skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should I be concerned? I like working with talented people, but my experience has been that those employers that employ gender-balanced workforce employ a lower proportion of highly talented people than those that do not. And if we're speaking solely about self-interest then as a male such discrimination works in my favour.

So no, that's not "all the reason any intelligent person needs", you have to give an actual reason.
Actually, no it's not. Compare to a thread about Assange. Snowden's revelations are apparently really hard to ignore.
Candy Crush Crash? World's most addictive game could be peaking
Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?
To add to this; If any of you with ADHD have found that you're miraculously killing at Scrabble or Boggle after a few drinks, being on this medication is a similar feeling. It's as if the anxiety or whatever is the noise and the medication filters that out.
Only for younger people - SSNs have only been assigned at birth since the 1980s. My mother was born in West Virginia but her SSN has a Minnesota prefix, because that's where she lived when she got her first job.

Someone who wasn't born a US citizen would only get assigned an SSN with their green card or work visa, and I'd imagine the prefix would indicate their first place of residence in the US.

So the most you can get from a pre-2011 SSN is that someone lived in some particular state in some particular year, and that information is likely inferable from the resume anyway.
true, however i am sure a large percentage of jailbreak users are indeed doing it for pirating. Probably not you and me, but its a huge thing in certain regions and age groups, sadly. For example ive seen articles on game sale stats stating piracy rates of >90% for china for example.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/WeiCiaoJheng/20130124/185392/...
Not sure why TextMate users would feel burned. SublimeText is fully compatible with textmate bundles and cross-platform to boot.
It is now the government that is terrorizing the populace by displaying such a common disregard for laws it is enforcing. That is an act of an illegitimate government that uses illegal and immoral tactics to control general populace.
In this case, you're only limited by your network speed in the event of data-destroying event. In the normal case it's completely local, which has much less headache than any network option most of the time.
I'm surprised Ryan hasn't received an infringement letter from Treehouse over the name Treehouse.
"They're not? Why not?"

Add: Agree. I'm truly baffled by the parent comment.

People say things about appearance all the time. And I can't think of many cases where a comment (positive) about how someone appears (if said in the proper tone of voice [1]) is not appropriate. And even in the case of a negative comment you'd have to take the relationship of the parties into account (agreeing that that's a much broader situation and safer to not say anything).

[1] Of course I can think of many other exceptions (person dying in the hospital and you say "you look great") but the parent comment doesn't appear to be suggesting fringe cases.
Fire departments responded to 194k vehicle fires per year in the US, across 254M vehicles. That's one serious fire every 1310 car-years. Thus, 787s catch fire 40 times more often than cars.

[refs] http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v13i11.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...
This seems like a really good way to invite a lot of 1-star reviews from angry players with jailbroken phones...
You can access app data with a USB cable and the right PC software. Cheating is already rampant in many games and it doesn't require jailbreaking.
Talking about code repetition is focusing on the wrong thing, consider how metaprogramming is used in the article: it mechanically generates the same code that previously was simply in place in the class. It doesn't make anything simpler to understand, it doesn't allow to modify common logic in one place and in the future it is likely those common "behaviours" will diverge anyway because the similarity is just very weak and superficial. I would instead advise to strive to extract all possible interesting abstractions and if you pushed yourself really hard to do it and there is some repeated code left at the end, it might just be fine to leave it as it is - the cost of removing duplication might outweigh the benefit.

In the example posted, position and direction are both vectors, recognizing them as such would provide a much better way of checking for "zeroness" and for negation. It's a nice educational aspect of this toy problem the author seems to not have noticed himself. There is often a similar elegant way out of real-world complex problems that doesn't involve fancy meta-programming but just good abstractions, putting right data in the right place etc.
In a sane language you could just ask the function where it is defined.

user=> (meta #'leiningen.gnome/uuid)
{:arglists ([project]), :ns #<Namespace leiningen.gnome>, :name uuid, :column 1, :line 10, :file "leiningen/gnome.clj"}
Are they good?

