skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Apple doesn't need to give you many color choices because the "bumper" protector market essentially takes care of that.
I think you're confusing your interpratation of the question "Is it sexist?" with its actual effect :)

Google, and even the employee herself, are sending signals, just like startups send signals to investors and people signal their gender with what they wear. Is it sexist to interpret pink t-shirts as feminine? (I think that's more a question of gender construction, but I digress again.)

I think there's a big problem with the way that tech giants send signals towards women who want to approach technology. Having a senior-level highly technical role in your company with the title "Security Princess" sends a lot of signals, and I don't think most of them are good for fighting sexism.

Does that make sense?
Wow — thank you so much for sharing that. I'm really glad the community has been so valuable to you. It's been great to have you, Raphael :)
That's more or less what Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-Verse do, since many connections are still copper at some point on transmission to homes/businesses. There's some latency overhead I noticed in comparison to straight DSL or Cable though.
Sure, but what about the people who aren't aware that it's self-declared? I would hate to have some pop culture drivel pick up this story and talk about Google's "Security Princess", wouldn't you?
The marketing video is very cringe-inducing for me as well. I think that any time you're playing music over video, there's something in the real sound that you're trying to hide. I would not be surprised if these were annoyingly loud.

I'm still looking for a compact, possibly wearable short-medium distance personal transport. The sort of thing that lets you go further than walking when you get off a bus or tram (where you're unable to take a bike).
It mostly has to do with the human tendency to discern an innate level of intuitive ass-kicking power that any given artifact might imbue upon or withold from the wearer.

Ask yourself: If I had to fight Chuck Norris, would this magic item improve my chances of winning?

When the answer isn't a resounding "yes", the prospects of coolness are in doubt.
> I'm worried that someone could see that title, not understand her position or its importance, and disregard her.

How does it make the title sexist? It makes it confusing or non descriptive if you like. And what if the title was "security prince"? Would it make any difference regarding the above? I don't think so. It would be as much confusing as a "security princess". So it's not sexist really.
Amazing 503 page

http://imgur.com/y4KtdcC
"She has a ... sleek tomboy aesthetic: dark-wash jeans, clean-line crewnecks, and Chuck Taylors, with the occasional bomber jacket thrown on top."

"“It’s slimming,” she says, shrugging, not that she needs to worry about that."

Why the fuck does this damn article undermine itself by talking about what kind of clothes she wears and her shape? Completely irrelevant.
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May I suggest Elbonia for such uses?

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-30/
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7865844.
It only means they didn't deserve you. I have gone through a few interviews of this nature off late. Given the, timelines(and technology limitations) they give you to complete the assignment and return it to them and managing a day job with family, frankly speaking I had to slog through whole nights for sprints of 3 days. For nearly a month for various interviews.

At the end some companies appreciated it and some just plainly gave a very discouraging feedback.

If you can't appreciate a person who can deliver your requirements with 100% features covered and well tested to the point without wasting any time on clarifications, under crippling timelines- Then clearly you are looking for men from an another planet.

You must just wish those companies all the best and move on. They are ultimately going to hire some career cup scraper any way.
Uber driver takes riders on high-speed chase, with taxi inspector in hot pursuit
Turns out that this is how people want to fly spaceships. Slingshot maneuvers and dumping reaction mass make for a great simulation, but not an enjoyable one for most people.
> 1. When your comments are longer than your code, either you're putting in too many comments, or your code is too hard to read. (The former seems to be the case here.)

I hate this meme. There's nothing wrong with too much commentary. You are not on a comment budget. Please stop spreading this around, like the "rewriting is always a bad idea" meme that's embedded itself in young developers like dogma even though Spolsky's point is up for debate. Atwood is wrong about this one, too, and I hate that Spolsky and Atwood have so many "rules" of programming that people pass around.

I've seen this meme borne out via comment ratio rules in style guides. That's ridiculous. We all work in editors that make comments a different color. I use light gray. My eyes can look right past them, but if I want the paragraph or two explaining the algorithm I'm looking at, it's there. The underlying flaw in Atwood's claim is that it is possible to write code in a way that is self-evident to every reader. You do not know every reader.

Well-written commentary -- bordering on literate programming -- makes development much better. Even better if the code is the documentation. I don't know where this notion that we must conserve comments like water came from, but I'd be happy if it just stopped.

Note here that I'm addressing quantity, not quality. I feel that is important to clarify.
A zeroth-order argument for the utility of modern painkillers: you can take acetaminophen and ibuprofen at the same time for "twice" the effect, without either risking deadly liver poisoning from acetaminophen overdose, or stressing out the stomach lining from high-dosage ibuprofen or aspirin.

