skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a reason to have a scroll at all?

When seeing the pagination, I imagined the app's author thinking it would make people right in their element. However, realistically, importing the annoyances of paper scores to the browser seems like a mistake. It makes more sense to have the score go infinitely towards the right, which they do on their non-default ?layout=track option.

As an aside, what about the legality of publishing copyrighted music that can be played without paying royalties?
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/stubborn-pay-gap-is...

Nope. Male nurses still make more, which, with respect to your post, is a strong data point in favor of the discrimination hypothesis.
I understand that people want a different work-life balance, but I do not understand why they expect higher compensation per unit of output while working less. Increasing the number of workers a company will need to achieve the same product will add overhead and a great deal of ancillary costs; if your goal is to get people to spend less time at work, you should be willing to accept a pay cut (at least proportional to the decrease in output). Labor is the largest cost for most companies, and expecting them to remain in business while dramatically increasing their costs is unrealistic.

To be clear, this is not about being 'fair' to the companies, it is about having realistic expectations of the results of our actions.
Regarding the synthesized singing that begins 10 minutes into the video [1], I had long ago read that the reason HAL sings "Daisy, Daisy..." in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey is that Arthur C. Clarke had seen a demonstration of a computer singing this song in the mid 1960s, but this is actually the first time I've seen or heard (what I presume to be) that original demonstration!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell
Preparing for your digital afterlife
It one really nice thing about Go, you have http stack and json encoder/decoder integrated in std so you don't have to worry which one you should use if you are happy with basic one.
And that approximately 5% difference can be solely attributed to the fact that men are more likely to negotiate for their salaries than women. I don't remember the study off the top of my head but there was a YouTube video that was investigating the pay gap and referenced the study looking at men's and women's willingness to ask for more pay.
You'd need to show that our incredibly complex artificially created environments are built with biological gender differences at their core, or acknowledge that a huge part of human existence is learned behaviors.

The fact is, huge amounts of "gendered culture" have swapped genders over the centuries.

For example, everything you learned from a book, or from spoken language is not part of your innate biology. Only a part of how you gravitate toward that material may be biologically gendered.
FTC CTO: Time to Rethink Mandatory Password Changes
Study that undercut psych research got it wrong
Tell HN: Who is hiring needs it's own monthly section
It's near impossible to navigate the monthly job posting thread anymore. Possible solutions are to make the post submissions more parseable with special formatting and we could utilize a bookmarklet for filtering.
My latest pet peeve is `mds_stores` deciding it needs to spend forever using my iPod, so I can't unplug it without incurring a scolding. It's not hard for Mac OS to stay less terrible to configure than Linux, and less terrible to use than Windows, but that's a low bar.
The future of Quicken
Video message - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAtj1qpKcpI&feature=youtu.be

Email sent to Quicken customers:

"To our valued Quicken customers,
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My team and I know you count on Quicken to help you stay on top of your finances, and we are committed to continuing to improve your experience with Quicken. We’ve already started the journey with the new Quicken 2016 products that launched in November with new features to help consumers stay on top of their bills. In the last six months, we’ve also increased our investment in U.S.-based phone support. This is just the start of what’s to come – I invite you to watch this short video to learn more about why I’m excited about our future together.

Thank you for being a loyal Quicken customer. I look forward to having you join us on this next chapter of Quicken!

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This stereotype of women being more emotional only fits if you do not count anger as an emotion. Interestingly, anger is the emotion most associated with dominance.
I love this idea, and it has a long history. The states are known as the "laboratories of democracy". From Wikipedia[1]:

"Laboratories of democracy is a phrase popularized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann to describe how a 'state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.' Brandeis was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

"This concept explains how within the federal framework, there exists a system of state autonomy where state and local governments act as social 'laboratories,' where laws and policies are created and tested at the state level of the democratic system, in a manner similar (in theory, at least) to the scientific method."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratories_of_democracy
US military aid to Israel is less than 10% of Israel's GDP, most of those 3 bln. can only be used to buy US made equipment so cutting 3 bln. $ would mean that those 3 bln. are gone from the US defense industry not the other way around.

>The fundamental fact is that Israel should have never become a nuke power. Ever.
That's the hand that has us by the balls.

Israel hasn't even attempted to deploy nukes in 1973 where the situation was almost dire, It's quite unlikely that it will ever use them under any circumstance other than retaliation (and even then it's some what doubtful).

