skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I (male, for the record, but gender-specific behavior isn't my point here) used to write/say that I was "part of a team" that did X or "worked on a team" that did Y, but I stopped doing it for a couple reasons, the most prominent being that "worked on a team that..." is usually obvious given the context of the conversation and the scale of the work discussed. In those cases, explicitly mentioning it feels like you're going out of the way to distance yourself from the work and describe yourself as a bystander - someone who just happened to be on the team that did this great work.
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The issue is that there's linking, not merely calling from.

As for "what came first"- the license (which is a legal contract) specifies what is and isn't allowed. The LGPL would work in the way you are saying that VMWare might like it to work- where linking isn't the same as deriving. The fact that these two licenses exist demonstrates that distinction clearly.

The issue will be whether or not a judge understands these distinctions.
I'm not certain how you can structure your argument such that it does not also imply that professions that are majority female discriminate against men.

Your introduction of that graph appears to be an attempt at making an improper inference based on conditional probabilities. You can't just flip-flop between probability of woman, given job, and probability of job, given woman. There's math involved, based on additional data not necessarily obvious from the visualization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_probability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_of_the_inverse

To make an inference about what women want, you have to remove the men from the data. It doesn't matter one little bit what the female numbers are in proportion to the male numbers. And what the female numbers show is that around 1985, women generally stopped wanting to earn CS degrees, preferring medicine, law, or physical sciences. The graph does not say why. It just suggests that women very abruptly reversed the previous trend and started choosing other careers. It also happened before the vast majority of people now working in the field had graduated from elementary school, which suggests that it is an institutional bias, and not a personal one.

It's easy to guess at the reason why, but those guesses would not be supported by anything short of surveying actual women with college educations, asking them "why not computer science?"

My hypothesis is that for those answers that cite the composition of the CS classes and faculty as a contributing factor, it wasn't because they were full of men, but because they were full of nerds. For a variety of reasons revolving around the capricious cruelty of adolescents, females are less likely to be in the nerd social caste, and possibly also strongly conditioned to avoid it.

That social dynamic fuels a lot of nastiness later in life. Sex balance in the workplace may be just another symptom of it.

But really, it's all useless speculation until someone actually goes out and asks some people about their reasons for doing things, in a manner that avoids known biases.
The camera is the only thing that would make me want to have an iPhone instead of my Nexus 5. I wish Android phones got a little more love in that department...
Mark Cuban convinced we're in a tech bubble, and it’s worse than the last
Sendy uses Amazon SES as the delivery service, not a PHP installation. Highly deliverable and much more cost effective.
It doesn't make it better, but it's a __very strong hint__ that perhaps I should look more closely at Go. Experts matter, and it would be foolish of me as a developer to discount the experience of these guys -- they've literally been programming for longer than I have been alive.

I respect the creators of Go deeply, because they have been so formative of the industry. It's like being an electrical Engineer, and having Nikola Tesla make a suggestion -- I might not understand all of the lessons, but there's a distinct possibility that these guys are addressing problems I don't yet fully understand.
Ask HN: Where can I find a HN RSS feed that points to the thread?
I'd like a Hacker News RSS feed where the link points to the thread on Hacker News, not the url of the item posted. And I'd like to see only the highest point items (100+ for example). Does this exist? Someone built it through Yahoo pipes at one point but it disappeared.
don't use a leading ;

always var foo = 'bar';

If you do comma first, I will automatically assume you're an idiot.
Good, I donated here:

http://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-app...
This has been an issue for me for awhile. I've been scouting for screens for awhile for something cheap. I've been visiting GoodWill often as they have a large selection of monitors to choose from but most of them are far too large for a small screen. $15 is a great deal for a cheap monitor, but it takes up a huge amount of room.
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The pi-s have a display interface connector for DSI panels, and they are planning to bring one out, but it seems to be taking a long time. The intent is that it will be very inexpensive, in line with their education focus. The resolution I saw mentioned was 800 x 480, like the one in this article. A bit small, but usable.
>The "noisy thinkers" take a longer path to arrive at the solution, but they often manage to go around barriers in a way that is impossible for the former group.

creative annealing
I dropped and cracked my iPhone 6 for the second time yesterday. The larger size and rounded edges make it much more likely to slip out of my (normal sized adult male) hands. I get one more cheap replacement out of Applecare+. If it happens a third time, I'll just switch back to my iPhone 5.
For some reason, I doubt that people here would be complaining about learning a language that resembles the next version of Javascript if it didn't come from Microsoft.
Sure, but in practical terms I feel like this never comes up. I just never have to deal with it and I write JS all day.
This was up on reddit a week or two ago. They thought it was pretty "meh"
I would say absolutely talk to an attorney. In my opinion (IANAL) it could surely backfire and more like explode on you. I also would not talk to them without an attorney present (do not try to negotiate with them on your own to save a dollar). Unfortunately in most cases they have the upper hand and know it and will exploit any chance however big or small of crushing you. That is how they make their living. A couple hundred dollars to get an attorney's opinion could save you thousands down the road.
I don't care what people say Angular totally suffers from the second system effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
I'm getting fatal JS errors.
As a VMWare customer, this makes me consider their ethics. If they're unethical, shouldn't we look into switching away from their product?

