skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. According to Oracle there are approximately 9 million Java developers in the world, and since Java is the enterprise programming language, an awful lot of them are working 8-5 in a cubicle.
Capitalism has a way of weeding out bad ideas. I say go for it and see if there is interest.

FYI for that use case, most companies (mine included) use SAML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Langu...)

In specific, we use SAML to have our internal AAA LDAP infrastructure validate logins for a few cloud services such as workday and attask.

Might be worth looking at saas (saml as a service :D) as well.

Edit: This company does SSO with SAML 100% and they support pretty much all of the big apps you'd expect. http://www.onelogin.com/partners/partner-up/
Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8236748
There is. There are a number of programs (I know Johnson and Johnson has one for example) to get males into nursing not to mention the ridiculous number of male only scholarships for nursing: https://www.discovernursing.com/scholarships#requirements=ma...
It's a loaded question. How do people develop interest in a subject? What road-blocks do they encounter from a young age through school and entering the workplace? I've not seen any study that suggests given similar influences women are less interested in technology than men.
Good.

Dont know if i'll still be using PHP in 5 years, but I think PHP team is trying hard to turn the language around and bring some sanity to the project. PHP7 ,the next version will be an important step in the right direction.
When looking at your site, i realized how important the video is - it provides comprehensive explanation, especially when considering the product complexity. Anyway that's from June so I guess you've done a lot of progress since then.
I'm well aware of BAM and BGZF. I've even written a parser or two (yay double encoded binary formats). I really like the BGZF format and think it doesn't get used enough outside of sequencing. It's basically gzip frames with enough information to allow random access within the compressed stream. And tabix is a great way to efficiently index otherwise unindexable text files.

However, these are all binary formats. I specifically said that you shouldn't sort genome files in text format. Because while text is easy to parse, binary is faster for this. You aren't going to use any of the standard unix tools once you've crossed over into binary formats. And so you are stuck using domain specific tools. Stuff like http://ngsutils.org (shameless plug).

I have seen people write tools for parsing SAM files using unix core utils, but they are always orders of magnitude slower than a good BAM-specific tool (in almost any language).
The C++ snippet is very true.

That's the important thing, it's ok to try to solve it yourself but also to raise a flag. Funny thing, I had a C++ thing I didn't understand and had to ask around (yeah, const_iterator ftw!)
I think there are really two questions here.

1) How much of an existential threat really existed? This question can be answered by looking through the vast archives of Soviet-era information which has now been made publicly available. I'm not an expert, but I'd say it's a mixed answer--the capability for total destruction really did exist, and there were some close calls [1]. But the USSR was a lot less interested in killing everyone than folks in the U.S. thought. Which brings me to the second question:

2) How much did people in the U.S. feel that they faced an existential threat? Note that this is not the same thing as what the threat actually objectively was. I lived through the end of the Cold War (born in the mid-1970s), and I can tell you that most Americans did in fact feel deep unease and fear. More importantly, they felt that the USSR was an equal opponent--a powerful nation that the U.S. did not and could not dominate.

Following the end of the Cold War, that feeling went away. Once the USSR dissolved, and Russia went through hard economic times, the self-perception of American citizens was that we were the "last superpower" or "sole superpower"--a nation that could not be seriously threatened by anything on Earth.

This self-perception persists today. In fact I think it has become a serious source of angst, as many Americans perceive we are "slipping" because we can't dominate every situation we want to (examples: Syria, Lybia, Ukraine, China).

But IMO the reality is that our dominant position has simply been a temporary blip in our long history as one of several equal international powers.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/the...
This is all sick in it's own way, but it's not capitalism. Why do people equate every system in which someone makes a profit with capitalism?
But not unfixable, as proved by Facebook.
Will Avocode improve the current workflow of web development if not why?
Why don't you write journalism about the lack of men in nursing? I seriously doubt you're as interested as the lack of men in X if the only time you bring it up is when the lack of woman in Y is being discussed.

Now, I'd guess it is more desired since CS/IT/Software Engineering is being promoted a lot by big companies and what not.
Ok, maybe the problem is that I am already avoiding the large objects, mutable state and threads in my mainstream OOP language code. I am also applying the idempotence where applicable.
It may be science, but its pretty soft. Clearly the only things at work here are wind and friction (discounting demons, crop circles etc). What's left could be an exercise left to the reader.

So ok, these guys are 'the reader' and do the legwork. Where can it go? Its not basic or fundamental research; its applicable only to 'rocks on a flat surface'; there aren't a whole lot of places where this will ever be reproduced.

