skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched to DDG a few months ago. At first I was a bit disappointed at the result quality, but I have come to like some of its other features. First is that it puts a little Wikipedia box on top of most search results, which solves ~50% of my queries.
Next is the ! operators: if I don't find what I need, I can use !g to search google, or !gi for google images, or !w for wikipedia.
It has tons of others: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

Also, I just found a ton of other cool features: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies#Programming

such as qrcodes and regular expressions.

Also, it will give news stories if you put "news" in your search query.
The discussion was about intellectual honesty, not math.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

> given there were almost twice as many "keep" comments as "deletes" I am closing this discussion as a weak consensus to keep

Nothing like quantity over quality when assessing these things.
The one thing that caught my attention in this essay as I read over it a couple times, was PG's emphasis on the being a computer programmer, as opposed to computer hacker. My sense (and someone feel free to correct me), is that YCombinator does have a pretty significant (and, I believe, appropriate) bias towards hackers.

Someone can become a computer programmer in a fairly straightforward fashion - just take a dozen or so computing science classes - and, voila - if you pass them you are a computer programmer.

But becoming a hacker doesn't just require that skill, it also requires a desire, passion, and focus that goes beyond just understanding the mechanics and syntax of computer programming.

It's likely that having more female computer programmers will result in more hackers, but I thought it was strange that in an Essay of Female Founders in the context of YCombinator, that PG didn't mention the nuance between "Computer Programmer" and "Computer Hacker" even once. The closest he comes is, "avid programmers" - and I'm wondering if he was writing this essay for a broader audience, and explicitly avoiding the word, "hacker."
Here's my attempt in python: http://pastebin.com/tSDK1uRv

the range(0,10000) may not be correct, it might need to be 1,10000
You know what I'd love to see the next time one of these inflammatory gender-related posts comes up?

One thread that only women are allowed to post to. No men to challenge them, play devil's advocate or otherwise defend their privilege. Just one place for us to say our piece without being downvoted into oblivion, where our voice can be heard (in all its glorious heterogeneity).

Because that's what's missing in this conversation about women in tech. Women.

Carry on mansplaining your way through it boys... I'll be over here building things.
Ugh, if there was vulnerabilities, it was going to get hacked one way or another.
Right. We encrypt everything after we have the sha1 of it, dropbox.
FYI, this blog post seems to have sparked the issue: http://twkozlowski.net/paid-editing-thrives-in-the-heart-of-...

Apparently Stierch was exposed because she was advertising the pay-for-article service on her oDesk profile.

http://i.imgur.com/iYBNjhH.png

Even casual Wikipedia fans are aware of how good the community is at sniffing out subterfuge...in what bizarre reality can a foundation member exist in as to not think this would be exposed, nevermind being seen as unethical?
> We are aware of an issue currently affecting the Dropbox site. We have identified the cause, which was the result of an issue that arose during routine internal maintenance, and are working to fix this as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Comments are now, of course, closed. Whew, that's reassuring!
There is a nice treatment on entropy coders in Managing Gigabytes (http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/). I highly recommend the text as it gives good background on entropy encodings and it also takes a nice engineering approach to implementation.
Oh man, 3D printing is gonna piss off auto makers so badly in the near future!
If the housing prices are increasing, it would mean that demand is increasing. But if so many people are leaving, demand should be decreasing and prices should be soft.

Housing has a few problems. One is that it's price inelastic. If you destroyed 5% of the housing in Manhattan, prices and rents would at least double, and possibly go up 4-10x. We know this because of the 9/11 Boom (which was actually fueled by speculators anticipating future supply destruction-- which, thankfully, never came). It's counterintuitive, but something that objectively destroys value can (with inelasticity) increase the bulk value of what's out there. If 5% of housing was destroyed and prices doubled, most people would say that the housing market "improved by 90%". Well, no.

