skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anti-government ideologues don't want taxes to be easy because they want people to complain and hate the government more. Anti-government ideologues are why we can't have a lot of nice things.
Citymaps. Yelp has a long way to go before I will trust their rating system, and Yelpers' style of reviews are just painful to read.
I'm pretty sure Joyce was a Markov bot.
Help Getting WebRTC on Safari
Android would, in my opinion, be impaired if it didn't include Google play, gmail, chrome, and Google Maps.

Android would be "impaired" if it shipped a general-purpose mail client rather than one designed specifically for Gmail?

It would be "impaired" if part of the setup process was to select an app store[0], a browser[1], and a maps app[1]?

That sounds more like "consumer empowerment" than "impairment" to me.

[0] Google Play, F-Droid, Amazon's app store, etc

[1] Just show that category of programs from the aforementioned app store
> My not well studied understanding is that people price homes based mostly on the monthly payment they will make, so the mortgage interest deduction tends to make them willing to pay more for a given home.

As with any subsidy, you'd expect both an increase in the market clearing price of the subsidized good and an increase in the number of units sold at the market clearing price (that is, it increases both price and affordability), unless you have either perfect elasticity or perfect inelasticity, neither of which seems likely with homes.

> The stated purpose of making mortgage interest deductible is to make home ownership more affordable. We should take a careful look at whether it accomplishes that goal.

To the extent it does, it does only for people near the boundary of being able to afford to own a home, and does so (ceteris paribus) at the expense of everyone who isn't paying interest on a mortgage, including people too poor to do so even with the deduction -- who it therefore makes less likely to be able ever to afford a home.

You'd do at least as much to make home ownership -- but also lots of other things -- more affordable by getting rid of the deduction and cutting base rates on below-median incomes such that the net result was revenue neutral before considering indirect economic effects.
I agree 100% about your Postgres point. I don't want to ever be in a situation where I can't use Postgres, unless we're in a situation wherein Postgres has taken the back seat to some other database that is A) ACID compliant, B) really fast and scalable and B) fairly widely adopted.
You and 4 others :)
Dammit, just finished lunch and now I'm hungry again.
Tell HN: Practical guidance on securing technology
With Cyber Security heating up, I thought I will point out something useful that I personally did not know.

CIS Security provide unbiased consensus-based security benchmarks with practical implementable guidance on how to secure your technology such as securing Ubuntu servers or securing android devices.

These benchmarks can be accessed here -
https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/downloads/multiform/

Example of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server benchmark
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https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/tools2/linux/CIS_Ubuntu_14.04_LTS_Server_Benchmark_v1.0.0.pdf

I have personally found their benchmarks and tools very useful. These are available free of charge so it works very well for bootstraps.
How smartphone sensors can make expensive weather equipment obsolete
In my opinion, yes, and it would be beneficial for most citizens if the EU intervened.
Say you want to build flying robots 1/64 of an inch in diameter. Do you want 64-bit CPUs?
Continuous Deployment with Freight
Citigroup Joins the Lending Club
What about a croque monsieur or madame? Not called a sandwich, but also not a disappointment.
NoMoreNicksLeft, these were adult women, not children. And Bill Cosby is a comedian, not a day care provider.
The writer of the article is Tim Kreider. I really like his writing. If you like that article, you might like other things he has written.
I beg to differ. According to the poll there are 4.

The poll was designed to be future proof. Who will be able to research the present in 1000 years if we don't make records today? Doomsday book for HN.
FWIW, only the client side of CIFS runs in the kernel. The server software (smbd) is entirely in userspace.
Database of all Marvel characters
There are two sides to this. For one, I agree with her that people who actually want to be a part of this world (not just observing with interest) and contribute, either to the field or just on a team, do not need to be held up as 'inspirational.' I hope that team knew that, yes, they didn't do a good job but at least you're doing something. I know I hated in college when I saw it happen to men and women equally.

On the other hand, there is something to be said for those people actually hacking. They have experience and knowledge they don't need to gain all at once right there to make something cool. I went in to that college I mentioned with like 6-7 years of programming under my belt. Projects and clients and etc. These people barely knew that there was a command line in Windows, let alone how pointers or c strings worked. That happened to everyone, but there were a few 'hackers' like me who knew a lot coming in. All of us were guys. There were no girl 'hackers' and I don't presume to know exact reasons why but their actions basically had to do with what those women who could have been one of the 'hackers'. The judges were trying to combat, or at least show they combat that horrible situation. I hated it when girls would say they couldn't do CS/IT stuff because it was too hard for them or something. Like if it was magic or whatever. Since, I've realized its not true
And then there's that.

Now I've learned another thing new today.
More complex setup is a UX quality loss, so, yes, Android would be impaired by your recommendations. (And, on top of that, giving developers less consistency they could rely on on the platform would also be an impairment resulting from that.)

