skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's expected that every word anybody said during that conference will be scrutinized beyond what's appropriate, simply because it's such a touchy subject. That's probably the reason why the video of the conference was already taken offline today while I was watching it (edit: it's not, see below). Generally I think it would be more productive if judgements weren't done on a hair trigger, because that's what makes this topic so toxic when in fact it shouldn't be.

Personally I found the presentations very entertaining and insightful - and even though I didn't have the opportunity to watch the panel to the end, I was struck by the impression that for the most part these were normal startup stories. That's a good thing, because it means while there is work to do when it comes to making the playing field fairer to women founders, we're at a state where the main issue is not "how to cope with my gender" but "how do we get our startup off the ground".

The area where I believe much more work is required is how we get more woman programmers started. The article touches very slightly on that, but then misses the mark:

> To get a male founder to admit he doesn’t write the code his startup depends on you have to twist his arm. With a female founder it’s the second sentence out of her mouth. As if to say “PS - don’t take me seriously”

A completely different way to read this is that people who code don't have a lot of status in circles of non-programmers. So a non-technical founder might in fact expect to be taken more seriously by professing hacking ignorance.

One reason why non-technical women founders are quick to volunteer that info might be a subconscious reflection of that nerd stigma, and of course that's probably a large reason why women don't become programmers as often as men in the first place. It seems to me that perception of social status is the core issue.

To be fair though it was a founders' conference, not a female hackers conference.
Ah, but the question is whether the consumer is free to choose whichever coffee maker REFILL they want.

The ethical and legal question is whether there's a good reason why Keurig should be allowed to forbid anyone else from manufacturing compatible refills (if they want to) or forbid customers from buying these refills (if they want to). As far as US law is concerned, do you think that prohibiting the manufacture of these compatible refills will "promote the progress of science and useful arts"? Because that is what Keurig is (effectively) claiming by relying on copyright law in this way.
Setting law enforcement priorities is typically an Executive Branch function, no? I guess Congress could earmark money specifically to fighting DDoS-based crime.
So it will be open-source at some point?
FSF joins forces to fight software patents in U.S. Supreme Court
>freedom to use 3rd parties does not always give a better user experience.

This is either a straw man or only very pedantically correct.

Is anyone here claiming that 3rd parties always give a better user experience? If not, it's a straw man.

If you are actually referring to the "freedom to use 3rd parties" not giving a better user experience - the user experience is either going to be equivalent or better, because freedom to use a 3rd party != must use a 3rd party.
NHS Data was mock data
Overview of New ES6 Features
Carcodesms.me a better way for customers to use text messages to contact dealers
Good points. I would add that 99.99% of marketing books/sites/blogs/magazines aim to keep you as a reader. Which means that they will simply keep feeding you stories about marketing without telling you the real basics. You may only learn what works by doing it yourself. Learn about simple sales techniques, some copywriting, and off you go. The reason marketing is hard is due to how it is more a constantly changing process than a static one. You cannot rest on your laurels.
Then use a reusable keurig pod and get both the benefits of fast coffee and less waste.

Unless, of course, your time is so valuable that you can't even spare the 15 seconds it takes to wash the reusable pod.
Working on Weekends
Mostly? There are very few things Java does better as a language, and most of those are opinion, not outright better.

My biggest interest in .Net/CLI/Mono from very early on was how much easier it was to interface with systems libraries vs. Java's JNI.
Man, that video was really cool! I wish the author had released the source code for this though, I'd love to know how this was made.
I think in order for it to be a true challenge to email it will need to be a free protocol. something that people can make money with but it in and of itself is free. Also, that kills vendor lockin and profiting off network effects so that's why most people wouldn't want to invest in it as a project.
The proof is always in the pudding. While there are good and reasonable times to introduce "interactors", this particular example is poor. The tests presented are anemic, and the code is absolutely not any clearer by being extracted and wrapped. I would indeed have kept all this in the controller.

The key point for an "interactor" extraction is imo when you have multiple models being created in symphony, like a Signup model. Or if you for some reason need to reuse the behavior.

But if all your controllers look like this, with one "interactor" model per action, you're doing it wrong.

Whatever floats your boat, though. If this is what you prefer, great. But please hold the "beginner's version" crap. Plenty of large apps are built with vanilla Rails. Basecamp is one.
PulseAudio 5.0
Walk away. a .net for almost any word is not worth that much. Even computer.net or iphone.net isn't worth that much to me. I assume you don't got millions in reserve.
They seem to have gotten away from the porn-ish images problem they had. Years ago when using 8tracks, a recurring problem with myself and people I knew was that the image chosen for mixes by the person creating the mix would often be nsfw. So you would accidentally flip tabs or something with a boss or coworkers around and there would be a lot of double and triple takes until they realized it was a music site.
I humbly submit my own work: http://hawkins.io/2014/01/rediscovering-the-joy-of-design/
For salary negotiation, I don't think knowing your BATNA is that helpful. Your BATNA is either accepting their initial offer or walking away.

