skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The plural of anecdote is not data. Richard Lippa has done studies that show the more economic freedom and gender equality a country has, the more men and women choose traditional occupations along gender lines.

It's pretty obvious: in countries where your high paying options are limited (e.g. eastern Europe or India), you are more likely to go after a career in STEM, preferring economic success over personal actualization.

Decades of pro equality policy in e.g. Norway or Sweden have not significantly increased the number of women studying STEM. Government officials say outreach programs result in a temporary increase in women that drops again after a year or two.

But if you bring facts or studies with n=200000 respondents to the discussion, someone like this will dismiss it because she worked with some shitty men before and generalizes her experience to every woman and man in the industry.

If you see a sexism post on medium, you can be sure it's going to be anecdotal and utterly US-centric.
That is a very good trick to overcome a hole in swt widgets. Thank you very much!!
Because then any malware that gets installed by you (or a program you run, like, say, your browser) has root privileges. If you were not logged in as root, anything running as you would not have root privileges and therefore would have much less power to ruin your computer.

It's not a controversial statement. It's security 101. Hell, even Windows Vista implemented the same strategy once Microsoft realized logging in with admin rights was a bad idea.
Elon Musk - Fireside Chat at Stanford's ENCORE Award 2013
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
Providing benefits to anyone while excluding anyone else is technically discrimination. That's doesn't make it bad. Not all things are equal. It's discrimination that students pay less than you to take the subway. Also discrimination, also not a bad thing.

Except for that it's discrimination based on need and not race.
UberX drivers seem increasingly inclined to expect me to pull out the maps app and navigate for them. It is annoying. Aren't you the one being paid to drive?

I have not necessarily been to a particular destination before. Even if I have, I might want to have my attention on something (my phone, my laptop, how much I want to go to bed..) other than the road.
This is true for most vehicles, but on some cars (like the Prius) the shifter is not mechanical.

Yes, it's unnerving.
Because if you rate an android app you're a "google plus user"?

Because if you comment on youtube you're a "google plus user"?

Google+ doesn't really mean much more than "you use Google services", and their growth is inherently untrustworthy when they're still (forcibly) transferring users rather than acquiring them.
11,000 global variables

absence of any bug-tracking system

wow. and this is toyota.

[edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toyota_Way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System ]
http://puppetlabs.com/meme/when-marketing-drives-traffic-com...
Nice to see an example about this, save a lot of time in googling for it
I would trust car firmware written (entirely) by Google. They're a software company, after all.
Nice and useful
To be fair, there's bugs in humans too. Chances are (especially over time) the bugs in a computer will be worked out to the point that they are rarer then the ones in humans.
Previous report on the issue by NASA (PDF, 177 Pages) http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nvs/pdf/NASA-UA_report.pdf
> Although the current administration has curtailed some of the abuses of its predecessors, it still has a long way to go.

That sentence is how history will judge 2013.
What you're describing is an SLA, which the HN community should be very familiar with. So it's not actually a weird way to sell a service at all.

I can't think of any objection for trying out your idea and seeing how things go.
No, you don't. Many modern cars use contactless/electronic ignition keys and start buttons connected to software. Braking is a software function (I.e. ABS) and most Americans drive automatic (software) transmissions.
Thanks for pointing out the potential bias. I did find myself thinking some of the points were a little exaggerated.

Everyone has come across code which no-one in the company wants to touch because it's too complex. However, that same code may have been in production for decades, proving fit for purpose by example.

That said, I'm not sure I'm entirely against the idea of companies being sued for failing to write sufficient quality code. Could do wonders for the industry!
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We use MySQL-Galera and it has full ACID guarantees in cluster/multi-site/DR environment.

Unfortunately the article is not a complete overview of the existing DBs landscape and has too much marketing in other places as well.
I think that ranking cannot be by %age R&D spend. Taking the R&D expenditure from your link, and turnover from the accounts for 2012, we have (money values in $bn):

R&D Turnover R&D/turnover
Apple 3.4 156 2.2%
Samsung 10.4 188 5.5%
> definitionally, your health is worth an infinite amount of money to you (how much would you pay not to be a slave? how much would you pay not to have your hands and feet chopped off?).

That is not how you measure preferences, at all. Try "what likelihood of having your hands and feet chopped off would you trade for not being a slave?" Probabilities are fungible in a way dollars aren't.
If you’re straight, consider a commitment ceremony but don’t get married until all people can share in that legal right should they so choose.

