skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not well familiar with it, so might I ask if the Female Founders Conference is strictly limited in admission to women only? If so, your analogy doesn't pan out.
Using a socket wrench rather than, say, a crescent wrench means there's more nut in contact with the wrench at any given moment. So the wrench doesn't have to be quite as strong, since the torque is distributed over a larger surface area and thus a larger volume of wrench is available to absorb it.
The closest thing I've got to the "WHY" question is inspectlet. It's like looking over your user's shoulder. It's awesome.
This makes too much sense for me to productively argue with, so instead I will accept and wallow in my wrongness.
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Some ideas/feature requests:

1. extract twitter/fb/ecc. contacts

2. (optionally) follow about/contact pages to improve contact information

3. improve Facebook likes if the website declares a FB page/app (as an example, check out theneeds.com, we have 14k likes, but priceonomics says 203)
I don't think so. I went from Moom to Spectacle something like a year ago and haven't looked back.
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Sure, but this presumes that you've already done the prepwork - my comment was based on my current status, now. I don't have anyplace nearby I could retreat to.

I'm also not sure how much of a game-over New York is - sure, I don't have a gun to defend myself, but statistically, how many of us own guns anyway? If I were still living in Dallas, or Austin, the number of guns I have at hand would be the same as now - zero. And one small advantage of NYC is that my neighbors probably won't be coming at me with rifles and shotguns, either.

I think that all these equations change very rapidly based on how much preparation you've done. I've done zero.
Ahhh I totally misread that then. :-)
It depends on what you consider "acceptable HA". There are many instances where I'm not trying to protect from a network partition (single data center, monitored batch data loads, etc) and don't have a requirement for that level of tolerance. However, you're right in that it's important to know that nearly every distributed system has edge cases where things might not appear as you thought. Elasticsearch has a section on their Website detailing their resiliency efforts. I wish every company was as transparent about what they're doing on that front so we can all plan and consider expectations better.
I took part in a hackathon a few weeks ago and we needed a text editor that we could easily implement and customize. In particular, we wanted more control over the appearance of the toolbar -- we wanted to use our own buttons and move them vertically to the left of the text area -- and needed to capture events related to entering text.

We started with CKEditor, found it far too complicated and with a ton of old and unclear documentation floating around, and had to work against its default features to get it scaled back to the minimal editor we wanted. We weren't able to move the buttons to the left-hand side and couldn't style them as easily as we wanted to. Maybe it's buried deep in the docs somewhere but I couldn't tell you, there's a lot there and it's overwhelming for someone who's just getting started and on a time constraint.

Frustrated, we switched to WYSIHTML5 and were able to get exactly what we were looking for very quickly.

I've come to see CKEditor as the WordPress of WYSIWYG text editors: it aims to do ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING for everyone, but that's not what everyone is looking for. Maybe things would have gone differently if we weren't under the gun but when we were in a pinch, we found WYSIHTML5 to be a much better option.
That's an excellent book.

Kelly had a few other rules. One was that the engineers, the machinists, and the airframe must be physically close, preferably in the same building. That way, if a part wasn't working, the assembler, machinist, and designer could all get together at the airframe and figure out what to do about it. HP also had that approach to work in their glory days.

Another Kelly saying was "Kill problems, don't wound them". If some part is causing problems, don't make one that has fewer problems, redesign it so the problem goes away completely.
Unfortunately, part of the game is accomodating HR and non-technical managers in most companies that have gone beyond the 30 person startup stage, unless you have widely recognized expertise in some relatively rare skill.

There's three hurdles to being hired (and HN has hashed this over before), so the technical chops are there, it sounds like, but then they ask

- is he/she willing to sacrifice for our success?

- "fit/culture", is s/he somebody we want to travel with/hang out, spend lots of time with, most of it involuntary
My final project assignment at the university was to port a particle simulation engine from NeXT/Objective-C to Windows/C++.

The professor had his Cube disconnected on his office, piled with other stuff. No one believed NeXT would survive.
Speaking for myself, I'm going to start dropping "eschaton" in everyday conversation.
Mythbusters did a segment testing the claim that many different meats taste like chicken.

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/tastes-...
It's not inaccurate at all. The Earth is really really big, all the nuclear weapons we have would hardly kill a fraction of the people.
I've always used a polar heart rate monitor when I play hockey to help me find my VO2 max and my target heart rate range. They're one of the few really accurate heart rate monitors out there. These also have a myriad of other functions.

http://www.polar.com/us-en/products/get_active/fitness_cross...

