skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've encountered this kind of sentiment elsewhere too. It's incredible... not even New York could make a solid six-figure offer almost look like a Wal-Mart wage.

The school situation is puzzling to me. The tax base should be fine, and the majority of the schools I see get high ratings on a nationwide basis. Is this genuinely a problem, or is a Valley resident's idea of a bad school one where the majority of the graduates do not get into top-ten universities? Cause my idea of a bad school is one where you have to go through a metal detector to get in and the majority of their graduates go nowhere. :)

Great tip about the traffic too. I went off Google directions, and I'm guessing those times are for light non-rush-hour traffic.
I worked in the last elections in Brazil.

Every machine (which is never online) prints a sum of all votes at the end of the day, and several copies are given out to those who are working the poll site.

So there is a hard copy of the votes, and anyone can check.
Ok, I appreciate this information (and I'm trying to follow the discussion but I didn't see you talking of Ken's work).

But I'm still curious; even though you can write the disassembler by hand, how can you be sure that you're compiling it with a non-compromised compiler? Or do you mean write it in e.g. ELF format directly (and that's assuming the OS isn't involved in filtering offending code, though it seems extraordinarily unlikely that the OS could be generally modified in such away without detection)?
> He seems to be treading over the same ground over and over again without revealing anything particularly new.

He has to, to have any chance of what he's saying actually sticking. Do you follow his Twitter feed? People routinely accuse him of holding opinions exactly opposite to his actual ones, even though he's been writing about them and publishing in newspapers and books for years. There are a huge number of confused, ignorant noisemakers twisting everything.

Maybe it seems slow to you, but there's been more groundbreaking stuff in the last month or so than in all previous years of my whole life, so I'm willing to give him and his collaborators time to triple-check everything before publishing so that the stories are absolutely unassailable.

I think Greenwald is exactly the right guy to be doing this. I hope my life and chance affords me the opportunity to help him someday, maybe one millionth as much as he's helping us.
Women are definitely assumed less capable, or at the very least, unhirable for some reason. See this link ("http://qz.com/103453/i-understood-gender-discrimination-afte...). I might not have a link to a study for you, but it's certainly not a baseless assertion.
60% of college students being women = "college education is biased towards women and women's needs."

80% of Silicon Valley engineers being men = "men and women choose different career paths based on preferences."

Things that will be said by the same people...

Glibness aside, you'll get no argument from me that the disparity in college education between men and women is a problem. That said, college attainment among white men from higher income families actually outpaces, slightly, college attainment for white women from higher income families. Much of the college gender gap is driven by 2:1 or greater ratios in college attainment, in favor of women, among blacks and hispanics. The increasing gender gap in college is intricately tied up with the country basically abandoning black and hispanic as well as lower-income white men.
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And they wield a ton of power. Ask the programmer that was fired for saying "dongle" within earshot of Adria Richards. Chances are your HR bureaucracy is radically feminist.
I think a lot of experienced developers are only using the good parts, it's difficult to learn but it can indeed be a very beautiful language when you use it with modules/jsLint/jsHint.
I've seen feminists publicly accuse men of being closeted gays to explain "an otherwise inexplicable hatred of women".
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To tackle just this problem, we created this: http://wigwamm.co.uk - would appreciate feedback.
> It's asymmetric warfare. But the side without the money is disorganized and open and trusting.

The Snowden leak happened (as did Manning), so the Government is not as organized as optics would suggest. They are drowning in the data deluge just like everybody else.
Ask HN: What monitor do you use for coding?
Preferably 22" to 27"
Is that against the posting guidelines on HN? I remember it being that way...

On a more constructive note, referral bonuses are the main reason I use Copy over Dropbox - 5gb per referral is just too good to pass up, especially when compared to the measly 250mb that Dropbox gives. (500mb if you're a student)
Given that Nobel himself invented dynamite, I would think that understanding is inherent to the prize.

Besides, when I was in the Army, most soldiers did not want to go to war. After all, they're the ones who are putting their lives at risk. Instead, most enlisted out of either a sense of honor or out of economic need - either the college fund or a stable career. I knew a lot of guys for whom the Army was a step up from their outside job prospects. Despite the stereotypes sometimes portrayed by Hollywood, there are very few warmongering types in the military.
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I did say "relatively trivial" and yes, I stand by that: PayPal is relatively trivial compared to the sheer scale of the ambition of companies like SpaceX and Tesla
Would you agree that shaming lesbians is a form of misandry, hating women who act man-like?
Doesn't seem like a joke on your part, but I'll take your word for it :).

