skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super interesting.

It just occurs to me that it could be really fun to work as a technologist for a library. In the light of this article, it sounds like there's room to automate and enhance some stuff: scrape literary review websites for up and coming authors, apply machine learning to the library's records to find out if there are underlying trends in borrowing that can inform acquisitions, events, etc. And of course you could write cool visualizations to highlight the different metrics.

As a kid, the library was my second home - I'd go there after school almost everyday, and Saturdays from opening to closing. The library was a short 5 minute walk from my parents' house, which in retrospect is probably the thing that influenced my intellectual upbringing the most. (programming came right after, in my early teenage years) It remains with me to this day: I have a deep love for books, and dream of the day when I can accommodate a basement with rows and rows of bookshelves.

I kind of want to work for a library now!
TrueCar Auto-Buying Website Raises $70 Million in U.S. IPO
I think I like the second one in the iterations better. It is more abstract for the W and it doesn't make you immediately jump to underpants. Though I really didn't see the underpants until someone else mentioned it.
My thoughts exactly. Also, I wonder what ever happened to Google Goggles, which as I recall was very similar technology.
I know Rackspace does fully managed dedicated servers at a much lower pricepoint. SoftLayer charges $299 for managed on top of what you already pay and you must be billing at least $2500 a month to get that. Plus you need to add a dedicated firewall at $1,998 a month in order to be eligible for managed. (Source: I just spoke with a SoftLayer sales agent via live chat as I was looking into them for hosting.)
First thing I saw were underpants too. I can't get it out of my mind.
Effective Objective-C 2.0:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Matt_Galloway_Ef...

In the style of other "Effective Foo" books. Excellent overview of best practices for ObjC, it's the first book I hand new developers on my team.
I'm sure I am overlooking something obvious when I say this, but I never thought a foundation model (at least, as executed) made sense for Bitcoin in the first place.

The whole point of Bitcoin is decentralization, removing the requirement for trust, etc. The idea of a centralized foundation vested with representing, effectively, the entirety of "Bitcoin's Interests" strikes me as diametrically opposed to that concept. The members of the foundation have various interests that may or may not be in keeping with the spirit of Bitcoin, and such an organization provides perfect cover for re-making Bitcoin in their image.

This first occurred to me when the foundation became the de facto spokesbody in response to Congressional and regulatory inquiry. How did these self-appointed people suddenly have the right to decide what regulation, etc. was acceptable to the whole of the Bitcoin community?

Surely, there needs to be some advocacy. But, it seems that such advocacy would take a more radical, de-centralized, democratic form that is more akin to Bitcoin itself.
That is a fascinating study. It's definitely true that at both companies I've worked at, HR has been totally dominated by women.

So if it is true that women are discriminated against in the tech industry, why is that so, given that most people involved in the hiring process are also women?

The fact that attractive women are more discriminated against than plain ones is something that never occurred to me, I always believed it was the other way round. And I never considered that attractive men were treated more favorably. I think at the very least the study shows that discrimination is very hard to root out, and simply hiring along certain quotas doesn't really solve the problem at all.
What with california being an island off its west coast: http://www.businessinsider.com/people-used-to-think-californ...
Annotated FCC factsheet. what does it mean for net neutrality efforts?
> A weed is something you don’t want growing in your garden—more formally, “a plant that interferes with management objectives for a given area of land at a given point in time.”

My own definition of a weed is "a plant that thrives without assistance." For example, grass refuses to grow on my lawn without intensive assistance, but cannot be eradicated from places I don't want it to grow.
You wanted an example, I gave you an example - I guess you need to move the goalposts as you can't actually deny that Modi and the BJP have spoken out against homosexuality many times. As far as I'm aware, the Congress Party have pledged in their manifesto that the rights of sexual minorities will be protected.

If you want to have a reasoned and rational debate, then fine. If you're just going to try to employ cheap debating tricks to win an argument, then I have no real interest in that. Support who you want, makes little difference to me, beta.
Libraries frequently have days were they give away/sell at low prices unwanted books. Sadly, it doesn't suffice to get rid of all of them- and then what do you do?

You can always sell those books on Amazon (I've seen libraries do it) but it basically requires a full time team to handle listings, sales, shipping, returns, etc.
I 100% agree that Andrew is one of the smartest people I've ever met, but I for one wouldn't mind if Baidu started to challenge Google in the deep learning space. International competition will be better for American companies than Google's current monopoly on the research and experts.
> If it seems far-fetched, consider the casual misogyny of a high school or college campus, and the vicious cycle it creates for young men. We're not talking about a raving woman-hater. We're talking about the average-case college male who thinks women are irrational, flighty, and manipulative.