I'm not aware of many competitors in their market space - Hyper-V certainly, but that's less of an option for some. Short of rearchitecting our service as a series of containers, what action can conscientious corporate leaders take?
Your ticker doesn't appear to be updating? Maybe that's by design?
Well no, but it was the most obvious. ;) Ok, ok, I kid.
Billboard Integrates Bop.fm (YC S13) to Power Playback on RealTime Twitter Chart
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I have that program! The cassette it came on is still in my basement (along with a couple of ZX-81s and TS-2000s). While it might be rudimentary AI, I also didn't beat it every time (maybe not even half the time when I started playing against it).
When people say "dane geld", they often refer to the poem of R. Kipling, "Dane-geld", which explains why you should not pay it. That's what I was referring to.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_danegeld.htm
It's good to have a little ego, but I don't know anyone in the batch who talks like this:

> I realized that Creo is an extraordinary technological challenge and we achieved unbelievable results so far. Who could have developed a new multiplatform programming language with a blazing fast virtual machine? Who could have rewritten from scratch a mobile operating system fully UIKit compatible? Who could have a product like ours? Nobody, probably nobody in the world… and if YC’s choice was driven by the product than we would had no rivals.
It really is inevitable if you take a look how different 2.0 is. I think its for the better.
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I switched away from MailChimp to Sendy and it is way cheaper. MailChimp is stupidly expensive, annoyingly so, and it doesn't add much value over Sendy.
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I get a ton of unsolicited email from Amazon. It tends to be of the form "order confirmation for product XXXXX" or "your order of XXXXX has shipped". I don't view this as particularly unreasonable, though.
Whoah, I'd almost completely forgotten Kuro5hin, and a lot of other people obviously have, too, as the site is a ghost town. It was a really neat pre-reddit user-generated social media site; kind of a more democratic Slashdot. I knew the founder in some capacity (I don't even remember how/why, now, or their name...maybe because I worked on Squid or because I worked in Perl), and used to advertise my old company on Kuro5hin to be able to send some money their way.

I quite liked it, and there was a brief time when I divided my time between Slashdot and Kuro5hin, as I currently divide my time between reddit and HN.
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What about sum types (discriminated unions)? Sounds like that would help make error handling a lot safer and easier.
Title is misleading... the beta is free. You'll eventually have to purchase the release version later.
Keynote is better then PPT in so many ways. For docs we use google docs because of the collaboration or the wiki. Evernote for everything random. Excel is still kill app however for most things numbers and Google docs is coming close.
The lens is sapphire to avoid that problem. I've set my iPhone 6 Plus camera side down all over the place and still have no scratches.
It started out that way, but as I understand the release materials here, this is now about Hellwig's copyright on core kernel code (e.g. the VFS), which VMWare has integrated into their product.

I wonder what they're thinking. At least with nVidia there's a plausible sounding defense that goes like "hey, we just wrote a shim to load this platform independent code we already had lying around, so our platform independent code can stay proprietary because it's not a derived work of Linux". I don't think this position is correct, but I can see that it at least requires a court case to adjudicate.

But in VMWare's case, it appears that they took the Linux kernel and modified it to make their own vmkernel. I can't see how you make an argument (that their vmkernel is not a derived work of Linux) that takes more than ten seconds to soundly defeat.
See http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/javascript_semicolons, hope it helps. The minimal semicolon style has only a few rules and many people find it easier to use and remember. I've used it but my C hacker habits go against it. It's a fine style.

/be
I never claimed to be sane
From what i read about them here(not related to YC in any way), All are welcome as long as they make something people want.
And frankly, some of the hair-splitting differentiators need to be settled in court. It seems more obvious in compiled software (such as what VMWare is doing and with BusyBox), but if you think about the persistent issues that arise with what is the difference between "derived works" and "linked works" with web apps (even before JavaScript started taking over the client and server side), there are a lot of questions that I have long believed only a court could really settle to at least give a legal precedent.
"Patience is a virtue that’s been vanquished in the Twitter age."

Oh, it's one of those. Where unnamed "cognitive scientists" verify that everything was better in the good old days, and the world is just too fast now.
To be fair, I did say at least the cost of one. Relative to my area, it seemed like the cost of a drink was at least a mile drive. Like I said, if people have the money to buy enough drinks to get drunk, they should have enough money to pay for some alternative mode of transportation.