Increasing housing prices are, make no mistake, signs of something bad. Supply problems (mostly, rooted in NIMBY regulations) are a big part of what's going wrong. Another issue is that most localities are losing jobs, while a few "star cities" (SF, NYC) win.

The second problem with housing is that, because people are emotional about it, they don't sell when there is cause for prices to go down. They hoard. This negative correlation between price and volume means that housing prices barely drop when they're "supposed to", but drop cataclysmically when the real estate problem starts destroying real wealth (as in 2008) and jobs disappear and foreclosures happen.

Real estate is the blood-engorged cancer of the economy. It's a tax that goes nowhere and anyone who thinks high rents and property prices is good is just on the wrong side.
On an unrelated note, the new undergraduate business school building at my alma mater cost $55 million.

That's probably one of the most relevant things you could mention. Many schools don't get $55 million a year in tuition. Imagine how affordable education would be if these schools spent more money on research and education than they did on architecture?
There is an odd bubble that I'd like to break out from.

When I search for a word I'd like the euro language translation of that word to also be searched, and returns returned.

Yes, i know that I'm going to get a bunch of lousy results. But I'm also going to widen my web horizons and see more of the Internet.

One of the things that I find frustrating with DDG is the UScentric results.
> I don't understand this. If you write in a safe language, the compiler rules out the memory safety bugs, regardless of the problem.

For performance sensitive code, you sometimes need to deliberately step out of the strongholds of the compiler.
AWS excels at scalability. There are certainly cheaper ways to have a bunch of VMs running 24/7.
Either hackers took it down and Dropbox is lying on their status page, or Dropbox did routine maintenance and Anonymous is taking false credit.

Unfortunately, I find option #1 to be more likely.
Huh. Interesting. Thank you!
> On ECDHE's side, handshakes almost always use the P-256 curve. Again, this makes sense, since Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox only support P256 at the moment. But according to recent research public by DJB & Lange, this might not be the safest choice.

Not only is it not safe, but it's also 3x slower than DJB's own 256-bit Curve25519:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/12/21/eccspeed.html

All the browsers should hurry up and support it already. Also maybe it's time to consider using NaCl, or some other alternative to OpenSSL, which seems hopeless.
Actually, the lack of women in cartooning/comics is a topic that has been written about quite often, here's an example: http://comicsalliance.com/superhero-comics-women-sexism/

There are also many apprenticeships for women in construction/plumbing, because they are 1) good-paying jobs (at least in housing booms) and 2) ones where historically women have been denied apprenticeships/union membership.

Oddly enough, there is also gender imbalance in the fashion industry, but not the way you're thinking of it. Sure, women models make WAY more money than male models, but more top designers are men: (http://www.universityobserver.ie/2012/02/06/gender-imbalance...)

Maybe you should do a little googling before you sound off about the lack of hand-wringing? Maybe it's just you who don't care.
Xenon lights are obnoxious because they are so much bluer than standard lights, they are that much more blinding; outdoor lights that are too blue (or full-spectrum) have the paradoxical effect of making everything darker by contrast, and much harder to see.

I can't stand cars that have xenon lights, and I was glad to see their numbers start to decline in the last couple years.
Wrong website. Too many tabs open?
He'd have better luck with Nissan engines :-) (but really, Toyota's sport engines are quite good)
One of the best examples I know of is someone we hired at Viaweb, Jonathan Yedidia.

http://www.disneyresearch.com/people/jonathan-yedidia/

He had a PhD in physics and then became a professional chess player (44th in the world IIRC). He hadn't done much programming, but I knew him from high school and figured someone as smart as him could learn to program pretty quickly. Which is exactly what happened. Now he's a CS researcher.
That's the cruelty of age discrimination. By the time you're any good, opportunities start disappearing.

