skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than 50% of people are women, many of them rich. Even if men were as discriminating as you claim, why shouldn't there be enough women to become clients of and fund startups by women?

Also do you really think a majority of the venture capitalists would leave money on the table because they prefer to discriminate against women?
To be fair, I think if Netflix COULD give you more they would. It's not like they are holding back season 5 and then charging you an extra $3.99 to see it as I'm sure someone like Comcast would do.
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The other thing to note is that hardware is still continuing to get faster and bigger (although that's slowed down a little most recently), while people are slowly being able to do less with new software that consumes more resources than their predecessors. "Do less with more"?

I think we've reached the point where computers have become much more than powerful enough for a lot of the common tasks people use them for. The rest is just marketing with an aggressive "newer is better" campaign.

IMHO "forced deprecation" is nearly never a good thing. Change in software (and hardware) should be an evolution, not a revolution. Fix bugs and add features, don't take away what was there before. I think a lot more people value stability over "latest fashion" than what companies and the like would want you to think, so they can keep you consuming.
I'll agree it's not pretty to view source and see an inordinate amount of fluff in what was once your beautifully handcrafted semantic HTML. Much of this can be alleviated with templating (ng-view).

Have you taken the time to play around with angular before airing your grievances? My hunch is yes and that you may just be simplifying things for others who haven't used it yet.

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of working with angular: Once you've familiarized yourself with the verbiage, most of jeswin's concerns here come second nature just by glancing in one's source code. Let's take the example:

form.length.$error.float

The name form, albeit horribly chosen in this case, represents the parent form's identifier in angular (the form's name attribute). It would've made more sense to use <form name="formLengthValidationDemo"> or something more insightful so you could more easily see the name matching from HTML to JS.

$error is simply the representation of any form validation errors that may have occurred. It's standard in angular, and there's plenty of documentation. Just google for "angularjs form validation" and you'll find a million resources at your disposal.

form.length.$error.float is checking if an error exists for the validation rule float. Given the limited amount of code in the sample, we'd have to arbitrarily assume that the "smart-float" directive is implicitly setting a custom validation rule via:

ngModel.$setValidity('float')

I'll have to agree to disagree regarding pattern usage and dependency injection. They do have a place, and it tends to be in larger applications which become a burden to maintain as your application grows. To be quite honest, I believe angular brought a simplicity to DI that has yet to be seen in many other frameworks. It entirely lowered the barrier to entry for writing testable code and heavily promoted unit testing at the same time.
Yes - you're right, it isn't a pretty picture. That being said, can you imagine the outcome of letting major institutions fail? It is likely things would be much worse. Otherwise healthy institutions may have been brought down in the process.
And just as we were talking about .NET in other environments and Mono and Xamarin, we hear the news about Microsoft in talks to acquire Xamarin. Interesting.
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> Love it, i'm now not being allowed to reply.

If someone just posted something, there is a cool down period before you can reply. Maybe that was the case.
The reasons why existing video services do not work for me and I've tried Google Play and Amazon Instant so far:

- Lack of on-demand high quality (true 1080) option: Google Play is 480 and Amazon Instant is blurry on a big screen. Besides Amazon states in their TOC that they can change quality as they see fit at the time of a video being played.

- Insistence on specific playback tech. Amazon Instant mandates Silverlight and the playback is choppy on my media centre PC due to Silverlight's graphic acceleration issues.

- Lack of audio track (and often subtitle) options: in UK that's English only. I want to be able to watch films dubbed and have a selection of translations that are already available.

More generally I am opposed to the prepackaged nature of the paid service offered and lack of control over how and what I can watch.

Some alternative ways of viewing the content offer me great choice and full control over:

1. Title I choose to watch.
2. Video quality.
3. Audio quality.
4. Audio track.
5. Subtitles.
6. Streaming vs. download, so I can make the best use of my connection.
7. Hardware and software I am using for viewing.

In other words these matters are decided based on demand, instead of someone's opinion of what the demand should be.
Uh, does anyone have a transcript? My netbook is too slow to load that monster of a website.
I can’t speak for the GP, but I have wasted a good number of hours on problems relating to bundler installing/upgrading global gems. There is --path, which solves this, but it seems to me that "--path vendor" (or something similar) should have been the default, similar to how npm will never touch anything outside your project directory without being explicitly asked to do so.
W3C's Technical Architecture Group... The man has officially solved the 24-hour day problem.
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Why would Y-Combinator deserve this special treatment by the US government? Since when does money == oversight?
> or the primary focus of the person's role

That one.