You make it sound like Israel is blackmailing the US it doesn't, the US knows that if it cuts the ties between the defense industries it will have both another competitor (Israeli arm deals have to be approved by the US congress since the Chinese Phalcon incident) and it will push Israel to both China and Russia and the last thing that the US wants is open and unrestricted technology sharing between those countries.

Israel isn't Pakistan it's not an open nuclear state which parades it's nukes and is a bad day away from becoming a nuclear armed Taliban.

While I agree that nukes in the middle east aren't the best idea with recent events vis a vis the Iranian nuclear deal there is no way now for Israel to officially join the NPT and be on a path for disarmament, and as far as nuclear arm races in the ME goes Israel is not now and never has been a factor.

Iraq wanted nukes to nuke Iran, Saudi Arabia now wants nukes to counter Iran, Iran wants nukes to be a regional super power.
Yes, because, shockingly, both parents caring for babies helps society as a whole. Maybe you should stop being selfish instead of making it hard for others to have families.

There have been studies that have shown fathers are far more involved in their kid's lives by taking paternal leave. It also means that the parents will both be far more productive post-leave as they would have developed more balanced responsibilities, and don't have to juggle waking up in the middle of the night with a job for at least the first few months, which is arguably the toughest.

The fact that family leave is not government-mandated and involve both parents taking a reasonable (several-month) leave for caring for a baby is ludicrous.
I've been slowly iterating toward building "safe" abstractions around the Erlang NIF interface in Rust, because a broken NIF can bring down the entire BEAM VM, and I very, very much want to have the kinds of compile-time safety checks that Rust provides me when writing NIF modules for Erlang software.

For me it's become, "Anywhere I would use or have to directly interface with C; evaluate using Rust instead."
Both of those examples are languages designed by IDE vendors, and their real IDE support comes from those vendors (Apple in the case of Swift, JetBrains in the case of Kotlin). It takes a bit longer when you can't just task an existing IDE development team to build your language support :). That said, I think that Rust has made fantastic progress towards IDE integrations so far.
Interesting, can we please have PDF version of this ?
We need a kickstarter to bring this thing down if it's ever launched.
Ethereum is catching up with Bitcoin on the number of nodes
It exists.

I've seen it, but am drawing a blank as to how to find it right now. I've seen a couple different formats.

Wish I could be more helpful, but I'm in a meeting at the moment.
My recollection of IDA is that it completely keels over if you give it structures or arrays (unless you take the time to manually teach it about every little thing), and a colleague of ours has confirmed that Hex-Rays does a horrible job here as well in a similar situation. The exact example was:
typedef struct { int x, y; } Point;
int main() {
int i;
Point p[5];
for (i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
p[i].x = 1;
p[i].y = 2;
}
return p[0].y;
}

which Hex-Rays turned into:
int __cdecl main(int argc, const char argv, const char envp) {
int v3; // ebp@0
signed int v4; // ecx@1
int v5; // eax@1
v4 = 0;
v5 = v3 - 40;
do {
(_DWORD )(unsigned int)v5 = 1;
(_DWORD )(unsigned int)(v5 + 4) = 2;
v5 += 8;
++v4;
} while (v4 < 5);
return (_DWORD )(unsigned int)(v3 - 36);
}

(Apologies for any typos, I'm transcribing this from a second computer).

To be fair, most decompilers or binary analysis tools tend to have massive problems in this regard. It's only really in the past decade or so that the research community has started to shift from heuristic-heavy, pattern-matching based approaches to more principled, general-purpose algorithms, and IDA Pro is best characterized as "every heuristic ever developed."
> What's missing for me is spotify/app specific integration.

For that to really happen in a robust way, I think Google needs to open up Custom Voice Actions.

[0] https://developers.google.com/voice-actions/custom-actions
Hacker pirates: finally, we live in the future!

Aside from that though, I wonder if we'll be seeing increasing criminal activity like this or if it'll stay as an occasional source of funny headlines.

On the one hand the resources and knowledge of how to compromise a server are more accessible all the time.

On the other, exploited vulnerabilities are patched and the walls stay a bit higher than the cheap ladders. This will pretty much ensure that there is almost always at least a non-trivial amount of learning that needs to be done in order to profitably compromise equipment for practical purposes.

I'm thinking that the prevalence of basic technical savvy (roughly "has strong google-fu in the service of troubleshooting" or better) is going to be the largest influence on whether hacking-augmented crime increases or not.

My logic here is that it would happen more if more criminals knew how to go about learning how to hack since that gap between pre-built tools and practical application is always going to be there, but it's certainly bridgeable with some curiosity.