I think your best course of action is to gather up salary data based on the job responsibilities of the job you're applying for. There are lots of online resources for researching salaries and you'll be able to grab data points like median, and quartiles. You can then massage that number up or down based on extra criteria like your unique skills, additional education, etc.

In any negotiation, finding objective criteria that you can show will always put you in a stronger position than creating semi-arbitrary bargaining positions.

The other best advice I could offer to would-be negotiators is to avoid setting any initial price until it's no longer reasonable to avoid it. If you have to name a price, name a price you're going to be very happy with.
I want to take a step back here. Two things are fairly clear to me. The first is that there would've been a housing bubble with or without illegal activity. I think that's something we agree on. I personally feel the biggest contributing factors were the repeal of Glass-Steagall, as you mentioned, coupled with the need for the fed to keep interest rates too low for too long. They were low from the dotcom bust, but after 9/11 had to be extended to prop the economy back up. What's also clear to me, but perhaps not to you, is that there was also a lot of illegal activity going on by the banks that took advantage of what was going on in the industry. I mean seriously, there have been exactly 2 banker convictions since all this started going down. There should be more than 2 banker convictions just as a matter of course due to the statistical probability at any person might be committing a crime at a random time. That so much money was made under so many shady circumstances followed shortly by the open admission by the DOJ that they would not prosecute HSBC bankers due to systemic risk make it pretty clear that there was plenty for the feds to go after but they chose not to.
You seem to be arguing that the article wasn't an entirely different article. As __david__ rightly mentioned, he doesn't say "this is what the average person encounters". Indeed, I think the situation is even more profound given that it is, quite specifically, talking about security software that fairly adept practitioners use.
Should I cancel my Google Wallet account?

http://www.corechair.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/google-ex...
>but for me the real ideas of calculus are integration and derivation

you mean the ideas of a dual space of a linear space and of tangent bundle to a manifold? :)
It's illegal for them to reverse engineer (and reimplement) hardware DRM for interoperability, but software DRM circumvention is protected by DMCA, only for the purpose of interoperability.
'Photon glue' enables a new quantum mechanical state
I feel like there are lots of people making sure no project stops at 99%. I know I barely use KS, but even I've sorted by "ending soonest" before and watched a few projects make it safely over to 100%.

That said, I'm glad to head the 20% number :)
Russia deploys troops and tanks near Polish and Lithuanian borders
Yes, "Hey you're from India, what's it like it Japan" is almost hilariously insensitive. (Actually just tragic).

It's along the same lines as:

[Hears X is from country Y] "Oh do you know bob?"
Screenshare pls
I would only feel safe using a completely open source exchange to hold my money.
But surely you must trust your SSH client, and thus its developers.
I agree. I personally trust Google far more than the US or my own (UK) government.

It's the whole monopoly on force thing. I have no fear that Google will grab me out of my bed in the middle of the night.

With the UK government — even though I trust them to be pretty rational and fair, and to my knowledge I've done nothing that would warrant that treatment — there's always the worry that they have the ability to significantly reduce my quality of life (if they ever chose to) and I might not even deserve it.

It's always surprising to me the fear regular people have of companies doesn't extend to governments, who have far more power over their lives.
Do you first check the history to make sure that nobody has inserted a malicious edit right before you visited the page?
It's an E9. It's one of the 500 right-hand drive variants exported to the UK so has the stock E9 bumpers (pity) and soundproofing (happily).
people who care about security don't use windows

Can you elaborate about what you mean with the pretty general term 'security'? Cause I've heard this before, and using both some linux distros and some windows versions I never felt particularly unsecure on any of them. Maybe that's a false feeling though - but how to check it? E.g. last time I checked, during normal operations, none of my boxes would have in- nor outbound connections to any peers that I didn't know of. And last time I ran a bunch of virus/malware scans on the windows boxes everything was fine as well. But if I understand you correctly your claim is this is not sufficient?
Eek, looks like this one is crumbling under our load too!
That seems like a really perverse incentive. Seems like you're asking people to do JUST enough to not get fired.
> Openness is wages (and benefits) would be a good move. It would encourage salaries to go up faster, when there are market inefficiencies.

Wages are public in Sweden (e.g. http://ratsit.se) and that doesn't make wages in Sweden high or raise faster. Salaries are, on average, much higher in neighbour Norway than in Sweden.

So there are other - more important - factors at play than knowing the competitions salaries.
I guess you don't use any online banking services?
Yes. I use logic and reasoning and order of magnitude estimation to think about environmental impact.

