skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selecting the best person for the job isn't discrimination but IMHO, celebrating a 50/50 split is discrimination if that isn't the natural gender split.
Let's get the comparison right.

FastSpring charge me 5.9% + 50c
A merchant account will cost me 3% + 30c.

My software sells for $69. So it is 6.62% vs 3.43%. Actually it isn't.

The comparison is (6.62%) vs (3.43% PLUS dealing with all those VAT issues, fraud detection, fighting and/or wearing chargebacks, coding and maintaining the payment system, allowing direct bank transfers in countries where consumers prefer them, and many more things).
Derekp7 came up with a great solution that I will generalize slightly: All cases which go to trial should have to be won entirely by the prosecution (in which case the proper punishment is meted out) or won completely by the defense (in which case no punishment happens). This would strongly encourage prosecutors to only pursue charges which they could actually make stick instead of whatever they can think up that might sorta be tangentially related or have other words in common with the alleged crimes of those they prosecute. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094293
I think there's a really tasteless joke to be made here about looking the study up on JSTOR. Anyways:

Abstract from scientists who published that study:

> Cotard's syndrome is a psychotic condition that includes delusion of a supernatural nature. Based on insights from recovered patients who were convinced of being immortal, we can (1) distinguish biographical experiences from cultural and evolutionary backgrounds; (2) show that cultural significance dominates biographical experiences; and (3) support Bering's view of a cognitive system dedicated to forming illusory representations of immortality.

http://philpapers.org/rec/COHPOS
China blocked VPN protocols.

You can't survive in China without a closed homebrew tunnel protocol.
tentd git:(master) $ time bundle exec rake
#...
Finished in 14.6 seconds
818 examples, 0 failures

real	19.10s
user	11.59s
sys	1.22s

tentd git:(master) $ time bundle exec rake TEST_DATABASE_URL=$(curl http://api.postgression.com)
#...
Finished in 15 minutes 0.49244 seconds
818 examples, 0 failures

real	905.67s
user	23.37s
sys	3.12s

$ time brew install postgresql
==> Downloading http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.2.2/postgresql-9.2.2.tar.bz2
######################################################################## 100.0%
#...
==> Summary
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.2: 2819 files, 39M, built in 3.2 minutes

real	190.33s
user	338.87s
sys	60.70s
I like your recap of the issue in a different comment, but I think you're not giving enough weight to the fact that it wasn't known before that YC funded the team starting on a different projects, not IM. In fact, even now this information didn't appear in pg's update, only in a comment of his later on. I think much of the vitriol you're stunned at comes from people thinking that YC knowingly signed off on and invested in IM's business model, and I think that's quite enough to be shocked by, if it were true.
I think hackers need to realize that this type of reaction is the norm. If you find an exploit then use your discretion in deciding to report it, but don't be naive. There is no reason to risk martyring yourself for someone else's interests. The risk to those (including yourself) whose information is vulnerable should be taken into account, but countered by the risk that you will be persecuted for bringing the problem to light.
My definition of "best person" has nothing to do with gender. This article is suggesting getting a gender balance is a win when selecting people to speak.
It's been spotty all day from Los Angeles, from my home, office, and mobile networks.
likewise "taking your ball and going home" is often a way to shame people into continuing to play on a field that favours you over them.
Plus the fact that at a school-level, the 555 is a completely black box. Whereas the TinyAVR makes it easy for the more advanced students to 'go explore'.
Twitter experiencing intermittent connectivity issues
The absolute best evocation I've yet found (and most beautifully written) on the feelings of depression is Darkness Visible by William Styron. [0]

What he describes may not be accurate for all instances of depression, but he certainly hits the nail on the head for many.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Visible-Madness-William-Styro...
Perhaps the solution is to create a website with multi-user activities (such as games) whose direct purpose is some trivial objective but whose actual goal is to provide a casual, flirty, social environment.
There are plenty of businesses where 9% is more than the gross margin. And plenty of businesses where the gross margin is higher than 9% but small enough for you to be totally unable to compete if you spend 9% on transaction fees.

