skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unsubstantiated, unreasoned, unjustifiable hate speech. And you're perpetrating the exact same kind of hate with shameless lies and more hate speech. This shit has no place on this site. Get out.
I got 30 Mbps (actual, on speedtest.net right now) fibre to the home from Orcon. Thanks to subsidized fibre rollout. :-)
As an ogre, I have to say I'm offended.

But as a programmer, awesome job Code Combat! Your turnout was pretty inspiring. I'm a little sad at the observation that American kids were such trolls though. I mean, I don't know what I expected; I meet them all the time in online video games. I guess I just had hoped the ones that would come across a code competition and be interested enough to click would also be mature enough to show some restraint.
You're right, people do rely on tech publications for news on who's hiring and what they're making. I don't object to journalists reporting on either of those. But the most interesting news goes beyond that.

It's OK if technology news is transactional. It's just that most people who want press have not asked themselves what they're bringing to the table. Too often, it's just a request for coverage, and that will fail.

Founders who want exposure should find out how they can help reporters do their jobs better, by making intros, flagging interesting posts on HN, digging into their own data for insights and generally working hard to make the reporter look good. If a source can complete his side of the transaction, then the journalist will want to help in turn.

The way things work now, tech PR firms serve up tech journalists to CEOs at swanky dinners where no one says anything interesting, and the reporter goes home with a bunch of canned quotes that would be useless in a story.

To sum it up: Anyone who wants press should be giving reporters access, insights and information that will lead to stories that tens or hundreds of thousands of people would want to read. Figure out how to do that, and you have the basis for a relationship.
I've had this happen a few times over the years. It's really tough.

In one case it was a very popular and looked-up-to engineer. Out for a jog one day and an unknown heart defect dropped him dead before he hit the ground. People were very broken up over it and donated food and all sorts of things to his widow and kids. I think a small charity was set up in his name.

In another, nobody really knew the guy outside of his group. But he had had a very bad cough for a few months that to be honest, had become kind of a workplace annoyance and was blamed for everything from loss of productivity to a rash of URIs that ran through the office for a few weeks. He didn't show up one day and everybody assumed he had finally decided to take some time off and attend his cough. The next day it was announced he had died. There was no further information and nobody outside of his immediate group and management really knew anything about him or how to reach out to his family. His desk was filled the next week.

Finally, a guy I knew and my friends all used to work with, broke off to try his hand in the restaurant business. Things didn't go well and mired in debt and suffering from some mental illness issues took his wife and daughter hostage and committed suicide (his wife and kid made it out with very minor wounds). I think everybody was in such shock over such a mild mannered person doing such a crazy thing that people wanted to get over it as quickly as possible and pretend like we all didn't know him at all.
Then ask her about her career at the bank and if she ever felt it would've progressed more easily if she was male. Otherwise you're just making assumptions about her feelings.
First you identify the real problem. The root problem is not that people are harassing women, the true problem is people are harassing people online. You can argue that you think it is worse when women are effected but that distinction does not get us closer to a solution and only serves to drive a wedge between people. Arguments about who is victimized more are useless.
Have to admit, I cringe when I see and hear videos of myself.
I sent you an email just now about updates to duet and activating since it doesn't seem to be on Envato's site any longer
Nobody values yours. This entire thread is full of people shooting your nonsense down. Get a clue already.
Mr Sivers is very transparent about his financial situation:
http://sivers.org/trust

Summary: CD Baby was transferred to a trust then sold for $22m, the trust pays Mr Sivers 5% per year.

In his own words he has "enough".
I agree that the "gamers" as defined by the author are a rowdy bunch (for lack of a better term) but I have a hard time understanding the author's motive. Is the article trying to bring a feminist perspective to gaming?

While it would be nice if we could all be respectful of race and gender while shooting at the pixel versions of each other, what problem does it solve? Do we want more female gamers? Is this behavior of immature people anonymously venting or raging harmful to society or to the individual's development?

Games are really one of the few outlets for aggressive behavior in the modern world with zero risk of physical harm. It satisfies competitive urges and requires a variety of mental and physical coordination skills (that may or may not be domain specific). Even if you cleaned up the language used there's always going to be trash talk and new "leet speak" or euphemisms to get around censorship.

It just reads like a half-baked article that lobs a blanket insult at male gamers without any real substance.
Science: Sequestered and Shut Down
Why? it seems to be just a matter of scale.
Ask HN: Is there a FAQ/Guideline on co-founder shares/contracts?
Hi there,

I am thinking about boarding a freshly founded company that is about to launch its prototype product into the cruel market.

While I do not belong to the 0day crew, I will be the second full-time person dedicated his life blood to the project. The project has been going on since quite some time, has formed a legal entity and got a very good deal for 15% of its shares.

