skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great catch brixon. And exactly. There comes a point where for whatever reason, race, gender, or other physical attributes become great predictors for a market coughetsycough. There's one great reason they're (thankfully) supporting a ton more female development... That's their main consumer demographic.
Anybody got a good "storytelling for dummies" reference? Thanks!
This is silly revisionism. Summers was forced out of his post because he had spent years antagonizing all sorts of people at Harvard, and therefore had many enemies within the faculty. The comments about women were (a) an incredibly stupid thing for a university president to say,† and (b) a convenient pretext for getting rid of him.

† Any statement that can be easily interpreted or misinterpreted as offensive is a stupid mistake for a university president.
I would but I havent been invited to do so.
I guess I'm just confused by two points. First, the odd belief that non-flash automatically equals good. Second, that non-flash for some reason necessitated "in browser." Why?

Neither of these automatically grants any additional security. If anything, it is just tying us to fewer vendors that can do this. I guess it doesn't matter, but I can recall a time when I was able to choose which application handled certain content type. We seem to be saying we do not want that for video now.
Just for funsies: a cousin comment to yours argues that the actual hockey stick issue is that they're no longer sticks if you extend them past 500 years ago. This doesn't jive at all with what your analysis would suggest: if there's no power above noise provided by the proxies, then wouldn't we expect the shafts to be infinitely long?
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My primary tools are Ruby(on Rails/Sinatra/Padrino), JavaScript(jQuery, Backbone, Raphael).
I would love to talk to you.
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But I need some salary to solve my living problem.
You aren't exactly reading it right. The string is deserialized as a string, specifically as a hash key. However, there are a number of classes in Rails (and presumably other Ruby projects of similar complexity) which can be tricked into evaluating string properties as code when they are created, and ActionDispatch::Routing::RouteSet::NamedRouteCollection is one.

The general lesson taken is not that it is dangerous to ever use eval in any class ever, because that is really useful, but that it is dangerous to allow arbitrary instantiation of classes, because that's pretty obvious even without this exploit. For example, even without code execution you could use this same trick to DoS the server by instantiating a bunch of heavy classes which won't get garbage collected.
DSM-V – Mental Illness vs Normal Behavior
I've had many great experiences in Coursera run by mathematicians, computer scientists and biologists.

If an "expert in online education" is significantly worse in his/her own field than a biologist or mathematician, then I'd suggest choosing another, more suitable profession.

Similar sized and larger courses have been run many times for a year now - if you want to call yourself expert, then you should be at least a bit informed what worked/didn't work in these previous huge courses, and what approaches can't possibly work at that scale.
I agree with your point 2).

I disagree with your point 1): very many Americans are unemployed or underemployed, and being supported by welfare initiatives such as unemployment, medicare, and food stamps. Some significant fraction could be employed doing basic research instead of sitting at home watching TV and looking for jobs that aren't being offered by corporations that are making more profits than ever through fractional reserve lending and bailouts.

An example of underemployment in our industry: there are very many individuals with government funded computer scientists with BS, MS, and PHD degrees, that are employed in lucrative positions as code monkeys and computer janitors. These people should be inventing the next UNIX and IPV8 and advanced networking algorithms and image recognition and self driving cars. I'm not educated on whether strong AI is a pipe dream or not but weak AI has helped with image recognition and encryption breaking and genetic learning and spam filtering and web searching.

I think your initial point that "citizens acknowledge and accept that most government funded research won't pan out" is highly highly controversial in the US among some democrats, republicans, and most libertarians. Many want to cut non-military blue-sky research completely. These people call themselves neo-conservatives, President George W. Bush was a champion of the ethos. Liberals and normal conservatives are a bit sneakier on their wishes to de-fund research.
Is there something wrong with tipsy.js?

I just took a quick look at it, and it seems like a nice tooltip library.
I'm on my phone so I don't know the complete FirewallIP features but Droidwall is pretty useful.
I do think there's a gap that you can fill here, if you do it carefully. I think you're also liable to go down the same road of Stack Overflow in the pursuit of quality control.

So let me ask you this: what makes a bad question on Slant? I was in the suggested questions and I found the following question that I think would be good for a discussion.

The question in question: WHAT IS THE BEST OS TO RUN ON A RASPBERRY PI? (an aside: you might want to use an all-caps font rather than forcing titles to upper case. I just copied and pasted that title)

So my first question is: is that question a good fit for your site? I think we can both agree that without context, there's no answer to that question. Not just that it's subjective, but that there isn't even enough to inform your subjective opinion.

