skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"While claiming not to, this article feeds into the narrative of 'attractive women must be stupid,' by implying that attractive women, having clearly been selected for their attractiveness, will tend to be less intelligent."

This is not the right way to read it. The article is saying that if your promotion process selects the men with the most merit, but where the appearance of women takes precedence over their merits, the women who make it to higher levels will be less likely to have strong merits than the men (due to different selection criteria). It is not saying that attractive women are less likely to be intelligent, it is saying that they will be competing against men who were selected for their talents (including intelligence).
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Though the cachet vector is different, the cachet magnitude is about the same, and many other kinds of utility are greater in the Model S.

In retrospect, that would've sounded like a compelling but seemingly too good to be true pitch in the pre-Tesla years.
it's great that this guy got his job and all but let's not pretend it's just about the quality of his work. he was hanging out in a chat room with these people. plenty of personality shows through.
Yes, everything is up and ready.
Serious question: at what volume of traffic do you plan to close it down or start charging for an api?
That's awful.

This seems to be something of a theme with RoR. XML parsers that parse YAML, JSON parsers that parse YAML, YAML parsers that parse Ruby...

Why would they let that mess near user input? I thought Ruby included a proper JSON parser now.
If payment is made mandatory for those apps, it'll kill them. But making payment an option that enables more features or services would be a great business model for them (and less prone to backlash than selling users' privacy or plastering your site with intrusive ads).
No, the Duck Hunt gun doesn't time the beam to the scanline. It and the software only care about light level deltas from one frame to the next, looking for the dark-light-dark sequence. It fails on non-CRT TVs not because there's no line scanning, but because they buffer and delay the display enough that it falls out of frame synchronization with the software.

Other light guns (including the SNES Super Scope) and light pens do sense the pointing location by timing when the TV electron beam crosses the gun's sensor, but not this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_gun#Sequential_targets
I think change will be exponential. For example, look at the change in the makeup of Canadian provincial premiers. All 10 premiers were men 20 years ago, but now:
Ontario: Kathleen Wynn (Last weekend)
Quebec: Pauline Marois (September 2012)
Alberta: Alison Redford (October 2011)
British Columbia: Rita Johnston (1991), Christy Clark (March 2011)
Americans speak with wildly different accents. Oklahomans sound different from Arkansas natives; Georgians quite different from each. In New York there is more than one accent.
There's been a lot of rails bugs coming up lately, why are so many being found at this particular point in time? Who's finding them and what's spurred their interest?
Yes. dbus effectively breaks network transparency of x11 apps and turns Linux into a Desktop-Single-User OS. While I'm not regually writing desktop applications i have never ever missed dbus. And ipc mechanisms have a tendency to become unpleasant (Corba, SOAP).

I don't have a gnome session in my login manager because I don't need i18n for the words "login" and "password". (although that would be totally possible without a whole gnome session). I don't have a braille line so i can't say anything about accessibility, but that should be (in a ideal unix world) a single printf to /dev/braille. Also the feedback is audible and visual, this seems to be no issue to me.
These kinds of biases are also interesting and definitely are present everywhere.
Well, here's a dilemma for you: if you were hiring someone for a position in sales, and I told you that attractive women were more likely to make "the deal" than unattractive women, would you exclude attractiveness from your hiring criteria?
As far as I can tell the latest Rails version (3.2.11) is not affected. Of course, I only noticed this after frantically updating my gems. Sigh.
Wall Street already uses satellite data to determine sales for WalMart by seeing how full the car parks are:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872/New_Big_Brother_MarketMoving...

The next logical step is for a private drone company with the ability to collect, and analyse this data in near real time and sell it to Wall Street. Maybe even sell the data to WalMart so they can monitor staffing levels, and have the right amount of staff on the tills at all times for maximum throughput.

You could also monitor shipping at ports, rail yard delivery volume, trucks at warehouses and so on.
“Typical ways to describe time in Russian include phrases such as ‘I woke up at 7 in the morning’ or ‘I will stop by at 2 in the afternoon’ or ‘Someone was making a lot of noise at 11 at night,”’ Mr. Chaykin said.

All of these I use myself (in California). Are there languages/cultures where this isn't the case? In addition, I'll add "6 in the evening" (early night) and "woke up at dawn" (early morning).

If thinking of the day in more than 2 parts epitomizes being Russian, then most of my fellow Californians (and likely my fellow Americans), are going to be very confused.
Infrared radiation (e.g., from body heat) is in the terahertz range[1], and might be what these sensors are picking up. And there are definitely passive sensors for infrared, e.g., night vision goggles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared (300 GHz to 430 THz)
Yes, this: the "will" of the title is unjustified.

