skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the Agile Manifesto is saying "Don't build a bash script, type it in by hand each time." I think it's saying "Don't assume that a vendor can sell you software to make agile happen - it's up to the people to interact with each other in less-burdensome ways."
It's not like TrueCar and Costco don't exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiate...
mkessy, you are hellbanned.
Well, I'll add this then to your experiences: Having my sons was the best thing that ever happened in my life, and I can think of no event in the future that could ever compare to the joy and pride that I feel every day that is a direct result of their existence. Children are life changing, that much is true; in every way. I wouldn't change a thing though.

They are a net benefit to the world already based on the feelings they've created in others alone, and they are only 6 and 4.

I do however recognize that I'm in a much better position for the most important role I'll ever have now than I would have been at any point in my life previously. That's why I support the inclusion of contraception in third world aid - the better parents we can create, the better children they will create. In fact, most of the time it is not that people have had children, it's when they've had children.

I'd suggest that your sample size is rather small and (perhaps, just guessing here obviously) skewed unequally to youth. Give it time. Overall I think you have extremely noble intentions, and I commend you for that. I disagree with your ideas regarding implementation though. Cheers. :-)

EDIT: I hope you see this. I saw above that your objection stems at least in part from the traditional Catholic doctrine. Personally I feel this position (of the church) is illogical and counter productive, however I completely understand the argument being made. You should not be afraid to state this immediately. Wikipedia has an excellent write up on this stance and it does make solid points, although I feel the deductive reasoning behind the argument is quite lacking. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_contraceptio...)

That being said, It is highly likely this opinion will chance sooner rather than later. Would you be inclined to re-evaluate your opinion at that time? Why or why not?
This is the opposite, it works in zsh but not bash.
To me, it's not so much an issue of "information wants to be free" as it is "information wants to be put to productive use." In this case, the university had data that some enterprising students found they could use to make students' lives easier. They didn't just appropriate information; they added value to information. They organized it, and channeled it toward a useful purpose. They built a better Bluebook.

Yale can decide how the information is used. But if someone within the Yale community comes up with a Yale-beneficial use for the information, Yale should embrace that use.

I don't think this was a free-speech issue, so much as a missing-the-boat issue. Yale should be nurturing its hackers. Yale has an excellent CS program (I say this as a Yale alumnus), but in recent decades, it's not been much of a countercultural or hackerish place to be. Yale is top-notch at producing lawyers and investment bankers. It needs to get better at producing hackers. (By many recent accounts, it's starting to get considerably better. Maybe this episode will inspire a rethinking of sorts.)
Yale sponsorship?

To collect this data, Yale hands out surveys and students generate the content.

Yale needs the students to gather this data but the students do not need Yale. They could just as easily aggregate this data on an external website. It seems that they even have the ability to auth against Yale servers.

This content is generated by students and is supposed to be used to improve the University for the students. If Yale doesnt trust its own students with their own data it opens up the question of what the relationship between Yale and its students is and whether Yale is the kind of place for kids who understand how technology is shaping democracy, privacy, and our culture in general.
If you're planning to finance, TrueCar's whitelabel through PenFed Credit Union offers 0% financing for cars bought through them https://www.penfed.org/PenFed-Car-Buying-Service/?WT.ac=1242
Sorry to hear this, they were a great inspiration to us. If anyone is looking for a similar car buying service, check out https://haggledaddy.com
What have been the useful benefits of this research?

I don't see any obvious examples--does it help things like smaller fabrication for chips?

EDIT:

Folks, I'm not being a jerk here. For example, a lot of the engineering that went into missles and the space program (integrated circuits, GPS, etc.) has application elsewhere.

Fundamental science research into materials and electromagnetics has given us wifi, radio, and television. Research into x-rays and radioactivity gave us medical x-rays and radiotagging of isotopes for understanding reactions.

High-energy physics research seems to have no immediate or even long-term application beyond satisfying "How does this stuff hold together?"--my question about chip fabrication was specifically in regards to the idea that things like advanced lithography techniques probably are advanced by this research.

The parent made this claim:

High energy physics is one of the leading fields that drives scientific progress forward.

I am simply asking this assertion to be justified and elaborated upon for those of us unfamiliar with those impacts.
It's a shame, the icon for Gravity Byte looks really nice, but then the screenshots put me off instantly.
Also: 1) an infinite loop will never use more than one CPU. Because of that, on almost any hardware less than 10 years old, normal users might barely notice an infinite loop that doesn't do I/O. A fork bomb, on the other hand, will try and create 2*N processes after N iterations, all of them competing on equal footing with your shell for CPU time and memory.

2) it is fairly easy to kill an infinite loop. Killing the explosion of processes that a fork bomb creates is a different thing. Between the time that you detect the process ID of a process to kill and the time you kill it, that process may have spawned a few new processes.

