skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of men (and sometimes women) ... [say] “So you’re saying that in order for women to get ahead, they have to pull men down?! That’s not fair!”

I have never heard anyone say anything like this quote. Maybe I'm in an unusual workplaces, or I haven't been listening closely enough. Does this resemble a real statement in the gender inequality dialog?
An excellent point, I failed to notice that issue and completely agree. In EU contracts with probation periods the probation is explicitly spelled out in the contract (since labor laws allow for it but by no means mandate it), and generally discussed/mentioned during the interviews stuff.
My girlfriend is a hairdresser, I'll run this by her and give you more feedback.

In the mean time this is what pops into my mind:

* What about the people who don't care to go to anyone else other then their regular barber?

* Do you think they're will be push back since you are creating more work for the barber who has a pretty simple process. (cut hair, small talk, sweep hair)

* Also, a lot of places do cash only and you are going to create a paper trail of money, where some might not want it. (Shocker: Some people don't report all of their earnings.)

Is there a reason why you are not including the other 50% of the population (women). I would think salons would be more interested in this service than barbershops.

Since my girlfriend works in this industry I too have tried to think of ways to solve some of these problems for her. My idea was to create a simple scheduling/ calendar web app that is mobile friendly. The Barber/Hair Dresser can use their smartphone to scheduled appointments. If the barber makes their schedule public, on the salon/barber shop website clients can go and see what particular days and times are open. The client can then submit a request for certain day/time and the barber is notified(maybe email, or sms - twilio).
The barber/ hair dresser can then approve the date and the client is notified.
I totally agree, I just thought calling it dumb was a bit harsh. It's maybe a little bit steep considering the novelty factor, and I would never buy this for myself, but I imagined it making quite a good gift for someone I really didn't know what to buy for a birthday/event.
There is also js_of_ocaml, which can be used to compile straight OCaml to Javascript:

http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/

The site has some cool demos including webgl, canvas, and a OCaml toplevel (REPL).
It seems that they are using Kickstarter for preorders. They'll reach a lot more people through Kickstarter than their own site. As zacharycohn said, the money they'll get through Kickstarter is probably nothing compared to other methods.
Instapaper. Tumblr. and now The Magazine.

Sounds like Marco is clearing house a bit.

Out with the old, in with the new.
Oooh I like this very much, though it looks like I'm not allowed to play with it just yet on my account.

Labels and filters solve several Gmail problems but demand too much footwork on my part. I found that my Gmail experience got better when I adopted this credo about two weeks ago:

Thou shalt have but one Gmail label, and that label's name shalt be "Needs Reply".

Either it can wait, and be there when I specifically look (search) for it, or it needs a reply. I need to know which emails need replies, and I generally need to label them manually.

Labels beyond this I view as a distraction. I used to label everything, now I label nothing. The fewer you can use the better, I think.

And yet I still want a label or two for all the semi-solicited mail I get. Things that I do not need in my inbox, but ought to be there for my idle perusement: Banana Republic sales, MyHabit "deals", Newegg dailies, Kindle book of the day deals, and so on.

And then there are things like Facebook updates. Nice to know, but I'll get to them eventually anyway the next time I open up Facebook, which I look at about as much as my grandmother checks the weather (read: Every hour, and for no reason).

If this wants to distill my system for me then I'm ready with open arms. Bigger tabs at the top are way better than a hard-to-parse list on the side. Can't they turn it off for a complainer and roll it out to me?
If you're thinking/talking about the ad campaign, it wasn't unsuccessful. The unsuccessful ones are forgotten.
Doing Your Due Diligence on Security Scanning and Penetration Testing Vendors
Once Colin noticed he had the wrong nonce value for his CTR mode encryption, he was able to fix it once, tell users to upgrade, and nobody ever had to consider it again.

On the other hand, every single time someone loads your page, the server has the opportunity to surreptitiously add a tiny snippet of Javascript that would fixate the CCM IV your code generates. Nobody would ever notice that, and you could do it selectively (or, more likely, based on a court order).
How is the frequency of upgrade relevant to the security of the system? If given a new version, people tend to upgrade and I take control of your software update mechanism, how is the security risk any less? You'd presumably argue that we should have higher security standards for a software update mechanism than a web application. If that's the case, would you agree that any web application that's as secure as a software update mechanism, should be allowed to distribute JS crypto?

Edit: I have no specific problem running ssh as a Java applet if I trusted the site and connection. How do you determine when you're comfortable upgrading ssh or any other security program through your package manager?
Ratatouille!
So obviously you didn't read my original post where I said I was talking about the US and Canada exclusively, which the parent comment was responding to.

