skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bronze Age discovery, 3000-year-old community unearthed (in England) ?
So according to CNN, (a featured article today in their website) a bronze age discovery happened in England today. So, I am not sure whether this is a really legit report. So I wanted to ask here. The article shows some wooden sticks that suposedly belong to a bronze age wooden(!) village. But tree branches are organic material and how come they did not decompose?
they should market this as a feature! alternate streams for people who think it is "an obscure feature" I mean that many people using alternate streams would be interesting for anyone forensicating systems for malware or as protection from...
I would like to see the studies you're referencing. However, taking what you're saying as truth (a thing I am reluctant to do), I still find it a big leap to claim that the reason that there are fewer women in tech is that fewer women are interested in tech, and I would still be inclined to believe that women in tech are at a disadvantage. Proving lack of interest seems difficult, at best - for instance, is it that women are inherently just not interested, or is it that women are left to feel like being interested is not "womanly" or that they should feel ashamed for being interested? There's a lot of confounding factors, and many of them reveal potential disenfranchisement of women before they even enter the tech world.

Here's why I believe that women are disadvantaged in tech: Women in tech are part of an out-group, just by being in the minority. This necessarily puts them at a disadvantage. We know that women make less than men in most environments. Acquiring a job more easily is one thing - sure, if I assume you're telling the truth, women get more callbacks. But consider the prospects after initial employment. It is not as simple as "women are more employable in the tech industry" - it needs to also be the case that women are making equal pay, given equal opportunity to advance their careers, and are expected to do equal work.

I guess what I mean to say is that it feels like you're doing exactly what we should not do with complex social issues: oversimplifying.
They are confidential in Denmark, or rather they were supposed to be.
Hmmmm, humans have buried our dead since at least the times of the ancient Egyptians, and likely long before that.
Also Chrome's proposed Flash whitelist is rather US-centric and I don't think it will work well in Asia, where the popular sites differ and many more sites rely on Flash.
Pokémon Go dating service has launched
Go to any margin trading site (eg. bitfinex) and there is plenty of ETH available to short with.
That's what it sounds like to me. The author is writing from the perspective of P&G (though he never makes that explicit) so of course there is tremendous value destruction from that point of view.

As you imply, it might be better to think of it as a shift of value from the producer to the consumer.

The internet is doing this all over the place (just ask the newspapers--plenty of the value they captured before the 1990s shifted to other outlets, and eventually into the consumer's pockets). The auto did this, every important technology does this.
I think the author implied that with AWS anyone could start a full blown web based business for cheap.
Which is basically why I'm saving to go work there.
The paradox of intolerance has been largely derided since the 1940s, and for good reason. If you do not confront and quell threats to your community, they only ever fester. They don't go away, they get worse--see GamerGate and the rest of the reactionaries happily SWATting female academics and game developers in the name of "ethics in games journalism," and how that didn't magically appear when Adam Baldwin put a name on it (but the name legitimized them and let them act openly, for a time, before everyone else caught up).

Allowing people to be sexist jerks (let's not dress it up as "boorish") doesn't just let them "embarrass" themselves, it creates an effect within a subculture that gives that activity preferential status because few people want to use their limited public credibility to counteract it--thereby over time letting sexist behavior become the expected norm of that subculture. That's not OK, and speaking up directly confronts the issue and prevents it from becoming a social norm, or becoming further entrenched because we live in a profoundly sexist society to begin with, in that subculture.
It seemed expensive but I bought it anyhow because any small insight into programming or process could easily be worth $50 over time.

It's worth noting that the book is incomplete, chapters 5 & 6 are still being written. If I'm able to complete the book in the next day or so I'll post a follow-up.
iTunes for Windows uses them to store how much of a streaming file it has already downloaded. I wrote it (but I won't take credit for most things in iTunes for Windows)

It's a nifty feature but I'll admit NTFS is really obscure at times.
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Are you comparing Google Sheets to Excel Online or to the Windows/Mac application?
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Ruby uses messages for methods, allowing cheap delegation; classes can be extended (monkey patched) after definition.

I doubt Ruby OOP code would avoid using all metaprogramming, at the very least attr_accessor!
But it's well within the public's right to criticize them for doing a bad job at.. 'purviewing'.
It's not really gone, and is the path separator in the "UI layer" (Cocoa&al.) but the POSIX layer uses `/`. This gets automatically mapped back and forth.

