skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>At root, women are substantially absent from the most lucrative levels of the workforce. Something should be done about it, or we just have to admit we don't care that women are marginalized in our society.

Everything isn't so black-and-white. I agree that "women are substantially absent from the most lucrative levels of the workforce". I also agree that we, as a society, are responsible for inciting positive change in this regard.

Regardless, I simply cannot endorse the implementation of sexually discriminatory business practices as a "solution" to the problem.

The root of the problem isn't with hiring managers. The root is that in the fields in which women are most absent, men make up the vast majority of APPLICANTS. Unless we can level the playing field in education, as well as in family structure, we won't see any change in these industries.

If 15% of men enroll in STEM fields in college, while <1% of women do, then the disparity being reflected in the STEM workforce is inevitable.

Woman aren't as interested in STEM as men are, and we need to determine if:

1) This is the result of sexism.

2a) If so, where can we incite change to boost the likelihood that women will pursue a career in STEM.

2b) If not, why do we see the disparity that we do, and is it actually ethical to try to "fix" it.

I have no problem with the ends here, just the means. If you want to fight against sexual discrimination, you cannot participate in or encourage it. How's that for black-and-white?
Just got our rejection email
It's just a getter. Lots of languages have getters.
>Rejected and quitting here, will carry on as I can but life is too short to daydream.

Sorry you got rejected. But why quit hacker news? The people here are very intelligent and have meaningful interactions when it comes topics. They can also help by answering critical questions about what you are doing. So don't quit..
> It’s obviously concerning that a CA would have such a long-running issue and that they would be unable to assess its scope after being alerted to it and conducting an audit. Therefore we are firstly going to require that as of June 1st, 2016, all certificates issued by Symantec itself will be required to support Certificate Transparency.

Symantec said they did an audit, Google spent 'a few minutes' and found many more mississued certificates just from the CT logs. In other words, Symantec can't audit themselves, so Google now require public issuance logs for all their certificates.

> [Google] expect Symantec to undergo a Point-in-time Readiness Assessment and a third-party security audit.

This is a massive (and justifiable) smack in the face to Symantec.

Disclaimer: we're a Symantec competitor, as you may have realised:

https://certsimple.com/blog/seal-in-search

https://certsimple.com/blog/sgc-ssl-certificates
Decent working conditions, flexible hours, desirable job, in China?! That's blasphemy!

Well, the desirable job part might be stretching it...more like shitty job in a highly respected profession.
Why Twitter Is Still Dying
We have been trying:

https://www.instapainting.com/ai-painter

https://www.instapainting.com/blog/research/2015/09/10/robot...

https://www.instapainting.com/blog/research/2015/08/23/ai-pa...

Now the trick is to bridge the gap between the neural net algorithm and the physical robot.

Unfortunately this photo to line drawing is the best we can do so far: https://twitter.com/instapainting/status/636245176554405892
They should already have GPS info, but I am always weary of unintentional data leakage through presumed sanity of data.
Yes, and a very well-deserved one.
Very exciting. As things like this become more well-defined, and start to solve the security/ease-of-use problem, I think (hope?) that we'll see some truly groundbreaking applications of distributed decision making tools.
Well, given that the YC official stance on founders is that they should 'be a little naughty' and that they expect founds to not care 'about observing proprieties', I am not surprised that the founders would be a little shady when things aren't going well.

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
"Natural processes can include earthquakes, volcanoes, viruses. "

And asteroids. The dinosaurs got screwed because they hadn't yet developed a space program.
Performance in Big Data Land: Every CPU cycle matters
Open disagreement is indeed rare according to my experience.

EDIT: That may have to do something with peer reviews: they kind of prevent the publication of work that will be openly disagreed with later on.
Yes, but there are an infinite number of ways it could possibly not work. How long will they go on discovering them? Edison could say something like that because he actually was able to successfully build and market a lightbulb.
>Symantec performed another audit and, on October 12th, announced that they had found

>an additional 164 certificates over 76 domains and 2,458 certificates issued for

>domains that were never registered.

:|
From what I gather from the other comments, it looks like most likely Homejoy's liquidator (Nortonsgroup) has sold Homejoy's user data to Homeaglow.

Homeaglow copied and rebranded their own tech as Fly Maids to service this user list.
All the more reason why client-side encryption needs to become part of our daily interaction with software and cloud services.
YC Decisions Are Out
Rejected, time to brush myself off and keep moving.
Free Web Hosting 000Webhost hacked, 13M users impacted
>why should I value a local artist any more than an artist in China? //

As I see it part of the function of art is to reflect on the culture the artist is in or a part of. This can't be done authentically from afar.

