skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're happy and fulfilled from having a child, they'd seek less fulfillment from their start-up.

Hell, they might take an early out in hopes for stability to provide for the new child. That could mean thousands, millions, or billions (if you have a chat app with more than 3 users).

Whatever, we're both speaking out of our asses.
“A call center has been established to respond to all inquiries”
Break Up the Bank? It’s Not for You to Ask
"That's pretty much beginner C stuff"

And yet we started off discussing a serious bug in libc discovered in exactly that kind of code. That's the libc in Android!! My argument is that the extra cognitive overhead of digesting needless complexity leads to the original authors and reviewers of the code to miss other obvious bugs.

I'm astonished at the vitriol

I'm sorry if my straightforward and respectful response to your dismissive and patronizing remarks sounds vitriolic to you.
Want comments and all kinds of other goodies in your config? Why not make a config.js that offers full configuration language flexibility?
The search function is not impressive. I put in the address of a hotel that I know exists (I have a reservation): "Finnegårdsgaten 2A, 2003 Bergen, Norway". It says "no results found". In the map window I have the OSM map of Bergen displayed with Finnegårdsgaten in the center (not as the result of the search) so I know the street is in the data.

Open GMaps, enter the same address, it instantly displays it plus on the left, a Street View of the building front, and links for three crucially useful things that OSM doesn't appear to have: Directions, Search nearby, and Save to [my] maps. I use all three of these features heavily when planning a trip.

Bottom line: they may have the map data (the Bergen data looks pretty much the same, modulo the different graphic styles) but they lack a lot in the features built on it.
She knows what they mean...
Two things. If you really care about the price difference between a med and small, then you may also be in a category that would be willing to eat the same thing again. I.e. You may not have a choice. At any rate it keeps for a day or two in the fridge, so it's not like you have to have it for back to back meals.
days off taking the child to medical appointments

Isn't this post-pregnancy? Isn't the father in the same boat here?
Fair point; I don't think we disagree.

Essentially I was trying to make the point that as a non-religious individual, it's always wild to me how people can find the time to ponder whether a woman would have the audacity to start a family while building a company, but nobody questions a founder that worships a paranormal creator entity. Lots of people do both, yet somehow it's becoming a mother that is considered crazy.

And, I was trying to say it without being an asshole myself.
Why is it wrong to call the Mongols a "minor gang"? Their conquests are more notable, but I don't think their numbers, or culture, were anything special compared to the other constantly-churning ethnic steppe groups. As far as I'm aware, the Mongol Empire quickly devolved into a bunch of regionally-sized kingdoms (which were more or less friendly with each other, but didn't share administration).
You seem very certain about that. IANAL, but I would not be so sure. It's true that no one can force a bank to offer a loan to a female-owned business but I don't think they are allowed to consider the founder's gender anywhere in the process.
"Consent of the governed" refers to consent of the polity (by some form of majoritarian process), not to individual consent. Individuals do not have the unrestricted option to remove themselves from society; universal consent is unnecessary, unworkable, and undesirable.
> WRT the headline's boast of using math as a "secret weapon against wall st," the article said "Frenkel blames the global economic crisis of 2008-09 on inadequate mathematical models used by bankers and traders to predict the financial markets..." My reading of this is that if people weren't so math illiterate, they could have seen the crash coming and perhaps taken steps to protect themselves.

Yes, and to be more specific, if decisionmakers and stockholders at financial institutions were more math-literate, they would have realized their institutions were taking huge risks based on sloppy mathematical reasoning. A higher general level of mathematical knowledge and skill would likely have prevented a crisis in which the entire economy teetered on a foundation of unsustainable mortgage debt -- obligations in which the property borrowed against was worth less than the debt, encouraging the borrower to simply walk away.
My sister has taught media studies and film production for a number of years (first as professor, then as adjunct - Yea! America).

One thing she notes is that the number of film schools in the US is approximately equal to the number of individuals employed full time in Hollywood (the "real" movies industry).

That's right, each school, on average, contributes one person total to the industry (course, it's not a matter of averages with a very few school contributing a reasonable if small number and most adding ... none, still this average shows the aggregate brutality).

Anyway, I don't know why anyone would bother with anything like an altruistic gesture towards these people, this industry etc.
I think it's great that there are more female role models, which will undoubtedly have a knock on effect in the industry.

The one thing that really puzzles me in this article is the following quote:

“I’m not an aggressive person, and often, girls aren’t trained to be aggressive in the same way that boys are.”

