skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of innate differences. But sometimes we observe a difference (say, gender distribution in graduate math) and we don't know why we observe. It is valid to conjecture that perhaps the observed difference is due to one of the innate differences. It isn't proof, but it's valid conjecture in the absence of anything better.
My experience is that women tend to communicate non-verbally much more than men do. For instance, if a women doesn’t like you, you probably won’t be sitting on her couch on a Friday night after having taken her out to dinner.

Also: in that scenario, trying to touch your date’s shoulder or leg, or approaching to kiss her, isn’t rape. It’s an opportunity for her to let you know whether you’ve interpreted her signals correctly.
They are UK centric only on outside appearance. Notice how we have given intelligence agencies unlimited powers under the very simple condition that they can not spy domestically? It works the same way in the UK.

So the way this works is that the NSA will spy on Britons, the GCHQ spies on Americans, and everyone comes together to exchange notes.
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Nice! I admire you for being able to travel and do all this stuff. I'm travelling for 7 months now and after the 1st month I realized I couldn't do both things. Keep moving! :)
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Thanks! Re: callouts, duly noted for the next analysis.
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It's highly inappropriate for you to refer to "kissing someone", even if it's unwelcome, as "rape". Sexual assault, that's ok, even though I don't agree with it. But calling it rape is very disrespectful, maybe even insulting, to the victims of actual, violent penis-in-vagina rape.
The cultural acceptability and effectiveness of the asking for consent is incidental to the issue at stake.

I honestly find it shocking that so many people on HN are having such difficulty accepting the principal of expressly verbalized consent. Surely we can move on from the notion that men need to "be dominant" and "force her to rebuff your advances".

While a particular culture may call for certain shifts in attitude, that does not mean verbalized consent is not important.

>I think Neil Gaiman's thoughts "Why defend freedom of icky speech" is particularly relevant here.

I think a key distinction between the subject of Gaiman's thoughts and the material at hand is that "Above the Game" purports to offer advice applicable to real word scenarios. This advice, however, will, unquestionably, lead to sexual assault if followed (not in every case, but in some).

I would certainly find it dubious for the United States Government to condemn the book, but I feel that Kickstarter's stance is defensible from the position of not wanting to be associated with such dangerous and callous material.
No. I'm not saying "no woman wilfully chooses". What I meant was that there is tons of evidence that completely wilful choice of prostitution is the exception, not the norm.

I'm also alleging that no "client" of prostitutes can know if the woman gets beaten regularly, was forced into prostitution, is coerced not to leave or was hooked on drugs. I don't believe a drug addict can consent to paid sex.

I don't believe illegal immigrants who were smuggled into a country and "indentured" can wilfully consent to prostitution. But their patrons choose to think so, and they look the other way.
Green car Report's reading of these two bills is this would make it illegal for Tesla to register cars in the state by making it impossible for the state to register any vehicle not purchased from a franchisee.

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1084963_new-york-auto-de...
The Paddle animation isn't a GIF. It's a video. That's why I asked you why you thought Sublime's GIF (which isn't actually a GIF, but a compressed PNG animated with JavaScript) was better.
Decided to create something from scratch in the text editor. I must say I like the editor. Had to include a slight ode to the fallen geo(.*)

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Why forcing a Microsoft 180 was bad for the industry
Ask HN: Where would I sell a list of App Store developer email addresses?
If I had a list of email addresses of developers with apps published in the App Store (> 100k leads), where would I start looking for buyers?
As of 2:03pm EST- no. They are getting destroyed (rightfully so).
Starting with the Cloudant Accelerator Program: SpaceCraft, CouchDB & Redis
I was going by a woman's US dress size. This would equate to a woman's Large and approx. 32" waist. For men, the average suit size is now a US 44.
This is my favorite comment here. I wish I could upvote both for the insight and eloquence as well as the ACK comment and deadlock comment.
It's not a low risk asset. It's an alternative asset that for the last few months has been used in risk-off periods. There's a difference. Judging by the last sentence of the article, I don't think he expects it to continue trading like that.
No, I am not disregarding their opinions. They are perfectly entitled to their opinions. I am saying their opinions are not objectively correct simply because they are taking the active position of complaining, while people who aren't upset obviously don't make a lot of noise about how indifferent they are.

Also, nobody is being oppressed or discriminated against in this situation.
We're trying to do this. Examples:

http://www.slant.co/topics/217/~best-css-preprocessor

http://www.slant.co/topics/95/~what-is-the-best-search-engin...
But lots of email signatures are verbose nonsense.
Is this the way "it's" really supposed to work? Someone everyone "knows" says something and people immediately spring into action on the social media machine. Without considering anything about the situation. Just "it's the old way, we are new, this must be bad" please help us.

