skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I don't see any reference to what exactly did he do to be called so

Agreed. His experience and transformation is interesting, but the article is pretty lacking in details.

> Searching for "site:arxiv.org Jason Padgett" results are filled by works of "Deborah Padgett, Jason A. Surace" and such,

Small world! Jason Surace and I are both members of a collaboration studying galaxies which are forming stars a rates 10s to hundreds higher than "normal" galaxies (like our own Milky Way). Just amused to see his name outside of the normal context in which I see it. :)
Q&A on data privacy with White House Deputy CTO
Ouch. How do you go back on those slides.
That's really a good question. At these prices, I would like to know before I commit to anything.
left arrow seems to work for me.
Is that all actually code? Each commit would have to add an average of 5KB compressed so maybe 20KB of brand new code.
When To Give Employee Rewards
Well, it depends. Images are for instance binaries where a text diff makes little sense, so you have a copy of each version of the image ever used. And many projects use programs where the files are binaries. For instance, I've been on a project where Flash were used and the files checked in. Or PhotoShop PSD files, .ai files etc.
Does it have "issue release date"? That's what you'd need to make a timeline that made any sense at all. An in-universe "event date" doesn't really make sense because of the whole sliding timescale thing where continuity makes no sense and we (comic fans) pretend it does.
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It works when unions are used correctly. If they are used to deliberately subvert the type system (e.g., put in an int, get an array of char out) it doesn't work. But C has so many other ways to subvert the type system that there's no need to do that.

Probably about the only place you'll see them used like that is in the code produced by web2c in compiling TeX. Knuth used variant records a lot to get around Pascal's type safety, and they get translated to unions.
He wasn't doing that at all. His point was that autism skews male and then suggests that the traits of Aspergers make good programmers. It was a comment on why there are more men than women in tech fields. Relevant excerpt below:

"In an earlier post I noted that many software developers I've known have traits of Aspergers. Aspergers is a spectrum disorder; the more severe the symptoms, the closer it is to autism. And did you know that autism skews heavily towards males at a 4:1 ratio?

Interesting. I might even go so far as to say some of those traits are what makes one good at programming."
I once had a colleague with the following idea:print the seat numbers and assign them as people queue to board the plane. In practise this would fill the plane from back to front
Replying to myself in a 1 comment thread...

You can have this same functionality with access to the native js events using Fiddler.

1. download Fiddler (free: google)

2. Go to Tools -> Fiddler Options -> Connections tab -> Click Allow remote computers to connect.

3. Start local server (I'm using WAMP) click [Put Online] in the task tray menu

4. Hit up your cmd prompt, grab your ip with ipconfig (IPV4 address is what we want i believe)

5. On your phone, Go to Wifi -> Manual proxy -> type in IP and default port for fiddler (8888)

6. Type IP + path to project. E.g. 168.1.1.10:88/phonegap_project_folder/www on your mobile browser.
Need a control group - the rate of TBI amongst non-homeless men.
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The article ends by saying that most airlines don't do the optimal methods of boarding in order to encourage people to upgrade to priority/early boarding, and that it makes them more money that way.

Wouldn't it make the airlines even more money to optimize boarding, which would enhance customer experience, which would increase the likelihood of them flying with you on future flights?

I'm sure some accountant somewhere has numbers that say otherwise but it's difficult to accurately measure how that small of a chance could increase brand loyalty (a major factor in Southwest's success). In my opinion, other airlines should reconsider the decision to leave boarding unoptimized.

Is that the wrong way to think about business decisions or should you always trust the predicted numbers no matter what?
I'm not sure Jeff's lack of attribution was an oversight since there's a pattern of behavior there. His earliest blogging didn't even have formatting differences between his comment and "quoted" parts, making it seem all his own. Some people stand on the shoulders of giants, but I often wonder if Jeff kicks giants in the shins and then stands on their backs. However, this isn't much (if any) of plagiarism of Shanley - other than the title.

In any case, while I also have a hard time with Shanley's demeanor, I do try to separate the emotion and personal manner from the good points. It can be hard sometimes, that's for sure
There are plenty of people who don't want women in tech, but no blog post will be able to change all of them. They have traditional values and that is their right.

Thankfully, their time is passing. All we can do now is get more young women into technology out of high-school/college.

I'd love to see someone, anyone's thoughts on encouraging young women to become interested. I think it's possible, but I think programming needs a makeover of culture before that happens.
Re: What Can Men Do?
That's why I said "not always". Here is an example which will print different result if you define

#define union struct

Here you go:

#include <stdio.h>
union U { char a; char b; };

int main() {
U u;
u.a = 13;
u.b = 10;
printf("%d\n", int(u.a));
return 0;
}
Just because the images are relatively simple, doesn't mean they are stupid.