"Someone would like to have a terminal on the Ubuntu phone" would be more accurate.

There are plenty of "official" blueprints that never made it into the product.
The question is - would paying them prevent them from mining your data, or just stop showing you ads?
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Slightly related to this.. much study has been done into the pronunciation at the time when Shakespeare's plays were originally performed (in the 1600s) principally so that the effect can be recreated.

You can check out what it sounded like at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s and various other videos. (Jump to 2m50s for the actual speech.)

The odd thing about this to my English ear is that the 1600s English pronunciation has a lot of similarities to that of the South West of England today, but perhaps this shouldn't be too surprising given this map of rhoticism in modern British English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RhoticEngland2.png
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that graph covers 6 days in the middle of january and the "crash" happens on a saturday.

is it really that surprising?

edit: ahaha, years. got it. thanks. :)
It's J.J. Abrams. How careless do you have to be to get that wrong? Did you read the article you linked to?
Absolutely. Great point. It certainly doesn't happen alone in the one scenario I mentioned, but can otherwise too.

Generating more value than which you are paid is the ultimate measure.

The poisonous corporate cultures of winning favor and loyalty and trying to silver tounge their way up the ladder on the backs of others.
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I was also part of my local BBS community but many/most of us did meet up in person. It was kind of interesting seeing faces to match the online personas as I pretty much always guessed wrong. I never imagined that some of us were women, some were very young, some pretty old, and one was the 6'6" tattooed scary guy at school.
Was about to post what a perversion that interpretation is of the 2nd amendment, but holy cow can't actually argue with that.

What a shame they wrote "free state", but then again, they were forming a new government, so what should we have expected?

And if actions speak louder than words, most of the founders who served as presidents didn't exactly "walk the walk" constitutionally when they held that position.
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Compressed natural gas (ie, not liquefied) is the runner-up to purely battery electric vehicles. The problems are short range (go read the reviews of the Honda Civic GX: the range is comparable to the middle battery option in a Tesla Model S) and lack of natural gas stations.

The second problem can be partially ameliorated by filling at home with a high-pressure compressor (runs on electricity) fed by the same pipe that brings natural gas for your furnace and stove. Unfortunately, that still requires you to plug in the car overnight, just as you would with an electric, because fast high-pressure compressors are still very expensive. The compressor, by the way, costs more than an 80A EVSE for an electric car and adds range more slowly. There are a few public stations that store high pressure gas, but they tend to be at places like airports and taxi maintenance yards, where fleet vehicles congregate (check out Edmund's review of the Civic GX for refill times, though, they aren't nearly as fast as with gasoline). And compressing the gas still requires electricity. It is comparatively easier (and cheaper) to set up an EVSE (the "charger" stand, although it isn't really a charger) for an electric car than to run a gas line and install a gas compressor.

The first problem I mentioned doesn't really have a solution with a short time horizon: You need either more volume (a bigger car) or a tank that can hold more pressure (you think that everyone from SCUBA divers to NASA hasn't been working on that one for the last fifty years?).

Liquefied natural gas has it's own set of problems: people complain about the Tesla Model S losing a few miles of range while parked overnight, but the boil-off from a cryogenic container would be far worse (an uncovered dewar of liquid nitrogen boils off in "a few" hours; a big 150L dewar at 1 bar will last maybe two or three weeks).

It's not that I think natural gas is "bad," it's that as a physicist I can see that we already have technologies that work better (albeit slightly more expensively for now). The only thing natural gas seem to have going for it at the moment is that it is slightly cheaper[1] than a battery-powered car. Unless there is a new and obviously-practicable way to greatly improve the inferior technology in a short amount of time, I don't understand why it is worthwhile to spend money developing it.

[1] The Civic GX seems be to only available in jurisdictions (like California) that require a manufacturers to sell a certain number of "zero emissions" vehicles. Thus, it is probable that Civic GX's are "compliance cars" and that Honda takes a loss on each one sold. If you want to know this for sure, wait a few years until the full restrictions kick in and all "zero emissions" cars are required to actually have zero emissions: If the GX is still sold by then, I'll concede that it is a viable product (though I'd still rather spend my money on a something like a Leaf at that price point).
years...not days
It does now. But it didn't in versions <3.1.
I think those numbers are years.... :)
Yep, there is a pretty easy way to do it. In your Gemfile, put:

gem "rails", "~>3.2.0"

Then when there's an update, run:

bundle update rails

Edit: fixed the gem directive
Toyota sells over 900k Priuses each year, 1.2M Corollas, nearly 10M automobiles in total.
I think it's years. Notice the '08 and '09 etc.
There are 1780 comments on the bug.

