skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I do not doubt price discrimination targeted to women exist (and this study seems to highlight it), in this particular market (razors) they misrepresent the value of their products across the board.

For instance, read this amusing anedocte [1] about the difference between the Gillette Fusion and Fusion Power lines. It is from 2007 but I believe it lasts to this day:

Second, I decided to try them for myself... I've been using the Fusion Power razor with Fusion Power blades since they came out (only on the face though). I always notice the price of the Fusion blades is typically $1 - $2 cheaper per 4 pack than the Fusion Power blades. I grabbed a 4 pack of the regular Fusion blades at Wal-Mart for about $12.36 (versus $13.74) and took them home to see if Gillette is telling the truth or if they are pulling our legs and profiting from a clever marketing ploy... ???

The Test and Results...

The first thing I noticed was the regular Fusion blade was blue rather than orange... could that be the "specific design" mumbo jumbo that they were talking about? ??? I like orange, but not for an average upcharge of $1.50 per four pack...

(...)

My take on Gillette Fusion Power blades is that the blades are the same as the, dare I say, ordinary Fusion blades and they market them at a higher price to deceive men that they will get a better shave using the Power blades because they are designed differently.

(...)

He then wrote a letter to Gillette:

All that being said, what gives Gillette?? Why do Fusion Power cartridges cost, on average, $1.50 more per four pack when, in my opinion, they give the exact same shave as a regular Fusion cartridge? What exactly is the difference that makes the Fusion Power cartridges superior to the regular Fusion cartridges?

And received an answer from P&G:

Dear Rob-

The differences between the Power and Manual Fusion Cartridges are subtle but there are differences. The Power Fusion Cartridges have aloe, vitamin E and natural oils in the lubrastrip while the Manual Cartridges have just aloe and vitamin E. There is also a slightly different coating on the blade of the Power Cartridges. That coating was designed to work with the vibration of the razor. I hope this answers your questions.

Thanks again for writing.

Kelly H
Fusion Team

tl;dr: no difference between the Fusion and Fusion Power lines of Gillette except for the 1.50 increase in price and "natural oils".

[1] http://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?topic=1871.0
You know what's worse than rolling a die? Distributed decision making. Yes, moving information up and down the hierarchy takes time, but coordinating a distributed structure takes exponentially more time (and I mean it literally, it's graph theory 101), and with decision making it's usually more important that everyone is on the same page than that the decision is optimal. Army, which pops as an example in this thread, understand that perfectly well, hence the chain of command.
Clinton: I wouldn't keep any school open that wasn't doing an above-average job
I liked his friend who went to interviews for jobs he didn't want. I wish I thought of this when I was looking for work.
I have to agree with most of this but I was actually pretty impressed by 3D touch and I just think it'll take a little bit of time for app developers to start using it in novel ways. I wouldn't write that one off just yet.
Someone didn't made his homework and forgot the battery pack?
What would feminist data visualization look like?
Not to mention fewer hours worked.
Good call, but here was already a submission with a simplified URL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785200
German export oriented economy needs EU and South Europe cannot devalue their currency and pose threat to German export economy. If they move out of EU and devalue their currencies, Germany is in big big trouble. Disintegration of Europe is delayed but very likely narrative of the decade.
It's my understanding that Snowden released the documents to two journalists (Glenn being one of them) on the grounds that they release "responsibly" meaning redact or don't publish names of under cover agents, etc. So unless I missed it the entire archive has never been released.

Instead it's released in tiny bits and pieces by Glenn when it seems most appropriate.

I'm assuming this archive is updated as pieces come in. For example I did not see this content within the archive.

That's my understanding anyway; if I'm wrong please let me know :)
Products' pricing can't be their value; if pricing isn't algorithmic, someone is doing something very wrong! Or us nerds have a market to exploit -- I think many people are doing this in many nitch corners.