Don't Uber and Lyft have carpooling options now too? There are different ways to cut the cost. It really comes down to a question of responsibility.
Very valuable, much appreciate your perspective!

Have you found any other regions with talent more reliable than India-- say Ukraine, Croatia, Colombia?
And being able to run the Pi and the screen from a portable USB battery pack would be nice. It would help hobbyist projects (who wants a robot plugged into a wall?), it would help kids using them to learn (take your whole setup wherever you go), and it would help people in developing areas of the world (where there might not be an abundance of cheaply available and reliable power).
Piggy-backing off of this, here's my short list of if-js-framework-were-languages:

angular = php : obtuse and a little nonsensical at times, yet by far the most popular tool out there in industry.

ember = ruby : highly decorative and alluring, and it's even built by refugees of rails

react = haskell : esoteric, functional, and strange enough to come with its own dialect of js; it's literally the framework built for framework developers (to learn from)

backbone = C++ : fast because it has so little and therefore so little to slow it down

jquery = C : at some level, everything else seems to be built on this

meteor = computer language when portrayed on a Hollywood movie : you know, like in the first Wolverine Xmen movie, whatever language that they used to program Ryan Reynolds with that allows the user to just type in something like "Kill him" into the terminal and Ryan Reynolds then attempts to kill wolverine (sorry spoilers). I don't know if there are any commands other than "kill him", but it handles the "kill him" command with incredible automagic.
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I'm curious, have you tried out OneNote??
I find the structure of OneNote an improvement over Evernote in many ways.
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I am one of the YC lawyers who was in the interview room and I was actually pretty pumped to hear the description of 20 year olds (I'm in my 40's)...

I also take exception to the comment "Y Combinator has been created for one single purpose: to make money." That's a pretty cynical view, but more important: it's not true at all.
> Sexist and racist jokes? No, I don't, and I don't associate with people who use them.

I'm sorry, but I find that very hard to believe. Of course, I'm sure that you don't associate with people who routinely crack sexist or racist jokes (neither do I, and I think we have the same reasons), but "never laughed at a racist joke" is unlikely to be true, even if you so much as watched Tom and Jerry when you were a kid.

I'm sure you never laughed in good humour at something you perceived to be racist, but are you so certain that there is no one who holds the bar as low as you do? For everyone? Remember that scandal with the Super Bowl commercial, where they sang America the Beautiful in nine languages, and every ultra-conservative man was offended? Were they wrong?

> Now, and this is important: I didn't call Hank's joke "sexist"

You didn't, but I'm pretty sure the accusations brought to him were of "sexism", not "sexualization".

> But Hank needs to understand that a joke like this with a sexual context, in the absence of mitigating factors, does contribute to that just-us-guys, implicitly-othering culture that doesn't need to outright say "no girls allowed" to make it feel that way.

"Was a private conversation" is a pretty mitigating factor in my book. Even in a professional setting.

> It's important for me to stress that this is not to say that you cannot joke about sex or race. But it's not funny when you punch downward. Louis CK is a wonderful example of this. His jokes reference women and minorities all the time--but the jokes aren't about them, they're about him and his reactions to them based on his own personal context.

I'm preeeetty sure Hank's point was also not offensive towards women, either. He literally made a joke about cocks. Should I also be offended, because he was kind of implying that, as a man, I'd probably stick it everywhere? Come on...

> When it's the result of four hundred years (and more, really, but let's just be geographic here) of concerted activity on the part of society to constrain and hurt the people we consider less privileged today, I think it's not unreasonable to expect understanding and respect on the part of the people who've profited from it.

I don't think you are wrong, I just think that woman's interpretation of this was extremely hypocritical. I cannot sympathize with that washed out a reaction. Throughout her life, and that of her mother, and that of her grandmother, women have had pretty much equal rights. Everyone she can remember has literally had more rights in her own country than my grandfather had in his (for political and historical reasons). If she claims to be offended by this kind of stuff, she is the one who's being an asshole, exactly like that kid in school who was butthurt by everything that didn't fit his temper was an asshole.
The hero is blank on Firefox due to -webkit-linear-gradient. It makes all hero text invisible to the user.
This is really interesting, but the articles description makes no sense to me:

> EnChroma’s technology works by placing a band of absorption on glasses that captures light, pushing the cones away from each other and reestablishing the normal distribution of photons on them.

The glasses are not pushing the cones on your retina apart (if they are you're probably wearing them a bit close), so what are they doing?
like cjbprime said, looking at the case, this has the potential to be much bigger.
I don't comment here to necessarily disagree with your assertion... only to say that the same is true for the rest of the world. ALL nations... are corrupt and unworthy of trust.