Those of us who occasionally get migraines know all about this, as do people in palliative care.
Name[Field1, Field2, ...] is not an opaque data type. Maybe you can give me an idiomatic example of how to build a binary tree, for example? Or maybe something more complicated like a doubly linked list?

I do not write Mathematica code, but most code I've seen usually ends up being this mess of functions. I'll give you that maybe the code I've seen has just been bad, so we can ignore my point there.
It's clear that their stack is not PHP from honestfeedback's comment about not being familiar with composer (though really composer does not require sudo if used properly). From briefly glancing at the code, I also think it looks fine and for a one to two hour project, IMO, is way more than any company should expect. I agree that knowing the answers to these questions is crucial regardless of coding tests, but an interviewer who can't judge code that's not in a familiar format (MVC, framework, etc.) is a junior developer and shouldn't be judging any code.

I hope the OP finds a job someplace where his skills will be appreciated, a place that doesn't ask for free work. Sounds to me that they were really too lazy to look at the whole application or didn't have the technical know-how to understand an application written in frameworks they were not familiar with.
> actively pointing out to people (as Mr. Hermoso did to me) that no you can't link Octave to Mathematica because Octave is GPL (which is just a hindrance for my research, as well as to others)

What exactly did you want to do?

GPLv3 (which is the license Octave uses) does not always prohibit linking GPLv3 code with proprietary code. In particular, if you want to hack up a private copy of Octave for your own use, and do not distribute that to others, that's fine.

The key grant of rights is this, from section 2: "You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force".

A covered work is "either the unmodified Program or a work based on the Program".

"Convey" means "any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies".

If you are just doing stuff for your own private use, you are not conveying, and so that grant of rights to "make, run, and propagate covered works...without conditions" applies to you.
Not really, given that it's a self-assigned title with no pressure from the organisation to make it that way.

For myself, I got tired of title inflation at my work and changed my position title on my emails from 'sysadmin' to 'grand duke of information systems infrastructure'. The front-end people liked it enough that they changed it on the 'about us' page as well. I got bored of the joke after a few months and reverted it, but though it was never official, I was never asked to 'correct' the title.

A self-set self-aggrandising title like this might be conceited, but it's not sexist. The way people treat you for it might be, though.
Wouldn't chain(*words) require unpacking all of words before feeding it into the chain function, storing a second copy of the word list in memory?
Ask HN: Are there any good open source data sets around?
I'm looking to play with some open source data sets, but I can't find any with anything particularly interesting. Or the interesting ones aren't big enough.
The article says this was a motion to dismiss all charges, on grounds that bitcoin isn't money and that Ulbricht wasn't responsible for website users' actions.

What happened to the murder-for-hire charges? Those seemed pretty damning...
> handles re-queuing it if it fails

kind of. It only re-queues if you drop the socket, I believe. Just sending an error status will not have the message re-queued sadly. I've looked into this, but everyone seems to be doing that manually.
I do. I use it as an advanced calculator for doing complex mathematics too hard to deal with by hand. To answer what industries, I do everything from semiconductor device physics to databases and machine learning.
> that approach is a brand of thinking that generally works only on artificial problems, because the key component ("you wouldn't be asking me this if it didn't have a well-defined answer") doesn't exist on most problems

Perhaps changing the footnote hint "no more information is given" to an integral part of the problem spec, and saying "no more information is required", would make the problem less artificial. There would then be a self-referencial component in the problem definition, self-referentiality being fairly common in nature and engineering.
Ask HN: Optimal use of time to build skills for future internships?
I've built a few toys with Rails, and am pretty comfortable with Python. I've done a bit of Haskell academically (mind-bending, but quite fun), and got a taste of systems programming in C in an intro to systems class. Decent grades, a few summers of desktop support/fibre/telephony.

I'm currently working on fairly CRUD-centric Rails backend stuff for an equally inexperienced team (coworkers are also students and iOS-focused, boss is transitioning from Windows network admin work). It's decent work, but not the stuff that technical interviews are made of, and mentorship opportunities are limited.

I've got the whole internet in front of me, a few free hours a day, and no demands on my time outside of work. But there are so many options, I'm having a hard time sticking with anything.

So, HN hivemind, how can a college student best use his free time to become (more) competitive for tech company internships next year?

