skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although admittedly tongue-in-cheek, it was a genuine invitation for the author to expand on their point (and hopefully in the process realize how bad it sounds), in the spirit of the original article.
Relay is Way More Fun than SnapChat
http://relay.im is one of my favorite mobile apps and it is, in my honest opinion, more entertaining than SnapChat. I'm constantly using Relay and there is something magical about being able to instantly send a related GIF reaction to your friends. Every new GIF that pops up sends me head over heels. What is so powerful about this app is that it provides daily content, new GIFs, for users to enjoy. This makes it incredibly sticky as well as being able to share newly discovered GIFs to friends. It's the newest way to communicate because very often text by itself can be misinterpreted. GIFs prevent that miscommunication by relaying personalized GIF reactions.

SnapChat has just become a dump of unwanted snaps. My thumb has better things to do than press and hold down to see food pics.
You're right the bug is not in the dense part, but adjacent to it. My argument was that the extra cognitive overhead of digesting this complexity leads to the original authors and reviewers of the code to miss other obvious bugs.

One could reasonable speculate if a code-reviewer had sent the original code back to be written in a readable fashion, the actual bug in the code would have been caught too.
Yep - I am not a big Dawkins fan. He does a lot of damage to the image of non-religious people, because he's such a jerk to the people he disagrees with.

At least Bill Maher is usually legitimately hilarious in his asshole-ness. Dawkins isn't charming, which distracts from all of the truth in what he's saying.

I wish he'd stick to writing stuff down.
Oh mods. Really?
What does full time mean? SAG-AFTRA has 160,000 members who make enough from acting that ponying up 3k/year makes financial sense.

That's just the talent, on any movie support staff and behind the camera talent will be at least 5x the number of on screen talent, sometimes even 100x more.
I have been thinking so, but i learned that you can hire a cop in US! I mean not a "freelance cop", this one's legal, wow.
It gives at least one non-obvious thing - grouping searches like ack. It gives a number of practical examples, explains git diff-index, and a number of other git commands that aren't that well known. Then it explains how to integrate ack into your editor.

Does that perhaps answer your question?
Facebook has announced their intention to retire @facebook.com addresses, forwarding mail sent to them to the user's primary email address and making all chats involving @facebook.com addresses read only.
http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/nice-bottle-of-lorem-ipsum-2009....
We tried to use YAML at first, but problems with data types (can't correctly remember what, but there was no way to force something to be something) made us to rewrite our test fixtures to JSON. The only problem with JSON for us is that it doesn't support any comments, but JSON5 seems to fix it.

There's a interesting format for configuration called TOML[1], you should check it out!

[1] https://github.com/mojombo/toml
I'll bring this thread to people's attention.
Presumably the second highest rated comment was "less space than a nomad - lame" ...
Slogans?

Discriminating against someone based on their gender is both wrong and, in my opinion, based on fundamentally incorrect assumptions and flawed logic.

I'm fine with disagreement, but I do feel like most misogynists are assholes, yes.

(And if Joe 401k went through his portfolio and divested from female-run or minority-run businesses because he thinks people in those groups are worse leaders, then that suggests to me he might be an asshole, yes.)
Just a side note: the author is a libertarian. I suspect he believed it was the government's fault from day one.
As an investor I care about productivity, not happiness. If you want to run a trading strategy on the theory that parents are better founders, be my guest. Complaining that this investor ran a different strategy is silly.
Do you think people should question the logic of religious investors investing in companies run by atheist founders?

And what does this have to do with the posted topic?

Edit:

I'm finding it hard reconciling what you said below [0] with what you said above.

0. Yep - I am not a big Dawkins fan. He does a lot of damage to the image of non-religious people, because he's such a jerk to the people he disagrees with.
Ask HN: java Faces or JSP or just html/js
For all you java guys writing rest services in java, what is your choice for the web front end? JSP, Faces or just a javascript framework?
How reliable are these numbers anyway?

Other commenters have mentioned differences between NetApplications and StatCounter, but I suspect there are other factors that can heavily skew the apparent market share of different browsers.

For example, it is already well known that programming-related websites get a higher than average share of non-IE visitors. I don't think this would affect the likes of NetApplications and StatCounter, because they're used by all sorts of websites. But ...

... it is also much easier to find and install an ad blocker in Chrome and Firefox than it is to do so in IE. Many of those ad blockers and similar extensions will also block the tracking beacons used by NetApplications and StatCounter.

This probably has a negative effect on the apparent market shares of Chrome and Firefox. Especially the latter, I suspect, because lots of people who consciously choose Firefox nowdays do so for privacy reasons. (Can't trust Google anymore, etc.)
I don't think that's even close to being true. There's tens of thousands of people employed in Hollywood at studio level production alone, much less indie level. There aren't tens of thousands of film schools in the US.