I am hoping this has been taken out of context because otherwise it's really a sweeping generalization without substantiation. This worries me. I think it's great to make women aware of trends in the tech industry and society, but statements like this will put people off from listening. I'd be interested in data that backs up the fact that boys are trained to be aggressive. My anecdotal evidence to the contrary includes myself and my male friends. I don't have any reason to believe that we have been trained to be aggressive, but that might be because we fall outside the "often" bracket.
I'm failing to see the problem you see. If you don't like pizza why did you get it in the first place?
They promote it heavily regardless of whether or not your browser is older. But that's to be expected.
> As Stormbrew already pointed out, we already have a format that is ideal for configurations (and sure, data exchange, why not), and it is called yaml.

Unfortunately YAML for untrusted input and data exchange is unsafe by default, depending on the language and implementation. A flag might need to be set, or extra modules included like SafeYAML[1] to keep Yaml from instantiating arbitrary objects.

[1] https://github.com/dtao/safe_yaml
Looks like you're new around here. Welcome to HN, where the top comment for DropBox's launch was something along the lines of "this will never work".
Actually, there seems to be no correlation between working hard and becoming the next Airbnb. Working hard is necessary the same way intelligence is necessary: past a certain threshold, other things matter more. And if a metric has no correlation with mega-success, then investing based on that metric is a mistake.

(If working harder was correlated with mega success, then the winners would be easy to pick out: invest in anyone whose team spends all their time on the startup. But many startups do that yet still fail, so it must be true that those extra 20 hours per week shouldn't factor into any any investor's decision making process, counterintuitively.)
Mixing metadata in with data isn't ideal.
It might be productive for you to go think through your views carefully, in particular figuring out what are your underlying values and what are derived conclusions.

That will enable you to go beyond repeating slogans and implying those who disagree with you are assholes while completely dodging their questions.
This assumes not replacing the bag when it's empty, which seems to defeat the point of having it available in the first place.

But assuming you're right: eating an entire non-supersized bag is almost as bad as eating an entire supersized bag. The solution is not a moderately-less-bad splurge size, it's putting the bag away.
Right on. Score +1 for civilized discourse! :)
That's a beautiful launch page. I like that you subtly get the user to scroll down.
This article format is apparently "point--counterpoint"; here is the opposing article, "One Reason to Get Whatever Size Pizza You Want".

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/26/282547399/one-reas...
Are there any startups these days that don't include words "features a beautiful, simple design"?

It's web 3.0's blink tag.
Here's an idea: when I visit your website, let me choose whether or not I want to watch a video. Don't just play a god damn video in the background. Too much emphasis on flashiness over substance.
Quote from the article: "Note: this is hastily slapped together while I’m on the road, not really edited or proofread."

Wait, what? In an article that complains about stupid, ill-conceived comments? One that identifies a famous British comedian as "John Cheese"? Physician, heal thyself.
How humans read web pages
No. ;) There is a Mac desktop client but the app will be available on the web as well.
the only difference is that male founders can try to hide their "pregnancy". an investor would shun both a male if he knew a baby was on the way.

of course not saying said investor is right, but that is probably what happen. not really a sexist thing though.
You're making an incredible assumption that marketing offers the same level of happiness as parenting. You might say it's just a hypothetical, but it's a totally unsupported one that offers zero insight on the question.

The questions is not merely one of "happiness" either. Parenting also involves maturity and well-roundedness. Much like other extracurricular interests and accomplishments which are considered great positives in say college admissions, despite how they might take 20 hours away from studying each week.
The founder in the original story did not end her pitch by claiming her business was likely to succeed because she intended to become a mother.
false dichotomy unless you're being, in the words of the author, an "asshole."
Wait....there's a myth that "teens don't have email"? Who are the jackasses that perpetuate this garbage?
To be more accurate, the myth of self-help has replaced the myth of religion.
What is wrong with standard unix timestamps?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't I open Gmail, send someone a message (@letshum.com or @facebook.com), and they receive it as a Hum or Facebook chat message? Then, they can reply to the message in their chat client as if it were a text, and it goes to my Gmail? That seems quite similar, and in both cases I can communicate using email, while my friend uses chat. This seems to be the underlying reason why both services give every user an email address, so I fail to see how this sets Hum apart from other chat apps.
because the medium was more than twice as big as the small, and it cost only a little bit more. This sort of blew my mind.

Keep in mind that the cost of a pizza is not just the cost of the ingredients (dough and tomato paste also being particularly cheap). The wages of the worker, the fuel for the oven, and the rental for the shop are all constants.
> Specifically, you use the word "bad things to say". Are you arguing that they are incorrect? Or are you simply arguing that they are correct, but admitting their correctness somehow makes you a bad person?

I would be richer if I stole all your stuff, sold it on eBay, and executed a cunning cover-up to make it look like you destroyed it yourself in a failed attempt at insurance fraud.

