skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Octopress is a "built out" blogging example built on top of Jekyll. Showing Jekyll (a static site generator) and Octopress (a good example of how to build stuff on top of Jekyll) is a little misleading/confusing.

Splitting hairs maybe...
How is this remotely more of a concern than .com saturation that already exists?
I always die a little inside reading this guy's stuff because it's so easy to see how brilliant he is, and how much schizophrenia is affecting his talent. The worst part is that even he wants to "break out of [his] prison," and it's heartbreaking to see when somebody can't.

I've been following Davis' work for around 5 years now. What he has been able to write, and the proficiency with which he writes it, has in my opinion surpassed all the programmers whose Ruby/Haskell/Clojure dreck always appears on the HN frontpage.
Like Spaceglasses?
https://www.spaceglasses.com/
yes, they have.
Your comment reminded me of wordnik which is an attempt to capture English as it is used. I first heard of it in a TED talk by dictionary editor Erin McKean.

http://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionar...
One interesting observation is a conference is "major" despite forbidding / excluding (in theory) half the worlds chemists. And more important than excluding mere flesh and blood, they're excluding half the worlds ideas and research, right?

Some google work provides:

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/chem...

which claims 96200 chemists employed (just in the USA).

The "little boys club no girls allowed" has 100 all male members worldwide. Lets assume there are 10 chemists worldwide for each chemist in the USA. So this is a major conference because 0.011% of chemists are in the "boys only clubhouse". The other 99.989% of chemists might or might not be sexist, but definitely don't care about the conference.

This might be a partial explanation for the apathy about the issue.
I think you're reading too deeply into what I said.

Spending fourteen hours a day might well give you a greater chance of success than working six. But the chances of success are still so remote that it isn't worth ruining your life over. That's the part that PG is invested in - the idea that startup success is within the reach of anyone who works hard enough. It isn't.

if we amend your second sentence to read, "while it changes the probability of success, the probability is still low", it no longer really makes sense -- if you have a 30% chance of survival with medicine, should you not take your medicine if it is 3% chance of survival without it?

Because the alternative to working at a startup isn't death. It's, y'know, taking a different job.
Thanks for those insights! Especially for pointing out the difference between url and text based submissions. Didn't know that one!

Also, I realise that I might have wrongly formulated my question. It didn't actually bother me that the "Show HN" prefix was removed from my post (I was on the front page).

It's just that it made me question if there were some guidelines I was not adhering to.
Browserify compile step on a large project is painfully slow. Using https://www.npmjs.org/package/amd-loader with commonjs style modules http://requirejs.org/docs/commonjs.html was much easier to use.

> I'd much prefer to deliver less code to the client if possible

requirejs shim isn't signifcantly larger than what browserify adds, it's only 200 lines.
I believe ESPN has NBA play by play data.
Airbnb to hand over host records to government
Or you can work at your startup at a sustainable pace.

From a lean startup perspective, the more burnout pace you work at, the less likely you are to close the feedback loop and actually produce the right feature. From a Mythical Man hour perspective, you're more likely to be less productive the more burnout pace that you try to maintain.
Too bad paid prioritization is last year's battle. This year it's intentional congestion.
I don't think you're a whiner - my position is not that dissimilar.

Both sides of the decision likely involve compromise. The idea that being a more involved parent is without downside is sadly not true for most people.

The only thing I would say is that there are jobs that allow a work life balance which aren't totally soul destroying - something between your current hell and the 12 hour a day start up culture. Maybe it's time to start looking for something which may not be your perfect job, but might be a little better.
I am not ignoring anything. This particular conference was not called to address historical issues with gender favoritism. This is a scientific / academic conference dealing with actual ongoing research not related to gender studies. If there is a woman in this group that has something relevant to speak about she should definitely be considered but I don't think that the controlling board should be required to select a woman just to make the speaker list look statistically better to activists.

They are free to boycott the conference though I do not think they are doing themselves any favors. They will only cause those not involved in this gender conspiracy to lose patience and empathy with them.

Are there biased men AND women out there? Yes. Are they in complete control of all current events? No.
I have Glass and I have been looking for use cases. The set of real use cases is probably narrower than Google would like, but it's there. You have to be using your hands, and you have to need information without using your hands to access it.

That's interesting, and it is potentially high-value. But it isn't the set of use cases for a consumer product.
Baidu was founded in 2000. Google in 1998.

