skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first read this post I thought "Great! A story on cases of less explicit forms of gender-discrimination told in a way that makes business and economic sense. Seems like a good argument to have in my backpocket as someone who cares about gender issues." Then, out of further curiosity I checked the conversation on HN.

Gender issues are not like making someone feel uncomfortable for their eating habits, or their consumption of alcohol. Your eating habits, especially in Silicon Valley, are not something that systemically keep you back from achieving success. Gender and implicit sexism do.

Perhaps as a man, respecting women for their brains and their bodies feels "orthogonal" to you, but I doubt it does to most of the women you work with. Ask them, but in a way where they can really respond.

More than anything that's the important idea here. Being a woman in technology is different than being a man. If you are a man and have opinions about this and have not sought out the opinions of the women you work with in a genuine way, in an environment where they can be honest, then you don't know what you are talking about. I've asked and it's always surprised and dissapointed me.

Maybe from now on we should use IANAW to talk about gender issues as men, because honestly, its are stacked in our favor. Only by understanding the other side can we understand what the problems with gender issues look like.
It is worth noting that the 8.3 short name of the hidden file was HUB001.DAT[1]. This is because VFAT allows the specification of both a short name (8.3) and long name (LFN) for each file/directory.

You can find 8.3 '.' entry names by searching a partition for \x2e\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20

A file with an LFN of '.' could be found with (hopefully this is correct) \x00\x2e\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\x0f

It appears as if 8.3 file names starting with '.' are treated specially but LFNs starting with '.' carry no significant meaning.

I struggled to find references to other malware that has used a similar approach. Does anyone have more information?

Surely Windows does not attempt to automatically execute files with a LFN (UTF-16 name) of '.'?

[1] http://labs.bitdefender.com/2012/06/flame-the-story-of-leake...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Director...
@bubbles is an easy way to write letters from your browser. You can type, draw, sketch, make a collage, scribble and highlight on letters that were sent to you or sign in your own handwriting to make your letters look authentic. It is 100% free for consumers (ad-free also)and is as easy as writing on physical paper.

by @monsterix and @kumar_navneet
http://concurrencykit.org/ is also available, used in several production systems.
So what if the supply is exhausted. It's a synthetic shortfall driven by a smoke and mirrors view presented by companies that don't want to pay decent wages.

There's no shortage of quality tech talent, never has been. Now go show me a quality company.
I stopped being their fan when their return policies changed. Now there is something called "Restocking fee" and I have to pay for shipping?? I don't think so.

I use Newegg to research products but once I find what I am looking for, I search for the model on Amazon and end up purchasing there, knowing return policy is much better for customers.
Show HN: moviepresto.com - a legal movies.io
And the obvious underlying reason for these measures: corporations and governments will be able to identify those who "defame" them.
Is it at all possible that Linux Mint in some way collided with a driver or some other critical infrastructure?
What's this comment referring to?
Yes: women feel like a vulnerable minority, and feel bad (or at least uncomfortable) when they turn men down for dates.
I'm currently in the US on an E3, and while it is true that it is rather hard to get credit/insurance/a car when you first arrive, it does get easier. The trick is to start building your credit history from day 1: get a couple of secured credit cards and keep them paid. It'll take a few months for your credit history to even show up, and over a year for it to be any good, but it will happen. Credit Karma and Credit Inform (which you get for free with a Capital One secured card) are good tools for tracking your progress.

You should definitely have a decent amount of savings when you move over though, to offset the lack of credit.
A while back I linked to the following: http://concurrencykit.org/presentations/lockfree_introductio...

Please make sure to navigate all the way down, before navigating to the right. Press the space bar to see the full layout of the presentation.
Do Not Track: The pros and cons of being followed
Cry me a river. Pay decent wages.
The Oatmeal’s Awesome Response To Crazy Legal Request
Tangential to this story but anecdotally I've been hearing of lots of situations recently where newish laptops have had screen problems soon after purchase and the brands involved have varied (ASUS, Lenovo, Acer, etc). And by "screen problems", I mean electrical ones either with the panel itself or with the controller, resulting most often in parts of the screen or the entire screen dancing towards full white.

