skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The future of flickr, tumblr etc probably look something like pinboard, which capitalized on Yahoo's Delicious fiasco. I love my pinboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_%28website%29

Google invents really cool products, and then kills them. Yahoo buys really cool products, and then starves them.
I was at a conference in New Jersey and met two guys. One said, "I'm from Cornell", and stood back waiting for applause. The next said, "I'm from Rice", and also stood back waiting for applause.

Somewhat perturbed by the expectant looks, having never heard of these institutions, and meaning to be polite and sound interested, I asked, "Are they campus universities or city universities?".

Following twenty minutes of discussing relevant technical developments in our fields, we got on like a house on fire, but the assumption of name-recognition more than a 100km from home (that about 5 x umpteen miles) stood unfirmly.
I carry a note in my diabetes-bag with me (next to that glucagon-injection) saying: "Don't give me insulin. Ever!" I translate that to other languages when I travel abroad.

My biggest fear is to go out because of low sugar, then someone with good intentions killing me, for wanting to help me.
> That's actually a problem with things like
> "Girls Who Code" or whatever it's called:
> while getting girls coding, it also introduces
> the idea that girls don't code, and that when
> they do, it's "novel". Anyway, I don't have a
> solution for that (and I'm not opposed to those
> efforts in any way), it's just something to
> keep in mind.

You make a valid point. But there is some research that suggests that limiting membership to certain groups does make members of that group more likely to participate[1][3]. It sounds counter-intuitive to me, but the research and examples are there.

I agree that in an ideal world, we would simply find the idea of "girls who code" equally weird as the idea of "girls who breathe"

But the unfortunate truth is, there is a gender gap in programming. Its very real - we all know the stats. There is a reason for this gap, and it very likely has something to do with our society, culture, and us. I don't know about you, but I'd like to find out more about what those reasons are, and if there is something I can do to change that, I would. Why not? It would be great!

The one thing I disagree about is that angry attacks or lynch mobs are a good strategy to go about this. Most male programmers are highly intelligent individuals - if the reasoning behind an idea is explained to them in a calm and logical manner, I believe they will be very likely to accept the explanation. In contrast, if the explanation or actions are interpreted as a personal attack, they may feel threatened and will be more likely to just attempt to defend themselves. Because they would be afraid of being personally accused, shamed and socially cast out.

Even ideas such as privilege blindness can be explained in this manner - articles such as [2] and [3] are good examples (I'd guess that the pattern is that a personal story is more likely to produce good results)

[1]: http://www.singlesexschools.org/evidence.html

[2]: http://pgbovine.net/tech-privilege.htm

[3]: https://medium.com/tales-from-the-front/cc9ed433ec3c
This can be modelled using MIP (Mixed Integer Programming) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_integer_programming#Integ...

Probably not the best way but it's doable. In fact one of the exercises of the class I took was similar to that (matching Professors to Classes with their constraints and class constraints)
Aren't dead/alive and cool/uncool orthogonal?

e.g. Microsoft is pretty much alive even though it is uncool.

Quick thought: couldn't we replace Gartner's quadrant thing with this?

I would estimate that for Facebook dAlive/dt > 0 and dCool/dt < 0

Edit: I need to make a list of which companies fall into each Quadrant - I initially thought that nobody was "cool & dead" and, after thinking about it for a bit, realised that a lot of companies fall into this area:

- Symbolics

- SGI

- Cray

- Sun (undead as part of the seriously uncool Oracle)

- Harlequin (Lisp/PostScript vendor)
The parts the author did not hear:

We're watching all FB activity and we're stumped

What social networks should the NSA target?

How can the NSA deal with the impermanence of snapchat content?