Most likely, there are not going to be hires, so I will be responsible for a good deal of the initial development of the company.

Could you point me to recources where I could read about experiences in fixing founder/co-founder/first employees contract?

Where are the foreseen and unforeseen pitfalls when joining a startup (except tricky contracts a la loss of shares when leaving the company, 11 year old founders, werewolf team members, etc)?

Commiting to a startup full-time is not like working in a real company, and I would clearly leave other opportunities that are linked to my background on the table. As such, I would like to get a fair deal - and to get this, I need data for comparison or any shared experiences.

I thought about making an anonymous Google spreadsheet questionaire with a couple of parameters to choose and gather some data - and get some first hand hints here (=

Cheers!
My karma score from this thread begs to differ. I'm not here to convince people that my opinion is 100% right, I'm here to provide alternate viewpoints that might broaden someones perspective. All you appear to be doing is trolling.
> However, I don't think they have xbox live in prison.

People who have been in prison can, quite easily, have Xbox Live.
You can see a nice list of the costs of gaming consoles with inflation here, http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/15/the-real-cost-of-gami.... Add in the cost of games at around $50 to $60.

You can do the math, but based of this statement " I’ve owned most of the consoles and handhelds, and I’ve played games on various computers too" I'm going to say he is several grand in, conservatively. I only point this out because it seems to me that gaming is something he actively pursues, if not in time then financially.

I get called a faggot multiple times a game pretty much every time I play online. Usually it's a kid that I'm beating. I don't particularly enjoy that, so I mute the person and talk to friends. It is what it is. I still proudly consider myself a gamer though.

I play all types of games. I do find the harassment tends to come from first person shooters, but it's an aggressive idea to virtually kill someone. For me it's a nice thirty minute way to blow off steam after a long day.

I would like to add that when I hear someone talking to a female player in a sexually degrading way I say something. Others do to. People also get called out for using racial slurs.

There is this odd overlap of adolescence and adults in the gaming world. Kids shouldn't be playing some of these games, but they are, and they act like kids act. Stupid.

Adolescent boys have a long history of doing and saying repulsive things. It's not ok, but it isn't new. My experience is that this behavior is getting better. Especially as we dialogue about it.

I appreciate that he wants to discuss this topic, but the entire piece rubbed me the wrong way.
Ask HN: How you test for different versions of IE on a mac?
I haven't been able to determine a definitive / outstanding service that lets you test your site in several versions of IE on a mac (now that IE is discontinued)... how do people usually do this?
Heh, thank you.
WePay (YC S09) Blog: Designing an iOS Payments SDK for Security
No, we've spoken about this intensely. It is our view that if it is not physically hurting you, find a way to mitigate it or use it to your advantage.

My Mother knows her self worth. Sexist comments and remarks don't do anything to her, because she doesn't let others determine who she is or how she feels. If someone calls me a "faggot", why would I get mad? I'm not a "faggot", so how can this persons words possibly shape me into one?

It just helps her differentiate the people she wants to associate with, and the idiots she doesn't want to associate with.

When you grow up in SHIT, you tend to get lost in meaningless details like insults from people that don't matter to you. When you are fending for your life every single day against criminals, rapists, murders, and starvation for the first 20 years of your life, meaningless bullshit like "the white male patriarchy" tends to get lost on you. Insults and ill treatment excite us because it adds fuel to our fire, you now have a weapon to use against somebody. When we get insulted, we don't get upset, we collect it, and use it against them because ultimately it's meaningless and it's THEIR problem, not mine.

My Mom got to where she was by being great at her job and being a very thick skinned and clever social engineer. The assholes were left behind. She could have dwelled, but she didn't. She could have cried all day and night about some off hand remark that probably wasn't even intentionally sexist in nature, but she didn't, and neither should you.

We don't believe in modern pseudo-feminism, sorry.

I work with loads of women from third world countries that worked their asses off for their entire early lives just to afford themselves the CHANCE of making it by coming to a first world country with $0. If they don't get off, where do you get off?

Check your privilege.
Fastmail Calendar Enters Public Beta Testing Phase
Yes, that's what they're doing. I checked them out earlier this year and I remember being disappointed they didn't offer forward secrecy like OTR.
Does it make a legal difference that it's not called an 'internship'?
Meta Launches Its AR Eyeglass Hologram Computer To Compete With Glass
Great writing.

I worked with a business analyst once who dropped off his laptop for me to take a look at on a Friday afternoon. Odd, because we did regularly scheduled maintenance and he brought his external monitor in.

On Monday morning his mother called to report he had killed himself.

