skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plain and simple, across and countries and all historical periods, males act more dangerously. They put themselves in physically dangerous situations more often than women, and die in mid-life at a much higher rate. Male children are more likely to live until adolescence, but after their 20s their portion of the population falls back in line with that of females.
http://wiring.org.co/learning/tutorials/index.html

http://fritzing.org/learning/tutorials/
The Trouble with Barbie Science
I've seen that in the States as well. Pretty much the only time I've ever seen Segways "in the wild".
Really good idea. I'm going to steal it, if that's okay :)

Developers who get it are immediately delighted so you create a positive experience from the start for your first users and naturally limit the early access to people who can actually start pushing data to your service themselves.
Ask HN: How did you find interesting startups to apply to?
I'm moving to the Bay area next summer and I plan on becoming a business developer/salesman for a startup. I have two questions:

1.) How do you find growing startups that have really interesting visions? I read Tech Crunch, HN, etc. and sometimes I find some and I think how the hell have I never heard of them?! Obviously there has to be more out there.

2.) Is there a Monster.com for Silicon Valley startup jobs? I've been reading Angellist and I really like how they are upfront with salary and the skills they need. Are there other sites like this?
That would be awesome, I started making a chinchon game a while back and a baraja set in CSS would be awesome to have.
Noop I/O scheduling with SSD storage
Design: Documenting the YouTube App Experience
I have heard it described as an attempt to get help versus actual deadly intent.
Where do you get those numbers? MRSA is thought to have caused 1,652 deaths in 2006 in UK up from 51 in 1993.[104] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphyloc...

Still, for those numbers to be useful the rate of infection, detection, treatment, death, AND linking deaths to MRSA must be considered before you can compare those healthcare systems as well as a near constant rare of infection.
"quitting your job to be a founder does NOT instill you with the necessary skills and mindset to be a successful founder."

I don't think I advised anyone to quit one's job and become a founder in the strict sense. Dorsey redefined what it means to be a founder (someone foundational to an organization, regardless of when they joined) and I advised that the skills founders possess are valuable as an employee and founder alike.
First off, I think you'll enjoy the following:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4507024

The research being done is fascinating. It roughly explains why some
people go ballistic when something is said against something they
unknowingly "love" even if it's just a device, technology, or company.

Secondly, if you've studied linguistics at all or know multiple
languages, you'll notice how human languages have significant variance
in their dependency on context. For example, in a "high context"
language like Vietnamese (one of the very highest), things are more
often implied rather than expressed. In a "low context" like English
(particularly American usage of English), things are more often
expressed rather than implied.

In English, the use of irony, satire, and sarcasm are unexpected "high
context" usage of a generally "low context" language. Without being a
native speaker, the intentionally subtle but surprising switch from low
context to high context results in endless amounts of confusion and
miscommunication. A great example would be the recent "Porn Star
Brogrammer" post. If you didn't recognize it as satire, it would be
highly offensive, but even if you did recognize it as satire, many would
still consider it offensive. A lot of satire is still offensive even
if you do understand the context shift and recognize it for what it is.

Lastly, in English the term "argument" (outside of formal logic) implies
disagreement, and often, harsh disagreement or even a fight. If you use
the term "argument" in the sense of formal logic, it's best to qualify
it to prevent misunderstanding.

And yes, a lot of people post on HN for the sake of having a fight,
rather than to have a pleasant and mutually beneficial exchange of
ideas. The smart thing to do when you see heated exchanges or harsh
replies, is to just stay out of it. You have better things to do than
fight with people on the Internet.

http://xkcd.com/386/

If you find someone reacting badly, ignore it. If it still bothers you,
give it a few days or a few weeks to cool off, and then bring it up with
them again politely, and possibly privately. At times, miscommunication
just happen in spite of our best efforts and intents, but trying to
fix it while people are still hot or angry usually makes matters worse.
I'm not familiar with how a bike mounted motor can be tested, but unless the motor has '2000w' stamped on it, you're good to go.
Do Europeans really smoke less than Americans? I was under the impression that the US was unusually anti-smoking.
Backcountry.com hosting a Hackathon on Sept 22-23 in Costa Rica.
My first intro to brushless motors was on a delta RC plane. The power makes a gas engine look like a joke. If you've not seen these motors, the basic difference IIRC is that brushless motors don't have brushes so they have less friction, longer battery life and greater power to weight ratio. They remove the brushes by moving the permanent magnets to the rotating part of the motor and use a controller to switch the stationary electromagnets.
Monster.com is a joke.
We invested a lot of time in the preview capabilities when creating a protip. We hit a small issue recently rendering the same markdown from both the client side during content creation and server side during rendering. While we fix it we just opted to temporarily do it client-side for now. It's not perfect but worked as a stop-gap measure for most.
Here: https://github.com/zachwaugh/Helveticards
something like this can be used to track down someone who does bootleg recordings. Say our bootlegger buys a camera from samsung, samsung uses a water mark like this which gives out a unique device id. The bootlegger who doesn't know about this tracking thing uploads his 1080p raw video. MPAA then collaborates with samsung to find out was the bootlegger(although that would involve tracking the sale from the reseller/distributer and contacting/capturing the bootlegger).I just gave MPAA a really nice idea.
Walmart, Target Fared Worst in Def Con Social Engineering Contest
Awesome... thanks. Is there any well known forums for hardware hackers. Like StackOverflow, just for Hardware?
Fortunately, it isn't wholly hopeless in this country.