More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb#Defusing
Well, first, TrueCar doesn't exist: http://www.truecar.com/. Second, what does Costco do for you in terms of getting a better price? In either case I don't believe they deal with pre-owned cars, which is really the best bang for your buck IMHO.

But yes, my main point is that we should not just submit to the will of the car dealers and take their "best price everz" as gospel. Things like CarWoo and TrueCar need to exist, if only to protect those less likely to haggle face to face.

Edit: oh, TrueCar does exist, just looks super spammy.
Can you elaborate on this? Our goal is to be exactly the opposite of this -- to be eminently usable. So I'm curious what you're seeing specifically.
>HN readers in these gender discussions are so outright condescending, hateful, and knowingly, deliberately unreasonable-- not to mention "othering"

Seriously, wtf people?

>Thank you for being a voice of reason

Oh, I thought you were referring to the disgusting tripe you replied to. Wow, amazing how people can view things differently huh?
I'm sorry but it's patently obvious that "every other organization is a men's organization" is hyperbole. You're making a very forced semantic argument that applies to pretty much everyone.

99.999% of feminists would agree that there are institutions dominated by women, they just happen to be the hyper-minority. You're doing exactly what's done every time a feminist discussion comes up, deliberately misrepresenting feminism in an attempt to discredit it.

Please show me these feminists that want to prohibit men from addressing men's issues. Or provide a shred of evidence for any of your claims. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but don't post tired unsubstantiated bullshit and pretend you've critically engaged the subject.
More a reply to oneeyedpigeon than pstuart, but,

Most people seem to think C.S. Lewis wrote nothing except Narnia. This isn't the case; Lewis was a convert to Christianity and wrote forcefully and critically about it, even while he subscribed to it. A good example of this is Mere Christianity.

Narnia itself was a critique: yes, Aslan is Jesus, but Lewis' point wasn't "Jesus loves you!" It was "Jesus is a force of nature and he is REALLY FUCKING SCARY."

He's not the kind of man I like defending, but Lewis wasn't doing "propaganda" any more than Dante was doing "propaganda" when he wrote Inferno. He was trying to speak truth to power and using fiction to do it.
There's a common idiom about progress that goes along the lines of "we always overestimate what can be done in the next 5 years and always underestimate what can be done in 10." (Though sometimes the first part is 1 year or 2 years.) This is especially true when it comes to long term socio-economic development. Look at the South Korea portrayed on the TV show "M.A.S.H.", that's the South Korea of the 1950s, and to some extent it was still a common view of South Korea when the show aired in the late '70s and early '80s. But from 1980 to 1990 South Korea's GDP tripled, and from 1990 to 2000 it more than doubled, and it did so again from 2000 to 2010. Today the people in South Korea are not just richer, per person, than Americans were in 1950 they are richer than Americans were in 1980, when M.A.S.H. was on the air. That sort of thing is very difficult to conceptualize, because humans are just generally not good at understanding geometric growth.

But the same trends are happening elsewhere. Mexico, for example, is becoming wealthier. If they can sort out their huge political and security problems in their country then they can easily join the developed world soon. The same goes for Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and China. And a decade from now there will be yet more countries who will have moved into firing distance of becoming a developed country too, and even more countries moving out of poverty and into the developing world as well. In 2050 there are many parts of the world that we will put in the same mental bucket of development status as the US/Europe et al today, places like Morocco, the Philippines, even Nigeria.

One of the problems people often have with history is lack of perspective and cultural bias. People can be exposed to countless portrayals of historical poverty and lack of development in America's past, for example, and yet still fail to draw a line of similarity to undeveloped or developing parts of the world today. Those people aren't so different from us, if given a chance they can do amazing things.
Ask HN: Entitlement of entrepreneurs tricking you for free consulting.
I've had a few scenarios where I interviewed for a company that is run by one person. A few days later (or weeks) this person either emails me or calls me asking to have a ten minute meeting about the 'gig'. During the meeting they ask me for a bunch of advice that I'm not charging for. The reason I answer the questions is I am assuming this entire meeting is a precursor to being hired or gauging me as a potential hire. I then give them a bunch of useful advice that they overtly tell me is useful and that they make real-world decisions based on. Then they don't hire me, they don't contact me .... and they move on.

I now spot this a mile away and when they do this I overtly tell them that I don't do free consulting and put the clamp down pretty quick.

I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced this technique that these people use? Do you look at it the way I do or is this just 'normal' in your eyes?
I highly recommend augmenting the shell with mongo hacker http://tylerbrock.github.io/mongo-hacker/

Internally we use a modified version that sorts object keys before displaying, and recognises various time fields from our schema showing the values in localtime.
I'm looking into Earth Class Mail and alternatives right now, and I think more modern/advanced competition could definitely do well (and leverage most of what Outbox has built).

