skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet there is ample research that shows that more diverse teams are more creative in problem solving and have better outcomes with tasks that require such creativity.

Could you point to some of this research? I'd be interested to learn more about research that has been done.
According to Hollywood accounting, Return of the Jedi has never been profitable.

http://www.slashfilm.com/lucasfilm-tells-darth-vader-that-re...
How do you think they might work?
> There are plenty of studies correlating racial and gender diversity with better corporate financial performance, particularly in companies that score high in innovation-seeking behaviors.

Could you point to some of this research? I'd be interested to learn more about research that has been done.
You could just as easily use your own argument to say that the inclusion of women in a variety of professions demonstrates the validity of "econ 101 in a vacuum". This is a different issue though, less to do with market efficiency than social pressure.
The school on the hill
Agreed; people overestimate the technological expertise of the U.S. Govt. -- in my anecdotal experience they're laughably behind.
Short version: you maintain some data on our own machine which describe your content. Most commonly, this is done in flat files formatted with markdown or another plain-text option.

Your static site generator is built out of code. You execute it on your local machine, periodically, generally when you have a new blog post to publish or similar. The generator combines your content plus templates (either ones it ships with, ones you build, or ones you found from the community around that generator) to spit out a bunch of compiled HTML/CSS/Javascript.

You then upload the entire compiled site to your host of choice. From the perspective of someone visiting your website, they don't know it was generated at all -- they just download HTML really, really fast which appears to have bells-and-whistles from dynamic sites like e.g. navigation which is consistent across multiple pages, related article links, etc etc.

There exist numerous other ways to achieve this objective, but the above description of a static site generator is the one most programmers independently re-invent when they attempt to build one. I had built four in my younger years before I realized that software like that had a name and was available on the Internet for free.
As a foreigner living in China and who can't read Chinese, Baidu is close to useless. There's always Bing but Google gives much superior results for the types of searches I do. That being said, the vast majority of Chinese don't "suffer" from Baidu and wouldn't switch to Google if it came back.
Well, yes. That's one kind of situation it's for. I wouldn't want to limit it to life-or-death issues. But I'm just saying that people shouldn't be using it to get skating lessons for their kids, or to fund their "personal development journey." Those things are extras.
> "solving all the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand"[0]

Yeah, it's not like people with kids ever get take-out or delivery, right?

Maybe this kind of issue is more relevant to affluent young people, but it's hardly irrevelant to others. There's nothing wrong with targeting a luxury market. Even middle class people can afford some luxuries.
The simplest way to create a website is just HTML and CSS, right? You can type that shit up on your desktop, post it to a server, and voilà--website! Advantages: fastest possible performance and way less surface area for attacks.

Suppose you decide to add a footer to every page. If you're not a wiz at sed and command-line scripting you'll have a big chore ahead of you. Plus you might forget some pages. Plus logging into FileZilla or using SSH in order to post the files can be dreary and time-consuming.

If you're putting up a catalog or other site derived from a database, you have a whole other set of problems. Now you really want to automate. You could write this in Symfony or web2py or Django an put it on your server. If people go to yoursite.com/catalog/flashlights it's actually running a file called, say, flashlights.php that dynamically queries the database and creates HTML on the fly with a list of the flashlights category in your catalog. Advantage: it's always up to date. Disadvantage: Slower (every visit to yoursite.com/catalog/flashlights results in a database hit) and much broader attack surface.

BTW that's a little bit of a simplification. You can cache the results of the visit to yoursite.com/catalog/flashlights as an HTML file at the cost of added complexity.

A dynamic, data-driven site like that can sometimes be intercepted via evil methods such as a browser-issued SQL query or CSS injection (probably not with web2py because it's got great security, but you get my point). Dynamically generated sites, which is most of the big ones, are particularly vulnerable because of the database. Database managers are big and complex.

OK, so imagine you have a program written in Python or C or Java or whatever on your desktop. It can easily be modified to add footers or render HTML files from a database, then post the pages to your server. Advantage: pre rendered HTML files are fast and way less likely to get hacked. Disadvantage: could be less up to date. The catalog database may be updated and the rendered HTML may lag.

If you really want to get fancy you can have the program running on the server. It goes through your database and templates to create each page of the site, but instead of creating dynamic pages that run PHP or Python in order to render a web page, it creates spits out straight HTML (aka "static HTML") with the contents once a day or whatever. Now a visit to yoursite.com/catalog/flashlights actually resolves to yoursite.com/catalog/flashlights.html.

