skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My basic gripe with Bell-curve arguments against female genius is that at the high end, in the exponential tail, fine-tuning is needed to explain why a non-negligible fraction of professors at MIT (say) are women. Even a small difference in variance would lead to overwhelming male dominance.

On the other hand, if there were no difference in the distribution of intelligence, but cultural factors held women back, then the current "one-tenth to one-third" fraction of women in jobs needing high intelligence is naturally explained.

A recent PNAS paper showed that International Mathematics Olympiad teams from countries with high gender equality contain more women. http://www.pnas.org/content/106/22/8801.abstract
IMO team members are one-in-a-hundred-thousand people - deep into the exponential tail of any Bell curve.

A study in 1999 showed 70% of psychology professors hiring Robert, and 45% hiring Ruth, on the basis of an identical CV. The waters of geek sexism run deep.

Cordelia Fine wrote a good book on the evidence. PDF: http://hagocrat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/delusions-of-gen...

It's totally anecdotal, but the young people in the canteen at JPL are about 50/50.

Notice also the political fine-tuning of the variance argument: it doesn't dare suggest that mean female intelligence is lower (because we'd all reject that). God of the gaps, anyone?

Getting this right matters. If you must hire very good people, and you have the wrong model of how very good people are distributed among the population, you will fail.
Tata Group to Fund Innovation Fund in Israel; India’s #fail moment?
I do get a good dose of intimacy from online conversations with closes friends, and they do not even have to be in the same continent. In my country, kids in their teens (maybe even 20s) can't imagine a world without the internet (i.e. Facebook and Google). The internet is just that pervasive.

I'd really like to see a study on the effect online social networks have on our collective mental health. My gut feel is that social networks are a positive thing. I'm just happy that I will be able to maintain a certain level of intimacy with friends when I'm older and less mobile.
Art0004: Maybe You Are Not Feeling The Pinch
If you want your actual Google Docs files synced locally, I recommend SocialFolders. It runs in the system tray as an unobtrusive service. It also syncs Twitter images and some other services. The free version has worked for me as I don't have many thousands of files in Docs.

https://socialfolders.me/r/k1pb5 (referral link; gives both you and me a higher file limit.)

https://socialfolders.me (no referral link; normal file limit.)
How is that relevant?
Liberalism and Republicanism are part of French culture, the revolution spread those elements of French political thought and they were embraced in most of Europe and North America (and to some degree in the rest of the world).
It's worth knowing that things you do are irrevocable. And often more public than you think.
This link I came across has a nice sampling of particularly insightful (mostly meta) subs: http://www.reddit.com/r/depthhub+academicphilosophy+aestheti...
Really? I always found it somewhat lacking in this. It has the potential to be so so much faster. Glad to see they're finally working on it.
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Looking for a job/internship
I am in SF until the 16th I have knowledge of JS, jQuery, Node.JS, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, PHP, NoSQL, and MySQL. Little experience working in this environment, but I pick things up quickly and I enjoy what I do.

Would love to hear from anyone that is interested.

GitHub: http://github.com/coderah
Resume: http://coderah.com/resume

-Alex
Just use a good long password. It would take a lifetime to crack a 10 digit password without words.
Which is a great reason to change it. Which in turn can not achieved by anyone as easily as American citizens.

If all people leave who disagree with, say, a police(ish) state and aggressive wars, +and+ are able to leave, then guess who remains? People who can't leave for one reason or another, and, uhhmm, the rest. And it's not like economical strain ever nipped fascist tendencies in the bud, to the contrary.

Think of a nuclear reactor, and the cooling elements saying "it's getting too warm in here, let's split". I can understand that when it gets really really bad, but right now, I dare say it would only make it worse. You need to stand up, not run away. If America falls, the rest of the world is pretty much caught between whatever it morphs into, Russia and China. So unless it gets bad enough so you want to move to either of those countries, please reconsider..
You think NPM solves discovery?

Look if you or Oakaz feel so strongly, go build that centralized repository. But looking at centralized repos in different languages there are as many misses as hits. And even among hits -- pip for example -- the core benefit pip provides IMO is not discovery. More often than not, I find a Python package via a Google search and then merely install it using pip.

Your snark here is a little absurd IMO.
You aren't as edgy as you think you are.
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Interestingly, if you beat the game it repeats but with a search for "Galápagos Islands". Is this a reference to something?
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Sadly, a large number people have a very short scope of history that only extends to about their lifetime + ~50 years before (with that the range of the scope quickly dissipating when it no longer relates to their own country's history). I would always shake my head in disappointment at school when friends and fellow students complained about why they needed to learn history. One cannot understand the present in the clearest possible manner without first understanding the past. While it's perfectly fine to not find history interesting, voicing opinions without the supplementary historical knowledge may lead to appearing ignorant of how certain events came to be. It's like trying to program without knowing things like big O notation and how specific types of collections work.