So, computers are discriminatory... we might want to ban them along with encryption; think of the children.
Regarding the video codec, it's the same thing, except one in IETF is the actual engineering group, and that AOM is more of an administrative one that synchronizes all the bureaucratic stuff probably (legal as well I guess).

UPDATE: See here: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/67752.html
Thanks! They seem interesting!
We figured this out a long time ago with "body wash". I was always a bar-of-soap kind of guy and when I was sent out to purchase toiletries for the family, I did a quick price comparison and made an "executive decision". I purchased 8 Axe branded body washes for $2.00 total (combined coupons and store specials). I was able to find several scents that appeared to be neutral to floral (discovered all of them were way more floral than I would have ever expected for a men's product).

She freaked out (as I was expecting; I wasn't being naive or anything), but after a few showers she not only stopped complaining but agreed that they were of equal quality and some smelled better than the Dove or Suave products she preferred.

I generally do all of the toiletry shopping in the house and I keep an eye on coupons and store specials -- I have never found as solid of discounts on products branded for women than I find on men. The body wash thing is always the biggest gap -- probably because a lot of men don't use body wash so they either need to give men an extra incentive to try them or deeply discount them to sell them at all.

Shaving cream and hair conditioner are the second worst offenders from my limited research and led to the discovery that shave cream is a redundant product. My wife used to buy a $30 "premium feminine shaving gel" (for cough sensitive shaving needs). I tried it once when I ran out of the white bubbly stuff and happened to do so just after washing my hair. I realized that outside of the color, it was nearly identical to a store brand hair conditioner that we shared (and bought in a bottle 20 times larger for $9.00). So the next time we tried just using the conditioner -- it was a massive improvement over the best shaving cream I've ever used (though, to clarify, I am a shower shaver, and I have no idea how well it cleans up with a sink shave). Instead of a $1.50-$3.00 shaving cream bottle that lasts 5-6 shaves (or a $30.00 one) we use our bulk conditioner that lasts about six months between the two of us.
Of course they want women to use the women's razors when they're more expensive. That's just common sense on their part.
Fro Heroku we created/modified a custom buildpack (https://github.com/joshowen/conda-buildpack), and use that with the multibuildpack.

We use conda-env (https://github.com/conda/conda-env) which makes it really simple to manage environments locally and in remote environments.
It may help to know what he's talking about. He's probably [1] not referring to whether you use C-style || vs. Python's "or". He's probably referring to things like this:

NB. Initialize a global, but not if it's already been initialized
NB. Example: 'name' initifundef 5
initifundef =: (, ('_'&([,],[))@(>@(18!:5)@(0&$)) ) ux_vy ((4 : '(x) =: y')^:(0:>(4!:0)@<@[))

From the bottom of http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Phrases/Language_Utilities . NB. appears to be the comment marker, so the last line is the payload.

Yeah, I picked the worst thing I could find, and my guess is that that code is doing something really nasty hacky, because it is too large to be doing only what it is described. On the other hand, the fact that I pretty much have to guess with almost no information is sorta my point.

There's creating a computer language to be concise and readable, and then there's just concise. You can also have a look at Perl, which can (and generally should) be programmed as a fairly normal dynamic object-oriented language, but has a subset of functions, operators, and implicit variables that allows you to spit out terribly small, dense lines of few characters that do horrible things, usually not just doing whatever they are putatively doing but also having other mysterious side effects in the process.

[1]: I'm reasonably confident I'm on the right track here, but don't want to put words in his mouth, so I'm hedging. Especially since there's a non-zero chance the original author will show up here. As I type this, that has not happened yet.
OSS encoders (x264, Theora, VP9, Daala, Vorbis) already tend to have a constant quality rate control mode that they'd very much prefer you use unless you have an actual reason to need a specific bitrate. I'm always surprised at how many people try to reinvent it via abr...

