skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real reason is simply that corruption by multinationals allows them to get far better deal than they should :

"Many of the mining companies pay just 0.6 percent royalties to Zambia, far below the already-meager industry standard of three percent."
Like DropBox, SkyDrive contains a version history of your files, including a way to recover accidentally deleted ones. Did upgrading destroy the version history too?
Bias cannot stop people from succeeding a high paying field. There are always contrarian investors and passionate people willing to work for free doing what they love. I don't see a reason why they cannot eventually find each other.

The power of bias is greatly exaggerated, especially when all it takes is one person to hire you.

Are we to believe that people only operate on stereotypes without ever questioning them and gathering evidence firsthand, especially when denouncing a particular stereotype has become so fashionable?
There's also a source-to-source translator that google uses, j2objc

https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/
The Myth of Growth Hacking
There has been an enormous amount of work put into these questions. It is clear that there is some variation between genders in both physical and mental capability. However, it is ALSO clear that variation within genders far, far exceeds variation between genders. Like, it's not even close.

What small variation has been detected between genders is not adequate to explain the massive variation seen in gendered employment like nursing, secretaries, CEOs, programmers.

Millennia of treating women as property, the fact that e.g. women's suffrage was not widely implemented until the 20th century, the frequency with which traits seen as universal 'jump' genders, and similar indicators offer a promising avenue for an alternate explanation.
Ask HN: I live near a nuclear reactor. How do I stay safe?
See title. Potassium iodide in case the ground shakes? I messaged Safecast [0] about getting their equipment to investigate further.

Are lead shields any useful?

[0] http://safecast.org
Actually someone just reverted that reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taskwarrior&diff=...
They forgot about Agdam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agdam

We tried to visit (it's illegal to go there), but for some misterious reasons it was all surrounded by military checkpoints, so we could only pass by. I envy those who managed to get there before.
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I suspect "phase" relates to the wavefunction phase. Suppose you have a plane wave e^{-ikr+wt}, where k and r are vectors, then w is your phase.
No assuming that the simplest explanation is that women are genetically less suited is sexist.

Gender imbalances in society is just as simple of an explanation. Your use of Occam's razor here is essentially just a sexist "common sense argument."
I went through a number of Windows backup solutions to find one that worked for my Dad, and in the end the one that we were the most happy with was Genie Timeline. It works quite similar to Time Machine on OSX, and includes both system restore and continuous incremental file backup, which were the criteria I was looking for.
While I don't want to undermine the difficulties many people undoubtedly face due to harmful beliefs shared by the society at large, we have to face the issue that gender imbalances are in fact larger in countries that are more meritocratic and gender-equal, such as Norway.

Fixing poor views about gender and reducing discrimination are good steps towards a better future, but what happens after we've improved on those and the job market is still segregated in terms of gender?

Will we start seeing racism and discrimination everywhere, in places where they doesn't exist - blaming and labeling people for injustices they haven't done?
OCamlot--exploring the edges of OPAM packages
I didn't ask my question in a vacuum, I asked it specifically within the context of Reeder 2. Reeder 2 is (as Reeder always was) a premium app, so ads are not an option. It is a front end for other third party services rather than something that has its own backend, so charging a recurring fee for the backend is not an option. iOS App Store guidelines rule out other options. Really, the only option that can sustain the costs of the continued development of the application is charging for each major release.
Apple can do what it likes because it's not using an existing monopoly to create another monopoly. That's the issue with Windows.

Microsoft used it's monopoly with Windows to edge out competitor browsers and practically killed Netscape's business. When you have a monopoly, there are special laws that apply only to you so you don't abuse the market.

I'm pointing out that it seems like MS is using its monopoly with Windows to edge out the Dropbox service.
Zambia is poor because it never had an Ice Age.
I learned how to type when I was 10 with double spaces after periods. I realized it looked bad/was unnecessary and now I single space. Wasn't very hard to make the conscious effort to change it. /just saying
The academics have suffered the fate reserved for those who do not engage with the outside: had they spent time writing books for the common man, had they spent time exposing idealism (ill-defined here as you've left it) and motivating the need for deconstruction, had they done any of these things they would not be viewed with such ridicule.

I will even suppose that something useful and important is being done in those fields--nevertheless, at the end of the day, I can point to my computer or bike and say "Engineering and hard science made this possible", and they can't point to a damned thing anyone cares about.
> All it takes it one person to hire you.

And all it takes is one winning lottery ticket to never work again.I don't even understand the substance of your complaint: sexism isn't a problem unless everyone in the world is sexist? Nobody is accusing you personally of discriminating, but you have to acknowledge that, in aggregate, the field is less welcoming to women.
> Ok, Occams razor is sexist?

