skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even then, using USB devices WITH drivers beat the hell out of configuring IRQ and DMAs. I remember the ordeal it was when you wanted to add or change something and you had conflicting IRQs... pfff..
My favourite quote is from Winston Churchill during some fo the bleakest days for Britain in WWII. I find it especially relevant to startups and entrepreneurs, much like the audience of HN itself.

"If you're going through hell, keep going"

You can read more about the history behind it and the context here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffloftus/2012/05/09/if-youre-...
9/10 would andreessen
The thing is, it's not marketed as a backup service. It's an archive service. If you have business requirements to keep data around for a certain length of time, and things will go very badly (legally speaking) if the data disappears, you might decide to have Amazon store it in Glacier. You likely wouldn't ever access it unless a lawyer or auditor wanted it; if your systems failed, you'd hopefully be restoring from a short-term backup rather than long-term archives.
I can't find the link, but there was an unsuccessful unethical study that tried to reproduce this. I think most of the test subjects died, none became savants.
SpaceX Files Protest Against Air Force Over National Security Launches
>but 20 years is an old company

Umm, Google is a ~16 year old company. In 4 years, will they be an 'old company'? Please...

>This is the nonsensical mentality

This is how huge, borderline monopoly business are built. I am not sure you grasp their strategy. It sounds like you may be more comfortable investing in a stable, dividend paying, old line business that you understand.
In other news, water is wet and the sky is blue.
“A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. A fullmetal heart.”
― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25
Women have an easier time finding somewhere to stay because they are considered more valuable to society. Men are disposable, which is why far fewer resources are devoted to helping them.

Women also can just get a boyfriend if they lose their job or health and need money; I've seen my female friends do this loads of times, but have yet to see it go the other way. Gender roles definitely favor women pretty heavily when it comes to financial matters.
Talking to strangers w/o context is something I'd pay $25-50 to avoid, generally. If it were strongly filtered by interest, perhaps, but the problem with 1:1 while eating is you're trapped. The nice thing about a sushi chef (or bartender) is they know when to stop, and what topics to stick to.
That mouse with the one and a half foot cable, right?
Marvel Ipsum
Ironic that people are joking in this discussion about intentionally causing head injuries while elsewhere on HN it is being discussed how head injuries are very common among homeless individuals (and probably partly causative of their inability to take proper care of themselves).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648933
Most big tech companies use a service-oriented architecture. The website is composed of many small services which communicate with each other over HTTP or RPC protocols. Each service has its own version control repo and is maintained by a different team. That's generally the best way of scaling up.
Really slick interface!
The Crunchbase Enhancer
If I'm hiring for a programmer position, and I have a man and a woman who have applied, and I don't hire the man because he's a man, that's discrimination. (Note that this is identical to hiring the woman because I don't have enough women.)

What I meant by "expose and remove discrimination" is point out that the team atmosphere is hostile to women, and start disciplining people until that changes. Or, realize that Fred is automatically rating resumes lower if it has a feminine name, and confronting Fred on that. Or... you get the idea. If there's something going on (other than lack of viable candidates) that leads to fewer female programmers, find it out and fix it.

The remaining problem is lack of viable candidates. To fix that you have to fix problems outside of your own organization - problems in the education system, in homes, and in society in general. That's a tall order, and it's beyond any one person's power. But still, when you see obstacles that differentially harm females (or blacks, or gays, or whoever), don't just ignore them. Do what you can to expose and try to fix them.
(1) Telsa CEO Elon Musk announced a major breakthrough in spaceflight on Friday

(2) Musk revealed the potentially "revolutionary" news on Friday during a hastily organized press conference

(3) "What SpaceX has done thus far is evolutionary, not revolutionary," Musk said.

(4) "If we can recover the booster stage, the chance is there for revolutionary."

What was announded today was a critical first step. But there is nothing seemingly new in the press conference report, beyond what Elon had tweeted on the day of the soft-landing itself. The only new news is that the vehicle was lost, which doesn't really seem to be a "breakthrough" in the context of Musk's own explanation.

The bigger step here will be getting the recovery because the need to confirm empirically what kind of shape the engineered pieces come back in. Many problemes like the icing on the shuttle (which de-laminated and caused projectile damage) are not going to be discovered without such an inspection.
Retail, going to start school soon instead.
I'm glad that Sarah is being so open on this topic because, after reading the entire article, I remain unconvinced. Please allow me to share my experience.

