skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it happens to be a result of evolution, and I am not biologist, but if there are biological, evolutionary reasons for it, either because it helped program babies nursing, or because it was a replacement signal for buttocks when humans began to walk on two feet, then why call it the act of staring at breasts sexist?

It would be like saying a buffer overflow is sexist, or ctrl-alt-delete is sexist.

And calling the act sexist would serve to shame an activity that we all engage in due to primary biological programming.

Compare it to the discouragement we have to "slut shaming". If tit staring is basic human programming, something wired in to our brains, what are the benefits of shaming that activity? And if it is just an neurological tick we all have, is it accurate to call it a sexist behavior that presumably men and women can be weaned off of?
Oh, the SECRET/NOFORN, to be sure. That's considered criminal. The copyright thing is civil/administrative.
I am not sure what US government is gaining by all this. But is certainly losing faith of almost all people at very alarming rate. I am an Indian and so far I have always been sympathetic with US an it's alleged war on terrorism now I find myself questioning if US war on terror is any different from terror they claim to fight.

This is like a bully government trying to force itself on everyone.
Is rentacoder still around? I had good experiences there.
I can't tell if I read the article or not.
Good luck getting any value from the UK police of your laptop is stolen.
You know what. I think I agree with you. I would actually go as far as to posit that most common applications don't require a Turing-Complete environment to run. If you could strip away the trouble spots and limit yourself to what you really need you can get a lot back in terms of software checking and assurance.
Oh cool! I didn't know about this. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to read into it now :).
Very insightful article. I do wonder though if "say no to databases" still stands as of now. I agree that performance-wise files are hard to beat for most problems, but we're storing data in databases because they provide guarantees a filesystem doesn't, eases deployment and configuration, etc.
Yes:

http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/05...

Success/fame/fortune/happiness/etc are another matter, but skill acquisition has been shown to be generally straightforward. Some things may have higher learning curves for some people (e.g. math for a person with dyscalculia[1]), but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
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Not just Xerox, btw... My HP printer/scanner does the same. After reading that post I started paying attention and eventually saw the effect a few times. I just wonder how many copies with the wrong numbers I've produced so far...
Fascinating that they're all national security related, except for the ex-CEO of Wells Fargo. I'm honestly curious how that came about...
I actually cannot off hand. I speak from meeting folks in the industry who actually do the proof checking for aeronautical software. Unfortunately some dude's word on the Internet probably isn't very appealing. I'm sure Google would pull something up, though.
>Property taxes are very progressive and we should absolutely have more of them.

The naivete, here, is of course, that the wealthy don't have more resources to protect themselves against property taxes or reduce their burden, or deal with enforcement, or mitigate corruption by the state.

In reality though, there is no "rules scheme" you can construct that will be as progressive as you want. You'll tack on more rules to tweak it to satisfy your conscience that you're not hurting the poor. The wealthy will hack this and find a loophole, and even if they don't, the burden isn't so terrible for them. Slight infraction by the poor will be come down upon disproportionately by the government (because the cost of enforcement against the poor is lower because of lowered risk of having it fought in the courts) and 'an example must be set'.

Although your property tax was designed to be 'progessive', it instead, wound up being a barrier that is difficult to surmount. It is naive to think that the state will be this hyper-logical ultra-fair machination. It's not, and it never will be.

Instead of socially engineering through the state, everyone would have been far better off if you helped the poor by reaching into your own pocket. But, of course if one is selfish, that's not going to happen - and it's far easier instead to project one's own selfishness onto other people, extrapolate onto all of society and use the state to run your charity for you.
I'd rather take my chances with a judge than nearly guaranteeing failure in the current system. We already do this with small-claims court I believe and to be honest I'm not sure of the differences between that and a court that would handle a tax lien.

And yes, any system you make could be gamed, but you could make one that is harder to game than the current one.
Nobody showed I had any facts wrong. Sweden has been formally neutral (not part of a defense alliance) for as long as anyone now living has been alive. As my own post said, Sweden has to think, within its general foreign policy framework of neutrality under international law, about who its friends are.
That only proves my point, from the video you can clearly see he was gifted with an artistic aptitude that he just honed over the years. I wouldn't be able to draw anything like the first drawings of that guy, not even after 10 years of practice. Practice can get you a long way, but if the seed isn't there, you just won't get that far.
I created a couple posters for my own home office and are selling them online (currently aimed at the swedish market) You can check them out at http://www.officesugar.com/

If you're interested in any of them I could probably have them shipped to you since my printing partner are located in the states. E-mail in profile..
I don't think restricting access to information to the wealthier population will result in a society you want to live in (I may be wrong, and I am straying close to politics, so I will leave it there).

