skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, it's been dumbed down to allow women in.
Retrodiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrodiction
My female partner (I'm bisexual, before someone goes through my history and writes "but you said you're gay, liar!!!!" like the pedantic asshole I know that's reading this) read your comment and said:

"Women are the most hostile people I know in groups. That seems counterintuitive."

She said that, not me. I'd say it but the repercussions of doing so should be fairly obvious.
You're welcome. Internet advice is rarely very good, for a multitude of reasons.

FWIW, I feel bad for you and wish you the best.
> both genders can compete on level playing field

In practice this doesn't seem to have happened, at least not yet (the FIDE top-100 list is 99 men and 1 woman). Would be interesting if it did, though.
I think I know what you mean---but I'm not sure. If the exercise of the mind can be said to make you smarter, then surely chess is an excellent activity. Or is that not what you meant?
Salaries were definitely affected by the changes in the market, though they didn't drop so much as stop growing nearly as quickly.

Also, because internship, first-year and clerkship positions became much more scarce, much of the glut of law grads have no real path to gain the experience they need to compete for firm salaries. Even in the good old days, it was very easy to get left behind in the biglaw game if you didn't score a position or clerkship right out of school.

Another factor is the partnership structure. In the 50 US States, only lawyers can have an ownership stake in a law firm. Partners are often practicing, so there is some motivation to keep the hourly rates high for their own benefit.

* DC is an outlier, mostly to enable our 'wonderful' lobbying system.
dhissami is actually correct that more expensive teas are lower in fluoride than cheap ones. However, it's because of an accident of biology, not because anyone designed it that way. Higher quality teas tend to be made from younger leaves, and the younger the leaf, the less fluoride.
> I do not see anyone ... I don't see it to the scale

What scale do you see it? And what's the acceptable/unacceptable threshold? Right now you are jumping squarely into "this isn't an issue please move on and grow thicker skin", which is a lousy place to start a discussion.

> entire industry freaking out.

I really don't think my or your opinion matters, instead perhaps we should encourage more bloggers like this to speak out so we can see if there really is a problem. You know, encourage more data from the source instead of anecdotes like your wife and math?

Because if there is a problem then we should solve it, right?
The Polgar's have dropped off the list?
So funny that you mention this as I just today busted out my OLPC (first gen from the original G1G1) to do some hacking by the pool. It's still such a solid lil laptop, and the tiny keyboard is a small price to pay for such a beautiful screen in direct sunlight.

I'd take an underpowered laptop with a screen like that over a MBP retina any day.
looks like a scammy knockoff (very poor one) of the real site: bangwithfriends.com (note the __WITH__)
Thank you. This one has the best audio and video quality for sure.
To be honest, there isn't any, when I implemented it I was the tender age of 16 and thought there was some validity in the method, but in itself, once you get to these kind of 30-ish letter long passwords, they become damn near impossible to brute force.

The only redeeming factor I suppose would be that you have to store your random string somewhere anyway, at least this method required code traversal rather than just an SQL field named "password_salt".
Good enough for West Point, good enough for Armenia.
Nice! A couple of comments though

1) The separators in the top bar are a bit too 3d to fit with the rest
2) The button borders are not dark enough in the button groups
I keep seeing people talking about this, but from my limited experience (< 1yr) working in the public sector, government work is not very hacker friendly. Hacker culture tends to value experience over traditional schooling, which doesn't jive well the public sector. Hackers culture tends to move fast, and get things done quickly, and government work tends to be bureaucratic and sometimes even political (though usually on a small scale).
An interesting headline might do it I suppose. I choose more on the subject. Either way "interest" is noted, not just votes recording whether you agree or not with the views presented.
I was here. "I'd fork his repo," right? That was "vitriol against women"?
Maybe this is a way for a tiny country to make a dent in the world's intellectual community. If you can't afford a giant linear accelerator or billion dollar telescope to make headlines, producing a few world chess champions could make you shine.

We've taught more useless things in schools... Some states want to teach creation along side evolution for instance...
I'm not referring to the men, I'm referring to the reaction to her.

I had to report accounts to Twitter for sending her pictures of decapitated women, and posting her home address.

