skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PG has a lot of integrity, something that warrants protecting, but this is not that big of a deal.

Nobody will remember it in a few weeks and The Information probably snagged as many new subs as they lost because of the publicity. I highly doubt they were attempting to make PG look bad on purpose and it was the other pub that drew attention to it or really, nobody would know about the edit.

The whole thing is pretty silly, but I understand why PG is responding. It must be hard for some people to understand why there aren't more female founders, but that's not something he can change unless he decides to change his business, which is wildly successful... so why would he... ? People forget he runs a business and they think he just snaps his fingers and startups turn to gold regardless of the founders. He's always maintained it's all about the team. That will never change, male, female or robot.
Well I still get a fair amount of spam through mailchimp - well over 50% of emails received from them are from spammers who have harvested or purchased an email address.

Having said that, mailchimp are probably one of the most proactive bulk mailers in terms of responding to abuse reports. It would just be nice if they could stop it BEFORE the spam is sent. Here's a suggestion: fine customers $1000/email if they email purchased/harvested email addresses.
I must say, regarding prescient ideas –

Many ideas do "float in the air", so you should take you gut feelings of "what's the next app that should be out there" seriously.

It has happened to me personally that an idea which I thought was "crazy, but perhaps crazy enough to be good" – yet never started working on it – was the same idea a start up had not long before. I could but congratulate them on their genius :)
The point is that ATMs shouldn't be proverbially taping the proverbial spare key to the underside of the proverbial desk.

A well-designed system can withstand the attacker knowing all of its details aside from the secret key chosen by the owner. That's the whole point of avoiding "security through obscurity".
None of his achievements as an entrepreneur give him insights into philosophy, political economy or anything else he writes on.

It's pretty creepy calling people "intellectuals" if they babble on about "political economy".
Huh. Maybe this is designed for people with data caps?
You bring up a good point: Whether or not the quote was damagingly modified (which it was) we have a greater problem in our society than a journalist mis-quoting, and that's an obsession with link-bait BS.
> It was an editorial mistake

Yet this post doesn't acknowledge it as such:

> We edited a bit around some of Mr. Graham’s quotes on female founders. Specifically, we edited a “these” from the quote. The reason was simple. The “these” didn’t refer to anything.

> ...

> Mr. Graham has since said the “these” referred to women who aren’t programmers. In our opinion, he didn’t say that to us. We’re happy for him to have clarified to the public.

No acknowledgement that they made a mistake. That's the sound of heels digging in.
Well, if they are programming languages, are still unstable 10 years late, have near zero adoption and are missing half of the promised features, then yes.
Reading the full quotes of what pg said to the reporter, they come off both as quite subtle and arrogant. I can imagine the reporter not quite understanding the point but instead hearing "blah blah blah we're better than you and you can never be a hacker." I'm kind of surprised pg was that open in the "interview," I think I would probably be really careful what I say in a similar situation (been bit more than once).
It's really amazing to see how you've made yourself a victim of this and made it seem like the world against you. Could you be more obviously falling into the pattern of derailing and making this about you?
The first time I felt a real chill with regard to the United States when when I saw padlocks for sale (here in Brazil, no less!) with some inscription to the effect of "TSA-friendly". You buy a lock to keep people away from peeking at your stuff, but you can no longer keep the government away. This felt like having the keys to your front door being forcefully changed into "FBI-friendly" keys.
All controversy aside, it's interesting how much of this negativity to both PG and The Information was driven by ValleyWag's link-baitery of the original story.

While I believe The Information made a mistake, and should have probably apologized a bit more succinctly, I don't think anybody - including PGs press agent who had the transcript - could have imagined that quote, in particular lighting this firestorm.
It's not an attack, it's my opinion that more mature hackers eventually converge on Python, and I think the community reflects that. Maybe it's simply that Python has never had a project with the same sex appeal as Rails, and thus has avoided an "Eternal Summer"-esque influx.

For the record, the last time I wrote Ruby code was about 4 days ago, and the last time I wrote Python code was yesterday afternoon. I'm a part of both communities and I think that there are a lot of people who are. From my experiences in both communities, I think that the Python community is much more mature and professional.
No one is actually going to do this, just talk about it. Further, those interested would be well aware of the limitations.
"linux" is not a keyword in the C language. It's a preprocessor macro defined in the header files shipped with Linux systems -- that's quite, quite different.

It's there so you can guard platform-dependent code with #if linux -- that's why it's defined to a trivial non-zero value.

This kind of macro should really be named with underscores, like __linux__ but the bare linux constant has been there since the early days of Linux and they just can't remove it now.

