skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an alternative source? I have an allergy.
This Java thing is getting tiresome. It's feel like Microsoft's Windows software updates that we all are used to. Oh well, I am glad that I use Google Chromebook laptop which doesn't have Java and Windows OS (of course). One thing also good about Chromebook is that I don't any anti-virus software at all.
This is my favourite comment so far.
I'd say it's more like "I'm not racist! I adopted a black kid."

The second paragraph was mostly fine but it did come off a little... unhumble. And humility is usually the tone you want when talking about how your company is doing good for X cause, but it could be doing more.
I'm obviously speculating here.
Backwards incompatible with previous versions of itself.
It is one of these American cultural differences that we never imagine about other cultures: People eat lunch at the desk, instead of socializing; drinking alcohol outdoors is against the law; police can pick you for loitering...
A big advantage of a vibrating watch is not waking your partner at the same time.
I already gave you the answer. Send an anonymous letter. Done.
I used philosophy major as an example. Perchance somewhat hastily. What I really meant to say, that there is a certain number of majors that are considered easy and give degrees that confer no substantial benefit in modern workforce. Those majors become default goto majors for people who do not know what to do and people who simply want to do as little as possible.
That is a compiler issue, not language.

ISO/ANSI C also don't support SIMD, you have to go down to Assembly when writing portable code across C compilers.
> Brazil also has what would be equivalent to a basic income

No, it doesn't.

> it's called "Bolsa Família" and guarantees a certain income for families based on the number of members

Bolsa Família is a combination of a variety of traditional social welfare programs of the type that Basic Income is laid out as an alternative to, not an equivalent of Basic Income; it features a variety of means-tested and other qualification-based components. The part you seem to be referring to is a benefit with a fixed cash value per vaccinated child attending school to families whose total family income is below a certain threshold. It involves both means-testing (the family income threshold to qualify) and behavioral testing (based on vaccination status and school attendance) of exactly the type that Basic Income is laid out in opposition to.
We just went through the entire 2013 performance for female and male students here at Thinkful (http://www.thinkful.com/).

The results are very revealing for this debate: Once enrolled in our courses, women perform exactly as well as men in every dimension. However, enrollment among women is significantly behind their male peers, but sadly on par with what other coding schools are seeing.

Here's the data: http://blog.thinkful.com/post/72670499078/gender-differences...
No worries, I've done the same myself countless times.
I find the outrage over this so disingenuous. It looks to me like it's more about punishing someone for being a high-profile member of a hated, perceived-oppressor group than actually caring about women being programmers.

To think that pg actually believes that there are no female programmers was the least charitable possible interpretation, and the only reason to have picked that one in particular was to confirm your own bias.
I wrote this blogpost over a year ago now: http://www.layeredthoughts.com/startups/growth-hacking-is-bs...

Danny Sullivan's tweet last week (quoted in OP's link) is almost word for word my thesis in my blog post.

In fact, if you search for "Growth hacking is bull" in google, my post is right above this one now.

I don't really have a point to make here, other than there's quite a bit of overlap between this post and mine.
This is pretty clearly a test of developer related tools, not production cloud server infrastructure. I'm not even sure there's an equivalent of VirtualBox/VMWare shared folders in KVM or Xen, because guests and hosts don't usually share folders in the same way that you do with these workstation virtualization tools.

...

Spoke too soon. A Google search shows there are some methods [1], but their use cases are different.

[1]: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio
I think eating at your desk is a wrong choice. There is almost no benefit to eating at your desk. The only potential upside is that you get "more" work done. Anyone who has the opportunity should leave their desk at least three times a week for lunch.
Unfortunately it seems that no one can actually agree on the exact nature of what the problem is, so most discussions end up being just pointless shouting matches.
That's not what hacking, in this sense, means.

Hacking is getting something done creatively. As in, hacking away at a problem.
> It depends on your preferences, which ought to reflect your team, your project, and your company culture.

Like all tools (especially software ones), it's not how hard you swing the hammer, but rather that the nail ultimately gets secured. The two are often misinterpreted against each other.
'The second paragraph amounts to a sexist version of "I'm not racist! I have black friends!"'

Tangent: if I am attempting to prove that I am not bigoted against group X and by doing so I point out that I have members of group X amongst my friends, haven't I made my point if they really ARE my friends?

Or is it up to the mob to define what "friendship" is?
^ feature request...
I don't trust the Supreme Court to produce a proper ruling on this one. I assume Aereo will lose. That said, I don't see how it could be argued that Aereo is breaking any law.
It blows my mind that someone had enough motivation to write a big post on just why eating at desk is bad.
You basically practice nepotism. Most of your staff and peers and people around you consider that as a form of corruption. Congratulations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepotism
The conclusion the author comes to--lower frequencies in CPUs may result in increased latency for applications--is unremarkable, but I heavily applaud the intellectual honesty behind publishing such work.

