skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many startups have devs and no sysadmins? Seems like if a 2 man shop can make DO work without a sysadmin, they just saved a lot of money. When you get big then you can worry about such things.
Well the project actually goes beyond just that, its a bytecode interpreter and I want to experiment with a JIT (something I have wanted to do for years).

https://github.com/clojit/clojit-vm

Sadly its not working currently, I started a new job and Im moving so I had very little time the last 2 weeks and I didn't manage to keep up with the changes in rust.
In 35 years of programming across platforms and languages covering embedded to web applications it is my opinion that recursion is dangerous and useless. There is no way I would use recursion to evaluate how good a programmer might be. To quote the movie: "Frankly dear, I don't give a damn".
Using the same calender every year might work fine in America and some of the Western European countries. (According to the article, Easter and Thanksgiving can be given fixed dates in the 13-month calendar.) But many non-Western cultures have holidays tied to phases of the moon. Chinese New Year would still move around a lot from year to year, making it impossible to reuse last year's calendar. Ditto for Chuseok in Korea, which needs to coincide with a full moon.

So yeah, this looks like a nice change, but it's not going to be completely static from year to year in every culture.

Besides, I don't think it will completely eliminate the difficulty of figuring out what date "next Thursday" is. We at HN tend to be mathematically competent, so we can easily calculate multiples of 7 in our heads and subtract a few without breaking a sweat. Most ordinary people, on the other hand, have difficulty figuring out what date next Monday is even when it's Friday and you just need to add 3. They'll just look it up in a paper calendar or their mobile device.
Egypt is a silly example to use. The Egyptian civilization lasted incredibly long and was incredibly conservative. And we know far more about it today than other civilizations because of how much stuff they left preserved for us to find.
Ask HN: How to fund a small idea
I'm a fairly experienced software engineer. I have a small hardware idea that I know I can execute really well on and would be very well received by the small community that would use it. I'm fairly certain this product won't expand the existing market, just solve a really tough problem this market has been trying to crack for a while.

The lifetime value of this product, given the market, is reasonably $10 million dollars in the US. I'm being very stingy with my estimate, but this market would never, even globally, crack $100 million (probably not even 50). I know this is exactly the kind of thing VCs AREN'T looking for. Let's say I need an initial 100k to get going, and no more than 500k over the lifetime of the company. What are my options how can I get this kind of money for such a small idea?

tldr; How do you raise a small amount of money for a small payout?
> There are many programming environments that are both common and quite productive that have no pointers at all.

This is a bit misleading. The vast majority of languages have pointers (languages without object identities exist - functional languages for example - but they are relatively the exception). However, those languages tend to give them other names.

What non-systems languages lack is pointer arithmetic and native notions of pointer-to-pointer (though it is always possible to simulate the latter).

I agree the person you responded to showed a toxic attitude. I believe/hope that the first step to improvement for people who think they don't get pointers is for them to realize they've been working with pointers all along.
Woah. This is the best comment I've ever read anywhere in a long time. I'm not sure if I agree with it; it goes against a lot of things I believe. And yet I can find nothing wrong in your argument. Do you have any recommended readings on the subject or something?
You lost me at "strong natural interest and affinity." That could've been said for law or medicine or accounting or any of a large number of professions that were male-only until they weren't.
‘Asteroids’ and the Dawn of the Gamer Age
I don't know, I try to remain a human.
British Medical Journal: Men Really Can Be Idiots. “Male Idiot Theory,” or MIT
I can't dispute the author's statistics, after all, they're just a function of the data. But looking at the first graph, it seems like a generous interpretation of "predict." The anticipated signal-to-noise for any individual student looks like it would be pretty poor.

One other thought occurs to me. Would the same algebra test produce similar correlations with courses such as English and History, when adjusted for the differences in overall pass rates for those subjects?

It seems odd that something as interesting as programming isn't introduced until college. That seems like accepting students as music majors, who have never played music before. If I had my druthers, computation and simplistic programming would be part of the mainstream K-12 curriculum.
Tree Style Tab:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

I use it with Tab Mix Plus for extra tabby features, like progress bar on the tab, tracking unread tab state, lots of undo close tab slots, forcing popups to show up as tabs, etc:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/

The tab panorama feature is built in:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tab...
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wycats has actually been teasing us for a while with a library for exactly that purpose. Here's hoping he gets to releasing it soon. :)
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Eh... Propaganda has been so strong on both sides that I doubt we will ever know the truth.

Personally, I'm very conflicted on the question of Crimea and don't think I can comment or discuss unbiasedly.
Someone somewhere needs to be working on this. I also want something shorter and faster than an undergrad degree and more focused on CS than boot camps appear to be.
You are just comparing a shit job to a good job, and well the shit job is shittier than the good one.