Check out this image and its meaning:

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/a...

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-t...
No one is saying hire a woman who is less qualified just for the sake of diversity. In that comment, Shanley is asking you to CARE about diversity and look at your hiring processes and company culture to see if what you're doing can be improved. Maybe your company is all white males because you're recruiting at events where only white males go? Maybe you can host a Women Who Code event or go to women's conferences and attract top talent there.
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This had been known for a while. Yet there are different considerations besides fastest boarding time. First, people traveling together tend to sit next to each other, so ordering by "columns" instead of rows breaks them apart in the queue which may be either uncomfortable or downright infuriating if you travel with young kids.

I can imagine that letting passengers take their seats at random results in pretty fragmented available seating so if you travel as a large group and want to seat together, this might be a problem too.
When I can't avoid referring to binary blobs in git, I put them in a separate repo and link them with submodules. It keeps the main repo trim and the whole thing fast while still giving me end-to-end integrity guarantees.

I wrote https://github.com/polydawn/mdm/ to help with this. It goes a step further and puts each binary version in a separate root of history, which means you can pull down only what you need.
API for file previews, OCR and metadata (.psd, pdf, doc, ppt, more)
This is one of the reasons I love the Id github (https://github.com/id-Software), and even more so, Fabien Sanglard's reviews of the code in that code base http://fabiensanglard.net/
would be great if a proper search parameter was provided. Right now you can only search characters by the exact name or 'namestartswith'. It would be nice if the searches had a priority associated with them (Iron man shows up way in the bottom for a search for 'iron')
So revenue is growing but they have an operating loss because of a lot of investments. Isn't this a good thing that should cause people to want to buy more Amazon stock?
It's way more than 50%, though. What about the whole culture surrounding things like programming? Is it your average Joe (man) that is a programmer? No, it seems to be predominantly nerds. So what about people who, due to circumstances and upbringing, were never introduced to programming? Maybe they would have liked it better, or found it more approachable, if they didn't have to be and act like nerds to fit in? Maybe they had other hobbies that the typical nerd who might be a programmer doesn't, so these two people never really get to meet and have a oh, I might be interested in that applied logic thing moment.

This goes of course for any profession that has a specific culture attached to it.

Is the industry missing out on 50% of the talent pool? In this day and age, where basically everyone has the opportunity to at least try something like programming, but wherein it is incredibly easy to isolate yourself from lots of types of people and viewpoints and live in your own bubble, and based on how free we really are as individuals, even though we legally have most freedoms... that figure could be anywhere from 30% to 95%, depending on your viewpoint.
As a general rule, I think that stock fluxuation news should stay off of HN. However, in this case, we're currently looking at a 9.88% decrease in AMZN. That's roughly a $14Billion change in the company that nearly every startup uses as some kind of hosting provider. To put it in perspective, that's very close to the size of the Whatsapp deal. I think this is relevant to startups in this special case.
Please share your intel, only thing I've seen so far was on here, no notion of a second serial port:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057147563

I'd love to see some progress on this, I also have a USB-TTL ready, but no real reverse engineering skills.

Did you see the telnet running on 192.168.100.1?
Rome is fantastic. I loved that Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus are actually mentioned in Caesar's Commentary on the Gallic Wars (obviously very fictionalized in the show)
> Unfortunately, due to some technical reasons, we had to discard [Lapis] and roll our own solution on top raw Openresty.

Would appreciate if someone could point out what the problem was. Keen on trying Lapis myself.
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"By the 1st century B.C.E., the Roman calendar had become hopelessly confused."

At least one can treat the years in that period as numbers. For why Roman years before 300 B.C.E. have to be handled as names, not numbers, and should never be used in arithmetic operations, see Peter Paul Koch's excellent essay "Making <time> safe for historians": http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_...
Awesome robotics framework, gotta try it out!
Genuinely curious, why would USAF (or anyone) need vertical integration?
Where would the booster have landed?

What if the Russian tug boat, that was chilling outside of Florida, stole the booster? That would be an interesting turn of events.
I am working on a game where head is 1TB. On top of code and assets this size includes a few full builds and a full set of game-ready data (the data build process takes something ridiculous like 7 hours, so that's done on a server and it checks the result in). All in the same repository.

1TB is rather a lot. My previous record was 300GB and even that seemed a bit much. But it is very convenient having everything in one place, including all the stuff that you only need occasionally but is handy to have to hand, such as old builds of the game that you can just run in situ and installers for all the tools.

