skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an entirely valid criticism of yaml. I'd absolutely support there being a simplified form of yaml (YAML The Good Parts?) that covers what people actually want to do and doesn't try to be a swiss army knife object serialization format.
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Numbers, booleans, and null should be removed. What's wrong with using strings for every value?
"Just remember to remove them"... in other words, don't use JSON. If you have to preprocess it with another program first, then you might as well use another format anyways.
Really? Who says that? Maybe female founders can include a standard disclaimer on their pitch deck: "Warning: founder biologically capable of becoming pregnant"
Dear female techs. This is a golden opportunity to make your mark on a green-field project that is about to blow up.
I don't really think the childish language helps. There's a culture of "you are an asshole because I say you're an asshole and if you disagree you're an asshole because my views are universally accepted truths" that dampens grown-up discourse.

Evidently, from the fact this thread exists:

- The concept that people should not disclose life changing circumstances to investors is not universally accepted.

- Nor does wishing to be informed of material facts affecting an investment mean one hates women.
It's late and I should probably not try to make coherent statements concerning politics and religion after 4am.

I've had intelligent religious folks suggest to me that they are shocked I'm not a jerk, because so many of the prominent atheists in popular culture are jerks. Dawkins is a primary offender: he has a hard time answering any question without sounding smug and superior.

This is a problem for me because I believe that he's mostly correct in his assertions.

However: people don't remember what you say, they remember how they felt after you said it.
As an atheist myself, I don't know what to make of people who say they're religious or believe in god. Are they for real, or are they just saying that for cultural reasons.

I don't remember ever believing in anything supernatural (not even santa claus or the tooth fairy), so I can't know whether it's really possible.

I find the vast majority of "religious" people aren't really religious, but rather quite agnostic if you question them.
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I would like to suggest that the founding team finds a problem to solve.
I thought xml was developed to be able to include binary parts on purpose since it can be useful.
What about a bank offering a home loan? The bank needs to verify your capacity to pay, and if a single income isn't going to cover the loan then a pregnancy probably does come into it. I'm just speculating though, and rules/laws in your area may vary.
Running that strategy may or may not make him wrong.

Saying "actually, if I'd known I wouldn't've funded you", when (a) he already had (b) she was already committed to parenthood provided no useful information whatsoever to her ... except for the information that one of her investors was capable of engaging in pointless criticism based on couterfactuals and that as such her estimate of his capacity to maintain relationships with other people should likely be revised downwards.

Because, realistically, non-actionable after-the-fact criticism is a WOFTAM and risks damaging the relationship to no gain.
Four years after YouTube started "experimenting" with HTML5, it still uses Flash by default to show me videos on the latest versions of Firefox and IE. If Flash is not installed, YouTube resorts to HTML5 <video>, which seems to play just fine, but still displays a big red warning about the missing Flash. Why can't they use HTML5 by default and resort to Flash if and only if the browser doesn't support HTML5? Why do they have to keep doing it the other way around? This is the kind of shit that keeps Flash alive.

On a slightly different note, I really wish "DRM on HTML5" fails and DRM users continue to be forced to rely on plugins like Flash. Not only do DRM users deserve the inferior experience, but also, if we really want to keep open standards open, there's got to be some fenced-off area where proprietary kids can play by themselves and the rest of us can ignore them. If there's one reason I want Flash to stay alive, that's it. Better Flash than some other bespoke ActiveX control like the Koreans use :(
That's an easy one: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_release...
The lesswrong Belief In Belief stuff is, I think relevant here.

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Belief_in_belief
If we were to combine this and the gp's system, won't we get into a situation where it is best to burn your degrees and just claim you know phd's worth of stuff? And then sue if someone with a degree got the job.
> for likely cultural reasons, mothers tend to spend more time with their children

I don't think men's inability to feed infants is cultural.
I can second this. My 7-yr-old daughter and I started playing some RPGs on the Xbox360. She enjoys it, but only if I'm playing with her. She almost never plays by herself, and half the time she'll have me do difficult parts. She'll often crack jokes about parts of gameplay. Or when looking at the save game list, look back at a part we played months ago and exclaim "Wow, remember that place!" (Eternal Sonata has great scenery.)

On a tangent: She's very sensitive to the gender of the characters in-game and really insists on playing girls. We were both rather disappointed that GTA V shipped 3 player characters, all male.
Actually Eli is right regarding FDIC regulated commercial banks, especially for home loans. Considering gender or pregnancy (in a provable, systematic basis) would certainly be grounds for a lawsuit (in the US at least).
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Actually, human society hasn't "shifted towards a system where people earned for themselves and kept what they earned". Throughout history there have been motions back and forth towards a amore socialist or a more capitalist system. In fact, I'm not sure you can say that we have such a system in any of the Western countries, right now. People don't just work for themselves: they pool a large chunk of their resources together to build common infrastructure necessary for business.

