skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work from home, and you'll be sorted, even if you're coming in from week to week. Tax laws target _where the work is done_. Then you're just coming to visit a client.
It certainly doesn't have to be user facing. Gender may be used to make user behavior modeling or prediction more accurate.
While it's worth giving attention to this, keep in mind that there's absolutely nothing new about the US denying entry to foreigners on political grounds:

For decades people who were members of foreign political parties deemed "too left wing", were often routinely denied all kinds of visas, for example.

What exactly the US government considers thought-crimes worthy of visa refusals have changed over the years, but the use of visa refusals as a tool to restrict access to government critical foreigners has been a constant.
Anyone can find out how Java is different from Javascript in about 30 seconds.

What I would like to know is WHY THE FUCK JAVASCRIPT has the word JAVA in its name?
So they can influence and share that know how with both departments? This could be interesting. I am really surprised that they managed to do it and it will be an easier sell now with the MS/NSA collaboration thing. So maybe we could expect other big deployments of that kind.
1/ At first I learned by self-teaching thanks to books and thanks to the great resources available on the internet. Mostly web development. When I decided to go professional, I attended a 8 month training with .Net followed by a 4 month internship, to be sure that my skills were compliant with what the market needed.

2/Grew up in the countryside, without access to computers. So I'm a late bloomer: I started programming around my 20, while doing a degree in biology. Enjoyed it so much that I first thought about doing a mixed cursus, then completely put aside my degree.

3/Started to program professionally 4/5 years after having written my first line of code (did some short internships and some programming for friends before that, but I consider it to be professional programming only from the point when I joined a company).

I've now been working for three years, still learning in the background to grab a maximum amount of software engineer and CS skills. Been promoted recently to team lead.
I'm in the uk and get a redirect loop from this page. Changing to .co.uk works http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=de&tl=en&prev=_t&...
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As I mentioned above, I kind of had to change once I had kids and a day job. I might still be owling (heh) if my priorities weren't forced into a change that way.

Good luck :-)
Fair point. For aggregate statistical analysis this may well be useful.
This is not thinking outside the box. This is painting the interior of the box with refractive ink and calling it innovative.
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What's worst about this is that this seems way out of proportion. He signed (and co-authored I believe) a petition arguing against NSA surveillance out of concern for its effects on democracy - a move that is absolutely in agreement with democratic values. Is there anyone who could argue that barring his entry to the US is justified? I don't like hyperbole but this is indeed truly worrying; I would expect it from Russia and China, certainly not from the former "shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere."
I wish people would use regular 2d plots for 2d data.

Other than that, great news!
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So the solution to multiple incompatible cloud storage providers is... to introduce another cloud storage provider?
Actually, it only makes sense as it works right now. When you are a developer on host A and decide to include a script, then you have already figured out that script is safe to include, so no bookkeeping is necessary. If a hacker has gained access to host A they can run any code they want, so there is no reason to prevent inclusion of scripts from host B. However, the developer of host B might have designed their resource so that it provides privileged user data based on a cookie. If it can be loaded into the page of host A it would give the developer (or hacker) of host A access to the privileged info of all users that frequent host B. This is why the developer of host B must explicitly publish a resource for inclusion on foreign pages.
There's a bit more information available via a Finnish tabloid Iltalehti [1]:

1. It's based on a freemium model where you get 5 Gb of space for free and pay for more space/features.

2. The service is hosted in two different cities in Finland.

3. They use 256bit AES encryption

4. Other services include automatic malware scan of content (no clarification if this is done at the client end or at the server).

[1] http://www.iltasanomat.fi/digi/art-1288604696795.html
Coming in from London for the weekend - don't have anywhere to stay yet. Would be interested in meeting up with some people!
Gee, the trolls are up early today...
Technically it's 3D data, with the three axes being {Time, Memory Usage, Version}.

But I agree there may be a better way of visualising this data.
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I guess it needs a better training DB, it returns {"gender": null} for not-so-common names in languages other than English...

http://api.genderize.io/?name=eloi&language_id=ca

http://api.genderize.io/?name=tomeu&language_id=ca

http://api.genderize.io/?name=rigoberta&language_id=es

http://api.genderize.io/?name=presentaci%C3%B3n&language_id=...

Credit for distinguishing between names in languages, though! Joan returns female in English, but male in Catalan.
Make it even "Windows Phone sales in the last 3 months double in Europe. Share of new sales trails iPhone by only one percent point in Germany".