That's all fine and good if the point is to list pros and cons of the options. Maybe I should view each viewpoint as an analysis in and of itself. The viewpoint on Raspbian will say it's good for general-purpose stuff, etc.

But then what are the upvotes actually measuring? It's not fitness for a specific purpose, it's just popularity, right? And how do I choose something as "best", when I myself might argue that three options are "best" given what I'm trying to do?
This is a pretty good program. I went through this back in the summer of 2009 and there were no strings attached. The Lightspeed partners were fun to work with, and we got to meet a lot of other super smart founders.
I think so, but I can't be sure.
Sick! Picking SubtlePattern backgrounds has always been a tedious process, will be using this across all my stuff.
Look, I mostly do this because I find it meaningful. It pays miserably, and yet people always act like I'm making tons of money off of it, so a ton of people hate me and I don't even get to self-medicate by staring at a massive pile of cash. I've built a lot of really cool assets, but they (even the Cydia Store) are totally reliant on security flaws in something that is becoming more secure every day, so the work is even futile.

That doesn't mean, however, that I should be expected to perform miracles. I already work nearly every waking hour on things related to jailbreaking: "I'm giving er' all she's got, captain". For the record, by the way, here is what I'm up against today:

http://cache.saurik.com/tinyimg/cydia6hits.png

The game is also really difficult to predict. In this case, this is unlike any previous jailbreak, because they announced a specific time. I was not expecting them to announce a time: they have never announced a time before. I was not prepared for them to announce a specific time. What normally happens is there is a massive wave over the first few days while people find out about the jailbreak. Today, there were people watching a progress bar for hours until it hit 100%.

Meanwhile, you make it sound like it is really simple to take a payment transaction and licensing system, and just go "oh wow, we are doing over 10x the load? flip the switch boys!"... payment systems just don't work like that: this isn't some stupid web forum where you can play fast and loose with consistency (or even durability) to get more performance.

Also, six months to prepare? Seriously: you think I should spend six months while Cydia is losing money and there are no jailbreaks available--and there may never be a jailbreak available again--sitting around figuring out how to make a payment system scale infinitely so that during a small multi-hour long window it can shine?

Even in jailbreak-land, that is not the most important thing to be doing; one of my big time sinks this last half year was figuring out how to better deal with credit card fraud, for example. Leaving the world of payments, vendors are happier with more backend features, developers are happier with more Substrate improvements, and end users would prefer I make more tweaks or add things to WinterBoard.
This'll be my last reply; I've gotta step away from this because it's getting me angry, and it's not likely that you and I will find anything to agree about.

> And some similarly tiny portion of people who are prosecuted commit suicide. What's your point?

I never made the point that prosecution leads to suicide. You, however, tried to make the point that depression leads to suicide, and that's factually wrong.

> She's implying that Carmen Ortiz bears some moral culpability for the suicide.

And I happen to agree with her. If Ortiz knew nothing at all of Aaron, and if she expressed genuine regret at the outcome and investigated her office's actions in the matter, I might maybe be able to accept that she had acted out of ignorance (if she was involved at all). But, we know that Aaron's lawyer notified Heymann at least of Aaron's possibility as a suicide risk, and the response from Heymann was, "Fine, we'll lock him up." That was wrong, and the moral culpability does lead right back to Ortiz for defending her office's actions in this case.

> And if she doesn't want to hear opposing opinions on the subject she shouldn't post her thoughts on the internet for public consumption.

What a pile of ox manure. I would love to see you leave comments like this on threads about sexism: "Well, if she didn't want doctored pornographic photos of her online, she never should have posted her face on the internet for public consumption!"

Someone writing their opinion on a subject never gives anyone else a pass to be an asshole.

> I can just as easily accuse people who knew Aaron of leaving aside their objectivity because of their emotional investment, but I don't because I don't want to walk down that road.

If you had said that, it would have been more valuable as a comment than the one you wrote instead.
How CloudFlare client-side DDOS detection works
Yes. Mainstream porn is very sexist. Do you know what a woman is assumed to be? bisexual. Do you know what happens when you look up bisexual porn? You find a man. Think about that. Understand what that means and who the assumed audience is. This assumption permeates throughout the rest of the industry. (Hint: straight-male.)
This was 5 years ago and one year ago, so it's not pre-revolutionary nostalgia. I might be wrong on how well it worked inland, but I remember feeling cool no matter which city I traveled to.

This was October to May, so like I said, the system may break down in summer. It was still warm through those months compared to what I know in Canada, but I know summer is warmer still.
I looked up the second one on the list, [here](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5167868) is my comment regarding the first scientist on the list.