Let's run with your example - what would have been your boss opinion ? Or if your business is growing and you need more people, how will you treat them and how should they feel ?

You have a good job in a hot sector, enjoy it, don't try to generalise to everybody or other sectors. Actually, the article is all about people that don't share our luck.
That's pretty much what Harvard Lampoon did back in 1969:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_of_the_Rings
> Substance abuse and sexual assault are common consequences.

I could be very wrong here. I'd like to hear from HN'ers in other countries to either support or correct my opinion.

I think this idea of morally derailing in college is uniquely American. Do other countries have the equivalent of Spring Break and the idea of leaving your family to go to college and choose (not all, some) to engage in drugs, sex and levels of depravity? Or is college/university in other cultures a serious learning environment?
The OP wants to learn "more languages and skills". Of all the many things which are new and unfamiliar, why another programming language, instead of acquiring some other skill?

Personally, I'm with nostrademons. I learned a bit of Prolog and APL, but learning how to write parsers and use tools like ANTLR and PLY has been more useful.
Interestingly, this is essentially the React/Flux model in a nutshell.
I would guess this is also selection bias. Australians are pretty much the global leaders (per capita) of torrent consumption. Everyone I know, tech savvy or not, downloads torrents. Our TV situation is pretty bad, the cable situation is extremely expensive (extra $20 a month for HD.. really?!), and we don't yet have any decent streaming services.

Once streaming services hit mainstream here I believe we'll see a significant drop off for torrents. Netflix is just about to enter this market in a few months, so it'll be interesting to see how that plays out. I just hope they don't add an Australian tax, otherwise the torrenting will continue.
Ask HN: Business Email
What is a good, reasonably priced service for business email?
PVC and Poliestyrene(beautiful transparent plastic)that also adds phisphenol like hormone disruptor.

You find most PVC on drain pipes and windows because it is so cheap.

PVC leak phthalates and other plastic additives to the environment over time.

I avoid those things as much as I can for me and my family. My windows are made from aluminum. My plastic bottles are from ugly Polietylene or PP, but I try to use glass if I can.
That's your take on the matter. I would like to hear Red Sonja's stance.

Clarifucation: She is a true knight, not a toy, and embodies all the knightly virtues. This included "hoher muot", of which there isn't enough of going round of that.
I was actually thinking of a >2GB DB file on a 32 bit server. But leaving that aside, it sounds like you're assuming a perfect hash function with no collisions. If you have collisions, you have to deal with the possibility of a hash bucket overflowing and requiring an additional seek.

Anyway, I don't doubt that you can operate in 2 seeks in the normal case.
Ask HN: If Lever (YC) know how to fix hiring, why so many hiring message here?
It could be that all loans on the platform are a money losing proposition.

Sub-prime consumer lending might not be a good long term asset class :(
Your kids will survive without carrying around bottles of water all the time. When I was a kid (before all you people started standing on my lawn constantly) we had water fountains at school and the coach brought coolers of tap water to the sports field. You know, one of these.

http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-1631/Breakroom-Supplie...

I'm not sure when the trend of people (not just children) being in the constant company of a bottle of water started. It's certainly not necessary for healthy people who are doing anything other than crossing open country on foot.
Just a short time before they got internet in the woods, the Bears and the Foxes had a different arrangement -

Everyone thought the Bears had a strong natural interest and affinity in working, and the Foxes had a strong natural inclination in cooking and babysitting. Then after some laws, changed policies, and social adjustments, Foxes must have changed their nature and started doing what the Bears did - often better. Within 20 years, the Foxes and the Bears reverted a few millennia worth of prejudice and assumptions, and everyone benefited immensely.
Not really, since "equal" is poorly defined. A blue shirt and red shirt are equally nice, but a closet of assorted shirts is more valuable than a closet of just blue shirts.

A portfolio of diverse stocks, each with an equal risk/reward profile, has equal reward to an individual stock but far lower risk.
It's a sort of nickname derived from a technique for communication on very cheap microcontrollers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-banging
FAA gives nod to more commercial use of drones
all problems in human life stem from an unjust society and that corrections and fine-tunings of that social mechanism will eventually bring utopia
in Melbourne even the hippies wear shoes, plus in Melbourne it would be decidedly abnormal to walk into a starbucks at all..
I've gotten passed over by 100s before landing a first job - many of them now try to court me. Everyone wants to hire safe, and it is disappointing to me.
There are 10% women studying computer science at uni. When I ask any woman, literally any woman, why they didn't study computer science, they tell me "Oh I am not interested in that". There are no barriers. None at all. Nobody says "Oh I tried, but the environment at uni was hostile to women". Nobody ever. It's a free and deliberate choice. And so they should deal with it. Give me one good reason why I should care about the so-called "gender gap" that is apparently a problem? Why does this fraction of people deserve special attention? Why do they receive the permission to make blanket statements about how they enrich the work environment because they're so special? Don't just claim that the mistreatment is so subtle that I can't see it. I don't buy your snake oil.
So it is okay for a woman to say that women are better organized, that they have more empathy, but as a man I cannot claim that men are better hackers?

