skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How OXO Really Works: OXO CEO Talks About Spat With Quirky
Thinking about the title, I just kept thinking of Christian Bale losing 60 pounds in 4 months. If that took him 4 months, I don't know how you'd lose 30 pounds in 30 days (well in a health way). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinist#Production
..."future"?
If you do a google image search for "pictures of fortune 500 ceos" you will see that most of the women coming up are just as ugly as the men. I think this has more to do with the industry attracting people who are ugly on the inside and by the time they get to the top they just say "fuck it" and let their monstrousness show.
We deal with educating clients on the cost of apps and MVPS all the time at matchist. We get clients who have been burned and understand the value of not outsourcing overseas, yet I think there is still sticker shock at the costs associated with building exactly what you want. What do you think is the solution to this?
All on point. These new scanners essentially allow the NYPD to conduct virtual stop-and-frisks, and now the public won't be able to sue them because they won't even know they're being searched!
When these companies just shut down, why don't they release the source code?
I recall reading about a similar prejudice in the promotion of men. In the case of men it's height not prettiness.

EDIT: simonsarris beat me by 3 minutes wit better data, so I'll throw in another data point. In the past 25 presidential elections the taller or tying candidate won 19 times. Before that it is more even, perhaps because it was harder to see the differences.
I wonder what direction watch making will take in the future.

As small scale manufacturing is being transformed by 3D printing in general, could there be analogous impact in watch making from cheaper automated precision milling machines?

Imagine an amateur downloading some vanilla clock movement CAD designs; personalizing them to an extend he feels comfortable; and have the parts printed/milled/laser cut offsite for traditional assembly at home. Without being knowledgeable in watchmaking, this sounds like a fraction of the effort that is presently required to make a custom watch.
"What does this have to do with the glut of female leaders?"

"glut" means the opposite of what you think it means.
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In your final sentence, you appear to have mistyped "tangential" as "tendentious", which is an oddly sophisticated typo. Though, in this case, "ancillary benefit" may more accurately convey your (apparent) intended meaning than "tangential benefit".
I'm planning to make the same switch at some point during 2013 and for similar reasons. Privacy erosion and aggressive upsell of proprietary software are not issues that I ever anticipated encountering as a Linux user.
There's people on App.net that he finds interesting to read, there's nothing to elaborate.

I participate a lot less on App.net, but I also find the community quite enjoyable, it looks like twitter circa 2007, mostly with opinionated tech people around.
There's ongoing work to write one. Tibor Vass started hacking on it [1] awhile back. Scott Dunlop (swdunlop?) has recently started working on finishing the client. Hopefully he'll notice this and reply so maybe you won't have to write your own...

1. https://github.com/tiborvass/hyperclient
If what you say is true, I expect primary industry plays a significant role. Vocal software companies certainly do not enforce such requirements. Not even the big ones like Google and Facebook.

If you are writing software for a company that makes, say, shoes, maybe things are different. You might even need to have a degree to get a job as a driver in the shoe company, as a result of their overall business culture.

I'd love to look over the numbers if you still have them handy.
Nowhere in the parent post was it imputed that Tesla was causing the trouble that traditional car manufacturers are having.
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Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consent
Not more than the average citizen. It actually shocks me that the TSA has never seemed to recognize me, especially in light of the fact that my name is in front of them to see and I always opt-out (except when embarrassing them on video, of course ;)).
I was originally thinking something along those same lines. There must be a cost factor in there somewhere! Though I also do not mean cost just in terms of money.

Cost in terms of: time spent, energy used, will power needed to get it done, the 'need' cost, and lastly money cost.
Of course it's also possible that height and attractiveness are correlated with competence (e.g. because healthy diets as children influence all three attributes), in which case we'd expect to see more tall/attractive people promoted even in a meritocracy (though perhaps not to the observed degree).
Are You Biased? Research Says Blog Comments & Search Engines Alter Perception
I don't know--a personal computer, these days--a computer designed to only be used by one person, to only have one account and to be completely personalized to their use--is not a desktop, notebook, or tablet; it's a phone. And the majority of phones run Android. I think we're already there.
Is the author here? If so, a note:

> What does this have to do with the glut of female leaders?

"Glut" is the wrong word; it means too many. You might replace it with "lack", "dearth", or "paucity".
I have noticed a large number of people who have a mental block that they "can't do Math" or "can't learn foreign languages." In contrast, I have not noticed people with a mental block towards History/English/etc. I think the notion of STEM majors as "hard" is bad marketing on our part.

