skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This list really just scratches the surface of the standard C libraries and C syntax. You can't really call it comprehensive if it's missing something as fundamental as memcpy(). As a truly comprehensive reference for serious C programmers, I'd recommend this book:

C: A Reference Manual, by Harbison and Steele

http://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-5th-Edition/dp/013089...

(That's the same Guy Steele who's known for his work on the Common Lisp specification. He's a man of many talents...)
was in a class of its own.

religionism.

People here (and everywhere google is a verb) ignorance is not only implied, but encouraged.
Most of the things you listed are places where women's rights are well behind those of men.

I think those are all places that need to be fixed.

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.

From that perspective talking of SV as a front line isn't wrong: if women can't be treated equally in the supposedly progressive environment of SV, then other places will be even further behind.
I believe that the folks at Mozilla are capable and willing enough to not let an external company interfere with their product in any way that would harm their users. However, it is also a question of being able to communicate this to their users. Putting the logo of a company which is at least not famous for protecting its users right in front of everyone does not help getting this message across. Furthermore, I assume that Mozilla has likely not even received money but just services in-kind. Damaging the reputation of a product that is critical to the open web for a couple of servers?
Beams from my understanding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Energetics_and...
The bible belt isn't exactly eating the world.

We live in a society where more people now aspire to be tech CEOs than pro athletes or rock stars, and tech is one of the main centers of power both politically and economically.

It's easy to dismiss the article because there are a few mischaracterizations and exaggerations. But you need to remember that most people get their information about the tech world from second hand sources, and SV is largely opaque and closed off to the general public.

If you actually read it for what it is rather than just judging the author based on her knowledge of obscure inside-baseball tech scandals then I think there are some valuable points.
It isn't about having a great product anymore. It's about creating hype.
Wars are only fought where at least one side thinks they can win. SV is the front line because it is more egalitarian than those arenas you mention.
Does anyone have a good source for industry-wide ratios that relate to the ones given in the article?

A couple examples:

2.7% of firms funded have female CEOs. How many of firms seeking funding have female CEOs? How many have a female cofounder rather than just looking at the CEO position?

80% of female founders used personal savings as their primary source of funding (it sounds like this is for the seed phase, but unclear in the article?). What is the industry-wide percentage?

Female founded firms do 31% better on average (in an industry where average = a failed company what does this mean?). Is the sample size (which the article makes sure to tell us is far too small on a moral basis) large enough to make this statistically significant?

Note: I am not trying to undermine the article - I don't have enough knowledge of the industry to say much. I am honestly looking for context for these numbers and wondering if anyone can help.
filed (had to get home first)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1127178

Not sure this is necessarily enough info to go on, but it's reproducible on my end for sure - it wasn't a one-off.

thanks.
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I use hipchat at my place of work. It has so many issues. People appearing offline at least every other day when they aren't. Auto reconnect may have never worked even once for me that I can recall. Even worse, when trying to auto-reconnect and it's not reconnecting, the only thing you can do is close the app and open it again.
Great piece. More B2B companies should offer customers promotion in exchange for stories of how useful their product is. Major win-win. And of course 'patio11 is doing odd and clever things with twilio aside from his business. :)

Minor nitpick: Incorrectly states he's the highest karma user of HN, when 'tptacek has almost double his karma, and pg is #2 even though he's not on the list of high-karma users.
Let's see where this stands three years from now.

Mozilla is working on some pretty neat stuff; and is paying attention to the rest of the world, not just the American/European/Japanese market.

Also since they are a foundation owned corporation with a public benefit mission https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/ they can take a longer-term view than some of the other big players.

Having played with one of the flame dev phones for FirefoxOS I wouldn't be too surprised if within the decade they are dominant in areas of the world that don't have an installed base ( rural india, sub-saharan africa outside of SA, etc. ).

