skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know that whatever damage is caused, it can't be too bad because children born using sperm donors - which can be frozen for storage - don't have increased defect rates, but have decreased defect rates, something like 1/5

/checks http://www.gwern.net/Ethical%20sperm%20donation for his old citation

Yes, 1/5 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm%20donation%23Sperm_donati...
> A shirt like this doesn't indicate a threat. Smart security would not single it out.

How, again, is the goal of smart security advanced by making a big scene in a way that gets everyone who doesn't already agree with him to say "well, what did you expect"?
I said "specific potential threats". Not "threats". I agree, the man is not an actual threat, and the agents should have seen that as well, eventually. Their failure to move on is a problem, but they did not write a blog post asking for sympathy.

A red shirt with the words, "bomb", "kill", and "blood" is something that will get you noticed. It is not just "unusual or non-conformist", it specifically references security concerns -- the agents would be derelict in their duty to not take an extra look. They tell you not to joke about bombs for a reason! It is almost literally waving a red flag in front of a bull.

That's why he wore it, right? Why else would a person wear such a shirt?

I'm just saying, if one does this, one has to think ahead.

I enjoy your blog, by the way.
Nope. You are reading his story without thinking. I don't buy his story. He's a punk who was getting off on the whole idea of what he was doing. There are three possibilities in this case:

(1) he woke up, possibly hung over, and dressed without thinking;

(2) he deliberated picked his shirt knowing he would be dealing with TSA agents, etc. (in your face!) and possibly knowing that he would make some folks nervous and not giving a shit; or

(3) he made the choice in #2 but with the aim to antagonize-- in essence, psychologically bullying those around him (Oh, I'm not scared, are you?).

I figure that if it was #1 the blog post would have bee a whole lot different. The best I can allow him is that it was a move of immaturity. I am not applauding, regardless of my stance on the TSA and their practices.
I got into Awesome Window Manager a couple of months ago and have been getting to know how to manage remote Vim split windows with the help of NERDTree. A remote in-Vim managed tiling aproach would be cool though. Googling around, there's also https://github.com/fabi1cazenave/suckless.vim which emulates wmii and has "[s]tacked, [d]ivided, [f]ullscreen" modes. I need to learn tabs also. Things can get busy on 1024*768!
Hipset. It’s the stupid algorithm, stupid.
the decision of people to have children late is harmful to society in a number of ways.

i know an "irresponsible" woman who had a child when she was a teenager. she was 40 when her child was in college and ready to move on in her life. if she lives until 80, she'll share 60 years of experiences with her child on average.

if some professor decides to wait until they have tenure (say 40) before they have kids, they're likely to have 40 years of overlap. they'll be dealing with an unruly adolescent when they are 55.

if you have a kid at 50 (some people do!) then you have 30 years of overlap and you're dealing with an unruly teenager at 65!

(Oddly, have kids at 30, like I did and my dad did, and you're in your 40s when your kids are in their teens. The 40s seem to be a time that parallels adolesence and a number of ways... Stan Lee and Mike Ditko were in their 40's when they were imagining the adventures of teen Peter Parker...)

so having kids late in life means that parents have less experience with their children and children get less out of their parents.

(note that smaller nuclear families have an almost genocidal effect on extended families... if you have N siblings on average, you have N^2 cousins!)

for years i've believed that late childbearing has an effect similar to an increase in background radiation, this study confirms that and just adds to the case
Isn't it a privilege to fly? Not a right. It's not like an airplane is some public government arena. It's the property of the airlines, just so happens that you have to be cleared by the government to fly. Don't they have the right to refuse service to a customer, especially if that customer is making employees and other customers uneasy. I'm sure if you went into a McDonald's and were wearing some suspicious clothing or start spouting off ridiculous speeches, they'd ask you kindly to leave and tell you that you were not a welcome customer any longer. In fact, I've seen it happen.

There are places for expression and "Free Speech"... maybe sitting next to the 13 year old or grandmother (or any other paying customer) who's flying for the first time in his/her life wearing some silly t-shirt about bombs and anti-government banter isn't the right place for it.
I think that's right, but I do think it's also changeable, and that there is demand for more product-focused news. Part of the problem (imo, of course) is that funding-related news is just easier journalism: reporting a funding round is often a very loose gloss on a press release, while reviewing products requires work to identify which products are worth reviewing, how they should best be approached, maybe even data analysis.