Pretty soon things like this will become so commonplace they will be ignored (by people or the people being contacted) the same way 10 tornados a day would fail to get the attention of anyone but those directly impacted.
GeoCities clipart backgrounds still available!

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Sarcasm means you're not supposed to believe it. You were right the first five times you read it; you should have stopped there. I don't see any way in which this sarcasm was done poorly.
I can't even put a unicode bullet on the page. Maybe I should be using double tildes or something.
Russell Tice on MSNBC this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKyIil9OdF4#t=0m04s
It loads fast, but there is something wrong with the layout - it seems to be fixed at a huge width and so it doesn't let words wrap around. So you're forced to zoom in to read and then you have to scroll around to read.
TuneWiki announces plans to shut down on June 28
"I thought this was obvious but I have already read all the comments in this thread and all the "context" the excusers are providing. If you think pointing me to that again is refuting my points, then you didn't understand what I wrote."

There's a difference between understanding and agreeing. Just because somebody doesn't agree with your flawed, poorly thought out emotion based opinion doesn't mean they don't understand where it comes from. You're doing what so many people accuse conservative christians of doing - you're trying to silence a dissenting opinion because it makes you feel bad. That makes you an authoritarian of the worst sort; the kind that would gladly burn any book you find offensive.
I live in Canada. Unemployment is less that the US, and so is our budget.

You were saying?
This. Strong currents in natural bodies of water (rivers, ocean... even close to the beach) will overwhelm even the strongest swimmers/divers. Overconfidence will kill you, literally.
Investment banking is relationships. just like all business. Their role in the housing crisis is despicable. Their role in an IPO is pretty important
Digging the graphics
Ask HN: What sites are similar to renthop.com?
Not sure where to look, there is a lot of stuff there: In the HN comments? The linked-to blogpost? Or comments in the linked-to blogpost? I skimmed them quickly, but didn't see what you are quoting yet.
I think it has to do with how much fuel is in the gas stations storage tanks. When the tanks get low they pump more slowly. I think it has to do with the pressure created by the weight of fuel pushing gas out of the bottom of the tank faster, there is more potential energy to push the gas faster in a full tank, mass x gravity x height equals potential energy.
You are right, I should have reached out to you directly with this issue. I took the easy route and didn't put in any effort to track you down, for that I am sorry. However, I take exception to you categorizing my post as "trashing other people's work."

I feel that I also have a responsibility to publicize such a glaring security hole in your site. This is the number 1 link on HN at the moment. Thousands of people are going to be signing up. I think they have the right to know that a bug like this exists. Like I said in my initial post, a bug this big seemed to be a sign of a bigger problems. I had suspicions the site was malicious and at that point my priority was to point out those suspicions to the HN community.
Okay, this is a survey from 1998 - my google-fu was not strong enough to find one more recent:

http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/2/196.full

Quote:
"...the majority of the studies point to a reduction in short-term resting metabolic rates that is greater than can be explained by the loss of body mass or fat-free mass over the same time period. Unfortunately, there has been very little work done over the last few years regarding the duration of this phenomenon.

[...]

This is relevant for motivated patients who adhere to severe hypocaloric diets to achieve rather large weight losses. When they get to goal weight their metabolic rate is severely depressed, and they can experience almost immediate weight gain if they resume their prior higher calorie intakes. Recent studies have not continued to measure changes in resting metabolic rate for extended periods to determine whether the reductions are self-limiting. "
Obama Administration Declares War On Whistleblowers, Leaks As 'Aiding The Enemy'
When I was in Boy Scouts they said if a drowning person was pushing you under, you should dive to make them let go. Anyone with experience know if that works?
"...nice to know you can" is exactly the point. You're right about day to day use; what this does is calm the range anxiety.
Here is an entire quote from one of his passages on a reddit thread:

Hi guys.
First off, big props to thesacred. I went out with him yesterday and he has tons of game. Looking forward to many scandalous nights with him and others in Tokyo. He skipped the club to go attempt a threesome! Awesome!

Anyway, if you've followed my FR's recently, you've probably seen me mention the Physical Push/Pull (PPP) move I've been using. It's basically where you substitute actual physical pushes and pulls for emotional push/pulls, OR combine them with emotional push/pulls for maximum effect.

I was field testing it as an OPENER in the club yesterday and my GOD did it work. I highly recommend some of you guys try this out, but it's not for the faint of heart.

Example:

[see girl on dancefloor or near bar]

[approach]

[hook her in with your arm] "Aww you're so cute. Come here."
[shove her aside HARD, seemingly randomly]

[approach someone else and say hi]

[Turn around. About 75% of the time she'll be staring at you with a huge grin on her face.]

[Walk back over to her.] "You really are so cute, you know that?"

[repeat]

This is one of those "reality destroyer" openers where girls have NO IDEA what just happened. You can open as many sets as you want throughout the club/bar this way and decide which ones you wanna pursue further at your leisure.

