skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(After installing)

OK, you aim to work with a whole lot of sites. You should sell that, even though it's a 'work in progress'.

No privacy statement/policy. This deterred me somewhat from crating an account, especially since the extension already required pretty generous permissions. Again, you could use an extra stage on the landing page to tell me how up front that stuff works - IMHO it's worth the extra time in these days of mass retail data breaches. If I know you're going to ask to account link via G+, FB, or Twitter then it doesn't come as a surprise. Surprises are bad where PID is concerned.

Good manual. You should have had that accessible from the landing page, don't hide the menu under the logo. I do love the UI.
Lame article. Most if these issues that arose could have been handled easily by a first year MBA.

1. There are so many ways to get rid of this guy I can't mention them all. However, vesting is a good idea.
2. The incorporation, create a DE entity and sell the IP to it.
3. Most likely a broker/dealer statute that the lawyer was grappling with. If a two week delay in funding is a problem. Then they have bigger problems.
I like that one, I will have to try that out. A damn shame you cannot add animation to the prompt.
Anyone have recommendations for lawyers for bootstrapping?
First, the blog post does not rise to calling the initial survey a hoax. So that addition of jstalin's, is well, completely ridiculous and inappropriate.

Second, the blog post is ranty (and many if not most scientists are ranty, in case you hadn't noticed). The associated comment manuscript isn't evidence of a hoax. I'm not surprised it wasn't accepted anywhere. There's no meta-irony in pointing that out.
A better analogy would be someone entering your house if the door is left open, and then them shouting to see if someone is home or if they left for work - in view of closing the door for them.
I never said inequality causes job losses. On the contrary, job losses cause inequality.
Can you please make these available for download, the Linux ones at least?
LearnLaunchX Startups Showcase Two Big Themes in Edtech
And then someone called the police when they found someone random was in their house without authorization. And the intruder said "I was only there to shut the door for them."
Love the idea! Will need to look into how viable it is on my web host, but definitely worth considering.
The comparison page highlights that Zone.js is better than promises because of long stack traces [1], but most promise implementations already have that [2]. I'm confused, that seems to be the only comparison to promises.

Edit: Conceptually it seems the same as promises. The main difference seems to be that they've added hooks [3] into the pipeline, and they duck punch the core API to intercept errors. Bluebird has solved this without duck punching using `Promise.promisifyAll(require("fs"))` [4]. I would love to see a write up on Zone.js's forks, because the article could of trivially been rewriten to use promises.

[1] http://strongloop.com/strongblog/comparing-node-js-promises-...
[2] https://github.com/kriskowal/q#long-stack-traces
[3] https://github.com/btford/zone.js/#zonefork
[4] https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird
IIRC studies show the 'generic' he isn't so generic; speakers will picture a man.
Yes. And what's your point?
Writing min function, part 1: The rise of Concepts
Wouldn't we expect the mode to be 75, while the median and mean would be younger? Assuming, of course, that Wizard of Oz produced any sort of lasting increase on the popularity of Dorothy as a name.
The thing that leapt out at me the most strongly from this article is how none of the laundry startups appear to actually do any laundry. They all outsource that work to other companies, like the one mentioned in the article, Wash Then Fold -- companies that tilt heavily towards being run and staffed by immigrants, who do the actual work involved with cleaning clothes while the white-kid startups grab the headlines.

That seems like a really precarious position for those startups to be in. First there's quality-control: the #1 thing that's going to wreck your relationship with a laundry customer is if you mess up their clothes, and if all the clothes-handling is outsourced, how much can you do to prevent that from happening?

And second, if all the value you bring to the table is a thin layer of code over someone else's service, at some point that someone else will just write their own app and cut out the middleman. "Climbing the value chain," the MBAs call it -- start off as a provider of outsourced services to companies whose executives' noses are too high in the air to do their dirty work themselves anymore, and then slowly shoulder those companies out of the way by establishing direct relationships with their customers at a lower cost. It's a strategy Asian hardware OEMs have been pursuing with success for decades -- there's no shortage of people who used to be IBM and Dell customers who are Lenovo and Asus customers now.
> only the owner of the hacked computer can file a complaint against the attacker, and legal proceedings can commence only after such a complaint has been filed. Does it work the same way in the U.S.?

After a US law enforcement agency has been notified of a complaint by a victim of a crime they forward it to a prosecutor. At this point the victim can no longer drop the charges. The only person who can drop the case then is the prosecuting lawyer. They occasionally do drop cases where it doesn't make sense anymore. But procescuters don't get 'cybercrime' cases very often and they often make headlines , especially these days, so I doubt many lawyers would voluntarily drop that opportunity for their resumes and work on the usual murder or drug trials instead.
I like wash.io. I can't afford to use it every time (I think I've used it only three times so far?), but each instance left me satisfied. I find it especially useful for wash+press and dry cleaning where the alternative is to bring your clothes to a dry cleaner -- not convenient without a car.

