skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed 100% with this advice. A large range beats 'competitive' or 'Dependent on Experience" any day.
Microsoft reorg: the missing answer
Your analogy is accurate in theory.

However, Teresa and those like her are a total fraud.
That's a great idea! Wouldn't an underground tunnel be really expensive?
To me the more striking thing is that Amazon, Ebay and even Google kept "ugly", less "designed" pages for as long as they did. Design is a lot less important than content.
I don't know about other voting machines, but the ones here in Northwest Arkansas had a receipt of your vote behind plexiglass that you could watch print out as you made your selections. Pretty similar to what you suggest, except that I don't believe they use the paper for anything unless their is worry of fraud.
Is there any evidence of this? Certainly there is a single hacker out there that has been approached by the gov't or contracted for them for these purposes at some point, that is also willing to talk, even anonymously.
It still sounds unlikely without working it through.

I guess the inverse power law applies, and signals are pretty weak to start with, so differences of a few metres will make a big drop.

How accurate are these systems (someone implied it came as standard on certain APs)? what is the density for say 50cm resolution - any papers on this?

thank you
15 steps to launch your own startup in Europe - Part 1
Yes, Clinical Trials Work
a) If you have any advice on how to get our name out in the geek community then let me know.

Come speak about something interesting at HN London. 400-500 people a month in the heart of London. http://meetup.com/HNLondon

My contact info is in my HN profile if you're interested.
Rogain
Design isn't just about modernity, but familiarity and accessibility.
rev.dinosaur @ gmail if you've still got some
that is the biggest issue with unmanaged providers. people don't recognize what "unmanaged" means. You pay for a hosted server, you're not paying for an on-call admin to fix your joomla on turnkey ubuntu setup.
I think the parent is also implying that there is perhaps no particular status quo with respect to the entire feminist movement(s)
Availability of the source is not a substitute for audit and care, but is helpful and you're not guaranteed audit or care with closed solutions.
When the NSA can (is) watching the actual traffic through the internet backbone, NOTHING you do that is not encrypting is doing anything.

I sit and laugh at people who say they're switching to Linux or moving their mail to their own mail server because of the recent NSA revelations. They're not logging into your desktop directly. They weren't logging directly into your GMail, they're just quietly letting it accumulate as it passes something they do monitor.
The gender wage gap is a well-documented, persistent, and worldwide phenomenon wherein women earn, on average, an estimated 9 to 18 percent less than men who have the same job descriptions and equivalent education and experience.

If women were 18% more effective then men, then this is a surefire way to get rich:

Step 1: Start a business and employ only women

Step 2: Crush your competitors by being 18% more efficient

Heck, even if you could find a way to cut costs by 1% in an industry, that's huge.
The blog post conflates two issues. First there is the societal issue of the gender gap in tech. That involves discussions and education with the community at large regarding why women are underrepresented and how the gap can be closed.

The second issue is an implementation of the first. Women only events are one of many contributing solutions to the gender gap. A woman only event ending with an invitation to a larger general event will likely do more to bring women into that event than sitting on a panel with a 95% male audience lamenting the fact that women seems to be missing.
Wouldn't a better solution be to simply modify the bowser to report some base set of fonts / plugins (and any other high-information content fields)? How many sites actually legitimately serve different content based on your fonts or plugins? Also, the UA string could be simplified to reveal less.
There's a lot of scary stuff they can do. I'm sure I'm not devious enough to think of most of it.

If they have years worth of emails you wrote in your normal style to friends and colleagues, it may be hard to write anything of length anonymously without being recognized. They may have hundreds of hours of our voices recorded, and that may be fingerprintable too.
That's just the code in Linux that calls RDRAND.

