skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Creativity thrives in an environment of diversity

I don't know how that assumption would correlate with SV. The Peninsula and the SR237 triangle aren't known for their creative diversity --they were orchards just a few decades back -but those valleys were the primary genesis for the information technology we have today. When the HPs, Fairchildren, NatSemis, Intels, etc. began all the Beatnicks were in SF. The valley was a kind of backwater --well, it was mostly orchards, from what I can tell. Despite that those companies were able to find bright people who brought forth progress and ideas which profoundly affect us today. So, I don't really see the correlation between creative types and the discoveries by the engineers. That's not to say engineers can't enjoy the creative arts as pleasure, but to say they are related directly seems a stretch, to me. It's not a detriment to have creatives, but not sure they were a necessary ingredient.

> I think there's definitely a loss when a place becomes homogenous due to gentrification.

I think the premise is an old canard. Post WWII Tokyo had a choice to make. Change rapidly and modermize and progress or remain chained to its old ways and remain a kind of defeated backwater. They chose the former, and while modern, Tokyo is not "boring" and homogenous. There are thousands of distinct neighborhoods with their own unique character, despite the fast pace of building and modernization.
Tap Your App Community Resources from #appdevchat
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Sorry man, I appreciate your point but the general tone of your argument comes across like you think women are more of a 'risky' hire?
I would be very curious to see actual data (not hand-wavy conjecture) as to why that would happen.

Most of what I've seen in that area is merely stereotyping of a different sort (women work by consensus etc).
Must be. Because anything Microsoft does better especially in the areas of security must be flawed or propaganda </sarcasm>
Just correcting the parent, they said 2011 not 2001.

As to pure software crypto it's not really that important vs securing the endpoints. Consider WoW uses encryption when logging in, but a significant % of accounts are hacked before they add an authentication either as a key-chain or on your cellphone. I suspect if it ever became mainstream pure client side bitcoins would be DOA for more or less the same reasons.
I am wondering why did they announce it before they actually push it out to users?
Perhaps the claims are not reasonable. Their site has a pretty high ratio of [citation needed] per page.
The implications of your point 4 are precisely the same as the implications of the GP post.
In my experience (and studies seem to bear this out), most people will automatically assume an attractive woman has poor skills in X (where X is anything that doesn't involve dealing with customers). So I don't think your "commonsense" argument actually holds in the real world.
I'm a heavy user of tiddlywiki. I originally liked the portability of it, but now it lives in my Dropbox folder which has been an awesome combination.
This a website where people discuss things, often their opinions. Not every single response on hacker news is going to have a peer-reviewed study attached to it.

I used to inspect auto parts for a factory that made ball-joints for a couple dozen different auto companies. It was a parts supplier for everything from low end asian cars to Humvees, Corvettes, and BMWs.

The part selection you speak of isn't always better. When we pulled defective parts off the production line, they were inventoried and put into storage in case the factory failed to meet their quota. When this happened, the defective parts were shipped to the auto manufacturers along with the good parts.

That being said, I agree that there's nothing wrong with owning a luxury vehicle. People have to take a look at their own finances and determine what the best decision to make is. For the average American, it is much smarter to buy a KIA, because the average American can't afford a Mercedes/BMW/etc. If a person can afford it, then good for them.
The Propeller can't even run a real, modern OS

Well... technically neither can this :)

Although they do appear to have got it working really neatly with an ARM-based host board. Which is a step forward.
That intro video really doesn't explain much. I know it takes 15 minutes to integrate into my site, and works with any browser, but I have no idea why I truly want to spend those 15 minutes doing so.
In Colleges' Rush to Try MOOC's, Faculty Are Not Always in the Conversation
For Linpack it has been demonstrated that GPUs and MIC are more energy-efficient than server x86, although Blue Gene beats them all. http://www.green500.org/lists/green201206&green500from=1...
Communist Principles in Design
> some government is necessary.

Murray Rothbard's book, The Ethics of Liberty, is about how all the functions of government could be performed by the free market. He talks about roads, utilities, etc.

http://mises.org/document/1179/The-Ethics-of-Liberty

When I travel, I often think about how the country would be different if government did not build the roads. I think you would probably have a fewer roads, less sprawl, and more density because each road would only be built if it were, for some entrepreneur or land owner, the best investment opportunity.
Fuck 'em
Researchers identify phrases in encrypted VOIP calls without decryption [pdf]
I like when scientific theory is presented this way. It is self-evident that it is scientific theory: anything in science can be prefixed with "We have evidence that suggests that..." You must follow that formalism in some forums, such as publications, but when having a coffee table discussion, when someone says "Mars formed around the same time as Earth", mentally add a note that says "We think..."