I think people would read that if there were more of it, though. People on HN do vote up even fairly cursory product-focused articles when they appear, e.g. a blog post doing a comparison of Heroku and a competitor. I see the funding-related stories as more just a least-effort excuse to talk about a startup: someone (usually TechCrunch) doesn't really have the time to spare doing a proper product review, but throws out a little blurb about funding, and opens up the floor for discussion about the startup. That then gets voted up on HN because people are curious and want to discuss it, and the TC blurb presents an opportunity to do so, even if it isn't itself that compelling as an article.

Now if TC gets the same hits from those low-effort articles, why would they put in Consumer Reports style work doing more in-depth product-focused reporting? I would guess there's little monetary justification for doing so, unfortunately.
Scientists create matter that can dent diamonds
It's already not in the EXIF data anyways. Instagram API is assigning its own geo tag to it, so why bother with all the extra info that they don't need to track?

Granted, still a dick move– they could just store it, but I think you're imagining that they're going to strip EXIF data (which they already do anyways)
Dear Typesafe

Congratulations! Now, please do something about your language's godawful syntax and semantics.

Signed: a frustrated Lisp programmer.
An entrepreneur's life is an emotional roller coaster. It is soo important to maintain perspective.
Thanks for that, I didn't realize they had updated the site so much.

Do you think that's the only way to write fast FP code?

That is typically how you go fast in OCaml.
If your primary purpose as a human being is to reproduce, then yes, your arguments have merit.

Otherwise, you are projecting your own values and desires on a lot of people who potentially don't share them.
Quit Your Whining … It’s Time to Train & Learn
AMD, WordPress & the Security of PHPass
But don't you think it would be a little bit of an overreaction if McDonalds threw you out simply for wearing a "Meat is Murder" t-shirt?
I don't think that's particularly crazy. It allows them to do antiphishing (at some cost to the user's privacy, but if you object to that you're not going to be on AOL), and as someone running an HTTP server on the public internet you should expect to receive arbitrary GETs from random sources.
You need to (re)read Mendel. Recessive traits and dominant traits stay at a constant fraction within a population (absent selective pressures).
Solar panels use rare earth elements (indium, specifically). That's going to be a scarce resource pretty quickly at the rate it's going into land fill via LCD panels. The energy required to refine silicon to semiconductor purity isn't small, either. I'm not sure the economics are as simple as you seem to think.
I think I understand the gist of what you're saying, but I'm not certain. Could you elaborate?
I'm not that familiar with california agriculture to know if the crops he mentions are heirloom or not. However, the 15 years specifically mentions small scale ag which during the 80's made a lot more sense than it does today.

You could be right about the heirlooms.
Is there a reasonable interpretation of this that would make it not a dick move? Like maybe they assume if you don't want to share your location now, you never did in the first place?
What's the reason this isn't compatible with the iPhone 4/other devices?

Also, trying to open the preferences (10.6.8) takes 20-30 seconds of beach ball frozen before the window comes up (and 5-10 to close as well, without changing anything)
I got four words into that site, found, "protocol," and knew someone was finally doing this right. They have defined the protocol and are working on an implementation. That made it immediately obvious that they were already miles ahead of Diaspora.

Good luck to them!
adamantium? cheers
It doesn't make sense to count food waste in kilograms, you should count it in USD. With USD in pocket you can always simply farm more food. Or just import food from abroad poor countries, helping their people.

One big waste is buying expensive food like in restaurants or organic. You can eat healthily for less than 2 USD / day if you prepare meal yourself from mass produced ingredients.

Buying and eating one 20$ restaurant meal is much worse than wasting 10kg of potatoes. Ask the people who really have problems with lack of food if wasting 20$ (restaurant) is better than wasting 2$ (potatoes).
"How is Tent licensed?
Tent will be completely free and open and treated as a standard. To prevent fragmentation before launch, the original authors currently retain copyright. This is a temporary situation which will be remedied immediately after a governance model is chosen. We decided it would be best to share what we could as soon as possible, releasing early and often. We are entirely committed to free and open software and protocols with open governance models leading to a ratified standard. Tent will be released under an open license in the immediate future."

I am curious as to how retaining copyright will help them prevent fragmentation?
Can they not elect themselves as project leaders of the opensource project and prevent fragmentation?
That should be a separate action.
"but internally at Amazon the Seller Performance team is separate from their Community (user review)"

Indeed, my suspicion is that organizational politics have more to do with the lack of a better rating system than any technical limitation.