Right now these services mostly target a very niche market of expats, travelers, etc, but I could definitely see an argument (just from a convenience perspective) of why this could be greatly expanded to a much more general audience.
For those with a preference for Coursera type of learning, there's a course coming up in April that will cover much of the same material — https://www.coursera.org/course/maps
Their service is run by truecar.
PyCon 2014 schedule is now available
The service is still up and running. It is also run by truecar.
> Orwell might have erred with the date

Not really.
Many people listen almost exclusively to bass heavy music, which does turn out sounding 'better' compared to more balanced headphones.
Yeah... OpenBSD is _way_ more transparent than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
40 percent of S.F. shuttle riders would move without chartered bus service
>Does anyone have ideas about what could be done to educate...

Well the problem with debate is that everyone wants to "educate" the other side. So my idea is that you prove you are actually right, and then maybe people will accept your views.
Code calculates Chinese Zodiac sign from birthdate -  Code Golf
Person announces they're missing via tumblr
They arent actually using TCP_CORK though (its not portable), they are just constructing a cork-like behaviour, using writev to write all the parts at once.
Does anyone have ideas about what could be done to educate against the constant same old "If it's just for women, it's sexism, same as if we said something was just for men" crap? I mean this is basically internet discussion canon at this point

At this point, you have to believe that comments like this (along with the "why no programs to get more male teachers?" gem) are pure trolling and not people trying to express new or compelling ideas.

I mean, do these guys think that they are such brilliant thinkers that they are the first ever to try apply symmetry to an asymmetrical context?
> I'm against these, because I'm against gender discrimination. Gender discrimination means that one gender is treated differently from another.

As a society, we accept discrimination in order to build a better and more equitable future.

SV prides itself on being a meritocracy, but it isn't a perfect one. People were born with money and connections have it much easier than the average schmo off the street. But certain minorities in our field* also have the added burden of having to battle pervasive stereotypes that sometimes borders on downright hostility on top of a near complete lack of a support network.

In order to become a more perfect meritocracy, we should strive to level the playground for everyone, but we can't easily tilt the playground such that average schmo's are on equal standing with people born into SV royalty, but we can make some minor shifts to help overcome the burden of being stereotyped because of what you look like.

So we accept some discrimination. And we benefit from it. The fact of the matter is that having diversity in startups is A Good Thing and increases the odds of success (unless your plan is to only sell your product to people who look/act/think just like you).

* Yes, women are the majority in the world, but for this and all discussions, it is important to limit ourselves to a field; in this case, tech startups. I would be just as supportive of a conference/support group/etc. for promoting and helping male child care workers (95% female) to overcome the stereotype of men being unfit for child care.
This is definitely my view.

I'd honestly be happy just to see a service in the "use us as your mailing address" market with lower and less byzantine pricing than Earth Class Mail ($20/mo plus $5/mo for searchable PDFs, $1.50/piece to actually scan mail, $20 to deposit a check, $4.95/mo to shred mail, $0.30/mo/piece to store mail, etc.) and without the subtly deceitful tactics of VirtualPostMail (auto-applied promo codes that hide what the actual ongoing service limits are, big listed pricing that actually doubles after 3 months, etc).
There are financial donations and service donations. The latter can be much more effective. A really effective donation is spending one Saturday a month helping to fix computer problems at a non-profit of your choice. We also used to create refurbished computers for them out of donations from folks with excess computers.
Its simplicity accounts for its robustness. In a hundred years I can still see something very much like like email working precisely because it is simple.
Kevin O'Leary says 3.5 billion ppl living in poverty is 'fantastic news'.
Right, encrypting it beforehand makes no difference whatsoever & the merchant must consider that they have PCI obligations so long as they host the form within the context of their same origin.
Indeed, and I've found HN is (for the interwebs at least) pretty tolerant of unpopular opinions, provided there is substance behind them.

Regardless I hope you never feel burdened at sharing your opinions again. You and I are very different in our experiences and backgrounds, that much I can deduct easily. It's a respectful difference of opinion though that allows each of us to grow.
The crypto currency market = "winner take all" market ("all" >= 80%). That said, if the capital costs (mostly mining hardware) and operating costs (mostly electricity, with some rent and labor) leave room for a low-cost producer to enter the market (and the switching costs are not too high). Time will tell. Evolution will do its magic and the fittest will survive (at least until the wheel turns round again). Regardless of who "wins," crypto-currency-based disruptors are a comin' to a status quo near you. And that's a good thing.
Global bank corporate structures
To customers of Network Solutions who are considering moving their domains off the service:

When they (inevitably) recant on this policy, please continue your plans to transfer out of their service, even though the phone calls required will make it painful to do so.