As for that other situation, as you say, actions speak louder than words. I personally feel that the pluses are bigger than the minuses here, but this thread isn't about me.
To add some context to this situation, Cyprus is a country of 1.1 Million people and it's banks have 68 Billion Euros in its accounts (of which 38 Billion is in accounts over 100k Euros) and as highlighted by their own GDP, its an amount of money which couldn’t be sustained or created on its own. Germany and France have argued that, Cyprus's offshore-haven business model wasn’t sustainable with, Bank of France Governor, Christian Noyer saying that "Cypriot banks have for years been taking the kinds of risks that are not allowed in France"[1]

The reason why Cyprus are getting a deal like this is because of the accusations of Money Laundering - an accusation which has led to Cyprus opening an investigation into[2] which is mainly due to the fact that, a Russian accountant (Sergei Magnitsky) was killed in jail in 2009 after revealing “that $31 million of the tax money was moved out of Russia using five Cypriot banks: Alpha Bank, Cyprus Popular Bank, FBME Bank, Privatbank International and Komercbanka”[2] and because, Cyprus are still heavily exposed to Greece. In fact, “the exposure of domestic [Cypriot] banks to Greece amounted to €28 billion, or one-third of total assets and 170% of GDP. Of the €28 billion, government bonds amounted to €4.7 billion; the rest were loans to Greek residents”[3]

The initial plans were to apply a levy on all accounts in Cyprus (up to 10% although, this was then rumoured to be 25% on everyone’s savings above 100k Euros) which was rejected. Then there was a suggestion to nationalize semi-state pension funds although, Germany amongst others were against this idea suggesting that this could be even more painful for ordinary Cypriots than a deposit levy.

The plan now appears to be involving nationalizing state pensions and split failing lenders into good and bad banks which is highlighted by the article, with Laiki (Cyprus’s number 2 bank becoming a ‘bad’ bank).

It’s an interesting scenario from an economical standpoint although, Cyprus should have received a bailout as part of the Greek bailout due to their significant exposure to the Greek economy, regardless if they are an offshore-haven or not.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/449633/20130324/cyprus-see...

[2] http://euobserver.com/magnitsky/118524

[3] http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+2662.php
Judit Polgár is the one I believe. Just checked by cross-referencing http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml and http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=women. Could well change in the coming decades, but competition is currently mostly separated into men's and women's divisions, like other sports (most top women compete for the Women's Chess Championship, though Polgár is a notable exception in never having entered that tournament).

edit: Was curious to look a bit more, and it seems like the reason is that there are currently very few active women in competitive chess to begin with (i.e. it's not that there are many outside the top 100 either). For example, there are 1574 Americans on the FIDE active player list, of any ranking (all the way down to rankings in the 1300s), and of those, 1491 are men and 83 are women.
Tutorial on how to convert Blu-ray to ipad and ipad 2
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“Not long ago, I offered to make some minor adjustments to the UPS (1961) logo. This offer was unceremoniously turned down” Paul Rand, 1991

Is it known what changes he proposed? UPS of course dropped Rand's logo in 2003 in favour of a 3D-gradient-swoosh nicknamed the "golden combover".
The problem with antique registration in Montana (and this wasn't made clear on the state website) is that you can only drive an antique to and from parades and/or car shows. I had originally planned to register it with antique plates because it's more affordable than a standard registration. That was a deal breaker though.
Ah, someone "commented on her makeup" or "patted her on the head"? I've been asked to take notes in meetings from time to time, and I don't write blog posts about it...
Nope, Fedoras are timeless.

http://meninfedoras.tumblr.com/
Yesterday in Palo Alto, California, John Schultz was mugged for 10 Bitcoins,
a volatile new digital currency based on complicated calculations.

“It was terrifying”, John exclaimed, “he handed me a pen and waited patiently
for 45 minutes while I wrote down the encrypted text required to retrieve the
money”.

The stolen Bitcoins were valued at $415 at the time of the mugging, but
fluctuated between $600 and $3 during the time John was walking home.

http://nickcammarata.com/man-mugged-for-10btc
Three Things You May Not Get About the Aaron Swartz Case
But he's not telling it to her, is he?

If he was telling it to her she would have every right to feel offended and report to the authorities. But that's not the case here.

If you made a penis joke to a friend, would you want — or indeed, expect — to be fired for it?
It's interesting, that being the case as you say, that the industry has turned so hard on Microsoft in most aspects. I might even upgrade from "interesting" to "telling" or, more bravely, "damning" for that observation.
I think you missed the part where he recommends holding physical currency in pre-1965 90% silver coins (commonly called "junk silver"). I agree with him that Ag will hold value very well in such a scenario.
That you branded me a pedantic arsehole over some bullshit words you put in my mouth before you even finished commenting shows that you've got a major fucking chip on your shoulder and aren't worth listening to.
This made me laugh out loud - thank you!
As someone who uses R for just about all of my ML/data analysis needs I'm surprised not to see Theano[0] mentioned. SciPy, SciKit-learn, pandas etc are great and all, but there's not much really different than what you get with R (except of course having it all in a general purpose language). But Theano (plus it's related deep learning tools) really stands out for me as something the R tool chain can't compete with.

I feel like eventually I should become as fluent with SciPy/Scikit-learn/pandas as I am with R, but learning Theano well is much higher on my list.

