skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that it makes it ok but far more men than women are killed in the streets without repercussions.

Men are also way more represented in prison which I think has an undeniable rape culture.

That's not even touching on male underrepresentation in higher education...

Men and women both face unique challenges in the west. In many very real ways men are getting the short end of the stick. The problem a lot of people have with western feminism is that you can't even discuss such things or point out how the standard feminist narrative harms men.
I think the basic problem is that people do not need 1000 Mbit connections at home. What would your average joe need that for?

Interesting times. We seem to have reached a point of peak everything. Almost nothing that is very technological has much more growth left.

All growth seems to come from not all that technologically amazing things: uber, snapchat, airbnb.
> We can write libraries that the next generation will reuse.

We could, but unfortunately we definitely do not do this as much as we could.

> hat's why software development, which "takes so long" according to the OP, still manages to go much faster (in terms of economic growth) than your beloved civil engineering :-)

If you took away the roads society would collapse, instantly. It is getting to the point where if you take away the internet (or even just a substantial fraction of it) for more than a few days that quite possibly the same will happen. That comes with a degree of responsibility that I do not see reflected in the quality of the product of our industry (including quite a few of those libraries).

There are exceptions to this but not many.

Economic growth is great, if we can keep that afloat in the long term. Given the stakes and the degree to which even the largest entities are failing to take responsibility for their products and services that growth might be the precursor to a very harsh lesson somewhere in our near future.

For every crash, data breach, security issue, hack you have to look back and wonder whether the speed of delivery turned out to be worth the risk (and then you have to discount that even further to take into account that what you read about is only a very small fraction of what actually goes wrong...).
You sound like the religious doomsday predictors, who change the date of the doomsday every time their previous prediction comes out false.

iPod sales went up year-over-year, "wearables" are going down year-over-year. It's just a silly gimmick!
> As most readers here would agree

And yet we are still confronted with NDAs just to listen to
"Facebook for Farmers" pitches.

Perhaps it's better to say those entrepreneurs are afraid of their implementers leaving with all of the domain specific knowledge; believing that it would allow them re-create the product and outmaneuver the entrepreneur.

Of course it's never really that easy, but so few fears are rational.
Rather like software, it's possible for the client to decide to build the wrong thing for entirely stupid reasons.
> He was the only native Russian in the room.

An ugly bit of trivia. This sentence would actually sound different to a Russian speaker than to an English speaker, particularly an American one. In English, "Russian" can mean both "of ethnic Russian origin" and "a citizen/national of Russia". In Russian, those two concepts have different words.

With antisemitism still being strong in Russia, and in the context of the article, many Russians (as in both ethnic origin and citizenship) would be quick to point out that Alperovitch is not a "native Russian" in both of these senses like them.
Growing, in what dimension(s)? Mass? Area? Volume?
Or maybe people should be free to associate as they wish? This seems to be the hardest concept for fellow Americans to grasp because it seems to be a growing (parasitically so) notion that we have to be friends to strangers who actively oppose to who we are or our interests. I don't want to force someone who thinks I'm a sinner for being bi and trans to be my friend nor do I want to be a friend to such a person. Nor should they or I have to endure each other's company beyond what's necessary to get a task done in public. If that's putting up a cocoon I'm not sure how civilization will get along then when every social interaction turns into a virtual duel. I'd rather just put up with fake courtesy than force someone into a fight with me or vice versa. Toleration is a better lubricant for social order than is constant challenges to deeply held beliefs.
Utilize Your Software Consultants to Frame Product Management Decisions
I suppose lawyers also like to justify their salaries by inventing more things to worry about and creating a sense of fear (patent BS, etc)
no, its selling ads. just that if you have all the information possible, on everybody, in organized manner, selling ads works a bit better
The interactive/audio bits are slightly unpolished, but I guess if there's enough interest I'll clean them up, and add the rest of the factual interactive bits in the backlog.

Any feedback about the usefulness of this thing's existence would be greatly appreciated!
Norway does not have a compulsory conscription they only elect to enlist those who are motivated to do so and you can object without any legal repercussions.

Out of the 60-70K eligible men and women less than 10,000 are conscripted each year out of their choice.

And yes you are right I forgot about the Swiss, but it seems that they are also going to be or have started conscripting women as of 2016.

It's also important to be mentioned that many countries that practice conscription also offer a "civil service" path including Switzerland which means you can be conscripted to the police, firefighters/EMT, and even into social work.