If you’re a white person with wealth and children, choose to invest in and send your children to a local, public, neighborhood school or at least a private school with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion rather than a lily-white private place with connections to the Ivy League.

http://everydayfeminism.com/2012/12/how-to-talk-to-someone-a...
MySQL isn't the only engine that does this.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17952_01/refman-5.1-en/implicit-c...

Edit - I was wrong!

Not only did I link to the wrong docs, but Oracle fixed what I considered to be a longstanding bug.

Thanks to those who pointed it out.

For a very, very long time, Oracle has enforced implicit transaction boundaries around DDL, and it is about time that finally changed.
The key thing to keep in mind is, if you're not a white dude, you've spent most of modern history totally shut out of the conversation.

The key thing you are forgetting when you say 'shut up, straight white boy'[1] is that throughout most of history (and still today), even if you were a white male, you were statistically speaking poor and fairly unimportant, and also shut out of 'the conversation'.

There is a fairly significant difference between accepting additional input from those with a different perspective (inclusive) and excluding input because of perceived privilege based on race/gender/etc (exclusive).

[1] I'm adapting this from the title of a feminist blog post critical of the term 'privilege' as a useful rhetorical device, which curiously cannot be found (404), don't take it literally...
My car doesn't have an ignition key, it has a button. If you press the button while in motion, I'm not sure what happens, but I'd bet it would ignore it.
Zoning regulations are going to equally effect everybody so that is kind of a moot point in this context. Unless you live in a historic neighborhood (where often nearly every aspect of your historic house is regulated), an HOA has no authority on what you do in the inside of your house. So when renting, you have almost no freedom to alter any aspect of your dwelling (unless otherwise allowed by your landlord). Owning a home with an HOA, you have complete freedom to alter the interior any way you like and have some (varied) level of restriction on the exterior. Owning a home without an HOA, you have complete freedom in and out. Plus there is the issue of pets being allowed or not in rentals. So, I don't see any conflict with a person with an HOA complaining about landlords. Even with an HOA, you are statistically more free to do stuff than with a landlord.
There is a great book that you might want to read, which gets at the thought process at the individual level. It's about a cop who stood up to corruption in his precinct. The movie is good too:

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

I'm sure there are lots of reasons, but idealistic people like this must be one of the factors.
The FA Title is (actually):

The End of Hypocrisy: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Leaks

You can't discount the context of the subheading in a written/paper published title. IMHO. I don't think this is pedantic, as the linked article made it fit (which is why HN guidelines say you should try not to editorialize).
1 million hours or 5min. Depending on the timeframe to average to.
$300 for http://99designs.com/how-it-works. Used them before. Solid work if you don't have a designer on board yet.
The problem is that Drive and Docs are no longer different products and what used to be Docs appear as "files" in your Drive.
A number of cars these days are actually removing the ignition key entirely. Just look up the cars with "push button start" Most of them no longer have key's but instead the keyfob that opens the doors also acts as a signal that it's ok to start the car. It's one big reason that I don't want to buy any car that doesn't require a key. I know they're easy to duplicate, but i don't believe them when they say that the fobs are hard to duplicate.
> To their credit, it sounds like you should have been using source control all along.

I reply to this only so people don't think I am negligent enough to not use source control!

Yes I use source control, but there are these periods where things aren't committed, during which you can lose work if some process overwrites files. The same goes for disk failure, unwise use of the rm command, etc.

To their credit that a file you are currently editing is overwritten with an old version by their software, but hey at least that software made a copy? Are you joking?
Good one! Might be a good suggestion for WebRTC spec as well!
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Perhaps an open hardware car will emerge at some point as a reaction to over-complicating vehicles.
This has a lot in common with the "Being Alone" topic that's trending on HN right now. Being alone fills you with anxiety, with isolation, and with uncertainty. By establishing hard lines, and an aggressive stance, you align yourself with a group and gain peers. You have allies, friends, and a social tribe that you can look out on the world with. Your anxiety lessens and you feel more secure. I'm not sure if we're hardwired for it, but we as humans have a strong tendency towards categorization and "ingroup" / "outgroup" classification of our peers.

There's a deep rabbit hole at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety/uncertainty_management

Particularly relevant: "Axiom 20: An increase in perceiving that we share superordinate ingroup identities with strangers will produce a decrease in our anxiety and an increase in our ability to predict their behavior accurately."
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One interesting thing I've noticed is that subway systems, long home of one of the more iconic failsafes, the big red lever behind glass connected directly to hydraulic brakes, are moving away from that. An old-style subway (like NYC) has emergency-stop-in-place levers that cause the train to screech to a halt immediately. But automatic train systems, like the Copenhagen Metro, have a similar looking lever that is just a computer signal that signals an emergency condition. The default response (according to the fine-print under it that I recently read) is that the train will continue on to the next station, open its doors, and then hold until further instructions.

