skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what the point of that was. It doesn't contradict my point that feminism predates Marxism and was never subsumed by it (and, as such, could never "break off" from it), or that the description of "feminism breaking off from Marxism" with the so-called "second wave" and taking the analytical approach described in the post my earlier post responded to was more accurately a description of a particular school of Feminist criticism that was influenced by Marxist criticism.
FWIW (though not particularly relevant to the case), the Chick-Fil-A slogan is from a (very successful) advertising campaign that goes back to the mid-90s. It's definitely not trying to imitate internet memes.

But I'm very surprised that, given the integral nature of the misspellings (the cows did not get a great education) in the Chick-Fil-A version, this could be seen as infringing.
I read the headline and thought that HR was literally watching Twitter while the internel jumbles were going on, and any employees tweeting about it were being fired. I thought "how innovative and terrible of HR." Turns out, the headline was just a bit weird.
Google has put a lot of effort into calling android an open platform. The amount of bad press and angry developers they'd get for suing _saurik_ for jealbreaking a device that already doesn't have too hot of PR would be incredible.
wtf? this is sick!
bi-polar mood disorders tend to be quite different to depression. The medication for BPD is very different - putting someone on regular anti-depressants if they're bipolar would be a bad idea.
Someone start working on a psychotropic that takes back control from the amygdala and call it "su".
Antifragile

by Nassim Taleb
Thanks so much, Jason!
Yeah, like you know anything about HN.
What were the biggest challenges you faced while adapting a smartphone for use in space? At any time, were there any technical hurdles you felt could prohibit the entire project?
Whoops :/
Let me think of a better one.
What sort of analysis was used to figure out the power and protection requirements you needed to make these viable?

Are these within reach of an individual to build, if not to launch?

If I build one, how do I launch it?

Why do the signals need to be crowdsourced over Ham?

What are your personal favorite/most cool applications for lots of cheap satellites?
The Bear Case for Apple Is Actually Most Applicable to Samsung
I texted my sister: "Who said that?? The word female is not as degrading as broad."
So I can't speak for all conditions, but cubesats do not usually ride for free. The prices I've seen are usually in the 50k / unit range. So if you've got a 1U cubesat, expect to spend at least 50k on launch.
Part of the reason for this is that there are integration costs for attaching a cubesat deployer to an existing launch vehicle, as well as liability risks, control and thrust timing modifications etc.
GitHub is not a company involved in the business of midwifing. They are a company involved in the business of software development.

Is it not possible that the cultural imbalance in all of these fields is due to sexism?
Would encrypting the email addresses be feasible? They do seem to have a lot of value to hackers, but I'm not sure what the technical limitations would be for a user-base this large or with their functionality.
The "Eat Mor Chikin" campaign (and the cows) long pre-date anything to do with ICanHazCheezeburger. I remember driving on the highways in Atlanta in the late 1990s seeing the billboards everywhere and always commenting to my girlfriend at the time, "wow, that campaign is really played out at this point!"

I don't remember when, specifically, that it started--but I do remember it was the early-to-mid-90s.
You're doing it wrong: Grad school
I think AWS is a classic case of economies of scale enabling profitability outside the reach of smaller companies. The AWS R&D get's reused for there internal systems driving down the costs of running there internal systems. So even if AWS only breaks even it's still a net win for the company.
Did he die? Is that why there's no update?
Thanks so much, Phil! :D
Because I enjoy driving, and I'm sure I would enjoy flying as well. Obviously we weren't talking about manually overriding the system for every commute to the grocery store or even over urban populated areas.
This exploit seems to affect almost every device running Android 4+ (I am not certain about lower ones: all of the comments I've seen about the exploit talk about 4.0/4.1, but it might be because 2.3 already had a pretty universal root: GingerBreak). The person who wrote the most common implementation is B1nary (but I don't think he came up with the exploit either; it wasn't clear if the people he credited as having helped him did either... so I just cited the exploit itself as that seemed sufficient), which may help you find the XDA developers thread (which, as is usual, doesn't explain the exploit, it just provides a wad of shell scripts you can download from a few random filelockers ;P).

The exploit requires not just something in adb: it requires the device have the package for the backup service (I guess some don't, so B1nary's implementation tries to work around this as the most common alternative actually had a similar bug) and that there be a system package installed that 1) is not marked allowBackup="false" and 2) is marked with sharedUserId="android.uid.system". The normal Android Settings app has these properties, as does the Glass Logging service. It is thereby a trivial thing to mitigate, even without any extensive code changes: these packages don't need to be backed up anyway (backing up Settings, for example, results in an empty file... it has no data of its own, so it has no reason to avoid allowBackup"false").

