skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work far better at night when I'm alone for obvious reasons like you mentioned - phone isn't ringing, people aren't texting, emails for the most part are far, far less, etc. etc. Definitely a night owl...
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I run Steam under Wine for Skyrim on a reasonably priced system with a decent, but not great Nvidia graphics card. I use steam for most of the other games and buy stuff from humble bundle.

Currently I use a mish-mash of Apple TV and an older Sony box (which is actually pretty decent compared to apple except for itunes support) for the home theater, but I fully expect my future tv to actually have a netflix and what have you player on them. Gabe would do well to actually announce a tv that runs Steam, as the future probably is less and less a separate box.

Edit: Oops, forgot, I also have 100 Mbit ethernet, Bluray isn't in my future by a longshot. I expect more people will be on this plan soon.
See http://www.trollingeffects.org, a project of the EFF.
Sounds like vaporware
HWY 17 is really brutal for commuting.
In Australia, and I had the same thought, that 'widowmaker' referred to a spider.
Yeah the Asian Saga includes King Rat, Shogun, Noble House, Taipan as well as Gai-gin, The Whirlwind. They're all pretty good books but I believe Taipan, Noble House and Shogun are considered Clavell's best work, in that order (personally I like Noble House best).

Thanks for the recommendation though.
I often wonder why there isn't the same big fuss in the industry about the lack of black men and women in tech. In my experience, there are fewer black people in the software industry than there are women.
My biggest pet peeve is the 'trigger happy mods' at Stackoverflow. They jump at the opportunity to lock a question. Often questions are well suited for SO & there's no better place to find a credible answer.
> Yes, like reality

Somehow everyone thinks their opinion is reality.
The two words mean entirely different things...
Right, an ordering relation on the edge objects. facepalm That should have been obvious, but I usually think about trees in terms of vectors of children, not traditional graph theory.

I like trees too. I think that as long as computer memory is linear, our serializations are going to be linear, so even when we get holographic displays, our primary abstractions should be linearly serializable (so we don't get lost in leaky abstractions), which means trees. A graph structure built on that would have to be some form of "magic" layered on top, based on links embedded in the tree. Among other possibilities, you can make the "edges" be little independent trees that link to the "nodes".
Indeed. When do you think SQL and Relational Theory will be outdated? And, do you think you can learn that from a wiki or a blog?
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A good-sized retirement isn't just for fun. It's to work against inflation and maintain financial security / independence, it's to prepare for potential catastrophes, and it's also to prepare for your declining years.

Actuarial tables show if you make it to age 40 you have a very high likelihood of making it to 80 or 90. Statistics show that the last decade of your life - thanks to health care needs or assisted living necessities - is often more expensive than any other decade of your life.

That's absolutely important to plan for in your 20's and 30's when you have the time (and energy) to make a difference.
If you have the backing and historical roots of a large country you can find a loophole:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
I just purchased a pair of Westone UM3X in-ear monitors. I was cringing at spending $320 (best I could find on amazon) for headphones, but since I received them I never want to take them out.

For those of us that work with or use technology a lot during our days, I think there's something to be said about spending a little extra on the part that connects the human to the technology. Connecting these two very different things in a pleasing, comfortable, exciting way is not easy.
that would be markets where the deciding factor is software. I suspect you are thinking of say windows where the quality of codebase was lesser factor than installed base etc

I would suggest that web browsers is a good example - IE market share vs say Mozilla. other examples are Sage vs freeagnet ?

hard to unpick market tactics and strategy from code - but it's hard to deny there is a link intuitively
What fair dice can be simulated by adding up other dice?
It would be a funny thing if you needed a key-signing party before you could start to call people on the phone but it may come to that yet.

It seems to me something like Bump would be the perfect avenue for this. Want to call someone securely? Bump phones, transfer public keys over Bluetooth, and compare each other's screens to make sure the keys match. Done.
Actually, not any more:
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/haig/publications_files/0...

"... the major expansion in the use of gender followed its adoption by feminists to distinguish the social and cultural aspects of differences between men and women (gender) from
biological differences (sex). Since then, the use of gender has tended to expand to encompass the biological, and a sex/gender distinction is now only ﬁtfully observed" [emphasis mine.]

"... gender has come to be adopted as a simple synonym, perhaps a euphemism, for sex by many writers who are unfamiliar with the term’s recent history."
This is exactly how it works in most of Canada. The new laws are strict to an extreme measure, in some cases you are not even allowed to add a window to a wall that is facing water (reflection and glare issues) or cut down any fauna within 60 feet of the waters edge. Docks usually have a permit but are limited to a specific size, and you cannot alter the general structure of grandfathered objects.
if you agreed to such terms and conditions at the beginning of your employment, then yes, that would be "OK" - as in, you have to accept it since you agreed to it as part of your employment.
> Almost no one ever really analyzes sanity.