Another element of this is that artists should be expanding our minds, making us think is one purpose of many artistic creations (some would say that's what makes it art). Partly, I feel, for a society to continue to develop effectively it needs to patronise elements on its philosophical fringes that can move beyond the norms of groupthink, beyond the acceptable establishment paths of thought and then present the ideas experienced in a way that makes others question their position and the progress of that culture.

If we take away the bread and butter work of burgeoning artists then in order to have artists in our local culture that can serve this function in society we need to create some other means to support them.

A foreign artist can't honestly reflect on a culture they haven't experienced, an immigrant artist who comes to experience a new culture can create art that serves both their native culture and the culture they newly experience however - but you can't do that [in the same way] from a room half-way around the globe IMO.
> A person is not a resource outside of contexts in which chattel slavery exists.

Your reference to chattel inspired me. Consider the cow. Cows are resources. There are a ton of rules about what one can and cannot do with cows, but businesses still think of the "cow" as their resource, and "beef" and "milk" as some of the value they get from the resource.

Now, to your point on slavery, the rules for what you can and cannot do to people are very different from cattle. Of course, slavery is pretty irrelevant to whether someone is considered fungible (owning people is horrible, but it doesn't change whether they are interchangeable or not).

In practice resources are often suppliers and often the value the business extracts from them are provided under contract or at least a generalized regulatory framework. You are again confusing properties of certain kinds of resources with properties of resources in general.

Labour is very much how you marshall your "people" resources. It's a far more impersonal window through which to view people's relationships with businesses.

> Labor is a resource, of which persons -- laborers (whether independent contractors or employees) -- are contracted suppliers, not units.

Check out the definition of a "resource". It's the asset you draw upon to accomplish something.

Strictly speaking, the real "resource" is the employment or contract with the person, not the labour. However, thinking in those terms is terribly impersonal and not terribly useful for reasoning about a business (outside of legal disputes); in reality the person(s) under a contract correlate with suitability, outcomes, etc. a heck of a lot more than the contracts themselves. So what you really think in terms of are the people, not the contracts.
It's a very safari specific thing.

address bar reads [$x], where $x is search term, on copy you get a url.
Days after the initial reports of rogue certificates being issued, Symantec wrote in their blog that they had already fired employees:

In addition, we discovered that a few outstanding employees, who had successfully undergone our stringent on-boarding and security trainings, failed to follow our policies. Despite their best intentions, this failure to follow policies has led to their termination after a thoughtful review process... At the end of day, we hang our hats on trust, and that trust is built by doing what we say we’re going to do.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/tough-day-leaders

It's starting to look now like this the fault of systemic flaws at Symantec, and not just a few employees who didn't follow procedure.
This route is mostly for freight, not commuting.

I'm sure very few people tried to commute across this section of the Alps by car before this.
I doubt that spam or cold emails are considered a major breach of ethics. We might as well start filing lawsuits against the thousands of startups that spam the crap out of my inbox everyday. To fix all of that I just have a really good spam filter.
Totally agreed. That's why I really hope sluggish legislation doesn't get in the way of expediting the deployment of fully autonomous vehicles, and why I'm doing what I can to write about these issues as much as possible. I'm sorry to hear about your accident, but I'm glad (it sounds like?) you were (all?) ok. As a side tip, if only as an interim solution until you get a car with some sort of accident-avoidance features, may I suggest a tip for your mirrors to eliminate your blind spots? Your side mirrors should be used ONLY for viewing cars to your sides, while your rear mirror ONLY should view cars behind you. To test that it works, a car should slightly overlap from your rear mirror, into your side mirrors, and then into your peripheral vision. If your side mirrors are largely duplicating your rear mirror, then they are not set up correctly. Proof that it is possible -- necessary! -- to set your mirrors up like this and fully eliminate blind spots is that certain cars (like convertibles with the top up, or any car with unusually large/wide C-pillars) make it impossible to see over your shoulder, and require that you set up your mirrors correctly. Just a little tip, and I hope it helps! :)
No, it will most definitely not fail and they don't have Android as plan B.

The mobile phone market (outside of Appleland) is overwhelmingly dominated by distribution. People go and get a smartphone, recommended by the sales employee. Which phone does the employee recommend? The one which his boss tells him to. Which one is that? The one HQ tells him to. Which one is that? The one with the best rebates. I will leave you to think about which one that might be. Android doesn't make money. Not for google, not for OEMs. Microsoft can turn OEMs from breakeven to profitable with a magic wand. Guess what? They already did that in the 90s! On top of that, it's a very good OS so it will get adoption by itself, especially in the corporate and mid-tier markets. And don't even try to say that developers will not get on board. They will. Remember the office365 in the beginning. "Can't win on the web, no integration, developers choose google apps". Yeah. Right. Windows is the most important platform in the world. Gradually developers will get on board.
Yeah, I kinda figured that would actually be the most common use case (gag gift for a funny picture).