Netflix (and streaming services in general) on the other hand needs known bitrates with known constraints so their bandwidth estimation can work correctly without hiccups. Your personal video collection does not.
You've posted far too many ideological rants to Hacker News. That's an abuse of this site, which is intended for thoughtful conversation, so please stop.
How do you provide this in a quadcopter? The rotors are too small to allow autogiration...
>Compounding the injustice, she said, is the wage gap. Federal data shows women in the United States earn about 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. “It’s a double whammy,” Menin said

That statistic completely ignores experience and numbers of hours worked per week.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-tha...

"The wage gap statistic, however, doesn’t compare two similarly situated co-workers of different sexes, working in the same industry, performing the same work, for the same number of hours a day. It merely reflects the median earnings of all men and women classified as full-time workers."
Show HN: Genial Santa Claus 2 (match 3 sliding puzzle)
Not sure if this is what you're looking for: https://github.com/conda/conda
The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles from Mom
Not sure about whether it's subversion or basic hacking. You should assume, though, that they might have hacks in any common product that can be used for a security bypass. Here's why: IT markets usually become oligopolies where a few players products are all over the place. Firewalls, routers, VPN's, OS's on desktop, OS's on mobile, net configuration, build systems... handfuls of implementations in each dominate in market share. So, rather than beating everything, you can focus on 0-days in a tiny few to beat almost everyone [that matters to a TLA].

Another side of this coin is that they'll add to their hitlist whatever they encounter the most. They probably run into Juniper firewalls all the time. So, it's higher priority. Using high-quality, but lower-priority-to-them, components reduces you risk of being hit by them. So, one of my recommendations is to build/use strong systems, use diverse components of good quality, and obscure the workings of both at the interface. They'll trip your alarms trying to figure out what you're using before they hack you.
I wonder if she realizes that, by iteration, this proposal will ultimately result in all schools being closed.
GnuTLS and Heartbleed are pretty good examples for starters.
You didn't even click the link. Neutrons from D-D fusion are at 2.45 MeV.
ORNL achieves milestone with plutonium-238 sample
Thanks for the correction. I doubt they'd want to go Signal for millions of users. It doesn't bode well with their NSA friendship.
Time Management Tips from the HIV Lab
Oh yes, you "green bubble" people. I pretty much only talk to them on FB and if we have to talk in a group I'll use a FB group. I'm no fan of facebook but messenger blows SMS out of the water and at least brings everyone up to the same level. Just 1 sms-only user in an iMessage group and you are back to the dark ages it feels like... No offense to android users it's just a PITA to have to revert to SMS when 90% of the people in the group have iOS/iMessage.
Whether this is a problem or not depends on the domain. In case of military, it's usually much more important that everyone knows and follows the same plan.
Didn't know about that...but I recall they've gone after a few others.
The first time I saw the single port I jokingly said to a friend "look, if you want to use any device you already own they'll gladly sell you an $80 adaptor". And lo and behold, its $80 (http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av...).
Permutation City has a brilliant premise but I found sections of it mostly unreadable and I can't say I enjoyed it very much. Egan would have been better served presenting the content in an essay format.

Egan's more unforgiving stories are an acquired taste IMO. I started out with his short stories and found them enjoyable when there wasn't so much pretentious info-dumping and preaching. Permutation City felt like one of his harder to parse short stories stretched to the length of a novel.

Blindsight is on my Kobo right now, but after reading Permutation City I'm scared to start reading it because I don't want to reach halfway and want to chuck it like I did Permutation City.

On a more positive note, I just want to say that I liked how prescient the novel was in foretelling AWS.
Nice. You made an account name similar to mine to tell me that?
Super Obliteration soundtrack is great and it's from Bjørn "Dr Awesome" Lynne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lynne
It's a weak article, but please don't make HN threads worse by posting comments like this.

Once you have 30 karma, you can flag stories when they aren't substantive or are otherwise bad stories for HN.
As more video moves to higher resolutions (such as 4K) the amount of bandwidth wasted by inefficient encoding increases exponentially.