0. http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/
But most people don't use 100 tea bags a day. Low levels of fluoride aren't going to kill you.
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Not only that, I think Americans in particular are way too prudish and offendable when it comes to sex, and this starts bordering on religious influence in my mind. I've had enough rodeos down this line of discussion to know that this will be my only vague comment on these feelings.

I think that's the polar opposite view of walms's comment, but I might be wrong.
You've got a good point there. Engineering is about making stuff, exploiting physics principles to make completely new stuff, and making stuff "faster better cheaper". Nowhere does it say "Make it better if you're a Man". Nowhere does it say an engineer _has_ to be male.

In cases like this, I think a bit of the hacker manifesto, and some of the things it alludes to.

" "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all..."

And we enter the world of IRC, email, and text based chat of all sorts. I do not see your sexuality when I talk here via HN. Nor do I see your income level, social status, gender status, religion, political bent, or anything else, unless you tell us. What I know, is: You speak English, you have a computer in front of you, and you're on the Internet.
My point is that if people drink heavily, their safety decreases. And the safety of women decreases more than it does for men.

If we value women's safety, then we should not have drunk fests at our conferences. Many of the worst cases of sexual harassment at conferences reported in the last few years were at the after party.

Am I wrong, or is it that you just don't like me? You certainly seem to enjoy stuffing words into my mouth.
The only thing you exercise by playing chess is your memory of chess strategy. I'm sure there are ancillary benefits to that, but it's not really a complex intellectual activity the way it's commonly perceived.
The kids will love chess when they have to get good grades in chess class and wake up early, in the winter cold, to attend it.

“I suspect that many children would learn arithmetic, and learn it better, if it were illegal.” — John Holt
Remember that video "What Most Schools Don't Teach" that had Zuckerberg, Gates, and Houston encouraging kids to learn how to program? The opening quote is from Steve Jobs that says "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer...because it teaches you how to think."

To me, chess does the same and has since my childhood. When you first learn chess, you learn what each piece can and can't do. And after that, YOU must learn how to strategically move the pieces in a way that traps your opponent and beats him/her. It teaches you how to think strategically, both offensively and defensively...or to be able to think 4-5 steps ahead...it's a different way of thinking.

Of course, as you get more advanced, there are books and such to explain certain strategies but the world champions don't just win off the strategies in the book--they are forced to think even further outside the box if they want to have a chance of winning.

Chess is a great game to teach kids HOW to think. I'm all for this, especially in a country such as Armenia.
Here's another gem - Nabokov and Lionel Trilling on an almost comedically highbrow TV show shortly after Lolita was published:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/a_baboon_of_genius_naboko...

Nabokov's manner on 1950s American TV is delightful, even if he is reading from index cards. "I leave the field of ideas to Dr. Schweitzer and, uh, Dr. Zhivago."
That's a great way to describe it. If I don't meditate, my mind gets all screwy too. I missed a few days while on vacation and found myself wondering: "How do people live like this?"
> We have a sexually libertine culture.

If only that were the case. We have a long way to go before we're in a sexually libertine culture.

Can't even show breasts on television without half the God damned country flipping its shit. Can only hint at it! And those aren't even sexual by nature. One needs only examine Donglegate to see how 'sexually libertine' we are...
Thanks for that link! I just forward it to my wife and a bunch of friends we sometimes travel with. Thanks!
Come on mate, don't come the raw prawn with me.
I think the fact that the tutorial shows off tons of plugins is a little confusing in this case. They aren't necessary at all and with them, it does look bloated.
Difficulties in backing up live git repositories
Sorry that it wasn't clear. I meant someone else from the collective 'you' reading it. I'll try to edit it appropriately.

(Better? Really, sorry, I tried to word that one right because I didn't mean it for you and had a feeling you'd take it that way. I didn't mean to offend you. The ambiguity of English sucks. Assume benefit of the doubt?)
Okay, that is just crazy cool.
These are good points - pollution, eye sore, blind spots, etc. I try to be really careful with it and be aware of my surroundings as much as possible. As far as the neighbors are concerned, I weighed purchasing the fire truck that I'd always wanted against possibly pissing off the neighbors. The rest of that story is history.
Awesome idea and it works great. What would be really cool is providing a public API. I'm working on building a site that list conferences and this would be really beneficial to incorporate.
The lesson is presumably that a bank should spread its bets. Here's the Central Bank of Cyprus in December 2012:

When one invests over 100% of one’s capital in a single
financial instrument – even if that instrument is considered
low risk – it is indicative of poor risk management.
[..]When bankers do the same with investors’ money –
because their bonuses are linked to short-term income
while the losses are underwritten by the taxpayer – the
same behaviour is more than just poor risk management – it
is ‘casino banking’. [1]

So it looks more like Lehman Brothers.