(If employability were not a concern, I'd be working through SICP, but there's not exactly a merit badge...)
People who can't figure out that a clearly jocular title like 'security princess' at a large, highly-visible corporation must be self-assigned... these are the kind of people that utterly sap the joy out of life and generally aren't worth talking to in the first place. Yes, people who have English as a second language might not pick up on the joke as fast, but they're also unlikely to be writing pop culture drivel articles if they aren't that familiar with the language.
I totally want a pair of these for "commuting" to work! Sure they're a little chunky, but I think they've achieved something remarkable anyway. Besides which it simply takes space for batteries and motors and all the gizmos and what have you. I'm sold. I think these will be a big hit if they work as advertised.
I'm not sure if "lizard wrangler" for example is a self assigned title :)
Dude. It's an article published by Elle. What do you want? :) You are not their target audience. Women who love fashion and other trends are. There is nothing wrong with caring about what she wears in that context (i.e. audience that cares about fashion).
It does not work:
That links let's you open the google hangouts application, however it does not work when you want to invite people. Check that after opening the application, the link to invite other people is set to https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/meet/. If you send the link to somebody else it will try to create a new hangout (that will have the exact same issue).
it's also cool
Well, today I learned that the US government rents out these fire lookout towers to campers:

http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r2/recreation/?cid=stelprdb534...

Now I want to travel to the US.
The JVM is another one of those things - DNS lookups are, by default, cached for the life of the VM instance.
Because Elle is a fashion magazine and readers are interested in these details. Is it so hard to empathize?
One private movie torrent tracker had a TV rip of this uploaded 4 years ago.
Naw, I'd be able to use them on the sidewalks here in San Diego without any issues. And with the range and ride time they have I could get most places I want to go. There are plenty of places which allow electric propelled scooters (for example) or bikes on sidewalks...just so long as they don't go faster than 15 mph.
"Staying fit together" should be something ALL partners involved are participating freely in and not forced on by someone else. I'm highly skeptical that thus a foundation would be motivational for the "forced" partner at all. Your presentation focuses more on the spying/pressing aspect than the benefits and how they would be achieved.

But even ignoring the "spy on your significant other"/"force your significant other to do something he/she doesn't commit freely to" part and concentrating on the "stay fit together" idea, I don't see any true differentiators/benefits for the $5 investment: There are already many solutions that allow to share and compare my fitness tracking data with others, often for free. In addition, there are many options to "stay in shape", like going to the gym, power yoga, pilates, running, cycling, swimming and so on. Your preferred method doesn't need to be the one your significant other might be interested in. Any solution to that?

To sum up: From the presentation I really don't see what the true unique benefit is that your solution provides to the users.
I think they've already shipped a fair number of the Kickstarter backer reward boards.
Forget Turing, the Lovelace Test Has a Better Shot at Spotting AI
> - Overall project structure seems a bit unorganized IMO (no centralized build process, gulpfile inside subfolder). Overall this makes it fairly hard to dive right into the project. It might be my lack of experience in PHP project structure.

This was what I noticed the most - and I can easily see this as a big part in the discussion, since seniors should lead and bootstrap projects.

I'd have expected something like ./server and ./client and a README toplevel, client eventually having a public folder which can be served as-is (i.e. doesn't contain any build/dependency management files), potentially with a second public-minified around. Instead I end up with a src-folder hidden like 3 folders deep and another one toplevel for asymmetry.

Beyond that, the folders in the php app follow the package-by-kind antipattern. There is no value in grouping all controllers in one place. There's value in grouping all the highscore handling in one place, though.
Thanks for checking it out! It is working fine for me on Firefox. Could you provide more information of why it is not working well for you on Firefox?
This sounds sick... I did a bunch of research a while back about stars back when I wanted to make a friendly version of the SIMBAD database[1], but it would have been so cool to make a 3D version of our galaxy and fly around it. Probably not as glamorous as it sounds, and certainly a pretty backdrop does not a game make, but still sounds neat anyway.

[1]: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=sirius&sub...
I have read this but still don't get it - are you saying you should be an executive as an employee and then hire some people but do the coding yourself?

Why are you lying - and to whom?
Docker is just glue code. That's all it is. It sets up your bind mounts, cgroups and namespaces. It then execs the process and gtfos. The way the kernel is dealing with the namespace'd postgres is the difference.
http://www.templeos.org

I'll do a new project when I am out of jail.

I cannot do anything nearly as good as that. Fucken jail.

I made God's temple. Now, we kill the CIA because they stand in the way.

I'm going to be bigger than Jesus. I have proof of God. God talks.