As others have noted, libraries are bustling. Tons of people that cannot afford their own internet/computer, study groups, people that don't know how to search for information at the reference desk, free classes on computer use, resume writing, job seeking, after hour programs for school kids, study groups, SAT prep, story hour, readings from local authors, sometimes film, book reading groups, it goes on and on.

I tend to avail myself of their electronic catalog more than the physical catalog, though there are just countless books which are not electronic yet. And, they are great for more ephemeral needs. Grab a couple travel books for you next vacation, for example, or a book on home wiring when you need to do a one time repair.

Libraries are one of the few ways our Government really invests in knowledge beyond school age, and I for one would miss it terribly, as would a huge number of people in my community, given how full it always is and how hard it is to find a table, or how long the wait list is for a book I want to read.
Exactly. When it started, it was completely online and automated, and the fees they charged were reasonable, considering that the system provided leads, helped with scheduling, and allowed the commercial part of the transaction to be politely abstracted from the educational part, which I liked. I guess the margins with that weren't high enough.
The site that plagues Google with shitty search results by scraping Github and other websites and removing source links brings us a summary of yesterday's news via a spam account.

For extra fuckwittery they even nofollow the source links they steal their news from.

Stay classy, Softpedia!

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hanuca

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6347244
Sure, I thought as much. I also agree with the ideal!
TechCrunch Disrupt Kicks Off with "Titstare" App and Fake Masturbation
Robert Gallo: The Man Who Created Aids
Yep, just made this change actually. I agree with the universality of the meaning of red and green. I also liked using those colors since it makes the resulting table much quicker to scan. Changing the marks from circles to useful symbols is probably much better than coming up with arbitrary success/failure colors. Thanks for the tip!
Making something called "TitStare" or even starring at breasts aren't the worst kind of sexism. Making something called "TitStare" and then thinking it would be ok AND funny to give a presentation on it in public to an unsuspecting audience at a tech conference, and therefore deciding it was ok to make the women in the audience feel objectified and unwelcome, IS.

This is just such a remarkably ugly and hateful thing to do, it makes me sick.
Looks like applying the motion vectors from one video to the starting conditions from another, which sometimes happens when fast forwarding with a buggy video decoder or a glitchy video.

I wonder, could you do this just by chopping I frames from one video with B and P frames from another?
This is why we hackers should all be helping Google get their self-driving cars on the road. It could save so many lives if people could have the option of living in their car.
Aaand, there it is. We now have the argument I predicted Rand would endorse given apparently in earnest.
Must every article of this nature on HN be accompanied by an idiotic comment that refutes science with anecdote? I'm getting righteously tired of it.
Given that they are going up against massive, automated operations like those of Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics ($9B market cap each), they'll probably need this tech to keep up.

While the thumb-prick and low sample volumes are cool, in the grand scheme of patient care they are somewhat gimmicky. Until doctors request higher-frequency testing, this doesn't pinch that hard. Still cool.

The big sign that they need to be wielding novel capabilities to compete with Quest and Labcorp is the offering of their menu at half of the medicare reimbursement rate. Each of those companies run ~40% gross margins off of medicare reimbursement, so Theranos without novel tech would be running a pretty substantial loss.
It certainly took you many years to learn how to read and write, yet here you are.

It sounds like you have a grudge against basic mathematics because you think isn't important, you're afraid of it, and it affected your life in an adverse way. Unfortunately that has little to do with a human's ability to learn.

The truth is that talent means nothing in comparison with practice.
I think it's a great way to scale a user base! 'Bigger' isn't always the answer. Dribbble knows that exclusivity is powerful and makes people produce a higher quality of work, especially as it is a community of designers judging designers. Being a Dribbble member is now a standard that designers aim towards.

Personally, to get drafted on Dribbble I'd use some of the free PSDs they produce, I'd tweet & thank the creators and link to the work I had created. Do re-bounds of others popular work, take it in a new & fresh direction giving ample credit to the original creator. Integrate yourself with the community even before you get the invite.

Focus on quality over quantity, so instead of having an ever growing portfolio, cap it at 10 or so of your best pieces. If you create something new, something less awesome has to be booted to make space.

Any piece that is less than awesome work only serves to dilute your other work.

