skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I read the whole thread. I'm just having trouble understanding how a studio having failed at a basic business reality of their market, and thus being shutdown, has Wall Street to blame.

Wall Street, even as the completely generalized abstraction, doesn't have anything to do with this, other than a big video game publisher used some money generated there, to back a studio that has been unsuccessful at their job. If it had been a US governmental bailout or kickstarter that the financing came from, would not have changed that.
So, 18 years ago?

Guys, EA is plenty easy to hate, and if you want to hate them, more power to you, but the idea that they snatched up maxis, killed it, and looted its corpse is just not compatible with the timeline.

Will Wright got rich and bored and left. The fundamental landscape of computer games changed. The staff turned over in huge quantity, obviously, because 18 years. And the big new idea for the studio was interesting technology that never quite gelled as a game.
Why?! According to Wikipedia[1] there's been a transitional period since 2012 (for data transfer). I can not see any downsides to banning roaming charges (within EU).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulati...
It's an interesting read but I hope the OP takes away more than a renewed drive "to show them".

For an outsider it looks like a classical "overengineering" kind of project. You say it's too complex a problem to test early but if you reapply keep this in mind "validate you're not heading down the wrong path as early as possible" is the mantra. You seem outraged that XCode was suggested for example but you should have had a very clear non-technical response. Maybe list stuff like Ionic or even rapid prototyping stuff like Quartz Composer with Origami. Then link them by saying you can essentially build apps as if using Origami but get close to native performance, better code etc (mind you the JS to native compilers and pure JS folks will make similar claims)

Who's your target audience. Programmers becuse it takes them less time, designers because they can get further without programming?

I think you (the devs) should sit down for a coffee and talk through your project without going technical. Think of it as hacking the application process if you want. Fill out a Lean Canvas for your product even if it seems silly. Grill each other as if reliving the interview.

tl;dr: Pretend you're talking to nontechnical people and ignore everything that feels like "did they even read our application". Just mentally imagine they have invited you because someone recognized this as a hard engineering problem and now they are mostly interested in the business side.
Similar case is happening to the two tormentors of Curt Schilling (a former baseball player)'s daughter.

He tweeted congrats to his daughter for going to college. Predictably some of the replies were nasty.

He went after two and doxxed them. Now these two will bear the result of what went down.

https://38pitches.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/is-it-twitters-fa...

I suspect this will happen more and more.
Says who? Why does DBRef exist? I would like to see any non trivial application that doesn't use id's to reference between documents. Almost everyone is doing joins, just in the application layer, which is the worst place to do them.

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/database-references...
I was a bit surprised by the length. Not a huge difference, but one of the best things about the K&R book was how short it was. But, I too have been been curious to look into Go. This might be the excuse I needed.
Bingo! Her feeling of 'danger' was irrational unless there have been a wave of sexual assaults at developer conferences that I'm unaware of. She has no control over being offended or not, but she does have the ability to control her reactions to such offense. If it really bothered her why not just tell the guys, hey can you please not use that sort of humor around me?
The thing is - we already have the Facebook (or twitter etc) single login option.

However the are plenty of articles that say this form of sign up is not necessarily effective.[1]

For this idea to take off - you need to assume the reason for the current lack of uptake is that users dont trust the 3rd party with the Facebook data.

However I personally believe, and would have thought, that most people dont trust Facebook with the linked data, since they are learning more about you?

[1] http://blog.mailchimp.com/social-login-buttons-arent-worth-i...
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> Nearly all hiring managers are looking to recruit Linux professionals in the next six months.

Very hard to believe, unless there are several hidden assumptions, like
looking at specific industry sector and ruling out companies based on some
criteria. And with those, what other assumptions are there in the report?

The very summary makes whole article uncredible.
I have to agree. Tying yourself to your on-line identity shows that you're willing to take responsibility for your actions. There are places where you might not want to be recognized for some reason, just as there are such places in real-life (I would feel as uncomfortable browsing Silk Road for nootropics as I would feel visiting a sex shop in the shadier parts of te city) - but in general, I try to stand by what I do, including mistakes, as any responsible adult should.

But really this isn't even relevant in this case. They guy got fired because he was on the photo, and the girl was a developer evangelist, which by the very job description requires you to tie your face to your on-line presence and company. If either of them was otherwise anonymous on-line, it wouldn't help them anyway.
I would consider shaming them to be "fight," in this instance.

I feel really bad for Hank, he totally did not deserve it. I also feel really bad that Adria felt so uncomfortable that she did something so rash.