It certainly can be worth it for high margin services and products, but it's by no means something that's always viable.
Much of this thread complains that physical access is the end all to security, in that people on this thread suggest that access to physical gear should be our number one rule. I have a few problems with this in that I don't specifically need physical access to a core router if the network is flat nor would I think that simply locking up my network equipment would solve my security problems. Its true that giving end users access to production network is a mistake, but to say that schools and corporations don't every day make basic security mistakes including physical access, its how we security practitioners reduce our exposure of the work of idiots, monitoring and alerting, port management and a plethora of other mitigation techniques, its endless game of cat and cat.

MrEthiopian
For what it is worth I use an "otaku" Happy Hacking KeyBoard Pro 2 (HHKB Pro 2) with "blank" black keys and I remapped | to HYPER+[ (and I'm of course using right alt as a "new" modifier, HYPER).

tl;dr: you can't never be sure how Emacs hacker have configured their keys/modifiers ; )
Game Of The Year
More companies need to offer 4-day work weeks.
It's been years since I've seen it, but I remember a hilarious scene where Jack Bristow is talking to someone in an IM-like window; his choice of text is giant red Comic Sans and his messages are devoid of grammar and punctuation.

You could argue that this is typical of the average IM user in the early 2000s, but it seemed incongruous for the character.
I doubt you are hitting any processing bottleneck. More likely memory capacity/bandwidth and possibly flash storage speed bottlenecks. Probably on an A4 based iOS device? I agree Apple should do a better job for these older devices however they can't let the world revolve around 3 generation old platforms either. With the A5 and especially the A6 it's less of an issue because both have hit a 'good enough' point where they shouldn't be too starved on memory capacity/bandwidth unless iOS/apps dramatically change in the next 2-3 years.
I was also impressed with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also by TSN's David Fincher), there was Ubuntu on Lisbeth's Macbook, SQL queries for searching through a crime database, and some other small touches. Really impressed with Fincher's commitment to detail even in the world of programming.
Original press release: http://www.planetaryresources.com/2013/01/asteroid-mining-up...
Thanks!

Agreed that what we're doing might not be viewed as PC. But the opposite argument - that women and men are the same, doesn't make any sense.
Thanks. Appreciate it :)
I don't have any personal experience but perhaps you could trawl through some job boards or wherever the kind of job you would like is advertised. Look for what languages they mention.
P.S. What I didn't like about the original article is it made it sound as if the feelings that lead to suicide are some sort of effete existential angst, and therefore rather mysterious, while in reality -- at least for me -- the feelings were just HELL ON EARTH.

Anyone who has any inkling of how much real tangible pain your own brain can put you in, would never question why someone might commit suicide. There are times when not doing so requires incredible strength and perseverance. Either that, or not even having the wherewithal anymore to take your own life.
>There was often a growing sense of paranoia -- that they would all find out. What they would all find out was not terribly clear, but it was something as simple as "I am useless" or "I'll never live up to any of their expectations." (If you've never suffered from depression you might even wonder why this is a bad thing -- but that sort of metanarrative doesn't happen when you're depressed because it's just obviously bad, it's rejection, and rejection is painful emotionally, and there is no reflection.)

This is ... strikingly and surprisingly similar to what I recall going through (so similar in fact that reading it made my chest feel hotter): a feeling of uselessness, of under-performing, of feeling "stuck" in a situation where I was doomed to continue to fail.

> I live a much less stressful life now, and that helps. I try not to commit myself to any futures -- I tell people that I don't make plans per se but only resolves, so that I am sure of the direction that I'm sailing, but not what I will find.

Even your current outlook reminds me of that of my own.