Isn't this the purpose of positive psychology? I have a rather high quality tome, http://www.amazon.com/Character-Strengths-Virtues-Handbook-C... that does its best to discuss the positive aspects of a person, trying to be a kind of mirrored version of the DSM.
Read the paper and better understand what you just quoted...
Hell yeah, I used DataTables in my iTunes in the browser clone. [0] But it's not super new, not sure why it's up here. It also isn't the greatest for responsive design. That said, it's still great, and my favorite feature is search.

[0] https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/audiostream
I was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
They have completely different connotations...one is a self descriptive, the other is belittling.
Google distributes stickers that say: "I'm a woman in tech. That doesn't mean everything has to be pink." See https://twitter.com/blackfemcoders/status/318072430771978241 for a photo. They're very popular at women-in-tech events!

In other words: trying to make your event more welcoming to women, in an effort to compensate somewhat for the industry's systemic sexism - sure, that's a good idea, and there are experts and nonprofit organizations who can advise you on how best to do that. There are also lots of blog posts about good strategies. Handling this clumsily, with pink stuff and calling women "girls" - not so good execution.
What's the best way to approach Mozilla about getting involved in a project? I'm an undergrad that's interested in getting some more experience contributing to projects, but not necessarily looking for a full-time internship. I spend time on their IRC, but only #rust.
I'm curious why they chose these particular cards. Cards from Gemalto seem like a more obvious choice (to me).
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Fair question, but OTOH it kinda doesn't matter since nobody does either.

Seriously, everybody talks about saving money, and everybody intellectually agrees it's a good thing, but next to nobody actually does it.

Which means, even if you're aiming for 20% of the little number, you're behaving smarter than the vast majority of your peers.
maybe the title is not the best - but its worth a read
Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?
>Maybe it will happen if a viable Linux-based console came around.

Eh, isn't that what Valve's Steambox is: a Linux based console?
Even better is pipelight: http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silv...
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Well then let me (as a man though) cast my vote on this not being so fine (judging by other posts I'm not alone). I'm not calling outright sexism on it, but it was misguided at best.

By the way, conjuring up imaginary "other women" to argue against the author just doesn't come across well to me. You want to argue the point just do it.
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you know,it's like the "blacks call themself nig" thing ( I am black ).
I really like this conception of brains working as internally competing and cooperating ferral units. I'll have to give it some more thought in the morning. I do have an entreaty for you though:

In this era of high throughput computing, elegant biotechnology, and the coming of the BRAIN initiative from the national level, I believe the best way to attack the problems of mind/brain right now is hard work and the scientific method. We need more data and we need to analyze it.

We're hiring developers for eyewire.org - a game to map the brain by crowd sourcing/gamifying the analysis of electron micrographs of stained retinal slices from mice. We're developing the tools to map the connectome. For real. The PI for my lab, Dr. Sebastian Seung, is mentioned in this article, and I love working with him. There are other absolutely incredible people working here too that will blow your mind.

Send an email to support at eyewire dot org if you want in or email me personally (see link in my profile) if you want more details. (I won't be able to get back to you instantly - I'm totally swamped, but if you're hired, based on my experiences so far, it'll be worth the wait).

Here are two fun explanatory videos from TED/TEDx:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7GwKXfJB0 - Sebastian Seung talking connectomes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gKt8iT08Zc - Amy Robinson talking EyeWire

Thanks for reading. I hope this post isn't too far out of our community norms - I don't see too many (large) job postings in the comments, but I felt like this article is the perfect place to find someone willing and able to provide much needed help (I'm the only web developer / aspiring neuroscientist there right now). :) If I'm taking up too much space, let me know and I'll condense it.
The Mozilla community is very accepting of new volunteer contributors. Ask how you can help!

For Rust specifically, I found this:
https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-guide-for-new-cont...
Do enterprise level companies copy ideas they get pitched on?
Launching a SAAS and we'll be going the enterprise white label route. Our clients are big real estate brands, big MLM's, large franchises, etc. Their independent "agents, distributors, franchisees, etc." use our platform under the main brand and we do a revenue share with the company itself for every dollar their independent agents are billed for the service. My concern is these companies with deep pockets hearing about this idea when we approach them with an idea which hasn't been done before and thinking they will just build it on their own. I realize this isn't their core competency and is outside of their main business but still a concern I had. It would obviously take them alot of time and capital to build it, but enterprise level clients could definitely do it and probably come net ahead from a revenue standpoint. What are your experiences when selling to larger clients and having them license your technology? Would they rather just not deal with it and license it similar to how they use other vendors they do business with or seriously contemplate actually replicating it?
Ubuntu also has a mini iso if you really want the net install. For most people, the net install will take significantly longer than a regular install as each package has to be unpacked individually.

