skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why you would think that poison or hanging are equally available to both genders. In the aggregate, there are significant differences in not only career choices but hobby choices and other aspects of lifestyle. It in no way surprises me this impacts aggregate statistics on methodology.

I posit that many supposed gender differences are rooted in the different life experiences of the sexes:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/03/princesses-d...
the millions of Accounting and Finance professionals who use Excel all day.

Just like they did 20 years ago? The trend doesn't seem to be that those jobs are going anywhere.
Doesn't seem that way to me, as a lot of the products that end up on Launchpad have a below 4-star rating, and they seem to currently have about 3,000 products listed. I also don't see how a lot of those products really deserve to be in the list.
I don't generally like evolutionary "just so stories", but men are the more expendable sex, when you get down to it. Historically, only half of men ever passed their genes on, whereas nearly all women did. It makes sense that men should tend to be shorter-lived, less squeamish, more violent (to men, women and themselves), and more willing to take life-threatening risks - all of which the homicide, suicide and accident rates bear out, worldwide. If you consider the difference between sexes for the homicide rate, it's surprising the female suicide rate is as much as half of men's.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040920063537.h...
I think especially with the types of methods men vs. women use, a lot of men are much more committed to their actions when they choose suicide. By hanging oneself (something that probably isn't any more difficult for one gender or the other), you basically "guarantee" your own death. Making the decision to overdose on something gives you a chance to stop earlier and gives others more time to step in. I think this is an unconscious factor based on the causes that the decision stems from -- for example, it seems that women with bipolar disorder get more depressive episodes. Since they're more likely to try suicide during these episodes, that would explain the increased rate. Yet because a higher ratio of the men committing suicide are not suffering from bipolar disorder, it might mean that they've had depression for a larger period of time (making them take a firmer decision on how to end their life).
emacs.map is a thing? I used to just edit the keymap by hand. It was... unpleasant. So thanks for that.
> TM+Halting oracle > TM

Why is this a failure of the Church-Turing thesis? The Church-Turing thesis says, "Anything that can be computed in our reality (i.e. by a human, ignoring resource constraints) can be computed by a TM." TM+Halting oracle doesn't satisfy the hypothesis.
Then again, it's common to claim an accident while cleaning one's gun.
Emacs org-mode supports literate programming too, see [1] and [2]. Also don't forget Leo a programming editor designed around literate programming [3].

[1] https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v046i03

[2] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/

[3] http://leoeditor.com
"I wonder what it takes (or how many similar failures) for the "market" to balance and finally come up with something sustainable."

It already has. As others have pointed out, just about every laundromat and dry cleaners already offers these services. Just not through apps.
I've used drop-off wash and fold services at various times in my life when a laundromat or washer/dryer wasn't especially convenient. (And every now and then I still use one while traveling.)

But, as you say, these services are already commonly available in large (and not-so-large) cities. I'm not sure what a premium-priced startup brings to the table especially given that pick-up and drop-off isn't even clearly a win over taking your clothes down to somewhere local instead.
It's bound up in the concept of male disposability.

As a society we're arguing about whether or not to let women in the military (we should), whether they should have the same standards are men (they should), whether they should be allowed to serve in combat roles if they meet that standard (they should), and whether we should value their service equally (we should).

However, any time anybody raises the banner to go to war we don't stop to think about the thousands of men, ripped apart from the life they know, ripped apart from their families, sent off as fresh meat to the grinder, sent off into a hailstorm of bullets, mortars, rockets, missiles, and bombs to kill or be killed, maim or be killed. Nobody but their immediate family cares whether or not the come home, and nobody but their family cares what they went through while they were there. Society is perfectly fine with throwing away men, shaming them into making the ultimate sacrifice for their county. Why would they care if a few thousand off themselves every year?
Eh, I'll give falcolas a pass on that, since the intended behaviour is clearly what any normal person looking at that would think it does - if you wanted to make some sort of closure, I'd hope you'd do it more explicitly (though my opinion of good style and what's supposedly "Pythonic" are often at odds - the whole "[].append()" idiom seems perverse to me). It's not necessarily unreasonable to present technically valid code and say "find the bug" - in C for example you might see "if(x=3)" and conclude, on the basis of what's idiomatic, that it's probably an error.
Did you pay to have this piece written? It's suspicious that the author is so in favor of an overengineered solution for something as simple as static site hosting.
Use 'jhead' and sync file timestamp to exif data:

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
Comcast changes my IP about once per year. I notice within a half day or so and manually update the A and AAAA records for my dot com, publish an update for namecoin domain, and my Tor address doesn't need updating. I've been self-hosting for almost two decades now with no problems.
These hatchet jobs are petty tiresome. How stupid do they think readers are? If there is a suggestion that Assange, who is a publisher, has failed to publish documents leaked to him that would embarrass Russia (or anyone else for that matter) then they have something.

