skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Women still make 77 cents to the male dollar. Women have much higher incidences of anxiety and depression disorders...[etc]

Whereas men have much higher incidences of other personality traits and are more likely to be victims of violent crime in general (particularly homicide). Until you quantify all such traits and trends, you can't conclude one group is (statistically) operating on "easy mode".

In any case, based on what you've said, the "women play life on hard mode" meme is actually misleading. I can't think of a single game in which the difference between easy and hard mode is a 2% vs 1% chance of encountering a Balrog, or a higher proportion of hard-mode players choosing Paladin over Necromancer (analogizing Necromancer to the $1.00 earning profession, Paladin to the $0.77 earning profession).

Usually, if you're trying to fix something, it's worth trying to figure out what the root causes are.

But according to you, the root cause is unkind treatment, depression and violent crime. The reference class {victim of violent crime} is far more likely to be a crime victim than the class {women}.
Citibank does this on their Prague ATMs.

One look and I saw the massive rip-off for what it was(conversion from Czech Crowns into Swiss Francs) and avoid Citi ATMs like the plague since then.

As I recall the difference on withdrawing the equivalent of 500EUR would have been an additional ~50EUR for the convenience.

Thanks, but my local bank does such conversions just fine.
Quick next steps:
1. Allow for renaming of Bins
2. Bookmarklet and/or FF/Chrome plugin for saving URLS
3. Allowing for putting a URL into multiple bins in a faster way

Just some thoughts. Would love to know your business revenue model.
C does not provide closures. You can pass around a struct with a function pointer and a data or state pointer though. That will let you achieve the same thing, but it won't be as pretty.
We have a digital magazine (although we don't sell it, its free), and we use an open source project called Baker that is also made for books. From what I've heard from the people on the books side, they almost all use the iBookstore or Amazon to charge for their books and not worry about adding payment processing on their own.
But not much more readable than, say Hex e.g. 0x12204.
Not Even a Blackout Can Keep New Yorkers from Buying Apple Products
Verilog has that feature too
FWIW I have twice tried to get Venkatesh to read your blog: http://ribbonfarm.posterous.com/tech-companies-open-allocati...
The exemption for politicians is beyond the FTC's control. That exemption was written into law by the house and senate.
I think the solution is just to only play with friends who you know aren't cheating.
It's lazy of me, but I'd love to see a link to a live demo of the editor so I can get a feel for it without having to deploy it myself.
You could make a good bit of easy money if you can prove your suspicions. But since you haven't...
Imfractal: A library to compute (multi)fractal dimensions of images in Python
It's probably an automated script on the server, and a dumb one at that. I imagine it's something like this: a rudimentary process monitoring tool on the server looks for scripts that are generating high load. It kills the script and appends '_disable' to the name.

What's dumb about it is exactly what we've seen here. With indexes enabled in Apache, we can see the vhost's underwear. Not good.
Sony ad compares PlayStation Vita to a woman with four breasts
They could both be one-time-use nonces and additionally have an expiration date. That was how I read the statement, but maybe that was generous.
Marcelo Bielsa, an extraordinary soccer manager, did the same thing when interviewed for Chile's manager position. He asked for $1 more than the salary of the best payed soccer player on the team. He made an excellent campaign for Chile on 2010 world cup.
There's one interesting quote in the article:

Musk: I can’t tell you much. We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China—if we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book.

If your process/ideas are sufficiently complex, it reduces competition if you don't file a patent.
Robots.txt is about fetching content, it has noting do to with indexing URLs or anything which is part of the content at non-robots.txt restricted locations.
I was telling my dad the other day this is a guy I could see my kids or grandkids using as a subject for a school report. Such an interesting person.
Apple’s Lost the Ability to Sell Under the iPhone Name in Mexico
>I think his point was that many people keep the signature in the same place as the actual binaries

Basically, except I meant the key not the signature.
I wonder if this holds up: The older we get, the more aware of time? Or is it: The more responsibilities, the more aware of time?
BBC is hiring developers
Ditto on the addictiveness of continuation-passing style.

