skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my not-a-good-designer opinion, Trey's page makes a mistake with the high-contrast, heavily shadowed photo and the darkness of the background.

UX people should step in to correct me if needed: to me it feels that a human face trumps about everything else on a webpage; the attention shoots to it and our sensibilities adjust to the lighting on the face. That leaves me sitting in a small dark box looking out of a round hole, and the lighting/contrast information from the coffee video gets rejected as incoherent.

It was actually quite interesting to have the two of them to compare.

I hope you have taken him up on his offer of coffee! It would be the gentlemanly thing to do.
Not sure if I've done something wrong here. I've feel like I've been downvoted a few times for innocent remarks.

(I think we are agreeing!)

What should I have said / done?
I personally think it depends and here is why:

For me University was my biggest mistake ever and if I could turn the clock around, I would not go to university. It took my most energetic and creative years and put them into useless work. I spent 6 years in University because I started in a terrible one and had to leave and go to Canada to get better education and still I think the University that I went to was terrible and ended up eating all my money, energy and time for a completely useless degree that no one even cares about. My degree was in Software Engineering and I believe if it was something else, it would have been 10 times worse. Maybe I could have used University to build a great Network but due to my introvert nature, I don't think I have succeeded and besides the city where I was in had an ok network.

So all that to say that it depends in my opinion:
If you are an introvert and your goal is to be a doctor, a lawyer, a physicist or a researcher or anything similar then University is a great choice. If you are however an introvert and only care about making cool stuffs then be prepared that school will take most of your time and energy and put it into something that has no value or meaning.
If you are an extrovert and your goal is to be an entrepreneur then take a major that doesn’t require much work and spend your time building networks and making stuffs.

That’s the way I see it, I may be wrong but my personal life experience has led me to believe that.
You see, this is saying "women are more social". You didn't say it, but the next step is "Women are equally good to men about programming, plus they have the advantage of being social". Which makes me wonder:

- As a man, am I just less clever?

- Where will my job go, if women are apt to take over all our management jobs since they're smarter in relationships and equally good at technical stuff?

- We all agree it's extremely bad when we hear: "Ah no, women aren't clever enough for programming", so what about the opposite?

- Personnaly I have a terrible lack of confidence when it comes to certain tasks. When women experience it, we help them overcome it. Can someone help me also, even though I'm a man?

Stereotyping women on being more social is just unfair, because while we think this way, we fail to see something positive in men.

Edit: You're allowed to downvote, yes, but it would work on excluding me. If you want to do something good to society and something inclusive, you could rather add a comment attaching positive stigma to men, because we rarely hear positive things about men, and that's probably a key cornerstone of the resistence to helping women more.
This is wrong. Most tech companies find it difficult or impossible to meet their current hiring needs. There are already slots left empty.
The puzzle is not figuring out how to log in. You get an invite, then you get the challenges: http://i.imgur.com/xtCdf94.png

They are story problems. The first one is cycle detection for a singly-linked list. After solving that, you can request another (time remaining is reset). In the math category, its a subset sum problem: http://pastebin.com/SEZXhKHY
>There is no evil cabal of men trying to keep us out. The vast majority of men in the CS world are falling all over themselves trying to cater to women.

I'm not saying there's an evil cabal. To the contrary, nearly all of sexism is subconscious. There are a few people that consciously hate women. We call these people misogynists. Most people are sexist. Most people are not, however, misogynists. And falling over themselves trying to cater to women? Why is it, then, that when Jeff Atwood posted his "What Men Can Do" article, and was called out by feminists for mansplaining, (and Mr. Atwood himself was very deliberately sexist in the comments to boot) that the feminists were viciously attacked by a sea of technically oriented white men?

>What are you basing that on?

Why do you think there are fewer women in STEM fields to begin with? Because they genuinely aren't capable? No, it's because from a very early age most people who are born female are forced into the female gender role. Males are forced into the typical male gender role. And yes, the female gender role includes low self esteem and male dependance.

>As long as we refuse to acknowledge reality, that will never happen. We have more power in society than men. We elect the government, we set the agenda, the laws are catered to us. Men still haven't even escaped from basic gender norms.

