skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am making the point that the assumption people are making about what he meant is wildly unfounded, and is mainly useful for justifying their already-held opinions about him.

But (if you mean this idea that he specifically wants to bring back British colonialism) I don't anyone thinks that he meant that. So it seems like a weird charge to defend him against.

If that's not what you meant (by "the assumption people are making"), please clarify.

(It is somewhat ironic that you make your point by rewriting my words in a way that significantly changes their tone, and likely changes how readers would interpret them.)

Sorry, I was just trying to simplify your text to make it easier to respond to that what seemed to be the core import of what you were saying.
Have no idea. But also have an inkling that distributions would differ (and not necessarily the way you'd expect) in projects that require a specialized skill set, such as e.g. top notch design skills or knowledge of DB internals and such.

The point being, as stated the whole thing very much resembles the Berkeley gender discrimination study, so proposed improvements are quite obvious: break things down further by project, see if you can glean something from per-project (or at least per-domain) distribution. There might be nothing there, mind you, and the stated conclusions might still hold, but without controlling for the confounding factor there's no way to tell, and the conclusion of this study is therefore not above suspicion.
No no you're absolutely right. Great justification isn't it?
YardBook (YC W16) Is an Online Marketplace for the $30.9B Lawncare Business
Neurotechnology for Elite Athletes
While I generally have been supportive of Bernie's stance on things, it's disturbing to hear that he supports FATCA.

I went digging for more information and it seems that he now is potentially supportive of residence based taxation instead of citizen based taxation.

From reddit.com/r/expats4sanders, http://www.democratsabroad.org/our_candidates

There are many different scenarios which the law as it currently stands do not adequately cover for.

Scenario:

* Parent gains US citizenship through immigration. Parent inherits from grandparents.

* Person gains US citizenship through immigration. Person inherits from parents foreign bank accounts.

* Based on my understanding, US now has a claim on monies which have at no point entered the US, nor have been derived from US related activities.

* This is crazy.

I'm totally fine with paying taxes on income derived from being in the US but to have to pay US taxes on income derived elsewhere is just insane overreach.
Yes, that seems likely.

Consider the method they used to identify gender - they based it on the email being linked to a Google+ account. This rules out most submissions made as part of corporate work.

So if corporate users submit better code than hobbyists then you would expect a drop. And you do see a significant drop across the board for gender-identifiable vs gender-indeterminate contributions.
> selection pool for women is smaller in STEM, therefore less women means less exceptional women

This is only true if you assume women in STEM are a random sampling. If you consider survivorship bias, it's quite possible that the cohort of women who persist are better, despite being fewer in number.
In https://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Beginnings/dp/0061714275/ the author leaves everything behind and builds everything up again. There's no riches though (unless his book sold really well).
The strong vs. weak typing axis is a more of a spectrum. Virtually every language has some form of weak typing, especially with the numeric types. I guess the litmus test for whether or not a given operation allows weak typing is if it is equivalent to implicit coercion. Languages like Java allow the operation "one" + 1, which is equivalent to "one" + (1).toString() (basically, you'd have to box the integer first to actually make this compile), so it is performing an implicit coercion, and thus an example of weak typing. In the same situation Python would throw an error, and is thus an example of strong typing.

That litmus test is probably not enough to make a true formal definition, but does allow you to make objective comparisons between languages for certain operations.
This is a disaster in the making: About 80% of small business loan applications in the US are denied. The cost of underwriting and servicing the loans and Federal regulations make these loans almost unprofitable for big banks. Negative interest rates won't help.

Negative interest rates will instead force big business to seek safe returns wherever they can - and that will not be by investing in small business. That money may well be deployed in competition against small business.

Consider this... the US Small Business Administration's loan portfolio is barely a rounding error compared to the cost of quantitative easing and national security expenditures these past years. Double or triple SBA loans and USGOV balance sheet will not feel it, but the impact on job creation, salaries and investment could well exceed any benefit in the US from negative interest rates.
After years of teaching and mentoring, I love helping those "asking for help". See my stackoverflow profile if you want. However, also after years of teaching, I am very abrasive to those "demanding assistance". I find that subtly is often drained out of conversations regarding the responsibility of the teacher and the consideration of the learner.

"Can you help me understand why this doesnt work?"

...is very different from...

"It looks like you know what you are doing, fix this for me."

