skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you even understand the article? The argument is not that there are more women Fields medalists from the UK; rather, it's that supposed 'innate' differences in mathematical aptitude between young men and women turn out to be not so innate at all.

To get Fields medal, it's not enough to be a brainiac. You need someone to step up and give you a good mathematical education in your formative years, take your questions seriously when you're a more advanced student, and so on.

See the biographies of Sophie Germain or Rosamund Franklin if you want examples of how being the 'wrong' gender can hold back a first rate mind.
Interesting to watch that (specifically the release date delays) while knowing how Duke Nukem turned out.
There's probably something to that. I do wonder whether for economists look at something like Walmart and see them doing more social good by making goods more affordable than XYZ charity (and arguably they do). I think when most of us think of "social good" we tend to idealize not for profits more than for profits, but there shouldn't be any reason why profitability doesn't equate to social good - in fact, arguably it does given that revenues by definition require that people want a service/product enough to pay for it.
James, I've just added way for "easily taking servers out of rotation" to ngx_supervisord.
Well, if you concede the cruelty point, then you are pretty much in agreement with the animal liberation school; I'm unclear what's being refuted. The point is not that eating other animals is wrong--some believe so (not me), but it's a tough argument to swallow. Only that we have no right to make them suffer.

I think people often confuse the two because if you buy into the animal liberation argument, then the first thing to go is all the beef, pork, poultry, eggs and dairy that come from factory farming, i.e. everything. So functionally you wind up vegetarian, if not vegan. Now that we're seeing more places like Polyface Farms, Neeman Ranch, etc. open up, hopefully that situation will change in the future.
Most IPSPs support this kind of functionality, it's called a pre-auth.

You can place a hold on it for a 3-5 business day period, depending on the issuer and gateway details.

It's hard to suggest a company to deal with without knowing more about your location and other details but more IPSPs will do this. Also, please make sure you have your own merchant account, do not get sucked in to have a third party arrangement.
Maybe there's a cap on votes/time?

What's really stupid is that the javascript making the XHR to perform the vote doesn't get a return value for what the new count should be -- it just naively increments or decrements the value it already has.
How Good Are UW Students in Math?
2010: The Year of Platforms
I can guarantee you that if I ask 100 average non"hacker news" people what RSS stands for I will get a blank stare, but if I ask them about twitter.....
Extra tidbit: this is the reason for those ". @foo ..." tweets you may be seeing. If any character precedes the @, then the tweet will appear in all your follower's feeds; otherwise, it behave as jsb described.
I have no idea about the real program which generated this, but here is a piece of code that does something very similar: http://www.hoozi.com/post/r8kmz/programming-problems-arrangi...
Domesticated dogs appear to have "empathy" with humans because over thousands of generations, the ones who acted that way got fed and bred more.
I'm guessing as a collective the HN community might be even more frugal than a grab bag of economists, and it was computer science minds that hacked casinos for far more by researching card counting. :P

Btw, casinos are getting wise to the trick of placing anti-correlated bets using match-play coupons. When I was last at Atlantic City, the matchplay coupon was only good for bets on Red for roulette and Pass for craps, so that you couldn't pair up with someone betting on Black and Don't Pass.
A nice piece of entertainment, but there's a lot of contradictory motivation behind the actions of these economists. For example, some of them would rather pay movers to save a few hours of work. Another will drive half an hour out of his way to save $5. Similarly many of the quirks listed in this article are just personality quirks which are perhaps associated with wanting to become an economist, but which are not likely because of it.

This piece is entertainment not meant to inform, which is fine, but we need to read it that way.
I'm planning to write a follow-up post (with code) to include a more direct "port" of the functionality of the YUI 2 TabView (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/tabview/) to YUI 3.
PG won't tell.

I've asked him about it he just said he's 'experimenting with which votes to count and which not'.

I'm really not happy about it because it feels pretty silly to have a voting button if you can not actually vote. Then decide up front who can vote and who can't and do not display the voting button.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017020
The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective
There has been a lot of chatter about this in various quarters. One notable factor is quick, massive trades coming right before closing.

It's worth noting that the Plunge Protection Team was quite open at some points at least. It was called "The Committee to Save The World" by Time magazine in a cover story.

Global Research itself is a conspiracy site - perhaps the most sane conspiracy site but still a conspiracy site.
Hire for your career
chrischen, I'm not sure that you've thought this through.

You wrote:

"I'm not trying to sell films for these producers."

but up above you wrote:

"This includes a digital distribution platform Which let's end users keep their purchases in the cloud and let's producers sell their work online as downloads."