So you make the claim that women have more power in society than men, but go on to claim that you singlehandedly elect the government, set the agenda, AND cater the laws to yourself? Then why exactly is the country in the process of taking a very anti-feminist approach to reproductive rights? Why is government so male dominated? Why are so many fields dominated by one gender, be it male or female? Putting aside the fact that you don't quite understand what gender roles/norms are, is it not concerning to you that government is an extremely male dominated field and yet you believe you're in power?

You also seem to imply that I identify as female. I do not.
Not a watt in sight. What magnitude of energy per cubic volume are they dealing with? Energy per weight? Most articles like this make moderately vacuous claims about applications like powering a chip that cures a disease. I complain about that, but then to not have any inkling of practical implications and no link to articles??
Definitely. Factory machinery without belt or blade guards. Horse-related injuries. What cars there were had no seat belts or safety glass. Lots of super-toxic patent medicines. Flotation devices for small boats almost unheard of. Baseball without batting helmets. Lots more.
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Skills Matter: Safe, Zero-cost Coercions in Haskell
I don't keep millions of links to every random thing I've ever read handy.
OpenGL rendering for LibreOffice 4.4
It makes sense if you can gather the skills necessary previously to start working a developer right out of mandated schooling. If you continue on your current path, you'll have 4+ years of developer experience and a network of business professionals for finding your next gig should you need it.

And who knows, maybe you'll make good money for four or five years as a developer, and then decide that you'd rather be an accountant, or lawyer, or do something else professionally - and go to school for that thing. And if you do, you'll be the prime candidate wherever you go - because when you combine the developer skill set with another industry skill set, it is like having cheat-mode enabled.
Does it not occur to you that they find it difficult because they are subconsciously ignoring worthy female candidates?
A useful tip: Most PCB entry programs let you enter coordinate locations of parts and pads by hand, allowing for exact duplication of an existing layout.
Yes, one could assume all sorts of things based on misconceptions (women were more prevalent in CS back then, not less). But assuming evidence is wrong because we don't like it isn't particularly convincing.
If there's timing information leaked by the implementation then non-deterministic interference by things like GC pauses (CPU load, network traffic, etc) are noise that raises the work effort of the attack but does not in general make it impossible. This is why "introduce a random sleep" is a terrible defense to a timing attack. Statistics doesn't care about the cause of the variability, if there are samples coming from different populations it can detect that.
McLuhan:

> Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and evolve ever new forms.
I guess you could call it dual-primary - I'm quite evenly split between Fedora and Windows.

I like Fedora because my work runs RHEL on its VMs and it is easy to have the two set up similarly. I like the package manager and the overall configuration of packages. The workflow is good and I love the power of a proper CLI.

Windows: For games (there's just not enough for Linux yet despite Valve's push), Visual Studio, Office (Libre/OpenOffice just doesn't quite work as well IMHO) and the Adobe suite.
The trend has certainly been toward more "outdoor" style malls, like Santana Row here in the SF Bay Area or the Shops at Wiregrass in my former home of Tampa. But I suspect there are a couple major factors in the Dead Mall phenomenon that this article doesn't really touch on.

First, whenever a region is seriously overbuilding residential space they're usually also seriously overbuilding retail space. In Florida, the overbuilding of retail seemed to come first in some instances. When the retail spaces are big shopping centers, there's an awfully good chance they're going to start cannibalizing one another. The worst case scenario -- which I saw happen in Florida more than once -- isn't that all the customers leave Mall A for Mall B, but that the customers are split between Mall A and Mall B and neither mall ends up successful.

Second, it doesn't seem to me that "anchor tenants" are as important now as they once were, and the malls that are most in trouble are the ones that were organized with the assumption you were really there to go Macy's or Nordstrom's and the other stores would survive on your impulse buys as you walked between the department stores and the parking lot. Santana Row here -- and to some degree Tampa's International Plaza, which is a mix of indoor and outdoor -- have fashioned themselves less as shopping destinations than entertainment destinations. The best way to avoid having a dead zone around a closed department store is to not have -- or need -- a department store.
You're comment is nonsensical. Women compose 12% of recent CS graduates. Even if all of these women are as good as the top quarter of men, they would still be outnumbered nearly 2 to 1 for a given job. If we wanted to reach equality by your standard, the industry would have to fire men (not fill the slots) while simultaneously hiring every woman in sight.
Yea, I was wondering where I had heard of Groupon before recently - I assumed that it was due to some of their shady business practices hitting the news - and realized that these were the same guys that sent a recruitment email about a junior Rails dev position to David Heinemeier Hansson.
We can see the same problems in the psychology profession, with a 80-20 distribution in the work environment, and classrooms that often has over 90% female students.

