skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems weirder to me than that. Let us take it as a given that there really is a stereotype threat and/or that women are systematically discriminated against with regard to acquiring math skills. Let us take it as a given that damage is really being done. The natural conclusion is that regardless of what name is put on the top of the test, the women should still do worse, because they really are worse at math at the time the test is being given, which is to say, after 15-20 years of systematic discrimination. If the discrimination is effective, then by definition it must mean they really are worse. If they aren't worse, then the discrimination is either ineffective, or women are naturally better at math and the discrimination is holding them back (a position which would be quite complicated to establish and defend).

If the damage can be undone by merely putting a different name on the top of the test, then that strongly implies that the putative damage is itself illusory. If the damage can be wiped away so easily, then it can't have been that bad in the first place. If this is the extent of the "stereotype threat", then it's obviously not holding them back all that much if even so their real skill is equal to the men's.

I can't help but think that this study was indeed ideologically driven, and in the zeal the authors had to prove their point about how women aren't worse than men, they didn't think about the fact this accidentally "proves" that the discrimination can't be that significant. But perhaps it is just a neutral study performed out of sheer curiosity.

And just to make it perfectly clear, I am taking their own logic on their own merits. I'm not inserting my own opinions here, excepting on the question of whether there was potentially an ideological drive here. (My opinion doesn't really fit on this axis at all either way.)
Technology, not law, limits mass surveillance
Excerpted from Urban Dictionary: "The tool is usually someone who is unwelcome but no one has the balls to tell them to get lost. The tool is alwasys making comments that are out-of-place, out-of-line or just plain stupid. The tool is always trying too hard to fit in, and because of this, never will."
Interesting that "innocent"s charge more than "exposed"s or "apprentices." I wonder if these are senior developers making a transition into iOS.
Are you implying that it takes an aggressive man who can deadlift 400 lbs to write an iOS app?
Also many (but not all) characters have had their competence, intelligence, and in general their power level increased significantly (so that the story stays interesting, given that Harry's intelligence has been greatly boosted too).
Normal distributions have excess kurtosis equal to zero.
> As I said, I'm a professional software developer, and as such I appreciate the value of good bug reports and feedback from users, and I hate it when users make blanket criticisms. But Mozilla and Google are among the most user-hostile organisations on the software landscape in this respect, and until they fundamentally change their approach, I don't see this situation improving.

This seems like a strange comment

What other large scale software do you use on a day to day basis that you can even find and report bugs instead of just sending them in to some companies /dev/null and hope they eventually get fixed
The central point of your comment here is to show my argument is bad by discrediting me. Which is an ad hominem. So I guess we're done here. G'day.

(And your accusation is false, FWIW.)
You have a point. Indeed, the practice of building specialized machine or container images, which seems to be the best way of achieving immutable infrastructure, may make servers more heterogeneous, since each image will contain only the pieces necessary to perform its specific function. Done right, immutable infrastructure may be more resilient in the face of parasites.
Entropy in Compression - Computerphile
I think the parent comment's first sentence makes sense -- simply accessing that information shouldn't be a crime. But if you then make a copy and either use or distribute that information illegally, that's something different.

To be clear, that's exactly what Weev did -- accessing AND keeping a copy for himself. But I think the parent comment's argument is talking specifically about access.

Creating a precedent where a "reasonable person" is expected to "understand" that the exposure was a mistake would create a huge legal gray area. Anything that's available on the public internet should be perfectly legal to access. What people do with that content is a different matter.
I know I found this question interesting and it makes a good start for conversation. I found your response rude, impolite, and pretentious.
I wouldn't care so much about this, except that I am often essentially required to give my data to Ubisoft (and other third party publishers) in order to buy/play their games. EA, you're no better.

Why are all these companies adamant about trying to bootstrap their own services. It's maddening, and it only causes things like this to happen. Steam exists, and it's amazing. Stop trying to do better -- you won't.
I don't understand these kinds of arguments. It's not the same people who are complaining in both instances.
I love Visual Studio but after having worked with python quite a lot and being involved in the local developer community (IN NEOhio, NYC, and starting into Southern Maine) I think I've only ever meet two python developers who used windows as there development Os. I'm not holding my breath but if MS would port VS to OS X/Linux it would be really cool. I don't know that a good business case could be made for it though.
That was going to be my comment as well... The WinRT kernel was started "fresh" to be mostly compatible, without the weird crufty legacy support. I think the biggest things holding back RT is that it's only on locked down ARM platforms, and low-level SDKs aren't widely available.