Baliunas is a strong skeptic in regard to there being a connection between CO2 rise and climate change, saying in a 2001 essay with Willie Soon:
But is it possible that the particular temperature increase observed in the last 100 years is the result of carbon dioxide produced by human activities? The scientific evidence clearly indicates that this is not the case... measurements of atmospheric temperatures made by instruments lofted in satellites and balloons show that no warming has occurred in the atmosphere in the last 50 years. This is just the period in which humanmade carbon dioxide has been pouring into the atmosphere and according to the climate studies, the resultant atmospheric warming should be clearly evident.[15]

The claim that atmospheric data showed no warming trend was incorrect, as the published satellite and balloon data at that time showed a warming trend (see satellite temperature record). In later statements Baliunas acknowledged the measured warming in the satellite and balloon records, though she disputed that the observed warming reflected human influence.[16]

Baliunas contends that findings of human influence on climate change are motivated by financial considerations: "If scientists and researchers were coming out releasing reports that global warming has little to do with man, and most to do with just how the planet works, there wouldn't be as much money to study it."[17] [18]

[source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Baliunas#Global_warming_...)

Given the first two from teh top of the list, I'm not convinced of the OPs statement if this list is the evidence for it.
Nice job.

I created something extremely similar a few months back for my day job (wow the traffic I missed out on!).

One thing I've encountered in this and in my own implementation: the hint gets blocked by iframe if it's nearby. Has anyone figured out a way to reliably have it appear over the iframe instead of under? I've been struggling with it for a while and have not figured it out.
I did this program a couple years ago, and it was an incredible experience. It was amazing getting to meet the partners at Lightspeed.

Also, getting to work in the Lightspeed office was pretty awesome. It's a fantastic opportunity if you're interested in trying out what it's like to start a company, not to mention getting the no-strings-attached money.

I highly recommend applying.
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It's still offensive for the district to claim the right to recognition for students' work.
Those rankings give a 60% weighting towards research rather than teaching. It is unsurprising that the country with the only trillion-dollar GDP has the highest number of top universities, since research runs on money.

Half of that 60% is citations in research. Hardly surprising again that the Anglo universities get a guernsey there, given that English is the lingua franca these days, particularly in science. If a university only publishes in English, then it's going to get a wider citational audience as compared to splitting its output between French and English.

Ultimately, in the context of the discussion here, the concern is the quality of teaching, not the quality of research. While there is an interaction between the two, they are not synonymous.
Just a quick correction about the cause of ulcers. We now know that 95% of ulcers are caused at least partially by bacteria but it is not clear whether the other 5% (where bacteria is not present in biopsy) are caused by stress, medication, smoking, or combination of these factors.
http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/ulcer.html
Using Feedback Army for Efficiency and Insight
I'm going to try using this next time I find a web site that I can't read because the background and foreground mix together.
Indeed. What a quandary.
Except that the rule there is equally applicable to OO languages, and is more about what you should and shouldn't expose in your interface.
It doesn't even have to take "uninspired" decisions. Simply having other human beings depend on you for their existence is enough to make escaping the system impossible, along with a number of other hurdles like lacking transportation to wherever $10/day is enough.
It's strategic. It's because we're trying to correct behavior, not just punish offenders. We live in a society together and you can't just push these people out and marginalize them and expect benefits. This has been discussed to death, and the consensus is that you address behavior and not identity because attacking identity accomplishes nothing positive.

Which do you think helps remove the behavior in our society: "that sounded racist, is that really what you meant?" or "you're a racist. I can't believe you said that." One of them gives the person an opportunity to evaluate what they said and how they want to be perceived by others, the other immediately puts them on the defensive and marks you and your cause an enemy to their person.
I find it interesting that this is the only post out of 190 or so that mentions what the actual debate is about.

There are very few authorities who flatly deny the planet has warmed a degree or so over the last 100 years. There are very few authorities that deny that man is the most likely cause of this warming. And yet, nearly every post in this whole thread is essentially debating how moronic, on a scale of 1-10, those "climate deniers" are.

I find this even more fascinating from a place like HN, where the users are generally very intelligent and often have some science education. It's ironic that the users ranting against these uneducated people who don't believe in climate change are exhibiting the very same sort of ignorance they decry: they've accepted the media's characterization of the debate.

