skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see how they tailor the content to be most useful/motivating/supportive/educational for their target audience. There is plenty to founding a company which is entirely gender neutral, and yet, there's a morass of unique challenges (and benefits) that female founders in particular may face.

Catering to a specific field of expertise is orthogonal to catering to a specific pool of genetics. I think the actual reason why it would make no sense at all to have a 'Male Founders Conference' versus the obvious appeal of a 'Female Founders Conference' is because male founders simply don't have to deal with their gender as part of their identity as a Founder. I don't ever stop and think, "Is X happening because of my gender?" I very rarely have to stop and think, "Do I need to approach this problem differently because I'm a man?"

Whereas a female founder is almost certainly going to have their gender become a notable / discussion-worthy factor tied into their popular identity as a Founder (whether they want it to or not). They are going to be faced with situations, perhaps regularly, when they will question how much their gender played a role in a particular outcome. They will actually encounter discrimination with some regularity, and need the tools to deal with it, and the experience and support system to decide how they should best respond.

The way I see it, when there's nothing left to talk about at a Female Founders conference, then we can happily stop having them.
There are things in Deepness that will have more significance if you've read A Fire upon the Deep, but nothing central to the plot. They're both standalone novels, just in the same setting/universe/background.
The 4 year old Linux kernel hacker
This is a great advice if you want to be a generalist. I'm a specialist.

Take a look in this article, it illustrates pretty well the differences.
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2014/07/15/generalists-and-spe...
This isn't working for me. Whenever i click "Submit" the console logs a JS error that $ is not defined in $("share") ... missing jquery? (or maybe it's because the google domains are blocked at my current location and you must be getting your JQuery from there)

EDIT: yes, on closer inspection i am getting a 502 on the GET jquery.min.js from ajax.googleapis.com
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Seriously. I call these "designer vulnerabilities"

They have little substance beyond a flashy name, logo and website giving the most generic of bullet points about their exploit.

Do a Google search and you'll find dozens of news articles harping about the designer vulnerability alongside the name of the company that discovered it. What could be a legitimate exploit dealt with through the channels we've always addressed them through becomes a marketing vehicle for info sec charlatans.
Yea, but medium is mostly stories . I wanted something similar with Twitter that will show news in real time and give users the power to write them rather than big conglomerates like CNN or fox.
Linus actually has a great rant about brain-dead filesystems that mangle people's data. It's eerily prescient. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/70688...
There's also a few Apps for encrypted calls.

The good ones are open source, such as RedPhone: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone
> she said something that has been loitering in my mind ever since, wanting my attention but not quite sure why or what it is doing there

This is gramatically fine, makes sense, and didn't give me a second thought when I read the article.
I am checking on my iPad, though I don't get prompts to install silver light, I get redirected to some page, it says some error with session and to contact support :-/
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YES, YES, YES AND YES!
Everywhere, too. My nose, my knee, my arm, my chin!
The worst part is not scratching them because you know it's nothing.

Article was worth it though. The difference between rare and crazy is a tough line to walk. And it happens with more than just (inexplicable) itching. Doctors today are ether Watson-like symptom-probability-conlusion engines or crazy. I mean rare. I probably couldn't do better, but don't mind me if I just Google/WebMD my symptoms and mail-order my medicine or tests. (Thank you so muxh government, for denying me free access to medication! I feel so much healtier already!)
North Korea's First Hackathon?
What a cute little story you've told. It sounds nice, but it just rings hollow with common experience. I consider myself a fairly social person, I went to one of the best Universities in the world. At least at this point, none of the people I still keep in touch with from my school (a fairly large group) would be helpful to my career in any way. I highly doubt they will be in the future. If, by some chance, in my 40s, a fellow alumni is helpful to my career by virtue of an arbitrary connection we have I would consider it remarkable, and a little bit of a personal failure.

I would never make a favorable business decision for the person sitting across the table from just because we happen to share an alma mater. If anything, I would be guarded against it being an issue.

I imagine the average person feels the same way that I do. I'm not saying there aren't politics as you make your way to a senior position, but don't count on any help to get there.
I won't say I was a huge fan of the series either. I only ever read the first two books, and even then have only vague memories of them. I had to look stuff up online to fill in the details of my parent comment. But it had a pretty interesting way of treating magic, and that's one thing that was memorable.
That's close to what I'm doing, except running FreeBSD 10.1 in Hyper-V. It's actually pretty easy to set up since FBSD 10.1 is available for download as a VHD. Just need to specify the VHD image file as the disk to attach when creating a new HV VM.