Failure to learn from the past leads to comments such as the United states was once a "pure/nobel, innocent country" instead of like almost every country that ever existed--an amorphous conglomerate of both well intentioned ideas/movements/people as well as those that were less honorable. While reaching out in an attempt to do good, a country may at the same time push out in an equally misguided/naive or negative direction, failing to see the consequences of their actions until it's too late.

Like every country, the US has its malicious entities. However, no one (except maybe the truly sadistic) thinks of themselves as being evil. Even those that we would universally consider malevolent probably justify their actions somehow for their own motivations or sanity. Some humans, especially those that feel they're in a situation they cannot change, have an odd way at times of making even the most despicable of actions seem justifiable within their conscience. Even the worst of Nazis (Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler included) had families they claimed (term used loosely) to have loved.
I said lose, not steal.

I didn't say "steal" anyone's phones.

And I didn't say it was ethical behavior.

But yes, I think if you lose your trade secrets, your product, whether it's a phone or whether it's the formula for Coca Cola, or KFC, then yes it's lost, and it's your fault.

"If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone"

I don't really see too many laws enacted to ensure the stuff I lose gets back to me, and so because of that I don't understand why there are laws to protect an enormous corporation's property in ways that my property is not protected.

If you can convince me my own personal property is protected in the same manner, I will be happy to change my mind.
Oh I couldn't agree with you more on this point. India's treatment of pharmaceutical patents is a sterling example of a one-sided deal being given all the respect it deserves.
Yeah, that was supposed to be singular: because I would know the Slice type I'm trying to operate on. Appreciate the clarification. I'll leave the typo there for context.
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Good for what? What is the context of the question.
I am not sure you really understand what Liberalism and Republicanism mean in regard to French culture.
"What I lack for design skills, I make up for in being good at organizing information" - You

You just described the purpose of flat design. The point is for the information to stand out more than the style of the elements. It's substance over style.

Some people (bad designers) take it to an extreme and make everything square and you can't distinguish what's clickable. Some people (bad designers) took skeumorphism to an extreme and arranged information incorrectly, gave everything a leather texture. Some people (bad designers) took web 2.0 / Social to an extreme and put 20 freaken social widgets on every page, neon backgrounds, and glass like shiney buttons on everything.

A design style should not be defined by the worse executors of that style. (same goes for plastic surgery)
You don't get to vote, you get to choose among several pre-selected candidates. Or maybe you could say the two parties vote for you, and they sure as fuck aren't looking for your input on that. To achieve critical mass for substantial change requires more than voting.
http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy
Not sure why you were modded down. As with most of history's great plots and conspiracies, the people involved cheerfully published exactly what they planned to do ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Ce... ), and everyone acted surprised and dismayed when it happened.
Intel's Haswell Takes A Major Step Forward; Integrates Voltage Regulator
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Time for a new captain.
Well,

sorry to say I don't buy the "Unix was designed as a phone switch control plane" nonsense at all. Here is Dennis Ritchie:

"From the point of view of the group that was to be most involved in the beginnings of Unix (K. Thompson, Ritchie, M. D. McIlroy, J. F. Ossanna), the decline and fall of Multics had a directly felt effect. We were among the last Bell Laboratories holdouts actually working on Multics, so we still felt some sort of stake in its success. More important, the convenient interactive computing service that Multics had promised to the entire community was in fact available to our limited group, at first under the CTSS system used to develop Multics, and later under Multics itself. Even though Multics could not then support many users, it could support us, albeit at exorbitant cost. We didn't want to lose the pleasant niche we occupied, because no similar ones were available; even the time-sharing service that would later be offered under GE's operating system did not exist. What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which a fellowship could form. We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication. "

Unix was designed for people, not for Bell System Switches: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
Also, "recent PhD from the MIT Media Lab". Maybe http://scratch.mit.edu/ is more his thing? ;)
Heh, sometimes doing now what you can, is right.

But sometimes, you cannot do it.

I have great life plans, but I am moneyless (in fact, having money to by my own food each month is a small victory already), mostly friendless, and powerless (in the sense I do not have political power, or economic power, or friends to leverage, or any other external power).

So I am very sure, that doing something else other than my goal, as a step to do my goal, is not wrong...