You can find a Polar Loop bracelet with the H7 heart rate monitor strap for around $150.00, which is a lot less than the Microsoft Band:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=polar+h7&_from=R40&_osa...

I apologize in advance for the janky links.
I agree with the author here in principle. Being able to parse out what someone actually wants from what they ask for is key in pretty much any business type interaction. And as the author argues what is often the case is that people want to learn how to build something not Computer Science.

I have a sister in eleventh grade (16-17) who is interested in programming. But if I tried to teach her programming by going straight to data types and algorithms her eyes would glaze over. That's not say she is dumb or traditional CS education is hard but it's certainly not the most interesting of topics.

However I think the argument against starting by building things the author barely even glosses over. The ecosystem and tooling to build things has become so complicated that it makes it hard to start. Someone just learning programming is probably going to be bored to death by ints and bits, but they are likewise going to be equally discouraged by the amount of work outside of coding it takes to get any non-trivial web app up.

And honestly the same goes for mobile development too. It's slightly less ridiculous but then you run into the issue of things that can't be explained simply and get relegated to "magic" you don't need to worry about... until you do.
Assuming this is a genuine question, its done to not provide information to competitors. Hence when startups are asked about numbers they reply using % instead of absolute values.
I've been using this for the past week or so without any issues: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-unload-t...
Both of their autobiographies are worth the read for any engineer, or aspiring engineer. I found Johnson's biography especially inspiring, as he is a man who grew up in a poor family, and worked very hard to become a highly respected aeronautical engineer, responsible for more innovative projects than any of his peers (before or since). Some of the stories that stuck with me from his book were how his father (a bricklayer in the midwest) used to have to light a fire in a barrel to heat up bricks so that the mortar would adhere to them in the winter. He also mentions that when he was a child (during the depression), he and his sister used to walk to the curves on the railroad tracks with their wagon, to pick up the coal that fell off trains so that they could heat their house. The man worked his way through college in the kitchen of one of the fraternities, soon after contributed to the design of the Electra, and then the first American jet fighter to enter service (the P-80).
> That someone couldn't tell the expensive wine from the table wine does not prove that someone can't tell a beef burger from a veggie burger.

Well, yes. That's true. Don't confuse my contribution to the topic drift for a rejection of that point.
Although there isn't anything that says whether or not it's women only, the application[1] has a gender option, so at the very least they are accepting applications from men. There isn't any language that says they are explicitly excluding men, although I'm sure they'd like a more balanced ratio than other startup events, and it's likely that the majority of the attendees will be women.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/ffc
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The same way you fire a plastic gun without it compromising its integrity:

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/3d-printed-guns/
Paramount Bans Showing ‘Team America’ after Sony pulls The Interview
I personally thought your comment was quite funny. I gave you an upvote.
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Let's apply the Principle of Charity here. Perhaps the researchers are idiots, far below the average education and intelligence of, say, Hacker News users. But perhaps they're as familiar with such notions as "complex phenomenon" and "environmental factor" as we are.

We should choose the more charitable interpretation, not because there aren't idiots out there, but because doing so leads to more interesting discussion in the long run—and usually in the short run too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
edit: [1] should be http://tack.io/, my bad. I assumed https would work.
I agree that it's important to understand that Rand came from the USSR to fully grasp why her philosophy is the way it is.

Understanding a philosophy doesn't mean accepting it.
In the case of drinking water, desalination is already cheap enough that we're talking pennies a day. Even a typical American usage of 100 gal/day is around $0.15 at market energy rates [1] and is still under $0.50/day with solar.