Go into Canada and the US and camp. Railroad logged anywhere from 150 to 100 years ago, second growth logged from then on. Birds. Deer. Elk. Insects. Owls (even Spotted ones!). Fish in the streams.

The US and Canada isn't Europe. This continent has been largely undisturbed until about 300 years ago, and most of it untouched until the last 100 years. We've seen Europe's folly and fortunately didn't make the same mistakes or at least have had time to correct the problem. We also didn't have 2 world wars march across our lands, no trenches, no mustard gas.

Much of N. America from just east of the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean is amazing forests. We've made our mistakes with forestry but have atoned and things have healed up nicely. Now we manage the forests for the good of everybody - everyone can have what they want without sacrificing the quality of that resource.

Don't be so blind as to just blanket all logging in the world as 'logging bad'.
I'm aware that the blog post and the discussion on HN focus on the situation in the USA.
Nevertheless, I'd like to add that the situation is quite different in Germany and probably many other European countries.
As hinted at by 205guy in this discussion, a BS in CS at a German (or French) university focuses on providing each student with a basic understanding of all important topics in CS. It contains only very few non-CS courses.
In order to do an MS in CS, one usually has to have completed a BS in CS.
The MS allows students to deepen their knowledge in selected areas - research topics that the professors/assistants work on. Students also work on larger practical and scientific projects and have a lot of freedom to choose their own focus.
There is a consensus (at least in Germany) that a BS is not enough for most jobs, therefore a majority of students do an MS.
(Generally, universities also require PhD students to have completed a MS in this field.)
And why are the number of spots in the room limited? From what I can tell, most software companies are having trouble finding good developers.
> most users prefer using web applications to installed all else equal because it's easier.

Except that all else is clearly not equal: your solution is insecure.
Like TV made once Arrington racist just because he couldn't name one not-white entrepreneur.
I gave a specific example. You fled to abstraction. I think my example is illustrative. You haven't explained why it isn't. So I'm going to decline to engage with your abstractions.
For emails that need a reply, I just keep those as "marked unread". There's no way I forget about those.
I have an anecdote to share - the university in which I was supposed to study CS before coming to my senses and realizing I know more than the tutors had strict 50/50 gender admission policy. The acceptance was based purely on exam results (only math). So that friend of mine (a girl) is ranked among the top - no surprises there. After she is accepted she decides she prefers to study electronics and according to rules the first girl that was left out gets the place. The problem is there are 18 with one and the same score - so they accept them all.

What was curious was that the average acceptance score of the admitted girls was higher than for the boys. So the gender policy actually ended discriminating the girls - fewer were admitted than would have been if gender quotas were lifted. That was across the board in all engineering specialties and a few years in a row.
I remember reading about that plan when I was a kid. Twenty years later, I'm still all for it, but when articles like this appear I don't hold my breath either.
outlook.com has a similar feature, but it seems far less obtrusive and a bit more useful. Having a "Shipping Notifications" category for instance has been really handy. My gut is the outlook.com implementation is more user friendly in general. But I'm happy to see two big email services now competing to add useful features (even if execution might be flawed at times).
"...and you can't even pick what goes into the tabs they have created."

Sure you can. Just drag an email between them. It gives you the option to permanently move emails from that sender to a specific tab. Presumably, it also adapts to your selections, much like their priority and spam filters.
I'm on the fence. I use it and love it. Then I read criticism of it and hate it. Then I read glowing praise of it and love it again. I just can't decide.
Ask HN: Is anyone getting kicked out of gmail on mobile right now?
Today I tried to check my email using my GMail app on iPhone, only to get kicked out. Looks like the inbox loaded but had a javascript which immediately logged you out.

I tried on Safari and Chrome on iPhone and it didn't work.

The desktop version did work. So what I tried next was go into Chrome settings and emulate the user agent string to be iPhone. Sure enough, got kicked back to the login screen. Then I tried Android and got kicked back.

If this is happening for everyone on mobile, then we'll hear about it very soon. Maybe it's a bug connected to GMail's new inbox push?

Or is it just happening for me?
Opinions can vary. I love the new compose.
i picked one of these up as a kickstarter backer and i was also 100% skeptical of the quality, but it's actually quite good and, more than anything, endearing.

the caveat of course is that the size and scale of the projector means you're not going to project from yards away, my best results were about a foot and a half away in a dark room, but at that scale, i was impressed at how well the photos resolved.
I still don't get it. Microsoft is not that important anymore today as it had been for decades. There are extremely cheap ARM boards (Raspberry, Beagle Bone, etc.) that are almost suitable for Internet and Office applications right now. And I think soon we will have the next generation of Raspberry and Beagle Bones with 1.5 GHz dualcore or quadcore, and we can even built our own cluster of these boards for servers -- for instance, this one with 32 nodes:

http://t3n.de/news/raspberry-pi-cluster-467237/
I do a fair bit of failed-project-rescuing myself, and I concur with most of this. It's good advice.