Try to create a file or folder containing `/` in the UI (Textedit, Finder) and look at its name via the terminal. Now, `touch foo:bar` and look at it in the Finder.
This seems like an easy way to lose the support of security-conscious companies.
I'm not sure that's possible given concealment was essential. Just as it is offline. The argument for lawmakers is that neutral, legitimate technology always gets abused by a tiny minority for criminal purposes. Yet, we don't ban or sabotage that technology. One can illustrate the many, good things encryption protects, the few bad things it conceals, alternative methods of concealment crooks might switch to, and prior failures of escrow. Then, it's an argument whether lawmakers want to destroy or put at risk all the good things done by innocent people to temporarily stop some crooks. I argue that's a bad tradeoff.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/tim-hunt-hun...
>not sure how the two are different

It's good guys with bombs vs bad guys with bombs. If you feel the Islamic State governance is as good as US governance feel free to go hang out with them in Syria and enjoy the wonderful society they are creating. Only be prepared to be machine gunned or similar if you try to leave.
I've heard of crow distress effects being used to stop them roosting. The idea is to broadcast the noise at odd intervals causing the flock to rise into the air and investigate. Eventually they move on as they never settle properly.
I always prefer GAAP reporting; this gives a common parlance and common description when examining multiple company sheets. Non-GAAP may capture aspects better, but GAAP gives me more context.
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Perimeter security: avoiding disappointment, shame and despair
> A 5.5% sample size is orders of magnitude larger than that of nearly any sociological study (usually below 0.01%).

Sociological studies tend to actively seek limited size representative samples for cost reasons, and because the mathematics demonstrating the power of a limited size representative sample for making generalization about the universe from which the sample is drawn is well-known.

Comparing the size (relative to the represented universe) of a study sample actively selected to be representative with the relative size of a participant group for which there is little reason to expect it to be representative is not particularly meaningful.
Most things we consider mental illnesses are irrational behaviors.

But the converse is not true: not every irrational behaviour is a mental illness.

You also left out the word perceived, which changes the argument from individual interpretation to universal absolutes, of which there are very few.

calling a political opponent "mad" or "half mad" is intended to call into question his/her beliefs and statements

Yes, it is. It is not intended as a medical diagnosis, which is what you were implying.
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We're not here to make people feel better about themselves, we're here to get things done. Someone who obsesses over marginalized groups so much that they can only respect people who play the victim are exactly the sort of people I don't want to work with.
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> but since it has evolved from a game engine,

Just to note, Kivy didn't evolve from a game engine, it began as PyMT (of which it's a spiritual successor) which was a gui toolkit targeting multitouch and NUI. In fact, the support for Android and iOS came later, and they work because the original design of the toolkit, with flexible backend providers and an opengl interface, did work out well for cross-platform use.
I haven't actually looked into DVSNI in too much detail before, so that could definitely be the case. I'll have to investigate a bit more (or any pull requests are always welcome). Thank you for the tip!
My anecdote was a little further reaching. I don't go to many conferences, so I referenced the sum of my experiences, professional or not.

You're right, though. Professional conferences should at least be better than the average of all of my experiences.
Except, uh, no.
Almost everywhere, there is a ton of legal (and other) recourse, as well as a theoretically neutral arbiter who will listen to you and make a decision. There is some due process.
You can argue about the neutrality, the laws, whatever. There's something, and it's recourse for plenty of people/etc.

Here, if all your neighbors get together and want to steal your money, they can steal your money, and you have no recourse.
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The problem should be addressed, but the proposed workaround seems strange. So git should refuse to write the file to disk? How am I supposed to use a git repo that contains such problematic files on Windows then?
Zmedico/socket-burst-dampener
I like the term "market destruction".

I'm sure there's a name for that somewhere on The Innovator Dilemma, and if somebody finds it I'll gladly change my usage. But yes, calling it "value destruction" is stupid.

Anyway, It does not change anything on the overall idea, but your last paragraph is not really correct. If the company added no value at all, it wouldn't be able to sell the product. It may add value in distribution (yes, there is such a thing), or even just branding, but it better add more value than the price of the product, otherwise, people just won't pay.
All open-source companies close-source some code, or else they struggle, because services don't scale. Red Hat's security layer is not open-source. Cloudera is an explicitly open-core company. So is my startup, Skymind.[1][2] There's no other way to do it. But there is a way to be honest about it, and I think sytse is being honest. You can't give it all away for free. If you do, you're probably not a company...

[1] https://skymind.io/
[2] http://deeplearning4j.org/
Very interesting to hear that. The opposite is true for me and I never would have thought people are still offended by that word. Very good to know that a word that's fun and light hearted to me might still offend others.
The Black Panther Party are often regarded as a -ist group, and their goal was to counteract an disadvantage in society. The methods used however had a lot to be criticized, and I would hope that society could learn by such movement and see what approaches work and which didn't. Segregation in the name of diversity has historically a bad reputation, so I would consider criticism regarding "women only" groups to carry enough history to be worth addressing.
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Third one is dead-on.
It would be fun to know how many Ethereum developers lost their ETH in the Gatecoin robbery versus how many stood to lose in the DAO exploit.
Indeed, I can't fathom why anyone would be enchanted by The Donald, all I can do is guess!

