skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're incorrectly assuming that "the economy" is a single unified whole, owned-by and benefiting a harmonious global hivemind.

In reality... the door to your home has a lock on it, right? Think about the materials and effort that went into the design, manufacture, installation, and ongoing operation of that lock. Are those "wasted"? After all, it doesn't actually produce anything new! In fact, its entire purpose is to sit there and impede the flow of resources... which would otherwise flow towards people who think they can utilize them more effectively...

For a more naturalistic example, what about your body's immune system? A big portion of your body's "budget" is invested in mechanisms for finding and destroying other organisms, ones which have done quite a bit of their own work to build themselves up. Do you honestly weigh the Staphylococcus economy equally to your own?
You've successfully completed steps 1 and 2:

1. Acknowledge there is a real problem.

2. Acknowledge you are part of the problem.

Now, on to steps 3-n!

3. Don't be discouraged, accept that there are things you can do to help! This is good, you're about to become a more valuable member of society.

4. Accept that you need to put in some effort. Not much, don't worry. Most of it is shutting up.

5. Read what women write about this problem. They're all experts because they've been studying it literally their entire lives.

6. Learn (from step 5 and some self-reflection) how to recognize in real time when you're being a jerk. Then stop.

Now it gets a little harder. But remember, not nearly as hard as being a woman in tech, so buck up, kid!

7. Learn (from step 5) how to recognize in real time when other people are being jerks, and good techniques for how to advocate on behalf of women. This takes practice and courage, keep at it.

8. You'll be tempted to brag about how helpful you are to women (hi @wadhwa). Resist this temptation. Whenever you feel yourself about to tell someone how great and helpful you are, instead, show them something an actual woman has said about their problems, and try to point them in the right direction.

Note that you can replace "woman/women" in the above with any minority/disenfranchised/disadvantaged group you want to help, and the same formula pretty much works verbatim.
How is LibreOffice actually pronounced? I've never really felt like I can say it correctly..
This bug is much, much worse than a crash.

I can understand the sentiment that you should be prepared for even horrible bugs like this if you're running -CURRENT, but "if you can deal with crashing, you can deal with this" is completely wrong. Instability is a completely different beast from potentially generating easily crackable crypto keys.
Good list. If people still don't understand why experienced developers only want to work with other experienced (grownup?) developers: exhibits a-g
> and to get things done under time pressure [...] you instantly switch back to mentioned products.

Doesn't instantly switching to Word/Excel require you to have it installed in the first place? In your case, you already have it bought and installed so it's easy, but that's not always the case.
She doesn't mention other women at her internships. If she had spoken to other women and they too experienced levels of sexism then yes; but since she doesn't make the mention we don't know.
Ahah, I had the same remark recently. I think it's the contrary, they are putting rules, and they no real control over the complex effects.
Well, as an example, when I'm working in a mixed team of say 2 women and 5 men, and we're in a meeting discussing technical options, I may tend to give the women more eye contact than the men. This can go two ways for the women; it can be considered leering (I try very hard not to do that, but it is very difficult) and so that is an example of harassment. But in a way I am also giving away power to the women; power that they did nothing to earn other than be pretty.

One option is to stay heads down and surf ycombinator during a meeting. That way I'll not look at anyone inappropriately. That is not great for me though.
Going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about sexism in tech is perhaps one of the best ways I can think of to make sure it doesn't change. It paints the picture that tech is a horrible place, so women should stay away. It tells people in tech that it's OK to be sexist, because everyone already is.
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Sounds like a browser to me. FTFY:

* Is independent of the host distribution

* Has no access to any system or user files other than the ones from the runtime and application itself

* Has no access to any hardware devices (GL rendering supported)

* Has restricted network access

* Can’t see any other processes in the system

* Can only get input via standard APIs

* Can only show graphics via DOM/Canvas/WebGL/SVG/MathML

* Can only output audio via Audio Tags/Web Audio/MSE

* plus more sandboxing details
I use upstart on my Ubuntu servers but it's still pretty green: upstart still doesn't offer any reliable way to keep a process restarted after a transient failure (once it hits respawn limit it will never try again) and if its view of the world becomes wrong (i.e. a script's expect fork is wrong) all commands will hang until you manually kill the processes and use telinit to get it to restart.

The fact that it took four releases to add the setuid/setgid statements kind of tells you all you need to know about how many sysadmins the developers talked to.
>> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

>Which is what it is. It's not just an email sign-up. I think this is a perfect example of a good Show HN.

Until there is more than just a website with an email signup (i.e., an actual shipping email client), then it isn't something HN users can try out or give feedback on.
Ask HN: Are you wearing computer glasses?
I'd love to know if the HN community is wearing those yellow-tinted glasses (discussed on places like http://lifehacker.com/5980509/do-computer-glasses-really-work), or if they're just a gimmick/subject to the same suspicion at copper bracelets...

