skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For hackers it's fine; my Pandora is less than 1 ghz and I use it every day for a lot of things. Yeah I cannot really do that fancy smancy cpu/gpu killing web stuff on it but for nicely built apps and console work it works really well. For devving too as that's what I do mostly on it. If this thing runs linux well if would add nicely to my collection of small devices that can. I never had a N900 and I don't really use a phone for calling, but I do collect internet capable, linux capable devices and I use them a lot.

I think the hacker market is large enough to sell out at least a few batches of this thing.
The engines 'phoned home' long after the plane went off the radar so to speak. The altitude data has also been said to be unreliable.
Julie Ann Horvath leaves GitHub
In this example, I'd say his title was more compelling, and more applicable to more people. Try reposting your link with a title that will appeal to more people? (read: link bait)
you still end up loading the gigantic image to go on a tiny screen, so you consume a lot of memory on a mobile device for no-gain.
Unless you share exactly my specific level of paranoia you are either buying into what ^they^ want you to believe or are a nut case tin-foil hatter ! :-)
What makes it ludicrous is how much noise US politicians on the right make about "free market" and how they vilify "socialism" then turn around and pass legislation that implements massive market-distortions. It's basically massive demagoguery and corruption.
Show HN: GitPrint.com – A site to easily print Markdown files on GitHub
I believe you can fill your own car if it takes diesel fuel.

(This is probably not that interesting to most people, not even those who live in New Jersey, but it might be some evidence for - or, perhaps, against... - the idea that this is a strange law.)
in·flam·ma·to·ry

1. Arousing passion or strong emotion, especially anger, belligerence, or desire.

My comment was definitely not inflammatory in nature. Being the author of my comment, I'm pretty sure I have higher authority than you to be the judge of this. It was meant to be thought-provoking, in a very casual way. But that doesn't seem to be appreciated on HN (my general impression) Hint: don't take everything so seriously.

"Why would being a wealthy country make someone more adept at misleading their populace? If they were, what would be the benefit?
As a PhD student..."

A wise man once said (can't remember where the quote originates from), "The purpose of doing a PhD is learning how to learn" (paraphrased). I hope that the experience will help you answer your own questions, in a few years. For now, just use your imagination...
I had heard of this DataHand before but looking at the wikipedia picture I realized that the mapping was directly lifted from QWERTY. It seems such a waste to me to design a new input method and not try to make an optimized layout for it (since you'll have to relearn to type anyway...)
Disgusting. I don't know how in 2014 we still judge people by their gender or sexuality.

All businesses should really care about is if the employee is a value add to the company. Male or Female, it should not matter.

Disgusting GitHub, didn't expect this from you.
And who says all comments must be value-adding?
Females != Feminists

Going into a workplace with a feminist agenda is a distraction and problem waiting to happen.

Twitter Followers != Engineer

https://github.com/nrrrdcore - she didn't even have any code. She's not a prominent engineer IMO. More of a marketer / enthusiast type.

Edit: Does anyone here have proof of gender discrimination or she was a good engineer?
It is also not a scientific argument, but a philosophical one.
There is no proof (yet). So let's not make a big deal and judge neither Julie nor Github unless something solid comes out.
My grandfather ate about 8-10 eggs per day for about his whole life, because they lived on the country-side and they ate what they could produce (e.g. had hens that produced eggs). He was also drinking about 1 letter of milk daily straight from his cow and in case you never drank raw unprocessed milk, let me tell you it's freaking fat compared to what you find in store. He was also drinking about 1 letter of his own wine and a couple of shots of his own brandy per day. His favorite dish was also raw pig bacon though because of their relative poverty, this wasn't happening often, maybe once or twice per month.

He died at 99, one month from turning 100. Never had heart disease, never had cholesterol problems. He lived in an area in which all the people have similar dietary habits. In fact if you'll ever come to Romania, you'll notice that only the French eat fatter and IMHO the jury is still out on that one, because while the French use tons of butter for everything, I think we are eating more pork-based dishes (bathed in sunflower oil), more than anybody else, pork being way more popular than fish, beef or even chicken (during the holidays). You should see my favorite dishes ;-)

The above is just an anecdote of course, but do take studies with a grain of salt, especially studies on nutrition. Such studies cannot control or even estimate all the variables involved (short of keeping subjects in a cage locked away for 20 years) and cannot be conducted doubly-blind. We are a long way off to understanding anything about the impact of our diet.

Also, it should make you wonder why in the world your medics declared war on fat since 1960, while they ignored the biggest elephant in the room, which is our increased intake of sugar.
Now I use DigitalOcean's $5/month box running CentOS.
How can I take the article seriously when it says that "GitHub has been embroiled in a series of diversity controversies, such as programmers adding racial and sexist slurs into their code", which links to an article where someone took GitHub search and found random people putting bad words into their public repos?