To clarify: those in the Al Gore camp calling for drastic reductions of CO2 are essentially asking the third world to remain poor, and are asking the first world to become a little less rich. Their justification is that there will be catastrophic results unless emissions are immediately curbed. The reasoned opposition is not that humans cannot affect the atmosphere, or that warming hasn't happened. The argument is that the hypothesized positive feedback loops that make the models predict catastrophic warming are wrong. Interestingly, many scientists have continued to lower their forecasts for just how sensitive the climate is (See http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/a-closer-look-a..., for an example in the news just today).
A partial solution

This assumes that reducing CO2 emissions is in fact a partial solution. It may not be; it may, on net, make things worse, because the cost of making the reductions may be greater than the expected benefits.
"Get a life and get used to it" Bit tough no? OP is only calling them out!
This is the most fantastic news I've heard this week!!!
Congrats!
I worked on CUDA at NVIDIA for over four years and was the primary API designer for a large part of that time. I started on RS at Google in September.

Basically, he gives us too little credit for the execution model (it's young, it's improving very quickly and is not at all designed to emulate anything else that exists today) and assumes that GPU compute has the same tradeoffs on mobile as desktop (it doesn't at all). You'll see more from us soon.
Disgruntled employee spends three years destroying work computers
It would be interesting to see how this correlates with women working in Science and Engineering careers and how it varies by country, continent and culture.
Doing well in a mandatory test is one thing, but does good performance in a test then translate into a deeper interest (or perhaps, confidence) in science?

From my own experience in the UK, I went to school with many clever girls but I think only a handful actually went into STEM careers and even then the most notable example went into pharmaceuticals science which seems a more female friendly industry than say, physics or mechanical engineering (incidentally, the same girl was the only female in my physics class, with 15 boys... perhaps this put her off even more!). Most girls went on to study medicine, law or business.
Participated in 2012. Great program, super entrepreneur friendly. You run your own show and Lighstspeed does whatever they can to open doors for you and mentor you along the way.
I remember a radio interview with a priest (can't recall which denomination) who did the six years to get his doctor of divinity. He said that after learning about the history of the church and the various schisms and how the bible was formed, that there was an in-joke that went 'if after six years of divinity school, you still believe in [the christian] god, you weren't paying attention'
Of course; I didn't mean to imply that I spoke for the OP.
Fair enough. It makes me happy that there are people like that.
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McIntyre is a bozo who doesn't act in good faith. It's to his great discredit that he looks like a conspiratorial looney uninterested in science compared to Watts.

And for the record I clearly pointed it out: he is a mathematician, albeit one in mineral prospecting and never academics. No words minced.
The article fails to provide important details. Imagine the following two situations:

- In every country, there are as many boys and girls taking the science exam, and the girls get a better average. But the top n students are all boys.

- In every country, there are three times as many boys taking the exam, and the girls get a better average.

In both cases, we could conclude that the girls outperform the boys if we use the average as metric. But the first scenario would echo Larry Summer's comment on large standard deviation, and the second would be an instance of selection bias.

Another point that would be interesting to know is wether gender relative performances at age 15 carrie on to later years.
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they've accepted the media's characterization of the debate

It's not just the media's characterization; it's the characterization of mainstream climate science. They are equating any opposition to the "consensus" to being a "denier". There are lots of positions in between.

Thanks for the support, btw. :-)
Lessons learned in building RQ
People usually don't go to jail as a result of civil suits.

What did you expect, the cultural revolution?
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Trying to overrule the constitution is just waiting for someone with deep pockets to make a federal case out of it.

Already happened, in the famous Quill case. Consequently, is permissible to impose a sales tax on out-of-state retailers if they have a "substantial nexus" with the taxing state.
Bootstrap was done on off-hours (even though they were employed with twitter, if you read their history it was done outside of work and there was zero compensation)
At GoCardless, our current support staff (including myself) are pretty technical. We regularly push code to the main project repo, and it's a great way to get the things we want done, done.

For our support documentation, we're using the Desk.com knowledge base. Although not ideal, it works pretty well for us and is at the very least easy to update.

We took steps like this with our blog (https://gocardless.com/blog) which we've now built using Jekyll. This is awesome because:

a) Anyone can write articles if they can write Markdown

b) Full text previews in our GitHub pull requests...with images (perfect for reviewing!)

We want to transfer these great advantages to our help documents. Jekyll really is a great tool for any (relatively) static site, not just for blogs.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're Russian. Byron is better remembered in Russia than he is in the English-speaking world, perhaps because of the close affinity to Pushkin. Moreover (and I am only saying this because the thread is so obscure that its Expected Flame Value is low enough that I will probably get away with it) Russians tend to be better educated, at least literarily, than we are.
As a former undergrad at Caltech, I actually think BBT is pretty great. (I'm only about 1.5 seasons in though, so it's possible it drops in quality later). It's definitely more extreme than reality for comedic effect, but it does actually remind me of my college years.