It was so abrupt and took the group by surprise. I do remember thinking that it would change everything. Life went on, though.
Controversially, this is what I love Reddit for.

I (and I believe a lot of other HN frequents) live in a bubble. We rarely meet people outside of the bubble - ask yourself when did you speak IRL with a real racist, for example? I remember this recent thread about his/her/them/their and a poor chap from Joyent. This is a special form of "sexism for us in the bubble". You just don't want to know what real sexism is.

Reddit allows me to look outside this bubble without actually meeting these people. And to adjust my gauges, and to educate myself (it's easy to laugh at some weird looking gal on the internets, but much less easy if you've learned what she went through and what her disease means, etc).

TL;DR: If you feel the urge to laugh and you see that the Reddit crowd laughs too, then probably you need to google around first. Chances are you won't be able to laugh and sometimes you'd cry instead. Which in itself a useful emotional exercise for (way too much) rational people.
You're here to lie. I caught you lying twice and exposed it both times. You're also spewing hate speech all over the place. Have some shame.
You really haven't contributed anything to this conversation beyond further emphasizing the fact that people in comment sections say inane things for attention.

Reddit is just a platform on which any community can form. If you have a problem with certain subreddits reddit is not your problem, humanity is.
Reminds me a little too much of the regrets of the dying[1]. Ingrained deep within our mammalian brains is the instinctual desire for community and personal intimacy. We'd do well to remember ourselves and what makes us happy before we're reflecting from our own death bed.

[1] http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html
>I don't really see why the "Illiterate" is necessarily a terrible programmer, though. Code is the very opposite of literature: hard to read, easy to write.

Hmm...if you're writing in Perl or PHP, maybe. Though even then a good developer can write clean code even in those languages.

I'm very much NOT a fan of Python, but one advantage of Python is it's easier to write readable code.

As to the Illiterate: It's absolutely essential to be able to read other peoples' code if you're programming on a team. It would be nice if most developers documented their code better, but since 99% of them don't document well, it's critical to be able to dive in and figure out what the other developers have done.
What language is R written in?
right. like the US president and UK prime ministers are not turning millions of middle eastern into soap as well.

yeah, i can totally see how that is impossible.

irony aside, the politics in play at those wars are exactly the same that allowed the nazists socialists to kill people in Europe as well (from the surrendering Jewish to the fighting french)
Alcoholic spies celebrate new employment opportunities.
Not with the sentence lengths and recidivism rates of our justice system. Do you know how hard it is to get a job and stay out of prison with something like a felony on your record?
bluekitten, who appears to be hellbanned for no reason at all, gave this link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...
I answered your stackoverflow question there. I would basically say that hierarchy is what is important. For your example /document is more generic than /user/document. e.g. meaning that /document/{id} may belong to 1 or more users, where /user/document belongs to 1 and only 1 user.

So while I may be wrong, I feel RESTful services should follow the hierarchy. It makes everyones jobs behind you much easier.
yeah , some people think it's easy to understand what strstr does...
I'm really surprised the founders are the best paid people on the team. $158k is a big salary for a founder/CEO of a company at that stage.
Well, if you agree that physical violence is application non-consensual force, then it works out fine, since then any force applied without warning is an violent act.

I think its a fine definition of violence, IF you accept that violence is sometimes necessary (I think most people hold this view), or even that violence may not be inherently wrong (really a logical extension of the first... but I feel that less people would say they agree with this view).
It should go without saying that I'm incredibly jealous fibre isn't available in my part of the country.
Part of the reason I haven't been writing much the last couple years is because I thought, "Ah, it's not fair for me to write about this stuff like moving countries on a whim."

But everyone's got their own version of this. My example is just one example.
Some point taken and agreed with to an extent. Would have edited some of my older comments to declare the biases but was to late to edit; mentioned them in two comments a couple of hours ago.

Bias declared in [0] and mistake acknowledged in [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937475 (noted under "edit:")

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938355

edit:

quick note:

> I don't think you can make the statements you're making so definitively, nor do I think you should assume that you have thought this through more carefully than those who are running the company.