To quote nytimes: Some college psychology programs cannot even attract male applicants, much less students. And at many therapists’ conferences, attendees with salt-and-pepper beards wander the hallways as lonely as peaceniks at a gun fair.

It seems eerily familiar, and the reports from male student feeling excluded seems to echo the exact same statement we can find in the tech profession from female students.

What is not similar in the article is how the tech profession look at the result from gender distribution. The nytime article states that: the impact on the value of therapy is negligible. A good therapist is a good therapist, male or female, and a mediocre one is a mediocre one.
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People are very friendly if you're friendly to them. That's at least been my experience everywhere I go.

Break down those barriers! Just walk up to random people and try to find out what makes them tick. It will expand your horizons and make your life more interesting.

Stop making excuses about some perceived need to have an "excuse" and just be friendly to your neighbors. We'll all benefit.
Cool. I wanted to find someone to talk at https://operatingsystems.io/ about the OS bits (obviously there are lots of bits to it) - its a bit late now for 2 weeks time but if you know anyone appropriate put then in touch for next time... email in profile.
Imposter syndrome was felt by 50% of my colleagues when I left an awesome startup who insisted on the programmer-hero culture. Not gender-related.
Yep. For almost everything I do I can use the Samsung Chromebook (2012 model) actually which is under $200 if you look. It is light, long battery life, Linux 'installation' (Crouton uses the ChromeOS kernel, you're not installing a total distro) is a few minutes work and always works with all hardware supported (because ChromeOS does). Besides the bad ARM support of some software (missing GHCi...) it is perfect.

I use my macbook for iOS coding next to it when needed.
Or, the labor market in both tech and law is working perfectly rationally. Tech labor market barrier to entry > law industry labor market barrier to entry.
Cool, put them in touch (see post above).
I'm not suggesting that in the least. Hiring more women is easy. Hiring 50% women is EXTREMELY difficult, if not impossible at this point.

But that doesn't mean that the solution is to do nothing.

The solution is to higher more women and at the same time taking steps to destroy the gender roles that stop them from going into STEM fields and encouraging them to join STEM fields.
I suspect that any urban architecture trend has a limited lifespan--maybe 20 years or so.

This isn't so much "death of the mall" per se, as death (and replacement) of 80s-era malls.
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Those are really smart ideas. Can you buy any dead malls cheap enough to try some of those things?
This is somewhat off topic, but since you mentioned it and I rarely see anyone into such things: I have a Korg Triton Extreme with a dodgy joystick (it gets stuck on the pitch bend), how easy a job do you think that would be to fix?
Thanks! I used Knockout.js on the client-side. The server is pretty simple, so it's just Express.
Just google "python lambda" and wait.
Ask HN: Which mathematics subject should I base my book's plot on?
I'm about to resume my book project I had to stop in 2008. The plot is about a journalist unraveling a secret society in Rio de Janeiro whose members communicate only through numbers. What do you think would be an interesting subject within mathematics for the plot? Something that the journalist would eventually find out, research and explore in order to know more about that group of people.

edit: changed term "hidden society" to "secret society"
Women are more social, men are more represented among both geniuses and criminals. I think even among progressives the resistance to accepting the veracity of both points is halfhearted.
University was a pretty big waste of 8 years for me as well.. Some people are just better at learning on their own, and with the number of online resources available, many of them from top-tier universities providing better instruction that you are likely to get at a lower-tier university, I don't think university is the right choice for many aspiring software developers.
We are working on a workaround for this:

https://github.com/EFForg/starttls-everywhere

I'm not sure one could say that this makes STARTTLS non-broken, but it will help mitigate the MITM risk.
`ace_editor` is almost certainly referring to http://ace.c9.io/ ... but the JS component isn't loaded on the page.
These would be placed in a relatively high LEO of 800 & 950km, 20 satellites per plane on 18 orbital planes (likely 18 launches, but a remote possibility is using a bunch of fuel over multiple maneuvers to do 9 or 6).