I use Nixon Williams at the mo, who are more expensive but do seem to handle everything (i.e. tell me exactly what/when tax is due, things need to be signed etc etc)
I don't think your budget is big enough for a successful AdWords campaign. In fact, I think at $2 max a day you're probably just throwing that money away. My guess (I don't have much details here) would be that you're looking at 1 or 2 clicks a day and that's pure luck if any of them convert. Given that constraint I would avoid AdWords altogether at this stage. I'd bet that a cheap, but quality, mailing list containing businesses that might need your product would produce a better return.
Before you install the extension you agree that it will "Access data on all websites" here is a discussion on that issue http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/tqwFMlk...
"whip up a vimscript"...
Microsoft Sues U.S. Customs for Failed Google Phone Ban
I think history needs to be part of the future of filesystems anyway.
My paranoia in installing extensions is finally justified. If Amazon is pulling these kind of stunts, then imagine the kind of mischief the smaller apps are pulling off.

This whole "scorched earth"-style permissions model that users can't make educated decisions about is what annoys me about current platforms like Chrome, Android and iOS.

JavaME had an interesting model where the app asks permissions after it is installed (e.g. internet access, local file system access) for each thing it wants to do. And the app has to consider the fact that the user can decide not to grant that particular permission. Of course, once you decide to trust the app, you could disable the prompts.
Hmm, has it really failed? Isn't it too early to decide on that after just 3 or 4 months of running it? Even more so that your adwords campaign seems pretty sub-optimal if you can spend only $2 a day.

Have you tried optimizing the campaign, your landing pages and your sales funnel? That's where I usually spend most of the time for a product. Building is a walk in the park compared to the work I have to put into sales optimization.

Development is just a small part of running a software business. I'm not saying you should ride a dead horse - I guess you have more reasons to believe your product failed than you stated in the blog post - but keep for your next project in mind that you shouldn't give up too quickly.
I'm really puzzled why the designer chose to open some specific areas here. Specifically, the letters "m" and "p" in Chimp.

Cursive script has some "tight" areas for a reason. For example, the first and second vertical strokes of the lowercase "m" are supposed to overlap to form the appearance of a single stroke. The break for the curve should not start at half of the x-height. Likewise for the lowercase "p", the break for the curve should not start so low.

The net result is reduced readability, IMO.
This incident is clearly not directly related to the previous electronics bay battery issue. It could be indirectly related -- an electrical short in the cabin, for example, which would be fed by the batteries.
Windows 8.1 OEM Hardware Requirements: Microsoft Focuses on Tablet Space
US media is mostly privately owned.
Ask a Korean: Culturalism, Gladwell, and Airplane Crashes
It's enough of an issue in Canada that Microsoft stopped calling their peons "Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer", instead using "Microsoft Certified IT Professional".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_eng...
> Making faith based statements like that and acting as though they are evidence based is not productive.

Cool; how about some evidence for your custody assertions?

> There is no evidence to support feminist mythology surrounding their redefinition of patriarchy.

Systemic sexism is widely documented. This ranges from pay gaps [1] to harsher views on overweight women vs men [2] to sexual assault [3]. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you objecting to appropriation of the word 'patriarchy'?

[1] http://www.oecd.org/social/family/LMF1.5%20Gender%20pay%20ga...

[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1108%2F02610150910937916

[3] http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/SOO.PDF

> And those don't count because of what?

Read the next sentence. Male rape is predominantly a the parent isn't saying that male rape victims "don't count".
Or with friends and family: Friends => "I'm a back end web developer", Parents => "I'm a programmer", Grandparents => "I work with computers".
A good old strike is not a bad idea.
Having a culture in which it was normal to post resumes with photographs would also have benefited Kim O Grady...

Either way, HR didn't hate him because he was beautiful, and there are conceivable reasons why even a gender balanced HR department might screen out candidates posting their "beautiful" photos along with an applicatiom that don't involve petty jealously.

If photos are relatively rare in a culture receiving applications or the photos used are glamorous model applications, one could even argue that it's a reasonable alarm about a person's willingness to nakedly milk their looks. Even if that isn't the case, a non-partisan observer might [over]correct a perceived (and often real) tendency for beautiful people to receive more favourable treatment in some environments. Maybe they could apply the same criteria to tall men too...
China’s plan to build the longest underwater tunnel on the planet
I'm glad to see more and more people switching (back) to Firefox, as I admit I'm quite a Firefox fanboy.