The approach I use is to read 3 star ratings first before biasing myself with the more extreme ratings. I also check to see what else the reviewer has rated and if there's nothing there then I immediately dismiss the review.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: An Embarrassing, Lazy, Arrogant Money Grab
Crap, that was my bad. I don't see a way to delete my dupe post though -- is that impossible?
No, but what about a "Bombs in McDonalds are cool." t-shirt? Context. Context. That is all.
Ask HN: Do you give your email password to your hosting provider?
Network Solutions previously hosted our work email, but several month ago we moved to a different mail provider. NS remains the registrar and web host. Today, several emails went missing and we figured out that they were ending up on the NS mail server somehow. None of the MX records point there anymore, so I called their customer service to see what might be going on.

Both the 1st level rep and a manager requested my email username and password, which I refused to give. On the one hand, I should be able to trust my registrar, b/c they could easily wreak havoc even without my password. But on the other hand, my username and password were certainly not required to solve the problem (maybe look at the headers of the mis-directed emails first?)

The experience left me severely unimpressed with Network Solutions. but perhaps I'm over-reacting? Would you give your email username and password to your hosting company?

(solved the original problem without NS: all of the missing emails were traced back to one user, whose email client was still using the NS smtp server, which apparently doesn't pay attention to the current MX records)
Umm, what's with the fake SSL favicon?

"World class security

We've implemented https so you don't have to."

Not sure if sarcasm or ..
I'll turn off digital stamping when it's updated next week with the mobi/epub versions, or at least make sure its limited to one page unintrusively.
Households could approach 0% waste just by caring enough to preserve food. But, as the article says, food is so cheap that most people just don't care.

In other words, it's not risky because food preservation is so embedded in our society from the production process to the cheap appliances in our households. Your worry makes more sense if our food lasted just days. Instead, it can last years.
Hewlett-Packard loses $8.8bn in third quarter
If you've wondered what topology was about and wanted to get a better feel for it than just a dictionary definition, then see the 20-minute video in the article.

A blurb about the video:

The computer animation "Outside In" explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smooth motions and self-intersections. Through a combination of dialogue and exposition accessible to anyone who has some interest in mathematics, "Outside In" builds up to the grand finale: Bill Thurston's ``corrugations'' method of turning the sphere inside out. Along the way, the narrators discuss the related case of closed curves and why they generally cannot be turned inside out. Everyday analogies such as train tracks, belts, smiles and frowns are used throughout, all richly animated and complete with sound effects. (quoted from http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/outreach/oi/ )
Starting a new business is not a sprint, but a marathon.

Yes, but marathons are won by those who can run at the speed most others sprint.
I have been using Reflection with Screen Sharing often to demo iPad software remotely to my user base. It's pretty good software and relatively cheap. It's not perfect though, sometimes things get weird, especially when the iDevice you're using switches screen orientation. I've found it's best to lock the screen to prevent this.

The shared screen is of a slightly lower quality and there is some delay, but for most things it completely workable.
The DoE actually did extensive research into subduction encapsulation and while expensive (you are working at depths that crush most stuff we build up here) was technically quite acceptable (their design ended up essentially drilling what amounted to bore holes 5000' below the surface and dropping in waste from the top until its half full then covering it up and moving on. The advantage was that containment was expected to be lost but the material would diffuse into the mantle. In terms of cost though is was a couple of decimal orders of magnitude higher than Yucca Mt.

Why folks wont let engineers reprocess it and use a fast breeder to incinerate it is simply fear. (well and the fast that a fast breeder can also make stuff you don't want made)
I'm damn excited about this. I've been mulling this concept over in the last couple of years, because I really we need something post-blogs that isn't the walled garden facebook / twitter / G+ / et al model.

For the me the ultimate social network would be just blogs, RSS and a feed reader, with people either managing the blog themselves or using a third party to do it for them-- the point is it doesn't matter.

The problem is that blogging is complicated, anything with multiple options is complicated, and discovery is complicated. I know where to look to find a friend on facebook, I don't know where to look to find his blog.

I don't have time right now (work) to look into Tent in more detail, but it sounds like it's a definite step in the right direction.
I agree with everyone who recommends the stellar "On Proof and Progress in Mathematics". It a gem that could only have been written by a lovely man.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9404236v1.pdf

The parts about how communication works inside mathematical specialties and about the difference between math and computer programming are worth their weight in gold.

