skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite. If skulls are segregated by morphology AND time and/or distance that is evidence that there are two distinct species, i.e. if the big skulls are always over here and the little ones are always over there (or the big ones are always in this layer and the little ones always in that).

But if you find different morphologies together in the same time and place that is evidence that they were all members of the same species because it is rare to have two different species occupying the same ecological niche.
Seems pretty clear that most of these walls are just being reclaimed by the taggers that hit it in the first place.

They have no idea who Banksy is, which is awesome.
Stop using Windows, is a good start.
Problem here is that I would have to log in.

And really, the problem for me isn't stuff sent to my mail, but invitations sent to every mailinglist I'm a part of.
That i know, only MS
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The author waits until the very last paragraph before acknowledging:

"Gender differences can sometimes be symptoms of oppression and subordination."

And that's true. Oppression, subordination, etc exist. And so do innate differences between men and women. There doesn't have to be a hard-and-fast dichotomy here.

I think the author is right to criticize Sandberg, since Sandberg apparently says:

"A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes."

which is contradicted by the research mentioned in the article. To take Sandberg's position would be sticking to one half of the dichotomy that I am alleging is a false one.

That said, I think perhaps this author underestimates the extent to which oppresion exists and to which gender roles are contingent (i.e. not innate). Or, at least, the tone of the article could lead to that sort of interpretation. IMHO, better to put that acknowledgement up front rather than at the end of the article.

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She would probably say that she is part of a privileged group. But she is also a former feminist, so she is familiar with the most common theory of gender inequality.
How much data are networks making these decisions with and are they the right data?

Just saying "focus group" doesn't really provide much insight on the level and utility of feedback networks receive.

How big of an opportunity do you feel there is for more/better data?
Yes. I use a clipper to cut my hairs short and same length everywhere. Takes between 5-10 minutes (plus cleaning) every few months.
As long as we're sharing pictures of our homemade desks, here's mine:

http://i.imgur.com/vFAThh.jpg

Oak, oak, oak, and more oak. I love oak.

And here's a full build album, including pictures of my wife's desk on the other side of the room:

http://imgur.com/a/HTxXk

Everything was done by hand except for the cabinet boxes above the corner desk and the cabinet doors, which I had made by a local cabinetry shop, since I don't have the proper tools and router bits.

This was one of my first major woodworking projects, and I can confirm what jlongster is now learning: you don't know how much you don't know about something until you try and do it yourself.
Procuring humans is more difficult than pigs, irrespective of the obvious ethical and taboo issues.
Postmortem of a Venture-Backed, Acquired Startup
Lessons learned from Decide.com. From my brother's basement to $16.5M in funding, 30 employees and acquisition by eBay.
Thanks for the operating the Google! I don't normally read the LA Times. The crux of it seems to be the proposition that bills are paid without human approval. I simply don't believe that. I realize the government has anti-fraud options unavailable to the private sector, but such a house of cards would have collapsed a long time ago.

"Lew would not commit to prioritizing payments on government bonds if the debt limit is not raised. He said the decision would be up to Obama."

No, I don't have a source to back up any of this. Sorry about the "ass" comment; I shouldn't have phrased my point in that manner.
The Aquarium docents love to talk about their octopuses. If you get an older one, they'll tell you about the time when they filled the tank near the top and the octopus climbed out and flopped upon an unsuspecting visitor!

The water line is kept lower these days.
Yale Study: on education, religiosity, ideology, and science comprehension
the article was specifically about actual plots to attack airplanes: "No Evidence of Terrorist Plots Against Aviation in US". And that since there's no evidence of any plots, therefore we don't need a TSA. This is a crappy argument because airplane attacks are known to have occurred in the past without warning. Attack the TSA on their corruptness/ineffectiveness/ineptitude fine, but not based on "nobody wants to attack airplanes anyway", the evidence suggests otherwise on that. If "no terrorist plots" truly means "airplanes are inherently safe from attack", then the logical conclusion is that no security whatsoever should be needed.
Can you explain how you think it is twisted? It doesn't seem to me that 'why' matters in this case - the article didn't seem to say 'San Jose has introduced zoning limits in an attempt to price out poor people', but 'San Jose has restrictive building limits that price out poor people because they are unable to meet demand'. You could perhaps add a little detail by changing it to say 'the city doesn't have any buildings with more than 27 stories' but that doesn't really feel like a big difference to me.
Summary: healthcare.gov uses an open-source (choice of GPLv2 or BSDish) jQuery plguin named DataTables. They do distribute the source and include both the plugin name and version, but for unknown reasons removed the attribution and copyright notices.
Skull upends what we think we know about human evolution
You don't know how productive those developers were on those projects, nor do you know if TS would have made those developers more productive. Granted, the original claim wasn't comparative, but that's the point I'll make anyway.
At work I have set up a nightly Jenkins job to merge all verified, un-submitted patches from Gerrit and process the resulting history with Sonarqube[1].