I wonder if there is some shared panel manufacturer who has been dropping the ball lately?
I live in Ann Arbor, MI, and 90% of the laptop users (in coffee shops or other public locations) use an Apple. So, from what I can see, they don't appear to be declining.
So it's basically similar to an RSA token, but as an app (and capable of addressing multiple accounts).
Colder winters may be new normal due to melting Arctic ice
Big Bang particle discovery closer : CERN
funny comment in page "Maybe the visa numbers are stored in an unsigned short and can't go above 65535 anyway"
The big cities: Melbourne and Sydney. You might get some joy from one of the other state capitals (Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin, Brisbane), but your best bet would be the big two.
More terrible winters for Europe ...

"People have heard about Arctic climate change and all the sea ice melting, but we hear about it representing a threat to the polar bears. Most people, if it doesn't effect their everyday lives, don't worry about it too much. The changes that are going on in the Arctic climate system are changing our everyday lives now, and we have to think about that."
The best advice I can give you is this: if you can't build it, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't rely on it. If you can't rely on it, it has no place in your application.

In my experience, this is the most common separating factor between code monkeys and great engineers.

Learn to make your own everything. Even if you USE the third party one, know how it works through experience. Anything less, and you are a technician.
Bring a Snack to Work
Sample

def qux(bar, baz, qux)
pass

def quuux(grim, gram, grom)
pass

def quuuuuux(hip, hop, zoom)
pass

Delete second argument (of 3+ arg functions):

/def<CR> # search
qd # record as 'd'
2f,dF,n # find second arg
q # done recording

@d # again (or n to skip)

Example intentionally simplified/convoluted. I'm doing stuff like this on the spot routinely, and there's no way multiple cursors could do this because I apply verbs to text objects that ST has (unless I'm missing something) no way of knowing about in a visual paradigm without resorting to guessing what I mean.

What would be killer is mixing both, i.e visually selecting where to apply a vim macro.
Have you tried Citi? They do all kinds of multi-currency accounts, have seamless overnight inter-country transfer etc. and are reasonably flexible. Only downsides are that they'll include your Australian Citibank accounts when reporting to the IRS, and they're monolithic.
I don't see how IPv6 on mobile data helps anyone but law enforcement and your mobile provider. Keeping smartphones behind a NAT (that can still speak IPv6 to the outside world if it were inclined to do so) and avoiding the baseband turmoil seems like a winning strategy.
The One S may have an IPv6-hating baseband; apparently this is a very common reason why phones cannot be upgraded to support v6 in software.
Try this new tool for publishers
I question their ability to perform science if they have to rely on their peers to find problems in their own equipment. When my car breaks down, I go to a mechanic to have it fixed, but when my software fails, I don't publish it and ask the community to figure out why it doesn't work.
> That's a pretty packed up qualification there. Users that interested are not, have not been, and will not be par for the course on the Android platform.

If this is the metric, then do you think the average iPhone user cares about what version of iOS they have? So many iPhone users are shocked when you walk up and double tap on the home button.

For the people who care on Android, there is a way to upgrade. For the people who don't care, there change is meaningless.

While this is a dog's dinner compared to the great adoption rates on new phones and new versions of iOS, it's worth mentioning.
3x XSS in Google Gmail are fixed and here's the summary
Ebooks Made of YouTube Comments Invade Amazon Kindle Store
because iOS hasn't had this for years.
This is NewEgg's chance to either gain or lose 1% of its customer base. Since margins are so tight on computers, and NewEgg costs for software support will decline, isn't this a no-brainer from a business perspective?
you do understand that ipv6 has mandatory ipsec, right?
I would probably look at apps other than Chrome. There's "unaware of the retina display", and there's "we eschewed native APIs to some extent and rolled our own implementations of stuff".

