skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New info about Real Racing 3′s multiplayer
Yes. But. (and this post doesn't intend to argue Aaron was depressed, just thinks about the premise that he might have been)

As someone who suffers a lot with depression, it is quite possible to be depressed and for no one close to you to notice. We can be damn good at hiding it, especially with practice, especially with people we know well.

Some time ago I was living with my partner and she had no clue I had been depressed for months. Then we went out with a couple we hadn't seen for a little while, and afterwards the girl took my partner aside and asked if I was OK.

Taren obviously knows him best, and I agree that if she says Aaron wouldn't have committed suicide if it weren't for the case then clearly that is true. However, I think she is dismissing the impact of depression, or at least dismissing the possibility, to readily. You could turn around and suggest that if he hadn't been in depression (if indeed he was) then the case may have not driven him to suicide.

Depression is a horrible, and terrible thing. Those close to depressed individuals certainly have a lot of insight, but it is still nearly impossible to communicate what it is like even to them.

EDIT: I'm cautious to add this, because it is "one guy on the internet", but reading Taren's post again some of the things she describes strike me as telltale signs of secreted depression. Disappearing on a whim for a hike, for example, is a favourite of mine.

EDIT2: It is also worth noting she describes one common set of symptoms of depression (low activity, disinterest, etc.). However, I for one don't often get them (for example) but I do become deeply involved in subjects for periods of time before moving on. Similar to how she describes. This is a very very common symptom of depression and if you see a friend become obsessed with a string of new things take a second to think about how they might be.
The repeated falsification of various racist scientific theories through out history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

It's not clear from your comment what you consider to be an accurate descriptor of reality, so perhaps you'd do better to offer your own position rather than leading off with a pronouncement that everyone else ('you people') is wrong.
>" everything else be free and open."

Not, open source is not the same thing as piracy, or plagiarism... in fact is the opposite thing

Copyright and proper atributtion to the creator of the original work is covered in (all?) open source licenses and it is expected to be guaranteed and clearly stated in all derived works. This is not the case here.
Saurik explains why Cydia repos went down today despite prior preparations
No it doesn't, it means if somebody doesn't really want to spy on you they just will not waste their time....
That seems to imply that male fantasies would be predominantly about humiliating women?
Part of me felt this was silly... Another part (a secret part) felt very, very, very, very envious. How come the rest of us don't have games like this we can play, potentially, for the rest of our lives?

It would be a whole lot more interesting than "sup bro?" at a reunion.
I honestly wonder how they do it.

I'm a freelancer and if i work for free, i do not have any money. So for me to be able to develop and share this freely, i would probably need some big corporation that is willing to pay me for working on it.

I'd also be interested in how those projects come up with the money to pay a professional designer. Roundcube looks very sleek, as if it was designed professionally.

BTW, what i'm developing isn't exactly a webmail client. It is an server-side IMAP gateway and a client so that you can use it completely offline.
Client adoption isn't a problem any more, IE is declining to around 30% on most popular sites. The largest issue with killing flash is the legacy: video players, games, even carousels use it.

If omegle was released in the next months, it likely wouldn't use flash.
Aye, I believe it was the TIFF exploit.
Shame about the name being a derogatory term.
"Just a design"

"Just a work of art"

"Just a musical composition"

"Just a book"

"Just a piece of software"

"Just a photograph"

I don't think folks should be able to steal these things (or anything) just because they're "easy to copy". I also don't think that adding more DRM to the world (ie. "some .js code") is the answer.
I've been trying to learn a lot about investment finance in the last 18 months. I find that I probably learn more from light, non fiction texts like Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker. Why? Because all the strange abstractions of finance are easier to grasp when you have a sense for why they needed to be created. You get the story behind them.
The article would be right if most people didn't buy/use horribly designed products.

Since they do and seem to prefer saving 50 cents to using something decently designed then we should expect good design to have almost no impact on people's lives.

Look at the German Pavillion in Barcelona, sadly 85 years later we all live in houses that emulate thatched roofs. Our furniture usually dates from a few years after thatched roofs but not much.

I've recently been on a search for a can opener that opens cams with out slipping, or jamming, I'm starting to get the feeling that I need to visit somewhere that sells tools for professional chefs just to get something that works. My mom has one but I've been unable to figure out what brand it is, and the store she got hers from has since closed.

It's 2013 and most can openers don't work. We really have no hope to make software that works.
I don't claim the necessity of high paid professors, auditoriums, or football stadiums, but I'm dubious that autodidacticism is a broadly applicable strategy in isolation.