However, Robin Li (founder of Baidu) seems to have begun his research on search engines earlier than Google founders. Therefore in some sense Baidu is older than Google, but that's not the most obvious sense :)

This does show that Baidu is not a C2C (Copy to China) product though. I'm happy to learn that.
Either smoked or vaporized, with a preference for the latter for health reasons.
This is incendiary advice, but if you've dropped Python due to breaking changes as you update it, you may also want to consider dropping Rails. I say this because the perception is that the Rails development goal is to stay with the bleeding edge of web development first, and support backwards compatibility second.
I don't get the equation of Scala and Kotlin and Ceylon.

Ceylon and Kotlin grab the low-hanging fruit. They are better Javas. These languages bring nothing new to the table at all. They will actually suffer from Java 8, because Java 8 itself is a better Java like they are. People write Kotlin and Ceylon because they need to write a Java app but they don't want to write Java.

Scala is not meant to be a better Java. It can be used in that way, but it's not meant to be. It has a vastly richer set of features, probably one of the most sophisticated type systems of any language, and a growing number of Scala-specific libraries. In addition to people writing Scala because they don't want to write Java, there exist many people that want to write Scala because of Scala.

The same general argument seems to apply to Clojure. Just because your language runs on the JVM doesn't mean it's just an alternative for Java.

(This is not to say that I don't think Kotlin at least is shaping up to be a beautiful language.)
Yeah the energy density is the most important factor. If it's not competitive there will be some niche market for fast recharging, but lithium is good enough in many use cases.
Indeed; I disagree that it's "unlikely that whoever is in charge of Mt. Gox's assets would be that shortsighted".

Their priority will be immediate liquidation of assets. They will simply not be concerned about maximising the return and certainly not concerned with preserving the bitcoin economy. It will be about getting USD (or JPY) as soon as possible. I would think. Not an expert but this seems reasonable.

It's the same reason you can buy cheap office equipment when a company goes into administration. They could get more if they spent more time selling it, but their objective is to liquidise, pay off debts and move on.

On the other hand, is it clear that suddenly releasing 200k bitcoins would be catastrophic? I remember similar mass selloffs in the past which did cause dips but only short term (the decline in BTC value over the last 6 months is surely not the result of a few isolated large-scale selloffs!?). Not sure about the volumes involved in the past though. They were derided as irresponsible IIRC. But bitcoin survives, more or less.
Did you consider grandfathering existing users in?
Object.observe Nested Objects
I worked in a desktop support environment where we "charged" for our onsite time and then were forced to track all the rest of our time at work too. I use quote marks around charged because it was all internal dollars with in the larger organization.

After about 3 months of it all the staff basically revolted and demanded that the requirement of entering everything into the tracking system be halted. All the analysis had shown was that we were all spending nearly 1/4 of our day tracking what we were doing in the other 3/4's of the day.
So the executive office was bleeding the company dry. You, as a middle manager, put in extra effort to save the company. As a result, you lost your middle manager job. You were replaced by three different people.

Were you rewarded in any way for your efforts?
This has real poetic potential:

"Erlang and code style"

process erlang undefined
file write data
true code
Women get ~40% of the doctorates in chemistry. The field is unbalanced, but not that unbalanced.

Which is more likely: a traditionally-male field full of old white men has adapted exactly in step with the changing gender makeup of their field, OR it has not?

It's not as if we've never seen this dynamic before.
Vuong, you're welcome :P I helped with structure. But the piece, like the decision, is yours. The fact you're thinking about decisions, and were moved to compose the piece, bodes well. Keep the fact we're allotted only so much Time in the World in mind and, for you, it'll work out. Time, again, Time. You'll have the day in the meadow, daisies and all.
Good questions. While Charles and other proxies are doing a fine job our dev team is also frustrated by the way they integrate with OS X. This is what we mean by native experience.

The application is in effect a single binary and makes use of various Apple frameworks which are optimised to run flawlessly on apple hardware. Only one platform is supported which means that there is less chance for bugs and platform-specific oddities. Proxy.app works as a sandbox application on OS X, distributed by Mac App Store and makes use of other native components like Keychain, etc.

Under the hood the tool is only making use of Apple frameworks. We believe that in the long term this will provide more stability and performance enhancements. Right now it takes just a moment to launch the application and there is zero friction when switching between different project files. We believe that it just works in the same way OS X applications are supposed to work and this in effect makes Proxy.app more pleasant to use.
Isn't there some evidence that staying up to date with current affairs does nothing but cause stress?
I imagine the conversation went something like, "I need counsel but I'm not allowed to tell you what for." What lawyer would want to be retained under those conditions.
Round Greenwich way, we have Vanbrugh Park, Vanbrugh Park Road, and Vanbrugh Park Road West all within about 400yds.

Why yes, Mr Vanbrugh[1] did live in the castle on the corner...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vanbrugh
I like the statistics based approach to this.