I also think people who obsess over polyethylene grocery bags are bad at math. Unfortunately, many of these people manage to influence public policy to my inconvenience. It is religion, not science.
Mildly ridiculous to draw the line at35 though, which will be around the time a lot of high performing women will have kids.
A surprisingly large number of people would actually be turned off by a Politician who says I don't know.

One thing I realized very quickly while doing some volunteer work - when the guy in charge (or running to be in charge) says I do not know - people react as if they have lost all confidence in him/her despite understanding that not everyone can know everything.

so caveat emptor on preaching that.
Exactly--if you top off the air gap in a coke bottle with piss you can't go around selling it as Coca Cola.
Tim Cook tells climate change sceptics to ditch Apple shares
The needy baby is the bigger issue, not the time. She also likes pressing the button on the machine.
> Not being an asshole about it works wonders.

That is just incredibly presumptive.
Back then it was more difficult to tell the crap from the quality stuff. Crap substitutes don't last too long on the market these days with online reviews. I'm rarely hesitant to buy something with a ton of good reviews, and further that means more to me than would a Keurig Seal of Approval.
Wow. I think they're not kidding! Yeah, let's all just sit back and receive fiat currency from the skies! I'm sure it will work out just fine, because um.. aggregate demand magic!

Why not just print and hand out 100 trillion dollars to everyone? -Somehow that sounds like a bad idea, huh? But there's nothing wrong with sprinkling say, 3000 times 330 000 000 dollars into the masses' hands?
Londen is the Dutch spelling of London, so could be a network link maintained by some Dutch provider?
I don't think this is their mentality, I think this is more like a myth that gets perpetuated ad nauseaum.

The problem with a search engine is that there's no lock-in other than brand recognition. Google won over AltaVista and Yahoo by being superior. I still remember the first time I tried it, it was so much better that it made an instant convert out of me, even though typing "altavista.com" was rooted in my nervous system and this was in the days before they were big, before AdSense/AdWords/AdX. And I could see it at Internet Cafes catching like fire, within mixtures of technically oriented and unsophisticated users alike.

And it can happen again. What pains do normal users have when using Google lately? Malware, content farms, "aggregators", too many ads. The only reason for why Google is still number 1 with a near monopoly is because there is no better alternative. DuckDuck Go is awful for me. Bing too. You may not notice how awful they are, unless you're living outside the US.

And I'm pretty sure they know that they can lose users fast. And once a significant chunk of users are gone, advertisers will be gone too. That's why Android exists in the first place, though distributing Bing as the default doesn't really help Microsoft, so having your own platform only protects you against walled gardens. And there's even a bigger danger therein. Google doesn't even have to lose users for advertisers to leave - Google already knows that the majority of clicks on all served ads are done by a minority and advertisers are increasingly aware of this fact too, as quality conversions are going down. This is because targeting is not so good after all and because users are increasingly fed up with spamy results and annoying ads that aren't targeted well.

I think their problem is that they are trying to solve this through algorithms only. The problem with algorithms is that algorithms can be gamed, you only need to find the ranking formula, which can of course be done through trial and error. It's a whac-a-mole game basically.

But for popular searches, like Firefox, they could have exceptions in there to propel those as first results. Is it not obvious that users searching for Firefox actually want Firefox, the browser from Mozilla.com, in spite of Mozilla.com's ranking? Is this against their policy or something? And now that they have Google+ accounts, why don't they add a "Report Result" button? If flagging email as Spam in GMail works so well, why didn't they do the same thing for their search engine?
That sounds reasonable. I suspect in time the market will probably head more toward the market rate.
> While depression economics has many strange features, the most important one to remember is this: with slack in the economy, it’s possible to have an economic free lunch. If our economy were running at capacity, new government spending, for example, would tend to create inflation because the capacity (workers, raw materials, and equipment) would have to be bid away from someone else, thereby raising prices. But during a depression that doesn’t happen. Instead, new spending brings idle capacity into production.

I think this paragraph is really important to think about until you get it. It's easy to get wrapped up in thinking of money as a thing of value when at the end of the day it's just a proxy for goods and services in the real economy. If you don't get that... you'll go off and buy Bitcoin, I guess.
Loans are way much better form of helping, but investing with a partnership and advisors is a better option. Money is the key ingredient, but the some ventures do require lot of knowledge. Are loans preferred due to regulatory issues? How do you overcome "This is just money from rich western guys to dump the guilt" mentality? Are you going to build alumni network in similar vein to YC?
Netflix 'Sleep Tracker' pauses film when you nod off
I do not agree! https://xkcd.com/386/
If someone is wondering, the short url points to the latest release tgz, at the moment to https://github.com/supermarin/Alcatraz/releases/download/1.0...
GCHQ has done some appalling stuff, but the Google network penetration was done by the NSA.
MIT GPG keys are unverified. HTTPS would only add a false sense of security - you are supposed to verify the keys after you download them (yes, it's not easy, depending on how much verification you require).
Open Source Presto (Opera’s former Web engine)
Its true every military power has plans for military action against other countries/territories. Its a known fact that US has military plans for China and even Canada.
I agree with you - Interactors are particularly useful when you're creating multiple models, and the example could have been better.