Always makes me twitch when I see statistical simplification in the headlines.
I don't know why you hate Jenkins so much but from my experience, Jenkins is better than a lot of the OSS from the installation / maintenance point of view, e.g. you can perform upgrade, restart, install plugins and most of the other tasks just using the web ui, and since it is Java, you only need a JVM and don't need to deal with stuffs like rvm, gems, passenger & nginx found in some rail projects like redmine.
So the congress invites someone, and the NSA branch steps in to block it by censoring the speaker at the border.

I wonder whats next in this hollywood movie. Drone strike in central london to take out an embassy? A firewall blockade directed at news paper articles? Secret kill lists and torture?

Maybe someone should sneak a telepresence robot to congress, give it a dark trench coat and a code name. This is Truth Teller congress members, let the robot speak!
Thanks for the answers, somehow I totally missed the pyramid icon with the scaling etc. Much better now!
How do we know it was his political views and not some screw up with his paper work? How do we know this incident is true and not manufactured as part of a publicity stunt? I understand the communication is through his publisher, does he have a book in the works? I just feel it is important to ask questions, that's all.
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So happy to live in a country-wide free-speech zone here in Denmark. I'm shocked that people must hide themselves behind fences to express their opinions.
I guess that is the point: actions leading to a barring of entry seem to have been becoming less and less severe. Anyone knows how these no-entry lists are being compiled?
Sounds great - does anyone know how this compares to Chrome (both in terms of approach and results)?
Right to free speech sadly does not conflict with the right of US to refuse entry to a person without reasons. US Visa does not guarantee entry - it is stated there in the application entry. It gives to the right to beg and immigration officer to grant you entry.

And at the border the majority of your rights are suspended anyway.
In this case would there be a difference entering the US through the Canadian border or by airports?
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> the congress

No, not THE congress. The original article means a convention/conference.
Well, not the congress, just a conference, but still...
I don't know why I still get surprised when the US government consistently screws up, either with surveillance or with finances
It also assumes two distinct genders which is a fallacy.
According to the article, his ESTA application (an electronic visa waiver program) had been approved before only to nevertheless be blocked. It does not seem to be an administrative error.
I know this horse has been already beaten to death... but, I just got a laptop with Win8 this week and I have to say this, my goodness I am just awestruck that this Metro interface actually made it to the public in its current form. What the hell happened? Isn't Microsoft a company that conducts very basic UI tests before shipping a big product?

I like to think of myself as a fairly technical person, and yet I could not figure out how to do simple things like close windows, change windows, shut down, etc. for a good while.

My dad, a 68 year old guy, calls himself a geek computer person, his friends affectionately/comically refer him to as a "computer genius". He was trying out the Win8 laptop the other day... and I heard him say "Hm, I'm not as good with computers as I thought I was". That just really made me very sad. I'm just going to get a Win7 laptop for him now.
a) True, but I set it up from Firefox.

b) I think it's moot whether this is better or worse than a password, but I'd probably pick the key-based system (which requires you to physically have my computer) over a password-based one (which might be hacked remotely).
An analogous problem is automatic language and country detection. It's convenient when it works transparently, but can be a huge hassle when it guesses wrong.
It seems that the Apparatchiks of the US regime deal with critics quickly and efficiently these days, the totalitarian laws are already employed as needed. It's only a bit cynical that the barred author had to flee from Eastern Bloc Bulgaria in 1971...
Interesting, and a bit concerning. I just checked it on a friend's MacBook too, and that worked (Safari 6.0.5). Perhaps there's been a change at some point?
Assuming this is true, and there actually was an explosion, and it was caused by the SpaceX rocket: I wonder how does this amount of space debris impact and potentially endanger future orbit flights. As much as I support technology development and private space exploration efforts, I think that private companies shouldn't be allowed to pollute the orbit without retribution. I hope they figure out the cause, and fix it, and not simply cover it up.
Ooooh... somebody is feeling a bit touchy.
The problem is that he can't just call the embassy and ask why his entry was denied. They have a policy of not giving out information on entry denials.
Thank you. Still a bit of an movie plot move, but slightly less so than if it had been the congress.

I guess visiting speakers should always have a backup plan, and be able to do a video conference stream from the airport directly to the conference. That is if they are allowed to keep their electronics equipment intact at the border, which I guess is doubtful. Maybe a prerecorded speech?
>I wonder whats next in this hollywood movie...Secret kill lists and torture?

