skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I skipped the article and went straight to the video. The investor's comment isn't rude. It's sexist.

Sexism isn't about saying something "inappropriate". Sexism is about power and the abuse of gender to assert said power.

Let me break the dynamic down for you:

1. This investor is in a weak position. He is not on the panel and he is a small time shareholder. He's a little nervous.

2. The investor gets his chance to ask a question. He makes a "joke" which reduces the stature of the person to whom he is speaking and elevates his sense of dominance.

3. The laughter in the room adds a little more juice to his ego. That's what this kind of "joke" does.

4. Then, he asks his actual question from a more powerful position.

My guess is that he probably "jokes" with lots of people in this sort of way. Little so-called jokes.

What makes it sexist is that the comments are gender based and really quite offensive if you think it all the way through. What makes it really sad is that this sort of thing happens all the time and women are expected to just "laugh it off".
Do you AB test?
Its a simple question Do you AB test? If so how do you go about doing it?
Wikipedia isn't opt-out: you can't opt-out of being written about in newspapers if you do things that make newspapers want to write about you. Wikipedia doesn't delete stuff just because the subject doesn't like or want the article. (Plenty of politicians don't like the fact that the articles about them accurately report the things they've said that they now find impolitic.) But it may be the case that you aren't notable, in which case we should delete it.

Easiest thing is to email me - tom@tommorris.org - I'm an admin who has handled hundreds, possibly thousands, of deletion debates. My Wikipedia account is here FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tom_Morris

Or you can email info-en-q@wikimedia.org and you'll get an email from someone (possibly me) who is an experienced Wikipedian who'll be able to have a look at the article and sort out any issues therein, put it under protection if there's been vandalism etc. or nominate it for deletion if it doesn't meet the notability requirements.

The 'Contact Wikipedia' link is at the bottom of every page and the email addresses are linked from there - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us
It is interesting that the ancient Hebrews believed that certain animal species possessed "soulish" qualities or qualities that expressed emotion, will, mind, and the ability to form relationships with each other. The word nephesh is applied in this way to both humans and certain animals.
Is there a browser plugin that indicates more information than the padlock icon such as which cipher suite is being used for the current SSL connection and whether that suite uses PFS?
You are missing a robust language like Haskell.
Have you seen all the shiny new academic buildings?
The behavior you get is because of class linearization: this article explains it quite clearly: https://code.google.com/p/scala-discovery/wiki/Linearization
If I could make one suggestion-- allow question details. The serverfault question I linked had two components:

Subject: How to test real network throughput between two points?

Body: What are some of the better tools/utilities for testing real bandwidth across a link? In my case I am testing the real throughput across a wifi bridge.

The question body is what turns it into a conversation, personalized with subtle details and information less likely to emerge from a highly-organized, more-generic and less organic "shopping list" presentation.
Well, then whatever is your point is in telling me his comments were following the correct format, unless you replied to the wrong post or something? That it could have been worse, that he could have said it in the elevator? Sure.

To me the story isn't that guy, he's probably fine, and if he's not I don't care. The mixture between genuinely thinking that's cool and polite laughter is what annoys me more, just like the reaction here did more than the story. Not that I'm saying cancel the meeting and tar the guy, but at least let her respond on her own terms instead of already deciding it was "just a joke"?

Or even just saying "feminists" like it was a disease or at least some hardcore bias. It's being called a member of modern civilization, which is kind of this shadow culture utterly lost on those not part of it. HN should understand that, right?
Fedora has made some major changes to the hierarchy recently (merging /bin and /lib into /usr, introducing /run) that will be present in RHEL 7.

/run has been widely adopted, but the /usr merge is a bit more controversial. I expect this will become another factor in the growing bifurcation of Linux into Red Hat-style distros and Ubuntu-style distros (see also systemd vs. upstart, Wayland vs. Mir, etc.) with a few "traditionalist" distributions like Slackware on the sidelines. As a Debian user, I expect that the next few years will be...interesting.
Examples of bloated salaries for non-faculty: The president of Penn State who was fired made $3mill his last year and could only be 'fired' to the extent that he now makes $600k as a professor who does no teaching at all.

And college coaches usually make a lot more than college presidents.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/public-college-pres...
You're incorrect. It's a very frustrating part of Facebook's authentication process - it's not possible for a developer to say "I really don't care about their friends list, don't give me it".

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/public-...
Samsung Paid Apple 1 Billion Dollars in Coins
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "visually" closer. Do you mean the actual distance in characters between "class D" and "with B"?

Intuitively, I expected the compiler to first add the "B" trait, and then the "C" trait, which overwrites what was previously added by the "B" trait. But this seems to be much more subjective that I would've thought, apparently ;)
"when the government got involved in the student loan business."

