skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure (though it’s worth noting that a correctly-designed high performance library should deliver good performance in that scenario as well; sadly many do not).

Single-threaded time on the same system: 5.5 seconds.
I loved reading it, but it actually made me concerned. Maybe it's just where I stand, but it seems that culture has slipped far from where it was.
Ask your new employer for a realtor recommendation, talk to him/her. You have not internalized how expensive the area is and how bad the traffic is. The bridges and the freeways are maxed out during commute. Each city has good areas and not so good areas often next to each other. Newark and Fremont are at least an hour each way to MV. Live close to MV or close to a CalTrain Station.
For schools, your choices are Palo Alto, Menlo Park, or a private school.
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I'm not disputing that--I'm trying to muddy the issue. I meant to link to the Time article that discusses how the gap increases over time, to segue into my point about child rearing: "While the economic advantage of women sometimes evaporates as they age and have families, Chung believes that women now may have enough leverage that their financial gains may not be completely erased as they get older." (http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00....).
If you read the actual paper referenced [0] you'll see that they explicitly mention this. Since they assumed that users were interactively trying to change their foot print, the looked at uses who had changed their settings within 1-2 hours:

"We ran our algorithm over the set of users whose cookies indicated that they were returning to the site 1-2 hours or more after their first visit, and who now had a different fingerprint. Excluding users whose fingerprints changed because they disabled javascript (a common case in response to visiting panopticlick.eff.org, but perhaps not so common in the real world), our heuristic made a correct guess in 65% of cases, an incorrect guess in 0.56% of cases, and no guess
in 35% of cases. 99.1% of guesses were correct, while the false positive rate was 0.86%. Our algorithm was clearly very crude, and no doubt could be significantly improved with effort." (any typos here are likely the result of copy/pasting from the pdf)

0. https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
Sure, but all the leaks so far are about cases where your data is already going through Microsoft services. If there were any evidence that there was a backdoor in Windows itself, or in any Microsoft software, then you'd have a point.
See my post to mike_ash. It's hard to say that it's "pretty strong support for the fact that the age gap isn't actually real" without also noting that there's a lack of confidence in female workers' performance (so they wouldn't be hired in the first place).
Yeah, the group of people who can submit nominations is huge. They get 150 to 200 nominations per year.

Details on who can nominate: http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/nomination_committee/who-ca...
I've been using PouchDB for a month now, and it really is good. Simple, Yet powerful storage.
He used an encrypted FS I believe, but the NSA could just ask to monitor all mail to and from his instance at Linode (or any ISP) since he didn't encrypt the mail.
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>I thought after Obama got this award, we (the internet) decided this award wasn't worth our attention.

A lot of people were rightly skeptical of the idea that awarding the prize in an attempt to influence a politician's actions would be beneficial. Nice try, I guess.

Obama's is also not the first controversial award. Kissinger? Arafat?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23282308
Document = application interface. It's a great way to abstract the back end from the front end. Unless of course you mush your business logic in with your interface code.
This is from 2010 and does not directly answer your question, but maybe you'll find it interesting: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
This doesn't debunk the wage gap, only that the wage gap is not caused by differences in pay between men and women doing similar work in similar roles. The wage gap has always been structural: women tend to be prevalent in lower wage jobs or are penalized more for default expectations about raising children or domestic work. Also, men are more common the higher in company/corporate structures you go, so naturally women do not make as much because they are not as represented in those higher salary roles.
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I just saw Standard Treasury's job post on the front page. It's a fantastic example of how to write a job post well, so it seemed good to explicitly call attention to it. I'm not affiliated with them. Few job posts have been as convincing as this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046142
There is mouth animations but I don't see the mouth moving at all. Anyone see anything? On Chrome/Win7 ATM.
sadly that is what politicians do.

as to billionaires and there use of money, I am more than happy how some of them turned their fortune into good use. the most obvious being Gates.
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It could be that the fact that urban single childless women earn more is a sign of things to come - a wave that with time will propogate to all ages and locations.

Now it could also be that this is the point in their lives when society values women the most and this is why they get paid well at that age. Attractive young women are desirable as they make other (especially male) employees happier as well as having advantages in certain roles (e.g. sales). This 'premium' they enjoy is despite the risk of child birth being at its highest.