The best teachers in my life have been public high school teachers, parents, six year olds, tenured professors, and other students. I've taught myself, learned by building, learned from working alongside peers, and learned from formal schooling. None is complete in itself--every time I think I'm proficient in a field because of my self-taught experience, a good teacher comes along and shows me how much I don't know; and vice versa, you never truly understand a skill learned from someone else until you've built something with it, on your own.

Guided learning doesn't have to happen in a classroom, but I do believe feedback is essential.
The most important part of jb for me is the ability to run an host based firewall, and have per application rules.
I use FirewallIP on iOS 5, I hope it works on iOS 6.
I block hundreds of ad and tracking servers as global policy.
This functionality doesnt exist on android... I've yet to find anything except moxies firmware for the nexus (now MIA) that has this.
The government and by extension its citizens acknowledge and accept that most government funded research won't pan out. Important details that make this work:

1) Only a very small fraction of the population is doing government funded research. Large population supporting small research operations is sustainable.

2) The research is vetted on some level, and it is in a technical field. Technical research has an established history of paying dividends (even though it finds many dead-ends)
Very witty of you, but no, mobile gaming refers to gaming on mobile platforms that are NOT dedicated gaming systems, like tablets, smartphones, PDS's, etc.
I continue to believe that most of these completely unnecessary apps are by internal devs who want to hone their skills in what they see is the great new lottery ticket, so they convince their hapless managers that they have to get on the app train. I've dealt with this enough.
Immovable Object vs. Unstoppable Force - Which Wins?
OK those words were badly chosen.

I'm a freelancer and as such i don't have an employer paying me to contribute to open source projects. This means that i need money to be able to afford to spend more time on this project.
What pisses me off: It takes something like Google to compete with the entrenched oligopoly. And "we" are left waiting on their interest... or lack thereof.

When people finally try to self-organize (e.g. municipal development projects), the oligopoly turns to lawsuits and lobbying to beat them down.

The U.S. is such a hypocritical country. We laud competition, while in actuality we beat it down with ever fewer but larger and more deadly sticks.
> Good idea.

Thank you!!

I see where you're coming from with the drill down. The tradeoff we had to make is to handle these types of topics:

http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-programming-font

Where there are only a little bit of text and mainly overviews.

And these types of topics:

http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-architecture-for-bui...

That are more long form. It's hard to create a view to handle both use-cases, but we will definitely try as you're right that it would be better.

> The Select Viewpoint nav bar could stay with you, as you scroll, for convenience.

Will test that, thanks!
To explain further in the context of WebRTC, traffic analysis of the encrypted data could determine the pace and duration patterns of speech between multiple speakers. This could:

(a) narrow down or uniquely identify each party

(b) provide information on the mood of each party (are they interrupting other speakers more often than usual?)

(c) guess the nature of the call (information dump from one person to another, one person quizzing another person, ...)

(d) determine the languages used in the conversation

(e) guess demographic information from the conversation including approximate level of education/intellect, age, male/female, ...

(f) narrow down the physical location of speakers who are attempting to mask their identity through intermediate nodes
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Think about how little time you and I have to devote to these issues. And then think about how we don't have to suffer them. And yet, women and your non-white-male must spend some of their time (that time we may spend coding, or reading, etc) to deal with discrimination, sexism, and the like. The minimum one could do to lessen this burden is to simply look around and listen with the determination to understand their issues, and with that understanding, speak out and be heard so that others may understand as well. Can we really say that we won't do this? Can the rest of us that are not commenting really let people suggest inaction and let those we care about down? Let's come together to be better than that.
Yeah but that doesn't make it a good idea.
As the maintainer of homebrew-php, I'm definitely interested in seeing how this affects popular taps. I'm guessing there is no change, but would be nice to see some homebrew love.
Does it make you think straight away that the content is biased? We are more going for objective reasons for your Viewpoints.
Unless the NSA/FBI/whatever is decades ahead in mathematical research from what is common in academia, or has computers that are many orders of magnitude faster than what we have today, well encrypted data is basically random data to anyone who lacks the keys. That's a pretty tough locked box.
You'd be amazed how much you'd learn going to college now, if you so desired. You know what you don't know and will be focused on learning it. BUT - college is a learning experience. As you've discovered you can get jobs without it.
Did you invent the wheel too? lol...
Not just Google Fiber, I want to know when the rest of us will be able to get the Nexus 4. It was released in November/December and they are still sold out on Canada's Google Play website.

I wanted to get one for April when my current Bell contract runs out and then use it with Wind Mobile but it doesn't seem like I will be able to get one in time.
Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States
RadrMe, A New Social Experience
Make a movie of your Facebook Timeline
How we won AngelHack and you could as well
I'd happily ask him to show the science behind what he was saying.
It doesn't democratize encryption unless it and its protocol free (as in speech).

