skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your definition of real science is something that has good prediction/application potential, that's a rather unusual definition of science. Are mathematicians, theoretical physicists all talk as well ?
I think from a harm minimization perspective, it makes sense to treat complaints of sexism from the minority faction more seriously than complaints of sexism from the majority faction.

Also, I disagree that people would complain if the same stuff was written by a guy working in nursing.
Massive Mosaics Of Images Snatched From Google Satellite View
Ruby's a top ten language -- neither Scala nor Groovy are anywhere near it -- so the ecosystem's much bigger. If we need JVM libraries, we can use JRuby without changing any source.

Admittedly, Scala's performance is faster because it's statically compiled, while Groovy's syntax is more standard, i.e. closer to C/C++/Java/C#/Javascript/etc. So wrt (1), Groovy, (2), Ruby, and (3), Scala.
Benchmarks don't mean much until it's released, if ever. But I was playing around with it, and it's hard not to get excited about performance!

| mem | time |
p1 | -24% | -3% |
p2 | -8% | -12% |
p3 | -31% | -12% |
avg | -21% | -9% |

(over 1.9.3)

Those are a couple workers I fired up for an hour. p2 relies on a C library, which might account for the smaller drop in memory usage. CPU needs investigation.

The numbers are kinda useless, but look good anyway.
First batch of Donations to Open source projects from CUBRID Affiliates Program
I played with the MS Surface RT yesterday at an MS kiosk in a mall. I really liked the keyboard option. It was the first touch device I've seen that made me consider buying a tablet. I didn't like it enough to buy it, but it is an idea that is definitely headed I'm the right direction. I can't wait for technology to mature a bit more.
Agreed, its a pleasure working with jQuery because 1. things are consistent & complete , so its very easy to guess what a function should be named and how it would work, and 2. the docs are great. every function has an easy small description and some good examples.

2. also reflects how well chaining works.
R&D is how we get new ideas from techies, that's good! However Apple should spend 10 times that, MS for instance spent 9billions in R&D just in 2012. You can like the company or not, but reasearch is one way to progress :)
I never said I don't like it, I just think it's a sham. It has no real value and it's been shown time and again. Targeted marketing doesn't work and that was their linchpin. They have 1 billion users but that is contorted, that is not active users. Even still, why should a company that has no regard for it's users of which it's entire value is established, have real legitimacy? The fact that they are now charging to "promote" posts is a clear sign of things to come.
Moot point. Logos are routinely tweaked and adjusted depending on the target presentation size.
Unicode case (in)stability and Haskell identifiers
Ask HN: Help in listing down projects adapting ppsp protocol
http://tracker.tools.ietf.org/wg/ppsp/
ex:
libswift
goalbit
libppsp
There's a lot of domain knowledge in traditional engineering that is impossible replicate artificially - much more so than software.

You can take the best rail engineers in the world, put them in a room, and they still won't be able to make a half-decent mid-size sedan to save their lives.

It's not about if you're "good at science and engineering", it's about your country's history and track record in building bleeding-edge aircraft. China is playing catchup in a huge way, though they do get to take the fast lane thanks to ex-Soviet tech.

Ace aerospace engineers come out of building airplanes, not reading a book or going to conferences.
Being touted as the biggest IPO of all time and then losing half it's value almost instantly is a pretty gigantic failure.

It's really disturbing that it doesn't get more flack for this.
Apple's smallest mistake
Actually, according to wikipedia, they do have 1 billion active users.
Yep, I sold a load of books through Amazon a while ago, made a decent amount from them.
I suspect that the word you are looking for is "condensed".

http://www.identifont.com/similar?2OWH

http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_inside.php?wipID=21

http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans+Condensed

Alternatively, there's also "compressed", "narrow" and "extra narrow" variants of fonts.
That same attitude exists in the states too.
Yo Richard, just get rid of IP and everything fits.
Stallman smacks 'consumer' technology down for an important point
My name is Matt Jones, and I work on the Facbook security team that looked into this tonight. We only send these URLs to the email address of the account owner for their ease of use and never make them publicly available. Even then we put protection in place to reduce the likelihood that anyone else could click through to the account.

For a search engine to come across these links, the content of the emails would need to have been posted online (e.g. via throwaway email sites, as someone pointed out - or people whose email addresses go to email lists with online archives).

