skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where to even begin,

Part of this issue I feel is, as mentioned in the article, is that boys are taught from the young age to take care of their problems, which leads to more isolation. Another important reason I feel is the rising amount of "girls-only" opportunities that systematically make boys feel inadequate and since they are not able to participate for whatever reason (e.g. "its only for girls") they continue to lag behind. I even have a perfect example of this, my city has a "Girls Learning Code" meetup / lecture series that while advertises being gender neutral is clearly not so, the question is how many meetups are there that are for boys, e.g. "Boys Learning Code" (creating these would be classified under men 's rights activism and therefore dismissed). My point is (or rather society's) is that if you're male and have a good start then you're automatically golden, but for those that do not have the same starting opportunities there are simply no other options that are, on the other hand, available to girls from all backgrounds. There has also been a decline in male bonding occurring at the young age, which I (and some academics) believe is very important to male development over all. This is caused by the fact that traditionally boys-only facilities (in this specific example Scouts Canada) have been pressured into accepting girls, which prohibits boys from...essentially being boys. Girl Guides of Canada received no such pressure. Coming back to the issue of masculinity, even though many young adults might have good enough grades to get into university they might not be high enough to go into fields that wouldn't cause strange questions and don't have stigma around them if you're male (I'm talking about fields such as Medicine, Law, Engineering, Computer Science), they might have the grades to get into Arts, specifically psychology, nursing and things such as women studies, all of which have a very high female to male ratio (and are generally considered a "girls" field) making boys pursue other interests (such as not going to university) instead for the fears of unsexing themselves.

(Whats the deal with gender issues anyway in North America? I've immigrated from an Eastern-Block country as a teenager to NA and I've never seen these problems because communism required that all members of the society do essentially the same jobs, that is why would you sacrifice half of the working populace, so you have women in high power positions, police, factories, the military, a lot of girls even take mathematics and computational sciences, sure there were problems but not at this scale (my grandmother was a Chemist and my mother was a corporal in the Defense Ministry and also studied thermal physics in University); I've never even imagined it was an issue elsewhere in the world until after I moved to Canada)
But that has a strong cultural component. So we're implicitly talking about changing 'poor people in the us culture'. I say "in the US" because I have been to other countries where even poor people put all their extra (over sustenance) resources into educating their children. Yes, it happens a tiny bit in the US, but not as much as in other places.
You seem to misunderstand the entire notion of limited federal government as defined in the constitution.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Not only did she have a perfect score, but she "adamantly" corrected a mistake in the control group. That must have some impact on the Bayesian estimate too. Her correction is worth something, and her confidence in providing that correction is worth something.
What I notice on boys vs girls is that girls are more likely to get/accept help from their families and people around them. Specially financially for like the purpose of education.

I was there, I just pretended like more education doesn't worth it that much (not on US btw).
You do know that it was southern democrats that supported segregation.
I deleted the facebook app because of this horseplay. Auto-playing videos I don't care about is not ok.
I dunno - I get the privacy concerns, sure. But passwordless requires the user have an email address to receive the nonce, and it requires the developer to deal with that flow. It also requires transactional email, which can be laggy at times - I know sometimes (rarely, but not never) my mandrill outbounds can take minutes to actually resolve. If I'm sitting waiting for a login token to get to my emails and it's not Right There, I'm walking.

I don't see passwordless fixing anything new that OAuth doesn't fix. Use the basic profile grant, and the user sees the consent screen where you're just asking for a small grant.

Passwordless works for users whose email providers are not also major OAuth providers, which is nice, but also pretty niche.
The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence (2007)
>...finance was a crucial prop for profits in the two decades to 2007 (see chart 3), with the banking industry expanding rapidly and industrial firms such as GE and General Motors building huge shadow banks. The regulatory clampdown since the financial crisis means this adventure is now over.

Is it a regulatory clampdown, or is it just that the financial sector can only drive the rest of the economy to the extent it isn't already saturated with debt?
Punched Card Coding: The Secret of Interactive Email
To move the analogies into general intelligence, start with the example of Elon Musk (a top notch example of GI). What drives Elon Musk? In interviews he's said he wants to be useful. He's achieving that goal in a big way.

Take the moment he decided to build a rocket. It was after he had a difficult meeting to buy a russian missile. He quickly roughed out, from first principles, that he should be able to build one himself. The /drive/ to make that analysis was in pursuit of his goal (and required reinforcement learning).

But what lifelong process filled his brain with all the complex and nuanced information needed to rapidly draw that conclusion? His curiosity, aka unsupervised learning, which led him to learn so many things over the years that culminated in that moment.

