skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, rough crowd.

I like the interface. It's like a mix between Jira and Trello. More focused than Jira, with more structure than Trello.

I don't really like Jira because of its kitchen sink approach. It tries to be everything to everybody with endless customization and options. It gives fifty ways to do everything and there's a different way to do any particular thing on every single page. As a developer, it annoys the hell out of me by making me spend way more time than I want to navigating through project management software. Not having all of the features of Jira isn't necessarily a bad thing, IMO.

I'm not sure what people are expecting when they say the site doesn't feel "polished enough." It works fine for me, and is as polished as any web app, AFAICT.

On the negative side, I think I get what you're saying about the pricing, but it is a little confusing. One idea would be to make it free for personal projects, but charge for collaboration, similar to how BitBucket does it.
> Any theory which predicts that math/physics/cs/EE has few women is inherently flawed if it doesn't also predict that medicine/law/advertising have plenty of women.

I am not sure where you're going with this, but you can't make such a comparison at a given moment in time. The reason is that struggles usually follow power, and so it is likely that at any point in time, a marginalized group would concentrate its efforts to penetrate positions that imbue power. As the power structure shifts, so does the struggle. You can't equate professions that hold different amounts of power at different times. Certainly up until some decades ago, law and medicine carried much more prestige and influence -- and hence, power -- than math and the physical sciences. In fact, software's gain of prestige correlates quite well with the drop in women participation. It is quite anomalous in that the existence of the field long predated its power. Law and medicine, OTOH, are professions that have been seats of power for almost a millennium.

A model that correlates low female participation with high power -- and later, increased participation after a struggle -- predicts both observations. It is not such a surprising or sophisticated theory; historians have seen this pattern so often that it is almost banal. This pattern is so regular, that it's relatively easy for us to predict the future: fifty years from now, assuming the power wielded by software remains high, women participation will equal men's, and it will be hard for people to believe that that hasn't always been the case. Unfortunately, even though the result of the fight is certain, we still need to fight it. That is the price history exacts from us.
Claiming that Microsoft is not in the surveillance-and-advertising business is rather facetious. Of course they are! Or .. why else are they harvesting absolutely everything they can possibly find out about me, from the moment the install is completed, until the final day when I uncover the secret options that turns it all off? If they weren't in the surveillance-and-advertising business, none of the spy options would be default to "On" ..
What, precisely, is completely false? According to you, women were heavily underrepresented in medicine/law/HR/advertising, but were NOT so underrepresented in computing.

According to belorn, the minority gender will be pushed out by the majority group. Based on what you say above, this effect should be larger in medicine/law/HR/advertising than in software. Hence, belorn's theory fails to predict reality.

Your theory of government employment fails to predict reality as well. Academic sciences also have large gender disparities; physics has very few women, while biology has lots. These gaps pretty clearly mirror the CS/medicine gaps outside academia. Yet government involvement in physics academia is pretty similar to government involvement in bio academia.
Makes sense but do people use it for conventional web. If there is such a great deal of efficiency why isn't there a great deal of adoption?
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Why not just make your way into take like everyone else?

Why are girls special? Why do they get red carpet treatment?

That's going to give us a workforce of a lot of women who feel entitlement beats merit.
"We also don't normally see males wearing snug form-fitting shirts"

Heh you should really visit Shoreditch or Soho on a warm sunny day. ;-)
I know that, I'm more wondering what was the amount that immigrated to the US (in relation to Catholic Irish)
he apparently is the real life incarnate of "tl;dr"
[3] works on my browser. Anyway, the link was to the publisher's page for the book. Here is another one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Set-Theory-Universal-Exploring-Unive... .
I don't see any particular contributions to logic in the Tractatus.
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you can judge a man--or a cause--by their enemies. Nothing makes me more interested in embracing socialism than Rush's rush to define socialism as "any action that shows concern for your fellow human."
Thanks for this background. I would've loved to have something like this when I was growing up. I'm sure I'd enjoy playing with this today, when it's released in English.
The 'No True Programmer' Fallacy
This seems like a great deal for Yahoo.
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Did they really consider themselves "Irish", though?
So much FUD and bold assertions without any proof/reference in that article. Anyway, the point stands that Windows has to become open source as fast as possible - my guess is that the chances are pretty good that they are working on open sourcing Windows already.
I guess it's great news for women.

Isn't this going to create bitterness and animosity between genders? Why don't men get a leg up?