That was what I was asking about: other than the novel circumstance what's to be gained? Got interpreted as anti-science.
> This is what happened at Twitter - when the government came after them because they were getting hacked too often, Twitter went out and hired 'real' programmers and got things working. That's something that gets missed a lot in the 'startup story'.

I'm sorry, but this is just silly. Dealing with hackers does not make you a "real" programmer. It just makes you a programmer with special expertise in a very particular and narrow aspect of programming - dealing with hackers. It's a niche skill and doesn't necessarily translate into prowess in other areas. Startups need eager, polyglot programmers who are willing to get their hands dirty, learn on the job, and deal with the uncertainty you wouldn't normally have to worry about in a large, stable company.
Isn't that literally a core principal of Python? They enforce all kind of coding styles within the language, not the mention all the PEPs.
Agreed. The sanity started coming around circa 5.4 and has been increasing rapidly. The variadic operators will cut down on the number of lame func_get_args() hacks I have to write in my RESTful routing code :)
Why would a car of the future be using an old tech like gas? Surely it will be electric.
That also dramatically reduces the value of lambdas. Without that limitation then they work as anonymous blocks of any complexity.
There is, you probably just don't hear about it since you're not in the nursing field.
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Your statement is a little confusing...are you saying women look down on other women for going into math/engineering or men look down on women?
This is just not true. Being overweight or obese significantly increases all cause mortality. Here's a study where they followed 527,265 people for 10 years:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa055643#t=articleR...

"During a maximum follow-up of 10 years through 2005, 61,317 participants (42,173 men and 19,144 women) died. Initial analyses showed an increased risk of death for the highest and lowest categories of BMI among both men and women, in all racial or ethnic groups, and at all ages. When the analysis was restricted to healthy people who had never smoked, the risk of death was associated with both overweight and obesity among men and women. In analyses of BMI during midlife (age of 50 years) among those who had never smoked, the associations became stronger, with the risk of death increasing by 20 to 40 percent among overweight persons and by two to at least three times among obese persons; the risk of death among underweight persons was attenuated."
Yes, Erlang is pretty much a domain-specific language for reliable distributed computation. With all the pluses and minuses of DSLs.
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Lunchtime hack: My cycling routes
A couple of minutes Googling leads to this article http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/768914_1 which links to American Assembly of Men in Nursing, which is doing just what you say. Also has interesting notes on how nursing came to be female-dominated and what steps might be taken to change that.
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> This is all sick in it's own way, but it's not capitalism.

In the same way that the USSR wasn't communism. Does that matter if it's the result when you don't just deal with spherical humans in a vacuum?
Talks about unknown traffic lights possibly being a problem. But if all cars were self driving would there even be a need for traffic lights?

> If it encountered an unmapped traffic light, and there were no cars or pedestrians around, the car could run a red light simply because it wouldn’t know the light was there.

So the car determined it was safe to cross and crossed? I don't see the problem. The red light is for humans, but a self driving car will know where the other cars are and know when to cross an intersection.

You could argue the reverse even. A self driving car comes to a traffic light that is green but detects a fast moving car running the red, it would stop. But a human might not and continue on thinking green is ok.
Doesn't bother me 'so much'; just enough to spend 30 seconds typing the question. Other than scale the 'science' involved was small. My Aunt left an axe resting in the crotch of a tree 30 years ago; last year the wind broke the tree in half where the axe had grown into the trunk. Anybody going to run out there and calculate all the forces involved, the tensile strength of that tree, the minimum wind required to accomplish the break? Is this 'science' any different than rocks on a flat surface?
The very fact this article is talking about government and business in symbiosis means the author doesn't understand the word 'Capitalism'.

When big business are in cahoots with government, to good or bad effect (usually bad) it's Corporatism, not Capitalism.
As a recent graduate who is actively looking for a job, this is an eye opener. Many thanks to the author for explaining what really happens in "Start-up life".

What really struck me was the "full-stack rock star hacker" part. As someone who has little to no experience in commercial software engineering and then sees this phrase on many start up roles (includes ninjas and gurus), it really sets an image that start up work is only for the incredibly bright individuals who know it all.

I also believe some of the unrealistic expectations start ups have are one of the major reasons why they fail. [0] "Rome wasn't built in a day".

Working long hours goes with the kind of person you are. 80 hour work weeks may be productive for some people whilst others perform better with 37 hour work weeks (or less). We are all different. Some athletes are born marathon runners, whilst others are natural short distance sprinters. I think this is where most start-ups also get it wrong and its also something that contributes to their failures. Long hours once in a while is fine as long as you are compensated for it.