However, don't try it when coding with peers who are not used to it; you can be burnt at the stake. Because, even though it makes the code easier to read, to the untrained eye it is just cryptic.
Nonces are one time use in webapps, unless bad bug.
Sure, but we're talking about whether or not this particular style of C can be Turing complete and I'm not sure it is, even on a machine with an infinite amout of RAM.
Official Facebook Phone?
Specifically, Base64Url. It's described in RFC4648 and is URL-safe.
Nobody’s going to steal your idea
What a stupid title. How many things are there that New Yorkers are still buying? I bet it's not just apple products - people need to carry on with their life.
As jeremyjh already pointed out, this results in a pretty weak definition. You end up with JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and Objective-C all being lumped as "functional languages", and if you squint a little bit, you can put Java in there too (anonymous inner classes). I think C, C++ and C# could be as well, but I don't know them well enough.

So I don't think it's very productive to use a definition like this, but not because I want to be divisive, or "move the goal posts" or because I'm trying to be elitist here. It's because when a colleague asks you "what's functional programming?" I think it's much more helpful to describe the kind of programming that is encouraged in Haskell and Clojure than to just say, "well it's just map, filter, and fold in JavaScript".
Like you say, it's normally just for eye candy
Fair enough.

The way he embedded the suggestion seemed contrived and inorganic to me. If some one puts a link to their Twitter account beneath a post, I know what to do if I want to follow them because of their output.

If I have confidence in my output I will trust my audience to find the right degree of involvement they want to have with me. No need to push it. Maybe I'm weird that way, but I think the OP knew exactly what he was doing, and stuff like that rubs me the wrong way because I find it undignified, harshly put.
I can't think of a situation when I'd need a method like Proc/Method#to_source, especially in everyday Ruby usage. That's probably why it's not being talked about as much as some of the other new features.
I'd feel offended if presented with this sort of nonsense at a tech talk. The implication of the picture, given the structure and history of our society, is that women are there to be pretty and submissive and men are there to control women with money. That and it makes absolutely no sense as an analogy for MVC, it's just a cheap shot in an attempt to titillate an assumed audience of sexist men. So yes, women in an audience presented with that sort of image are probably going to feel alienated and offended, and no that is not some special sensitivity or empathy for other women, it's because of all the assumptions which come with using a picture like that (women are not my audience, pretty women are controlled by men with money, women are there to be looked at by men, etc).

PS When referring to losers, use the correct spelling
15 Amazing Acts of Kindness During Sandy
"I once attended a one-day course by the renowned Information Visualization educator, Edward Tufte."

And still they used doughnut charts.
I take this opportunity to thank linker3000 on his/her recommendation to get a Note [1]. Even though I can only wish I were a busy IT professional, just as a technology enthusiast I'm in awe, having received my Note II this week.

I'd like to point out that, interestingly enough, the most disappointing aspect has been reading online text, such as HN, but not limited to it: my modest, Gingerbread-based HTC Explorer does a wonderful job wrapping text in its now seemingly tiny screen, and yet this Jellybean technology makes me reach for Accessibility options, for some reason makes it really hard to upvote [2], and Chrome's fancy font boosting technology manages to make some of the HN comments annoyingly small.

But still, it's hard not to drool...

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4560540

[2] Yes, I have changed my HN identity, but I've been around for long.
Is the recent /server-status exposure an Apache bug?
If you have't already seen it, Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-s_3b5fRd8

Also, Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about if there was a space race with China the US would be on Mars in 18 months: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c...

It would be truly amazing if a private company was the first to set foot on another planet.
This is not remotely close to what "easy mode" and "hard mode" mean in video games. I'm now convinced this meme should die since it obscures more than it helps. Hard mode is not "elevated chance of Balrog attacks, reduced chance of Death Knight attacks".