We need more folks like you in the Ivory Tower. :)
"FEMA said Friday that 75 trucks -- each carrying 18,500 liters of water -- were expected to begin arriving in Charleston by early evening."
I haven't really been keeping up, so I don't know if the criticism is valid or not. However, I think the topic of sexism, and discrimination in general, is something that needs to be talked about more openly.

Hopefully something good will come from all of this, so if Paul, or anyone else, has to take a hit at least it will assist in initiating some these conversations.
You have to disable the motion backlight, it turns on far to easily. With it on I got about 2 days of battery life. With it off I get 5-7 days.
I feel like the cost is always overblown about this building if you consider the fact that they are currently housed in a building originally designed for the CBC in the '60s and not for actual security work. Given the expansion of their operations and personnel, it only makes sense to create a new building (not coincidentally beside CSIS). And generally speaking, it's going to cost what it's going to cost. Yes it's a government building. Yes they've spent money on particular luxury items (identified as being used to increase social interaction). But if you want people working more effectively and efficiently, you're going to spend money to increase morale (just look at all the lavish spending at startups or ones that are even IPOing, they're all expenses that, at the end of the day, may not be good in the eyes of the shareholders. But they help employee morale).
"So if we want to get more girls to become programmers, we should give them more examples. Ideally in person..."

I am volunteering with a local "Code Club" to teach programming to 8-14 year olds. We have just tried to be open and gender neutral, ending up with between 10-25% female depending on the week. Purely subjective opinion, but Jessica Yuen from the Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/other-featu...) tutorials has been a huge example for these children (boys and girls).

I'd love to profile more examples in our code club sessions. Does anyone know of a central source for people willing to volunteer as "examples" for young computer scientists? If not, maybe we can start a google doc or something?
It's fine to say that, as long as it's not the entire defense.
Whereas the latest NSA disclosure, facebook privacy setting etc etc leads to a rational though provoking discussion that stays on topic and within its own thread?
Silicon Valley is Making Synthetic Eggs
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I find the Yelp reviews pretty hilarious, especially dives, I go to this one place all the time that does $2.95 cent breakfast (full plate, coffee, etc) and many reviews talk about how the breakfast was greasy, etc. I'm wondering what kind of culinary miracle they expected to happen for $2.95 cents.

http://www.yelp.ca/biz/bons-off-broadway-vancouver

I wonder if the people on yelp ever go to metal shows and wonder why it's so loud.
I'm a bit disappointed by the fact that this blog post gives perhaps the most obvious and common "politically correct" answers to the question of female representation in the software industry, without actually tackling any controversial subjects like reduced training costs for women.
I think you're overcomplicating it by insisting on isolating the algorithm from its owner and environment. No-one else was doing that.

If you don't want to apply a label to the algorithm, how about "Foo Bar's decision to run Algorithm X against Dataset Y resulted in consequences that predictably increased prejudice, so it would have been better if he hadn't done it"?

If that's okay, note that this is pretty close to what parfe said -- he's clearly upset at the fact that pg chooses to run an algorithm on Hacker News, rather than at the algorithm itself.
While it's great that you took the time to write that essay, from what I have learned over the years about human nature (not from what I've read but from a large amount of real life experience) you can't use logic and intelligence to change the opinion of those who feel particularly strong about something that is emotional to them (think middle east conflicts). [1] Because emotion and rationality are two different things.

[1] The most important thing about any relationship is that the other party will at least listen and consider what you have to say. People online (and spouses or girlfriends) who cut off without even considering are persona non grata to me. I wouldn't marry or date them and I wouldn't invest in them.
The article phrases things in terms of economics (as WSJ is wont to do), but there are more issues.

> The Obama administration has dubbed college "the ticket to the middle class,"

Indeed, the problem is that higher education is deemed a "ticket" to ride. Even the president is implying (whether he really believes it or not) that a college degree entitles someone to a good standard of living. Not effort, hard work, or other qualities commonly associated with the American dream.
You can't. It's an invite-only elite club.
The latter, of course.
Hard to blame Foursquare which you need to install while Google itself is doing it on Android phones to track when Android phones enter stores.

http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/
Properties of numbers change at infinity. It is not conceivable to me, we can use normal arithmetic operations on quantities tending to infinity. For example, consider this...

