skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much talk for so very little. Can we not just celebrate women in tech? We all share this world for a limited time, so who gives a fuck who wears a shinier hat. Its all a game, a game that moves our world towards a better place, a world where we can put down our hats and spend time with each other and allow our benevolent machines to take care of us.
The moroning example gets caught at compile time in perl6 and also in perl5...

$ perl -Mstrict -M"feature 'say'" -c morning.pl
Global symbol "$moroning" requires explicit package name at morning.pl line 7.
morning.pl had compilation errors.
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Super awesome people
These people are trying to start a pay what you can garden. And are giving away food with each donation. This needs attention!!!http://www.gofundme.com/lml6sc
There are people who think advertising is morally equivalent to theft of other people's time and attention. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I do believe that AdBlock lets me get more out of the Web by eliminating the constant cognitive background noise produced by ads.
Who has grounds to sue them in response to this?
For another display, there's also multitail (http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/) that you can run with a custom command, such as

ssh host tail -f /path/to/log

(which is the command that remtail seems to be doing)
Sounds like sarcasm? If so, it's unwarranted.

For example, clinical psychology is high-prestige and high-paying, and is dominated by women. Medical research and more generally the biosciences is another (smaller majority, though).

http://www.sheheroes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Percent-...
Because they've been investigating MetaObjects (and MetaObject Protocols) since the 80s. Sorry for the smugness, my argument boils down to "Don't reinvent the wheel too much".
ASCII is not the only possible output format, and yes, semantic search is useful.
Funny story I have with Dropbox:

I was setting up my new desktop to dual boot Debian and Windows. In the interest of saving space, I tried to have Dropbox in both systems target the same directory to sync. I'm not precisely sure what happened - I think the folder hadn't finished pulling in all the files before I logged out - but it somehow trashed everything in my lab's shared directory. Thank god for their API and their automatic file versioning, or I would never have gotten out of that pickle.
Who keeps important data like that in a single note on a cloud-based note taking app??? I only have to think once and I know how stupid this is...
The reason you're getting blowback has to do with the tone it sounds like you're taking on the issue of gender and prestige with some selective examples.

In regard to your final question: http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/Harris%20Poll%2085%20...
>Money first gives you more options to do what you want but ultimately it gives you power. And power gives you leverage to change the world: first your own world and then the whole world. In other words, with money, you can do more and you're happier for that.

That's not how happiness works. You don't become happier because you can do something or change something with money.
I found that I was using this pattern in a number of places, so I thought it would be useful to create a base I could use again.
Related: for people who want to write their own Unix commands [1], not just use them :) -- an article I wrote for IBM developerWorks:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-arti...

And this post shows a practical use of that utility:

Print selected text pages to PDF with Python, selpg and xtopdf on Linux:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/10/print-selected-text-pages-...

[1] In C, but the guidelines shown are also applicable to writing Unix commands in other languages like Python and Ruby.
Competition is for losers if you're a winner. The problem is that winning requires beating all the losers.

The context of Peter Thiel's quote is that the really profitable companies are all ones where there are no real substitutes in their problem domain. But that's looking at the situation after-the-fact. In the process of getting there, they usually had to enter a very crowded market with a unique take on the problem; over time, other people realized their take was better, and so when the market consolidated, they were the last one left standing. Google entered a crowded search market (Altavista, Excite, Infoseek, Hotbot, etc.), Facebook entered a crowded social networking market (Livejournal, Xanga, EZBoard, MySpace, Friendster), Dropbox entered a crowded filesharing market (YouSendIt and dozens of clones).

If you read Steve Blank's books, one of his points is that it's basically impossible to take over a market where a single firm controls >74% of the market, and if a single firm has >26% of the market, you must spend 3x them in sales & marketing to have a chance. So the only markets that can be attacked by startups are the ones that are very competitive, or the ones that nobody knows exists. Of course, not all of those competitors are going to survive.

I suspect YC does select for companies that have a unique take on the market: "What do you know about the market that your competitors do not?" has been on the application form forever. They may not always get it right, but then, they don't have to: YC's unique take on the market is that they can fund hundreds of startups, take a small amount of equity, and still raise the expected value of your startup enough to be worth having as an investor.
Thanks for the explanation. How are multiple hops in light path handled without having the computational complexity go insane?
So you want a company to waste money coding a static website by hand when they could just as easily use Squarespace?

