skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The composition of the court based on pigment, sex, and political affiliation makes it pretty clear that profiling was used to select the court members.

The point isn't that they would have diverse opinions otherwise, the point is they were obviously selected to have homogeneous opinions. As if that wasn't bad enough it's obvious that they were selected using ethnic profiling, if not sexism.
You don't want to support sweatshops? That is great! That means you're starting to understand how things work and where they come from.

Keep doing your research and you'll soon find that economically speaking, eliminating what you call sweatshops is like trying to eliminate gravity.

Everybody needs to eat and if they refuse to live a dishonest criminal life, they'll take a job no matter how little it pays and that opens up new business oportunity. It's the law of the market and it won't change if you or a little group tries to buy locally because not everyone can afford (even if they are aware) to buy more expensive local products. This is why Wal-Mart has been unstoppable.

Most electronics (computer/cell ph) now a days are manufactured in what you'd call a sweatshop.

How did things get so bad ?

It all depends on the information you consume, bad news vs good news. The opportunities we have now a days are overwhelming, things have never been better (or worse).
So, like when a car sales man insists you sit in the expensive car to see how it feels, so one is forced to rebuff him? Sounds similar yo me.

Why isn't this just taking the initiative then? Being proactive?

It seem to me that these days men are expected to sit around, do nothing, say little, and have a lawyer ready.
Correct; this is yet another reaction started by radical feminists and followed by naive no-time-to-read-if-true followers; (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2KPeMcYsuc)
This has been going on for more than a few months -- at least since 2006. Some countries are starting to ban the insecticides suspected to be responsible.

More info: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
I'm only referring to the specific ones who would be against Kickstarter's decision by arguments that it "violates free speech." Not all minarchists.
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Everyone doesn't agree the Holocaust happened, either. It's not hard to understand why.
Is Medium.com teaching classes on informationless, sensationalized headlines or something?
Why does that need JavaScript to load?
> but [Google seems] to be doing amazing work behind the scenes to get the incumbents on board with free codecs.

Huh? By not nuking H.264 support in Chrome like they publicly promised they did anything but get the rest of the industry on board with free codecs, but perhaps I am not aware of the work Google has done recently to influence free codec adoption.

What codecs or work are you referring to?
I can confirm the article. Almost drowned once in a river: I let myself go with the current and, once I tried swimming back, realized I accidentally went into strong currents.

I tried swimming harder, but eventually got tired and sunk. Despite my friends being about 20/30 meters away from me, they didn't realize I was drowning. I couldn't scream for help nor do anything but trying to stick my head out and breathe. I couldn't stay afloat long enough to cause any water splash either.

Fortunately I touched a rock that was sticking out from the bottom with my foot and stood there for a bit to recover and go back.

Be careful this summer!
Just read My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday sometime. Women have some f%!#ng sick fantasies... but somehow men are painted as the sexual predators / deviants, from whom the pure, wholesome, virtuous, innocent girls must be protected...
Woah, really big difference here. I wish this was up towards the top of the comments so people got both sides of the issue before pointing fingers.
Right now you can't add a US bank to your account if you are outside the USA
Suggest HN: New tab upon clicking links.
When you click on any link, the link should be opened in a new tab keeping the indexed page with news items in its own original tab.
I don't give a shit if Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. sit on the FISC (FISC court is redundant). America doesn't do secret courts.
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We're already to the point where we can make food without bees. Corn is pollinated by the wind. With just corn, we can make anything else just by adding artificial flavors! I love Grapez with high fructose corn syrup, reconstituted corn meal, aspartame, Red No. 40, Blue No. 2, and artificial flavoring (manufactured in a facility that manufactures peanuts).
If you do it without asking, then yes.
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It would be. That's exactly what a2ensite does. That's what I ended up doing.
And yet, Kickstarter can decide that they want nothing to do with it or anything else for pretty much any reason they want.

Kickstarter is claiming that they won't allow seduction manuals period ("we are prohibiting 'seduction guides,' or anything similar, effective immediately."). They have the right to do that.

If you really need a seduction manual, you need to shop elsewhere.
The site will very easily pay for itself with donations. It's not that expensive to serve static HTML, especially when you are using Nginx and sendfile.
It pleases the symmetry of the world that

I have to say that I lost it there.
I don't think Kickstarter's response to this incident is incorrect.

We're talking about the legitimacy of a single blog post vetoing 686 backers (according to the cached link on the kickstarter post) from what it looks like from the kickstarter post.

I don't think that this response was particularly measured:

-1) Does it only take a single blog post to have kickstarter ban a project?

1a) Can we be certain that the blog post did not take the passage out of context?

1b) Can they be sure that the seduction manual was intentionally promoting the alleged "sexual violence"?