There was one time, however, when human society shifted from a communal hunter-gatherer society to one having private property, and that was the neolithic revolution. It is pretty much universally agreed that it made most people worse off. They had to work more (you're right about that; hunters-gatherers needed to work only 20 hours a week), got more sick, were malnourished, had to give birth to more children, and lived less (until modern technology, that is). It's unclear why this most important revolution in human history happened, but some theories suggest that it was brought about by the only people who benefitted from it: those who quickly became rich.
> However: people don't remember what you say, they remember how they felt after you said it.

This is a great and wise observation.
> When you see a Heisenbug in C, change your mind: it's NOT the compiler. It's you.

Also known as "select isn't broken".
Installation is simple enough assuming you have perl:

curl http://beyondgrep.com/ack-2.12-single-file > ~/bin/ack && chmod 0755 !#:3
See my other post about grown-up discourse.
Impulse Tracker and mod tracking is the reason I got into computers; I really enjoyed reading this.

If you're curious to try out trackers, Schism Tracker is a modern cross-platform Impulse Tracker clone [1]. If you're looking for files that you can load into it, aminet [2] is a great resource. I remember downloading a lot of celsius [3] drum n' bass tracks back in the 386/486 days.

[1] http://schismtracker.org/wiki/Schism%20Tracker

[2] http://aminet.net/tree?path=mods

[3] http://aminet.net/mods/cels
> and these events started being organized in response to the conditions you're suggesting they may have caused.

I assume that by "these events" you mean events targeted towards women. I never claimed anything about what events targeted towards women cause. I only mentioned events which support segregation, of which these events are a subset.
You can provide notifications on the web. Support maybe limited to some browsers only but it is possible.

This works in Chrome: http://jsfiddle.net/dandv/wT26x/1/

I think Safari has a system for this too: https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifi...

Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/notification

CanIUse stats: http://caniuse.com/notifications
I love how this proposal "fixes" a bunch of non-issues, while making it much more difficult to write a JSON parser, and then doesn't address the only real problem with JSON:

That it doesn't have a date/time type.
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Ah right. The guy in the article was making an insensitive comment towards the wrong group of people. We shouldn't be insensitive towards women, we should be insensitive towards religious people.
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"I think it's amazing that people would debate whether to fund a company led by a hard-working mother when nobody questions the logic of funding a company run by someone who worships a malevolent invisible sky wizard."

Yet here you are. Debating.
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There's not a bijection between UTC time and "standard unix timestamps" due to leap seconds

if you encode TAI in a unix timestamp, this would be a solved problem, but due to the fact that you cannot encode the time zone in the "unix timestamp datatype", you'd also have to handle cases in which people chose another timezone.

This makes it good enough for storing data (it'd be nice if the size of the data type would be explicit) but suboptimal for interoperability with other systems that could be using a different standard

either you encode the timezone in a different field in your JSON, or someone (the JSON5 people?) could define a literal for timestamps like:

t+1393752828Z
(this would also eliminate the ambiguity between timestamps and number literals)
As far as I'm concerned, that while expression is simpler than any possible three-statement for loop could be. Similarly, as long as the line is short, I have to dedicate less thought to tracking a single-line bracketless loop than a multi-line bracketed loop. (But don't use multiple lines without brackets, that makes it too hard to find the start and end and slows me down.)

I can see your point about *p++ being a speed bump, but overall this version seems less complex to me.
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Hi artursapek, yes, our API will be available shortly after launch.
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Hey - I'm so sorry I didn't link the video for you!

Here's it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQnDDKDiSy8

It's 6 minutes in: "If you educated a girl in the developing world, you educate 5 people, because if you educate one girl, on average, she'll educate at least 4 other people through the course of her life."

I feel really bad for not linking it. Thank you so much for the reminder.
Unfortunately, the video background trend is definitely a thing. Paypal's been doing it for at least a couple weeks and I've seen at least one other site doing the same.

This might even be worse than the old autoplaying music embedded on every page fad. Hell, at least you could mute it.
Interestingly enough, Christopher Hitchens used to say far more inflammatory stuff but didn't really sound smug or superior.
To try out Atom:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9265315

Then visit the resulting link output by curl. You're welcome.
"Forget the NSA" is taking it a bit far, but I think we should not forget that there are other threats to our privacy. In particular we should not obsess about whether software is "NSA-proof", or imagine that the problem would go away if the NSA's activities were somehow curtailed.
> but nobody questions a founder that worships a paranormal creator entity.