You will be in the business of selling videos, regardless of whether you are doing the selling directly, or whether your customers are doing the selling - which means you are indirectly helping them sell. Either way, you are in the business of selling videos.

You wrote:

"I'm only trying to provide the tools to sell online".

That is what I understood your goal to be. That was our goal at iHanuman - we were giving the yoga teachers the tools to sell their videos online. And, of course, we had plans to roll that software out to other markets, and give a lot of other people the tools the sell their videos online.

2 years ago we were using nearly identical marketing text to woo a cook to consider doing a cooking-oriented web site, using our software. Really, this is almost verbatim what we said then:

"A publisher will create a film, but after they finish it, they're going to want to find a way to get it seen and probably make a return on it. This is where my service steps in. I will provide them an alternative to their current options, and I will provide the alternative via the internet. Already I have several advantages over traditional physical distribution: instant gratification, less overhead from packaging and using a distributor, easier to market because word of mouth spreads at electron speed. And if after all that work creating something and they can't find a traditional distributor, they still have to get it out there somehow. I want to catch those potential customers."

We used all of those lines: instant gratification, speed-of-light distribution, world-wide reach. We told them that we were the green alternative to creating DVDs and mailing them out, since we used less resources. Less packaging. Consider some of the text used on the Join page (which hasn't been updated since launch):

http://www.ihanuman.com/join.php

If your service is radically different from that (other than the focus on yoga) then you should explain yourself more clearly.

I think I understood the gist of what you were saying. And, as I said before, it is a very tough market.
Would you mind running it again with just 2-7 to get the answer to next week's puzzle challenge? ;-)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1221768...

"Write down the digits from 2 to 7, in order. Add two mathematical symbols to get an expression equaling 2010. What symbols are these?"
I have a number of clients who can't keep their data in the US due to privacy considerations. Sadly, I can't send them to you until you accept Canadian customers. Which is unfortunate, as it's typically Canadian organizations that have this privacy issue with US backup providers.

(I recognize why you've made the decision that you did, but it is definitely preventing you from getting a certain class of customer who really actually cares about what you're selling vs other backup storage providers)
You write:

"So marketing is not my concern."

That is an astounding thing to say. How can you possibly launch a new business and not be concerned with marketing?
This is great, but can we avoid the self congratulatory wanking in the title? Way to downplay the role many non-techies no doubt played in this.
For those who don't want to run the numbers:

.9 + .5 * .1 == 95%

.5 * 1 + .5 * .9 == 95%
Being a low cost producer is a great survival strategy, even for a new entrant. Walmart, Amazon, and PC vs. Minicomputer are good examples. You can either use your cost advantage to undercut prices profitably, or use your large margins to outspend on R&D, marketing, etc.

Selling at low prices given the same cost structure is not a good survival strategy. "We lose money on every unit but we'll make it up on volume!"
The canonical MVP strategy for a web application is to create a mock website Note the web application text.

Codo is a desktop application and therefor the MVP is a desktop application. Prototyping a web application for a desktop application usually requires a complete rewrite not iteration.

MVP in general seems suspect and something hackers should avoid.

Example: Feature: (deploy first, code later) A link to a new feature in a web application may be provided in a prominent location on an existing website. The feature is not implemented, rather an apology, mock-up, or marketing page is provided. Clicks of the link are recorded and provide an indication as to the demand for the feature in the customer base.
I'm surprised 12% of resolutions succeed!
The thing about SSH for loops is that they're as secure as SSH. They're vague on how they achieve confidentiality and I can't be bothered to read their code.
Modern cars make so much power that you really don't need to shift unless you're accelerating from a stop, in traffic, or on curvy/hilly backroads. I can comfortably drive in 6th gear between 55 and 100+ mph including passing, going up hills, and so on. Obviously it's not the ideal gear in all of those cases, but if you're feeling lazy it works.

I would guess manuals are involved in more accidents and more fatal accidents, at least in the US, since the only people who buy them here in great numbers are performance enthusiasts, frugal bastards, and diesel truck drivers. Some enthusiasts are responsible and don't push their cars on public roads, but many aren't. If there is a difference, it's probably small. My parents have two of the same car, one in manual and one in automatic, and they never mentioned a large difference in insurance cost. Actuaries would charge manual and auto drivers different prices if their risk rates differed.
If you're going to allow "multiple digits", 123456789 is greater than 111111102 (12345678*9).
There is an interesting piece about Plutonium. It seems that Plutonium Batteries were used in some pacemakers. Here's the link: http://www.periodictable.com/Items/094.3/index.qt.html
Good for you, but how about the other 95% of the population who are less attentive than you and lack predictive powers?
These types of technology are unlikely to make it out of research for quite a long time. Assist and emergency operation tech seems to make it to deployment a lot faster because of exactly these issues.