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer...

or

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer...
Were interactive torture
games ever a thing?
Nothing makes me feel better than hearing we have great customer service. You owe your clients great service. They're learning to use a new service that's constantly changing (sometimes for the worse) and dealing with your screw ups often. There are only so many times you can screw up with a client, but you can double that if you have great customer service.
I came from a country where there is 80/20 women/men ratio in it's engineering schools. In Iran girls are doing much better in school and engineering degree is super hot, as a results girls will enter universities way more than boys. All those graduated women that come out of school do very well shoulder to shoulder to their men schoolmates, in middle east where it's hard (for real) to be a women at workspace.

My take in United States culture is that young women are too afraid of looking nerdy if they go after math and engineering. Those who are brave enough to not care about stereotypes get pissed off by this kind of artificial "culture fixes".
It kind of blows my mind that one (presumably) cannot reverse engineer things like this.
This does a couple of things -- rendering TeX, and plotting graphs. As has been pointed out, [MathJax](http://www.mathjax.org/) is really excellent, has thorough support for many of the TeX-isms which you may ever need, and is really simple to include by CDN. I suppose that the competition here is really [mimeTeX](http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html), since they both operate on the server-side, but MathJax is so very nice...

The plotting is interesting. These are REALLY basic plots, but I do not know of any other web service out there which implements plotting functionality on the server side. (There seem to be a few defunct gnuplot services; I cannot find a working one.) There are many client-side libraries for charts, but none which concentrate on plotting functions. I'm glad to see it here, but I would like to see it improved as well.
And Mageia is 5 times as popular as Red Hat too, right? ;)
I was in YC W12 and S09 for for-profit companies. But I've also run started several nonprofits. I'd be happy to meet with you.
It looks great with javascript disabled, maybe the font in the examples was a mite small.

I turned on javascritp and it looked a lot like a man-page.
You don't need to ask permission to get involved. _Everything_ is open source, just write a patch. [0] There's also more ways to contribute than just writing code. [1] Check out some more of our IRC channels. [2] Just don't be afraid to get started, everyone was a noob at some point. The rust team does a great job as marking bugs beginner or easy in their issue tracker.

Also, you're handle made me do a double take! [3]

[0] http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz
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http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ may be your best friend, in this case :) Here you can write in markdown and include TeX, thereafter converting to many different formats (using, for example, mimeTeX, MathJax, etc).
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As a Canadian I would not have bought an island unless it was near a major urban center and thus has the appeal of being urban and country at the same time, or somewhere warm ..aka not in Canada.

If you just want to rough it, you can lease Crown Land, fees are basically nothing if you're willing to do the paperwork, most leases last from 10-99 years, some of these leases might be open to foreigners (not sure, might need a legitimate business).

Even better start of an amatuer prospecting company, you could probably lease an island the size of manhattan, again for a very low fee. You won't own the land but 99 years is usually enough.

Or you could just drive really far into the bush, no one will notice.
I think their intention is good, and they deserve a little slack.

I totally get the whole "don't treat me any differently because I have a vagina" thing, but the conference organizers really do seem to have good intentions.

Yes, making the lanyard pink prompts a momentary mental picture of someone putting a pink lanyard over my head while babbling incoherent baby talk, but then I realize that maybe the person who decided on pink really just has that culturally ingrained boys = blue, girls = pink thing. Or maybe the person who picked the color is a woman who likes the color pink. Or maybe, there are so many other details to plan for the conference that picking the color of the discounted lanyard didn't get a whole lot of consideration.

Yes, someone should have told them we don't call women above a certain age "girls". They do say woman and women a couple times in the email, and I can see how maybe Woman Tickets or Lady Tickets or Gal Tickets just sound awkward compared to Girl Tickets. I don't get the sense they mean girl in a derogatory fashion at all.

Or, I could be totally wrong, and they could all be misogynist jerks.