I know that this is very cynical point of view, but is it unrealistic? I have definitely witnessed it and it could well be a significant factor. Male attitudes to women are an extremely strong force in shaping society, and we might well expect them to go as far as distorting the job market as well. I know it is a little bit sad to undermine female accomplishment in this manner, but it is quite plausible.

This mechanism would also contribute the glass ceiling. It is desireable to have young,attractive women around, but not to promote them to the more senior positions.
There have been "whole academic branches" that studied all sorts of nonsense and quackery. That doesn't validate modern feminist mythology any more than it validated phrenology. Rather than resort to weasel words, if you want to take an opposing position than take it. Show me this male created oppression machine.
is it hard to "stay in the game" unless you're giving it 110% of your energy?
Can anyone give me an example of their usage of git-annex? The project looks interesting, but the most immediate usage I see would be to add big files (e.g. a database dump, PDF documentation, etc.) to a git repository. What else do people use it for?
To say this is highly disingenuous, and disregards the massive amount of work into the energy management system researched by Tesla.

Put a ton of batteries into a car? Yeah, that's how they get 265 miles to a charge. Clearly all other EV cars just need a ton of batteries to solve the range issue.
This is the link, for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033567
Best title would have been to follow the rules and use the title from the article: "Richard Stallman: Snowden leak a chance for privacy, time to fight Big Brother"
"Become perceived as a ghetto"?

I go to plenty of mainstream tech events. But I also go to a gay geek event every month. Is that "ghettoing"? No. It's a fun night out with people who share both interests and sexual orientation.

I don't see why this is such a big deal.
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Solve real problems, not the ones you create in your head. I recommend traveling and explore the world, then you will see real problems. I've read many stories of people finding good ammount of reasons to fight for.
I'm curious how well these tools work. Having a single unified code base and supporting all (desired) platforms is every developer's dream. I'm skeptical because supporting multiple operating systems can be a headache even for desktop apps.

I remember Facebook originally used HTML5 to support all platforms. This did work, but they became unsatisfied with the performance and ended up rewriting both the iOS and Android apps in native code.[1] The killer quote:

"I think the biggest mistake we made as a company was betting on HTML5 instead of native," Zuckerberg said...[2]

Granted, this was a different situation. They were using HTML5, and it looks like Xamarin compiles to native code. You mentioned slightly larger executable sizes, so I'm curious about the performance.

1: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

2: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234695/Facebook_debu...
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Musk is the modern day inventor/businessman of old.

This project has to be the most impactful thing on my life he has proposed and I welcome it with open arms. Paypal was smart, Tesla is cool, Space X is plain bad a^^, but this could change everything. Coast to coast in hours, half hour from NY to DC. And it could make it much cheaper than air travel due to less energy usage overall.
My reading of history is that this has always been NSA's (and GCHQ's) desire.

See, for example, Project Shamrock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Shamrock). From a SIGINT perspective you want to gather all the signals you can because you don't necessarily know which ones will be 'interesting'.

I'm very disappointed in Greenwald's handling of this story. He seems to be treading over the same ground over and over again without revealing anything particularly new.
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Ah, but if you're going to talk about multi-threaded applications, we're going to have to start talking about things like thread-safe reference counts...
So this is my baby, it started as a small side project for me as I was transitioning from product management back into more technical work. I hadn't written any code aside from some SQL statements in a few years before starting this project. A little over 2 years ago I began the coding in earnest for the project.

I've gotten a ton of really good feedback from the target market of people who follow college basketball recruiting, particularly college coaches, players, and their families. It's now up to 500k in monthly pageviews, with 100k unique visitors per month.

I've gotten assistance from some amazing people who monitor social media and keep the site up to date. I also have scripts that monitor some of the larger recruiting databases to ensure that all of the information is examined.

Every line of code written on the project is my own. It is all written in RoR. Its currently hosted by Heroku.

I'd love to get any and all feedback.

I'm currently working on different strategies to get the site profitable. One is a CRM add-on for college coaches, that I've spoken with a couple of coaches about who seem excited about it. Another is a freemium model tied to new features. I'm also pondering a freemium model which would keep basketball free, but would charge for access to the football info. I'd love feedback on strategies as well.