Though my time in this state was the most painful time in my life. These days I can look back at it as a blessing. I feel that my failures and struggles have instilled a stronger sense of 'balance' in my life and forward outlook. Most importantly, I feel that I can sense others having a difficult time much more acutely than before. It's really made helping myself and others avoid this kind of stress/suffering a priority and cause in my life -- in fact, the only cause I feel deeply passionate about.
I think Apple has positioned itself well in the day-to-day life of the average consumer, and they will likely hold that spot for some time to come.

Apple almost sold more iphones in the last 3 months than they did in the whole year of 2010. Yet to most people Apple is also doomed and everything they're doing is wrong.

Outside the circle of tech journalists and gadget aficionados, people want Apple products. I hear great things about the jellybean and samsung phones and I read anti-apple writings on the web all the time.

On the other hand, almost everyone I know with a smartphone has an iPhone. I don't think of myself as being in a bubble, I'm a student at a big college in a big city, and most of the people I come across have iPhones/ipods/even iPads. Families buy eachother apple products. When I see a non-iPhone user, they are more often not even using a smartphone, but waiting for the iPhone5 or 5S, in transition to getting an iPhone..

I don't doubt google created an amazing mobile OS, but I certainly don't see those phones on a day to day basis.
Blues make great "area denial weapons" to keep people out of your office. Typing on cherry blues sounds like someone typing on a regular keyboard very angrily. ;)
I ran into this one recently at work we couldn't figure out how our testing machine got "infected" with all of the ask toolbar defaults... Eventually we traced it back to the default install options for java. A lot of software depends on java, so all of these users get asked to install java, and end up infected with ask's toolbar.. It's pretty sad that legitimate software is selling out like this.
Same, maybe someone can make a good Android skin, but I doubt it would have the commitment to detail the movie showed. I was thinking it would also be cool to have a table-computer like Dilinger Jr. was using (sort of like the original MS Surface), but then I wondered whether looking down all the time would be bad posture...
Down about 2hrs in Ghana
Another similar option: http://psddd.co/
Big Data And SaaS Will Become Relevant For Small Businesses In 2013
Often when there's some coding stuff like a terminal inside movies, it's not only the programmers paying attention anymore. Very often because I'm the "computer guy" my entourage ask me: "Is it realistic?" or "Do you really use stuff like that?".

So it's not just to please "us" that they pay a little attention to being "correct". People like it when you answer "yes, we do this kind of stuff" and hate it when you say "no, it's complete utter rubbish bullshit". It's like if the movie creators where making fun of them by showing them bullshit and that they didn't like that.

In a way I care less than them: because I know when a movie is bullshitting me on a computer-related scene. Non programmers don't.
Eharmony is a great site. But it's aimed squarely at people looking for serious relationships.

We're looking at people who aren't necessarily at that stage yet.
I for one think that they are "gaming the system," but I don't see that as a bad thing. It's great that these kids are entrepreneurial enough to proactively push their product. It's clearly a very effective way to title a post, and they aren't lying or doing anything unethical, so what's the problem?
All I know is, if I was 14, I would definitely post my age, and I sure as hell wouldn't feel guilty about it.
Because there is now way I would let Some Guy reach into the mail store on my server and fiddle around with the files there.
My grandfather escaped from North Korea during the 1950s by riding on top of trains and eventually riding a cargo boat into South Korea. Apparently the owner of the boat had to throw all the cargo overboard to accomodate everyone. He took a group of women from his village and escaped with his life, leaving behind his now-dead family. I am overwhelmed by the fact that if he didn't escape when he did, I would be in one of the prison camps doing hard labor and sorting through animal feces for undigested corn. Thanks for linking this article, now I have renewed my interest in the past and have requested family in South Korea to send me a copy of our family tree. Grandfather is now gone, and I wish he lived today, so I could say my thanks and hug him.
He treaded on thin water and he fell in. He should have asked for explicit permission to start pentesting instead of putting his academic career in a volatile state.
Looks like it is just doing a tag search for PSD, so many of those shots don't actually contain a free PSD to download.

