skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ruby isn't my first or only language. I'm pointing out that there doesn't seem to be much of any analysis or reasoning behind his posts. That's it. It amuses me that people automatically assumed I meant Ruby > all. I haven't claimed that and definitely do not think that. I think this is actually a sign of how people judge other languages really badly.
I don't know for others but both Chrome and Firefox hide the placeholder only when the input value is non empty.

So it do not disappear when to give focus to the field.
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Just because a door is unlocked doesn't mean you have the right to enter someone's home.

Perhaps there's some middle ground where if someone responsibly discloses the vulnerability to the owner, doesn't acquire any more data than necessary, destroys any data they do acquire, and doesn't attempt to profit from it (aside from collecting a legitimate bounty etc) they would be immune from prosecution.

I'm not sure what that law would look like or if it's even feasible.
I work on RedPhone and TextSecure, two GPLv3 apps for mobile encrypted voice and SMS: http://www.whispersystems.org
Ask HN: How much equity should I ask for?
I've been invited to join a startup as it's first employee and I was asked to think of the compensation package that I would like to receive, which includes equity.

What is a fair amount of equity to ask for?
Absolutely, on all points. If anyone thinks I'm arguing that prosecution leads to suicide (even aggressive prosecution), or that Ortiz or anyone in her office is solely responsible for his suicide, then I apologize: that wasn't my intent.

I do think that there are some fundamental questions about the circumstances though:

- Was the prosecution disproportionate to the crime? (I think it was; I'd be interested to hear articulate opinions to the contrary.)

- In Aaron's specific case, should the prosecution have taken his mental health into consideration? (I think so; I can't figure out how to argue this from a moral standpoint, because I can't think of any common ground I'd have with a person who disagreed morally. However, there is at least a legal basis for it: law already considers insanity to be a suitable defense under certain circumstances, so I can't think of a legal reason why in principle Aaron's mental state should not have been a consideration in his case, especially given my opinion on the first point above.)

- In the general case, is there room for reform of overzealous prosecution? (I think so, yes.)

- In Aaron's specific case, does Ortiz's office share some responsibility for Aaron's death? (I think so, unquestionably. I think a plausible test for responsibility is whether one's actions could have been different, whether those actions should have been different, whether the actions were reasonable given the facts at the time, and whether different actions could have resulted in a better outcome. On the first point, I think it's been made clear that there was room for a reasonable plea bargain, and the prosecutors rejected it. The second point goes back to whether or not law should recognize mental health issues in cases like Aaron's, which is perhaps still debatable, though I think it should. On the third point, no, I don't think the actions of the office were, or are, reasonable: I don't think that Heymann's response to Aaron's attorney when notified of the potential for suicide should have essentially been "go piss up a rope", and I don't think that Ortiz, during the fallout from this case, should have said essentially, "there is nothing that my office could have done better." On the final point, Taren seems to be making a strong argument that the most immediate cause for Aaron's suicide was the circumstances of his case, and I don't think I'm in a position to doubt her judgement on this point.)

- Does the HN community also share some responsibility for Aaron's suicide? (I think so, unfortunately. I think it's clear from comment threads about his case that there was not much support for him here, and I think there should have been. Disappointingly, some of the tone from those earlier threads is still present, even in this one, as with Millennium's comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5165280. I think it's less clear whether or not a different response to his case on HN would have changed the outcome, but I don't see that as a worthwhile argument against behaving better.)
I quite like the WSJ's reportage, but the forum/comment community there is generally a) execrable in character and b) terminally stupid. One of my resolutions for 2013 is resist the temptation to read the comments on their stories.
Speaking as someone that's spent 30 odd years wandering the intersections of mathematics, computer science, numeric engineering, geophysics, bioinformatics et al, I have a hard time recalling the last time I met anyone in the IT department that was much chop at applied mathematics.

By contrast, between a third and a half of the peers that I run into are women; eg:

http://65.54.113.26/Detail?entitytype=2&searchtype=2&...

.. one woman, 91 diverse publications, most leading to working implementations of actual robots, hand sign reading vision systems, etc.

I guess you could say IT is boring, let's go make robots with lasers.