For fun, here's a list of other OS-specific macros for platform detection:

http://sourceforge.net/p/predef/wiki/OperatingSystems/
Don't let ignorant people vote (2011)
I'm a little late to this thread, but if anyone has questions (especially ones unrelated to taxes) I'm happy to answer!
Yeah, fuck these people. That's just insulting to our intelligence.
Hackers Claim Takedown Of Battle.net, League Of Legends, EA [UPDATE]
You're running into a basic bootstrapping problem: the person providing the file wants you to be able to check that the file is authentic, but you have no cryptographic mechanism to verify that.

What they're assuming is that someone who has compromised the download servers won't also compromise the rest of the web site. That's certainly a possibility though.

An attacker who compromises both could trick you into downloading compromised software, even though you're checking the hashes from the web site. There are also multiple ways they could pull this off.

For what it's work, much of The Update Framework work which I referenced in the blog post has come out of Thandy, the Tor updater. The model Tor is providing here is often referred to as TOFU, or "Trust On First Use", i.e. once you have received a good copy of Thandy, you will continue to receive uncompromised versions of the software.
1.8/1.9 and 2.x/3.x were handled very differently by the respective communities. That's evident even from the version numbers.
I'm reacting to how he is treated and how he writes (playing up to this image of himself as a Heidegger). If we attribute his writing to a small time blogger who's writing on a few topics for fun then all of my critique looks insanely harsh.

You have to put what im saying in the context of how his work is read (as some kind of obviously briliant religious text).
Paul Graham addressing the Y Combinator crowd

White, males, crowd.
Speaking of SD on Netflix. I just got an Apple TV and the only way I could get iTunes to sell me SD movies was to change the settings to tell it my tv is SD. But now Netflix will only stream in SD. Total bummer.
Op should read more about btc protocol. They are talking nonsense. Mining is required to verify transactions, new coins are a secondary effect to incentivize it.
Awesome. Couldn't realize managing Gmail could be so simple and effective.
Fully on board with this. I would much rather have SD resolution that's quick and responsive than HD that continually pauses to rebuffer, or freezes up for no apparent reason, pixelates, and generally makes itself insufferable.

Negroponte nailed it 20 years ago. HD pictures are not the issue. Content on demand is.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/negroponte_pr.html
There is an age bias, but it's a natural result of young founders having more disposable time and energy. They can also keep trying to be successful for more years as they have more years to work with.

If you look at the most successful startup companies' founders, many of them are kids who were already wealthy via their parents and had more resources to begin with. Not all, but many. Who goes to Harvard and Stanford after all?
What we need is politicians who commit to giving the popular vote of their constituents decide major issues. -- A trial in Liquid Democracy if you will.

We also need term limits in congress, no more career politicians, or at least no consecutive terms--take 1 term off between terms. -- Personally I think President should be a 6 year term, sometimes 4 is too little, sometimes 8 is too much. A single 6 year term may make more sense. Senators would be the same a single 6 year term, and that's IT go get a REAL job, - Senators/Congressmen are essentially living on Welfare, we give them posh health plans, good wages, good benefits, and their voters pay all their bills via fund-raising. You should be only allowed one term in each national government position.
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..that it's nobody's fault

THIS. And this is the problem. People don't understand this. It HAS to be somebody's fault. It has to be black OR white. Gray is beyond the understanding of many.
Perl objects are even bigger and need one indirection per access. A perl head is 32 bytes plus 48 byte body, ie. 80byte on 64bit systems.

For my perl rewrite p2 I need one single word per object on the stack. Common Lisps usually needs two words, the class pointer and the tagged value.

I really liked the visualization of the various GC's btw. Excellent work!
OT: Tried to sign up for his newsletter. On firefox, a whole lot of Nothing Happened - no error, no nothing. Even disabled my anti-tracker plugin of the day (do not track me) to make sure it wasn't interfering.

On Chrome it worked, but didn't really give me visual indicator that it did - if I didn't have my phone nearby, I wouldn't have known that I got a confirmation email.

Not such a good first impression of software that's supposed to specialize in email conversion :(
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> Mr. Graham has since said the “these” referred to women who aren’t programmers. In our opinion, he didn’t say that to us. We’re happy for him to have clarified to the public.

He says it right here, in his second use of "these":

We can’t make these women look at the world through hacker eyes and start Facebook because they haven’t been hacking for the past 10 years.

And for more context prior:

Then if you go look at the bios of successful founders this is invariably the case, they were all hacking on computers at age 13. What that means is the problem is 10 years upstream of us.

Even without context, "these" modifies women; it's a subset. Anyone who thinks "these women" is equivalent to "women" isn't qualified to be a journalist.
Oh, man. This is just AWESOME. Great idea and pretty good execution out of the gate. Good luck!
>it is likely that a few people from that particular religion will get illegally arrested.

