171152/h...
Thanks helicopter s/Ben/Phil/
Are these people illiterate? Are they not aware that in the English language masculine pronouns are correct for both gender-specific and gender-neutral uses? Mankind refers to everybody. It may seem awkward, particularly to over-literal types, but so is our spelling, grammar, and pronunciation generally.
I dislike doing non-novel things. I dislike being paid for it. If I estimate accurately, it's probably not novel.

I dislike accurate estimates.

I'll do them, but I'm happy when I do it in 3x the time, not sad. And I certainly don't feel like I wwasted my time.

I just can't seem to find any employers or customers who feel the same way.
Another top offender is F.lux. You set it up one time and forget about it, and yet it doesn't have the option to remove it from the menu bar.
Information on how Chrome OS uses TPM chips:

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/tpm-usag...
> the corresponding age cohort

What "corresponding age cohort?

E.g., in, say, the OECD countries, the Ph.D. degree
holders who got their Ph.D. in year 2000 make up
about 1% of the population, and the Ph.D. degree
holders who got their Ph.D. in year 2011 make up
about 2% of the population?

It's a bit tough to read the vertical axis labels
on the right. If save the graph as a file to
disk, unfortunately a JPG, good for landscapes,
instead of a lossless file type such as GIF or PNG,
and magnify the image, then can read the labels
on the right axis. Alas, find that the labels
are 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4. I have team
of researchers working on what those axis labels
mean and will post here again when they submit
their solution!
What field did you get a PhD in?
Worth mentioning: if you would have lived in India, hearing the same story about USA NASA Mars rover landing, you would have said: "Why are they spending time on this instead of fixing 14 trillion dollar debt?"

Just a matter of point of view.
Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council in 1962, and it ended in 1965 during the pontificate of Paul VI. Karol Wojtyła, who took the name John Paul II, was elected in 1978.

Otherwise, you're correct – most parishes now celebrate in the vernacular (local language), but that's why I included the qualifying phrase "that..., or..."
The article started out well, but then ....

US vs Causby established that a landowner owns the airspace up to what the land owner occupies or uses. If you have a two-story house, you can legally claim a higher airspace than your neighbor with a one-story house. The article implies that property rights extend to several hundred feet above ground level, which is simply not supported by any US law.
I recently acquired a Macbook as my laptop. Vagrant had been a ridiculous blessing. Instead of fiddling around with Macports and Brew and all that nonsense[0], I just Vagrant Up a Ubuntu instance and tadah!

[0] Seriously, developing in R and Python in a OS X environment where you need stuff like Gtk and CairoDevice, it can drive you to tears. Go on OS X was a pleasure.
One of my coworkers turned me on to vagrant. I set up virtualbox manually once, and vagrant seems far superior.

The biggest issue for me is that I have some largish databases I need to be loaded as part of the vagrant install, and these are a pain to distribute.

The best solution I have come up with is an external drive.
It already has in my view. Joyent is not coming across as an organisation I'd trust to back an important project.
Link to comment in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6732425
I couldn't find any explicit statement by Noordhuis that could be characterized as what Cantrill called an "insistence that pronouns should in fact be gendered". I took that to be something Cantrill thought was implied by the revert.

However, there's a deleted GitHub comment from Noordhuis that nevertheless still appears on his public activity stream[1]. I starts with:

> For the record, I reverted the merge in 804d40e. Isaac may be a committer but that does not mean he is free to land patches at will. Patches have t…

Perhaps it was stated there?

[1]: https://github.com/bnoordhuis?tab=activity
So the hundreds of millions of people who line up and pay to watch sporting events each year are paying to not be entertained?
But I'm referring to the cognitive overload incurred when you try to optimize it, thinking about list creation costs, then stream fusion to avoid it

That's not true. This article is about a library that works as a drop-in replacement of the default list processing functions in the Prelude. Eventually, it may be possible that these functions will be put into the Prelude itself. This would allow naive users to get all the performance gains from stream fusion without ever knowing it's happening. All of the "cognitive overload" is taken care of by the researchers who developed this technique and the library authors who implement it.
Argh yeah. Compiling ImageMagick is easier than using GIMP.

Surprised someone hasn't made a LOGO-like language for raster editing.

Is there any specific motivation to switch to linux? OSX might not be libre, but it mostly works (apart from setrlimit).
Having recently been considering Node for a major new project in my organization, I'm greatly encouraged to see that the folks in its developer community so thoroughly refuse to let themselves be distracted by irrelevancies from such a laserlike focus on improving their code.
It has left the Earth's orbit and started heading towards Mars.
How do you use Vagrant, exactly? Are these Ubuntu instances VirtualBox instances, or are you interacting over SSH, or what?
https://github.com/AnthonyNystrom/python-dev-bootstrap ;

Also check out Rove.io (formerly called Hospice.io)

Basically, I code in OS X (sublime text), but the environment the code is run in is essentially Ubuntu (or whatever nonsensical CentOS slow ass thing that I may have to deploy for)
"I wrote that. I didn't mean it literally."

Then you shouldn't have wrote it because most people and every reporter are going to take it literally.

Since pronouns are an issue that you want the node.js community to be correct about, would words with significance in certain cultures also be high on your priority list?
I couldn't get past the writing style in the reddit post. Maybe it will be less abrasive in the morning with fresh eyes and some rest.
I'm all for diversity, but I like my pronouns as they are, thank you.
Creator of Vagrant here. Pleasantly surprised to see Vagrant on top of HN! Vagrant has matured a lot in the past year (since it has been on HN) both in the core but also in the community. There are now tons of plugins available, there is an O'Reilly book out, and much more. Most importantly, I think, is that the project has added 3 more core committers in the past few months.

And Vagrant 1.4 is also under heavy development with tons of great new features and bug fixes upcoming. See my Twitter stream for more info.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. And thanks for the support!
What about that whole thing about geographic proximity to the school in question?

How does one reconcile a particular choice if it involves a long commute or relocation? And do families living in close proximity receive priority enrollment over students residing outside of a given district?
Personally...

1. Naming anything, whether it's methods, database fields, variables, etc. I try all sorts of conventions, but it's always ugly. It's annoying, writing logical code, then trying to come up with creative and descriptive names.

2. Forms. Big ol' complex, custom forms. Lots of design, html, css, jquery, error handling, validation on the front and back end, and saving to the database.
It's actually the other way around, the objection to the use of singular 'them/they' as a gender indeterminate pronoun is a relatively recent shift apparently originating from American English. It is a form which was otherwise well-established:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Generic_they

(There are example quotes in the link from Shakespeare, Austen, Twain, and Bernard-Shaw)
Speaking personally, I went into academia to do research above all else. I didn't want to teach. Money and prestige* were not major goals. And I certainly didn't want to be a president of a university. Nobody cares about that.

* Most researchers do dream of making great discoveries, or proving world changing theorems. In this sense I guess I too want prestige. But it has to be because of actual achievement, not just perceived achieved. E.g. fame for the sake of fame.