It probably doesn't even make sense to say that this or that group of nations is "worse" than the others at this point in mankind's history. That would be like walking into a room full of pregnant high school girls... and picking the one you feel is the "most virgin".
It was actually .gc.ca, since I'm in Canada, but still.
Well, the go-to is generally considered Redhat with their RHEV product line. There are a plethora of other options out there, but if you're looking for an open source path with enterprise support they are generally candidate #1. Oracle has an option but... ya. Citrix Xenserver would be the other major player.
Of course it isn't completely anonymous; Facebook isn't claiming that it is. Their documentation very clearly demonstrates that they are linking the "anonymous" user with a Facebook profile on the backened (evidenced by the ability to connect accounts in the future). It is anonymous to developers because they don't see the profile information until the user decides to link it. This isn't some service being offered by Facebook where we have to then worry about them "connecting the dots" in the future - they already told us what they're doing and how.
Right. Part of this seems to be related to something I wrote about back in 2007 when I was an industry analyst: http://vmblog.com/archive/2007/08/22/vmware-and-the-gpl.aspx (IANAL, my opinion only, etc.)
Here's another story regarding GPL violations (this time by Allview): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/78MbtijK...
Maybe they can tackle the long-lived, widely-experienced SD card corruption issues of the RPi in the next version instead of adding a bunch more pins and an extra core.

Meanwhile the competition even has eMMC in the same price range.
White text on white background image ? Look how this renders on 1920x1080 resolution http://i.imgur.com/sPWpL6C.png. I cannot read that text, I don't understand anything from it.
I think "like" might be a strong word :P No compelling alternative is probably closer to the truth :D
Chris Ford did a terrific video along the same lines, in Clojure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfsnlbd-4xQ
Between this, the constant nag screen on every European site I go to about "evil cookies," and their relentless attacks on Google and MS, which always results in a major payout to EU countries... what the hell are they thinking?

We've lost more property rights again. I think the left leaning aspects of the EU are great for welfare benefits and social services, but the way its applied to business practices always seems more than a bit off. I fear this is the slipperly slope here where I own nothing and everything is a "service" somehow. The sad part is this was done, ostensibly, to avoid a VAT discount that paper books enjoy. EU corruption knows no bounds.
Speaking as a person who frequently buys from Amazon, I've never experienced this. (No, it's not that promotional email from Amazon is going into my spam folder. I have to check my spam folder semi-regularly because gmail keeps flagging perfectly legitimate email as spam.) The mail I get from Amazon is order confirmations and a newsletter that I specifically signed up for. What's this promotional email that you're talking about?
Sending directly from a Digital Ocean VPS? Yeah good luck with that bounce rate.

I use SendGrid free on Azure because Azure VPS too have an extremely high bounce rate. Setting up an SMTP server isn't exactly hard or expensive (regardless of if you're integrating mailing lists or not), it is the good rep' IP address and making it "someone else's problem" to deal with a lot of email related problems (poor reputation, blacklists, random host decides to block you, etc) that you're paying for.

Sendgrid, Mailchimp, and so on primarily exist so you can just hit send and then that's as deep as your involvement goes as far as emails.
There is no diversity problem in tech.
I always considered my Galaxy S4 camera pretty good until I compared them to my SO's iPhone 5S photos. Regular pictures with good lighting aren't noticeably different, but the Galaxy has absolutely horrendous photos when taken in conditions with less than full lighting. A photo taken in a dimly lit room in a fancy restaurant without flash just resulted in silhouettes while her iPhone took a great photo that really captured what my eyes saw.
I use
var foo = 'bar';
but at my place of work they insist on no semi-colons and comma first. I want to tell them this is stupid but I need solid facts. anyone care to expand.
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Or you could just use the free Sendgrid plan for up to 12k emails a month :)
I wonder if sfconservancy (or any other free software group) be able to benefit if vmware is fined? Who'll get the money?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3844302
It's using Amazon SES for delivery.
Yes, but the cautionary tale is about content licencing and access control, and tangentially about copyright. It's a stretch to suggest it's a warning about the content of the article, which is about applying VAT differently to ebooks and physical books and nothing at all to do with access control. It's not even a warning about ebooks, which are implied but not mentioned in the cautionary tale.
Yay! I have tested TypeScript in hobby projects with a very positive experience. I have actually used typescript together with angular once. I was very disappointed when angular announced that they were going to make some kind of fork, for the runtime annotations they needed, instead of working together.
Dart had Futures and Streams (the underlying classes for async) built-in from day one, and Dart has always been an event-loop-per-isolate language. The async/await/etc language features just make asynchronous programming much easier.
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I'm not the web master, I'll ping him.
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