But they're useful for dealing with side-effects of a particular operation too (sending multiple emails, notifying admins). Much better than ActiveRecord callbacks.

If you put this logic in the controller, what happens when you want a separate API controller that does the same thing? Or some admin functionality elsewhere in the codebase? There's zero possibility of code re-use.
If this happens, then it needs to become a Constitutional amendment and guarantee everyone the money, on time, no matter what. You can't have abuses like we do for the no-fly list in this case. What does someone do when there's no work and everyone receives free money, but he's excluded from the program because he pissed off the government in some way? The only solution is probably to leave the country at that point (unless he's also included in the no-fly list).
Ford will switch to BlackBerry's QNX Neutrino real-time operating system[0] and the QNX CAR infotainment platform[1] for the next generation of Sync coming out in 2016[2][3].

[0] http://www.qnx.com/products/neutrino-rtos/neutrino-rtos.html

[1] http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-22/ford-said-to-swap-b...

[3] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230461040...
Yep. The original post contained the links, but fell through the spam filter ;).
Linkedin endorsements and recommendations
Ukrainian Maps (and the lies they tell)
ShowHN: Remote system administration, as a service.
With the rise of SaaS a lot of startups and developers don't necessarily need system administration, they've outsourced it implicitly.

Others might benefit though, and feedback is most welcome.

http://remote-sysadmin.com/

Simple proof/landing page.
You might want to embed this inside a larger language. That wouldn't necessarily preclude using a Turing Complete language, but you wouldn't want it to be a complicated one.
a really usefully site. Hopefully they come out of this stronger.

the blog has some details.

http://meetupblog.meetup.com/
Mailers, concerns, helpers, observers and a lot of other things in Rails aren't universally used by all apps. Even something as simple as an empty directory and some generators in a stock Rails app would go a long way in educating people that these are patterns that you can use / provide a common language for where these sorts of things should go and what we should call them.
Filed under: no good deed goes unpunished.
Is this the argument you are gonna go with?
Stopping distance is extremely important. Here are a few examples of typical car accidents:

- a driver in foggy weather crashes into a traffic jam

- a car crosses an intersection at a red light, is hit by a car from the other direction

- car hits a child running on the street

- driver looses control, hits a tree at 60mph

- reckless driver tries to overtake, hits car coming their way

These types of accidents are the most lethal, and they are all due to stopping distance (and could be avoided by driving at a lower speed)
This is such a shame.

Having used the OSM data to generate our own tiles. It takes a lot of time and resource to manage them well (let alone updating the OSM data)

I understand it must be tough to provide such a service at low cost. Hopefully something will come up from the ashes.
Car Makers to Offer iPhone Platform
It's about convenience. Also consider that many workplaces provide the Keurig machine in common areas (kitchens, cafeterias) for employees to use their own k-cups with. One of my former employers actually had a contract with their vending machine provider where the Keurig machines were provided for free, but they were required to purchase a minimum monthly k-cup amount from the vendor.

The reasoning was that "a lot of coffee is being thrown out in the afternoon", so they wanted to cut waste by using the Keurig machine in the afternoon when fewer people were making coffee. When you actually do the math, an entire pot of coffee (10 cups) cost the same as a single Keurig cup. The logic didn't seem very sound to me, and I suspect it had more to do with the convenience of making a single cup and not having to clean up after yourself.

The k-cups cost about 30 to 50 cents each, unless you buy thousands of them.
WhatsApp and the fallacy of zero marketing
I just found out that my uncle, whom I thought very successful, failed to fulfill his responsibilities to his backers. He was working on a 3d printer that I was hoping to get to buy some day, but he never delivered more than a few of them (most of which didn't even work) and now his backers are trying to get together to sue him. A few days ago he filed for bankruptcy so they probably won't get anything.

As much as I love the idea of kickstarter, I have now seen first hand how you can be cheated and just can't trust the system to work (although many have and it has worked for them). After the disappointment of Minecraft when Notch started making a ton of money I have simply stayed away from all crowd sourcing/buy-and-play-during-alpha projects for good. There is nothing wrong with simply waiting until something is finished to buy it.
The Cellphone Unlocking Bill Finally Passed, and It’s a Total Sham
The source code was posted here. http://code.google.com/p/joco-tools/source/browse/RGBGenerat...
In fact, that seems to have been the trend so far. A year ago, the average rate paid to lenders was only 3% annually.
It's more like a brothel.
Writing Lean
Pushing the boundaries of HTML5 and Android
Git: how to resolve merge conflicts