That's a true fact. How would you feel if I seriously proposed it at a business meeting? Being an asshole does not magically become okay if it makes you more money.
I suppose I don't personally get enough apps to have found that myself; usually if there's an app I'm considering it's fairly simple to find a decent review, but they are bigger names.

I wonder if there is a solution for that then? The same way as things like Polygon keep on top of standard games, a mobile focused review site that has far higher quality than regular "review sites" (that yeah, most of which are pretty terrible).
> In his Institutes John Calvin argues that knowledge consists chiefly of two things: knowledge of ourselves and knowledge of God.

This makes atheism a big step forward for people with limited time on planet earth: our job is made significantly easier by eliminating one of the tasks -- the one having no subject.
I absolutely agree with the sentiment, but density housing on high value property tends to result in high rise luxury units rather than affordable apartments.

There are worse things, but it doesn't really address the problem.
I once had a bug in my program where it would work correctly only on -O3 (not quite correctly, but good enough for me to not notice). After a lot of head scratching I ran clang's static analyzer [0] and it found it to be an uninitialized variable. On -O3 compiler was reusing other variable, which happened to be very close to what I needed.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/lqs4FNn.png
Agree...i love the crust...very convenient numbers to prove a point.
That's also why, when you go to the movies and it turns out tickets cost the same regardless of the film, you should go for the one with the longest running time.
>The problem with YAML is it's not safe by default

Why would that be an issue when using it as a configuration format?
I could never make that work reliably. Could you?
For any junior engineers keeping score at home:

NEVER WRITE THIS CODE! EVER!

This is the code that gives us the classic buffer overflow vulnerability all because checking for a length isn't elegant.

Also, how does this code work if what one of those pointers points to are declared volatile? What if both pointers point to volatile things? What happens if one of those pointers crosses through 0 because it rolled over from max?

Thanks. I doubt you could have provided a better example of the precise problem.
The problem here is that the bug is not in the "dense" part - it's more likely that whoever wrote that code thought memset was always used to set blocks of memory to 0, and as for why it wasn't discovered sooner: it wasn't being used for anything else! Someone with that misunderstanding could've just as well have written what you consider more "readable" code, but with the same bug:

*s = 0;
s++;
Yeah, you are assuming that the question was asked by a religious person. There are atheists who would ask the same question. As an example, Dawkins has been called out as a sexist numerous times - often by other atheists like Rebecca Watson and Jen McReight [1][2].

1. http://gawker.com/5818993/richard-dawkins-torn-limb-from-lim...

2. http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/not-your...
> Android has some advantages over iOS and iOS have other over Android.

You do not have any iOS device but claim that iOS have advantages over Android? This sounds a bit weird but ok, try to find one single reason why iOS should be better. But you won't because it's easier for you to bail out from the discussion and go to the meta level by telling that this is a rant, bullshit and fanboyism instead of giving some valid reasons (but how? you do not have an iOS device anyway).

Again, this is not a rant, this is reality, it's just that in the last two years Android developed much faster than iOS did, in every regard. And it seems that it's not allowed to address iOS' fall.
I think it's ok. I was going to say "He should have used memset instead of this low level memory walking that belongs inside the implementation of... oh I see". This is a critical function; doing it the proper "machine-workings, helping the compiler" way is more important than having a first read immediate understanding. Not that an experienced C programmer won't have it anyway.
On a good pizza, the crust is the point of the pizza. (Dominos, Pizza Hut, et al are not good pizza.)
> What we want is not proportionate representation based on arbitrary groups, but rather the correct representation. We want the best basketball players to be playing basketball, because that makes it more fun for the rest of us to watch.

Let me reiterate what I infer from your words: 'black people are naturally more athletic, so they should keep playing basketball, and leave all that pesky business and government-running to white people.'
I am wondering you can release a windows client. Web is acceptable but not perfect (i.e. cannot provide notifications).

you can build it on .NET. Don't care about XP, FUCK THESE XP USERS.
The point is to calmly verify if the person was aware that he is behaving as an asshole.

If he was not, not only the communication improves; you also make the guy a favor.
CodeMirror does it on the web since version 2, somewhen in 2011. http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/a-pathological-scrolling-mode... is the most recent explanation. I'd be surprised if there weren't earlier implementations of the idea.
That's true, but if the size of your sample is 99% of the population, that sample is always going to be close to random. For all practical purposes it's not actually a sample any longer.
Well I re-read that comment and it does sound like I'm lumping the call-by-value question with the other needlessly complex stuff (Mainly single line while loop depending on multiple operator precedence issues). Well let me correct myself, I didn't mean to do that.

The single line while loop there is just bristling with pitfalls. I'd reject such code in code review and ask it to be rewritten in more readable C. As an added bonus, this exercise would probably also have caught the original bug that started this discussion.