EDIT: I should specify I'm talking from an Australian perspective, maybe our sheilas have more of a kick arse take no prisoners attitude?
"not authorized under the constitution"

Can you give some specifics about why this is so?
The fact that each year, 'It' gets to make a donation on behalf of all of them towards their Alumni just makes it for me :) That was an awesome read!
That'd really block away the potential cognitive interest, wouldn't it? At least you could name it like "Why this is the last link you will follow that contains the word 'brain'."
His documented behavior certainly suggested bipolar or BPD, both of which unfortunately do have a high rate of suicide.
Without a "no witness" rule it would have been too easy for the killer. (The other thing I forgot to mention is that you never knew who was after you. You didn't even know who else was playing the game.)
But ejabberd still had to enable support for BOSH or WebSockets first. Without it Strophe was of no use. So I assumed that similar thing has to happen with in this case in order to be able to route the Jingle stream from the browser over WebRTC. If the server modifications won't be needed at all - then of course it'll simplify things. Also, clients don't always use SRTP - there can be other methods like ZRTP for example.
It's interesting that the New York Times chart is based on the PISA test

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/

when there is another source of comparative data available from a different test, namely the TIMSS test, which was conducted more recently.

http://timss.bc.edu/timss2011/international-results-science....

Those tests are distinct in what they test in mathematics,

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts...

and following the links about the science sections of each test may reveal some meaningful differences about how they test science. Both international testing programs look at the issue of how scores of girls and boys differ in each country tested, and both are based random sample surveys intended to be representative of the general student population in each tested country or region. Checking each international testing program against the other provides a chance to reality-check some of the findings.

What I notice about what I take (subject to correction by more exact data) to be a cultural difference influenced by differing schooling practices is that in east Asia, the other part of the world I have lived in besides the United States, girls of high school age seem more willing to show what they know in a testing situation and to engage with academic material that is deemed "boyish" in the United States than girls are in the United States. I am the parent of three sons and a daughter, and my wife grew up in Taiwan, so I've seen this from both sides of the male-female divide and from both sides of the Pacific. As an active volunteer in organizations related to gifted education reform, I'm very happy to see examples of countries in which girls don't go "underground" about their abilities as they reach high school age. I've known girls with strong interests and practiced ability in science throughout my life, but especially among girls who themselves received or whose parents received secondary education in science in east Asia.
Thanks for all of the information. Now that I understand why these are the terms it makes more sense.
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Your story is sadly something I have seen a lot in my daughter's eight years. I also have some horror stories of ex-in-laws in Texas and their pageant mommery (ugh, shivers).

I need to get back to blogging in general as I think there are plenty of anecdotes worth sharing of science & tech parenting and startup life.

Sounds like you're on the right track already.

The main thing is to answer questions honestly - even early. Don't feel you have to coddle or dumb them down too much. When I explain things I use scientifically accurate (though obviously simpler wordage) explanations. I talk to her about the wonder of science and its explanatory power. They're way more sophisticated in their thought processes very young than popular culture would have you believe and they're eager to learn.

I got the telescope while she was young and she marveled at the details on the moon (craters, rough edges), and how many more stars you could see. The microscope didn't capture her attention (not yet anyway) so I don't push it.

The solar eclipse was a great excuse to break out pinhole camera-ing and there's a great photo of her holding a piece of paper with the light disc of the sun on it with a big dark chunk bitten out of it by the moon. Took her to NASA for the transit of Venus so she got to see it through high powered cameras of enthusiasts.

Then mostly just followed her interests.

She had a couple of ideas for "Dad wouldn't it be good if..." websites/services. So I've promised her next hackathon that comes up she can come, and Daddy will build the product but she has to be the PM and tell me what goes where and how it works, and we'll practice her presentation in advance and she can be on stage to do the pitch (and if she backs out and gets anxious she doesn't have to, that's okay, because it's not about forcing her to do something if she doesn't want to).

Realized this is becoming a very long answer, but that's basically how I am dealing with it.
The post about entrepreneurs that was never supposed to be published
The DoJ lawsuit is over S&P's ratings model for CDOs & CLOs. Portfolio loss distributions are computed using expected loss distributions constructed with historical asset correlations, via large MC simulations. Each ratings agency uses different metrics - moody's using the GCorr ( global correlation matrix), S&P uses creditpro etc, which changes the rating transitions. There's no foolproof way to do this - its a very seat-of-the-pants applied multivariate stats problem, where "bad inputs" skew the SDR ( scenario default rate ) which then drives the ultimate cdo rating. When you have 7 tranches on average & you have considerable discretion over what your put into each tranche, you can essentially "buy" a rating.

Most of the money that went all-in was pension funds. So in a very real perverse way, the public was entirely responsible for this mess. The public bids up house prices - this skews up the asset correlations of the CDO models. The house prices keep going up, & the public parks its profits & savings in pension funds. The pension funds then buy up the very CDOs! You have a nice positive feedback loop that eventually collapses on itself.

