skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why exactly I don't see these many discussion about women in construction industry as I see about women in IT?

Because you're reading a forum called Hacker News.
Gentlemen?

Sexist.
USD is gov-fiat, decreed by the laws ("legal code") of government.

Bitcoin is crypto-fiat, decreed by the laws of cryptography and computer code (Lawrence Lessig's "code is law").
Steam generally has around 3.5 to 6 million concurrent users at any time. Dota 2 usually pulls around 500k users.

You can check Steam user counts here (http://store.steampowered.com/stats/).

Not sure how console user bases stack up, but that's a pretty wide base.
More details needed. How does dedup work? How is data encrypted at rest, etc.
Of course not. Why should I?

I can build a PC to the same specs!

Of course it won't run OS X well, it won't have the same exact specs, it will have severely worse construction with wires hanging here and there and huge fans, it won't be as silent, it will be bigger, components wont be selected, adjusted and tested to work together, and it might end up costing the same amount of money or near-ish after I add all the options (like the SSDs and thunderbold). And I'll have to support it myself, replacing parts if they fail, instead of just taking it to the Applestore for a fix. But that won't stop me saying it's overpriced.
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Here's why Chromebooks shouldn't really worry Microsoft...yet
In general, it seems like more amnesty's and pardon's are a good idea. Considering the US has hundreds (?) of times as many people as we did at the founding, we probably don't pardon as many people (relatively) as the founders did.
It's written by a woman. No joke here.
> It's not overstretching to have great marketing from the outset

Your general logic seems to circle around expecting massive sales and huge production mindset (where investment has to be compensated with millions of sales). Jolla has modest expectations for the starting stage, so massive marketing would be an overstretch. But it shouldn't be abysmal either, I agree.
It has a nice/easy to use REST interface too (shameless plug: I authored the Python REST a few years back and the community has kept it up to date https://github.com/emehrkay/Compass)

We are actually talking about moving away from a relational DB to a graph one for some of our internal data needs. A coworker was looking at Neo4j (another great one, but with licensing fees) and I told him bout Orient. Exciting stuff, especially when you factor in Tinkerpop's (tinkerpop.com) abstraction layer allowing you to switch out DBs.
Yeah, she goes really really far out of her way to say that her approach isn't the only one.
One of my favorite Perl books, albeit a bit lesser-known is "Higher Order Perl" by Mark Jason Dominus.
So the kind that needs personal hassle?

I'll pass, I'm a professional in another field, not a PC mechanic.
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>>Just do your job like any other gender and absolutely nobody will give two cents about what shape is in your pants.

Except people do care about gender. Studies have conclusively established that men and women earn drastically different amounts of money even if they do the same jobs. Men are also much more likely to be picked for promotions over women even if their performance is worse.

Honestly your comment is extremely ignorant and you would do well to go and educate yourself.
Very humbling that no one at Buffer would call themselves a "Master", indeed many would probably but Joel at that level but he sits there on a 1.2x multiplier.

I once had a conversation with an old hat who said "If you call yourself a python master you better be fucking Guido."
Great read! All of these bug stories are making me want bugs now.
It's one package with no external dependencies for now...
Nope, you talk about transparency, fairness, etc. If you're sticking to that salary structure you're not going to win on price in this market.

Warm fuzzies are important to a lot of people, look at how non-profits retain people. Also, there are a lot of people who don't know how to negotiate that would probably benefit from something like this.

I know a few devs who stick around at places because they like the people, etc, despite having had multiple offers for more money. Not my style, but it takes all sorts.
A Chief Anything Officer should probably be paid more than engineers, or they shouldn't have the words Chief and Officer in their title.

And that seems like a very developer-centric viewpoint. Yes, good customer service can add a lot to a company's bottom line. Some companies have huge engineering issues and need engineers to solve them. Some companies have huge sales issues and need sales people to solve them. Some companies have huge customer service issues and need customer service agents to solve them.
I don't remember the 80s, so I don't know what you would say about the apple 2 :) as a non-American under 30, I consider apple very American. California is American like Hollywood and NYC.
Using an NSA backdoored RNG is pretty redundant. A cell phone cannot be secured against NSA. They'll just activate their keylogger and grab the plaintext before it has even been encrypted.
You sound like a dude to me. Women can't half-ass their way through tech jobs like that. I don't know a single woman who does.
Doesn't it come down to how you define success?
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Interesting in many ways.
In particular, only the executives make what would be considered a competitive senior engineer/architect salary in NYC or SF. Perhaps they 'compensate' with equity?
Upgradeable, replaceable parts, redundancy, better storage options, cheaper, doesn't accidentally get trash put in the top. And that's just the case.

