skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whilst I think it would be useful, you're not teaching the more general lessons (such as not relying solely on security by obscurity).

I suspect the kind of person who left in that backdoor would, after going through the course, simply make a slightly harder-to-find backdoor. (If anything, they might be more likely because they think they've taken into account THE vulnerability, when it is only a vulnerability).
This sounds like a bad idea. When consuming “art”, I generally care more about crazy shit I couldn’t come up with rather than my ideas.
Not exactly, because I'm not saying we must have more women in STEM at all costs. I'm saying we need them if they want it and will contribute. If the women are truly empowered and being treated fairly and then choosing against STEM, fine.
Ever thought about a WakaTime integration?
Justin Bieber was discovered through YouTube. And he helped contribute to Carly Ray Jepsen's career because he saw one of her songs on YouTube, covered it, and helped it go viral. The Weeknd used YouTube at the start of his career as well.

I don't think this phenomenon is limited to one form of media. "The Martian" by Andy Weir was originally published on his website one chapter at a time. The internet has, in general, lowered the bar to publishing any kind of work significantly - be it games on Steam, songs on YouTube, or ebooks on Amazon. There are now new avenues into the wider industry, but the big players are still the big players.
I work in a Psychology department that has some members who specialize in the study of various kinds of bias, and I can assure you that unconscious bias is very real, and measurable in ways that I honestly can't find any reasonable way to claim measure anything else.

Look up the Implicit Association Test for a good example of this. I've taken it, and while it wasn't exactly a shocker to me to discover that I have an unconscious bias against black people (I grew up in an area that had maybe 5 of them, and despite my very liberal upbringing, our society and culture still label black people as "other" and "dangerous"), it was eye-opening to be able to see the effect so clearly.
Personally I think that it's much better to point to it's near-indisitinguishability from "Cultural Bolshevism" which was an anti-jewish & anti-worker-union movement in Germany prior to WW2.

It's a real problem for anyone seriously attempting to use the term. It makes me wonder why people cling to it as a classification (when literally hundreds of other options exist), which are more descriptive and don't try and invoke the specter of authoritarian Russian regimes. What's actually "marxist" about it?
I didn't say "don't judge ever". I'm opposing the idea of judging the entirety of someone's moral compass based on so little – in this case, a single point of data.
Seems disingenuous to claim your field is built on merit (not invitation) while ignoring the historically exclusive and discriminatory nature of work in society.
It seems that high amounts of salt are "bad for you" only in the context of low potassium. But most doctors either aren't aware of the fact that there needs to be a certain proportion of salt and potassium, or they don't bother telling patients because the doctors know most people won't eat anymore potassium-rich foods, so they just tell them to "eat less salt."

This video has some references to studies backing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJ-ev8Ial8

There's also this book that argues for the importance of salt in our food, of which I heard good things but haven't read:

https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Fix-Experts-Wrong-Eating-ebook/d...
The will of those people against the English was unbelievable.

During the siege of Caerlaverock Castle, 60 Scottsmen held off 3000 English men along with about 87 English knights. It is also one of the most exquisite castles in that it is triangular. If you ever are in Dumfries, you must see it: http://www.techandfacts.com/caerlaverock-castle-scotland/

Edit: This poem from one of the king's heralds detailing the battle is incredible: https://fourteenthcenturyfiend.com/2017/02/03/the-siege-of-c...
WhatsApp to start filling up with ads just like Facebook
> Not only the total number of games, but the rate of their release seems to be geometrically increasing

The derivative of an exponential is again an exponential :p
Hm... it worked quite well (much better than science and engineering anyhow) in medicine, law, biology, arts, ...

http://www.linehollis.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/84bendi...
> Poor people can't afford [...] buying books from the same "right" professor

For books, there is (luckily) Library Genesis.
Not that I ever had are reason to go there, but we can officially strike NZ of the list of places I'll be visiting.

I hope this sort of malarkey doesn't become the norm. This seems rife for abuse. If you have good enough information to demand to rifle though someone's phone or computer, you have good enough information for a damn warrant.
Yeah and we're still using the same ancient language.
Khosla Rebuffed as Supreme Court Rejects Beach-Access Appeal
I would like to note that in my opinion 30-days is a bit long. It's more efficient to offer 14 days. This motivates leads to try your product ASAP without postponing at a later date. Some people ask to prolong their trial and we do it, but again, in general it helps.
Dual boot with one clean system and one actually in use that switch depending on the password given :) ?
James P Allison on the harmonica!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPsjsdNsdgs
While I don't agree with a lot, he does have a point with the discrimination against men slide: why is it still OK in 2018 to allow men to be drafted into war, but not women?
Could someone suggest a good book on Geometry beyond what is taught in high school? I find co-ordinate geometry to be more algebraic than geometric and miss knowing the interesting properties of curves and shapes and bodies.
It's troubling to watch one of the most amazing places on earth transform itself into a totalitarian purgatory.