I don't know if this is the case, exactly, with Chrome. I'm just saying it might not be wise to generalize from Chrome's appearance to retina-naive 3rd party apps in general.
Yahoo Web Analytics Being Sunset
This is not the community they want to alienate.
if true, LOL!
This: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-fallout-y-combinator...
The tech community in Australia, while close knit and growing, has nothing on San Francisco (but honestly, where in the world does?). There is also the lure of other big, well known cities, particularly New York. Australians love to travel, and coming to the US is pretty expensive, so perhaps pitch it as a way of being close to north and south America?

That's why I'm here. I don't plan on returning to Melbourne until I've lived in San Francisco and New York either. It's a hell of an opportunity once you're over here.
I have had bad customer service from NewEgg in the past I'm not surprised by this. Now I buy almost everything off Amazon and only go to Newegg for stuff that can't be DOA (cables and such)
Like KGB->FSB?
New name, same friendly service!
We look ahead at 3991 AD and find it to be depressing. I've always wondered how past civilizations (Greeks, Egyptians, etc) would find our modern day civilization.
"We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating," Gladwell said in Toronto. "They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen."

While entrepreneurs may not necessarily be moral leaders, I disagree with the implication that a great businessmen cannot also be a moral leader.
For those of you watching the game tonight there is a live fan chat running from 9pm at -
http://www.LiveBasketballChat.com/go/17762
I liked this so much I added it to the article at the bottom :)
ESPN built an api for thier content but the TOS were crap so we decided against using any of it when building http://www.LiveBasketballChat.com
This is pretty awesome. I love solid data, but it seems to me that this might be too much data and too few substantial takeaways...but the graphs are still fun to look at.
Rms (Richard Stallman) robbed in Argentina
Well, that's undeniably pretty fanatical.

I have only read his technical articles that get posted to news aggregator sites -- I don't particularly care about what strange political beliefs some washed-up developer has -- and hadn't noticed anything so vile as this.

I think he still (occasionally) makes good points about development and open source, but his political and sociological views are very immature.
Are "alpha geeks" leaving? No. Apple's never been stronger in that domain. Conferences are virtually 100% MacBooks with a smattering of ironic Dell or Lenovo systems. If anything it's even stronger since there's even more iPad presence.

The people who are leaving are technology hipsters. They want to use the things that haven't become popular, that are unappreciated. Apple's too mainstream to be cool for people like that. They want problems to solve, things to fiddle with, not finished products that anyone can use. They want challenges and bragging rights for getting it to work.

It's not a case of elitism as easy as that would be to see. It's just that Apple's platform is, as far as hackers go, quite "done" and there's not much untamed land to occupy. The rugged frontier is far beyond iOS and OS X.

I'm sure a few of these people are working on a Raspberry Pi phone.
He doesn't actually call the 3rd party apps features of the OS. He states the features that are available to both OSes and notes those that are via 3rd party apps. Some prefer everything to be built into the OS while others prefer an OS that simply allows others to create/enhance the functionality. There are pros and cons to both approaches.
Wanting to be and being able to be are vastly different things.

Trying to be Amazon when that's not a feasible goal is a bad idea.
True, and it just goes to show you need to treat ALL of your customers with respect because you never know who are the ones who can Hurt or Help your business.
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Zynga is said to be moving games into the mobile market, but you also have to figure that being a gaming company is hard. You're top-rated game will be supplanted by something else in short order and you have to constantly be updating.

I think that the way Zynga acquired its customers/users is exacerbating the situation. If your friends are all there you feel compelled to join too, but if some leave it's socially acceptable to follow them elsewhere.

Since we're talking about "social" gaming, I also have to wonder whether part of the drop isn't seasonal ... at least where I live, it's now nice enough to spend a lot of time outside socializing (picnics, frisbee, t-ball, etc) so perhaps there's just not the boredom to drive as much traffic?
Sorry, I should've said "What's your point?" instead of "What's the point (in the update)", the first question is what I meant.

