skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well he does have an extensive background in cryptography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Schneier#Cryptographic_al...

But more than that University of Washington and Jacob Applebaum (tor) participated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum)
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I always wince whenever I see a person espousing any inherent gender differences or preferences, because they are consistently ripped to pieces.

I espouse gender differences in genitals, secondary sexual characteristics, and levels of various hormones.

Can this be ripped to pieces?
I haven't seen an "About" page or "How this works" page.

So, how does it work?
I also think a distinction needs to be made between Walt and Jesse's production methods.
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I don't think the comment was intended to be derogatory towards web programmers, so much as annoyed at the "you can create a website in an hour without writing a line of code" oriented features. Some of the web-oriented stuff in VS over the last several years seemed to be targeted towards mouse-oriented design of small web apps rather than more serious web programming. I do not think that is still the case, though I haven't really been paying attention.
Who's competing? Who decides what's competitive?

Really? Okay.

It's a three way cage match between the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. No holds barred. We all decide by TXTing to vote while watching the pay per view live telecast.
Sure, consistent naming helps a lot (though I'm partial to short-yet-readable alternative like widgetCounts). Sadly, sometimes ambiguity is unavoidable. And other times, you're just dealing with bad code.

But consistent naming does not help with the "optionality" of parameters.
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You remind me of the Swedish gender experiments:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14038419

hn discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831429

another The Atlantic article on the subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4903247

a story on women making less than men in programming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3289750
I don’t have any connections
Transform or overload them. Maybe someone should fork it to a standard-conforming version.
Poshmark's secret celebrity investors: Ashton Kutcher, Rachel Zoe, more
I'm a huge fan of Banksy, but this article is so weird for me to read. Banksy's work is being called "art" and that it's being "vandalized" - but that's what Banksy's work is; it's vandalism.

Do people really think Banksy wants people out there removing chunks of walls or doors that he tags and putting them in museums or selling them to private owners for thousands of dollars?
VS6 was very fast, but its compiler was bad at standard compliance. GCC was much better. The newer MS compilers are way better at supportiung the standard and they also did a great job integrating the new language features. So I would say there is significant progress since the days of VS6 :)
That being said, VS 2012 works pretty fast for me (I'm on a fairly beefy machine though).
That's because they build a native Mac GUI (same for certain other cross-platform apps, e.g. Handbrake).
> one of the characteristics of HFT is that the returns are high and the capacity is low.

The second part is correct, the first, not so much anymore.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robo...
Researchers break Newton’s third law — with lasers
> Graffiti is a Sand Mandala

Not exactly. The difference is that graffiti can not just be swept up or blown away with a leaf blower like sand. At a minimum, it must be painted over. Sometimes this results in large patches of mismatched colors on a wall. In more extreme cases, it is not possible to just paint over it so it must be scrubbed off.
Don't have a board?
I see from the initial image in the post that it contains info about Breaking Bad. So I backed out of reading it until I know if it contains spoilers.

Before I go read it would someone please verify that it's spoiler-free? (beyond the initial image which spoils something about Walt/Skylar's relationship)

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SPOILERS BELOW

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I'm partway through season 4 at the point where Skylar makes Walt return the fancy car he just bought for Walt Jr. saying that "someone has to protect the family from the man protecting the family". Jessie is riding shotgun with Mike and Hank is starting to regain interest in the blue meth case.
Most authors of niche or custom software either don't care about native look and feel (making application with modules written in C with Motif, Qt, MFC, Tcl/Tk, Java and two or so custom languages look seamless is colossal waste of time and that kind of construction seems to be common for most niche things I've seen) or actively make their applications look non-native (Even Microsoft's ERP solutions have decidedly non-native feel to them).
How Linux won the embedded market
> A simple example comes from the article itself. Parameter 'strength', the strength of the frognication. What is the range of that? Is it 0 to max int? min int to max int? 1-100?

[...]

> This is not something that can be checked by most type systems. Therefore it needs to be in the documentation.

Or, alternatively, we need better type systems. (Of course, it can still be in "documentation", just documentation that can be automatically generated from code that is also given real effect by the compiler, and thus documentation that can't get out of sync with the implementation.)
Never considered a backend in the cloud before, and as I'm just getting into Angular I'll definitely give this a try. Nice one guys!
> the vast majority of people also have chakra type experiences within the first few days of taking up meditation in a retreat setting

and here I sat several retreats with dagger-like pain in the knees, wandering mind, and a deep desire to somehow exit stage left unnoticed.

Meanwhile I guess everyone else was blowing open the dharma gates. Possible, but if everyone progressed as quickly in the retreat experience as you're implying, we'd soon have an enormous number of teachers (whereas the reality is that a teacher is a rarity and a student is one of the vast majority).