From my experience, these mental blocks can be overcome. One trick that worked for me was to tell my students that I would take full responsibility for their learning during a tutoring session. That helped them relax and learn much more effectively. Alas, I was never able to get past the deeper beliefs-I suspect a therapist would have better luck with that.
"Front-end development uses a lot low level JavaScript. Thinking of moving from YUI to jQuery."

So they are using node? I can't think of YUI being "low level javascript" at all.
Are Driverless Cars Really in Our Near Future?
You are going to make me give away my future punchline. ;-) The short story is that innerText will include the line breaks that are introduced by text layout. A lot of people call innerText when what they actually want is textContent (which doesn't layout because is just a concatenation of the descendent text nodes)
I'm pretty sure you're mistaken. Terahertz waves are absorbed by the atmosphere, so those emitted by the sun don't reach the Earth's surface. So a terahertz scanner has to emit its own radiation.
There are tons of ways to defeat it. If the courts don't stop the scanners, I plan to design and market a scan-proof holster :)
I laughed out loud at having the heading "correlation is not causation" right below his list of successful dropouts.
In NYC the subway is critical infrastructure, as important as electricity or water, denial of its use should not be taken lightly. Denial of this service to people who would not submit to a search, IMO, makes this highly coercive and the search can no longer be considered strictly voluntary.

Being a frequent user of BART (SF Bay Area Rapid Transit), I understand where you are coming from about how so many people have come to really rely on the public transit systems. But I don't think the NYC subway or BART is anymore critical than air travel. If you were not able to take the subway, you do have other options (bus, cab, walk, etc). Yes... those other options are a lot less convenient and/or more costly, but the same can be said of the alternatives to air travel (bus, train, car, etc).

Every time I go through the Trans-Bay Tube (the BART tunnel under the bay that connects all East Bay BART lines to San Francisco), I think "imagine the chaos it would cause if a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on a train in the tube." So many people use this to commute in both directions, the Bay Area would screech to a halt. That would have devastating effects on the economy (both locally and nationally). I imagine the same can be said if that happened in one of the subway tunnels. I don't think it is too far out of "reasonable" to want to protect them like we want to protect airplanes. That being said, the TSA is a huge failure and should not be used as a model for how to protect the railways.
Good for him. My brother had a similar experience selling things online. If you are able to write professionally, people are more willing to trust you - even if you are 13.
If they are shutting down due to owing money to creditors, then they do not own the source code anymore. The creditors can do as they see fit; they may even turn around and sell it to another company.
Born into the most visible of minorities, I grew up comfortably and amongst the majority while being unable to change how I looked, or pick the family I was born into, or the color of my skin.

The single thing I've seen over and over:

The only way ignorance is destroyed is when we take a minute to turn a stranger into a person by first acknowledging their existence as a member of our human family, and if possible learning a little about them and realizing, they're not that different than us.

Some truths I've yet to disprove about Glass Ceilings:

You can generally only bet on people to pay attention to glass ceilings that also affect them. Too many people don't understand, nor can they empathize very well with those who do.

I've learned to generally ignore every word anyone ever says about diversity of any kind in an organization and only pay attention to the actions.

If their diversity isn't already reflected in management, there's little chance they'll get there.

Discovering Glass Ceilings:

It doesn't seem misleading to feel those who are equally capable but an identifiable minority have to be twice as good in as twice as many ways as others to get half the respect. You get the idea.

I've spoken as an expert for a particular enterprise and government grade tool across North America. Imagine the biggest corporations and government departments in one room. Get some nice exposure, recognition, people even keep in touch..

Still, my oldest clients are the best, teach me so much about life and living, and I couldn't ask for anything more as I move forward.

Glass ceilings as fuel:

I figure getting where you want to go with hardwork is fine. It only helps build my entrepreneurial hustle.

Sometimes there's a few more bridges for me to build if someone hasn't dealt with someone who is "like them".

On the whole, I find this helps me build my ability to connect to people's needs that much better

To those who find glass ceilings:

Decide if you want to break through it. You can. (Often if you're not the first, you will be the last to try).

On the other hand, if you're that high caliber, you can probably start your own organization (and probably should). It's not to say going on your own is any easier -- you just have more ability to find the people who see life and the world like you do. Life is crazy anyways, having better people around makes the extremely tough balance out with the extremely good.

I understand this may be heavy maybe for some, but life with depth is where meaning and fulfillment is.

If anyone wants to chat about this and is afraid of being painted as a *-ist, feel free to contact me offline or reply here. If it makes you feel more comfortable, I can offer immunity/protection for what may seem like poorly worded questions (but are often well intended).
Check the mfgr Web site :)
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>Attractive women are, on average, less intelligent and capable than their less attractive counterparts. Seems a bit prejudicial to me.