(At 30, you're still quite hireable, but you do start losing options. Most of the options that disappear from 22 to 30 are of horrendously low quality. I hope that is also true from 30 to 40, 40 to 50, etc.)
Unless I'm mistaken, workforce is the largest single expense of most businesses, not software startups in particular. If anything, as a percentage of operating expenses, 52% sounds kind of low.
Dropbox Offline, Hacker Group Claims Credit
The problem for mainstream is that that is work. Not only is it a ton of work (when adding extra queries over time), but it is a question of educating the masses. That's an even bigger hurdle.
When I feel that the oncoming vehicle's lights are too bright, they get my high beams, which stay on them, despite their frantic high beam flashing. If more people did this, perhaps these people would switch back to their OEM lights.

EDIT: Not talking about the lights described in the article, but people who replace their cars' original lights with brighter ones.
6 years is almost too long for me. They should have a plan to only allow it to stick around for 5 years and not more.

And to me, this is the great thing about Ruby and its communities in general. It is about moving forwards and not afraid of reinventing the wheel if you have a better idea.
<tinfoil>Surely the NSA has nothing to do with this... </tinfoil>
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Not only not being synced.. I'm also seeing some files being much older than what they used to be.
My car also self-levels its xenon lights, and they are never at the other drivers' level. I never see anyone being bothered by them at all.
Maybe because he correctly described the problem:

Think about it like a funnel

1) Some % of people are women

2) Some % of women are programmers

3) Some % of programmers who are women are hackers

PG posits that the biggest "bounce rate" is woman -> programmer rather than woman programmer -> woman hacker

Empirically, I recall the article claiming around 1/5 founding teams having 1 woman, (notably this is not a % of founders but founding teams).

Anecdotally I claim that the % of women programmers is less than this number.

I could get more and more concrete, but I think you get the idea.
George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984
Tell them they're welcome to do so and wish them luck
Honestly, I'm not sure, and I definitely don't think it's some Aaron would have done.
They're stating they have a partial DB leak. https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421842856748126208
It's a compromise: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421842856748126208
I can not accept a "I had to follow orders" rationalization, especially from the giants like Google. It was routinely used by the Nazi officers at the Nuremberg Trials. They had orders, were "afraid of reprimand", and so they went along.

There's a moral conduct that is above paper orders. Each one of us decides how to act when we face a contradiction. Aaron, Snowden - they did one thing. Google, Facebook - did another.
I just read all their pitch decks and they never mentioned exactly how Everpix was - or could be - better than Dropbox, which IMO would be the first obvious competitor.

The overall problem they were attacking is real, so maybe if they were more focused and had distilled better their solution, with a smaller and lest costy team, they could have made it.

Just my opinion from a totally outsider perspective. Take it for what it's worth. I want to congratulate the team for trying and wish better luck next time.
Was this in India? The US hiring process is very different.
Didn't answer the question. What other tools do you use for these other cases?
> communicating/persuading

Snarky, whiny, bitching comments do not a discourse make.
Chrome and Firefox (among many others) use NSS, which accepts patches ;)
I wasn't even taking Rust into consideration. One could make a language the way I said with no problem in a small amount of time. I'm talking no novel stuff. Arrays bound checked at runtime. No attempt at code correctness even has to be offered, get rid of remote code execution vulns, and suddenly you watch HD videos without fearing for your life. It simply isn't done because nobody cares. It's not sexy enough. It's been 30 years now.
"mansplaining"? "boys"? Are you serious?
Great, so when you are looking for a Chinese restaurant in your area, what do you use?
Probably. But due to how huge they are now, I don't blame them for trying to pass this off as a routine maint thing. Shit's either going to blow up or will be OK.
Once again we have leftists commenting on how dividing people into groups is a good thing because of historical racism, segregation, etc..

It's like 1984 newspeak and clear that's it's a sick ideology.
Seems like just names and email addresses.
good answer....I feel stupid for really getting worked up over it and lowering the price and then working to all their demands
so, so, true.

Every time a serious hack-and-reveal happens, I wonder how many times it's _already_ happened, by someone who kept it quiet for their own continued use.
> For performance sensitive code, you sometimes need to deliberately step out of the strongholds of the compiler.

