skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you think you are doing other females a disservice by doing quality work and hiding the fact that you are a female? Maybe you'll have to deal with those headaches you describe now, but then maybe you can make it easier for your daughter, or inspire other young female hackers. Isn't that worth it?

I can appreciate it if you aren't up for this fight, but think of it like this: wouldn't it have defeated the purpose if Rosa Parks wore a disguise when she sat at the front of the bus, so that no one would be able to tell what race she was?
I'd be interested to know what people consider a true game mechanic to be. Examples such as the op of including game like behaviour or incentives in interactions we wouldn't normally think of as games is increasingly popular and effective so at what point does it move from "gamification" to a true game mechanic?
Terms overlap only in the Senate; the entire House stands for re-election every two years.
Treating students as gifted requires extra resources. Which comes back to the basic notion of getting what you pay for.

On the other hand, this economics doesn't work that well in American public schools. They are crippled by teachers' unions which deny performance-based compensation, and funding is seriously skewed toward athletics (though I think in most schools that's funded more by the parents' direct contributions).
I suppose HTML 5 offline caching undercuts connectivity as well.
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This was an amazing, historical moment of our time. I even ran outside to grab my two-year-old son so he could watch it on TV with me. (Although he doesn't understand the significance, he keep saying "Space ship, daddy! Space ship!")

Hopefully, mankind will continue the exploration of space...
Google is forcing people to use their free service now?
Agreed, and I don't think you're being pedantic at all. It's a great user experience, and the whimsical fun touches like this (and what happens when you remove them from circles) are the kind of thing we're more used to seeing in games than in "serious" software. But that doesn't mean it's "game mechanics."

Oh well, at least he didn't use "gamification" :-)
We've only been sending people to space for fifty years, there's still nothing "routine" about low earth orbit...

That is the damaging legacy of STS. It's established the expectation that going to orbit can never be done at a reasonable price, that there will never be anything people can do in space worth the staggering cost of getting them there.

Getting to orbit could be routine, but we been marinating in expensive failure for so long the engineering that needs to be done to make it happen will never get public support in the US.
A crucial difference is that the mechanic has possession of your car, and the legal right to keep it until you pay for the work that has been done on it up to that point.
Cutting the budget for an orbiting telescope does not proceed from obscurantism.

The federal government of the United States is $14 trillion in debt. Well-nigh irresistible power blocs have made the largest line items untouchable. The Congresscritters have to do something, so they cut everything else. Thundering about "Science" from the pulpit does not change any of this.

We are going to keep doing what we've been doing until we can't do it anymore.
> it doesn't matter whose hardware gets us off the ground and out toward the stars.

On this, I disagree. Flying in an even older device (Soyuz) provided at a ridiculous rate from a "business partner" (calling Russia an ally is not quite accurate) is not the way we should be letting ourselves get into space.

I know the shuttle is far from perfect, but we should have had the Dragon or Orion capsule ready before shuttle retirement.

Turn off some air conditioners and get out of a few wars, and we could have easily kept going strong.
I understand the concept behind this, and I understand your argument as well. The reasoning, I think, is pretty simple.

Let me try to better explain what I'm trying to say, as a series of steps:

1. Teachers start treating everyone as smart

2. To treat everyone as gifted, more challenging material has to be introduced.

3. As a result of increased motivation/whatever, the size of the gifted student pool doubles. 80% of the class is still not at a gifted level.

4. No Child Left Behind, morality, failing students, angry parents come into play, and educators are forced to answer questions about the other 80%.

5. Two problems are now in play: First, there is the failing 80%. Second, of the 20% of gifted students, 10% is smarter than the other 10%.

6. Because there can be no tier separation of students (gifted/not gifted), material must be taught the same way, and the same material must be taught (otherwise, discrimination?)

7. Educators have a decision to make: Teach dull material that suits the last 10% and 80%, or teach engaging material that suits the top 10%, but is difficult for the second 10%, and near impossible for the 80%.

8. Choice A results in the top 10% of students losing out on an education, and Choice B results in 80% of the class failing.

9. I hate to bring this up for a very liberal and optimistic audience but: the 20-80 rule is very prevalent in society. It's inevitable that the top 10% will probably account for a good 50% or so of the nation's GDP and innovation when they're older (no, I have no evidence, but it makes sense).

Are you beginning to see my point? I went on a first-date last night, and compared my high school experience (didn't learn a thing, wasn't told about SATs, people were stabbed, no AP/IB) with my date's high school (UTS in Toronto... 2 entrance exams to get in, contests and opportunities made available, etc). I'll tell you now, that I feel like I missed out on a lot of opportunity. By changing education to this model, you'll find more people who feel that way (maybe not as extreme).