Does this really surprise you? I'm not saying it's necessarily justified to question either group's abilities to build a company, but if I had to choose one group where problems would be more likely, I would choose the group that routinely becomes pregnant and raises children, both of which (rightfully so) require a very large portion of the parents' time and attention.
Because statistically a mother is likely to spend much more of their time on childcare than a father. And since you're not allowed to ask questions about their intentions, the statistics are all you can go on.
If they what?
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I would think that the willingness to suffer or die because of your beliefs is a reasonable piece of evidence that the beliefs are genuine. Obviously that doesn't happen much in the Western world these days, but it certainly has happened a lot throughout history and continues to happen today.
"routinely becomes pregnant and raises children"

What group does that anymore? Other than maybe the aamish, some groups in the middle east and a few mormon sects (in other words, extremely religious and archaic communities).
More fundamentally: JSON doesn't have a well-defined integer type. A JSON parser that accepted just 0 and 1 as the only integers would be conforming.

And this causes real bugs in real programs:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-05/thread...
I have hand written a fair amount of json in the last week including some json schemas and the trailing commas gets me coming from golang literals and back.

I don't mind the idea of alternate syntaxes that compile to json in the spirit of coffeescript or less/sass/haml etc.

Coffeescript makes it very clear that it is just an alternate syntax for javascript. If that is the aim of json5 that is cool. I just don't want to see public APIs producing and consuming json5 in the wild and breaking stuff.
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I don't think many people would argue that it's impossible for a co-founder to have and raise a child while building or running a start-up. But I also don't think many would argue that it would on average have a net positive outcome on the start-up.
As I understand it, the company is interested in people without H1B and offers help with the process.
Almost all of the issues solved by JSON5, are also solved by EDN:

https://github.com/edn-format/edn

I'd like to see a little bit more love for edn... and if you're gonna pick something incompatible with plain old JSON, why not edn?
Although it's not quite the same as a native app, we already have built in support for desktop notifications on all browsers that support them, including some older WebKits.
It looks (very much) like Google Hangouts in your trailer video.
Right now, hangouts is pretty much installed on every new android phone, so i assume you have some kind of edge on hangouts to gain traction on Android?
I'm still curious whether you think there are beliefs that are both true and sexist, and if so, whether you believe it is "wrong" to hold those beliefs.
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"I'm uncomfortable talking to women or minorities" is a pretty crummy reason to not to hire/invest in them.
I had a similar story I'd like to share. A colleague had written out the initialization data for some embedded component, and helpfully included the ASCII representation for some of the (mixed) binary/readable stuff we sent. So he wrote something along the lines of...

unsigned char initdata[] = {
0x01, // some value, e.g. 513
0x02, // as 16bit, little endian
0x40, // ASCII @
0x5c, // ASCII \
0x42, // ASCII *
0x09, // number 9
(...)
};
This conference was just amazing. It has amazing and insightful stories. If you don't believe me, just start watching from Jessica Mah's (from InDinero) inspiring tale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QDa...
I agree that they exist, but I don't personally know anyone like that. I'm talking about the average person who says "I'm catholic", "I'm jewish" or "I'm hindu" etc (and are the types of people who usually pitch to VCs). They haven't really questioned their beliefs.
Where do interns apply?
It appears that you're targeting corporate users, am I right? I would guess that individuals would probably just use something like Google Hangout or e-mail or some other chat client.

For many corporations, I think one of the biggest issues is having their internal chats hosted in the "cloud". Maybe I'm assuming too much here, but i'm guessing all of this is happening on your servers. I'd highly recommend allowing people to deploy this service on one of their own servers and also providing some sort of security guarantee. Then some of the bigger companies might be willing to move to it, and I could see how this would be a joy to use over IM/e-mail/IRC/maybe even HipChat?

Anyway, good luck on your product. Hope your launch goes well! :)
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I'm always surprised in threads like these that people express ideas that leave them open to legal action in the future.

I hope those people have rigorous documentation for hiring people and that reasons for rejection are kept on record.
It's dead already.
That sample size difference could matter depending on their methodology. If they do countrywise segmentation the sample size for many countries may be very small and any resulting error would get amplified by the weighting.

40,000 sites / 200 countries = 200 sites per country on average. How many participating sites do they have in smaller countries?
You're making a use-mention error. If you proposed actually committing theft/fraud ("use") at a business meeting, I think most people would question your ethics. But if you merely say the the true fact that committing theft/fraud could be lucrative ("mention"), I don't think many people would question your ethics. Of course, that would be an irrelevant and unhelpful thing to randomly say at a business meeting, but that's another matter.
This is Huge!

Although the compiler is a bit slow at the moment, I'm really excited about this.
I had the same thought.

Team i was on at the time made a concerted effort to use wave, and we were just starting to be pretty productive on it when google axed it.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave
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And you can't base64 encode it and store it in a string?
Why don't they answer the most-asked questions ("will I get my money/bitcoins back?" / "how much of my money/bitcoins will I get back, and when?") up-front on the homepage?
tl;dr

No.
Flash is such an incredible innovation. I wonder why can't Adobe just make it open to the public instead of watching it die slowly.
This is helped by the fantastic haskell community. The IRC channels are great.