And TBH I'm actually a big supporter of "conscription" at least the Civil Service/Zivildienst type where young men and women are "forced" to give 1 or 2 years of their life to better society, it doesn't mean they are or should be sent to war, but I do find the idea of a compulsory paid community service somewhat appealing.

And no I don't count Turkey as a western country any more since it's political, judicial and educational systems have been gutted and there is virtually no more free press left in the country.
Forensic Analysis of the ChatSecure IM Application on Android
Thanks Aaron. That was a big concern when coding this and have a few different "playing" options in mind such as the "x" person to click, or a click doesn't count until 10:00am, etc. But I do like the completely random part as well.
Author here. I was surprised that there aren't any decent JS-only graphers for 3D functions and implicit equations, so I made this.
I don't think it would be the rising sea levels. It is the continent sized areas around the poles filled with previously inaccessible resources. So look at eg polar mining, drilling, shipping.
Portugal DECRIMINALIZED drug use. Stop spreading the legalization myth once and for all. Your arguments hold more weight when you know what the fuck you're talking about, and in this case you don't.
Kinda. I am rethinking various ways to run the daily contests which could switch that part up.
Part of me agrees with digi_owl, I think seeing reports of 4chan trolls and those "hackers known as anonymous" probably ended up mobilizing a lot of jackasses that probably would have never gotten into that "scene". Kinda like how the media has latched onto this "killer clown" bullshit after some kid claimed he saw one and now you're seeing reports of this shit all over the country.

However, if memory serves, the whole "anonymous" crap really came into it's own somewhat in lockstep with the rise of social media which itself has given a voice to a lot of people that otherwise would have just been isolated to a forum or shitty GeoCities website. So now you've got a bunch of eggs and anime avatars screaming about corrupt Hillary and fascist Trump and spewing vitriol at anything that dare cross their path.

Of course everyone is getting so damned politically polar in this time-frame, we've got major news networks half-acting like gossip blogs, and now every jackass with a cellphone has a(n anonymous) voice. It's really just a confluence of shit.
Renewable energy. Once things get bad enough the world will wake up and renewables will become huge.
OpenStack on Kubernetes
Google keep http://keep.google.com
I'm thinking a simple captcha would help with that.
Conservative PM Theresa May said she will formally begin the Brexit negotiation process by the end of March 2017. This will trigger the two year process of negotiations as per Article 50 of the EU agreement, according to the BBC.

May promised a bill to remove the European Communities Act 1972 from the statute book, but repeal of that act won’t take place until the Article 50 negotiations are complete, if ever. Now, here’s the catch:

Her "Great Repeal Bill" that she is intending to submit to Parliament will “enshrine all existing EU law into British law.” So, why leave the Union if you’re going to make all EU law part of the UK statutes? She says, they will work on removing the bureaucratic elements of the law later. The only significant difference is that the bill will end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK. So what, if UK courts will now have to enforce the new law?

from Joel Skousen's WorldAffairsBrief
African countries queueing up to quit the International Criminal Court
" being killed daily in the streets "

Do you have a source for that?
Could be because checked luggage is a profit driver. Make it fun to check luggage while charging for each additional bag
>>[...] restricts the freedom to restrict freedom [...]

That's a great turn of phrase. I'll try to use it the next time somebody asks me to summarize the GPL, which has similar restrictions built in as per Stallman's original intent.
Evidence or gtfo. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

I presented my evidence in the form of official FBI statistics.
That is pretty flimsy, any other examples of those indicators?
Also, was this that employees first job? Certainly he gained experience somewhere else first. Why should the first company benefit from that? It's the circle of life.
> I'm sure Comcast and Time Warner and friends are all breathing a sigh of relief.

They were never worried in the first place. Their network architects are not idiots or anything; they know the economics of what Google was trying to do and they knew it wouldn't turn into anything threatening unless Google was willing to sink over $20 billion into it. Their attitude has been "worst case, we buy the infrastructure from Google when they lose patience with it".

Problem is, Google's business approach of coming to market with market-leading technology wasn't a novel approach here. Telecoms and cable companies have always worked closely with the innovators in their market -- and the limiting factor is often hard materials science, so Google didn't have the technology advantage they were used to.

> Last-mile fiber is expensive, expensive, expensive.