The Front Range is indeed making a large investment in commuter rail, though not yet all the way to Colorado Springs & Fort Collins:
http://www.rtd-fastracks.com/systemmap.php

The Los Angeles area is likewise making significant investments in its rail system.
In general, Hollywood movies are not legitimately available over any P2P system. P2P monitoring companies can't see your Dropbox, so that's not a concern. Also, you can challenge strikes if you think they're in error.
...and I'm being downvoted because, apparently, TechCrunch is the only reliable news source online and saying something that might contradict it is wrong from the start. :)
Twine is an interesting looking product, and 'connected everything' is most likely the future, but using tech to tell you to water your houseplants screams of engineering a problem to match a solution. (Which is, of course, the foundation of geek society.) Besides: I water my army of jades once a millineum (give or take a thousand years). If I go too long between waterings: no worries, they just grow roots above the soil and take water from the air.

Plants aside, I'm rather interested in where the 'connected universe' will take us. I'd much rather have my washer/dryer push a notification than buzz loudly or sit idle. Likewise with the snail-mail box once the postman's left a letter. And micro messages from my plants/oven/door mat shouldn't be hard on bandwidth; just a drop in the bucket compared to media delivery (video).
Becoming the Boss
Mathematician Claims Proof of Connection between Prime Numbers
Damn! I should have patented it!

Yes, please steal it. We debated whether it would be a good idea to do API-only registration, but the response so far has been mostly really positive.
apart from the string handling, i actually liked erlang as a language. mailboxes and destructuring pattern matching are a very pleasant way to organise code.
The project generation is quite naive actually. Its just a brute force search and replace with regex. Then the folder creation is done by using the package name as the folder structure, creating the folders, then copying the updated files to the new directory and wiping the old one. Its all in node. Find the source here: github.com/donnfelker/android-bootstrap-site
In most cases you don't go down them. Bombing hills is a huge part of longboarding, but that's not something you can really do on a typical commute with vehicle and pedestrian traffic.

I haven't been able to figure out how to control my speed on a hill on a sidewalk (not wide enough for turns, and I can't really powerslide yet).
IIRC you're allowed to use the open Wi-Fi defense one time (i.e. you can eliminate one strike). After that you've been "educated" so you cannot claim ignorance for any later strikes.
Yup, this is exactly why I released it. I feel the same way about starting a new project: A way of "Ahhh crap, I have to set this thing up for the next few days" before I can even become productive.
As I recall, it was reported that the US Copyright Czar was involved in getting these ISPs together and negotiating this.
You thank them for wasting your time and walk away.
Good catch. I wonder why they chose that approach. They’re smart people and I’m sure there’s a good reason.
Beyonce surely has an army of PAs and social media managers to shield her from it.

Scoble is probably in the small intersection of people with massive volume of incoming messages who doesn't have a human screening it. It's in his job description.
I don't think you can make rules based on potential speed, and your division is far too simplistic and arbitrary in terms of speed. While I agree my skateboarding is limited to 5-10 MPH (jogging-running speed), is that really that fast?

If I (and my skateboarding kind) should be in the street based on speed or potential speed, then so should rollerbladers, scooters, segways, motorized wheelchairs, anyone able-bodied person (as they have the potential to start running).

It's a complex issue and courtesy and being alert go a long way... as well as knowing the law. Wherever I'm supposed to be by law (NYC law leans toward the sidewalk) is where I need to be, and other people need to respect that.
We do this type of online tutored program at http://www.railstutors.com. We focus on Ruby on Rails, with a less ambitious goal - instead of aiming to prepare you as a junior developer at twitter, we want to get you started, learned Rails and build your first app from ground up. We have a shorter duration of 4 weeks instead of 9.

There are a lot of challenges on how to teach effectively online, and we have certainly learned a ton over the past few months. We are graduating about 20~30 students now every month.

Can talk more if there is interest.
When they ask for a billing address and it doesn't match because the prepaid card doesn't have one?
I want to see the work environment. First hand, during the day. If you're going to insist on interviewing me elsewhere (even in meeting rooms in the "guests" part of the building), this doesn't cut it.

