skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You aren't the one who gets to decide when other people feel uncomfortable.

... because that's your job, I suppose?
How about getting teachers to create courses online: https://versal.com/
Given his god-like status in the VC community -- and of the company he founded, which until recently has boasted of its "continuing relationship" with Mr. Perkins -- it's more than appropriate:

http://www.kpcb.com/teams/partners-emeriti
> Even if it means suicide.

Erm, this is why nuclear deterrents work.
"How very odd that despite all of our behaviour being so non-offensive and non-exclusionary, we don't seem to have any women who want to hang around this forum with us..."

Correlation -> Causation?

Is that seriously why you think there aren't more women on HN? Because it's offensive and exclusionary against women?
I'll take that as a "I want you to burden yourself with justifying your position, but I'm not going to commit to any movement on my own position, and for that matter, I won't even commit to a position, I'm just lobbing a burden at you."

I choose not to play along.
Our school switched from bb to Edvance360. (http://edvance360.com).

I have no further comment to offer on this.
"Now, as an angel investor in six startups ..."

See there was a silver lining about being acquired twice by Google :-). Could it be re-written as "How to use Google to get FU money so that I could sit back and build the things I really wanted to build." ?
Should have named it bro ;)
It is also not very verbose (most of the time (I'm looking at you list-comprehensions))
I used to work in this space. A little background on the primary LMS Companies:

Blackboard
Desire2Learn
Instructure - Canvas
Moodle (Open Source)
Sakai (Open Source)

Blackboard was first to market, went public and gained tremendous market share across Higher-Ed. They acquired much of the competition along the way (WebCT and Angel).

Desire2Learn was boot-strapped, slower to grow but had traction with state-wide systems. Blackboard sued them over patents, went into a whole legal mess and ended with a cross-liscence agreement for the 'greater good' of education. After litigation, Desire2Learn grew substantially and took on 80M of venture funding in 2013, and is on-track for IPO.

Instructure (Product called Canvas) is the newcomer and 'next-generation' platform. It's designed well and marketed far better than the incumbents. It's growing much faster (for good reason) then the others, and on-track for IPO as well. They've done a good job of UX and getting involved at the professor/teacher level to create a following for the platform.

Open source:
Sakai is a collaboration of several Higher-Ed institutions to develop their own platform. It was never great and last I heard support is dropping.

Moodle by market-share is the largest. There are several companies which offer hosting/support for Moodle (A large one in NA being Moodlerooms, which Blackboard also acquired).
Well I don't see any evidence that he's tried to do that so he hasn't exactly failed at it, has he?
As a general rule, women don't "hit on" men here in Sweden either. Like everywhere else, they indicate interest in more subtle ways - sometimes unconsciously. The male who is able to pick up on (and then follow up on) these cues is the male who scores.

Also, the "slutty northern European women" stereotype just comes from the way they behave abroad, when they lose some inhibitions since nobody from back home is around to pass judgment on them.
Go where your target market is. In some cases, it means sites like Quora, local meetups, and conferences. In others, it means cold-calling random people.
> Because robot do not need fuel, maintenance, or spare parts.

Actually, they do need those - but most likely have significantly lower maintenance/upkeep costs than the average soldier. Still a big savings.

Good point about drilling time. Maybe less man-hours in drilling overall, but more per head?
our school switched from blackboard to webct and all I can say is good riddance!
When long form is bad form
As a current student user of Blackboard, the main problem lies within the professors. The professors either struggle to grasp the Blackboard system, or are technically sound to hate it enough to want it to change. The learning curve is unfortunately very high for most professors, which happen to be of an age greater than 40. I think the system could be more user friendly to the professors and students, but convincing a university to make a large scale upgrade will not be easy.
I have fortunately not had to deal with Blackboard in my role as a software developer at a university, who -- despite their otherwise questionable choices -- have fortunately migrated to Moodle. I've used Moodle as a student and it seems pretty good.

Anyway, my hands are still dirtied by plenty of other similar systems. They are almost all terrible: expensive, badly designed and even more poorly implemented. It's endemic in the sector to be sold snake oil. I had a thought why this might be the case, which I wrote about [1] In summary, despite the seemingly low-hanging fruit -- i.e. the problems these packages solve aren't difficult -- there's no technical incentive to disrupt such a closed market.

However, I cannot fathom how this happened in the first place. Presumably, 20-years-ago, when these types of packages were first on the market, they wouldn't have been much better than using bits of paper (their modern descendants aren't, so it stands to reason). Thus the only conclusion I'm able to reach is that it's a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" situation that has persisted and grown out of control.

[1] http://xoph.co/20130823/on-enterprise-software/
> we were safer with dedicated airmen manning Minuteman silo switches.