What makes this an objective observation about men in college, as opposed to the selection bias that you think that these men (however many of them) have and the author of this article?
"Programming in Lua", by Roberto Ierusalimschy. This is a gem of a programming book. Some of my favorite chapters: coroutines, metamethods, weak tables, threads and states. Similar in tone and clarity to K&R "The C Programming Language". I learn something new every time I flip through this book.
Naturally the hypothetical ignorant office manager is going to be a woman. This is ycombinator, after all.
This title is missing an important part of the actual title: "How Wall Street recruits so many insecure Ivy League grads".
I've felt the same way about ORMs. I've never understood the appeal of abstracting away from writing your own queries which is the closest to natural language as programming comes.
i hope it was a joke :) Upvoted you back base on such hope :)
The problem here is that she is holding one group's (Women's) behavior to the standard of a workplace created by another group (Men).
Do you go to U of M?
Yeah, websockets have their own method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19298651/how-does-websock.... Cowboy already supports x-webkit-deflate-frame, will support more soon.
> Partly this had been done because the new library, while boasting great architectural flourishes and lots of architectural space, did not have enough shelf space.

I find this pretty sad. Seems the architect forgot what a library was for.
"Mining of Massive Datasets", by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. You can get the PDF here:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds/book.pdf
> I actually haven't heard of many rigorous, well-constructed scientific experiments that have produced conclusive scientific literature that indicates the benefits of TDD.

I was thinking specifically of things like the http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/ese/nagappan_tdd.... when I wrote that sentence, but I guess I also consider books as part of what I'm saying here.
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> they are worried that attractive young women will cause drama

That actually sounds like jealousy.
They sent out an email about it. They had some goof ups in printing them (wrong material, wrong color) so they ended up sending out multiple shirts. My first was on Gildan cotton instead of AA, then I got the right one, and then I got an additional one in darker grey. Only got charged for one so not a big deal, just kinda funny.
I don't know if it has this map, but at one point, google earth allowed you to layer the satellite imagery with old historic maps.
Well groomed and well dressed, perhaps.
Not programming per say, but love Downey's ThinkOs (free): http://greenteapress.com/thinkos/.

Am currently reading Think Complexity (also free): http://greenteapress.com/complexity/index.html
The challenge we had with that approach was being able to reference the response of a previous request.

As a simple example:

1. Create customer

2. Add tokenized card to customer

3. Charge the card

Step 2 requires the HREF/ID of the customer. Step 3 requires the HREF/ID of the card.
It could be an income level thing. Not that I like making generalizations (and this is just the observation of other people's experience, I don't agree with this personally as I have no personal data to support the majority of observations which lead to it):

* At low incomes, women are responsible workers, men are irresponsible workers.

* At higher incomes (middle class), men are responsible workers, women are irresponsible workers.

It could come from the confluence of privilege and feminism, lower income female workers think they have to go the extra mile to prove they deserve the job, because feminism isn't ingrained in them, the communities they live in often force women into gender roles (they just happen to be the more responsible roles). Upper income female workers have ingrained feminism, but society still treats (via media, social interactions, etc) them like their old gender roles (ever see girls on teen TV shows? It's the most sexist shit I've seen on TV). This means they believe they are equal to men (which they are) but they also believe (due to society) that they can behave like society expected them to 50 years ago, which they can't if they want a job in the modern work place.

Again, I blame society.
Two thoughts:

1) More work could've been done on the rounded edges. They don't flow very well and after seeing the W + bars graphic, the problem stands out more.

2) Why are such low-quality images being used on the page announcing the logo? https://exposure-1.imgix.net/production/users/23251/avatar/o... I realize they've chosen to host this on Exposure and can't control how they compress files so maybe the question is why did they go with Exposure?
> But this is more a criticism of K-12 education, not the wall street industry!

No matter if K-12 system is doing its job or not, Ivy League should not be sweeping up a their of Ivy League graduates.

> By suggesting that investment banks are "printing money," you've shown that you aren't well-informed on the industry.

Yes I apologize. I was just venting my frustration. But are the finance companies THAT important that they deserve a THIRD of graduates from Ivy League graduates? And what's the point of working with debts if your company can't compete on the global scene because your products are not as good as others'?

> Is someone being harmed?

I think so. I think the health America's economy and competitive is being harmed by Wall Street sweeping up a third of Ivy League graduates, not in a speed one can see easily but slowly happening for sure.

> But it's inaccurate to make a blanket statement about "wall street" and apply it to any finance-related career.

Again, I'm sorry if I seemed to be making blanket statement about all finance-related careers. But Wall Street (and finance industry in general) should not be sweeping up a THIRD of Ivy League graduates.
> Biggest democracy

Sorry to nitpick and slightly OT, but more people voted in the elections in India these past weeks than the US has citizens. A staggering half billion plus.

http://qz.com/210222/6-takeaways-from-record-turnout-in-the-...
Computer Systems: A programmer's perspective

Great look at under-the-hood of what happens when a program runs.
Likewise. I've mild OCD and I wouldn't wish it on anyone as although it doesn't interfere with my life all that much, it's an incredible annoyance.