Really, everyone, just do yourself a favor and read it – all the way to its astonishing final section and beautiful ending. It doesn't require you to remember any math.
Password hints easily extracted from Windows 7, 8
"Every user decide which other users can follow them and what information will be shared with each of their followers."

This effectively makes each person an island in h/herself and hence the model of social-web breaks down. It wouldn't work and people know it.

In order to liberate the data, you're throwing the baby out with the bath water.
cool, but what's this -really- for? ;)

recruiting coders?

optimizing keyboard layouts?

optimizing character usage for new language or framework development?

advertising open source projects?
What is Socco? Google didn't turn up anything.
A shirt mocking the TSA doesn't come close to that analogy, even if you consider it bad taste, since it doesn't legitimize, condone or make light of terrorism. If it said "Terrorism rules!", then perhaps you'd have a point, although it's still a stupid reason to put him through what they did, especially considering his ordeal did not end with agreeing to change his clothes.
Interview with Mozilla WebFWD accelerator program Manager Diane Bisgeier
Recently we caught up with the Manager of the Mozilla WebFWD accelerator progrm, Diane Bisgeier. During the interview, Diane introduces us to WebFWD while sharing advice abut the business plan process and applying to an accelerator program. This is the first in a series of interviews with those that are involved in running an accelerator program. Every day we hear great advice from startups that have been through these programs, but we thought it would be pretty awesome if we could also bring you some advice about the application process from those that run the programs.
I mean that the political establishment has a strong incentive to keep food prices relatively stable for the sake of keeping their jobs, hence why the issue would be of high priority.
From the app description: "free for a limited time". I guess they're just planning on charging for it down the road.
The register can be good on tech issues, however it just goes completely mental if anyone mentions the words climate, nuclear, green or wikipedia anywhere within the editors earshot. Or if anyone shows Lewis a picture of some guns.

After a while I have decided that the most likely explanation for their behaviour is that they are mostly just trying to troll hippies and don't necessarily actually believe a lot of what they print. Trolling the readership is fairly common in the UK press anyway, the Mail having turned it into something of an art.
I love leftover day, it's the easiest and cheapest meal of the week.
Bill Thurston's answer to "What's a mathematician to do?"
Note, not a new form of matter, yet another form of carbon (of which there are bazillions) Cool result though.
Tent has the potential to disrupt the entire social web
I had issues with the '-' character (for example, in the first line of the Shell Git lesson), and I'm just using the standard US keyboard layout.

EDIT: also '_', as sp332 commented. Firefox on OS X.
It's not just your own values, it's the effect that your values have on civilization as a whole.

I see civilization as a race between our ability to create problems and our ability to solve problems.

You can make a case that a high reproductive rate is a social danger because it causes resource depletion and overall causes us to develop problems faster just because more people make more problems.

On the other hand, a low reproductive rate makes problems too. It's much easier to fund the kind of welfare state that the left wants when we have a high reproductive rate. The dreams of the right, in which many of us can save money in individual accounts and enjoy an easy retirement, are also dashed by a low reproductive rate.

Honestly I don't know what the optimal reproductive rate is. But I think there is something more to life than the quality and quantity of your orgasms, what pleasure you get, and the self-aggrandizement you experience making other people rich and famous.

Quite a few people have worked hard to create the civilization we have, and in particular, two parents invested a lot to raise me. I think it's fair to "pass this forward" and expect that we all produce (on average) a child each and that that's just a part of the mission we have on planet Earth.
I think 2% is actually a very high risk for something with rather severe consequences. Still, the desire to have kids is probably higher in most men.
Since you've mentioned the founder is the source of the $60 valuation, you need to look at the fundamentals of the company to calculate what those options are really worth. (who's the other 40%?)

Figure how many $M in earnings the business has now, 1 year, 5 years, and then multiply that by a P/E ratio, of, say, 20. If you're nowhere near $60M then the founder is not being honest with you (and unfortunately, probably not honest with himself either).
"based on all the facts we have available"? The only facts I get from this page are "there is this guy who is pissed because he got kicked from a plane, allegedly solely for wearing this anti-TSA t-shirt". The article contains a one-sided statement. It may be factually correct, or it may not, but we do not know which.
You mentioned the need to develop concrete examples showing how rewriting copy is worthwhile. However, even if you're starting out for free, you won't have examples to show for it. How appropriate do you think it is to show other people's examples before doing for free to gather your own examples?