Wouldn't hurt to be P2P as well.
Not true. I stopped signing my emails 10-ish years ago because I kept getting people mailing me back that they 'couldn't open my attachments'.
I think it's a big jump to say that what I said is the same as saying (as you put your interpretation of my comment) "there are no new things to talk about". Besides, if you were to just assume that there's no details available, then you will never aggregate them. But the reality is that there is a great deal of detail in the literature, which can be used to build (even incomplete) models. You could even look at the model to help inform the toiling grad students which neurons to poke at more.

Also, thanks for the paper. do you have others.
Interoperability with V/VoIP protocols will still require a translation layer somewhere. That can be on the browser, or on the server, but you will still need some server-side component to relay the signaling information through (eg, websocket proxy), or a browser-interoperability mechanism (for xmpp, BOSH). If the remote endpoint doesn't support WebRTC's flavor of SRTP, then you're going to have to relay media through your server.

If SDP offer/answer is still being considered for WebRTC, then that should simplify interop a bit since media negotiation shares a common denominator with most other V/VoIP protocols (which is really the only relevant part when we're talking about WebRTC). Of course, all that is moot if both endpoints can't agree on a codec to support. Opus is brand new, and no one cares about VP8. Hardware devices are not likely to be compatible anytime soon (without a transcoding layer in between), which leaves softphones.
Was it really rooted in sexism? Or was it just a convenient way to attack? I'm not even sure it matters. It was definitely a cheap tasteless tactic to employ.
Jawbone acquires Massive Health
Thank god, someone that gets it.

We are technologist. Many of us are academics. If someone writes or talks about how a compiler is slow, the community will demand more than anecdotes. We expect numbers, tested theories, and verified results. When people come to us with anecdotes, we often use "less than nice" ways to disregard what they say. hmm, I see parallels...

There looks to be a number of excellent evidence to prove that there is a gender equality issue in IT, but there is no scientific research on what the causes are. Is it the general culture in the world and IT has the same level as other industries? Is it because of the question/answer culture of engineers, which is an aspect currently being researched in regard to gender equality. Is it a lack of respect for women in the IT field?

I can think of plentiful number of ways to test those concept, work that anthropology might want to do if we asked them. We could also pay them to do it. Maybe that could be someones kickstarter project?

I have a strong conviction that if someone would bring scientific data on the issue on what the causes are and how to fix them, in a verifiable way, few would object. Can a strong worded policy document have an statistic proven effect in discourage sexism in a conference? If you think so, verify it with data. Get 10 conference to do it, and collect data from it and 10 other without any such document. If its verifyable, every conference should adapt one after that. Do you think negative IRC comments is the problem? Switch a number of projects to a moderated communication channel and test the concept. Compare a unmoderated IRC with a project page like stackoverflow. Bring data, do some science, show it to the community. Its the exact same thing we expect from anyone else when they want to do changes to the things the community care about.
The oldest gaming room in Japan
source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/17v79x/a_4chan_user_gives_v_a_tour_of_one_of_the_oldest/
The main difference here is that the people who wrote Bootstrap and GWT were employees and they were PAID to work on those open source projects.

I'm not employed for working on OS software. I did less contract work (and thus now have less money) so that i could spend my time on preparing a solution which works well for me.

However, if i need to spend more time to make it work well for other people, that would be a stupid decision for me if it means that i lose more money.

But if you look above, i'm not set in stone about the OS / not-OS debate. I'm just wondering if people would be willing pay me for polishing it if the source is already available.

If not, this could very quickly turn into one of those highly ambitious, yet dead, open source projects as soon as i'm forced to work on other projects.
You think profit sharing will seem conceptually outrageous in the future? Or the opposite?
Emacs user here too. I'm using offlineimap which works great, and then I use mu and mu4e [1] to read my email in Emacs.

[1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
Referencing your earlier comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5165258), this is a perfect example of what happens when lawyers stop thinking about people and start thinking about cases: it becomes OK that people involved in the case are killing themselves, so long as it doesn't exceed some percentage of cases.

I try really hard not to be one of those laymen that regards all lawyers as soulless, but this right here is the kind of thing that leads to that opinion of the law profession.

"But they handle tens of thousands of cases" should never be used as a defense in the death of a litigant -- a person. At the very least, the death of a litigant should force all parties involved to examine their actions and see if they might have been able to do anything reasonable to prevent it. Justifying it in the abstract, saying essentially that it's OK as long as it's not too many, is despicable.
Three reasons not to build a Minimum Viable Product
I don't know how it works in the US, but it's her face and her name, so can't she just get a lawyer to get a court to order the website to hand over some details? And then get another court to get the ISP to hand over some more details? And then give those to the police?
Is it just me, or are there tons of redundant repaints of the same background image in the "Recent Work" Section, with the black and white cellphone?