And as you correctly note, the statistical reference class of men have it easier (in some regards), and harder in other regards. For example:

"If a straight woman wishes to meet a new person, she merely needs to show up and not be fat. If a straight man wants to meet a new person, he must engage in a great deal of active effort."

"A woman is much less likely to be the victim of homicide by a business associate than a man."

So even if you wanted to make some sort of statistical "easy mode" claim, you'd still need to quantify both the benefits and drawbacks to make such a comparison.
an old meme, and my usual recommendation: just test it: create a page that i not linked from anywhere. visit it with the browsers mentioned above. watch the logfiles. wait for it. nope, no googlebot request. it is unbelievable easy to test, i have done so on various occasions in the past, so there is no need for you to spread a "several people have reported" rumor. just ... test ... it.

as for the old stories, that google does this kind of thing: people, especially SEOs or people who think they know SEO, always blame google. oh, my beta.site has been indexed, it must be because of ... google is evil.

most of the times i have seen cases where googlebot found a not published yet site it was because of (just some examples, not a complete list) i.e.:

* turned on error reporting (most of the PHP sites)
* the URLs were already used in some javascript
* server side analytics software, open to the public
* apaches shows file/order structure
* indexable logfiles
* people linked to the site
* somebody tweeted about it
* site was covered on techcrunch (yes, really)
* all visited URLs in the network were tracked by a firewall, the firewall published a log on an internal server, the internal server was reachable from the outside
* internal wiki is indexable
* intranet is indexable
* concept paper is indexable

testing your hypothesis "chrome/google toolbar/... push URLs into the googlebot discovery queue, which leads to googlebot visits" is easily testable. no need to spread rumors. setup for testing this: make an html-page (30 seconds max, basically ssh to your server, create a file, write some html), tail & grep logfiles (30 sec max), wait (forever)
Huh, I wonder now if account hijacking is the actual design purpose of mailinators.
One can only guess how the programming languages area will look like in 5 years, but C++ will get "runtime sized arrays" and "generic lambdas" in 2017 (add a year or two until it gets to mainstream compilers)? Makes you think that the criticism the language gets is a little justified.
> social science is either unreproducible, vague, mixing correlation with causation, uses dependent variables, poorly reasoned, statistical quirks, pushed by agendas or fundamentally flawed...

Dr. Freud would have had a good deal to say about your apparent fixation with bovine feces...

Seriously though, your comments are playing fast and lose with a range of fields that you’re conflating and dismissing. Not all social sciences are “soft” and many have empirically-based real world applications that shape your (and everyone’s really) everyday lives.
One of the supposed points of patents is that the inventor shares knowledge with the world in exchange for temporary monopoly. If the patent is not enforced (such as in China), then there is no incentive to file. It might be smarter, from a business standpoint, to just keep the knowledge to yourself.
It shouldn't... but it could be easier. I've been in the situation before where I wanted to report malware on facebook and I couldn't figure out where to report it.

I agree that you don't want reporting a security issue to supersede the general case of problems, but as things stand it is hard to figure out how to report a real security issue if you don't know about that magic whitehat url.

Googling "facebook security" brings

#1 result: https://www.facebook.com/security

no information on reporting problems there

#2 result: https://www.facebook.com/help/security

this one has a Report Something link... but that doesn't give you options for reporting a security issue, just TOS violations or copyright infringement.

#3 result: https://www.facebook.com/security/app_10442206389

This looks better than the other two, but there is still nothing here about how to report a security issue.