In theory static site generators are easier to understand and get started with. That's not always true, but it is true that page renders are invariably faster because it's just pure HTML and not database queries are needed.
I absolutely love this idea! I thought to myself - "cooked by people for people" as a good tag line
In December 2014, a committee convened by the US National Academies released a report aimed at highlighting and improving the postdoc’s plight. The committee called for a hike in salaries, from the current recommended starting salary of US$42,840 to $50,000...

Hands up, everybody who would love to hire a scientist with a PhD for less than $50k/year.
Would it? ThePirateBay didn't host content, but the US seems to find it highly illegal. Magnet links make it even clearer that hyperlinks are NOT always OK.
It's a sign of the upcoming Hipster Apocalypse.

They take $50 million in VC money and come up with that POS website. And they they think they're "winning".
Yep, with you 100%. Anandtech (especially Anand himself) usually does pretty rigorous benchmarks but this is either a poorly executed comparison or intentionally biased towards POWER8 (and I say this as POWER fan and former IBMer). I'm really let down by this review.

Another HNer went into detail as to why the comparison is flawed but basically when you compile with a compiler made by the chip designer, especially for numerical computation, the performance is almost definitely going to slant towards that direction. GCC and Clang have to focus on dozens and dozens of backends. Anandtech has more than enough money to spend 1k for an ICC license.
This isn't true yet, but with enough technological progress it could become true. And if it does, it seems likely that the change from literate to post-literate culture will be as significant as the change from pre-literate to literate.

Ted Chiang wrote an excellent story examining this issue (although not going as far as completely post-literate):

http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of...
And yet results from the actual world do not match this study.

One thing non-believers report missing the most is a community.

However there is a definitely a difference with regard to in-group and out-of-group behavior with religious groups, where most of the generosity is directed in-group only.

I suspect that this group-oriented behavior is responsible for 100% of the difference found in the study.

Non-believers are not oriented toward in/out groups so much (presumably because they do not have a built-in group, so the concept is not mentioned much).

I suspect if you redid the study and had some kids be told "the other kids goes to the same xxx as you", (and others not told) you would find some very interesting results.

I suspect the in-group generosity of the religious kids would go up much more, compared to the in-group generosity of the non-believers.
Yes, pros and cons, its quite possible that by paying one then has enough breathing space to set up better defences.
That's actually wrong. Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Google all have some of their largest engineering satellites in Seattle.
A working prototype would instantly silence all critics

I'm not sure it would. The general view seems to be that this is feasible in the sense that under the right conditions you can indeed transmit power via ultrasound. (See below)

The issues are more around the fact that the energy loss is massive, and the there are genuine risks to human (and animal) health.

So a prototype isn't the solution, unless that prototype is a lot more than a trade demo, and actually operates in a normal home/office, over an extended period of time.

Evidence that many people think it's possible to produce a prototype, but not possible to produce a viable product:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527361

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527712

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527607
Is the EFF Client Chris Roberts, the game developer of Star Citizen?
The superficial answer is, wherever Comcast plugs in to. But I doubt if those organizations want to deal with individuals; that's what Comcast and other ISPs are for.

Maybe you could go work for Comcast or another ISP, or one of the next level up organizations, and learn about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Infrastructure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_Internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_access

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network
Joomla – JCrypt (Multiple Vulnerabilities)
I would assume it all depends on who in the government touched it. "The government" is a lot of people that don't share much expertise. Some of them have shown a lot of expertise however, and a will to use it maliciously.
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. The lowest common denominator in terms of cars with lane-keeping is to require the driver to keep their hands on the wheel. That's how all systems work currently, besides Tesla's. I'm just expressing my hope that Tesla doesn't decide to do that too.
I have a "lifestyle business" that has left me with a paid-for house and paid-for office. No external investors, no debt. My office is actually a house in the same neighborhood. I completely believe in my product.

Before this I worked at Microsoft for 4 years. It was a wonderful experience. The people were crazy smart and fun to work with. Best working period of my life. I was on the Visual Basic team. Like any Microsoft product, VB had tens of thousands of bugs that went unfixed. This was the right choice for stockholders, a group that includes pension funds, which literally means widows and orphans number among the stockholders. We knew from experience that most customers won't buy a product that consists solely of bug fixes. So the backlog stayed until those bugs were declared not showstoppers--and therefore the product was deemed as having zero bugs.

It was the right choice for Microsoft. It was the right choice for the stockholders. It was probably the right choice for customers, because most of them were in the enterprise. Their department budgets are easier to justify when a product update requires lots of new headcount and training expenses. Consultants, ditto.