Here is the actual instruction in VHDL:

--
-- copyright NSA, Top Secret//UMBRA
--

entity RDRAND is
port(
RND: out rnd_long
);
end RDRAND;

architecture RDRAND of x64_op is
begin

RND <= x"4e5341746f524e44";

end RDRAND;
Maybe you mean functors instead of endofunctors (an endofunctor goes from a category to itself)? But that's a minor quibble, the main problem is I don't understand which categories you mean? What are the objects and morphisms? My best guess (and I have to guess because you didn't say) is that you mean to treat String and [String] as monoids and thus as one object categories. That is String is the category with a single object, the morphisms from that object to itself are all the possible strings and composition is concatenation; and similarly for [String] with list concatenation. If that's what you meant several things are wrong:

1. split(" ") is not a functor because (x+y).split(" ") is not equal to x.split(" ") + y.split(" "), for example:

"a BC".split(" ") == ["a", "BC"], but
"a B".split(" ") == ["a B"] and "C".split(" ") == ["C"].

(At least join(" ") is a functor, which here just means monoid homomorphism.) I guess this problem could be fixed by replacing String with StringsThatAreEitherEmptyOrEndInSpace (you need the empty string to be the identity for composition).

2. They are not adjoint, even after fixing the monoids to make them homomorphisms! It's easy to easy that if f and g are adjoint monoid homomorphisms, with unit η and counit ε, then the functions m ⟼ ε f(m) and n ⟼ g(n) η are inverses of each other. This does not happen here since, for example, join(' ') is not injective.

Can you fix the example, maybe by regarding them as categories in some other way? My gut feeling is that this won't work, but I haven't thought about it very much.

If, as I suspect, this adjointness is wrong and not easily fixable, does it still have value as an explanation? I think that's a personality question, I find it more confusing than enlightening, but can imagine some people would find it helpful.
There was that recent PR article that made the rounds here last week from some company allegedly developing an evacuated tube based system that was written in a way to imply they were working on Musk's idea. I would not at all be surprised if he's a little miffed about that and has decided to just get everything out there.

Given that they may not actually be working on what he specifically has in mind, there is a risk that his idea gets a bad connotation if someone implements something similar (but not identical) and does it poorly. There is a whole political dimension to this in terms of getting zoning, approvals, etc... and the last thing he needs is for it to be stillborn because a bunch of politicians hear it "was tried and failed".
I think I know what it could be, comments?

An electric hovercraft design without tires and without a fan, but driven by one large/many small linear or stepper motors that build-up and fire Electromagnetic pulses or compressed Air to build thrust.

When he said hyperloop I pictured a normal road with large Metal loops (induction) every mile with smart-meters tracking how much energy you consumed and charging your bank for that amount. Do you remember the games where you have to drive over the yellow arrows to speed up? The same principle.

..still inefficient, even though it's pretty creative and more efficient than all current implementation of car and infrastructure design.

before you ask, yes I know a much more efficient way, but it's useless to explain here, because nobody will listen anyway.
have you actually done this? I was wondering if this is a feasible and good way to use knockout!
I needed a reason to dive into Meteor and I thought I'd share some of the user stories I've discovered while talking to foundations over the past 4 months. Lots of opportunity for developers...they're 5 years behind from a technology standpoint.

Full Disclosure: I'm using it as a marketing tool for my "AngelList for Philanthropy" project.
I think a pretty big one is he appears to be working out regularly, now. Probably a better diet, get some sun, etc.
Being a Pessimistic Programmer, but a Positive Person
So the owner get's to sell completely on his terms?!? Sounds like Calacanis is going to make out like a bandit.
It just means reviewing and cleaning up your diet and/or giving your digestive system a break - either with a full fast (water only), or limiting what you eat. There are gimmicky cleanses, just like there are gimmicky fitness products, etc..
Wow, those "old" seem as if they were taken 10-15 years in the future.

I wonder if in fact, as you're suggesting, his changes in appearance were intended as a means of improving his public figure, rather than his health and subjective appearance.
Very fair point.