The way it then works is that the backup service, in order to extract files with the right permissions, does a setuid to the owner of the package being restored (in this case that is root, so it continues to be root). It then extracts the restore image (which is a compressed tar file with a special header) to the package's data directory, and as it does so it honors the access flags of the files and directories. You then make a world-writable directory with numerous very large files, which slows down the process. As it extracts the files, you use adb shell access to add a symlink from a file in that folder to /data/local.prop. You have that file in the backup contain a /data/local.prop that forces adb to give you root access.

(Note: with those modifications, which typically includes telling the system you are running in the qemu debugger, Glass actually doesn't work correctly due to an assumption it makes that Bluetooth will work, which the qemu debugger I guess doesn't normally support. However, it is then easy to drop a copy of su, mark it setuid, delete the local.prop, and reboot to a system that is now pristine except for the one modification of setuid su.)
Gah, guess I can't edit from this app? Ok, I'll just own this one.
I actually think social science is one area which got it right by, in most cases, recognizing it own imperfections. Some people tend to take things for truth when it's rely more of a concept or a foundation for discussion. The only person who seem to be sure is the one studying just enough to make up their mind.

Where I really see a problem is where social sciences interact with natural science and acts as a natural science in the eye of the beholder, which happens in macro economics and even sometimes in things like programming methodology.
I don't see the value of comparing consumer device navigation techniques to the idea/gimmick of designing a whole outfit on a website.

Sure the navigation strategy is good for mobile/tablet browsing - no question there. But I'm not sure the designing an outfit in this way is something people will want.

But hey, give it a shot. Who knows.
If you can deal with slight decreases in thrust, you can also do thrust vectoring with injecting water or other suitable liquid into the nozzle in proper places. Could be mechanically simpler than gimbals in some cases.
it's well known that many users pick passwords like "password", "123456", "qwerty", etc...

so I don't think cracking many of those passwords will be a problem
It's not a debit card transaction, it's an ATM withdrawal.
Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Right, but it's unintuitive and takes a while to decrypt. Browser extension idea: hover over IPA to see only the relevant glyph pronunciations.
Encrypting would be pointless. Hashing would be possible, but then you break things like email notifications and password resets.
Here's a small Node.js state machine / Markov chain tool package that tries to make what's going on under the hood a little more obvious, so as to allow for tinkering. It contains an example for name generation.

https://github.com/exratione/state-engines
That last paragraph is exactly the reason i hate this sexist talks, it doesn't matter if its the boys or girls that are complaining..

I don't know if that's the case in the place you are living right now but, if you think that being a boy or a girl its an advantage then you are part of that problem..

Boys will always be boys, ignore them and move on.
A rule of thumb is "can't go to sleep in evening == anxiety; wake up too early == depression". It's a very rough rule. Once disrupted sleep patterns kick in it can be hard to get them back to normal and they go all over the place.

Depression comes in a few different forms, and often people learn to live with it for so long before seeking treatment that they have different lists of symptoms.
This is why I get annoyed with the current trend against doing technically hard things as startups. The up-front risk of your thing not working is much higher, but if it does (and there's a market) then you're in a much more defensible position. You're basically front-loading risk. And since the thing you're risking is time, front-loading is something you should do if you can.

There is the problem of telling whether there's a market for a given thing before you invest six months or a year building it, so I'm not advocating sinking a whole year without shipping, but there's definitely merit to starting with something that can't be built as a rails app.
this product has an insanely great user experience. i'm a paying customer.
“God, I hate recruiters”
There is a difference between wanting to wear a suit and forcing everyone to wear one.
I am really happy to see this article. I was just talking to a friend about how much I dislike Markdown and how it has become the de facto markup.

Can you explain to me why wiki markup is universally reviled?

I find Creole to be great text markup. It feels really natural to use and it expresses the intended meaning whether it's rendered using HTML or displayed in plain text. I really like this statement by Christoph Sauer on the Creole website: http://wikicreole.org/wiki/ChristophSauer

I agree that Creole or any other formatting markup is not going to solve everyone's problems. However, I think that whenever Markdown is a good choice, Creole is a better one.
That's exactly my point. Most real-world problems (see spam filtering) are NOT linearly separable. Using highly-granular kernels would yield better results when compared to ANNs and Bayesian methods, etc.

Like I said, I haven't worked (much) with SVMs but they really do seem like the future. Unfortunately, they are difficult to work with.

And finally, the first workable SVM algorithm was proposed in 1995 (not nearly the two decades you claim) and implemented several years later. SVMs are very much still in their infancy -- especially considering that not much work is being done on SVMs since ANNs are much (much) easier to work with.
I can't fathom why anyone would buy a shirt with a slogan as stupid as "Eat More Kale" unless there was an understood vegetarian contrast to the "Eet Moar Chikin" slogan, which is in fact very well-known.
> The idea that 'most women just aren't interested in the field' because they're women, and not because the male-dominated culture _makes_ most women uninterested in the field, is harmful.