A good strategy is to wash towels and pants yourself (these are heavier and therefore costlier to wash, and relatively easy to fold and put away yourself), and give the shirts and jackets to wash.io to wash, press, and fold.
Because it leads to a default assumption of a male actor which has often been relied upon to exclude women, especially from career roles. While a writer or speaker may intend a term generically, readers and listeners often infer (or pretend to infer) the gendered meaning.

For example, consider the following headline 'What you can tell about a doctor from the sort of shoes he wears.' You're probably not picturing any women's shoes when you read that.
There is a big difference between a simple meeting and the overly-gimmicky nonsense ritual that is known as the "standup". I've even seen standups where people are forced to hold a heavy book as they talk just to ensure they don't talk too long.

How about people drop all the BS and just learn how to properly run a meeting? The gimmickry of the standup is a covert way of saying "no one here trusts anyone else to exercise restraint and common courtesy, so instead we have to come up with these harebrained schemes to enforce it".
...and her nationality.

I'm British. I know two women called Deirdre. They're both Irish. It seems that the name had fallen out of favour in Britain by the 70s, but was still fashionable in Ireland until at least the 80s.
No it's not. Libressl is a different team; one that feels a fork was more appropriate than just fixing the problems in openssl.

IMHO, libressl is a mistake. It's splitting resources over something that needs to be as air-tight as possible. I'd much rather have 1 really really good ssl library that everyone uses instead of 2 so-so ones.
What about BIND for DNS?
Neuroscience unlocks secrets of Zen garden (2002)
The assumption that death rates have no link to names will probably break down in some cases.
I have to assume they didn't know. I assumed it was all fiction until I started looking up these companies.
This author is almost showing off, they can be funny on demand.

First they front load with some great jabs at startups and the hedonic nature of man to get you interested, then call back to them just before they expect you to get bored.

The pacing is a little slow near the end, but otherwise the writing here is quite good.
I was curious about one of the deadest male names, Isadore, so I looked it up. It's of Greek origin and it turns out the female counterpart, Isadora, is the ninth most popular name for baby girls in Chile in 2006. The website linked from the article indicates that it's never ranked in the top 1000 in the US. Interesting how a shared, ancient name could be so wildly divergent in usage.
I didn't post the original article because it's paywalled, but here it is anyway: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v419/n6905/full/419359a...
Something is sexist when language users think it is. The problem with he/him/his is that the primary meaning refers to males, only. Because of that, anyone reading it gets pushed towards the primary meaning.

That's why some people push towards the use of the singular they (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they) That may eventually change the language for all.
This my first thought when I read it and how it ended so abruptly. Conspiracy theories not withstanding, it's clear someone or some agency got to the developers and they just pulled the ejection seat for their own legal protection.

Can't say I blame them. I've had the feds show up where I lived once and I nearly shit a brick when I realized what was going on. You never want the weight the government beating down your back.
Amusing. My brother and I are almost smack on the median of our names. Yet I was named after my father (and his father), my brother after our mother's father.
Win at Workplace Conflict
But countries like France and Spain have persistently high unemployment rates yet much lower inequality than countries like Singapore and Hong Kong.

How do you explain that?
Umm, no. Competition for experienced engineers in Silicon Valley is incredibly fierce - I get probably a couple dozen cold recruitment pitches every week, from startups and big companies alike.

Cold recruitment pitches aren't job offers. They're also typically made with no idea how old the person they're speaking to is.

More supply == more employees. No sinister policies needed.

I would say it's more a matter of when you specifically target recent graduates for hiring, you tend to hire a lot of recent graduates. Are you disputing that Google specifically targets recent graduates for hire?
>>I expect the inequality debate to play out in a similar fashion. Many economists may agree with Piketty.

Whilst "many" economists most surely do agree with Piketty's data, it is closer to 50-50 than the 98% found in climate science.

Additionally, the number of economists who agree with Piketty's data but disagree with him over it's implications (that's the important part) will be smaller still.
I agree. There was no rush to switch away 6 months ago. The latest version (besides the new decrypt-only release) was over a year ago. It's pretty solid from my use-case... and the audit should relax any fears (nothing obvious has been discovered yet).

I think the "security concerns" expressed on the truecrypt page are more-or-less for future visitors to understand the project is not maintained anymore (albeit a poor way to go about expressing that)
Stanford, riding a technology wave, rises above Harvard as America's top school
Why does everyone have this aversion to giving the OpenBSD team the funding they deserve?