And, to answer your question, the top three discounts/free money for women I can think of are:
Bars and clubs
Auto insurance
Scholarships
Not true. Those who are wealthy and happy give to charity, and not for greedy reasons or boastful vanity. Many charities provide a very valuable social safety net, and by carefully choosing what charity you give to, you can pick the ones that are the most efficient, the most effective, and the least wasteful. And no, paying taxes don't count ... you don't have a choice, there, and you can't personally ensure the money is spent to maximum effect.
It's different than REIT, not necessarily universally "good".
One obvious difference is with a house you get a collateral for a huge low-cost leverage, that in some cases might be easier to settle if things go South (e.g. shortsale). Another one is rent you save/collect from someone else.
Without a sample, it's not surprising.
Nod in agreement. I guess its about getting that loooooooong stretch of uninterrupted time. The day is good for getting the usual things done and brainstorming. But yes, when I am working on something new and exciting, i start at about 11:00 pm and my thought process peaks between 3 and 4 am
Debt for consumer needs != debt (investment) to build a business
> Mars is not that hospitable to life

I've always found it rather interesting how the combined mass of Mars and Venus is just about the same as Earth's. Can't we move Venus out to a higher orbit where it would impact with Mars and produce an Earth 2?
Yeah, I guess it might be possible if you're a small company and everyone is willing to live close by but if you need to attract talent, that commute would be an obstacle.
What sort of scientific Scrooge chooses to take his invention to the grave like that? What has he gained in the end?
There seems to be a new editorial team, and with that tone. As you point out the quality of both the articles and subsequent discussion has dropped considerably. It much more like the Verge now, which IMHO is not necessarily a good thing.
To create a vantage point I hope you will not chop down the forest. Anyway it is your island. Congratulations :)
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I'm told you can punch people with broken glass in their mouth to make them talk in Black Ops.
Is clock_gettime() what you're looking for (specified in POSIX)?

Although, in one embedded program of mine, when I run it fast enough it spends more time inside of clock_gettime() measuring itself than it does actually running.

http://man.cx/clock_gettime
I think you're looking at a false dilemma here. Your choices aren't limited to "don't encourage women and take flak for it" versus "encourage women in a ham-fisted way and take flak for it". I believe that in this case there were a lot of ways the organisers could have encouraged participation respectfully. I'd start by getting in touch with some of the relevant women-in-tech groups - this is kind of their area.

If you're attempting to reach a group of people of which you're not a member, you really need to be doing it in consultation with someone who is. Otherwise you're just going to make obvious outsider mistakes and shoot yourself in the foot. That goes just as much for women as it does for hardcore gamers or scotch enthusiasts.

I think you do have a good point, though: it feels like there's a lot of negativity around tech feminism sometimes without much positive to aspire to. As the article says, the organisers were well-intentioned but doing it wrong - which is, at least, a good start. It's a shame we don't see many articles praising the conferences that do a good job encouraging women to participate, or sharing best practices and advice. I feel like that would do more to prevent mistakes like this and ultimately improve the community.
I was (much like the author) always interested in getting an island (still am.)

I also gravitate toward Canada when looking for an island, because you can get fairly large islands for much less money than lets say in the Caribbean. Of course, the climate is a lot less appealing.

I always wonder though, how expensive would it be to get something built on an island? I imagine getting building materials and construction equipment onto a forested island can be tricky and expensive.
tack on a share=1 query param at the end of the url. http://www.quora.com/Google-Acquires-Bump-September-2013/How...
>> Yes, like reality

> Somehow everyone thinks their opinion is reality.

It's not an opinion. Investors and customers are a better measure of reality than a charitable remark might lead one to believe.
I thought girl's get discounts and free drinks at all events.
When will events that have to do with learning programming and such give out "jock tickets": tickets to people, men and women, who has been involved in activities through their lives that has isolated them from nerd-culture. If anyone with glasses are seen with these tickets they will be escorted off the premises: the person might be myopic, which might be because of too much vigorous reading!

(No, being a jock and a nerd is not mutually exclusive. I feel like I have to point that out because of how so many seem to get easily offended in this thread. And it's mostly a joke.)
This would make for a great mystery novel.
The known issue of Tor that I refer to (and sorry for not being more specific) is that a buggy client can leak your identity. The Firefox exploit leverages this design weakness.
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easily? Maybe in some really well-off parts of the world. Blu-Ray bandwidth is between 20-30mbps, and where I live you can't get anything higher than 10mbps, and even that is lucky,the highest option most people can get is 4-6mbps. I purchase all of my films on BluRays - the quality is there, the media is forever mine and not bound to any subscription, I mean I am pretty sure we will get there eventually,but until you can get 100mbps fibre connection to everywhere it's impossible to phase out physical media.
In 2003, a friend of mine started a Spanish Real Estate magazine, in Southern California. Was paying himself ~25,000 per month. He hired Americans to design, distribute, and print his magazines.

Not bad for an uneducated, undocumented worker, who at 10 years old was homeless, and selling oranges at the rodeo in Mexico City.

Immigrants start businesses, and create jobs.

Immigrants are more likely to become a millionaire in the USA than 2nd or 3rd......generation Americans.

https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.ht...