skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was anything other than a blanket "don't do this," maybe. It's also like a crowd of new software engineers being told on day one, "By the way, you probably know this, but don't hack the payroll server to boost your paycheck." It's something the average person would never seriously consider, but in the event someone is boneheaded enough to actually do it, it negates the "I didn't know I couldn't" excuse. You can feel insulted if you want, but it's not a message _personally directed at you_, it's a general warning that, because of a few extreme incidents, needs to be explicitly stated out loud.
It's really not. Feminist ideology has permeated many levels of public institutions today -- not all, of course, but quite a few. There's a reason it's seen as the 'correct'/default viewpoint to take today; if that weren't the case, then it'd be less surprising when someone declares themselves not a feminist. There might be a long road yet ahead for feminists, but I don't think it's fair to diminish their vast and obvious accomplishments thus far; doing that just feeds into the victimization cycle that's endemic in the radical subsets of it.
I do want to be coding in ten years, but I realise I also want to be respected for my experience. At the moment, despite having designed and implemented the database and front end that my entire organisation runs on, they decide that I ought to be fixing dumb excel errors, rather than writing an interface that would rid them of all the problems they get from using Excel in the first place.
As someone who ran my fathers trucking company after he passed away, I'd say you're missing quite a few things.

A good mileage interval guide would show what you can expect (minor) to repair/replace every once in a while. I set up an example one on edmunds.com for a Toyota Avalon with 0 miles:

http://www.edmunds.com/car-maintenance/results.html?year=201...

There are other general things that you should watch out for [0], and plenty that aren't listed or may just happen.

[0] http://www.carsdirect.com/car-maintenance/a-routine-car-main...
I made more than that 15 years ago as a very junior developer in a very interesting startup.
Can you install JIRA on that copy of windows 2008 server R2 and access it via VPN?

Straight away we have ambiguity.

Can you run your staging site on it for demonstration purposes?

More ambiguity.

All it takes is a small mis-step.
Some people might criticise these numbers, particularly the 70% male ratio. However, to really determine whether a company is being as diverse and open to equality as possible, the same measurements should be applied to the applicants as well as the employees.

If seven out of ten applicants are male then the 70% male ratio doesn't indicate a bias. It might mean that the company isn't as attractive to female applicants, but then again, neither is the discipline behind many of their products (at the moment.)
> What language is Visual Studio written in?

C++, C#, VB.NET and F#

> What language is the .NET infrastructure in?

C++, C#, VB.NET and F#

> I don't think Microsoft has ever produced any self-hosting language except C/C++. Until that fact changes, C/C++ will still be around.

QuickBasic, QuickPascal

You don't need C and C++ to bootstrap a compiler. Ever.

I only started to use C for real when I started to work with Xenix.

EDIT: This myth that one needs C or C++ to write compilers needs to fade away.

EDIT2: C# 6 and VB.NET 6 are self-hosting, and while .NET Native plugs into VC++ backend, they can eventually choose another backend.
There's a 'copyable plaintext' button on hover.

All of the data is extractable, but I believe they want you to pay for it if you use it for much more than simple manual work.
The linked page "CIDR Report" shows a rrdtool graph that seems to show we had just as many routes 3 days ago. The page doesn't say anything about widespread issues, and I don't find any source for that when googling.

So, where is your source about these widespread issues?

(Link title at the time of this post: The Internet hit 512K BGP routes today, causing widespread issues)
100W @ 20V (5 Amps Max)- There are a few uses I would be interested in if it supported higher amperage, robotics is one.
If your project is so small that $800 a year is going to hurt it them maybe it's not ready to be an LLC yet. Not that I think cA is a great state to incorporate in, but limited liability is a really significant legal privilege, so I think of minimum taxes like this as a disincentive for shell companies/fly-by-night setups.
You're referring to a study that used 37 volunteers that were exposed for 20 min.

When I apply sunblock to me or my daughter, it's because we're going to be outside for well over 20 minutes. For that length of time, depending on conditions, I probably wouldn't even bother.

My point stands, if you apply sunblock intending to spend 1+ hour(s) in the sun, then you'll likely benefit from the vitamin D exposure.
Ask HN: Anyone aware of any free, unique URL referral creation tools?
What I'm talking about is something like htttp://www.untorch.com

I'd use this but it gets a little too cute by trying to make you refer 5 friends to sign up before you can try anything with the product.