One reason may be that donations to the OpenBSD Foundation are not tax-deductible in the US.
mobile Electronics (cell phones, tablets)are by far the most popular.
Why does it seem like Washio paid for this article.
? I imagine they did not but it just seems odd.
Has no one noticed there are alternative implementations already, like BSD-licensed tcplay implementation in DragonFlyBSD?
Also just putting a space in front of https:// works, the script tag handles the leading space just fine.
Is the OpenSSL developers willing to drop support for 16 bit Windows or OpenVMS?

They either need to properly maintain it or drop it, and they don't have enough money to maintain it.
I'm curious to hear why Dropbox isn't an option for you, given that this supports client-side encryption. Ideological aversion to Condoleezza? Enterprise bureaucracy? Other?
These slides look very interesting but aren't really useful without accompanying explanation. Is there a video of the talk/lecture by the author?
tl;dr ORM's with type safety and comprehensive error checking are possible with statically typed languages provided the type system is flexible/powerful enough

http://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2013-12-06-24-days-of-hack...

More in-depth interactive tutorial:

https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/starting-with-haskell/libr...
The real sexism is inferring that "her"'s do not normally possess.
They do flat out say "top retail sites", not just amazon.
TrueCrypt authors go to great to keep their identities hidden

I donated at least two times to them via PayPal. How anonymous could they be if they got funds via PayPal? Not very, in this day and age. I would image it's trivial for the US government to find their true names based on this fact alone.
'Singular they' is common in the UK and quite a few commonwealth countries, as well as in Ireland. While it occasionally gives rise to ambiuity, I certainly find it less confusing than randomly-selected gendered pronouns, which suggests a specificity that is often not present.

On this article, the hedline led me to think that there was something distinctive about the distribution of female names that made it far easier to guess (not tell) someone's age if they were female rather than male.

A better headline that more accurately reflected the actual content, avoided unnecessary gender classification and grammatical ambiguities would have been 'How to guess Americans' ages from their names.'
Thanks for your feedback! Here is our list of supported sites: http://agora.sh/supportedSites.html. We plan to increase the number of supported sites by a lot in the next month.

Our target market is definitely predominantly women. I don't know why we decided to use shoes for our tutorial...

Keep in mind this is our beta. There will certainly be lots of bugs and the service is very far from where we envision it even in just the next 6 months.

Ugh. We're not filing a patent. I appreciate the suggestion, but I've already wasted too much time and money researching it. We almost gave away equity to a patent attorney to do it for us, but the deal fell through.
I would also suggest reading documents (such as the Shareholder agreement) before signing them.

This guy obviously knew about vesting, but somehow didn't realize it wasn't in the Shareholder agreement?
You can read The Theory That Would Not Die for the gory details but the short of it is that various people objected to the notion that probabilities could be used to encode a degree of certainty; and that the existence of priors made the whole thing unscientific.
Yep. And reading the pdf for phase 1 of the audit, worth about $40k, the findings didn't seem very impressive. Specifically the readability portion where they give a critique of naming conventions in the code. I could see the developers figuring for that money they could've done a lot more good with it.
housing, cars, employment.
Downloading multiple files in Ruby simultaneously
"The peak year for boys named Joseph was 1914 — when about 39,000 of them were born. Those 1914 Josephs would be due to celebrate their 100th birthdays at some point this year. But only about 130 of them were still alive as of Jan. 1."

Something quite poignant in this. I'd be interested in seeing a life expectancy chart based on name.
That's not what you asked. What you first asked was simple, with a simple answer: if all else is considered equal, the best practitioners are statistically most likely to come from the largest population.

What you're asking now sounds just as uninteresting. "The population higher in testosterone makes better bricklayers? Call the Nobel committee!"

It's true, you can set up giant psych experiments to demonstrate pretty much any bias you want. Have fun, but don't expect the bodybuilders and math students to care about your results. And try not to wander too close to eugenics.
Even simpler - Https://
You do realize that is the very first recommended candidate in the article, right?
>which were clearly a joke

There's a lot of information flying around so I may have missed something. Why is the official page, which states that there are security concerns, "clearly" a joke?
This was our previous company, two years ago. It was an event product.

We each had equal equity and equal pay. He was a fine designer and developer and was able to rapidly prototype for us just fine before.

Our vision for the product was very similar, and this was our focus 100% of the time. We quit our jobs, moved out to California together, and were living in a house working on this product day in and day out.

But after our living situation improved (nice food, house, car) his motivation to work disappeared completely.

I'd say he got a pretty nice payout considering that company didn't end up going anywhere.
That keyboard is wrong on so many levels.
Setting a width and height on your thumbnails will cause your search results to look better when the site is slow (or on a slow connection):

http://i.imgur.com/GXItOaL.jpg
Traditional shotgun clauses have edge cases that can produce bad outcomes.

