skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to Myanmar a year and a half ago. Easily the most valuable thing I brought with me was my iPhone, loaded up with iTravel, a free app that downloads entire countries worth of Wikivoyage entries for offline viewing (Although I spent most of my downtime reading Orwell's Burmese Days).

If you're trying to make a point about the uselessness of paper travel guides in the modern world, you couldn't pick a better destination than Myanmar. Since the opening of the borders to foreigners in 2012, the economy and the state of technology has been advancing at a rapid clip.

Even WikiVoyage had a hard time keeping up. There was copy in the Myanmar article stating that WiFi was not available anywhere, and that the only way of getting on to the internet was through government sanctioned/monitored internet cafes. When I arrived (10/2013) there was free WiFi in almost every hotel I stayed at.

My general advice for anyone going to Myanmar is to spend a couple days getting blown away by Pagan and then do some hiking and shopping around Inle Lake. But if you want to know how to get around and where to stay, I feel like I'd be of little use. The best (or at least most advisable) bus routes and hotels currently running probably opened in the time since I left.
I'm confused by page two of this. I understand that recent examples of blocking that came to light were in hotels and convention centers. So that's an example they've seen, I get that.

But then they have wording that suggests the rule only applies to commercial hotels and convention centers and the network operators for those commercial establishments. Is that really all it applies to?

Or does it apply to everybody? What about (sometimes nasty) local governments, nonprofits, individuals, tribal authorities, non-hotel and non-convention center commercial entities, and others?
I am not an expert, but my understanding is that long GRBs are expected as the result of the collapse of very massive stars. These stars are short lived (few million years) and very luminous. Metals (in astrophysics anything heavier than Helium) in the envelope of such a massive star would drive strong radiation-pressure driven mass losses (because of the increased opacity). Only very metal poor stars are able to remain sufficiently compact and massive at the onset of collapse to be able to trigger a GRB.
Working with landmen and title companies in Texas has taught me that even the best kept computer GIS records are probably wrong. This goes for regular property as well as mineral leasing. The amount of records for one sublease are simply staggering. We are currently doing a digitizing and OCR of historical well records from 1980 to current and the amount of paperwork fills a 40x30 storage building ceiling to floor. This is only for a few thousand wells. I've seen title searches for large families where there wasn't a will set up end up with a sack of near 1000 printed pages. Detangling property rights in areas with a lot of history, and mineral rights separated from land rights is a damned nightmare.
Should development teams consider migrating from Node.js to IO.js?
Many of the concerns raised in this article are legitimate, and obviously aren't exclusive to tech. But the narrative presented by this article is not as compelling as it could be because the author relies so heavily on the experience of two founders whose struggle raising seed capital mirrors that of countless male founders.

Is it possible that Glassbreakers simply isn't the $100 million/year investment opportunity the founders believe it is? The author devotes just a single paragraph to this possibility:

> To be fair, there are many reasons Glassbreakers might not appeal to a Founders Fund or Andreessen Horowitz, or any of the dozens of other all-male VC partnerships on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, reasons that have nothing to do with sexist bias. It’s not likely to be a Facebook, or even a Houzz, the home-remodeling site launched by an Israeli husband and wife, financed by Sequoia and now valued at $2.3 billion. Glassbreakers is by definition “gender-gated,” thereby excluding 50 percent of potential users. It also presumes that many women do feel the need for female mentorship, when in fact there is quite possibly a significant cohort of working women who think they are getting along just fine without another woman’s advice.

The author then minimizes this argument by pointing out that Uber founder Travis Kalanick was able to buy a San Fransico mansion when he sold a "now-forgotten" file sharing service. This has nothing to do with Glassbreakers, and anybody who stays in this game long enough will inevitably see more inexplicable fundings and acquisitions than can be counted. Good people and ideas go without funding and exits all the time.

