skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, they're just joining the advisory group. Clearly didn't read the article closely enough.

Hmm, so I guess (assuming Ubuntu ever gains traction in the mobile space -- ha, ha) T-mo just wants the option to find a hardware partner one day and put Ubuntu on some new phone in partnership with them.
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Maybe so, however that is a fully general counterargument that applies to any attempt to solve any problem ever.
Thanks for the comment! So I agree that the feedback cycle can be quick, but even the best players go on extended net losing streaks, months at a time. When you're putting in tons of hours and in theory making sound decisions and you add up the bankroll, and those thousands of hours are all for naught... well, that can be devastating.
Ask HN: Which toys best teach kids scientific discovery and critical thinking?
I'm head of a Los Angeles atheist organization. We're launching a weekly Toy Loan Center in partnership with Los Angeles County.

The County Toy Loan program is like a lending library for toys. Families are invited to borrow toys for free and return them a week later. Children are also rewarded with toys to keep when they return the toys on time and adhere to the program's code of honor. In addition to the toys the County provides the center, we will be adding donated toys that help foster scientific and creative thinking.

I'm stocking up on toys to donate now. Which ones best teach children about scientific discovery and critical thinking?

Keep in mind, these toys have to be durable and reusable. A lot of the scientific toys are one-time use, like growing crystals or chemistry sets or are very fragile. That won't work since we'd like to children take turns borrowing the toys.

Ideas to different kinds of toys and even direct links to Amazon and other online stores would be appreciated. Also, toy companies that specialize in these types of toys would be good to know. I'd love to directly support specialty toy companies.

Thanks!
The latest generation of SAS enterprise drives do exactly this. All firmware is signed and there is extra hardware to ensure unsigned code is never run. They also disable the JTAG port before the drives leave the factory so there's no opportunity for shenanigans.

These features are required by enterprise customers to prevent just this sort of tampering.
I'm under the impression that people were migrating off of StatusNet onto pump.io. I know identi.ca made that transition recently.
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Well, HN is not just about hacks, but I did expect more contente derived from Black Hat.

EDIT:
right now on page 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146279
Python is a general purpose programming language that can be used for scripting.
> and people just act normal while civil rights get shattered appart in pieces

Not all of us. There's a protest with some pretty high profile speakers going on this Sunday (http://1984day.com/). Were you planning on going? It seems that most of the "people are just bending over" commenters are the ones who don't attend or write/call their reps, making you included in your own ridicule.
My free translation from the German (because I do not have the English version) of something somebody once said, or rather wrote:

"Behind the technological veil, behind the political veil of democracy reality shows itself: the universal servitude, the loss of human dignity with prefabricated freedom of choice. And the power structure does not appear 'sublimated' anymore in the style of a liberalist culture, appears not even hypocritical anymore (so that it at least retains the 'formality', the husk of dignity), but brutal, in that it throws over board all claim to truth and justice."

And for the philologically inclined:

> Hinter dem technologischen Schleier, hinter dem politischen Schleier der Demokratie zeigt sich die Realität: die universale Knechtschaft, der Verlust menschlicher Würde bei vorfabrizierter Wahlfreiheit. Und die Machtstruktur tritt nicht mehr 'sublimiert' auf im Stil einer liberalistischen
Kultur, nicht einmal mehr heuchlerisch (so daß sie zumindest die 'Förmlichkeiten', die Hülse von Würde, beibehielte), sondern brutal, indem sie allen Anspruch auf Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit über Bord wirft.

(Herbert Marcuse: Konterrevolution & Revolte, Frankfurt ²1973, p.22.)
The picture on her actual toptal page would have been much better all around. http://www.toptal.com/resume/florencia-antara
Sorry, I view these things as not even remotely related. The kernel patch guidelines are the equivalent of employee manuals and coding styles.

You're talking about doing something even more degrading than a typical interview process.
What I don't like about this is that Toptal agreed to the terms.

"Our COO went ahead and said we promise not to show any females in our advertisements"

That reminds me of the saying: "Sitting on two chairs with one ass." You can't make a write up saying how insulting and how much you disagree with LinkedIn's advertising policies only to later agree to their terms. That's like an activist complaining about the way McDonalds treats their cows before ordering a burger. If your employees are offended, stand up for them by telling LinkedIn they can go f* themselves.

I think you'd be able to present a better argument if you can show us the images of the male versions. You claim "our male versions are no different", but I think in such a case you should be absolutely transparent. That way, the whole story is laid out and we can see if the pictures are very similar except for the sex, then yes there is sexism on LinkedIn's part or if the images are obviously different and it's valid for LinkedIn to be suspicious. That way we aren't forced to take your inherently biased word (no offence meant).