Last-mile anything is expensive. Maintenance is a bitch because all sorts of crap happens up on those poles -- wind, tree branches, ice, animals chewing the cables (squirrels will chew on almost anything), other vendors breaking your setup on accident... My guess is that Google didn't account for a lot of that crap and their maintenance costs were way higher than they expected.
Yep, if 9/11 was the only example of islamic terrorism in the last twenty years I would definitely agree that worries about it are outdated.
“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html)
Turn your bluetooth-connected device into a web server
A BrowserStack vulnerability disclosure
Just not with Xcode projects? I was looking for something like xcodebuild that I could run in a docker container and never found anything. Can you point me in the right direction?
Coastal cities are unlikely to be flooded in our lifetimes. We're looking at about 1m [1] sea level rise in 100 years, or 50cm in our lifetime. That means coastal cities will face more severe storms, not ending up submerged. [2]

"Pfeffer adds estimates of sea level rise due to thermal expansion and ice melting to calving approximations and concludes that SLR by the end of the century will range 0.8 to 2.0 m above present with an emphasis on the lower area of this range (Figure 7)."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_sea_level#Sea-level_at_...

[2] http://uk.businessinsider.com/cities-exposed-to-rising-sea-l...
Having worked with PE civil engineers out of college I can confirm they don't do anything new. Civil engineering at this point is pouring concrete. Concrete is an understood material. They mainly deal with permitting, fixing a cad drawings and arguing with architects (who are also not doing anything new). Once and a great while they do something new like expand the bay bridge. Then you get to see civil engineers try to solve an actual problem. A decade(?) of work on a bridge that could have been completed quicker in 1929.
The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’:Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
As a 34 year old with good amount of savings and a house paid off, basic income would be what I need to push me over the edge and become an unproductive member of society for at least a few years.
No business has a fundamental right to exist. If you hire me for your HVAC business, and I manage to leave, build a competing business, and shut you down, then that isn't my problem. Your business never had a right to be free of competition from me. Period.
Everyone recommends flossing – but there's hardly any proof it works
> The line between people sending death threats on twitter and the person who strangled his sister for posting selfies is very thin.

Umm no, it's not very thin. There's a gargantuan difference between posting something on Twitter and murdering someone.
Won't a lot of this coastal flood protection infrastructure just add emissions to the atmosphere, thus grossly exacerbating the problem? Seems like way to little, way to late.

Trying to just "build a wall" around cities just doesn't sound like it's going to work, I even saw designs where buildings in Manhattan will have to be built on stilts, but how much environmental environmental damage will all this new construction do?

Probably best off to just start relocating these cities and find new homes for the inhabitants.

This combined with other issues like fracking, leaking methane into the atmosphere aren't exactly filling me with confidence.
Alt+D, Ctrl(/Cmd)+L, F6, many ways to skin that cat ;)
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More than close with the FBI, A lot of their guys still roam halls at Fort Meade.
> Given the regulatory barriers, enormous costs, and long planning timelines for most civil engineering projects, isn't it astonishing that bad designs impacting human lives are still being implemented.

Well, depending on context, country and corruption: those are the exceptions, not the rule and the engineers typically did their work as well as was possible given the constraints. They know what they know, and more importantly, they know what they do not know and they will engineer in safety factors.

Buildings and bridges collapsing, machinery exploding: those are the exceptions, not the rules.

As a rule, highways function, as a rule, bridges withstand their design loads and excess of those loads and so on.

As a rule: software is buggy, frequently crashes, hogs memory, is slow and has inconsistent user interfaces, updates will randomly break stuff and it is insecure to boot.

If you feel that software is on par with the rest of the engineering disciplines then I probably won't be able to convince you that it isn't.

But whoever designed this bridge and the foundations did a pretty good job of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAv-rYB5qrc

In contrast, if you look cross-eyed at your average piece of software it will misbehave in unpredictable ways.
Preserving the status quo as a default makes the transition easier, because it means they don't have to have replacement laws drafted for everything before the switch date. It seems like quite a sensible policy to me.
That's a great question. Nearly all of the measurements in the field are by area which is a horrible metric.
Ask HN: Has anyone been to make a selfhosting Bitcoin checkout in flask?
I am working on setting up a website that sells items for bitcoin. I do not want to use a third party api to support bitcoin due to tax reasons. I want to use bitcoin prc api. I was wondering if anyone was able to successfully use bitcoin rpc api to do process payments in flask.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.
First you're assuming a certain level of intelligence and then using that to argue from authority; that the arguments put forth on news.yc are somehow "better" because of this assumed intelligence of the news.yc commenters. I'm sorry but each comment and argument must stand on its own merits and the facts, it cannot rely on the supposed intelligence of the commenters.

Now let's get down to the real business of your arguments.

> Freedom to contract is always a good thing

This is only true if the people signing the contract are not coerced, whether by force or by poverty into signing that contract.