Thanks
"…redistribution game…" – what a lovely euphemism!

And finally, a website to directly address the problem that anonymous lottery operators have too little wealth, and credulous altcoin lottery players have too much.
While I agree with you that an "All-One-Sex Conference" is still sexist, I am still downvoting you for showing a lack of sympathy for the people affected by the topic at hand. You'll get over it.
Did you learn anything more?
Awesome idea., I just sent some Stellar to it.
And HTV and Cygnus. Probably not essential and also not glamorous anymore.
The server-side part of pg:diagnose is a go program I open sourced at https://github.com/heroku/pgdiagnose . It'd be easy enough to run locally for your own stuff, probably.
What the fuck kind of response is this? Attitudes like this are the reason harassment is a problem in the tech industry. Yes, it happens. Occasionally. But not in a situation with these kinds of power dynamics. It is never appropriate to flirt with someone who is trying to engage in a business transaction with you. No exceptions.
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Serious Question(s): How does this make them look bad? Is it unfair to think that this happens to be because of the demographic of people interested and qualified in "tech" positions? Or should we genuinely think these numbers are lopsided for some nefarious reasons?

Edit: Un-Edited the Edit.
Exactly. Sexism is tangential here; abuse of power is front and center. It's like comparing cops beating black suspects with NAACP membership.
So if we redefine all the words we're using, then we can come up with a framework that sort of works, sometimes, according to someone who's analyzing The Office. Ok.
Marcus Aurelius: Debts and Lessons
If you want to learn the math, check out http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Mathematical-Cryptography....
How is it more "noob?" Considering the esoteric file format Arq uses, I will not call backups with it to Google Drive simple. If anything, they might be very confusing.

I wonder is Stephan meant Google Storage instead...

UPDATE: Just read that is uses "appdata" directory. Mom and dad will not 'see' the data.
My read was they they aren't switching over everything - they are testing new drives, to figure out what reliability looks like.

Once the cost curve costs over, they will then know which vendors drives to go all in on.
Because they contract out the handling of payment processing to a bank.
Despite all the tools being available, none of those social pressure effects came into play 25 years ago.

Even worse, the few people who ran pbbs'es who felt like gatekeepering and filtering generally made things worse rather than better. The usual social effect of only giving power to the extremists with the strongest feelings.

There wasn't much if any problems 25 yrs ago on pbbs systems that would be fixed by cryptographic identity proofs. In fact I can't remember a problem like that ever having happened.

The very problem with the 1000s of years thing is the "tribe" 8000 years ago was like 10-100 people, but the "tribe" on the worldwide pbbs network got to tens of thousands and collapsed as it expanded. So the "solution" to "fix" multiple small stable current day subnetworks is to merge and interop them together until there's one big tribe that naturally will collapse just like pbbs behavior, or for that matter landline modem bbs behavior or usenet or many other examples.

The fundamental problem of using computers as socialization tools is their tech scales with tribe size a lot better than interpersonal relationships. And it doesn't seem to vary much with culture unlike virtually everything else. It may be a truth there is no way to have a stable "tribe" of 100K users, no matter what technology may permit.
It's something that everyone knows to pay lip service to, in the same way that everyone pays lip service to being "green." But are you going to say with a straight face that environmentalists are in a position of power?
Yes, and some of our most brilliant minds probably had ancestry that was the product of forced rape. End still doesn't justify the means.
You said exactly what I was trying to point out. I wouldn't put sunblock on my daughter or myself for <20min exposure. That just seems extreme. When I apply it, we're heading out for hours, or all day.

This also doesn't account for skin variances. We're extremely fair-skinned and burn easily. There is no way, even through clothing coverage, I would risk the possible burns that I've seen other children have.
You're not listening. It's not happening ocassionally. It's one of the major drivers of relationship genesis. You may knee-jerk deny it and be inappropriate in your response as much as you want.
I take it he lives in a country where one is required?
That's a reasonable generalization, but certainly isn't the original form.
Understanding the hot hand, the myth of the hot hand, and the myth of the myth
They clearly have the power to cause trouble for tech companies. Witness Pax Dickinson, Julie Horvath, and various other incidents.

It just makes (selfish) sense for Altman to try to appease them. It's bad for the industry - showing weakness will encourage more behavior of this type. (Think about why they are targeting a bunch of unlikeable low status geeks.) But it's good for YC to encourage them to target others
> Is there a reason why all USB sockets - including these
> new diagrams - have a feeble looking centre part rather
> than it being part of the outer ring?