But it answers less questions than it poses: e.g. given that statistics says that there are always outliers, how come that the outlier "a lot more women than expected by statistics on this conference" is almost never found, while the other outlier is often?

(chemistry, by the way, is a field that has an equal gender ratio at start in some countries: http://www.rsc.org/Education/EiC/issues/2012May/Yellowlees-w...)
One of my friends had one and I got to use it for a few days and I largely agree with the article. It's really a solution look for a problem at this point. It's interesting too that the API has been available for a while now, yet there haven't really been any huge ideas that have really come from that.

I like that Google is trying, but as it stands right now the hardware limitations are just too real. This is by no means a consumer ready product at this point.
They standup to it too. I know a number of large companies in town that store a ton of stuff in S3 and have never lost a one of them. However, they did once see some wonky API behavior a few times. Nevertheless, probably a lot better than your internal IT guys can provide.

Durability and Availability however are different. AWS did go down for 8 hours in 2012, but as implied by the Durability claims, all the objects were there when they came back up.
You have to make choices.

I choose my wife, son & future kids as priority #1.

That choice came with costs -- I'd probably be the CIO of a pretty major org at this point, but that means 10-12 hour days that I won't do.

That doesn't mean that life is over, it just means that you need to be more strategic about opportunities, and may need to scope out some roles.
Oh, I agree, I just wonder how many 10GB files anyone would be transferring onto a 64GB Surface.
Linux, SQL and a scoop of yogurt in Week #8
but which is -- crucially -- actually available, in actual honest-to-the-Constitution yen

I will happily predict this is how it will play out:

1. Someone buys the BTC, like you said

2. Everyone on /r/bitcoin is horrified at the price, like you said.

3. Everyone on /r/bitcoin is pointed at your very comment right here, which is now months old, for the sober explanation that if the deal was so good, then they should have gotten there and put in a bid as well.

4. Commence the gnashing of teeth.

There are times when being reputable is a big win. Unwinding a cluster-fudge is one of them. They want to get through this mess as cleanly as possible.
Nice article. Thanks for sharing!

btw: Lots of typos in the article, be sure to spell check !
How to Hire Scala Developers
You can email yourself the proxy's CA certificate to the device and add it from within the Mail app.
Do you know https://lobste.rs/ which is essentially HN with tags.
Field and Stream magazine doesn't have many footballs in it, yet the diversions it covers have a strong overlap with a diversion like canoeing.

Obviously what one prefers when reading is a highly subjective thing, but I can't even fathom the problem you have with "simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain". Having spent a lot of time in wilderness, I can't think of many phrases that more appropriately describe the experience. It can be a near religious experience. shrug
I think it needs a 'killer app' like rails/hibernate etc which are compelling enough for me to look at a new language.
Why does Gartner think there's such a thing as a 'woman CIO'?
Please get rid of the giant pop-up banner begging for my email address. I immediately thought "this website is a waste of my time" when I saw it. I know you are looking for feedback so I continued looking at the website, but if I hadn't then I would have just left.

The idea does seem to have potential, but the marketing text is way too verbose and it is more about the feature list than the value it provides.
Why use braille when you can have a real image? A really awesome feature of iTerm 2's new beta is the ability to display PNGs right inline with the browser[1]. It's easy to use and can create some really cool effects[2].

[1]. Documentation: http://www.iterm2.com/images.html#/section/home

[2]. Example usage: http://i.imgur.com/oOibjuT.png
I've read everyone's comment thus far. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for allowing me the honor to be part of your discussion.

I figured that we're not trying to find a correct answer here. But knowing our community of engineers, hackers, lovers etc. we'd always trying to solve any problems coming our way :)

My humble opinion is: feelings are honesty trying to express themselves. Even if we can't solve the problem of "feelings", I'm quite happy we can search for it together as a group.

I wrote this piece during a tough part of the startup last year. I recently looked at it again and realized it wasn't just about me but rather about all my friends, I actually do refer to you folks on here as "friends", with the common dream.

I think at some point on one train-ride home or another, we've searched for some sort of understanding and hope to know that we're not the only one. Today, I'm happy to know that my "friends" do share the same feeling at one point or another. And we are not alone.

-Vuong.
Skylock – Keyless bike ulock
But that's not the entire definition[1] nor the entire context. Taking any phrase out of context can be confusing.

1. "Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing,
racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked."
Well, symbols, myth etc are a summary of complex events and notions.

In that sense, they are sort of file compression.

But in other senses the metaphor breaks, because it cannot convey the similarities.

One can enjoy a myth or symbol in itself -- but a compressed file is useless unless it can be opened.

