skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IKEA person may have stated the claim in a broad way, but as a thought experiment, is it possible that they're correct despite this study?

> on average, men tend to outperform women on spatial skills, which you'd expect would be relevant to furniture construction.

Could it actually be irrelevant? There's a case to be made there.

Is time of construction, as measured in this study, actually important to IKEA? If the reasons for faster male performance in this study are down to (possibly genetic) advantages in dealing with new spatial problems, or a cultural factor like males having on average more exposure to various kinds of construction, which manifest in them showing a (slight) edge in constructing a brand-new design, well ... due to the manufacturing effect, that advantage should disappear!

With practice, false starts and misunderstandings will go away. At that point, what matters to IKEA? Probably, 'perfect' assembly. It's possible that IKEA found that women showed lower defect rates than men. That would make sense given that they called out that women followed the assembly instructions more closely.

IKEA's claim was simply that 'women are better at assembling flat-pack furniture than men,' and this study wanted to see if the known male edge in understanding spatial problems extended to flat-pack furniture. It apparently does, but that doesn't necessarily mean that women still might not be 'better,' at least from IKEA's point of view.
"WHAT DO WE WANT?"

"Shhhhhhhhh"
But it didn't show that to be false. The comment you replied to proves it.
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The specific line that was cherry picked wasn't guidance, it was a warning to the Babylonians who held the Jews captive and committed atrocities against them that the Babylonians would have the same done to them.
Not sure what you're on about. I just symlinked a file on the container inside a folder that was mapped to the host and nothing bad happened. Of course the host couldn't see the content of the file, but I was able to remove the file with no errors.
Awesome article.
As a provider of cloud storage (who actually owns the infrastructure) this is both exciting and frustrating...

Exciting because we love the idea of deploying a 450TB zpool in a 4U chassis ...

Frustrating because we will have to keep reworking our price per GB.

With that in mind, our new attic/borg[1] support has dropped down to 3 cents per GB, per month to kind-of-sort-of match S3 pricing[2].

[1] http://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

[2] http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html
I'd prefer not to say because I'd like to get along with the people who were there. But I'm pretty sure you can google the facts and figure it out. Sorry to be squishy but I seem to have made a career out of pissing people off and I'm trying to do less of that. Yeah, publicly posting the story might not have been the greatest idea but naming names is even worse.
so we can take a look at what's new in Swift 3

Are new versions backwards compatible?
Yes, this greatly annoyed me too especially given the 3 month expiry time. https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny is a tiny alternative client without any dependencies (except python itself), and you can use any web server including your usual running one to serve the challenge responses up.
It has hardly changed since the days I used AfterStep and WindowMaker (early 2000).
Swish also uses SF.
The client supports being plugged into your running instance of nginx/apache as long as it can provide the appropriate .well-known paths.
The Swift Linux Port
I'm curious why this dropped completely off the home page? Do posts get nixed by mods? If so, why this one? [I don't really care, just curious about the HN moderation process]
Why do that when you can go outside and get trophies? I'm pretty sure 2 is better than 1 so that's a strictly better plan.
Wait wait wait... you're saying this guy, who believes religious folks cherry-pick quotes from the bible out of context in order to support their preconceived beliefs, went ahead and cherry-picked quotes from the bible in order to support his preconceived beliefs about those very people?

That has gotta be the most meta thing I've ever heard...

Or maybe that's just hypocrisy. Potato potahto, I suppose.
Huge problem this.
My family member had surgery on Monday and got stuck at the hospital along with my wife. Over night the hospital turned into an Island. Spent all day today trying to get people to get some food and water for them. They are home now, safe.

Must mention: Chennaiites really came together for this one. People helping each other with everything they have. Made me proud. And it helped me relax a little knowing that I can reach to people for help. Amazing all around. Any number I called, everyone tried to help. Everyone took the info and did what they can.
God said not to use statistical weights.

A nigger says, "Let's put a markov on the SETI antenna."

Retard nigger.

God says...
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Tax avoidance =/= tax evasion. One is legal, one is not.
Because there's a huge amount of paper you might want to keep. And storing paper costs a lot of money.

It takes up a lot of space, and has to be kept dry within a reasonable temperature range. Academic libraries spend tidy sums on climate control to keep their books from rotting away. It also has to be indexed and filed so it's possible to find what you're looking for.

If you do it properly, you end up with something like this:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

So the costs are non-trivial. And most people would consider library loan records trivial information. So there are good economic and practical reasons for throwing them out.