Remember that more people are going to acquire mobile internet devices in the next 5 years than were on the internet in 1998.
Twilio Client (https://www.twilio.com/webrtc) does this through just JavaScript and webrtc, using Twilio as the bridge. granted you need to wire up to the JavaScript, but it's fairly simple.
however, i don't think that includes large parts of orange county, which is adjacent to LA. OC has a distinctly different feel but it's all smushed together, there isn't like a large open expanse of nothing like between OC and SD.
Great question! Since they're emanated in jets, the GRBs travel in a conical shape that spreads out as it travels. Check out page 19 of this paper, it has a histogram of the jet opening angle;
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.2458.pdf

Then you can figure out the flux from the area of a circle on a sphere, which is something like
2πr^2(1−cosθ)
Where theta is the opening angle and r is the distance from point of emanation of the GRB.
Pretty sure Google would love for the web to not suck so much. I think the strategy is to support some decent technology and hope the rest of the world will get their shit together. The W3C is just slooooooooowwwwww.
I don't know, but in my limited experience, lazy evaluation makes memory use worse (usually not much), but more importantly makes performance (time and memory) harder to reason about, because you don't easily know when something will actually evaluate.

Besides that, there's also not much practical gain from it, IMO. One commonly cited benefit is a function that doesn't use all of it's arguments, therefore saving computation time when they're not evaluated. But realistically, an unused parameter should probably be removed.
I had the same reaction. If I'm going to be in interviews (however informal) all day for multiple days I'd need to lock myself away in the evening to recharge. I get the impression dinner, drinks, hanging out in the evening would be a part of this as well.

Interesting idea otherwise. Never been to San Francisco/SV and would love to get a taste of what the environment is like there. Maybe an AirBnB for a few days in a hacker house?
So if I write a poem in a rock in the middle of the desert I'm offending your right to have access to it? You can always film the screen and use that as fair use.

I'm against DRM, but "You're offending my rights to copy with minimum effort" is not an argument against it. Nobody has to provide anything in an easy-to-copy way, which doesn't mean that you don't have the right to copy it.
If any HN reader is visiting Myanmar, let's meetup. My email is in profile.
Out of curiosity why did Nepal make its way on to your list?
The fact that these signals intelligence entities are working so hard on the pre-crime angle causes me some optimism. Because most of the countries of the world are not actually at war and are not likely to go to war there is little value in signals intelligence. The idea that it might be possible to predict when individuals are going to do something bad can be seen as a kind of last gasp at relevance for such entities. If it turns out that such prediction is not possible then signals intelligence will simply be defunded in most of the world.
> We live in a society where more people now aspire to be tech CEOs than pro athletes or rock stars, and tech is one of the main centers of power both politically and economically.

Citation? I would say this is a huge assumption, presumably backed by your anecdotal experiences. To offer an anecdotal counterpoint - from what I have seen of the majority of the college-going American generation, they do aspire to leadership positions in general, but seldom through purely technical means.
Even if you're looking for causation, detrending is usually necessary to obtain consistent estimators (in statistical terms). For example, Granger causality works with two stationary timeseries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granger_causality
Ah, you're saying SV is the front line not because it treats women worse than anyone else in the world, but rather (to use the military analogy) because it's an extremely strategic piece of territory.
My point is not that I see FOSS at risk but that they undermine the (important) idea behind Firefox: Providing a way for people to participate at the internet in an open fashion while protecting people's privacy.

In the past we could hope that Mozilla and Google had the best interest of their users in mind but now having such super-obvious product placement? This raises a lot of questions for me and will do even more so for the average user.
> I'm generally pretty happy with Twilio's responsiveness to everything over the last couple years.

I have to disagree with this. I've had a number of problems with both Twilio's customer support (failing to simply explain how to do something when I stated what I was trying to do) and also with their technical support (completely abandoning me for a week despite me immediately following up with what they'd requested and then asking for status updates).
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Here's the moment in the video where it's announced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZ-P-ZI6W4#t=1341
If you want to think forward about solving the challenges women face here, companies would do well to start taking a hard look in the mirror about how much they pay operations staff.

Operations keeps the company humming along while it's simultaneously trying to fly off the rails of the rocket sled that is a startup. Unfortunately, a large quantity of dicks (literally) in SV think that operations positions are cookie cutter and can be filled by anyone hungry for a job. I can assure you from first hand experience that's not the case, and have seen many a company encounter additional struggles because they lacked (or lost) the operations support to keep the team together in hard times.

Operation's positions are primarily filled by women. Women who work their asses off to keep the rest of the company fed when they are in crunch time. Women who ensure the office is warm, friendly and receptive to creative work. Women who make sure the ADD CEO is where they need to be on time to make deals happen. Women who understand the business better than most of the executives, because that's what's required to be good at helping the executives to get their shit together and get stuff done.

And, sadly, these women doing operations are paid a fraction of what men are in other equally critical roles. Personally, I think it's time to fix this discrepancy.

