skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't help but think of Marco Arment's point about free applications... Sigh. Just wish I could throw a bit of money at them now to stop whatever the heck is going on here (and yeah, I know I probably could have donated before but fact is I didn't).
Cane con occhi rossi, congiuntivite: Cosa fare?
What if you are dressing down as a way to be more productive? I mean, you can't work 12 hours straight in a suit and tie, while changing after 8 would lead to inefficiency.

As an aside, has anyone fathomed that some clothes are good for thinking and coding while others are good for meetings and customer engagement?
Possibly the same way that -- from the body of the article -- fish can be "literally" dinosaurs.

But, more likely "Russian caviar" is being used as a term for caviar from the Russian sturgeon (Ossetra).
They do. Worth noting that A8C acquired our company LearnBoost/Cloudup in 2013, where we had built/supported Socket.IO and many other Node.js libraries for the prior +3 years
Same white, just fewer Asians.

Nothing to see here, all stereotypes confirmed :)
I second @weixiyen. You bring up "Socket.io has been plagued with scalability" and then elaborate on the irrevalant graceful degradation strategies of each framework
My comment was more than just a complaint about the cowardly downvotes. It's pretty much a post on its own, but I know what you mean. I just am getting tired of the overactive Bitcoin propaganda guys, that's all.
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All vendors have bad products from time to time, but they deal with it differently. I can think of one vendor who covered up bugs in their silicon with undocumented driver hacks in Windows, and stonewalled Linux kernel devs on the nature of the faults, for example.
Although it's fairly straightforward to distinguish between gender and sexual orientation, I disagree with these traditional US categories of ethnicity.

Take a 'White' person, for instance: is a White American the same as a White Englishman, or a White Australian? What about a White Frenchman? These are all classified as 'White' but could potentially be vastly different in terms of diversity.

The same argument could be made with the other ethnicities. The 'Asian' category -- are they Chinese, Japanese, Filipino..? Or an American Asian immigrant -- Chinese-American, etc.

If you're aiming for diversity that's representative of your customer base, then surely your measure of ethnicity has to be more granular.
Indeed. I would bet my last dollar that its workforce is skewed hugely, disproportionately young. And there are no convenient they-just-aren't-majoring-in-CS excuses for this either. Lots of 50 year old engineers with years of training and experience are looking for work.
Just click on his profile and view his comment history. You won't find the examples lacking
I don't get this logic. How does it matter if you are a sore thumb if you are not being discriminated? As someone who is also from a visible minority group, it never bothers me unless of course people change their behavior towards me because of the colour of my skin, which I have luckily never experienced.

Please don't feel that I am being condescending; I have come across this statement many times before and I can't understand it.
>How does that happen? How does such an important service — the geolocation of addresses — just stop working for three days? And as of the writing of this post, five days after the fact, we have yet to get a response to our support inquiries.

It's not like there could be any other response than "It will be fixed as soon as we can". So, what exactly were they expecting to hear?

Regarding their customers, I'm not sure if this is an American vs Europe thing, but I never, ever, contact software companies for support. Nor do I know many (if any) people that do. It's 2014. You can read the manual or search for help online. And if a service is down, you wait it out and assume it will get back up. It's not like they don't know it's down, or telling them will make it go up faster. That's just like honking while on a traffic jam. Just adds noise.

Were those users really that dependent on a $1 dollar weather app that they had to "deluge" its developers in a 3-day service disruption?

I would either wait it out, or download another comparable app.
Are things like removing results from search engines really the right solution to the problem?
For me the amazing thing about writing VCS is that a subtle bug or change could destroy someone's history and future commits. For example, in some old Mercurial release, hg mv had a bug (something affects history integrity) and the bug is fixed in recent release (the default version install on Ubuntu 12.04 should see that bug).

Maybe I lack of the domain knowledge, but writing VCS must be a very difficult task if you care about preserving history.
I know everyone likes to bash MS around here but is there any actual proof of Bitlocker's insecurity that is more recent than 2008? If you look at wikipedia it seems like the only known real vulnerability requires someone with physical access to boot via USB into another OS within a few minutes of turning the computer off. When is this a real risk for anyone? I am not a security expert but unless you are doing things shady enough to get raided by the FBI, it seems like Bitlocker is pretty secure. The same problem occurs in other encryption programs on Linux and OSX. Also, it may not be open source like what we want, but MS lets its partners and enterprise customers audit the code subject to an NDA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker_Drive_Encryption#Secu...
Disagree. They acknowledge it may be severely inconvenient, not just an 'oops'.
It's a nit perhaps but being as this is technical stuff I'd prefer the standard SI prefixes rather than MM and the like used in some beancounting.
>The downtime isn't the issue, it's the lack of communication during the downtime.

What would that communication be?