Here's a good primer we used back in school ( http://bit.ly/14AHP5q ). start on page 13.
Skype has to be killed just because it's a closed non interoperable network. WebRTC can be misused as well if closed non interoperable networks built on it will pop up around like mushrooms. If WebRTC will be used to plug into federated XMPP/Jingle networks - then it'll be good.
This is an awesome guide! thanks!
If girls do better in country A than they do in country B, that seems to be a win.

But when we look at how well boys do, we may find that boys in country B do even worse than the girls, which means that country B scores better for some form of equality.

If we score policies by this metric then we may well advise that country A do things just to knock down the boys' scores. This is probably the wrong lesson to draw. We don't improve life or results for girls just by making things worse for boys. At best, a disparity highlights a place to look.

So the point isn't that it is bad to compare countries to each other. The point is actually that this comparison should consider girls-to-girls across countries, not just girls-to-boys inside each country.
I don't have an agenda, and I don't think the system is fine. I do, however, think a lot of people are being grandiose in condemning Carmen Ortiz. I'm an engineer at heart, and we're a conservative breed, preoccupied with tradeoffs and immune to idealistic tropes. I don't think you can get what you want: a justice system that is compassionate and sensitive to the "good guys" and harsh with the "bad guys" and also considers every case meticulously on a case by case basis while also not costing a fortune to run.
Brilliant business model. Just brilliant. May I suggest not forcing people to use facebook login? Maybe use something not locked in like FB?
Why is it a problem that the project is unfinished?

If you really needed the tool, wouldn't you still be feeling the pain, which would presumably give you the incentive to finish it?

Maybe you just wanted the learning experience, not the finished project. I've started (and abandoned) scores of projects over the years. Some of them went nowhere. One of them actually turned out to be useful to some people even in its unfinished state, and became an active open source project that I have no involvement with. I don't feel bad about any of this.
You really don't want to do that. It would be hugely disruptive, and it's not what PyCon is supposed to be about.
I know it's a silly argument but: do you think Facebook have made some A/B testing for their registration form ?

Because they seems to think that the placeholder as label works well [0].

[0] https://www.facebook.com/
I believe you are correct - most of the bailout money has been repaid:

As of December 31, 2012, the Treasury had received over $405 billion in total cash back on TARP investments, equaling nearly 97 percent of the $418 billion disbursed under the program. [Wikipedia]
40,000 students are demanding their money back.
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My instinct is to reduce people in jail too. The land of the free shouldn't be so dramatically worse in terms of incarceration rates than ALL other countries in the world. That's messed up.

That being said there are zero consequences of impact to disincentivize widespread corruption and illegality in the financial sector, and that is the biggest systematic failing. So long as you can make $100MM screwing people over, then retire with it all when you get caught, and effectively zero chance of any sanction even if your actions were criminal, people will take that bet every time.
I'm pretty sure that there are harmful and undesired things that activate the brain too, so I'm not sure that activating the brain is the ultimate goal.

Why not concentrate on why stories are powerful? E.g. exploring their strength of making connections and emotions...
Democratizing encryption ... But only if you can pay for it? And you can't see the source? Ummmmm
If you're selling a product, is it best to tell a story of why it's useful or just to show what it does and let the product do the talking?

Personally, if I go to a site and I have to sign in/up to get to the application, then I'm less likely to do it than if I was immediately logged into a guest account, perhaps with some pointer bubbles explaining what to do/what you can do.
What's your role gonna be? Will you have a Founder title? That will completely inform the answer. Joining as a co-founder or President? Go big, 5-10%. An exec? Aim for 3-8%. An Engineer or other role? 1-3%.

And of course, always ask for more than the above at the outset. It's a negotiation.
I'm trying really hard to not read that comment as an anti-Semitic Jewish conspiracy theory, but I'm having a pretty rough time, since the Rothschild banking arm is notoriously conservative in its asset management and investment.
Don't listen to haters saurik, you own.
Wow, thanks for letting me know about VIM Adventures. I was just about to leave the office when I read your comment and got sidetracked playing it for half an hour! Perhaps I'll finally love using Vim.
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You could just scrape SO to find all closed questions. Remember me when you're rich.
This is the major problem I have while trying to tell people about Linux (and other open-source software). It's hard to argue against "my [proprietary software] copy was free" - when effectively, it was, since nothing will happen to them.
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It's an honor to get a response from the great saurik himself, especially on a day when I'm sure you're very busy trying to keep Cydia up.