That's not the argument being made. The author is only claiming that hiring by a metric other than competence will lead to worse hires than hiring by competence alone.

It would be like if you hired the people with the shortest first names. Unless short names happened to be correlated with job performance, you're essentially picking names out of a hat. Pointing this out doesn't mean you think people with short names are less intelligent.
I support this reform, but we should consider the unintended consequences.

Tying US citizenship with graduate work will incentivize universities to treat graduate students like slave labor, moreso than they are already. This is a recipe for exploitation.
The Epiphany Behind a Bootstrapped Startup
I had the totally same experience with early online communities (Everything2, Slashdot), and for a long time made a conscious effort of keeping my avatar off the Internet.

It's a little utopian, yes, but being able to deal with people based on their ideas, ideals, and quality of work, and develop fast friendships without ever being aware of so much (Great line: "How could the internet know you were gay? 80 years old? Hispanic? Transgender? Karl Rove? It just didn’t matter.") is what made the pre-Facebook net magical for me and so many others, and what, in many ways, makes the rash of so many social-mobile-local startups so boring: They trade personal flare for personal expression, let users show off badges instead of actual achievement.
> Well, there seems to be a lot of assumptions baked into this theory, but one I think is most likely to sink it is this one: Attractive women are, on average, less intelligent and capable than their less attractive counterparts. Seems a bit prejudicial to me.

No, that's not what's being postulated.

Let's stipulate for a moment that attractiveness and intelligence are completely independent. Imagine you have a pool of 1000 men and 1000 women with a standard distribution of looks and ability. Let's say you hire the top 10% of the men in terms of ability, and you also hire the top 10% of women in terms of attractiveness. When it comes time to promote your executives based on ability, you will have 10 men in the top one percent of ability to choose from, as opposed to 1 woman with the same qualifications.
I was referring to the anti-C comments on the linked article, but I think it came off like I was criticizing the whole website.
Don't assume what's actually happening is all that close to what's being described in an article like this. The goal is mostly just passive surveillance, a crappy video of something interesting is far better than a really high resolution video of an empty street.

PS: Don't forget your not limited to having one drone at a time.
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Increasing the Encryption Noise Floor
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=20000+feet+in+meters
The fascinating tl;dr: The British lost their English accents around the turn of the 19th century. As far as rhotic r's go, Americans still mostly speak the way Brits and Americans did in the 18th century.
Reminds me of the Malcolm Gladwell anecdote about how orchestra auditions are usually biased unless they hide the musicians behind a screen, so that the music is judged free from distraction.

You can see the same principle at work on a new TV show called The Taste, where contestants cook up and serve a single bite of food that the judges eat without knowing who the contestants are. So far the home cooks have been not only holding their own but beating out the pro chefs.
@tiborvass's client is 10 months old. How it handles Hyperdex's data structures works well, but some of the API's have changed and the client's handling of hyperclient_loop looks like it can enter a fast busy loop when it should idle.

I have started work on scavenging parts of @tiborvass's library to make a more minimal and maintainable Go library, but there are other projects between me and completion. :)
How much does this cost? Are there restrictions on US civilians owning or using similar technology?
I'm glad someone pointed out that reasoning flaw right away.
IDK if a crowd would make them less effective, but there is certainly ample opportunity for false positives -- or worse, cops pretending to get a false positive to justify a manual intrusion.
For your own crawler, what do you estimate the size of your index (# of objects)? Just curious how your own data compares to the rest of your sources (Bing, Yandex, Blekko, etc)
The major for me is being able to do meta-queries that will be sent to the relevant website, e.g. "!maps 401 broadway to Canal St Station" or "!wa how many stars are in the galaxy"

http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
The openness and transparency comes from the open business model, which obviates incentives to monetize users through ads and data-mining. It's still theoretically possible that App.net would employ these income models, but their entire platform is based on goodwill, and without it, no one will use it.

I don't buy the holier-than-thou rhetoric employed by Dalton, which also trivializes a lot of the complexities in running companies, but I think the value proposition is fairly clear - for nerds like us at least.

It's not enough to entice me to use the platform, because as nice as it is that the founders are profitable, the wider appeal to a general audience requires an electron microscope to find.
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Apple users launch privacy campaign against Google
Most of the time what I want is in "the little box" right at the top of the list (aka the "Instant Answer"), so I don't have to click and scroll... Google had "I'm feeling lucky," but just putting the summary of the primary result at the top is better/faster/visually cleaner.
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This is what I do every night
My weekend project: A Mac app to convert Vine videos to animated gifs
Rails 3.0.20 and 2.3.16 have been released
Ah, that Appnetizens link is a very interesting one.