That's already the case...
> {"name":"marijn","gender":"female","probability":"1.00","count":1}

Except, of course, that I am male. My name is used for both genders. The thing completely failed on a few other ambiguous names I tried. I'll second AndrewDucker's opinion—just don't.
Sure, but that doesn't preclude it from being a useful metric for something like ad targeting.
I'll trade you a working blade for that 620. Your choice of white, black, or gray. I even have an OLED screen lying around :)
This is the most disturbing thing I've seen today. I wonder whether the people who invented this realize how Orwellian it sounds.
Have you heard of the Kessler Syndrome? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome)
You don't need to know the data for most things. The times you do (dating sites etc.), you need it to be accurate and should ask explicitly.
Ever thought to ask exactly why your rights are suspended?
Very interesting article, especially the t_scope allocator - I never knew you could get GCC to perform that cleanup automagically. One minor grammar point: isn't a lock under contention a contended lock, not a contented lock?
Apparently, for the US, the right to free speech only applies to US people, not the world.

That has always been the case with the US "right to privacy". The Snowden leaks have caused a fuss (in the USA) because it's the US Government spying on US citizens in the USA. Us foreigners have always been spied on.
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Too often developers aren't given a fair shake in the early stages of the hiring process. Developers shouldn't be written off because they haven't attended a top school, worked for a prestigious company, or don't excel at technical trivia. We believe employers should form their initial impression of you, without bias, by listening to you discuss real-world topics of your own choosing.

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It's stressful enough finding a new job without having to worry about the backlash from your current employer discovering that you're looking elsewhere. Additionally, remaining anonymous during early stages will protect you from biases and allow you to be judged more objectively on what you have to say.

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We're beyond frustrated with state of hiring, and our mission remains to remove the pain from exploring new development jobs. But since we can't operate without revenue, we charge employers a recruitment fee when you land a job. We think it's only fair that you get a cut, so we'll pay you 20% of our recruitment fee as a signing bonus.
I'm another competitor in this space -- in fact more a competitor to Jenkins than CircleCI in that we don't offer CI-as-a-service (if anyone's interested the details are in my profile).

I think you're unfair to Jenkins in a couple of ways:

1) It's not as hard to set up as you make out. If you want to see what it's really like for nothing to work out of the box then head to the pre-Jenkins (then Hudson) era when CruiseControl was king (and I mean no disrespect to CC, it was a groundbreaking project). I agree, though, that the overall UX leaves plenty to be desired, and indeed this is one way we compete with Jenkins.

2) The strength of Jenkins is support for a huge range of environments and tools, with contributions in the small from a massive user base. Part of the trade off for this flexibility is some extra complexity.

I gather CircleCI approaches this space from a different angle, by narrowing focus thus making a streamlined UX a lot easier. That's a fine approach, and I wish you great luck, but it's not a way to "vanquish" Jenkins because you won't be able to satisfy most of the Jenkins user base.

Our approach is somewhere in between, and the balance is our greatest challenge. We've spent a lot of effort focused on ease of setup, and even more on ease of ongoing maintenance (especially for large build farms). I don't expect we'll ever compete with Jenkins on pure flexibility, rather I think there is room for many competitors in this space. After all, everyone should be into CI!
If they were on suspension too, how would they get together to eventually agree a fix? I agree about the incentives being wrong, and I think the whole thing is ridiculous, but unfortunately, they're exactly the ones who have to keep working until it's over.
You want an enlightened view of the complexity of sensitively handling transgender people, non-binary genders and other gender and sexual minorities?

This is Hacker News. Such enlightened thought is frowned on by our new brogrammer overlords. Here's your beer.
Very cool stuff! Reminds me of http://empoweredbylight.org/
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all used FB open graph when you could report on content consumption which created fast viral loops (Viral coefficient >1 ), even todays best growth hacking is going to find it hard to produce such results, basically retention is key.... if you have retention on small scale only then do growth hacking!
Hi Steve, u going to Startup bootcamp too?
I believe your svn needs can be worked around with some git-svn, provided they dropped the github lock-in.
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You're kidding right? Guessing gender for a "show hacker news" with a .io domain is a clear case of "done is better than perfect."
> We were hardly best friends, but we were meaningful in each other’s lives.

They weren't really good friends. And he did wish him the best, and asked if he could help.
On one hand true, on the other - it isn't that those fixes are some magic, extra smart hackery (at least on the idea level, dunno about the implementation). Don't load an image that user don't see, remove an image that user saw but don't see anymore - those seem as rather obvious solutions.
The swibbles are already on back-order.
Well how could you possibly know for a platform that you have no experience with?
A matter of minutes? Now who's being dishonest.

Unless you already have experience setting up a JVM stack, it's going to take you many hours.
I agree, it would be good to see Google setting the trend here by going HTTPS everywhere. Personally I think the next website I create will be all-HTTPS.

The main reasons I encounter for not going HTTPS everywhere are:

1) Possible negative effect on search engine ranking during transition period.

2) 3rd party content from analytics tools and advert networks not supporting HTTPS.