A implies B does not necessarily mean that B implies A. She's just saying that it's possible for a person to have skills beyond those required for their role. The examples you quoted aren't listed as what should be expectations of her role, they're examples of how she often pulls in her not-in-the-job-req skills in the service of her official duties.
TL&DR: To little to late. Nokia :(

I was so looking forward to MeeGo on Nokia and was ready to switch to that stack. I had grand ideas of all the things the community could do with an open enviroment where we could place our Linux ecco-system onto a phone.

Sadly the time-frame has lapse and I am looking at Nokia with HUGE disappointment. They really should have been the Android but instead they floundered for years while Apple and Google passed them by.

Firefox OS also something that might have been special 3 years ago seems to little to late sadly. Ubuntu OS looks great if it came out 3 or 4 years ago. The community could have made it the perfect hackers phone. Now not so much sadly.
I don't even think risk is necessary to consider. I am going to say anyone who help growing a company is valuable. Even a receptionist is critical. If you have a clumsy or rude receptionist, I will have a bad impression of your new startup.
Nothing, for swapping things out. :)

In my test initialization, I'd probably just replace the value of "ns.someService" worldwide with a mock.
I concur, with sorrow. Scheme is such a nice language... I believe a standardised syntax to define compound data structures (aka defstruct) and a standardised C FFI would make Scheme language usable. If these existed, I'd implement a Leiningen-ish tool and a couple libraries for Scheme, to get going with web development.

(There is one more problem I have with Scheme, which is the name. It sounds identical to a vulgar Turkish word for "my penis"; resulting in awkward situations when talking about the language in Turkey, where I live. :))

edit:

- the Turkish word
+ a vulgar Turkish word
I don't know, my dad is retired, used to work as an engineer and loves model trains. He doesn't know what bitcoin is. It really isn't that unusual for technical people to get out of touch with recent developments. A 64 year old Japanese immigrant with health problems almost certainly has very different sources of information to you and I.
Also, the vehement denials are extremely consistent with Dorian Nakamoto being a grumpy old man who doesn't understand what is going on but doesn't like it and wants to be left alone. It just seems like he just wanted to get rid of the reporter and she heard what she wanted to hear.

You'd expect there to be at least one Satoshi Nakamoto with an engineering background. Dorian Nakamoto's career doesn't seem remarkable or unusual (or closely related to bitcoin). I would expect every single person on Hacker News to fit the profile for the founder of bitcoin as well or better than Dorian Nakamoto. The fact that he has the same name as Satoshi Nakamoto doesn't indicate anything, because you would expect Satoshi Nakamoto to be a pseudonym.
Captcha is dying as computer vision improves. However similar technologies also make automated spam filtering much easier. There are tons of available datapoints to figure out what accounts are bots. IP, how they behave, the times they log in, browser details, etc, and mainly the contents of the text they post.
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What is ten inches long and while? ... Nothing.

Oh, I have another one:

Jewess is sitting in a tram car and crying. One lady feels sorry for her, and wants to brighten her mood. So she goes to her, puts hand on her shoulder and says "Don't cry, I do believe in that holocaust of yours."
I like this sentiment, to a point. Steel cut oats do have a special value when the only available alternative is "instant oatmeal."

Not saying that's the case here, but that a true gradient in offerings is not always existent.
The article doesn't address the question: Why has the GDP share of the FIRE sector recently grown so much so fast?

If its growth were the result of increasing authentic demand for financial services, or increasing efficiency in the supply of financial services, then that would be OK. However, I see three main bad reasons for the recent explosive growth in the FIRE sector:

1. Their cost of borrowing is artificially low. They don't need depositors anymore. They can borrow limitless funds from the Federal Reserve now at 0.25%. Their real borrowing rate is actually negative if we're honest about inflation, rather than relying on fabricated government numbers that leave out housing, healthcare, food, fuel and education.

2. The Fed is creating artificial demand for financial products. After the 2008-9 crisis, the Fed has created $3T out of thin air and used half of it to buy mortgage backed securities.

3. Over the last 30 years, the federal government has shown its willingness to bailout failed financial institutions that took on too much risk-- We saw it with the S&L crisis of the 1980s and 1990s; we saw it with the 1998 bailout of LTCM; and we saw it again with the $700B TARP in 2008.

If we would simply allow the free market (rather than The Fed and federal government) to determine interest rates, and the demand for securities, and the appropriate level of risk appetite, then we'd see the FIRE sector shrink back to its historically low share of GDP. Page 37 of this paper by Thomas Philippon charts the growth of the US Financial Industry as a share of GDP from 1860 to 2007: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tphilipp/papers/finsize_old.pdf
Soundslice is a service where you can transcribe music easily. Many sites that offer "guitar tabs" use either an ASCII-based format or files for GuitarPro and similar programs. Soundslice allows you to transcribe directly from a YouTube video, so you get the original sound together with the tabs, looping, slowing down and the ability to transcribe songs yourself.