But they aren't suggesting he's selectively publishing leaks. So I guess they want him to publish documents nobody has leaked to him by use of the 27th dimension? The NYT itself, while usually excellent, has acknowledged failings in that regard.

So now we play guess the NYT motive. Is it patriotism, wikileaks publications embarrass the US so let's hatchet them. Is it support for Hilary - email leaks are embarrassing to her campaign that they will probably support so muddy the source as much as possible? Is it jealousy of the sheer number of scoops, which are the journalists currency of bragging rights given Assange is not "one of them" and hasn't "paid his dues" and if they would have played his hand differently (as we all would have). Is it something else? Whatever the reason the bias is pretty clear.

I want to make this explicit. I am no more a supporter of wikileaks than I am a supporter of the New York Times. I support both in terms of their rights to do journalism and neither in terms of speaking for me or agreeing with what they say on all issues. I like the NYT, it's a pretty good newspaper. Somehow especially when they write on wikileaks they embarrass themselves pretty consistently about an eccentric activist journalist who used tech to scoop them on big stories and maintains a perfect reputation for protecting sources and for publishing. The NYT's reputation has suffered on both counts.

Full disclosure - I've given the NYT money but not wikileaks.
Literate programming comes up every so often on HN. Here is a past discussion asking why didn't it catch on, [1]. I like the idea of reproducible reports, the apparent motivation of the OP, which is a bit different emphasis than literate programming.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10069748
Sorry, but I just don't buy it. You don't need a super powerful machine for web development. Maybe game development, but not web development.
Previously, when I've noticed flagrant violations (e.g. HN account that has only ever submitted articles at example.com, never commented, participated, etc.), I've e-mailed dang (hn@) and those accounts have been taken care of pretty quickly.
As far as the computer is concerned, it is running a nat -> nat function over some data you passed it, and displaying the result.

If you consider that data to be a program, and the resulting messages to be errors, that is completely up to you.
3.7B-year-old fossils may be the oldest signs of life on Earth
If you depend on current trends for you thinking, you'll never predict the future.
Those are incremental inventions within an overarching paradigm; that being the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution is what produced those inventions, and many others that lead to the countless wars, and newer ways of thinking, which resulted in significant changes in society. Undoubted it has produced great positive changes, but in the short term it was really quite awful.The question is how great of change are we really looking at this time around. Heck is it even a revolution in the first place, or merely an incremental progress.

I personally don't think it's incremental and that we're at a point where we just had the idea of collecting seeds and planting them in the ground. The resulting aftermath of that simple idea produced civilization. The resulting aftermath of computation is yet to be seen.
> since the intended behaviour is clearly what any normal person looking at that would think it does

The function is called foo, any normal person would say "wtf is that supposed to do?".
Check out knitr.
Yes this whole ECU thread has nothing to do with the original discussion comparing EV and gasoline vehicles wrt how easy it is to get replacement parts.

>> I hardly think that emissions tests will be a reason you can't put an aftermarket ECU into an electric car!

> It is stupid, because that's not what I claimed at all.

Yes you did:

> Your aftermarket ECU won't pass emissions tests

You brought up aftermarket ECUs not passing emissions tests, I just (incorrectly) commented that you could probably load a stock (or what I thought would be emissions-passing) map onto an aftermarket ECU because I wasn't aware about the tampering part. I naively assumed they actually tested the emissions from the car when testing it for emissions. :P

For what it's worth, I agree with you about replacement parts being specialized for all types of cars, and for the record I'd be very surprised if an aftermarket ECU ever appeared for the Tesla, given how closed and hostile to any modification (or even repairs!) they are. You can't even get a service manual if you don't live in Massachusetts, and even then you can only buy access to it on a subscription basis! [1]

In fact, at the moment I'd never even consider buying a Tesla because who knows what it's like to own one after the warranty is up? If my Tesla ECU failed, there's nothing to say it would even be possible to put a legitimate Tesla junkyard ECU in there and have it work without their blessing.

Out of curiosity, do places that have emissions testing actually keep testing cars regularly every year?

[1] https://syonyk.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/is-tesla-building-thr...
High availability MySQL cluster that guarantees data consistency
Root Android and Rooting Benefits
Sorry to be a smartass, but isn't this post self-refuting?
Is that your elevator pitch?
Why would you? The midwest isn't anywhere near there - it doesn't extend much (if at all) into the Western half of the US.