Thanks for the info.
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because discrimination is about power. if two groups have equal amounts of power it really doesn't matter that much (except for social courtesy sake) what they say about each other. discrimination is a problem when it's associated with inequality. it's a big deal when a majority bash a minority. the other way round, not so much. even less so when the criticism is internal to the majority.
Ok I'll bite. I think the issue should focus on remedying the culture, regardless of whether boys dominate the ends. I will gently mention that boys are 5x as likely to have autism or lie within an autistic spectrum disorder loosely characterized by poor socialization skills and obsessive, repetitive behavior. They're (we're) also wired on testosterone which has different effects on the brain. I'm not saying that proves anything, but there's no point denying at the very least statistically observed tendencies in neurodevelopment.

Separately, people tenured in STEM positions score well, but they don't have the best grades or IQs. They are often there because they knew the right people, can argue for grants (ie their own relevance and skills), and work their asses off writing papers. I wish they were the smartest, but more often I've encountered narcissists who try to put their names on everything because it's the only way toward promotion (don't blame the player, blame the game).

When it comes to women, many grew up being told that if they do poorly in math/science it's ok because they're girls - this is AWFUL both immediately and downstream. Girls become more likely to blame bad performance on their sex and give up whereas guys blame bad performance as a fluke. In STEM fields, you encounter failure ALL the time, it sucks and you feel like a complete idiot. You just have to fight through it, and you're more likely to continue to fight if you aren't told you failed because of your sex.

It's obviously a much more complicated issue than what I laid out. It's a very tricky area riddled with people too easily offended or who capitalize on misquotes for political gain. Like I said, whether or not trends are biological or environmental, people should be told to pursue their dreams (it's not like I would tell some white kid playing basketball that he shouldn't dream of going pro because he's not as well represented or if he fails it's because he's white). Yes, that's a false equivalency, but demonstrates societal expectations from seemingly biological premises.

For context I'll add that I'm a guy who majored in engineering at a state school while my girlfriend graduated top 5 in her class at princeton in chemistry - we get into debates about this stuff all the time.

I'm SO SORRY for using this as forum to rant. Please forgive me HN.
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We can call it misogyny, or using misogynist tools and strategies -- the motivation of whoever did this doesn't make that any less true.
Robots with lasers certainly sounds more exciting than IT :-)
At least in his particular situation, committing suicide was not rational because they hadn't even gone to trial yet, and there was still a very reasonable chance that he could have escaped the charges.

If presented with several viable options, and a person chooses to end his life instead of pursuing those perfectly viable options, doesn't that mean he had some sort of mental issue? Whether it is depression or something else at that point is just splitting hairs, in my opinion. If he could have had access to some sort of mental health professional, maybe he could have gotten the treatment he deserved so that he remained alive.
I have always wanted to run the mutt-patched on my osx machine but can never get it configured correctly. Any chance there are binaries or better instructions?
Did they get their American licenses straight out of medical school in India? Or they had to study for and take all the exams their American colleagues do?
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It's because every single person was in on it. I'm not one of those people who lays the blame at the feet of low income people buying homes, but everyone enjoyed the benefits of mortgage securitization, low-interest HELOCs, adjustable rate mortgages, etc.
It's good to see these types of services pop up because "loosely coupled web services" has always been our design goal - ie. we never want to add features into Decal, we'd much rather rely on a rich ecosystem to provide functionality (eg. dropbox for files, wufoo for forms, easel for editing HTML etc.)

I'm really interested in how Easel could work with our CMS, which takes HTML (with a few extra attributes) as input[1] - ping me on iain@workingsoftware.com.au if you're interested in chatting.

[1]http://www.decalcms.com/tour/
IMO that's exactly how it should work. Comment is downvoted, gets grayed out, and then hopefully people don't reply to it.

The graying out is a way of expressing "don't feed this troll". If people start replying and get into a prolonged discussion, what is the point of the graying out in the first place?
ejabberd already supports BOSH. The rest is up to the client since it's P2P.
Also the source code for server can be found here:
https://github.com/elbuo8/groupbox
Wow, that's one lucky kid. Keep up the good work.
Wish I could even be surprised at this.

Join us on #geekfeminism sometime on freenode (if you're not already there) :)
So is Skype. Unless there's evidence that Google couldn't be compelled to comply with US law and honor a legally binding order to intercept a Chrome video call?
What if today's most influential leaders were friends twenty years ago?
Lots of people get funding from the mob, by way of comparison.
That's pretty sweet. Being able to give it a css selector though, now that would rock!