I've endured enough crap physical environments (loud, no privacy, etc.) that I'm not interested in "rolling the dice" with respect to where physically I'll be working.
How to shoot professional video w just an iPhone
You work with what you've got, right? The goal of a school site is to provide easy access to information of use to students, parents, community at large, and on that count this seems to be doing pretty okay.
> two unrelated, unassociated people use the same software to generate "good" primes, sometimes they will coincide

I thought the GCD attack's success was more due to the lack of good entropy (randomness) in the random number generation, than due to a lack of eligible primes of the requested length.

This makes much sense -- some people might run the random-number generation on server systems, which often don't have any sources for human input (mouse movements and keystrokes can be a great source of randomness).

Or maybe it's simply a case of people using /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random because it's faster. (Which it is, but it's also not something you want to use for something as important as generating a key for long-term use.)
Not at all, there's a certain level of sensibility in client-side rendering -- particularly because responses can contain only a skeleton structure of content, ie: JSON.

Relying on a client-side language that may (or may not) be disabled, however, is simply foolish.
Read http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff and get back to me on whether there are valid reasons for someone to be a software conservative by my definition.

To me your response justifies the way I look at the world. The whole point of seeing things as "software politics" is to try to divide developers up into groups who each thinks that they are so obviously right that no justification is needed, and think that the others are so obviously wrong that you don't even know where you'd begin a discussion. And once you know what pressure point divides them, then you can actually try to start a productive discussion.

Speaking personally, I would die in an organization like that. I can look at it, see what's at stake, can accept that they are doing the right thing for their problem. But I am very glad that I can find things to do where the cost of smoking out the very last bug in my software is not as important as the profit from making the next thing that I'm going to make.
I don't know where things stand with this program, but back in the days when MediaDefender's email was leaked, one of those laid out a policy of not going after politicians and the like.
router tables are a stationary woodworking machines in which a vertically oriented spindle of a woodworking router protrudes from the machine table and can be spun at speeds typically between 3000 and 24,000 rpm

excluding static routes (which are then usually advertised to other peers), routING tables are dynamically built and only exist in non-persistent memory.

having up to date backups of router configuration is another matter entirely
> Given the shit the world generally dumps on women,

that they actually get sympathy for, instead of being told to 'suck it up' and 'be a man' when they attempt to find help.
Sorry, I got Clostridium confused with MRSA. But 1,652 normalized for population is still higher than the US MRSA fatality number!

I'm not sure what the second sentence means. If you're saying we don't know how to properly attribute deaths to MRSA, what does any MRSA statistic say about health care?

You have a long row to hoe with the overall argument you're making. It is, for instance, not hard to link deaths to heart disease, and heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US. The US has fewer heart disease deaths per 100,000 people than Austria, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, the UK, Finland, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Hungary, and Slovakia, and is closer to Germany and Denmark, the #14 and #15 followers to the US's #12, than it is to Austria's #11.
Hi! Did you choose to go with LiFe or LiCo's?
Luckily for software developers, we can ignore the horrible job sites.

Here is an article on Monster.com and endless email:
http://blog.brusic.com/2012/07/how-private-is-your-online-jo...
That's ugly.

It doesn't even look like a skateboard. I think the reason Boosted Boards looks so awesome is the fact it actually looks like a longboard... with a motor!
That video is completely misleading due to a quirk of the repl treating {} as a block not an object, not really a language wart.

Try it yourself:
var a = [] + {};
var b = {} + [];

Miraculously they are same (but only because the list is empty, string concat order matters obviously)! The only time that wat can ever happen is a case that would never exist in any actual code. The Dom is full of wat but I still havent seen any legitimate cases in js itself.
Vooza: Radical new approach to the mobile web
I agree :-) But it ranks way below the schools discussed in the link in the usual rankings.
Relevant discussion at mathoverflow.net
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106560/philosophy-behind-m...
I think one of the biggest barriers to finding a new job that's better than your current one is lack of telecommuting options.

Unless you live in NYC or the Bay Area or a few other big cities it's not like there's dozens of great companies to choose from for programming jobs.

Younger people might find it easy to move, but once you're in a relationship or have kids you can't just pick up and move every few years.
I have been riding an electric skateboard through Copenhagen for a few years (Evo 600: http://en.evo-skate.com/street600wood/). We have great bicycle tracks all over the city which is ideal. The principle of the board is the same, board strapped with an electric motor, controlled by IR remote in the hand. I'll share a few thoughts.

First off, my board has a 600 watt motor and does around 20mph, which is fast in the city. I overtake most bicycles (people's faces are priceless). I cannot fathom what a 2000 watt motor would do, seems kind of life-threatening honestly. I haven't had any accidents, flew over the top a couple of times when I hit a high edge, par for the course when skateboarding, but I wouldn't want to go any faster.

My board does around 10 kilometers per charge, which is enough for a commute in the city. Not sure how well a 2000 watt motor would fare, I definitely could not accept less range. But my board has the older SLA battery, a lithium battery probably evens the score, while being lighter.