I've never made the full switch to Chrome. First, as a long time linux user, Firefox was never so bad on it (startup time, random freeze for i/o...).

Second, when Chrome was (a lot) faster Firefox had way more addons. Now Chrome has kinda fixed that (I still miss some essential addons, like Tree Style Tab), but Firefox is again about as fast as Chrome.

Regarding Google, I've found that it's result are often better than DuckDuckGo. But I promised myself that sometime I'll make a week using only DuckDuckGo, and see if I can survive without Google.
A ridiculous attempt to prevent piracy? Jailbroken != pirated.
glad it's cleared up. Seemed innocent to me :)
I have an Olivetti... Studio, IIRC, that you can pry from my cold hands. Lovely machine.

It had a sister; unfortunately, we recently lost her to a flood. I would have preferred a rescue/rehabilitation, but it wasn't my call -- and, past a point, there's only so much you can hang onto.

Kind of negating my original point... But, that's nostalgia.

I don't want to live on one, but a good typewriter is a bit of a monument that deserves continuing respect. And sometimes, the quality of the engineering -- and design -- is timeless.
"Payment upon all 4 app variants' successful submission to all 4 platforms' app stores using our accounts."

So if your idea is rejected by the Apple App Store then there's no payment?

That payment clause alone will be a deal breaker for any decent developer.

If you take that restriction out you MIGHT get someone to help, even with the restrictive budget.
"SSN equivalent in Poland has sex encoded"

That gets supplied when sending a resume?
Why I'm a Creationist
On the "slave labor" point, he is probably talking about compulsory military service in the defense force. If I'm correctly informed, this still happens in Finland and Norway. Those who opt-out to the military service for ideological reasons still have to do a year of "community service".

Although Norway's government decided this year to make military service mandatory for both genders. So I'm assuming that parent is from Finland, Sweden or Denmark.
I don't think 4 legs would be better.

As you can see, balance is not an issue with quick enough joints and good software. The current ATLAS can easily balance on one leg. The other leg is just there to provide locomotion.
Does anyone know if this is a shooting optional stealth game? In other words, essentially still playable with this restriction?
Even that is not 100% watertight: http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php
So what? The number of Li ion batteries doesn't really mean much.

By analogy: there are at least something 10^34 (10 million billion billion billion) uranium atoms on earth, and they weren't explosive for billions of years, yet somehow they seem to be potentially quite explosive since 1945.

It's a question of critical mass. A small lithium ion battery may be safe, a large one may not be. Just because there are billions of tiny lithium ion batteries on the world that are relatively harmless doesn't mean large ones aren't - the energy capacity rises in the cube of the size, but heat dissipation only quadratically.

In short, because it works safely in the small doesn't mean it's easy to implement safely at scale.
Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83
If VCs were validation, Medium would be a good idea, instead of a shameless rehash of a content farm.
classified nanorobot technology is no joke.
Previously submitted,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6032090

and discussed by many here as it was on the front page. I'm not sure why the duplicate submission detector didn't work this time.
As this Hungarian illustrates, getting the government involved to guarantee these sorts of "anti-discrimination" rules can lead to a very bad outcome: http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/01/09/this-is-why-i-dont-g... (Too bad the guy's blog has died, he had some more good rants on it that made me very glad not to live in Hungary.)
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Of course it doesn't. For the same reason Subway doesn't have fresh ingredients.
Introducing Test-Driven System Architecture (TDSA)
"Bring out your feds."
Is it related to battery again? How did they fix it the last time? I can hear Elon Musk murmurs, "I told you so."
Correlation does not imply causation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
For people who dig cursive writing that last part isn't great. But many only claim to like cursive writing. They don't actually use it or read it often.

I think phony cursive works well for this project, and goes well for the MailChimp esthetic overall.
I used DDG for two months and as a developer trying to find the latest bugs, code snippets, and help; It was a lot harder on DDG than in Google. I would always end up having to type google.com <tab> in my address bar to search for programming related items. That being said, people have pointed me to resources to help me improve my search results.
>men vastly outnumber women in executive and management positions in business

This is the problem, not (only) men's attitudes. The most screwed up part is that this inequality often holds even in female dominated professions, like librarians and teachers. I'm into forcing companies to do things rather than waiting for the attitudes of millions to change, esp. when the effect of that attitude only increases the income and options of the people whose attitudes you are trying to change.