This has revealed many bad habits and allowed us to correct them through review comments prior to changes being submitted. It's also shown me just how "legacy"[2] our code-base is, but thanks to sonarqube (which runs PMD and FindBugs as part of its analysis) we're improving.

[1] http://www.sonarqube.org
[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0131177052
Take heed to the last paragraph, gwern, and when you do remember "Shpongle."
I can understand that, though the excitement and feeling of accomplishment more than makes up for cost and angst of possibly having done it wrong.
I build solid wood furniture at Tech Shop SF occasionally. It can be tough in a shared space, and their wood shop is really lacking in some ways, but I think that it is worth it.

Check out thewoodwhisperer.com. This guy's videos are invaluable and great for beginners.

Also, don't buy cheap tools. Just about everyone has to learn this the hard way (myself included), but there is a reason this advice is parroted so often.
This scenario - minus the Bitcoins - was a plot device in Neal Stephenson's "Reamde".
New Way to Audition for Movies - RCR Connect
Maciej Ceglowski: Fan is a Tool-Using Animal [video]
Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain
Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript
Sorry, I missed that :)
$ watch
"couldn't it be argued that the use of body-scanners functions as a form of strong deterrent for potential plots?"

Not when all the materials one needs to construct a dangerous weapon are available on the other side of the checkpoint. Go to the duty-free shop and buy a glass bottle, and now you are ready to make a shiv.

For that matter, you have lots of sharp metal things and dangerous chemicals in your laptop, and you can walk through security with that.

I doubt the 9/11 hijackers would be deterred by the nude scanners. Sure, you would stop them from bringing a box cutter through (maybe), but there are a dozen other weapons they could have carried through or procured past the checkpoint. The nude scanners might catch someone who is trying to sneak a gun through security, but so do metal detectors -- and metal detectors might even do a better job.
> Airports should have security. Every country has security in their airports

but wait, in your response to me you said that the line people wait on for security checks is just as big a terrorist hazard as the plane itself. How are you not contradicting yourself here? Which is it, we wait on lines for metal detectors or not ?
On a systemic level, what advantages does government provide to solving these various problems that private individuals couldn't? Beyond blindly asserting that "there simply was no practical alternative to government regulation", or citing historical examples of government projects (when private alternatives were not legally allowed!) like roads, please explain what fundamentally allows government to perform these tasks better.

VC money more often comes from highly successful past ventures, not grandma's retirement savings plan (which are terrible investments anyway). How many ex-Facebook equity holders are building their own companies? How many ex-Paypal before them? It's simply dishonest to attribute Silicon Valley's wealth to DC and the Fed's easy money. Most of that money heads to Wall Street, the most government regulated industry in existence, fueling rampant corruption with examples too numerous to list. The inflation the easy money inevitably brings causes the average middle-class investor to invest greater and greater portions of their income into the markets and their retirement accounts, feeding Wall Street account managers, the federal government, and ultimately, the bubble-prone stock market these investors need just to break even on their savings.

Silicon Valley does not need DC, it is hindered by DC. The democratic, lobby-based, "law-for-sale" system is systemically disadvantaged to the classic survival of the adaptable. While the Valley develops our next innovations, DC puts bandages on debt limits while the other powers of the world seek reserve alternatives to our hemorrhaging currency. Please, do not talk about government success. It does not exist.
> Interesting. Can you point me to the online discussion of Mir that took place during the first six months of its development?

Ubuntu Touch switched to Mir a week ago and was using SurfaceFlinger up until then.

Sure Mir began life as a close proof of concept but has been OSSed for a long time now, certainly long enough to see if it was a good fit for Ubuntu Touch. We could argue whether Mir is now part of Ubuntu Touch or just a component of it but that's just arguing semantics.

> ... With a mandatory CLA that allows my open-source contributions to be used under a proprietary license by Canonical. See the detailed explanation here [1] on why this is such a big deal.

If you don't like signing a CLA you don't have to sign it. You don't have to contribute if you don't want to. You're also free to fork any of the CLA'ed software as you see fit.

> The irony of hearing that statement going in the other direction after Canonical's handling of the Mir/Wayland debacle is truly precious.

Wayland isn't a fit for Ubuntu. In order to deliver the things we want in time for 14.04/14.10 we prefer to maintain our own stack. That's not being any less open than anyone else, it's just how it is, shrug.
Rails 4.0.1.rc1 has been released
Yeah, that's pretty strange. You can't kill an octopus with a swift knife blow, or a speargun? Every hunter I've met prefers a quick kill, for both ethical and culinary reasons (adrenaline-soaked meat).
Fixed and @stephenmcd already merged the change, most excellent!
Yes. At this point, I really only write "why" or "why not" comments.
Huh...so the ACM Turing Award does not qualify? And a Nobel prize wouldn't either, I suppose? So what does?
Tiny Marsupials Have Such Frantic Sex It Kills Them
Ah, I guess it is time to send the annual email to mom, dad, and the in-laws to be very wary of downloading anything or clicking on links in suspicious emails.