As for hallucinogens, they certainly provide immediate, and sometimes unwanted, entry into non-self/non-body, but as a way of life, not so sure. If you look at the great mystics of past and present, you'd be hard pressed to find one that depended on external stimuli.

Saying that, I take a journey into the woods a couple of times per year, life is short.
How many projects do you consider to be a 'great number'? I ask because I do development in VS with solutions that contain around 300 projects and don't experience anything close to what I would consider 'really sludgy'.
Chromium is an extreme case of this. When we started we wanted to live the VS way of life (IDE tools and the like), so we had a Chrome.sln and various projects. Eventually it became too much. It would take minutes to load the sln, and woe to you if you synced your source tree while msvs was open, as you'd receive a neverending slew of modal prompts asking you to reload each of hundreds of projects. I think we still have a msvs build, but most developers use ninja on Windows, and just use msvs for debugging. The sad fact is that addons like Visual Assist X provide many of the benefits of the IDE without requiring projects to be loaded.
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Where did you get that from? They are indeed subject to it, unless CORS is in effect.
There seems to be no mention in the docs of where the compiled files end up, if anywhere; taking the docs literally it appears that this is the preferred way to use sword, which is indeed silly and wasteful.
History is full of companies (eg, bugatti?) that make exquisite things and still go out of business. It would be more interesting for you to back up your beliefs with some kind of evidentiary based logic. The strategy of 'being first' is not a winner on its face. Look at apple, they were not 'first' but they build a better mousetrap. A tesla is not really a better mousetrap (except for your personal ego), from the point of view of society. Electric still needs to be generated (often from coal). There is still traffic, traffic jams, ugly re-fueling stations etc. In addition, tesla will not be solving the problems of interstate commerce (ie, container/cargo) so we will need to keep duplicate petrol infrastructure. These are not 'nay-sayer' arguments, they are more like the problems that you see if you actually dig below the veneer of a "concept" stock/elon musk fetish.
Thank you, will fix it.
Then perhaps they're not really trying to defeat piracy? If they're trying to justify the position of middle-men (say, recording studios in music), then the lawsuits show them adding value. Even when distribution is no longer difficult, thanks to the internet.
Or you could get motor power for 30 miles and manually bike the remaining 6. The wheel doesn't stop you from manually moving the bike, does it?
To add to this, Elon is creating to demand for electric. He's too hoping, wanting, needing competitors to start directing money in this area to add more value to the ecosystem - as it lessens the cost overall, and Tesla is a supplier of electric vehicle parts as well.

They're working on a $30k model, which then everyone will be able to afford it. It will be a matter of lining up balance sheets to be able to afford creating additional factories for millions of cars per year. They're moving towards this tipping point, and have been extremely successful in terms of moving everything forward.

For reference, their current plant is capable of producing 500,000 vehicles per year. That equates to $15 billion annual revenue if just selling the $30k model. The cost of owning a Tesla / electric car when you get free charging at Tesla stations, or electric charging from the grid in general are dramatically less than paying for gas - and the costs will only go down.

And the fact that these vehicles are good for the environment, good for you ... and they're quiet, and they'll last longer (fewer moving parts), etc.. People who don't understand the value of what's being done either haven't thought through it, or don't have the capacity to think holistically - to take the full scope into account.
I've actually been cutting my own hair for probably close to 15 years now with a standard hair clipper. It's not just a buzz-cut either. I actually have more on the top (like a #7) and a less on the sides (#3).

It really just comes from practice and learning the shape of your head. Once you use clippers for a while you'll understand how it works. The only challenging part is trimming your neckline which is where I usually have my wife help me. Otherwise it's just a lot of practice.

One tip is always start with a higher numbered attachment and work your way down. It's better to cut off less than more when you're first learning. If you don't like the result, you can go to a barber and he can fix it for you.
Me too. Must be a typo.
you're safe!
This looks interesting, I've wanted to get into AngularJS
Talking specifically about troops, I don't buy it - we have more troops than needed as a 'tripwire' to warn of an attack, but nowhere near enough to repel a full-on North Korean assault.
Yep, just a typo.
There are no spoiler tags or any mechanism on HN to prevent reading a post or a part of a post. People who don't want to get spoiled can't parse the page without taking a huge risk even when they have been warned because they have to scan for things they don't want to read.

I suggest you edit your spoiler out and just state the last episode you watched and ask if the article deals with story segments you haven't watched yet.
What is Bayesian Statistics?
That's good feedback. We were hoping the paragraph at the top would explain.