If I'm a team of sysadmins working to find out what caused the issue and trying to fix it properly as soon as I can, the last thing I want to do is being asked by some manager type "well will it be ready".

It's not as if you can tell when a bug will be found and fixed, or if some idea you try will definitely work. The only answer is: "it will be ready when it's ready".

And in fact most other answers are BS. How many time have you heard from hosting providers for example: "We had a glitch in our network, but it's fixed now" -- and the issue persists or comes back with a vengeance a few hours later?
Yes, race and ethnicity are socially constructed and are fluid.

No, however much you try to whitewash it, 70-30-3-4-5 is as shitty as it gets outside of legalized segregation.
So that's way Google exited China, right? ...
.NET has code access security, which is even finer grained than just memory access restrictions:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/33tceax8(v=vs.110).a...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/930b76w0(v=vs.90).as...
Yes, but I don't wish to discuss 'PTSD diagnosis politics' in this forum instead I'd rather just add value by pointing people to a non-commerical modality that actually works for treating those who suffer from the types of symptoms commonly associated with PTSD.
I've dabbled in J, and it's left me with a permanent sense of slight disillusionment with regards to every other numerical programming language I've used. It seems mind-boggling that NumPy, MATLAB, and even Julia lack the versatile broadcasting rules of APL family languages. In J, if you write a simple function that composes several built-in operators, your function is fully vectorized and can act on lists and arrays properly, and even arrays of arrays. In MATLAB, the same function stands a pretty good chance of only accepting scalar inputs unless you put extra effort into making it vectorized, and almost certainly won't do the right thing when given higher-dimensional arrays. Julia seems to likewise default to being mostly scalar-oriented, and only makes it less painful by having efficient JIT, but still lacks the expressiveness advantage.
Successful tech companies have to be staffed by very smart nerds. So at the end of the day their pool of candidates is that group. So the numbers you see are reflective of the people who make up that pool.

If you want to see more X in it - work on attracting X into the pool of smart nerds.
Here's Microsoft Demoing Their Real-Time Translation Technology
Twitter and Facebook also had significant uptake first in the rich white tech dude demographic (or in Facebook's case, the rich white college student demographic). It's just that they later grew to encompass...everyone.

For that matter, look at the social networks that have flourished abroad: Orkut (developed by a Turkish engineer) and WhatsApp (developed by a Ukrainian). So there may be something to this...
engineers do in the bay area.
Wow! Not only very cool on the translation side of things - but how FAST they were talking. Very cool, Microsoft!
More people would be able to create their own economies, create their own businesses.
Microsoft Lays out the Future of Internet Explorer
Could you post the PGP & Authenticode details? I was unable to verify the 7.1 releases.
This guy managed to compile a previous version and have it match the released binaries https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binarie...
I don't remember exactly but it was pretty high myopia. I think -6 to -9 range.
Whites are 78% of the US population, so being 70% of Google's population is a pretty fair representation. Asians are over-represented though. What exactly do you think is "fair"? I'm guessing having fewer than 50% whites at Google.
[For a purported breakthrough with such grand plans for reshaping the food industry, I found Soylent to be a punishingly boring, joyless product. From the plain white packaging to the purposefully bland, barely sweet flavor to the motel-carpet beige hue of the drink itself, everything about Soylent screams function, not fun. It may offer complete nourishment, but only at the expense of the aesthetic and emotional pleasures many of us crave in food.]
[It suggests that Soylent’s creators have forgotten a basic ingredient found in successful tech products, not to mention in most good foods. That ingredient is delight.]

Christ, it's as if he's willfully ignored everything; that's the POINT of Soylent, to give the option of a functional meal not for pleasure, so that you actually have a choice whether. Right now you don't, you have non-nutritious meals that don't take preparation time and are cheap, and nutritious meals that take vast amounts of time to prepare and/or are generally more expensive to acquire/prepare.

Now you have a third choice, complete nutrition at cost, minus the pleasure associated with the above two choices.
How do you look for jobs?
Just curious on some discussion about how the HN community goes about searching for a new job. Whether it is via networking, linkdedin or various job boards I was just curious how everyone went about it.
Yes it takes the idea of a corporation strictly being beholden to shareholders and extends it to all stakeholders, which includes impacted society.
Encryption Tool Endorsed By Snowden Abruptly Shuts Down
Ist wunderbar!
Agreed. TrueCrypt has always been upfront about the dangers of physical access to your machine (pulling master keys from RAM). This kind of response wouldn't makes sense
Tennis sensor in the form of a Dampener
That was poorly phrased... In my mind, I meant it in a "sadly it's too often that the human making the mistake gets blamed, rather than the systems that didn't have appropriate safeguards to make said mistake non-trivial"
No more than shutting down Lavabit violated whatever NSLs/court orders were directed at it.
>This is about Apple simply sucking really hard at anything related to the web

Like having the #1 app and music stores? I'd like to suck like that!