Sure, a lot of it is contract work, with lulls between jobs, but they're making income equivalent to a very solid middle class income.
This is great! Love what they're doing but more needs to be done than just changing the curriculum to tell women how CS and tech can change the world. Let them SEE it by empowering them to build cool things. #hackathonplug

Universities should encourage creativity and building and IMHO I feel that building websites is so easy to do and can be done in 5 minutes with the right tools. This shows true power in the hands of the user - to be creative and ship products at lightning speed. I taught a room full of business majors how to build their own personal website in 20 minutes. It takes 5 minutes if you've done it once before.

Link to my tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaz2WMY3taY&feature=c4-overvi...
http://relay.im is one of my favorite mobile apps and it is, in my honest opinion, more entertaining than SnapChat. I'm constantly using Relay and there is something magical about being able to instantly send a related GIF reaction to your friends. Every new GIF that pops up sends me head over heels. What is so powerful about this app is that it provides daily content, new GIFs, for users to enjoy. This makes it incredibly sticky as well as being able to share newly discovered GIFs to friends. It's the newest way to communicate because very often text by itself can be misinterpreted. GIFs prevent that miscommunication by relaying personalized GIF reactions.

SnapChat has just become a dump of unwanted snaps. My thumb has better things to do than press and hold down to see food pics.
Well, I have a typical CRUD webapp that has a lot of places where user just has to edit a table with properties. I don't really like that unless server has a non-standard way to provide information on schema (luckily, Tastypie does that for me), I'll have to re-declare every model's field at client side.
No, because syntax is undefined. Trailing comma and comment is removed when it is stringified.
so I guess you mean a family OR a career, pick one? :-(
What!? Where did I say anything like that (I'm not even white, anyway, and I don't believe that regardless).

I was literally thinking about the Dinka tribe from Sudan (who are very tall on average) and the Pygmy tribes of the congo (who are very short on average). Google them for data.

Alternatively, you can look at the well-studied difference in height between men and women. Do you deny this exists?

I could have just as well used tennis, where the vast majority of top players are white or soccer (where there's a quite proportionate distribution within the countries that play). In tennis, the ideal height is between 5'10 and 6'2. If you are much shorter, you have a disadvantage in serving. If you're much taller you have a disadvantage getting to low balls.

What I meant is that it's highly unlikely that the particular set of characteristics that determine success in any endeavor will be spread evenly amongst arbitrary groups. It doesn't matter what those groups are. We want the best set of individuals for the job, whatever it is.
I wonder if the same idea can be adapted for online forums. Think - something like standard PhpBB, but with each thread being its own IRC channel with full archive. Has anyone seen anything like this done already?
Expressing the opinion that these are not useful ideas isn't "negative for the sake of being negative".

These are poor modifications. Don't modify JSON to be a better configuration format, just use a better format.
There's a new web library that extends Scotty with basic session and authenticiation support, called Spock.

I used it for a personal project of mine, which is creating an rss reader resembling the now dead iGoogle (which I loved), and although I had to read a lot of source code to get it to work, I really enjoyed how I worked with it, after figuring out the patterns on how to use it.

It definitely isn't finished, it could use some love by some eager developers, but in my opinion it has the potential to be the best framework out there.

- It extends scotty, so defining routes and control logic is fast and simple
- It does not cage you in with a template language, or libraries that you don't want thrown in your face.

For example, I used Scotty with my own templating language I made for fun (hemplate), as well as a validation library I made, which I hope to finish in the near future, (after I get a job).

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Spock
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Is Flash Dead Yet? - 2010
No, I have no idea what it's like. But I can imagine that it's quite similar to being held hostage. Running away as a hostage might also get you shot. But that doesn't mean you should stay with your oppressors.
It looks to me like a major difference between this and CSON is that this is safe and CSON is not.

Literally the only difference between coffeescript.eval and cson.parseSync is that the latter runs in a sandbox. You can't screw up so badly as to cause global side effects, and you can't require modules, but that's where the safety ends.

For example

cson.parseSync("Math.sqrt")(4)

will return 2, and

cson.parseSync("1 while true")

will cause an infinite loop.

That's very powerful for config files; I'd much rather have my config say "y: Math.sqrt 2" than "y: 1.4142135623730951". But it means that you absolutely must not parse CSON that comes from an untrusted source.

Now obviously JSON5 provides very little over JSON as a data-exchange format. In fact, the only practical advantage I see is that you can use Infinity as a value.