Assuming "because they have two X chromosomes" is the simplest answer (rather than, oh, the environment around them constantly suggests not to do technical things for such sterling reasons as "math is hard") is stupid. Doing it to circle the wagons and keep the tech-bruvs happy is sexist.

> /edit: Also there is sound evidence that psychology tends to biases the interest in technical stuff toward the male gender.

I read a lot about both evolutionary psych and gender and I've never seen this seriously buttressed. Where's your cites? Plural?
They missed out on Canada, which has such gems as Kitsault, BC (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-ghost-tow... ) recently bought by an entepenuer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_by_country
If Deconstruction were a meaningful thing, if there were actual ways in which it is relevant that one could point to, then there would be a Wikipedia article that says what it is and explains why it is relevant.

Say what you want about Wikipedia's internal processes (if you must), but it does an overwhelmingly good job at saying what things are, including schools of thought and beliefs. Even through the edit wars, it can explain the most controversial tenets of religions, where the stakes are much higher than poststructuralism and stuff.

But the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction has been an incoherent disaster for over a decade. It's not even much of an edit war, just a stagnant mess. Everyone agrees that it is bad. Nobody agrees on what to do about it.

The disagreement is not between literary theorists and sciencey types. The disagreement is between literary theorists and other literary theorists, whose only unified view is that sciencey types should not be writing the article. Occasionally one of them will wholly rewrite the article, at which point everyone else says, basically, "wtf did you just write", and the list of problems gets longer.

My personal conclusion is that, while you criticize people who "talk about history of thought without having any idea what they are talking about", the people who do have an idea what they are talking about on this topic don't exist.
The version history option is only available for Office files (.docx, .xlsx etc.), plus even if it applied to all files a local backup can still be useful. Forcefully disabling local file history for SkyDrive simply doesn't make any sense... there's no technical reason for it, and it neither benefits the user nor Microsoft or anybody else.
I think I can come up with a hundred nobler causes I would rather give my money to.
Giving money to poor families or funding cancer research would make my day happier than getting a street artists' ass out of jail.
I don't really mean to defend C (though I rather like it, despite its many flaws). I only meant to point out the wisdom (which I recall reading in the K&R) of this idea that "taking away" features might make it easier to read and debug -- and maybe even write -- programs. In fact, Scheme is a sterling example of that very principle (relative to, say, Common Lisp, and I would argue of Clojure as well).

I agree with you about Scheme, which is a very minimalistic, wonderful, eminently readable, "one way to do it" language. But Clojure has something that Scheme doesn't: a massive set of libraries. C has that as well.

That, of course, is a different subject entirely . . .
I don't understand. How can you discuss gender issues without referring to genders?
True.

Maybe, the small amount of money spend per person indicates that the government doesn't have sufficient money to invest in development of the infrastructure and human resources required for creating a developed economy.

If you look at South Africa's public debt, it is 43.3%[1] of their GDP. In contrast, Zambia's is 20%[2]. Maybe, what Zambia needs is to secure more loans from organizations like World Bank and invest

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_South_Africa
2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Zambia
Nice anti-nuke story. I know people want us to give up our Nukes, but with a host of middle eastern countries within grasp of nuclear technology, doing so would be asinine.

It's also interesting to note no where in the article do they talk about how the US has continually reduced its nuclear stockpile, or that we've been at the forefront of promoting non-proliferation.

What's also missing from the article is several policies from the Bush Administration which sought to update the technology we already have to keep the technology a lot safer and easier to maintain like the Reliable Replacement Warhead program:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_Replacement_Warhead_Pr...

"The Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) was a proposed new American nuclear warhead design and bomb family that was intended to be simple, reliable and to provide a long-lasting, low maintenance future nuclear force for the United States. Initiated by the United States Congress in 2004, it became a centerpiece of the plans of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to remake the nuclear weapons complex.
In 2008, the Congress denied funding for the program, and in 2009 the Obama administration called for work on the program to cease."
Hi: I valued this post. I participated (lightly) at a Hackathon a month ago where the were some monetary prizes offered by sponsors at the end of the event. There were two entries that seemed to have a lot of substance for a single day event, so the question tickled in my brain a bit as to whether there was a way to validate the efforts of the team from start to finish.

We have been wondering about the value of using a cloud IDE (disclaimer, I am CEO of Codenvy) as a type of quarantined project workspace that is managed by a 3rd party for the duration of an event, like a hackathon. The workspace would be structured & owned by the organizer and not the hackers. And this way the organizers could place assets like keys into the workspace, and also monitor what code is authored and / or imported into it throughout the duration.