The nugget of truth in your statement is that some assumptions we are more sure of than others. We can probably say how old Mars is with more certainty than how much water there was on there. That may or may not need to be clarified, depending on what the focus of the conversation is.
http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/05/24/all-revenue-is-not-creat...

see:
(1) network effects
(2) organic demand
Adverse Selection[1] is a big problem with insurance in general. Insurance of this nature has adverse selection problems in spades.

The people that think their startup is likely to fail will be most likely to contribute to the pool.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
What exactly do you mean by sparse and minimal? Thief I can see, but Deus Ex had 11 different skill areas; nanoaugmentations; weapon upgrades; a well written, branching storyline that incorporated every conspiracy theory known to man; multiple ways to complete missions; etc.

It's funny that you mention Halo 4 - I thought the original Halo had some of the best atmosphere of any FPS game ever, especially the Flood levels (people seem to be split on whether they loved or hated them). I thought it did a fantastic job of conveying the sense of a desperate fight for survival, and the final escape was just incredibly thrilling, especially in co-op. Halo 2 and 3 didn't come anywhere close to that. I haven't played ODST or Reach, so I'm curious if anyone agrees with me about Halo 1 and would recommend either of those.

As far recent games - if you want a sparse, minimal, terrifying game, try Amnesia: Dark Descent. It's so minimal that you don't get any weapons. There's also an XBox game called Alan Wake that was superb. Going back a little farther, there's an older Russian horror game called Pathologic that's terrifying, if you can find it and get past the bad translation and voice acting.

They're anything but sparse and minimal, but the recent Fallout games (3 and New Vegas) are full of atmosphere and character. Red Dead Redemption has some of the most beautiful and emotionally charged uses of plot + visuals + music I've ever experienced in a game.
This is what I meant.

Varnish leaves it to the OS to decide what pages to keep in RAM and which to leave on disk; essentially to avoid the double-buffering problem and because the OS has a larger view of the total machine's requirements.

But with wp-supercache I already have that approximate architecture. Files are on-disk, Nginx selects them, the OS notices that some files are frequently accessed and silently caches them in RAM. Everyone wins.

And I don't need to add ESI directives to my themes to get Varnish to handle frequently-updated material correctly.
And giving away a big chunk of equity like that is a signal to future investors, employees, and partners that you think 3% of your current company will be worth something similar.
And miss out on getting a bunch of stuff from my friends? Ha!
Having just looked at adobe 'cracks' recently for CS5 and CS6
I wonder why these entries (destined for the HOSTS file)
127.0.0.1 crl.verisign.net
127.0.0.1 tss-geotrust-crl.thawte.com
Are there...
The cracks work by replacing a DLL but also by blocking connections to all the servers it thinks are activation servers (key validation)
I tested removing these CRL entries and the software had no issues. Just speculating wildly but maybe this was a planned attack a long time coming (given that these entries have existed since CS5)
the best one would naturally get the most support

I don't think so. A "better" Bitcoin fork that has no MtGox, no BitInstant, no BitPay, no blockexplorer, etc. would probably have very low adoption.
Okay, first, can we drop the overuse of female/male? It makes us sound like we're talking about specimens in a bio lab rather than people and introduces issues wrt the nonequivalence of female and woman or male and man.

That said, to a large extent you are correct but you are framing it poorly. One of the major steps of breaking the gender gap is to spend more resources on, not just finding women, but also encouraging women. The net result may be in paying disproportionate amount of attention to the group of women compared to the group of men but it should not imply either of the more obvious ways to interpret "pay less attention to males". That is, it shouldn't involve ignoring men or spending less time with any individual nor should it mean reducing any focus on finding good people regardless of gender. It should involve adding focus on the women, which is substantively different despite the ability to describe it with the same words. It's also not necessarily feasible for everyone but it certainly is for Microsoft, especially with the sort of focus they put on trying to bridge the gender gap.
If you're running nginx in production on Ubuntu or Debian, you'd probably be well-served by using their packages rather than the distribution default ones.

http://nginx.org/en/download.html
One minor point- the temperature on Mars makes gigantic wide swings. It can get to be pretty warm there. I believe the record high is 81 degrees F, which is what it is this afternoon in Los Angeles. Of course, it also gets down to -200 F, so the swings can be huge.

Temps above freezing have been reported by Curiosity, which is interesting in itself.
I could be wrong, but I believe insurance companies don't charge more than they pay out. That instead, your premium is equal to how much their actuary tables say they'll have to pay for someone with your level of risk.

They make all their money through their investment portfolio. Essentially, they earn interest on your premium until they have to pay it out.
It is not circular. Interest and authority are two very different things. For example, the Federal government has the authority to wage war -- this has no bearing on a discussion as to whether they are philosophically correct in doing so.