Knowing what to look for, there's a hidden "Take Action >> White Hats" link that will eventually take you to the correct page: https://www.facebook.com/security/app_6009294086

So click that link... and presented with a huge page of names and still no obvious call to action: https://www.facebook.com/whitehat

Oh, it's the Report Vulnerability link in that sidebar that we're been conditioned to ignore in the normal Facebook UI.

https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/report/

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Just to recap, in order to find how to submit a security bug report, it took me 15 minutes and I still only found it because I knew the term to look for was "white hat" and not "security".
Whether google sends the urls to itself or not can be easily decided by using a http monitoring tool like fiddler and with hosts filter we can narrow down the traffic to google.com

Leave it running for few days you will see for yourself
Lots of folks have a vision of a mission to mars. What counts is the execution.
You Should Fear a Zombie Apocalypse — It’s Science
I'm torn here. On the one hand, this is a great development, and could represent an effective way to treat a whole range of diseases.

On the other, and I speak from experience, we really don't fully understand what goes on in terms of gene expression regulation. We have ideas which generally work in vitro, mostly in vivo with model organisms (drosophila, yeast, etc) but relatively little basic research looking at fundamental mechanisms of regulation is done in higher eukaryotes. The upshot is that we may have ideas of what's happening, but those ideas may be one of several possible explanations which lead to similar outcomes. Moreoever, the impact of gene therapy in terms of a long term cellular (and immune) response is poorly understood.

I'd be intrigued to see what longitudinal data have been generated to show Glybera's safety over the kinds of timeframe relevant here.
8 Questions Investors Use to Bypass Startup Hype
I agree. It devalues the article because it becomes part of an agenda instead of standing on its own.
> b: There's no "attractive male" advantage to be found in tech, at least not compared to "attractive female" advantage as your parent explained.

Here's an excerpt from Vanity Fair's take on YC:

Today, Jason Shen is a different speaker, one who exudes confidence. As he approaches the dais, the former collegiate gymnast does a cartwheel. “I thought you guys need a little pick-me-up or something,” he says, and goes into his pitch. “Ridejoy is the community marketplace for rides. If you’re going on a trip, you can list extra seat space in your car. And if you need to get somewhere, you can find a ride using our site.” He explains that Ridejoy is adding an element of “reputation” to ride-sharing, a mechanism for payments, and a “great user experience.” Shen anticipates a question that may be in the minds of the audience members: “Maybe this is some kind of crazy San Francisco hipster thing. It’s not.”

I think you'll find that a lot of entrepreneurs work out. It has tremendous carryover benefits to confidence and social interactions like hustling startups.

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/10/y-combinator-star...
They could always call it the iGalaxy :-S
Mozilla looking to redesign browser bookmarking with Dropzilla
[فتوى] يوم عتق من النار ومغفرة
This is maybe the best article I've ever found on HN.
I tried signing up but I got this error:
"a general error has occurred"
My fault - I remember that she wrote a popular Emacs package, but forgot the name.
To be fair to those folks most of them aren't billionaires.
Why you can't see pushbikes when driving
I really liked this article. Most blogs about women in Tech these days are centered around the mindset of victimhood.

Having gone to an engineering school, I know full well the power that women can exert in an environment full of socially-hapless geeky guys.
I'd argue that vision implies the ability/willingness to execute, whereas dreaming is just that. Musk seems to have the execution down so far!
>Installing all the GUI stuff from ports is kind of painful and mostly defeats the security guarantees anyway

There is no security guarantee, and installing KDE on openbsd gives you better security than installing it on linux. That argument makes no sense at all.

>Everything else is like trying to put square pegs in round holes.