> Freedom to contract is a human right

So then you agree that it's a human right when it's not coerced yes?

> Government has no legitimate moral power to remove that right from people

It does if you follow the social contract. It does not remove the right but it does impose restrictions that follow from other human rights. It definitely has a legitimate moral power to impose restrictions. Whether you consider governments in general to be legitimate or moral is up to you but in this case? We have loads of precedent showing that in certain cases it has been absolutely necessary for governments to impose restrictions on contracts. Not to mention that we have courts, which you do not address. Are courts the only place where the judge or jury of your peers has a legitimate moral power to remove or impose restrictions on contracts?

> I have local knowledge regarding both my costs and my benefits from signing a non-compete contract.

Quite an assumption to make.

> Government legislators and bureaucrats, at some great remove, has almost no knowledge of either my costs or benefits.

I can agree with this though it would have to be supported; they do collect all sorts of data so they may have some knowledge, greater than "almost no knowledge".

The argument against non-competes is that they place limits on freedom of speech and freedom of expression. They put a limit on employment options as well and are harming my future earnings which are very much real in contrast to the imaginary losses. Willingness to sign a non-compete is not a competitive advantage for employees, it's the equivalent of saying "I am willing to be treated like a slave" or "I will work for free". It's degrading and violates fundamental human rights. You cannot be in support of less restricted commerce and still support non-competes. You cannot be in favour of fundamental human rights and still support non-competes which take away or immensely restrict those rights.

Your arguments, in the end, contradict one another. I will not comment on the arrogance of your approach here.
> feminism in the true meaning is very important, and it's mission might be +-over in the west

Your claim is the exact opposite of the post you're responding to, but you don't back it up at all when the comment you're replying to provides concrete examples of the need for feminism in the west.

I want to take your comment in good faith, but when you do that and then launch into the typical "haven't the feminists gone too far?" with the typical allusions to emasculation, it discredits any other point you may be trying to make.

I'm downvoting you, but not because I disagree with everything you've said, but because your post is low quality and ads nothing to the discussion but a strawman.

> too loud where it doesn't matter anymore, and too quiet where it should.

It's almost as if women walk a delicate line between being being completely not taken seriously and being perceived as "loud" or bitchy. Also, it's insulting to both feminists all over the world because you clearly don't pay enough attention? Have you heard of the global sensation that is Malala Yousafzai? No because that would contradict your worldview of feminism having gone too far in the west and not far enough in the east. Isn't it convenient how all the feminists are wrong and you're right in your worldview?
Look, if you're expecting terms like "Mysterious Unity" and "Mother of All", complete with Capital Letters for Extra Cosmic Importance, to actually mean anything, you're expecting too much.
The AirTrain is already due for a full replacement: http://www.northjersey.com/news/newark-airtrain-s-demise-com...
There are millions of lines of enterprise Java code running these days and a good chunk of these are using Java EE.

The trend has started moving away from it these past years but it's pretty clear that even the worst and early versions of Java EE (looking at you, EJB 2) have been used to power massive web sites and applications that are still in use today.

Erlang/OTP is nonexistent in comparison.
Shorting insurance companies.
Perhaps to help establish a lack of negotiating leverage, one should always ask for the non-compete clause to be removed in writing and then save the (highly likely) employer pushback for future use.

In general, it's a good rule of thumb to archive written communications (paper or electronic) for any deal, but it's easier said than done when part of the negotiation takes place over the phone.
Micro Architecture Attacks on Kernel Address Space Randomized Layout (KASRL)
Not commenting on the BDFS so much as its really cool to see large Chinese companies contributing to open source, does anyone know of other large projects outside of the main Android forks? Pardon the ignorance.

Also wonder if there will be larger skepticism toward integrating Chinese O/S in regards to potential influence by the government (like the NSA has tried to influence in the past)
No, but given the short lifespan of these things due to radiation, literally other-wordly conditions, and the fact that you can never repair it, the fact that a rover on Mars can last a decade is a technical marvel.

You also have to pre-program the entire flight and find out half an hour later if your parachutes and retro-rockets deployed, or you made a relatively small crater.
I created an app for this: https://myplaceonline.com/
Parsing JSON is a Minefield
Battery life also makes a huge difference. If you use just the view finder on a dslr you can take many hundreds of pictures on a single charge.
SpeedTracker: Open-source website performance monitoring tool
Maybe I'm wrong about this but I noticed that the code didn't call free() to the element that has breen removed. That would cause a memory leak. Am I missing something here?
Do they come around with scales to make sure a laptop is 2lbs vs 3?