Access to physical phone/laptop is only the first step -- mark my words. Big Brother's bureaucrats are never satiated. Next, we will have demands for passwords and unrestricted access to : email, facebook, photo sharing, hacker news posts, social media, etc.

I see sudden spike in the market for burner phones. ANd a long-term opportunity for a company that can create a "burner" social media profile.
Bitcoin: 10 Years of Smoke and Mirrors
It might be interesting to see a map of the world with all the places named "Fort" or the equivalent highlighted.
The voting population doesn't directly control voting machines. I'd say it's a mix between getting a good representative elected, and getting the facts known and actually debated.

(In case you're not from the US: our government is largely a representative democracy, not a direct democracy, with a few exceptions, such as California's proposition system.)

I would say that voting machines are also a niche issue: whether that's good or not, IDK, but most candidates (I feel) would rather discuss their positions on more mainstream topics such as gun control issues, gay rights, abortion, economics issues (particularly vague economic issues), whether or not we should build a wall, etc. Technology is a rare issue, and even rarer to see a candidate demonstrate an understanding of the facts in the issue.
I wouldn't know what to do with raw data about climate change and I'm unusually well educated. Just not in climate science. You can't expect a majority of people to educate themselves sufficiently in every relevant topic to make informed decisions. That's why we have scientists who study things for years and years and specialize in interpreting data. The rational thing to do for almost everything is to trust the majority of the specialists.
> They should well and indeed be studied, but not there.

Yes, let's discuss them in social sciences (which is presumably what you're advocating).

Because then we guarantee

* no use of actual facts or figures

* idiots will be doing the discussing purely for virtue signaling (looking good, not for doing the right thing)

* these people (social sciences) justify their own existence because of a problem ... wanna bet they'll find the problem is worse than we thought ? They are not neutral observers, nor are they even taught to be that (by contrast, CERN is filled with people that are trained to be neutral observers)

What's worrying most is that society at large seems to have made the decision that looking good and pretending to be morally correct is far more important than actually achieving something ...

The social sciences themselves are designed like that: they start from the goal to modify society to achieve theoretical aims ... Allow me to make some modest predictions:

1) they'll fail

2) they'll do a LOT of damage before they fail

3) they'll cheat, fraud, ... in the process to prove the problem they fix exists and gets worse all the time despite ever more draconian efforts to fix it

You cannot - and should not - control society for ANY ideology. You'll end up pushing very anti-women ideologies or worse.

* people are now taught to cheat for "good causes" are going to cheat for their own personal ends (much) more as well ?

* people will simply lie about things like gender equality, as that's rewarded, so it won't even achieve what you want

* people will use these policies to undermine the organizations implementing them (or do you think women scammers are worse than male scammers ? This will be abused)

* we are actually going to judge projects ... like the large hadron collider ... based on how much they advance women in science ? If we rate stupidity from 0 to 10, this has got to be well on the way to 20.

* and of course there's once again the dedicated victim class. Much too few male mathematicians, for instance, are we going to start sabotaging women mathematicians ? No, only one group gets punished. This is not at all going to lead to resentment ...

* it is fundamentally unfair. And no, you cannot fix one kind of unfair with another. This make society more unfair, not less.
That's why you research and read before you go. Otherwise you'll wind up voting yes to "Proposition B: Unlimited Internet Freedom" which does something possibly disastrous despite the title. Because that's how Republicans roll.
Show HN: Concrete Calculator for your weekend projects around the house
Why does YC invest overwhelmingly in more young men than women?

Is this just a big ole bastion of discrimination here?

Or is the answer more complicated than just "because bigotry!" ?
After your comment I re-watched the trailer and liked it very much. The music is great and the trailer really captures the mood of the game.

I then showed it to my wife who is not a gamer at all. She liked the trailer too but thought the player would be one of the immigrants :)

It's tough to make a perfect trailer..
Google gives me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action#India
Just more “evidence” to support the long running Shortage Of Engineers™ narrative. Just because the topic is COBOL doesn’t mean it’s not a submarine promoting all the usual things like outsourcing, more H1B visas, and over-saturation of STEM graduates.
Really? So my cisco home modem messing up DNS and appending Utopia.net, burned in hardware by cisco will get a new firmware if I just ask for it?

Please go on and let me know where I can open this case.

I am not sarcastic, I really need that fixed.
Humans are overwhelmingly emotional creatures. We are a bunch of monkeys with only a fragment of real awareness of why we are doing X and Y.

Human brains judge another persons whole life in milliseconds (we all do it, can't help that), but then struggle with what is quite simple math. That should tell you something about what we are.