Competence is fleeting. A hundred years after Napoleon France produced the generals who 'fought' WW I.
I think we are going to offer it under backer.app.net/project-name. It's something worth testing I think.

fwiw I have personally witnessed a significant percentage of consumers accusing a crowdfunding project of being a "scam" if it is hosted on their own domain rather than an impartial 3rd party like Kickstarter. I think that is one of the reasons consumers like Kickstarter vs self-hosted crowdfunding.

Additionally, in the Bitcoin use-case, if you have a page on your subdomain powered by Backer that accept Bitcoin, consumers will be confused and angrily say that you already accept Bitcoin because that page exists. That is also something we learned first-hand.
So.... Godwin doesn't apply in mainstream media then ?
Word-wrap in Ruby
> How many of those "learning to code" really become programmers and end up doing it for a living, or making habitual use of pointers or some other concept that a programmer must/must not deal with in their first programming language?

I recently talked with someone from an employment agency that deals mainly with IT companies (I live in the UK). The gentleman stated that since I don't already work in an area if IT, my chances of getting into it are very slim. He also said that many people who work in IT often start in a company in an administration context or something similar. Since I work as an arborist, I have practically no chance.

I started learning C++ nearly two years ago, then switched to straight C. Most of my programs have very little practical use, but almost all the code that I write involves pointers, arrays of pointers, function pointers and void pointers. I would be stuck in the mud without having an address book.
There's a magic formula to making a project go overbudget:

1. Accept the sensible, well-costed proposal for 3-years of intensive works.

2. Announce you're going to cut costs the next year in the budget by reducing the scope.

3. The project is now overbudget, because the cost per unit delivered has gone up since hey, plant and tooling is a big fixed cost.

The blame for this lies on the taxpayer, who keeps voting in the idiots who do this or make promises along these lines.
The old adage always holds true: if the people buying the product aren't the people using it, the product will suck.
I type on a regular basis the word "woman" in emacs.

Do I take a tiny but not quite negligible emotional hit of feeling excluded every single time for doing that? what about people who program ada and type the name each day? Do you think most people even will notice that the 3 letter actually represent a name, a person, a woman, each time?
How is man pages better? Before i knew what it stood for, i thought it was sexist.
So, he got FU money. In exchange, he lost the team culture of the business he founded. Not a bad exchange, in my mind - not something to complain about.

Compare that to his employees, who likely did not get FU money, and still lost the team culture of the startup.
The big winners in an aquisition are the founders and investors, not the employees unless they have a ton of stock (which basically makes them investors).

The average employee is seen as a resource. Google is almost always buying talent, not products. If they want to buy your product, it's usually to shut it down so it doesn't slow down the progress of their big Google products.

The only way Google buys something and keeps it alive is if it is big enough or strategic enough to make into flagship products, but those are very rare.
I know the "man" in "manpages" is short for "manual", but when I first saw this site, I took the "bro" in "bropages" to be short for "little brother". If the "man"-page is the old, official, formal documentation for a command, the "bro"-page was the young, informal, still-evolving version of the documentation. In this sense, the name is rather apt.

The negative connotations of the word bro appear to be rather US-centric. I am Australian, and I have several friends from New Zealand who use the word bro as a term of mate-ship and affection (I've even heard one friend call his mum bro).

With that said, it's great that people are conscious of the affect of matters like this on the inclusiveness of the community - but in this case, when the word "bro" has such a variety of associations, perhaps we should judge the book by its content, and not its title.
I have looked at this condo, right here:

http://www.seattlecondohunt.com/listing/577299-1711-e-olive-...

$554/mo in HOA and they're currently running a $210/mo "special assessment" for some recent upgrades. Almost everything on Capitol Hill is in the same boat. A condo in Issaquah had $325/mo for the HOA and another $300/mo to put in a new pool. I'm not sure why condos in Puget Sound love their special assessments but they sure do.

HOAs in north Texas that aren't considered "luxury" wouldn't dream of asking for more than a few hundred bucks a year. $254k gets you a newly-renovated 4bed/2bath half a block from the Capitol Hill-like Bishop Arts district in Dallas, a straight shot into downtown, transit, and no HOA: http://www.redfin.com/TX/Dallas/720-Elsbeth-St-75208/home/30...

We're the inverse: I'm a native of Texas and moved to Washington State. Seattle is awesome but it's very, very expensive compared to where I came from. Seattle has a lot to offer that Dallas doesn't, like weather that isn't incredibly unbearable and politicians that aren't incredibly unthinking, and scenery that isn't incredibly uninteresting. Trying to compare the two on price? Not in the same ballpark.