Entrepreneurship is about doing a lot with as little as possible. Groupon started as a WordPress site. That should be the goal of any MVP: if you can do it in 1 hour on WordPress or something similar that's pre-packaged, don't spend a week reinventing the wheel.
I must be reading this wrong, are they really saying that they have exclusive linux mint, nmap, open office, and all these other products?
Sue schmue, they filed that form stating they owned the rights to the listed items under penalty of perjury. This is no joke, they should be criminally prosecuted.
Interesting. Is there any indication that any of the sites concerned were delisted for any period of time whatsoever?
Why can't you help feel but feel this?
Well, Swift uses reference-counting. There aren't GC pauses, for example.
cPanel has multiple log analyzers built in. So the user doesn't have to go through that work. If your site is on a shared host and it uses cPanel, just log into cPanel and you'll find them.
I wish I had known what C's assert() macro was. I spent a lot of useless time in debuggers. While assert() won't replace a debugger, using assertions reduces the need for tedious debugging.
They are claiming that those URLs violate their copyright interest in some obscure music album. This is obviously an erroneous DMCA claim, filed either maliciously or by mistake.
Its bad enough because this was bundled with Comodo Internet Security ( https://help.comodo.com/topic-72-1-451-6840-.html and https://help.comodo.com/topic-169-1-413-6109-.html )
I'm just waiting for two of them to have a head-on collision.

An amusing negative-feedback loop when the population gets too high.
"Total Wipes Music Group"

This has to be a joke.
> Did you try benchmarking against kdb+?

xsv is never ever never going to compete with a real database. Full stop.

It's just a command line tool that tries to make some things faster when slicing and dicing CSV data.
Google's response: no action for 94 sites, mysql.com link is taken down:

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright...
The reason is simple: Using a statically typed language (particularly one with reflection capabilities), it's trivial to do pretty much anything a dynamic language is capable of doing without extra tooling, perhaps with just a bit more verbosity in code. On the other hand, attempting to simulate static typing with an entirely dynamic language doesn't happen without extra tooling around the compiler.

Even languages with strict type systems like Haskell don't entirely throw away dynamic typing. It has `unsafeCoerce` which can attempt to cast a value at runtime, and fail if it's not the right type like any dynamic language would. However, when combined with Data.Typeable, storing type information in addition to the values you're interested in allows you to turn `unsafeCoerce` into something much safer: `fromDynamic`, which doesn't cause the runtime to fail, but instead returns a Maybe type - one that either contains a successfully coerced value or Nothing - and the language forces you to check this before you can use the value. You have the best of both worlds now - the ability to write whatever dynamic typed code you want, but with the ability to fall back to a strict type system to keep things in check.
Is this the most condescending customer support ever experienced by mankind?
Here's the exchange (anonymised as I'm not into public shaming): http://pastebin.com/grbfp3Kv

I'm sincerely interested in knowing what people's opinion on this exchange is. I felt condescended and disrespected from answer 1 all the way to the end. I may have overreacted but I was honestly blown away by how unhelpful and condescending this person was.

Thoughts?

--

UPDATE: thanks for all the answers so far. It's really helping
balance my position in all this. I still feel like I'm the one
who's right in the exchange but given how many pointed out I
was too aggressive from the get go there has to be something
there too.

I just feel like pointing out that a straight no (a.k.a. door shut
in your face) on such a basic request is terrible and disappointing
in 2015 isn't disrespectful enough to warrant the flood of
condescension that came my way. I definitely escalated it after that,
but I feel it was somehow warranted.

To those who ask that I name the company: please realise I only
posted this here to get people's 2 cents on an exchange, not to
publicly shame a company or an individual. There's already too
much of that online and things like that have been known to
have dire consequences for parties involved.

This is not my goal nor my motivation in posting this there.
Your point is different. The other poster's point is that wanting to preserve SF's culture against tech workers, is like wanting to preserve a city's culture against Chinese/Mexicans. Your point is that the article is really concerned about Indian immigration.

I agree that there is anti-Indian/Chinese sentiment, but I don't think this is the main driver of the article. The animosity against White nerds is real, and proportionately fewer tech workers from India or China live in SF (they live in the greater bay area)
I have a personal mediawiki that I keep on a raspberry pi home server. It's much better than text files because of the hyperlinking, the history, the statistics and the formatting. It can also be viewed and edited by other family members if I so choose. I guess I could make it available outside the firewall with a password but I haven't really needed that. The cool thing about the PI is everything just works and it consumes almost no power so there isn't a significant ongoing expense to running it once it's set up.
So far no URL of this list seems blocked from here
It reads like the software list from Ninite (https://ninite.com/). Large, dev-oriented free (as in beer) software.

And nothing music related as far as I can see.