...or just add more primitives to the language.
It's a ridiculous claim.... they want more publicity. Dropbox has done nothing to warrant this attack for 'activism'. Let's hope they don't leak sensitive information if Dropbox reaches out to them and fixes the issue - that would especially be something Aaron wouldn't do.
I don't think your comment is appropriate in this context. The GGP said that he was a manager for awhile but didn't like it. I doubt that the reason he didn't like it was because of some meme about not liking it.

The typical reasons why a developer might not like management are because you're spending more time with people instead of code, you're looking at the product at a higher level rather than dealing with the details of coding, you have to deal with more politics, and you might not have the tools to be successful (i.e. current set of employees were hired before you, not enough budget, other business decisions aren't compatible with success, etc.)
It's unbelievable to realize that the Yahoo or Google never experienced such accident. This is not the time for maintenance. Failover is the key, production should have hardware load balancing to switch to, right? Actually the front end should not be affected with the backend, unless the entire website is compromised.
Race, Class, and Sex in a VC backed technology lanscape
The age discrimination culture (see here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/vc-istan-6-th... ) is an artifact of a few bad-apple VCs with some really ugly intentions. It's there to put this shitty time pressure on people so they act like their careers are going to last 4 years-- and sprint, making unhealthy sacrifices that aren't sustainable-- instead of 40. If people feel like getting to 35 and not being CEO will ruin their lives, they're more inclined to play into the degenerate risk-taking that VCs want them to do with their careers (since it leads them naturally into get-big-or-die business strategies that enrich the VCs).

The danger is that it might become a reality. VCs are the analogue of the last generation's Hollywood entertainment executives and Hollywood's age discrimination culture is horrific. (As a writer, you're done by 50.) If we end up with the ageism problem that Hollywood has, when I am that age, I plan on shanking the parties responsible with dental tools.
Yeah, I have a beautiful little ASUS netbook (the newer ones that ship with Ubuntu) and its brightness ranges from reasonable to just barely on. It's fantastic being able to tune the brightness to the ambient light in the room (as well as save on battery life.)

I really don't care about 4K, I want a monitor that's got a wide range of brightness levels with the same integration with my Ubuntu workstation that that netbook has with its integrated screen. (I plug it in and the OS immediately knows how to communicate with the monitor to adjust the brightness based on a keystroke. )
3 simple things GitHub can do for science
Dropbox partial data leak
If the NSA had something to do with it, odds are we wouldn't know about it to ask if the NSA had something to do with it.
Yeah, this is terribly easy to fake. Also, if you look closely, they repeat a lot of the same e-mail addresses with different "real" names attached to them. e.g., flyman@gmail.com and kidrock@msn.com (which appears right next to each other...)
Well, in my day, when you moved a window all the computer showed was a grey square - no fps issues there.

Sorry, had to say it.
iOS version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cia/id580455042?mt=8
> In the future, don't let yourself get distracted with accent etc

Huh? It's not something we have any control over. We don't understand them. Let me repeat that slowly: We. Don't. Understand them.

Also, note that this argument could be turned around in an instant: "If you want to work in the tech industry, don't distract others with your accent." Who is in the right about it? No one, I would argue. It just needs to be accepted that some portion of people have difficulty understanding some other portion of people. Don't make us feel like jerks for trying to clearly and precisely understand what is being asked.
...which isn't to say that decentralized services are mandatory for the continued health of humanity, but...
Use IP http://108.160.166.62
Seems DNS problem.