You enter a URL you'd like to share and select a charity (e.g. the EFF) to support. You then share the ThriveLink URL--your followers will be directed to the donation page and can click through to the destination.

It was inspired by the Forbes interstitial: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
Game of Thrones in a parallel universe
The point is that in the linux world you're choosing between competing distributors. In your example, they're both from Apple.

In the linux world you get a combination of 1. low switching costs between competitors (because, as you point out, most of the software is the same), and 2. competition between distributors. With Microsoft and Apple, if you want to choose between competitors, the cost of switching between them is much higher.
cheers andy, give it a shot and post here if you have any questions
Why the iPhone 5c is Brilliant
I actually think the author is misunderstanding the quote from the OPM. A shutdown does not mean that each agency has to save as much money as possible. It means they cannot spend any money or create any debts at all (with some exceptions).

Even if it would be cheaper and better for everyone to pay all the staff to keep it running, that's not necessarily allowed.

This sounds crazy, but the federal government really isn't designed to operate without a budget.
Micro-dosing is a waste of time if you're actually curious about the effects of LSD.
Puma has been great! I switched to it for both development and production on all of my Rails apps a week or so ago and haven't looked back.
I wonder what they will do after 23.10 . :D
It said $150,000 per infringement (!) and I highly doubt the site made anywhere near that amount in revenue, let alone profit
Seems like it's gonna be a matter of minutes to build a webapp now. Good stuff
Interesting read, I do not partake in Reddit very often (the comments are mostly more than meaningless, harsh like a school yard bully). Although I have found a couple subreddits that do not fit my preconceived view of redditors.

Alexis' article has a lot of truths in it, supplemental education is a necessity in the IT field, tech changes sooo fast. Most people wont attend a college that is a front runner in its respective fields. Often times the professors are teaching slightly outdated technologies or versions of technologies. MOOC (massive open online courses) and learn to code sites help fill this gap. Perhaps they may become more common as people take a look back on how much they invested in school and how they could make it more cost effective while still becoming knowledgable in their interests/professions.
This is a great place to start. Also a great place for mid-large size apps.
Wonobo beats Google to launch street view maps for India
I don't think it costs much extra. I have seen a decent touch screen laptop at around $500. Many lower than that. Find some here. http://www.edealpc.com/ Filter by touch screen.
Ahem. China was matriarcal a very long time ago, kids got their mother's family name, but it was because women were keeping homes while men were working in the fields far away.

The simple fact that mothers have to breast feed could well explain that a risk seeking behavior from them was more harmful to the community than from men.

So I question the idea that gender difference was different in matriarcal societies.
Ask HN: VoteOther
So, I was thinking I - or somebody should build an app to encourage people to vote for Congressmen/Senators that are NOT entrenched in their ways - - e.g. vote the other party, independent, or something --find some way to FIRE everybody in Washington and get a WHOLE new class of people in there - people who aren't bought and paid for by lobbyists..

Would this work?

Features : Signup - and everyone in a locale picks who they will vote for who has never been in Congress before. The person w/ most votes is the collective choice for the area and everyone is asked to vote for that person - anyone new is good especially if independent.
> Would these results hold in a matriarchal society?

I wrote up the following response and then realized that I was answering a different question than the one you asked. The following is an investigation of whether the tendency for child-raising to be "womens' work" is caused by genetic or cultural factors. This isn't directly related to the question of whether the personality traits are caused by genetic or cultural factors. I'm posting it anyway because I spent an hour writing it up and don't want to throw it away.

I did some quick research and found that even in "matriarchical" societies, women are usually more involved in infant care than men. I started with this article: <http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/05/where-women-rule-the-world-mat... and went down the list:

* Regarding the Mosuo, this Wikipedia article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo> writes that "Children of such relationships are raised by their mothers and the mothers' families." However, men are involved in raising their nieces and nephews.

* While men are heavily involved in child-raising in Aka societies, this source: <http://books.google.com/books?id=21z2hbOuTcEC> writes that "The Aka are exceptional in comparison to other societies in that fathers are actively involved with infants and are second only to mothers in the amount of direct care to their infants." (pg. 5)

* Despite the existence of sworn virgins, Albania is patriarchical, according to this article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_sworn_virgins>

* I wasn't able to find sources regarding childcare in Iceland or Meghalaya.

In addition, the fact that there are so few matriarchical societies in the world is notable in and of itself.

