skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BND (German intelligence agency) has made use of the NSA data. But so far, they're saying it was just for locating German citizens who had been kidnapped abroad.
I read that you had come to an impasse about how the site should be run with a competing group also seeking to acquire the site.

I didn't mean to imply anything too nebulous, and of course defer to you on it...you guys wrote it in the first place, and I simply meant to reference it.
Everyone has criticized you based on how great SpaceX is. I'll go the other way.

Tesla at its heart is "put a ton of batteries which were developed by other companies into an electric motor that drives a car." People have been trying this formula for over a century. Tesla happened to do it when battery technology was just good enough to work, with really good styling.
The 9/11 Congress: http://sas-origin.onstreammedia.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupS.... The one that passed the PATRIOT ACT and the AUMF.
I spoke with a Braintree representative and he did mention that they have plans to extend their their marketplace solution to Canada but I can't wait that long.
It's late here so I'm not going to research this before responding. It is my impression from some previous reading that the closest European language to Sanskrit is German, with certain words such as luft (Lufthansa, Luftwaffe, etc.) being directly traceable to a common ancestor. With all of the Prussian-style border-shifting in the Germano-Polic region over time (the German History museum in Berlin is absolutely amazing illustrating it with maps!), I wonder if perhaps Polish shares some of that - for wont of a more informed phrase - 'old school Indo-European' quality? The answer is probably on Wikipedia, which also distinguishes betwen many types of Polish: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Language...
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I had no idea he had a hair transplant. It looks very nice.
Good advice :)

I try to follow it in my life.
> Very few users have a staggering amount of fingerprints, for example 20-25. I don’t know if they have a lot of devices, use different browsers or something else.

They probably use mostly public / school computers to access the website.
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Great feedback, thanks mseebach.
Being cynical: promoting a futuristic tech to block the development of the proposed high speed rail.
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Since the article was written by a Sun guy Dalvik is probably not the area of expertise there...
I think this is bull*, where are the logs? How did he manipulate the results? Did he use a API Call? From a packet interception? If then how? at what time?.. Did he call the application or the database? What's the server call in? Is it Webservice? You know.. It's a lot more questions than answers.. I think we need real proof of what the heck is going on before we assume this is real, he needs to be the ultimate master of manipulation in order for noone to have seen this since there are so many people comparing the printed results versus the final one...
This seems like a well executed solution to a surprisingly persistent problem.

That said, I wish all of these new calendar/scheduling apps would focus on the more difficult problem: optimizing/filling the whitespace between scheduled events.

I had a go at the problem myself (happy to share my deck/lessons-learned to anyone interested), but quickly realized I wasn't passionate enough about the space to continue on.
This deck is really hard to flip through on an iPhone. Nothing a little JavaScript couldn't fix.
Slightly O/T. A buddy of mine was saying last night that his lady suggested looking at a hair regrowth product, on inspecting the packaging and marketing material he found the wonderful claim:

"Up-to 4 times more effective than a placebo in clinical testing"
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> why wouldn't you do it in order to have a more profitable business?
> ethics aside

You wouldn't do it because it would be unethical. That's like saying "besides the fact that eating a cheese burger is terrible for you, why wouldn't you eat a cheese burger?"
http://www.privoxy.org/

It is really simple.
I think this underestimate the idea of transposing one of the matrices. Perhaps it will be discussed in a future article.

n = 4096;
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
for(j=0;j<n;j++)
{
for(k=0;k<n;k++)
C[i][j]+=A[i][k]*Bt[j][k];
}
}

Transposing a single matrix is quite fast, and gfortran with -O3 does this trick under the hood, so to see the difference you must use -O0 (or perhaps -O1). (And remember that in Fortran the indices are in the other order.)
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If I'm interested in an event topic (and have time, etc) then I go. end of.

Even if I disagree with the majority opinion, it's better to turn up and ask one polite awkward question than to just leave it to people who wouldn't question their own ideas there (making it a less interesting session).
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There's a handful of BLAS implementations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprogram...
Indeed - they could definitely do that.
"Up to" being the legal loophole. It means it can actually be less effective than a placebo.
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The fact you point out is a nice illustration of Simpson's paradox.

By education level (subdivided if you wish by educational specialty), women consistently make less than men. But women comprise about 60% of the entering college class, and a similar portion of recent college graduates. The result is that on the whole, women make more.

That's why "equivalent education and experience", as flawed as our attempts to measure them might be, is a very important qualifier.
ok I don't want to set up a whole system or even a virtual OS for reading email. Any lighter, less-invasive alternatives ?
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Google were planning to do some interesting experiments with JS and the DOM - they're hinted at in the Blink announcements but can't remember seeing any more about them yet
I am truly amazed by this, and I would argue that London is the best place to live in the world. I don't think popping over, or even coming for an extended multi-week visit, can compare with living here for months or years.