[1] http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=12472&l...
I joke that their proximity to my firetruck should reduce the cost of their home owners insurance. They should be thanking me :)
I expect Cyanogenmod and it's variants especially Paranoid Android to gain traction with HTC and Sony phones. Tizen is the WebOS of 2013, nobody wants a Tizen.
So, mocking someone without knowing their gender keeps women (and not men) out of tech.

How does that make sense? I'm honestly curious.
John Resig made a similar point in an article discussing using JavaScript as an intro language for the Khan Academy.
http://ejohn.org/blog/introducing-khan-cs/

He argues (and I agree) that prototypal inheritance isn't complicated unless you're coming from a very classical inheritance background.
Or passing an emergency and getting flagged down. I'm hoping that nothing like that ever happens.
I upvoted it because it's very interesting to see what joering2 said, which I've only ever seen dismissed with a chuckle by people who don't already agree with it, debated in this context, on HN.

I'm a firm believer that genuinely and seriously entertaining stupid questions, unpopular opinions, and fringe theories, is the most effective (and engaging) way to learn something new with some immediate depth. Which is what I'm here for.

I upvoted joering2 because the developing conversation it set off between rdl and mynameishere is the most interesting and novel content in this thread so far.

It is debatably off-topic though.
Maybe because there is no optimal way to do this without locking.
> The most popular links are bland and uninteresting

Not to the people who upvoted them. Come to terms with the fact that what HN likes changes as HN's users change. Look at all the accounts from years ago that were rich with karma but are gravesites now.
The second one is a great quote. I disagree with the first bit about skydiving not being inherently dangerous, however - I cringe whenever I hear one of my AFF students say something along those lines. It's not just about mistakes - what you don't know CAN kill you. Another quote: "You're never too good not to die in this sport."

I think we're ultimately talking two sides of the same coin: we drill emergency procedures in skydiving to ensure minimum deviation of the plan if something goes wrong...but do we ever know something is going to go wrong? Same thing goes for reserves and helmets: all are there to handle what we don't know is coming. Ultimately, we're preparing to go out and handle what we don't know.

As you said, in startups, we don't have the luxury of a regular process - the whole process is about what we don't know. But if there was a known set of events that happened every time we started a company (i.e., gear up, gear checks, board plane, etc, etc), we'd definitely drill it in order to minimize risk. And we DO do this to some extent - why else does almost every tech startup founder read Steve Blank's book?

In skydiving, you can make mistakes because of the gear and emergency procedures you're working with - and you learn from each of them. In a startup, you can make mistakes because your goal is to make mistakes and learn from them. But both require a 'safety net' of some sort to allow you to make those mistakes. Without it, the company fails...or the skydiver bounces.
I don't see any design here, it's just change a few colors that don't go together. My opinion, you should have gone surfing.
eurleif, I agree with you, but the exact long-term side effects are unknown. And since I drink tea to relax, it's something I don't want to worry about...else it would defeat the point.
When is Barcamp this year? I'll bring it :)
At least from my perspective (of watching internet fallout of bad thing said at 'con), it seems Open Source is worse than Closed Source about chauvinistic comments. Does that jive with your assessment?
I'm tired and looking for an argument. You were in the way, sorry.

Conferences probably are not the best places to be getting hammered regardless of gender. It's unprofessional and its boring.

The fact that women would even have to think about this stuff in a professional setting disgusts me.
I didn't make that up! I saw one a couple years ago that was for sale. I contacted the seller and asked if it came with a trailer. I just couldn't resist. He never wrote back but it WAS for sale on eBay!
Pixels themselves are artifacts. The spaces between elementary particles are vast. I guess you mentioned newer physics to talk about things like superstring.

It's not "my" meditative practice, and my experience isn't a thing, either. Those are abstract constructs.

You're welcomed to explore "fulness". Lots of people are. Until you experience it for yourself, though, you won't really understand. This isn't something that you can pawn off onto an observational instrument. You ... hmm, what was that post-modern jargon? You disintermediate yourself as the observer and the observed.

The "fulness", by the way, is not new either. The "no self" teaching is the same as "true self" teaching -- your "fulness" that you treat semantically. That is, that there is a fundamental "Nothing" that is at the same time, all-inclusive Everything.

Anyways, I've discussed this as far as I want to. I encourage you to empirically observe this yourself. Not discuss it, not study it, not debate it, not reply to it: empiricism in its original sense of finding out for yourself, and experiencing it for yourself. If you sincerely want to explore the relevance of this age-old practice, you cannot do this second hand. (There are other methods besides meditation; you can check out Rick Strassman's book for other methods; the meditative states trigger the same kinds of neural chemical reactions, albiet for the rare ~2% of the population that get it spontaneously, or spent a lot of time with it).
It's better than a commercial. People actually want to watch, instead of changing channels or going to the bathroom.