I have nothing but contempt for the Mac Pro design - it's style over substance to the extreme.
BAM! Yes!
These are living-room PCs, not consoles.
That was my thought. Pushing a new electronic currency in a locked-in environment such as steam comes across as a bit too company town and company store for my tastes.
better as in not needing separate power supplies and cases to have reasonable storage options. better is not needing to buy a new machine (I know, not confirmed but they never aren't offering) to upgrade components. better is having a user upgradeable storage (the ssd is not user upgradable even with tricks according to some).

While it certainly is an interesting case, stylish for some, its pure form over function. They have essentially made a Mac Pro Mini / Mac Pro iPad ... as in what you bought it what your stuck with. Want to upgrade to a new processor or newer video card, well buy a newer machine.
I've looked into this, and from what I can tell the amount of study is too limited to say anything conclusive, and there are no inherent reasons to assume e-cigs are particularly hazardous.

Most of the risk seems to relate to lack of testing by the FDA (or similar institutions), or questions over the effects of inhaling particular chemicals that are otherwise harmless.

That said, of course the right approach is to say 'we need to test more; can't prove it's harmless'. But I would be quite surprised if e-cigs do turn out to be harmful (enough to ban them). And it seems pretty much impossible to me that e-cigs would get even close to being as hazardous as tobacco.

With that in mind, I generally advise smokers to consider e-cigs, and I advise non-smokers to stay away.

I would love to hear more arguments against e-cigs though. I don't feel a strong need to defend them, as I'm currently a heavy smoker and ideally I want to quit entirely at some point.
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Yes, they have a static analyser for PHP, Hack, written in OCaml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKWNjFagR9k
24 Days of Hackage: doctest
True. :-)
> although the naming of results in Python is quite useful

I assume you mean named captures?

C:\>perl -E "'abc1234asf' =~ /(?<one>\d+)/; say $+{one};"
1234

> template toolkit

Please try Text::Xslate. :)
In general, it's seen as bragging if your salary is high, and mortifying if your salary is low, so it's usually just better to keep your mouth shut about it.

I've told a number of people my salary and regretted it every time. They seem to take a vicarious pleasure in telling other people how much money I make. "Oh, you should listen to delluminatus, he makes $xx thousand a year." Ugh.
You can do client-side encryption with Dropbox or Google Drive, nothing is stopping you from doing it.

I have an encrypted EncFS volume that I keep in Google Drive and it has been working really well, being synced between 3 computers. I'm on Ubuntu and in Ubuntu it's easy to create an Encfs volume with the Gnome Encfs Manager. Just make sure you pick a strong encryption password.

What I like about this approach is that I don't want all files to be encrypted, only my documents, certificates, licenses and so on. But I don't want to encrypt the PDFs in my technical books collection, because I want those PDFs to be accessible from anywhere. I also have an iPad for example, I use the GDrive client to download the PDFs and open it in Adobe's Reader.

Therefore I have two problems with alternatives to well established cloud storage, like Dropbox and GDrive:

- hosting your files on S3 or on some instance somewhere costs more
- I need clients for Linux (workstation), OS X (workstation), Windows (my wife), Android (my phone) and iPad (my ebook reader)
Does he live a billionaire's lifestyle? In the pure sense of Mikhail Prokhorov models-and-bottles, jet-boat-race-to-Monte Carlo.
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
I don't have a link right now, but I recall there was a study done in Italy that indicated that e-cigs are quite effective as cessation aids. In particular the ability to slowly decrease the nicotine level, so that the smoker eventually only has to 'quit' the habitual side of things.
Yes, because every tech company is either Google or Facebook. Absolutely.

"Tech" is an insanely broad classification in the first place. You're in a very distinct minority of it.
By no means would I try and build a high bandwidth graphics pipeline that runs between processes. That's a very specific problem requiring a very specific solution. However it wouldn't be correct to abandon multiple process single thread for the (much more common, particularly on HN) situation of a web app that's running on a server with multiple logical cores in non-evented programming language.

> I expressed quite clearly that different multi-processing solutions apply to different categories of problems, which of course means that there are problems which simple, plain multi-process solutions excel at, for example webservers.

When? Please quote.
Oh, they are.

It has the iPhoto library from the months before and a few years after my son was born. All I have from that period is whatever I emailed to friends, family, and Facebook. Music was restored from my iPod, movies were on DVD/Bluray, so only the leaving 60GB of photos.
and it might end up costing the same amount of money or near-ish after I add all the options

I'd be interested to see someone do an analysis of what it would cost to buy off-the-shelf components that match in performance and see what the cost is. I would be very surprised if the cost of off-the-shelf build of similar specs were anywhere even close to $10k.
For core language features like that, there really is no way to "fix" it. Just pick a better language.
If you host your own server with their server software, you can verify it's running unmodified.
That was a false claim by Jim Barksdale, who was running Netscape at the time. All of the contested OEMs shipped Netscape, and Microsoft eventually won the browser case 2-1 on appeal.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

As a matter of fact, Netscape's business practices did more to block the distribution of Navigator than Microsoft's. For example, it wouldn't allow third-party sites to distribute it, and at one point it withdrew the standalone browser to try to force the adoption of its internet suite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communicator

Microsoft's biggest concern wasn't with OEMs bundling Netscape (because it was investing in making IE a better browser) but with the idea of OEMs removing IE, which Microsoft regarded as part of the operating system.
> The vast majority of compensation in software companies is tied up in options...