I pointed them out mostly because these are "celebrities" in the tech world that you could easily find giving talks at various venues. Real people who get real work done tend to not have time for such nonsense :)

I could/should have noted Mayer only because I consider her to be one of the most influential people in the (FTSE equivalent mentioned by Parmer) NASDAQ. While the jury is still out on her tenure at Yahoo!, several of Google's recent missteps _could_ be attributed to her absence at Big G.
He lives in LA instead of Silicon Valley.
Edward Snowden nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Yes, you're missing something unfortunately. The author apparently states it several times, but many people must miss it in reading.

"I say it in the ACSAC paper, and again in the dissertation, but somehow it does not sink in, so let me try again.

Both the ACSAC paper and dissertation do not assume that different compilers produce equal results. In fact, both specifically state that different compilers normally produce different results. In fact, as noted in the paper, it’s an improvement if the trusted compiler generates code for a different CPU architecture than the compiler under test (say, M68000 and 80x86). Clearly, if they’re generating code for different CPUs, the binary output of the two compilers cannot always be identical in the general case!

This approach does require that the trusted compiler be able to compile the source code of the parent of the compiler under test. You can’t use a Java compiler to directly compile C code."
Would love a lobste.rs invite if you still have on available (email in profile). Thanks!
More hair, more tan, more money, more sex, more training. That's the formula I guess.
interesting indeed
This is because vote buyers would ask for the receipt after the vote is concluded, to prevent this they do a unified printing.
Money and Open Source
Being principled does not necessarily mean they are principles you agree with!
Google+: Results are in....and Authorship for Serps Works
well given how that worked out they may be going back to basics.
Love the hack! :)

Here have a blocky 3D version of it via tilt...
http://i.imgur.com/wntUbWM.png
Very interesting. If everyone submits a couple of times or even ranges of times when they are free (I'm free Friday between 10am - 2pm except an hour for lunch) then you could use schedule.js (http://bunkat.github.io/schedule/) to automatically suggest the best date and time that works for everyone (sort of like how the newest version of Outlook works).

If you had access to everyone's calendar, you could automatically suggest all available times instead of needing people to propose times and end up with exactly what Outlook does.
aha - unique MAC address. Thank you - that beats facial recognition. I was wondering why.

HN: a thermometer for frogs in nearly boiling water.
Corporate Intranet: within epsilon of 100% IE 8, at the moment. My current job and the last one always had some outdated version of Internet Exploder as the desktop standard (which I ignored for running anything other than in-house junk -- no way I'm taking MSIE out into the wild)
Wouldn't all default install browser installations on the same model of fresh-from-the-box laptops be identical?
They quoted a 10-15% false match rate (excluding mobile phones which have a much higher false match rate due to lower configurability).
> The gender wage gap is a well-documented, persistent, and worldwide phenomenon wherein women earn, on average, an estimated 9 to 18 percent less than men who have the same job descriptions and equivalent education and experience.

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. See: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00.....

This is not to undervalue the statistic presented in the article, but I'm always a bit wary of comparisons involving "equivalent education and experience." In Denmark, for example, 20-30% of women (depending on the study) work part-time, versus 8-10% of men. How do you compute "equivalent" experience with a part-time worker? Is 5 years of working an 80% work-week "equivalent" to 4 years of working full-time? Does a 30-year old woman who took 2 years off after college for childcare reasons have "equivalent" experience to a 28-year old man who did not? Mathematically that works out, but part-time work and time out of the workforce are death-blows to a resume, far out of proportion with the resulting differential in actual amount of experience.

I appreciate the ideas discussed in the article, but as the father of a daughter and the husband of a very ambitious woman, I have as slightly different perspective on the issue. Yes, it is important to avoid bias that results from the perceptions of men higher up in the hierarchy. At the same time, it's crucially important to look at the other irrationalities in the system. I think it's irrational that a women who takes a year off after the birth of a child is viewed by HR managers in a worse light than a man who took a year to backpack across Asia. I think it's irrational that men are never expected to be the ones who downshift their careers for a time to help raise kids. I think it's irrational that a period of downshifting is perceived as such a negative light in the first place.
"it's a lot harder for a 1000 person auditorium to be a true "safe space"."