That part I assume is on purpose, because even a computerized system could have "stop immediately" as the default policy when the emergency lever is pulled. Would be interesting to read the analysis that led to the decision. My guess is that it's because on-train issues are statistically the most likely emergency situation a passenger would signal (heart attacks, fights, etc.), in which case continuing to the next station (typically 30-90 seconds) where emergency staff can meet the train and access it, rather than stopping in the middle of a subway tunnel or elevated rail segment, is the most sensible policy.
Am I wrong in thinking that [Neo4j](http://www.neo4j.org/) supports fully ACID compliant transactions?
Organize your working day with newborn?
So we have a baby due in March next year. How do you normally organize your startup working hours during the first 6 months, let say. What's typical arrangement with the spouse to share the work of caring for the baby? Especially he/she would wake up randomly and demand more attention on daytime.
Perhaps the reason that the quality numbers have been mostly flat is because drivers have been pushing to get 5 star reviews.

In case you didn't know, as a customer of uber, the driver gives you a star rating just like you give the driver. A lot of people in SF have figured that out, and a lot of time I'll get an offer of "5 for 5." The drivers are letting you know that if you give them a 5 star rating they will give you one.

On top of that, drivers more and more push for a good rating, trying to make you feel bad if you don't give them 5 stars.

I can't recall these pressures in the past, and if they are working, then quality numbers staying flat actually mean they are quite down.

----

That said, I am still an avid user of Uber, using it almost every day. My biggest concern is the same others have voiced, the drivers have no idea where they are in the city. I'm not talking cross streets, I'm saying a lot of time they don't even know how to get to a whole neighborhood. They also don't appear to be good 'city drivers,' and frequently seem to put bikers at risk due to that.
The FREEDOM Act?

What a horribly rhetorical name... Also:

Page 11 line 18: A judge considering a petition to modify or set aside a nondisclosure order shall grant such petition unless the court determines that alerting a target, an associate of a target, or the foreign power of which the target is an agent, of the interest of the Government in the target; or otherwise seriously endangering the national security of the United States.

This sounds like more of the same.

No mention of "NSA" or "National Security Administration". Most of the changes involved are regarding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or National Security Act. Almost all amendments contain provisions for terrorism, non disclosure agreements, or vague notions of harming national security.

How about repealing some laws instead of passing even more legalese?

ALSO: The word "terrorism" was found twice on the first page, and only 8 more times thereafter. That's MUCH better than the 158 references found in the Patriot Act, found here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ56/pdf/PLAW-107publ...
Back-of-the-envelope calculations
So far the best place I've found that delivers to Ireland is Amazon UK. I've seen plenty of US sites that do them cheaper, but they either charge significant shipping to European countries, or else just don't bother.

That said, I haven't looked very hard because I only buy cables about once a year.
This kind of thing makes me never want a car without a keyed ignition and to a lesser extent (and for other reasons), a clutch pedal. Heavy machinery should have a hardware-based killswitch. I'm kind of amazed this isn't regulated.
So? It's still more expensive than the official price (of the product), since I pay 20%+ more.
They're also a SW firm that seems to know how to manage complexity. There's a lot of software firms that I still wouldn't trust. :-)
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Yes - the continuous improvement cycle is much faster on machines!
On my (older) Prius, when I insert my mystical key fob into the dashboard and turn on the car, I can't remove it until I've turned the power off: it's held physically in the slot. (I haven't tried yanking hard.) As far as I know, the "On" button is electronic rather than physical. The gearshift is also just sending instructions to a computer: it doesn't even stay in position after you've used it. And I honestly don't know how the break pedal works: it somehow swaps over from magnetic regenerative breaking to traditional friction brakes at some point, but I'm not sure to what degree that's electronic vs. mechanical. (Maybe the parking break is purely mechanical: it's definitely on my "in case of emergencies, try this" list.)

The point is, most of the options you've listed there really may be computer-mediated in modern cars. (And yes, I've heard that there's a strong correlation between unintended acceleration and older drivers, and that a lot of those cases really are driver error. But I don't think you're making that case here.)
re 5: I don't mind the speed at which it scrolls, I just want one scroll wheel tick to be less.

re 4: I do have the keyword 'g' set up but it is still easier to not type g[space] everytime. And yes there is ctrl +k but it is still easier in chrome with just one location.
Perhaps a marine engineer could answer the question I have with the floating data center idea: is it really cheaper to have a barge as a data center, rather than putting it in an empty lot next to a river, lake or sea?