I suspect that most women aren't interested in the field the same reason most men aren't. Despite how interesting it is to those of us -- women and men -- who have chosen the field, the fact is that most people just don't see (or share) the attraction, for reasons which have nothing to do with either their own sex or their perception of the culture of the field.

The minority of women interested in the field may be a smaller minority than the minority of men, and that may be because of either perception (accurate or not) of the welcomingness of the culture of the field by women (and, for that matter, men) or actual sex differences, or both, but that is a whole different set of things than the reason most women aren't interested in the field.
Great advice! Small typo, "relentless resourceful" should be "relentlessly resourceful", shouldn't it?
I think you're confusing startup with small biz.
Yes! - read the paper. Or if you are too "busy" on HN, at least skip to sections I.3. THE SERIES OF APPROXIMATIONS TO ENGLISH and I.4. GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF A MARKOFF PROCESS.

See also the Usenet trolling program that indirectly inspired the Go example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney
What you say makes a lot of sense. In another comment on this, I mentioned that the leaders of the open source world seem to be famously aggressive, prickly, and concerned only with the truth, not with feelings or being polite [1].

Changing the culture to something "kind", if that is what the community truly wants, will take more than a few donated repos. It will be interesting to see the impact it happens.

[1] One of many examples http://www.muktware.com/3703/linus-torvalds-nvidia-fuck-you
How much better is a free trial for making that harder sale? If I know that any work I put into switching to your thing might get destroyed after thirty days, I'm less likely to bother at all. Whereas if it's a partially-free-forever thing like Dropbox, I don't have to commit as much to either the new way or old way. If I hate it, I don't have to rush to get out before the trial ends, I can just wait until I can't take it anymore.

Partly it depends whether I actually need the "full version" just to evaluate, or if I can get by on the free version, for now at least. Didn't you have a similar issue with BCC, where people would get all they needed from the free trial? I don't remember how you resolved that.
I thought the same. Should probably read "AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music And Spinner; Staff Live-Tweet the Whole Thing"
Anyway, almost all modern rockets don't use fins.

...they don't start working until you're fast enough (quite high above the ramp, which is a sensitive area where you really need it) and they stop working once you leave the atmosphere (which is all too soon for an orbital carrier). Why bother with them?
ANNs excel in systems that are linearly separable, but have a much harder time with data that is not. Google the XOR problem, for example.
He meant that if your goal is to make money with a business, then you should start with businessy stuff like figuring out if there's a market for what you want to build.

You're free to start a business by building the product of your dreams, but no matter how much you personally like it, there's no guarantee people will pay for it. In other words, if you want money, but start with building a product, you're likely to have a bad time.

But if you just want to build an awesome product, and don't care about whether you make any money with it, then there's no problem.
Can we just add something to the IMG tag and be done with it? Here's a list of other versions of this image with their dimensions and let the browser figure it out and request the correct one?
"Ruby on Rails is the platform upon which LivingSocial runs."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LivingSocial

I'm just speculating but the first thing that ran through my head is 'this must be a Rails breach'.

I'm also guessing that a very large percentage of the 50 million users signed up like I did when Amazon had a deal (something like $20 gift card for $10).

LivingSocial have put up somewhat of a statement on their web site asking you to change your password:

https://login.livingsocial.com/forgot_password/?reset=true

"""
LivingSocial recently experienced a cyber-attack on our computer systems that resulted in unauthorized access to some customer data from our servers. We are actively working with law enforcement to investigate this issue.

The database that stores customer credit card information was not affected or accessed.

Although your LivingSocial password would be difficult to decode, we want to take every precaution to ensure that your account is secure, so we are expiring your old password and requesting that you create a new one.
"""
Huh. 85 lines, ignoring the explanation at the top. I wonder if this could be golfed to be smaller; my Markov generator for Time Cube is less than half the height (in Python): https://github.com/MostAwesomeDude/airbrush/blob/master/tips...
`heroku run bash` is still the best option, but I've always wanted to ssh into heroku dynos myself, so I did this:

https://github.com/fabiokung/heroku-ssh
There are an estimated 9-12% women in the field of programming. Are you saying that 90% of the female population has no balls? Or is it more likely that due the systemic method of education, girls don't get interested in programming because by the time they are taught it, the boys are in the computer lab making a ruckus and they'd rather go socialize elsewhere. I speak with teachers at primary schools who get girls as young as 9 to enter robotics competitions. I mentor young programmers to stay enthused, get through their teen years (more often than not, not programming because of socialization aspect) and pick it up again in their later teens when being alone is fine again. And now the IRC channels and open source communities are solely male and there seems no way in. Ada, of all foundations, knows this better than anyone and this is very, very small step to get some more girls back into coding and sharing that experience with others.
> ... except with a passing glance at someone who feels slighted for something that doesn't affect him at all.