As jpadvo surmised, the nonces expire after a period of time. They also only work for certain users, and even then we run additional security checks to make sure it looks like the account owner who's logging in. Regardless, due to some of these links being disclosed, we've turned the feature off until we can better ensure its security for users whose email contents are publicly visible. We are also securing the accounts of anyone who recently logged in through this flow.

In the future if you run into something that looks like a security problem with Facebook, feel free to disclose it responsibly through our whitehat program: https://www.facebook.com/whitehat. That way, in addition to making some money, you can avoid a bunch of script kiddies exploiting whatever the issue is that you've found.
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Are you gonna wait for congress to know dick about anything?
Stallmans suggestion is a pragmatic way to go forward and stop the current fighting between companies that is ongoing at the courts, and not through competition of products.

A clear and strong reform of patent would be preferable, and has been for long the free software foundations strategy. In the case of Bilski v. Kappos, one can read a brief made by the fsf, which rather clearly presents their view. I also strongly promote the idea to watch/read a talk by eben moglen at https://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2009/Moglen_Cardozo/C...
"Named arguments" - what took you so long?! it always annoyed me that this is not always considered a standard language feature and added in from version 0.1 of any language, no need to hack around it by passing dicts/hashes around ...Python got this right long time ago ...it always amazes me that people never seem to care about this
Thank you for exposing this. Much appreciated. Here's one more - The last time I checked, Facebook revealed 'what you liked' to search engines like Google. For example, if you search for your name inside double quotes like this - "Your Name" you will see your name listed virtually on every single page you liked, for example, If you had liked Sony's Facebook fan page, then your name would appear in the search results something like this - "[Your name] and 8 others like this"

That's strange because I did tell Facebook under my account settings NOT to list my profile or my name on Search engines.

To summarize - So be careful with what you 'like', because it really just takes a Google search to find out your interests. This could (potentially) be a problem if you are actively seeking employment (and if you had 'liked' some crazy stuff) or if you have a crazy girlfriend.
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I assume you mean from 35 to 40? The odds jump from 0.5% to 1% for Down Syndrome specifically; risk of any birth defect would be higher.

That said, the bigger issue is infertility, which increases by 20%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility
Totally agree. Especially if, at 24, you had spent most of your time in school/college, the knowledge you had reached is very, very superficial, because you have actually never lived in the "real" world until then.

I would argue that previous generations knew more than us at the same age, in a way. I'm 33, and by my age, my Dad had been working for 15 years through several companies, had been married for a long time, had got 2 kids, had gone to War, etc... I cannot say that I can ever compare with the knowledge you derive from those experiences.

This reminds me of a line in "Interview with a Vampire", when Louis says something like that to the interviewer "I was about your age at that Time, but I was already a Man".
Don't cite Wikipedia, cite whoever Wikipedia cites.
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Reverse Engineering Serial Ports
Since Citi would never allow marketing company run their tracking service on citi.com and since users won't be eager to click on n23uiahsf8das9fda.somethingelse.com link, they don't have much choice.

They do have a choice. They could choose not to "track" their customers in this way.
Lucas to donate most of Disney sale money to education
You just can't beat their hardware, though.

I agree; the Macbook trackpad is literally the only reason why I don't have a Thinkpad.
Perhaps putting a social stigma on the people that do 'cooporate with the war machine' could avoid that, similar to that on people that work even though a certain group is on strike. I'm pretty pessimistic as well, but I don't think it's impossible. A group can collectively bargain for rights, it would not be the first time in history that happens.
Carsten Dominik wrote org-mode. Looks like she maintained Remember-mode and Planner-mode at one point though.
I never got so many dev and CTO gigs/jobs proposals that now, and this for very different companies (startups, more classic companies etc).
String theorists are bullshitty yes.

Mathematicians aren't - you can prove their correctness over abstract planes and use them to for example run a hedge fund or a software company into trillions of revenue when making testable predictions in macro reality.

Theoretical physicists that use mathematics to make testable predictions are too. You can use them to also make electric engines, statistical extractors and accurate physical simulations that are corroborated with empirical evidence.

If the prediction is not testable, is unfalsifiable, is unreproducible, is not independent and is not supported by overwhelming evidence - it is bullshit - no ifs, buts or ands.
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> The mere prospect of being interrupted is enough to prevent
> hackers from working on hard problems. If you want to get
> real work done in an office with cubicles, you have two options:
> work at home, or come in early or late or on a weekend, when
> no one else is there.