I can see two use cases for this:

1. You have a web service for developers, and you want human-editable config files that can be parsed safely on the server side. CSON won't work there, and JSON5 would be nicer to work with than JSON. It's a good thing that JSON5 is a strict superset of JSON, because this is one hell of rare scenario.

2. You want your exchange format to be more human readable for debugging and testing. This use case isn't realistic, however, so long as JSON5.stringify is aliased to JSON.stringify.
As someone who's lived a little in another country, I'm not really impressed by made up analogies like this.

I don't really have a problem with women-only 'spaces', anyway, as long as they don't interfere with my schedule - like going to the gym and finding out that they are having a women-only day/evening.

(When I lived abroad I didn't know anyone in that city who was from my own country, during that whole stay. There were people from my own country, but I didn't bother to seek them out. The closest I got was other foreigners.)
The drive to maximize profit by those in the executive suite has caused them to do some seemingly clever (according to those in power) things but are in fact stupid in the long term.

A few years ago I overheard a new senior programmer argue with the cfo why developers should get 2 big monitors instead of a small 19". The cfo initially refused to go along. Of course some of it was due to his desire to keep cost down, as every good cfo should. But then he joked every dollar saved would mean more for his christmas bonus. we were a small/friendly company so I guess that's why he felt it was ok to joke about it. But I do believe his ultimate reason was to keep cost down at any 'cost' so that his bonus check would be bigger, as his performance is evaluated on how he manages the cash flow.

What the cfo didn't see was the productivity gain that could be gained by the programmers having bigger monitors. And these programmers were making near 6-figure salary. Their combined man hour cost was greater than his. But a cfo was making a decision to fatten his bonus check. Obviously this was not a good choice for the firm to make but it had been going on for awhile until the new senior programmer spoke up.

And I think this kind of logic in executive suite is probably common everywhere.

Lastly, I think it's about time these big tech companies add profit sharing ON top of the base salary as part of the compensation package. Why should an executive make SO much more than master and phds who are adding real value to the company?
Its tough man. When we had our child, tech took a back seat. I worked as I needed to, sometimes a little late but I made family come first. Your wife will need you, family first. As your little one gets older you'll get back to normal, but for now focus where you know you need to focus.

Congrats!
I don't think anyone said becoming a mother was considered crazy. It's simply a change in lifestyle, especially if this is their first child.

I'd say it's a bigger impact on women, because they need to give birth to the child. If I was invested in a new company, and the founder (male or female) said they're going to be a new parent, I'd be concerned. I think having children is one of the biggest impacts someone can have on their life, both financially and mentally. How is this going to affect the business? Will they have less time to be involved in the project? Are they going to be adverse to risk with the business and prefer to focus on a stable income? Is one parent free to look after the newborn, or is there a chance the founder is going to step down for a while?

The statement from the investor was rude, but I have no problem with the viewpoint, and I'd be wary of investing in soon to be parents as well.

Religion seems to have a smaller impact, I don't care if you believe in God, the same way I don't care if you like apples or oranges. If it doesn't get in the way of your work, and you seem mentally stable, why should I be concerned? If you suddenly said you have a change in religious beliefs, and you need to exercise a call to prayer every morning for 3 hours, and take the last week of every month off, I'd start to worry. Not because of the beliefs, but because I didn't anticipate this change in your life, and I'm unaware of how you'll handle it along with work.
This brings up another point. Whenever you're dealing with a traditionally stereotyped person/group you get that walking on eggshell feeling. A small mistake, slip of the tongue, can quickly blow out of proportion. This can lead to increased anxiety in an office environment. Which, for creative programmers, leads to decreased communication and a shitty end product.

I've never met a good programmer who liked office politics. We might laugh at the Foosball table, but it's a secret indicator hinting the workplace is low on office politics.
Some would say that failing to disclose an upcoming life altering event to investors prior to taking their money is unethical.
JSON is perfect as it is, leave it like it is.
You're right, it's entirely about discovery these days. Marketing is how studios cope with that. Indies are also marketing, but in somewhat different ways. There's curation via critics and festivals, but even that's not enough.

My theory is that there's some audience for any half-competent film. The world is a big place, with a lot of variety and a lot of different tastes. If your film isn't truly awful, then there's some subset of people out there who want to see it. Long tail audiences for long tail filmmaking.

The trick is they don't even know it exists. It's the same with apps and with music and with self-published novels. Matching audience to creative work for the million niches is the real trick that needs to be figured out.

The systems we have now (app store, amazon, netflix, spotify, etc) all fail at it in general. Machine learning (as currently applied any way) doesn't really do it.
Same here. I have been keeping an eye on libucl[1] lately. The nginx-like config style seems very nice. I ran across it when looking at FreeBSD's pkg-ng (it uses it). I haven't seen any libs for it in any other languages yet though, so maybe it will end up being just another 'also ran'.