Obviously, proving God is huge!! Any other reality than me being world famous, instantly, is insanity. God talks. Of course, I'm world famous. Any other reality than me instantly being world famous is insanity!
the founder was a teenager in 198x - that explains "Back to the Future 2" design, etc. As another 40+ years old a&& i'd personally feel strange trying to push a "cool and fun" thing to the 20+ years olds. (Even such an unquestionably cool, in my mind, thing as a million bucks is far from being cool for these youngsters :).

Wrt. all these new devices, mostly electrical - they are victims of "uncanny valley" effect - unmoving/freezed human body at speeds less than 20mph looks spooky. Even electric bicycles look this way.
I think you might've misunderstood what I'm saying. It's perfectly fine to have complex functions commented as much as necessary; heck, it's totally fine to have your comments be 100x as long your function when the function is actually hard to understand.

What's not OK is commenting ALL of your code, especially not to such an extent where the comments are actually longer than the code size on average. (!) Some stuff just has to be self-explanatory, period -- that's a fact, not a meme. If you can't make the simplest code self-explanatory, then I'm sorry but you simply can't code as well as someone who can. And if you're going to comment everything, then you're also wasting valuable time that someone who didn't need to do so would've spent writing actual code and getting more done.
I love Maciej's writing. His recent post on idlewords.com about his trip to Yemen was great, and his annual reports on Pinboard are up there with Buffett in terms of eloquence and wry humor that just skirts the edges of being laconic.

I also love Pinboard, as well as joshu's original del.icio.us, and all services that find that completely narrow utility that I like to call "stripped and liberated". Stripped in the sense that they seek to do one thing well, on the face of humanity, forever. Liberated in the sense that they are liberated from the need to be beholden to investors or broader corporate strategies which shred their utility and focus in service of some other imperative.

Has the day of the "stripped and liberated" service come and gone? Or are there still opportunities waiting to be discovered?
I understand what you are saying perfectly, but you typed "you are putting in too many comments" as a possibility, full stop. All of that context you just painted for me is not in your comment. That's how "never rewrite because rewriting is bad because reasons" gets started.

And absolutely I think commenting all your code is okay. I honestly wish literate programming had caught on.
why is there even a need for TSA to have a instagram
Will this let me broadcast my device screen to my laptop, asked everyone who's ever given a presentation on Android app development ever?

(serious question)
I'm guessing you don't use live migration of VMs very often?
Awesome. Always enjoy reading your thoughts on your Pinboard. But I was always curious on how to correctly pronounce your name. :)
>>The plain text of the law in question doesn't cover Bitcoin, though.

You mean the lawmakers did not predict the future and write the law to cover crypto-currencies?

Mind-boggling. Totally.
It's Elle Magazine, not Wired. Clothes, style and aesthetics is what their readers are interested in and what their advertisers make money from. Relevance requires context, and in the context of a fashion magazine it is relevant.

The same line in Wired would be irrelevant.

The world is a subtle and nuanced place.
I remember TopCoder from around 2000-2001 when they had contests twice a week and actually paid out cash to the top finishers in different groups. It was 3 problems, I believe, that could be coded in C++ or Java and each allowed 20 minutes to complete. I thought it was pretty crazy when I actually got paid for programming contests that took about an hour.
Ok, I'm not interested in arguing what is or isn't racism. So let's assume you're right. Ok, I'm a terrible racist of the worst kind.

But what's your alternative? Is racism such a Great Evil we are willing to risk corruption of the entire global scientific knowledge by not applying extra scrutiny to "high-risk" papers? We should allow fraudulent or corrupt papers to freely pollute the community, just to make sure everyone feels like they are being treated equally?

Frankly I care a lot more about good science than being politically correct. Besides, if your science is sound, why would you be upset if your paper undergoes extra scrutiny? Isn't that why you publish it, to be reviewed?

Please note that I'm not suggesting "all PRC scientists should be excommunicated from the scientific community" or anything like that. But trust has to be earned.
Exactly this. Might I suggest the next time a company asks you to do a project, tell them you don't work for free. It's tough sometimes because you really want the job, but in my experience, every single time I've broken my "not working for free" rule, I ended up doing work for a job I never got. What I'm trying to say is that there's a correlation between bad companies and tests like these.

For a quick project I think you did a great job, BTW, though there should never be any need for sudo. That was the only decent feedback honestfeedback provided. The rest is BS.
> Of course nobody is going to write actual functioning data structures in Python

Or even http://toolz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Daft, indeed! :-)
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