At my office, people have been using fiver in a similar way - to order gag custom written songs for different people. We basically have theme songs for all our regular meetings now.
In safari, I searched for "dog" then "cat", in the Address Bar I only see "dog" or "cat", but when I copy "cat" I get

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=dog&ie=...

If I do a new search from the bar I don't see dog, when I type "cat" into the google provided box in the page I get the above result.
Yes, YC specifically posted about founder ethics a year and a half ago.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/founder-ethics

https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/

"To maintain our community, if a founder behaves
unethically during or after YC, we will revoke their YC
founder status. This includes access to all Y Combinator
spaces, software, lists and events."

"We will stand behind you no matter how much your company
struggles, as long as you behave ethically."
Paris climate deal to ignite a $90 trillion energy revolution
Apple Music and Spotify: A 2,744 word parallel product teardown
Thanks for the links.

I don't really think these studies show that acute blood sugar level elevation is causing the damage you are talking about. The first one talks about how TII diabetics tend to have lower β-cell count and higher apoptosis frequency, but that doesn't mean they go through waves of apoptosis more frequently (ie: during blood sugar spikes), it means that they have a lower life span. The study doesn't establish causality, so it's unclear whether diabetics have lower β-cell count because they are diabetic, or whether lower β-cell causes diabetes. It is a great study though, pretty well designed and building on kind of amazing resources from the Mayo Clinic.

The second study is interesting but extremely limited due to the fact that it was does in vitro. The problem is that it's talking about kidney fibrosis, or scarring of the kidney due to inability to regenerate. But when you remove much of the kidney and the surrounding body and then attack the kidney with glucose of course there is damage. That doesn't mean that in vivo the body can't deal with it. Kidneys do have a hard time regenerating, so it's an interesting foundational study, but I'd hardly call it "a lot of accumulating evidence."
Admiral Ackbar says...

(Seriously, I wonder if it is in fact some sort of a trap. It's not the 1990s any more, but I still don't really trust Microsoft.)
Typeoh that I can't edit. "most businesses are terrible at managing software development".
Using Haskell in Production – A Wagon Talk at Square
> Might not be relevant to everyone, but highly relevant to me personally: my main development machine also has to play video games.

This was big for me. I actually could run almost everything I wanted on Linux too, but it wouldn't, well, work. It did on OS X, and as a bonus, OS X has wider support.
You seriously need to learn the difference between constructive contrasting, and fallacious straw-man arguments.

I am telling a true story about an actual boss I had who was using "positive discrimination" in a dubious way. This wasn't some fabricated argument meant to replace yours. I'm contrasting two similar actions, one of which you defend, while the other you condemn - yet you can't articulate why.

>We want to see women with skills and abilities hired in the same ratio as men.

Well, if an employer gets 30 male applicants for every female applicant, then by your standard they are now obligated to mass-discriminate against fully-qualified men for no other reason than their gender, while suffering a lack of staffing while they try to find as many technically-qualified women to fill their ranks.

This problem runs much deeper than sexual discrimination by hiring managers (which is actually quite rare). You're trying to put a band-aid on a nonexistent wound.
You mean client-side authentication? And how would this have helped.
The astronomer and the witch – how Kepler saved his mother from the stake
I think it is simultaneously amazing and scary that the FDA is starting to approve self replicating organisms in therapies.
Bacteriophages are a promising replacement for antibiotics. I wonder if they can follow a similar regulatory path.
Earlier today I, in all sincerity, invited you to our Gitter channel, where there's always people discussing this stuff night and day. That invitation is still there. You're welcome any time you like.
Scala and Kotlin are mentioned so many times in these comments about Ceylon (42 times and 66, respectively, as I write), but no mentions of dynamic languages Groovy, Jython, or JRuby. I guess that shows there still a clear distinction between languages built from the ground up for building systems, and languages originally built for scripting, build scripts, and testing.
If you are an idiot, it's better to recieve an idiot- appropriate education. Less calculus and Shakespeare and more how to get a steady job, handle your finances, and stay away from trouble.