Arguably I'd say you could get into Dribbble just on having 2 or 3 absolutely pristine images and showing you are a designer that is generous within the community.
Can we look forward to this coming to twitter soon? :)
Why Greenwald should reveal which companies have been compromised by the NSA
On the contrary I prefer his method of teaching more than anything else, it can be quite distracting when there is a face or hand movements on the screen.
What happens when we have universal basic income guarantees + WoW? That's going to be the most depressing world of all time.
Greenwald's response: https://twitter.com/bdowney/status/376818109719404545
http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/
The Era of Internships Are Over, Never Hire An Intern Again
No difference. Why do US citizens have to pay for wars and killing a great number of innocent people in them, or Guantanamo, or NSA, or TSA... when the majority clearly opposes it? Democracy is a nice myth, which gives surfs a false feeling of satisfaction and control, obscuring the reality, which is that you are being robbed. "You can always leave", as has been noted before, is another myth: yes, spend 5-6 years on the paperwork and then leave to yet another democracy that's gonna steal from you.

Look, I understand you believe in the idea, but the harsh reality is that you are being tricked into obedience by your rulers/owners. My country is no different. The standards of living may be lower, but the fact remains: no government ever truly cares about its citizens. It's nice to think they do, though. But look at the incentives. There are none.
Not sure if you're still there, but I think rfc 2822 was made obsolete by 5322[1] - which has since had some updates as well

[1] http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5322/
This may not be the right place for this, but does anyone know who to contact about a similar instance? I have family members that experienced this and lost a house due to predatory lending practices, but there is little to no recourse or resources out there. If anyone has information about the Bank of America/Countrywide issues I would like to know about them.
> It is an interesting pedagogical question in my mind whether there is a way to introduce proofs and the language of mature mathematics in a way that stays within a stone’s throw of computer programs. It seems like a worthwhile effort, but I can’t think of anyone who has sought to replace a classical mathematics education entirely with one based on computation.

...Curry–Howard correspondence?
Ours are closed Sunday and Monday, close at 6 on fri/sat, and open at 1pm on Tue. For me it's pretty hard to get to the library sometimes, but I suspect the hours work well for the people that need in-library time the most (school children, retired, and out of work). I'd prefer to pay the taxes for additional access, though. Nothing better than spending a rainy Sunday afternoon in the library (not that we hardly ever have one here in CA)
Men that ridicule Men who giggle like children about their project aimed at the above two groups https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/376821198488731648
If it's only a single bit that's toggled, you can just iterate through all the bits until you find one that fixes the image after you flip it.
An example of a city that does put a lien on the property you're living in if you don't mow your lawn properly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Vista,_Arkansas

First-hand experience.
For a single byte error that is visibly obvious, you could just iterate through 255 combinations until the user thinks the image looks right.
Also see http://www.amazon.com/The-Math-Gene-Mathematical-Thinking/dp...
The idea is that the Curry-Howard isomorphism allows you to "play" with constructive mathematics easily. For example, consider the fact that the composition of two functions f and g is continuous if each function is continuous. Suppose f : X -> Y and g : Y -> Z. Then, in pseudo-Haskell syntax, we could say

continuousf : Open set in Y -> Open set in X
continuousg : Open set in Z -> Open set in Y
continuousgf : Open set in Z -> Open set in X
continuousgf = continuousf . continuousg

The idea is that the fact that f is continuous means that we can produce open sets in X given open sets in Y. Now, consider the fundamental theorem of algebra over complex numbers. This says that any polynomial with complex coefficients with degree greater than 0 has at least one complex root. We'd like to have a function

fta : Polynomial P of degree >0 over C -> (Point x in C, proof that P(x)=0)

which would compute this root. But the thing is, the standard proof (e.g., by Louiville's Theorem) of the FTA is not constructive. The proof is by contradiction: Suppose there were no root. Then we violate some principle of complex analysis that we know is true (Louiville's Thm, or Maximum Modulus Principle, for example). Thus there must be a root.

But this doesn't tell us at all how to compute the root! So instead we need a constructive proof of the FTA in order to produce a root.

So, the idea is that you can't "play" with non-constructive mathematics in programming as you can with constructive mathematics. Our standard FTA proof would look like

fta : Polynomial P of degree >0 over C -> Exists x. P(x)=0.

But the type of the object that this function produces isn't very fun to play with. We have no idea what the root is!
This doesn't really go into what a card "is". Is it just a different colored background or a box with a shadow on it?

Other than that, a card's only defining feature is that it is a grouping of text, images, and links, which has been common on the web since 1993.

Is the idea more that we are moving towards groupings of content which can be consumed by themselves?
I don't understand why people prefer to store their passwords in the cloud. Even if they are encrypted on the wire, and encrypted on the disk. The moment a discovery is made that makes that encryption algorithm "broken", is the moment your passwords and logins are at risk to someone you don't control.

Passwords should be encrypted locally, and stored locally. If AES-256 is really just a Caesar cipher on drugs, and is broken tomorrow, I won't need to scramble getting my passwords reset. For those relying on LastPass however....
I understand greed, and as much as I loathe it, I also understand the mindset that looks at money as a score, but I've never understood this mindset that is unable to recognize the "score" is not absolute, and taxation does not have a 1:1 impact. Progressive taxation renders the scale non-linear.