And as http://pad.lv/1000000 observes, "For every bug on Launchpad, 67 iPads are sold."
One of the recent ideas I've been playing with is a dedicated (mobile) device for Sage (or some other maths software). Essentially an overpowered "calculator". Main differentiating factor compared to running some app on a smartphone would be a good physical keypad. That would both make input easier and free up lots of screen estate. Being a special purpose device it could be even accepted for tests and that way break into the educational market currently dominated by TI and their 20 year old designs.

With all the recent trends around hardware tinkering, such as 3D-printing and cheap ARM-boards, I don't think such project would be entirely infeasible, or even overly expensive.
Really it comes down to the fact that many people rely on all of those transportation methods to do things like work, study, visit family, etc., and can't do it another way, because of time, money, or whatever. Under those circumstances, any government hoops to jump through should not be considered voluntary and consensual.

The NYC subway system is particularly sensitive to this, as others have pointed out, because so many people use this to work every day. You can say the bus is an alternative, but what about when they make a requirement to get on the bus? (TSA has already been caught at Greyhound stations!)

...or looked at from an entirely different angle, why should there be people trying to determine if I have a gun in a bus, on the subway, or on the streets of New York? Aren't guns legal in America? The fact of the matter is that it is so impossible to lawfully carry a gun in NYC that the cops, now using these scanners, presume you can't have one. Imagine a Texas sheriff with a scanner. "Excuse me sir, I've scanned you and you have a gun on you." "Yeah, so?"
A Brit' here, most British dialects are heavy on the R's. Whether that's the rural accents ranging from the Cornish (south west) to Norfolk (south east). Then you have the harsher sounding dialects of the north east - who also seem quite rhotic (or at least, the thicker accents are). Then you have the Welsh and -as mentioned in the article- the Scottish and Irish who all also emphasise their R's (it's quite amusing when I hang out with some of my Scottish friends as they can't pronounce "Karl", so every time they call his name, my other friend "Carol" answers!)

The ironic thing is, the way the English are perceived to speak isn't the way how 99% of English (let alone British) people speak. Even in London and it's overspills (the neighbouring counties), which is where our dialects are the least rhotic, most people don't pronounce themselves in the same way as they do in American TV. But I can understand why the stereotyped accent is used; it's a slower and more clearly spoken - which is ideal for broadcasting where the actor needs to be heard and understood by the audience. Many of the northern accents are spoken with such speed that it can be difficult for an untrained ear; even for some of us English! It's also a sexier dialect (few sane people would fall in love with a Geordie accent, Brummie or even Cockney, if they weren't already brought up in that area.

If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to find youtube videos for some of the more distinct dialects.

[edit]

Just been chatting to my wife about this. She's from the north east of England, I'm from the south. It seems I've overstated the amount of emphasis the north east places on their R's.

I'm not sure if I'm alone about this, but the funny thing about pronunciation is the moment you're asked to think about the way you pronounce a word, you've instantly forgotten how you normally talk!
You're reading the data wrong. 7.3% of minimum wage workers have a bachelor's degree or higher.

I assume you were looking at the number 13.5%, which is the percentage of minimum wage hours worked by those with bachelor degrees alone.

Another way of looking at this: 30.9% of Americans over the age of 25 have a bachelor's degree. There are 122 million Americans 25 or older. That means about 38 million of them have a bachelor's degree or higher. There are 279,000 Americans with bachelor degrees or higher that make minimum wage. That means a maximum of .73% of Americans with bachelor degrees make minimum wage. Adding younger people with degrees dilutes the number further.

56.7% of Americans over 25 are somewhere between a high school degree and a bachelor's. If we do the same math above, we get that there are 69 million Americans with a high school diploma but not a bachelor's. And 2.5 million of them make minimum wage. That's 3.6%, which is a difference of about a factor of 5.

Dealing with people between 18-25 probably skews the data towards a lower percentage of minimum wage workers more in favor of those without a bachelor's, but I think the point still stands. Unfortunately the BLS doesn't subdivide the data by both age and educational attainment.

Population by age: http://www.census.gov/population/age/
Educational attainment: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/
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Econ 101 also distinguishes between elastic and inelastic supply. Engineering labor supply seems pretty inelastic - doubling engineering salaries might only raise supply 5% (some students switch majors, some engineers choose to work more hours or retire later). That is the definition of a shortage - there is not enough at any price.
I live in Lincolnshire, a large county on the east coast of England, and after ten years of being here, I can distinguish a native of my town of Louth from one of Cleethorpes, 15 miles away. 35 miles south of here, in the original Boston, the local accent is rather different again.

