skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the quality of their life has changed significantly since their accidents?
For most startups I've seen, the only not obvious solution is "does anybody need this, and how can we convince them that they do?". Unless the startup is heavy on experimental R&D, there seem to be very few where the technical solutions aren't obvious.
It's interesting to think about why there are vastly more homeless men than women.

For one thing, men take more risks. They are more likely to reach the top of the ladder, but also more likely to fall to the very bottom.

Women and children first. Society takes better care of women. This is deeply ingrained because they are more valuable for the survival our species. Not so relevant anymore, but it was for most of human history.
"They’re deciding to automatically convert the Go compiler written in C to Go, because writing from scratch would be too much hassle."

When transcribing a talk, there isn't any need to write "They're". Just use the same pronoun the presenter used, otherwise it stands out like a sore thumb.
Problem I have is it's still taking forever to actually get a Lockitron delivered. Whereas I can go and get one of these down at the hardware store 2 minutes from my house right now.
Yes! I work for a startup in the PaaS space, http://hoistapps.com
Meet The Real Amazon Drones
Take into consideration that most APIs don't contain primarily data and information about trademarked characters and copyrighted works. They are going to err on the side of being very cautious when opening up an API full of their popular intellectual property.
I'm surprised a GUI for selenium test creation hasn't been done sooner. It looks like you guys have done a good job, but the feature I would need to see before using this seriously is a way to get the selenium code output and fine tune it. That way most tests could be created by less technical people but if there are issues an engineer could step in and fix it.
Latency could be artificial, in order to get:

-differential pricing

-ability to switch to transparently switch to slower technologies in future
The `v1/public` namespace is interesting

That seems to imply there is might be a `v1/private` namespace as well.
Hurts. Same with Steve Jobs. But those fellow are mostly revered despite their attitude, because of their accomplishments. I'd find it hard to believe anyone who claims that a bad demeanor helps one's cause, male or female.
New leak exposes how the FBI directed Anonymous' hacks
They weren't allowed a monopoly on the last mile.
I finally managed to track down the definition of memoryword from texlive-20130530-source/texk/web2c/texmfmem.h. Here it is:

typedef union
{
#ifdef TeX
glueratio gr;
twohalves hh;
#else
twohalves hhfield;
#endif
#ifdef XeTeX
voidpointer ptr;
#endif
#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
integer cint;
fourquarters qqqq;
#else /* not WORDS_BIGENDIAN */
struct
{
#if defined (TeX) && !defined (SMALLTeX) || defined (MF) && !defined (SMALLMF) || defined (MP) && !defined (SMALLMP)
halfword junk;
#endif /* big {TeX,MF,MP} */
integer CINT;
} u;

struct
{
#ifndef XeTeX
#if defined (TeX) && !defined (SMALLTeX) || defined (MF) && !defined (SMALLMF) || defined (MP) && !defined (SMALLMP)
halfword junk;
#endif /* big {TeX,MF,MP} */
#endif
fourquarters QQQQ;
} v;
#endif /* not WORDS_BIGENDIAN */
} memoryword;

Once you sort through all the ifdefs and typedefs, it boils down to a union of a float (glueratio), an int32 (integer), a pair of int16s (twohalves), and a struct of 4 bytes (fourquarters). When TeX creates its memory dump file, it does it all in terms of the bytes in the fourquarters struct. (And I think there are other times that it does similar things.)

This may very well be undefined behavior, but it seems to work when compiled with GCC anyway. Thankfully gc isn't such crazy code as this.
This seems odd to me, as a consumer I remember the days before USB was around, and it _really_ sucked. Maybe USB is less lovely if you are a driver developer, but thats because its pushing more work away from the consumer and onto the driver developer. As a consumer, USB has been pretty awesome.

edit: I suppose you could argue that something much better than USB could have been possible, but thats how it is with technology, the standard that takes off isn't necessarily the best, its just one thats _good enough_ and gets traction somehow.
How would you even double-blind for this? Double blind means neither the participants nor the people running the study knows who is on what.