We'd value the community feedback to see if there is value in such an offering. We may want to hack one up ourselves :)
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Here is my take on deconstruction, based on an MA in anthropology from a good university and some further interest and reading:

First of all, Deconstruction should be credited to Heidegger, not the French. The French of the 50s and 60s read Heidegger, stole and (further) obfuscated some good ideas, then wrote books without citing him for political reasons (he was member of the Nazi party throughout the war, in good standing at the beginning and bad standing at the end, but he never rebelled or retracted publicly -- complicated person...) Then the students and readers of these French guys think the (derivative) French guys invented the idea.

There are two ideas of deconstruction I find useful.

The first is basically Nietzsche, and I paraphrase it thus: Every metaphysics hides an implicit morality of the universe, and every morality hides an implicit and very down-to-earth will to power, and this will to power is a good thing and the drive of Life itself manifesting in human ideas. N's big example is Judeo-Christianity, and how by inventing a selfless morality a bunch of folks took over Western Civilization in very concrete ways. So when the Libertarians have an "objective" system that shows that markets are best in an objective way, or the counselors/ psyches have an "objective" system that shows that depth psychology is best, they are all just protecting their jobs.

I extend this to our modern science loving era as: any supposedly scientific system that explains things but can't be rigorously tested just becomes wishful thinking to support the vested interests of a social group. This is basically all the social sciences, from econ to psych to anthro, and in all cases I think you can point directly to the group whose jobs or power the supposed "science" supports. (Owners in the first case, counselors who want more billable hours, locals fighting off outsider meddling, etc). And, yes I know about multivariate regression and survey data, and all I can say is what a joke.

Now that I have rambled too long, idea 2: I think one of the best things about Heidegger (who is fucking brilliant if you can get through his ridiculous prose) is that he asks us to question not whether something is an X or a Y, but rather to get "meta" and start examining what makes it possible for us to go through life assigning things too ontological categories (X or Y) in the first place. Because the mechanism of ontology -- that everything has a "being", that it "is" something -- is not a given, even though it comes so naturally linguistically.

Anyway, I should get on with my life now....
Some research data:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3051197?journalCode=es...

Using historical production data, we calculate that global nuclear power has prevented an average of 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths and 64 gigatonnes of CO2-equivalent (GtCO2-eq) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that would have resulted from fossil fuel burning. On the basis of global projection data that take into account the effects of the Fukushima accident, we find that nuclear power could additionally prevent an average of 420 000–7.04 million deaths and 80–240 GtCO2-eq emissions due to fossil fuels by midcentury, depending on which fuel it replaces.
The forecasts weren't wrong, the scientists just increased accuracy since 2007. All basic premises still hold, the problems the humanity faces remain.
"Protesters, leakers, et al don't spontaneously erupt. They are created by bad governments."

There are two models that could be at work here: (1) "dissident agents" occur randomly (i.e. they do "spontaneously erupt") but have greater value and visibility when they occur amidst bad government or (2) bad governments cause good agents to become "dissident agents".

In all likelihood it's a combination of both: people have varying tendencies of becoming "dissidents". Some people will rebel without a cause, others will follow their leaders to hell. Most are in between, more likely to (a) become, and (b) be empowered upon becoming, dissidents the more "bad" a government becomes.

There are varying opinions of what constitutes "bad" government. It would not be surprising that there are correlations between certain worldviews and their populations' propensities to engage in dissident activity. Stylised: pro-war advocates might be expected to go dissident quicker than pro-peace advocates.

Point is it isn't obvious. The more likely outcome would have been for Julian to have shut up and kept going his way. What made this time different is worth looking into.
And what is the difference between an untrusted application presenting a login webview for your service of choice, and a GUI form doing the same?

I must not understand the article.
Well you do sorta have to deal with it; leap seconds aren't fun, and are actually quite stupid. Time's already complicated enough without adhering to a few folks that care about "solar" time. Either kill them off, or move to leap hours (which puts the next jump so far out, no one will care).
Tumblr has weird bugs that seem to involve character escaping. Searching for tags that have slashes in them seem to end up parsed as URL segments and will return 404s, for instance.
See, that's the beauty of the whole situation. Instead of arguing philosophy about the causes of gender imbalance, we can decide that what we're actually worried about are concrete people who should get a chance to do what they're good at, and concrete cases of poor behavior that prevent that.