Whether an improved competitive marketplace would result from the changes and yield long-term benefits that offset the cost of those impairments may be a worthwhile debate, but its not a debate you can even have honestly without recognizing the impairments.
Whoa! I didn't realize that market forces now excluded stuff that you obviously don't like.

If the market didn't want us to have "brainless middle managers," as you'd apparently characterize a wide swath of our colleagues, then those people would already have been efficiency'd out.

Just like, if people who don't look like you weren't lining up to be involved in hackathons and groups that consist of people who don't look like you, those events wouldn't exist.

People pay for it, whether you like it or approve of it or not. Behold, the market works!
True story, haha.

I also remember used to be that "Hacker" in the programming context was looked down upon. Meaning, you had no idea what you were doing (you were a "hack") or you were up to no good (black hat).
I know you probably think you're being a skeptical and intelligent speaker of uncomfortable truths. But you're a lot more like a climate change denier. You're going with your gut and not the facts.

This graph says it all, I think. Is it really conceivable that women were more interested in computing when it was all about hand-coding assembly for a modest amount of money, and less interested now that you can make >$100K/year doing Rails from home?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...

There's tons of evidence that women are excluded from our industry, at every level -- high school, university, and even the ones that graduate and go on to work in the industry drop out at a very high rate. Other scientific or mathematical fields do not have the same problem.

You will probably now try to bury me with various quibbles, because you can argue against any statistic. but maybe you could try ASKING A WOMAN.

Anecdotally, I know many women who have since found coding later in life. I've heard several times that they wandered into some science or computer club early on and had horrible experiences and left. They're coming into it now, mostly due to the high demand for engineers such that the industry is (reluctantly) hiring people who don't have the ideal background, and actually training them. So these women are finding out, for the first time, that they aren't bad at technical things. It was just that the field was so gendered, and they came from environments that were strongly biased.
Just noticed a phone-related typo. s/Factoria/Factorio/
http://factual.com/ is the big player in place that no one has heard of.

I still think a lot of the urgency behind Google+ was from Facebook throwing up a landing page for every business they could get data for. The conversations between local businesses and customers are valuable conversations to host.
Sounds like a project in the making.
This is "The United States of America". It was intended as an association of states. Get rid of the creeping direct taxation, and just bill the states. Let each state decide how its share of federal revenue is raised (income tax? sales tax? mineral rights sales? port fees? smart investing? etc).

The IRS should be two guys who work a couple days twice a year. When the Congress & President pass a budget, these two take the bottom line revenue needed, divide by number of congressmen, aggregate by state, and send each Governor a bill (overnight courier); next day they confirm the bills were received. On April 16, they open the IRS mailbox, cash the checks for each state; next day they confirm the funds transferred, and inform the President which states did/didn't pay on time (subject to Executive enforcement). Done.
Microsoft said the same back in the day. And it is true - in the immediate term, consumers benefit from a single vendor integrating all their products and limiting competition.

The problem happens when you look a little farther ahead. Anti-competitive measures prevent other companies from offering something even better. Those products might not exist now, but without an open and competitive environment, they won't show up. And consumers are very much hurt if that is the case.
I really don't understand this at all. Yes, there are fewer women in tech than men. But where I come from they are not rare. At one workplace we had at least one woman in almost every role. Nobody ever made mention of the fact that they are women. Nobody ever treated them differently, and AFAICT none of them ever had a complaint about gender issues.

Is this a coastal thing?

Anyone else in the Detroit area agree or disagree with my assessment?
The Procrastination Doom Loop — and How to Break It
Tony Hsieh self-management memo to Zappos employees
Sort of related, reminded me of this: a friend of mine who is a very skilled lady, attended some "programming for women only" type events, her intention was to meet people and pitch in to lend a hand.

She told me that 4 out of 5 that she went to were charging exorbitant amounts and teaching things like how to configure a pre-hosted Wordpress install and maybe basic HTML+CSS, and calling it programming.

She was pretty pissed about the whole ordeal, I remember her saying something like: When you compare the content of some 'women only' events in tech to the non-specific counterparts, it's condescending and borderline exploitative (ie, charging for pretty limited services)

Kind of a raw deal, especially for a beginner, I imagine.
I'm curious what justification you use for a daily allowance of $1,000. Are you renting ferraris, eating fabulous lunches and dinners, and staying in a plush hotel?