I think this whole thing could have been avoided if Toptal had images that were obviously related to engineering. Model portfolio type images (female or male) of employees isn't the best image to use when you're not a modelling agency, but a development agency.
The second photograph is of Florencia Antara, Argentina. From her profile : http://www.toptal.com/resume/florencia-antara

> Education
> 2008 - 2009
> Web Programming degree in Master's
> IT Master - Buenos Aires, Argentina

> 2005 - 2007
> Bachelor's degree in English Translation
> Catholic University of Argentina - Buenos Aires, Argentina

An Engineering or Computer Science degree in Argentina last 5-6 years. She isn't an Engineer, so it's misleading to for an article titled "In Defense of Female Engineers ", that says

> Now, mind you, these (and others) are our real engineers that we have signed contracts with.

(Note: She apparently specialized in web development/design and has many projects. Probably she has enough work experience to do the work correctly.)
This seems like it would be awesome for several types of online classes.

Anyone using it for that yet?
See nostrademons comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6149858
That's why I didn't stop at 't-shirt' and the other options I mentioned are approximately progressively more 'professional'.

While I do understand your point, I hope you understand that I was arguing in regards to the article's content and the position of that particular person, that of developer/programmer/etc.

They were/are not a receptionist, a member of the executive board or even account manager, all of which let's assume could wear that without issue at work.
sorry: let me make it clear..

i consider US a high profile country when we get into account the "quality" and sofistication of its citizens..

its high developed concerning the consciousness and general inteligence of its people.. thats is exacly why is so scary

it makes me remember the question we keep making ourselves of why and how the sofisticated(and also high profile citizens) of the germany of the 30´s could be swallowed by the ideology of the nazis..

we end up believeing this is all about cultural matter.. for us looking outside of it looks that privacy its not that big deal, and when it is.. the governement get rid of it by making hocus pocus and creating virtual terror, so they can make people support they efforts to brake privacy and freedom
You suggest that the modern vilification of hackers (such as Bradley Manning) is analogous to the medieval burning of witches. I assert that hackers and witches also have something else in common.

The spells that witches cast are analogous to the code that hackers develop. They are both writing in esoteric languages that can create things and cause actions. Witches' power is magical, but hackers' power is virtual. Neal Stephenson uses the Sumerian word namshub to describe this idea in his novel Snow Crash.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982459
Pretty much, and there's a bunch of other companies that can do the same thing,
The only possible disadvantage is information about rapidly changing world events (for which Wikipedia isn't the best resource, but still). English Wikipedia dumps are only run on a monthly basis.

Images are much more resource intensive, but if text only is sufficient then the average user can download the compressed Wikipedia dumps in less than 2 days.

Please use torrents to reduce the load on Wikimedia's servers and to increase download speed: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#enwiki

I keep a backup on an external hard-drive, in case of apocalypse or censorship (same thing). Nobody can take away my list of Scrubs episodes.
For those who don't remember, this is what happened to the USS Stark in 1987:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_(FFG-31)#Missile_att...
While that description's been made in other subthreads, I don't see anything in the post you point to that said anything like that.

I also know this to be false from personal experience, unless you are using an unusual definition of "few". (Certainly, there are some smells that you stop noticing at all, and the rest are noticed less, after a few minutes.)
That's crazy, I've been developing something very similar for personal use: http://rcrd.org/
I'm a female engineer, and easily get upset over stuff like this, but I can see why they rejected the ads...maybe banning was extreme, but those images really look like spam ads. While not particularly distasteful, generally men in ads like these are either doing something "businessy" or wearing a business suit, etc. to indicate the connection. I wonder if this would have happened if they showed less glamorous women in pictures where they were in the workplace, interacting with computers. etc.

The poster doesn't really seem to get it. They argue their male ads are the same - but then specifically mention glasses for some reason. I'm guessing the male pictures have a much more "professional" and less sexualized look to them. They should try to run ads with shirtless guys at the beach, and see if they get rejected then...

Edit: Wow, OK - follow the link to see the second engineer's profile : http://www.toptal.com/resume/florencia-antara
The picture on her page there looks fun and realistic. I'd love to see that kind of photo on an ad! The fact that this developer is choosing this photo for herself and the company is instead very deliberately choosing a glamorous and sexy feel for the photos really doesn't do much for their credibility. Explicitly going out of their way to make photos like this - that the woman herself doesn't choose to represent herself with - and THEN crying sexism?