1c) Was there any reasonable attempt to communicate with the author to address the paragraphs in issue?

-2) What number of the kickstarter community reacting negatively to this project?

2a) Was "Sexual violence" the only controversial topic?

2b) Was a specific (kickstarter) clause for violation cited?

2c) Was any law broken because of this project?

3)Can malicious intent be proven?

[1] If you actually look at the link to reddit comment link I don't even see conversation that could be taken as people taking this as "sexual violence" and there is even one comment from a female user (derina585) that recommends changing the language and offering advice.

This reaction to lynch mob the guy is unwarrented and is somehow legitimized by kickstarter's "apology." I think that we need to take a closer look at the information before jumping to conclusions here.
It's not a lot if most of them will be working on apps to get the infrastructure competitive.

Here's their competition:

Google Play/Android is estimated to have 800,000 apps (Jan. 4, 2013)

Apple iOS App Store recently reported 775,000 apps (Jan. 7, 2013)

Windows Phone Marketplace is up to 125,000 apps (Oct. 25, 2012)

Blackberry World is now up to 70,000 apps (Jan. 30, 2013)

Source: http://www.pureoxygenmobile.com/how-many-apps-in-each-app-st...
> Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

My guess is that the page is in fact down (probably MySQL is stopped), but that the permissions on the 500 error page are set wrong and thus Apache is returning a 403 as it tries to show the error page, instead of a 500.
You're right that actions matter. Part of what makes this a good apology are the actions that back it up. They took meaningful action to redress the harm they caused, and put a policy in place to prevent the mistake from recurring. It's awfully hard to build up a record of bad actions followed by good apologies, because good apologies are more than just words.

But I think words are important too. The folks at Kickstarter clearly regret not having cancelled the project before it was funded, and that comes through in their apology. They gave the reasons for their failure, without turning them into excuses. That kind of sincerity is rare, and it's important. I'd rather see companies defend their actions when they believe they were right, sincerely apologize when they believe they were wrong, and never issue insincere non-apologies.
Wrt conferences, "lack of details" is solved by supplemental material; "incomplete publishing" is solved by splitting your efforts into multiple papers. Most authors do this anyway if the idea is big enough/if they can get away with it. ("Oh goodie, more papers! More citations!")

See, I'm of the opposite opinion. If you can't fit your idea into page limits, it's not worth my time reading it because it shows that you don't care enough to exrpess it concisely. I can get much more value for my (limited) time by getting the gist of ten papers than if i took the time to fully understand the implementation details of three.

Papers are documentation. Would you rather read a 60-page man page that says "How to do $X" or a 5-page one? If you have important details, publish them in a journal.
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If you read the writings of the Guide's author and do not recognize that it is misogynistic and advocating sexual assault, you have a problem. That problem is that you are mistaking sexual assault for "taking the first step."

Seduction is not inherently misogynistic, even if some seducers are misogynists. And whether an action is "sexual assault" or not is heavily context dependent.

Let me ask you this... every time you go to kiss your spouse, do you ask "May I kiss you" first? If not, then by the standard you are setting, you are assaulting them every time you initiate a kiss.
”5) Get CLOSE to her, damn it! To quote Rob Judge, “Personal space is for pussies.” I already told you that the most successful seducers are those who can’t keep their hands off of women. Well you’re not gonna be able to do that if you aren’t in close! ” “All the greatest seducers in history could not keep their hands off of women. They aggressively escalated physically with every woman they were flirting with. They began touching them immediately, kept great body language and eye contact, and were shameless in their physicality. Even when a girl rejects your advances, she KNOWS that you desire her. That’s hot. It arouses her physically and psychologically.”
“Decide that you’re going to sit in a position where you can rub her leg and back. Physically pick her up and sit her on your lap. Don’t ask for permission. Be dominant. Force her to rebuff your advances.”

I really can't believe I'm getting into this argument when a much more interesting discussion is whether platforms have a responsibility to be open to all comers, but alas.

You boys need a lesson in basic empathy.

Imagine you're in a bar, and a super built gay guy reeking of booze comes up to you and sits uncomfortably close to you. His face is inches away from yours but as you try to pull away he scoots himself forward. His hand brushes lightly on yours. After a couple minutes of ignoring your obvious lack of interest he places his hand on your inner thigh, which you brush away and tell him he's being a creep, and walk away to a different area. But he KNOWS that even as you reject his advances you're really getting turned on, that you're aroused physically and psychologically. So he follows you, sits next to you, and picks you up and puts you on his lap.

Now, don't skip that scenario: I want you to stop and think about it in detail. How would it make you feel? Do you feel turned on? Do you feel violated?
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First thing that came to my mind: "Wow some device that gathers different spectrum of light to fuse into a single awesome ray?"
A lot of comments are getting into the issue of whether or not seduction stuff is appropriate/misogynistic/etc., which I think is missing the point.