9999999999........... infinity
-9999999999........... infinity
-------------------------
00000000000............ infinity
-------------------------

Now, subtracting infinite numbers from infinite numbers should give a infinite result. All we have is infinite zeros here, which cannot be inifinity.
You also don't really own your Bitcoin then.
There is also burp (http://portswigger.net/burp/) that is distributed as a JAR.
This is taking the whole paragraph out of context. Paul mentions the 3 partners out of 12 in YC and compares it to the rest of the VC industry. I would say its a fair statement. This is a bit of nitpicking here.

I don't know Paul but I do know that based on this article he's laying out the problem based on what he knows which is start ups. I appreciate him doing this as I get a better insight to the problem from someone that has firsthand, "in the field" knowledge. I also got some great takeaway action items that I can apply for my own kids. So, thanks for that.
Ditto, and I have the motion backlight on - I get 5-7 days easily out of mine. More to the point, the battery life is long enough that I can simply use it until the battery indicator shows up, then just charge it that night.
The 'Some of my best friends are black...' cliche is only actually a problem if it is used to justify a racist statement. Otherwise it's a perfectly valid indicator of having non-racist character.
> FEMA

Don't forget, thanks to state rights, they have to be invited in.
Be aware that these are open-source projects. I don't see you starting a fork in a better language.
Given that that Aereo business model was taken directly from a Supreme Court ruling, I think that they should have a strong argument. With the broadcasters going to different circuit courts with cases, this might be done to deal with having different rulings in lower courts. This should probably seen as a good thing for Aereo that it is their case that is being heard vs another (shakier) business model.
God, these comments are awful
I don't have a strong opinion on (the lack of) women in tech. I don't feel strongly either way, so I'd be more moved to change the status quo if I could be presented with a good case that women are being held back.

Sorry for being insensitive, but complaints about presentation slides mentioning porn stars (unnecessarily edgy IMO, but not misogynistic unless you stretch the definitions of freedom/dignity/exploitation to mean that all porn is exploitative), late night invitations to drink coffee and dongle/forking jokes haven't made me more sympathetic to having a debate about sexism in tech; if anything, they've made me avoid reading or commenting on anything related to sexism. I don't want to keep women who feel wronged by some event from retelling the experience, but most of the stories about sexism in tech I've read have made me form a pattern of avoiding sexism stories altogether.

I fear I might be missing insightful essays from women about their experiences (good, bad, and anything in between) in tech.
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> In this installment of the Web Setup, we spoke with John Sheehan, the CEO of Runscope, a small startup based in San Francisco.

Who's we?
Oracle Thinks Programmers Are All White Dudes
Yes, lack of FDIC protection is a good thing, because better alternatives would exist. Deposit insurance can be implemented far more efficiently in a competitive market. And this has nothing to do with "keeping cash stuffed inside their mattresses," by which I assume you mean not being invested in some form (e.g. being loaned out to other people and earning interest).
If you didn't say anything wrong, don't give any clarification. Because people who think you did wrong, won't believe you either way.

If you did anything wrong, be brave and own it.
It is also a common belief by some people that homeopathy is effective.
Red Hat’s CentOS “acquisition” good for both sides, but ‘ware the Jabberwock
University taught me a huge amount, and only part of that was related to my degree. The person I emerged after 4 years of dealing with life on my own, making (and losing) friends and even partying is very different to the person who started. The utility of university is far, far greater than simply "a place to learn". It's a place to forge out on your own in a semi-protected environment, somewhere to learn the art of making friends, of meeting people, and somewhere to discover what you want to do in life. Even if I hadn't gone to a single class I would still say that I learnt a lot at university. Universities are (obviously) places to learn in the academic sense, but an undergraduate degree is also a framework for developing into an independent adult. I'd argue that society benefits from that.

Perhaps the difference between the US and UK higher education systems is that I did all that for $5000/year in fees. The ludicrous debt that some people get into is not particularly justifiable for social or educational reasons.
> In addition, hoarding property is actually a massive net negative to society.

I think that progressive task on real estate could help with that. If you own one, two or even three houses, no tax, but if more, tax should grow very fast. Fast enough that it's more economical to sell property than keep it.
> so much of the 'worth' of your college degree is essentially a function of how valuable it is in the current workplace.

I wouldn't call it "valuable in the current workplace", but "valuable in the current world" instead. The former makes it sound like the situation would be solved if only corporations/government created more jobs for those unemployed/not valuable people. However, people with useful/practical skills can freelance as well, or start their own businesses. The problem is no one (even other people) is willing to pay them money for their skills, talents or output.
One reason sexism stories get flagged off is because they attract hateful sexist idiots who spew vile nonsense.