And second edit: If this company cares about female developers so much, how come all of the (decidedly very unglamorous) photos on their homepage are of men? Pretty much solidifies for me that they're using sexy pics to draw people in, and then showing the "real developers" once you get to the homepage...Yuck! And below, someone pointed out the first photo is an actress.
I've never been to Argentina, where the developer in question is from. However, I've lived in 5 different international cities this year, and in at least 3 of them (Bangkok, Tokyo, and Kyiv) I have noticed that women professionals put a lot of time and effort into their appearance, including hair, makeup, clothing, jewelry, and accessories. Yes, this includes sci/tech personnel.

As another noted, those working in the fashion/beauty industry in the US - including those in IT - do the same. I'm not making any value judgement here, but I think we should open our minds to other cultural perspectives since that appears to be at work here.
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Sorry to spread FUD, I was under the impression that non-OSI compliant licenses sometimes made this requirement, but I can't find any actual examples so maybe it was an overly cautious question I was always answering 'no' to to get import approval.
Floomatic is a little utility we wrote to make our lives better. It syncs files on disk to a Floobits workspace and runs user defined hooks. Its written in nodejs and is open source: https://github.com/Floobits/floomatic.
Agreed - basic internet marketing could've helped them. You can't just build a product and hope that word-of-mouth scales you.
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Remarkable to what degree that applies to our time. Some things seem to be so timeless...
So is it socially accepted or even expected to be dishonest in all situations then? :)
> As for [porting to the] PS Vita, he notes that "if someone approached us, we're not giving the code to anybody for any reason, so it would have to be something we could compile ourselves."

Just imagine how good this game and community around it would be if it had always been open source. Just imagine how much money they could raise in a Kickstarter to simply open source everything.
Come to think of it, isn't this how Xbox (360?) piracy protections were breached for a long while? People were flashing hacked DVD-ROM firmwares to make burned discs appear like legit ones.
> i consider US a high profile country when we get into account the "quality" and sofistication of its citizens..

Based on...what, exactly?
If you just want to [s]embed[/s] try it out you can follow the Make a Timeline directions on the homepage.
Oh? I just tried to get one with the instructions on their github page, and it said the box type was vbox. Are the vmware versions kept elsewhere?
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The comments can be far better than the dreck that usually gets posted.
the main reason to have spare batteries for me at least is to keep the spare batteries charged up and ready to roll. But yes this does require a specific battery charger. when i had my HTC Thunderbolt, i got a package deal with 2 batteries and a charger ( that also provided a USB port ) for < $20. I haven't looked for my S3 yet...
I will continue to have no interest in Dwarf Fortress until it has an actual UI instead of whatever insane random combinations of controls the developer felt like adding on any particular day.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6022247
Even though it wasn't discussed in the article, I think firewire and thunderbolt external drives DO have direct DMA access to system memory. Google for SBP-2 and DMA, and a bunch of articles about protecting against firewire attacks against full-disk-encryption (among other things) appear.
I actually feel like AS3 could go further with static typing. Due to things like promotions with arithmetic operators, you lose some performance. I always felt it would be better to either force the user to explicitly cast between floating point operators and ints, and crash if they tried to do something with an int that would lead to a float.
"I've learned that luck and timing are definitely part of the equation." A lesson for us all there, if we choose to listen to it.
Bail out the VC who sit's on public company boards.
I'm normally against this sort of thing on principle, but I think there is actually a legitimate concern when it comes to rockets. The only real difference between rocket technology and missile technology is intent.

This said, I think we are approaching an era when the publicly available rocket science becomes "good enough" for effective missile use, rendering continued restriction pointless. Currently the North Koreans have some serious trouble getting stuff up there (a single satellite, orbited very poorly), so the restrictions for rockets actually seem effective, but once they've figured it out (and it is only a matter of time), then I don't think there will be much point to continued secrecy. It would kind of be like China trying to keep the silk worm under wraps today. That cat is out of the bag.
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> I would agree it's very hackey and probably not a good idea since the spec is liable to change

Well it's not really about the spec changing, the spec doesn't have a defined behaviour for duplicate keys.

> But I wouldn't be sad if the spec were changed to allow for this, or to allow for comments.

I don't think duplicate keys should be allowed, but I've no strong feelings on comments. I don't think there's any real need for them though.
Isn't that what the whole work is? Whoring for money?

I got what you need, I'll give it to you, just pay me. Doesn't that sound like sexual services?
It might not even be an issue of training COBOL programmers. I'm aware of more than one large-scale legacy system that people "somehow" lost the source code for.

Which means fixing bugs means disassembly, hot patching, and keeping your fingers crossed. And if you're lucky and the place is incapable of learning, they'll then lose all documentation for the patch, too. Fixing anything is a nightmare. On the upside, if you can stomach it, there are nice consulting fees to be had.