A better model for a shotgun clause is one in which each partner names the price they would pay for the company. The partner who names the higher price then buys the company at the price half way between the two prices. Both partners win. The buyer gets the company at a discount to what they were prepared to pay, while the seller gets a premium to what the company was worth to them.
This is a gold mine, thank you!
Yup, we screwed up big! :)
You're confusing stocks with flows. Wealth inequality and income inequality are completely different things, and Sweden being more unequal than the UK does not seem at all implausible. Here's one paper from a few years ago showing exactly that result: http://darp.lse.ac.uk/papersdb/Cowell_(Hills_Wealth_UK).pdf
Deliberate government policy to prevent inequality.
We're working on a privacy statement. They can get pretty complicated and we're just about to get some more funding, which we'll use hire a lawyer to complete it.

We plan to let users sign up via email instead of social networks, we just decided not to do that for our beta launch. We're a small team of 4 people, so we have to be very picky about what we spend out time on.

I'm glad you liked our manual! Honestly, we didn't think anyone would take the time to read it. If you hover over the A logo on the top left you can access the manual, supported sites page, and contact page. You're probably right that we shouldn't hide them.
I remember one start-up, trying to figure out how to disassemble the start-up.

Everyone thought it was a horrible idea. They were offended, like a pre-nup. To be fair, there's a good chance I was probably in that group.

Not having it was really bad.

A similar thing happened with my uncles in an old-fashioned boring normal-world business many years ago.

Unlike divorce, companies are not meant to be for life. Plan for separation.
Our target market is definitely predominantly women. I don't know why we decided to use shoes for our tutorial...

Mrs Browl asks: Do you have any women on your team?
PyCharm 3.4 released
I do, as you can see in my comment, but no one else (here in the comments) seems to notice that fact, that this particular implementation is fully open source alternative available since 2011...
I believe I read in another thread that TrueCrypt did not get many donations

Given the anonymity of the developer(s), how would anyone know this?

However, the downside of being anonymous is that it makes it hard to ask for donations (in places other than your website).

If, and it's a big if, the reason for them throwing in the towel like this, was compensation, I think it would have been handled a lot of other ways.

My money is on an NSL and this was their way of telling us about it.
Admittedly, it's unfair to print the quotes without editing out "like". Most people fill empty space in their speech with "like", "um", or some variant. And most reporters edit them out from quotes, to keep their sources from sounding like total morons.

That said, if you're running a business described as "uber for laundry", hiring "ninjas", and paling around with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, you've already forfeited the right to be taken seriously by anyone.
For those curious where to find the iPhone version,

http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=cont...
Show HN: Pixion - Capture. Question. Answer.
Agreed. You don't get a pass for breaking into someone's house just because you say you weren't there to cause any harm. Yes, it's good to be pragmatic and understand that there's always something the owner of the house could have done to help prevent the break in -- close the door, lock them, get locks that are harder to pick, install security cameras, etc. etc. -- but the person breaking into your house is still wrong for doing so, even if they claim they just wanted to tell you about the weaknesses of your house's security. I don't see any reason the same reasoning shouldn't apply to digital property.
Thanks! You can check out our list of supported sites here: http://agora.sh/supportedSites.html. We plan to add a lot more in the next month.

twotap looks awesome! How have I never heard of it? Please shoot me an email so we can chat. Contact info is in my profile.
Looking at all the reactions, it doesn't seem that clear they were a joke.
My understanding is that traffic above 10M users will not be tracked by the free version of GA, but the service will continue working and recording visits. What 4chan will lose is information of all users above 10M, but will retain access to all the data.

I believe these emails from Google are phrased ambiguously to force upgrades.
Reminds me a little of this service but for payment processor speeds/success: http://gatewayindex.spreedly.com/explore
Take your rational thinking elsewhere. This is the Internet.
This is pretty cool. I'd love to see some benchmarks comparing it to Akka and other async Java libraries.

Also, just thinking out loud here, it's cool that this increases capacity by ~10X but since it doesn't actually improve latency, it's sort of like a call center putting you on hold instead of a busy signal. Is that a fair characterization?

As such my first focus would probably be on fault tolerance and auto-scaling, i.e. spin up more servers in response to increased latencies. And if I do that, then I'd have to ask myself whether it's really worth it to stitch this library deep into my app just to optimize for a situation (busy signals) that I've now architected to avoid in the first place.

Haven't thought that through very much but consider it a straw man argument.. any thoughts?
The problem with your suggestion that these laundry companies will write their own app is that they probably won't. They're probably eking out a small profit, and adding the cost of hiring a programmer as well as technical customer service and delivery drivers massively out of their reach. What makes me say this? Well, are there any nationwide dry cleaning chains? What is the markup on dry cleaning? How successful are the best dry cleaning shops? And, as mentioned, they lean towards being run and staffed by immigrants. They can make a living, but I would doubt it affords them enough of an income to run a silicon-valley startup.
Searching the Internet for Evidence of Time Travelers