The outer part is the RF shield. That increases reliability by protecting the low voltage (but high frequency) USB data signals from coupling to outside interference (50/60 hz stray emf from power lines, switching power supply noise, etc). The magsafe connectors are just pulling power so don't really need that level of shielding.
As someone who doesn't know, how do we design decent locks? Which locks use the decent design?
there's also a 'leadership' chart:

White 64%

Asian 21%

Hispanic 6%

Black 3%

Undeclared 6%
Does this come from the fact that most "computer nerds" spend their lives (whether by choice or 'lot in life') in pure isolation (if not physically then mentally)? In other words, does this void of 'sociality' in their life lead them to completely lack sympathy, empathy, and general kindness towards others? And does our tech environment (that encourages that lifestyle) also 'justify' that this mentality is not only okay but actually right. And by 'environment' I am not referring to the things we like to say (e.g. "Change the world", "put more diversity in the workplace(world)", etc.) but by the things we do (e.g. only hiring people that really are a lot like ourselves, if not just like ourselves).
It'd be cool with a laptop, but it'll require an extra 20 watts (typical for a ~22" screen) to be sized into the laptop's power brick. Since laptops have pretty predictable power characteristics, the manufacturers don't necessarily give you that much extra.

Would we upsize everybody's power cord on the off chance that 1% of people would use it? Or does "bigger power brick" become another configurable option, and users have to decide in advance if they'll want display powering capabilities? Neither one's a good option, in my opinion.

More likely we'd end up with a separate class of monitor, something limited in size and with a lower maximum power draw. At which point I'd rather just deal with the power cord and get a real screen for my desk. But frequent travelers who want an accessory screen would love it.
Just because you care about something, it doesn't mean it belongs to hacker news. Otherwise, let the porn stuff begin.
That depends. The data segregates into "tech" and "non-tech", but doesn't seem to define these terms well. If tech is taken to mean mostly programmers and engineers then you would expect these to be clustered around Cupertino, in which case (based on pure demographics) you would expect more hispanics and less whites. If you are including people like geniuses at retail stores then perhaps it would break down differently depending on how these stores are distributed around the US.
The anonymity in that article doesn't help. It doesn't matter how much money you have the kind of behavior described in that article is unacceptable. I like to think that the majority of technologists and entrepreneurs are humanists and they are in it to make the world a better place. I also like to think that if the article wasn't anonymous there would be non-violent collective action to make it known in no uncertain terms that kind of behavior is unacceptable from anyone.
Honestly, much of this wouldn't irritate me so much if silicon valley weren't so emphatic that there is a critical shortage of software engineers that requires special consideration.

Could it be that one of the many reasons that other segments of the economy aren't experiencing a labor shortage is that they don't discard people at age 35?
Doesn't look at all like lightning connector :)
On purpose. Bad photographers break rules they don't know exist. Good photographers break rules on purpose, in very specific ways, to achieve a very specific effect.
You have provided neither the evidence nor the logic that could guide us towards your extraordinary claim that it is "preposterous" that most of the investors YC works with aren't harassing women.
I stopped using backblaze when I learned that they require you to TRANSMIT YOUR PRIVATE KEY TO THEIR SERVER in order to restore your files from backup.
Robin Williams on Entrepreneurship:What will your Verse be?
Stop.Mocking.Everything
Sexually frustrated neck beards

Source that this is the typical YC investor? Pretty sure this is an inaccurate generalization.
This will be interesting, and its needed to keep up with the evolving use of USB. The downside is that once this is everywhere you will be keeping a drawer full of USB adapters (kind of like those USB/PS2 keyboard adapters that are everywhere, or DVI/VGA)
Judging from its (current) grayness this seems to be a much derided point of view on HN. Why? In a previous comment Livingstone was quoted as saying this is a rare problem in (I assume) YC investor circles. Why put out a direct message like this then?

Some here have argued that it is useful because it makes things unambiguous and simple. I think the people who condone and/or engage this behavior (e.g. the kinds that are exemplified in the Forbes article) don't do so because they don't know any better or because "the rules of engagement" were not clearly stated in this regard.