I don't see the OPs point as 3GSs getting the update aren't better off than Android devices on 2.3 which still have access to many backported Android APIs.
The monthly whoishiring thread [1] has some jobs with H1B, although I haven't had much luck with them.

Also, employers cannot make you pay the immigration fees, it's illegal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053076
Yeah I was surprised by those changes as well when I had to return something. The CSR I spoke to apologized then sent me a prepaid label and charged me no restocking fee.

So great customer service but the charges almost seem arbitrary when the CSR can just apologize and wipe them out...
IPv6 over WLAN is no problem, that can be entirely done on the application processor. Everything mobile however has to go through the baseband processor, an extra subsystem with propietary software doing propietary protocols. Communicaton between baseband and application processor is very limited, and to this day happens mostly over a serial line speaking as AT modem.
Where is the inequality?

Vulnerability? The vulnerability has been caused by something else, which is the inappropriate behaviour.
Minority? Irrelevant - (at least) one sex will always be in the minority if there are an odd number of employees.
Feeling bad? Unrelated to sex.

Regardless, the behaviour mentioned is neither severe nor pervasive (if standalone) and not intrinsically sexual.

EDIT: From some above comments, you sound like you might be suggesting there is an Atlantic culture device. I'm UK-based, so perhaps this partially explains to you a difference in opinion.
I stopped taking this seriously when they compared the accuracy of the "ask the audience" and "phone a friend" bits on Who Wants to be a Millionaire without considering that everyone used the ask the audience lifeline on an early question and saved the phone a friend for later questions.

Without controlling for when they are used the comparison of accuracy is literally meaningless.

The same stats show that, rightly or wrongly, the contestants didn't have as much faith in the audience for later stage, much harder questions.

I guess I should give the benefit of the doubt and assume the writer didn't notice this and the error is accidental but that's only slightly better than just ignoring it because you wanted a sexy anecdote to support your point.
I should point out: The movies.io site itself may be legal, but the torrent links it contains are not (at least in the US).

Unfortunately, "Show HN: moviepresto.com, like movies.io, but with links to legal download sources" doesn't make for a very good headline.
It is mandatory for devices to support IPSec, not to enable it for all connections. Beside of that, where should the IPSec tunnel be terminated to get around interception?
Slight correction -
The visa is not valid for 6 years. The H1B visa that is granted to you at a US consulate abroad is usually valid for up to three years. (sometimes two) i.e. you have till that expiry date to enter the US.

Once in the US, you can extend your H1B status for up to 6 years (and more if you have a pending 'green card' process)
I question your understanding of how science works. Actually, I question your ability to program also. I often go out to the community to find out if there are other issues, or maybe something simple that I forgot. Using your peers for help is not a weakness, it's a strength.
If you put the "/def<CR>" part in the macro too, then you can re-execute it multiple times.

I think it's actually useful, not simplified/convoluted..
Shane Battier is one of the smartest players in the NBA, and you can see it in action by looking at his shot chart.
I find this tax-site-as-dating-opportunity pretty hilarious. Please tell me Mr. Bose is real, because I want him to be real!
File a chargeback. Show your credit card company the return policy and how you didn't violate it, and you will get your money back.

This is precisely why you should always pay with a credit card online.
It's probably just a coincidence. Most electronics have a manufacturing failure rate so these things can happen.
There are sometimes operational difficulties in 'forcing' the owner of a nuclear armed carrier battlefleet to obey anything.

It's even worse than trying to force a teenager to tidy their room!
Basically, they make some shit up.
This is a little off topic but need to have a whine about secured cards - I had two simultaneously with wells fargo and bank of america for 12 and 6 months respectively and always in the black. When trying to "upgrade", was then bounced for being on a temp E3 visa as part of some magical policy at both banks they failed to enlighten me to in the sales pipeline.