Here's an example: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/2865/adrian-holovaty-everythi...

Now they've launched a sheet-music player that's featured on the homepage. Adrian has posted an article about it on his blog: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/soundslice-sheet-music/

Currently, only they transcribe the sheet-music, via their Pitch Perfect program: http://www.soundslice.com/pitch-perfect/
Yes, but my point was that I could send data to an ACID compliant server, and kill it before the commit happened and data will be lost. Just trying to point out to the parent poster that sending is not enough, you need to wait for the commiting.
Internet: 1, Newsweek: -1

The internet has won again, no surprise there.

Newsweek is a magazine that you find in the grocery checkout aisle, along with other notables such as Time, People, Cosmo, and National Enquirer. I don't think it has been considered a serious source of news since the 80s.
> The sector you mentioned is dominated by other languages (Ruby, JavaScript, Java) for a reason.

Presumably there's a significant amount of software that both is library-heavy and would benefit from being faster-than-Java, enough so to make some extra memory management worthwhile? If the reason that such software is getting written in Java etc. instead is because dependency management is too unpleasant in C++, well then that right there is the case for something C++-like but with good dependency management.
He seats on the board. This is not an acquihire.
Motivation 2014
Bit of motivation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n0kkLNpig&list=UUGBzPBe6xLgEL-Y96Os2IQA
Additionally, the licensing is perhaps not quite as worry-free as something like Tcl's or Lua's. Guile is LGPL, which means you should be able to link it in without problems, but the subtleties of GPL vs LGPL are probably lost on many people, who steer clear of the whole lot.

Also, at least IIRC, at one point in time you could "check in, but never leave" to hotel Guile from C code. Once you called the Guile function, you pretty much handed off control. Or something like that, my memory is a bit fuzzy.

Here we go:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.6/guile-ref/S...

So embedding Guile in something like Apache was tricky. IIRC, this is done so that Guile can GC stuff on the C stack by walking backwards and examining it.

(Edit is -> was)
Newton? Seriously?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_gi...
I think the reality may well be that young, straight, white males are more capable developers on average, largely due to the fact that they're more commonly from an upbringing in moderately wealthy middle-class families free from the pressure of poverty or discrimination that hold minorities back, and with aspirations that they can easily work in industries that don't appear closed to them as they are to women. The discrimination could well be that of society as a whole rather than the particular company they're applying to work for. But to assume that the specific developer sitting in front of you in an interview is not as good as his or her counterparts because they don't fit your idea of "the best developer is a white male" is just plain discrimination.

Individuals are not averages.
The Age of Individualism
I don't disagree with that, but I'd hardly call it corrupt. Its no different than how a lot of people in SV hang out in the same circles, listen to the same people, read the same sources, and develop a distinct way of looking at things. Case in point: I think there is a strong group think in SV that creates an idiosyncratic view of the economic importance of small startups. The fact that other people in other industries can be influenced by groupthink that causes them to maybe overvalue patent protections is hardly a sign of corruption.
Why would they wait two weeks? That's a long time to wrangle 250 people. I would expect the ransom demand while the plane is still in the air, if only to contain everyone.
Nope, a realistic view, and there is a posibility for improvement when it is oportune.

Don't fool yourself with romanticizing history, history is very dark and grim.

And of course you should try to make a lighter and fairer future, but people are people and nature/evolution isn't fair at all.
It makes strategic sense when they're in 3rd place and theyre buying a cross platform tool that is about an order of magnitude better than any of the others.

Because theyre in 3rd place, theres basically zero cannibalization cost and only the potential upside of "owning the cross platform framework (i.e. the java) of mobile"

As I've said before: I want to live in a world where ms buys xamarin, open sources or provides the software for nearly free. Ms could plausibly win the app wars this way, and by extension mobile.

Of the three/four mobile languages C# is tied with JavaScript for the one I'd most like to spend my weeks working in, and alone in first for the one id most like to mentor a child in.

"code for windows phone, get iOS and android for nearly free" is an extremely compelling proposition.

What makes this not a strategic disaster like OS/2 or android on bberry in my opinion is 1) it is a 3 legged race not a 2 way race and 2) it is a "write in our language, we'll compile to the competitors" not a "we can run our competitors apps"
How to charge for websites?
The thing that sold me on React was this statement: "Most people make the mistake that the DOM is a place you put things."

The DOM is what the user sees. That's all. With React, you have a virtual DOM that can hold everything, not just what the user sees. It's a pure data structure, and can be manipulated as such.

Because that DOM is a pure data structure, React can figure out for you what parts have changed, and re-render those bits as needed.
That's disappointing to hear! I've been on Macs for a while, and figured I'd go to Thinkpads if I ever switched away.
This is extremely picky. "Smart-float" is the name of a custom directive that is used as an example. The term "smart float" can be used as a React component name just as easily. In that case, your React component would "sound like C++".