Also, if there is anyone out there who loves following college recruiting, and would be willing to work for equity, I'm in desperate need of assistance. My future feature list is growing faster than I can code.
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> Interesting fact:

Interesting indeed, do you have any other source for it than the 3 year old report? Perhaps it was an artifact of the crisis... manufacturing imploded and with it men's jobs were hit the hardest.
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> But women comprise about 60% of the entering college class, and a similar portion of recent college graduates.

Isn't it wonderful how easy it is to ignore that college education is biased towards women and women's needs , and that men are put at a giant disadvantage when it comes to education.

I can imagine how the headlines would read if the numbers would have been 60% men and 40% women in college.
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Yes, it does debunk it. Wage has a specific meaning. If women are taking a different job, obviously they are earning a different wage, that is in no way a "wage gap". Calling someone working 80% of the hours and earning 80% of the pay a "wage gap" is completely absurd.

>Also, men are more common the higher in company/corporate structures you go

They are also more common the lower you go. Men are more common at both extremes, and ignoring the bottom part is a really common fallacy used to push a particular agenda.
I had originally read fight, and it took me a couple of paragraphs of trying to find out what the struggle was, to finally realise my error :)
How does this deal with [1]? Also, how do you know that your disassembler isn't compromised?

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/184874/is-ken...
These are quite applicable to start-ups and freelancers in general. Nice article.
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Conspiracy usually means a deliberate attempt of a group to do something rather than something that occurs for systemic or institutional reasons.

Ultimately patriarchy as a social force and concept is totally provable has statistical and philosophical evidence that shows it exists. Every basic women's studies or feminist book goes over this to some extent.
The thing about declining PCs is ... misleading. Intel has always sold its chips with 10+ years life. As long as you replace some capacitors on the MB, a PC can last a long long time. The whole industry was just lucky they got obsoleted after 6 months. And around 2006 we got PCs that were good enough. So people are replacing less PCs or commissioning them for other roles.

The second blow on MS - they did it themselves. XP showed that an OS can last a decade and Office is stagnating since 1997. So what is the hurry in upgrading?

The PC is very healthy. It is just that it is not profitable. Until we have quarters of declining commissioned PC-s - then we will have to say it is in trouble.
Surely there should be a Bash script or Debian package for this kinda thing?
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With some exceptions like Osmium wrote below, I do not think the authors are using unneeded complexity purposefully. I think complexity does end up happening still because (A) of the reason I mentioned, (B) them being not as good at explaining [1], and (C) possibly added effort required. Of these, reason A does not apply when talking to the authors in person.

I would like to hear if you have further explanations for what is behind this. For example, I read in [2] that reading is much more complex operation for the human mind as compared to seeing or hearing because, assuming you believe in biological evolution, reading and writing came to humans only about 6000 years ago while verbal language and hearing came a few millions years back. I do sometimes find listening to Coursera videos more helpful than just reading the slides, but then feel that this is generally because the slides are often incomplete (they often do not really "say" it).

[1] Many people, especially engineers, often lack good presentation skills. I am extrapolating this to writing since that sounds natural even though I do not have not directly experienced this.

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Mind-Simple-Understanding-In...
>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.

As someone who enjoys playing games, it's frustrating to find that my games are fragmented between multiple cloud providers (Steam/Desura/Origin/UPlay), non-cloud middle-men like GoG/Amazon/HumbleStore and no provider at all, in the case of direct downloads from a games site.

It's very frustrating that I have zero perspective of my library as a whole, and frequently lose lesser played titles depending on where in the chain they started.
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"Additive manufacturing" is pretty vague, wish this went into more detail on what specific process they're testing. I'm hoping it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_beam_freeform_fabricat... just because it's so awesome.
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The parent probably shouldn't have included C and Python in the same list but if you apply the principle of charity[1] and choose Python as the point of comparison rather than C, then his argument is somewhat stronger.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
The problem with this approach is - I know how dangerous is to run un-updated system, and I am too lazy to check updates at yet another system, and correct stuff when the updates break something.

And updates always break something.
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> debate the existence or definition of certain articles of feminist faith such as 'patriarchy' or 'rape culture'

This is not a debate in good faith. If you come to the table with no previous knowledge about anything and demand to be heard, why should people waste time with bringing you up to speed? The vast majority of the times this happens it ends up in moving the goal posts.
I've been looking around for something like this. Just signed up. Would love to see a calendar (i.e., https://github.com/arshaw/fullcalendar)
Please explain which exact steps and which assumptions would be needed to have a trusted GCC 4.8.1, both gcc and g++ and then keeping it trusted as the new releases appear.