Update: Dropbox app seems working well after adding this like to /etc/hosts

108.160.165.62 dropbox.com
The Mera was a Ferrari 308 based Fiero rebody that was sold as a dealer option. You could get a zero mile fake Ferrari just by checking a few boxes and doubling the price of the car.
Google has never officially acknowledged that YouTube uses ffmpeg. I seem to recall it was because of legal reasons they are not allowed to. So you will never hear a Google employee mention anything about YouTube and ffmpeg ;)
No. It's a terrible term that needs to die.
I'm reminded of the gawker attack. So much information was revealed to the attackers unwittingly and they had no clue they were hacked, it could have been so much worse, bank accounts could have been drained, sites could have been used to host exploits or malware, etc.
Rust allows this via `unsafe` blocks, which essentially have C semantics (and allow the use of inline assembly too).
You are apparently incapable of expressing yourself with anything resembling proper English and spelling; perhaps this is the core of your problem?

Our legal system is biased toward those who can persuasively argue their case. If you can't do that, then you need to hire someone who can (e.g., a lawyer) instead of asking strangers on a public website.
Why make the language larger when you can write identical things in libraries? (For Rust, you can use `unsafe` blocks to write very low-level primitives in normal user code and then expose a safe interface above them.)
So you need a template engine..
>Dropbox is lying on their status page

They're saying it's an issue that "arose during routine maintenance", so that doesn't preclude the possibility they had inadvertently exposed a security vulnerability by doing that, leading to it then being exploited.
I started a non-tech business about 10 months ago. Food, actually. I go to work every day, but my business, though profitable, isn't large enough yet to hire. Of course, there are limits to what I can do as one person, so it's likely that I will eventually hire.

This week and next, I've had a young man who I already knew helping me. The restaurant where he works is currently closed for two weeks, so I took that as an opportunity to give him a chance without either of us making any commitments. I already knew that he had a great attitude (well beyond his 20-year-old age), so this was more of a way to see how well he did in my line of work and to let him evaluate what I do and how I like to do things. For both of us, it was a way to confirm that we’d work well together.

In some areas, I've gone out of my way to accommodate him and his circumstances. I asked what he's paid at his current job so I can pay him more than that (by percentage, a good amount, less so when viewed as an hourly rate). I talked through with him paying on a schedule that fit his needs (weekly, it turned out). I took him with me on deliveries to see how I handle customer relations. I had him come along when I spoke to a potential new customer, one that in his presence agreed to receive product from me. I've openly shared my expenses and revenues.

It's articles like the one linked here, along with my own employment history, that taught me there are equitable and forthright ways of treating people. As a business owner, I want to do those things, whether with employees, customers, suppliers, etc.

What I often tell myself, and share with others, is that there are certain things I must do. For example, I have no choice about certain licenses I must have, or tax filings, etc. But everything else is a choice, and I want to make my choices conscientious of the needs of those with whom I work.
Google Programmer 'Blew Off' A $500,000 Salary At A Startup
I have an actual phobia, for hearing people chew. It makes my skin crawl and instantly pisses me off. I get it from my dad apparently. I really wish it didn't affect me so much.
They also apparently took down the CA DMV site today.
FWIW I agree with buckbova and don't think its overboard in the slightest to ask for personal calls to be made out of the office. Nor do I think it unreasonable for this to be part of the company culture. It happens to be part of how we work in the startup I work at (except the desk phone on silent thing) and I'm not aware of any problems this has caused. So I find your pronouncement that its not "reasonable" to be a bit presumptuous.
Well yeah, you can't goose an iron duke and expect it to run fine. You know the engine was running a quart lower because of a smaller oil pan? I had an 87 Celebrity with the same engine. That 2.5L 4 banger was great but slow.
I'm totally with you. This is such a critical point, probably not attracting enough people's attention yet.

In order to achieve real robustness with high availability, clustering is not enough. Distributed computing architecture is the next hot topic we are going to bring up.

Check out the blog page:

http://bingobo.info/blog/bingobo/sql-or-nosql-and-search-eng...
I pledged a fraternity and one of the brothers made us all learn the slogan from the Budweiser bottle, so now whenever anyone mentions Budweiser I think of it, and it is really funny. I'm honestly not sure if I've ever drank Budweiser since college, but its outstanding drinkability rating, I will not forget!