Its more general than that. System wide. Same scenario during the same timeframe in cost of housing, cost of day care, cost of automobiles... Anything involving loaning money from a bank and possibly paying it back, or anything where the .gov hands out money to certain favored groups.

"the rise of the ridiculous requirement to have a college degree to get anything close to a decent job"

At least in the USA there are fewer jobs every year. So its not ridiculous so much as market forces. Also note that society wide (ignoring the very narrow IT code monkey situation solely in NY and SF, I mean country-wide) we produce more college grads than we have job openings.

This is kind of an important lesson for HN startups etc. Yes is it true there is a shortage of IT folks in NY/SF. But in the rest of the country, we're rapidly moving from merely needing any bachelors degree to be a receptionist or call center script reader, to perhaps needing a STEM degree for those kind of jobs. I know experienced and productive STEM people lucky to be working in call centers. The lesson is if you intend to scale your startup outside SF/NY you need to face jobforce realities outside SF/NY. For example say you create a startup to sell to education. Don't do your marketing plan aimed at Ed degree holders (maybe a .edu discount or some kind of viral marketing via sponsorship of alumni activities or something) because most of those grads are either working in the hospitality industry as waiters / bartenders unable to get a job, or got a teaching job and burned out in a decade and are already on their next career. So most Ed degree holders are going to be unable/uninterested WRT your startup. You could aim at people actually employed in the field, which will be a pretty small subset of those educated in the field.

Its tempting, if you're in silicon valley, to try to scale, based on what works in silicon valley where you live. The rest of the country that you're trying to scale into is basically a different, failing economic model. Sometimes this is important when scaling, sometimes it isn't.
There's a balance to maintain, if you don't think outside the rules and best practices every once in a while then you limit your creativity to content.
Google doesn't give you a Google+ page that looks like you deliberately created it but is actually based on whatever they could find about you.
Public schooling often doesn't provide a basic education, though. The graduating illiteracy rates, lack of any retained historical knowledge ("is Britain a state? or "isn't Toronto in the US?") the inability to do basic arithmatic without a calaculator, etc.

It also doesn't teach anything close to critical thinking, problem solving, questioning fundamentals, or anything close to an exposure to career domains.

Also, the shots are at a parents discretion, even if peer pressure is applied. The choice to get a drivers license is inevitably on the child (you can't force them to take the test). Public education is compulsory by gunpoint (ie, imprisonment of parents who withhold their children from the public school system or homeschooled exams, though there are so many exceptions it is silly).
I give it two decades.

People are trying to "fix" the web, when it should be replaced or redesigned. Thus problem is human, not technical. Whom should decide what replaces all the TLA that is required for the "modern" web? Too much time and money is invested in browsers, servers, languages, frameworks, training, tools etc...

Not that's all bad. A lot of technology that wouldn't have been developed, has been. It's changed a lot since I started building sites in '94. But I still can build nicer apps for the desktop, with better interfaces, better performance using a single programming language faster than I can develop "rough" equivalent web application.
Kill your idols
The academic staff are certainly not paid better (relatively). Indeed, there has a been a profound shift from teaching being done by professors to being done mostly by those less qualified and paid the least: grad students and postdocs. The salaries of proper academic staff, and the ratio of staff to students also have not increased. What has increased, though, is the number and salaries of administrative staff.
On the contrary, App Engine bears responsibility for the design of db.Model while Python does not.
Site also seems to be suffering a mafia-like DDoS attack.
I do not have one in production, but I'd choose statsd + graphite, or something like https://metrics.librato.com/. (No affiliation.)
The odd bit is, you can still see users that have gone through the opt out process. Their handle is just replaced by a tilda and some sort of internal ID.
I'm one of the few who paid for his college tuition out of pocket. Not in the 80's; I graduate this December. I'm not rich, I live like a pauper. I've worked multiple jobs, I've done intense internships, and with the money I've made I've paid for as many classes as I could afford each semester. It's been 7 years now since I started college, and I'll be graduating after one more semester. I just recently found a company willing to hire me full time with just the promise that I will be a graduate in the near future. If I don't graduate in December, my salary gets cut (further limiting my ability to graduate). It's not good enough that I've been working in my industry for five years; I need a degree too.

I feel that people who pay their college on student loans don't really feel the full impact of how much their tuition cost them until it's far too late. People like me feel it all too well. Most of my friends have graduated and have nice jobs, taking vacations in Europe, and going to see the doctor (what I wouldn't give for health insurance...). They criticize me for not having graduated yet. But we'll see which plan pays off in the long run.
I should have said that median faculty salaries are much lower. A few stars get big salaries and more than half get starvation wages.
Anyone who says it is easy to get loans for higher-education from the government must have never dealt with my school's Financial Aid office, or filled out a FAFSA.