PS. My education was so bad, in fact, that by the time I took my SAT II subject tests, I know I needed 800s and I hadn't learned 70% of the material in Math II, Physics, or Chemistry. I bought books, and for the first time in high school, I actually studied.
Incidence varies by community and definition. Sexual assaults are very common on college campuses.

The stereotypical scary guy with pantyhose pulled over his head is only one manifestation of rape. "Date-rape" and taking advantage of people not capable of giving consent (drunk, drugged, etc) happens all of the time.
No thanks.

There is something intensely annoying about Buffett: his hypocrisy.

He claims that rich Americans are not paying their fair share of taxes, but doesn't take the obvious step of voluntarily paying more taxes by sending a big check to the IRS.

He supports the estate tax, supposedly because it is bad for America to have children receive inherited wealth. Of course, he has set up a foundation which his children will administer after his death. Naturally, they'll take a salary for this arduous assignment. And it just so happens that having an estate tax benefits the insurance companies in which he is heavily invested: 10% of insurance company revenue comes from the policies wealthy folks buy in order to avoid estate taxes.

He's all for rigorous corporate government and the avoidance of self-dealing. Except when these standards are violated by his subordinate and Berkshire-Hathaway heir-apparent David Sokol, who -- with the full knowledge of Buffett -- personally invested in a company that Sokol was pitching to Berkshire-Hathaway.

Buffett is clearly a shrewd investor. However, an economic holy man he is not.
On a related note:

A 3GHz computer (ignoring multi-core, hyperthreading, other issues) executes 3 instructions every nanosecond.
Light travels 1 foot per nanosecond.
Your head is about 2 feet from your monitor.
In the time it takes the light from this post on your monitor to reach your eye, your computer performs 6 instructions.
Scale as appropriate.

When I first realized that, I wandered around in a slight daze thinking "wow, light is slow..."
yes. I believe that people should have the freedom to believe what they like, as long as it doesn't encroach on others rights.
I think this is broken. I entered, "Bite my shiny, metal ass!" and all I got was some weird, Barney-like purple robot. I'd suggest special sub-routines for certain phrases including, but not limited to: "Ex-Ter-Mi-NATE!", "Danger, Will Robinson!", "Crush, Kill, Destroy!", "Beedeebeedeebeedeebeedee!", "We've got movie sign!", "Blah, blah, blah", "I'll be back", etc.

;)
You might appreciate this link to start your weekend..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJWmdnxEFc
At some point you're going to have to trust someone(e.g. whoever made the libraries you're using in your program did it properly or that the person making your sandwich washed their hands first), but I'd agree it'd be nice if we could make the system less of a popularity contest that's full of hyperbole & 5-second or less sound bites.

I think we need more political parties & vast limitations on campaign financing. I'd also love if we could test reading comprehension & basic logic skills before allowing people to run for office.
One of the broadly-speaking Anglo-Saxon innovations was the idea of a government of laws, and not men. I think it's one of those "good lies"; it isn't ever true, in reality "we're all just folk" and it's always government of men, but it's very good for all members of a society globally to maintain the fiction. Unfortunately, it does require a significant fraction of the society to choose to maintain the fiction (with varying levels of awareness of the fact that it is actually fiction), and locally it advantageous for people of power to implement government of men, not laws.

And in our sophistication pretty much all the intellectuals we've got busily tearing apart all the foundation that "government of laws, not men" is built on. So back to government-of-men we go. Hooray.
I don't think the issue is that she's a wild woman from the era of grunge, but rather she was addicted to heroine and cocaine for a while.
That Randall Munroe is a real person's person.
Yeah, there's a guy in the comments who has apparently had it working with procmail. He provided an example procmail recipe.
The rate should be a factor of GDP growth - something like when GDP is growing 3%+, they can have 0 deficit, and shrinking, up to 5%.

Or just some way to save in the good times, and spend in the bad times.
It sounds absurd to me that you say the private sector MUST be losing money if the government has a balanced budget. That is absolute hogwash.
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I actually agree with you somewhat although you are not saying a lot. We have to find a system where the fortune of a single person automatically contributes to the good of the whole. Capitalism is actually already surprisingly good in that regard, and that's why it has been so successful. But in the end, there will be people who are vastly more successful in any system, and we need a way to make all efforts automatically contribute to society. I don't mean taxes, because those can be controlled by a governing body and are regarded as external force. Nobody wants to pay taxes. No, we need motivators which are intrinsic to the human mind. People need to want to help. Let's not kid ourselves and think that we can just "pull ourselves together" and be nicer to each other in the future. Human nature can't be overridden by mere wishes.
Capitalism works because there is nothing stronger than the motivation to provide for yourself and your family.