Institute quotas and penalize companies if they don't make them. In the beginning, companies may have to hire women that are less talented than the men that are available to them, but if the positions are there, women in general will up their games to compete with each other for them. It's basic economics.
"We're sorta sorry we got caught."
>I don't think anyone ever coded gunboat diplomacy into law.

it is called international law.
It would be especially interesting to compare by gender the amount of interest, frequency of landing an interview, and rate of success of landing an interview. I'd be very curious to see if biases shift depending on the phase of hiring process.
I'm fine with you disagreeing with me, but I'd prefer you to disagree with my actual belief. I believe that the threat has been overstated, not that there is no threat. There is an extremely wide band between "no threat" and "such an enormous threat that our society must be fundamentally altered in order to meet it". The former would be a vast understatement, but I believe the latter is a (much less vast) overstatement. Of course I have no hard data to base any of these beliefs on, because any such data is secret, these are merely the conclusions I've drawn from what I'm allowed to know.

I completely agree with you that terrorism is winning as a strategy. The goal of terrorism is to make us afraid, and we are afraid. I do think it warrants a strategic realignment. I'm not against all new strategies, just the ones that appear to me to be illegal or outside what I believe to be the spirit of the law.

I totally get your argument though. It is a dangerous world. I think we are just willing to make different trade-offs in the mitigation of that danger.
anti-pattern?
"legitimate criticisms you could make of the comment in question"

What are they? I'm curious about what is prompting downvotes other than the obvious sorta somewhat non-pc patina.
Presumably because people read them. It has certainly been upvoted a ton here, so I have to assume there is interest.
I'd go so far as to say that it might be slightly more important than the ability to write code, depending on the company, the project, etc. Being able to effectively discuss requirements and technical tradeoffs with non-technical stakeholders is extremely valuable.

Obviously some level of programming expertise is required, but once you've crossed that minimum threshold, personal communication becomes a larger and larger share of an employees value.
Study: Marketing doesn't accurately represent product
I think you misunderstood iuguy's description.

> unconnected system

I understood this to be a literal description.

I presume that this sheep dip station is maintained and updated, from time to time. However, that would be done using controlled, vetted media. And, if something goes wrong there, it has to been in the nature of something that will cause the masking of problems existing on the written/finalized media that the sheep dip station is in turn vetting. (Unless it's something that can "un-finalize" the vetting media and further write to it.)

Or is the sheep dip station periodically connected while it is itself maintained/updated? That I could see presenting problems.

In any event, I read this to mean in particular that the sheep dip station is not networked with the air gapped system.
See http://business.ca.gov/StartaBusiness/AdministeringEmployees... for confirmation of what I said, in the way that I said it.

Your inhouse council is also correct. Should it come to a lawsuit, it is supposed to be decided in the way that I described. However there is a world of difference between winning the lawsuit, and not having one. The stronger the case that you have made to the ex-employee, the less likely it is that they will find a lawyer who is willing to represent them in a lawsuit.
If the app isn't accepted initially, it would just have to be refined until it _is_ finally accepted. That's just stated that way so that I don't get a dev who makes a low quality app that can't get approved to the app store & so I don't get stranded paying for an app I can't sell.
Just because they are being transparent with their research?

50 years ago the US govt had amazingly cool technology (SR-71, satellites, nukes, computers, submarines, lasers, chemical weapons) but it was kept halfway secretive.

Just because some people are uncomfortable with new technology shouldn't mean that the government is untrustworthy or evil. If anything, the transparency makes them more trustworthy.

The stuff the CDC works with is 1,000 times more destructive than any humanoid robot prototype. Imagine if they posted a video, "well, this little vial of liquid will cause your skin to fall off and your organs to melt."

Do you think other countries are going to avoid this type of research? Humanoid robots have been developed in Japan for 20 years.
That probably depends on your definition of ‘backdoors’. Some of the data Chrome sends to Google could easily be considered a breach of privacy (and the corresponding functionality hence supposedly doesn’t exist in Chromium).
No but it is cause for concern.