While consumers only care if the quality is "acceptable", it's pretty easy to tell the difference between a crisp 4K picture and a 1080p picture, and also easier to see encoding or bitrate artifacts.

So I think this is probably an attempt to improve the margins a bit on content delivery costs without sacrificing quality.

Netflix has also embraced 4K content with its original series, so it is in a unique position to leverage the shift to higher resolution content for maximum profitability.
Penis enlargement pills are not popular.
> There is ample opportunity for Clinton to be informed.

I agree with this, which is why I don't plan on voting for her. But to call her a "threat" when her only threat is "being ignorant" is making mountains out of molehills.

But sure, hyperventilate about a made up issue if you like. There's actual issues in this country to care about, and you're welcome to misrepresent Clinton's words to self-manufacture an enemy if you want to.

I'm simply calling out the Vice article for doing so.

In case you don't see it, the politics of the situation are obvious. The defense hawks want us to do something about encryption because ISIS is now clearly using VPN, TOR, and other forms of readily-available encryption to communicate with each other.

In particular, the connection of the San Bernadina shooters to ISIS seems to have only been discovered through private communication. (not quite TOR, but they only could have discovered that fact using non-publicly available information if you know what I mean). The Paris Attack was coordinated entirely within encrypted communications.

And the fact of the matter is, the US has absolutely no power against such a space. Clinton wants to appeal to the defense hawks, by claiming she has a solution. But she's also balancing her talk by occasionally saying "Apple" and "I'm against Backdoors".

IE: She's being a politician, and she's ignorantly pretending to believe there's a solution here. The fact remains: any weakening of encryption is tantamount to a backdoor, and doing nothing is unacceptable to the defense hawks. So Clinton's best move is either to play dumb, or actually be dumb.
That's the wrong question - the question is wether the sources from OpenAddresses can be merged into OSM. I know of at least Denmark that there was some address import.
Ethic and morality judgement is very subjective endeavour with inconsistent results across the population. In other words, most people do not exist in "the same ethical framework". The justice framework used by judges is perhaps more consistent, but not necessarily better than other competitive view for any case in hand. Sometimes the very laws are very immoral.
Boston and SF are NOT comparable these days in terms of cost of living OR job market. Boston is probably #2, but it's a fairly distant #2.

$250k is a normal salary for an engineer with say 10 years experience in the Bay Area. It won't all be in a monthly paycheck, some of it will be in bonuses, restricted stock, etc., but it will be bankable and spendable annually, not locked away in illiquid assets (at least at a large company). Companies with long vesting schedules will supplement the early years with hiring bonuses until shares start to mature.

And this is why rent on a 2BR apartment in Mountain View will run you $3000 per month, and a 900 sq ft condo convenient to nothing in particular runs $850,000.
It's not impossible, just as how requiring registration of all typewriters is not impossible. It's just that the mechanics of doing either are so invasive that we characterize governments attempting them as totalitarian, and they tend to end poorly.
There's The Autodesk File, which has most of the early financial history of Autodesk.[1]

Autodesk was established with $60K put in by the founders. There was no additional funding prior to the IPO. There was only one class of stock. Autodesk sold AutoCAD for cash, and that generated enough money that they were able to grow based on real profits.

At one point VC funding was considered. That's an important story, and it's fully documented.[2] Here's part of why it was turned down: "In particular, our ability to grant stock options to new employees was severely constrained by limits on the number available, by forcing the option exercise price to above the price paid by the investor (who received much better terms on his preferred than the employee would on his common stock), by retiring from the pool any options granted to an employee who subsequently left the company, and by imposing a four-year vesting period on all options, which the founders of the company felt transformed the options from their original purpose of allowing employees to share in the company's success to a kind of twentieth century indentured servitude which compelled employees to stay with the company or face forfeiture of their financial gains."