What's to keep these from bestowing attitude of entitlement in women? I already hear some of the most vocal women in tech trying to ban the word merit.
What exactly about Windows 10 convinced you to move away from it? What has changed? From usability/features perspective, it appears to be the best Windows yet.
CLJS is a dynamically typed mostly-functional strict uncurried lisp, Purescript is a very Haskell-inspired languages, Elm is syntactically similar but less welded to Haskell, it's strict, it doesn't implement many features (where clauses, pattern guards) and concepts (e.g. typeclasses, HKT) and strongly focuses on FRP and frontend interactive programming instead.
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Can you state your theory clearly enough that I can directly apply it? I have no idea what you are trying to say. Make sure to include a clear definition of "power", and make sure this definition is clear enough that I can at the very least evaluate "more" and "less" power.

(I.e., I have no idea why you consider academic physics to have more power than academic biology.)

I also have no idea what you mean by "a marginalized group would concentrate its efforts". Are you implying that women don't make individual career choices based on their interest and aptitude, but instead "concentrate [their] efforts" in some sort of collectivist power grab?

That's a bit scary. I always thought women were just people like me, making selfish individual decisions to maximize their money/lifestyle/career enjoyment.
If you had posted this during peak San Francisco work hours, you would have gotten 86 replies saying how "mtgox is not an acronym for anything, it's people like you who are ruining the world."

This, I think, is the "it's GNU/Linux, not Linux" for a new generation of pedants.
The observation precisely follows the flow of power. See my other comment.

> Academic sciences also have large gender disparities; physics has very few women, while biology has lots.

Academia is less interesting to begin with because there is little difference in the power held by different fields (certainly between physics and biology today). Participation can therefore depend on many factors (perhaps side-products of some other process) that people have little interest to examine or change. Those differences are no different from the high participation of women relative to men in ballet dancing. It's hard to pinpoint the causes, and there's little reason or urgency to study them because there's little power imbalance involved (there is more funding directed to studying more serious diseases than less serious ones, unless there's some other good reason to study the less harmful ones).
Windows 7 but with more features would be nice.
They might not have a net positive on the numbers, but they might have a net positive on being interesting. I don't want a one size fits all monoculture, and if the only cost of that is the risk I might not enjoy every event I go to, then so be it.
It's not exactly hard to prove that this used to appear in newspapers all the time. A 10 second search on the LOC website shows a ton of examples of this phrase appearing in papers across America: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?stat...

Professor Jensen should be ashamed of himself for failing to conduct even the most trivial searches for this information.
I'm really glad I didn't get investment from him.
What is up with that title?
For me, the acquisition is a failure on all levels. Failure to execute, failure in reaching beyond one's capacity to take the startup higher, failure in self-belief. Even though one may have earned money after an acquisition, the real aim of a startup is to change the world and not to get acquired and die.
But failure doesn't come cheap. For you to fail, you will need to put your heart and soul into the startup to succeed. And as spotman says "build something you believe in, that solves a real problem, and gain real traction", he didn't add that once you start getting offers for acquisition, stop believing in your idea and get lured by the offer and the riches.
I personally believe in one learning from "The hard thing about hard things" book by Ben Horowitz, is that you should sell your startup when you have reached your max capability to take the startup to the next level.
Yes, of course they did.

They were Irish, but the unionists agreed (along with Great Britain) that Ireland should be ruled by the King and be under British rule, and subsequently they all adopt the "British" sect of Christianity (Anglicanism).
> And let’s not kid ourselves, very very few people are programmers at the level of a Linus Torvalds, Peter Norvig or Fabrice Bellard. Imagine them telling you that you’re hopeless and you’ll never really get it so you might as well give up now.

I think this is a great point that deserves repeating.
Homejoy's competition is Yelp and Google local search. Both of them do roughly the same job for less money. Homejoy just isn't needed.

As Pando Daily keeps pointing out, the only Uber-like business that works is Uber. Uber has an incredible valuation, but their revenue and profit numbers are lousy. Their revenue is about $450m/yr, but they are not profitable. They are, however, building a fancy new headquarters, always a bad sign.
It really makes very little sense to forbid a person from driving a passenger for money

No one is suggesting people shouldn't be allowed to drive for money, nor that Uber shouldn't be allowed to run their service, but simply that if Uber drivers are doing the work of employees they should get the benefits of being employees.

The only real difference that would make is that Uber would be a little more expensive to use. It'd still be cheaper that a taxi. I think that's quite reasonable if it means Uber drivers have a happier, more stable life.
Jensen: "No other ethnic group complained about being singled out by comparable signs."

How on Earth did anyone take this man seriously? Is he a visitor from an alternate universe where segregation never happened?
Brilliant! Do you poll Reddit for new messages?
Interesting. It relies on a central service that's polling Reddit, though. Why not a distributed, peer-to-peer system instead? By combining the power of hundreds of individual nodes polling the site, you could have fast visibility of new content without being too obvious to the site being monitored.
PR to bootstrap project done: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/16901
what lifts them?
2014 was 450. On target for 6x this year and 3x next year. Also, most of the early markets are profitable. Investing in growth > profitability at this point.
Did they finally arrest him for implementing SSH in PHP?

https://web.archive.org/web/20100701145902/http://blog.magic...