For this reason, I might make the analogy that RL is the "conductor of the symphony", rather than calling it the "cherry on top" as LeCun does here.
Analysis Paralysis maybe?
>Why do you think it is a good idea to make things "social" at the OS level? That seems like a very strange abstraction policy.

Social means a bit more than just Facebook. It also means primitives for things like collaborative editors and coworking spaces, video conferencing, etc. IMO the ideal social system would look a lot like a mix between the old timesharing systems, the early Internet and Douglas Engelbarts "Mother of All Demos": https://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCn...

>And how is this system "politics-aware"? I'm not even sure what that would entail from what basically seems to amount to a collection of esolangs.

Well it comes with the community. The way Urbit is structured your personal cloud/ship/etc is intended to be linked up to a community of other users. Politics are part of being social and part of communities. If you don't have a structured way of handling it it'll happen regardless and can be made less ugly with official support.

"The part that is stable we are going to predict, and the part that is unstable we are going to control." - John Von Neumann, 1948
Purple Numbers
Every time I see a new Hacker School or something, I make a note of the technology they are teaching (Rails / Android) and slowly walk the other way, technologically speaking. I get the impression that companies are really tired of paying solid 6 figure salaries to devs. For now I'll just keep on focusing on newer, harder more niche things to stay in high demand.
Instead you'll have to contend with userland tools written by amateurs that choose to ignore POSIX standards.
While not having an opinion on this, I think it would be entirely believable that if there was a shift in political views, it possible it may be more strongly expressed in examples and wordings of tangentially related topics rather than the specific description of political affiliation. For example, whether the change was intentional or not, the author noticing and self censuring their views in that entry (for whatever purpose) would be more likely than in others.

In other words, that may be the least likely entry to see a specific change that follows the author's point of view because of it's very nature.
I like Simple Value. It was a concept that a lot of people have stopped using. You either allow a user to use your site without signing in, with extra value for them if they do OR just provide the value proposition up front so that they will be willing to sign in.

Obviously, this won't work if you are hocking sluggish blogspam with less content than the titanic had lifeboats and enough javascript to track my cross atlantic voyage. Just make shit that doesn't suck and users will sign up if it is necessary. If there is no need to have users sign up don't have it.

Super Simple Value. Build on Super Simple Auth ^TM.
Technical Disclosure Commons: a repository for defensive publications
> The lower layers of the Internet don't care about names; why should the lower layers of a computation system?

Because the whole point of computing is to create value for humans, and humans think in terms of names. The fact that the lower layers of the internet don't care about names is not a feature, it's a bug. The internet runs on 32-bit IPV4 addresses because in the 1970s when the ARPAnet was invented that's all we could afford. But it's not 1970 any more, it's 2015, and computing and storage are many orders of magnitude cheaper today then they were then. We can afford to give names to things that we couldn't before.
It is performance art. Any language that brags that addition is O(n^2) is pure performance art.
How to Spot an All-Star Founding Team with Kevin Hale
Fun fact, Flat design originated from Swiss Style - http://dojo.techsamurais.com/?p=1232
The worst part is that SAML doesn't seem to be adequately documented, and figuring out how to do various flows against it (such as allowing a user to auth into a web app, and a third party API such as OpenStack) is almost impossible to figure out.
Umm, guess you didn't read my request. When I said I grew up on Stevens and The Unix programming environment, I thought it implied that I knew C and as a veteran Linux developer IMHO, suggesting the Gnu autotools doc..man gcc (seriously??) is the worst answer to my question. One can learn application programming on Linux without first having to read through the entire man pages of the tools.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10434771
Haha, good point.

Like forgetting about disabling Meteor's
'autopublish' and 'insecure' packages that are enabled by default.
Thanks, I'm going to check that out!
The problem is that the first-mover is going to have to be the identity providers: Facebook, Google, maybe GitHub or LinkedIn for specific markets. Users won't trust some piddly little startup with their authentication.

And without them, no developer would use it as their sole login (who'll use your service then?) and no users will set up accounts (who's going to do that for 0 services?)
There already is. It's part of the annual Information Assurance training that everyone has to take to maintain access to networks.
Sloane kept his collection first on punched cards, then in a “handbook”—A Handbook of Integer Sequences, published in 1973, with the copyright held by Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he started working in 1968. In 1995 he launched an automated email lookup service called Superseeker, whereby the curious submitted sequence queries and the database replied with answers. In 1996 he opened up his repository for public browsing at oeis.org. With the lab’s blessing, Sloane put it up on the research division’s website.
Rant: Windows' calculator
Implementing OAuth 2.0 client and server code in a .NET stack this summer for a job makes me inclined to agree that OAUTH has confusing points. It definitely is not precise enough to be called a specification, but more just guidelines. I am quite impressed with how the author overblew the whole thing to show off their solution, it was an interesting fusion of technology and selling their idea.
It's entirely possible to spawn an alternate universe. In fact, it's recommended to spin up an offline version of ~zod to develop on so you don't end up crashing you actual planet. The `-F` flag makes it so your ships only connect over localhost instead of looking up the top-level galaxies from *.urbit.org