That's what it was like before the era of hyped dot-coms, when companies built real products which people bought.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/autofile.html
[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_32.html
The Telnet Song (2004)
>> The only problem unique to the tech-unicorns here is exercising stock options when you can't pay for the taxes. Don't do that.

Ok, sure, but what do you do when you have all of this equity vested on paper and either 1) you get fired, or 2) you want to leave the company?
What is a good resource for someone who want to read good papers from time to time?
It means there will be 1 big super school for every child and teacher to go too and everyone will be going to the best school in the country.
As a further factor, I have heard that women tend to return clothing more often than men, leading to increased costs for shops that sell to women in comparison to those that sell to men only.
I guess the kicker here is "it depends on the startup" and "it depends on the big company".
Siri is only good for things like "How many X in a Y" (Like units of measurement), "Remind me to do X at Y", and "Set an alarm/times for X". Past that I've found it to be almost useless.
Zukerberg cannot catch a break. Poor fellow, what kind of money does he make by connecting the lower economic spectrum of India? Is there some business tactics in there for growing the consumer base, sure, but honestly, this should be perhaps duty of Indian people, public or private. For all its imperfection internet.org is about reaching to poor people, who have NO ACCESS. Is a heavily subsidized but limited access EVIL than No ACCESS.
They're coming from observation. IMO it's the obsession with destroying hierarchies and "democratization" that seems ideology-driven. Centralized solution are good at coordinating and bad at responding to local challenges. Distributed solutions are good at adapting to the local environment, but absolutely suck at coordinating. We have evidence for this evaluation all around us, in every second of our lives, starting with how our bodies are structured (hierarchy which is made of distributed elements at each level), going through basic social interactions (ever been to a YouTube party, or tried to organize a family trip?), and ending with politics.
> Who co-founds a company without agreeing to an equity split??

Lots of people! This is the normal state of affair in many spin-offs where the product happens before the company and the "ownership" must be divided after most of the work is done.
What's wrong with people living in huts? People can be at harmony with nature, there's no need to force them into buildings. There certainly is no indication that living in a brick house makes someone happier than living in a hut.
Only if no new schools are opened. And, anyway, she didn't say she'd iterate on that: the statement is perfectly considered with the average now being disastrously low, such that anything below the current average is considered unredeemable and should be terminated, without implying that close-below-average should be ongoing practice.

(And, if average is, as typically, defined as below the arithmetic mean on some measure -- and that measure isn't normally distributed -- that does not imply, closing half of schools; the only 'average' for which the articles half implication generally holds true is the median.)
Different apk format. Alpine linux apk is just a tar.gz of a signing key, .APKBUILD file and the files rooted in /
Well, it's not my call. I'm not a decisionmaker ;P
personally I thought bush gave ISIS to us....
It's completely normal for Netflix to work on that and end-consumers wont see a difference.

That's exactly what's been done by illegal release groups (pirated content) which are very picky when it comes to time to release (encoding/sharing) and do their best to encode fast enough while having a good viewable quality.

When it comes to encoding, even for a large library like Netflix's, time to encode is always lesser than time/bandwith saved while sharing/streaming.

As of now, Netflix 1080p raw content (not transcoded) is delivered at a bitrate of 5200kbps/5900kbps with no differences between the content (animated or live action - here I compared BoJack Horseman to The Ridiculous 6).
While many (or even all) high quality release groups encode animated bluray at around 3000Kbps (1080p) (around 5500kbps for very high quality) while live action is encoded at around 11.0Mbps. The same difference is applied when the content is capped from TV and then encoded.
the comment's hilarious, but the sub title a close second: "half the schools".

she's in iowa. when she gets to new york or chicago, she'll be deriding closures and promising raises to public school teachers.
Seeing Around Corners: The new science of artificial societies (2002)
Sadly white van man will be correct in the not too distant future [1].

[1] http://road.cc/content/news/156795-road-tax-back-chancellor-...