PHP can do anything, what about some ssh?

Last time I already tried to prove PHP can do anything when it comes to network protocols by implementing a DNS server.

This time I’m doing it again with a server-side implementation of the SSH2 protocol.

You probably know SSH at least by its name. It’s a of secure telnet replacement which also allows many other things such as port forwarding, remote file management (with sftp) and more.

With PHP I could write a fully working SSH server in only 3 days. Of course I didn’t implement every single extension there is to SSH, but I’ve implemented: [...]

https://web.archive.org/web/20100702090107/http://ookoo.org/...
There is plenty of reason to study them; they provide validation/rejection of our theories.

If you claim that "power" drives everything, yet fields with no power difference have disparities which directly mirror the disparities you claim are driven by "power", that suggests there is an underlying theory that doesn't use power at all and which predicts more things.

By Occams razor, the latter theory is the one which should be used.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9986132
> So, other people make more, and you'd make yourself unhappy in retaliation?

No, but I would start looking for another job. If the company has the excess profit to be giving out huge raises, I'd be upset that those raises were allocated only to low performers.
> Solar lights are many times more thermodynamically efficient, cheaper to make, smaller and much more robust (no moving parts!).

Beyond the "no moving parts" (and maybe cheaper to make), I think you're just spilling a marketing blurb.

> This "lifting weights" thing is a silly gimmick. A lifted weight stores a miniscule amount of energy compared to a battery that's been charged by the sun.

Potential energy = m.g.h So, lifting a 10kg weight at the height of one meter gives approx. 98J

Incident solar power is 100W/m2 (best case). A square solar cell 10cm of side hence gets 1W (or 1J/s), after efficiency losses this is even less (which are present on the GravityLight as well). Between 0.5W and 5W seems common on sale websites

So, lifting the weight above (which takes 1s approximately) gets you as much energy as 36s of solar energy (of course, you can't recharge it at night)

Also consider the cost of the battery

Edited for wrong math
A survey of the drivers found that 70%+ didn't want to be employees. But no, you should decide for them right?
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This looks great! I really like the use of color to indicate upvotes.

One thing I'd love to see is the domain featured more prominently (either in a darker font, or positioned under the article title, etc.).
Startup valuations are a function of how much they needed to be valued at to raise their last round. It's entirely projected future value; it bares no relation whatsoever to their current position in terms of revenue and profit.
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I'm not OP, but then you'd have to solve for consensus. Solvable, but annoying.
I think a more pertinent question is why the heck was he still hanging around in Japan?
To improve fundraising, I believe the expenditures should be transparent. And the funded elements of the organization should have progress bar, like they have in kickstarter.
Legislation has nothing to do with 'human rights'. Especially in the transportation space. Regulation only existed, to the extent that it did, because the taxi cartel bought politicians and than they outlawed competition.
The rhetoric of consumer safety, 'fairness', congestion etc. is just that, rhetoric.
No the main divide is over who controls women's sexuality.

Full stop.
Goodbye Android
In the 1800's, segregation of workers by sex was a common phenomenon. Society changes, and yet in some ways it stays still. As long as it allows anyone to access opportunities as well as everyone else, and that they feel they can do so, I'm okay with it. (And personally I wish there are as many social spaces that are men-only as there are ones that are women-only. There are plenty of women-only gyms, but it's hard for the rare men-only gyms to stay open. e.g. http://www.smh.com.au/national/menonly-clubs-win-right-to-co...)
> Their incentives is to maximize profits, not the user's happiness, wants or needs

Sure, although user happiness (broadly) drives market share so they need to maximise that to maximise profit.
It's especially baffling because he accepts that newspaper ads saying "no irish need apply" were common, but that the signs on the buildings did not exist. Even if that's true it's weird to then say that Irish people were delusionally perpetuating their victimhood.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9985664.
I hope he read this:
http://www.debito.org/whattodoif.html#arrested & http://www.debito.org/policeinterrogations.html
Yes, it has. It replaced live versions with album versions, non-censored (explicit) tracks with censored ones.
Seems to me the article is fighting some kind of giant strawman. I myself haven't experiences this kind of attitude.
I really don't get what the point is, that some people have ego problems and hold pissing contests to see who is the most "awesome programmer"? Well that's a different thing, kind of "who's the best".

Well for sure if you ask people in an office what their job is then I don't think that a banker who creates complex spreadsheets calls himself a programmer per se... Even though he for sure programs a computer.