[1] http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/water/gamechangers/... gives $489 per acre-foot.
Don't miss the tutorial at the end of the github page either:

https://kintaro.github.io/rust/window-manager-in-rust-01/

Potential trend - instead of learning a new language with Hello World or blog/chat app, it's now via tiling wm.
Actually, in the valley casual dress for men tends to consist of dark blue jeans, button down shirt, dress shoes, and blazer. It's as monotonous as tshirts/jeans/tennis shoes
MSU scientist tries to make biofuel, discovers a way to put cancer to sleep
This is a great action. Please keep doing it! If i would live anywhere near to that I would attend it too. Greetings from Germany and keep on!
Why 5 hidden layers? Why are the first 3 non-recurrent? How did you decide how wide to make the internal layers? Are there some organizing principles behind these design decisions, or is it just trial and error?
There must be a money trail, somewhere, explaining this. Studio execs wouldn't give up revenue even for a bad film unless there was something else financial in play.
Testing the waters, I'd played with the idea of a story with basically this setup:

Two new developers start at a company/startup, and are brought in to do a six-month sprint to fix a stalled/broken product after the development team becomes unavailable because reasons. So, they're dropped into a codebase and are trying to pull everything together.

However, as they work through into deeper and deeper parts of the system, the commit messages and comments get more and more cryptic and unsettling, hinting at the reasons for the prior team's dissolution, the business forces that caused that to happen, and maybe something worse/better going on outside.

I'm really lazy though. :(
Except that the stateful packet filter that sometimes comes with a NAT gateway (and that provides the security that people like) depends exactly not at all on NAT and the pain that comes with that kind of address class distinction.
That definitely is the most important slide. Funding is perhaps similar to college admissions in that the most in need are most likely to be rejected.

I think the KPI slides are very well done. Those look like the questions that VCs would be asking so it's nice to be pro-active.
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Uber Driver in Boston Area Is Charged with Rape
Ever heard of ACLU ? EFF ?
It'll surely trigger some flamewar warning eventually. User flagging is just pre-emptive ;)
You can still use the 'json' type (not 'jsonb'), which preserves the text representation.

Or you can sort the keys on serialization when you serve or store the JSON.
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The nearest Walmarts to Seattle are in Renton and Bellevue. The nearest Walmarts to New York are either in New Jersey or upstate. There are Walmart "Neighborhood Markets" in Chicago, but the big box stores that they famously scale with are in the suburbs. There seems to be a Wal-Mart in LA, but not downtown, rather in the area that seems like a bunch of suburbs concatenated together. There are a few in Houston, mainly in the suburbs that were annexed to the city but there's at least one inside the 610 loop. (Having been to Houston, it is also largely a series of suburbs concatenated together.) Those are the four largest cities in the US.

By and large Walmart is a suburban phenomenon. They're trying to move into the cities because they don't have anywhere else to expand, but the assumptions underlying big box stores aren't going to hold up in that environment and they're going to become just another brick-and-mortar retailer, with all the costs that entails.
Me too! Maybe someday they'll take me with them...
So maybe "nat" for "uint", then?
Every different brand of sausage patty tastes a little different regardless of the meat(s) used. The real difference with meat and veggie is the texture. Sometimes veggie patties lack umami, but many newer brands have even been able to fix that too.

Based on my experience, it can be hard to tell if a patty is meat or veg if the quantities are small (too small to feel the texture difference).
Obviously. It also means you can't just sum together the prices of the stuff to get the total. It annoys me seriously every time.
As a female developer / hacker / mathy techy computer science person (for 20 years) who has never been to one; my only impression of them is the commentary I see from people online talking about their controversy. Otherwise, they are like fog to me: I can comment neither positively nor negatively nor even neutrally on whether they genuinely add or detract from my experience or interests.

Lots of people seem to have opinions on these conventions, but to be seriously seriously honest, it is very rare I have been involved in any tech thing where, if you mandated that 90% of the participants must be male, that it would change the demographic. That is a satirical way of demonstrating that most technical, mathematical, engineering, and computer things are male dominated purely by their origin and lineage of development. It's like asking a 14 year old boy to go lingerie shopping. People react because it's not the norm. The reaction is neither good nor bad. I react to people too.
Hu? I don't get what you are trying to say ... yes, one usually should have a stateful packetfilter at the uplink, with IPv6 just as with IPv4, with NAT just as without, what is your point?
Thanks for the explanation. It doesn't sound like something that would be worth it for my company, but I can at least appreciate the value to some other companies now.
Just for legacy sake, it probably wouldn't make sense to switch the meaning of 'int' in Rust to 'uint', whilst creating a new type 'sint' to emulate the old meaning of 'int'. Legions of up-and-coming developers have learned what an integer is, and it would be incredibly counter-productive to change up that definition for one particular programming language.
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This is not my solution (and I don't know much about monkeys, sorry).