Media is also a major contributor to what start ups should be like. As mentioned in the article, you only hear about major acquisitions, huge crowd funding campaign success, and crazy company valuations. But its a lot less common to hear about the failures of start-ups, people burning out before their first product release. Why does media never cover these failures?

As much as I would like to join a start-up or even start one, I will continue looking for work at small-medium companies and big companies first, get good experience first and still a personal life outside work. I guess its different for other people, but I value work/life balance and I also think its the key to having a successful career, be it entrepreneurial or employee based.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_wasn%27t_built_in_a_day
3 Part BBC Documentary "I Bought a Rainforest"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0461lhs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046td9n

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047h528 ( Farming / Burning Land )
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XorNot's being downvoted a lot, and if it's for having an unpopular opinion, one gets to be a victimized martyr screaming out truth in a sea of groupthink. If it's because a lack of reasoning or justification within arguments completely based in innuendo and sarcasm, then the downvotes are deserved.

Which would you choose, if you were forced to rationalize yourself rather than change your behavior?
I looked at SAML, it's a possible addition to the service. It may be touchy to integrate (opensaml-java), but definitely doable.
My understanding is you don't "qualify" for rent control in SF. You automatically get it when you move into a building built before 1979.

Then the landlord can only increase rent (as a general rule) by about 1% per year.

So there are people living in 4 bedroom homes in the middle of the best parts of the Mission paying $1000 a month in rent where market rate would be between $6000-8000.
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Absolutely. Because people and their motivations are actionable.
Don't know why this is being downvoted. It's important for scientists to use the correct, well-established terms when discussing their research. This is most true for formal publications.

Velocity is a vector quantity--it describes a directional rate of change. Speed is the magnitude of the velocity. When they use the term velocity, they mean speed. For example, even in the abstract:

"along trajectories determined by the direction and velocity of the wind"

Velocity has a direction! The use of direction in this sentence is redundant to anyone that has had a college level physics course. This trend of using "velocity" instead of "speed" continues through the entire paper. I find this very upsetting.

Of course, it may seem pedantic, but good science is pedantic.

I'm surprised that it made it through peer-review like this.
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HN won't let me respond to your last comment, but I think that's a reasonable plan. Using LDAP directly over the internet in general sounds like a bit of a risky proposition. Perhaps do both that and SAML, then you make everyone happy. Again, good luck, I hope I was able to help you firm up your ideas.
I've worked for both startups and big companies. Both suck. Big companies have more money and process. Small companies have more flexibility but almost no process.

So, for example, if I work for massive XYZ bank, it's most likely that no code is going to get promoted without being thoroughly tested, discussed, multiple meetings and approvals, and then implemented by an actual team of people in charge of making sure the servers don't break. Of course, this means that it takes a LONG time to promote even simple changes and there is a world of politics involved with a bunch of agendas.

If I work for startup XYZ, I can promote right to prod without anyone asking what I'm doing or why I'm doing it at 3 pm in the afternoon. Of course, that also means several other developers might be doing the same thing. Your manager might be pushing code that breaks your code, and then telling the founders it was you.

For me, neither is good, but at least in a big company I get paid more, there is a structure in place that people have to follow (in general) and I can spend my free time working on my own projects. In a small company, you ARE the company but just like with the big company, you don't actually own anything...you are just on call all of the time and are paid less.

I have friends who prefer startups, it really boils down to which things you value more.
Pascal, in general, was an amazing language. Simple to understand, compiled to native code - honestly the only complaint you could now (with FreePascal) make about the language is that it is a little "wordy."

Much the same as D - which was my initial thought when I read "friendly C." We already have a friendly C.
PHP version is now 5.6 ;)

Timing is obviously everything.
SHAMELESS PLUG: I do sell the FlashForge printers, which can be found here: http://shop3duniverse.com/collections/flashforge-printers

I'm posting this only because I think it's a legitimate answer to an important question... Is there an affordable printer that prints as well as (or better than) a MakerBot?

I have been using the FlashForge Creator and Creator X to make 3D printed prosthetic devices, and I'm thrilled with the quality. All of the photos and videos I have on my blog at 3duniverse.org were printed on the Creator or Creator X printers. I'd say these printers print better than the MakerBots, which we've been testing side-by-side.

The FlashForge printers range in price from $977 for the original Creator to $1349 for the latest Creator Pro. The printers come fully assembled and include two full spools of filament.