The Glassbreakers founders were able to raise $100,000 in seed money, which the article's author humorously refers to as "pre-seed." They were looking for half a million dollars in "pre-seed" funding, but a lot of companies have problems raising. It appears Glassbreakers has some traction (1,500 registered users) since launch, but without significantly more than this, raising $1.5 million might be difficult for the founders in today's ultra-competitive environment. Just because they want an 18 month runway doesn't mean that investors are obligated to provide it.

Meanwhile, there are companies like Chronus (http://chronus.com/) and MicroMentor (http://www.micromentor.org/) that offer mentoring software corporations can use to build their own mentoring programs for employees. There is also an ecosystem of firms like Insala (http://www.insala.com) that help corporations implement mentoring programs end to end. So if Glassbreakers is ultimately going to pursue revenue through corporate opportunities, which is allued to in the article, Glassbreakers has to prove that it can differentiate itself from and compete with what's already out there. Nothing in the article suggests that it has at this early stage.
People aren't complaining because they think SV treats women badly, they're complaining because they perceive SV as preventing women across the country from being as successful in business as men are.
I'm genuinely curious -- does the women in tech movement advocate for improvements in the treatment of such operational staff (HR, admin, etc.) or is the narrative mostly limited to engineering (and maybe including product and marketing)?
I've been a reader of the Dish for 15 years. I've always been astounded at both the quality and quantity of writing Andrew produces. I wouldn't be surprised if wrote more than any other blogger (among those who are actually read).

One thing I've admired him for was he was one of the few high profile supporters of the Iraq war who changed his mind and publicly announced it.

I can't say I'm surprised, his announcement is perfectly understandable!
Is personal grocery shopping really a thing Australia? I’m not convinced
> Zuckerberg, Gates, Thiel, Musk—these are our Carnegies and Morgans and Rockefellers, whose names will be on museum wings and university halls 100 years from now. And there’s not a female among them.

Wow, yeah, it's crazy that a shortlist of four people of 316 million that none of them are women. Despite Asians having large representation in tech, should I be offended that none of those these heavyweights are Asian?
Thanks for the info. I was thinking of building something doing somewhat similar stuff but I think it'd have to be sever side in my case.
Another recent posting on HN illustrates why employees may have valid reasons for leaving a company after a short time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8963198

Companies that treat their employees like this shouldn't be surprised when their employees suddenly quit.
‘Jamming’ and ‘exploiting a protocol flaw’ are both methods of interfering.

> 47 U.S. Code § 333 - Willful or malicious interference
>
> No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with
> or cause interference to any radio communications of any
> station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter
> or operated by the United States Government.
That will vary wildly depending on who you ask. A lot of attention and people are focused mainly on engineering, and we probably hear about those the most, but there is certainly a broader spread of attention too.
Um, nice example of mansplaining.
I would love to see the numbers of bootstrapped companies run/founded by women vs. those recieving investments. Until there are more women VC's, you're not going to see more women getting VC money. Why? Because purely evaluating a potential fundee on metrics alone will fail. VC's that use too much math and not enough "gut" will finance the wrong companies.

The problem with that is, all the dudes got all the money, and human tendency is to think highly of things we most identify with. ergo, dude investors are more willing to go out on a limb on an idea if they can identify with the person giving it (currently, lots of white males). It's unfortunate, but it's not purely inequality, it's just a sad fact of human nature that we seek what's most alike us.

It takes a particularly well educated, and self-understanding individual to look past emotional bias. The problem then becomes that others around them don't necessarily have that skill, so there becomes a cascading effect of lack of belief in something. (be that other investors, potential clients, or even quality employees) In effect, our prejudices create the successes on a larger scale that seed the next generation (of VC's, not generations of people) that's making the same emotional decisions.

I don't have a solution. Maybe it's screaming about inequality, as some do, maybe it's succeeding in spite of it. I don't deny it's existence, but I just can't figure out how to change it.