Both of their actions and reactions seem so natural to me. The upsetting thing is that our lack of diversity makes these situations so unavoidable.
Yep, that's the point I was trying to make. Most people, presumably including the parent commentator, have not taken any accounting, and don't think about all the simple, obvious examples I listed.
And to think all she had to do was to turn round, frown and go "Guys, there's a time and a place ...".

The golden rule is that, if you disagree with someone, speak to them face-to-face, privately first, then in front of others if that doesn't work.

Public tweeting is the absolute last recourse. She's as susceptible to individuation (behind her keyboard) as he was.
Because the person with the shaky and vacuous idea but excellent marketing chops has far more chance of success than the team with 500klcs written with no market validation (that team will be extremely reluctant to change course if their idea doesn't pan out with customers).
> I would take a guess that this kind of feeling isn't present for the vast majority of women -- indeed, there was no danger.

I can attest to this. My friends in computer science - both male and female - make bad sex jokes all the time. We all laugh at them.

I don't think it's fair to assume that only men can enjoy dumb jokes.
"regarding the user side, the problem for a lot of users isn't that they don't trust Facebook. It's that they don't trust the random app/website that is asking for their Facebook data."

Personally I feel it is the other way around.

I guess we'll see how successful this is to see what people really think?
This works up until the point when some belief you expressed years ago becomes outmoded. Look at Brendan Eich; a political donation from 7 years prior, of which he made no public note and was only attached to him because of legal reporting requirements, was trudged up and used against him. I know this isn't an example of an online anonymity issue, but it shows the very dark path of intolerance we're going down, and that if you can't even safely have normal, mainstream, registered political donations attached to your name in the internet age, you definitely can't have an account that expresses political perspectives with any meaningful verbosity attached to your name.

Unless you're totally, totally vanilla, and can guarantee that you will never express a controversial thought or opinion, there is little reason to take the risk of attaching your Real World identity to your comments and leaving an opening for the online mobs.
Ask HN: When using an open source model for a service?
when I make a web service o web application, when is a good idea use a open source model?
> The next time I go to a client who wants a scalable international web application that needs... well, the same stuff that's in pretty much every other scalable international web application. Why shouldn't I run it up on a framework that provides all that and save myself (and the client) six months of building, glue code, integration, and all the other testing?

Sounds like you're a consultant / freelancer (like me). For folks in our position, frameworks are win-win. We can become specialists in them, get things implemented quickly and more cheaply than an alternative, and satisfy our clients.

Of course, also having been on the other side, I know that the pain of frameworks comes later, in long-term maintenance. This is because the frameworks more or less "define reality" for the applications that are hosted within them. And when an applications business needs start to reach beyond what the framework is capable of making easy, then the development tradeoffs start to get nasty.
John Carmack – GDC 2015 Talk – The Dawn of Mobile VR [Video]
Please don't use "pedophiles" as a synonym for "sexual predator". It's not the same, and it's very stigmatizing for people who are attracted to children but decide to not act on their feelings.

Here is a great thread on the parenting Stack Exchange that explains the issue: https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/18782/what-sho...
Why Less Interest in Improving Social Systems Than Physical Ones?
Wireless cards can be put in promiscuous mode, and you'll see the packets that reach your computer, but maybe not all the traffic of the wireless network - this is known as the hidden node problem[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_node_problem
"The grass is always greener" is a cliche for a reason.
It's Brian Kernighan, enough said. I am sold.
Can an observer watch what pages people read?
No Kindle edition? :-(
Then she should be afraid of sexual assaults, not killings.

And reading that page, I see most of the items are of this severity:

> An offensive tweet was made against the PyLadies group

Really? That's inappropriate, but it's not sexual assault.

In fact, there are 14 instances of the word "assault". Which by my count is no more than 10% of the items.

Over-exaggerating the problem is fear-mongering.

This looks a lot like flailing around, trying to find reasons for being upset.

"I'm afraid of being killed"

It doesn't happen.

"Crap, I'm afraid of sexually assaulted, it happens a lot, here's proof!"

That actually disproves your assertion.

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Ask HN: Why would I want to pay with my phone?
Dear mobile payment pitchers of HN,

Why would I want to pay for anything with my phone, rather than a card or cash? Please enlighten me.

Specifically,

(1) How is this more convenient than using my card or cash? I don't buy the argument that carrying a wallet is an inconvenience. A card takes virtually no space.

(2) Why would I want to trust my smartphone, which has a battery life of about a day, with the ability to pay for something in a critical situation. My card and cash does not run out of battery. Furthermore, I have had three different smart phones die on me permanently in the last two years. I don't want to be stuck somewhere and not be able to afford a taxi because my phone is dead.