The only thing I'd quibble with is this:

Don't think about the sunk costs.

... not because I think it's bad advice (it isn't), but because if you're a developer it doesn't really matter what you think about the sunk costs. What matters is what management thinks about them. And even though management are supposed to be the numbers people, it can be very, very hard to get them to understand the Econ 101 concept that holding on to bad stuff that's already paid for can cost them more in the long run.

This seems silly, but a lot of the time it just comes down to office politics: someone in management is/was a champion of the project, and a rival in management opposed it, and abandoning sunk costs will give political ammunition to the opponent (who can claim that the champion wasted company money). So the champion becomes irrationally unwilling to let go of parts of the project that clearly aren't working, just to avoid the appearance of "conceding defeat."
I don't see any key being stored client side. So you must be deriving the key from my password?

If that's the case, then my attack would be:

* Loop through a list of common passwords.

* Derive keys from those passwords.

* See if any decrypted results return an ASCII-like result.
I found it to be possible but difficult to get KeePass running on every machine I want a password store on. When I last used it running the KeePass itself under Mono was an annoying install process, slow to launch, and far from a native UX. Sorting through unofficial contributed ports to find working smart phone apps (and trusting yet another party to manage access to my password store) was also less than ideal.

I'm sure it is possible to get KeePass working smoothly but I'm also happy to have paid for what feels like a better solution to me.
Because intersectionality[1] is something that needs to be acknowledged.
Given the target audience, the proper paragraph about the flaws of the model and how it doesn't address intersectional issues probably wouldn't have gone down well. This small comment, however, ensured that at least some mention was made.

[1] Intersectionality is the idea that different combinations of minority issues will have their own, often unique, challenges. In the video games difficulty setting analogy, think of intersectionality being the advanced mode with lots of little sliders for different things, rather than one scale of easy to hard.
If it's actually _as_ insecure as you say, why not collect your $1000? You'd make it back even more with gained reputation of your status as a security expert.

Instead, I'm inclined to believe you just can't.
Well, it's slightly different. Every person might not check every single time, but it would be possible to do something like write a browser plugin (or setup some sort of automated system) to check what was going on since the execution is happening client-side.

I made sure to emphasize 'slightly' because this could just trigger an arms race to getting around detection. You might be safe if you kept your detection methods a secret (and only personally used them). On the other hand, if the detection methods were used/deployed on a wide scale, then anyone trying to compromise you would just work around the detection.
if plain english could handle big O, we'd probably be programming in it ?
A counterexample is coffeescript, which I think does have a plugin for Chrome to allow a source-level debugger.
Rubs me the wrong way where people don't give the necessary credit.
This seems mostly to be a PR gimmick. While it seems like a cool thing to do "just because we can", there is no compelling advantage to putting a 200mm telescope in space. You don't get much sharper images by being in space with such a small aperture. And launching a space telescope for people to take pictures of themselves... I don't even know where to start.
The other thing I'm confused about- the article seems to imply men who do nothing will be rewarded with things simply by virtue of being men. Does this happen? I've never seen anyone say, "Oh, you're a man! Here, let me give you things!"
That was a really tortured metaphor.
Societal norms are so ingrained in early childhood education that it's extremely difficult to discern one from the other. -Agreed

I think there is a possibility that nurture does play a lot into the equation (I played sports growing up, while my wife went to 'lady' classes). My point with the nature vs nurture (and i can't prove it, merely speculate) is that testosterone/estrogen levels in each gender should not be ignored.
Could you explain why you're pessimistic on GW atom interferometers, or point me to an argument elsewhere? I'm especially interested in the AGIS proposal by the group at Stanford ( http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2125 ).

Also, is it obvious how one could use an ultra precise clock to see evidence for GWs? Such clock can reveal spatial gradients in the rate of ticks (and so reveal things like local mass densities), but GWs should be spatially homogeneous, no?