It's somewhat more fun/challenging to configure network access for the VM. Once that's done it's very handy for developing web servers/apps. With the web server running in the VM, the client/browser on the host points to the VM just like any remote site. PostgreSQL in the VM performs quite well.

IMO this kind of development is much more satisfactory in a unix environment than under Windows and Hyper-V provides a convenient way to get there.
It's nice. Good idea being JS based so we don't load the server, but one tweak it could use is not to download every picture on every wikipedia article it goes too. The wikimedia server / our bandwith is being flooded with traffic that goes to waste since it only displays a few of them but downloads every single one.
Congratulations, you're rich and now can pay someone else to deal with this.
> Public universities are much less forgiving

I went to a public school for CS. Noticed same. First and second years are full of "filter" courses. Calculus, Physics, and CS 101 weeded out whole swathes of students. Many large classes where you are mostly a faceless StudentID #. Many students switched majors, some schools, some droped out. It was brutal and this wasn't even a top tier school.

After that it was a lot better.
Interesting, in my experience, I've witnessed the opposite of what you've said. Most of my friends at private schools seem to be happier and tend to be more successful than those at mid tier state universities.
Another article related to pathological itching (probably has been discussed here previously): http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/30/the-itch

The patient in this one ended up in an even more alarming situation.
The light was not meant to be controlled in software, it was intended to have a “hardware interlock” to the camera.

But they forgot firmware is software too, and is hackable too. (Now that's a 'leaky abstraction' for ya).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...

Turns out security is hard. Even compared to just 5 years ago, I think a lot more engineers are realizing how hard security actually is.
Your last sentence illustrates the mentality of so many (unsuccessful) startups these days.
So, there are ideas loitering in his mind that want his attention but aren't sure why? His ideas... have ideas of their own? Wait, or what is it that wants his attention but isn't sure why? Huh? I think it was an attempt at a metaphor that completely broke down, but I'm not certain.
I just quickly tested this on Windows 7. It showed both a directory for both spelling, but both of them contained the same content corresponding to one of the two directories.
I don't know where you live but most of the food delivery people in my major US city are at least over 30, many even in their 50s. Lots of immigrants too.

For unskilled labor a career might be a job.
I supported Drop-dropbox.com when I first heard about it, but since nothing's changed since then I guess it was unsuccessful.
So the author meant... in the classic style of humans and their proto-human ancestors? Uh...
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http://gerrithub.io/ is a take on exactly this. It uses GitHub's API to turn pull requests into gerrit reviews.
This might already exist, but while tailing logs today I wished for a tool that would let me view a log file as its changing - like "tail -f" so new lines appear at the bottom, but with the added ability to scroll up, jump to any line, search etc like a text editor.
Everyone talks about the great network-effect from going to a good school. As someone who went to one of these supposedly great "network-effect-ey" schools I say it's bullshit.

As a thought experiment, think of your own college experience. Do you really keep in touch with that many people? Of the people you do keep in touch with, can any of them open opportunities for you that are at all relevant to your field?

People who go to Harvard, Ivies, Stanford, Berkley, et al, have the same basic "College-Experience"(TM) as everyone else. No one wants to admit it, but it's not the network-effect that helps. It's the branding!

Harvard, the Ivies, et al, have brand recognition, and brand recognition helps...a lot!

If you're hiring someone, don't you think that the person with a brand that you recognize is going to at least get that person a phone-screen or an expedited interview? You're desperate to hire someone and they went to Stanford, so they must be good, right?

Ivy league degrees are simply the best door-openers out of all the door openers you can get. Once you're in the door they're as useless as the other degrees are.
Or, assuming he did mean 'ad hominem', was he instead saying that the Morgellon's conference attendees were assuming that the government study wasn't going to be legit, just based on who was funding and carrying out the study, not on the substance of the study.

> There is a widespread acceptance at this conference that the American authorities have already decided that Morgellons is psychological and — in classic hominin style — are merely looking for evidence to reinforce their hunch.

It's unclear. And made even more confusing by the weird mis-wording.

I like some long-form journalism a lot, but don't like bad writing. Still, even I'm surprised by how annoying I find this writing, I'm not entirely sure why, it somehow seems bad in an especially compelling 'clickbaity' way. I can't explain exactly what I mean.
It's not 'unhelpful' to try to figure out the right kind of doctor to send a person to. Even if it's worded in an insulting way sometimes.

Saying it's a delusion is not the same as saying there's no problem and to simply deal with the symptoms.
Lambda, JavaScript Micro-Services on AWS
Wow, talk about perfect timing!