I'm part of a small multicultural team of 8 engineers, 4 of which are women. The team is a professional outfit, makes consistent effort to remain inclusive, and ensures that everyone has a comfortable way of voicing their opinions, thoughts and other intellectual contributions. Despite this, all 4 of our female engineers prefer to avoid product discussion (be it 1:1 face-to-face, group, email, etc) and as such, their contributions amount primarily to SVN commits of what they're asked to build. In my 4+ years of working closely with them I never observed them having an impact on our deliverables that could be attributed to their gender.

Our operations team of 30+ people has only 2 female system administrators. This is a pair of fantastic individuals who are kind, positive and wicked-smart. Their experience and skills command respect and people like them because they're enjoyable to work with. In my observation, they have these qualities because they are:

a) Excellent engineers

b) Excellent human beings

Both of the above traits can be displayed equally well by both men and women, making gender a completely moot point in the comparison.

I completely agree that we need more excellent engineers and more excellent human beings in our line of work regardless of their gender, however nothing I've seen so far indicates to me that we need more women specifically.
They have anti-spam heuristics, graph heuristics, models on how to serve the best ad for each user, tons on bugs that can be only discovered by reading the source, etc.
"I was sitting on the seashore, half listening to a friend arguing violently about something which merely bored me. Unconsciously to myself, I looked at a film, of sand I had picked up on my hand, when I suddenly saw the exquisite beauty of every little grain of it; instead of being dull, I saw that each particle was made up on a perfect geometrical pattern, with sharp angles, from each of which a brilliant shaft of light was reflected, while each tiny crystal shone like a rainbow.. The rays crossed and recrossed, making exquisite patterns of such beauty that they left me breathless.... Then, suddenly, my consciousness was lighted up from within and I saw in a vivid way how the whole universe was made up of particles of material which, no matter how dull and lifeless they might seem, were nevertheless filled with this intense and vital beauty. For a second or two the whole world appeared as a blaze of glory. When it died down, it left me with something I have never forgotten and which constantly reminds me of the beauty locked up in every minute speck of material around us." -- George Russell
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement. Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity embodying in splendid edifices the passionate aspiration after the perfect from which all great work springs. Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell as in its natural home, and where one, at least, of our nobler impulses can escape from the dreary exile of the actual world." - Bertrand Russell
HipChat Will Grant Employers Access To 1-to-1 Chat History
Performance and Types in Lisp
Then maybe add a context :)

The world needs more places where people can just come together without pretense and maybe a common interest and mingle. I, for one, don't get into the club or bar scene, since I'm not a drinker and I'm bad at dancing; and not everyone is religious, so Church doesn't serve that purpose well, either
Foursquare Founder Sorry for Wife Stealing Boston Marathon Bib Number
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving..." - Albert Einstein
Bah. Create your own IP. If you piggyback on the work of others you'll just get taken for a ride.
Interesting. Where do you work if I may ask?
Sure, everybody says its fine, no worries, but not being able to articulate the business vision and answer their questions subconsciously lingers and I believe ultimately affects their decision.
Sex is a Ghetto
Yes, I founded my own (solo tech founder)
The next web3.0
Following and leading, are ranks and degrees, the top of leaders are the ones who define the new rules by breaking the boundary of what is “weird” and what is “normal”, then people follow and adapt their lives to it. The elite of these leaders, are whom their followers become leaders themselves, then the followers of their followers become leaders, and so on and so forth.

I wanna share with you my vision of the future of the web3.0. Its getting shaped, as the others shaped themselves.
The cables die because of the connector. You can toy with the connector and it does work in some angles after it breaks, most of the time.
There are a lot of non developers using source control for game development. Perforce makes it easier for graphic designers and the like to use the VCS and not have to deal with a CLI. Perforce just handles binary blobs well.
I have upvoted you. It is true that a woman can just "get a boyfriend" -- aka politely whore herself out -- and I have seen it done as a means to get off the street. And it is true that there are generally fewer resources for homeless men. But gender rolls do not "favor women pretty heavily when it comes to financial matters". Nor are women "more valuable" to society.