Even if, as it sounds, you've lived here for years and you've gotten a bit tired of it, surely you can agree that if somebody hasn't ever lived in London they would be crazy not to try it out? :-)
>Yeah, I know: it's not Javascript that's broken, it's the DOM.

No, JavaScript itself is a ridiculous language. Every time I have to deal with it I grit my teeth. Right now I'm dealing with dates. Luckily JS has a built in Date class! Which, of course, does nearly nothing. If you call "getDay" you get a zero indexed number representing the day of the week. So since there's no formatting functions to print out dates, how do you get the month-day number? Oh, right, you call getDate...

If I didn't know better I would think this abomination were created by someone who thought the secret of PHP's success was being horribly defined.
I think you're still missing my point. A management drone, or at least a more or less non-techie, prognosticating about cultural issues in tech, is almost meaningless other than maybe simple P.R. "we care about diversity" and such. Unless you have techies in the executive suite, the answer to techie problems is not going to come from the executive suite, or at least not any more likely than any other random unqualified group. Its not enough for one's subordinates 8 times removed be techies, or to have a PR campaign aimed at techies.

There's an impedance mismatch. It would be like sending me as a missionary to encourage young black men to enter the religious seminary, and then being surprised at my remarkable ineffectiveness. Why, VLM has a lot of karma on HN, how could he not have been effective?
People change. You can have a revelation, and become a pacifist.
I think this is a phenomenon that extends well beyond pay. As members of congress have shown us, if you have a gay child you will go from a violent hate toward gays to a complete acceptance. If you need an abortion, abortions are somehow moral, even though they are the devils tool when used by others.

It's things like this that made me wish that as a society, we were better at putting ourselves in the other persons shoes and having our viewpoint be based on something other than our thoughtless, engrained "morality".
Preferably visibly, with lots of blood, to keep the others in line.
The original intention of Paypal, once it pivoted from Blackberry payments to online banking, was hardly trivial. Their goal was to be something akin to Bitcoin before Bitcoin.

As they scaled, regulatory realities set in... but to trivialize Elon like that is foolish imo.
That harmonizes with my experience. I was interviewing for a "top secret" job with the US and spent some time studying the system and looking over the appeals rulings of the clearance process.

Generally, the key things were, "are you a crook? are you liable to be bribed/coerced?".

E.g. one chap was a transvestite, but the appeals court ruled that since his wife and minister knew, it wasn't something that could be leveraged against him.
Well said and seconded
He is proposing that it could be done, and thus anyone who doesn't care about the ethical implications and wants to get rich would be doing it. That nobody is doing it, despite no shortage of unethical people who want to get rich, suggests that it is not true.
They are, but the causes are even uglier and grounded deeply in so-called human nature which cannot be changed. So, less-naive approach is to understand and accept things as they are.
There isn't a 'single' status quo, but if you question and/or debate the existence or definition of certain articles of feminist faith such as 'patriarchy' or 'rape culture' or various statistics about the relative status of women versus men, watch out.
I thought after Obama got this award, we (the internet) decided this award wasn't worth our attention.

Also isn't getting nominated for this award a pretty low barrier of entry? Or am I misremembering?
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There were also words, not just pictures. Often times words that accompany pictures can provide useful information.
Long story short:

If you like a girl, don't worry if she is too pretty. Ask her out and stop obsessing.

Of course, also high up on the list: Dress appropriately, don't smell, and don't be a jerk.
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I'm rather confused by your post. I've never seen the patriarchy described as a "conspiracy", or a willful choice by men to control women, but has a social structure - perpetuated by certain social institutions - that ensure that men as a gender (not every individual, of course) maintain oppressive power over women.

Regardless of the existence of the patriarchy as a phenomena - and there are many critics of the theory, from the right and the left -, it makes no sense to dismiss it as a conspiracy theory.
High compared to what?

It's just the output of

wc -l `find microcosm/ -name *.go`

so is really just a rough indication of the size of the project.
Horses for courses. Whilst I'm skeptical that we're at the stage where mechanical proof-checking is viable, such a technique would be immensely valuable.

On the other hand, it is of course true that if the proof itself is mechanistic, most mathematicians would feel that a lot of the important essence of the result had been lost.