Do you often hear people call Vegas "the West Coast"?
This was a marketing piece for Cloud ML. It didn't seem like any overpromising occurred in the blog post. Saying that a commercialized out of the box product that has feature X which does not have feature X is overpromising. Promoting a developer platform with early adopter use cases seems like a valid thing to do, which is all they did here. Did I miss something?
BT is suing Valve
It would be interesting to set this up on FreeNAS. Developers should look into providing this as a plugin to FreeNAS users.
It used to be (or still is inside Box?) an analytics startup [1][2][3].

EDIT: Their Twitter account also gives a little bit of information: Wagon is a modern SQL editor. A better way for analysts and engineers to write queries, visualize results, and share data & charts [4].

[1] https://www.wagonhq.com/about

[2] https://www.wagonhq.com/blog/engineering-at-wagon/

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/37jwip/a/

[4] https://twitter.com/WagonHQ
I don't know if you were downvoted because of the cynical tone, but that sounds pretty accurate in my experience. It's why I quit after a master's.
This is one of the few JS compiled languages that interest me: Some of these languages add a very thin syntactic layer on Javascript and maybe a type system. If I wanted Javascript, I'd use Javascript, and if I wanted types, I'd use Flow, not a new programming language that's kinda-sorta-not-really JS.

That leaves this, Clojurescript, and SPOCK as the only really interesting projects. They all have runtimes that are unpleasantly large (well, Buckle may not), but that's the price of a new language.

However, Clojurescript leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and SPOCK stresses javascript implementations in interesting ways. I'm not really a fan of OCaml, but Buckle looks interesting, and more enjoyable/practical than the other two.
Radare: a portable reverse engineering framework
What I don't get is how dropbox fell behind in this enterprise storage game. Box was a terrible product, buggy UI and all. Dropbox was a joy to use and yet somehow Box seems to be leading in the enterprise market. I don't quite get it.
Well, that person suffers from RSI, so there's a certain group of people who would benefit from it. Here are a group of resources if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra...
I can only offer anecdotal evidence (I don't know how you'd even begin to measure this), but it's absolutely true that your average person is more likely to jump to the defense of a woman, or be more appalled at violence or injustice perpetrated against a woman.

Violence against men seems to be much easier for society to stomach, probably due to frequency and the perception that a man is stronger/tougher and should be able to protect himself.
Good luck, but those VPSs are usually offered by fly-by-night companies, massively oversubscribed, running OpenVZ, and the company probably won't even be around a year from now.

There are decent providers on there but caveat emptor.
What will the pricing for CloudML be? It will be difficult to bootstrap anything without a free tier of some sort.
I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I'm glad you're able to get help through counseling.
Don't forget MS NTFS files support multiple data streams [1] and OS X supports resource forks [2]. I dislike both of these partly because they don't fit within the set of posix commands and command options I'm familiar with.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961812.aspx

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork
It doesn't really work that way. You can hire 1 top notch guy for $200K a year and produce a better product faster than 10 guys at $50,000 a year. You are assuming that developers are cogs. They are not assembly line workers, they are more like authors. Programming is a creative endeavor.

The issue is really two fold:

1. Execs think that programmers are cogs and one is just as good as the other.
2. Many companies can't keep good developers because they are hell holes and the culture doesn't even know how to promote creativity.
What should actually pain you is this comment.

Even if we take your claim about society being better off if the 14k goes to education (which is some major hand waving), how would you suggest transferring this?

Unless it's completely by choice, congratulations. You've now created no incentive for people working towards retirement to save enough to spend 14k per month. Now, instead of getting that productivity earlier in life and the 14k going to support a cruise ship business, you'll have people willing to just rest with what they've got.

I think there are better ways to prop up education (some having nothing to do with $). No need to shame the elderly who have worked a lifetime and now get to kick back and enjoy it for a little while.
Yeah, no true Scotsman ends up losing first-mover advantage.
Men are disposable. This idea is wired inside the deepest, most primal part our brains. There are a few possible solutions to this. We could evolve ourselves and change our brains. We could tip the gender population ratio in favor of women, so that men would be more sought after. The easiest way to achieve the latter is by simply giving parents the power to choose their kid's gender. Assuming parents are rational agents, they will choose the most valuable gender for their kid, which will bring the genders into an equilibrium.
Yes, but as an extension it could just call into Firefox (which has all the passwords) to do all the work.
Some more possible sources:

https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/check-exter...
You're in luck - India and China have conducted a very large experiment on this already, though not a very ethical one. Unfortunately, it seems parents are not rational agents, and sexist societies will continue to choose male children even when women are scarce, with social turmoil as a consequence.