Second, the uncompressed file can be comprehended at once (e.g a movie can be viewed, a compressed doc can be read, etc). The cultural notions that are "compressed" into myths, though, cannot be understood by anyone in their entirety -- so the "compression" of the myth is somehow necessary.

Third, a compressed file is usually the work of a single person. Whereas culture (and myths, symbols etc) are a shared work of a people.
Desires that can be satisfied are blessings, are they not?
> We will publish docs how to do that soon

Looking forward to this. I've just bought the app and being able to monitor e.g. what my iPad is doing would be great.
EBay advises all users to change passwords after hack
I wish they'd stop calling it a "fast lane"--it's the slow lane for anyone who doesn't want to pay up. Somewhere a cable industry Frank Luntz-alike probably focus grouped the term and now everyone in the media is using it.
See github's bad language detection if I put jquery in git.

Well, actually, no [0]. Just use the standard name and Linguist ignores it. But your larger point is still valid: popularity does not imply utility.

Unless I'm assuming I'll use the exact same employees for both

You really should be. If your devs only understand a siloed part of your codebase you're doing it wrong.

that they only know JS and that they're so worthless they can't pick up a second language

Holy private demons, Batman! I don't know how you've been hurt in the past but please don't bring it here. There are plenty of valid reasons to intentionally avoid introducing a second language on a project. In fact, I'd argue that the burden of proof is on showing why it's worth introducing the additional complexity.

[0]: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...
Using it first in satellites and medical devices indicates to me that reliability has been sufficiently demonstrated, but that cost is high. If it was cheap but unproven, you'd first see it in toy helicopters or something. I don't think it's unreasonable that a new technology could be demonstrated to be reliable but not yet be cheap.
You'd think regulations would prohibit nonsense like that.
not using raw word frequencies but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_Dirichlet_allocation.

Didnt know about tf-idf thanks for the tip.
Hi tptacek,

Proxy.app is not meant to compete with Burp. Burp is a different beast and not necessarily, in our humble opinion, the best approach to penetration testing web applications. We know how difficult it is to write security tools because this is what we specialise doing. So you comment resonates with us very well.

Although we could have bundled-in all our security testing frameworks, it was decided to take a different approach for the time being. Later on we may decide to add security testing capabilities or these features may be provided by some of the other tools that we are currently working on.
Does anyone know if this is available for (American)Football?
It seems the parents that don't spend time with their kids, end up HAVING to spend time with their kids later in life with many issues that could have been corrected easier when they were younger.

A ham-fisted example: stealing a pack of gum vs. stealing a car.

I guess the workaholics I see, end up having this happen with themselves.
If they were to allow fast lanes, would there be any incentive for Comcast to upgrade regular peering connections?

- They'd lose out on fast-lane revenue.

- Increased peering bandwidth would just be increased costs.

- Worse internet video experience supports their Cable TV business.
It's actually explained in the rules. Might be a wrong decision, but we didn't want humongous list of templates for generators that support a library like this. So for all of those we go with the template engine they use by default (whether the default is simply their documentation and examples).

I do think it says something for the philosophy + out of box experience.
DuckDuckGo generated passwords not so random
hi everyone - PayPal not affected. https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Forward/eBay-To-A.... More details on ebay Inc microsite https://info.ebayinc.com
Because, Microsoft and even linux have hardware abstractions that mostly conform to a spec. The spec in Android is complete crap and largely ignored by the hardware vendors. In Windows and linux you get the complete OS from the OS owner (MS, or ubuntu or red hat etc...) and each driver has to match the spec exactly or the driver will fail, with Android you are getting custom forks of the OS. Each one is customized to the hardware and has a different behavior.

In short it's MUCH easier to support different hardware in the PC world because the OS vendors have standardized the specs and in Android it's very wild west, each hardware vendor is supplying their own version of Android which is mostly the same but has subtle but key differences.
Haskell Packages for Development
Browserify compile step on a large project is painfully slow.

I'd be very interested in seeing a set of benchmarks comparing browserify to r.js. I'd be very surprised if the difference was meaningful, since they do basically the same thing. In fact, doesn't r.js support CommonJS-style requires?
One should think of the consequence of a rule in all cases, not just when the rule is applied to defend those that mock those you oppose.

Imagine the same standards being applied when someone is pretending to be you and maligning your name in public with foolish declarations.
I don't believe it's known yet. Battery longevity seems to involve a lot of trial and error, and there isn't much data.

As far as I've been able to gather (and I have no real special knowledge here and could be way off), the main problem with quick charging is that it heats the batteries a lot, since charging is not a 100% efficient process and any waste energy turns into heat. Heat is bad for batteries, so it could affect their life. However, Teslas have active temperature management for their batteries (both heating and cooling, as required) which should mitigate that.