And killed. Taken together, I would be hesitant to call it a few.

>Now as rational people, the important point is whether this is happening at some scale and whether this is a statistically significant number. But it will never be zero.

This is nauseating. It never ceases to amaze me how cavalier people have become about other people's lives. If we are going to be so confident that we are just, then we should start by looking at the root cause. These dim-witted platitudes about pure religious fervor and hating us for our freedom are ridiculous. The fact that a sitting president could conduct a war over such pablum and not be roundly ostercized and impeached is testament to how little we seem to invest in determining what's really happening and whose interests are being served in our name.

Then, when the next generation of drone-terrorized and, hence, militarized individuals takes up arms against us, we will all sit back in shock and discuss how barbaric they are and how they also hate our innoncent, peace-loving populace for our freedom.

Of course, that will justify the next round of rationalized illegal detentions and collateral damage.

When you buy into this thinking, you become complicit. It is no longer being done in your name. It is being done at your behest. And, you don't even know why.
The people that used BeOS and look forward to Haiku are going to disagree with you on that. I'm guessing that they look at Linux distros as a hodge-podge of various libraries without any cohesive philosophy.
It also maybe a win for tablets streaming over capped mobile plans where an SD stream may suffice and incur less bandwidth overall.
Seems more languages catch on the last 5-10 years than they did in previous decades.

Here a few that weren't around (or just starting) 5-6 years ago, but have nice communities and even industry adoption now: Go, Scala, Clojure, Clojurescript, Coffeescript.

>I really wonder why so many are so willing to take this risk, google with Go the mozilla foundation and Rust

What risk? Google spends all of like 10 million dollars per year for Go (if we are to count the salaries of several developers, which it also uses to make other stuff), which is spare change for them.

And the reason is that they find that there is a need that isn't properly covered.
It's a legitimate question. Haiku was being funded a few years ago and there has to be some kind of mission for a project like Haiku.
Hey! I think it's really neat that you're doing incredible things at such a young age. I'm a little older than you, but would love to chat with you more about what you're up to. Shoot me an email at zach@zachlatta.com.
I did not have the opportunity to work on my own projects much this year.

I am going into 2014 strong as I just released an Android application that I will continue to improve in the coming months...

https://github.com/michaelcarrano/seven_minute_workout_andro...
200th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Jan. 9th
This reminds me of an article about lazy people innovate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4178031
The issue arises when it comes to defining "better"...
Anyone have a wget one liner for getting all of the videos?
Incidentally, I just finished reading "The Mythical Man-Month", which also discusses another old large system, IBM System/360 and its operating system OS/360.

It's really interesting to see how current the discussions on these old machines can be. From the OP:

"For additional security, code and data were distinguished in memory by the use of a "flag bit", and the hardware would not execute data or alter code without first having explicitly changed the flag"

We've been dealing with buffer-overruns and code injection in the stack until very very recently, and there are surely machines out there that still don't have support for the NX bit.

We surely still have a lot to learn from the past.
6.3 fewer airplane hijackings in the years examined (a hijinking-heavy period chronicled [..])

hehe. hijinking-heavy.
> 2.98 HOURS OF DOWNTIME

I don't get this. 2 hours and 98 minutes? Not sure how to read this...
It's egregious to edit a quote. After all, the very raison d'être of a quote is to convey that, "this is exactly and precisely what was said."

However, here we have a case that, due to the editing of a quote (despite the intentions of the person that modified the quote), we didn't previously know what was actually said, and that's extremely disingenuous and misleading to a reader.

The writer goes on to say:

"The reason was simple. The "these" didn't refer to anything. The paragraph that preceded it referred to Mark Zuckerberg being a hacker and it immediately followed a question about what would be lost if YC encouraged more women to be startup founders."

[...]

"In many cases "these" is an important word. But in this case, we decided it wasn't because it didn't refer to a specific group of women and was in response to a question about women in general."

Removing "these" and the context completely changed the meaning. It leads the reader to believe that the narrative is about females in general. But, with "these" included, and the correct context, it is clear that this is about females who are not programmers.

In the final analysis, editing quotes is bad form.
And because 4th gen. programming languages, surely girls, who command on average a wider variety of language concepts due to social capability and variation, will more readily digest the grammars of these languages. Boys are very often emotionally stunted, as is clear, by the excessive machoism of the West, such that their mentalities are restricted and limited, less prone to exploratory thought compared to linearized, route execution.
That's why you've been advised to talk to a lawyer. If you do that, your lawyer might start throwing around terms like "hostile work environment," and such, which will get attention, but not necessarily the kind of attention your're after. If you're not careful, you could end up fired (possibly illegally, but suing for this opens up another can of worms -- who wants to be the guy who sued his last employer?).