I would speculate that RT will become the main windows kernel by Windows 10. Then again, I'm less likely to even be running Windows by then (4-6 years).
Well, OS X had Classic[1] for years, so it had that compatibility layer to bridge 9 to X.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Environment
I agree that the $450 price tag is too steep. At a stretch, I think that anything more than $100 is not attractive, even if its a novelty item. Why don't you raise the money for mass scale production on Kickstarter. IMO its better to sell 10 K for $100 than a few hundred at $450.
Introducing the HTML5 FullScreen API
Ask HN: OS X tips/tricks/must knows for developers? 
Anyone have links to any resources that helped improve your workflow and understand of OS X? I just ordered a retina 15" MBP and I want to get familiar with it.
I would like to find a version of this manifesto that might be a little more approachable for some traditionally minded design folks that I work with. I guess I'll just have to write it myself.
Poking fun is great, but don't undersell!
I hope IE realises like Opera and move to either Gecko or WebKit...All web devs will be happy :D
6M users is just not interesting when you're chasing having hundreds of millions of users. And 50% is a wildly optimistic percentage for how additional G+ users you'd create.

Let's say they have 12M monthly active users; a large percentage of those are probably already G+ users (let's call it 50%.) A large percentage of the remainder have deliberately decided they don't want to use G+, so you'd be doing pretty damn well to convert 10-20% of them over.

So that's only 600K-1.2M MAU in a "best case" outcome. You're just not going to be able to sell that as being worth allocating a half-dozen engineers to pursue building a new product. It's not even close.
Unfortunately, yes. Every mom-and-pop PHP-based website that was done by a teenager in the last 15 years probably still does this at some level. There are also plenty of old web servers out there that look for those headers to decide how to respond (to account for browser bugs).
Stereotypically satellite launch insurance is a comsat thing.

That doesn't mean there's no insurance involved in the whole process. Somebody will pay out third party liability claims, for example, either .gov or some insurance co or more likely a mixture of them. But specifically launch loss insurance is something "mostly" found with commercial comsats. Note its just stereotypical. Maybe this is the first navsat I've ever heard of with launch insurance.
Introducing MongoMallard: A fast ORM based on MongoEngine
I'd take a mono-culture over terrible IE (6-8) any day of the week. The problem was never a mono-culture - the problem was IE6 was closed off to non-windows OSes, and stopped progressing. If IE6 had been available as a portable open source project that could be run on linux/android/anything and had continued to include new features, we'd all still be using IE.

The problem with IE was failure to provide value, and nothing at all to do with some mythical 'mono-culture' argument. You can say that a mono-culture encourages something like IE6 - but since Webkit is open source, that can't actually happen.
What you are saying is totally legit. Microsoft is a company, and as engineer/web dev/creative/whatever, choosing to rely on IE for development or anything else implies you trust the Microsoft brand to help you get something out of using their toolset. We've all been burned in the past by MSFT and even if their claims about a modern browser are true, and even if it ships today with the best codebase out of any browser, there is little evidence for any of us to suddenly start trusting the spirit behind this new push.
Totally agree re: the price tag. Especially since most smaller stores have 100-1000 fans. They can pay $100 to get an additional 100 real fans. $400? I don't think so.

Pascal
Yes, but MADD and other interests have pressured the federal government to set the age to 21 via highway funding, so states are constrained from deviating.
> they're moving to a standards-compliant model like WebKit or Gecko

This will be great if they:

(a) actually achieve parity with Webkit or Gecko

(b) Don't try to maintain backward compatibility with previous authored-for-IE pages/sites

However, most of the browsers they've released since announcing their intention to move towards a standards-compliant model didn't meet those goals.

Maybe they'll get it this time. Or maybe this will be like Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the Football.
This is how I feel not just about microsoft but about all closed-source software. It's great that it exists and wants to compete and keep the open source stuff on its toes but ultimately I prefer the top dogs to be the open source guys because I know if it ever does go off the rails it can be forked.
Of course I meant even if the latter has fewer dots. That a sparser picture can be more misleading shouldn't come as any surprise.
They probably have ideas for additional (paid) services. For these services to make sense they need a very popular plugin. Hence the free model.

The investors are taking that risk to create a much larger scale company.
I'm confused about a so called achievement gap when men still hold the majority of highest paying and most powerful jobs in the country.

I'd truly like to understand what you mean by this.
It's not that silly when you consider the security track record of AWS compared to Linode.
In middle school I was forcibly imprisoned in my locker for wearing a calculator watch, and honestly, it was a good learning experience.

That thing is really ugly.
Just to add some data points:

In-canvas kerning seems to be affected by the system rendering. In Arch Linux, using Firefox 22 and the Infinality patches, I get http://imgur.com/eRVru67 IE kerning is better when scaled up, but it looks just as good or better in regular or scaled down sizes.