This author can't seem to distinguish between the code employees at GitHub write, and code users put onto GitHub.
But it doesn't explain why none of the flight crews bothered to let any of the ATCs know that they had a fire on the plane...
Going into a workplace with the idea that everyone should be treated fairly and equally is a distraction and a problem waiting to happen? "Feminism" isn't "women better, dudes worse."

(And the always popular implication that people who aren't engineers don't matter...)
Hi everyone - I'm the author of this post/site. This is last weekend's project.

I got frustrated with not having a good way to print Markdown files from GitHub (root level repo READMEs and individual .md/mdown files).

It's super simple to use: just replace 'github.com' with 'gitprint.com' (when on a GitHub markdown file page) and it will convert it to a beautiful print-friendly PDF and prompt you to print.

Any feedback would be appreciated. (It's just a fun side project, but would like to improve it as I think it could be useful for like-minded people)
The first ones probably won't be easy to upgrade.

The far from future ones will be so advanced that they will upgrade themselves or "grow".

The BCIs that can be upgraded can either be plugged in and unplugged to be upgraded or could be wireless.
Honest question; can you name a few? Clients and keyboards that work nicely (together)? I tried and to make it short; they all suck. The ones I tried that is. For pocket fit I haven't found a nicer feeling / working one than my ancient Zaurus C860 running Linux which I still use for that purpose.
Reporting based on unconfirmed reports and allegations from twitter is the best kind of reporting.

I'm not saying there is not a story here, yet. But let's wait until there are some facts to report.
I have to agree. Adria Richards took a picture of two guys then posted the, to twitter, complaining about a conversation the two were having that possibly contained sexual innuendo. The same sort that she made on twitter earlier.

In this case, someone has quit and said that a company hasn't been doing the right thing. That's a far more ethical stance to make.

Mind you, I've no idea what the issues were/are.
I'll be sticking with iPredator, and here's why: I don't care what my VPN client looks like -- I care about how secure it is. I have immense trust for Peter Sunde & Friends. They are not in this business to Get Rich Quick™. They are in it for deeply held moral, social reasons; reasons, so deeply held, they have put their own personal safety and freedom at risk. I feel very safe knowing they will NEVER comply with NSA, Interpol, etc., and that they are always one step ahead of BigBrother. I'm sure the Tunnel Bear people are cool and all, but no one can touch the Pirate Bay team. End of conversation.
"I don't think the idea that wealthy governments release false data explicitly for the purpose of misleading people when they could just not release it is compelling"

Do you often find yourself taken by surprise?
Expecting what exactly? What did they do?
Ask HN: printer recommendations
Are there any affordable printers/all-in-ones available these days that don't suck? Bonus points for good drivers (especially for scanning) in OSX.
This is a great article. Funny enough I'm seeing more and more of these detailed build your own keyboard articles these days. I don't know much about DIY hardware, has the market recently shifted such that making these things is much cheaper/easier than a few years ago?
So, isn't that like invading a foreign country and breaking the law? Or so Americans think they can do anything they like? How'd they fill if some foreign power did the same in American soil?
I've never heard a left-handed complaining about the traditional gamepad layout.
In fact you can specify the user, you can have a dedicated user with sudo for instance.
> From the perspective of humanity, solar resources might as well be infinite.

They aren't as soon as you continue to expect to have growth. Which the present systems still assume.
The theorem is fine, but there's obviously not a total order of 'general aptitude' on the set of people since there definitely exist two people and two jobs for which the first person is better at the first job than the second person and worse at the second job than the second person.
I downvoted you for the "marketer/enthusiast" comment. I think that was out of line. Deciding whether she's an engineer or a marketer is not up to you, it's between her and Github.

That said, feminism describes lots of different things, and I think she was addressing a broad group with that first statement. The sooner you realize that not all feminists have the same agenda, the easier it will be for you to understand what's going on.
> The radioactive materials in the forest are almost certainly not dense enough to undergo a chain reaction, so adding a moderator would be pointless. ... Spreading moderators around would do nothing to help about bioaccumulation.

That's basically correct. There won't be a fission chain reaction because essentially no neutrons are released by the radioactive decay of the isotopes in the fallout. Consequently, deploying neutron moderators would have essentially no effect. (It'd be like, say, taking a life jacket with you on a hike through the Sahara.)

The relevant radioactive isotopes are mainly caesium 137, iodine 131, and strontium 90 [1]. When they decay into other elements, they release beta- and gamma radiation, which can damage nearby cells if ingested into the body. But none of them fissions to release neutrons that would be absorbed by graphite or boron.