It's also possible to hard-fork the network. The galaxies' public key hash is hard-coded in the source, so if you change it your ship will accept that the new key is the actual galaxy. Of course, there is no guarentee that any OTHER ship you talk to will agree with you...
Feminist fashion
A few weeks ago I was working through the Google Foobar challenges and came upon a problem where I had to calculate a certain function. I could calculate the first few values of the function by hand, but was having trouble coming up with a general expression so I plugged the sequence into OEIS. I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only did OEIS have it, but it was actually the very first sequence in there! (Confusingly it is numbered A000435, not A000001.) OEIS gave me the general expression and from there I could solve the problem!
tomshardware gives me nostalgia to the days of building my first computer... good to see it's still pushing the forefront of hardware education :)
From Steamer Trunk to Rare Books Collection
The strategy was a way of party 'realignment', i.e. of getting southern Democrats to red rover on over to the Republicans.
Thanks! Also I noticed that the book website maintains an API changes page:

http://man7.org/tlpi/api_changes/index.html

Awesome!
Have you played with a 303 or old Moog? I love the convenience and price of digital, but those old synths can really blow your hair back.
Makes sense. Consistent with a greater prevalence of men than women at both of society's extremes. Evolutionary strategy suggests taking higher-risk paths for male phenotypes than female phenotypes.
Dorsey to give one-third of his Twitter stock to employees
I guess it goes along with a lot of stereotypes, but it seems like it's objectifying developers.
How do you make the persona brand invisible, while still giving users some visible feedback that they aren't sending their global password to random site x?
Someone should maintain a contact file that has all those numbers in it. When a telemarketer calls you phone will show "Telemarketing is calling"!
Everyday DSP for Programmers: The Discrete Fourier Transform
2% for about 2.7k is a pretty bad price. If you believe what you're doing has potential to become valuable, you should definitely not take that deal. If you don't, then why are you doing it?
I recently joined a competitor (SnapLogic). It's a lot nicer IMHO - HTML5 drag-n-drop interface, unified platform for big data, API integrations, IoT etc., and supports executing integrations either in the cloud or on-premise.
Researchers Test an Anti-Aging Drug on Dogs
Sure, lag could be a problem with some email providers, but you are not limited to email.

From the site:

"Deliver your tokens via email, text messages (SMS), or smoke signs. You can embed Sendgrid, emailjs, Twilio, or any other framework you like to get the token to your user."
Different races definitely smell different; it shouldn't be surprise that a sweaty shirt contains that smell.
Phones calls, in a sense, are like email was before SPF records and DKIM: The honor system. If you say you're XYZ, the receiving unit is inclined to believe you.

So no, it's not the carrier's fault, and it's not something they can control.

Designing an authentication/verification system is non-trivial but not impossible. There's just little political-will to actually do it.

As a side note, this is why you should always set a passcode on your voicemail box. Many folks have their voicemail set to skip passcode-authentication when they're calling in from their own cell phone number. The problem is: if someone spoofs your number and calls into your voicemail box, they've got unfettered access.
People don't avoid open-access journals because they're low impact factor; many are quite high. People avoid them because there's a whopping big publication charge.

What we really need to think about is decreasing the number of journals. But nope, spammy new for-profit journals are launched every week.

Overall science funding is a separate issue, and so is the flawed metrics we use to determine who gets it.
Hyper competitive atmosphere is a problem, but in order to scale out of it you would have to scale by a very large number. Many tenure-track positions have near 1000 applicants.
I hear anecdotally that Japanese think Americans smell like butter.
CLI to record and share pronunciations
That is a great point. Treatment is often the nail in the coffin; Sepsis, for example.
I expected that the amount of developers wishing for persona would hint a large shop to bootstrap the network effect.. alas.
I wouldn't be that upset about the styling limitations if we at least had a reasonable way to give it a size. The common workaround is pretty nasty: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html
>I (and, I presume, saulrh) were talking about the economy

So am I. What is "the economy"? I submit that it is the tracking of material in space.

There is a fixed amount of space on the planet as well. At some point, there will be no more space or material to place another Hearst Castle.

I guess someone should provide an example of an "entire new pie". (Interestingly, this is what I demanded in my first post.)

My theory even explains your observation that 'People will complain about who got "more than their fair share" of the new pie'. The reason they complain is because the pie is fixed and the new pie is a lie.