Also, the "we wouldn't have built many apps" part is a stretch. It's actually the opposite, AngularJS is extremely popular and the most successful current JS framework.
Nasty icons
We've had streaming torrent players for a decade here in mainland China.
I doubt that, you can't push system level (certified) apps through the app manager if you're not rooted either.
It's interesting that those are really old modules with missing tests.
Also do you really think a majority of the venture capitalists would leave money on the table because they prefer to discriminate against women?

Yes, but not because "they prefer to discriminate against women", rather because they believe that female founders represent a disproportionately higher risk than male founders. A lot of VCs (seem to) believe that women aren't ruthless and cut-throat enough to lead their companies to success. The recent proliferation of 'women-only' VC funds sign-posts that some people in the industry recognise that they have a problem.
In the scope of my article, when will you be at your destination? Will you be driving at full speed on the freeway for the rest of your life until your car breaks down from wear and tear? Or would you not rather arrive there a bit later with your car still running and still in good health.
It soon begins to become infeasible. Unless you can identify when these quantum attacks are occurring and block them this is really more of a political problem than a technical one.
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Oh, no I have no problem with enterprise Java - it was merely an observation. Enterprise Java exists because it works, after all. I just find it interesting that most software projects will eventually come to the same conclusions regardless of their original source.
I signed up for the netflix free trial and no HD on any movie I attempted to watch. It was like watching an xvid avi file.
Are you using SPF and DKIM? Those proof that the emails are verified by the DNS of the sender's domain. Maybe IP based blacklists are more likely ignored since providers could rather block based on domains than. Both technologies are at least supported by Google Apps.
That's the insignificant part. There are already a bunch of places to buy Linux games, what's one more? Here's the interesting bit:

> This is, of course, going to include games that we sell which already have Linux clients, but we'll also be bringing Linux gamers a variety of classics that are, for the first time, officially supported and maintained by a storefront like ours.

Even if this is via e.g. dosemu, it'd still be offering something new compared to storefronts that already have Linux support.
> it's also very unlikely that they don't have access logs to their service, which usually includes ip's i.e. location.

In mobile data world, the norm is MASSIVE NAT. Thousands of users per IP (you can IIRC make 65535 distinct connections over a single NATd IP). Also, the connections are usually terminated in one (or fairly few) data centres, so the IP only tells you the country and the provider, nothing more.
I'm not sure why your being down voted, that was my impression as well.
Cool hack! We don't want to spy on, torture, or indefinitely detain our own citizens. So just stop them from being citizens, moral crisis averted.
This isn't rape, you know. Sexism isn't an event. It's an atmosphere. She describes the atmosphere. Short of providing hours of videos or recordings, I'm not sure how much more clear she could have put it. Of course, if she had, those would have been generally dismissed as aberrations, or, more likely, as her "misunderstanding" the situation, or "natural in a competitive environment".

But that's not surprising either, because the HN community is sexist, and those are textbook responses to allegations of sexism.
I don't understand why it would be too late for "the community" to get an alternative OS for their smartphone to tinker with. Especially since there aren't any open-source and free alternatives yet (notwithstanding Android maybe ?).

I own an iphone 3GS and Samsung ??1500 and I really don't like them (I am not using them, their were dropped on my lap by some friends who took pity on me). My old sony-erricson Naite suits me better but I can't help waiting for something like the upcoming Ubuntu phone or a Jolla phone (or a clone ?) to get on board.

PS: I might have missed it but my comment falls flat if you consider Android the only tinkering smartphone OS (I don't have any opinions regarding that statement though).
So, all industries then.
I disagree. I really want to have a phone which out of the box would have rich set of powerful, well-designed and integrated applications (Mail, Contact manager, Calendar, Notes, Todo, Maps, IM, Music player, Book reader, File manager, Alarm, Gallery/Camera).

I think Android is far behind here in current state, and all the new stuff they do is so Google-centric that it makes me sick.

So I do see a room for another OS that doesn't need tons of apps for each thing, but rather has great stack out of the box.
Good first step. The integration with rest of their suite like Sharepoint, Office 365 will make life easier in a future update.
Exactly where's the incentive for early employees to take a risk on your startup if once the company makes it their just going to "renegotiate" their deal.

Early employees deserve their extra stock regardless of what they do.
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If you're concerned with quality, why not "purchase" the movies in a marketplace like iTunes or Google Play?
It doesn't really matter whose fault it is. The same content is readily available in torrents, and if nobody is willing to accept money for it, guess where consumers are going to get it from?

I assume these people would rather receive money for their content, but it sure doesn't seem like it.
IIRC he ended up on the Facebook board, so he has a certain say on Whatsapp stuff.