Should be more clear in the future that you intended that to be a joke.
When I read PG's essay earlier today, I thought of hyperloop when I read this footnote:

"There may even be an inverse correlation between launch magnitude and success. The only launches I remember are famous flops like the Segway and Google Wave. Wave is a particularly alarming example, because I think it was actually a great idea that was killed partly by its overdone launch."

I can actually recall the launch of some things that succeeded (ipad & iphone, for example). Still, this reminds me in some way of Wave. When wave was launching there was a lot of hyperbolic explanations by people who didn't seem to understand what they were describing. realtime collaboration-communication hybrid that's really more of a cloud based protocol than a app. The app itself is just a proof of concept People either didn't get it or made unlikely assumptions about what it was.

Something about all this excitement pre-reveal feels wrong to me. Especially since this sounds like such a big, long term project.
Funny thing is, I use JavaScript libs like Ext JS because they don't impose HTML/CSS on me.

I can write the whole application in JavaScript and I just have to mess with the DOM and it's ugly friends when in trouble.
I don't know enough about the details of the build dependencies for any of these projects to give exact steps. To get a known-clean build (that is, a build guaranteed to match the source) of GCC 4.8.1, plug the GCC 4.8.1 into the procedure I gave above:

In case it wasn't clear, k is used for indexing, and I use "function application" f(x) to mean compilation of x by compiler f.

"Take one compiler source (GCC 4.8.1), and compile it with a diverse collection of compilers (Ck being a compiler in { C0 = GCC 4.8.1, C2 = LLVM, C3 = icc, C4 = visual c/c++, ...}[1]), producing a diverse collection of binaries that are compilations of GCC 4.8.1: (Bk = Ck(GCC 4.8.1)). Because the different compilers are almost certainly not functionally identical, the various Bk should not be expected to be bitwise identical. However, because they are compilations of the same source, they should be functionally identical, or one of the original compilers was broken (accidentally or deliberately). So now we can compile that original source with the Bk compilers, and because these compilers are functionally identical, the results (Bk(GCC 4.8.1)) should be bitwise identical. If there are any differences, you can manually inspect them to determine what the issue is and either issue a bug report to the appropriate compiler, change the source (GCC 4.8.1) to avoid undefined behavior, or notify people of the attack present in the compiler in question, depending on what you find. This does involve some binary digging, but quite targeted compared to a full audit and it may well not be necessary at all."

Likewise for any of the others, but note that once you've got a known-clean build of any (sufficiently capable) compiler you could use it to build known-clean builds of the others.

[1] the more compilers and the more diverse the background of the compilers, the better; it may well be worth using quite slow compilers that are proven correct and/or implemented in other (possibly interpreted) languages for a high degree of confidence.
Oracle to halt development of Sun virtualization technologies
Interesting:

"...he found that the cities where women earned more than men had at least one of three characteristics. Some, like New York City or Los Angeles, had primary local industries that were knowledge-based. Others were manufacturing towns whose industries had shrunk, especially smaller ones like Erie, Pa., or Terre Haute, Ind. Still others, like Miami or Monroe, La., had a majority minority population. (Hispanic and black women are twice as likely to graduate from college as their male peers.)"

A hypothesis: all three characteristics seem to rest on a skills difference. Many men prefer non- or semi-skilled jobs and would find limited employment in those situations.
You would be surprised at how many medicines on the market compare effectivity to placebo. It's mostly done in instances where there is a chance that the drug may not even work. By comparing it to a placebo, you're as close to as you can be to leveling the playing field to show it is more effective than doing nothing.
Yeah this type of logic regarding the NSA spying has been driving me nuts. It is illegal regardless of what I choose to do or use. The applicability of these laws does not depend on what I or anyone else buys, uses or patronizes and neither does our right to complain about it.
It seems like this is really the vector concept. Everything for the long term must be scalable (what your founders are getting right) versus everything for the short term (what you seem to be doing wrong) can be fungible. Perhaps the issue is in presentation? The real concern that your cofounders have is an enormous mass of manual work in the future. This is a real concern. But it's also to say, "We'll drop this backbreaking level of service once we get X users, at which point they'll be coming to us."
I think that you have a very good point. The article should have been something like "Child Effect: When male CEO wife has a child, relative pay for women goes up".

More of a "My wife gave birth and that helped me gain respect/comprehension towards women" than a "I have a daughter and I'm realizing she'll grow up in biased world, time to fix that beside me".

Not that it is a better or worse conclusion, but quite different IMO.
We can no longer trust Microsoft?

Crazy. I've been trusting Microsoft all this time, and now, what to do!?!
I can't find the link, but I remember reading answer why it won't work:

• Chrome would have to ship with some default Perspectives servers that are able to handle massive traffic.

• Therefore those servers would have to be run by a major player, probably Google or Verisign.