Voevodsky's work is apparently in the former, and the blog author conflates this with the latter in order to (wrongly) criticise it.
Let's bet whose idea comes closest, oh guess that's illegal in the USA and I don't bet anyway :) But betting for fun is legal right (seriously)?

my idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046134

@cma's idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046081

...
I have no knowledge what so ever about voter fraud in Brazil, but I am pretty certain it cannot be worse than using voting machines (See: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/voting/SealsOnVotingMachi...). I think there is many things in this world that "needs a chip", voting is however not one of them.
Here's the version from SF Web Perf - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sf-web-performance-group-meetu...
Well, not really.

See how big automotive amplifiers are for a given power. What makes home appliances big is usually a huge transformer inside (which for audio quality is good, even though switched power sources are getting better) AND the feeling that light/small is not good

A modern consumer audio system is around 80% empty space inside.
I'm a programmer, and a lot of times I'm deciding what to do...read, watch movies, watch netflix.

I also want to improve all the time, and I also want to work on my side projects, but I don't always feel motivated.

I've found the best way, typically, is to watch or read something interesting about programming. Lately, "Clean Code" is a bit inspirational, or talks from pycon on pyvideo. It's enough motivation to get me started, and getting started keeps me going, for those few hours at least.

Rinse, repeat.
No it isn't. The email passes through the server unencrypted (between Postfix and Dovecot), so it's still a potential tap point. In fact, running encryption to the server simply says to the NSA: Ask Linode for access to this disk.
Let's just go back to type writers and sending encrypted letters.
The air-hockey element is most likely implemented as a cushion of air around all sides of a vehicle inside a tube - this would explain the "crash-proof" assertion. It would provide near-frictionless travel as well as preventing vehicle-tube collisions.
One of my biggest fears, as someone who enjoys such wide access to music, is that the number of services will increase to such a large a number and result in such catalog segmentation that I will have to be a member of numerous streaming services to actually listen to what I want.

Maybe this is the what is needed, though? Each major has their own service? Each independent label or groups thereof then do the same? One interesting service I have seen lately is http://drip.fm/ I am really curious as to the success of it so far.
Businesses do things that are unethical to gain a competitive advantage all the time. Constantly. Every day. The fact that none of them are exploiting this "wage gap" is pretty strong support for the fact that the gap isn't actually real.
Camp in 3rd floor Padelford Library.

If your code compiles, it's proved.

Oreilly titles, Stack Overflow, net et al >> `non-coder friends, chuckles, and puppies'.

Play computer chess against `chess', not human limbic systems.

Original discovery is greater than a paycheck.

Have fun.
Would doing a majority of the reflow work on a canvas element help with speed?
Do you really think societal structures that privilege men are a myth? Apart from being quite obvious to anyone who is not extremely biased, there are whole academic branches that study this. I'd say calling that "mythology" puts you into conspiracy theory territory.
The 'wage gap' actually mainly exists because women work less hours per year (up to ~20% less), and because they they work in different industries, and on the whole do different jobs. There's no discrimination.
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Wait a second... they trusted Microsoft?

;-)

Seriously though, if you don't play ball with the NSA, they come after you, your business, and your family with the full weight of the US government. Your wealth or status means nothing against it.

Which means, as a parent, I can relate.

Yes, you and I can sit here on my keyboard and say we would have stood our ground, but when you have a children and a mortgage, suddenly things are very different. Suddenly, you think that maybe fighting this one particular fight isn't worth the damage to you and your family.

That, my HN friends, is why the whole NSA PRISM thing is so evil and why it outrages us: Even those normally beyond the law (the rich and famous) are suddenly victims like the rest of us.
You don't always want a multithreaded library implementation though, if the code using the library is already heavily multithreaded.
Hey!

I think you have a phenomenal idea.

I worked in the bitcoin space for a while (cofounded an exchange), and this was a proposal that often came up. so awesome to see someone actually building it. Could I convince you to send me an email: Jordanbirn at gmail.com ?
We never really could. NSAKEY, anyone?
It's not the Lone Ranger. It's a business.

Think of Federal employees at Fort Meade, who were hired to do the sort of work I am describing.

Think of defense contractors with nondescript offices in Fairfax who hire those same employees after they leave the government and whose employees spend their days writing and pulling and pushing and merging open-source software.

Think of $200,000 a year.

Think of Edward Snowden.

A 1000 hackers is a line item in the NSA's budget.

Or the KGB's.

Or China's.

It's asymmetric warfare. But the side without the money is disorganized and open and trusting.
Is pacifism a prerequisite?
Or a massive Sims like computer game based on real world data. Sooner or later someone is going to add controls that let the players subtlety modify peoples lives. Because winning the game is more important than the lives of the tiny little people.
For anyone who wants to learn about this subject in depth (it is a surprisingly interesting subject once you push past the most basic blocking and vectorization techniques), the canonical reference on memory access patterns for truly high-performance matrix multiplication is “Anatomy of High-Performance Multiplication” by Goto and van de Geijn; it’s also a very readable paper.
> I keep hearing this FUD, but I have no idea where it's coming from. I've never had any problems with the Android documentation.

