skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Android permissions are probably the best at the moment, because they actually exist, are centrally located, and are easy to read. You won't see any certain permission detail longer than a few sentences. They also are shared, so if you have seen one permission for an app to access your contacts, it will be the same in all apps. Apple requires less permissions disclosure and they can be listed in the app store, or on the developers site.

However, ideally I would like to see the current Android permissions segmented further. Right now they act as a catch all to ensure all bases are covered. This is often way beyond what most apps need and actually use, making users second guess what they are installing (at least, they do for me).
What worked in (y)our field, would not work elsewhere.

I'm the product of a Western-European system. Yearly tuition was like $2k. Your 44k would have covered 4 years in college including housing, food and ample beer.

IMHO, the real problem lies in the acceptance of the status quo in the American educational system and the unwillingness to let government play a role (through taxation, grants, etc). It's baffling to me that a first-world country like the USA doesn't want to invest in education. If you don't pay for the education, you'll pay for the unemployment benefits and/or lack of innovation.

I make a good living, but still I worry greatly about my daughter's future. Avg college tuition supposedly will reach 90k/yr by the time she's ready to attend, unless something is done about this madness.

Bill Gates has the right idea with his 10K BA challenge and I like what I see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/opinion/my-valuable-cheap-...
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335522/10000-degree-k...
This is a little bookmarklet I built that lets you preview the great patterns from http://subtlepatterns.com directly on your website.

Feedback and comments welcome :)
But things inside public_html can't read files outside of it. I believe cPanel is configured this way be default.
My mother tells of that time. Women, who had been an industrial force during the war, were admonished that their place was in the home, and they need to get out of the work force and marry returning veterans.
Won't the Same Origin Policy limit the exposure via ajax?
Supersonic Freefall Final Data Released
I think I´ll wait until those things are contact lenses...
I'm not talking about punishing people for destroying the economy and I agree that a lot of people have a lot of misplaced anger about it.

But in this particular financial crisis there were large amounts of outright fraud and criminal activity, and the authorities are systematically looking the other way and even rewarding the perpetrators because they're well connected and it would be awkward to do otherwise.

In particular, AIG was engaging in insurance fraud, selling policies beyond any conceivable ability to pay. This is not something you do by accident, or a calculated risk that doesn't pan out.

As another example, HSBC's recent revelation that they were in the money laundering business, and the US government's public statement that nothing can be done about it because they're too important to the economy.

I'm not concerned about avoiding another GFC, those will keep happening and the consequences are manageable. The consequences of the bad incentives of parasites and criminals being allowed to prosper are much more serious.
"It's a madhouse, and quite unnerving for an introvert like myself."

That is a fair point. On the flip side, I find phone or email or text-based customer service to be unnerving. I like talking to a real person face-to-face :) Part of why I like TD Bank (in the northeast, it's the only bank open on Sundays)

"How do I know what I'm getting at Costco is the best quality for the price? I can get a very good idea of that at Amazon. Not to mention Costco can't even being to compete with the product selection at Amazon."

There are two ways to look at product selection and product ratings.

Amazon gives you everything and the kitchen sick, and leaves the problem of quality to you (via the ratings scheme, but in order to have a rating someone else must have purchased it and thought it wasn't good). Every purchase carries, above the standard risk of product defect, the risk that the product may be terrible.

While Costco doesn't have the breadth of substitutes in any particular class of item, their selections are generally high quality. They separate the sheep from the goats for you, and while I've had some bad experiences with products from Amazon I haven't had a bad experience with costco stuff (even with their store brand "Kirkland").

So you have Amazon, which gives you depth of selection but requires you to do the due diligence and take the risk, and you have Costco, which gives you limited selection but doesn't offer the stuff that would get 1 or 2 stars on Amazon.
IIRC, IGN has previously been banned from reddit for malicious upvoting, so I guess they suit each other.
Why does Automated testing keep failing in my company?
http://www.capta360.com/ doesn't really look like a copy of your site. Neither does http://www.creativegerms.com/ or http://pearlwebstudio.com/.

Granted, a lot of those do copy your design but if you're trying to claim the above three do, you're a little overzealous.
Yeah, let's start calling it web 4.0 now. Truly exciting stuff.
I saw this, and was reminded that OO languages have language constructs to enforce this, i.e. the "private" keyword.

If you want to make something private (e.g. your internal implementation) it's better to make it private (resulting in an error if someone accesses it) than to make it public, and write a rule in section 3.11 of a convention document and hope everyone using your code has read it and obeys it.
I gotta tell you: not everyone is on the internet. In the US, publicly usable internet usually comes in the form of wifi, or terminals at the library. Not everyone has a library near by. Not everyone has enough money for a cheap cellphone or cheap laptop to take advantage of free wifi. Internet cafes aren't a going concern here.