One more point against automatic DMCA complaints.
I don't think people need someone with a relatable trait to believe they can also accomplish audacious goals. However, I am convinced that it provides disproportionately more inspiration.
The reason you don't hear about Docker breakouts is because Docker never claimed to be a secure sandbox in the first place, so a breakout is a non-event.

Note that local privilege escalation exploits in Linux are found regularly, like on a monthly basis, and every one is likely a Docker breakout.

geofft mentioned Sandstorm -- my project -- which actually does claim to be a sandbox, and isn't affected by most of these kernel exploits. Here's a blog post discussing the differences:

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-13-sandbox-security.h...
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I think it's the best answer so far!
I made a base rails app for a pattern I've been using recently.

It might be helpful to take a look at it and get it running? I think getting a few apps running locally so that you have at least somewhere to start is useful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9090818
Why would comodo promote such a software ???
Please don't refer to the Mating Mind here. It's borderline-crank material, and not regarded as serious by the vast majority in the field.

Referring people to almost any book by Steven Pinker is much better. E.g. "How the Mind Works."
I sense javascript here. Happiness is a feeling, not an action or a plan.
I also carry a ton of critical information in notes. I've tried extensively Apple's iCloud-synced notes, Evernote, and Microsoft's OneNote. Apple is poor at solving trivial conflicts. Evernote is even worse, and really unreliable. Microsoft OneNote is great at reliability and syncing (UX is so-so in mobile, that's the only gotcha). I wouldn't have expected so, but they have the upper hand here.
Interesting, although I don't know if I like the decision to leave password check functionality for the "classic" auth types completely to the user.
Apparently it isn't.

First available request is from May 2014.
URLs requested to be removed: 196953.

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright...
I think your metric is backwards which is why you can't find the data you're looking for.

First, it's basically impossible to impute a value for startup equity unless you're joining so late it's about to go public. In fact, you can't even do black scholes because the variability is enormous but the transaction set is low, so if you even try to plug it into B-S you get ridiculously high numbers.

Sounds like you want to weigh working at a startup vs working at a boring large company like Google. Here's a better way to do the analysis. And remember big companies like Microsoft have to pay large packages to compensate for the boring work and to keep people from being peeled off to work at startups. in late 2010 Google had to give everyone a bonus and a 10% raise just to stanch mass quitting.

The general rule of thumb is that the earlier you join, the higher %age you'll get, all other things being equal, in order to compensate you for the risk that the company will go bust. Sometimes it works out great (at my first startup the receptionist paid off her mortgage and could retire) sometimes not (a couple of startups later we all got wiped out). That's why the data you get answers segmented by company size (a rough proxy for riskiness and age of business).

Thus:

1 - can the startup pay you enough cash to live OK (by your standards) for a few years? You don't have to live off savings (that's implicitly investing in the business) but you probably won't be out clubbing every week end either. If they can't pay that much you're unlikely to be happy.

2 - Is the work going to be fun? That means stimulating, you're learning, you're contributing, you like your coworkers.

If those two are true, you should consider working there. There will of course be crappy times, but as long as you can still pay your bills and you still like most of your colleagues and are learning, it's worth it.

Now what about the equity? Well you don't know really enough to evaluate so you can look at the generally collected % numbers and if the offer is in the neighborhood, you're probably OK. You should ask for %age, and you can ask about how they come up with the number, but it will be hard to evaluate. You have to work with people you trust, regardless!

But remember even if you see the cap table, you may be surprised. That junior engineer? She's got more equity than you, an experienced guy, because she joined a year ago when the risk was enormous. And then a year later, after you've got professional VC money in? That Marketing VP may have a higher percentage than you, even though the risk is lower -- because he was brought on board as a way of bending the growth curve up (so your stock will be worth a lot more than if the company had saved the equity).

Thus my net advice is not to worry about the precise equity number as long as they are in the general neighborhood of the the hard-to-use survey numbers.

And don't forget: most startups fail anyway. If you're planning on working for one solely in the hope of massive riches, don't. One thing that cause the massive dotcom boom/bust 15 years ago was the massive influx of carpetbaggers looking for quick riches.
You agree that when viewing a public site whose main revenue model is ads, you enter an implicit contract to view those ads? If so, why? If not, why do you agree that being selective about what HTTP reqs you make is morally equivalent to theft just because the site owner expects you not to be and hopes to gain money off that?
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Problem is, what happens when they start doing this in firmware ROM next time? If they don't already.
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If you are storing important info in $CLOUD, think twice.
Someone in their phone clearly doesn't have the bandwidth to care how I feel about their engagement with our reality.