More technically savvy population, more cybercrime. It makes sense, but it can also be used as a kind of fluency metric. I thereby propose the frequency of computer-aided criminal activity as a fraction of all criminal activity to be a target metric for US technology education, higher is better.
>Proponents of the wage-gap point that women have an unfair obligation to child-raising duties, which puts them at a disadvantage when compared to their male peers.

Unfair obligation my ass. I'm sure most dads would jump at the oppurtunity to have the paternity leave equal to maternity, for example.
You do not care about the salary of the head of accounting, and that's fine (though it doesn't hurt to know). But you should care how much your buddies and other people in similar positions are being paid. Otherwise, how do you know if you aren't being short-changed? You'd be surprised.
Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (2014)
I don't see it either.
I think typography, like any other aesthetic scheme, is probably irrelevant to 1/3 of the population, mildly interesting to another 1/3, and only noticed by the third that has a feel for it.

(Numbers 100% made up and metaphorical, not scientific.)

I'm one of those who cares. I used to flick through Letraset catalogs before I even knew what typography was, because I thought the different effects of the letter shapes were fascinating.

But I'm perfectly fine with the understanding that a lot of people really don't notice the difference between SvelteStylishFontX and Comic Sans.

So... it's hard to get clean data about this, because if you take the population as a whole you may not see much of an effect.

But in web design, your target audience won't usually be the population as a whole. Design effort matters if your audience is more likely to include those who appreciate it.

Finding and testing that audience scientifically is damn near impossible. So if you think it may matter, it's best to add design sugar and then check the analytics to see what happens.

That's going to tell you a lot more about your customers than a theoretical study in a journal.
Personally I don't like this idea. If I've chosen to turn on "showdead", why hide dead comments from me? I've explicitly indicated I'd like to see them.
Would it be fair to say that you see text fine and not like that link but you do experience it that way?

I've been thinking about this since I posted my comment. I feel like it may be a reasonable way to say/explain it: we don't see letters/words jump around, but we do experience them jumping around in a non-visual way.

Is that accurate, or do you really mean that you visually see that circle like in that link?
> How much of the wage gap is explained by other factors?

I'll point out that the g'parent comment that I objected to classified things into only the categories "gender roles" and "discrimination".

One of the explanations given for the wage gap is that women don't have as much negotiating skills as men. Is that a gender role? Or is it a third category?

I'll quote from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-ga... ("
Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists"):

> What the 2009 Labor Department study showed was that when the proper controls are in place, the unexplained (adjusted) wage gap is somewhere between 4.8 and 7 cents. ... The AAUW notes that part of the new 6.6-cent wage-gap may be owed to women's supposedly inferior negotiating skills -- not unscrupulous employers. Furthermore, the AAUW's 6.6 cents includes some large legitimate wage differences masked by over-broad occupational categories. ... Could the gender wage gap turn out to be zero? Probably not. The AAUW correctly notes that there is still evidence of residual bias against women in the workplace. However, with the gap approaching a few cents, there is not a lot of room for discrimination.

This summary does not seem like a mis-characterization. I therefore see no reason to change my opinion that wage discrimination is due to "gender roles" and discrimination as even 2 cents is still about 10% of even the unadjusted value of 23 cents.

(For purposes of this discussion I limit 'discrimination' to mean 'illegal discrimination on the basis of sex', and not the broader meaning of how cultural discrimination on the basis of sex influences gender roles.)
One Physician’s Approach to Quantified Self: My Key Performance Indicators
> It is known

No, it really isn't. It's just your biased stereotype.
Programming is a liberal art. As in: it involves language and explication of processes. The amount of actual engineering involved in making a successful application (like Etsy) is actually quite low. The amount of clear code that focuses relentlessly on the mission at hand (an admittedly squishy metric — after all, that's the nature of art) also seems to be quite low in the typical application, but naturally needs to be much higher.

For instance just putting a platform like Etsy entirely on Google App Engine would allow Etsy to focus on the liberal arts side of the problem. Because GAE "solves" most all the engineering problems that typically have plagued software practices on the web...
5M Objects in Simple Newtonian Universe
I had a handful of apps I use all the time stop working entirely about a week ago. They were purchased from the App Store but are no longer in the App Store. I am furious. I am willing to bet the expired certificate is the culprit.

I've had to carefully maintain the .app's myself across a couple Mac's as Apple stopped letting you download things that are no longer in the store. Now they just don't work at all.