It might be easy to get private loans for higher education, as they are for profit and you can't bankruptcy out of them, but I was lucky enough to not need them.
Excellent.

That guy shouldn't be in charge of a kindle, let alone the communications and internet strategy of a modern nation.
We all die! :-) Okay, it's cool looking. But nothing will live up to the two stars in Star Wars. :-) Though, I don't know the feasibility of the science on that one.
Yeah but for that to work we need a big mass of people without degrees. Right now the status quo is on the other end of the spectrum so you get a trickle of fighters.

We need someone to pave the way :). Maybe rising tuition is the way to go. At some point uni education becomes so prohibitive that even the mass may avoid it.

(btw I was not a fighter)
Yes, limit for human brain should exist, however anyone with the ideal of progress knows that there are a couple of ways to change that - genetic modification and artificial intelligence are few of the possibilities. So the limits exists only for us, not necessarily for our children. Just like our ancestors at some time in the evolution path had limits that made them incapable of even having language, children of the future might exceed all our limits by a scale we don't even imagine now.
Why should language choices be guided by the bizarre artificial scenario where other languages do not exist?
Well, it was based on an ideal of humanism. Now? It's been taken over by people with other beliefs. Have a listen what Vladimir Bukovsky (who spent many years in Russian labour camps and psychiatric prisons for defending human rights) feels about this 'new' EU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2Ql3wOGcU

He draws some frightning comparisons.
The Founder's Dilemmas - Review
So just upfront, I don't know what the 'average' cost of university is in North America. Having said that, people this way tend to argue about the cost of tertiary education a lot more than in Australia, for example, so I presume (quite possibly incorrectly) that it's cheaper in Australia.

With that in mind, I wanted to just point out that in Australia, all student loans are done through the government and a quick search shows that the average cost of a degree ranges between about $5000 and $10000 a year. I don't know if that supports your statement about the government being "involved in the student loan business" but I figured it may be a helpful piece of data...
I'm guessing it is more buildings, more administrators, and less money from the state. My alma mater (Virginia Tech) had buildings going up in growth spurts for a while; late 19th century, late 1930s, late 60s. Since the late 90s it's averaged one new building a year. And now, some of those 19th century buildings are being torn down or gut reno'd for more buildings. And it's not like they have 20-50 million on hand to break ground. Everyone one of those new buildings has a 30-50 year mortgage. Some might get a donor to put their name on it, later. But this only offsets some of the costs.

I believe outside the Postdoc instructors, they pay the market rate for staff. You can't get good sys admins on $10/hr but you can make a PhD candidate practically beg for every dollar.
I made a similar web app a few weeks ago: http://gif.gg/

It allows to do stop motion animations: http://gif.gg/0HV7by http://gif.gg/tp7j5Sq
"Surrender to $FEDERAL_AGENCY the sum of 100,000 bitcoins or go to jail."

"No. You can't make me."

"Wow, that's certainly a retort which our legal system does not deal with several hundred thousand times a year."
Flood Toll Reaches 1,000 in India as Thousands More Await Rescue
Or you run Arch, where every bin (including the sbins) is a symlink to /usr/bin, because in practice you just want your binaries in one place. Non-packaged binaries go in /usr/local/bin or something in opt.
So what's a good alternative (Firefox)? I'm using GlimmerBlocker, but due to being a proxy, it can't filter HTTPS pages.

Adblock Edge looks like a decrapified fork of Adblock Plus.
What a neat article.

My wife and I have been recently binge-watching the TV show "Jericho." It's not deeply philosophical, but its a nice expression of this quote in the article: "The most basic trait is the instinct for survival, which is placed on hold when humans are able to live under a veneer of civilization. But it is never far from the surface."
Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

Google translated Google cache: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
At my school, a lot of the instructors (at least the non-research instructors) are people who hold 9-5 jobs at a private company in their field of instruction as an adjunct professor. They're willing to work for a lot less pay, since it's a second job.
Hate to break it to you but universities are in the business of research. Teaching is nearly worthless use of researcher's time - taken away from progressing science and getting those private and government grants. Or so the teachers told me in Canada. Some teachers believe in teaching - others treat students with contempt and shrug them off to assistants. And the bigger university, the bigger the stakes are in research at least - lower quality education you get.

Granted elevated acceptance requirements will get you in the boat with some smart people - for four years of tedium and exasperation but then you'll have the network to build from.

my 2c
> When an individual puts his or her foot down and says, “no,” it’s usually in vain, since conventional assets can be frozen, garnished, or confiscated. […] And when [an individual who owns a significant amount of Bitcoins says], “no,” then the answer is, “no,” unless the state takes the confrontation to the next level.