My hunch is that the reason why women are more involved in childcare than men is due to cultural factors which are caused by genetic factors. One could certainly imagine a culture in which as soon as a woman gives birth, she hands the infant off to the father, and then has no further involvement in its care. So there is no immediate reason why women must be the caregivers. But that hypothetical society would require that babies be bottle-fed, which is a recent invention; historically, children had to be breast-fed, and genetic factors are certainly responsible for the fact that women are much better than men at producing milk. So the women would have had to be involved in caring for their children at least at the beginning. This could lead to a cultural norm for women to remain involved in childcare even after it is no longer necessary to breast-feed.

Of course, that's not to say that childcare should be "womens' work". Even if women do turn out to have a genetic propensity towards childcare, that doesn't mean that we as a society have to let that dictate our gender roles.
I recently read a book called The Challenger Sale with this idea.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Challenger-Sale-Customer-Conversat...

It expands on this idea, and says that one successful sales process actually leads with ideas on how to make your business run better, then follows it up with all the information necessary to implement that change. If you do it right, the end of the sales process will be the customer asking you for suggestions on how to do what you suggested, and the only answer is your product.

It strikes me as a wonderfully powerful idea. I definitely recommend the book.
That is a weak argument :). Not really, there is a certain and rather high possibility that common man can buy Tesla cars. Sure, there is a premium price tag now, since we are still chipping the first blocks in making that technology a n economic reality. And that specific case is all the more important, since as you too argue helps to reduce pollution.

"Anything that is profitable and legal is of benefit to society" is a little misleading. The definition of what is "legal" is an evolving thing. We know it is dangerous, in that can cause huge fluctuation in the financial control system without real benefit for the society as a whole except a very small percentage. I am not speaking of a central authority that decides it, but our common collective consciousness that should decide it. And again there is not one thing, which has no obvious negative externalities. But the question is whether the positives overcome the negatives. In this case, for the society as whole there is little benefit.

Exactly, when the very society is built on that idea that everyone can pursue whatever they want, the access to opportunities should be equal. HFTs are tilting the balance in one way (helping the rich getting richer) , can cause economic crashes, which hit the rich and poor alike. Now the aftereffects of crashes on the rich (except in case of exceptions) are not as tragic, as in case of the poor. For the poorer part of the society, it pulls the rug under them.
awesome demo!
My argument is that you can not find a laptop with a nicer screen and keyboard, with good battery life, durable case, light frame, and amazingly fast HD for less money then an rMBP would cost you. And given that's its only $12/week, why not choose the best tool for the job, especially if your job is working on your laptop.

Of course, same arguments can be applied to almost anything, but this thread was about premium laptops. You can't have a premium laptop that's also very cheep.
> I'd rather have tests than types.

Why? Let the compiler do the testing for you.
Sometimes I forget how young I am! I'll go there to see what's going on and we'll see ;-)

Every time I spent more than a few weeks in another country, it always totally changed the way I acted about life. I totally see this happening again.

Thanks for the reply, greatly appreciated!
While I agree with your overall point, I think that in Qt most of the objects have a reason to exist. E.g. QString, unlike std::string has Unicode support.
I'm concerned a lot less about people eating octopus than about the only legal way to take them being a slow death by blunt trauma. I'm very much a canrnivore, but for pity's sake, make it quick. If the point was to only allow taking them through bycatch, why not just say that?
That's just beyond retarded. I weep when people have been conditioned by Canonical (and Microsoft) to accept this.
No Doctype on this page: http://www.groovehq.com/users/sign_in

If this is rails, just add the doctype to the layout you are using for devise sessions. Easy to overlook. Not smart to be missing in production.
I've been through the same love/hate of using Chef, and have come to replace it with Docker. As a solo dev I have a bunch of services to configure and maintain, and Docker is incredibly easier[1] to work with in comparison to Chef.

[1] For my specific use cases.
This could simplify a lot. Love it.

I wanted to get into trying both things so coupling it makes me happy and more incline to get into both.

Thank you for sharing and congrats on making it into the Parse blog!

Amazing stuff.
Grazie! I posted most of the initial links myself and showed the site to some friends before posting to HN. Very surprised it made it to HN homepage — maybe people are interested in Persona (I know I am)?

Thanks for letting me know about datanews and sharing the source. I like Python and Django a lot and want to try something with Flask, too.
Yes.

Last time it needed to be done I let my 3 year old son do it, using clippers. Great fun.

EDIT: as to how -

Get some wide masking tape. Stick that on the back of your head / neck. That gives you a really easy way to get a straight line.

Use the graded combs.

Practice.
the link that you provided is very broken in my Firefox (which doesn't mean it's broken for everybody of course)
~50. A lot of the projects were created in older versions of VS, which may or may not matter.
was there initial funding or everything bootstrapped?
IT IS TIME: Move Your Money Out of the US Banking System
Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray