skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a few months ago:

http://gawker.com/5891675/

"A source with close knowledge of Twitter's financials leaked us revenue, profit, and other figures from the company's recent past. They are not encouraging."

Jan. 2011 – Apr. 2011

Revenue: $23.8 million

Net loss (non GAAP): ($25.8 million)

Jan. 2010 – Dec. 2010

Revenue: $28.5 million

Net loss: ($67.8 million)
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https://micro.seas.harvard.edu/media.html

http://trvideo.technologyreview.com/services/player/bcpid263...
Lol at least it will confuse grandma
I'm not as bothered by his predictions as I am by his blinding, religious-like devotion to their results. I would take him more seriously if he focused more on the science and less on some pseudo-technocrat-religion.
I think you're conflating "the Ruby community" with "the kinds of people you see at RailsConf". Homogenous, maybe. Cohesive? Hardly.

I work with three other Ruby programmers, two of whom are female, and older than me (I'm 30). Your assertion that there are "few females involved" might as well be characterization of IT in general for all the evidence you present. In my experience diversity is a reflection of institutional values, not the culture of the programming languages used.

Apple hardware is tremendously popular with web developers in general, and while I don't blame you for your impression (I've been to RailsConf), there are plenty of Rubyists who prefer Linux on a Thinkpad. I bet you could find rich veins of Apple hardware at almost any type of conference.

There is plenty of disagreement about the best way to do things; that's why we have both Rails and Sinatra (both of which have been imitated in Python, node.js, and more) several implementations, and lots of discussions about new language features (like refinements).

I suspect your confirmation bias means you don't even notice Rubyists who don't fit your preconceptions.
Looks nice, but - and don't necessarily take this as an insult - it seems very "Microsoftish" for some reason. Nevertheless, I like it!
Well, the first recorded chemist according to Wikipedia on Perfume is female, but almost every other citing after this is male. Is there a reason your sons could not enter the cologne industry as highly capable chemists?
Three Little Birds – Deriving the Y Combinator
Just what the world needs, another post explaining the y combinator! Hope someone can glean some information from this, I learned a fair bit in writing it :)
According to your link, the tax credit is only available to the original installer of the solar facility, i.e., the solar plant in this case. In order to take advantage of the creditk, the solar plant company would have to file a consolidated return with Berkshire Hathaway.
A nice non-spiral notebook that is easy to write on from both sides: http://fieldnotesbrand.com/ This plus a the same .38 Pilot G-2 is my pen/paper stack :)
My eye is all over the place with these designs. Very difficult to distinguish content/photo pairings.
AKA thoughtcrime. In other words, they are guilty because they think they are, even though they aren't?
IMF Chief Economist apologizes for being wrong on austerity
> It's against (American) federal law to import wildlife taken in violation of the laws of another country

> The fact that it was no longer illegal in Honduras doesn't matter

Huh? So in your mind, if you're acting suspiciously, even though you've broken no laws ... you should go to jail?

> They were mistaken about whether the wild life had actually been taken in violation of Honduran law, but as a general rule mistakes do not change the outcome unless the mistake negates the state of mind.

Thought crime? Wow.

> It's no more conceptually unfair than say holding someone guilty of attempted murder.

Yeah, see, attempted murder is a crime because you actually tried to kill somebody. Not because you were just in that "state of mind".

The state of mind of a person is relevant in criminal proceedings. It can be the difference between manslaughter and murder.

But it is not and never has been, a crime in itself. And quite frankly, I've never met a rational person who thought it should be.
The maintainability criticism is nothing new, or unique to Ruby — it has been something that has been leveled at every dynamically-typed language (eg., Python, Perl) ever since they started to become popular for writing big apps. And it's still untrue.

It comes from prejudice and fear about the lack of compile-time checks in dynamic languages. I know this personally, because I remember starting out with Python, and Java and C++ felt very safe — on a visceral level — in comparison, and Python felt very unsafe. I have since learned to recognize these feelings as irrational and unfounded.

Any language allows you to shoot yourself in the foot, in different ways. It's just as easy to write an unmaintainable app in C++ as it is in Ruby.
Not when those flaws are embraced, justified, and even praised.
Can you indicate how this would be different to ZNC with message replay and push notifications?
Some kind of human error during training seems likely - the intonation isn't neutral, it fits the context. Maybe they were trying to fix the pronunciation for that one phrase, but applied it incorrectly.
I don't see how you could do it without handing the rich a permanent get out of jail free card. The existing law is complicated. It's complicated because we want the right outcome to happen all the time: We want to provide a subsidy for people who import renewable fuels. But we don't want to subsidize people who import renewable fuels, never take them out of train car, send them back to their country of origin and then import them again to collect another subsidy. But we don't want to make criminals out of companies in the business of importing and reselling renewable fuels if they claim the subsidy on multiple train car loads and then someone down the supply chain goes and exports several of them back out of the country. On and on.

The complexity has two results: a) any given person is almost certainly violating a law at any given time, but b) nobody (not even the prosecutor) can tell you which one without spending enormous resources on legal research.

So if the prosecutor isn't given a lot of resources, and the defendant is rich, the prosecutor will likely choose the "wrong" law to charge the defendant with (because they didn't have the resources to find the one the defendant did technically violate), and the rich defendant pays to demonstrate that in court and goes home free.

We could consider the possibility of some kind of means testing, i.e. more resources to prosecutors who prosecute rich defendants, but it falls apart immediately because you can't always tell who is rich. If you're poor but your parents have money, does the prosecutor get extra resources? (Do you then get railroaded if your parents don't like you and won't pay?) How do you tell when someone has a secret research team being financed off book by organized crime?

It seems to me the only thing that can work is to make the law substantially less complicated. And you can't do that at the level of an individual law. If you're going to ban X, you have to cover all the angles of X or you'll have upstanding citizens going to jail and malicious miscreants roaming free.

What we need is to pick which small subset of existing criminal law is worth proscribing and reject all the rest of it. We need to prosecute murder and rape. Do we really need to prosecute computer crimes, rather than just making them a civil matter? We need to prosecute people who dump toxic waste in the river. Do we really need to prosecute recreational drug use, rather than just taxing it to death? We need to prosecute high value tax cheats. Do we really need to prosecute internet casinos?

Stop banning the mostly harmless stuff that everyday people do and we stop having so many prosecutions that the complete inability to pay for them continues to be an enormous injustice.
> It all depends on the value you are providing people.

Since value is subjective based on the perceiver, you're basically saying that it's spam if the recipient decides it's spam.
I think it would be safe to say that most people that buy/bought into Reaganomics would say they are Capitalists. Isn't it competition that makes capitalism (and innovation) flourish? So how does reducing competition (via allocating most/more of the resources to those that already have "the most") benefit a capitalist society?

Look what happens when a few large companies control an industry. Look at cable/internet companies. Look at wireless carriers. Look at monitor manufacturers. We see collusion to keep prices higher than they "ought" to be and sluggish innovation and growth. The large entities tend to favor more regulations that increase the barriers of entry to competitors (but vocally saying they dislike regulations... bs.) Comfortable people tend to favor the status quo, dislike shake ups, and don't want to have "work" to maintain their condition.
Considering the private keys are probably stored in the same place, I wouldn't consider it an additional attack vector.
I don’t disagree. But even if this were entirely opt-in, but (say) promoted or made very easy by the ISP, the neutrality complaint would be the same.
Although, the effort should be applauded none the less. While I don't agree with the execution, it doesn't mean someone shouldn't get any credit for the endeavor.
I brought domestic abuse up because a plurality of the people incarcerated at Cook County are there on domestic abuse charges; it is an extremely common charge.
Man Leaves Wife For Siri
No, they didn't. I am on an android and having trouble searching. But they apparently popularized a particular image of Santa. Off the top of my head, Santa is originally based on a real person but the modern image doesn't much resemble Saint Nicholas of actual history. Modern commercialization has had a huge impact on Christmas and pushed gift giving over more traditional spiritual celebrations and, iirc, modern commerce invented Rudolph the red nosed reindeer (though I think it was a different company, not coke).

Google it yourself. You probably are in a better position to verify it than I am, with my wonky android browser freezing up and saying "bite me, bitch" on a regular basis.
http://www.advancednflstats.com/2010/06/bill-walsh-on-random...

In his early Stanford days, Bill Walsh had already cracked the code on how un-random football coaches (and almost all people) are. From "Controlling the Ball with the Passing Game":

"We know that if they don't blitz one down, they're going to blitz the next down. Automatically. When you get down in there, every other play. They'll seldom blitz twice in a row, but they'll blitz every other down. If we go a series where there haven't been blitzes on the first two downs, here comes the safety blitz on third down."

Most NFL offenses tend to alternate rather than randomize. Walsh knew defenses were just as predictable decades ago.
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Why are you focusing on the photocopier?

Also, yes, those things existed, but there was no solution available that was so affordable and reasonable for personal use.
There's lots of things I didn't have as a kid, including numerous toys marketed at both genders. The fact that males usually don't buy every single product that has ever been marketed to females isn't a very useful piece of evidence.

You just claimed that part of the problem is my belief that marketing specifically to people that desire to have sex with women is not bad. I find that claim incomprehensible, and I am very curious at your reasoning behind it.
Stanford develops acrobatic space rovers to explore moons and asteroids
I run AntiRSI and take a 5 minute break every hour. Never had an employer complain about me not staying chained to my desk for 8 hours.
If you live in the vicinity of Seattle, there is a sports-themed hackathon going on Superbowl weekend. Google, ESPN and a bunch of tech companies are sponsoring. The grand prize will be passes to the Sloan Sports Conference. More details to come:

http://sportshackday.com
Inquiry Into Tech Giants’ Tax Strategies Nears End
> What does this have to do with "women in tech"?

A tech company commissions, approves, and delivers an advert for their product.

Did the company have no input to the creatives?

> Also Patriarchy ain't a real thing.

Easier to say if you're not the one getting 81 cents to the dollar.
> This is what happens to people accused of blue-collar crimes, not white collar crimes.

The original article is about both.

> White collar crimes carry almost no stigma unless a conviction happens.

You know this from experience?

> What a bunch of historically revisionist bullshit. The Constitution initially restricted the federal government, not the government in general. The states had unlimited power

Are you aware that each state has its own constitution? That they are modeled on the federal one? That they enumerate the same rights and today, quite a few more?

My home state of New Jersey adopted its constitution in 1776, right before the Declaration of Independence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_New_Jersey
Wow, great write-up and sorry you've had to/are still going through this.
This article is taking two points and conflating them together in a way that makes no sense at all:

Good Point: Marketers, who in this case are predominantly male, are using hyper-sexuality to promote their image and their ad and are being insensitive to women, thus abandoning 50% of the possible customer base. This is a stupid, of course.

Bad Point: Engineers are predominantly male because the marketers (an industry teaming with women) of this particular company are pigs.

The author of this article is saying that women are chased away from programming because some CEO and CMO, both presumably male, sat in the office and beat their brains out trying to conjure up a good image and brand strategy for the company. Is she saying that some lowly engineer, with no MBA + Marketing should have the power to stop this, and even if she (he even?) speaks up, there is anything that will stop it? What proof does the author have that all the engineers working at this place are males and that maybe a girl or two worked on the website and thought it was a good idea?

While I understand this article from an emotional stand-point, I am failing to understand it from a logical perspective.

Here are a few reasons that girls aren't attracted to engineering:

Boys receive Lego block and Lincoln Blocks.
Girls receive prefab Barbie Doll houses and cars.

Boys are told to play video games, which are all male-centric.
Girls... Shoots and Latters?

Girls are told that they shouldn't be good at math or science.
Boys are told they should be good at math or science.

This is all a much deeper cultural issue that sexuality is a veneer we use to hide the real issues. Marketing in general is lambasted for objectifying the female body, but that didn't stop droves of women going into marketing. Yeah, if sexuality was really the issue, then marketing would be 99% male also.
i think the best technology companies are run by engineers , page and brin of google, zuckerberg of facebook, bezos of amazon.
Try the UI tool for Android on Intellij IDEA, much better.
Firstly, it doesn't come up in proper trials (eg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17413101).

That's part of the general Taubes carbs-insulin hypothesis; that insulin affects satiety (the feeling of fullness, or no longer wanting to eat).

As I said above, there are more hormones involved than insulin. For example, one very influential hormone is leptin. It has a profound affect on appetite and satiety; but we still only understand it poorly.

And leptin can be affected by all sorts of factors. Sleep deprivation, even small amounts, really play merry hell with it. Next time you're running on fumes, you may notice both that a) you're starving and b) your ability to resist the temptation to eat anything is greatly diminished.

And so on. The body is more complex than the thermodynamic equation, but ultimately that is enough to control your mass. The additional details are worth introducing as and when they are necessary (and a good dietitian will do that), but not before. People are very good at giving themselves excuses and, of course, analysis paralysis allows them to forestall any real change.
Coca-Cola is seen to have invented what Santa Claus is today - mainly through helping to change public consciousness of him. They did so initially through Haddon Sundblom’s depiction of him for The Coca-Cola Company’s Christmas advertising in the 1930s[1][2][3] & he is constantly used in their campaigns at Christmas.

My friends etc always say "It's not Christmas until you see the Coke ad" in reference to the build up to Christmas.

However, they weren't the first company to do so as in 1915 and 1923, White Rock Beverages used a today's version of Santa (Red & White) to sell mineral water and ginger ale respectively.[4]

[1] http://www.coca-colacompany.com/topics/heritage

[2] http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/coke-ads-1930s/3#ad5w0neuut0...

[3] http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/coke-ads-1930s/3#aduieywoavp...

[4] http://www.bevnet.com/news/2006/12-18-2006-white_rock_coke_s...
Takes very broad and multivariable dependent statistics and tries to parse them down to micro lifestyle criteria.

That's the point.
Easier to say if you're not the one getting 81 cents to the dollar.

That point has been debunked for just about forever now, including from Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor to Bill Clinton, and about as feminist friendly as a man could be.

The net net being that if there is a gender wage gap, it's on the order of 6 cents to the dollar, not 23 or 19 cents.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/05/01/robert-reich-answers-...

We also know that many if not most young female college graduates do better with salary than their male counterparts.
http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-santa-clau...
I think this is a fantastic concept with lots of potential! I especially loved the tongue-in-cheek humor -- "Eternal moral vigilance is no laughing matter."

In my opinion, deleting code is fine...however you should 1) be warned that it will happen in the near future if you do nothing about it and 2) it should be tied to some version control system (e.g. GitHub) where it pushes the deletes (maybe even creating a branch and remerging it so the changes are clear) so that code can be recovered if need be.

Vigil can maybe even have some logic built in if you revert deleted code it gets "angrier" and starts more aggressively purging code in the future :P
Good Point: Marketers, who in this case are predominantly male, are using hyper-sexuality to promote their image and their ad and are being insensitive to women, thus abandoning 50% of the possible customer base. This is a stupid, of course.

No, this is a bad point.

It is a point that at the least, needs a citation, re: the gender split of marketing professionals. Let me tell you, in my MBA program, the majority of marketing MBAs were women.