>Despite this being the year 2014 they still have to take their store offline to make major product additions.

I don't think that's any technical issue. That's how the want to present new products.

>Their Maps data is still a cruel joke

That are OpenStreetMap, not theirs. They just put a face on it. And its comparable with Google Maps, depending on where you live.

>And, evidently, their core OS web APIs can go down silently with no spokesperson or page to inform anybody.

Yeah, because if there was some spokeperson to tell the usual corporate BS we get from other web API vendors ("we are working to locate the problem" (well, duh), "seems to be an issue with our West Coast facilities" (well, duh), etc, it would really make a difference.
I use Pure in quite a few projects and I find it simple, fast to use. It's way more light-weight than Bootstrap yet still capable for all of my prototyping demands.
"If you want the best people working at your company, you should want a group with similar demographics as the customer population"

It's not the role of every single worker to deal with how the customer interfaces with the product. So what's the point in having diversity at every level?

"and if you disagree with that, you either believe there is something inherent about certain groups that makes them better or worse at these jobs,"

no.

"or you believe that there are external social biases which cause the discrepancies."

nope
Beer has been doing this for years
Age diversity? Come on man, that's not important. What's really important is making sure Google isn't publicly lambasted for having too many white men on their staff.
My response was flippant, which is probably why some people have been downvoting it, but I'm legitimately glad if they're working to make their hiring pool more representative of the population. But at the same time, it's hardly their fault or responsibility to "fix" it if universities just aren't graduating people in those proportions. This came right after I'd read a PBS article that claimed "Google finally discloses its diversity record, and it’s not good." Then I read a breakdown of CS grads in this submission, and Google seems to be pretty representative.
Large corporations (such as those listed on the stock market) are not capital constrained, but the small, new and potential companies which are most important to growth are highly capital constrained.[1][2]

Some have argued that it is good that rich people often get their way, because the alternative is far worse.[3]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-30-y...

[2] http://www.nber.org/digest/feb11/w16300.html

[3] http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/why_is_democrac....
The notes define that a socket name starting with @ is a Linux abstract namespace socket, so I don't see where "incomplete" comes from. You can quibble over whether the documentation meets your preferred style (and I'll admit it certainly is odd to reference the underlying implementation in the notes for the wrapper rather than the other way around), but it's a page of text, shipped with the code, that tells you everything you need to reimplement it.
Well there's using it as a checkbox and then there's real diversity. No one likes being patronized. But if it's done right you would still be judged on your abilities. And therein lies the challenge. It's a worthy goal but they better stay on top of it.
If you're looking for actively developed cross platform free software alternative: http://www.getsafe.org/
This would be the exact opposite of "buy one get one free" as in "buy two to get one to work". Them geniuses at Coke.
Perforce also handles large binary blobs better as well, which is super important in game programming.
Cheaply made beats phone will happen and it'll sell more units than you can imagine. It'll have to be cheaper than the iPhone, not by much. I didn't say beats headphones were cheap now did I? Keep up.
Given that context... Yes, it probably would be the wrong time and place to blame other people for a (semi) unrelated issue.
I don't agree with Eich views on marriage at all but it was refreshing to see that he DID NOT do what you suggest (which would've been a very hypocritical thing to do) and stuck to his believes.
I hear this all the time but really, how much of an impact does "diversity" have on yet another shitty chat app or photo sharing site? They're creating utterly trivial, harmless social applications that have NOTHING to do with racial, cultural, or religious matters.
This reads like the opinion of one who is scared of the future.
Organic Fashion: Inside the Lab That Grows Clothing
Ask HN: Managing Feature Creep
Does anyone know of any good in depth discussions or books on feature creep?

I don't have any trouble identifying it when you get to the point of having a crazy UI that's cluttered or a bunch of useless features. However, I have trouble balancing a simple, sleek design with something that is also a powerful tool capable of dealing with the problems at hand.
"Five why's" might be appropriate to suss out how the ultimate mistake was even possible.
Well, what else could there be? People behaving better at all times and never doing anything they'll regret being known later?

Sure, removing results from search engines is not a 100% solution (people could still find the stuff from elsewhere, e.g links on a blog or a newssite, if they are so determined).

But it's a working 99% solution. Most people data would be non retrievable and languish into extinction. You don't have to make something impossible to discourage people from doing it. You can just make it a little harder.

Removing your old data from Google, FB etc, is a huge boost in giving one's past a clean slate. Heck, even for murderers there's a "statute of limitations". Why should the "star wars kid" be forever "that idiot you did that when he was 10 years old"?
The irony is I went to college basically because I was expected to. I remember it very clearly sitting in AP Calc my senior year of highschool in January and thought to myself "I should probably apply to some colleges. I'm kind of expected to go." I'm not disappointed I went but I don't believe it was necessary.
Poll: what is your hourly contracting rate?
Criteria: 3+ months relationship with your client. Software engineers and UX/UI designers only.