I think it just has to come down to each person realizing it in themselves and changing it. For me it was in round 4343239534 of potential front end developers, when a dorky looking hipster girl came in, and I realized half-way through her interview I had already set her up for failure because I'd assumed she was a poser. It took her being beyond great at what she did to make me realize that in myself, and let me tell you, that's an awful, awful feeling to have. When you're sitting there thinking you're a good person, fair to people, and realize you've made such a sweeping - and wrong - assumption about some one else because of their sex, race, lifestyle, whatever, it's really damn hard to accept it. I can completely see how people let themselves continue to ignore that little nudge in the back of their mind. It's not easy to change the way you think.

TL;DR - Fucking sucks, and it's really hard to change, but it exists.
Can Lynx activate this feature at all? Lynx may have bookmarks, but as far as I can tell, Lynx does not have WebRTC support, which means it can not be exploited to share private LAN IP addresses, nor can it access web cams.

Firefox, like Chrome, is going overboard with non-web-browsing features. Some less technical users surely will appreciate that, but at some point it becomes less of a browser and more of a pseudo-OS.

If people don't voice their opinion against this direction, then Mozilla will continue down this path. I don't think it's too much to ask a web browser to be a web browser and nothing more.
TechEmpower has it at about 3x Ruby at net/http level, but close to 10x on BeeGo vs. Sinatra.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=p...

(Interestingly, JRuby is actually within about 10% of Go.)

This doesn't surprise me all that much: the guts of Ruby's HTTP parsing & network handling is generally done in C. It's only when you layer all the code in Rails through the default Ruby interpreter that it gets slow.
It doesn't treat women worse than every other place in the world, no, but it treats them worse than many other places. Computer science has a sharply worse gender participation gap than other professions, and even from other STEM fields. It also continues to allow that gap to reinforce itself, for instance with apologia about how women aren't taught computers when they're younger and (by implication) how they're too far gone by the time they're 20 to remedy that problem. And that's one of the more charitable pathologies to focus on.
OK. Maybe I don't get this, but doesn't framing this as a "war" make the situation even worse? Isn't viewing the opposite gender as "enemy combatants" a really terrible thing to do?

I would think that women face enough challenges in their workplace without being viewed by their coworkers as being hostile and out for their livelihoods.

Maybe I have this all wrong, but this seems that "news" pieces like this do not help anybody but the media (though perhaps it makes those on either side of the gender divide who already view the others as enemy combatants feel validated).
Am I getting this right: they use something like Display Postscript[1] instead of the virtual DOM? Are we back in the 80ties?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
> Anyone can tell you about a bad bridge after it has failed. But it would take a bridge engineer to tell you that before it fails.

Right, especially since bridge engineers don't produce bridges, but rather produce designs for bridges, the quality of which can only be judged by other bridge engineers.

I like your definition.
"Gang-Bang Interviews"? Really?

SV tech is getting the diversity shakedown hard these days. Plenty of other fields have sex ratios just as skewed. Why is tech getting the brunt?
No, React Native translates a declarative API into imperative calls. Just like React does in the browser (after going through the Virtual DOM as, essentially, an optimisation).
You could just to a bileaner filtered surface over recently sold houses in your town to more or less fake the same result. Just subtract the assessed value from the height of the approximate surface.
This link is at the bottom of every page. What's the point of posting it?
Mongoosejs community dead?
Mongoosejs has been an awesome ORM library for nodejs/mongodb development. For what it does, it has been great I've been using for atleast 2 years without any real issue. However, whenever I've ran into issues, it has been very difficult to get community feedback. You can visit the irc channel, and its only about 38 people and 99% of the time it is an idle channel. You can try and get someone to say anything but chances are no one will respond.

Now the real reason I'm bringing this up is because it feels like mongoose although great, is missing some common ORM functionalities. For example, when using 'population', model methods are not available as only a hash is returned and not the object instance of the populated doc.