How easy is it to drive? You need experience skateboarding or you'll have quite a learning curve. The accelleration needs a good stance to not get dropped off the back, same with breaking vs. flying over the front. Turning is even more cumbersome than with a real skateboard because the board is so heavy, so you need pretty good technique (and space).

About safety: If you fall off, drop the remote etc. the board stops, the IR must be in your hand to activate and has a short range either way, so no chance of the board running away from you. As soon as you stop accellerating the board slows right down, and you can brake with the engine too (big advantage over a real skateboard). The engine is engaged all the time so you can't just roll like on a real board. Hopefully these guys solve this problem, would be useful if you're out of battery.

About sound, it's not annoying but not quiet either, your regular medium-sized electric motor. In the street it's not particularly noticeable.

About legal issues: It's illegal in the street but no one cares. I pass patrol cars all the time and most don't notice that it's not a regular skateboard, or don't care.
The key is to have enough power for hills, but make it controlled enough that you don't throw the rider. From the rider's perspective, the board has so much power it's like the hill isn't even there, but it's still gentle on acceleration and braking.

Regen braking doesn't add any weight for us.

Liability is an issue for sure, and we're handling it just like any other vehicle or consumer product.
that they actually get sympathy for, instead of being told to 'suck it up' and 'be a man' when they attempt to find help.

This makes sense. I suppose women ask for help more, and sooner than men (and probably get it too). Does anyone know, what is the percentage of men vs women, who actually go to psychiatrists? That might give some idea
From the official Boingo press release "Android phones and tablets, as well as Windows and Macintosh laptops, will be offered complimentary Wi-Fi"
https://github.com/yeoman/yeoman/wiki/Manual-Install

There is a manual installation process provided on the front page; Yeoman itself appears to be a Node.js module in the node package manager npm.
Water resistant, but I wouldn't advise using them in a downpour. The biggest concern is a lack of traction with slick longboard wheels more than damage to the electronics.
So, if I understand you correctly now, based on this response and your recent response to michrassena, is that your argument does not claim that these new renderings of Proudin-Gorsky's work are less of a window into a past reality than any other photography. Instead your claim is that in no sense have we preserved Proudin-Gorsky's art with these reconstructions?

I might certainly buy that claim. I don't think that most people here were concerned with the artistic intent so much as the documentation of a past reality.

As to information content, your claim is that there is more information content in these reconstructed images than would have been received at Proudin-Gorsky's eyes while he was taking the photographs? I find that a bit hard to believe. Though I suppose sharpening via some sort of deconvolution might amount to that. Also, we don't need anything so "esoteric" as either night vision goggles or Photoshop to get more information onto a piece of photographic paper than would have been seen with the naked eye. A long exposure or a polarizing filter on the camera can do that.
Hiring C++ and JS programmers
New Zealand has a three strikes policy, I wonder what the 6 vs 3 implies. Maybe RIANZ paid more than the RIAA o_O
[IRS] Tax cheat whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld gets $104m
Setting up an email server is mad simple.

Setting up an email server that can send and receive mail from other email servers reliably ... not so much.

Most of that is a result of spam and viruses, and the various ad hoc methods which have been institutionalized to deal with both. More often than I'd care to admit, it's the collision between two sites countermeasures and defenses: PGP-signed mail rejected for having attachments, VERP mail rejected for failing to provide a single consistent envelope sender (who but who even looks at envelope sender?), your random residential DSL / server-farm server winding up on a DNSBL, Yahoo pretty much insisting on properly-configured DKIM to receive mail (hey, it's their standard), dictionary spam attacks on your server, remote sites which scan for viruses after accepting your mail (and then blame you for when they don't receive messages).

It's a constant game of whack-a-mole. For basic communications, if you get yourself hosted in valid IP space, it's possible, but if you want high-volume reliable comms, it's getting pretty tough.
The solutions to

a⋅x² + b⋅x + c

are given by

x = (-b ± √(b² - 4⋅a⋅c)) / (2⋅a)

φ ∩ (ψ ∪ ρ) ↔ (φ ∩ ψ) ∪ (φ ∩ ρ)

Thanks! I can't even begin to describe how useful this will be!

If I could upvote this more than once, I would!
For explanation of JS inheritance I would recommend reading http://killdream.github.com/blog/2011/10/understanding-javas..., it's actually superior to what you will find in Crocoford's book.
And sometimes, acquiring some of the knowledge can be like pulling teeth (very difficult and perhaps political).
My alert mails -- pretty damned critical. That's another place where services such as PagerDuty really shine. They get the mail (or pages, or calls) through.
None of those things are or were problems with Smalltalk and Lisp environments. You might as well rattle off the potential downsides of using a compiler instead of writing machine code by hand.
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