I'm all for equality, but every single time I read one of these articles, I seem to read everything but equality. Being a programmer is a job, a male dominated job, at least in 2014. There are a lot of fields where men work which are female dominated, like a chef, or interior design, or fashion, or a nanny, or a nurse. You don't see men throwing tantrums like this. And neither do great female programmers, they are busy making us feel stupid.
I like that a lot. Nice idea, if a little dangerous. I'm assuming it's jailed because all the system headers are there.

Just a heads-up- your 'about' says Ruby code instead of C.
This is a 'begging the question' fallacy, where the conclusion of the argument is used as a premise for it.
It's not clear that the rotation of the moon has much significance in modern life any more, so maybe the problem can be simplified.

What was the significance of cycles of the moon in the past, anyway? The main thing I can think of is astrology. Can tides be predicted accurately using phases of the moon?
Simple C# Tutorial to get your IP address from an external web service
I love RunAbove. I really do.
I've done a lot of introspection when it comes to things like this and how their marketing affects me. Although I know it is snake oil and can't help but laugh at the concept of putting butter in your coffee, let alone selling it - something in me REALLY wants to buy his products. Great marketing lesson if you ask me.
Is it really necessary to say that women are better than men at making software? I think this kind of inflammatory claim just stokes the flamewar that erupts around here every time the topic comes up. No one would stand for saying that men are better than women at making software. These generalizations are ridiculous.
While I disagree with GP, I think there is a difference here. As GP mentioned, nerds tinkered with computers growing up, despite a stigma. There isn't such a social phenomenon for accounting or medicine, those are things that almost everyone gets into in college or later.

Yet, as I said, I disagree with GP. The word "natural" is misleading, it sounds like he or she is suggesting a natural inborn aptitude, and we don't have evidence to support that. Unless all that "natural" meant here was "commonly occurring, happening without prompting", in which case I would agree.
If you actually look at the source code, the benchmarks where Haskell beats Rust rely on unsafe functionality, calling out to C libraries, and are heavily optimised and hard to follow. The Rust code on the other hand is idiomatic, safe, and relatively easy to understand.
This comment is interesting in light of the HN story on Margaret Hamilton yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8735912

It's not immediately apparent who the Bears and Foxes are supposed to represent in your parable.
What about the male foxes? A big problem with the analogy is that there were always female bears and male foxes. That makes the picture more complicated.
His suggestion is that the cure for code bloat is, basically, codegolf?
Take two groups; call one the enthusiasts, one the bros.
First thing I thought of, nice to have some counter-balance to the endless Chrome flagging by Google.

Although I'd rather have neither.
It's also worth mentioning that men actually don't have a strong natural interest and affinity with computers. If you look at males in the general public, very few of them would actually be considered a 'power user' or higher. Regardless of whether it's more or less than women, the fact is that most men don't have an affinity for computers.
Good to know. I look forward to him releasing that. I was about to start writing one myself, which would probably turn out really ugly.
That doesn't mean that I should aim for an even blend of the various things though: in the case of your investment example, it makes sense to preferentially select for certain kinds of financial instruments and only have a minority portion of others, because that's where I get optimum contribution from their respective traits.
Rust and Go do not overlap much other than they are both natively compiled, have curly braces and are backed by 'web' companies. Go was designed for building server software and for encouraging standardized, easy to maintain software. Rust on the other hand is generally targeted at the same areas where C and C++ are used for today.
Is that the question we're talking about? I was referring to the comments casting being overweight as moral failing and viewing this research as negative in some way. I found it quite silly and I have never been overweight or even had immediate family members with weight issues.

I've always gone with "Eat food (not food-like products), not too much, mostly plants." as a baseline for what a good diet is. Its likely not the best, and there are likely completely different diets that are as good or better, but we don't know what they are.

And I sacrifice a fair amount to get a lot of physical activity. And pay attention to what you eat, don't let habit or compulsion have too much control of your eating. Incidentally this is why most diets work at the beginning, starting to pay attention to what you eat has more benefit than anything else.

Macro-nutrient adjustment diets seem particularly untrustworthy to me - there are healthier cultures around the world with diets of all macro-nutrient balances, and the fact that the "good ones" change every ten years for diet fads looks exactly like what happens when people demand answers from science when it doesn't have them but has to give their best guess.