3) Slower initial page load over mobile due to SSL handshake.

4) No-one else is doing it.

Hopefully these reasons will become less valid over time!
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This has been discussed further here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1nfl59/spacetrack_is...

Quote from SpaceX via twitter.com/spacecom:

"We have no reason to believe there was an explosion of any kind [of second stage]. Based on previous launch experiences we do know it's common for the first measurements from Space-Track to not always be accurate. It usually takes a few days for them to sort it all out and that's with fewer objects to track."
Does anyone else see the logo image moving in a weird way? like when you are not exactly looking at it, it feels like animating, like those fancy optical illusions.
(sorry for being off-topic but this is bothering me)
I like this from a usability standpoint. Just as some forms auto-fill the city/state based on the zip (and might get it wrong), this enables something similar. And it might get it wrong, but if your mom gave you a girl's name* blame her.

It also seems accurate:

Pat = about 50/50
David = All man
Jessica = All woman

Also, wrt to "binary gender identity" complaints, are we all college freshmen here?

* my own name (Nord) sucks and gave a gender of null. Spent my whole life being called Nerd, Nora, etc. I'm not flipping out.
The world of extreme poverty and disease may now finally be on its way out.
Wording issue fixed.
Also it was said that there was an anomaly on second stage relight resulting in a lot of unburnt fuel to be expelled creating a gas cloud.

This can be seen here.
http://wikkit.tumblr.com/post/62684205892/tracking-a-new-spa...

Seems like thats all this is.
Doesn't have to be all or nothing. But they are responsible for this mess, so cut their income by 50% or even just 25% for the time. Or reducing their income by X% each day where they can't find a solution.
I remember reading somewhere that it was to piggy-back on Java's popularity.
I wish it was about catastrophic injury insurance. I'm a single, healthy 33-year-old guy with no kids, so it'd be perfect for me. My annual healthcare expenditures are virtually zero, year after year, right now. Coverage in case of a heart attack or cancer would be awesome, because I can't afford a $100,000+ hospital bill, but otherwise I rarely even have a cold or the flu.

I live in California which, as the first state to comply with ACA, has numbers available for me up at coveredca.com.

The bronze plan requires me to pay a 30% deductible for the category of "High cost and infrequent care". So if I get cancer, my $200k bill (just to start, cancer treatment can go on and on) is still a $60k bill. I'm still bankrupt.

The Silver 87 plan also has a percentage-based deductible. Have to go up to the normal Silver plan to have a flat rate. For my age it'll cost over $200 a month if I make $30k/yr or more.

Also, all the plans, whether bronze silver platinum or anything else, include MANY MANY things other than "catastrophic injury coverage". Everything from prescription medication to preventative care visits.

I really really want a "catastrophic injury only coverage" option but I don't have it. That's what insurance SHOULD be, to cover you in case of significant financial loss. Imagine how expensive car insurance would be if it covered oil changes, or homeowner's insurance would be if it covered minor repairs?

For someone that's lamenting the "disinformation around ACA", I really don't think you've checked the actual costs/plans involved. Well, I have, and let's not pretend that Obamacare offers plain and simple catastrophic coverage because it doesn't. Look at the website and see for yourself. That's California only of course but I doubt the other states will be able to do much better.
> wrt to "binary gender identity" complaints, are we all college freshmen here?

We aren't, which is exactly why it's a problem.
I don't really understand it either. When I was switching jobs I just bought insurance for $110 a month through Blue Cross Blue shield. It was a co paid plan with relatively cheap co pays. Under Obamacare I would pay $240 a month. Doesn't make much sense to me.
>2) I don't see the need to slavishly follow Excel conventions, but I don't know of any evidence that Samsung would be a good lead developer of any software. Be that as it may, Samsung is free as anybody else to contribute to the LibreOffice project.

I think 2) was a joke about Samsung copying Apple.
I'm curious what modifications you made to Baraza for making it more available in Africa?

I assume low-bandwidth measures are taking into account (text-only, sms access seems to be popular in Africa, weird addresses (more like orientation vs. popular landmarks, ...).. Could you give us more details about those changes? Those decisions really interests me...
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That makes me wonder... what is the population of transgenered individuals in the US. From the looks of it I could just find a number of 3.4% or 700k at the time of the UCLA study. However that also includes Lesbians, Gays, and Transgendered people.
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In morphologically rich languages (like Russian) the most discriminative feature for detecting gender could be the word shape of last name or middle name, not the first name. So in many languages there is no way to have meaningful gender prediction by analyzing just the first name. Relative gender frequency for the first name is an useful information, but it is just not enough for reliable gender prediction.