Orbital lifetimes to Earth decay according to altitude are highly variable, especially with the form factor of the satellite and its mass & profile against the remnant atmosphere, but for typical satellites very, very roughly:

150km minutes to hours

300km days to weeks

450km months to years

600km years to decades

750km decades to centuries

900km centuries to millennia

35,786km (GSO) effectively unlimited

Something this high would indeed pose an addition to the Kessler threat by virtue of remaining up there for many doublings of debris density; And redressing that would not be so difficult, in actuality. Chemical deorbit, ion deorbit, electromagnetic tether deorbit, and sail deorbit are all possibilities; The last does not even require orientation control. All that's needed is some incentive for them to implement controlled deorbitting.
> can't we just pass a law stating that "the patent is not being used for anything" is a valid patent suit defense?

That's how patent law worked until the 1940s. It was called the "paper patent doctrine." i.e., if you're patent was just on paper, and not used in industry, then the patent was dead.

Prof. John Duffy wrote a great paper about it last year - http://cornelllawreview.org/files/2013/10/98CLR1359.pdf
Groupon has agreed to change its product name
Not seeing much added value over one's GitHub profile page. If there was a way to reorder, and maybe some other features
The article makes no sense. Share buybacks are a way for companies to return money to shareholders just like issuing a dividend. The difference between the two is mostly how they are taxed (share buybacks are generally more efficient). The author seems to be railing against employee stock compensation which is completely unrelated to stock buybacks, you can do either without the other.
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More relays? That's great, but why not exit nodes?

Mozilla certainly has the manpower and infrastructure to operate a bunch of exit nodes, and if they have any legal qualms about it, hey, they just partnered with an EFF project, right?
There's only 500 sites on that list. None of the largest banks in the US are even included. This problem is hardly solved.
And, y'know, in short order he'll own the dive log market.
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You can still find service manuals and schematics for a lot of electronics (including laptops and phones) - just look on the Chinese side of the Internet. Ironically enough this availability is often through a lack of security rather than official release as most companies are against repair of their products.
> It doesn't execute code,

Because if it did, it would be an interpreter.

> or produce anything that is directly executable itself.

My PoV is that the CPU as a interpreter. compilers just translate. It appears to me that you are under the impression that there is something special about machine code, that compilers should generate machine code in order to be one. If that were the case I would disagree. I concur with the OP that transpiler should just be dropped, just use compiler.
> I think he's fairly explicitly stating that whiteboard reviews are probably bogus. I don't think that's too controversial of a position to hold these days.

There has been a lot of criticism of whiteboard interviews, but they're still used because nobody has come up with a good alternative. Larger "take-home" programming assignments are vulnerable to cheating, and "Work with us for a week" only works for people who either freelance or are unemployed.

I also wouldn't say that they're "bogus". Flawed, certainly.
RedPhone was removed from the Google Play Store today
Have any of you, who had disabled their search history and still got an invite ?
Stock compensation and buybacks seem like separate considerations. Stock-compensation plans are clearly stated in annual reports and in SEC filings, so they ought to be priced into the stock already.

Whether a buyback decrements the number of shares or reduces the number of contractually-obligated shares issued is irrelevant to me as an investor; the number of shares at the end of the buyback process will be smaller than if it hadn't happened.
mozilla, like few other companies, has my full faith and confidence that they would pull a Lavabit and close up shop before letting something like this completely erode their users' trust.
Kudos to Mike Perry of the Tor Project for making the world's software safer
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Xubuntu, because it stays the hell out of my way.

Things running in it: Firefox (personal browsing), Chromium (work browsing), a buttload of terminals, KeePassX.

I hope Xfce never pulls a GNOME/KDE and just keeps refining version 4 forever. When I hear the words "desktop" and "innovation", I reach for my revolver.
it's actually a bad thing if lots more people end up smoking lots more weed

Nice straw man, but it falls down when you actually look at the rates of usage in places with legalization. For instance, The Netherlands, where the toking habits are somewhat safer than in San Francisco [0].

[0]: http://www1.ucsc.edu/currents/03-04/05-03/drug_study.html
He just told you there _is_ a reason to do this: stop said ISP's users from sending spam. In the best case scenario, the ISP analyzes each email and drop them when their spamminess is too high. That's a legitimate concern for the ISP.

Now _of course_ doing this will be a massive problem for privacy, but again, user's privacy comes after a functioning network for the ISP.