The danger posed by these isotopes is that if you inhale or swallow them, they can stick around in your body tissues, zapping nearby cells, for a long time. For example, caesium 137 has an estimated biological half life of 70 days [2], while strontium 90, which is taken into bone much like calcium, has an estimated biological half life of 18 years [3].

A major forest fire in the Chernobyl area would turn contaminated trees into contaminated smoke. Who knows where the wind would blow the smoke. The resulting fallout could be inhaled and/or swallowed by people and other animals. It also might fall on farmland, where it could be up-taken by crops that would eventually be swallowed. All in all, not good news.

(Source: I used to be a Navy nuclear engineering officer.)

[1] http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/backgrounder...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137#Health_risk_of_radi...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90
That bit needs to go. This about workplace abuse, a tremendously more serious matter as it relates to Github than what non-Github employees put in the code Github hosts
> Gold hasn't been used as a coin in years, but is still valuable, thus demonstrating that it has intrinsic value.

So at what number of years does a store-of-value transition from "no intrinsic value" to "intrinsic value"?

> it's entire value lies in being a medium of exchange

So why is that somehow "extrinsic" value and not "intrinsic" value?

As near as I can tell, all currencies fit this description, and bitcoin is just yet-another-currency (And isn't that just what it's supposed to be?)
Growth = Money, hype is one way to get growth
DHH Ping Pong
Basically, how any incompetent person behaves in the workplace. People getting shit done don't have time for this nonsense.
Is there any VPN client API/SDK/lib which can be easily embedded in apps? (C++/Java/other?). Something with a free plan would be even better
Sounds like someone read Iain M Banks "Surface Detail" and decided it'd make a good basis for a grant. Disgusting.
> the always popular implication that people who aren't engineers don't matter

There is also the popular implication when there is a girl on twitter starting trouble again, they're not coding and trying to claim some form of discrimination, instead of developing programming skill.
Article looks sensationalist without any concrete details, however I will reserve my judgement and wait for more information before condemning either party.
You can also have economic growth through more efficient use of the same resources. Again, there's probably some theoretical limit, but it certainly won't be a practical consideration any time soon (we're very inefficient).
Colonizing / terraforming another planet may be theoretically possible but also possibly require more expendable resources than our planet has to offer to the cause. Unlike Earth exploration.

It's easy to say that looking back, but there were people who believed the earth was flat. Blasphemy! But not then. Might have just as well been like comparing apples to oranges for them…

Colonizing and terraforming are both processes that can exist on a spectrum, and in that spectrum human beings to this point have proved to some degree that we can survive, not enough to make people believe ("but you can't grow your own food on ISS, it must all be for naught!") but enough progress to build upon by people who work within possibilities and not self imposed binary states that "complex" life forms themselves didn't come into existence as under such simplified states.

I think its more feasible that humans as we exist now, augment our bodies to exist in different places; We already do this on earth depending on the physical ailments that may affect people…
FTA: "Nonetheless, GitHub has been embroiled in a series of diversity controversies, such as programmers adding racial and sexist slurs into their code"

This links to a gizmodo article linking to random open source code on Github written by random people on the internet containing slurs. How is that Github's fault exactly? Should they censor "git push" with anti-slurs filters? This even links to a repo containing a list of words that should not be used by the user https://github.com/hhzl/Cuis-Smalltalk-StyledTextEditor/tree...

Ridiculous. No idea about the rest of the accusations though.
If a publicly distributed first-hand account by the person in question isn't "solid proof," what exactly are you looking for? What reason do you have to think she's being anything less than truthful?
Interesting point.

Let's say I am an open source developer and I put some crazy stuff on Github.

Some journalist does a profile on me. Am I a "Github Software Developer" to them?

* Google Name -- "aha, link to Github"

* Find crazy stuff checked into Github repos.

* Google Github -- "aha, technology company something something distributed ... eyes glaze over technical mumbo jumbo".

* Claim I am a "Github Engineer"

It is obvious to us how it works, but say someone who has no idea about repos or open source will not quite understand the separation between user content and platform.
Yeah I'm curious as to why they included that at the end... It's a pretty bold claim, it doesn't add to the article, and there's nothing to back up what they're saying. It just adds to the shoddy journalism of recode.

Seems like we have a pretty lame situation here being documented by pretty lame journalists.
Nrrrdcore leaves Github
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My optimistic idea of the future (not the only scenario I entertain by any means) assumes that renewable, carbon-neutral energy will be pervasive.
You've responded with a breathtaking amount of immaturity

To a post displaying a breathtaking amount of naivety. I didn't ignore your points, they are, paraphrasing Feynmann, "not even wrong". And I am not sure what "troll" even means these days, it seems to be a catch-all term for "someone on the Internet who isn't a part of my echo chamber".