But note that I only started selling them after falling in love with them through hundreds of hours of direct hands-on experience with them. I haven't yet found another printer on the market that has better price/performance value.
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Chrome had full time engineers fairly quickly. Externally I saw Google pull back resources that were working full time on Firefox and hired several engineers that were Mozilla experts Ben G., Doron, WTC.
Man, I don't understand anything about SF housing :p At that point, the landlords should be putting all their places on AirBNB themselves! Or arranging for tenants to sublet at market rates and taking a cut under the table, to reduce their chance of being exposed a bit.
That would be an interesting cultural change.

Maybe startups would fare better if they exchanged "passion" and sleep-deprivation for competence, even with having to pay extra for said competence?

What prevents them from doing this (or do we just not hear about it here)? Do VCs not approve of the shape risk would be distributed in (even if their share ends up smaller in absolute terms)? Would it never work because of a culture clash with the sort of people who found startups (if you've convinced yourself you've "got religion" over some business idea, will you want to work with people who are openly just in it for the money)?
How to Promote Your Newly Founded Startup
From the link you shared:
> It is not married with a particular technology

Except that from what I can tell jQuery is bundled by default...
Additionally, Reddit's crowdsourced liveblog has more sources but no map. http://www.reddit.com/live/3rgnbke2rai6hen7ciytwcxadi
Roughly speaking, the nurse saw that my wife was fat and therefore inferred that she must be diabetic. She saw the blood and assumed that my wife was suffering skin lesions from said diabetes.

My wife informed said nurse about the stabbing. The nurse, like anyone who has performed tech support, is aware that people lie about what happened. Furthermore, diabetes is fairly common while stab wounds are relatively rare. She decided that the probability of my wife suffering from a stab wound and not being diabetic was less than the probability of my wife being an embarrassed diabetic who made up a story about being stabbed. She therefore stuck with her original hypothesis and worked from there.
The users password acts as a symmetric key. It is never sent to the server, but a hashed copy is sent to the server for authentication, which is then rehashed and stored in the DB.

The users private key is AES encrypted with the password as key and sent to the server for storage. A JSON hash of their contacts is also encrypted in the same way and sent to the server for storage.
Nothing apart from shipping costs (which may be equal to the price of the phone) and handling payments (which includes trusting people). There's probably a "Raspberry Pi like" market for such devices.

This device does seem deficient in (at least) two respects though - a 2MP camera and the absence of 3G. So I don't see non-enthusiasts from other countries really flocking to this one (or the other one from Spice launching tomorrow).

P.S.: I'm in India and could send a few across, although I have no idea how much it would cost to ship, the shipping duration, reliability of delivery, insurance costs, etc. Overall, worldwide shipping from one country to another at a personal level is somewhat painful.
Leap Motion sets a course for VR
Yes, I was having issues myself reading the site. The text might benefit from a black border, really anything to keep it from getting lost in the images.
Plus, security of the software is more about company priorities then about some real vs unreal programmer differences. It requires repeated code reviews with focus on security, it requires occasional penetration testing and it is often in conflict with speed of development.

Startups often simply do not have time and money for it. (Big companies are often unwilling to pay for it, so their software ends up equally vulnerable.)
The Wake Up Call
You might get the impression that the author studied engineering ("I studied engineering, not English...") or perhaps computer science ("...graduated at the top of my class in computer science...") whereas a quick look at his LinkedIn profile shows that he studied Management Information Systems[0] which, as far as I can tell, is a non-degree along the same lines as "Marketing" or "Media and Journalism" i.e. light on technical skills and heavy on jargon and buzzwords.

[0] http://www.smeal.psu.edu/scis/mis-undergrad
in general anything coming from a php developer should be ignored. even reading official php documentation when it comes to anything concerning security should scare the shit out of grandmothers everywhere.
I'm definitely not advocating forcing your friends to support you. I've just found you can tell who your real friends are when they support you without you having to ask twice. They're usually your biggest fans whether or not they try your product.
Can't comment on ease of use yet, but these animations are amazingly smooth on my computer and my phone, even when stacked and applied to a screen full of elements. Will definitely try this out.
I've talked to CEOs that make offers focused on the number of shares / $ amount. They were happy to reveal the total size of the pool, when asked. I think if they didn't, that'd be an issue.
I need to work at Twitter. I am a complete night owl and always push the limits of acceptable lateness at my corporate programming job.
I often hear this kind of argumentation and I frankly don't buy it.

When businesses are in cahoots with each other it's called cartels.

Lets not pretend there is some pure version of capitalism that isn't tied to some special interest.
is it possible to do

#define lambda []

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