Thanks for any help!
You mean the compose that pops up and doesn't open in a new page? 100% agree.
The world seems to be intent on writing mountains of code to avoid writing javascript, and usually ending up with a system that compiles to more javascript than if they just wrote javascript. Saying javascript is broken is a nonsense, they mean they feel they should be above writing javascript due to its quirks and inconsistencies. Whatever they write the end result is still the "broken" language they wanted to avoid. It all seems like a huge waste of resources and smart people's time to me, but then I've been writing javascript for getting on for 15 years so perhaps im past it and don't "get it" anymore.
Still the question remains - why risk bad pr if this doesn't work. and why not concentrate on building the telescope first and proving that they can do it before asking for money? At this point it looks like they are trying to run "your picture in space" business, not asteroid mining.
Problem is, if it's anything like usual Google features, it follows a common path:

New feature announced --> Deployed to @gmail users -- Deployed to Apps users --> Old feature deprecated --> old feature removed

Google has a feature of eventually forcing people onto bad UI layouts.. for example Youtube.
What would that browser plugin check for? How would you write it?
> As the oft-cited matasano article on JS crypto

Considering that tptacek is a Matasano researcher, why wouldn't you address the specific issues you have with the article? It doesn't seem filled with platitudes, and it's not self-referential at all, much less self-aggrandizing.

What is self-aggrandizing are people offering crypto snake-oil with bluster and boasts and contests instead of entering into the dialog and state of research. It's a very good thing that the establishment is skeptical and careful about this sort of thing.

The weirdest part is that everyone seems to take this so personally. Sarah Flannery, a teenager at the time, took it better when her crypto algorithm was broken. Her attempt was no slouch either.
I don't really have any newsletter that fits this. But I'd do what Ives is saying and use filters to put them out of the way.
Breadwinner in 40% of U.S. Families Is a Woman, Study Finds[1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/business/economy/women-as-...
I seem to recall the outcome was poor
I am so confused as to how you came to all these conclusions. To me, it seemed pretty clear that he wants to develop things, and to program as his job, rather than run a business.

"without doing much of the kind of work I actually enjoy."
Learning while asleep (2012)
Or to learn how to differentiate projects that are within your power to save from those that are not.

If you're a developer, you often can help save projects that are failing because they were poorly outsourced, or handed to the wrong team, or technically flawed. You usually can't save projects that are failing because management never really believed in them, or that are caught in crossfire between conflicting factions on the corporate board, or that have never been funded/resourced at the levels required for success.
I say this line nearly every chance I get. I find it's useful in almost every situation where the return button need be pressed.
I always use a temporary mail address : http://jetable.org/en/index
Cloud Accounting + CRM Software Beta Invitation
The compelling advantage is that they're making it available to the public to use.
While I understand your point and agree mostly with what you're saying, it's worth noting that a functionally equivalent thing happens with /usr/bin/ssh on most linux systems.

A remote web site is consulted (usually via plain http, not even https!) and new code is downloaded. Signatures are checked locally (using gpg, which is itself bootstrapped from trusted installation media, and can be updated at any time like any other package), and then new software is installed.

The update cycle is longer, but it's still there. Under the threat model of "your source of software is compromised", no system is safe.
Blekko suddenly became really good looking.
> 1. What is the reason the women's escalator goes down?

> 2. What is the reason only men can ride the up escalator?

It's a simulation of unequal privilege.

> 3. What is the elevator?

Support programs, quotas, empathy

> 4. Why not just make everyone take the elevator?

That is what was mentioned as stopping all the escalators (privilege), and making everyone use the stairs.
Taking my courage with both hands, leaving for SF/NY this summer hoping to find a job.
Ask HN: Thoughts and tips on Start-up Chile?
We just got accepted into round 7 of Start-up Chile. We've read through the previous HN thread [1] and other reflections, but a lot of it is 12-18 months out of date now, so I thought I'd ask if anyone has any further thoughts, tips, do's and don'ts, or just general tales of interest.

Thanks!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3810821
I've subscribed to SEOMoz for just over a month as part of looking at how we should be working on SEO specifically at Mandalorian[1], and also to evaluate how other similar companies use SEO. After a couple of days with the tools I realised that this actually gave us a whole load of much more useful information to help with general marketing exercises.

I might have joined for the SEO, but am most definitely staying for the marketing. I wish Rand and team the greatest success with Moz.

[1] - http://www.mandalorian.com/
If you are a white male you have built in nitro in your car while driving the streets of life. The women are as skilled but you just got the edge. You won't be dismissed after and interview with "girls cannot use oscilloscope". It will be more like my first interview "Self thought C programmer at age 16 - you are hired, don't know what EEPROM is - no worries kid - we will teach you"
Taco truck has limited time, and many potential venues. They come to you and want to know how to best allocate their time. They have a dozen different venues they operate at regularly, which will change from time to time. They want a program into which they can enter the sales results of each venue along with the weather, date and time, and get back a schedule of venues to maximize their revenue.