Or do you not mean per diem in the literal sense?
TypeScript vs. CoffeeScript vs. ES6
> Edit: The crash screen is very dull:

Could you show the event log entry also?
http://imgur.com/RTbw7co confirmed for default IIS without any rules set, completely default values.
* Over the age of 30.
Why do AAA devs often hate their jobs? Watch this video. – Polygon
I don't see why this is posted under #gender inequality. How can it be gender inequality if it disadvantages males? It doesn't count.
that means the server response was something different from expected, either the server is not running IIS or it is running another (older ?)version.
The critical benefit, as I understand it, is that you don't have to carry the mass of an oxidizer with you. Ergo, you "get" non-zero altitude and velocity for much cheaper than an equivalent rocket first stage (including its own oxidizer) would give it to you.

And in a towed/mated application, you're not forced to carry the subsequently useless mass of air-breathing engines with you either.

Also, the design constraints of air-breathing engines tend to be a lot looser than rocket engines. Which buys you increased reliability.
>Make no mistake, any company that does not behave as the organisers of this hackathon here - not actively displaying an organised, certainly biased, effort to promote the "Women in Tech" narrative - are open to being squatted on from above from the "moral highground" occupied by the tech media.

It's important to keep in mind that tech journalism, and journalism in general, has roughly the same level of diversity as tech. One wonders why they never seem to report on their own organizations.

edit: A few downvotes, but no responses. Probably my fault for forgetting to cite my claim: http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/mar/04/wome...

http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/11/hard-evidence-ther...
I'd be more interested to know how karma is distributed over account age. For instance, I have 268 karma on a 763-day-old account. Where does that fall (more/less/average) compared to other accounts of my age?
Depends on where you live. 20k for a car where I live is very expensive. I honestly would not risk even a 5k car on this broken system, is it that hard to put a key in a hole?
It seemingly can as it actively has ventures in several out of band ventures and is encroaching in all the areas Microsoft already is, while having search/advertising as a massive foundation which MS doesnt have.

And yes, advertising will continue to grow, native/video/mobile are all still growing at double digits and Google is slowly rolling out their products to extract even more value here. The ad industry is going through another revolution and Google, while not innovating, has plenty of growth potential still left.
That has a very strong relationship with the monthly payment that they can manage.
Here, here!

When people are at the end of their lives, what do they talk about, what do they remember as the happy times, the times that were worth savoring and experiencing. Just google it. People specifically say that time spent at work, though not a total loss, was not typically worth remembering. Those extra 30 minutes a day at the desk or shovel? Not worth it. Harvard ran a study for about 70 years on their business school grads. It's admittedly biased towards rich WASPy males, but it's the best we have thus far for study. The results: When controlling for drinking and smoking, LOVE is the single greatest factor for a happy, long, and fulfilling life. FULL STOP. Love wins the game of life; bet on love.

So, when you prioritize your life, keep the end in mind. Memento Mori. Your family, friends, travel, dinners, those are the things that matter. Yes, you have to work, but do not think that work will love you.
I don't see a need to jump ship with java... Stick with whats paying you but that doesn't mean you can't learn C++ on the side.
Personally I don't see C++ going anywhere (I code C++/C for a living) and learning a language closer to the metal will make you a better developer overall.
> Women dominate many professions. Men dominate many professions. As a society we don't need to have an equal number of penises and vaginas present in all professions.

If you did just a bit of critical thinking about which genders dominate which professions and why, including historical trends, you'd arrive to either two conclusions.

1) One gender is naturally predisposed to being nurturing and subjugated and taken care of and caring, or 2) there have been cultural protectionist barriers set up to protect the most bountiful activities.

What did people say before women reached parity or near-parity in Law and Medicine? Were they biologically disinclined then too?
Learning Scala in a significant sense of learning, means also learning the JVM, SBT, and some degree of Java because "That's stack, Jack." Scala errors sometimes talk in terms of Java and having a mental model of Java helps a programmer parse them (it's like Clojure in this way).

I don't see either as high market share among general purpose languages. There are almost certainly more jobs in Python than both combined.
I want something with printable "zines" with recommendations for places to eat, sleep, and visit.

Like this, but printable and free : http://www.telescopecards.com/

I like to travel without my "devices" - I DO NOT want something that relies on my cell phone or cell service to work.
Unfortunately it's the best we have. Integrating gravitational waves for N-bodies is near impossible when N gets sufficiently large. Gotta have a threshold of importance to get any meaningful approximation.
New Stumbles by Prosecutors in Trial of Former Goldman Programmer
I think tripwolf has a lot of great info and features but the presentation is not really great.
Softcard was shutting down anyways. They really never recovered from heavily investing in branding a product named ISIS and then having to change their name after that budget had been spent. On top of that, the early adopters that would have spread the word of the product were annoyed that the phone carriers were actively blocking Google Wallet installations in order to push ISIS adoption in the beginning. Google Wallet had to change business models and use a reloadable card because the carriers prevented Google from using the secure element on NFC to store the user's actual credit card on their own device. After Softcard began to fold, Google just bought what was left.
I never care enough to defend a company. The article was arguing about growth slowing but Google's foundation in advertising needs to be studied in more detail than these signals. The ad market is going through massive changes and Google has plenty of potential still left, along with all of the other areas where they are starting to cut into MS business.