"They" being the 18-35s, prime hacker demographic, main target of surveillance.
Jai Singh was a well-respected editor-in-chief at news.com a while back, and he had a staunch reputation for editorial integrity. I don't know if he was fired or if he left voluntarily for something better or just rage-quit, but losing someone like that doesn't mean good things for editorial at Yahoo, IMHO.
Compiling Lambda Expressions: Scala vs. Java 8
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worse is the poaching of mainstream, old-school talent

To read these resumes, you get the sense that Yahoo cannot hire someone who has a creative background outside of a BigCo. That may very well make sense, but it signals that the tools for success are not great product skills, talent, and vision...but rather the toolset's to deal with politics, beuracracy, and the myriad "grease the wheel" problems that are inherent to an ossified corporation.
ohhhh, because it's just so comfortable to have contacts in the first place. what's wrong with embedding somewhere else?
If you want to go to silicon valley for a real internship and you're pursuing a math + CS degree you can get it, maybe on a more established company (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter) but there are several of the bigger startups (Airbnb, Github) that do offer good internship deals.

Check out the 'Who's hiring posts' here at HN at the beginning of each month and you'll see the huge amount of intern positions (even remote) available.

Good luck mate :)

I agree with the rest of the people here about you having dodged a bullet.
I'm an American living in Germany now but I have no clue what the German system is. Can you enlighten me or share a link that explains it well?
I believe that the Foundation does not have a lot of hardware, volunteers own and support them. As of a few years back there is a "tier" system for NetBSD support too, http://www.netbsd.org/ports/#tiers which means that it is up to eg the Vax maintainers to keep things working rather than everyone.
How easily and how severely you get Type II is however also influenced by genetics.
Using CAT5 as analogue cable is fine, it's a cheap, high-quality, low impedance cable. But this article is talking about TCP transmission, sadly enough :(
Tangential: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230345300... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7055115)
> "Different from C, C# and Java, JavaScript is an interpreted language. It means that it needs an "interpreter"."

I have an issue with the above statement. There are no compiled or interpreted "languages". There are only implementations.

There's nothing preventing someone from "compiling" it.
Software Blunders of 2013
Sadly stability is subpar. I migrated to Spotify only because Android app was constantly crashing.
"How about just educating people about the dangers of [thing], and letting them make up their own mind."

Most of us are stupid, not by birth but by training and experience. It's not our fault. Most of us don't do anything for a living that requires us to be more than stupid.

Staking your future and safety on the actual abilities of the actual population is pretty damn risky, I think.
LOL. I remember watching it when I was a child.
Building Companies: Rocket Machine
Sony has always been pretty good in the battery life department, shouldn't it be possible to get more than 40 hours out of a single battery for a simple analog radio? Or is it rahter due to it being simple that they can't do better?

Might be comparing apples with oranges here, but my PCM-M10 easily lasts >60 hours on two of such batteries. And that includes reading from SD card, processing/converting mp3, DA conversion and an LCD display.
I don't think you can really play the same game in Python. The idea of separation of types that occurs in Haskell will really require static typing. It means that entire processing pipelines in your code are completely specialized to one type of string or the other (or generalized to both) with no uncertainty.
Same here. Probably one of those modern web sites optimized for Google Chrome.
It would be interesting to build something to detect an impersonating AP. You could just search for a random non-existent SSID and log when a connection is made.
It seems to be kind of insane having to choose between a "better functional" and a "better OOP" language.
Why not just combine the good parts into a single language.

That would probably be more consistent than the current 80%OCaml + 50%C# => F# mess.
Why Scientists Should Embrace the Liberal Arts
Hey guys!

I see there's a lot of great suggestions and critics here!

Since it's an open source project, you can feel free to open a pull request telling which resource you think it's better to be there, or which one should be removed. As well help me correct the grammar errors. I'm from Brazil, and my english is not that good.

I'm really glad about all the opinions, and for sure the site will be improved from now on.

Thanks!
That said, there will be a correlation between Type I and amount of people in a certain branch of work.