Men get freedom that women tend to lack. With freedom, there is freedom to fail. Men tend to aggregate towards the extremes -- they both take up more of the CEO roles and are more commonly seen on the street. Women get more "average" lives in part because they have less freedom. Women often are protected from homelessness per se not because anyone values them but because they have custody of and responsibility for dependent children and no one wants to see children on the street. So the parent who has custody gets taken in by family along with the child or services intended to benefit the child also benefit the custodial parent. This is not about valuing women more. It is just not.
Education,

I come here to REALLY know what is going on in the tech industry. Usually find out about things I care about hours before 'others' around me do.
Failed last 3 attempts. Slowly starting 4th one. This time as a research project spin-off.
When you're as totally awesome and uncaring about your customers as Facebook, you can toss out words like "consumer grade" to describe people affected by your fuck-ups.
I can't agree with the "made me rich" but I can dig "led me to a better life".
> If you don't trust your employees why did you hire them?

On a small company, I agree. But on FB they're around 5k people. Let's say they have 3k engineers, that's a awful lot of people they're trusting with their source code
My relative is almost homeless three years after a TBI in an accident he drove home from. Prior to that he was a talented contractor who supported a family and had many friends.

Despite herculean efforts by friends and family and even strangers, he is fundamentally broken in ways nobody seems to understand. He still largely thinks of himself as the person he was prior to the TBI.

My guess at this grim stage is the mechanisms are broken that allow him to self-correct his behavior and make accurate, up-to-date "I am" statements. Clues to this are when you confront him about his behavior or how he never bathes. He is not offended or worried but rather agitated, as if his brain short-circuits. At best you get cognitive distortions and at worst he storms away in a rage he won't remember five minutes later. Interventions and threats have no postive effect.

He will talk your ear off all day about hobbies he had prior to his TBI, and if you didn't smell him or notice his pan handling sign, you might not know there is any problem. But make no mistake, invite this man to live with you and you will be tearing your hair out after two weeks and kicking him out in three, if not sooner.

Every TBI is unique just as every person is. My relative does not accurately remember what parts of his brain was injured, so interviewing him would not yield much. Besides that, after this happened I read that something like 80% of TBIs do not even show on common medical imaging devices. In my relative's case there was evidence "suggestive" of DAI (diffuse axonal injury) which may explain why his deficits are so profound, but nobody can say. During therapy there was clear evidence that his deductive reasoning skills were seriously compromised, so imagine practical consequences if you cannot do simple deductive reasoning but also cannot realize it.

Then of course TBI survivors are many times more likely to suffer additional TBIs. Add substance abuse and limited to no impulse control and you have a person who is a danger to himself and often society, but who also may refuse to get the level of help they truly need. In his case, he needs assisted living including someone to manage all of his money, but in his mind he does not and he appears ready to fight it until his last breath.

I hope studies like this lead to more humane and informed programs to help people like him. I was just thinking this morning how unjust it is that murderers and other criminals can get room and board for life yet the best we can manage for this once talented and caring member of society is a room in a drug-infested flop house that costs half of his disability income.
Taking over Crimea is awful and completely predictable, as is the land corridor from Crimea to Russia that will be opened to the north. Russia is scared of losing control of the naval base it has held there for over a century.

However the collaboration with the ISS is something that forces communication and trust on a joint project at a high level. It is not just that it is important for space research, it is even more important for soft diplomacy. It forces the governments into situations where they have to talk about something other than sabre rattling on a regular basis.
Front-end looking for work right now and trying to make this decision.

I like the energy of startups but finding the right group of people is hard.
I think the reality is that women are more able to scrape by via prostitution.

Gender roles definitely favor women pretty heavily when it comes to financial matters.

Every study I've seen shows that women are paid less in than men in equivalent positions. I'm having a hard time reconciling anything in your post with reality.
Ah, I see what you mean.

But I did have something of a point too, namely that the lack of females in programming jobs is not just due to discrimination in the hiring organizations. Some of it (not all) is due to there being more male candidates than females who meet the same qualifications. Like it or not, that seems to be the current reality.

So what I was trying to say is that we need to address that. We need to fix actual discrimination in hiring organizations, and we need to address the supply of qualified candidates. (I was not trying to say that there are currently no qualified female candidates, but I see how that line could be taken that way.)
As an addendum, I'd like to see more discussion regarding cultural diversity in Engineering Teams. Our R&D team of 150+ people has only