Kickstarter received a vocal outcry against the material. They responded quickly and fairly to remediate the issue. There are tons of times that a business is pressured/advised to stop doing something when that 'something' isn't strictly illegal or immoral. How they respond to those opportunities defines them going forward.

Part of Kickstarter's value proposition now is a certain level of content curation: moving forward, they're much less the 'anything-goes' crowdfunding platform than they used to be. I suspect they're okay with this, given how much they're pushing the social networking aspect of their site (and for good reason -- their stats on how many users went from funding the Veronica Mars or Zach Braff kickstarters to other initiatives were pretty impressive.)

Free enterprise, of course, also dictates that now there's a vacuum for a competitor which has less (or no) qualms about stuff like this.
Here[1] is the publication where the article gets its description of Instinctive Drowning Response. Skip to page 14 (pdf).

[1] http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg534/On%20Scene/OSFall06.pdf
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Private company. They are free to cave in to demands from a vocal minority if they so choose. They are free to ban anything remotely non-religious or atheistic, if they so choose.

If you feel so strongl about it, start your own company that will publish and market products in line with your values, get together with like-minded people to start an advocacy group and most importantly, vote with your dollars and encourage others to do the same.

It is easy to cry Free Speech, but hard to take actions to defend and strengthen it.
Just read this thread, and it applies to my newly learned wonder phrase:

"Tyranny is the suppression of nuance"

Not many people working with the nuance here, are there? Its gotten very black and white , and if you don't agree with one side, you must simply be a sexual predator.
Numbers of bees in a hive grows and shrinks depending on the season and climate. Typical numbers might be 15-20K bees in winter, 60-80K bees in summer.

Worker-Bee lifespan = ~2 months. All eggs laid by one queen!
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"uncensored"

Good luck with that.
http://nick.neocities.org/

Already worth the price of admission. This is a really fun idea.
Can I ask what you do (both for consulting and for the friend in HoiAn)? I live in New York now but am thinking of setting up an offshore team in Saigon w/ US based clients so I can travel back and forth.
<irony>Of course, because some women want dominance from men, it means that all women loves it. If you unpermittedly invade the personal space of 100 women, and only 10 complain about it, then it's only 10% sexual harassment, right?</irony>
Excuse me miss may I please sit close to you and touch you? May I kiss you now?

How exactly do you think people should go about this kind of thing?
It should be no surprise that bees (as pollinators) and chemical companies are multimillion dollar/billion dollar industries within the larger agricultural industry.

It should also be no surprise the chemical companies are paying millions of dollars a year to special interest groups, lobbyists, PR, and "independent" research studies - all of which suggest Colony Collapse Disorder is not definitively linked with "insecticides", as you call them.

CCD is analogous to almost every other scientific theory that runs counter to powerful interests and money, backed by observation, research studies, empirical data, and plain common sense - think evolution or global warming - science and common sense goes out the window in favor of the status quo.
Although the U.S Supreme Court consists of men and women, whites, blacks, and Latinos, Catholics and Jews, it is also very non-diverse. All nine of the U.S Supreme Court justices attended either Harvard or Yale law school (Ruth Bader Ginsburg transferred from Harvard to Columbia).

This means that what were probably the most formative years in the justices' legal careers were all spent at the same institutions.
Also, making it mobile-friendly! Reading HN on my phone is actually painful. Unfortunately I mostly read HN on my phone. Long-pressing the link to open in a new tab is totally wrong for usability. The font size and zooming is also really bad.
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My first gen retina has problems connecting to certain WiFi points. Netstat shows an assigned ip that's out of range, while others continue to receive regular IPs. Renders it useless for helping teach Rails development/googling to find solutions to others' issues.

Waiting for a thin, light, no os laptop that works well with GNU/linux
To be fair, it could just be some other random jerk on 'net writing something sympathetic.

Without the source document, though, it's not really easy to say either way.

I'm also not impressed with the author's writing in any event.
It's never too early for scams.

http://secure.neocities.org/

"Security page. Please enter your password here."
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^^^ This! I love the soap, and the label is crazy, so was the man.
Seduction manuals aren't morally wrong, though, (they may be factually wrong and/or sleazy, but not morally) but racism is.

Think of the difference between a book on the history of racism, with very explicit quotes, long, in dept conversations with racists, scientists and policy makers, the authors own experience in these groups, etc and the latest publication from the KKK.

A seduction guide is the first. "Rapists Quarterly" is the second.

Also nicely done working an adhomium in there.
Approach a drowning person from behind and hold them above the water by their armpits

Unless you're a trained lifeguard this is poor advice. As stated above you don't want to get within touching/grabbing distance of a drowning person. Get some sort of intermediary between you and them, a stick, rope, shirt, pants whatever. Something that you can drop if you are at risk.