The pass-by-value question came from someone who hadn't written C code in years and I'm pretty sure a practicing C coder (in production code) would not have that question in the first place. Or if it does come from a fresh programmer just getting started, it'll only take one code review to get that straight (and probably earn that programme's work some added scrutiny for some time).
>Nonsense. People want to send their kids to the best schools because the best schools are the gatekeepers to the upper class. Someone who graduates from an Ivy League school gets to build a network with affluent alumni and has a high chance of landing a job that pays six-figures right off the bat. Someone who goes to a merely good state school though? There is a very good chance they won't even find a job after graduation.

If this is the case then these people need to quit whining. It's their choice - this is like saying that you need to mortgage your house to join a yacht or country club so you can make connections. Some people just have to work harder than others to make it, life isn't fair cry me a river. Many people from cheaper institutions are better at making connections because they excel in the personality and charm dept (thus they have the advantage). Is that fair? Many poorer people make it big because they are smarter or luckier... Is that fair? Your argument just shows how blatantly ridiculous this is.

People are complaining that education is so expensive and yet they are going to the most expensive school is ridiculous. This is like complaining that your Mercedes was too expensive when you could have bought a more reliable and efficient car for less money.
> There's a statistic - Ben Horowitz used it in a talk once - that on average an educated woman will educate at least 4 other people in their lifetime, whereas you're lucky if a man educates one.

How was that defined and measured? Or in other words, [citation needed].

Luckily, I've educated many people with nit-picky anonymous and pseudonymous internet comments, so I must have great karma.
I should have phrased that more clearly. The cyberpunk thing is that we've got more aggressively open carrying and more dramaticly stupid shooting incidents like the string in Florida, very much the way a lot of cyberpunk has the trope of heavily armed idiots opening fire at the slightest excuse. We have nothing like cyberpunk levels of violence and as you point out it's mostly getting better, but we do have more incidents that'd fit nicely in a book than we used to and we have more people displaying weapons. I'm thinking about the little color bits thrown into cyberpunk to clue the audience in and things like the Zimmerman, Dunn, and Reeves cases fit in perfectly with that (modulo actual human tragedy).
You could simply let them know that you will accept it. They'll tell you if they're interested. Just suggest, don't attempt to convince. It may not be welcome.

Payment methods would be either through a third party processor, or as a direct payment to an address.

Making people change their way of doing things is hard. You will find it more rewarding to promote your business to people who already use bitcoins. You have an opportunity there to find new clients.

However you do it, offering a discount at the start will help.
I get the sense that you're concerned you won't be able to keep up with technology trends. This is a non-issue. 95% of what you read on Hacker News is essentially froth, the ephemera of technology. You can ignore it all. The problem is that technology is both your job and your hobby.

I had my first son when I was 22 (now 31), and my career has continued to go from strength to strength. There is adequate time in the evenings, or on commutes, to read and ponder, and I find time at work to investigate technologies that will have a positive effect on the business, because that's my job. Since then I've learned three or four new languages, taught myself a whole bunch of crypo-stuff, got down with the Agile crowd, implemented machine learning and search techniques, and become a software architect.

I think you'd be surprised at how many employers would rather employ happily married young men with children, because they know that they're less likely to be job hoppers; you might be right that early-stage startups are no longer a viable choice, though, unless you're sure they're going to be around for at least a couple of years.

Having said that, I joined my current company six years ago as employee number 5. It was founded by a mid-thirties guy with a wife and kids, who re-mortgaged his house to get the capital he needed.

Having children needn't prevent you from doing meaningful and interesting things with your career, you just need to distinguish between what's important, and what's recreational. After a few months, once you and your wife have started to get a handle on this whole parenthood thing, you'll find more time to do the things you love.

Of course, you might find that you'd rather spend the time playing with your kids :)
This adds too little and too late (not that much should be added to JSON). And parsing some of these features would be a headache and a possible source of bugs (I maintain a JSON parser in C[0]). Keeping it simple is much more important than adding new features.

[0] https://github.com/kgabis/parson
Unfortunately the results don't mean much to me without commentary. Since there isn't any yet, here's my uninformed take: they're all excellent but luajit has made a deal with the devil. Is that right?
For a weight deficient person without major health issues, pizza seems good. A single large meat pizza is tasty, has about 2-3Mcal and has fair amounts of both carbs and protein.

I just have to not eat it at once but protract the consumption for a whole day (and chew properly and have enough water), to keep stomach reasonably happy with the meal.
Fascinating. Basically the theory here is that "cold" storage, being physical and therefore within reach of governments, was more risky than "hot" storage. Talk about misjudging a threat model.

But then again, which one of us really designs their security systems with the men-with-guns scenario in mind?