Likewise, I wish you well, and I hope that one day you will come around to what I wrote.
The intrinsic value of gold is very big:

It is one of the very few metals that do not oxide in normal conditions, this makes :

Any metal very good electrical contact: just putting a single layer of gold over any metal will make the metal a fantastic electrical contact without the oxide layer that any metal will develop over time. This application alone is of great use in anything that plugs, just look around and you see gold in any electronic device.

You can make the best quality IR reflectors with it.

You can cover plastic with a very small layer of it and make mylar that in used in everything from refrigerators to accident blankets.

Gold (and platinum)is one of the the most used metals in any electronic, chemistry, biochemistry or physics laboratory as not being dissolved or attacked from most chemicals makes the extremely useful.

It is also great value because:
It is very dense.
It could be divided ad infinitum without (oxidation)damages.
It is easy to know it is gold and not something different.
It is beautiful.
It is very rare and appreciated, because of its aesthetic and its industrial properties.

Which makes it one of the best material for exchanging goods possible. It is also the preferred way to store wealth around the world when US of America does not threat with its weapons(guess what are China, Rusia, Iran or Brasil using to exchange goods between them as they have a military army on their on).

Gold reserves has been the first thing the US has sto... errr has taken from Ukraine in order to "protect" it. Let me tell you when the gold is coming back:never.
Not sure if it's in STABLE already but I was aware of the patch. We have rolled back to 9.1-RELEASE for now and will wait for 9.3-RELEASE.
It's not oil or other resource conflicts that are poison per-se. It's a system of conflict resolution that eventually and too often turns to armed conflict as "diplomacy by other means."

It's also a "human nature" that is prone to having one group of us kill another as a means of conflict resolution. Unfortunately, that is apparently a part of the natural behavior repertoire of Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes.

I assure you that governments will continue to do evil things and will find the money to do so, but over time governments will become less evil.
Do you mean just printing more money (easy) or reducing the waste during the energy consumption (physical limits exist)?

What we know about the economy today is still mostly extracting natural resources, spending energy from one natural resources to process other, distribute, sell them and finally dump the results in landfills, air and water. We measure growth mostly by the amount of the matter involved in this process.
It wouldn't be necessary to pull one out unless you needed to increase the bandwidth of the connection. A BCI would probably be able to be unplugged. There is also no reason that it couldn't be wireless. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/149879-brown-university-c...

As far as putting them in it isn't 100% necessary to damage the brain when installing one. The BCI connection could "grow" around and into a part of the brain to create the connection.

Safety would be the #1 concern when building the implants, so even if something went wrong hopefully the damage would be limited or non-existent.
Implied by the deranged, yes. Are you deranged?

You can't--and obviously I mean in the "if you're a basically functioning, mostly vertebrate human being it's morally repugnant" sense of "can't", not the physical, over-literal sense that I feel like you're going to use--blame shitty workplace behaviors (and this isn't the first I've heard of GitHub having problems) on people not knowing how to code. I mean, what kind of world do you want to live in where you can excuse mistreating people because they don't "develop programming skill"?

Actually, don't answer that. I don't want to know what kind of world you want to live in.
Open source has won the battle but is losing the war
Does she need to be an engineer or a "good engineer" to have a non-hostile workplace?

Considering that GitHub appears to have hired her partially for the purpose of bettering the culture, your point about "feminist agendas" also falls short.

I'll wait for real facts before coming to any conclusions, but immediately rejecting her statements like you're doing is not constructive for anyone.
Here is my conspiracy theory: If you were the FSB, you would want to distract popular attention from events in the Ukraine. A lack of news coverage of the events in Crimea takes the heat off Western leaders to look tough.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic with that reference, but that was actually an ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI
well yesterday some were talking about tracking a plane lost in earth and today i read about tracking a gas cloud in space!And supposedly the latter seems more like a soccer penalty shot!
Ask HN: User authentication with AWS JavaScript SDK?
So Amazon AWS released Javascript SDK that can be used directly in the client side browser to use their services, without the need for a server to make the calls.

If this is the case, is it possible to create a user, authenticate the user, and show content based on the login status?

What services can you use for this? SimpleDB? RDS? S3 even?

If this is possible, then it would mean that you can scale up without having to scale the server middleman between the client and Amazon.

Are there any tutorials on this or a sample code which can let a user create an account, login, and access data from Amazon?
> Deciding whether she's an engineer or a marketer is not up to you

This is not a subjective distinction. It is very objective thing and such judgement can be done by outsider.
Zero percent of this conversation should be about the article, and should entirely be on the validity of the claim against the unhealthy work environment.
There are three sides to every story. In this case there is her side, github's side and the truth. It is not that someone is lying, it is that people perceive things differently and it takes time to detangle perceptions to reach the truth. Let's wait for the truth before casting stones in either direction ...