(The worst place I know of in King County is Federal Way and Austin was worse than that? Damn, the place has gone downhill a LOT since I was there.)
Hashtag PGQuestionOfTheWeek
I pre-categorize my ideas into trello boards, and stored the email to each board in my phone's contacts. So storing ideas is as simple as emailing my "board" and it is already going to the right board.
So you are having trouble with Webstart on Java 7u51?
Struggling to get your old Webstart app to run with the newest JRE?
Fret not, see attached guide.
"A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
Which is as brief as I have known a play;
But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
Which makes it tedious; for in all the play
There is not one word apt, one player fitted"
Hell sure, I mean Julia comes from the latin family name but, that is pretty funny.
http://meyerweb.com/other/humor/pcunix.html

Man pages are called person pages. Also history has been completely rewritten, and is now called herstory.

The nice command was historically used by privileged users to give themselves priority over unprivileged ones, by telling them to be nice. In System VI, the sue command is used by unprivileged users to get for themselves the rights enjoyed by privileged ones
Why is the "man" page somehow better?
I meant more like:

alias deployapp="rsync -avP --delete ~/dev/app/ user@remote:app/"

It sort of removes the need for most of this script, no?
There's too few of us...
McGill used webct and I thought it was some of the most atrociously designed software ever. Maybe it changed in the last few years.
The creator [1] says it's inspired by Kumi Yamashita.

[1] http://simurai.com/projects/2011/03/11/letter-heads/
I went from a school that used Desire2Learn and switched to Blackboard and lost my hatred of Desire2Learn.
Also, the first rule of rescuing people is not to become in need of rescue yourself. Irrelevant if you die, I suppose, but that's not a guarantee.
Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of your bookmarks
You've carefully curated bookmarks over the years.

This is a knowledge bank for you.

Then one day you click on one of the bookmarks, and you discover that the original page is gone, and instead, in its place, is an ad for GoDaddy.

*

Is there a way for me to archive/cache full-page backups of all my bookmarks? (In some smart way. I shouldn't have to go into each Bookmark and download each page individually.)
Good point. If someone wants to start a symphony orchestra for the deaf, who am I to criticize?
There's probably more to it than that. Most other teams of developers, given the same amount of time and money, could probably not write such complex software with so few bugs in it.
It's at least short for manual.
Not quite. Piazza allows instructors to post resources as well. I've taken a few courses that centered themselves around Piazza and the Piazza course page.
Given the successful features of iOS7 that were really popularized on Android, first (that I mostly love), I say yes.

The App Store should take the good parts of the Play Store.
The funny thing about policy wonks is that they believe policy, diplomacy and international law are the only way things get resolved, even amidst the state of nature that persists between international actors.

The reason stock markets have black swans is because legal transactions can never account for illegal activity. Sure, you can buy replacement insurance against theft, but you cannot actually build theft into an accounting model. Stock markets, as social laboratories of economic exchange, will always have crashes because there are black markets that operate behind them in secrecy. Certain companies might befall "unfortunate accidents" and whoopsie daisy! How did that happen?

Consider the question: How interested are you in being arrested and imprisoned by a robotic civilian police officer?
I used to work at a large university. (Actually a couple universities.) That was sorta the case. IT people hated with a passion Blackboard and Talisma. Administrators hated it sometimes, but that isn't their job, because they aren't developers / IT people. Professors often jail break out of it if they can by running their own webpages with HTML table layouts because even that is preferable.

The bottom line I saw is that nobody once admitted to liking either of those systems, but the total amount of work and politics involved to change from those systems meant it was a conversation that never really even occurred.

Some observations I had with respect to migrating away from hulks like Blackboard and Talisma:

1. There were pretty talented people supporting Blackboard and Talisma working for the universities full-time with salary. Both systems were frustrating for them, but the huge amount of work to migrate away from those systems generally stops any hopes of beginning a conversation. Can it be done over summer break? If not, will you do it in parallel? Won't that require more salaries to be hired? can you get the buy in of the other departments who you'll put extra work on because their system already has been coded to chug along and work with those?

2. Politics. I once saw a different university choose an awful CRM because they did a better job courting the top IT advisors at the school. I've seen a university choose Microsoft over Google even though students voted overwhelmingly for Google (emails announcing the Microsoft win were sent out before the students could even have voted)

3. Politics, but this time personal ones. There are people whose role has been to support Blackboard or Talisma for a decade. Their kids are now in high school and all that time the household was supported because their role was Director of Something but really it meant, "make sure your team keeps Blackboard or Talisma going". They'll obviously be hesitant to switch.

(In case you haven't heard of it this is another hulk in higher ed that people don't like, but it persists: http://www.talisma.com/en-us/solutions/highereducation/pages...)
how are "man" pages better?
How to read the article: Search for the article's title in Google (hint: select the title in the non-working NYT URL, dashes are fine), and the link from Google's (probably) top result to NYT will let you in, freely.
A ruby project, what a surprise.

$ bro rm
rm -rf /

I approve of this form of documentation.
> "Groovy" has been associated with the psychedelic-drug-using subculture, but we've had no trouble naming a programming language after it.