This goes way beyond a situation in which the company (Network Solutions) needs to learn a lesson about customer management and into the area where the industry as a whole needs to learn a lesson about what happens to companies that go this far off the deep end and the best way for that to happen is the rapid death of Network Solutions.
>The only reason "lunatic" feminists seem more visible is because people feel compelled to point out the most extreme views of "lunatic" feminists every single time there is a discussion of feminism.

No, that is not the only reason. The fact that their beliefs are mainstream, and not a fringe at all is a major reason they seem more visible. These are the bulk of the women's studies departments at universities. These are the most mainstream organizations like NOW. They are the ones actively fighting against equality, and screaming hate at men for daring to want to talk about men's issues.

>When in fact her position is nowhere close to that

Her position is exactly that, and she has repeatedly campaigned to prevent legalized prostitution. She literally views consensual sex between adults as a violent act, with the woman always the victim and the man always the aggressor. You even quoted as much, yet you act like it is a lie? That does not seem like the actions of someone engaging in an honest, good faith attempt at discussion.
That's a very valid observation and one of the reasons that bitcoin will accumulate real value as money reserve over time. It will start its mass adoption as an 'intermediate currency', until people get fed up with exorbitant fees and just leave their money as bitcoins. People will understand that there is an inherent trade off between trust and volatility in bitcoin, which is a positive thing.

Eventhough companies like coinbase are well positioned to profit from exchange rates, bitcoin is poised to generate much more value than that.
> The real reason for it's popularity is that a lot of the ruby guys seemed to have jumped to Node.js :)

I think it's because a lot of front-end developers jumped to Node.
Please don't get PHP tattooed on your arm.
Is is to late for a ticket to the moon? D8tXoCUUuj14dssYxc2Y85hgnUKYM2w9aj
> isn't really known for its willingness .. to be led around by the nose by anyone

This part is definitely true. 4chan users will block your advertisements and can smell shilling and astroturfing from a mile away.

"Unwilling to pay for things" I'm not sure is 100% accurate. 4chan may be home to pirates, cheapskates, and free software advocates, but it's also home to some of the most dedicated hobbyists, collectors, and consumers in the world. See /g/'s "battlestation" threads (incredibly decked-out computer rooms), the girls of the cosplay board who spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on costumes and obscure fashion, the people who travel to Japan twice a year to buy pornographic comic books at Comiket, and so on.

I think there are opportunities to be found here, but you have to be an active member of some board to know what its needs are, and even then it would involve a lot more elbow grease than achieving success among a less savvy userbase might. Just making an app and buying some ads isn't going to get you anywhere. There is precedent here, however, in indie game development, where it's fairly common at this point for new devs to be 4chan users who get most of their early attention and users from threads on /v/ or the amateur game development generals.

EDIT: Some random ideas for small businesses or small startups that could be marketed to 4chan effectively:

Retro console repair and modding services would be popular on the retro games board.

The fan translation scenes for anime, manga, and video games are mostly controlled by 4chan users at this point. Many of these groups could go legit with some funding (see Crunchyroll, which was basically an anime fansubbing group that got the funding to acquire broadcast rights for simulcasted subtitled anime and grew very quickly, or Carpe Fulgur, two goons that translate Japanese indie games).

Import services are an obvious choice. Indeed, jlist has been advertising with 4chan almost since its inception, and there's no reason there couldn't be more competition in this space.
The #OneGameAMonth 2013 post-mortem
Might be. I must admit, that I do not know Brave New World as good as 1984.

Might be, that there are more exact descriptions of our future around. But one thing I think is dominant and alarming: The "free" world does not converge to a system of even rights and freedom for all, but into a new system of control and inequality, that might in turn even top the system of the middle ages.
I think that women are often put off by the nasty, aggressive vibe in tech. No one wants to go into an industry where they will get sworn at, or have snide remarks made at them. Here are some examples just from this thread:

>you're pretty fucking ignorant and stubborn and just dickish on the whole.

>no need to get your panties in a bunch over this.

>Could you kindly s tfu please?
I was thinking this exact thing. I didnt even realize they were still in business. Although they sound more like a Jesse Willms scam now than a real business.
Cdist 3.0.3 release contains support for hostname setting
Spamming people on Facebook to generate leads for ambulance-chasing lawyers? This sounds super sleazy. I'm glad to hear they shut you down. Congrats on the money, I guess.
I'm going to work on writing this up. Lots of reasons and it deserves a detailed post-mortem.
Not really. Yes, some parts are a bit involved, but it's better thanmost compilers out there. People are complaining at a pretty high level here.

The death of the .NET port can directly be attributed to Microsoft's marketing of the platform. If they manage to make people question whether .NET will still be alive in 10 years, it's no surprise that people start dropping support for it.