They are unrepentent and relentless. Flagging the threads is the only way to defend https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments from horrible halfwits.
Is having to pull your phone out of your pocket that bad? Do you even need to look at it unless it makes a loud noise at which point you can close to defer until later? Constant distraction is poisonous. On your arm, it's going to be worse.
if we're willing to posit the existence of unwritten software that makes simd work from ocaml or haskell, we could also just assume the existence of C that checks memory accesses for zero cost

also, I think you may be able to do reasonably well with icc and not much assembly
I really despise the way HN is moderated-- there are childish vendettas, there's filtering of inconvenient truths to the VCs and the startup world-- but I never thought PG was sexist or racist. In fact, I hate the fact that, despite being more progressive than most VCs (and willing to discuss these issues rather than equivocating) he's become a lightning rod. What The Information did to PG was almost criminal.

The people who caricature us as being only interested in funding young hotshots forget that when we started, in 2005, young founders were not a privileged group but a marginalized one. VCs didn't want to fund them, and when they did they often as not tried to replace them with "adult supervision." The fact that young founders seem a privileged group now is partly due to our efforts.

That's half-true, but I'd debate that point. From 1995 to 2005, VCs still liked to fund young founders-- but specifically because they were so clueless. They took advantage, worked them to the extreme, diluted their equity severely, and then often handed their companies off to their (usually middle-aged) friends. After 2005, the chickenhawking dynamic (see: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/vc-istan-6-th...) has evolved and the new one is much kinder to young founders. I don't know if it's related to YC. But YC definitely gave young founders an edge that they didn't have before; now they have a backer who knows, through having seen so many companies evolve, how to avoid being scammed in the ways that young founders in the '90s were.

It seems like YC's actual effect has been to replace a chickenhawking culture that was attracted to, but screwed, young founders with a chickenhawking culture that gives young founders a better chance of coming out on top. That's an improvement, objectively, but it also makes YC appear to own the transformed chickenhawking culture. It's like picking up some litter on the road and being held responsible for the nearby pieces that weren't cleaned up.
Arguments are for little people. When you're at the upper end of the power structure, you give statements, because they're fact. Because you said so.
Thanks for the comments! Bonus stories for you wonderful HN'ers:

My dad started out as an auto mechanic and painter. He decided to setup his own shop with his first cousin and it was a disaster. They butted heads constantly. My dad sold his shares to his partner and moved on to other things. They tried it, it didn't work out, and so they moved on. Throughout my childhood our family was very close with my dad's first cousin and his family. They relationship is still strong today.

My mother and her brother had a dispute about money over fifteen years ago. They still do not speak today.

Family and friends can be tricky when it involves money, there is no question.
You must not work from lengthy spec documents that often.
And this is bad why exactly?
I found 24-27" the right size for me. Anything larger than that feels uncomfortable due to too much movement of the head.
"I'm not proud of this legacy code,"

"This cron has been keeping ffmpeg in check for over 6+ years in a production environment at this point... it processes thousands of videos a day using a custom queuing and reviewing system."

why do we programmers always feel we need to apologize for something that we did quickly, but has been running without incident for a number of years.

take a bow my friend. that was an awesome patch you came up with all those years ago.
We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html

http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ciscosystemsrouteratcern....
Startups Often Focus On Data Security Too Late, If At All
>All we have is infinite zeros here, which cannot be infinity.

Ok, this is probably a dumb question but how is an infinite set of zeros not an infinite result?
Spanish government accidentally tweets about top-secret raid before it happens
I hope that's just mild disgust and not surprise... it's HN. History repeats itself every twelve minutes.

[edit]Which is not to say I don't agree with the "PHP is garbage" comments. I just also agree with the "seriously, we read all of this the last three thousand times PHP articles were posted, please shut up" snark.[/edit]
Probably one of the most productive skills one can learn, that will pay off for your entire career, is selling. No matter what career path you choose, having sales skills will help considerably.

Even if it's just selling yourself to a potential employer.
It's interesting that neither this article or Paul's related December article ever address the most basic and seminal question about this in the first place: why is this a problem? Why is it a big deal if there are less female founders than male?

It seems like this whole discussion has been nothing but a bunch of posturing and vague half-solutions about an issue that I'm not sure even exists.
I think NSA discussions now are penalized too.
Note that there is no similar hand-wringing about the lack of women in the fields of sanitation, construction, plumbing or cartooning. Likewise, not much hubbub about the gender imbalance in the fashion industry.

Could it possibly be that men and women think differently, and those minor differences are reflected in their career preferences? Could it be that these preferences play a bigger role in gender imbalances in career fields than sexism in a modern society?

Nah. That's crazy talk.
More specifically they think all programmers are Jay Leno.