I did this yesterday in a dance club.

I re-open a girl by walking up, grabbing her, caveman-ing her against the wall & kissing her. Then I cast her aside and get a drink at the bar. The entire time she is staring like "OMG who is this guy?" (in a good way).

I come back to her with my drink. "Come on, let's go."

I walk her to the corner, escalate kino, smalltalk a bit. Fast forward and guess who is getting a BJ in the dark corner of the club? THIS GUY!

Gentlemen, try this out. It's not only extremely effective but it's hilariously fun. Your friends' jaws will hit the floor when they see you pull this off.

Go and do likewise, gents.

http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/f6ve5/fr_tofutofu...
> There are a lot of innate differences.

There are also a lot of difference in socialization and social treatment that are not innate differences.

> It is valid to conjecture that perhaps the observed difference is due to one of the innate differences.

It is also valid to conjecture that perhaps the observed difference is due to cultural/environmental forces and not due to one of the innate differences.

There's a big gap between conjecturing that something may perhaps be true (which is a very weak position that doesn't require much support) and asserting that something it true, or probably true, or the best explanation given the available evidence.
I wish there was a moderate MRA group, that wasn't full of hateful idiots.
Since they were most likely killed by a pesticide, it's not an epidemic, and the remaining bees can make more, just like the remaining deer can make more, and the remaining rabbits can always make more rabbits.
Perhaps people shouldn't be surprised, but the discussion of the data sharing with the NSA certainly appears to call into question some of the US government's claims:

"This includes recordings of phone calls, the content of email messages, entries on Facebook and the history of any internet user's access to websites – all of which is deemed legal, even though the warrant system was supposed to limit interception to a specified range of targets....

By May last year 300 analysts from GCHQ, and 250 from the NSA, had been assigned to sift through the flood of data."
If the drowning person puts you in danger, because he/she clings too tight and there's a risk that both of you will drown, the solution is to punch or even break their nose to cause a shock so that the person lets go. Or pull/push him/her under water and wait until they are unconscious and then attempt to rescue.
Your post attacks Tice's credibility by implying that if his claim was legitimate, this news would be covered more broadly. Since there is not yet a story in the NYT about this, his claim must not be legitimate, right?

Leaving aside the interesting questions about how and why the media is covering this story, if you are attacking Tice on the grounds that his claims are not credible, you are in a weak position given that his previous claims on this matter have been very publicly vindicated in the past two weeks, while yours have been demonstrated wrong again and again.

My post was an ad-hominem attack (but not an ill-intentioned one) because I continue to be mystified how you can repeatedly insist there is no story "here". Does it not BOTHER you that your government is claiming the privilege to conduct at-will surveillance of anyone based on suspicion of a crime? Or the very visible way these tools and others have been used to intimidate the press over the past few months and cover-up official wrong-doing? What about excessive levels of government secrecy (which of the documents released to date do you consider sensitive enough not to merit public discussion)?

What exactly needs to be happen in this story for you to stop defending the status quo?
English, specifically whatever dialect that is, is a horrible medium for encoding laws.

Further, the diffing format used there is atrocious.

Law is code. Why haven't we fixed this yet?
> "Yes means yes" is a better slogan than "no means no."

Maybe, but it's also very unrealistic, and I doubt very many people want it. Personally, I would prefer if women simply realized that I am attracted to them, and wouldn't explicitly ask me if I want to fuck, and I'm willing to endure the few awkward encounters where they would misread me.
So something like every single bee in a couple hundred colonies flew out to a single pair of trees to be poisoned? Isn't that fairly odd behavior in and of itself?

Wiki suggests bumble bees only range a few kilometers. Is it even normal to see that many colonies that close together?
Deer don't pollinate flowers.
And don't miss Al Filreis from Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Poetry (U Penn) at coursera. Humanities taught right.
Also the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, which due to the protests, banning by all the Islamic countries, the fatwah on the author and associated press (and this was in the days of before the Internet!)just made the sales go through the roof.
I think I meant "blind people" too.
> This is unbelievable to me. I think the typical woman confronted with this behavior would look for a new boyfriend - one that isn't so amazingly timid. As a married person I can't imagine asking my wife "regularly" for permission to have sex. I know her signals, she knows my signals and if either of us put out a signal the other person isn't up for we volunteer, "Not tonight" and that's the end of it.

See, this is the problem. It's not "timid" to talk about sex. I know my girlfriend well, and she knows me, and if we're hanging out together and we're both down to fuck then it's on.

Here's the other thing that happens: I'm in one room playing Starcraft, she's in the other room reading a book, and I start feeling a little randy. I'm not going to wander in there and try to get into her field of view to make eyes at her. If I just walk up and start touching her, and she's not into it, she'll feel irritated and I'll feel rejected and that's not good for us.