By the way, what I do right now I still love to do anyway :) (I make edu apps for little children... not my life goal, but still a noble thing to do, and I hope, profitable)
"You can't pick one and not get the other."

Actually you can. But it requires ethics, something the current administration has tossed by the wayside.
First proof that infinitely many prime numbers come in pairs
I'm going to pay for this but has anyone cloned HN in php? Are all of these implementations in Arc?
The anti-trust rulings in the 90s prevents Microsoft from restricting OEMs on the crapware they install on computers.
You don't get to decide what's culture and what's not. The world would be a much bleaker place without the likes of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Lost, or Adventure Time.
I'm so happy you're selling this. After years of dicking around with free open source plugins and scripts I have started avoiding them. The authors abandon them, they have no road map, no future, bad design, no time to read feedback.

But when I see a for-profit script I know that the creator has an incentive to keep pushing updates and maintanance and design.

Also, you should sell your script yourself AS WELL as selling it on CodeCanyon. That way you can funnel people towards your site and make more money per sale PLUS get the benefits of being on CodeCanyon's community.

The internet is NOT Walmart, there's no exclusivity contract, you don't have to sell your product or service in only one place.
> Why don't you let him reply.

The internet doesn't work that way.

> You don't have to be such an ass. I asked nicely enough.

No, not really. Would you have asked the creator of a closed source crypto library to give it away?

I used to agree with you, that security software should be BSDLed to encourage use, but now I see it just encourages more low-end closed-source software.

If that software was open, users could know what they were using and could with work really be safe. But by trusting a closed source app, especially one that can't afford anything for security, they'll never be secure (see this article for proof) and thus are worse off than if they're knowingly only partially secure.

It sounds rough, but better the mob steal some money because you used an insecure app, causing you learn and audit your security requirements, than for you to feel secure until someone shows up and shoots you.
I am all for doing what makes you happy etc... i just found the comment hilarious.

People on earth are getting killed, raped, enslaved, women are stripping to put clothes on their kids back, etc etc etc

working for money is not the most soul sucking horrible thing ever.

Everything doesnt need to be over the top melodrama, dude didnt like his job, quit it to pursue something he found more meaningful, good for him... i hope the angle he is on does lead to some improvement in the world. but the writing style is annoying.
His attempt to restore a culture of listening to users is not a non-contribution; it could have saved GNOME.
> People have had that realization in the past

"The kernel is just a library" isn't exactly the same sentiment as "the kernel should be as small as possible" -- I believed the latter before I fully understood the former. "The kernel is just a library" means that all of the experience we have designing and factoring userspace APIs carries over into kernel design. Furthermore it means that the kernel is a strictly less flexible library than userspace libraries, with a strictly more expensive calling convention, and that its only advantage is that it can protect and mediate access to hardware.

> There are good reasons why they have not caught on, performance being the most salient one.

Most of the received wisdom about microkernels is based on outdated designs like Mach, and not modern designs like L4. L4 is significantly more efficient than Mach.
I'm checking it out, thanks. From what I've been told, what I want to do is a "big project" -- in the words of another commenter: "you're going to need front end design and code (html, css and javascript), some sort of server side code (php, python, ruby, c# ...) and a database of some sort (MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle ...). the best place to start would be html and css though﻿"

So far the link you shared seems to be doing a good job of introducing code at the entry level, but as being able to code my entire project with it, I am skeptical.
They're social welfare groups, by law. And the intent of the registering persons is not to create a social welfare group, but to hide the identity of political donors.

The creators in this case gave their groups names indicating they intended to use the group fraudulently. The IRS was completely correct to investigate them.
>You think NPM solves discovery?

I know CPAN does.
TV is culture for the same reasons books are culture. Neither is inherently better.
It's hard to imagine another policy without making it excessively difficult for vendors to add new features. For example, a button on a laptop that changes Wifi configuration might need a similar driver program.

Hardware vendors are generally expected supply their own drivers for all but the most common built-in devices. This can include user-mode applications. The driver certification process has greatly improved the quality of 3rd party kernel drivers. In my experience BSODs are really rare these days.

But obviously there can still be quality-of-implementation issues. This sounds like a question of "is this really a good use of RAM from the users' cost/benefit perspective?"