First, because there are a lot of professions one is not allowed to (this is different per country, obviously), but in general professions where you operate machines (pilot, truckdriver, sawmills etc) or which are physical (police, army, firefighters) and many more.

Which means that other, "Type I-friendly" professions get more Type I diabetics, obviously.

Sitting around all day in an office, is not particularly good for your Type I, but it's not dangerous either.

So, yes, there might be a correlation between certain professions and the amount of Type I diabetics they attract, but that is cause-and-effect turned around: not the profession causing the desease, but the desease preferring certain professions.
Right, though for a lot of audio guys it's a bit unnerving to be working with unshielded cable.
No need to be snarky. OP stated their opinion in a well thought out, polite way. If you disagree or think OP is an idiot, maybe it's best if you just keep that to yourself.
I was just listening to Slate's political gabfest podcast...they talked about the NSA. It occurred to me that the media is still only talking about phone call metadata while the rest of us have been in the weeds of the rest of their activities, which are far more intrusive than metadata...

How do you get that message to people?
I think this might be very effective tactic to make sure your data is distributed to government services.

Think about it: Everyone is yelling on top of their lungs that Microsoft is giving your data, as if only Microsoft is doing that.

Now your average Joe will think that he would be rather using other services, e.g. Google because he thinks that only Microsoft is giving away your data ergo Google does not.

I'm not even joking, I've heard number of times stuff like "I'm on Ubuntu and it's Linux, suck it NSA!" it's not even funny.
"always struck me as one of the least competent"

Competence is a wishy-washy phrase.
I am also on the $4.99/month plan. From what I can see is that for people already on the plan it stays the same. The article reads that if you are subscriped to a plan you will not be moved. I assume they will keep the $5 because the only difference is no ads vs the free version.
Yes, By no means did I mean to say that getting Type II is always "the person's own fault". Not at all!

I included "other medical conditions" which includes "genetics" too. But I guess that was not entirely clear. I've edited my comment to point that out more clearly.

Sorry if I hurt anyone, it was not intended!
Good points, I tend to mix it up, rarely going parens-free style, but also not parens by default either.

If you wanted to be really explicit you could do:

list.filter(x=> isEven(x)).foreach(x=> println(x))

yuck ;-)
Personal flying mini helicopter
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AS a Type I, my doctor advised me strongly to start wearing glasses and stop wearing lenses. Because they would apparently increase the risk of early blindness even more.
XP security updates continued until July 2015
Nagios is great, it's not just "is this host up?", but also SSL checking, module checks for CMS's.. :)
When I first read the article I was thinking that analog audio was send over those cables. I could not believe the article is about digital signals.

It's amazing how some people are fooling themselves.
Why do washing machines have windows?
"I'm on Ubuntu and it's Linux, suck it NSA!" --- now my favorite quote.
Good old "something out there is worse" excuse.
America! Love it leave it!
Introducing Worlds First Connected Toothbrush
I write software for universities and have many experiences that confirm this. It need not necessarily be direct negative reviews, but the perception of power leaving the building or the hands of those who currently wield it. Universities do not normally face the same commercial pressures internally that a company would, so academics often don't take well to it.

Shitty software that management chose themselves and can control is always seen as a better option than letting students run the place.
How to do Test Driven Development (TDD) for iOS
I donated 50 bucks. These guys have been awesome for a long time. Sorry it took me this long to donate.

EDIT: Here's the thing. I don't directly use OpenBSD, but they have influenced more than just UNIX for a long time.
The question's been asked "can a company die without an obvious challenger?" Yes, it can.

A company, platform, or technology can "die" in the sense that it loses the initiative, and more importantly, the ability to drive an industry and/or conversation, even though it hasn't yet died.

Apple was "dead" through most of the 1990s. It simply didn't matter, outside of the graphics and design areas, and for a very small cadre of fervent fans. The turnaround shocked me.