If you really want to fix humanity, I'd advise getting rid of men. Labs can make sperm from stem cells, so there's really no need for us anymore.
Enova's Yoga Book is the cross between Microsoft's Courier and a laptop
The Rise of the Practitioner-Publisher
BTW, it would be great if you could post your final list of feeds here when you are done.
I don't think that opening with an insult is in the spirit of what this site is about, do you?
I don't think so. For example, newspaper profits were near their all time high in 2008[1]. Following trends of newspaper profitability would not have lead an observer to predict the massive collapse of that industry in the subsequent years.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers
No, he didn't crack it but just hashed it and checked for equality. So just what you would have expected.

He did it in a way that appears more complicated to people using Hashcat not as often as he probably does.

Hashcat used the real password as a single-entry password dictionary. So in order to "crack" the hash, it grabbed the first and single entry from its dictionary, hashed it, ... match!

Don't worry, this has been confusing to me and several people in the comments section on his website as well.
Other leaks like the SONY leaks indicating the US State Department's active role in puppeteering "The Interview"

Is there any source to this? I haven't found any in the leaks.
The first one sounds like any subscription service...

The second one is email.

Seriously, wtf!
Sheets of Paper-Word processor in your browser using HTML and CSS
There is a strange, hardcore of people who love No Man's Sky. I don't mean people who like it, I mean people who (literally) brag about buying multiple copies and playing hundreds of hours. Those people do not like the reception the game has gotten, and have failed to integrate the reasons for that reception well with their own extreme enjoyment.
What I'm saying is that

> If you depend on current trends for you thinking, you'll never predict the future.

is itself an observation about current trends in the efficacy of predicting the future, and therefore, if it's true, must be false.
There are far more pressing injustices to prosecute, like the male/female "wage gap" [0]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karinagness/2016/04/12/dont-buy-...
Nokia's patent chief departs in wake of Samsung pacts
I'll have to try when I get home, but I'm curious how speech recognition will do against the message chosen for the touchscreen record. I'm not 100% sure how to even pronounce a couple of the words:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2014/5/fastest-touc...
This is an American cultural quirk more than anything. Even most tiny New York apartment kitchens would have space for a front-loading washing machine. Maybe you need to knock out a cabinet. It's a fair trade.

And you don't need a dryer. No, really. You just get a drying rack and hang stuff up for 24-48 hours, and it's fine. Use a fan to circulate the air if it's absolutely necessary. It's usually not. This is how 99% of Europe works, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.
I know a lot of website owners who can't use Youtube/Vimdeo/Ustream/etc because the video playlist is private, but don't have the budget for the hosted video solutions.

And not big enough for netflix/amazon/apple/etc :)
No, it's really not. It's like having a "hunting accident" with someone you don't like. Most guns get cleaned after use. That's a lot of instances of guns being cleaned, maybe hundreds or thousands of times over the life of the gun. People say they were "taking it apart to clean it" when they're being careless or plain dumb. If it was actually a malfunction or easy to make accident then it would be widely known that some guns are more or less user friendly (idiot proof) than others. While I don't doubt some people have genuine accidents they're fewer and farer between than carelessness disguised as an accident.
Exactly this. Or just store a copy on another device of yours, on a USB flash drive, etc.
Question for any users out there - was the valuable part of Wagon the querying/graphing capability, or the sharing part? I've been building a cross-platform desktop app (using Qt) that is basically a SQL querying tool for data analysts instead of developers (with a focus on analyzing data instead of being able to modify data). I've been trying to figure out how to price it and was a bit discouraged when I found Wagon (how do you compete with free)? Also it's tougher to do sharing of interactive charts with a desktop product (although I have ideas for being able to post static annotated charts into slack or other popular SAAS products).
Typically the student gets their classes for free, plus a stipend on top of that.
We don't know yet if Uber will manage to avoid phase 3. In China, they didn't.
Enterprise sales! Enterprise is a completely different beast than consumer. Enterprise sales are 60% trust, 20% pricing, and 10% product. The language, practices and culture necessary to do well at selling to large enterprises and all of the differences in the underlying company are so different than consumer products. Enterprise is very misunderstood, even by many VCs!
Well after 40, whether bro or not they certainly won't be hired as programmers anymore.
Thats some amazing machinery.
> I think the main thing to think about PRUs is that they are the way to do a class of things in software that you'd normally break out some custom logic or an fpga to implement.

I would turn to the Cypress PSoC stuff for that actually.
http://www.cypress.com/products/microcontroller-mcu-and-prog...

They have just that little bit of programmable logic to catch whatever silly thing that just has to respond in 400nS, for example.

The PSoC 4 series also operates at 5V I/O levels. That is actually getting remarkably difficult to find, nowadays.
Show HN: Better Document Requests
Not everyone is tall, likely you are short.

Web developers need to batch resize images to make them smaller.

Most developers are expensive and should not be paid to wait. But there are exceptions, some developers are not expensive.