We can stop arguing about this issue, and go out and mentor kids who are interested in what we do, and create communities where abuse and low expectations are inappropriate regardless of who they're directed at, and make the world a better place. And that strategy will work regardless of which theory is right! Craziness.

Let's go do it.
The Soviet occupation or the colonization in itself wasn't that made the mess. Poland had the Soviet occupiers and Africa had various European powers organizing the countries. None of the places was good places to live during the occupation (even though I think most people very much prefer Brezhnev and maybe even Stalin to King Leopold of Belgium), but there was at least some kind of organized society.

The difference between the colonial powers leaving Africa and the Soviet Union leaving Eastern Europe was that the Soviet Union didn't take with them everyone that worked in any kind of administration and most people who could read when they left. In Poland the guys that was in charge of the central mail administration didn't flee the country. The Department of Transportation didn't burn all their archives and jumped on the first ship out of the country. That was what happened in most of Africa. Almost all the people who had been in charge and had any knowledge fled. That didn't happen in Eastern Europe in nearly the same degree.
2013-2014 PayScale report on graduates' salary by college
Show HN: Weber - MVC Web framework for Elixir
Even when the art was temporary (cardboard & duct tape) and he's seemingly been arrested because of the content of his art?

This is a free speech issue, not a "save the street artists" effort.
How about cost of miners in this analysis. Power cost, hardware cost, time cost?
You as the user can't tell if the webview is using the HTTPS protocol to request data. You don't have to be a target of the NSA to care about this. If you're at a wifi hotspot with your mobile phone, like at the airport, you can see the clear text requests others on the wifi network are making.

You can see what a form posts to when you submit it in the URL. Browsers will warn you when there is non HTTPS data loaded on an HTTPS page.
Z3: A high-performance theorem prover from Microsoft Research
How the cops watch your tweets in real-time
That's because in most cases if you build a prototype that works your boss/client doesn't want you to waste time making a better version, they just want the one that works now and doesn't require a hundred more (billable) hours from you.
I sympathize with you. I learned allman style first because that's what my java programming book used. When I started learning C, which is pretty K&R dominated, I found it really hard but got used to it and now when I go back and look at that java book it's like constantly stalling in a standard shift car.
Could you refer us to the "work" results (studies) that conclude (mathematically) that the variation you refer to, are "not adequeate" to explain the variation in "gendered employment"? I'm particularly interested what traits were measured between the groups and how (the hell) did those traits have anything to do with programming.
That's interesting, but you lost me on the connection to Heidegger and I would like to hear more specifically about what he took from Nietzsche.
Let's see what happens, but, as a brazilian, I think the encounter will result in absolutely nothing.

The current state of brazilian government's cyber security is a joke. Brazilian army actually made a phone with cryptography, which the president and her ministers just refused to use.

The response the telecom ministry gave to the wiretapping scandal of the e-mails was to ask for the brazilian mail to make a secure e-mail system, stating: "if they have been safely delivering mail for 350 years, they surely are to be trusted making a e-mail system".

As a sidenote, there is very few data security in the brazilian governemt, with a call to a friend who is a junior analyst in a bureau of statistics I can get a list of ALL brazilians sorted by the local equivalent of the Social Security Number. No access logs whatsoever.

I hear some departments actually implemented decent security, but the current state of affairs is a total mess.
Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool
There is a big difference though in my opinion: vista was disliked because it lacked polish on pretty much every single thing (the uac spamming you all the time, features that were outright broken, etc ... it wasn't that I disliked the features, but rather that they didn't work and acted against me), and 7 was in a lot of a way a great polish on top of vista. Call it going the last 10 percent.

My dislike of windows 8 however is not on broken features but on the paradigm changes they made. I don't want to focus on one app fullscreen at a time, or be always connected and sync'ed, or use my computer as a tablet, that sort of things.

But let's be honest, if microsoft can pull a 7 with windows 9, I'm all for it and will eat my own words.
Unfortunately trying to have this attitude ignores the real-life differences in people's attitudes toward women and men programmers. For example, even if you are very careful to treat all programmers fairly, there are still many other people who would look at a woman programmer and automatically have doubts about her competency and look for errors in her work, since they have a mental model of women not being good at programming, while the same person may look at a male programmer and see him as normal and probably competent unless he shows otherwise.

That mental model is partially related to the mythology and stories that we tell about ourselves, and this article is a thought experiment in seeing how it feels to glorify women's participation in the way that we glorify men's participation.

If you're interested in learning about this, here is a list of some experiences that are different for women and men programmers: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Male_Programmer_Privilege... - not all items apply to all people, but that it conveys an understanding of differences that happen.