IBM very nearly died in the early 1990s, as its place as the center of the business computing world was shaken by anti-trust actions, Microsoft, and the upsurge in Unix vendors. The company's never fully regained its former footing, though it did recover largely.

Microsoft has been in the process of dying for most of the past decade. A highly symbolic moment for me was when The Economist newspaper ran a cover showing the leaders in tech: Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Microsoft wasn't even mentioned (it reminds me of an earlier revealing moment when the CEO of Visa International named the company's biggest rivals: MasterCard, AmEx, and Microsoft -- I guess it didn't pay to Discover...).

Sun Microsystems was fingered for the walking dead as Linux became ascendant, with its acquisition by Oracle (a panic response of both companies, coming at least five years too late to do either any good) coming long after it was obvious the company had not only staggered but was mortally wounded.

One thing to realize is that a fading icon is often not replaced by a direct competitor, but by one which addresses short

Facebook has dominated Silicon Valley for the past 5 years, stealing initiative from Google (who seems to be somewhat winning it back). Part of the situation is that "traditional" social networking is becoming passe, in part because it's become too Byzantine, and too intrusive. Social networks -- real social networks, not the online instantiations of them -- work best when the groups are relatively small, Dunbar's number is respected, and there's a level of insularity around any given group. TheFacebook at Harvard had those features. Facebook, Inc., 1 billion served, doesn't, and cannot. Another secret is that one of the secret sauces of social is photo sharing (still hard if you don't have your own dedicated server), and that services are sprouting up to offer this (Imgur, Snapchat, etc.), which is essentially disrupting the former Social glue much the way Craigslist gutted classified newspaper advertising in the late 1990s.

I'd like to think that the constant drumbeat of surveillance state revelations we can thank heros and patriots Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, and Glen Greenwald for are having an effect, though I think that may be giving the general public a bit too much credit. Not totally sure of that though.
If you were counting on TrueCrypt for "plausible deniability" than you are stupid.

That's "magic bullet" security/magic thinking if I've ever heard it...
Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
Ah, the captive audience model. Remarkably successful.
This reminds me a lot of the open source project GAUNTLT. I'd highly recommend it. http://gauntlt.org/
It would sound even better if he freezes the cable first :)

Seriously though, i would have expected the author to have some basic knowledge of digital signals. Audiophiles are are different breed of people I guess.
Bitcloud: A Decentralized Cloud Based on Proof of Bandwidth
TSA Pat-Down At DIA Leads To Sex Assault Investigation « CBS Denver
Not only that but also, as SSIDs are often unique, it's possible to completely passively track all the locations your device has been. More info in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iEaKPRb9A
That's not bad, I like the way you've framed the landing page, it feels natural and organic.
Thanks, yeah it sounds like the second half of the course would definitely be interesting. I won't be able to do the course this time around but I'll keep an eye out for future offerings. Might you consider an advanced course in the future? :)
What is the optimum amount to invest in a Google Ad words campaign?
>AudioQuest proved to me that we still have honest manufacturers around the globe.

That's got to be my favorite.
Thanks! Gumroad's embed is a pretty cool feature
It used to have a really obnoxious and entirely useless UI around the actual document. But recently links to scribd point to plain PDF so I made my peace with it.
It looks awesome. I always wanted to have a scraping tool like this one !
Show HN: English startup Updatey launches today
Google develops contact lens glucose monitor
Near the top of Nimrod's homepage (http://nimrod-lang.org/) is the following quotation, which leads me to believe that the language creators think they have picked a good name:

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
-- D. E. Knuth

But "Nimrod" might not be as good of a name as they hope. The biblical Nimrod was a "mighty hunter", and the name may have that connotation in Europe: the British seem to have always had a warship or a warplane (or both) named Nimrod, for instance. But in the US, due to the ironic use of the name by Bugs Bunny to address Elmer Fudd, we tend to associate "Nimrod" with incompetence and gullibility.
Addresses Revealed or how to use LLDB and Reveal in the real world
I guess you work for OpenERP, is there a reason why you use "tweet to pay" links on your website for these videos? It's absolutely annoying.