Anyway, just a rant really but would really like to get other peoples thought on using mongoose and their experience with getting help with the community.
If I'm one of Reacts competitors I'm ecstatic that they're abandoning the web. It reminds me of when Angular wastes energy on angular.dart because of a Google mandate. Didn't help them much.
Hi Racker: I dont think this statement is necessarily specific to the mail offering. It's more about the pace of innovation or lack thereof @ Rackspace these days. There just seems to be a better fit for everything Rackspace used to do well somewhere else. :(

I want support and someone I can call, but I can honestly say that the support that I receive at AWS is more comprehensive and detailed that the typical response I got from Rackspace, which is really disappointing. Once I discovered that, I couldnt justify the 2x+ premium that I had been paying.

I also wish some of the more interesting things you have like Airbrake, Mailgun, Exceptional got more love. Instead, the focus seems to be on the non-differentiated stuff and all the "enterprise" stuff that matters less and less everyday.
From the video, Facebook mentions that they are using the React native for the Facebook iOS groups application. Theres a live demo to demonstrate. Video starts at 24:05.

[1] http://youtu.be/KVZ-P-ZI6W4?t=24m5s
[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-groups/id931735837?...
What does this "hello world" measure?

It doesn't measure Ruby's speed, that's for sure. The IO is C, and the HTTP parsing and network operations are also C in Ruby.

Also the frameworks you used are minimal (for both Ruby and Go) so their overhead is negligible as well. Again you're mostly measuring some C calls vs Go calls.

So, a more accurate title would be: "Golang only 2x C at net/http and same as C at web framework level".

Now, try a full blown Rails service or a Sinatra endpoind that DOES some processing, not just prints something, and compare it with the same thing in Go.
I like that article a lot. GRE Quantitative and SAT Math skew heavily toward men. And the SAT covers very basic reasoning skills that would be related to programming aptitude. GRE Quantitative covers topics essential to surviving a CS major.

We should figure out where the educational system is failing women here. And we should also consider a new curriculum focused on programming, because traditional Computer Science isn't necessary for success as a tech worker. I've seen some colleges offer both a BA and a BS in Comp Sci which I think is smart, because in the BA they strip out physics, chemistry, calculus, etc which in my experience cause most CS majors to drop out.
There are certainly cases where churches own a vast portion of urban real estate, all tax-free. I'd be amazed if churches didn't own a plurality of the land in the greater Oklahoma City area, for instance. It's funny how "The power to tax is the power to destroy" doesn't apply to any of the other entities mentioned in the First Amendment.

Scientology is probably too small to own much of LA. Clearwater, FL, on the other hand, may be a different story.
Where was the web abandoned?
Also, if anyone has answers to the mongoose population as an instance question, would love your feedback and comments @stackoverflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28206734/mongoose-populat...
But at the same time it's possible to think of the
front line as being the place where the battle to move
forward is being fought now, instead of places where
little progress has been made.

How is that line of thinking, rational?

So you want people who are already putting up with plenty of progressive dogma to put up with more progressivism, when the rest of those areas that raldi [1] mentioned haven't seen a lick of the same progressivism, impacting their lives in decades?[2]

Dont you think that such unfair pressure solely on the tech world, will only serve to alienate them?

Won't it cause them to dig their heels in?

Is that kind of retrenchment desirable?

In what way does that make any sense?

This is isn't even the first time I've heard this line of fuzzy thought-leadership.

I find it grating when people offer such silly twisted logic to prop up their premises.

When any form of change is imposed on any section of society, at too fast a rate, there will be resistance.

When any form of change is unfairly imposed on ONLY one section of society or in ONLY one geographic region, within the same country, there is bound to be a even greater degree of resistance.