Disclosure: I'm new at Microsoft but my role has basically nothing to do with this stuff. Just my personal opinion as a long time developer and industry-watcher.
edit: oh thats pretty sweet
Pray for killer competition
(I read through your comments to work out if you're american so this may be off, but..) An American who wasn't raised with a culture of high quality, non-commercial cultural production would say that.
Similar work:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~elie/networks.html (on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4914267)

http://ajverster.github.io/blog/2013/04/01/redditinteraction...
Here is the part I like: "Indeed, the inherent problem with Gesell’s system is the existence, in modern economies, of different means of payment. In Gesell’s system, only one sort of means of payment exists (stamped notes) since deposits cannot be used as bank money. Yet neither in Gesell’s times nor today is this assumption realistic. If bank money does exist, it can replace the stamped notes, not only as a store of wealth, but also as a means of payment, since bank money is not saddled with carrying costs."
That was one of the most well reasoned wall of text, point-by-point replies that I've ever read. Well written and I suspect we agree far more than not. Thanks also for teaching me "Hobson's choice". Cheers!
To the author: Saw this on comex's Twitter and got a good kick out of it. My first surprise was that HN didn't already have this submitted. My second was it reaching first page in 3 hours.

:)
What a pointless complaint. Literally none of those things are real issues. Use the language for a day and it'll all be second nature.
Sounds like Go is the new node.js.
Wait, shouldn't we be trying to discourage cultural creation by the media and instead encourage peer-to-peer cultural development? I'm assuming that, although this mentions the funds would be widely distibuted, it would end up in the hands of major media companies.
Subjectively, yes.

I tend to find echoes of myself, so perhaps no good if you're looking for a life-of-the-party person.

The time investment to return ratio is abysmal, but the good connections happen. This week I had a 3-4 hour conversation (text) with someone. That affects my mood for a day or two afterwards; it's the kind of social interaction I ought to get in real life, but actually don't.
The article states that he transitioned out of the company over 4 weeks, presumably the company was able to go on without him.

I don't think investors will take it badly, I don't think they really want to have a founder who's heart isn't in it anymore slaving away at half pace in the hope of making something from the business.
>>Most people live demoralized, defeated, horrible lives, and corporate work is the cause because it truly sucks.

I agree, to this 100%.

>>At $500 an hour, I'll do boring work (for a couple hundred hours).

$500/hr * 8 hrs/day is $4000 per day or $20,000 per week or $80,000 per month. How does one go about by finding such a job?

I am darn serious and I'm asking you. Do you know how to find such work?

Note: In my country(India) $80,000 comes to around. 40,00,000 per month. That's simply too much, If I ever get paid that much- Frankly speaking I don't even how to spend it.
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Isn't it amazing how people come out of the woodwork to point out the force inherent in the GPL never say "oh, by the way, thanks for publishing a reference spec I'm free to use to develop my own code."

As Thomas said, people would be less bitchy, and less holier-than-thou (cough), had Moxie not written any code, or written it and charged an arm and a leg for it.

It's sort of what patio11 talks about. The cheaper the service, the worse the people treat you.
http://thelist.io is written in Ruby.
It is both funny and sad to read.

So you decided to shed away your chances of success and the financial capacity to back up the projects you believe in +5 years, +10 years, +15 years from now (etc.) for the time preference of working right now on a project - because there is a water problem in this world.

Tell me, what are you going to do about hunger?

If you really cared about the water problem, couldn't you have donated part of your (steady) income for that?

If you prefer to fix the problem yourself, what are your special skills or experience regarding water?

What are you going to do if your project is deemed "interesting" but not worth investing on - especially now that you won't be able to finance it yourself?

You must certainly place a lot of trust in the goodwill of the future investors, but basically, here you showed that you didn't care about what you were doing, so why should I or anyone else take your word that you won't drop your next project just as quickly as this one?

Unless there is some missing information (ex: you have a 10 years lifespan due to some disease), it doesn't look like refusing the deferred life, but more like taking unneeded risk to get social status (saying you presented at this "Solve for X" conference) under a bleeding heart pretense. Sorry if that's hard - that's just the way I see it.

Anyway, it really seems like a bad decision indeed. If you really hated the job so much, it then begs the question - why did you started it in the first place?

I really hope you can turn around successfully, and find more meaning in your projects.

EDIT: it is good for him, and he will be more happy, but it's not logical. Something sounds out of place in the original post. While he will be more happy, using a charity purpose as the excuse and justification, while it is unlikely to be the best outcome for society, seems phony. Say that you want some fun or social status, that I can believe in. If you really care about solving a problem, who solves it (yourself or someone else) is irrelevant. How it is solved is irrelevant. You just want that fixed. Caring about not getting rich is just as pointless as caring about getting rich. It is a byproduct. You should want to solve the f problem, not want or look for ways to spend your life working on it.