So I think at least part of the motivation behind putting out a message like this explicitly, rather than including in, say, an investor legal agreement, has to be the desire to preempt allegations based on this point.
I think you'd have to look at qualified candidates in that percentage. Only then would you be able to look at the percentages directly.
But I have seen many recruiters/companies treat a 5-6 year PhD as the equivalent of 1-2 years of industry experience.
Likely because they keep deleting stuff which is difficult in cold storage. They keep stuff for 30-days after you delete it.

https://www.backblaze.com/remote-backup-everything.html

> Backblaze will keep versions of a file that changes for up to 30 days. However, Backblaze is not designed as an additional storage system when you run out of space. Backblaze mirrors your drive. If you delete your data, it will be deleted from Backblaze after 30 days.
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One day there may be a VC that only interacts with potential investments through the internet where no age, gender, height, orientation, religion, etc. is ever disclosed, both by the investor and investees. The only information to go off of would be the product/service, the business plan, and the integrity of the idea. Funny how this hasn't really caught on yet...
tl;dr - the bottleneck to alleviating brain toxins right now is informational

To me standard 60 is insufficient. I would be happy to pay for extra testing to my water, or rather the additives used. I think many people would.

While we're on the topic of toxins for brain, I would also be happy to know more about the emf generated by smart meters, cell phone towers, and wireless equipment. But mainly smart meters. If I had one installed, I'd want very accurate readings of what is being emitted and when. Also vaccines.

The message is simple: "government/corporation: feel free to do whatever you want to my air, food, water, emf spectrum and blood that you believe or purport to be in my best interests (you already do).... but I want to know precisely and accurately what it is you're doing, changing and adding to it. I can be driven to do this for no reason, any reason, false reasons or accurate reasons. And whatever reason that may be, you'll have to accept it because you are the one tampering with long-standing internal and external ecosytems to which mine (and others') body and mind have adapted over millenia."

From there, I would either want the choice to opt-out, and if I cannot or it is not possible, then I can look for legal, political or economic (boycott) routes to address the problems I find, which could include the need for even greater informational transparency than the ones being offered.
The current desktop client runs atop a JVM
Correct. Original link:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=cRYvK4jb

"OP" here is just mirroring (presumably for increased traffic) instead of linking to the true OP on pastebin.
Not just the physical space, but also the power and cooling and serving requirements might tip the balance in favour of a higher upfront cost, but lower lifetime cost.
It's only a racket if you assume that nobody cheats on their taxes. If that were the case we'd never need to have audits.
I'm super white, and I barely wear sunscreen. I put some on the other day for a 4hr river float.. But I spent a full day fishing the river yesterday; in direct sun, no sunscreen in 90 degree heat and I'm only mildly burned.

I remember burning a lot worse when I was a teenager.. But I think it had something to do with drinking Mt. Dew all the time. I've pretty much entirely removed high fructose corn syrup from my diet. I eat fruit for my sugar fix more often these days. I also supplement vitamin-d now, perhaps that also has something to do with it? This is all just anecdotal, but perhaps if you burn quickly and easily you should take a look at your diet.
You should hire young ... but not to get the best technical ability. You should hire young because we older developers, while being technically superior to our younger colleagues, don't want to put up with your bullshit.

I've been on enough projects that can best be described as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic that I don't put up with management dropping the ball. The challenge for more experienced developers is to recognize when some extra individual effort would actually save the project and also be compensated, without getting burned on another fucked project.

In every software company I've worked at there's been no feedback loop for poor management tighter than project failure, or ultimately company failure -- but that takes a long time. Also, it can be attributed to many confounding factors by bosses who are less than self-aware.
No one ever addresses the f__ked up lives that we (neck-beards, semi-down syndrome havers and others... normals) have. Flocked together, left alone to make the best out of the situation. Welcome to the real IT, enjoy!
Haha, yep, pretty much.

If you can't be part of the solution, there's plenty of money to be made being part of the problem.
The weirdest is other countries where it'll be on the CV. Along with gender, ethnicity, religion, marital status, number of children(including their ages and names sometime) and a photo.

Its really uncomfortable since we're not supposed to use any of that.
gov.uk is practically unique in been a successful public facing government development project.

The people behind it are incredibly talented, they have a blog here https://gds.blog.gov.uk/

It's almost like if you get together a talented team of people, give them a clear brief and scope and then let them use whatever tools they need you end up with a good product at the end...

Also good https://digitaltransformation.blog.gov.uk/

Also interesting https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile/index.html which is their manual for providing digital services.