You give half the people Soylent and the other half -- what?
Appeals Court Overturns Andrew “weev” Auernheimer Conviction
Yes, I run the product and user experience for http://moov.cc
Apple’s Cook on New Products: ‘Take the Time to Get It Right’
par is one of the handiest text tools around. I often use it to reformat longer quotes for HN. I just wish the documentation was a little better. I can only tell you about the two or three options that i use. I do not understand all of the other possible formatting commands and I definitely have no idea why I always set

PARINIT="rTbgqR B=.,?_A_a Q=_s>"

The first version of par was released in 1993 and the first Debian package was in 1996. The latest release will be 13 years old on Tuesday.
Aside from the use by teenagers, who use it for trivial events like getting coffee twice in one day, I actually don't think it's a terrible ideology.

Wanna leave your job for a startup? YOLO.

Wanna take that year-long trip across the world? YOLO.
The easy way to use those is https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
Is betting legal in China?
From my experience, the boarding problem is pretty specific to the US, where everyone seems to have carry on bags perfectly sized to fit the overhead compartments, of which there are not enough to satisfy everyone's need to not check in any baggage (and thus avoid check in charges)

In my opinion the solution would probably be to discourage as much bulk in carry on, rather than herding cats at the gate.
Eliminate the continuous repeated entry from bash history
Show HN: Buy/Sell Art with Dogecoin
Yep, the extra non-physical keys cost money.

"Additional eKeys are available as an in-app purchase for a one-time charge of $1.99. eKeys never expire and can be passed from one person to the next by a lock Owner or Admin."
Product Driven vs Customer Driven Companies
Yes, we are a 2 man startup in customer success stories and how one can use them to get more leads/conversion from content marketing - http://rivet.ly. Right now we are pre-launch and busy coding!
JQuery makes AngularJS 50% slower on an iPhone
There are several interesting "dead" comments on this thread from people who say they have specific knowledge:

secretamznsqrl 20 minutes ago | link [dead] [-]

Here is a Glacier S3 rack:
10Gbe TOR
3 x Servers
2 x 4U Jbod per server that contains around 90 disks or so
Disks are WD Green 4TB.
Roughly 2 PB of raw disk capacity per rack
The magic as with all AWS stuff is in the software.

jeffers_hanging 1 hour ago | link [dead] [-]

I worked in AWS. OP flatters AWS arguing that they take
care to make money and assuming that they are developing
advanced technologies. That't not working as Amazon.
Glacier is S3, with the added code to S3 that waits. That
is all that needed to do. Second or third iteration could
be something else. But this is what the glacier is now.
Why does it ask for access to my contacts?
Thank you for this link. vim-wheel is just pure gold, I needed that for a long time...
This is a pain point for me because HipChat's permissions granularity is really bad: my organization gives everybody admin access so we can configure API tokens, emoticons, etc. Things we want to do pretty often. Now, we'll have to restrict everybody to a normal user and have a single administrator do these very normal operations.
Women who come into tech say there is a problem. So there is a problem. Don't start with pipeline, or Aspergers, or toys. Women drop out of CS courses, and leave the industry. Fix the problems we have. But start by ackowledging them.
That's a little misleading. It's not like Craigslist wanted eBay as an investor. An ex-employee sold their stock to EBay.

Craigslist isn't about to change their ways because eBay owns a piece of them.
Talk to HipChat, that sounds like something they might be able to change in their service. Perhaps have a super-admin or user groups or something that give intermediate permissions.

Your circumstances don't sound like they would be rare.
Yeah we all would expect them to say that. Everyone's baby is the cutest. Everyone's problems are the most important.
No. Working at a small web dev firm.
It's just info on the comics, superhero appearances, crossovers. Like someone previously said, just metadata. You can't pull Marvel Universe data like the height of all the X-Men from shortest to tallest or how many planets Galactus has eaten.
At least it isn't retroactive.