Your aesthetic preferences do not impose any obligations on anyone else.
> It’s a bit like how Gallup can summarise Indonesians’ smartphone habits by calling 1,500 of them; it works fine if you’re looking for a general pattern, but it might skew the data if you’re looking for data about a tiny niche of smartphone users or if Gallup happened to call up relatively too many Nokia users that day.

This is an incorrect statement and interpretation of how statistics work. Is there a chance that the 1,500 Indonesians that they call that day not representative of the over population? Of course, but the probability of that is very low. This concept specifically is known as statistical significance[0]. The conclusion is: sampling error can lead to incorrect conclusions, but if you can eliminate any biases to your sampling, then it can indeed be representative. Personally, the more important take away is this: before you start deriving conclusions from your metrics, it's necessary to fully grok the concept of statistics.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance
Following individual users around (something W3Counter lets you do) is fundamentally different than a real-time aggregate dashboard of the same users (something both sites have). A dashboard is interesting to a business. Friend-watching is interesting to ordinary people. "Oh, I just got a new visitor from Facebook in Camden. I have a friend in Camden, that's probably Jessica! I wonder what she's looking at? Oh, she just opened the guestbook page and has started writing something!" is fun for someone running their first blog.
Another problem is fundamentally the game you're playing is mass and capex providing a way to turn air and H2 into power. Author is correct that fuel cells suck, but whats even worse is a little hybrid H2 turbine would be lighter, cheaper, higher powered, and in a real world situation, higher natgas well to wheel efficiency. In fact, rather than turning natgas from a well into H2, you'd be better off just burning the natgas in the turbine.

Turbines do have some deployment issues such as outputing enough nitrogen oxides to generate a cloud, etc. But in a hybrid system, they're pretty cool.

Basically you're taking an electric car and a very small electric company natgas peaking plant and putting it in the trunk with a charger.
Kind of sounds like some script hashed a "download" icon that's commonly used, and submitted a DMCA takedown claim. Or something along those lines.

It's time for some teeth to be added to the DMCA to prevent abuses like this, at a minimum there should be penalties for obviously fraudulent claims like this one.

edit: typo
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The problem with comments like yours is that you've chosen to shame the top level posters instead of replying to a single one of them. Shaming works well to enforce uniform beliefs in a tight knit social circle, such as you may have enjoyed in SF before the tech influx. It doesn't work so well online.
To quote Dan Geer, "Yes, please! That was exactly the idea."

There are many industries that require this kind of auditing or similar regulation. I would think that the technology-based industries are clever enough to find a way to accomplish these checks quickly and cheaply.
These kind of things are often due to overly broad or malfunctioning algorithms. Maybe some algorithm just picked up a list of links ending in "download"?

Even if that's a mistake, it looks like gross negligence. These URLs aren't even tangentially related to music.
Political candidates aren't "in power". You'll notice that, after his run, Dean became Chairperson of the DNC, and is a plausible contender for 2016.

Before his run, he quit all of his jobs. There's a reason that happens. Imagine that the board of directors for Godfather's Pizza had fired Herman Cain during the 2012 campaign over the allegations of sexual misconduct. It's not that he had much of a chance, but what kind of chance would he have had then?
just look for high rejection rates in the transparency reports:

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright...

it's not a singular occasion

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10424698

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10436220
in some ways the article was right at the time. The first Windows was pretty bad, and so was the second.

Whether windows, tiles, or single screen is better still comes up, but we've all come to expect multitasking.
www.yipgo.com leads to an nginx welcome page... Not super confidence-inspiring.
I would go further and call this an obsession with using software that is literally changing by the day, in a constant state of flux.

There seems a desire among those users who comment in forums to see recent commits to the software they use as if infrequent commits or no commits in years suggests there is something wrong with the software.

To me, it is the constant changes and updates that give me pause when choosing software. I am actually more skeptical of large, complex software that requires constant updating.

I prefer software which can deliver reliable performance year after year without changes, e.g., daemontools. But hey, what do I know?

In any event, I am glad to see this comment. I wish more folks would call out this silly obsession.

As for groff, I think there is more to roff that just printing manpages.
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html
I don't see why hiring a developer to create yet another content management system would be money spend wisely. Wordpress/Typo3/Squarespace etc are excellent tools and give full power to the content creator (non-technical founder for example).
On solution to the long distance car storage is simply not to.

There are less than 50,000 miles of interstate highways in the US. If we added a 3rd rail or similar system for powering cars as they traveled range and efficiency quickly become a non issue.

Granted, the interstate highway system would just be the start eventually you would want to cover just about every road. Not to mention safety concerns etc, but it's a real option.
Use a pay-phone or buy a burner phone with a pre-paid card
I'd just focus on the stuff around it, I'm not entirely sure how the metaphor adds to that.