(Literally downvoted 2 minutes into posting this. Nice.)
A better question for the people that live there is 'are the cost of distributing the data artificially inflated?'.

In my own county the costs of document scanning and record storage were in the 1 to 2 million dollar range for years. Oddly this coincided with the county commissioner having a husband that work for Xerox at the time, the Xerox office also handled the counties scanning and document storage. Amazingly after the time that commissioner was no longer in the office the contracts were renegotiated and the price dropped over 25%. The biggest issue I have seen working at the local government level for over a decade now is very few people without a stake in the game ever review the use of technology by the counties. Politics has far more sway than best practices.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Nepal#Women.E...
Without any hard data to back the statement, I can say that I feel it's a trend. But it might just be a trend within our always connected tech subculture. It should also be a sign to people to learn how to discipline themselves better to avoid burnout or loss of appreciation for taking it slow. I nearly hit that point 3 years ago and instead of going cold turkey on the web, I just slowed it down.

After about 3 months, I realised I didn't need to ALWAYS be on twitter to be updated about the latest piece of tech news. I didn't need to ALWAYS be on my RSS feeds for every possible update in my other fields of interest.

As a result I have occasionally missed out on updates of new programming language features, and some security updates. But none of it has ever affected me in a way that made me wish I was on to things sooner. (except for effing shellshock. I just backed up, wiped, and switched off both my servers till it became safe)
The cover art just sucks all the air out of the room. I immediately know you SV folks aren't going to get a fair shake in this article.
Ask HN: Use cases for blockchain other than Bitcoin
Looking for interesting usecases you are working on (or you came across) and why you chose blockchain instead of other alternatives.
> Reality is under no obligation to live up to our ideals.

I think we should make a T-Shirt of that!
Glad to see this here. I listened to both of these on audible and they had a profound effect on the way I look at my American culture.

The first book is better, but both are worth the time.
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It seems like it might exclude a lot of the galaxy, the central part, from hosting long lived complex life.

This would mean that complex life is more common along the outer rim, where we are. This in turn means that the median distance between complex living biospheres might be very large, further reducing the likelihood of visitation or receiving signals.
Ask HN: Best paying non-IT career for burnt-out developer?
I haven't enjoyed software development for 10 years. The main thing I dislike about it is that it is a huge waste of time and money. Development is like the auto industry; the same vehicle is reinvented for no practical reason. There is a recent interview I saw with the inventor of the ZX Spectrum where he stated that he doesn't use modern technology, and he is disappointed with the way everyone is wasting computing power today. He imagined by today all cars would drive themselves and all doctors would be robots; instead people are obsessed with social media and games running bloated operating systems and applications.

I don't want to be an IT project manager. I just want to get away from all of it.

For those that have transitioned from development to other careers and been successful, making a similar salary or more, what did you transition to and how did you do it?

What books and resources are best for someone wanting to leave the profession?
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I didnt even know you could downvote on here!
I'm trying it out. As you might expect, it's very focused on US-centric journalism and news. Which might be great for some people, but until they add more personalization features or just get a bigger community it's probably not very relevant to my own interests.
I saw these guys at CES. They are using lasers which fuse resin . The quality of the output was far smoother than
the more popular extruded plastic 3D printing.
Quote:

The Economic Impact

11 TRILLION ISK.

According to some PLEX conversions that could equate to approximately $300,000-$330,000 USD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Project
Lots of prior discussion, e.g.,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961518
Love that somebody raised this. :-) Same applies to Disney.
Wish they'd mentioned Theranos
The Bible Belt has a pretty big impact just by its territory and the population within it alone.

I really, really don't think the broader population is anywhere near as enthusiastic about startup culture (which is probably what you mean by "aspire to be tech CEOs") as you think it is.

As for technology being a main center of power, that is correct. But probably not in the idealistic way you're thinking of, regarding entrepreneurship and "disruptions" or anything like that. The fruits of their labor may be used indirectly, but it's primarily closed-room contract work and military defense that is used to exert political power, not that trendy startup or open source project.
So you can't figure out just how much land the county commissioners wife really owns...

Literally. And if you should attempt to disambiguate all the trusts and LLCs and special purpose vehicles to figure out who really owns what in your county; you can expect a visit from law enforcement.