That statement is flawed under the same premise that the author is calling me out for, maybe to a greater extent. There is no way for the author to prove or disprove that I can or cannot make these statements due to the lack of experience, thought or knowledge within this domain.
Obviously, they don't want media coverage. But, I think you're misunderstanding how they'll go about it. The companies behind Keystone XL, have exerted tremendous efforts to have protesters charged under terrorism laws. There have been training sessions for local police departments, put on by TransCanada and energy companies that want to see fracking continue unhindered. Those sessions teach small-town police departments about military tactics for attacking protesters, causing them harm, and how to most effectively charge them with huge laundry lists of offenses. Media rarely covers this stuff no matter what police and corporations do.
I've come across some subreddits that are private. I'm assuming this is what your looking for.
Likewise, congrats to Jack, Russ, et al.
It is pretty discoverable through a tutorial which is offered for all new users. If you skip it - things can be initially harder.
Where did you learn this nonsense? I'll grant that calling something like this "terrorism" is over the top but the rest of this rant had me checking for a full moon.
I really miss my X60. If it had an LED backlight (I hack outside a lot) I would still be using it. The 1440x1050 resolution is better than anything currently available in this weight category.
RSA Key Extraction Via Low Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis
There's a decent adaptation of Peggy McIntosh's white privilege checklist for male privilege over at http://amptoons.com/blog/the-male-privilege-checklist/

It's certainly not great, but it's at least an ok starting point for considering disparities in societal privilege and expectations between gender presentations.
Yeah. I was really surprised. I was preparing for a less-online-life, then just as I we moved in, we got a notice that fibre was ready. Oh well.

I'll give you my wifi password so you can sit on the porch & surf all you want.
You're wasting your time. Xboxes has nothing to do with your claim. You made a claim about women being victims of actual rape more often. That is a lie. You got caught lying.
CryptoLocker Gang Earns an Estimate of $300,000 in Just 100 Days
> External browser with REPL inside LightTable seems easiest for a noob like me. Unfortunately LT doesn't support that use case yet...

It certainly does :)

On the connections panel click 'Add connection' and then 'Browser (External)'

The first time you do that it will give you a script tag to add to your page. Once you've added that and loaded the page in the browser, try again and it will connect.

You can email me (jamie@kodowa.com) or the LT group (light-table-discussion@googlegroups.com) if you have any problems :)
Nothing new in this, he's held this opinion for quite some time:

http://www.salon.com/2000/09/18/anarchy/
Reading deeper, it appears as though these interns will primarily be doing menial IT support.

The TSA job description also contains this nugget, "Assisting with Digital Forensics, e-Discovery, and cyber threat/intelligence." I would be curious to know what cyber threats/intelligence are going to be discovered via the TSA.

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/356670600
Pierre, thanks for the great post. I have one question for you:

I've heard that the download:rating ratio for iOS apps is around 30:1 and you can, therefore, estimate an app's downloads by multiplying ratings by 30. Do you have any thoughts on this?

You seem to have a higher ratio based on your numbers and the ratings in the app store.

Thanks again.
Online course by Bruno Latour: A Primer in Scientific Humanities
I have just finished an excellent online course called "The Brief History of Humankind"[1]. It was really an eye opener for me. I always loved history, but all the arguments people made about why we need to study it never really resonated with me. The stuff about "not repeating the same mistakes", "not re-inventing the wheel", "learning from the past" just never made much sense to me. The real reason to study history, as it was brilliantly presented in the course, is not to learn from the past, but to get liberated from it. We study the past to learn about our present. How did we get here? Why are we here? Often, things we accept as "natural" or permanent, or "optimal" are just a result of decisions and events that occurred long ago in very different context.

This post is an excellent reminder that sometimes we need to do the same on the personal level. We need to look back at our past in order to understand our present and decide about our future.

[1]https://www.coursera.org/course/humankind
One perspective is that this "real gaming" is like a sport with the physical component completely removed and the players completely segregated. There's zero stress to your cardiovascular system and zero possibility of physical injury due to contact. In other words you're free to run your mouth while enjoying the hormonal surges of high competition in an anonymous setting. I don't think that makes a trash talker a maladjusted social misfit though.
You would be lying if you did that.

http://betweenletters.quora.com/More-Men-Are-Raped-In-the-US...
> The TSA job description also contains this nugget, "Assisting with Digital Forensics, e-Discovery, and cyber threat/intelligence." I would be curious to know what cyber threats/intelligence are going to be discovered via the TSA.

The airport screeners aren't the whole of the TSA, just the most visible part of it.
I think I've been almost all of these at some point in my career.
The truly great programmers are not going to work for Buffer. Their product has no hard technical challenges and they're paying very low salaries.
You do not have a right to not be offended.
I downvoted you because that was a trollish comment that added nothing to the discussion and seemed designed to encourage vitriol. The fact is you could substitute pretty much any mainstream language in that statement and it would still be true and still be a troll. People don't want to abandon skills they worked hard to learn just because someone else learned something different. This is true whether that person is a partisan of java, ruby, javascript, python or StandardML.
before bashing php about perfomance(to python ruby users)..

Lets have some data.
for python users (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...)

for ruby users
{http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...}
Wow.

I mourn for Colin. And I mourn for the dry wind, devoid of intimacy, that blows out across the open plan stage of our working lives.