The older I get the more I think maybe Richard Stallman isn't crazy.
This is a bit of a myth, but it also has some truth to it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia
...and be prepared to explain in clear terms why some people are being paid more than others. If you have a good, fair explanation (e.g. "he/she has more responsibilities"), everything should be fine!
> Do we try to re-educate the group into following economically valued jobs?

For that, you would need to hire teachers, who would have to re-educate themselves out of being teachers, first. ;)
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I think that in the future, we will add more freedom to the edition, to get to something close to what you describe. For instance, we would have an abstract way of handling note duration, that would then be translated to one or many tied notes.
I agree about the unpleasant tone of the paper, putting "facts" and "optimizations" in quotes, implying they are not real, and talking about "claims" of GCC maintainers, and cracks about psychic powers.

But there is a good underlying point to the paper, and one I tend to agree with - a compiler's behavior should give considerable weight to how the language is used more than taking a literal view of what the words mean in the spec.

Taking things to an absurd extreme to make the point, "undefined behavior" implies that a compiler writer can insert code to reformat the hard disk if it encountered such code. Granted, the point of a spec is to define things so that compiler writers don't have to divine intent, but perfection is never attained and hence compiler writers have to use their judgment.

I know in my compiler work, I have backed out some optimizations that were allowed by the spec, but broke too many programs. The inconsequential speed improvement was just not worth it.
>over 1 meter of water in 24 hours

That's the first time I've seen rain measured in metres instead of millimetres.
I've been told, and I've observed it myself, that about 60+% of dyslexics are males with IQs above 120. Having dyslexia lead to being labeled as retarded. It was because of my interests in model rocketry and teaching myself Calc and Trig and my parents not excepting the schools label I did better.

A lot of the students I schooled with in special Ed ended up in jobs or in jail. I'm a database administrator for a weather company.
SoundCloud History Chrome Extension
Yup. I saw this happen at my last company. They knew exactly who they wanted to hire internally but were under pressure to recruit externally so went through the rigmarole of advertising, interviewing and rejecting people only to give the job to the person they were already pretty much decided upon.
How much time out of each day will be dedicated towards "pushing new boundaries of knowledge"?

When large projects squeeze into tight deadlines, how much of that boundary pushing will be abandoned in favor of shipping things?
He outperformed the other bond fund managers.
> I've had to carefully maintain the .app's myself across a couple Mac's as Apple stopped letting you download things that are no longer in the store.

Since when? I always download .dmg's and install them outside of the Apple Store. You have to do this roundabout security measure in Preferences to run them, but they're always runnable...
Instagram starts blocking ‘add me’ deeplinking for Snapchat, Telegram
That's slang for a jumping anti-personnel mine
》 The thermal mass of the rest doesn't matter, only how much it can radiate over the long term. And an enormous film makes a good radiator.

Unless you've got a perfect material that can be accelerated by radiation pressure and radiate all heat away, then the rest of the spacecraft mass very much matters because that's where 99+% of the heat will migrate to. Whether a "film" is a good raditor or not (AND a good solar sail) depends entirely on the type of material so I don't know where you're getting your assumptions from.

》 Certain designs can't go very close to the sun, some can. Many designs would work just fine for a solar shade.

Do you have a link to such a design? I would be greatly interested in learning about it as I have not heard of a single practical design that can do what you're claiming.
We use it every day at Circonus. One of us is learning something new about how our stuff works every single day.
No. We lost.
For anyone interested, Freakonomics explored[1] this in detail and their conclusions were pretty similar.

It included an interview from Claudia Goldin and her research[2] which was quite in-depth.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender...
[2] [PDF] http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/gender_equalit...
This reminds me of a family card game we played when I was younger called Rook. It was very similar to bridge in that you played with a partner, bid for a contract/trump, and table talk was not allowed. We did allow non-verbal forms of communication and that became a large part of a winning strategy. We mixed up partners and the escalation became so great that we had a different form of communication for each of the different partners. Then a scheme would be figured out and we would have to rotate our codes to something else. It was like a family game of thermonuclear war by the time us kids moved out. Just like I think they should have a legal doping class in cycling where it is okay to take performance enhancing drugs, we should just make an open class of bridge where non-verbal communication is allowed and the schemes are not shared with the opposing pair. I'll bet we would observe some interesting behavior emerge between partners.

And I have to hand it to the New Yorker for this one. Longform journalism is hit or miss for me, but I really enjoyed reading about this game that I've never played before. I guess the author did a good enough job explaining the game that I figured out that it was similar to Spades, Hearts, Euchre, and Rook in some ways that I stuck with it until the end.