(I'm not aware if the Pentagon lost source code - my experience is with civilian systems)
Food and drink are different, because they come with built-in need satisfaction - "you're going to eat/drink, so why not eat/drink my product?" That need was not manufactured.

Smelling nice was. It's different.
It's funny that the URL of the researcher's website is http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~joux/publis2006.html (the prism part).
> these (and others) are our real engineers that we have signed contracts with

> the photos of attractive women just give the entire thing a 'spam' feel

And this would be their point, the fact that people feel that way is a problem given that all advertising is mostly attractive people because that works better.
LinkedIn is the future of this space, available already today.
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Enjoyed your presentation last night at GA! Going to get started on Rails this weekend!
I gather you're unhappy about the falling demand for a degree in teaching, but the whole argument you're describing is politicised and unsupported. The article suggests there's low demand for a degree in teaching; extending that to "academic merits does not matter" is a crazy stretch.

This link shows statistics for people accepted into higher education for this fall semester: http://statistik.vhs.se

Both in the design of the system and in its actual results, it's clear that academic merit matters more than any other factor.
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That's one of the reasons why Minecraft is so much bigger than DF.

These guys just don't get it. DF can be SOOOOO much better, yet they are working on adding features instead making the game better.
icons popped up in the notification bar that show its being mounted through USB for all the android devices i have ever owned: droid, htc thunderbolt, galaxy s3, xoom...
If I ever get "fuck you" money, I am going to entertain myself by renting billboard space around courtrooms urging jurors to Google "jury nullification". I figure there would probably be some entertaining fallout of some sort.
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mod_python and its publisher handler is how I got started with web development. Being able to rapidly write web apps in Python was, at the time, a great boon for me. I'm not sure how it fits in with the current state of web app frameworks, but it's nice to see it coming back nonetheless.
so maybe they just have a problem with attractive women.

Yeah, that's probably it.
Let's ask Stallman!
Just recently I spent a good hour or so toying around with Snap Circuits with the 7 year old son of one of my good friends.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000683A4

He's got a lot of experience with lego so following the instructions on how to build the circuits was fairly simple for him. The cool thing I noticed was that he'd get the thrill of setting up each project and watching it work (lights turning on, fans running, etc) and then he'd work out what was going on and how it actually worked.

Based on what he learned he was then able to create circuits of his own design.
Id' say 'asynchronous income' fits the bill even better.
What a mess... So if I buy a SaaS product that requires some config on the providers end, is that taxable too?
No, Sheldrake is a pseudo-science crank and charlatan. Like most pseudo-scientists he says lots of hand-wavy things, and rails against some imagined scientific "they" who won't listen to his theories. If your'e serious about learning in the space you need to steer clear of folks like him or the Deepak Chopra's of this world. Nothing but mystical platitudes lie down that path.
Of course they're spammy: crappy hype words, generic pretty-girl image. Complete fluff in a simple-minded attempt to garner clicks. I don't see how this is deniable.
I found the first image! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/suits-usa-network... (You can't hide form Google Images.)

She is Amanda Schull: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Schull

> Amanda Schull (born August 26, 1978) is an American actress and former professional ballet dancer. [... and studied journalism ...]
I think the solution is to keep a bit of extra money in your account, so that they can bill you $0.10/min after you go over. I haven't gone over 100 minutes yet (Skype) so I don't know what happens, but I keep $30 floating in my account.
Is a plumber in Massachusetts required to charge tax on all services rendered, or only those that involve pre-made physical parts?

Is there a paralogous example from a different profession that we can use to gain insight into this new law?
Maybe the fact that third parties had been providing this feature for quite a while now?
Like this?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Only-Charging-Cable-Extension/...

"The CDL-02POWER is a type A male to type A female extension cable with only the + and - power pins connected.

This is extension for charging devices like ipods, Sat Navs etc. It allows you connect the appropriate device cable and charge the device through your USB port on your PC/Laptop with out opening up your webstore, itunes etc. While a device cable has data and power only the power from the extension is carried through.

Please note that due to limitations of 500ma output from a USB port, some devices may take longer than others to charge. "
I think I speak for all Americans when I say "no, YOU get over yourself." I suppose you believe gravity too?

http://xkcd.com/202/
the product name is

Amazon 5W USB Charger
Goldman is above the law.
Ha, so it is. I only glanced at the picture.
What I'd simply like you to see is that, while it's true that the US has a leading role in the history of humanity, the problem of mass surveillance enabled via corruption is very present in (at least!) Western Europe as well.
Much like the internet at large is getting culturally enriched by trolls from flashback. Is it really necessary to bring a conversation about recycling down to this level?
So could you punch one of the other Juriors and get away with it, since they can't press charges?
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So why not offer $200K and require proof of currently working at X?
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