The US may look clean and consistently score low on measures of corruption; but it's there, especially at the county level.
Hacker News is no longer really a community for serious debate or challenging insights WRT non-technology subjects. YCombinator's position as a public face of the tech industry sort of requires that submissions/comments, especially relating to gender issues, be whitewashed to some degree.

The intelligent discoursers I know have all moved to communities like slatestarcodex, LessWrong, potentially-vile "neoreaction" sites (you can read Mencius Moldbug's writings for a primer), and other obscure parts of the Twitterverse. Your mileage may vary with any of these subcultures, and there is plenty of "toxic" content, but IMO the quality of discourse is vastly higher that what you'd expect on a typical Hacker News thread for anything not explicitly related to startups or programming.
Use any Tablet/Smartphone as extended monitor wireless in GNU/Linux
Blocking WIFI to sell WIFI is an evil plan. It's also highly illegal.
It might have to do with the way the default generics for aesons fromjson and tojson instances for record types are defined? Or maybe the lack of incremental streaming read write support in the aeson data model? Or maybe they wanted better date or integer support? It'd be pretty easy to ask don or Lennart I'd imagine.

I have to say that I definitely enjoy using haskell when faced with dirty complicated data, which I'm told happens a lot in larger organizations.
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As a rule, those industry-wide ratios tend to come without data to contextualize them. For instance, you'll get a statistic about what percentage of funded startups have a woman co-founder but no information about what percentage of startups considered have a woman co-founder.
The issue I have with Slack is that the one thing I want to pay for is more integrations, but in order to do that I need to shell out $7/mo/user, and doing ten integrations instead of five isn't worth $350/mo. As a result, we just straight up aren't using most of what Slack is great at, and we probably never will.

If they offered a paid tier for just extending the number of integrations available, I think it would quickly become far more useful to my team, but none of the rest of the paid features are of any use to any of the teams I'm on at all. I get that I'm probably not the target market, but I would wager that whatever those two extra integrations would cost them to provide us, our team would be able to pay and then some.
It is, but on a side note:

If you actually had the technology to accelerate to a speed close to light, time dilation might actually allow you to make an intergalactic journey as long as you were okay with leaving behind your home forever... Since a few years for you might be tens of millions of years elsewhere. There is also little matter between galaxies, so the hyper velocity particles problem would be less severe. Still total sci fi from where we are sitting, just saying that once you approach c distances shrink a lot (relative to your frame of reference). So if travel close to c is possible at all, travel almost anywhere is possible.

This is one of the reasons the Fermi paradox is so interesting. There are tons of possible explanations. One simple one in this context is, of course, that accelerating to speeds that close to light is just physically impossible for various reasons. This would at least limit migration to nearby interstellar distances at best, which when combined with other factors would make intelligences encountering one another statistically rare in the universe.

There was a sci fi book where a ship's Bussard Ramjet got stuck in the "on" position and they kept accelerating until time dilation allowed them to survive a great crunch and another Big Bang. By the time they stopped they were in a new universe.
Doesn't it violate the apple policy about updating the app without reviewing?
Is it as hard to find a suitable operations person as it is a suitable engineer?
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The QR code contains data unique to your web session. You're already authenticated to WhatsApp on your phone. So the data in that QR code is sent back to WhatsApp's web server, through your phone, and they connect the open web session to your account. Websockets make it seamless.

Also, this is just an educated guess.
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Some level of lazyness is nessasary for Haskell to work. For example, you can do:

a=1:a
main = show $ head a

With lazy evaluation, this will print "1", but with strict evaluation, this program will never terminate as it attempts to fully evaluate "a=1:a", which creates an infinite list.

>But realistically, an unused parameter should probably be removed.
You also have cases where a parameter is only used some of the time.
Golang only 2x ruby at net/http level and same as ruby at web framework level?
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This isn't art class. facts fucking matter. unless you proffer incompetence.
Thanks for unkilling, but it's pretty ironic that a piece about Silicon Valley being a boys' club was flag-killed. With HN's prominence in SV, I really wish this were a progressive enough community to at least acknowledge the existence of sexism, and realize why articles like these continue to get written. Getting past the clickbaity photo that was used (we can save journalistic ethics for another night), this was a relevant profile of one type of startup that isn't well understood by SV. I'm glad the moderators viewed it as worth saving, but I really wish this community didn't need babysitting when it comes to discussions on sexism.
Rate publication would be huge. My Comcast experience is that they seem to make fees up as they go with no way to find out what they are in advance.
Has me cracking up! Great job!