..even though the outcomes are often very similar.
I always assumed that because house cats have a higher average body temperature than humans (around 103F), but live in an environment that is kept for human comfort (ambient temps designed for humans) they are more often trying to keep warm.
Show HN: Writeups and Files Repo for CTFs in 2015
Would you happen to have any metrics of how far you could push SC and how far you're getting with NGINX PushStream for sub?
Zahir, are these shampoos sulfate free?
Canonical in Talks with Android OEM Partners for Ubuntu Phones
yes, but white male fragility.
Sometimes birds transfer fish eggs from one lake to another. Or fish travel between lakes during flooding.
Should we then provide the defense access to the prosecution's evidence (and vice-versa)?
"For outsiders, we see evidence for gender bias: women’s acceptance rates are 71.8% when they use gender neutral profiles, but drop to 62.5% when their gender is identifiable. There is a similar drop for men, but the effect is not as strong."

Why leave out an exact number for men whose gender is identifiable?
Git is a revision control system.

Nodejs is a programming language.

NPM is a tool to fetch libraries for node programs.

Thus NPM and Git are software development tools.

A software developer or a power user are supposed to know what $PATH or %PATH is.
Amazon Cloud Is Prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse
>Indian share of world economy went from 23-24% before colonialism to less than 4% under colonialism. India's share of World Trade went from 27% to 2% under colonialism.

Please cite this very interesting piece of information.
Graphene electrodes can be implanted in the brain
I find the way TOR is used lacking. I really would like to have .Onion resolution across my whole system (in my case, I extensively use Linux). So, Here's a way to do just that:

I use a significant amount of HiddenServices to communicate back and forth with my machines. My eventual goal was to be able to process data from different geographical areas and have them inserted into MQTT via Node-Red. Until now, it was all or nothing with regards to proxy settings.

I have figured that out. For those that want to integrate seamless .onion usage across the whole of Node-Red (and every other Linux program), follow this.

get the following packages (Ubuntu, Debian)

sudo apt-get install tor iptables dnsmasq dnsutils

Add the following to the /etc/tor/torrc file

VirtualAddrNetworkIPv4 10.192.0.0/10
AutomapHostsOnResolve 1
TransPort 9040
DNSPort 53
DNSListenAddress 127.0.0.2

Restart TOR

sudo service tor restart

Edit /etc/dnsmasq.conf and add the following:

listen-address=127.0.0.1
resolv-file=/etc/realresolv.conf
server=/onion/127.0.0.2

Make a new file, called /etc/realresolv.conf . Add this in the file:

nameserver 107.170.95.180
nameserver 8.8.8.8

Restart DNSmasq:

sudo service dnsmasq restart

Run the IPtables firewall update for redirection

sudo iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d 10.192.0.0/10 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 9040

Also, this script must be run at every boot, so add this in /etc/rc.local, ABOVE the "exit 0"

/sbin/iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d 10.192.0.0/10 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 9040

Once you do those things, your whole Linux sustem will be able to resolve .onion addresses seamlessly, yet leaving alone canonical address schemes. this means that you can talk with a MQTT-out on an .onion, or control remote servers via exec node and SSH. And since you don't have to poke holes through firewalls, networking between Hidden Nodes with Node-Red sitting on top makes IoT sensor capture from remote areas (Work, home, car, hackerspace) very easy.

Of course, this does not discuss how to actually add a new hidden service You should think very hard before enabling a service: Make sure there is good authentication on them along with the newest updates. There is no determining origination on these kinds of attacks.

cite: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/h... , Have confirmed directions work flawlessly on Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04, and 15.10 (various flavors of Ubuntu, XUbuntu, KUbuntu)
That is always the case already, I believe. Prosecutors are not allowed to present evidence not made available to the defense.
I have used/enjoyed scalyr in the past. Pretty good dashboarding, alerting, etc.
Depends if your only options are SQL Server or Oracle (it happens a lot with enterprise software).

In that case, SQL Server is often the less costly option. I would do everything possible to avoid an Oracle product based on their licensing schemes. Architecture by licensing is not a fun exercise at all.
Did not know that.

Would not be surprised if some people ignore this.
There's truly secure computing to be found in projects like libreboot, it just takes half a decade to undo the damage done by proprietary software so your options are limited.
I never thought about this, but shit it's true, because they learnt from IRS when drafting the tax code back in the day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/business/international/chi...
Hasn't history shown us that this doesn't work?
The distinction is the focus on old vs new. The term 'expatriate' is much closer to emigrant than immigrant, where the emphasis is more on the fact that they left their home country rather than the fact that they came to another. It also lacks the emphasis on permanency that emigrant/immigrant have.