Beautiful site, but my framerate really took a dive when I got to this section! Hurts the experience.
It would seem to greatly lower the cost of building a Skype-killer, though, and that's a pretty big deal.
The article kindly submitted here reports slow uptake even for the Google Fiber service, with its attractive pricing and high degree of publicity. "Google wouldn’t grant an interview about Google Fiber—or even give the number of installations (though neighborhood sizes suggest it can’t be more than a few thousand)." The article also details other providers of high-speed broadband Internet access that have yet to achieve large market share even in the areas where they have built out infrastructure (albeit, at higher prices than the prices now on offer from Google). "As of last year, FiOS had about 5 million subscribers (most of whom also take the optional bundled television service)—or roughly one-third of the possible market where the company has strung fiber. But CFO Fran Shammo said in a conference call last fall that there are no plans to expand FiOS beyond those areas. 'At this point we have to capitalize on what we have invested,' he said." The investors in each company are in no hurry to see the company spend more on installing lines or upgrading the signals sent down the lines unless willing customers will sign up for the new service. That's basic economics.

The question asked by the article title, "When Will the Rest of Us Get Google Fiber?" is not answered in the article, except by implication. That answer is "not real soon." People are spending their money on other forms of Internet access, and people are writing to their lawmakers about other issues, and it will take time before there is either market incentive or regulatory nudging to roll out anything faster than the services that already let most residents of the United States watch YouTube continually. The higher speeds will come eventually, whenever many more customers think they are worthwhile.
Isn't that the definition of a raised barrier? Even if it isn't very high.
No, it does not. The following makes no claims about male fantasy or porn; it is merely a means of explaining that you have made an incorrect inference.

Imagine if you will that, hypothetically, 10% of male fantasy is about humiliating women. Imagine also, hypothetically, that all porn is based on that 10%. In this way, you can see that it is possible for all porn to be about humiliating women, but that does not imply that the majority of male fantasy is about that.

Put another way, if all cows are black, it does not mean that everything black is a cow. If all porn is based on a male fantasy, it does not mean that all male fantasy is represented in porn.
> How do you know the motivation of this person?

It's irrelevant. If you do sexist things, you are a sexist. Maybe you don't know you're a sexist, but you are.
At least for a lot of the males who spend money on pornography.
Yeah, I know that. And yet, people love them anyway. Again: "sweet" vs. "creepy" is all down to reading the situation.
They don't. Once you've released the code under an open-source license, anyone (including a competitor) can use the code in any way you allowed in the license. The strongest protection they use is trademarks, not copyrights. For example CentOS is exactly basically the same as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but they can't use Red Hat's name or logos. Also Firefox has several forks, but none of them are allowed to use the Firefox name or logos.

Basically, you need to choose your license carefully in order to make sure it reflects what you want to happen with your code. There is a lot of flexibility https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatible...
At the very least I hope it forces IM apps like Skype and Facetime to support WebRTC (that is possible for native apps, too, right?) so that in the future we get interoperability between them.

Wouldn't it be nice if WebRTC pushed video-calling into becoming like e-mail, and you could take to anyone, regardless of what "video-calling app/service" they are using?
"since men at large are not discriminated against based on their gender"

Some examples at random: percentage of males in teaching professions, and/or daycare?

Breast cancer funding and research versus prostate cancer funding and research, despite the relative frequency of each? Hint - 1:6 men will get prostate cancer, 1:8 women will get breast cancer. But the National Cancer Institute allows for $1,318 worth of research into prostate cancer per new case, and $2,596 for breast cancer (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/cancer-funding-does...)

Just some thoughts...
I'm sorry, but it was actually you who brought up the "derailment tactic": you asked specifically if it seems conceivable that a significant number of men are being harassed. And earlier the question was "would such a scenario be imaginable for a man" and your answer was "but 1 in 4 women are being raped".

I assume you are not aware of it, but it seems very twisted to ask for some aspect and then condemn the mentioning of said aspect.

Also how is the story here relevant to systemic harassment of women by "our" community - how common is it that a women in the community gets flooded with fake nude photographs, and how is that the communities doing (except for providing an online forum)?

With respect to the 1 in 4 figure, surely you are aware that most rapes occur in relationships (relatives, spouses, acquaintances)?

Also I only researched that figure of violence against men yesterday, but for Germany. In the German police crime statistics severe violence against men is much more frequent than severe violence and rape against women. So there is at least one data point.