I suppose workers need to assume any communication system that is provided by the company may be read at any time by management.

The bummer about this is probably many people use private communications expecting them to stay that way. They don't realize companies like Hipchat do not have architecture to support data impermanence or encryption between parties.

Nor do these companies go out of their way to highlight this, as people probably did not understand the distinction until recently.
Can you share the results with us?
I write all of my internal documentation in Markdown and then use a pandoc script to convert it to offline PDFs, rendered HTML, and break out internal vs. public facing documentation.
The one interaction I had with Larry that I remember was when we were moving from the old Google building (the "googleplex") to a much larger building in the old Silicon Graphics campus. I went there on a Sunday night to check out my desk and where I would be sitting and I ran into Larry (there was no one else around). He gave me a tour of the building and we walked up to a window where we could see the whole campus, with several other huge buildings. I asked him "how on earth are we going to fill this building?", which could have held several times the size of the company at the time, and he pointed at the other buildings and said we're going to fill all of them. Holy f*ck, I thought.
vimroom (mentioned in the article) is really great.
George R.R. Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview
He used the same title and wrote on the same topic. That's where the similarities end. Shanley says:

* Get company funds diverted to the cause

* Start a feminist bookclub for men

* Get better management training in your company

* Get women hired

* Don’t speak at events or on panels where women speakers aren’t represented

* Encourage diversity at conferences you go to

Jeff says:

* Abide by the Hacker School Rules

* Really listen

* If you see bad behavior from other men, speak up

* Don't attempt romantic relationships at work

* No drinking at work events

The only place they overlap in their respective messages is each of them saying "be the change you want to see in the world" in their own way. So I still don't get the plagiarism claims, even with the warped definition.

As for Atwood saying that he didn't link to her piece because it was too negative: There are two very different tones to take when writing about this (or most any) topic. Jeff, in his piece, acknowledges the issue and maintains a pretty even keel. Yes, it's a problem, here's how I think we can fix it. On the other side, Shanley is writing in a very aggressive tone towards men. It feels less like she's trying to affect social change, and more like she's shouting at passing men from the top of a soapbox.

Truth is, if I were writing a piece that was taking a subtle jab at Shanley's writing, I wouldn't link to her either. If I felt like she was trying to contribute seriously to the issue, then I would in a heartbeat, but that's not how her piece reads.

Edit regarding your edit: I agree with some of the issues the author had about Atwood's take on things, though I think claiming that Jeff not linking to Shanley is yet another way men dismiss or marginalize is grasping at straws. Imaginary straws.
"For the purposes of the poll, a startup can be defined as 'a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed'..."

I don't think there are that many companies, big or small, that are trying to solve problems whose solutions are obvious, and I'm pretty sure that there are no companies whose success is guaranteed.

For example, is it obvious what McDonald's should do to remain profitable in the long term? Should they open more locations or close some of their locations? Should they change their menu? Invest in robots to cook hamburgers? Pay their employees more? Give more independence to their franchisees?

Now ask the same questions about General Electric, which has many major lines of business (jet engines, medical imaging, lighting, etc.). I don't think there are any obvious solutions there either.
What are some good magazines to subscribe to?
I'm planning to defer college for a couple of years to work on building a startup. What are some magazines that I should subscribe to in the interim to just stay informed and keep on learning new things?

I'm definitely looking for a business/startup magazine to subscribe to, a tech and/or science magazine, and just a general magazine.
It would be great if one could turn it on and off with a head implant.
At the NPC conference Elon confirmed a choppy video feed from the booster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_rnija1nOA
> TBI survivors are many times more likely to suffer additional TBIs.

Source? I ask because I'm a severe TBI victim and want to gauge how acceptable risks are.
Looks great. Question: is there a way to filter the articles based upon the page? For instance, we have a 4 step input process. Can the widget only display topics based upon each page/step?