The transition between research and deployment is an important period where things that recently became possible can be fully scrutinized. The goal of research is simply to make things possible. The rest is a long hard slog that not all tech makes it through.

In short, I really wouldn't worry about anything they're working on in a research facility, that's just so far away from shipping product figuring out which parts are more or less useful probably isn't worth doing at this point.
It appears that the leading cause of death for folks under the age of 35 is auto accidents (the bulk of 'unintentional injuries' if I understand the data correctly).

http://www.chdl.org/Projects/10%20Leading%20Causes%20of%20De...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think by "value" he didn't just mean sentimental value.

Getting a Rolex because you found it for $5 is a value, getting a Fossil because you found it for $5 is cheap.
Our customers are largely going to be located in the US. Right now we are thinking of going with Authorize.net or Braintree for the credit card processing.
Agreed. Even assuming people do the right thing all the time and never get behind the wheel after drinking, when emotionally heated, without enough sleep, or while distracted by phones, etc., anyone can be distracted for a split-second and cause a major accident.

That kind of "Superman" thinking that things would be great if only you tried harder is BS in a lot of cases. Most people do not want to get into road accidents, deliver code late, or build a shoddy product. Fixing the incentives or process works better.
Characterizing Systems using the CAP theorem
'You are not a gadget': new Jaron Lanier book on web 2.0
I believe these systems don't have the effect until the point at which steering is no longer the option. The idea isn't so much to avoid the accident, but rather to try to bleed as much of the force of the accident out through braking as possible.

If you can get the brakes fully engaged you can reduce the severity of an accident pretty substantially, even if you can't fully avoid it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307269647/metafilter...
Blurb:
"For the most part, Web 2.0--Internet technologies that encourage interactivity, customization, and participation--is hailed as an emerging Golden Age of information sharing and collaborative achievement, the strength of democratized wisdom. Jaron Lanier isn't buying it. In You Are Not a Gadget, the longtime tech guru/visionary/dreadlocked genius (and progenitor of virtual reality) argues the opposite: that unfettered--and anonymous--ability to comment results in cynical mob behavior, the shouting-down of reasoned argument, and the devaluation of individual accomplishment. Lanier traces the roots of today's Web 2.0 philosophies and architectures (e.g. he posits that Web anonymity is the result of '60s paranoia), persuasively documents their shortcomings, and provides alternate paths to "locked-in" paradigms. Though its strongly-stated opinions run against the bias of popular assumptions, You Are Not a Gadget is a manifesto, not a screed; Lanier seeks a useful, respectful dialogue about how we can shape technology to fit culture's needs, rather than the way technology currently shapes us."

More stuff at the amazon page, eg an interview. I have no affiliation with Amazon but find myself liking the premise of the book.
Use the broadband forum for your advantages
How important is a broadband forum? If you rely much on social networking, then being in the loop in the discussions made in a broadband forum is important for you. If you are also a business that wants to make use of the internet for your marketing strategy, then it is also important that you join a broadband forum.
> For instance, I, a lowly intern, redeployed software to the

> production line during an emergency. If something went

> wrong, chips would actually stop rolling out of the factory.

While I'm all for letting engineers react to things progressively, that you were in position where a screw up could have shut down a fab as an intern is nothing short of terrifying to me.
Alternatively, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Group_on_Financial_Mark...

I've never been very convinced on the alleged pervasiveness of the PPT. It seems like a convenient catch-all in most cases (i.e. misattribution of an error term.) That being said, the after-hours returns are a bit unnerving.
http://www.dissidentcongress.com/index.php?page=countyflags....

I think this is the real flag, if anyone cares.
ICC's vectorization is nearly useless. I've run it on thousands of lines of basic DSP code and gotten almost nothing--at best a single bad autovectorization.

The reasons ICC are better are many but unrelated to vectorization: one optimization I noticed is that it will compile a set of code that depends heavily on aliasing concerns twice and branch to which code path depending on whether the relevant pointers alias or not. This branch is usually predictable, since the pointers in reality will probably never alias, but it has to abide by the C spec.

There's probably a few dozen more things like this that add up to make it a few percent better than GCC. Though GCC is so buggy and many of its heuristics (especially inlining and storing array/struct elements in registers) so utterly hackneyed that beating it is not extraordinarily difficult..
Twitter isn’t a Social Network
If you are in the US and your target market is the US then for sure you should limit your search to IPSPs in your country, there would simply be too much hassle getting set up elsewhere.

I'm not sure if authorize.net will allow you to plug in your own merchant account.