I find this is good insurance against the inevitable phone calls I receive as the only computer-literate member of the family: "Hey Cory, all my documents disappeared and I can't get them back. Do I have a virus?"
> I'd rather have tests than types.

False dichotomy.

You want both and you need both.
MPAA admitted that it's a completely out of the blue number, made up to "scare" others.

http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-says-piracy-damages-cant-be-mea...
You can't know what ghost profile they have on you.
Drone mapping the matterhorn
In a corporate environment I'd expect crucial data to be on the network drive and snapshotted every few hours. We run ZFS on our network and all the secretaries have to do their doc/excel work on the drive. Nowadays that everybody has a Gigabit Ethernet connection read/writes are extremely quick.

Use ZFS and make read only snapshots that are only accessible to the sysadmins. You'll solve many problems that way. We do snapshots at 6am,noon and 6pm and then keep the 6pm one for 7, 14 and 30 days.
It's sickening how talented Maciej is. Have you gotten up on stage a bunch and delivered a talk? It's not easy. Notice how all the jokes work, even the throwaways.

It's sickening. Sickening! I am sickened!
He doesn't need to prove the libertarian alternative. You need to first show how our present road system isn't a complete nightmare.

Touting the road system as a government success. Please.
BTW, bzip2 has been obsoleted by xz and the parallel version is called pxz.
Another crucial difference is that you can easily choose to not read and participate in feminist blogs and communities, whereas I have to interact with tech communities every single day. Reading tech websites is crucial to my career, and well, I gotta go to the office every day too.

I work at a top tech company in Silicon Valley, in a team of 200 men and 10 women. The men aren't intentionally hostile towards me at all, but they are blissfully ignorant of how their comments and behavior genuinely makes it hard for the few women around them to succeed and be considered equals.
18 months with Scala
The guy who wrote Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance had a problem with the scientific method too:

"Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple, indeterminate, relative ones. The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thoughts and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself."

I used to think (10 years ago) he was wrong or concerned about something that would happen far in the future beyond my lifespan.
But is it available for Windows Phone?
The only new thing about this ransomware is that the payment method is through Bitcoin, right?
Yes, I am entirely serious. Up until early 1800s possessive it's was the grammatical norm. Today it's obsolete, but people who moan about the issue typically have no clue.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/it%27s#Adjective

This is one of the more common pitfalls that freshmen of Grammar Hitlerjugend step into.
LinkedIn is pretty bad. But why isn't there something better?
That's absolutely amazing.

No, not the desk, which looks good, but the fact that a small child apparently inhabits that house, but it's spotless.
Dual Screen Touch Phone | Kyocera Echo Phone Features | Kyocera Wireless
I'm really looking forward to reading your actual application in your next post.
I haven't read the article, yet (in a bit of a hurry ATM...), but a crucial part of science is (independent) reproduction and verification.

Any number of things stand in the way of this: Funding and funding restrictions, counter-productive IP laws, "cult of celebrity" (to the detriment of those quiet souls who "quiety grind away"), etc.

I've been screwed over more than once by "medical science" and medical "best practices", so I have been somewhat sensitized to incongruities in this area. A recent, emerging big one: Statins, and more so the premise upon which they became ubiquitous, stand upon increasingly shaky ground -- at least with regard to their current, widespread prescription and use.

E.g. http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2013/03/09/895-the-great-chol...
Seconded. When I saw he posted SPOILERS, I immediately scrolled back up.

To the grandfather: Just post what you wanted, and get rid of the spoilers section. Sheesh. You're not amusing anybody, or adding anything substantial to your original point.
Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation
+1 telescope is incredibly easy to set up for an HN clone. Run in on a heroku cluster for free too. Thats what I'm doing with http://www.hackb.io/. Check it out for a live demo.
Approved as in the posts need to be OK'd by a mod before being shown. And yes, they do censor heavily, try posting a well reasoned complaint about australis for instance and watch your mail not get approved.
No doubt tech fashionistas tend to be as obnoxious as the same elitist attitude applied anywhere else.
Besides the emails, what do you think could be improved?
"It is entirely rational and possible that extra airport security is a deterrent to airbourne terrorism."

Possible, but easily disproved. You can buy the material you need to make various weapons at duty-free shops, restaurants, and so forth on the other side of airport security. You can walk through security with a laptop, which has loads of sharp metal pieces, several lithium ion cells (containing dangerous chemicals that can be used in various ways), etc.