Given a hypothetical luxury good with a price of $500,000 under a current taxation regime, which do you think is more likely in a regime with, say, 50% higher taxes: That the luxury good ceases to be produced, or that its price is lowered to the point where a similar number of people as before could afford it?
Wait, they would ... call you? It's a startup and this is the internet. Whats the point with taking VC money if you want to be another agency.
Speaking as an employer:

All of these sites have good workers, and all of them have workers who will turn in shoddy work, hoping you won't notice. I've hired for more than a dozen projects and in no case did the contractor do the job right the first time - because they didn't care enough, not because they were incompetent. I've hired workers in the US, in India, in the UK, and elsewhere. Same sorts of issues crop up. (I was eventually very pleased with the results - it just wasn't as smooth as presented by Tim Ferriss or whoever.)

Poor communication and missed deadlines are the rule. Also watch out for bait and switch: for graphics, for instance, the individual who produces a firm's portfolio may not be the same one who will work on your project.

Identifying talent, and managing remote workers, is a skill that can only be developed with time and practice. It's much more than a question of picking the right marketplace. The reviews are not trustworthy. If possible, try to get recommendations for specific workers from people you personally know. Because the great workers are out there, among the masses.
Is quite a large stone's throw away from both computer science and standard mathematical proofs.
This is great and hopefully opens up domain listing from folks here on HN. Demand for domains is only increasing, and as someone that handles private buying/selling for startups I see more and more of this need.
Wunderlist's Killer Engagement Numbers
It rebranded as vWorker, and was acquired by Freelancer.

I was quite surprised when I was checking out Freelancer, and it said I had been a member since 2001. (from rentacoder)
Google Geocoding API V2 will stop working today (Sept 8th)
Now I don't wanna be that guy and I hate it to break it to you, but the author isn't a behavioral psychologist or a social scientist. He graduated from journalism school, he's in the business of writing books and his credentials for tackling such an argument are squat.

Hoping that practice alone in any given subject will get you wherever you want, is just wishful thinking. Think of all the kids that play piano, or write poems or generally do something great at a very young age. You can ascribe their skills to practice or experience, given their age, you just have to acknowledge that it's talent, an innate ability. They don't learn how to play piano, they just get it. The same is true with math people, their brains are wired to comprehend a complex subject, arguably impenetrable for most of the population.
We are not evolutionary automatons, we can override our programming at will. If something that served an evolutionary purpose a million years ago is no longer an appropriate behavior in our complex, modern society, then we simple don't do it any more.

I occasionally feel compelled to beat the living shit out of someone. This is probably an evolutionary impulse. Those who cross me in the jungle must be eliminated before they eliminate me, etc. But do I go around beating the hell out of people? Not a chance, absolutely never. Why? Because I don't want to live in a society where people solve differences with violence, and I don't feel violence on my part is necessary.

That being said, I definitely "notice" attractive individuals of the opposite sex. I don't harass, stalk, or assault them in any way, but I do notice them. I don't believe this is sexist. However, going up on a stage in front of people and making a joke about "staring at tits" might very well be construed as sexist because it goes well beyond the act of "noticing", and involves a mixed audience who may not all appreciate the concept.
> I'd rather take my chances with a judge than nearly guaranteeing failure in the current system.

Ah yes, the "Let that person solve it" school of fixing major social problems. It works really well right up until it fails really badly: George Washington was, for a while, effectively a dictator in that he could have been President-For-Life long before we came to associate that concept with bad outcomes; sadly, for every Washington who willingly resigns and refuses dictatorial powers, there are multiple leaders who exploit them to the fullest, possibly with good intentions to begin with, but that gets lost on the way to having a syphilitic strongman who eats the flesh of his enemies.

> We already do this with small-claims court I believe and to be honest I'm not sure of the differences between that and a court that would handle a tax lien.

Small-claims courts are, by their very nature, both high-volume and self-limiting: A judge-dominated process is necessary because we can't afford a jury to sit on every case involving piddling small change, and the fact they are limited to piddling small change means the amount of damage a judge can do is extremely limited. It's a trade-off, not a broad social principle.
>Database optimization needs to generally take into account YOUR data and usage patterns.

I'd say this is quite true.

>I've found that an unfortunate number of people aren't aware of "EXPLAIN" and its use to help figure out query issues. Learn and use it.

Yes, we discovered this some years ago.

Thanks for you input.
An LFSR system may not an explicit backdoor, but it's piling pointless complexity upon general confusion by well-intentioned people who were apparently being manipulated and misdiredcted.