How do we use that motivation to nurture society as a whole? I don't know. Taxes are not good enough, as we can see today, they can always be outsmarted. You can't outsmart human nature, which means billions of people struggling towards a single goal.
But he could end the deficit in five minutes.
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As always, I'm happy to talk about it. I think I specifically owe jdietrich a shoutout for his comment here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2667481 . I knew in the back of my head that I care about being happy. It was not obvious to me other people cared to read about that aspect of the business.

Back to our regularly scheduled tactics/strategy discussion next time.
Did not know this, love it and am also amazed that all of us are alive right now in an era where humans are dabbling with technology that is starting to ram right up against (perceived?) physical limitations.
Former CIA Director: Build a new Internet to improve cybersecurity
He didn't specify his side, just that there was a lot radicalization.
Crowdsourcing is not an industry, Let's stop calling it one
So a theif's life is worth less than the things they stole from you?
I'm British: I use it quite often. Maybe it's rarer in the US?

"John was late for dinner. They were caught in traffic." is perfectly correct usage (however if you'd just called somebody by a gender-specific name there's not much point in then being gender-neutral).
It's just not an issue many people are aware of. If you're not a computer geek, you don't hear about these things until it's too late.
For 2.0, I'll add ?popculture=yes ;)
WB benefits from almost every movement in the economy, with or without government involvement. From everything that I have read, he has made plain his disinterest in the big investment banks and their fates. Here's a great example:

http://swampland.time.com/2009/09/15/warren-buffett-could-ha...
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No, definitely not. I think he enjoys the game.

I think Buffet likes to be comfortable. I don't think he has a need to show off.

But that doesn't detract from the fact that he sees it as a game to be played and a competition. It could be for really expensive beans for all he cares.
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That would mean you as the artist either wrote or co-wrote the song. As you would then be getting songwriting royalties from your music publishing company, but not royalties off the sound recording. Those recordings belong to the labels and all artists with little to no bargaining power never get a piece of those royalties.
At least then they would be playing chicken with their own re-elections not the US and World economy by proxy of the debt ceiling.
I wonder how many legislators realized they were thinking of the taxpayers as the enemy when they did that.
I see what you're saying, but I don't think these two are in any way inconsistent. Gender equality starts with breaking down people's assumptions. If people just saw stick figures, I think they'd assume they were male. Thus, to break that assumption, he needs to do something to make it clear that some of them are women. So, if he has scientists talking about something, having half of them be women should, hopefully, ingrain a little more that women can be scientists.
If you said "They" I would wonder who else was in the car with John.
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of the new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

Here's a more extensive (and accurate) one.
Yubikeys are based on shared secrets, which means that Mt. Gox must keep a database of all users and their shared secrets. If this database is compromised, then protection provided by Yubikey is lost.

Two factor auth relies on you proving that you have something. Here, Mt. Gox have it too (the shared secret). If their copy gets leaked, anyone can pretend to be you.

Still, it's far better than nothing. But note that RSA SecureID's recent compromise was this exact issue.

The real way of fixing this is with asymmetric crypto. For example: http://www.gooze.eu/feitian-epass-pki-token - here the USB token is the only device that ever sees a private key, so a compromise really would need to target that physical thing that you have.
Steven Levy explains the access he had to get in order to write 'In the Plex'
In Australia's history, of 44 constitutional referendums held, only 8 have passed (3 of them in the same ballot). It's very difficult (some would say, too difficult) to amend the Australian constitution, and definitely not something that tends to happen with a "swell of public sentiment".

Compare that to 11 amendments to the US Constitution over the same period (1901 onwards) - two of which I'd point out dealt with the introduction and repeal of Prohibition (which I'd say qualified as a "swell of public sentiment").
Fewer Americans Are Working Than Any Time Since 1983
Well we now have a better idea of the psychology behind 58,363+ Karma.

Patrick - as a business (not competent programming) guy who runs his own small business, and consults / coaches many much larger businesses, this was probably the article of yours I've had most empathy (and a thrill of excitement) reading. I mean, the HN-man-crush has been there for years, but I really received a lot of value feeling your feelings of suddenly being an international business consultant and being good at it. Even your writing style here seemed more ... feely, though that may have been me.

And if that empathy gives me any credibility to support a key piece, more people should add 50% (or more - one of my mentors told me recently to 2x + $150 my price) more often. You are almost certainly more experienced and confident than you think you are. Recognising that is paying massive dividends for me.
It will happen, and Sony and Microsoft only have themselves to blame for failing to figure out the console upgrade path and what consumers want. The hardware in the latest xbox and playstation is now over 6 years old, and what you can buy with a $150 mobile device almost surpasses it in pushing polygons.