30,827 users * $36/year = $1.1 yearly revenue.

It should be interesting when the yearly subscription dates come up in August. 18,255 users are up for renewal in August. Well over half the user base.

Then subscription numbers will stabilize and App.net will need to deal with issues such as user base churn.
> While most of the Western world divides the day into two halves — a.m. and p.m.

I'm not sure if that's only a German thing but I think it's that way in most of Europe.
The dang keyboard covers the terminal on the phone and ipad. I must be missing a setting.
7 Essentials For A Kick Ass Product Launch Party
It's not absurd though for the military to have the capacity to bounce 600 gigabits/s around the globe. There are commercial sattelites with capacities beyond 110 gigabits/s
Getting Firefox OS on your Android phone.
And yet, height isn't as tightly correlated with future earnings as height at the age of 16. Source: http://www.economist.com/node/1099333
How Vine Will Turn Brands into Storytelling Powerhouses
There is an unintended consequence for everything, including inaction.
Senate immigration 'framework' calls for STEM green cards
Unseen, all-out cyber war on the U.S. has begun
Might as well just use Go.
From my interpretation, that wasn't an assumption of the theory. All else being equal, there is presumably a similar distribution of intelligence among attractive females as there is among less attractive females.

However, due to attractiveness having a heavier weight than ability in the hiring decision, you hire disproportionately from the full distribution of attractive female candidates, rather than just the "above-average" sides of both distributions. This leaves an artificially scarce supply of female employees competent enough for upper-management level.

In contrast, if men are hired more on competency and less on looks, then you're not arbitrarily splitting your candidate pool into two distributions - one of which (the unattractive) you are very unlikely to hire from - and you're likely to hire all competent males vs. some competent and a few that really shouldn't have been hired but looked good.
No it won't. Universities don't treat students like slaves, professors do. And they don't have any additional incentive of doing it more than they already do, just because of this reform.
I didn't know that the British originally spoke with an rhotic accent. The General American accent is supposedly how the British used to sound. Perhaps the title should be "When did the British lose their original accents?" as the Americans are the ones who (apparently) retained their original British accents.
I think you're being a bit disingenuous. I'm pretty sure I understand Google's business model. And you should know that I understand it based on my other comments in this thread.

What I don't think is particularly helpful is the characterization of that business model as "selling users" or "selling privacy", which are phrasings that you and other commenters here have used. Those phrasings are designed to spread FUD about Google.

I don't think people usually say things like "NBC is selling it's users/viewers to advertisers." The normal thing to say is "NBC sells advertisement slots during its programs."
I'm kinda terrible at writing Mac apps, so any feedback is much appreciated.
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Show HN: This is basically how OAuth2 works
Your benchmarks are likely very biased. The vast majority of the work done by your bioinformatics programs should be done in C code, with thin wrappers so that the code can be accessed through Perl and Python. If anything, your benchmarks only comparing specific implementations, such as BioPerl vs BioPython.
This is true. There is indeed a biological explanation for many of these behaviours. We are programmed to believe that tall men would infer strong mating partners, or someone to avoid in the case of a male.

For females, it is quite similar. Women who possess certain qualities appear more attractive and we generally look more favourably upon them in society.

This problem is indeed real, but it is perhaps more subconscious then we wish to believe.
"Screw them. Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that."

Best quote of the day
On the other hand, I just rediscovered Linux two months ago thanks to Ubuntu.

I'm running Ubuntu in AWS. I'm running Ubuntu in my main PC. I'm running Ubuntu in my laptop. I'm running Ubuntu at job in a Virtual Machine.

I love Unity. All the other distros look like the SuSE or the Mandrake I used a decade ago. Meanwhile OSX and Win7 happened.

Unity looks new and nice. It has better user friendliness than the other distros. Yes, I want user friendliness. I installed Slackware in something close to a hundred diskettes. I compiled thousand upon thousand packages in Gentoo. I now realize how pointless those installs were. Ubuntu just works and Unity makes it great.

The only thing I would install instead of Unity is Macbuntu 10.04, but now it is too outdated and the external package repositories stay unsigned.
To me, the main point has to do with the unseen consequences / victims. It's similar to situations where the government creates winners in an industry, where people applaud the act of job creations, but nobody sees the lost opportunities elsewhere because they are not easily identifiable.

>In reality, she was not qualified for the job. Literally hundreds of other women had applied, many of whom would have been more competent. The real injustice was not hiring one of them in the first place.
What in the bloody heck are you talking about?
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