Why do you think Thiel is doing this? Is it because he actually believes what comes out of the orange one's mouth? Pfft!
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Fewer women are interested because they don't want to work, go to school, and socialize in sexist environments. While I'm sure that not all "tech environments" are sexist, enough of them are to convince women not to pursue careers in this field.

That's a disadvantage, especially because tech careers are luxury careers these days.
I don't have Flash installed at all anymore and it works quite well. For the few sites that don't work without Flash these days, I either don't care or use youtube-dl -g [0] or livestreamer [1] and open the direct video link in Browser or VLC.

Twitch is one of the popular sites that don't have a working HTML5 player for the masses (it does work without Flash using the methods above). There's Beam.pro which has some interesting approaches to live streaming with HTML5 [2]. The only thing I haven't found a great solution for are the big Music streaming sites, which all rely on Flash (the others shut down). Some people told me Google Play Music may or may not work with HTML5 but I haven't tried that yet.

Also, a great number of websites will ask you to turn on Flash when installed but deactivated and only use the HTML5 player when it's not actually installed. I guess it's a design flaw that Browsers report disabled or click-to-play plugins to websites.

0: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

1: http://docs.livestreamer.io/

2: https://forums.beam.pro/topic/168/where-we-re-at-with-html5-...
That would be nice. I've developed a system of (periodically) separating out apps I know I use from ones I'm less certain about. So if I have a folder like "productivity" and it has 10 apps, I'll pull out the 2 or 3 I know I used in the past week and put them in a new Productivity folder. If the other apps don't get used after a month or so, and have no good reason to stick around despite their rare use, I'll delete them.

I have a handful of apps I use 2-3 times a year (like Eventbrite or Delta or Airbnb), but I keep them because it's easier than redownloading when an event comes up that does ticketing through them. Those go on the last of my homescreens so they're out of the way until I need them.
To me, metaprogramming means writing new macros/templates, not just using the "standard" ones.
Maybe it's because you interfered with the crow's burial ceremony.
Did the study involve a control, in which the man himself wouldn't be aware if the gun could be fired?

There are many silly side channels that could have been used by the crows (related e.g. to preparing the gun to be disabled or enabled).
This comment/quote seemed interesting to me: "A WELL-DESIGNED APP IS MUCH BETTER TO USE THAN A MOBILE WEB BROWSER, EVEN ON A LARGE PHONE" as The Verge did away with their native app a long time ago.

I wonder how he feels about The Verge not having a native app.
Now it's easier than ever, and just as meaningful!
What is the alternative? Renaming the file?

This was actually an issue with early versions of Servo on Windows: cloning the repository would fail because it contained a file with a # in the name.

https://github.com/servo/servo/commit/43c999905c01627133240c...
> That’s exactly what had happened with the Mach 3, Gillette’s previous top-of-the-line model: Gillette increased blade and razor revenue by nearly 50% with basically no change in underlying demand, easily making back the $750 million it cost to research and develop the razor

That number is staggering. How can that possibly be right?
Also from the Apple lineage, GS/OS allowed either slashes or colons as valid path separators.

See the last paragraph on page 109 of the GS/OS Internals manual. http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/documentation/gsos/Apple_IIgs_GSO...
Microsoft seems to have a fairly comprehensive list:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).asp...

They suggest avoiding <>:"/\|?* as well as all ASCII characters 0-31.

ASCII 0 can be really fun. Lots of filesystem APIs deal with NUL-terminated strings (like, all of POSIX) so a zero byte in the middle of your string just truncates it at that point. If you use something that tolerates zero bytes for your UI strings (like NSString on the Mac, maybe C++ UI frameworks dealing with std::string) then the full string may show in the UI and you just mysteriously get a filename that's shorter on disk than what you see on screen.
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touche raven, touche. At one moment I had the impression I was annoying the raven.
Not a problem at all. Show me a sample entry (per event type) rather than a full list.

Say, some app has 10000 buttons and counts how many times each button was clicked. Something like "Clicks data: 3 clicks on button #1 (and 9999 more buttons [expand])" and I'm happy.

If there are 10000 different event types - uh, okay, I'll glance over whenever I see something sensitive (like screenshots or keystrokes) and then maybe I'll review it in my spare time. At least I know I can review the whole thing whenever I feel like so.