The suggestion that policy is justified merely because it subsists upon formal authority is nonsense.
"Because ending all patent protections immediately would be impractical, Boldrin and Levine advocate several transitional steps, such as shortening patent terms. "The aim of policy, in general, should be that of slowly but surely decreasing the strength of intellectual property interventions," they write, "but the final goal cannot be anything short of abolition.""

This makes the idea impossible - sustaining the political will for 15-20 years (a random guess at how long it'd take) to wind down patents. That's 4-5 presidential elections or two-to-three changes of government here in Australia.

Nope.
Have you ever seen a white person not be good at their job? Yet you don't associate their failures with their race. Why do so with black people?

The specific situation that is burned in my mind was a black girl who was in a math PhD program at the same time that I was. The department wound up bending their rules to the breaking point to give her a Masters on her way out because nobody wanted to risk the discrimination lawsuit that she was threatening. Her actual math knowledge was not even to the level that I would expect from a BSc in math.

I have never witnessed anything involving a white person that was anywhere near being similarly egregious. And I had experiences with that department which demonstrated in spades that white people were not given anywhere near as much leniency.

As for your final point, I thought I pretty much said that. I've not seen the specific studies that you're referring to.
Long time last pass user here too. Last pass is great but there are a few things which really annoy me in the chrome version.

- the ux for the login bar at the top is pretty horrible, its distracting when it pops down and it usually requires me to dismiss it more than once. I'd prefer a less intrusive option, maybe just a highlight on the icon. This is my big issue.

- sometimes I want to login to a site with different details from what my auto login is, I no have no option but to sign out of last pass.

- handling of multiple Google accounts isn't great, granted this is mostly Google's fault but something to auto login me to all my accounts on every computer would be awesome.
Nice find - thank you.
I totally get you; I'm really torn on it. But part of me hopes that there are signs life existed there, and that gets more people on board with wanting to get there to investigate more. Maybe it even raises interest enough to get people there quickly. I have a hope that once that starts, going there will be become more regular. But then I remember the moon...
Agreed!
Thanks adobe for treating us like real people!
The deal with Venus: dat atmosphere. She's a true sister to Earth in mass, gravity, and composition. She's also good evidence that Earth had a vastly thicker atmosphere at one point. Right now Venus has 90x more atmosphere than we do. And look at the proportions:

Major: 96.5% Carbon Dioxide (CO2), 3.5% Nitrogen (N2)
Minor (ppm): Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) - 150; Argon (Ar) - 70; Water (H2O) - 20;
Carbon Monoxide (CO) - 17; Helium (He) - 12; Neon (Ne) - 7

That's interesting because if you take away the products of volcanism (a major source of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide here on Earth), you're left with... Nitrogen... Argon... Water... and noble gasses. Look familiar?

The best thinking right now is that Earth outgassed and held on to a similar volume of gasses as Venus. But since we had a substantial volume of liquid water on the surface, the oceans naturally absorbed CO2 and then deposited it on the sea bottom as carbonate minerals. (Life eventually learned that trick too, leading to things like shells)

So limestone, dolostone, chalks, calcite, marble, etc.... all those carbonates are likely the product of our liquid water oceans drawing out the vast bulk of the C02 in our atmosphere, leaving relict gasses in its place. Same starting point but we ended up with vastly lower pressure and vastly different final composition.

Venus had no such luck. She suffocates forever.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/venusfact.htm...
I don't know much about ebooks and I don't have a mobile device. Does this include something like a PDF I can read on a computer?
A properly designed simple market would take care of this.
But that's still not really fair, as that really implies that recuiters pay less attention to males, e.g. spending less time and money finding them and recruiting them.

You're wrong. It is fair. "Normal" recruiting promotion budgets are obviously paying more attention to males. For example, if you market primarily to CS departments which are 90% male, then that is money largely spent on recruiting males. Spending money specifically on recruiting females brings the budget to parity.
My moral basis is preventing fraud and punishing people who commit fraud.

> forcing a single uniform policy indiscriminately upon all is merely a contrivance of convenience

No. If you want to claim to promote health, your products need to be shown to promote health. Supplement makers have been able to get around that very basic moral law using loopholes and bought-off politicians. I want an end to that.
Everything is evidence and consensus. It lengthens and weakens the prose to hedge every statement, making the actual message much less clear. Yes, people need to be disclaimed from believing everything they read, but you know whose responsibility that is? The public school system, teaching people to learn how to learn. One of the main things you should have taken from high-school science classes is that every time we had some understanding of something, we got more evidence and replaced it with a better understanding of that thing--and so everything is just a best-guess given current knowledge.