If not, could I set up 4 widgets?
Other than stressful situations, what prompts the stutter? What causes it to go away? I think I'm probably quite similar to you, no stutter in casual situation, but more prevalent in stressful situations. If I'm stuck on a word, as soon as someone else says the word, I can say it no problem. I've heard of (but not tried) one treatment approach that involves a hearing-aid type device that replays your own voice in your ear, and is supposed to help. A quick search pulled up http://www.speecheasy.com - you could look into that.

In terms of concrete advice, this is what I would do:

Avoid any slide deck with written content you want to repeat verbatim. For me, there's often certain words I stumble over, that have synonyms that I don't, so I'd prefer to be able to paraphrase as I go, without it being so obvious that I'm substituting in a different word or phrase.

If, like me, it helps when someone else says the word you're stumbling over, perhaps take someone aside before the meeting, explain the situation, and ask them to prompt you with that word. That would probably also help by creating a shared bond.

Be comfortable with, when you start stuttering, being able to say "sorry, but sometimes I have a speech impediment, bear with me here." I've had that happen before on phone screens, and it's never seemed to be an issue.

Feel free to email me (in profile) if you want to talk more.
The forced arbitration seems a bit odious... general mills just got dinged for that and had to apologize...I wonder if the same thing will happen here. For those who don't know, forced arb basically gives them carte blanche to harm you and have the case handled by their "friends" instead of the justice system.
Pipe that into http://stedolan.github.io/jq/ and you could do things.
The number depends on the dialect. Wikipedia describes it as "at least six pronunciations in North American English and over ten in British English", listing ten of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_%28orthography%29
Angular uses a subset of jquery (jquery lite) in lieu of jquery... Maybe use that instead?

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/function/angular.element

Though of course, if you have some external dependency on jquery (like bootstrap javascript stuff), then you're SOL

...Unless you use angular-ui

http://angular-ui.github.io/
Furthermore, I was always perplexed as to why there were far more homeless males than females.

There are lots of factors.

Women are more afraid of homelessness, in part because being raped is a very real risk. So they are more likely to make compromises a man would not make in order to remain off the street. Women are more likely to be members of "the hidden homeless" -- unable to support themselves but sleeping on a couch somewhere or doubled up with family.

On the flipside, male privilege is not rooted in having a penis. It is rooted in fulfilling the male role of breadwinner. Men who can't do that tend to not find other options that are often available to women. This is partly gender based prejudice -- we are more likely to feel a man should just get a job, no matter how bad his health or whatever -- but it is partly rooted in the fact that men frequently have expectations of male privilege even if they haven't earned it. So men seem to often fail at making themselves valuable enough to put up with if they have no job.

This is not an off the cuff remark. It's a topic I have studied and thought a lot about over the years. My sons are valuable contributing members of my household without ever having had a job. They took over the "women's work" so I could focus on my corporate job and they take care of me so I can get well when doctor's basically wrote me off for dead. So I need my sons, even though they do not make money. A lot of men are terrible at taking care of other people and a lot of women find that when they are willing to work and support a boyfriend or husband, she still comes home and does most of the housework and cooking. He winds up basically mooching off of her.

I am sure there are lots of others but that is some of the stuff that comes immediately to mind. I have had a class on "Homelessness and Public Policy." So it is something I have studied formally, not just read up on.
You can add coded steps when you need advanced features. You'll have javascript in your site's context available.
I agree. Micro USB was not an improvement over Mini USB. I've never had a Mini USB cable go bad, but easily a third or more of Micro USB cables I've owned are faulty, with barely any stress. Also, Mini USB cables were a huge improvement over standard USB, because I could orient them by feel alone. I've lost that ability with Micro USB, where it often takes three tries to plug it in.
They definitely aren't rare. We have the same pain where I work. We just end up having a limited number of HC admins and make them do all our API requests.

It'd be nice if you could take a conversation off the record. Is it inconceivable that HipChat may be used for human resource like discussions? I see some risks with this, and not sure I agree.