A lot more people object to Groovy's "G-Strings", its name for interpolated strings, than the "Groovy" name. org.codehaus.groovy's Project Manager even introduced a new operator called "Elvis" (the null-coalescing operator) in an attempt to redefine the meaning of "G-String" from the item of clothing to a string on Elvis's guitar to deflect objections but no-one's fooled.
While we're at it, let's please rename touch, finger and fsck. These names are horribly suggestive.
Presumably, if they were to 'make it big' he would probably hear about this through other channels without having to constantly monitor a large pool of rejected applicants.
> There's no chance of an error when they say "i = 'abc'", if you've defined i to be an int.

Probably you mean no chance of a compiler/interpreter error, because the program almost surely will not do what the rookie meant, much to his/her surprise. That's an error in my book :)

I agree with the rest of the benefits of Python as a beginner language.
Is it never appropriate to tell a woman to lighten up?

Are women incapable of actually being too sensitive?
How the “lost” Mac intro video was found (and got my name stuck to it)
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Management. Front line dev managers I find all share common characteristics: 1. They are tech illiterate and are afraid of being found out. They use aggressive anger to avoid getting into a technical discussion. 2. Are actually trying to hinder and slow down development. Being in charge is all that matters, and fast progress does not contribute to that goal. 3. They enforce common denominator 20 year old technology not so they can hire more easily, but because they have no basis for judging modern technology and can't politically handle making a wrong decision. 4. They will make a project crawl because they and the three levels of management above them are simply there to collect money for as long as possible before they rotate themselves around to "new" projects.

Projects are slowed down by these tactics:

- Heavyweight code review process with very large teams and lots of conflict

- Unscheduled meetings if things start happening too quickly.

- Using methodology to limit the scope of developer work.

- If things get too out of control, rotate and reassign developers every few months.
I suspect the key is the "executing" part; it's one thing to let yourself fit into place as en employee and let your job drive you from that point on (most common case), versus having a career where you make sure to take every step that leads you in the direction you want to go.
"Man pages" is short for "manual pages". You know, as in, "read the...", or even RTFM?
Sure he would hear about it, but would he remember that they had applied.

Presumably, someone on the YC staff monitors the success of companies both in the program and out of the program and uses that data to improve future acceptance decisions.
Dynamic typing and it's consequences. It's handy when you start and want to cut the amount of things you have to care (safety).
That's howdoi. https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
Words are meaningless without definition.

You say that the word "bro" is needlessly offensive. Let me ask you, where is your balance point? What is the right level of offensive? The cost of censorship is real, and teaching people to be helpless victims does more harm than any word ever could.
all I can say is "use strict";
Answering as if your question said "And does that make you want to change your application process", because the first time I read it I thought it did.

My understanding of the essays I've read is that there wouldn't be much point in it. Ideas evolve or change entirely, and more importantly people improve. If the gut feeling was no then, all you know is that something changed.
When I went to College we used WebCT. WebCT got swallowed by Blackboard. When I started working for that College we had just finished migrating to D2L. from my understanding its been seen as a vast improvement.
> People like to believe that entrepreneurship is something totally different than executing a conventional career, but that's mostly a myth.

Pretty much this. At a cube job you work for managers, at a startup you work for VC investors.
Blackboard isn't all bad—fixing many of its inadequacies was one of my first big side projects in high school.

There was one Blackboard dashboard unit that allowed you to embed arbitrary HTML, and I injected some JS onto the page that allowed you to set a background image, made clicking on links pop open new tabs (instead of whatever abomination of javascript they had), and all kinds of other little tweaks. I even got most of the way through writing a drag-and-drop module rearranger before I graduated. Maybe 60% of what I knew about JS and CSS at the time I learned through trying to add features to Blackboard through script injection.

Naturally, I wasn't the only one frustrated at Blackboard, and the script travelled by word-of-mouth to a pretty sizable chunk of the school. At that point, it was probably the most widely-used thing I'd ever built.
"Lighten up" might be her pet peeve. My personal pet peeve is "someone might get offended". Just as she is tired of being told "lighten up" I'm somewhat tired of always having to be careful lest someone gets offended.

I think it's fundamental difference in personalities. Some also want really heavy age limits of software and video. Some also want to censor the internet and some do not.

I'm actually tempted to name personal projects with similar names as the 'bro' project, not because I would actually endorse the culture, but because I dislike those that come barging in saying that someone might get offended even more.

I get pretty much as annoyed of offended persons as I do with those that would seriously dismiss anyone based on their gender.
I've never used Blackboard but I wouldn't ever recommend Moodle as an alternative for anything (and neither would my Java professor to judge by his rants about it...)
If I may cut in, he's saying "bro" is poking fun at other men so it has nothing to do with making a joke at the expense of women. At the same time, all people, both men and women can take aka understand "the joke" so others don't need to protect women from it like they are children without adult reasoning abilities.