I don't understand why they do not keep the console operating system consistant, and update hardware every 18 months. xbox loading times, game prices etc. are a pain when the alternative is to boot up your phone or browser and play for 5-10 minutes at a time. Sony had the Ericsson partnership they did nothing with, and Microsoft had Microsoft .. and nothing came of either.

The more exciting element is gaming moving to the browser. webgl is coming to the mobile browsers soon. I just happen to be watching this demo video yesterday of RAGE running on webgl in a browser:

http://youtu.be/d0S2dsuSxHw

bit of a 'holy shit the world is changing' moment
Can I ask you your source? I'd like to be able to quote you with some feeling of authenticity the next time I discuss this with somebody.
Right and then one party looks to create a situation where the other party has more people who will be ineligible.
How does that not apply in the same scenario? Tell the client what you've run into and what the new estimated cost to actually implement the feature. Unless the contract has some stipulation about misestimation, no one can force you to do that extra work.
US Treasury secretly weighs options to avert default
Just because people differ on moral values doesn't mean that a properly discovered moral code can't or won't be objective. For example, people differ in their understanding of physics (and often seem hopelessly wrong), but mechanics is what it is. Just because some people don't get it yet doesn't nullify or change physical laws.

The right way for anyone to figure out what their core values should be is to apply reason. Dedicated, hard-core Christians feel a certain way about a lot of things, but they ultimately base their conclusions on faith, which is the antithesis of reason.
Exactly. Gnu's Flex lets the user define regex's for each state of the parser... http://flex.sourceforge.net/manual/Patterns.html#Patterns
One possibility is that the job of congressman becomes a 2 year job and you have to dole out enough goodies in two years to get a secure post-congress position.
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Mr "Pascazi" - refer to http://bit.ly/pEgrbE.

Notably 5.8 in this case - i'll keep a watch but if anyone notices a filing in Australia - let me know and i'm happy to write and object :) Also, incase this fool didn't realize - the evidence trail he is leaving across the web implying that he intends to use it in bad faith is well ... amateur at best.

Also - perhaps Pascazi needs to understand technology a bit more. Notably, learning how bitcoin works.

Let's Pascazi a lesson in law and take him ..... Puts on sunglasses ..... to bits .... YEEEAAAHHHHHHHHH
A guy like Buffet makes investments holding his nose. I think he made something like 4 billion on the GS deal.

I hate tobacco companies but I bought in 2008 when dividend yields were > 5%.

Of course, I'm no Buffet...
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"[Sci fi] is also crammed with clichés that are superficially plausible but which don’t hang together when you look at them too closely."

This seems the most valuable bit of the essay. There are so many things that we "want", until we get them.

Recalls a recent article (anyone have a link? been looking for it) wherein the future of human space travel is deemed nonexistent because lobbing humans to another place is so hard with so few places worth expending that effort for. Do we all want inter-planetary/stellar/galactic space travel? of course we say yes, but faced with expending a lifetime (or a thousand) to get there and burning all of Earth's resources to do it we'd say no.

Closer to home, there are so many products and services we want, yet go nigh unto unused when we shell out hard-earned money for them. Yeah, I want XYZ, but upon acquisition I move right on to acquiring PDQ instead of using XYZ to anywhere close to its full potential. I've got a thousand unread books as a testament to this.

Not quite sure where I'm going with this or why, but his point did seem salient.
1. Teachers start treating everyone as smart

2. To treat everyone as gifted, more challenging material has to be introduced.

Thank you for the detailed step-by-step reply to the comment above yours. Looking at your first two steps on the basis of international comparisons, I would say that the empirical observation of what happens in countries where step 1 and step 2 are followed is that learners IN GENERAL become smarter and reach higher levels than learners in the United States generally do. I am most familiar with the situation in Taiwan (where my nieces and nephews live, and where my wife grew up and I and my children lived for a time). The international comparative study TIMSS

http://pirls.bc.edu/timss2007/PDF/T07_M_IR_Chapter1.pdf

shows that the entire bell curve for certain countries is shifted to the right, with "average" level of students in those countries being close to the gifted level in the United States, or, from another point of view, the "gifted" level of the United States being barely above the "average" level of those countries. (See Exhibit 1.1 on pages 34 and 35 of the linked document for a beautiful example of a statistical chart comparing score levels in different countries.)

The international comparisons show that learners rise to higher expectations. Examination of the poor (by international standards) performance of the top students in the United States

http://educationnext.org/teaching-math-to-the-talented/

suggests there is plenty of headroom in the United States population that hasn't been explored by the typical United States curriculum. So it is commendable that the researchers mentioned in the submitted link are trying to test the limits of the United States population and see how much academic performance can increase here, as it has in other countries I know during my lifetime.