Additionally, the term 'immigrant' is much more ambiguous than 'expat'. An American expat is clearly an American citizen living abroad. An American immigrant could either be an American citizen who moved permanently abroad, or a non-American who permanently moved to the United States.
"If you don't intend to return to the USA there are no benefits to US citizenship, only downsides."

Seriously? US citizenship means you can travel with a US passport, which allows visa-free travel to many, many countries: https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
Ask HN: Are you using Babel with Rails?
How many Rails people switched from Coffeescript to Babel? Is it something you would do?
Also isn't it really a segment network? I always think of vectors as having direction and unless I misunderstand, it sounds like this is directionless.
Three: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11073966. But detaro no doubt has it right.
Parent comment points out that requiring a warrant makes it nigh-impossible to present the data as the defense. Law is a complex beast.
If you insist on living in an airtight echo chamber, I cannot help you by offering advice you disagree with.
> out of practice

What's practice for that like?
This only solves a part of the problem. This is basically to collect and grep your stderr, useful for when you need to debug something, but that's about it. A far more interesting problem is to collect, ingest, and query structured (Proto, Thrift, etc) _application_ logs that people should also be writing.
By overcharging, I mean that we compared prices to a baseline day in January (the 13th, to be exact) and then showed those prices against what was on offer from other retailers. Consumers do have access to this information and their buying decisions are their own. And that's true, this study reinforces the free market system we have. There is something to be said for the shadiness of certain retailers elevating their prices on days that are being touted as "sale" days.
Well, they are looking for people to help out, if you have time and can invest in it you could be one of the contributors I'm sure. Otherwise I'm sure with Windows being a platform for it someone will come along and work on either a new driver (API) or improve the existing one.
The left sidebar with Actions, Constants etc suggests use of some specific Flux library. Which one is that? Could others be used, too?
Taking externalities into account isn't hindering others, since the externality is by definition an unwanted imposition pf costs on a third party that didn't exist prior to the economic activity that generated it. I fail to see how this is different from an unpaid bill, and Nobel laureate Ronald Coase has rather convincingly argued* that the costs of mitigation in advance or in arrears ends up being the same, but that the transaction costs of enforcing property rights against externalities are a sufficient barrier to many pollutees that polluters are often willing to gamble on others' inability to adequately enforce their rights and pocket the resulting savings.

* in The Problem of Social Cost, an unusually readable essay for the field of economics.
We cannot rule this out, but it seems very unlikely to me. The more I read about it, the less likely it seems.

- Laika was launched aboard Sputnik 2 in October 1957

- Gagarin on Vostok 1 in April 1961

Sputnik 2 was much lighter than the Vostok capsule (500 kg vs. 2,500 kg) and did not feature any re-entry apparatus. In just 3.5 years, the Soviets had to improve their carrier rocket and develop a man-rated capsule with a heat-shield and braking system, a guidance system and had to improve the whole life-support system.

We know they launched dogs on the Vostok in Dec. 1960, so it is unlikely they'd launch a cosmonaut in the time before. So the time-span between the end of 1960 and April 1961 seems like the only time they could have lost cosmonauts. That just does not seem that much time and I have a hard time believing they managed to lose two cosmonauts in four months.

After the death of Komarov in April 1967, they took 1.5 years to fix their design till the launch of Soyuz 2. Likewise, they needed 2+ years after the Soyuz 11 tragedy to launch again. I don't believe they would have just launched a couple of cosmonauts nilly-willy after a deadly accident.
This is great! Helps a ton for someone new to react native, lowers the already low barrier to entry. Integration with microsoft code push (https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-code-push) could be cool.
That's actually kinda the wonderful thing about Twitter. It's a really quick and easy way to let everybody know what you're really thinking (i.e., it's a really quick and easy way to show your ass to the entire world).
Get involved then, Julia isn't exactly the illuminate.
So how about a variation that takes a curl command and writes Go http server code that would accept that request?
Not to mention it doesn't account for biological sex.
Ha. Sounds tempting, but SF is a bit far away for me ;)
I would say "the more you know about someone like you"...

To me that would correlate with other studies based on first impressions, hiring, etc., where we sometimes subconsciously seek out people like us. Similar to another comment, giving any information about you allows me to put you in a box I have created, whether positive or negative.
The only problem seems to still be name recognition, though I assume that will come with time.