This is a cost-effective way to be always maxed out (expanded as you say) with fixed price, this can scale well beyond the needs of almost every business.
And , as I said, if you happen to be the next Facebook, Uber, Airbnb or whatever, you will acquire the know-how to scale.
True except 3) is "ask for more money to accelerate growth."
White House views attack as security issue
This is more about C's integer promotion rules than it is about overflow.
I swear by Spectacle. After trying a number of other wms, this is the one I ended up using for more than a year now. It strikes a good balance for me between features and simplicity, and the keyboard shortcuts are intuitive and don't clash with other apps (like iTerm, Fantastical, etc).
Do you have an idea you want to pursue? If so, go for it. It might work, and if it doesn't you'll at least have something (a cool thing you made) to show for it.

But definitely don't "start a startup" for its own sake. That sounds like a guaranteed path to failure. To succeed on your own you'll need to have some deeper motivation than just not wanting to apply to jobs anymore.
Paywall links are fail.
The first number is shown, so you can extrapolate what are the others. I'm not talking about absolute values.
At least he is honest about his motivations.
Sony/the theatres didn't really require the threat of violence to pull The Interview; it seems plausable that they cancel/postpone the release because the hackers potentially had really, double-bad-super-embarrassing data that they had not released yet.

But this is a different company entirely (Paramount), with no known hack and no threat of violence against them. What's going on?
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There are a lot of people who are affected by conferences like this, with some positive and some negative effects. I suspect the balance is strongly positive.

The possible increased discrimination from those with pre-existing chauvinistic mental models can be weighed against decreased discrimination from those whose pre-existing chauvinistic models are challenged by seeing capable female founders, which I think would be the larger effect.

And there are bigger and more direct benefits: networking with other founders, getting your startup / product out there in front of more potential customers and investors, media coverage, etc.
Human beings are really, really good at constructing logical arguments for things they want to be true and ignoring or downplaying counter-arguments. Objectivism is no exception.
What is the ultimate goal of GSLV? What kind of crew vehicle will it ultimately launch?
I'm suggesting it is your attitude and not your age but you seem to be dead set on being right.
The daughter seems to be very depressed and clearly isn't intending on continuing this tradition.
Routing isn't stateful at all, and NAT doesn't need a stateful filter, it just needs connection tracking (which is also needed for a stateful filter, if you have one).

How common are stateful packet filters on home routers today? I don't really know - thanks to NAT, you can get away without for most attack scenarios nowadays, so I wouldn't be surprised if vendors don't really bother with it. But given that connection tracking doesn't seem to be that difficult with home router hardware, I would have expected stateful packet filters in home routers as a default feature early on, with everything inbound blocked by default (and then some UPnP like protocol for opening ports as needed, just without the stupid address collisions you get with NAT).
I just registered, and filled out my requirements for my next job. However, I clicked on "edit my requirements" on my profile page and the fields were blank. Were they not saved?
Further, any philosophy that includes axioms limits the value of logical reasoning.

If X (which is assumed to be true) and Y then Z. It might be logically valid, but it’s still meaningless.
How is that not actually the same family?
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I would have thought this approach would have been highly susceptible to the Birthday Paradox[0]; it seems to me to be nothing more than modern day numerology.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
I appreciate your transparency and your willingness to trust your own judgment as to when to intervene.
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I don't see how "why" can ever definitely be resolved. It's far too nuanced a question, but higher resolution data capture and analysis helps you understand it more easily, which seems to be the direction analytics is going.
"Until 2011, it held the record for being the oldest hotel in the world."

I wondered what happened in 2011
United Nations concerned by “highly intrusive” digital spying
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The EFF should sell ties.
Wouldn't it have been nice to hear what they actually said while they went through this deck with potential investors? Something like this would be a better share/embed IMO: http://presentio.us/view/p1tcHs
Modern processors can generate different micro-ops depending on whether the flags are observed. In old non-pipelined/non-speculative/non-rewriting processors what you said is true but all bets are off in the world of massively funded x86 processor development.
1. They publish events that don't have high scores, but they don't publish non-events that do have high scores.

2. I was actually wrong on the VN whitening, they use XOR, either 10 for some devices, or a 560 bit mask for others(!). This is just silly.

the XOR is used to exclude an important class of potential spurious effects — biases that might arise from temperature changes, component aging, etc.

It's not excluding spurious effects, it's hiding it.