Being picky over details or striving to make something perfect (in your view) is not obsessive compulsive disorder.
The site uses DocPad, a static site generator.

The downtime was caused by the YAML file having invalid syntax so it would not parse. Whenever a modification to the YAML file is made, a github post hook is sent to the server telling it to regenerate the website.

Normally this happens smoothly without anyone noticing any downtime, while maintaing awesome performance.

In this case because of the bad YAML, DocPad crashed, as it was told to, and the logs showed the error.

I was sleeping at the time so did not notice the issue.

The latest version of the website now handles this gracefully, using the latest successful data if the YAML is bad, as well as showing an error message.
Tesla are recruiting quite well and have their pick of a lot of the best graduates. They only employ 6000 people though, so their recruitment won't be huge.

I can only talk about this from a UK perspective because that's where I have experience in this. Most companies like that do not actively recruit, they don't come to my university and talk to me. They don't host student events. And often, even when they do come talk to me, they send HR people. I'm not interested in HR people, I'm interested in technology. I want a technologist to come talk to me, I want a decent conversation and want to feel like I'd fit in if I went to work there. A HR person is fine to come along, introduce themselves and give a talk about the culture etc, but I want some tech insight.

Banks recruit very pro-actively and very early. They do this much better than any other company. They'll be at 2/3 events in my university. If I send them an email it will most likely be replied to within 30 minutes. They do everything to make students comfortable with them.

And yes, people at Google might want to leave. But I'm concerned that I wouldn't, and that's a risk I don't want to take.
Hardly the trade of the 1900's. In fact Soros has had much better deals. Also, on the notion that the pound was inherintly broken, one should probably checkout adam curtis mayfair set.
I was writing for the majority HN crowd. (I utilize what seem to be trivial prejudices in my writing to keep it shorter. In reality, those prejudices are just as bad. Don't vilify, though!)
Show HN: Centarra API and CLI
C++ Concurrency in Action, Practical Multithreading, by Anthony Williams

http://www.manning.com/williams/
Telecom satellite lost after Proton launch failure
A subscription you're particularly unlikely to get if you only use the thing every couple of weeks.
How to Improve your Inbound Marketing
An attempted murderer. A cyberstalker. People who want to be forgotten by Google
If you have the list of books to read on the topic I would be happy if you share it. My next book on the topic will be http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programming-distributed-comput...
I have a female friend who owns several womens fashion retail stores and so hires all females. She always asks in a job interview what they do in their spare time, if they answer that they hang out with their girlfriends all the time, doing girly stuff etc then they don't get hired because they end up causing bitchy problems in the workplace. If they answer that they hang out with a mix with guys quite a lot, they're never a problem in the workplace. It's worked for her for many years.
Tesla doesn't need to endear themselves to the workers; they use robots wherever possible. Detroit is home to powerful organisations (the unions) which are famous for their resistance to automation; that, if nothing else, is probably sufficient reason to steer clear of it.
If women acted like men do, she would hire them. So it's kind of pro-equality.
This is the most disappointing programming book I have ever had a misfortune to buy. If you ever read any UML / Rational Software books - this is right up there in terms of sucking all joy out of programming, putting a blue collar and tie on you and then strangling you to death with soul-less trivialization of the software creation process. Horrible, horrible book.

If you like K&R books, stay the hell away from Code Complete. But make sure to read it though if you think programming is a career.
Please don't use all-caps for emphasis.

Please don't repeat lines several times for emphasis.

Please avoid assessments of the people writing comments (or call them "obnoxious"); focus instead on the arguments that dismay you.

It's unfortunate because I think there are probably valid points in this comment, but they've been worded in such a way that even people who disagree with you will be repelled.
Are you sure that world where such people are unemployable is better? It is better for all of us if they can find employment somewhere. Otherwise they have no other choice then collect social checks or steal.
Creator here. We've been working on this for the last 6 months. Happy to answer any questions HN has.
Does anyone find it weird that a "Show HN" kind of lacks on the "Show" aspect.

All the site really has is a beta signup button and one screenshot. I personally don't want to give you any information (including my email) for something I barely understand or see.
Me too. I spent a while wondering if it was going to be a site ranking how horrible web designs are before I clicked through and realized my error.
Also, I like how some of the speaker photos are 20MB PNG files that have been resized in CSS to about 120px wide. For those keeping score at home, that's more than 1KB of data per displayed pixel.
It would be fun, but on the other hand, to my understanding a library employee's idea of "good money" looks an awful lot like a technologist's idea of "OMG I am going to lose my house."
Time magazine article - http://time.com/102768/narendra-modi-boy-from-the-backyard/
Radio has a lock on the people in cars market, and I don't see how that could change.