One option to reduce the noise might be to grep for URL's in the comment and attachment that point to downloadable files.
Themeforest has free files, but they're only free for one month as far as I know. They don't want to get their users into the habit of getting stuff for free, which is smart.
Here's what Dustin crafted nearly four years ago - http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html
The goal is fairness, not equality.
Precisely why she, and all prosecutors like her, need to go. They can't change - indeed, they can't find or admit fault with their unjust methods.
A good resource for finding articles on this is: http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/
Article describes classes of thoughts that causes suicidal tendencies. Which is good recreational read but practically useless.
Then article self-derails in disfunctional, impractical advises (for the lack of having anything better), such as:
"this information helps you to meta-cognitively puncture suicidal ideation"
or:
"scientific knowledge changes perspective. And perspective changes everything".

This works all great in theory but absolutely fails in real life with real people.

It reality it's the deep and sharp inner pain that causes people to be driven to suicide. In suicide prevention - the cause of pain absolutely does not matter. What matters - is to teach people to transcend that inner pain. People only know how to suppress, express, or escape pain. Mostly via distractions, entertainment, chemicals and sex.

Suicide is an ultimate act of taking the strongest pain killer.

When other painkillers no longer works - and pain grows too sharp, and person does not know anything better - that seems to be the best way out.

The ultimate suicide guidance teaches people how, instead of running away from inner emotional and physical pain, turn toward it, observe, see it for what it really is and
let it dissolve in irreversible manner.

When person transcends pain in this way - by facing it, observing it, feeling it - not only it causes the pain itself to dissolve - the situation or painful past that caused the pain to be in the first place - fails to re-ignite and fails to cause pain any longer.

That's it the ultimate healing direction.

That's the real way up from puny, harmless "positivive thinking" toward any thinking. When any thought, any memory, any recollection, no matter how "negative" fails to cause you to feel inner pain.
The explanation for anti-Apple anger is far simpler, and doesn't need a reference to the actual products at all.

Anger comes from insecurity. People get angry when they feel threatened. People feel threats come from the top dog (this assessment is usually not very accurate, but it is human psychology). People who feel (whether rightly or wrongly) that their side is securely on top, don't bother getting angry.

Thus, in the nineties the Internet was full of shouting about 'micro$oft' whereas nobody ever bothered criticizing Apple, because everyone perceived that Microsoft was winning an Apple was losing. Today, Apple is perceived as the top dog and therefore a threat. I don't know who's going to be the top dog ten years from now, but I do know whoever it is, that's where the anger is going to be directed.
Maybe a question of size. In a small communities, everybody knows everybody. Here, it is not the case, we do not look the persons, just the result.
I didn't mean to imply there was. Sorry.

It does seem to be the lowest hanging fruit.
Mozilla Devs Working To Optimize Firefox For Ouya Android Game Console
This implies that 'not' being a teenager makes you a 'seasoned professional'. What makes you seasoned is experience, a 14 year old can be more experienced in programming than someone who is 50 and just starting out, and is likely able to get more advanced in much less time.

I find the younger ones pick up new ideas faster than some other generations, and can get more 'experience' than I can in a shorter amount of time. This is why I find it hard to want to treat them like kids, they are smart and intelligent, and often faster than me. I have no right to tell them otherwise by playing down to them. The best adults in my life were the ones who treated me as equal and respected me.
Thanks for this info. I'll actually send a handwritten letter to my two Senators and congresswoman today.

(I'm the kind of person who sends hand-written Christmas cards, so this isn't that much of a stretch for me)
Speaking as someone who has been suicidal and very nearly succeeded had someone not pulled me down, this article pretty much nails it.

The strange part is, I can kind of get into my past self's head and replay all of my reasons, but from my current perspective they seem corrupted and perverse. I know that I was trying to escape from my own twisted feelings of guilt, but the whole episode seems almost surreal now; me yet not me.

Another interesting thing that I'd never considered before is that I have a very high pain tolerance and fearlessness. I've always suspected that my grandfather, whom I take after quite a bit in this respect, decided to stop taking his medication after my grandmother died.
In this case you should trust but verify: ask the person to detail his sources (he is making the request on behalf of someone after all) and approach them directly to get a better picture of the situation.