I would maybe categorize people in two categories, those who enjoy programming for itself (learning different languages and technologies) and those who use it to get some specific task done. This of course has nothing to do with being a "true programmer" :)
Agree on Seattle. I think you can't 'create' a SV. It happens bottom up as opposed to top down. For example, what if Leland Stanford Jr didn't die prematurely at age 15 in 1884 -- and his parents didn't build a University in his honour? Chances are SV would not be SV.
You did get the point I think, there is a lack of conventional wars the last few decades. Russia is doing the 1930s Hitler/Stalin thing of expansion, but avoiding "real" wars. And so on.

(Yep, hellbanned.)
I'd be careful, you're going against the carefully crafted rhetoric here.
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It's not against the rules of reddit, and the allowed request rate is enough to grab everything even during busy periods.

You're right that it relies on a central service that's polling reddit. I've done all I can to make it as stable and scalable as possible. I've been running, monitoring and testing it for a week and it's been keeping up just fine.
and how do governments get their money?
It's a thing I keep running into over and over again. I'm really happy that you haven't and that for you personally this is not an issue. Unfortunately your sample of '1' may not be representative.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/is-it-...

http://blog.codinghorror.com/please-dont-learn-to-code/

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163631/has-no...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302157

And many many more besides.

I wished it was a strawman, then I could have simply not written the article.
> very few people are programmers at the level of a Linus Torvalds, Peter Norvig or Fabrice Bellard.

I never really thought of Peter Norvig as a 'programmer' in the sense of Linus Torvalds -- I always lumped Norvig more into the high minded computer scientist camp. It seems like the criteria by which one judges success in the two areas are very different.
Yup, every second. There's roughly ~30 models created per second on average.
I made a proof of concept like this some years ago.

It was only synchronising the scores, and was was running as a Chrome extension.

The idea is that each user sees the scores updated in realtime when he display a Reddit page, but he also broadcasts the updated scores back to the server every time he loads a page.

That way no polling is involved, and it doesn't generate any additional load on Reddit servers since the updated data comes from people who were loading tbose pages anyway. This means im not bound to any API restriction (it's basically distributed scrapping).

https://github.com/MasterScrat/LiveReddit
> It affects the use (in very positive way), but does not affect the design.

It does, because the usage was one of the design criteria for Python. That's what I mean by "Python being conservatively non-ideological"; they don't want to add features that are controversial in the programmer's community.

> But, what is true, is that a majority of people using macros do not understand how to do it properly and do not follow the right discipline.

Maybe; maybe you don't want to accept that there are good reasons against. I accept it, even if I disagree; you can do the same.

In any case, opinion how should people be programming (e.g. use macros), is ideology. One ideology can be, in practice, better than the other, but it still is an ideology. Python tries to avoid the controversial ones and only adds those that have significant consensus.

> What is needed is to promote such discipline instead of spreading lies that "macros are dangerous".

You should be a little more honest with yourself and admit there is a grain of truth in it. Things of great power are almost always dangerous. Heck, even the Lisp community is divided whether or not the macros should be "hygienic".

> there is a very strong trend back to metaprogramming at the moment: Julia, C++, D, Clojure, Rust

First of all, I think macros and template metaprogramming is a different feature. So unless D or Rust have macros, you end up with Julia and Clojure.

Second, I am talking about languages used in the industry; in the 80s, macros were in widely used languages such as assembler, C, PL/I, Common Lisp, SAS, M4, Forth.. It's simply not what we see today. It may change in the future, but given the general trend in programming languages to add constraints (smartly) rather than remove them (I mentioned FP), I think it's unlikely (just to remind you - I actually like macros, at least in CL).

Finally, you can do (equivalent of) template metaprogramming in Python (mostly, templates are way to circumvent the type system, which is already done deal in Python). You can also define DSLs in Python pretty easily, especially with __call__() methods. The bottom line, for me, is that Python has lots of small niceties (mostly in the standard library) that collectively overweight the advantages of macros.
Read some of Norvigs code and tell me he's not a programmer, his stuff is some of the most elegant and efficient that I've ever seen.
yes, but what ansible uses in the backend is easy to forget, as you never actually have any contact to python in your yml files.
> What's the point of equality then if we're still so different?

Because we should be able to happily enjoy our differences in one area (gender), and still not be judged in our ability to perform something completely unrelated (programming).

Obviously a social programme centered on cupcake tasting and yoga is catering to who one might consider stereotypical girls. But there are (I guess, I'm a white male in an engineering job after all) many ladies who don't want to disguise as androgynous (un-gendered?) trying to fit in, just to be able to have the job they want...

And, frankly spoken, I for one welcome a more gender balanced office. Because we are diverse and should enjoy interaction with each other. Work related (as equal peers) or not (as different gendeds).