So: "A positive correlation was found between X and Y"--why are you even telling me? What's the message? "There is evidence that X might cause Y"--okay, how strong is this evidence? Is it enough to care? "X probably causes Y"--that is what you're really trying to say. I will hear that and put it though my own Bayesian updating to give slightly more credence to the statement that X causes Y (more or less depending on the trustworthiness of the source, where I read it, what other supporting statements were made, etc.) The previous two forms don't change this mental process one bit, except to make it harder to dig out the thing you were actually trying to get across.
How would you do it p2p? WebSockets don't provide UDP, so NAT traversal is potentally impossible.
It's been a few years since I cobbled this one together and I recall reading the IfIsEvil web page. I vaguely recall that at the time there was some limitation on how try_files worked that made it necessary to use ifs, but for the life of me I don't remember what.

The rtCamp configuration I linked to earlier makes use of try_files and says he has support for both supercache and domain mapping, so I think I'll migrate to that.
Would be interesting if they also added a pooling feature, where if you get multiple gifts, you can combine the original costs of all of them to get something nicer.
Having the (say) GMail in an iframe sounds worrying. It's not clear immediately that the embedded page came from GMail, as we cannot see the https scheme in the URL for the iframe - much less any indication that the certificate is trusted etc. This provides an attacker with the possibility to create a fake GMail login page

Why not redirect to GMail (openid-style) with a callback (or failing that, use a pop-up)?
Yep. If this was some sort of marketing stunt. It worked.
Not sure you "shot down" anything, your data isn't specific to the version of IE (note the title). I would assume that there's a large fraction on IE 6, 7 and 8 under the umbrella of "Internet Explorer".
One of my favorite thought-experiments is to imagine what it would be like to have lived in a solar system that developed intelligent life on two independent planets in the same system.

Imagine what that would do to culture, mythology, technological development...
Any Facebookers around who work on this? It would be really sweet to have a few "Charitable Giving" options. The more the merrier. Everyone in my family does charitable donations for Christmas / some birthdays, and it'd be fun to do it for people who I'd normally just message.
They unfortunately do not source that stat.

The South Korean study that I'm aware of is described at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6498.html and found that a 10% increase in women managers was associated with a 1% return on assets. There is every reason to believe that this effect is stronger in South Korea than in the USA, and there is no way to get near the quoted 33% more with that measured effect.
No, the most popular version will get the most support. You still have the problem that a forked chain stops being compatible, so if a node recieves coins in the new chain after the fork, the old chain won't acknowledge it. This is a big practicle barrier to implementation.

You could harvest a large number of new chain coins before you go public, and offer an exchange service, but that would involve you owning alot of new-chain bitcoin, which would be a concern to people switing in.
It is a matter of supply and demand, and while demand in SF is high, it's nothing like say NYC or LA where there are millions of people looking for housing. SF is a medium-sized city as far as cities go. It's a growing city, unlike many, but in the last ten years it grew slower than Boston, DC, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, and Miami. It's not like developers can't build housing quickly enough to keep up with all the demand. It's that the city won't let them.
I did not know that, thank you! I can only imagine that engineering a rover to withstand those temperature swings is a pain in the ass.
Disclaimers make for bland reading.

There's a time and place for them. I don't think this was it.
I'd like to see false positive rates in addition to false negative rates. In my experience, SmartScreen just labels 90% of everything as malware. The false positive rate is important because if the filter is usually wrong users will learn to just ignore it.
I'm not necessarily sure that I follow. How do you create a market for participant selection?
There are plenty of forks running already. There's "litecoin", a fork that changes the proof of work algorithm to scrypt in an attempt to make GPU's less useful for mining.

There's "PPCoin", a fork that adds "Proof of Stake" alongside "Proof of Work" in an attempt to reduce the energy consumption of the mining process.

There's others as well. Some bitcoin proponents consider these "scam" coins as they have limited use other than speculation, others consider them experiments in different approaches. But they do show that forking bitcoin is fairly easy.
I worked at a Patent Law firm for 4 years and submitted thousands of prior art references to the USPTO in patent applications. I will try to answer your questions as best as I can. I'm not a lawyer and definitely not a patent lawyer. (I'm in my final year of law school.)

1) No — The Examiner will probably look at it, but it is not official unless the Examiner acknowledges consideration in a communication to the applicant. Also, there are certain time limits that apply.

2) If you mean, "does the prior art need to be a patent?", the answer is no. You can submit anything that discloses the invention (for example a website printout, a book, or an article). If you mean, "must the prior art be submitted in a particular patent?," the answer is yes. You need to submit the prior art to the Examiner in each patent application.

3) Yes. To submit prior art in a granted patent, you would need to reopen examination or challenge the patents validity in legal or administrative proceedings. Prior art is supposed to be disclosed during or prior to examination of a pending application.

4) I don't know, but I think it could if that video clip disclosed the substantive technology in a meaningful way, and wasn't just a bare concept.

The rules for submitting prior art by members of the public are contained in 37 CFR 1.291.

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9020-appx-r.h...
Fat chance (pun intended) once you include s&h...