Let's take just one example from literally hundreds that are scattered all over the API reference alone. The delete() method in SQLiteDatabase -- arguably, a mature part of the Android API, considering it's been there ever since version 1 and is something that almost every application uses. Here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/sql..., java.lang.String, java.lang.String[])

The method takes three arguments, but only two are documented. The description of the whereClause states that "Passing null will delete all rows", while the function description says "To remove all rows and get a count pass "1" ass the whereClause". I presume the difference between the two cases is that passing null as the whereClause will delete all rows without giving a count of how many, but that's really poor taste in describing what the function returns.

This simply isn't ok. It's barely enough for internal use, where you'd probably Skype the guy who wrote it, ask for clarification, and kindly ask that they fix it when/if they have time (or you fix it yourself if possible), but this is very far away from what you want from a serious framework. Let's not even stick iOS here. Look at Qt -- which optimistically would have, what, 10% of the users Android has, and a lot fewer developers -- and their documentation is at the very least complete.

Edit:

> The most annoying part of Android development is probably Eclipse, but I'd rather have a resource intensive IDE that's cross platform than one that only runs on OS X

It's definitely Eclipse, but in its description don't forget "unstable" and "still lacking a decent UI builder".
eeky is suggesting that, if there is a gap between male worker output/male worker pay and female worker output/female worker pay (which I'm unqualified to make a comment on), someone would arbitrage this gap to make an enormously profitable company until the gap closes. There is no way to "hire all the females" without salaries rising.
An issue I see here is the relatively rapid trend changes within e-sports compared to more traditional sports. What happens when League of Legends 2 is released (or everyone drops it and moves to DOTA 2)? Or Starcraft 3?

Would it not be more appropriate to classify e-sports as a single sport, with various subcategories for the individual games (or even game types)?
I'm more surprised that more billionaires don't build crazy monuments of themselves or just some crazy ones with their name on it.
>suggests that it is not true

I doubt this. See the HN post from a few days ago ("I put Mr. on my CV and got a job"). It would seem that employers not only pay their females employees less, but have little faith in them to get the job done, thus they wouldn't hire them in the first place.
OK - actual concrete advice.

Open source, text only communication, provide guidance and support and discussion around rejection and trolling.

Find an area the son is interested in, and has a little experience with - perhaps gaming, perhaps collecting.

Identify some OSS projects, in the area, plus identify something the son wants (may be harder this last one)

build the project locally. Try to automate the build. Contribute back the automation and docs. Slowly change the project to do something else. contribute that back.

Rinse and repeat - if its possible think in terms of a year or more.

More advice on OSS projects get the father to post here (or contact me / others directly)

as for text only communication - stick to email - it is asynchronous and gives time to prepare.

And trolling and rejection - sorry thats going to be par for the course - I suggest the main criteria for OSS prjects is not the tech, its the community.
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> The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

Congress certainly does have the 'say so' -- at least with 'inferior Courts'. That still leaves the Supreme Court though as final arbiter.
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>but has a social structure - perpetuated by certain social institutions - that ensure that men as a gender (not every individual, of course) maintain oppressive power over women.

What you described is a conspiracy. Of course feminists don't describe their own conspiracy theories as conspiracy theories, they want them to appear legitimate.
I remember reading the arguments for reusability etc 1990 on usenet's sci.space (and later sci.space.tech). Henry Spencer et al made good points.

You have to wonder how large a role is played by NASA not having a shuttle now -- and hence no motivation to use its political clout to stop competition?

Let us just hope delaying the real space age capabilities a few decades won't result in the death of humanity... (But if we go extinct because of a bureaucracy's need for job security, we arguably deserve what we get.)
I think you could have less steps here. Why not have the person sending out the initial invite pick all the times possible for them, and just let the collaborators choose the ones that work for them, and then send out an email that works for the most people.
I see one problem:

- Entire generation of programmers may not have any knowledge about how computer works
There are recruitment agencies which only take individuals with autism on their books, and try to find them roles which suit their particular skills profile. A quick Google should turn up some useful results, but be careful to not be taken for a ride.

Tech is a good industry for those on the autistic spectrum, as it values protracted periods of focus and analysis; but as with any job, communication is really important – perhaps especially so in tech. It will be important to find an employer who is prepared to take him on as an individual and work with him to minimise his difficulties and build on his strengths.