Most Brits would not notice the difference as Lincolnshire accents are broadly unrecognized nationally, though any Brit (and, perhaps, many Americans?) could distinguish a Scouse (Liverpool) accent from a Mancunian (Manchester) one - only 27 miles apart. Think Beatles vs Oasis here.

Sadly, though, this does only work on true, thoroughbred natives - a small percentage of the population in most areas now due to the frequent movement of people around England.
I have remote code execution working when YAML syck parser is being used. I've also got RCE working when psych is used (default in 1.9.x) using a similar trick to syck.
> "since you're only interaction with them is going be through commits."

I have had many jobs. I have never had one where the sole (or vast majority) of my interactions with people were via commits.

I've even worked remotely, and Skype, IRC, IM were all critical. Personality and communication skills matter, even if you never see someone's face in person.
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IIRC data correlations from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (with data sets based on ~15,000 adolescents) showed that those who are rated very unattractive averaged an IQ of 94.2 where as those rated very attractive averaged 100.7. Interestingly Male IQ's differed by 8 points, where as women's differed by an average of 6 points.

The fact is there are conditions, specifically Down's, that have an effect on both physical development and mental development.

I think saying attractive women are disproportionately hired and promoted is misleading, because we're now ignoring actual social factors at work rather than simply attractiveness.

If we're going to look at stereotypes then lets look at why female CEO's exhibit male-typical personality traits, and associate that with the known tendency of employers to hire people they can relate to. Or the "catty" female stereotype. Or numerous other stereotypes that aren't actually contrary to evidence, because evidence says hiring women for attractiveness is exactly what employers should be doing, because on average it works.

The question the original article begs to question is "are employers hiring less skilled attractive employees over more skilled unattractive employees" and the article didn't answer it beyond pandering to the "ditzy blonde" stereotype of women in the office.

I think things like second generation college students perform better and that education may not cross gender gaps as effectively, correlated with less women being second generation college graduates is going to have a bigger impact on the supply of competent women into the higher echelons of a work force than men hiring with their dicks.

Today women tend to outnumber men in colleges, which in 40 years time might mean that this wave of second/third generation female graduates might also be dominating our CEO seats.

I'm pandering to a half dozen stereotypes here for the exact reason that we presently know nothing on why we have fewer females in top positions.
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The only way we're going to resolve this is some manner of blind comparison data gathering like the ancient "hotornot" dotcom from a decade or so ago, assuming the only people interested enough to provide data aren't already so interested in the topic that they recognize the CEOs on sight.
I wouldn't even consider Port Authority to be "quasi-government" -- it's essentially a collaboration of the governments of NY and NJ.

Luckily, those photography signs were removed since they cannot be constitutionally enforced. There's actually a great guy in Miami now (no, not me ;)) who fights battles about photography all the time. He recently got his ass kicked bt gov't security contractors for taking pictures of a train track. His site is photographyisnotacrime.com
Explain Meg Whitman...
You kind of seem to be missing the point on purpose here. In a free software environment, there are many things you can pay for, sure. Support, distribution, development, etc. But paying for the use of specific images is not very fitting. When you buy assets like that it's purely on the basis of IP monopoly, not because they provide you with any service and/or material.

Then again I don't think you're supposed to apply it to images in the first place. It's about freedom for software users, the ability to control their own computers.

Either way it's not really relevant to this discussion.
Those all show the same downturn in the last few weeks, though.
>They also don't want to alienate their customers. Imagine if you bought a new, $100,000 Mercedes, then they announced a week later that the new one would be more powerful, better styled, had all sorts of new gadgets, and would be immediately on sale for $100,000.

Well, yeah, but I bet a big part of that is how we haven't adapted to expect that to happen, the way we do for computers, smartphones, TVs, etc.

And the rest of it is probably attributable to cars being a much larger, less often-per-person purchase than a computer or smartphone.
6 seconds is definitely a feature, imo.

Think of them as Harry-Potter-esque animated photos, not videos.
Swartz aside, Rolling Stone has possibly the least responsive web design ever. If your window's width is less than the page width, the left side of the text gets cut off on Chrome dev and Safari. There's no way to scroll to make it visible; the only way is to make the window larger. It seems they are using Javascript to change the main container's `margin-left` to keep the content centered on different large monitors, but there's no check to make sure that it's positive on small monitors. So the takeaway is: if you're trying to make a site responsive, do it right, or don't do it at all.

On that note, if you're trying to prosecute crime: do it for justice and society, or don't do it at all.
Ham Radio culture uses 24-hour time; military also. And if you look at my smartphone you will see that as well.