[1]
The construction industry, The Bible Belt, The restaurant industry, West Africa, The movie industry, The Vatican, The sportswriting industry, The people who make Superbowl ads, Japan, The adult entertainment industry, The Middle East, Wall Street, Nepal, The upper echelons of American politics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8964102

[2] I'm by no means advocating less than progressive conditions to prevail in
any industry or any geographic region.
This could be just as well, said of the conservative end of the spectrum. In
other words, there are conservative pockets, hell bent on turning their already
conservative professions even more rigid and unyielding.
I see. So all you need are compiler/interpreter experts that can turn any problem into a interpreter/compiler problem and you're golden.

I'm not saying the approach is not worthwhile but how exactly does this generalize to other workplaces where there is no critical mass of such experts? I mean they have their own compiler for Haskell for Pete's sake. I would also like to know how many of the core team members have PhDs and MScs. We can check off Don and Lennart. Maybe Don is really measuring the effects of PhDs in language/compiler design on how to manage complexity?

Alternatively, Facebook has been experimenting with Haskell and OCaml. Seeing their case studies would be valuable as well.
Does anybody know of a good package that might allow one to notice rogue disassociate / disconnect packets when they are being used against you? It seems like something that would notice, and record the action might make a great way to tell when hotels (or other spaces) try this again.
Sorry, dumb question, don't feel like watching the video:

What platforms are targetted? Out of, say, iOS, Android, Linux/X11 desktop, Windows desktop, WinRT, OSX?
React is no longer a web library, so today.
Hinton does not really try to understand how brain does it. His latest ideas on capsules are a little bit closer to the brain anatomy, but still very far away from real brains. I think he admits that himself.

Jeff Hawkins is the guy who actually tries to understand "which parts of bird flight are actually necessary for flight".
iOS and Android.
Dark Sky Simulations
It's particularly ironic that the author included this quote:

>“When I coach women, I tell them how wonderful they are. Women won’t make the ridiculous projections about their companies that the guys will. They won’t say the really stupid thing the nerds do. They are a lot more realistic and practical and humble.”

Soon after this line:

>They told investors their project was the next Pinterest—the way screenwriters tell movie moguls their scripts are the next Titanic.

And then they quoted Shanley Kane and I lost the ability to take the article seriously.
Do they have a WebRTC based service for users (not for developers) similar to Google Talk / Hagnouts phone calling which doesn't necessarily create a dedicated phone number for you, but allows calling other phones? I'm not interested in building my own service using their API, I want simply to use one like that without a need to debug weird issues in native plugins.
>it should be impossible for them (or for nCipher) to do so.

Why does it matter? They can certainly be compelled to use the HSM to decrypt data, even if they can't extract keys.
"Abandoning the web" seems a bit strong here. One difference between angular+dart and react+native is this:

angular_devs ∩ dart_devs ~= 0 (relative to angular_devs)
react_devs ∩ mobile_devs ~= react_devs

Almost everyone who uses react also has to do mobile development, and would like a simpler way to do it. This solves a real and widespread need.
This is amazing - wonder when we can get our hands on it.
> It's an antiquated, FDR-era disaster, written by people who thought it was okay for government to set prices for private services

Not long ago, similar cries could be heard about the repeal of Glass-Steagall, leaving us to enjoy the fruits of Gramm-Leach-Bliley... some things never change.
It's not? I must have missed that announcement.
React has been carefully designed to encompass better UI patterns regardless of the underlying platform. There are some very thoughtful and capable people working on it. Worth reading Jordan's thoughts here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8962171
I wish you hadn't unkilled it, because I ended up clicking on it.

I stopped reading and flagged the article after getting to this part: There is, though, one thing these two founders are missing, and it is almost the sine qua non of the fabled Silicon Valley startup. They don’t have penises.

This is trashy writing and flamebait, and I don't want to see in on HN. There is a vast library of quality literature on gender issues out there, and I think it's fair for us to reject articles that cannot rise above vulgarity.
Expansion != abandonment. In fact, were I a "competitor," I would be concerned about the philosophical buy-in that said expansion could induce.