(I don't know what the entire repository size must be like, but many of the larger files have a limited history depth, so it's probably less than 5-10TB. So not exactly unimaginable, though I'm sure buying that much server-grade disk space - doubtless in duplicate - might cost more than I think.)
Same as http://chr13.com/2014/03/10/using-google-to-ddos-any-website...
Another rare after-effect of head injuries is 'Gourmand Syndrome', where the victim (beneficiary?) becomes obsessed with fine foods:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gourmand_syndrome
I'm sure it could be improved further by a re-design of aircrafts. We could board a capsule beforehand or make the entire aircraft with falcon-walls. But the Steffen method sounds pretty good to :)
Poll: Do you work at a startup?
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” and revenue does not exceed $10m per year.

If not, feel free to comment where or in what sector you work.

[I'd love to chat with you either way -- feel free to hit me up at shane at velodro.me]
The simplest way to avoid standing in line is to be fashionably late. You sit and read a book until everyone else has boarded, and only then do you go through.

I'm always surprised how everyone rushes to stand in line the moment boarding starts. Rationally speaking they should wait until the last reasonable moment to board, because the seat in the terminal is more comfortable than the one in the airplane.
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.
Related: https://lockitron.com/ One cool thing I like about Lockitron is that you can easily bolt it on to the back of many existing deadbolts which means you can potentially use it on a rental apartment without replacing the entire lock.
J2ME emulator in JavaScript
I'm glad to see my local (Fort Collins) beer scene swing that direction. See the IBUs in the various beers at Pateros - http://pateroscreekbrewing.com/pcbc/beers

New Belgium has Shift ( http://www.newbelgium.com/beer/detail.aspx?id=fc35795d-8d9d-... ) as a good session beer.

Fort Collins Brewery has a nice list of less hoppy beers:

http://www.fortcollinsbrewery.com/brews/red-banshee/

I like that I can still get the crazy IPAs, but there's a ton of other good stuff to drink too.
So what? This probably means they're versioning data files they shouldn't be. I feel like this just exists here as a pissing contest.
Right now, instead of split testing, do usability testing. Get 5 to 10 people who are close to the kind of people you expect to be visiting your website (or buying from you), and ask them open-ended questions.

Believe me, at the stage you're in, you'll learn far more than whatever split-testing you can do right now.

Here are a few questions I could think of (in no order):

1) On a previous visit to the website, you saw a bookshelf that was in the form of a bent arrow. What would you do if you wanted to buy it now?

2) If you wanted to keep up with all the new products on Wannity, can you find a way to do that?

3) Why would you not share a product you like in Wannity on your social networks?

4) What could be made better about the Checkout process?

5) Why would you not buy from Wannity?

Also, one small issue: I can't see the complete form in 1366 x 768 (http://puu.sh/8nkKK.png). If most of your buyers/visitors are on larger heights, you're good. Else maybe a bit of restructuring is in order.
This works great when you have checked luggage, or if you use a non roll aboard bag, which I’ve moved to doing. Otherwise, it’s a race to get available overhead space - in part because of increased checked bag fees, and airlines not enforcing proper sized carry-ons.
That code is not valid according to the C standard, so there is no guarantee it will work anywhere. In particular, many modern compilers have optimizations that would break that code. I would be a little surprised if modern web2c still uses unions this way and gets away with it.

The only standard compliant way to, say, convert a float to an int is to use memmove:

uint32 i;
float32 f;
i = 0x80000000;
memmove(&f, &i, 4);
Unfortunately the front seats are usually mist desirable. That system would incentivise people to the back of the queue - nobody would stand up first!

Might be possible to undo this effect by filling up front-to-back - but that creates other practical problems.
I never thought I'd live to see the day the word "mansplaining" is used on Hacker News unironically.
The downside of this strategy is that you're often forced to check your carry on bag(s) if it's a full flight and all the overhead bins are full.
Title should say, "How to open iTunes from the terminal in OS X".
Probably not, I have a feeling 9/10 people just buy the cheapest tickets regardless of the airline. The other 10% go with Virgin or something with fun branding.

Customer satisfaction is already in the negatives, they're being wise and playing their strong points: upgrades.
That requires that you have no assigned seating, which means passengers can't select a preferred seat (whether window/aisle or just "not that seat in front of the exit row that doesn't recline").
Not based necessarily on a non-compete, but based on similar and concurrent projects, "trade secrets" and "proprietary architectures."
In Europe this doesn't happen (in my limited experience). People board in random order in which they lined up towards the gate or get off the airport bus.

I think this is because americans can't ever let anybody loiter so they just have to push people into some order, even inferior one.
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I build a node client,never used it,

https://github.com/Mparaiso/mpm.marvel

if anybody has an idea of app he is welcome.
I think this is due to the diminishing supply of overhead storage space, and the goal of not checking or being far from your stuff.
Figures would look even worse but selling Korean unit exception padded result.
I have seen that one and it's a significantly better value.