If his sources are outside of the company or also not truthful then I'd also be at a loss :)
Facebook fights ACLU in Brussels over EU "right to be forgotten" privacy law
>You definitely had it much worse than me, and so I want to ask sincerely, what if anything, got you out of your depression/suicidal state of mind?

Only one thing helped: Remeron. I was better in a day and only needed to be on it for a month.

I had previously tried many different anti-depressants, but I am very sensitive to such things and I could not tolerate any of them. The only one that I could tolerate was Trazedone, which didn't work all that well, and was giving me priapisms, so I had to stop.

As it was, I could not tolerate Remeron on its own; it would give me vivid dreams all night long, as do many antidepressants. This is the last thing you want when you are depressed as the dreams are usually vivid hells.

In order to sleep well while on Remeron, I had to take Klonopin, which is like Valium. As it turns out, I only had to take Remeron for a month, but by then I had a residual dependency on Klonpin. I didn't really need the Klonopin anymore as I was no longer anxious, but if I tried to taper off of it, I'd have terrible withdrawal symptoms.

I did eventually get off of the Klonopin, but it took my five years of slowly tapering. And trust me, even going that slowly, tapering off of a benzo is no fun at all!
NASA Finds Remains Of Ancient Martian Lake
ANTLR 4.0 released
CEO: "That's a great design, really great, but you know what that needs to really spice it up and make it sell?"

Designer: "Uh, well, I could make the logo a tiny bit bigger. Again..."

CEO: "No, what it needs is the word 'homepage' in the, you know, the link, so when we send the link to people they'll know it's a link to the home page."
Hopefully one that's not based on Google Reader; they're few and far between.
The selection process was gender-blind. At no point did she enforce a gender ratio; it just worked out that way.

It is entirely fair to count that a 50/50 split as a win if you have a theory that gender is irrelevant to whether they are the best person for the job. (If you have a theory that the split ought not to be even, well....)
I honestly can't tell if this is a legitimate conversation or a parody! : P

But seriously, I spent the longest time assuming that the talk about better keyboard were exaggerations or placebo effect deals, until I started using the MBP keyboard, which just felt significantly better than anything I'd used before, sort of satisfying.

So I've got an open mind now, and am planning on hand-me-downing my apple wireless to a friend in need. Does anyone have a specific recommendation for a keyboard for programming that might be a decent replacement?
Two years after switching to a standing desk
You can't blame the artist for their fans.
There's an inforgraphic that states more marriages per year originate from WoW than from Eharmony.

Here's the link: http://www.webpronews.com/gaming-beats-dating-websites-when-...
This may be a small nit, especially since this is specifically a public test facility. But you might want to restrict the guest roles to only access their own database public schema.

I can't see other's query activity, but I can see some of the pg_catalog tables.

For instance

select count(*) from pg_stat_database;
count
-------
1900
(1 row)
That. was. awesome.
I like No. 42. Offer a referral bonus/incentive, but make it creative... 12 month supply of PBR. Where do I sign!
I think most people don't know that Datomic can be seen as a layer between your code/date and nearly any backend (including SQL: for example you can use PostgreSQL "behind" Datomic).

"CRA" (Create Read Append) is the future for 99% of all the application out there IMNSHO. I know most people don't believe it but you're simply not coming back once you understand how easy it is to "recreate the state" using such a tool. In addition to CRA, the fact that queries are forever cacheable is huge. The (lifelong) problem of "cache invalidation" simply doesn't exist anymore.

I'm not saying that Clojure is going to replace Java/C# or that Datomic is going to be used everywhere. But the concepts at the heart of these (like, say, lockless concurrency in Clojure and the "grow-only" property of Datomic) are what the future's gonna be made of.
NML: a language syntax somewhere between XML and JSON
Some problems are hard to solve and some are too hard to solve. It's depressing.