Also, the idea that food or a certain diet is simply healthy or not healthy is a childish simplification. Your body is complex, and the same food will have different consequences on different organs and systems in your body. What makes something a net negative or net positive depends on the current state of your body and how you weight different effects.

That's basically it, I have no strong opinions because there is no strong evidence.

So no, I can't tell you what a good diet is specifically, and anyone who says they can is a liar.
I think that many people have difficulty learning to code in college because many of them aren't that enthusiastic about it. At least anecdotally, many people at my school are in computer science because that's where the zeitgeist is. If it was the eighties they'd be getting ready for law school.

I think that people would do much better in intro CS classes if we could get rid of some of the hype around programming and tech in general, and treat it like other courses. That way, far more of the students would be genuinely interested in the subject.
I hope they'll label mixed content pages the same way as plain HTTP, it might motivate all the big websites that still get this wrong to get their act together.
Most chefs are male - people don't care because its a low status job. Programming is now high status, so now this gender gap is an issue. As many feminists have "misogynistic conspiracy" as their default explanation for any differnces in outcome among genders, they're not in a very good epistemic position to judge these things. Unjust discrimination is economically counterproductive, I don't expect ruthless corporations to support such a conspiracy when defection is more profitable. Aside from blinded applications and maybe interviews, not much needs to be done. We are building businesses here, not collecting data for a census.
Pretty clearly the issue is that it's proprietary. It's astounding this is still the case. Has Wolfram ever given his reasoning behind this? Presumably he wants to capture enterprise customers, but there are other ways to do that (optimized compilers, specialized featuresets, virtual machines, IDE licensing, support, etc.) In this day and age, there is no reason for a programming language to be closed source.
... perhaps it is telling: I can't figure out if you are being sarcastic or not. :/
No. I feel like a loner howling at the moon on this one.

I would look up a series of talks on YouTube called "free is a lie" by Aral Balkan. They deal more with the free service bait and switch than piracy, but I found them influential in getting me to question "free."
Well then it sounds like a viable competitor to IRC!
I think it is important to point out that equality has a huge impact on diversity.
No, I don't think it's okay to say that kind of generalisation and I think it's fine to object, but you should object in a straightfoward manner rather than a tit-for-tat whine.

You don't see men throwing tantrums like this.

I constantly see men throwing tantrums, whenever the vaguest whiff of even moderate feminism can be smelled. Also, where did you get the idea that chefs are predominantly women? Not to mention that chefs are famously reknowned for throwing tanties. Same with fashion/interior designers, male or female.
> (2) The Haskell code is nowhere near idiomatic

This isn't meant as a personal attack firstly. Secondly, I've heard this said more than a few times lately and am generally curious:

Do you know which Haskell examples are idiomatic, which aren't, and why?

I feel like in the case of some it's just parroting someone elses argument.
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I think you've missed the point of the use of bears and foxes in the analogy. It was supposed to remove any hint of gender. Notice he didn't mention the bears were male and the foxes were female.
It looks like IsoHunt has revived the TPB "content" at http://oldpiratebay.org/
No Bias, Just Merit
I'm pretty sure there are females and males who have more natural aptitude or preference for one or another kind of technical work. And they typically are stigmatized as nerds when this is publicly known. We just don't have to suppose that nerds are more commonly male.

It's too bad that it's not socially acceptable just to support nerds regardless of their gender. But that is just more of the same stigma which never really ended.
I assume you would have no problem showing your children a Disney movie where the prince marries a princess (kids' movies obviously have no explicit sex scenes).

Would you have a problem with a Disney movie where a princess marries another princess?

I.e. is your problem really just with exposing children to sex, or do you actually have a problem with gay characters?
Greg Bear wrote a fun sci-fi novel Darwin's Radio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Radio) featuring these viruses.
My vote for the icon to use would be a small frown or disappointed face. It's different than the icons for broken https, but still gets the point across that something isn't so great.

Here's what I'm thinking of: https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/smile-emoticons/78/Em...
This is a great idea, and I say this as the webmaster of many sites that are not secure. I should be forced to get my but in gear and fix that.
Am I the only one who read this thinking it was truth, only to feel lied to after finding out it's fiction?

Is the-toast.net doing the same thing as The Onion, or was it just this one story?

If I was Tolkien, I'd be a bit peeved about being portrayed as a dick (lawsuit over public domain works), especially since this appears to be depicted as truth. (Maybe LoTR fans could spot that it's fiction, but I'm not at that level in the fan club yet)
>only that it’s a required skill

What I'm saying is that it might not be required, just pleasant, given my example of someone who codes like that but otherwise writes well-structured good code.