Stalled and similar words is not how I would describe them.
I couldn't agree more with his points. My Japanese teacher has a better English vocabulary than I do - but she'll often struggle with "basic" words "everyone" knows!

It's silly that the ability to speak and communicate is placed less importantly than 100% proper grammar or an expansive vocabulary.

I find most polyglots, especially ones capable of holding conversations, do not value 100% correct grammar or large vocabularies. They make do with what little knowledge they have and they constantly improve what they know.

Other awesome polyglots to follow (if you're interested in learning languages or linguistics)
Laoshu505000
https://www.youtube.com/user/laoshu505000

Benny Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/user/irishpolyglot
> The stated purpose of making mortgage interest deductible is to make home ownership more affordable.

I would be happy to see the deduction go away along with all other deductions :)
There's some very sweet gear in that auction, pity I didn't know about it earlier :(
I agree that idiomatic Nim (if there is such a thing) is very different than idiomatic Python.

What I meant (and did not express clearly) is that you can write mostly pythonesque code in Nim, and it will perform as well as Go. You don't have to modify the syntax, use macros, define symbolic operators, operational transforms, etc any more than you have to use metaclasses in Python.

At it's core, if you write "typed python" code in Nim, it will work, be readable, and perform well.
Interesting. I guess the question is for something as big as this should companies like cloudflare have a obligation to protect everyone using their service (rather than just those on a certain support level)?
Do you really believe the things you write?

How the heck is OHA an illegal trust?
"Less interest" along gender lines sounds like a good explanation... until you toss in racial lines as well. Black and Latino representation in IT is even worse than female representation. This strongly suggests that the problem is a matter of culture, not gender.
> And much the same could be argued about Microsoft and IE. Yet everyone but Google Chrome failed to overtake IE.

If you believe statcounter, Firefox is actually really really close to overtaking IE http://gs.statcounter.com/
The terrible claustrophobic airplane seat redesign that could soon be how we fly
The article specifies there are brute-forcing radios out there that can open bmw's so no, everyone is in danger.
I hate going on-site. It is a waste of time. It is a "go away" price.

EDIT: And companies routinely pay for it.
>Unfortunately, I don't see this changing, because humans are short-sighted and too often focused on relative dominance rather than absolute prosperity.

I wonder if that may only be because most people can't see what may be possible in the future if certain things are done today. That's not an intrinsic limitation of people, it's just that people tend to focus on different things. To bring someone else's perspective into their view is difficult and takes time, especially if there is no easy way to share one's perspective (different languages, different cultures, different life experiences).

I think that if we can find ways to express (sound) ideas to people in ways that they can understand, we will find that most people will agree and want to build that better future. Actually building that future requires solving technical problems, but also requires political solutions to resolve the inevitable clashes of perspective (and flat-out wrongness) that will occur.
What the Hack 2.0: PaperChat, Wi-Fi Catcher and Other Hacks
Relative to the second hand market? Yeah. Unless you want something that is going to be absolutely no bother, and that doesn't need anything at all done to it, then you can spend a few thousand pounds at most and still get something in reasonable nick. For instance, my current car came with around 17,000 miles on the clock and cost £1,300.

A Prius would cost me £21,995 - around 16 times as much. Though there are far more expensive cars out there, that they can't even get basic security right is fairly disgraceful....
Echoing the other comments, think of it not as a missed opportunity, but as a challenge to build something better than what already exists. The odds are that anything you've worked on has (probably) already been done.
>As a user of Google search and Android, I want Google to bundle services. Android would, in my opinion, be impaired if it didn't include Google play, gmail, chrome, and Google Maps

Even if it was so, the convenience of consumers is less important than having a healthy economic ecosystem.
Most cars I see on the road and in parking lots are 5-20 years old. Anything newer is a low-end model. Expensive cars stand out.
Mind sharing your registrar?
Bullshit. Everyone else doesn't "need" to put in longer hours so I can have a reasonable schedule, and it's in no way my fault if they decide to do that.

I'm not a "free-rider". If my employer isn't satisfied with what I can do in a 40-hour week, then they shouldn't be paying me. I will absolutely not work 60-hour weeks on a regular basis.

If my individual interests clash with those of the "ecosystem", then my individual interests take precedence. If I don't look out for my work-life balance and overall happiness, then who will?
Think bigger! http://jpaerospace.com/atohandout.pdf

(I had posted this link on its own 30 minutes ago, but it is going nowhere.)
The website “tech.pro” would like to show alerts in Notification Centre.

don't allow > don't allow > don't allow > allow > ALLOW!

For me at least it looped forever. I had to force quit Safari.