If we could just create "entire new pies", then there would be no reason to complain about the newest pie, because we can just create yet another entire new pie.
For all coaxial dielectrics, the relative permeability
is so close to 1 that we can just assume it is for our
purposes ( accurate to within 0.00000001%). Substituting
these values into our first equation we get

Vp = 273,671,819.7 m/s or 10.7745 in/nS

which means our signal will propagate at about 91.29% of
the speed of light, this percentage is known as the
velocity factor or VF.

Huh? That's nowhere near a typical coaxial velocity factor (most often around 0.66 for 50-ohm cables.)
Actually you don't really need C. There is plenty of stuff in Python and Perl. Golang also has a ton of wrappers, and I'd consider that a pretty easy language.
Fast Router in PHP
Xiaomi won't hit its smartphone sales targets this year
I kind of wish there was more suggestion for solution than simply kvetching.
My solution is always to Google the full article title then click through from there. Quick and easy way around most (I've yet to encounter a site that tries to block this) news sites paywall.
Probably quite a lot. I'm reminded of a study I read a year or two ago which looked at academic performance in high school; girls received considerably higher class marks on average. However, this effect vanished when they took standardized tests ... and it also vanished when they had male teachers.

Whether it's teaching style, the teacher acting as a role model, or something else, I don't know; but gender definitely makes a difference in teaching.
Isn't the full version something along the lines of: "correlation does not imply causation, but merely hints at it"?
Interestingly the Vietnamese version[1] appears to be named 'sauce of the Cham[2]', who are an ancient pre-Sinitic (actually Hindu) empire of the region, who were in contact with their neighbour Funan[3], who in turn are known to have had at least sporadic contact with Rome by sea.

PS. Southeast Asian history is awesome, especially when you consider the great number of huge temple complexes[4], Austronesian ocean voyaging and the development of multihull sailing vessels!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Bc_ch%E1%BA%A5m
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champa
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Funan
[4] https://picasaweb.google.com/106883718971909092529/20120316B...
Authentication and authorization are different concerns, and OAuth attempts to handle both in a secure manner. I love working with basic with too, but it's not a fair comparison.
The FCC will publish phone numbers of robocallers and telemarketers every week
I always remember Milton Friedman characterizing his negative income tax as simply being "less bad" than welfare.
I haven't read Permutation City yet, but it's on my list. I haven't heard of the other book, but I'll be looking into it. Thank you for the suggestion.

Multiple universes may just be an artifact of our math. For instance, Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory may provide or point to a resolution.

Ultimately, the economy is measured in "units moved", which is ultimately tied to the amount of "units" available in the entire system.
It would seem there are some major confounding factors here not detailed in the article.

1) The population doesn't reflect a realistic test--if the overall incidence is 0.3%, but the sample size had 50% (or more given her adamant hit), then we need to know whether she was expecting more.
2) More importantly, the incidence in men is 1.49x that of women [1], and age also plays a factor. So given that the sample is already skewed towards a higher incidence of positives, the gender differences might be factored into her senses--especially since it was her husband who was her training set. With n=12, it would be very easy for the probabilities/priors to be much different than truly random. (E.g., the learning function of her nose might be "men + people over 65" which happened to match up with the test and control group quite well.") Or it could tune into medication used to treat the disease.

Great if true, but I am skeptical.

[1] http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/75/4/637.full
Don't you think that ship has sailed? That's simply not true anymore, and it might be time to recognize that. Just look at the way federal funds set speed limits nationwide. Turns out if you set the right incentive structure, it just doesn't matter as rights are set aside in exchange for compensation.

I think ultimately the federal government gets what it wants because it holds the biggest purse-strings and that's all that matters at the end of the day.
It's not okay to not cite something, if it's relevant, regardless of where it's published. But people who feel strongly about open access are free to publish there themselves.

Most academics don't care that much, because they tend to assume anyone worthy of reading their paper is someone with an affiliation to a university that has a subscription.
http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/
Most of the spammy for-profit journals are ignored by serious academics. You wouldn't be caught with one of these on your CV. The big Elsevier ones are a problem, because they are revered as the good journals. For example, Advances in Math is very highly regarded, in particular in my department. I had promised to be done with Elsevier several years ago, but now my collaborator has spoken with an editor at Advances who suggested we submit there. It's the optimal journal for a number of different reasons. If this paper gets accepted, it strengthens my grant and tenure situation. I can't really justify putting myself at this disadvantage.
I've been pretty satisfied with my Androids, but I have noticed a number of apps getting released for iOS way before (6 months to a year before) coming out for Android. (Robinhood, EveryDollar, ShakeLaw, for example).

That can be a drag if you like having the latest and greatest apps. Other than that, Android is awesome.
I think "from" vs "than" is a common difference between American and British English. I don't know about "different" vs "differently".