E3 is a nice idea but dealing with some of life's basics can be grueling in the US if you're off the system. It's not difficult to imagine how people on the street here can't get out of the hole.

Credit Unions are the way to go, no doubt, but took a while to figure that out.
Heroku offers a hosted and managed Postgres (including the option of PostGIS 1.5) that's on AWS: https://postgres.heroku.com/
DHS Plans to Develop Cyber Workforce: Lots of new opps...
I had a really bad experience in the past with Newegg and their lower levels of customer service. At one point I documented and blogged it, but that blog is no longer up unfortunately.

Anyway, the good news is that once I got in touch with someone higher up the chain they were like, "That never should have happened" and worked to make it right. It just took a ton of kicking and screaming to get there, which really wasn't worth it on my part, but in the end, they did the right thing.

One thing I'm seeing more and more is that companies are holding back their lower tier support employees from actually being helpful. For example, have you ever had one of those "Instant Online Chat Support" things help you out? No, they are always so unempowered its not even funny.
Typically you buy a tech stock for growth since they rarely pay dividends. When you see that the growth is negative and potentially accelerating there is probably little reason to hold the stock-particularly when they have no earnings.
First authorized translation of 1970 essay identifying "uncanny valley" problem
>The other problem is that the AI fights total wars by default. It will never engage in a limited conflict.

This is why I don't play civ. Total war AIs are a bizarre choice in a strategy game. I dislike it when games are setup in a way where I'm the only one thinking strategy and the AI opponents are there to give me a sense of action. Total war in the real world is rare.

>Or that one possibly victory condition in a game of Civilization would be to maximize a global human development index of some kind

When I was a kid I played a strategy game on the original Mac. I think it was called Balance of Power. The game punished you when war broke out. It didn't encourage it. The game ended if you and the Soviets got into a nuclear conflict. Why can't more games have rational goals instead of just being a more advanced form of Pacman?
Interesting. If it works well on tablets and smartphones, this could really appeal to non-techies.

Is it possible to send letters to users who are not registered on this site? Forcing everyone to sign up is a huge barrier to adoption in my opinion.
Not the NBA, but some teams use a system called SportVU[0] that do auto player&ball tracking.

I used to work on the system, so I can answer (some) questions about it.

[0] http://www.sportvu.com/basketball.asp
It isn't executed, it is used to get the data out of airgapped networks onto connected infected machines
Redis Is The Most Important Tool In My Toolbelt
It was an RMA, not an extended warranty repair. But I agree with you anyway.
then why are you frustrated about the hardware? it's an old phone.

edit: oh wait i think i misinterpreted you original comment. my condolences for coming off as an ass.
I always thought bullying doesn't count unless there is a real threat of being beaten up behind the school on a regular basis. Apparently mainstream definitions are much broader...
I'm picturing somewhere in the DoD there is an ordnance disposal form with a checkbox saying - "dropped on enemy"
Would you agree to a date/casual encounter without seeing any pictures? I know I wouldn't. And I'm willing to bet most people feel the same way. There is a HUGE difference between your friend setting you up on a blind date and agreeing to one online. Not to mention that the adult nature of your site makes it even more of a risk. If this is a potential business venture, I'd definitely change your dating model. If you're hell bent on making a casual dating site, there are other ways of ensuring quality and privacy. Profile verification is one way, private/fee based entry is another.
Blake Griffin's startup: 12society
Open Science.
To support your first point, I implemented Maged's lock-free allocator so we could compare against it (http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/michael.tar.gz), and I never got it working correctly on Itanium. I spent weeks trying to figure out what was wrong. I eventually concluded that I did not understand the Itanium architecture and the algorithms used in the allocator well enough to be confident I could fix it - and that it wasn't worth improving my understanding of either. (I asked Maged if he had any experience with his allocator on Itanium, and he did not.)
EU considering travel restrictions