Not enough people know that Rethink exists, and is a fantastic choice for those looking to use a document store in their architectures.
Well I can tell you that it must, from the organisation's point of view. Hiring/training/maintaining a work-force isn't free, and the tacit knowledge the employees gain has value, so a high churn rate is bad. Again, from an organisation's point of view.
If twitter goes full algo I will stop using it just like I did Facebook as soon as they stopped showing me everything in chronological order.
ktrace doesn't exist anymore on OS X as far as I know. You need to use dtrace, which means you need to write dtrace programs. Python's dtrace interface would probably only let you load a dtrace program.

It might be possible to implement `maybe` as a dtrace program by instrumenting syscall entry and raising a signal or stopping the program immediately, which you can recover in your debugger (though I'm not sure if this actually stops the syscall). That said, I tried it and OS X doesn't seem to allow "destructive" dtrace actions even as root with SIP disabled:

$ sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::open:entry { stop(); }' -c 'cat Makefile'
dtrace: could not enable tracing: Destructive actions not allowed
$ sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::open:entry { raise(9); }' -c 'cat Makefile'
dtrace: could not enable tracing: Destructive actions not allowed

Alternately you can use dynamorio, intel pin, qemu, or a quick instruction scan/patch for SYSCALL to manually break on syscalls.

Either way you almost certainly will not be able to do this with python-ptrace alone. I filed an issue to write a `maybe` tool using Usercorn [1] (which supports OS X) with my VFS overlay work, which means writes could still succeed but be non-destructive.

[1] https://github.com/lunixbochs/usercorn/issues/151
An good analysis. But why the "too much freedom" headline?
Any United States person has to file if they have more than $10,000 held in a overseas account.

A United States person is defined as:

"United States person includes U.S. citizens; U.S. residents; entities, including but not limited to, corporations, partnerships, or limited liability companies, created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States; and trusts or estates formed under the laws of the United States."

(There are exemptions for very specific circumstances)

A lot of United States persons living overseas are unaware that they need to file, and a lot of permanent residents or H-1Bs in the US are unaware that they also need to file if they still have assets held overseas. They have ramped enforcement up over the last few years so a lot of people are out of compliance and don't realize it. Thankfully at least at the

See:

http://business.financialpost.com/personal-finance/taxes/unc...

(Disclaimer: Not an accountant. Consult an accountant for tax related advice)
Where is the source? I can see your patents listed, but no links to your source code.
In 2015 I developed a theory that the human response to music is a mutated copy of an evolutionary pre-cursor, and the most likely pre-cursor is a response to speech-like sounds, where this response plays a role in the initial learning of language. I have documented the development of my theory in my "What is Music?" blog at http://whatismusic.info/blog/.

In their analysis of the human auditory cortex, Norman-Haignere et al found six distinct functional groups of neurons. One of those groups is identified as a "music area". Another one of the groups is a close match for the evolutionary pre-cursor that I predicted - a group of neurons that respond to speech sounds, whether or not those sounds belong to the listener's native language.

The initial assumption of my theory is that the primary function of music is to temporarily alter mood. Evidence for this function comes from the strong effect that music has on some people who are "addicted" to daydreaming.

My theory suggests that the response to speech-like sounds also induces an altered mood, when an infant is learning language for the first time. This alteration in mood helps the infant to identify language as a special stimulus which is important and which needs to be processed and understood as something that follows its own peculiar and complex set of rules which are not particularly related to the rules that describe all the other aspects of reality that the infant is learning about. The altered mood may also help the infant to learn that the meaning attached to some language utterances relates to things beyond immediate reality, ie things that other people are thinking about which are not in the "here and "now". (This would relate to the similar effect that music has on our emotional reactions to things we are thinking about that are not in the "here and now".)
Bill aims to stop state bans of encrypted phones
Ask HN: Could we please stop using the term 'bro'?
This is something I've noticed sharply on the rise in recent times and it bothers me because it is not the kind of language that I think we should use to address each other here. The whole 'brogrammer' culture strikes me as something to avoid, both as individuals and as a group we're better off without that kind of stuff. Thank you.
From the little I know about C#, the LINQ (IQueryable?) interface is very well designed/used -- maybe some work could be done to look into exposing that sort of API?

I can at least say that the C# API looks extremely consistent with rethink in other languages.
Awesome stuff leeab!
Exactly the type of information I was looking for, and not something I had even considered. Thanks!
Question: Why does a new startup/solution for this pop up every few months? Why is this space so difficult?

I've definitely thought about building this myself, but haven't gotten around to it. It's just sending some text to a server, isn't it? What's so hard about it?

Obviously I'm missing something. I'd love to know what :)