If you've gone all the way up the chain in management and nobody is willing or able to do anything for you, your only choice is to either suck it up or do something about it yourself.
Except that shows a bias for typical family values, by assuming that older people may have wife (or husband), kids, mortgages, etc, when they may not. If you're going to screen for "disposable time" then screen for "disposable time." And "energy" is just straight up bias.
Sounds like broken windows to me. They break the windows they arrest people who show up to do more damage. And some people they suggested do damage. And they guy they had break the window. And someone walking by.
2 hours and 58.8 minutes (98% of 1 hour)
I'm torn. I want 1080p content from Netflix, but they seem reluctant to deliver that to the Windows 7 box I use in my living room. Apparently if you have Windows 8, or any number of devices, you're fine.

https://support.netflix.com/en/node/8731
The comments on that article make me very sad.
Are you a newbie to the Internet? Been living under a rock? What do you want me to do cite each example with what Social Justice Warriors say they want?
I've discussed this idea with my girlfriend (a former Federal worker) and she opposes this idea, because an inrush of freshmen Congresscritters who have no idea what is what would be beholden to the rank and file of Federal workers who aren't elected and thus, know the system more than those elected do.

In other words, the institutional knowledge shifts from elected Congresscritters to unelected bureaucrats.
Autumn.js is perfect for a project I'm working on now. I was wondering how I could select a bunch of 'default' colors without knowing how many items a user would have.
Great solution!
> I'm responding to the questions raised in the most convenient way.

Absolutely not the case; here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6987798, the relevant comment that sparked this discussion), you are simply taking the conversation into new territory and insulting people.

> But jesus,

>> pg's response is actually priceless: it is like a soft-spoken witness upending a bullying lawyer who had just viciously attacked him, leaving the attacker reeling for all to see.

>What's with the almost cult-like reverence for this largely pseudo-intellectual entrepreneur?
Once the Gentoo Grinch grows a heart and make an installer your problem will also be solved. I can get any package and any library built the way I want by typing `emerge`.
Indeed. And Primus is nice if you want fallbacks and additional features (like reconnects with randomized exponential back-off).

https://github.com/primus/primus
almost everything I made is here:
https://github.com/kennethrapp

and here
http://profiles.wordpress.org/kennethrapp/

and here is an example of something i've been messing with this all semester:
http://precis.gopagoda.com?url=https://news.ycombinator.com/...

None of it is brilliant or groundbreaking and almost none of it has made me a dime.

I also have two semesters of Java and C++ projects which should probably never see the light of day and a forum/HN clone in Laravel which does work but has been put on the back burner for months and months, and my own site which is currently running a half-arsed attempt at a custom PHP framework.

So yeah.
https://digitalocean.com/blog_posts/transparency-regarding-d...
I cannot think of a single C keyword that returns a value.
Technically speaking, the word 'these' as used by PG doesn't refer to anyone, as the group he's referring to (non-programming women) isn't specifically mentioned by him or the interviewer previously. So it is indeed ambiguous, and it would make sense to clean up, in a vacuum.

Valleywag was clearly out for blood, and it sucks they don't care what PG meant, and PG very clearly didn't say women aren't hackers, even without the 'these'. The tone is absurdly clear.

The Information wasn't wrong to remove it from a grammatical standpoint, but hopefully their editors will walk away with a better understanding of how precise language can be. Frankly, I doubt PG or The Information saw this coming.

Why this has been a newsworthy event baffles me, but here we are.
What you're saying is: you don't like admitting the truth if it makes you seem radical. I don't respect that attitude, but thanks for doing the right thing here anyway.
The important number is the avg pause time. Here with ruby 2.1 7ms for a minor and 58ms for a major sweep for a typical ~500K heap app.

In my potion-based GC (a stack-scanning, compacting, cheney two-finger GC) the avg GC needs 3ms, but it's not concurrent (multi-threaded) yet.

All of these can be considered real-time, i.e. < 15ms.
For bigger heaps the scans need to be incremental (saving and restoring GC state, which is easy with libgc or cheney).

The best java GC I found needed 150ms pause time. Good lisp's have real-time GCs.
It's confusing that people at Wired found Matt Honan's Glass weird.

I also work at a news outlet (NPR), and I have a co-worker who wears Glass during the workday (not every day, but enough that I notice). I've never seen anything but polite interest.
I think that the most serious risk in this scenario is that pilots would have a great chance to die of laughter when they'd figure out what this noise is.
Agreed. I haven't looked hard enough to know, but is it possible you could trade this opportunity for coin elsewhere? Still, the fact that it relies on good will on the client's part is really problematic. But it is good that people are experimenting with different rewards even so, I think.