It is also a bad point because in this case, the person that came up with this ad is a WOMAN. Ya, a female not a male marketer.
I love that these slides only show white people. Looks the same to me.
How Do You Work On The Google Autonomous Vehicle Team?
Title speaks for itself.

I'm 30, have been doing IT for 12 years, and want to be on the forefront of self-driving cars (and am willing to work for free!).

I looked for job postings that would be specific to that division at Google, but didn't find anything (I searched for about an hour, perhaps not long enough).

I'm definitely NOT looking for a handout, but just recommendations about where to poke around for opportunities. I wanted to balance my desire to work on that specific project with being polite and not just rolling through LinkedIn and online articles looking for people already working on the project to get in touch with.
> Are any laws of thermodynamics violated here[1]? If not, why is this experiment interesting?

That's a pretty tough criteria for judging an experiment to be interesting. Seems that must pretty much rule out all experiments in fact...
The service exists, and presumably is profitable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_expenses_insurance

To address your comment in detail:

1)>>>In short, people would take out the insurance right before they commit a crime so they didn't have to pay for their own defense.

2)>>>I don't see how the insurance company could survive in that environment, since the principle of insurance is that most people won't need it.

Point 1:
Require the insurance to be delayed: you must pay into the insurance for X number of years before it can be used. In this case, "right before they commit a crime" will end up being long enough to recoup the costs of the defense. An actuary can help find what number of years is needed for the specific business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuary

Point 2: All insurance companies are faced with the challenge of survival. They often overcome this challenge by increasing their pool of customers: "most people won't need it" and are profit centers, the few who do need it are the cost centers. Again, actuaries are the folks to call.
It appears to be slightly more complicated than that.
N00b Resources for Learning to Design
France's n°3 ISP now blocks all (or most of) Internet ads by default
watch -n 10 'echo $RANDOM'
Mayo Clinic page with four references. Many results at Google Scholar as well.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sitting/AN02082
Phony Google Digital Certificate Blocked By Browser Vendors
It's hard to defeat dogma.

Those who aren't willing to suspend disbelief and take on a reasonably skeptical mindset on these matters will get what they deserve.

Believe the stuff is good? Believe it's bad? Either way, best of luck to ya. ;)
That's not pedantic, that's just an unsubstantiated opinion.
Some things I just find easier with pen and paper. A pilot V-Pen (disposable fountain pen) and standard printer paper does me just fine. If I want to keep something for posterity, my mobile phone camera has plenty of resolution. If it's something ephemeral like editing I don't bother. I used to carry a notebook, but much prefer scrap paper + nice, scrap-paper-friendly, pen + camera.
Now this is awesome. No room for ads though, so I doubt anything like it will ever happen.
In terms of potential harm to society, is there really any difference between playing pool for money, and playing poker?

I can understand banning slot machines but poker? Is anybody really addicted to sitting in a bar and playing poker until they run broke? Moreso than pool?
>The reason that we should end the "one law for the rich, another for the poor" system we have now is that the system will never get more just unless the people with power have an incentive to make it so.

That only works if the injustice affects sufficiently many affluent people that they act to change it -- and that they act to do more than just solve it solely for the rich. Which is highly unlikely, because those who can't buy their way out of a prosecution with lawyers can buy their way out of it with campaign contributions or outright bribes (but I repeat myself) or calling in favors from politically connected friends, etc.

And even if that wasn't the case, most rich people will never be prosecuted anyway (which is the same reason that most blue collar voters don't vote in anyone who will fix it for their brethren).

But the main reason is that solving it for working class people is hard, because good criminal defense is extraordinarily expensive and indigent defendants themselves can't afford it, but there are so many such defendants that governments can't afford to pay for it on their behalf either. Meanwhile solving it for the rich is easy, because they each have their own money so they just open their wallets and obtain the best justice money can buy.

This is always the problem with the "we'll make the problem worse and then they'll have to fix it" logic. When the problem is extremely hard, making it worse doesn't cause an easy solution to magically appear, it just makes it worse.