And some people are legitimately scared of computers! Is it their own problem? Emphatically yes. Is it also society's problem? Again, emphatically yes. Is it their own fault? Well that's a matter of opinion. I think we should solve the problem and then argue over blame if there is time left over.
The way to deal with the problem imo is not to appeal to a group of uneducated people for support in the first place, but simply to increase the number of educated people to the point where such politicizing is no longer effective.

Manipulative tricks only work when the vast majority of the people have no clue about the inner workings of the pale blue dot that we are stewards of. But I cringe at the way the polarization is worked on both sides of the divide, support by ignoramuses is just as sought after by both sides and just as meaningless. But since we all live in democracies support by the numbers is important even if those supporting you have no clue about the facts or the underlying mechanisms.

In the end that support should not matter. What should matter is facts and the way (big) money is distorting the picture is very worrisome. Plenty of scientists (in absolute numbers, not in percentages, the far larger number are as ethical as can be and even some of those critical of the evidence are critical for pure motives, not because of some paycheck) have zero compunction about supporting whatever side pays for their mortgage. A preponderance of evidence (unfortunately) no longer offsets a preponderance of marketing dollars. And that is to me - for the moment, I may revise that statement, living 45' below sea level - far more worrying than climate change in and of itself.

Considering the possibilities of a runaway effect and the reality of China/India starting to use far more power and hence emitting far more CO2 this may be a thing that is already too far gone to stop, even if we did act today (Nobody seems to be sure about that one, though the consensus seems to be there will be a mitigating effect, magnitude unknown). But then imagine some real disaster triggered by our carelessness does befall us, what are we going to do to deal with the aftermath if we can't even agree on what to do when it is not yet rearranging our lives with careless abandon?

Nature doesn't care, one way or the other whether we're going to agree with each other or not. It'll just let physics run its course, and physics tends to be a pretty good if harsh teacher. Humans are pretty fragile. Maybe we will learn from this, maybe we won't, time will tell. But for now I'm not too hopeful about how this is playing out and both sides are guilty of trying to politicize this instead of letting the facts simply speak for themselves.

An inconvenient truth indeed.
Women, Wordpress & the web
ConnectNYC Update: A Demand for Fiber from NYC Businesses | NYCEDC
Excellent post-mordem. As an elasticsearch user (without the scale) there is some helpful advice in there. I've already encountered the heapsize issue they mentioned, but the others are new.

Thanks GH.
Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains
Are you being sarcastic? Are you really calling the author a whiny bitch? This is the most misogynistic comment in the entire thread.
thanks :) the GUI is mostly Twitter Bootstrap + Font Awesome + GWT

I was also not so sure about using Kickstarter for source code, but then i stumbled upon Light Table, which is a coding tool sold there.

I'd really like to continue working on it to make it more polished and for that i need some way to get money out of it. I could, of course, try to sell it as a SaaS project, but that would block people from hacking it.
Seriously? What part of sexism in tech fields occurs more frequently than is reported is hard to understand? For every woman who says something, there are several that don't. For every story any woman is telling on the topic, there are several more stories that she probably has but isn't telling because she'd be there all day. $#@?!

And please, say what you have to say without prefacing it with useless declarations like "I'm not XYZ but", like its some kind of get-out-of-jail-free card. If others find your perspective on the topic is warped, then they'll comment accordingly and you won't get a pass. And BTW, issues like sexism tend to exist along a continuum and sometimes even well-meaning people's views may sometimes graze or lie along it, regardless of good intentions.

EDIT: deleted duplicates (was getting error msgs that made me think the comment wasn't being posted).
I've built gender identification models from first names, using census data. In playing with that data, it seems to me that African American names have a longer tail distribution. That is, the top 100 names cover a much smaller fraction of the African American population. I'd be interested to see actual data on that, but that is my semi-informed opinion.

Given that, those long tail names are going to be cheaper on Google ads. In my experience, the headwords are always more expensive. Thus, if this website is scooping up cheap traffic, that will tend to be biased toward "black sounding" names.