My limited personal observation at real world events is when you go to a con where they strongly encourage female attendance like the HOPE cons a couple years back (even if just "bring your SO; because its a cheap date") has dramatically better behavior than "if it happens in Vegas it stays in Vegas" class of behavior. I'm sure contrary anecdotes also exist, although probably not many.

Another observation is that brogrammer events aren't really tech events... a different clique of morons doing keg stands doesn't really change anything.

Finally I've noticed that once event attendance exceeds 1/3 or so journalists, it stops being a tech event and turns into the usual journalist boozing and schmoozing and related unsavory activity, but anything negative will of course be blamed on the techs, as if its still a techie event. You get 1/3 journalists, and 2/3 marketing and management drones at an event where they talk about techies but none are actually there, and anything bad will get blamed on the techie culture despite being practically no representation present. It would be very much like if things got out of hand at an SCA event, then blame it all on the historical figure Richard the Lionhearted even if he didn't attend. After all, the problem can't be the people who were actually there; they're the people who are in charge therefore they don't make the mistakes.
Link the Github! Link doesn't work for me. SSL connection error.
There are sites like codrops, cssdeck, and css-tricks but unfortunately a 'Hack a Day for software' doesn't exist.
how would you be more efficient? you would be just as efficient.

unless you paid them 18% less. in which case you'd be exploiting their situation.
Yeah, the "wage gap" myth has been debunked many times over, it really destroys someone's credibility when they pretend it exists.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/the-bigg...
I've come to accept that HN is the place I go to satisfy my "intellectual curiosity" and more focused lists are where I go to get my learn on. For example, for JavaScript stuff:

* http://reddit.com/r/javascript (yeah it's on reddit, but it's a great resource)

* http://javascriptweekly.com/ ( https://twitter.com/JavaScriptDaily )

* http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/tag/javascript/

* http://dailyjs.com/

* http://javascriptshow.com/ (been a while since the last episode)

* http://javascriptjabber.com/ (I haven't listened to any episodes yet, but I plan on it soon)
Hi Don... Wow, lot's going on... I should have done a Google search before responding :-)
It's a tweet. Expect it to be an abbreviated incomplete answer.
They can even recognize professional players as militaries.
Why anyone with an MBA should worry about the immigration bill
I used appcelerator titanium to build iOS and Android versions of an app, primarily using javascript. It worked pretty well, although you still have to code for some platform differences. I prefer this approach to working with Java. I have coded some in java and would like to have those hours of my life back, thanks.

Appcelerator the company has not been great to work with. I paid $50/mo for an individual account, they did away with that plan and made it free, but kept charging me the $50 every month. There was no web interface to downgrade. I had to contact them multiple times to fix this. This might be due to growth and being stretched thin as opposed to maliciousness, but it left me with a very bad taste in my mouth.

The app has been downloaded thousands of times and has good reviews so I think it gets the job done. I built it for a gov entity, so contact me via my profile if you want to know more about it.
I remember reading an article, in the Economist or maybe the Atlantic, describing a South Korean company's initiative to take advantage of the country's large pool of highly-educated married women who are marginalized in the workforce.
Good to know I'm not the only one who's had issues with the new powerline.
Security firms that sell this kind of service tout its accuracy, like it's going to prevent fraud by uniquely identifying everyone. Interesting that the author notes they stopped using it because of poor results.
Fascinating, I liked this bit, "Here’s the skinny: if this campaign is funded, the writers and editors of Hackaday will keep doing what we’re doing. If we’re successful, we’re going to write up more hacks than we are right now,"

Reading through that particular link its clear that the challenge here is a business model that pays the writers and editors enough money. Raising 500K isn't going to get them a business model. Which explains the second question I had when I read the headline, which was "Why aren't they getting investment from a venture fund?" I'm guessing they are still working on a model going forward which would make an outside investor nervous.