I'm seeing more of them around the office and local hackathons, but my primary thoughts lean towards thinking they're an unproven fad.
If it's mapped into the CPU address space, then it can be shared. If not, then there is a copy going on and you may as well just do it in the non-sandboxed process, no?
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> BSD is proof that you can write clean, sensible init scripts.

Which, it turns out, are wholly underwhelming for many things people now want their init system doing. Hence launchd, SMF, and Jordan Hubbard's interest in an equivalent. But I guess the BSD developers working on the former and latter don't know what they're doing either, right?

> what in particular is your issue with older, more experienced people

I'm sorry you're struggling to read, but it's quite the opposite: anyone around long enough knows SysVisms were derided widely when they were introduced.
Simply a choice of words to contrast the article. I get what you're saying. It's sexism in both directions.
> Either you are incredibly stupid or incredibly sexist...

Yeah, and I bet he is a homophobic racist animal rapist as well! Fall in line or I might start imagining more labels!
I've always wondered if you respond and say "Well I could do this for you but it would be $87.50 an hour." if they would respond. A friend of mine who ran a consulting business would do something like that and picked up a few gigs that way.
I did read that part. She claims her contributions were equivalent and I believe that they could have been, but where is the proof of that? If some independent party were to back up that claim with facts I would feel more comfortable supporting her point. I'm not denying that sexism exists, just making the point that I didn't like this article because I don't think it successfully makes its point.
From the article: "A note from Neil tucked inside the Pono box assures you that the Pono makes your music sound better no matter what headphones you connect to it."
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How can illustrating "how philosophy could be enriched", or "providing new insights" be considered "coercive"?
The thing is, bklhp19, we don't need your analasys to tell us whether or not there are sexism and gender issues in tech and tech education. It's a fact and we know it so all you're offering here is a dismissal of this person's concern. Is that how you like to show up in the world, challenging or dismissing people around you when they take the time to communicate their experience of known problem space?
Be careful what arguments you make. A person writing an article based on their experiences that they believe accurate and representative does not automatically make it so on both counts.
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Some things I do*

I try to be aware of my own biases when I'm in the office. Sometimes I schedule a little time to think specifically about them and try to identify potential moments I made assumptions I shouldn't have. When I feel that a male colleague is exhibiting concerning behavior I discuss it with them. I ask my female colleagues what we need to do to support their success and I listen to what they have to say. I do 1-on-1s with all of my colleagues to ask them whether they feel their perspectives are adequately heard and acted upon. When I see something that isn't right, I say "that's not right." When I hear a joke or comment that sounds "off", I say "hey man, that's off key -- keep it professional". I discuss equality with my wife and I listen to her perspective. I encourage and support her career ambitions even when they force me to make trade offs against my own.

Now that I think about it, I ascribe many of these behaviors (perhaps not all) to my ideals of professionalism and effective management practices.

* n of one. I'm not an expert. I'm male.
It won both Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Both governments were overthrown, pretty quickly too which was their original goal. With Afghanistan they had a secondary goal to find Bin Laden they achieved that goal too.

hat then happened was what is commonly known as peacekeeping. They then got hammered by what is commonly known as terrorist using guerrilla warfare. Even then, not like they lost.

I'm all up for bashing America, but let's not bash them for not carpet bombing a bunch of civilians.
I initially leaned towards it, but (a) the even model is something I find less pleasant to work with than the dependency model, and (b) the original author disowned it as unfixable.
Another new poster whose sole comment is on the use of the word Sausagefest. Is this the start of a grassroots campaign to change the underlying negativity of the phrase to a positive? A group of sausage makers or butchers per chance?
Is that done on the client-side or on the server? It makes sense to me if you want to programmatically generate icon fonts, but I just don't see the use case for doing this in the browser. Unless of course you were building an in-browser font creator tool. :)

Regardless, this is a really cool idea!
For an editor, Atom uses way too much RAM
If you're looking for a presentation web-app check out Prezi. It's rather nice.
Stop feeling ashamed of yourself, for one. It's almost certainly because you're paying too much attention to external standards of behavior that have been imposed upon you.
Oh, I was just asking what pshc's comment was about. I'm still unsure what: "Okay, cool, but... MySQL?!" is supposed to mean.
If you look at it objectively, there simply isn't enough evidence to say that her examples were purposeful sexism. As others have said, people should be mindful of how they word things.

There are plenty of articles that do provide substantial evidence showing sexism. I just fail to see that caliber of evidence in this article. Her tone honestly gives off the vibe that she thinks everyone is against her.
Well, it was more than a few years ago at this point, and the long and short of it is that the deletionists won.