My advice is don't ever forget that logic is only the smallest part. Demeanor and a strong image is much more important than it should be, simply presenting a "fact" is not enough.
One thing I notice about articles like this, is they always try to pull their punches at the end. I think that for first-generation college students, the risk is greater that they won't get the truth of the matter. College students whose parents went to college are, I think, more likely to hear (in blunt, unmistakable language) that taking on a large amount of debt for (most) liberal arts majors, is not a good idea. First-generation college students are more likely to believe what their professors or college administration tells them, which is that all majors are a good idea, and thus more likely to pick a major which digs them a deep hole (in student loan debt) without giving them the benefit of a highly marketable degree to help get out of it.
> goal isn't and shouldn't be to make the best content possible, but to make the content that the most people would want to watch and be willing to keep their subscription active for

That is dangerous due to second-order effects. Initially, this strategy will work and be quite effective at maxing revenue. But over time, consumer perception will shift to 'Netflix makes shows that run too long' just like GP post demonstrated. This reduces the perceived value of netflix content and makes consumers less likely to start watching future netflix content.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trading
As the Pontiac Aztek has shown, design by committee is not necessarily an effective approach and can lead to awful results due to the lack of a unified vision or goal. I imagine this will end similarly
> We're not going into 'the cloud'. We'll examine your phone while it's on flight mode

This law isn't too bad as far as a compromise bill goes. The problem is a lack of accountability. Three fixes and I'd be okay with it:

1) Officials must document their reasons for finding a "reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing";

2) Travellers should be able to challenge the search in a court proceeding to occur no later than close of business the next day (traveller must surrender their phone to the court in the interim, but is free to leave the airport after that); and

3) Searchers cannot (a) copy data from the phone while searching, (b) turn off airplane mode or (c) take more than [2] hours to conduct their search.
Why do people rely on Alexa's traffic numbers?

Serious question - have they ever proven to be reliable?
It happens equally to single people.
Welp, Python+numerics/stats stack is really messy; new stuff like coroutines can be a mindfuck. But what of what was once easy in Python is now harder?

Parentheses after print statements?
>What I expected to happen: Presentation's veracity is disproven on a scientific basis.

This was a physics related thing, do you want the physicists to start now studying social issues? Next you want the physicists to tackle climate change and flat earth deniers.

If there is a discussion to be had then the people with the skills in that domain, social studies, statistics(I am not sure who exactly are qualified too make good studies) should have those discussions.
I share some of your cynicism, but let's have faith.
Anybody knows if there are existing ready libraries for setting this up on Mac / iPhone?
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards had some influence over the drafting of the legislation and said he was "pretty comfortable" with where the law stood...
"You know when you come into the country that you can be asked to open your suitcase and that a Customs officer can look at everything in there."

Evidently, severe brain damage is no hindrance to securing a commissioner's appointment in New Zealand.
Right, but you can enable A2 which uses a different drawing algorithm and adjust the full refresh period, but it is NOT a means to play games or watch a movie. If you do, you are probably using it wrong to begin with ;-)
Is there a SaaS provider specializing in storing encrypted images of phones?

The idea being that before you travel, you upload the encrypted image and wipe the phone, then after passing through customs you restore.
Forget India. People should outsource to the UK.
Similarweb doesn't show any significant change:
https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com#over...

Seems to be Alexa's bug, not HN's.
So why do you think the female dominated fields are female dominated?

I'm not trying to do the false equivalence thing here, or saying "what about the men". I'm certainly not saying "well men have it bad too".

What I am saying is that male-dominated fields and female-dominated fields both likely have the same root cause, and any hypothesis that explains one needs to explain the other. Well, plus or minus some co-factors.

So, how do we explain this data? If you're looking for the answer that makes this men's fault, you could pretty easily say that men don't enter those fields because it doesn't live up to their self-image. That definitely avoid the "fallacy that this goes both ways equally" while still having one root cause for all the data.

But that's a pretty lazy answer in my opinion, and doesn't fit with the data I've observed. Can you come up with a few more hypothesis that explain both male and female dominated gender ratios?
To be fair, only one of them still could.
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India
I wish I could be pleased. Summary:

- they are offering a 1 um process

- process specs contains very little information and a scary number of "(??)"