No offense to Op but I purchased an adjustable sitting to standing desk off Craigslist for $50. It's not automatic like the Kickstarter one but at least it's true adjustable and quite honestly significantly cheaper.

For anyone curious, this is what it looks like: www.furniturefromturkey.com/turkish-furniture-manufacturers/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ikea-jerker-desks.jpg
>but the even more tragic part is, they didn't earn any money themselves.

I don't really follow your logic. The point isn't to 'earn money' now. It is to build the economies of scale, over time, so that no one else can hope to compete with them on price in the future. That is when the money will really be earned.

As for Amazon not being profitable, it is a illusion. From what I understand, they have pretty high plowback. If mgmt observes great opportunities for investment, shouldn't they do that instead of paying out dividends?

>My experience tells me which is no brainer, death (exit) of such a company is only matter of time, and when such a vendor dies, rest of the market lives on as they were living before this episode.

Maybe if they were competing on price alone for a single product. This isn't one CRM product vs another. They are competitive on EVERY product. Few online retailers can compete with them on pricing/shipping/experience.
We once did a transposed Steffen on a high school marching band trip. Crew said they'd never seen a plane fill that quickly. Unfortunately, this is harder to coordinate when the passengers aren't all members of an organization that practices standing in lines.
Every airplane I've ever been on has boarded front to back (which I've always found non-sensical), but the article says most board back to front. Am I going crazy, or are Delta, US Airways, and American Airlines not in that "most US airlines"?
I said this in another thread, but part of the issue is failure intolerance.

Sure - for human payloads I'd want to be damn sure my process is good, like, hundreds to thousands of missions deep before I trusted it.

But that's totally unnecessary for an unmanned payload! If the cost of launch drops enough, you can fully justify launching 2x the payloads if you expect maybe 1 in 10 failures due to the mode of launch.

I suspect it's possible to do a damn site better then that, but for NASA its never been an option. If it's reusable, they can't let a mission fail because they'll only get punished and funded according to the failures, even if they specced everything expecting 1 mission to possibly not go off right.
Yeah, I know. I don't really have a problem eating alone in a regular restaurant. I think it would feel more awkward in a restaurant where the tables are meant to have only one person.
Your experience would probably be generally the normal one for all of us. And remember people get rich by taking normal tasks and making them better for example Uploading files, renting apartments, driving people around, etc.
Your comment is disgusting.
They can't assume the test will work. (The first attempt, at the Cassiope launch, didn't.) Crashes at sea are a lot less consequential than crashes on land.

(Flight paths are not an issue; they eventually expect to recover boosters from other space station cargo runs, which will follow the same trajectory.)
> It should be possible to restrict each employee's access to specific parts of the repository.

Not with git. The Hash chain mechanism requires the entire repo to generate valid chains, so it's all or nothing.
Amusingly, you basically won the HN lottery on uptake:

https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/developer.marvel.c...
I'm willing to bet at some point Facebook's default permission model changed the defaults for a page from public to private for Facebook users only. Because my experience has been that I could access a lot on Facebook without being logged in, but now its quite rare to be able to do so (at least for smaller pages, something like Sears has the diligence to make sure things are setup correctly).
These settings are giving me an A+ on SSLLabs.com...

# - Apache 2.4 PFS & BEAST attack Safe /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl.conf
SSLProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1 +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2
SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:!RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH
SSLHonorCipherOrder on
SSLCompression off

# - HSTS Apache directive to force SSL (.htaccess or per site in control panel)
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15552000"
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [NC,R=301,L]
Where are the screenshots? I don't want to install this to get a first view of how it looks and works.
One can modify proprietary blobs, too. It's just insanely more complicated due to necessity to reverse engineer things and not universally legal.
The topic is fascinating, but the writing…

I’m not familiar with WebExhibits, but that article is barely readable, a collection of copy-paste that have little overall consistency: the number of days and names of months is repeated for no apparent reasons; changes are not summarised. I don't think anyone can make sense of the examples, and references to those are not clear either.
IDE checked into the repo eh? For some reason I kinda like that idea. So portable... if it works.
If you don't trust your employees why did you hire them? Besides, the source code isn't where FB's money is at, that would be their users.
gosh, last time I had trouble with 8GB data checking in, it's very memory hungry when the data set is big and then you need check them in all at once, how much memory on the server side you need when you want to 'git add .' all the repo of 54GB?

what about a re-index or something, will that take forever?

I worry at such size the speed will suffer, I feel git is comfortable with probably a few GBs only?

anyway it's good to know that 54GB still is usable!