What is your hourly USD rate, or your daily/weekly converted-to-hourly rate?
30 or less
151-250
251-400
401+
costs about $3 per serving

Too fucking expensive for a cleverly named bachelor chow.
"We need more diversity" is code for "we need fewer white men", but I think you already knew that. Everyone does, that's why it doesn't have to be stated.
The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakers
leftist multiculturalist-feminism shit again.
Just be glad you never had to use Visual Source Safe. Makes svn look like a dreamland.
https://gist.github.com/ValdikSS/c13a82ca4a2d8b7e87ff
And I think that is OK.

I have worked on (other people's) projects, and been pulled into learning/doing something I otherwise would have shied away from.

It doesn't always work out this way, but sometimes having someone else push you out of your comfort zone can be ultimately beneficial.
Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States
Right - Soylent will be successful based on how it defines its mission, not as a replacement for traditional food but as a better second choice. However, if I remember correctly some of the first publicity I saw about Soylent pitched it like it was somehow a replacement for food - and that's what I think this writer was reacting to. I agree with the author that I still would be reluctant to sacrifice the pleasures of eating even a non-nutritious meal for complete, ready-to-go nutrition (if that's even what Soylent is) more than a few times.

Soylent strikes me as a food not unlike MREs for the military or some of the dehydrated food that astronauts take up to space. That is, it could be the kind of nutrition that targets people in extreme circumstances, who might desperately need nutrition and energy but, because they're in the middle of a war zone, or in a space suit hovering above Earth, cannot get to it.
I work for Google (though not in Silly Valley) and see no obvious sign of age discrimination here. I was 46 when hired.
Hacking constraints in .storyboard (Xcode Interface Builder) files
same phenomena can be observed in gangsta rap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15z3MU3Zel8

peace up, a-town down
Easy E-mail encryption to protect your privacy
If you watch the video, that seems like it would be really hard. Like shooting yourself with a rifle.
The top 25 companies for pay and perks
>If Apple makes their private API public, it is then possibly infringing.

No, it's not. From list views to buttons to menubars and keyboards, almost all iOS widgets (private to Apple or usually public) have alternative third party implementations. Nobody is going after them.

You are actually supposed and encouraged to create your own versions of widgets - Cocoa is especially good for that, and there are even instructions in the Apple Developer Network for how to customize views and such.

Doing their own popup widget wont get them into trouble, period.
> "git rebase" learned to interpret a lone "-" as "@{-1}", the branch that we were previously on.

Cool, I was just looking for something like this with "git merge". Turns out "git merge" already supports it, and I need to get better at using the reflog (@{...}).

> "git add <path>" is the same as "git add -A <path>" now.

> The "-q" option to "git diff-files", which does NOT mean "quiet", has been removed

More intuitive.

> The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should significantly improve performance when serving objects from a repository that uses it.

Improves clone performance if you're pulling lots of history, but there still doesn't seem to be a way to sparse-checkout without fetching the entire .git repo.
How is git with a gui hard for artists? I get that they don't want to stage their changes and commit them from a terminal, but you literally just pick your files and write a note about what you did before hitting the commit button.
What tool will accomplish this task?
I am a sysadmin for a medium sized 'Internet' company. I manage 30+ systems primarily running Debian with a few BSD boxes too.
Google Releases Employee Data, Illustrating Tech's Diversity Challenge
Yes, and that's one of the reasons why I used to have very long hair (I'm male) and now shave my head. The status marker is a visible sign that I am comfortable in my position, and further that I am comfortable enough with my abilities that I don't think it will be an impediment to getting another job.

(Another reason was that I liked having long hair, and the few months when I was short-haired before shaving made me unhappy.)
"Diversity in points of view" is not an unalloyed good. There are significant coordination costs associated with it.

It is also not something you get when you attempt to recruit people from the same sources and socio-cultural milieus with the same acceptance criteria, but of different genders and ethnicities. Hiring an ethnically diverse range of, eg, MIT/CMU/Stanford graduates does not engender diverse viewpoints.

"If you want the best people working at your company, you should want a group with similar demographics as the customer population". Huh. So, if most of my sales of akvavit are to expat Finns, I should certainly not hire a German to do my security audits. And if most of my sales of peat-optimized spades are to the Irish market, I should certainly not contract out the manufacturing to the great industrial base of Shenzhen. This seems rather insensible and possibly bigoted to me.
And you also failed to ask any question at all.
But probably considerably cheaper than what every person who has ordered Soylent was previously paying per serving.
It reads to me like someone who was unimpressed by a product after having tried it.
Does National Security Letter sound depressing enough?
Why in the Heck Is SolarCity Offering a Groupon?
Who's talking about shitty startups? I don't live in silicon valley.