Besides, it's unlikely Plato, Jefferson, or Tesla did most of their reading in libraries. (Karl Marx did, but he was probably an exception.)
Where do you find these ML wizard conusltants? I've been looking to hire someone part time for a project to help build a model but most good people have no time and I don't trust that anyone on elance or similar is any good.
Awesome. Exactly what I was hoping to hear. Thanks!
its a shame this is a joke.

you really could learn better from ballmer than from jobs imo.

i'd much rather be successful for the like ballmer than jobs. cult following is creepy, and recieving kudos even when you do nothing makes it easy to lose perspective.

jobs was great at what he did, but massively overrated thanks to the excellent work of the apple marketting guys. those guys are absolutely amazing at what they do. its a shame they don't get more credit.
23-Year-Old’s Design Collaboration Tool Figma Launches with $14M to Fight Adobe
An 'XCOM' game in Excel beats playing with spreadsheets
> wouldn't it be better to have all this power be in the hands of the democratically chosen, versus billionaires

Sure. If you want your money to go to the causes that everybody else supports, then absolutely, you should give more money to the government.

However, if you want the money to go to underfunded fields, or areas in which the government doesn't support at all, then you're left with making contributions to non-governmental charities or organizations.

I regularly donate to the EFF, ACLU, SAF, CBLDF, and St. Jude, Habitat for Humanity, among others. Of that list, only St. Jude and Habitat could be arguably better spent through direct taxation. It's possible that the government does more for children's cancer and housing the homeless than those charities do -- it is not possible that the government does a better job of acting as a watchdog agency for the government than the EFF, ACLU, SAF or CBLDF.

Beyond that, when I donate directly, I get the satisfaction of knowing that none of the money given goes towards causes I do not support, like war-making, privacy violations, etc.
I think you should double check the taking over port 80 thing. There are a number of authenticators that do not require taking down your existing webserver. I've used the webroot authenticator to get several certificates without taking down anything.
Is that more difficult or less difficult than convincing people to stop using Zuckerberg's products?
Some people can be incredibly lucky despite a lack of skill. Statistically, it's unlikely, but given a large enough sample size, someone will have extraordinary success purely by chance.

The Romans considered luck to be an important trait. When regarding military leaders, they considered luck to be even more important than skill. It meant that the gods favored the lucky person.

Julius Caesar was a skillful general, but he was even more admired for his incredible luck. There were many times where he was almost beaten, yet he got some lucky break that allowed him to be victorious.
Just use the webroot authenticator + manually configure nginx with help from https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat...
So much work has gone into this..!
This [0] BBC article says:

> El sobrevuelo del lugar de la catástrofe y los meses de análisis fueron financiados por la revista National Geographic, que había impuesto un embargo a la divulgación de la información hasta ahora.

Which translate that National Geographic paid for everything and put an embargo (same word) on the information.

[0]: http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/12/151202_chile_balle...
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Before the skeptical comments rush in

If the comment is in relation to the criticism to Mark's donations, I think this is a non sequitur... I believe people understand that in large orgs there are factions that operate with different motives. Also this is a good cause so perhaps it helps their image too. So people won't be too critical of it.
Lattner directly addresses this in a FAQ in the repository[1]
"Do you plan to rewrite the Swift compiler in Swift?

Not in the short term. C++ is a very pragmatic language for implementing compilers, since it has good performance characteristics and allows higher-level programming idioms than C.

That said, we do expect Swift to a better language than C++ in a number of ways, so why don't we implement the compiler itself in Swift? There are a couple of reasons that bootstrapping is not a good idea, at least in the short term:

This complicates bringup of the compiler, because you have to move both the compiled language and the compiler at the same time as the language evolves.
We want the language evolution and direction to be driven by general purpose programming challenges, not by the specific needs of compiler hackers. The urge to "scratch our own itch" might be too great.
That said, we are writing the runtime library in Swift itself. We may also decide to rewrite the compiler in Swift sometime in the distant future when the language settles down. At that point, it may be a good opportunity to revisit previous (internal to the compiler) design decisions, and we do expect and hope Swift to be a great language for doing many things, including implementing compilers."

1. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/www/FAQ.rst
sorry for the self-plug, but we're doing exactly that at resin.io
Life360 app wins back almost $700k from patent troll
The funny thing is that God will say to smash yer brains out. LOL He exists.

"How could a loving God not cause invention of anesthetics centuries sooner?" You ask Him, retard-nigger! LOL
If a type is abstract then the rest is up to the implementation of functions that operate on the data type -- and that could be hiding all kinds of nastiness like unsafePerformIO and the like. Yet, we usually don't care about that because it's an implementation detail.