The other thing I wonder is how their traffic has been changed by Google Reader going away, if at all. That's because I'm generally curious on that question. It seemed to me that it was a big traffic generator but I didn't have any proof one way or the other on that.
community is "direct traffic" only, I'm don't know what % of their traffic is organic but I assumed it's a huge chunk. Having the community following you to the new site is one thing (assuming you're able to make it known to all of them without access to the original site's twitter account/newsletter...) but it really solves a small part of the problem.
I want to know who trusted Microsoft to begin with.
Lately I consume my music almost entirely via Spotify, and its increasingly apparent that there are a number of artists I love who are not a part of their catalog. As a consumer its frustrating, but then again I'm using the free service...

I really wonder what the future holds for cloud based entertainment in this regard. I now consume all entertainment via cloud services and Netflix / Hulu etc have very similar if not worse problems when it comes to movie and TV catalogs. You'd think that now we're several years into it that these problems would have ironed themselves out by now, but it seems to be getting worse. For the consumers we're all just screwed
I'm not sure what about this chart suggests that the wage gap doesn't exist: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/Screen%....
I completely agree, in that case it makes no sense: why should I chip in for someone else to be the owner.
Wow, loved this, brilliant read, gives me hope for the future!
That's the crux of the matter. The root cause is that half of Americans are okay with such courts.
What's stopping you from only using the "good parts" in your own code? How is JS a bad tool? It runs reasonably fast, works everywhere, is a small, simple language that's surprisingly powerful. What if Eich had been influenced by C instead of Lisp when creating JS?

All things considered, it could have been way worse than it is, and the truth is JavaScript lets you get in there and do good stuff. Not sure why we are still hating on this environment.
I don't think it's viable to do this type of offline hacking in a voting session, unless you steal the voting machine.
You can’t raise money publicly yet
Your details muddy the line a bit, but I'm hoping your original question is boiled to its simplest form: "Save money or follow dreams?"

You already know the answer. Dreams, every time.
Someone who enlisted in the US army and trained to go to the Iraq war to shoot people down is not exactly what I call a pacifist.
Odd they list Page Views and not Unique Visitors - page views as a valuation metric really isn't THAT important, as you can inflate/deflate it using design (i.e. split articles onto multiple pages, etc...)
It is high. Probably includes code site,docs etc.
Sentence 1 speaks only about the "women in tech" movement. The fact that "women in tech" self selects a mostly women population does not mean that commenting on it is commenting on women.

Sentence 2 is again speaking specifically about "women in tech" event, not about talking about the subject.

Sentence 3, is admittedly a defeatist attitude. However if there is nothing we can do about it, then why should we waste our time talking about it. In this case it is more of, if the people who are heavilly invested in this have not come up with something we can do about it yet, why should I waste my time unless I want to be a major activist. And, based on point 1, the movement is already hostile to what I have to say, so forget about it.

Admitadly, I am probably projecting my own thoughts on sentence 3.
Seconded. I'm also completely flabbergasted that she still claims to have known nothing of it as well as other high ranking politicians, despite the known involvement of the BND.
>unless you paid them 18% less. in which case you'd be exploiting their situation.

Well, yes, but the point is, ethics aside, if it was as simple as just hiring from an entire subset of potential employees who are cheaper than others, why wouldn't you do it in order to have a more profitable business?
So you're proposing that because women given 18% less in wages that we should take advantage of that fact, underpay them, and contribute more to gender inequality in the workplace?

I'd love to see what your female coworkers think of this post.
Seeing as the government can demand any information on you from Google if it really wants it, Google-proofing is a prerequisite for NSA-proofing. And Google can't imprison you.