The 9/11 hijackers were not heavily armed. What I described above would have been sufficient for that attack, and the "extra" security at airports does nothing to stop that sort of thing.
The first laptop with an integrated Leap is from HP
I need a short 'cartoon' video demonstrating how to use my website. Suggestions?
I would like a short video showing the main features of my website. I've tried to film myself, but it mostly gives an impression of 'cheap' or 'corny'.

Futhermore, if I ever change the CSS or anything else just a little bit, then the video isn't matching the site anymore.

I would like a video that shows a 'cartoon' version of the main features. (Edit: by cartoon I mean simplified.)

Also, being French Canadian, I have a big accent that can be off-putting; a more traditional American or British voice would be great.

Is there a firm offering to make such videos?
Any good/bad experiences with them?

Thank you very much in advance!
What exactly is an innovation crisis? And how is that the country containing silicon valley has one?
Providing Redbox with your email address is optional, at least with the one I use. All they have on me is the info on my credit card magstripe.
What are better sites for torrent search? I've actually had good luck with ISOhunt.
Gmail's spam filter is so good that it even knows that I consider "LinkedIn Today" emails spam, but I still want to read the ones about my network.
Haha, it probably hasn't been that clean since the picture was taken three years ago.
Mozilla's Lossy Compressed Image Formats Study
All intermediaries -- be it floor traders, or HFT's -- earn money from the same source: the difference between prices that actual investors buy and sell stocks at (lower difference is also referred to as higher liquidity).

Now, the resources that were going to traditional specialists and a subset of the professional traders, are going to HFT's, with some of that returning to investors in form of lower trading costs (if we buy the argument that liquidity has indeed improved, of course. Most of what I've seen indicates that it has.)
As a side effect, we have technology improvement, useful for other things.

Now, there can be an argument made against HFT's, and in favor of more traditional traders, related to a potential decline in market depth. So far, I have not seen any convincing proof of this being the case, but I am open to it.

However, I think a lot of people arguing against HFT's do not quite understand that their position is literally that we need to enact legislation in order to protect Wall Street from competition :)
Thanks! We're fully aware of how HN usually works, some of us actually regulary reside here. That's actually why we rather hang out here and answer your questions than in other comments sections where the debate would not be so intriguing.

We're looking forward to replying to all of your posts here since we believe this is one of the best ways to articulate our points more efficiently. We have the highest level of trust in our product and we'd love to see how could we be able to present it even better.

We appreciate your support, so bring out the big guns, okay?
I don't know if this helps, but you can get a good haircut for cheap in ethnic neighborhoods in major cities (~$5) [e.g. Devon Ave. in Chicago] They often do a quicker and better job than in franchise hair salons/barbershops that charge 2-3x. I really enjoy a good haircut and I don't like overpaying, so this is the best option I've found.
Pretty awesome, I for one don't think the constant stream of "x, rewritten completely in javascript" is tiring (this is not meant to be sarcastic).

[EDIT] - This post doesn't seem to say enough when I look back at it. Wanted to add this:

Seeing posts like this really excites me (and inspires me) about the future of web programming, and programming in general. Anyone that's excited about programming has to get excited about abstraction, and it doesn't get much more abstract that cross-coded/implemented virtualized systems like this. Even if you hate javascript.

Every step people take in blurring lines between systems like this should be exciting, given the large amount of abstraction that had to go into creating something like this.
Those braces aren't flat they wrap around the angle.
GIFs Animate Japanese Life in the 19th Century
But note that's only due to popularity. Socially engineering your way into a user running an executable means that executable will simply run with user privs. No trickery or hacking required, no OS holes. And that will mean that the executable will have full access to do everything a user could do, which will effectively certainly include sending a new encryption key over the network, and encrypting every file that user can get a hold of.

(One of the little problems with the UNIX-style user permissions is that it is designed to defend the OS, not the user. Sure, that little executable may not be able to corrupt "the system", which may amount to 5 or 10 GBs of easily-replaced code, but it will have its way with the 2TB of the single user's media files.)

The only faint defense Linux/UNIX can claim is the slightly higher probability that you'll be on a checkpointing file system and can roll back, and I say only "slightly" because they still aren't very popular yet compared to conventional file systems.
I then turned on DKIM and enabled quarantining non DKIM emails via DMARC.

Translation for techies who aren't familiar with email's many acronyms?
platonic birth control doesn't mean what you think it does.
http://www.englishforums.com/content/lessons/it-39-s-vs-its....

Scroll down to historical note.
Agreed. I abhor popups of any kind as it is, but to present the false choice that a user either [will subscribe to what you're offering] or [doesn't care about improving] makes me put on my "really?" face.

edit: Same with the free trial offer. The no option says "No, I like to pay for trials". I'm not choosing whether to pay for a free trial or not, I'm choosing whether to participate in a free trial or not. Ugh.