Yes, I'm sure the IRS has never had to extract wealth from people who don't keep it in a banking account.

> If somebody gives up their Bitcoins because they were beaten by a monkey wrench, then we will know that we’ve unequivocally entered a new era.

I'm… pretty sure they'd just be arrested and placed in federal prison, like any tax evader.
Kids in a lot of colleges today are living a life of luxury compared to what I had in the 80s. Any dorm built or renevated in the last 10-15 or so years will have semi-private bathrooms. The dining options today are way better than what we had. I trudged down to the dorm cafeteria and ate whatever slop they were serving, high school cafeteria style. My son (at a small public university) has what amounts to a mall food court at school, and he can choose from burgers, pizza, wraps, vegetarian, Italian, Mexican, etc. every day. The libraries are more functional, the sports facilities are all updated, etc.
All that costs money.
K12 teachers get less pay than garbagemen unless they have enormous experience.

True, most English Lit grads work as waitresses/bartenders, but the few who become tenured college profs are the new landed gentry, paid well above what their peers would get in industry. Which flows uphill, such that only in academia could the boss of a liberal arts major be making more than $9/hr. Of course the system of teaching with adjuncts who are paid less than minimum wage and indentured servant TAs is cutting into that.

There was a time, when teaching didn't pay as well as private industry, but at least you got good benefits and summers off. Since then we got rid of private industry and boosted the pay and benefits in teaching beyond whatever private industry is left, if any.
What if the earth had rings like Saturn:

http://io9.com/if-earth-had-a-ring-like-saturn-508750253

The author describes how bright they would be at night and what they would look like at different locations on the planet.
For context, here is Stephen Conroy talking about spams and scams coming through the portal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl7X6peh-w
you may be confusing feminism with the equal rights for women movement

That's because that's the definition. Wikipedia: "Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women"

While there's a large crossover and the former certainly tries to pretend to be the latter, there's also an element of male-targeted sexism within the feminist community that would always prevent me from identifying with them.

Why let the jerks take over the term? Call it female chauvinism, done. Anyone who is still confused is trying hard to be, IMHO.

People talk a lot, but my intuitive guess is that their lack of empathy and/or awareness of the world around them prevents them from "identifying with feminism" despite the bad apples. Don't take that too personally, but that explains my allergic reaction to sloppyness around this subject.

I support so many things that are also abused, and so do you. Source: we're having this conversation on the internet :P
Snowden a prize for Russians until they have his secrets
There are systems with twin stars.
Quantum Computing May Make Big Data Unstructured Search Lightning Fast
> "If somebody gives up their Bitcoins because they were beaten by a monkey wrench, then we will know that we’ve unequivocally entered a new era."

Doesn't seem quite as far off as it might have before the Snowden situation :(
The youtube channel is the best way to catch up with the project. There are some cool videos of engine tests and a handful of very professionally edited videos of the team explaining different stuff

http://www.youtube.com/user/CphSuborbitals?feature=watch
Show HN: RiffUp – Edit Music Notation in the Browser
//Tuitions subsidizing very expensive football teams.//

I'm happy to say that at my alma mater (Purdue) the athletic programs are run as a separate business. They don't get one penny from the University general fund. I think they are one of 5 schools like that. Personally, I think every public school should be required to fund athletics separately.
UPS Mail Innovations does not have an API.

Please someone from the internet prove me wrong, I'd love so much to be wrong on this!
He's a fat boy. Walks really slow :) I expected WebDirectX!
Really depends on the type of phone interview I think. If it's really basic HR, do-you-fit, core competency stuff then no, I don't think it makes sense to replace the phone interview. If it's a technical assessment then maybe, since it makes more sense for them to accept a work sample.

Work samples are a way better indication of candidate quality than phone interviews. If the interviewer is sensible and has the flexibility to deal with it then they would definitely prefer you to show them your coding chops than ask you a bunch of technical questions. Many employers won't have the luxury of being able to spend someone's time reviewing your code though, or if they're big enough, will likely have a bunch of HR hoops to jump through.

If they're small and smart though, it's definitely worth a shot. Phone interviews are horrible for both ends. Beyond the real basics I think it's better to avoid them.
The point is they so vastly don't have it, and it's so deeply ingrained, and Stockholm Syndrome runs so deep, that solidarity and kicking continued ass is really called for here.

There is a reason John Lennon wrote a song called "woman is the nigger of the world". I haven't met a sane smart man who felt threatened by feminism. Not one. Scoffing at the excesses, sure. But not calling it out like some warning sign.

Do you accuse a group working for the ethical treatment of prisoners of not wanting everyone to be treated ethically? No.

You see, that's how much I pay attention.
Since you are talking about CPU-bound tasks, it is relevant that numpy array operations release the GIL.