To the point below about their instincts of not grabbing it. Don't leave it out where they need to reach for it. Hit them in the head or arms with the stick or piece of clothing and they'll grab it. My first few pool rescues with a lifebouy I'd leave it within their grasp and they'd not grab it. If I hit them in the head or hands with it they'd grab it every time.
It's because someone didn't provide a tl;dr; and you know how we pretty much have our pitchforks ready having read one persons view on something and not finding out the facts for ourselves...

Context was obvious if you read the few lines around the quoted "trouble" text
Or it could be instructions for the kind of a sex that millions of straight couples have every day. It all depends on the quote's context, right?

This is a book on seduction, not a book on long-term relationships. I'm not defending the OP, but don't be intentionally dense.
PayPal had eBay to crack the hardest part - acceptance of a new payment type. Are you a new payment type or are you effectively a wallet and passing underlying credit card information over?
How far do you take this? Kickstarter is a business and needs to make money.

Should it be acceptable for people to Kickstart escort businesses, "legal high" websites, or Amway pyramid schemes? All of those things are legal but are seen by the public as being slimy and taboo. Why would Kickstarter want to associate with these people?
How does it work? I assume it's a water pressure sensor which requires more than a foot or two of water to activate, and some kind of timer, combined with the transmitter? (otherwise a collar doesn't really work -- I can keep my neck immersed in water all day and not drown...)
Insurance solved the problem of bank heists.
Yeah, and politicians know how to deflect attention from this issue. A few months before the election, if people are still talking about the NSA, you can expect the media to suddenly start reporting on a scandal involving some politician, or how the economy is taking a new downturn, or how we gave Syrians some kind of deadly weapon. The people in charge of this country know how to deal with reporters: give the reporters a scoop, and they'll forget whatever it was that they were reporting on before that.
I don't disagree with that either. But, for me, and I can't say whether I'm in the majority or the minority, nor do I care, but I will now literally never use Kickstarter for anything lest my project be deemed to avant garde by the populace at large.

I do sincerely hope, not for Kickstarter, but for us, that this doesn't discourage truly innovative art projects from being crowdfunded, as I think that sets art back, contrary to Kickstarter's stated goals.

In short, they've made it all too easy for me to believe that a book series like Harry Potter could be shut down by the religious right, or that Huck Finn would never have been Kickstartable, nor Nine Inch Nails' "Pretty Hate Machine", etc.
You can even do simpler.

On signup store:

$password = password_hash(md5($password),PASSWORD_BCRYPT);

And on login:

password_verify(md5($password), $password_hash);

Then you just have apply password_hash() on all you passwords in database.

Bonus the migration is instantaneous, you don't need a 6 month transition period.

IMHO it do not reduce the security, but i'm not a crypto expert though.
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It's going to be a logged-in user. I suppose I'd use a tour_completed KV store for a bunch of tour_type : boolean.
Yeah, I wasn't thinking straight about that either. :)

I think the Xbox TEA hash is another example of a lightweight cipher having problems when used as a hash construction.

Certainly I wouldn't ever advise someone to use SIMON or SPECK in production.
I wasn't only referring to conferences but also journals. AFAIK journals have page limits too.

My opinion: if something is long... well, it's long! Peer reviewers should also judge if the length is reasonable, right? I'd rather read a 60-page detailed manual than a 5-page "press release".

You're presenting a false dichotomy: concision and details are not incompatible.
There definitely needs to be some polish to the initial site I think. We have been talking about making something similar to Twitter Bootstrap that's designed for HTML newcomers, so that even really basic sites have a base-level good look to them. We're also talking about a WYSIWYG HTML editor, but we decided that we would launch to the tech crowds first, who have experience with HTML and are comfortable dealing with no initial boilerplate frameworks, and would appreciate the value of what we're trying to provider here (an open canvas).

That said, I don't care if people use it for Geocities parodies. I think Geocities sites are a lot more interesting than the bland, drab Facebook profile layout that everybody is forced into with no ability to change in any meaningful way.
> There do exist experienced PHP devs who would do password storage the right way but PHP up until now neither made it easy nor encourage these practices as they relate to passwords.

As much as I welcome these features, I don't think that's true. PHP has made it extremely easy to use the core operating system's hashing features.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php

And after 5.3, even if for whatever reason your operating system is lacking, they were built in for convenience.
I see the same quote about stopping if there's any rejection being repeated endlessly in this thread. Treating consent as a simple yes/no ignores the reality of a culture where women are taught to be quiet and compliant, and where they're punished when they don't go along. In a culture where half the population is treated as subservient objects, it's a good idea to seek explicit consent every time.
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