It just wasn't the right choice for me. I bailed, started a business, and have done just fine since then. Not saying this is the choice you should make, but I do sleep better at night. There will never be a "liquidity event" and my business is down quite a bit from its peak, but I will never worry that I have just hidden a viper's nest of bugs under my release schedule.
Questions I'm asking in interviews (2013)
Military families had better luck than others. Only politicians did better in USSR, but that's long gone.
2 reasons: 1) I wrote the blog post and wanted to get it out there; 2) I thought it had already been submitted due to its breadth and how it was created. Turns out I was wrong, though. There you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527831
I was impressed with several teams that:
[snip]
Used languages like Python instead of Java or C#.

There is a missing context here, because this doesn't make much sense as a reason to be impressed.
Part 1) Yes

Part 2) I don't know
"But if you teach them arithmetic as a series of secret tricks—for example, that you can add 6 million and 3 million by adding 6 and 3 and then sticking the million back on at the end—it becomes like a game."

Looking back, this was what separated the subjects I loved and was great at, and the subjects where I struggled. In the former group, at an early age I saw learning as a game where I could improve continously.
Security vulnerabilities and bugs happen regularly in every major operating system. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Windows Mobile, Android, etc. Most of the time these bugs are patched in a timely fashion due to the fact that the publisher can release a bug fix directly to the end user's device. This applies to everything except most Android devices.

When a major bug is discovered in Android, first, Google fixes it and published the code. This is usually done quickly. Second, the phone manufacturers take that fix and incorporate it into their own Android build process with all their extra layers (HTC Sense, Samsung TouchWiz, etc). This second step takes anywhere from a few weeks to infinity (aka it never happens). Third, the carrier takes the manufacturers build and adds their own cruft to it, maybe tests it, and then pushes it out to their customers as an over the air (OTA) update. This third step takes anywhere from a month to infinity (aka it never happens).

Due to the interference of manufacturers and carriers, I would not recommend using Android on anything other than a Nexus device purchased directly from Google or a retail/online store. Even a Nexus, when purchased from a carrier, won't get updates as quickly as it should (speaking from experience with my Nexus 6 and T-Mobile).
Google News Hasn't Updated in Days
Are Abmahnungen still a big issue in Germany? I remember being constantly furious about it when I lived there. I'm glad I had completely forgotten those ever existed.
I really like the Josephine concept... mainly because I like "home cooking" I like to cook too.

That said, I think that delivery services for food itself will probably become more common too. If restaurants could just make food, and ping an uber-like service for a driver to do the pickup/delivery it could work out better. Some restaurants aren't busy every day, being able to combine nearby pickups and deliveries for multiple restaurants could be a huge success.

I do think it would take more than the combined infrastructure of grubhub + uber though. Simply because orchestration on grubhub is usually limited/partial menus, and the deliveries themselves can go from simple to complicated... living in a gated apartment (where there's a separate gate to the walk-up entrance, etc) makes deliveries difficult for someone who hasn't been there.

I'd love to see restaurants able to share delivery drivers... and delivery drivers able to stay active, when a single location isn't busy, another may be, and to top that, it would allow more places to offer local delivery.
Why:

go h = let m = put h "0" >> put h "1" >> m in m

Rather than:

go h = put h "0" >> put h "1"

Oh, recursion...
If religion has any impact on generosity at all, wouldn't the impact be greater on practising adults ? This study doesn't make any sense.
lol, shame for you ProtonMail and
Welcome to my blacklist
I seem to recall mostly parasites who wanted to bootstrap their businesses off craigslist's audience and data who where shocked, shocked! when craigslist didn't agree to let them do so.

Craigslist is virtually unique in that they don't charge most users anything and don't have any plans to do so, and I'm happy to see them defend their platform despite its warts. They've hooked me up with 5 apartments, a SO, and at least 3 jobs.
This is fascinating. I am waiting to read with interest what happens when these startups engage with UK catering hygeine laws.
They have BGP origin protection, where they announce your IP space for enterprise plan, probably expensive though.
Someone with 20 years of martial arts training. No question. Because the odds are that they also will know how to win a fight without permanently hurting you. You may end the day beaten and bruised, but probably not broken.
Really? Do men-in-the-middle matter if your communications are encrypted (be it HTTPS, PGP)?
"And yet results from the actual world do not match this study."

I would have given the benefit of the doubt before this study.

Based on the huge sample size of my two children I cannot fathom how religious upbringing could make them more altruistic than they are.

They share things, because they want to be nice to other people. They have different sensibilities - one is more altruistic than the other - but basically we try to teach to both of them the right thing by asking what they think the other person would feel. Simple as that.
I do wonder how Josephine gets around food safety laws.
Google, and most other businesses, are already "OK" with censorship, because governments force them to perform it:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_H...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

The fact that these censorship laws come from countries which are called "democratic" doesn't mean that we should suddenly change the definition of the word.