So what I do instead is -- and to be clear, this happens about as often the other way around -- I say, hey, do you want to have sex? And she thinks about it for a second, and if she says "yes" we get naked and down to business. If she says "no", no hard feelings, I can go back to my game. If it's in between, like "not really" or "maybe later", we can have a quick chat about it and come to a decision together.

Do you understand what I'm saying here? Me asking my girlfriend if she wants to have sex, and vice versa, means we have way more sex than we would if we both sat around waiting for the "signals". And we really like sex, so this is great for us.

But I guess if you're married with kids, there are other reasons you can't relate to this.

And since I'm here, rid that word "permission" from your vocabulary in this discussion. Permission is asked from a superior. Consent is a mutual arrangement between equals. Therein lies the core of this entire issue.
How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again?
Acutally, no. State Senators Zeldin and Carlucci sponsored a bill that it would make it impossible for Tesla to operate in NYS. Now while New York Auto Dealers is likely to have lobbied for this bill, the State Senators nominally wrote the legislation and sponsored the bill.

In New York, the legislative session is winding down, so it is a particularly dangerous time for bad legislation to be introduced.
Trailer for Jobs the movie
oh wow! That's great.
Just shocked they took the time to count all those dead bees.
Reaffirming our commitment to open documentation - Google Developers Blog
Wrong question.

Why did anyone trust Microsoft in the first place?
I like to ask people about what they do in their private life. What are their hobbies. Do they have a lot going on? People who keep themselves busy tend to have a strong motor and usually apply that to their work life as well. Similarly, people don't do much of anything outside of work can bring this habit into the workplace.
Automatic reply .. to all meeting requests... attach PDF of this article... now to figure out how to auto-decline.
Michael, Jackson 60 days without REM sleep.
You use counting scales.
Often, people confuse swirling ideas seeking form in their head for creativity.
Reading the comments you can see instant cybersquatting.

Man i hate that -.-
That wasn't directed at you, it was a general comment. I was referring to the person(s) that defaced other people's sites. Sorry if it came off any other way. :)
Your best bet is to knock them unconscious, them pull them safely to shore. It's safer for both of you.

Edit: actually perhaps not the best idea.
I love the simplicity of RentHop. I replicated the look and feel of their website's earlier look for my small town but I wasn't able to get any traction. Craigslist is too dominant in my area. People know how to use it and don't care to learn anything else.
What part of "Should I run an exit relay from my home?" was unclear? I am not trying to discourage people from supporting the tor network, quite the opposite actually. I want to make sure they are fully informed and support tor in a manner that is sustainable.
It's a configuration option, actually [1]. No need to recompile. If anyone isn't using it, try it out!

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#sendfile
Know what's going on
If a deer walked though a field it would stand to reason that it would encourage pollination.

Bees are some of the best pollinators, but they aren't exclusive in this regard.
Indonesia to Singapore: Life-threatening pollution isn't a big deal, so shut up
"While a particular culture may call for certain shifts in
attitude, that does not mean verbalized consent is not
important."

Nor does it mean that verbalized consent is important or necessary. Not all human communication is verbal.

"but I feel that Kickstarter's stance is defensible from
the position of not wanting to be associated with such
dangerous and callous material."

Do you find the financial embargo of Wikileaks by Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Amex to be acceptable?

With centralized electronic payments and centralized crowdfunding platforms we've lost the neutrality of money and that is a threat to a free and open society.
Because nothing in life is free.

Even if their home countries were to agree to foot the bill for airfare back to their home countries, how are you going to get them to agree to that? You'd need someone to negotiate details. That someone costs money.

Detainees will need to be processed by customs before being released. Custom's officers don't work for free. Do detainees even have their passports? Where are replacement passports going to come from, and who's going to pay for that?

Whatever your views on Guantanamo Bay, to think that it's not going to cost anything is simply naive. That's not to say that sufficiently motivated home countries couldn't pay for it, but it's going to cost someone somewhere.
A source? Is it a proposed bill or a rumor?
That, too, but the best part is that it gives the government the opportunity to stumble on its own lies.

"We don't collect data without (general) 'warrants'".

One week later, after another leak - "Oh, we were just being the most truthful, or "least untruthful" as we could when we said that."

It completely destroys the credibility of the government, and it should, because they're lying about it at every turn, or at the very least twisting words to appear that they say one thing, but they mean another.

People who are trusting the government without declassified proof that they aren't lying, are being really naive at this point. I wouldn't trust anything the government says now without showing the declassified documents.
I guess bulk isn't too much of a problem, I'd just at least like a nice interface (keyboard, touchpad, screen). All the gaming laptops I can find fall short in that regard.
You seriously think that people are selling their risky assets and then putting that money in bitcoins?
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