Then the same for LLVM.
Strange, I think Polish share much more with Sanskrit than German. Not that it makes it somehow better or worse, just my opinion.

For example we have flexion system working smilary to that in sanskrit (you glue up pre and postfixes to the word to change the tense, mark the gender of the actor (mandatory), or depending on the case of the noun). German has sth similar only in a few places (past tense), and in concatenating nouns together. Most of the time word order and "keywords" decides on the tense, like in English. Polish have 7 cases (1 rarely used), sanskrit has 8 (1 rarely used), German has 4 IIRC.

Polish only recently (a few centuries ago) lost dual plurality that exists in sanskrit, and we still have relicts of that in many places, like proverbs, names for body parts, the way nouns change with numerals, etc.

And these all things aren't specific to Polish - almost all Slavic languages share them. I've also heard Lithuanians say their language are even more similar to sanskrit.
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That's really interesting. I wonder if the vehicle could effectively "surf" the back wave for propulsion -- higher pressure behind, lower pressure in front pushes the vehicle forward enough to overcome whatever low friction is involved. With an external system both for getting up to speed and in case it "falls off the wave."
Doing cache oblivious blocking can make a huge 1000x perf difference over naive matrix multiply. And C isn't needed for most of it.

I've some pretty cute sequential dgemm code written in mostly Haskell that's robustly within 5x of openblas dgemm. And I've not tuned it much / at all!
My understanding is that this isn't that bad. If you use iCloud, then the NSA can read your old messages. If you don't sync your iMessages with iCloud, under the assumption that not every iMessage gets encrypted to an NSA key in addition to the recipient's keys, your messages are safe until the NSA/other law enforcement explicitly targets you, and even then, they can only read new messages and not previous ones.
NSA-proofing is (in my opinion) a very temporary and actually kind of a selfish way of solving this problem. This is a situation where everyone is affected by legislation, cutting yourself out of the situation doesn't help anyone around you (and those you may communicate with, bringing you back into the 'grid') and really just delays the inevitable.

Everyone has some responsibility, and for any sort of permanent or at the very least long-lastic effect, people need to motivate and bombard their representatives with letters and phone calls.
The crux of this article is that these Senators don't know how to fix the problem. That is far from correct.

Why? Senators Wyden and Udall are part of the Senate Intelligence Committee. They have full access to the secret discussions going on, and the practical implementation of them.

They are fully briefed on these issues, and hold clearances, as well as hold the power to investigate Top Secret America. Instead of assuming ignorance on Wyden and Udall's part... perhaps the EFF should be analyzing their proposals.
True, you cannot audit msft code. Have you checked on the size of the linux kernel lately? Yes I could audit the source, but in reality only a select few will have deep knowledge of only small parts of the code
> They don't say it explicitly, but hint with words like attendees are welcome to take their partners etc.

How is an invitation for guests to bring their partners make an event a private club?
The animations for the mouth appear to be commented out. If you take the comments off it seems to work. At least for me.
I feel like Musk is positioning not as an alternative to HSR. He's positioning this to shoot even one level higher - this can unseat air travel.

After all, at a reported 1000km/h speed, it would be faster than a Boeing 737 or Airbus A320, the typical modern transcontinental aircrafts around the world.

Why tackle a meager market of medium-distance routes (realistic for HSR) when you can kill off airlines entirely?

The talk about LA-SF in half an hour sounds only like phase 1 of a much more ambitious plan.
I subscribed to spotify premium for a year and a half but recently cancelled my subscription and went to a competitor. I feel the UI/UX quality of the desktop version has degraded significantly and they are actually removing features as opposed to adding them.

Basic things like: drag-n-drop sharing with friends, my friends list was replaced with people suggested to follow, still no outbox for songs I sent, no back button on "radio" stations nor a way to see the radio playlist/history, new UI for albums/artists/songs is horrible, Ctrl+F to quickly filter items in current result set was removed for some reason, no fuzzy search capability, etc.

I'm not sure what userbase Spotify is targeting but it's one I am clearly no longer a member.
Great concept, but I'm not sure how comfortable I would be with a plugin that sends a list of active files to a website (even if it is SSL-secured).
> There's no discrimination

That is a fairly blanket statement that could use some backing up.