Am I missing some way to "abuse" GADTs/TFs to violate the abstraction boundary or something like that? (I seriously can't see what you think the problem is here. I mean, you can equally well abuse unsafeCoerce/unsafePerformIO to do all kinds of weird things to violate parametricity, so I don't see why GADTs/TFs should be singled out.)
The most interesting part here is the second quote where he describes that a modern iPhone is as compared to what the iPhone was then:

> "We wouldn't define our phone experience just by music. A phone is really a general purpose device. You want to make telephone calls, you want to get and receive messages, text, e-mail, whatever your preference is."

edit: Turns out he was dead on. Problem was that the iPhone combined two devices people already had AND eventually gave you all of this.
And is owned by Deutsche Post nowadays, a German governmental entity.
So let's guess, will Microsoft create a Windows-supporting fork, just like Redis?
Yes, it's a step forward, for sure. The software component is important for getting the circular UI right, so I'd like to see it in action.

I think (or at least hope) there is a chance that eventually apple will break and move to something like this.
You should check out "War of the Whales" if you are interested in the interaction between whales and naval training exercises.
> i was prepared to snark

I don't know why but this just got me laughing so hard. I'm thinking about one of those infomercials. "They laughed at me when I sat at the piano... but when I started to play!"

It's like the Hacker News slogan or manifesto or something. HACKER NEWS: WE'RE PREPARED TO SNARK.
A better analogy would be driving a car - it's not a tangerine.
One of them is breaking the law, the other is working around it – but the intention is the same.
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Age doesn't breed competence, just as it doesn't breed incompetence either.
I'm old enough to have read tons and tons of his posts to usenix from back in the day. Lots of fun, very talented guy.

Anyone know what he is doing these days? Enjoying retirement?
Indeed. Part of the difference is that I can start my own company in which I do have control. I cannot start my own government.
You can try Taskwarrior in your browser:
http://wbsch.de/jswarrior/

It's an older version (2.4.3) with a lot of recent improvements missing, but you can get a basic feel for what it is like to use it. I really should get around to updating this to the latest release sometime.
nosideeffects 10 days ago | parent | on: Fallout 4 Service Discovery and Relay

Only level 12 by November 20th? The desire to play must not have been that strong. He already got side tracked with something that isn't getting him any more loot.

Go away, troll.
Slightly O/T, but has anyone experienced similar problems with downloads from PortableApps.com? They use SourceForge as well, and I am now hesitant to recommend PortableApps to friends and co-workers.
Here's a Go client that has no dependencies and runs everywhere: https://github.com/xenolf/lego
Not supported on all platforms though, on my FreeBSD box the only option it gave me was to take down the web server. Maybe it's possible with manual config?
Sony is building a Mobile VR HMD with positional tracking
That is golden advice! Also, be careful with power screwdrivers, they offer speed and the illusion of power, but much less control and feeling, increasing the chance of wrecking the screw head and/or screwing too tight or not tight enough.
Kazakh here as well.

Don’t bother. Nothing will happen. It’s just talk as always.
Yes, it is currently out of scope for Swift 3.0[1]

1. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution#out-of-scope
Let's get this out of the way: for practical purposes, the Second Amendment is heavily modified by legal precedent.

Having said that, the Constitution, including the amendments, primarily constrained the federal government. Remember that "freedom of religion" clause? There were at least a couple of states with an established church at the time. The ability for municipalities to restrict the bearing of arms was not much questioned until the last 50 years or so.
Learn by doing:

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/luontola/tdd-2009/ext/ObjectCali...
Depending on the project / time line I'd be interested to help. Is there a way to get in touch?
For your information, currently sourceforge "usually" only bundles the crapware with projects where either the person opted in, or where sourceforge has "seized" the repo.

If it bundles crapware, and the maintainer listed on sourceforge.net is sourceforge itself, they didn’t opt in.

Otherwise they did.
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As far as votes of confidence go, Julia landing successfully at any of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks is a strong one. They all do a whole mess of complex modeling. The NY Fed in particular is a "first among equals" in the Federal Reserve system, so it's always good to be there.

That said, I have no idea if this will be that influential on economists changing their tools, or the tools that they teach to their students. People tend to stick with tools that they know and like. But it's very possible that this will help Julia in the eyes of people getting into the field choosing their first programming language.
EFF's post on the beta, including details on the roadmap: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/lets-encrypt-enters-pu...
> you believe that society isn't entitled to a share of your money

No. When money is earned, that money is taxed. Society has gotten its share. Zuckerberg is talking about donating assets that represent money in lieu of keeping it himself, which are above and beyond whatever income taxes he's already paid.