It would of course suck if you just had a cold on the day of the rest and wound up in the idiot school by accident, you'd need to review performance regularly. Ideally you'd have more than three levels of schooling. Maybe five, you could label them alpha through epsilon.
A linkedIn post about Twitter dying? Uhh the irony.
you clearly don't have what it takes.
I would say that it is a "natural process", we came from nature, and are still part of nature.
http://www.shakelaw.com/blog/why-is-your-contract-yelling-at...

http://lu.is/blog/2012/08/19/a-quick-note-on-conspicuous-tex...
Got Rejected lol
Maybe this is a dumb question, but how does the weather app know if the user is outside? Many buildings have HVAC systems that are designed to have positive pressure relative to the general environment, and most phone GPS systems are not accurate enough to tell the difference between being inside a building and outside of it on the sidewalk.
Automatic porn filters to be made 'law of the land'
Got rejected too! I want to encourage everyone, it's not the end of the world. It's normal to be sad, but determination is one of the most valuable traits in an entrepreneur. I plan to reapply in the next session mainly because of the invaluable advice YC can give. Good luck guys!
I love the idea -- whisperer, meal and all. Did you punish the disobedient GoPro?
I feel like there should be a category for "temporal anomalies" in there.

7x1 - This hasn't happened yet.
7x2 - This already happened.
7x3 - Grandfather paradox
7x4 - Chronic Hysteresis
7x5 - Time War
7x6 - Time Lock
7x7 - Bad Wolf
7x8 - Silence Will Fall

etc...
It makes me* uncomfortable that Google has effectively appointed themselves as the internet police and using their power to push people around like this. But at the same time, there is nobody else (?) who is taking care of this, and I suppose the good of someone/anyone looking into and taking action on the sorts of serious problems that Symantec has exhibited probably outweighs my discomfort.

* Disclaimer: Google employee, no connection to any of this cert stuff.
I want something like a Firefox for launchers, with the same kind of addon support - replace any UX element, any animation, any function, add new ones, disable what you don't want, inject hooks where you like them, etc...

I'd love to see a notification tray that's customizable with widgets, search bar & voice control, custom toggles, context dependent adjustments (per-app or per-location quick settings and widgets, etc), IR remote control quick access, intelligent sharing menu (share screenshot / current open file / location / whatever), etc...

So far nobody has really gone for the whole scriptable sandbox approach. Mostly just layout customization over anything else.
First-hand experience with Facebook's AI 'M'
After the fact, you may not be able to tell if a district map was gerrymandered.

But you can sure as hell tell if gerrymandering was happening, simply by examining the process itself. Was the process transparent and dictated by clear and unambiguous guidelines? Was it based purely on population density statistics, or were sociodemographics taken into account? Were those executing the process a member of the political establishment or were they independent and arms length? Etc, etc.

So you solve the problem by designing the process in such a way that it's resistant to partisan tampering.

'course, any attempt to do that will cause the majority to cry foul specifically because they benefit from gerrymandering...
The fact that I can still log in is scaring me, I never signed up for this and nor did I even get an email. My credit card details which are valid are still present.

I find it hard to believe this information was sold and if it was, were they storing credit card info in plain string format. Wouldn't each of those businesses need an encryption key to decrypt secure card numbers. Wonder if they sold that too. Either way props to John for posting this on Medium and of course Aloke on HN.
Show HN: I Made a Hacker News Browser for Pebble Smartwatches
https://github.com/chisleu/HackerNewsForPebble

I made a Hacker News browser for Pebble smart watches. It merely lets you browse the headlines.

I made it because I searched for "HackerNews" and didn't see the "Hacker News" apps already in the store. I just wanted to make something that used an API to get some experience on the platform.

The other Hacker News apps are probably better, but since I made it to publish here, I thought I would post the source and publish the app anyway.

There is a release if you want to download the compiled pbw, and it is available in the app store as "Hacker News Headline Browser".

This is my first time. Please be gentle.
no they are being pinched by the artificial devaluation of a currency in comparison to other currencies set by a foreign government. If all other things were held true and this was global market, this wouldn't work. My argument holds true historically as nations 'grow up'. This is exploitation, pure and simple.
"When it came to the lies, even well-rehearsed ones, the subjects tended to falter .. the liars had nothing to draw on"

How do you explain this man ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ucJN8cRDqM
I think the simple answer is that they started doing it a certain way and then didn't want to change it.
>"Why spend your time and money on that then?"

Well huac,

That's a problem for those of us who think independent replication is a crucial part of the scientific method.

If no one is going to attempt replicating my research and there are substantial obstacles placed in the way of me replicating other work... why waste my time? It doesn't pay very well, and it seems I am forced into a position of contributing to pseudoscience.

Eventually only people who do not consider independent replication crucial will remain.
You're correct, but that's not what I did.
- I don't want to live in a world where someone else is making the world a better place than Zejoop.com is making the world a better place