Gwern has a fairly thorough elegy for the (now dead) inclusionist beliefs: http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism.
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It relies on the r_fullprofile permission when authenticating users, which means I will have to get the application approved before the grace period ends (May 2015).
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Yes, the blogger undermines his thesis by describing what a success Afghanistan was. U.S. special forces infiltrated the country, worked with the outnumbered Northern Alliance and coordinated air strikes to devastate the Taliban to the point where they fled into Pakistan.

Of course, the Pakistanis continued to fund and arm these guys so they came back. That was a political failure rather than a military one. Had the U.S. military been allowed, they would have followed the Taliban across the border. As it is, U.S. drone attacks regularly harry the Taliban in Waziristan and prevent them from regrouping.

Now, Iraq, that was a wrong headed conflict from 1991 on. It would have been preferable to leave Saddam in power, vile though he was. Al Qaeda might still have destabilized his country, but the Sunni tribesmen were loyal to him and would not have turned as they did when the Americans had taken over.
Okay, it's great that you've got concerns about how guys feel, but shouldn't we equally consider how women in the field feel too?

I had female friends with whom i took CS classes who all had stories about guys who would do super weird things like start talking badly about them to others or refusing to cooperate with them on class projects after it being made clear that there was no romantic interest.

Nit picking individual comments or trying to negate how people feel about the circumstances they find themselves in isn't really addressing their concerns is it?
You could try talking to them about this. Try "hey, I understand being in this industry can be difficult as a woman, I am not very familiar with the problem but I don't want to be part of it, and I'm concerned about how much eye contact I'm giving you during meetings. I don't want to make you uncomfortable with my eye contact or this question, but is it a problem for you?"

Most likely they'll tell you they have a lot of worse things to deal with than how much eye contact you're giving them, but it'll be a learning experience and at least you'll open up a dialogue.
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It is not always practical to create checks for all possible errors. E. g. broken node can return 404 for URL-X and 200 for all other used URLs. And this URL-X can be "hot" at that time.
I think it is not bad to monitor response time for backends and flag some alert if one node has response time significantly lower than mean among all nodes (with comparable hardware).
> but that's not always the case.

True and it heavily depends on your profession. My office stack matches my profession, i.e. a designer rather cares about Adobe CS than MS Office and is happy with Google Docs. So, it depends really on what you do.
I imagine I would find it somewhat more difficult to justify having the most heavily locked door in the world - which, by reasonable context, is closer to analogy being drawn above.
Bad journalism deserves to be pointed out, does it not? I am not dismissing the issue, I am claiming that her points lack substantial evidence. Just because something is a touchy subject doesn't mean the writing is infallible.
I think this is an error in thinking. If the company goes under, everyone is out of a job, not just the founders. The "risk" here is completely overstated for the founding members versus early employees. And the "CEOs can only fail a couple of times" is laughable anecdote. This isn't Baghdad, it's a startup. The risk is about equal for everyone involved.
I hope they grant you access as it looks like a really cool idea and it would be a shame for your time to have been wasted.
In my opinion, it's much much better that this was corrected! If there were to be any bug of any kind, -CURRENT is the best place in freebsd to have it.

I'm not sure what you're trying to argue for/against unless you are looking at things from a pure number theory/computer science research point of view? What would people do then? Create perfect flawless code that never malfunctions even as they write it? Code that never has bugs does not exist.

Perfect algorithms don't exist either.

-CURRENT is exactly the place for this because RNG bugs exist in reality.

If you read emaste's post above, this bug "potentially generates easily crackable crypto keys" for the safe to a monopoly game that holds monopoly money.

It's a development kernel.
For me, the "feel" thing that I experienced while auditioning mechanical keyboards a few months ago was that my finger tips were hurting as I typed for a few minutes. So clearly, YMMV.
Sometimes I use reading glasses when using a 12"-screened laptop. It makes it like you're sitting farther away from a 14" laptop, taking up the same solid angle of your view.

Yellow-tinted glasses do the same thing as what you get if you use f.lux or redshift. It's probably better to use that, because you don't have to have glasses on your face.
In what way am I a hypocrite? Either you're confused about the meaning of that word or you're just throwing out insults now.

You need to let go of the belief that you own the definition of "expert". Firstly, you've been unable to even define what "expert" means to you. Secondly, others clearly don't agree with you on what "expert" means. There is no universal standard for what constitutes an expert. It's a subjective call. If you think that only the top 50 people worldwide are experts in table tennis, I guess that's fine, but you should perhaps be a bit less hostile about it.