[1]: https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl
I think that this is great, and I'm definitely excited to use this for my blog posts in the future.

That said, I am hoping you bring on a few dozen of your peers because right now your comics are heavily weighted towards certain categories. Diversity would be a huge asset.

My only suggestion is that you make the images on the "View all" substantially bigger so that you can scroll through all of them and read the captions without squinting. I found myself using the back button a lot.
No, she didn't, and I wasn't commenting about her.
PetiteCloud adds API
No, let's not "forget" about the NSA. Other groups may be doing bad things too, but that doesn't diminish the badness of the bad things done by the NSA (or anyone else).
> it does make the automatic generation of JSON much nicer

Are you generating JSON as freeform text? Because a call to JSON.stringify (or whatever JSON-dumping method exists in your language of choice) would not be "made nicer" by handling trailing commas.
Well it's not just pure sexism that would make an investors or co-founders nervous about a pregnancy. If I was starting a venture with capital for 10 months of runway, and my co-founder told me that they (or their spouse) was 3 months pregnant - well I would be happy for them personally, but I definitely would be concerned about our venture. I think anybody in their right mind would be concerned because you know they will have to take at least some time off for the birth - then who knows how they will feel about working after that. Maybe they'll be driven, maybe they'll decide they need to stay home with their new child. It's pretty tough to say, nobody knows for sure how they will feel. It's not something you really want to be dealing with while getting a company off the ground.

That's no excuse for the rude, sexist comments made in the article, though.
>* $400,000 in student loans. “If the money weren’t a problem I would live on my own,” says Rong. “My debt is hanging over my mind. I’m taking that all on myself.”*

How typical, someone complaining that education is so expensive and yet they are going to the most expensive school. This 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.

The article states that the average year at college today costs $18,497, yet this guy is going to rack up $400k in dept over 6 years? by my math that is $111k. This guy is spending 4 times the average and crying foul.

I personally know a dentist who worked part time all through school, he went to community college, state university, private grad/dental university and has the same diploma that this guy will have on his wall... The difference - the guy I know only had $40k in debt upon exiting school. He paid it off in two years (by the time he was 26). I'd say he did things the right way.
There is really three simple reasons that we have this 'problem' today.

1. People who cannot afford it are choosing very expensive universities.

2. The government is giving money away like candy, there is a definite bubble here because this money will be defaulted on. I know a professor at an art school who says his students easily get $150k to go study art. Many won't even get a degree with that money. Getting a degree or being on a path to get a degree in x years is not a requirement of getting the money. He says that these students will graduate and be lucky to go on to make $25-30k a year. That is pretty rough. This also drives tuition way up because schools know they can just charge more and the thanks to the govt. students and money will still funnel in by the truckload.

3. Students with student loan money live like rock stars. These are teenagers here. They suddenly have a bunch of money. do you thing that they are carefully considering that every dollar they spend will have to be paid back with interest? Teenagers... I have seen this over and over again personally. Luxury apartments, nice cars, buying, spending... "A part time job? are you kidding? who has time for that, I've got to focus on my party life.. Errrr studies".
Actually, -g should not change the output of the compiler in any other way than the presence of debug symbols. I can confirm that right here, where I'm building code for an ARM microcontroller, the resulting .bin files produced by objdump are identical (but the .elf are not).

Granted, when the debug symbols end up in the final ELF binary which is executed by an OS, it can still affect execution in subtle ways such as load times.
Fully agree. By the way, feel free to spread the word about my forthcoming event trying to bring together the 20-35yo, white male, Ivy league graduate, $150K+/year community. I'm sure I can count on your support for this integration effort.
I thought the problem wasn't with yaml but with allowing deserialize arbitrary objects which is unsafe by default for a format used both for 'trusted' and 'untrusted' input, If you have a json library which tries to allow deserializing arbitrary objects by default (with a load rather then unsafe_load method). Python's pickle serialization is unsafe but it warns you that its unsafe and is not widely used leading to it not being used as a serialization format for for unsafe input.
And when you see a heisenbug in MSVC++, just rebuild your project.

I don't know about newer versions, but VS 2010 and priors have a nasty trait of spitting out wrong binary code now and then even when all optimizations off, edit-and-continue and incremental linking disabled. You would just make a little change, build, launch and get a crash in the middle of nowhere with the most bizarre stack trace. Then rebuild it and it will magically go back to normal. For a project of 100k lines this is a weekly, sometimes daily, routine. Very trust inspiring.
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