* 1 African-American male

* 2 Latino-American males

That seems really worrying, especially given the demographics of California.
Google made more profits last year than Amazon has made in its history. They have scaled well and are in a high margin business, and Amazon is not. It's just that simple.
this looks interesting, I would suggest that you should add webhooks to the list, they make good coherence with completing your vision
Are you sure you aren't confusing it with K&R style with the argument names on a different line? That would indicate old code. Having the return type on a different line is incredibly common, virtually every C project with decent code uses it.
I use Bluetooth every day with my keyboard and mouse. Generally speaking it's problem free. Although I also use it for other things like my headset where I agree it's a pain. Seems to depend on the implementation of the pairing.
Good luck! I traveled that road for a few years with a site called MyPullList (2007-2010, RIP), and had a heck of a time with ... basically all of it. I did have a lot of fun talking about the data model and its challenges during the height of the NoSQL hype, though.
However that does sometimes become the end result due to a shortage of good, diverse candidates. In the end you have "hire anyone who meets these demographic criteria just so we can check diversity off our list and call ourselves 'inclusive'".
Ask HN: Do you like your CRM? I'm reviewing CRMs and would love responses
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b-YTJUkLW6ZXtQwt43V6w8eHxgu7Na2YHC4lCev6lTg/viewform?usp=send_form
>You can do that with ctags

And I can do it without ctags. That's the point.

>Depends, one proeminent C project doesn't use that: the linux kernel

That doesn't make his statement "depends" at all. A single project not using that style does not contradict it being "pretty common".
Clickable: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b-YTJUkLW6ZXtQwt43V6w8eHxgu...
Ummmm no. Maybe, maybe, on a statistical level, this happens more for women than for men. But I certainly know women who have been homeless, and there are even more women who can't get a boyfriend at all, especially if they're sick or unemployed. Women's magazines are full of dating advice for a reason.
Thanks. This was a mistake. I've fixed it.
And if amazon starts hemorrhaging cash like mad, will people scramble to get off AWS?
Oh, so it was asked without any intention whatsoever of drawing any conclusions that might be affected by the number of anomalies in that small sample? Do you know what the right thing is to do with extra information that you don't think affects the validity of a sample? Ignore it. There's no need to get on people's case for volunteering extra information just in case it would matter to someone interpreting it. The poll isn't about you either.
Open source government transparency and governance data services.

I have been told by several of our customers that we aren't a startup anymore. But we are according to the criteria listed. Revenue $4.7m last year.
>and things like replacing LaTeX greek letters by the actual greek letter,

You can actually do that with conceal:

http://ithaca.arpinum.org/2010/11/06/vim-conceal-for-ruby.ht...

‎http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#conceal

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'conceall...
What are the problems with FTDI?

I don't do high speed data collection per se, and wouldn't know how to do it on a desktop platform even if the issue of synchronizing the ports were licked. So I shove real time functions to an outboard micro that does run in real time.

FTDI has been the best thing since sliced bread for me. It has proven to be remarkably robust and portable in my use.
That quote makes me nostalgic for Silicon Graphics workstations.
It is sad we don't have a safety net any longer - we used to have asylums now we have homeless people who are mostly mentally ill in some fashion or another.

I'm not sure how I'd cope if I had a relative with a similar situation. Thanks for sharing your story.
>If anything it's the old "Goto statement considered harmful" that's a little too naive.

No, people who didn't read it and just repeat the title without knowing what he was talking about may be too naive, but the original point was not.
I contract to a startup as a developer, but I'm not sure if that makes me 'in a startup' or not, so I put other.
Tesla Pays CEO Musk $70,000 Following $78 Million Year
Earnings don't miss estimates; estimates miss earnings.
The problem with this is that creative people are authorial bring them to "put a pretty face" on other idea is hard work. I have this problem while trying to develop my startup idea (http://mypileof.com) I'm technical and it is hard to found the "creative" or even "business" side...
The parent was advocating not versioning.
Optimal Light Exposure for Rapidly Correcting Circadian Misalignment
The algorithm implemented here appears to be based off of this paper: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/backtrk.pdf

The paper goes into far more detail than the comments in the code.
But Facebook had a rather ingenious strategy for their slow rollout. They rolled out an entire college at the same time, so once Facebook was available for you, it was also available to a significant part of your friend group (the lifeblood of a social network). Google+ however just released slowly to a random set of people, so some people could get on, but none of their friends were there.
ahh, that I've never tried.
I thought they only charged for physical electronic keys from them (the dongles) not for using the phone based keys. Are you saying they are charging 1.99 to add a phone key?

Hmmm, I suppose there are two ways to look at that 1) that's preposterous or 2) that's a reasonable price for an app and to pay for that software to be maintained and updated.