If the Ada Initiative didn't affect the rest of the industry at all, then they wouldn't be considered effective at their mission.

Whether or not you agree with the way they approach their mission is another question.
> I'm hearing that Winamp/SHOUTcast are still intact.

https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/statuses/327865634924933120
Looks like Chick-fil-A love getting into controversies. Remember that whole anti-gay thing?
regarding 2:
The robustness to physical shock isn't particularly relevant once deployed, but during launch the hardware is subjected to huge vibration and g forces. If the hardware is not well assembled, parts will come off. This poses a risk to the cubesat as well as the launch vehicle.
Also, radiation hardening is statistically a long-term concern for missions. Most large satellites are designed for a minimum 5 year mission, some for 20-25 year missions (many geostationary birds). On those timescales, radiation is a significant issue. These satellites are in a low earth orbit and will be burned up in the atmosphere within a year - probably less. The chances of a single event upset are really small, and there are 3 phonesats. It takes a long time for radiation to degrade the silicon in a chip, much longer than the lifespan of these particular satellites.
More Placety downloads than Facebook in Singapore
Why does that matter?

EDIT: Oh, do you mean that women should hide the fact that they are women online when contributing to OSS? I imagine many do.
At what point do we call collecting large numbers of user credentials in a central place that can be accessed worldwide a bad idea?

To me this is the problem P2P should be solving, not Facebook, Google or Mozilla
Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds? When women bully other women, it's because they're agents of the patriarchy?
Thanks for clarifications. Seems that things are more complex than I've imagined they are.

On an unrelated note — have you tried physically disassembling Glass to see the hardware? Just curious.
Released late in the day on a Friday to try to minimize the news cycle and guarantee fewer people will see it.
VMWare makes money on support and integration, AWS on volume.

Amazon has historically taken their competitors to the cleaners on margins, especially the dead tree publishers.
How will a private repository will change anything?

We are on the internet, most of the time we have no idea which genre you are. Any women will get the same treatment as a men. I understand the issue in "real life" and it must be really awful to have to live that. However the internet should be considered safe for them and for me this action just give them a reason to doubt that they are accepted here too. Giving them the opportunity to hide their code doesn't solve any issue, it just create more issue. We could easily take any argument agaisn't code folding or commit rebase in version control and they would fit perfectly here.

You can't solve anything by hiding it.

EDIT:

Do you think that by removing every girl in engineering classrooms and giving them a private teacher that would help too? It's the same on the internet. Show them that they can be accepted, not that they should be separated.
You have the root, you just don't have the API spec :)
You're actually going from a free app to a paid app.

We're talking about $34.50 a month for two dynos and $29.95 a year for DNSMadeEasy. Is this really an issue ?
Dutch Man Said to Be Held in Powerful Internet Attack
I'd want to prepare my support and sales staff before sending off an announcement to my users.
I found wine-types much easier to deal with once I learnt that there's a bunch of chemicals which cause tastes in wine, and there's a list of recognized names that people use to describe those tastes.

Still, I would strongly prefer any tasting sessions and reporting to be done double blind. With only a sub-editor knowing the name of the wine and putting that in at the last minute.
The fact that they didn't write it that way makes it seem like a deliberately misleading headline.
Haskell user, here. What precisely bugged you so much about Cabal? I can sympathize with the lack of Windows support. I love Haskell so much I ditched Windows for it, though.
> Are you saying that 90% of the female population has no balls?

No. The major hurdles to becoming a programmer are crossed long before it becomes time to put code in a github repository.

> Or is it more likely that due the systemic method of education, girls don't get interested in programming because by the time they are taught it, the boys are in the computer lab making a ruckus and they'd rather go socialize elsewhere.

Given that there aren't any well-considered studies that show fundamental non-socially-caused cognitive differences between men and women, and that behavior seems to be entirely mutable and culturally-driven, then the fact that "they'd rather go socialize elsewhere" is likely the result of considerable cultural programming outside the immediate realm of putting code into a machine.

Of course, it's not that simple -- yours is a broad and inaccurate generalization of what girls want in school, and of how boys behave in school. Personally speaking, I didn't want to spend any time in the computer lab either, because the only people in there were super-nerds playing video games for hours.
A review of the btrfs filesystem
Eat Mor Chikin is a popular (and quite original) series of advertisements, and "Eat More Kale" is clearly an attempt to play off that slogan.
Wow, that's impressive. How old are your AC units? Newer ones are apparently crazy more efficient - I'm wondering if it might be worth the upgrade cost now.
Prostitution and stripping can be very lucrative professions.
Why not just create a github account under a nickname ?
He lives in CA, USA. So could definitely be an issue if Google decided to go after him.