The reason why that is important is that the chance of the IPSP going under or being fined some massive fine are diminished substantially if you have your own merchant account.

See 'IBill' and 'DMR' for what can happen if you decide to use a multiplexed account, plenty of people lost their shirt or worse.

Another risk is that your 'good' traffic will be used to dilute 'bad' traffic in order to lower the charge-back rate on the bad traffic as perceived by the card companies.

The pre-auth feature should be offered by most gateways I don't expect any major problems there unless your period is longer than the 3 to 5 days indicated above.

Longer than that and it is probably better to simply charge the account right away and do a whole or partial refund.
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Yes and no. I'm fairly certain that often the optimizations will be better than the fallback codepath in practice. This is especially true if you note that this is defeating the check for the vendor id, not defeating a lot of the other checks the dispatcher does.
HAML and LESS.

But Sass has plugin support and a lot of plugins like FancyButtons. I use less coz it's minimalistic.

I use Balsamiq for mockups and heard about lxEdit recently.
Well, it's somewhat unclear since "GenuineIntel" and "Intel" are not quite the same. I'm betting a good lawyer could make the case that the first explicitly seeks to confuse the user and thus dilutes the trademark. It would be interesting to see this play out in court though. I wonder if the judge could actually tell them that by using their trademark in a technical sense like this, perhaps that would cause dilution itself.

As always, with the law it's a bit more complex than it might seem.

Also note that most browser UAs explicitly states "like X."
Digg considering adding Twitter updates
Similar idea, but with the first 8 primes:

2010 = 2 * 3 * 5 * (7+11+13+17+19)
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Prominent Problems With the Software Industry
The humorless editors of wikipedia need to stop fighting it and embrace their role as dictators of truth already.
I admit that I had never heard of the Euglena before, although the same article seems to be suggesting that the very characteristics you have pointed out cause some scientists to want to classify it as an animal. The suggestion being that the hallmark of "animality" is the ability to feel things.

In any case, I do not (intentionally) consume a great deal of Euglena, so I will content myself with pointing out that grains, vegetables, and fruit upon which I rely to replace the inhumane bounty of factory farming never bled, farted or blinked, and never will. I'm not trying to sound like a holier-than-thou vegetarian here; I'm not, and I have always made a point of not judging how others approach this issue. But if you're going to deconstruct my reasoning, the use of a red herring is discouraged.

As to your last question, the answer is "yes", and the case has been made in the book I mentioned far better than I can here. If you equate breaking a window with killing a dolphin, bear, or chimp, well, that speaks volumes.
Finding about dolphins not mentioned in article:

Dolphins have names in dolphin speech. Sequence of sounds unique for each dolphin by uttering which other dolphins that know him might call him.
Knut Haugland, Sailor on Kon-Tiki, Dies at 92
User Experience Matters: What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Objectified – GigaOM
Selective pressures on early humans "caused" them to behave as though they were experiencing emotion and demonstrating a sense of self, because those were the ones that got more food and produced more offspring. If dogs have evolved to demonstrate some of the behaviors humans do, how can anyone prove that they are simply mimicking those behaviors instead of actually experiencing the same neurochemical reaction we do?

It seems to me this could easily slide into a philosophical zombie argument. If dogs continue to be bred for human-like qualities for thousands more years, and eventually come to mimic nearly every human behavior, are they any different from humans at that point? Or are they actually just zombie animals demonstrating behavior without actually "experiencing" anything?
You are totally correct. This is known as "argument from marginal cases" and the contortions people must enter to get around your argument are frequently hilarious. See http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/an-animal-s-place...
It's usually just called advertising.
Even better, the print version: http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture_society/the-revolution-...
"In a 1990 study, Hyde had found that high school boys solved complex problems on standardized tests better than girls. But 19 years later, test scores of 7 million students across 10 states show that the gap is close to zero."

That's because many of the tests were redesigned in the 1990s to eliminate their correlation with g, the general intelligence factor. This was explicitly done to eliminate the gaps between sexes and races.
Slideshow from Gears Of War developer, seems to be advocating Haskell as the "next mainstream programming language".
"Then there’s the cultural perception of math achievers–the nerds who are heckled in one society are exalted in another. Irina Mitrea, a math professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts, who finished high school in Romania, says she never felt discouraged there ..."

in my experience (with a sample size of ~10), the only women i've interacted with who were super excited about (and good at) pure math and theoretical CS (Ph.D. students) grew up in eastern europe or india, and when i asked them about their experiences growing up as females who loved math, they said that it felt completely normal in their home society and that they were shocked that there was this stigma against girls being able to do math in the US ... [again, this is only my tiny biased sample size, just my 2 cents!]
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