If the argument is that he isn't paying taxes on the money he never had, that seems a little odd to me, but even if we accept that he should owe those taxes to society, then we have to reconcile that notion with the idea that society has chosen those charities to be considered tax exempt, and has effectively rubber stamped charitable donations as a societal good.

In either scenario, I don't see any way in which Zuckerberg's charitable donations has avoided his obligation to the society which has chosen to prefer charitable giving to taxation.
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The author said so himself:

> If you’re a non genius who hasn’t formed a globally important company in your early 20s — and especially if you’re funny looking — you’ll probably learn more from Ballmer than you can from Jobs.

Just because it's funny doesn't mean it's not true!
Can someone comment as to why it needs to be filled with helium?
People usually don't get credit for what didn't happen, but in the case of CEOs, they deserve it. There are so many choices that could've been made, and would've been made by a worse exec, that would've destroyed MS. It takes effort to maintain the status quo in a competitive world.

Microsoft might not have been as hip as Apple or Google, but they became and remained the most significant software company in the world for decades. They're still the number one desktop OS by a huge margin. Compare Steve Ballmer to Carly Fiorina, Jonathan Schwartz or Stephen Elop and tell me he wasn't a good CEO.

I also think Ballmer deserves credit for .NET. "Developers developers developers" has been MS's saving grace as OS X emerged, and Nadella is essentially banking the company on .NET-as-a-platform via Azure. It's entirely possible that we'd all be using Solaris on SPARC workstations by now if .NET hadn't existed.
They're calculated every year. It is merely the average number of times an article in the journal will be cited.
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As Scott Aaronson points out, the easy solution to this is that you add a slight quantum chance that the algorithm will yield "Reject". As long as that chance is non-zero, but greatly smaller than the probability of any particular successful permutation, you will survive in the universe that says "Reject".
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But perhaps not as likely that one of those sites had exactly the same version of jQuery.
I can't tell if you are talking about actual Buddhism or "Western Buddhism". As in, are you dramatically misinterpreting your source document, or are you trying to say that the "Western Buddhism" we experience is not "Real Buddhism"?

from the article: "There was a problem. Buddhism, as actually found in Asia, was much more like the European idea of “paganism” than a “great world religion.”"

The site relates to current academic discussion of "Real Buddhism", but the field has been investigating primary sources (Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese) for such a long time at this point as to make this article primarily a rant about "Western Buddhism" versus the more legitimate "Buddhisms".
Because it is based on LLVM and the main LLVM API is C++ based. And no other language has good C++ interoperation.

Yes other languages have LLVM bindings, but they aren't as comprehensive as actually linking to the LLVM C++ API.

Source: Have written a (toy-ish) compiler with LLVM
Happy to see this project hit public beta! I've deployed Let's Encrypt on a couple of side projects during the last month or so, and my experience has been mostly positive.

The official client still needs some work, especially in terms of auto-configuration on apache, nginx and others, but it's getting there. Some say it's become a bit bloated, which is true to a certain degree, but probably necessary to achieve the goals they have set for it.

Luckily, Let's Encrypt is based on an open specification (ACME) and it's really easy to implement a custom client. There are already more than 10 client implementations out there[1], all created with different goals in mind - anything from a Ruby gem to a simple scripts to get your own CSR signed. If you're not running your typical LAMP or LEMP stack, and don't want to run the official client which is more of a certificate manager requiring root access, that's definitely something to look into.

Note that if Windows XP support is relevant for your use-case, you might want to hold off. There's currently a problem with how XP deals with name constraints, which means any application using Windows XP's SSL API (I believe it's called schannel?) won't work - for example Internet Explorer and Chrome. This might get fixed in the future[2]. Hopefully, that's not relevant to you. :)

[1]: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/list-of-client-implement...
[2]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues/1660
> 501c4s, aka SuperPACs are nonprofit "charitable" organizations.

Two major errors in only seven words:

1: 501c4s are not "aka SuperPACs". Some SuperPACs are 501c4s, and some 501c4s are SuperPACs, but the things are neither equivalent (which is what "aka" ["also known as"] means) nor is either a subset of the other; there are 501c4s that are not SuperPACs, and SuperPACs that are not 501c4s (527s are less restricted than 501c4s in operations and historically more common for SuperPACs, 501c4s are adopted by some because, while more restricted in operation, they are able to keep donor lists secret while 527s are required to disclose donor lists.)

2: 501c4s (and 527s, for that matter) are tax-exempt non-profits, but not charities (charities are 501c3s, which in addition to being tax-exempt feature tax-deductibility of donations for donors; non-charity tax-exempt nonprofits do not feature deductibility of donations.)
Hoping for automation for Nginx...