I've been thinking of writing a cross-platform desktop-app for a while but lately I realized that there are only 2 stable cross-platform UI: CLI and HTML/CSS/JS. Because of that, I'm planning to spend a year using FreeBSD and to limit myself only to use CLI tools, Emacs, and Chrome (I definitely will limit the usage of Chrome as well).

I wanted to test the idea of "Focus" by eliminating distraction.

I noticed a few patterns of NIX tools: .<something>rc for personal configuration, .<something> (folder) for local data, and a few other things that I forgot. Can anyone recommend books/references for writing classic NIX tools? (C, best practices, effective-java-like book, POSIX compliant, utilizing build tools, x86/x64, etc).
Does anyone have the book? Having looked through the ToC on Amazon, there are a few topics that interest me and it seems to be more in-depth than these lectures. But as it is from 1997 (and doesn't appear to have been updated), I'm concerned it will be a bit out of date.
>how terribly disrespectful

Terribly disrespectful to have a fleeting negative thought that's quickly proved wrong? I wholeheartedly disagree.
Except the major theme was if it was a closed system vs. an open one. The machine in the show would probably be constitutional given that it goes to a significant length to protect people's privacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread
The one patient in this story who got a prompt and serious investigation was found to not be delusional. Was this because anything about his story was more credible? No, it was because he was his own doctor, and strangely not satisfied with deceiving himself. If any other person with the magic doctor bit has had to deal with the problem personally, we aren't told.

This story depicts desperate people who have probably-wrong ideas about their condition, and a medical profession with probably-oversimplified overconfident ideas about it which it has no interest in improving -- they're the opposite of desperate, and so much the less excusable. Put yourself in the shoes of this guy, with his doctor bit erased: if he tries to get help, and explains his whole problem, he knows he'll get classed as delusional, his doctors won't even try to figure the thing out, they'll say "You're very anxious" and get insistent about anti-anxiety drugs, NSAIDs, and seeing a psychiatrist. (If he's lucky like someone I know, after a few years of persistence and ignoring the drug prescriptions he'll find someone who can diagnose an underlying cause, which in that case -- not about itching -- was not mites but gut flora, manageable with a diet change.) He should worry about deliberately mislabeled drugs too? I hope my question was over-cynical.
Spectacular, weird horror movie as pharma infomercial
A common approach to programming bugs is to try and educate programmers to not make particular mistakes. A more effective approach is to redesign the language so those mistakes are impossible.

Exactly. That's why I'm bothered by Rust being almost protected against memory errors, and Go being almost protected against race conditions. Even if you give up some performance, it's a big win to eliminate entire classes of errors.

(Still, both are way ahead of C/C++ in this area. So far, I don't think there's been a CERT advisory for a Go program. Rust is too new to be attacked yet.)

It has been (7) days since the last CERT security advisory for a buffer overflow in a C/C++ program.
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LAMPP – Turn your phone into a smartlight
Social mobility of the English and Chinese elite classes
The Garmin Fenix can be mounted as a mass-storage device. It outputs in both "FIT" and GPX formats. If the proprietary Garmin software isn't used, it just appears like a USB key.

I just mount it with a Linux box and copy it whereever I want (including uploading to Garmin's cloud service).
I never wanted to learn the details of how a computer really work as, but I spend a single week learning C, just to learn the basic concepts like pointers. It really helped me understand better other languages. Besides, It would take you many years for you to master it, and the kind of jobs you would get with it would f* damn boring. Don't waste more than a week on it :)

I'm learning Rust at the moment, I feel I can express my ideas better with it versus go. But as a hobby. for fun.

I've being coding exclusively in JS for 3 years. And just now I feel comfortable with it.

There is so much going on with it. I bet you heard about OOP, but what about functional programing. And functional reactive programing ?

There are so many libraries and framework in JS. It just crazy.
There is angular vs ember. And what about react or famo.us ?
And there is nodejs, and things like npm, gulp, browserify.

To learn javascript, the language is one thing. But all its tools is another.

The reality is this, the more languages you learn, the easier it is to learn a next one. Today I know over 10 languages, but I master only one. And that is what matters, the one you master.

But what I things is super important for a programmer this days is a basic knowledge of shell and git. IMO
It isn't whatever you find interesting, it's whatever you find intellectually interesting. Intellectual interest is only one kind of interest. I think this answers the examples you raise—e.g. long-winded vegan propaganda wouldn't be intellectually interesting, but an article about the history of veganism might be.

The guidelines do say that most political stories are probably off-topic. But "note those words most and probably" [1]. They're not there by accident.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922304#up_4922426
Thank you for this video. It's extraordinary to contemplate a family business in operation for 13 centuries, and the personal sacrifices that must have been, and are still being made across that time to keep it going.
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do you know assembly ?
and what about raw binary ?
How can I get an internship in Silicon Valley?
Undergraduate CS major here at a state school not particularly known for CS. I'm passionate about programming and building things and have built things myself.