Radio also has much lower costs than TV.
> Amazing photo albums created from all of your photos automatically - it's the best photo organizer ever made.

Ok..? Should I just take your word for it? Got a demo of the organizer up somewhere? I must be missing something.
That's why I said let's pretend. I'm not talking about the article, I'm talking about contract law. You "really" missed my point.

Before I took a business law class, I figured everything in the contract had to be satisfied exactly. But that's not always how the law works.

I'm talking about U.S. contracts. How would the brown M&M play out in Japan?
If you had simply not uppercased this comment, it would be snarky but useful. Instead, it reads like an assault; it's the kind of comment a reader looks at and knows they can't use as the basis of a civil discussion.
Language packs have been made free ("for limited time"), I'm going to grab them while they're available
I'm more than happy to condemn Narendra Modi and Rajiv Gandhi equally. Hell, I'll say Rajiv Gandhi was much worse. Neither of them would have gotten my vote in the last election. The former because he was complicit in communal violence in 2002, the latter because he was complicit in communal violence in 1984 and not running and dead.
I think it would be fabulous that on deciding to get rid of a book the library archived it into their 'digital' collection by scanning it. Access could still be available at the library or on the library web site, but the book would not be taking up volume space in the 'physical' collection. They could then add a 'd' notation to the card catalog entry.
The "Real" Troubadours and Courtly Love
I don't think the nationality of the company matters.
Haha, do you think manufacturing is staffed by people who aspire to work in factories, or those who can't get hired anywhere else?
I went to the site and left a comment complaining about how they stole your article. They deleted the comment, and you still aren't credited. Does HN have a blacklist of sites that steal content or publish only blogspam? I think they should consider it.
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> Yes, some of my friends who did investment banking internships (it's near impossible to get the full-time offer without an internship) ended up being miserable. However, some enjoyed the internship very much, and they return for full-time.

The experience as a banking intern is a far cry from what the experience is as a full time analyst, at least psychologically. The internship is a 10 week sprint, you're not really expected to be producing much of value, it's during the summer when things are significantly slower, and the group is careful not to grind you down too much, because they still want you to accept the full time offer. Once you're a real analyst, they ride you hard, and there's no end in sight. That pain is just your life now.

> This is not common

Sure, it's still not terribly common, but it was pretty much unheard of pre-crash. I know several who have made the jump. And the decision isn't strictly developer vs banker, later stage tech companies have pretty substantial finance and biz dev divisions. Banking to biz dev used to mean you were 2nd tier and couldn't land a PE or hedge fund job (or couldn't take the pressure). It's getting much more attractive now.
New York Times goes back to the future with AWS storage
I just finished this also. Great course.
Yep. The machinists and welders I've seen are often very, very colorful people.
Campus safety app
Apps have become second-nature for smartphone users as mobile devices now provide a platform for flashlights, paperless concert tickets, dinner reservations, pharmaceutical and banking services, travel plans, and more. However, safety is one area that has yet to be infiltrated and adapted. Virginia Tech shooting survivor Kristina Anderson hopes to change that with a new app called LiveSafe.
attempt to build report with me

better advise from women

Off-topic, but doesn't it seem like iOS typing "correction" has knocked about 4 years off of the grade level of online writing?
Thanks, but I was referring to say a dynamic database-backed resource.

With SDR, you have an @Entity, and a @Repository for that entity, and SDR handles the whole HTTP part, i.e. you don't need to write a @Controller to expose the repository.

Just wondering if Jersey has anything similar.
You mean the http://ouya.tv website?

Didn't think it was quite that bad - a red tinted smiley face.

What I did see $99 - made me assume that it was only available in USA. Turns out you can get it in UK/CA. UK price is ~$170.
You see, with enough money and some buzzwords, anything can look incredibly important/hard.
I'm on the fence, but to play devil's advocate:

This is about start ups, it's about hiring and managing different genders, I've seen many great links posted which may help managers in start ups deal with gender issues. I've seen great anecdotal stories about managing different genders. Honestly I've seen very little gender flame war, perhaps because the original article was written by a woman.
There is another way. Scan the books that are to be tossed, and provide access to them electronically at the library.

The scanning costs can be spread out by each public library sharing the scanned copies amongst themselves.
Heh, what I find mildly amusing is the fact that in writing the blog post and replying the comments the author is just reinforcing the very stereotype that leads her to conclude that women are not worth the risk of hiring.

She is indulging the same type of drama she alleges is the cause of forming her opinion !!
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