(3) Why would I trust information about my purchases with a company like Google. They already know most things about me, but how does it benefit me to also give my purchase data over to them? So they can ad retarget me more easily? Fuck that. What's next, my vital signs uploaded to Facebook in real time?

Thanks.
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It is good to have someone living as long as possible who actually wants to make the world a better place.

But, we all know who will be the ones actually benefiting from this.

The ones who don't give a rats ass about anything, only selfishly living longer just to make more money, have more power. Hoarders who are rather a disease for humanity then being useful.

In an ideal world it would be a fantastic thing. But we aren't living in one. We can try, but unless 90% of humanity stops acting like a maniac, it will divide humanity on another level.

We can't cope with the fact properly, if our neighbour has a bigger car then ours. Imagine how people would cope with the fact, that some of us can live for hundreds of years.

Immortality is a nice thing, but not until the minds are cleared, poverty, hunger, closed mindedness, are banished and humanity as a whole can act and decide without having constant internal struggles.

Just look at the idiots who are against vaccinations, religious nut-jobs, greedy, selfish, maniac, egocentric, etc...

All the beautiful traits of humanity. Do you want to give those power to live long, or maybe forever?

Would you prevent new generation to blossom and create something new, by selfishly clinging to life and not letting go to give way for the change? It is a common thing that the older you are, the less you can change, or keep up with trends. And this is not only about are ageing bodies. We might have the risk to stop evolving. To stop innovating, exploring, etc...

I advise to you to read "2br02b" from Kurt Vonnegut. A short story about our society perfecting immortality. It is very interesting.

And to answer your question. I would probably choose 'A', even if I fear that it will have a very negative impact on humanity.
I'm amazed how Ayn Rand is still alive and kicking in the YC crowd.
Some advantages of libraries:

- they stimulate more clearly defined APIs

- allow each component to be easily replaced by another component

Some disadvantages of libraries:

- every library typically needs some "glue logic" to fit in the total program, causing performance overhead and/or code ugliness

- every library maintains state in a different way, making it difficult to atomically control or save the state of the complete application (a similar problem exists with microservices)

- (related) also garbage collection over objects in different libraries may become a nightmare if every library implements its own garbage collector (try mixing V8 and a Java VM, for example)
I read that statement less as arrogance and more as one's internal thought process when an interview starts to go in the wrong direction. Before any interview or presentation, I have an idea in my mind of how the conversation is going to go (some canned answers here and there for info that requires a concise explanation, some general ideas to touch on, etc.).

I'd guess that never in these dev's rehearsals did they imagine they'd be defending their validity as a product over a product like Eclipse.

That's not to say that the question was wrong to ask; in fact, I think it was one of the most important questions asked at that interview because it gives the Creo team great insight into how people are trying to "fit" their product into the current market. I do think, however, that the question threw the Creo team for a loop because it doesn't allow them to highlight the benefits of Creo in a meaningful way.
One mile? I'd argue you can walk that even (or especially? I tend to like that) if you're drunk.

The GP probably talked about a somewhat bigger trip, maybe (sorry, miles isn't something that feels natural) on the order of 10-15+ km.

Now, driving drunk is absolutely no excuse. But I do agree that the price of getting home by Cab-Or-Replacement-Service is probably not in the 'one more drink' range. A bus ticket though..?
It's frustrating to hear a bunch of white men who normally stick around groups of other white men talk about how someone who is very different - black, female, Jewish - is silly for feeling threat in situations where white men don't feel threat.

When people of your racial/religious group are murdered and attacked and harassed (and anti-Semitism is still a thing) her perception of threat is no doubt heightened.

It's unreasonable to expect her to confront people making dumb jokes if she feels threatened by them.

(However, her actions are not acceptable. She could have sought out conference organisers and told them.)
It's not about what we should do in an ideal world. It's about the realities of the world we live in, where employers will fire you at the drop of a hat, regardless of whether you are in the right or wrong.

Using your real name doesn't win you any points. I could easily lie and say my real name was John Thomas. It sounds real enough. I could lie in real life with a fake name, too. Conversely, I have 18+ years of history using my pseudonym. It may not be a name chosen for me when I was born, but it has a very real reputation attached to it.

The lack of empathy you speak of is a consequence of hiding behind text over great distances, not of hiding behind fake names. People act more respectable when there's even the slimmest of chances the other person could physically harm them for their words; and/or when they can actually see the harm their words cause to another.

If you really have a pressing need to let your interviewer or employer know of your online achievements, speak to them in person about it with no audit trail.