In this context, what is up with the hyperbole and the dissing of Drupal?

Now, about this tool, great video for consultants and marketing guys, but from a technical stand point, where can I learn more about it? Some questions:

- Is there structured content? Content types?
- How does templating work?
- How does your WYSIWYG approach impact large and interconnected websites? I personally think WYSIWG is usually a fool's errand.
and very likely an online degree would not be recognized

The actual degree that will be granted for this particular program is simply "MS in Computer Science" from Georgia Tech. So it is not going to differentiated from the on-campus degree.
It seems that in post-2013 articles on encryption the phrase "a malicious 3rd party" has been completely replaced by the 3-letter acronym: NSA.
My Face, Digitally Recognized
Went there in a rush, only to find out that "starting today Rdio is free IN THE US on the web" (emphasis mine). Bummer.
A friend build a tool called hyperspec that can be used to create integration tests on your HTTP APIs.

https://github.com/hannestyden/hyperspec
Would be nice if it had the Functional JavaScript book by Fogus.
Are You Practising Safe Hex?
Oh yeah, I jumped ship from Opera sync to Pinboard a while ago, but I have yet to move all my Chrome and Opera bookmarks.
Notice the prices at the bottom of the article. This seems to be the product page for the most expensive one: http://www.audioquest.com/ethernet/diamond
If you're in a country where the government would torture you indefinitely just for suspecting that you have a hidden TrueCrypt volume, you're probably screwed anyway if you ever appear on their radar. At that point you probably did something else besides using encryption that would be sufficiently susicious to get you tortured.

Plausible deniability is simply not a useful defense against someone that would decide to torture you for a mere suspicion.
Facebook has always been uncool. The uncool people are just saying this now to sound cool.
Why don't you move to a real corrupt & totalitarian country - say North Korea - that will make you feel better about living in Russia quickly.
I understand the whole 'paradox of choice' thing - but this should never be seen as a negative. It is a sign of a strong, healthy community making lots of progress.

If you're looking for popular tech, i think a good proxy is github stars.
I meant the specific problems I was having with Wordpress: hosted, dynamic pages and constant upgrades. As Ghost gains popularity it will just become another target for spammers and will require constant vigilance to protect your blog if you're self-hosting.

Update: fixed an unclear anaphora.
Sometimes. It depends on how I feel.
"Even "secure" companies like Fastmail and others comply if they receive a court order for information on specific users."

Your quotes are appropriate. It is not secure if there is a man in the middle who can turn my mail over to the government, even when they are presented with a court order.
In the official Truecrypt website, "plausible deniability" is one of its selling points.
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Or books either. Probably $1,000 in books per year. Maybe more.
Code Complete is a great book.
Fair enough.

We haven't run into those issues. They tend to order their supplies off Amazon, but I don't know much about what they choose or why.
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Right, the analysis in the article assumes that there is no cost to the government of indefinite torture.

Is it possible to hide the fact that you have a Truecrypt volume? Or are there always headers or signatures that give it away?
"Only 12 Showed Up To Buy iPhones" Apple's China Expansion Already A Flop?
This kind of sky high prices necessarily deprives a large number of intelligent and brilliant people from ever getting a college education in USA. This directly has an impact on the economy in the long run. Instead of funding an expensive military, US fed govt should just pay for every ones college education and recover it over the entire working life of the person in small bits. Better to have high national debt in return for an extremely well educated population instead of a white elephant of a military.
They receive a list from the school and buy what is on the list.

In general, we do have to tell them what to buy sometimes.
To answer questions such as;

* Is it running?
* Is there any water in it?
* Is my cycling kit in there?
* Where is the cat?
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"with each passing day and the Yahoo home page continues to feature irritating ads with zooming cars and flying coke cans"

Seems like the ads are working to me.