Upd: I mean, remember the myths about the telemetry. That send webcam pics, start odd network activity upon seeing files named after Hollywood movies and whatever. They'd be debunked in no time. ANd there are real concerns as well - insider previews had (or still has) keyloggers. I'd better know how sensitive the data this keylogger sends, because it could be the whole raw text data, or it could be... err... say, a list of frequencies a letter was recognized from hand drawing (which is a completely different story).
3. Allow users to set thresholds for these scores in settings

Brilliant. You could have a slider for each of those things in the setting area, along with an example 'worst scenario' tweet that would be allowed with the settings you chose.

Use these scores for sorting replies (optionally?)

Didn't facebook get heat for attempting to do that? I'm one of those anal retentive people who want so see everything in chronological order, but I may be in the minority there.

.... news

I'm not sure if automatic summarization is possible, but it shouldn't be difficult to auto-tag tweets by news story and let users filter them out of their primary timeline and into a separate list. Or just ignore them completely.
I lot of people have various opinions on what does and doesn't constitute a good resume. It'd be nice if some people would post theirs so we could get a nice visual representation of what it would/should look like
My bad! I assumed it was based on pygame since the pygame provider was so integral to Kivy before the SDL migration.
Ok, we s/source/core/'d the title above since that use of "open source" is disputed. But I wish you had omitted this:

> It's pretty much straight up corporate dishonesty

That's uncharitable and on the wrong side of the HN guideline against name-calling. Please err on the other side instead. In addition to making the community more civil, it will make your arguments stronger; as for example your last sentence was the stronger argument here.

A more charitable comment would also not have spoken of "the" definition of open-source, a notoriously protean term.
Have you compared the cost? $399.99[0] for Office 2016. Compare that to Open Office. Does it provide $399.99 of additional features?

[0]https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/product...
There were no trivia involved. I wrote the sequence and explained it - it's not hard to grasp. It's a simple for loop in the easiest solution and a simple recursive method if they want to show off.
If you read the conversation you linked to, you'll see that I advocate for banning people who violate the rules.

There is no reason for you to be surprised at this.

You don't seem to understand my position. I'll explain using simple words.

I'm not upset that Milo got banned.

I am upset that there is no evidence that Milo violated the Twitter rules.

I do advocate banning people who violate rules of conduct.

When I have proof that people have violated rules of conduct, I ban them.

If you advocate for Milo being banned, please show evidence as to which tweet violated the Twitter rules. If there are none, then Milo should not have been banned.

If you still support Milo being banned, despite a total lack of evicence, then yes... you support censors who ignore the rules that they created. People who abuse their power to further their own political agenda.
I'd love to know the source too.

But this matches what I am seeing right now as well as predicting for the future.

SaaS is a powerful distribution model but IaaS has gotten so good that it's in many ways easier to run many small things than one big thing. And when you run many small things huge benefits arise:

* security and isolation. Single tenant by default.

* control. Upgrade when it's convenient for your company, not your provider.

* Cost efficiency. Freemium SaaS requires burning VC cash. Open source + self serve demo doesn't

* customization. Set your own feature flags or add your own patches to fit the software to your business

Everything is cyclical. I think "install this software on your [cloud] computer" is going to be a big trend again.
This is the default for large human organizations. The differences are merely shades of the same color.

Also, the purpose of any bureaucracy is self preservation.

The government is a complex adaptive system with almost no external signaling from it's environment. It's an extreme example of how large companies behave when they have no external pressures (competition).

Every system is perfectly designed to produce the results that it produces. I know gov't waste is appalling but you should expect it until selection pressures are applied from the outside. Contrast NASA 1969 vs. 1986 and you'll get what I mean.
It was an apple grown in one of the 3 orchards around Yosemite purchased from the store in the valley. It was a native apple.

Also, I don't consider biodegradable native fruits to be trash. People argue the birds will choke on seeds or something which is absurd. I hike in Yosemite dozens of times a year and I can't recall ever seeing so much as banana peel and I know people are tossing those on the ground everywhere.
IIRC, windows has a dialog that shows their full list of disallowed characters if you try to use one of them ... so try to make a file with (eg) "\" in the name and see what the dialog says.

disclaimer: i'm remembering something from the Windows 2003 era, so YMMV.
The page is definitely undergoing launch changes, there didn't use to be an offer for a physical book on the page either.
Right. In the same way that Alan Kay's definition of "Object Oriented" doesn't match that of the programmer community at large.
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There is an element of revolt among techies too. When you tell people (men or women) not to do X , you should always expect them to do more X out of defiance. Techies get preached on a regular basis about women in tech nowadays.

As an experiment, try to do the same preaching about latinos and watch the racist remarks rise.
The value of a book is not in its format (digital vs. print), but in the quality of the content and the reputation and relationships the authors have earned due to their previous efforts. And you can always try negotiating a discount via postcard ;-) http://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles/postcard
I wonder if they're going to start asking refugees if they think the Holocaust really happened and was wrong.