That's absolutely not true. Most companies never have a liquidity event, a significant number of stock options never vest (employees leaving before they're fully vested is very, very common at startups) and even when a company delivers an exit, the vast majority of employees with equity will, at best, walk away with what amounts to a modest "bonus." Facebook and Twitter-like outcomes in which hundreds of rank-and-file employees become millionaires are the exception, not the rule.
People keep bringing it up because some people haven't yet figured out that helping women isn't at all about hurting men.

You can help with that. Seriously.
Yeah, that's the other problem, really - right now most everything that I have opened already (my policy has been to open source things after 24 months) are on my server, but that'll go down.

So it's OK to put schematics and CAD files on github? I remember sourceforge having a problem with data files.
Valve released a large variety of steamboxes for this beta test, so they could test different hardware. Some of the boxes had 1k cards in them, some had cards on the lower end of the range. Don't get too attached to the 500$
I have been saying this a couple of times in similar threads, but I think Threema [1] deserves a little more attention. Complete end-to-end encryption using NaCl. The interface they created is simple and gets the point across. Also, they're actually saying "don't trust us!", which ironically makes me trust them.

[1]: https://threema.ch/en/
Sheryl has an opinion, the letter's author has an opinion, I have my own opinion. We are all free to share our opinion.

I am weighing in because I care immensely about women in tech and feminism and disagree with the point of view portrayed in the letter.

Am I not allowed to share my opinion because I haven't read the book she's violently disagreeing with? Just because I haven't read the book doesn't mean I haven't seen Sheryl speak numerous times and don't understand her point.
How much would that case be worth to you?
A coworker and I were discussing this earlier so I priced out a Dell workstation with fairly similar specs: same number of cores but across 2x CPUs, same RAM, same video card RAM, no 1TB of flash storage. The Dell ended up costing negligibly more, something like $50 or $60 above the Apple.
How the Facebook News Feed Changes Have Affected Traffic to News Websites
> a) The President signed, rather than vetoed, as was his option.

Presidents have signed many laws they disagreed with. Vetos are not particularly common, especially on critical appropriations bills.

> b) Went into effect three years after he took office.

I don't know where you pulled three years from. Obama took office January of 2009. The 2011 NDAA was passed January of 2011 for the fiscal year that began October 2010.

I also don't know what you think you're arguing with me about. Even if I entirely agreed with everything you just said, my comment would have said exactly the same thing. There is no contradiction.
I like Prismatic a lot and find it very useful and their relevance algos are top notch. I just don't understand why they cannot scrape and suggest high quality news sites like the NY Times. I mean if Google News can, why can't Prismatic as well?
To remain off topic:

It's not just him. The full quote:

"Obama met Tuesday with 15 tech executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, with the official purpose of discussing how his administration can improve its Healthcare.gov Web site."

None of these people seem particularly good candidates for a discussion on how to make healthcare.gov better. It's also highly questionable that only highly ranking executives were invited. It feels to me this was more of a face saving publicity stunt or a talking point. It would've been more useful and cheaper for Obama to just have Google or Yahoo build a replacement healthcare.gov website, or open source the task and ask them for contributions.

Where's the "let's get shit done" focus?
I'd actually like to open everything except for the NASA stuff, which I don't think I can open, and the NAVCOM bombing logic which I've excised from the program and am not going to ever release (I can't think of any peaceful use for a $1500 bomber drone, sorry).
Interesting. I was under the assumption that nicotine is no more dangerous than caffeïne, and that the primary danger of smoking is inhalation of burning tobacco particles (and some other chemicals).

A cursory glance at the wikipedia article also doesn't mention that nicotine is that dangerous.

Could you elaborate? I'm honestly curious.
If I were in HR then I would be reaching out to any employee that I see is under paid. Likewise I would not reach out to any employee that I think is over paid. Perhaps consider keeping this data internal.
Automatically watering your plants with sensors, a Pi and webhooks
It seems like they're ok with the poaching risk. I would assume most of their employees are happy enough, or they'd leave. I'm not sure having the salary posted is a big change from that perspective.
This may turn into an interesting study into how no-one on HN will login with f*cebook. Don't you people like graphs?
"Like many cars on the mainstream market, the Lego project was built abroad - by the Romanian “teenage tech genius” Raul Oaida, who was 17 years old when the project commenced. The car was then shipped to Australia once completed."