> They get new technology by buying the startups that created it
> -- where presumably the hackers did have somewhere quiet to work.

It's funny -- all the startups I know have embraced open floor plans,
and the culture of coming in late and on the weekends. My sample size
is pretty small, though (n=2); what are your offices like?
You can do access control on the contents of HTTP_REFERER: if the browser visits a page in your robots.txt by following a Google link, serve them up a 403 forbidden. (In Apache 2.4, this can all be done using mod_authz_core.)

You could maybe say in your 403 forbidden message that Google has been forbidden from indexing the page (use ErrorDocument). If enough sites did that, Google might change their policy.
Why would HN need a new logo? This is just the same like the current logo, just with changed letters. I don't think that a change is necessary.
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I'm sure you weren't.
Why would you even think that, since you're doing great work, most probably.
diff --git a/chrome/browser/sessions/session_restore.cc b/chrome/browser/sessions/session_restore.cc
index 40ebe27..0cb39b8 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/sessions/session_restore.cc
+++ b/chrome/browser/sessions/session_restore.cc
@@ -995,6 +995,7 @@ class SessionRestoreImpl : public content::NotificationObserver {
GrantPermissionsForFile(id, *file, read_file_permissions);
}

+ schedule_load = false;
if (schedule_load)
tab_loader_->ScheduleLoad(&web_contents->GetController());
return web_contents;
The Curious Case of VC associates
Just wanted to echo this. 99% of the hackers/programmers/whatever I've met, whether in industry or at university have been pretty normal. In fact, the cleverest and most productive ones have tended to be more socially successful, not less. Tech people I've met actually tend to have more enlightened views on women/gender than the population at large.

Where it does start to get weird, in my experience, is when it starts to cross over into the gaming/anime/fandom area, particularly gaming. Some of those people are really maladjusted, but I suppose that's to be expected from a subculture based around endlessly celebrating childrens toys.

There must be some generational/geographical divide here somewhere. For reference I'm in the UK.
When cars were introduced gasoline was cheap, today that is very different.
Electricity today seems to be cheap, but how will that be in 100 years ? In Germany i already pay twice what people in the US pay for electricity (about $0.28 per kwH) and its only getting more expensive.

Of course, gasoline is a fossil fuel which will run out some time, but dont forget that most of our electricity is still generated by the same fuels (coal!) and with rapidly rising electricity usage i dont see a complete fossile-fuel free electricity infrastructure anywhere near. Even if thats possible with lots of wind/solar/whatever power, i highly doubt its going to be cheaper as we already pay a premium on "green-energy" today, governments move away from nuclear power etc.
"Secure ADS-B" would require ATC systems around the world to make dramatic and expensive changes to their software to accommodate it. It's not going to happen.

The FAA is not an organisation that is pushed around easily, nor is the ICAO.
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Yea, this 'HN' logo doesn't scale down well in a favicon. I like the idea of the 'Y' because its two lines being combined into one.
Yes, Tesla is still a niche luxury car. But in 2007 the iPhone was still a niche luxury phone.

Despite clearly being far superior to competitors, the iPhone was often dismissed because of it's price tag and small market share. Here's what Steve Ballmer had to say in 2007: "Would I trade 96% of the market for 4% of the market? (Laughter.) I want to have products that appeal to everybody. Now we'll get a chance to go through this again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get." [1] (In my opinion this quote is Exhibit A in the case for firing Steve "No Chance" Ballmer).

Tesla 2012 seems to be Apple 2007. Other motor industry players should be very worried.

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/20...
I don't think women are naturally better (than men) at raising kids. That's what a lot of people thinks and single dads are automatically diminished. Not good.
When I started as a developer in the UK I earned a bit less than £30k a year
and wondered: How can whole families live of this? How can anyone save money
for a mortgage?

[...]

It might sound arrogant but since I am an IT contractor I don’t have to think
twice about that Halston Heritage dress I fell in love with the other day, I
just buy it.

Yeah, you're right, that does sound arrogant.
Design is subtle. Good design seems obvious.

I say that only somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The precise spacing, kerning, proportions, typeface, line width, other ratios, etc do matter.

The look is simple, timeless, and iconic.

That said, it does seem rather too "obvious."

I often struggle with whether to praise design that is so stupidly simple. Companies spend millions to end up with such simple things.
140K with 4 years experience seems really really fast to me, but if you are good at negotiation/politics, perhaps it can be done. Or if you are hired by a bubble company.
Android Grabs 75.0% Market Share in Third Quarter
Please add (2004) to the title.