• We're back to square one where most users by default "trust" same few large companies.
Nice looking page. I'm pleased to see more fomenting mass outrage against DOJ's grossly excessive attacks on Aaron, Barrett, Weeve, Edward.

How can a people live in accord with a government that preens its image as a Hollywood distilled icon of malevolent evil?
Boys have never been in more trouble: They earn 70 percent of the D's and F's that teachers dole out. They make up two thirds of students labeled "learning disabled." They are the culprits in a whopping 9 of 10 alcohol and drug violations and the suspected perpetrators in 4 out of 5 crimes that end up in juvenile court. They account for 80 percent of high school dropouts and attention deficit disorder diagnoses. (Mulrine, A. (2001) Are Boys the Weaker Sex? U.S. News & World Report, 131 (4), 40-48.)
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Is it not possible to take the competing drug's trial against a placebo, the new drug's trial against a placebo, then compute the new drug's effectiveness compared to the competing drug? Is it just that it's too inaccurate to go through the indirection like that?
These "unethical people seeking to get rich" could also outsource all jobs to third world countries and get their work done pennies on the dollar -- yet a lot of them don't. It doesn't look good for your company when you take advantage of people in plain sight.
Keep in mind this was in Germany and it doesn't read like native English. I.e. you're almost certainly reading a translation.
Has anyone here had Dijkstra as a teacher?

This note could be the intro to a phenomenal learning experience, or a pompous self-important jerk. Given his impact to the field, it could actually go either way.

Can anyone here speak to personal experience with the professor?
> Do you really think societal structures that privilege men are a myth?

Nope. And neither are the societal structures that privilege women.

Western women have always been among the safest, most privileged human beings on the planet. Predictably, and unfortunately, modern western feminists never compare the plight of the average man with the plight of the average woman when determining who wins the Oppression Olympics; instead, they look jealously toward men at the top of society and declare that because women aren't a part of that, they're more oppressed.

And sadly, it gets more ridiculous than that. I've seen people on this forum actually say, with similar words:

Institutionalized misandry cannot exist, because most people at the top of society are men. Women don't have the institutional power to oppress men. Any oppression men face is a result of The Patriarchy.

Ignoring the fact that oppression can come from outside of congress (university policies, for example), those people are defining patriarchy to simply mean "Oppressive policies written by people with penises, even if feminists support those policies".

And that's what makes it dogma.
One of North Korea's major exports is, apparently, giant statues of people.

E.g. (sorry it's a WSJ link...)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870390620457502...
In times like these I wish Ubuntu wasn't made by a US company. It could've been a huge winner out of this, and they could've played used it to the full extent in their marketing campaigns. I'm not sure they can still do that. At least if the EU countries want to go about "standardizing" around one Linux distro (like China did), they will just pick one, and not have one for each country.
Ask HN: What would you check in for?
I'm building a new mobile app and trying to balance producers and consumers of social content... The more people 'check-in' to a venue the more value the network will have... So - why do you check in? What do you look for in check-in incentivisation? What makes you not want to check in?
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Yes, Google has to pay an army of both lawyers and accountants to take care of all the crazy complex tax scheme internationally. I know several people who run startups with such schemes and they give 1% of their revenue to their accountant. If we got rid of the IRS and equivalent and just used a flat tax on the total amount of revenue, well, let's say the CPA industry would take a plunge and regular folks and companies like Google would save billions.
Try this:
date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", {month: "numeric", day: "numeric"});
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Nobody has ever liked the swing GUI's, everyone with a little bit of taste disliked it, were constantly looking to change their theme and it was really aweful for a developer to create a decent user interface with.
One can do a great many things with disciplined Javascript, and I shudder to think what Twitter was trying to do on their front-end that caused a 5x increase in load time compared to server-side template-rendering.

That being said, I would very much welcome a high-performance alternative to Javascript that also runs in any browser -- something in the spirit of C or Java, which could be embedded in Javascript and vice versa.
Getting flashbacks to FFX-2, although I'm sure there are better references to be made.
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Trust no longer!? You shouldn't trust any corporation to do anything other than maximize profits.
more than likely a big part of his motivation, but considering how bad an investment the current plan is, it is very prudent.
In fact, Tesla's approach to battery packs is revolutionary - it goes completely against the status quo in the same way that Google's use of commodity hardware went against the status quo in the late 90s. Tesla packs use about 7000 commodity li-ion cells which are arranged in a pack with individual software-controlled charge management.