Here'a a Wikipedia article about Google's censorship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
I'm sure your local cable monopoly fought it as "unfair competition."
Well, you might be able to connect to it fine. The functionality certainly isn't "fine".
This article rather strangely assumes that a child's upbringing ends between the ages of 5 and 12. Regardless of whether you think religion is a wonderful or a terrible thing, surely the correct outcome measure would be generosity in adulthood. There is no reason to believe that this study is predictive of adult behavior, which is what the article implies.

Interestingly, studies looking at 2 or 3 year-olds in bilingual households show that the child's development on either language is delayed compared to monolingual peers IIRC, but later comparisons at around age 6 show their use of language is at least as good, in both languages. The same phenomenon could at least conceivably be true in religious households.
The upside of Ben Carson
This guy needs a kickstarter, or GoFundMe, or some other easy way to give him $25. Imagine a "LET'S FREAKING END CATARACT BLINDNESS" movement.
It works for me? I've translated a bunch of languages using it in the last few days. What's the issue you're having?
No, "it's" is correct. It is a contraction of it is, used appropriately in this context.

http://grammarist.com/spelling/its-its/
Okay, in all fairness - I'm a bit fluthered right now, but I'm not understanding this:

"Altogether, Dr Decety and his colleagues recruited 1,170 families for their project, and focused on one child per family. Five hundred and ten of their volunteer families described themselves as Muslim, 280 as Christian, 29 as Jewish, 18 as Buddhist and 5 as Hindu. A further 323 said they were non-religious, 3 were agnostic and 2 ticked the box marked “other”.

So the sample size is 1,170 and then the article talks about five hundred and ten? What happened to the other six hundred and sixty participants?
Similar quirks in the Python example. Opening the file should ideally be done with a "with" statement to close the file automatically at the end. But in the Ruby example the author at least closed the file instead of doing nothing as in the Python example. :)
For those who value security enough to take the pains to learn the system, yes, it's useful. For your average netizen, we feel a progressive approach would be more effective. Start out with a key escrow service and if the user wants more security, they can ratchet up to PGP.
Is it sad that all I see this turning into is REALLY annoying ads in streaming apps? I'm a little cynical, but I think that VR interaction might benefit from this a little bit, but most of the interactions in gaming are better served be a more immersive display option, with full head tracking.
Padmapper was the main one, right?

What's tricky there is that they provided a wonderful user interface, but used Craigslist data. Since CL refuses to update their UI (and for potentially good reason), I find it hard to justify a monopoly on displaying their data. The links still go back to the CL listings, unless I'm misunderstanding the dispute. I fail to see what is unethical about that.
Was this link posted by the same M. Bosch that gave a "testimonial" ?
India Only ‘Partly Free’ When It Comes to Internet Freedom – The Wire
Wow. This guy didn't even switch out the stock photos... sloppy.
510 was the number of Muslim families.
> One thing non-believers report missing the most is a community.

Do you have any sort of a citation on that?
A name that doesn't sound identical to "maggot," I guess. I've always wondered what the creators were thinking when they chose that name.
Please have a look at the works of this religion, recently broke the Guiness World Record for the Largest Gospel Choir for their 35th anniversary,

http://www.mcgi.org/mcgi-breaks-guinness-world-record-promot...

The projects spearheaded by the group really tells a lot of their principles.

For example, their television station, UNTV, promotes "Tulong Muna Bago Balita", roughly translated, "Help First, Before News", where the station's news reporters are also trained rescuers, they prioritise helping the victims of accidents first and not taking news information, given the fact that news respondents are most of the time, first in the scene. And yes, the victims they are helping sometimes are members of the detractors of their religion.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLLedYh6OgMNy-bYWUFSk...

Their leaders blog, yesterday's post fortunately, also at the same time of the publishing of the economist post, discusses loving your enemies.

http://www.controversyextraordinary.com/2015/11/bro-eli-sori...

Also, i'm a member of this religion.
We haven't reached out to Mailvelope/Gmail developers, nor have we opened a usability dialogue with the OpenPGP community. We're still in the process of getting these results published. Your experience with that community is interesting though.
Results of General Fusion’s Crowdsourced Anvil Seal Challenge
Or you could just use a memory safe language instead of getting into the C mitigation arms race.

Time and time again mitigation techs have gotten widely deployed, exploits have caught up, it's a perpetual cycle. Yes the exploitation gets a little harder each time around, but you don't get sound memory safety that way.
You can donate at http://www.cureblindness.org/
This is a risk the datacenter exposes their customers to by nature of how they operate. It's a major selling point to me that AWS employs some more sophisticated countermeasures to attacks like these. If their typical response to ransom requests was "you need to consider how you're impacting our business", I would take my business elsewhere.