I do find it odd that you say all doctors are experts. This is a strangely liberal application of the term "expert" given that you're so stingy with the term as applied to table tennis. There are 10 thousand medical experts in England but not 250 table tennis experts? It must be damned hard to become a table tennis expert.
Evans re-invented many tried and proven concepts and gave them his own names which lead to much confusion. I prefer not to use his idiosyncratic terminology and stick with the established terms.
I just want people who pretend to be scientific to take themselves seriously enough that if somebody says "Your headphones suck" that they say "do they? Why?"

That article is better :) 192 is silly pretty much always, 24 bits isn't very useful for playback, but a music player with better digital-to-analog converters and a better amplification stage than an iPhone? That should make a difference. An iPhone does ten million things, there should be a way to make a better music player that only does one.

(edit: now that I think about it 24 bits could be useful for playback.)
I looked at it, also quite impressive, nice animation stuff, but not always smooth presentation (low frame rate) and the presentation look too gimmicky—people think that you spend 24/7 to build a flashy presentation which doesn't make a good impression in several audiences where you sometimes need a 'dry' 80 pages consultant presentation with tons of charts and footnotes.
You don't need many tanks to fight terrorists. Yet the army is forced to buy more tanks (against its own wishes!), because congressmen don't want the tank-production in their state to stop.
Your lens theory is nice, but I found found living in a transgender commune (yep, that's another story) insufferable in terms of second guessing every my comment or impulse. Persecution complexes are just not sustainable in promoting harmonius cross-communities, and at some point the person subject to sexism and oppression has to be prepared to expect some of the heat. It's simply the world we've inherited, and we can't expect it to magically change.

On the positive, things are changing. I see this issue get talked about a lot on here now, and there's a greater dialogue in the culture about it. It will take some time ...
From my European perspective this article is almost stating the obvious, nothing controversial here. The only point is that conditions for victory ("winning the war") need to be clearly defined and they haven't.
I have mixed feelings on the idea of sandboxed apps.

On the one hand, I want to be able to run untrusted applications safely. And in a larger sense, I think that it might be a hopeless endeavor to try to get users to only run trustworthy applications on their machines.

On the other hand, I want to have full access to my system, and sometimes that means having full access to it through applications (jbk's VLC use case is a good example of that). And sandboxes are far from perfect (this may improve, but right now existing sandboxes still have lots of holes). Sandboxes may be just security theater at this point (although as I said, this might change).
Does the HN community not see how dangerous this line of thinking is?

"We don't need your analysis to know that the NSA isn't misusing the data they collect on us. It's a fact and we know it."

Is this really how we want arguments to proceed?
No one said it was a good or efficient jobs and stimulus program. That however doesn't change the fact that it is a jobs and stimulus program. This is most evident when looking at local politicians when a specific program is potentially being shutdown. They will fight tooth and nail regardless of the strategic necessity of the program just so they can keep the local jobs and money that that program provides.
Three Practical tips to get your slidemail app more sign ups:

- You should have a call to action at the bottom of the page. It would be as simple as copy/pasting the code for the one-line email capture from above

- encourage sharing. i didn't provide my email address to test this, but you should encourage people (at some point: before signing up, right after signing up, or in a follow up email) to share this thing.

- I got the impression that it's iOS only. You probably got a lot of visits from android devices (check your own logs if you don't believe me). You could address that with a separate capture form using User Agent detection? Something like: "Get notified when we launch the Android version"

small nit pick about the page:

- <meta> tags are like <img> tags they should NOT have a corresponding close tag, "</meta>"

good luck with the app Vu

(i'm still using your old "hack" parakeet so i know you make some interesting stuff)

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Aaronson studies theoretical computer science, which is a subfield of mathematics. There is no coercion in his article. He is pointing out that while philosophers like to discuss the philosophical implications of computing, they tend not to discuss the more recent developments in the field that (he argues) would aid them in eliminating faulty arguments and clarifying terms like "artificial intelligence."
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this goes double (or half?) for test pilots
You left out the diamond - it made reading this article very strange, since I haven't trained myself not to vocalize it.

"If they ♢ some­times act as if they dis­cov­ered ty­pog­ra­phy like it was the Higgs bo­son, we can for­give their ex­cess of en­thu­si­asm."
Surely we can agree that discrimination is not only about intent.

And, again, if you make someone else feel bad is it the right thing to do to go "oh, well i didn't mean to make you feel bad, so you shouldn't feel that way."
What? I bought something with Bitcoin and now I have to report it on my taxes?
journald is a dependency for systemd, but systemd is not a dependency of journald... in other words you can use journald on a system that does not have systemd.

What you imply is equivalent to wanting to run Gnome without libgnome.

If you want text logs, configure journald to pass things into rsyslog or whatever other logging subsystem you prefer (there are many).