So really, Raul Oaida should be the one with his face in the news.
How is the key image impossible to describe?

There are only 4 possible colors per cell.
You just describe it like 0,1,2,3,2,0, etc
Just as if you were reading off the real key.
Triple/Quad stores (specialisation of a Graph DB for storing RDF) are available written in C (4Store, Virtuoso) as well as Lisp (AllegroGraph).

They support a standardised query language called SPARQL which is based on matching graph patterns.
You could rent a VPS or dedicated server and setup a OpenVPN gateway on it - if you get one with full-duplex 1 GBit connection, you'll not even lose speed. But it will add some latency to the connection.

So I'd set up a Debian box at home which does the VPN routing for all your machines; if you're into a bit of iptables hacking you can even make a setup like:

1) all machines on the internal network get IP addresses in the 10.0.0.x range, with their traffic being fully routed over the VPN

2) if you hand-assign a machine with a 10.0.1.x IP, then the traffic gets routed "in the clear" over the AT&T network. I'd use this for gaming or latency-critical stuff like Skype only, though. You could also set up a virtual machine for Skype or anything other requiring low-latency communication, bridge its interface to the host's and assigning it a 10.0.1.x IP.
They don't provide the server-side code, nor a way to ensure that your client is talking to a specific server. The only authentication is via a 5 digit code sent via SMS, so it's presumably very easy to spoof and control messages. You need on average 5000 attempts to log into another users account (they are send a "new device added" notification message though), which could be done reasonably easily if you knew a person would have their phone off for a period of time when you wanted to attack their account.
Yep, that's also absolutely true. You'd have no idea if their servers were actually running the code they published.

Moxie's TextSecure on the other hand does full end-to-end encryption, with no work done by any server. Same with OTR and similar message encryption plugins. It baffles me why people are sticking to the "everything on the server" route for applications that focus on user privacy and security in this day and age, especially when there are a lot of good alternatives that don't.
Or you can buy an HP Z820. OSX is pretty much moot for workstation grade machines. The software is all cross platform.

And wires dangling everywhere? To get anything other than comedy storage, you're going to need a pile of lightning devices hanging off it.

And don't give me all that crap about Apple being tried and tested - last MacBook Pro I had was totally unreliable.
I'm not sure about the particulars of this one, but a lockdown is generally a period where you are encouraged to prune away unnecessary and/or lower-priority requests for your time.

There generally aren't a lot of status meetings, team meetings, project meetings, and so forth at Facebook, but you might want to turn down a request to present at another team's meeting, or turn down those requests to interview - they can wait, or another person can be found.

People tend to make progress on lower-priority work items in between higher-priority work items - things like migrating onto a new library or version of a service, or maybe migrating from one set of machines to another if you aren't using one of the high-level service management systems. This is necessary to prevent these things from becoming interrupt items down the line, but during a lockdown period, it's okay to let these slide for a bit.

If the whole team does this, then suddenly you're spending a lot more time together. Instead of potentially working on different parts of the software like you usually do, you can all focus on a particular class of problem - in this case, performance and parity. That means everyone has that context loaded up, and you can have better discussions and quicker code reviews.
And what equity do you get for giving up 10k - Whats the cap table look like

I know that one FTSE 100 co's basic share option scheme is going to turn out >£60k tax free next year (its a 5 year scheme so say 10k pa) so it had better beat that.
That's making the assumption that all phones in the US have NSA keyloggers on them, which is pretty unlikely.
There are un-marketable features to consider, which make it quite compelling and emotional.
Surprised to see that it has now raised a total of $106 million.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/foursquare
There are two different CVV numbers for each card. One is in the magnetic data, the other is printed on the card.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_security_code#Types_of_cod...
Awesomeness - A modular and flexible responsive framework. Finally.
I've worked under open salary formulas and closed salary formulas. I'd rather work under an open salary formula any day.
I guess it could be pure coincidence. But I'm going to chalk it up to the fact that I go out of my way to have well-factored code that uses intention-revealing names and isn't too clever for its own good.

The choices that you make when writing code really do matter.
Sandberg is credibly the COO of Facebook, but TIME didn't give her the cover to appeal to the 7 people who will hold that job between now and FB's eventual bankruptcy in 2047. Or the 70 people who will compete for it, or the 7000 people who will be in similar positions across the Fortune 100. She's being held up as a model of success, for the average person to emulate. It is very much an open question how many people would consider life like hers well-lived.

That the difference is glossed over so blithely makes me skeptical.
Code style is enforced (but overridable) by the code review system - both automated tools that provide feedback ("lint") on the code (things like "Don't use funcx() - it sucks <link here> - rather use funcy()"), and human code review.