- test wafer specs are at https://github.com/chipforge/PearlRiver

- classically they have built (or will build?) a ring oscillator

- no results published for test wafer measurements

- again NO test data published

- fab is a space at Hong Kong University of Technology

- university fabs are often run on terrible equipment and by (to put it generously) trainees

- every time the university trainee operator changes you're probably qualifying a new process on your design (yes this is a bit snarky)

Based on my experiences getting stuff out of a university fab "process"... I'd rather sign the lot of NDAs and pay the money. Wait time might be faster out of a production fab, and you can usually bank on the process being followed.
I’m wondering, is that a bad thing? I would think that the less traffic that HN gets via Google and the more it gets as a percentage from the prototypical tech crowd, the less comments/posts it would get that aren’t really conducive to intellectual discussions.
Unfortunately no. But I will be grateful if you briefly explain why it's worth doing. What benefits it can bring?
If you have a good manager or reasonable people on your team, you'll be given chances to see if you stay in the rails.
Around here, typical to have 1 to 3 federal races, 5 to 8 statewide offices, 10 to 20 county and municipal contests, a handful of judge retention questions, and 1 to 20 other referendums. About half the races are usually uncontested.

It may take some time to fill out a ballot paper. But the act of voting itself is inserting the ballot paper into the locked and monitored ballot box, which takes a second or two.

My polling place is filled with tables and chairs and cardboard privacy dividers, but has just one ballot box, with a scanner-tabulator on top of it.

The electronic voting machines that take the place of the paper ballot are the problem. You need dozens per polling place, and each one is expected by design to be alone with a voter, with physical access and privacy, for tens of minutes. I presume by default that any jurisdiction using them is actively promoting the hacking of their own elections, and such presumption must be rebutted only by exposure of the facts of the process that would mistrust the communications coming from those boxes as compromised and potentially malicious. I cannot fathom how it would even be possible to secure such devices. At least the scanner-tabulators attached to ballot boxes can be watched continuously.
Not saying I agree with your "not too bad" assessment. But your list is incomplete without considering the violations of third parties who have shared items in confidence that are now on the local device.

So:

4) All third parties (meaning people other than the traveler) who have their privacy violated in the process must be informed immediately of the full details of the privacy violation. Which communications, pictures, etc. were viewed and or copied and by whom, and how to follow up on these violations.
Oh wow, did they really call it that?

I mean it's not wrong, the net neutrality debate is about deregulating the internet by the government so that the ISPs can regulate it. But you have to know what more freedom for ISPs can entail.

I mean if it was called Unlimited Gun Use Freedom it could be a name for legalized murder.
Mysterious burning hole with flames shooting out of it in Midway, Arkansas
> before you travel, you upload the encrypted image and wipe the phone, then after passing through customs you restore

That sounds like willfully evading customs, which is a serious crime.
So, ban or severely restrict lobbying and corporate donations.

I mean, it’s not like this is some absurd pie-in-the-sky idea; most developed democracies restrict both.
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If this becomes the norm, then I can see a startup offering "convincing" email, browser history, social media profiles, photos and telephone call lists to present to customs.

Give those pesky 5 eyes poison data of a fictional life via a 2nd phone.
I always feel like I'm missing something deeper when I hear / read about "Probabilistic Programming" - am I wrong in thinking that it's a well thought way of expressing Bayesian Models through the language of OOP? I always feel like the marketing side of this is hinting at something greater, but I haven't seen any deeper connections past a good design choice.
Focus group endings are a thing TV and movie producers have been doing for decades. It's not surprising these new media companies are coming up with some version of that which makes sense in the digital era. I'm only surprised that it took so long.
That is not enough because the professor will ask you to buy his books, also you can tutor with that professor and he will give you the questions for the exams(my experience is from Romania 15 years ago where corruptions was/is big enough)
Edit: To be fair and paint a correct image not all professors are corrupt, there professors that are fair and there are ones that are also very good as teaching not only good at their domains, unfortunately the corrupt ones are the ones with higher positions probably are the ones better are politics.
I have an idea, that could be applied to STEM and anywhere else..
Carry out interviews anonymously. The people actually doing the interview and making the hiring decision dont learn the applicants name or background.
When they talk to them, its text only or using a voice modulator.

They can see their work (with all names or hints at the applicants sex redacted) and interview them.. But they never learn any of their personal details..

You could even use fancy technology to do a video interview and capture their mannerisms and facial expressions but project it onto a neutral character.

This is one way I can think of, to try and achieve truly merit based hiring.

Is there a startup here prepared to try this out?
The problem there is that stuff in space is very evenly distributed, so that sort of super-clumpiness is hard to sell.

There would need to be a mechanism for why, in our observable universe, there happened to be no antimatter. If we saw other cosmic-scale clumpiness it might be a clue, but the differences are all tiny.
totalitarian purgatory

Nitpick: in Catholic dogma purgatory is a place of purification, those in purgatory know that they are there for a reason and only for a certain time, afterwards they enter heaven. Hell on the other hand, is for eternity and ugly. That's why the two are easily distinguished in their iconography, both involve imagery of flames, but souls in purgatory look joyful and those in hell look despondent.
HN has the distinct privilege of not giving a single iota about traffic. That’s one of the things I like most about the site, a complete lack of monetization. It’s pure in this sense.