On the differences between doubling the font and scaling it, I get http://imgur.com/sgu8KYG
I think you're thinking of the very good book "Thinking FORTH", which presented an incremental style of development coupled with a Lispy DSL architecture.
And even if they weren't radically better there is very little that is easy to do other than destroying other countries investments that would allow a return to such a state.
It's Scott Hanselman's blog. The entire point of it is to proselytize for MS products.
"BODOL" is pretty funny.
I didn't mean to imply maliciousness -- rather to draw a line between the sorts of friend-of-a-friend-of-an-ex-coworker parties you might miss out on for not being on Facebook, and a party of an actual friend you know and spend time with.

In short: pointing to the line between friends and "friends" and (likely my personality coloring the value judgment) thus questioning whether you're actually missing out by not being so closely connected to those "friends".

(Frankly the very concept of a house party with so many attendees that don't actually know one another, that a door man and a guest list is required, sounds like a caricature of a straw man I might have cooked up to have a laugh at "things you might need FB to get invited to". But maybe that's just saying more about me and why I don't grok or value things like FB.)
Could you provide me some evidence for the "personal blood" from these presidencies? It's not something I've learned about in school and would like to know more.
As an alternative, you could GPG a text file with all passwords and use...

hexdump -n 16 -v -e '/1 "%02X"' /dev/urandom

...as a password generator
A photo tour of Seattle's Living Computer Museum
Everything else being equal, Steam may well end up being similarly hacked in the future. The big difference with them is that they use 2FA, so even if your hashed password were stolen and cracked, they still would not be able to access your account.

Edit: I just went through Ubi's password change process, they also restrict password lengths to 8 to 16 characters. Annoys the heck out of me when companies do this.
Why Instagram Should Not Have Added Video
The camp of people are both feminists and who care about making arguments based on good science called to say they want you to stop pretending they don't exist.
I've found the 'OSX' tag on Apple.StackExchange to be helpful with discovering what you're talking about.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx
This is cool. How does legal compliance work with people who do not want to be contacted?
You aren't Born Knowing how to be a CEO
At 98,000, with 2-3 days to go:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-tesla-motors...
How Instagram overcame the odds to beat Twitter
Apple's Website Ad Placement - Why?
Any web designer want to chime in on why apple placed ads across the entire width of the screen, outside of the menu bar container?
Maybe its just me, but the styling doesn't seem to match Apple's streamlined minimalism.

Screen-shot of their website: http://i.imgur.com/LZoOp0D.png

With the ads 'fixed': http://i.imgur.com/8XTv8y9.png
Don't use a NAS. Use replication.
I recently went to the Living Computer Museum in Seattle and snapped a few photos. It was really interesting for a vintage tech geek like myself.

If you're interested in more information, I've written detailed descriptions for most of the photos, sort of like a photo story.

Anyway, I highly recommend a visit if you're in the area!
Let's play the guessing game: by "encrypted" they mean MD5'd?
Why Startups Live
Perhaps, but I doubt it - it's a freaking goldmine of data. RSS feeds - lets Google know a little bit about you, but not in the way that your personal searches and your personal communications do.
Relying on one service is good for no one. Specially consumers.
Ask HN - need some advice, I'm stuck
Been a PHP dev for a 5-6 years, and a couple of years before that in Java.

Bored with corporate jobs, but I feel stuck. Last week I went to a job fair (though I have a job currently), I couldn't find many companies working in PHP. Some who spoke to me
intially, smirked after I told them I'm a PHP dev. I'd like to learn something new, like Android or Rails, but I'm afraid I wouldn't be employable for a while (which
I can't afford). I also thoroughly enjoy non programming tasks like market research, data analysis, product design etc. But don't have any "real world" experience to show in these
areas. Also, in my mid thirties, not sure how much that'd work against me.

Anyone in this situation tried something new? Did it work out for you?
@betterunix-- seriously? It's OK with you if they get your private data, no matter how they acquire it? Spoken like someone who has never had exposure of private data used as a THREAT... something weev is known for. If someone uses illegal means to obtain your private data, they can exploit/weaponize that acquisition without having to then use the private data to commit a different crime. (different from the crime -- usually fraud -- in how they obtained it).

Weev has taught many of us that acquiring your private data is enough to make you wonder when, exactly, he will decide to use it. Or in my case, to publish it and encourage the whole WORLD to use it. And don't get me started on medical records... If you honestly believe that acquiring private data shouldn't be illegal until it is used in a crime, you have obviously never been threatened with exposure from someone who did just that. (but again, I don't think this applies to the AT&T case) -- Kathy Sierra
The wiki does mention some info, yes. But it also makes a false comparison, noting how you can extract passwords on a system, and implying that the level of security is identical. That's 100% false, and to suggest so is being very misleading.

As far as logs, do what everyone does when you can only store a bit of material: Store your bulk encryption key there.
Agree with you. Not really surprising that the Chrome crowd are finding something else to fixate on now, until that gets better, then it will be something else....etc...etc

Honestly the main reason I used FF over Chrome historically was the huge and active addon selection. Chrome has caught up a lot now but I am trying to wean myself from all Google products so not ever going to use Chrome by default, simply because it is a Google product and not because it may or may not be "better" than FF.
> Slavery is probably the worst thing that happened to humanity.