However, I do understand why they would do this. Bummer.
We trust our employees. I don't feel the need to access personal communications between employees.

We also give some oef our senior guys admin access so they can manage other users - I don't particularly want them to read my private communications with other employees either.

I love Atlassian (go aussies!) and Slack is expensive. Bummed.
You really contradict yourself here. Why is it worrying that your cultural diversity isn't representative of the demographics of California and yet it doesn't worry you that women are under represented?
The title reads as though HipChat are releasing previous chat history to administrators although the ToS clearly states that this is not retrospective and only future 1-to-1 conversations will be impacted by this.
LyX is not the sexiest app out there, but it's an indispensable tool for me: rock solid, feature-filled, and easy to use - a great example of open source done right.
To be fair once you are over 1000 engineers, a 1% improvement in productivity is worth a lot of development time.
Somewhat tangential to this story, but we recently moved our team over from HipChat to Slack [1]. I initially thought that we'd miss the sheer number of integrations HipChat offers, but Slack seems to cover almost all of the ones we use regularly and some HipChat doesn't yet offer, like Asana.

[1]: https://slack.com/
Stockton Asparagus Festival closes early Friday due to weather
All they had to write was "It’s been two years since HipChat joined the Atlassian family"... the rest is obvious. IMHO Atlassian is a company focused on helping enterprises control users of their software, not help them. JIRA's maddening UX is Exhibit A.
And what happens when the battery dies? Does it warn you about impending death ahead of time?
It would be awesome if it had a solar backup.
I think maybe you should consider doing a bit of redesign of your site? Maybe look into smashing magazine or onepagelove.com for some inspiration?
Many assets have a useful life and must be depreciated, which certainly does reduce accounting profits.
Stockton hackers can go back to hacking
While it is quite plausible that brain damage associated TBI can cause homelessness, the causal influence is probably lower than the given percentages imply. According to the article:

"In Canada, the leading mechanisms of traumatic brain injury leading to hospital admission over the decade 1994–1995 to 2003–2004 were motor-vehicle-related for adults less than 60 years of age and falls for those 60 years of age or older, with assaults reported as the mechanism of injury at a substantially lower rate than we have reported here."

The article also shows high prevalence of alcohol/drug-related TBI in the homeless, whereas in the general population, "being struck by or against an object, motor vehicle collisions and sport-related injuries were the most common mechanisms."

Together, the differences in the causes of TBI between the homeless subjects and the general population imply that, in at least some cases, the TBI and homelessness are likely to have a common cause (e.g. alcohol/drug addiction or certain personality traits). The article recognizes this possibility, but doesn't attempt to correct for it. To get a better idea of the causal effect, it would be informative to compare the homeless subjects with non-homeless controls with similar drug histories, personality traits, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
I have a very close relative with a stutter who went into sales (yes, that's right...sales) not too long ago. We have discussed this topic quite a bit and they actually started creating a podcast and interviewed speech pathologists about various aspects of it. In general, I agree that educated folks do not care about a speech impediment, especially people who are close to people with a stutter or similar. Still, it can have an effect and just the stress of that can inevitably make things worse.

If you are interested in talking to someone else with a speech impediment, reply to this and I can link you up.

I think you can be fairly confident, though, that 99.99% of people you would ever care to work with could not possibly care less that you have a stutter and will be more than patient. Often, the stress of trying to speak and not being able to get the words out can start a vicious cycle. You can almost guarantee that they are more than happy to hear what you have to say and won't pay any attention to any speech impediment.
I've had a bit of luck with Amazon Basics branded cables recently. They've got quite a chunky connector/cable that's lasted a lot longer than my default phone cables have.
If stress is placed on the connector something will break eventually. From Wikipedia; [it is] designed to reduce the mechanical wear on the device; instead the easier-to-replace cable is designed to bear the mechanical wear of connection and disconnection. Compare that to 3.5mm audio sockets where the device has to be fixed instead of the cheaper headphones.