Google isn't doing anything other than selling keywords.
I don't think you're racist. I think you're relying on a lazy assumption that social scientists don't understand statistics.
The history of this is controversial. Student Government was charged with polling the student body and making an official recommendation to President Destler on that basis. The students voted to keep 10-week quarters, but SG recommended against the popular vote. It wasn’t just their fault, of course, but this kind of thing is part of the reason I left RIT. Nothing seemed to get done, at least not right.
Does anyone know which JVM they're using? I've heard lots recommend Oracle over OpenJDK for performance reasons.
1) No, Gavin (Bitcoin lead developer) says he wants to make the transaction and block size unlimited (or rather, let the miners limit it). This should keep fees down. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140233.40

2) No, costs for the majority of transactions will not go up- in fact, they may go down. Most miners already charge different fees based on any given transaction's size. The fees range from about a half-cent USD to about two cents USD. If someone wants to send a 2MB transaction, the miners will be able to charge whatever transaction fee they choose for expedient processing.
The last time I tried this it also flipped the controls. Is this still the case?
Would having such ads in a magazine like Jet or Ebony be racism too? I've worked on ethnicity detection from faces and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
With MS creating a new framework for Windows 8 Apps, this makes me wonder if .NET will die soon as well. I don't think there's anything to worry about for the next year or so, but if it's 2014 and there's been no talk of .Net 5.0...
We use Campfire for group discussion and Jabber for IM.
Ah, I forgot about the rule that just because a famous person makes a fallacial argument, it is forevermore held as truth and above refute.

Alright, let's play your game. I concede that point, and I admit that due to my inaction on this social rights issue in the face of your radical argumentation, I am in fact a monster.

I shall therefore quit my job, give away all of my belongings, and travel the world. I will be a slave to any cause that will have me, forfeiting my freedom and my livelihood to further any cause, until there is no more injustice in the world.

But remember, if you do not do the same you will not only be a monster like me, but a hypocrite, as well.
Biased Review
If you can run your mining rig somewhere where you don't pay for electricity (like under your employer's desk :) ) - then you'll get some benefits.
Otherwise electric bill will eat your profits.

I think it's a bullshit business where opportunity is guaranteed to decline.

Let others mine and I'll develop products and sell them for bitcoins (and dollars).
What? You are going to add a lock to your door that is going to

- break your door by making it dependent on a key

- use a easily reversible locking mechanism

- slow the time it takes to enter your home

You do realize that any locksmith can open your lock in less than a minute? Closing your door already gives you most of the benefits.

Only half kidding, but I get tired of people dismissing clever tricks because it's not fool proof. Stealing is usually a function of reward/effort.
Adaptu is discontinuing its service on Feb. 20
SubtlePatterns has been a great resource for me -- especially when I'm trying to turn something around really quick -- and this bookmarklet makes the process of selecting a good background MUCH faster. Thanks so much!
But I'd rather the professor focus her time on correcting that disparity

But it's all circular. If society associates "black-sounding" names with criminal records, that leads to employment discrimination (http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873) which results in "disproportionate levels of poverty, or lack of access to opportunity." It's all related and it all needs to be at least understood.
I'd like to stress that this is by no means a fair characterization of all the people who work in media. There are a awful lot who push against this current every day. Some of them (on occasion) win. But it tends to be a fight, and the victories invariably seem like minor miracles.

When they're not winning (which is frequent), and thinking "what the fuck am I doing here?" (also frequent) chances are good that whoever or whatever they're getting snowed by can be fairly described just the way you did.
I regret it, but wouldn't change anything I think. I met my wife at college and would never had met her otherwise. That's the only thing I got from my college years.

It was fun and I learned a lot, but I'm 80k in debt and not making much more than I was working in the factories and warehouses.

Give me 3-4 years more and I'll be better off, but right now it just sucks.
Looks useful, but unfortunately doesn't work on sites that require https.
Ditto for me as well. At least in advertising there are other female project managers, assistants and designers you can go to. I've only worked one other job in dev where I've had another female co-worker, and even still that doesn't mean we're close and can confide in each other if we're concerned about something.
The Power of No + Structured Time in a Large Company
> Soldiers and veterans are not privileged.

Some people think males are automatically privileged, and veterans (especially back then) are and were overwhelmingly male.

I think that's a misunderstanding of the concept (that is, an idea that applies to a group does not automatically apply to every individual in that group) but there you have it.
Which of our business practices company policies are going to be discriminatory, detrimental, outdated, and headline worthy in 60 years? I realize IBM's policy had its roots in a post war era but even the memo 'temporarily' rescinding the policy reads wrong.

Immigration policies? They're really a governmental issue that has become heavily politicized but they seem to me to be ripe for change.

Intellectual property? Will there be progress made or will we still be arguing about copyright length, patent trolls, and trademark infringement? IP issues don't seem to be in the same category of basic human equality, though at times they reach that point (drug medication?)

Universal healthcare? Work/Life balance?
having recently created a blog i was looking to test various backgrounds. i'll play around with it, cheers
So do zebras. But in this case, if you hear hooves behind you, bet on the horse, not the zebra.
Nine hidden qualities of stellar bosses.
You guys definitely gave it a good run. What are your plans now?
Tracking customer interactions with loyalty startup CrowdTwist
"OK, I'll email you my CV"

"Err, you can't"
> It IS stealing. I don't care how you sugarcoat it.