That makes just as little sense. It is a generic unix-like OS. It runs generic unix-like software just like every other generic unix-like OS. Lots of people run openbsd for lots of things, and find it perfectly suitable. The only thing limiting it to routing is your imagination.
Ubuntu summit raises software development kit for OS
Just put some more javascript in there to deal with it. I'm sure it's not the hardest problem in the world.
What commercial real estate doesn’t understand about startups
Reason for no notifications for Windows 8 Phone? Ran out of time.
From my experience cheating, it would help to restrict words to 7 letters. Then the blocking rules would be more strategic, and at least the AI would be more fun to make.
Could something like this help someone with Down's syndrome?
Sure you can - just not anonymously. Kind of like how you can have "higher order functions" and "closures" in Java with anonymous classes - roughly equivalent, but awkward and not quite what the language was designed for. C is probably better in this regard than Java, but the lack of managed memory is a major drawback.
I saw it first in D. Doesn't mean it was invented there ;)
TL;DR: the number of bird species was/is growing fast. This sharply contradicts the current theories which state that ecological niches fill up quickly, until a catastrophic event and mass extinction clears the space again. Birds seem to find more and more niches for distinct species without any catastrophes.
Privacy group damns Ubuntu's Amazon search marriage
You forget that horses are still cheaper than cars and yet...
It is a myth that is hard to get rid of. No one wants to admit they tweeted out a link to the dev website.

Though I recently found this on the Google+ FAQ:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

When you add the +1 button to a page, Google assumes that
you want that page to be publicly available and visible in
Google Search results. As a result, we may fetch and show
that page even if it is disallowed in robots.txt.

I can understand adding a +1 button to a dev site, and then not understanding why it shows up in the index.
Sure, but Apple products seem like an unnecessary luxury, doubly in a blackout, and 'Apple' probably gets clicks, so it's a clever title, the message it conveys otoh much less so.
So, the question is — if you take a zeppelin-sized chunk of aerographite, seal the outside, and evacuate the air, will it hold up to the pressure?
It's actually worse than that. Tech companies routinely use a combination of patents, trade secrets and copyright to make the shared knowledge (patents) basically useless but an exceptionally good defensive and offensive weapon. I recall this came up with Intel and other companies reverse-engineering the Netburst bus.

EDIT: removed point about first-to-file as prior art would largely invalidate such attempts beyond a very narrow time frame.
I am amazed that their 'huge revelation' was that perhaps they shouldn't be doing huge amounts of dynamic image generation client side.

Is the point of this article "we managed to get charts into email"? In places there is a bit too much subjective self-praise for anything other than a sales pitch: "...elegant, beautiful, and timely..." I personally think their greyscale and doughnut charts don't look great.
Besides FF, Metal Gear Solid is another game for the PS1 that I have seen pop up on top 10 lists. Both the N64 and the PS1 had a range of good games for their system. Tomb Raider, Gran Turismo, Spyro, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night all come to mind as quality games that you could pick up today and enjoy for the PS1. But really these days you can pick up the systems for pocket change ($20 tops?) so if you are a gamer owning both to experience the best in both systems seems like a no brainer.
Right. SO you can program 'functionally' in those languages, but they are not 'functional programming languages' because they don't support it natively.
Can you explain a bit more and help me with my confusion? Thanks!
A machine with an infinite amount of RAM can have an infinite stack size.
That's only partly true.

Consider a turn-based game: a turn being irrevocably discrete and the same for all players, each entity, depending on its relative speed - hence time dilation/compression ratio - would get a different number of action points to spend each turn. You can globally compute each item action points because you're simulating the game universe.

You can extend this to virtually continuous time by compressing/dilating time depending on the player's relative reference frame, and then you could cap the flow of time so that min_flow=real_time or max_flow=real_time, or even mean_flow=real_time. I could see this becoming a problem for say, a FPS game where the player would feel relativity as time slows down or goes faster, but for a much more global game applying such a scheme would make him witness each unit/planet/whatever relative reference frame time dilations/contractions from a sort of god-like reference frame. In a single player scenario (where you don't need base time flow synchronicity between players) this god-player could even change his own reference frame by scaling his base time flow between say min_flow and max_flow.
I think that's in the (very) early stages of research, but who knows what might come of it.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22541296
Except for Zuck, he'll steal the shit outta your Hipster Coffee Shop Wifi app.
Ah, the uncanny valley.

I've long noticed that I have less of that reaction than most. I'd be more curious at the prospect of talking to a chimp than repulsed by it. But yes, that would explain a lot.