I saw an opinion (really can't remember the source now) that slavery was a major improvement at the time when people who won a war used to simply eradicate conquered populations completely. With invention of slavery, strong and otherwise useful individuals had a chance to survive a bit longer.

There is no one worst things that happened to humanity. I'm sure there are plenty of contenders if one looks hard enough.
We posted an Ask HN [1] asking for suggestions what else we could do and one comment by someone with very high karma suggested that we post again, so we tried. We didn't ask anyone to upvote. We simply wanted to give this a fair chance (unlike last time).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5977771
The advice given in other responses here is spot on - there are many avenues to learn development. But that's only part of the education that this program is offering. This looks like a CS + MBA program at a fraction of the cost. And the teachers aren't just spouting off theory - they've built businesses.

So should you do it? If you have 100k in the bank and you want to start a business, then go for it. You can afford to pay your living expenses, learn at an accelerated rate from a highly qualified group of teachers, and build a business with awesome mentors. Your teachers will be people like Jason Fried (37Signals) and Troy Henikoff (TechStars Chicago). This is not for someone looking to become just a developer. They have cheaper programs for design and development.

Don't have extra money lying around? Buy a list of business phone numbers from a reputable company (Dunn and Bradstreet come to mind) in an industry you're interested in and start making cold calls. The list will cost a couple hundred bucks. Pay for a LinkedIn premium account and prospect there as well. If you can't reach out to potential customers, you're going to have a hard time starting a business.

Read about sales and marketing and subscribe to every info marketer out there to learn what they do. How do they write copy, how do they market, what's their funnel like? You don't have to buy from any of them - just observe what they do. Add them to a label in gmail called "marketing", autoarchive every message that comes in, and review the emails once a week. Here's a list to get you started: Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome, Derek Halpern from Social Triggers, Joanna from CopyHackers, Ramit Sethi from IWTYTBR, Dane Maxwell at the Foundation, Trent from BrightIdeas. Of course, don't forget Pat McKenzie and Rob Walling. Sign up to Mixergy for incredible master classes and interviews.

If you have the money and want guidance from an amazing group of talented individuals, that program is excellent. If not, there are other ways to do it.
That was then, this is now. At the time, they also thought the Germans were lazy and stupid.
The only point I'm trying to make is that your original post positioned it as unavoidable. It can happen in any industry, but it doesn't mean it will.
What do you mean by "pump and dump web project?"
The law is full of judgements based on the actions of a "reasonable person". And, I agree with your first paragraph, but then, so does the CFAA; CFAA doesn't define a strict-liability crime.
Computer's Screen Inspired First Video Game, 'Space War'
I think of WinRT as more of a weird System 9 -> iOS transition.
If Google had announced the end of reader, but allowed you to integrate the RSS feeds into Google+, all the nerds would have just complained that Google was killing a good product to try and bolster a shitty one (not that I think G+ is shitty). It's always easy after the fact to say that Google could have done this to ease the passing of Reader, but face facts: There's nothing you can do on the internet where people won't complain. Deprecating Reader in favour of g+ would have been a cheap replacement at best, and at worst it could have been viewed as poisoning the water so you'll have to drink Fanta.
I foresee a funny side effect: IE 11 users visiting old sites will get "This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer" messages.
Doesn't FB constantly update the feed? If you leave the feed open, won't the page grow unbounded? Seems like it's working as intended...
Responses to Snowden’s Asylum Requests
> allows you to specify certain content as content you don't want to miss.

like... circles? and tags?
A Simple Stunt Reveals How Blogs Will Print Anything for Pageviews
So... it doesn't matter where they're coming from. The same is true here.
You can take a check to a UPS store[1]. If you're a customer of their car insurance, you can also deposit checks directly by taking a picture of them with your phone via their app[2] - I realize that's not accessible to many folks though.

[1] https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/usaa_easy_deposits_main

[2] https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/mobile_banking_dm?akredirect...
Thanks, please let me know about your experience: wkornewald@pentotype.com

Note that currently pentotype only supports mobile wireframes, but we're working on website/desktop/etc. support.
One interesting aspect of the plight of the temp workers is, that this is very exactly the kind of market Marx did analyse. The temp agencies distribute highly standardized work assignments to the temp workers, who have no choice. (If they would qualify for McDonalds minimum wage jobs, they would probably prefer them.) In this kind of environment the agencies can only compete on price, since the specific assignment is determined by the customer of the agency, and this means they need to cut their costs. ( Notice the mention of 22 workers in a 17 seat bus, this represents a 29% increase in efficiency of transportation.) And this leads to the situation where the least decent employer sets the working conditions, since he can out compete the other market participants.