My current focus is implementing Abstract Data Structures in C, specifically avoiding C++, so I can understand low level implementation details.

I really want to move to CA after college, but also want to get an internship before I graduate.
I am registered for this course and I am quite excited!
I'd imagine I'm pretty similar to grandparent post in this respect. If I find something interesting, I save it. Even if it's seemingly arbitrary or not immediately useful. With powerful search and tagging it's nice to run a query/update to a personal archive to refresh my memory, browse when bored, catalogue sources, wishfully think about future study, notice patterns in my interests over time, meta-analysis, etc.

More cynically, I've noticed that it's a relatively benign form of hoarding. i.e. I get the quick dopamine rush of "oh this is interesting, now I have it" without, say, crowding up my living space with trinkets. With an abundance of storage that is essentially invisible to me when I don't want to think about it, I can keep what I want, when I want; often while fully aware that I'll never look at most items individually again. I think of it as a kludgey form of external memory / internet butterfly collecting. The only downsides I've thought of are: time frittered revisiting archives, the (small) transaction cost of tagging and placing items into the archive, and the externalized costs of maintaining the hardware.
Is AI the Biggest Threat to Jobs?
I'd notice those URL parameters anywhere.

There is a very strong chance that it fully conforms to the OData spec: http://www.odata.org/documentation/odata-version-3-0/url-con... - although I'm not sure which version (most recent MSFT stuff has been 3.0).

So what you could do is hit a URL such as:

https://prodphseus.dns-cargo.com//v1/Events?$filter=AverageHeartRate gt 90

To get the events where you pushed yourself above 90.
µBlock vs. ABP
Can you point me to any examples? I ran a small business in the UK for several years and never heard of anything like it. The closest would be the Windfall Tax, but that targeted a small number of privatised utilities that were sold off on the cheap by a previous government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windfall_Tax_%28United_Kingdom%...
As far as I can tell there are lots of tiny fragments each about 1-2 seconds long rather than one video file.

It's actually not just a video, but a specially designed player that shows the lecture video and the slides in sync, along with a bunch of bookmarks so you can jump to specific slides.

Try it in Chrome. At least on the Mac, there's a dedicated but cut-down version, which does not require SilverLight. It's based on FlowPlayer and it also seems to work with Flash disabled.
Amazon could just have OnTrac create a product called One-Hour Delivery, and have OnTrac claim that they tried to deliver but that the recipients weren't home.
Supervised! Yes, that's exactly the right word to use!

Instead of 'leader', 'manager', 'director', 'president' and all those pointless buzzwords. If all you are really going to do is forward emails and approve leaves.

Supervisor is the right word to use.
>However, the cure is neither fast nor simple nor cheap for bed bugs.

There have been a couple of interesting articles recently about an old folk cure for bed bugs: bean leaves.

The bug's legs get trapped by the leaves almost like a natural velcro.

NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/science/earth/how-a-leafy-...

Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bean-leaves-don...
I think that slide shows that in B2B software hockey stick growth is not necessary. Good solid growth is enough.
This is absolutely true. I went to Georgia Tech for undergrad, Northwestern for law school. After being given the run-around any time I wanted to do any little thing, I was floored by how much attention I got in the private institution. When my wife got pregnant her third year of school at Northwestern, with a delivery date during finals, our dean of students took care of everything to accommodate her. At Tech, she would've been shuffled from disinterested administrator to disinterested administrator for weeks.
Are you? Where was the thinking outside the box exactly?
Indeed it is absurd that we have known how to refresh part of a page for a decade now and yet half the internet still refreshes the whole page. I'd say this has to do with developers still relying upon server side frameworks they learned years ago.

This has nothing to do with looking cool. Your server generated dynamic full page can look great. Didn't you see Steve Jobs's Dodge site? This has to do with user experience, in particular performance. The problem with Steve's site is that a slight change in search criteria resulted in a two second full page refresh. It made me want to shop for a Ford.

Sure their are cases where full page refresh is fine. Shopping isn't one of them. Reading a news story that spans 10 pages isn't one of them. Most of what I use the internet for isn't one of them.

And then there are web applications. Without partial page refresh these feel like shopping for a Dodge in 1996.
Can anyone recommend a good intro in machine learning that does teaches the building blocks of the math side of things? It is fascinating as a topic, but there is such a large prerequisite learning curve that it seems out of reach for those not as strong in math.

That might just be the reality of it, but hoping there might be a better introduction (even something super simple like a Codecademy equivalent).