Nobody understand and articulates what hackers want better than PG, and its great that he benefits from this via YC.

In a way this is similar to Joel Spolskys view of the world of optimising for programmer hapiness and enjoying business success as a side effect.

The genuinely optimal setup for me in terms of work quality and volume would be unrecognizable the average corporate job. For instance, choosing my own working hours and tools would improve my output by 25%.
As a 38 y/old: You have no idea how much time you have right now. I thought I was always really busy, but looking back I didn't realize how much time I actually had when I was in my 20's.
Try kids, your own house, (older) relatives, everyday stuff, a body that requires more 'maintenance',a full-time job and a startup. OP says "money is fuel", but time is perhaps even more so.
Interestingly, it's one of the reasons people love not-Apple. Every Android phone (and most tablets), every Blackberry and every WM phone all use MicroUSB now. Apple COULD have gone with the MicroUSB/DisplayPort combo port. But then they couldn't have owned the entire experience, and gotten paid at every level...
What is the MM quantifier?
Yes and I am putting forward a use of the law to deter offenders who happen to exist in large numbers. Domestic Violence is a serious problem in India and a law like this does help.
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There's a fine line between someone feeling "shitty" and groupthink / often naive & distant.

A friend of mine says that anytime a person refers to him as "African-American" he sees them as totally distant and that "they usually don't talk to black people" - so I can see this working both ways.

Political correctness (what the 'polis' sees as correct) isn't always what those who may 'feel shitty' think is correct - so I share her feelings.
The URLs don't need to be posted online. Some browsers (Chrome, possibly Firefox with Safe Browsing mode, very likely any browser with a Google Toolbar installed) send visited URLs to Google and they will be indexed. I don't know if this is officially documented by Google, but several people have reported seeing this while testing new/beta websites that weren't published or linked anywhere.
also, best of both worlds, methane fuel cells have excellent efficienty. (at 600 Celsius... but that's a different problem)
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Google kills "Site Performance" Google Webmaster Tools Feature
Maybe you think of this campaign?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxsMWnK1X7k

The tag line is "there is a lot of stuff women don't understand", and the format is a womans literal visualization of a sport metaphor. In this case, "giving away a goal". The campaign is still running, and considered one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Denmark.

The company behind it is 80% state owned. and 20% owned by the non-profit sport organizations. It used to have a monopoly on gambling. The profit goes to charity.

I would not generalize the Danish peculiar brand of humor to all of Europe. One of the advices to Danes going abroad is "stay away from humor, foreigners don't understand our brand of humor". Same for visitors, they are told "the Danish jokes are not meant as insulting as they sound".

In our own self image, we are so liberal and open minded that we can safely joke about all kind of stereotypes. E.g. Danish state owned children tv has a running gag about how lazy and incompetent Polish workers (our "Mexicans") are. It is probably also no accident that the Mohammed cartoons were made in Denmark. Although that particular incident taught Danes something about how different humor can be viewed in the rest of the world.

Edit: Two more details. 1) Most high profile ad campaigns in Denmark are based on humor. 2) This is the only one I can think of where women are shown as stupid. The common pattern is that the man is being goofy while the sensible woman is buying the advertisers product.
FPGAs? Is an algorithm implemented on a FPGA a software or hardware implementation?

FPGA is pretty much general purpose metahardware. It's programmable so you could program it to be any chip, thus not covered by the effects of a patent.

Sufficiently popular software algorithms like mpeg4 (including avc) are often implemented in ASICs for speed. Stallman's suggestion does nothing to help in those cases.

If you're manufacturing or buying dedicated hardware to do one specific task well I don't see why would patents need not apply? The codec chip is clearly a "hardware machine", not a general purpose processor. It's something I imagine companies are prepared to pay license fees for. Further, nobody will accidentally use a MPEG4 hardware decoder in some device they make which is a different situation from how the accidental problems manifest in software.
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Wouldn't a proper robots.txt rule fix this?
Open floor plans have been a common thread in my first- and second-hand startup experiences. However, I think this is more due to startups not spending money on office space than anything else. As a startup grows beyond a core group of hackers, the open floor plan stops being a nice thing and starts becoming a hindrance to productivity.

I like the idea of private offices that are shared among 2-3 people, as long as there is also ample lounging/social space. If the latter is not available, then open floor plan with headphones is preferable.
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