The people who use anonymity to say horrible things are going to do so anyway. Go and search Google for "byuu 4chan". Now replace byuu with my real name. Why would I want my employer to be able to find those things?
In what way can anything that Scott Aaronson said be construed to be contributing to maintaining a culture of oppression? Patriarchy and structural oppression are useful models for understanding lots of things, but they are not isomorphic to reality, and you do not deserve to be pilloried for explaining your experience in some other terms.

This is why people find the internet SJW community so distasteful. Not only are they completely ineffective at improving the lives of the people they claim to be fighting for, but they also delight in doing active harm to defenseless people for merely using another model of the world in some circumstances.

You might also be interested in some of Scott Aaronson's followup. http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2221
Show HN: Hypatia, difficulty calculator gem (my first gem)
My First gem. It's something I created during my thesis, researching the effect of an adaptive medical math trainer. It lets students train in certain mathematical operations that calculate how much medicine should be administered. This gem is part of that app as in it calculates how difficult a certain operation is.
https://medium.com/@marthynolthof/medmath-com-and-it-s-difficulty-calculator-released-to-a-gem-b6ab9973cfcb

https://github.com/marthyn/hypatia
"Or so I have heard."

Someone has misinformed you. Please do your own research. There is absolutely no mention of anything remotely like what you are describing in the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA
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> Oh he'll be okay, the system's on his side.

I think Ronson strongly suggests that this is in fact the case.

Ronson's a great journalist for acknowledging the complexity of a situation without attempting to offer answers he's unqualified to give, imho.

> “So you’re in your new workplace…” (Hank was offered another job right away) “…and you’re talking to a female developer. In what way do you act differently towards her?”

> “Well,” Hank said. “We don’t have any female developers at the place I’m working at now. So.”

> “You’ve got a new job now, right?” I said to Adria.

> “No,” she said.

Incidentally thank you for all your comments on this article. They're really thoughtful and have helped me understand what is clearly a very big issue much better.
To be honest his stories are about sexism, but not in the way some activists like to frame it, but still.

I agree, it's all about her minority status and backstory, I'd argue that because of that she wasn't able to handle the matter in a smarter way. It was dangerous to make a public example out of this guy and escalate things, which thanks to the internet is way easier than ever. If she'd felt stronger, had more middle class problem solving skills, she might have taken a smarter approach, one where she didn't expose herself to attacks.

There is one thing I learned, just because someone is poor, had it hard, doesn't mean she's right or a nice person and is equipped to handle situations appropriately.
An interesting point here is that Wikipedia actually works in China, only some articles are censored. I tried to bypass this by typing https://www.wikipedia.org into the browser, but it loaded the http version regardless.
That blog post was as sensible a commentary as I've ever read on these kinds of issues, thanks for sharing.
I am a very, very picky eater.

The first time I came to China, I didn't know how to find palatable food. (Yes, this was something I worried about beforehand.) Over the course of three months, I lost 15 pounds.

I had been variously described, before that point, as "thin", "stick-thin", and "skeletal".

When my dad picked me up at the airport afterwards, he was shocked. He said I looked like I was literally starving to death, which in a limited sense was true. I spent a lot of those three months visualizing pizza.

Was it the perfect diet? I'm sure the approach (just refuse to eat what's available) works. But it was a truly awful experience. Not recommended to anyone.
I get how this works when I'm using a single device. But how do you identify that you're the same anonymous account when you switch from one device to another, without giving any personally identifying information?
Long-distance and regional transport needs are significantly different from local ones, and different land-use and activity patterns can hugely reduce transportation needs. The fact of a large country doesn't mean that individual urban areas can't be designed for mass transit or walkability.

If you can find shopping, school, recreational, and work activities within a few blocks (or at most a few miles) of one another, then a car becomes more a nuisance than a requirement. The exceptions become trips out of town -- the outdoors, visiting friends, etc.

Shopping can be dealt with through deliveries (scheduled and bundled, or online). Or local pick-up and a cart, wagon, or bike trailer.

Trades and crafts will still likely require transport, but that becomes an outlier exception.

Depending on what long-term fuel and economic trends look like, I suspect the US will see either regional high-speed rail or plain-old conventional slow rail. Aviation with expensive fuel becomes an expensive proposition. Roughly half a large jet's take-off weight is fuel, and for an efficient airliner at 40 passenger miles/gallon, a 3,000 mile flight involves 75 gallons of fuel -- at 6.8 pounds per gallon, that's 510 lb. of fuel, 2-4x the weight of a passenger. And while trains can be electrified, the options for doing so to aircraft pose a few larger technical hurdles.