Surely you understand that it’s possible for people who aren’t you to look at the same facts, and come to a different conclusion? Not because they’re fooling themselves, but simply because people of good heart are allowed to have differences of opinion.

Try this video, particularly the bit that starts at 10:00 http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong.html
wow, that brought back some memories, it's all fun and games, until someone puts a penny in their gun. Anyway they were called tracer guns, and it doesn't look like they are made any more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun
http://www.creativegerms.com/about and http://pearlwebstudio.com are copying the text messages

http://www.capta360.com/ copied the background photo
I'll get this corrected tonight–-thanks for pointing it out.
Very true. And it's even worse to drive to a store 20 minutes away and not find what you're looking for (either the store doesn't carry it, or it's out of stock, or nobody can tell you what aisle it's in). My usage of Amazon didn't decrease at all when they started charging sales tax in my state.
We are using Hipchat/Skype and its been working great for communication within our team
Yes, it is a great article, but it saddens me that we have to invoke XML to explain S-expressions rather than the other way around. S-expressions have been around since 1958! They are maybe the best reason that everyone should learn Lisp even if they don't wind up using it much, just so they know there are problems it already solved long ago, and they don't need to reinvent the wheel.
Exists != happens systematically. Something like fully 1/3-1/4 of women are harassed or raped during the course of their life. ONE IN FOUR. Can you imagine, one out of every four men you know in tech being stalked, harassed, or abused? While men being stalked is terrible, it simply isn't on the same scale as the stalking of women.
Or even better:

# Get my IP address by checking dyndns.org
curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | grep -Eo '[0-9\.]+'

When reading the script, you want to know what it does, not what each character in it does.

Using long flags actually hinders that by adding clutter; you have to parse a much longer line to know what it does. Adding a functional commend and then using the clean short flags is IMHO a much better way.
6.1 Jailbreak Is Finally Here
This is adorable. It always makes my day to read about the creative things people do with friends.
You might want to add rel="nofollow" to your links.
Top journalists, tech, and government officials among hacked Twitter accounts
Wait, you can actually buy google glasses?

I still don't understand what they are supposed to be used for. As for the question, of course it's silly: it depends on which bar you are going to and at what time.
Companies do in fact file use tax (in CA). Why open yourself up to FTB action for ~8% on your Amazon purchases?
New Blood at The New Republic
Being confrontational also brings the issue to light and may take us one step closer to solving the problem. Simply ignoring the matter (as uncomfortable as it would be to deal with both as a victim and as someone who doesn't want to put their company in a bad light; I can only imagine) quietly indicates that we're ok with this kind of behavior.

I suppose this is one of those "there's a time and place" issues. I wouldn't likely call out such an asshole while I'm on stage (unless this person tried to humiliate me while I was presenting, in which case I'd simply state that's not an appropriate comment for the conference and move on to the next person), but I'd certainly escalate[1] the issue privately.

We need to look into some sort of zero-tolerance[2] policies for this kind of thing until the message that this isn't okay is clearly understood. Certainly if I'm hosting or attending a conference and witness this kind of behavior, I'll be going out of my way to get this person removed from the conference and will also bring it up with their employer.

[1] In the "I'd like to speak with a manager" sense, not throwing a loud tantrum.
[2] Not that I generally support zero-tolerance policies, or find them effective. But I think the concept is directionally correct; any attendee making another attendee (including speakers) feel uncomfortable or unsafe should be removed form the event. Maybe they get one strict warning; it depends how obviously offensive they were being.
It's not? The world of computers is filled with hovering for descriptions and details.
They don't have to use ajax. They can load an image with an arbitrary url and pass the keypress data in the url parameters, or dynamically create a script tag, or create an iframe and submit a form in it, etc. The script tag method also lets them get data back from the remote endpoint, if the remote endpoint is kind enough to encode it as JSONP.
Evaluating whether Ortiz is culpable according to our common morality does not require understanding the specifics of his situation. For any given event, there are an infinite number of causes without which that even would not have happened or would not have happened in that way. Ortiz's prosecution was certainly one of those causes. But it was obviously not the only one, because if it were then that would mean that aggressive prosecution was by itself sufficient to cause someone to commit suicide, which cannot be true because the vast majority of people do not commit suicide in response to aggressive prosecution.
No, I wasn't referring to the "propaganda model" I was referring to his second comment, which btw, does not describe the propaganda model at all.
In college, we had a few weeks of Humans v. Zombies with nerf guns. Those games are so fun.
In 2004. Tuition alone has doubled since then, housing prices have gone up by 30-40%. Scholarships are far more competitive now because more and more people can't afford college.

http://californiacollegetuition.blogspot.com/2011/06/tuition...
HTML5 gaming is ready and this video proves it
Neanderthals died out 15,000 years earlier than previously thought