A user on the Tesla Motors forum pointed out that if Tesla actually implements their battery patents, the battery pack which was displayed in a National Geographic documentary (pixelated, of course) was in fact a fake.
Actually people in Europe do care and I would expect something to happen as a result. I don't expect MS to go out of business, but it wouldn't surprise me if they lost certain key projects over the next decade.
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Store state in the DOM? Really?
I agree. Everyone should call it an octothorpe because that's an awesome word to say.
This is basic rational behaviour, and would disincentivize companies from discrimination once a few began exploiting the inefficiency. Nothing would destroy the wage gap quicker than widespread exploitation of said inefficiency.
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It's a qualified (as you are clearly aware, the word technically) note about an earlier parallel. Calling it disingenuous is obnoxious.
Can you see if the study rules out covariance with other factors such as "CEO becomes older, raises employee wages" or "CEO works fewer hours per week, raises employee wages".
This defensive blog post perhaps misses a crucial point that is made by the NYT through a haze of lay-person journalism.

By placing the focus on an 'average' patient, there is a danger of missing drugs which work effectively but only in sub-populations while having costs in other sub-populations (as drugs generally do in practice).

"Some who take Avastin significantly beat the average" is probably indeed worth noting because the naive RCT may be disguising significant effects of clinical importance.
I wonder if this will have unintended economic consequences. Clinical trials are astonishingly expensive - if we required all players to clinically test against competitors (or just the current leading competitor), it seems this would create a perverse incentive to be first to market. Not only would you rake in the early profits, but you'll also significant raise the bar for anyone trying to unseat you.

I'm not convinced this will actually be the case, but it's a possible outcome worth thinking about.

One thing I'm wondering: if all clinical studies are quantified via efficacy vs. a fixed placebo, shouldn't that make the results comparable? If Drug A is 200% more effective than a placebo, and Drug B is 300% more effective, does that not suggest that Drug B > Drug A?
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You're assuming that public image of said employers is unimportant, and that all employers are okay with being immoral. There's something to be said about companies with happy employees that don't feel like their employers are taking advantage of them.
>Tesla happened to do it when battery technology was just good enough to work

You say that as if it was coincidental...
In particular the rocket system that landed was discarded and a new rocket system took off, so I don't think it's even "technical". It's like calling a car that rolls off a ferry an "amphibious" vehicle.
When (real) clinical trials are constructed against placebo, the statistical testing is constructed accordingly. If you were comparing against an existing drug, for instance, you might be testing to show it's equal-to or equal-or-better-than (perhaps your new drug is cheaper, or works on a different metabolic pathway, or has fewer side effects, that make it worth adding to the formulary if it otherwise has equal effectiveness). If an existing treatment doesn't exist, you'd compare against placebo, but now the stats testing would be specifically for superiority.
The more general and diverse the tools you use, the less likely they are all compromised in the same way, and the more likely any compromise will show up in other contexts. Using tools at different meta-levels may also be worthwhile (machine-code vs. interpreter).
Or it could be seen as hating women who don't act feminine?

"misandry" as an institutualised hatred against men for being men and hatred and degeration of masculine things and activity doesn't really exist in the same was people view feminine as weak & not as good exists.

There is also a lot of gender roles that people break, which feminism is attempting to break down.
Ah, what a brilliant future we have to explore as we introduce Bayes' Rule to the Analytics of crimes. Who needs a gelatinous liquid pool of psychics floating around when we can train a polygonal mesh of data points and extrapolate new data points after applying a laplacian smoothing function to it.

It will be just as wonderful as the voice-recognition software (like Siri) that runs on a similar principle, but this time it's for governing. And who wouldn't like Siri as mechanical a god?
"Interesting fact: in the U.S., single, childless, women under age 30 in urban areas earn more (10-20% in cities like New York) than single, childless, men under age 30."

For anyone reading along who is checking facts:

* The number from the "report" is actually 8%, not 10-20%.

* This is not a peer reviewed finding, it is a report by a company called Reach Advisors.

* The report, according to Time, says that in 147 of the 150 largest cities in the U.S the median income is 8% higher for women. That might mean that the differential is lower than 8% in those other 3 cities, or it might mean they filtered out 3 outlier cities, we don't know.

* That's 70 million people, about 22% of the population (I added up the numbers here: http://www.citymayors.com/gratis/uscities_100.html)

* Women age 20-30 comprise about a quarter of the working age women in this country (20-60) ballparked from here: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf

* So when people say "young women in urban areas" we're talking about maybe 5-10% of women.

* And the numbers also only apply to childless women, but I have no way to find out what the child-having rates are amongst 20-something women in those cities. Looking at this map, I'd expect a strong majority of those women to be childless: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5419a5.htm Regardless, any effect of discrimination-based-on-pregnancy-history would be hidden in this population.

* The report in question does not appear to control for educational experience, jobs, etc. So for all we know there are simply more college-educated women in cities than college educated men.
Cheney had a gay, female child... why is he still such a cold-hearted bastard?