Light can travel 300km in a millisecond. Being closer to users doesn't seem to outweigh the extra difficulties in plumbing, power connections, network connections, risk of sinking and stormy weather. The potential for mobility doesn't seem that useful either when you need a port with exceptional power and network connectivity.
Being "away" has never, at least since I started IM'ing in '97 ('98?) meant "the client blocks messages". It's always been a social signal, "I'm probably not here, don't expect a reply". And if people are "tempted" by seeing someone who's idle or away and feels compelled to send them a message, that's their issue, not the issue of the person who's marked as "away".

Perhaps, to me, the most annoying thing about this sort of "feature" is that it's a deliberate reduction in capabilities. Every client I use now is perfectly capable of automatically setting my status, and allowing me to set custom status states. Eliminating a feature like this from the users is akin to saying, "It's 2013, you shouldn't be saving your documents. We'll know when you're done because you'll have stopped editing it."

EDIT: Examples where custom setting away/present status is very useful to me, my phone and my laptop. My phone is connected to google talk all the time, most of the time it's marked as "away" (particularly during the work day or when I'm at events where the phone isn't appropriate). I mark my status as "available" when I'm actually able to chat, any automatic detection based on idleness would be wrong. It's similar with my laptop at home. It's on the entire time, and since I do my reading and writing at my kitchen table it's also usually within arms reach, playing some music. When I'm doing something that I want to discourage chats (but not prevent), "away" status is perfect. If I really want to prevent chat then I can go "invisible" or close it. Leaving it open versus closing it (in the case of "invisible") gives me the option of watching for other people that I might want to talk to.
We'll never know, unless the pedal was being pressed hard enough to bend it out of shape. Maybe it is an additional reason to make the system fail safe - assume people will press the wrong pedal and then sue.
I found today http://modulus.io, they use different clouds. But definitly at a better price as dotcloud/nodejitsu/heroku, especially for smaller projects with SSL.
Nice are the backend statistics without paying for any extra service.

But i think in the next months many new PaaS services will rise, thanks to docker ;-)

And i hope many new without amazon (amazon is not bad, but expensive).
If you did, you'd really be betting on your ability to collect / pay up the debt.
Obamacare sets the vital, initial steps into the industry.

False. The US federal government initially entered the private healthcare market in 1966, with the passage of Medicare. The transformation from private to public healthcare has been going on for nearly 50 years now.
Correct. This lack of information ("lack of price transparency") has come to the forefront just in recent months. Dr. Keith Smith in Oklahoma and just the other day Regency hospital in NYC are examples that once you solve this lack of information you do indeed see prices fall. Granted, this works especially well for procedures that can be scheduled in advance but it is amazing in its own right given the current disastrous situation in general. I think they are on to something. Now, if we would couple this with direct primary care memberships supporting practices directly we would be able to offer high quality general health care at a minimum of the cost we see impacted by layer upon layer of health-administration.
> putting 5 second video intros in emails is cool

You must have a very different experience of email than I do. That sounds absolutely terrible to me. Am I missing some reason that this would be useful, or is this just a case of wildly diverging preferences?
... and I know the Guy who created it!
Considering the risks of flying vs. driving, I would argue it makes more sense to demand aerospace quality from cars than it does from airplanes.
I don't have benchmarks to share, but the documentation goes over size limits: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore/docs/python

As to the sync model, changes are always made locally and then queued for upload. You might want to read Guido's posts about conflict resolution to understand the model:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/48/how-the-datastore...

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/56/how-the-dropbox-d...
From the article, emphasis theirs:

Vehicle tests confirmed that one particular dead task would result in loss of throttle control, and that the driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration.

Every one of those approaches you suggested are, in many modern cars, fully software driven. And the article even shows an example of how a bug in the software can only be resolved through the exact opposite of what a rational person would do in a crisis.

I think the only actual mechanical failsafe left is the handbrake. Please tell me that's still sacred...
>>Many modern cars use contactless/electronic ignition keys and start buttons connected to software.

Fair enough, but as far as I know not a valid point in this specific case.

>>Braking is a software function

Yes, but a completely separated system. The odds of both software systems failing simultaneously is getting in the hash collisions domain...

>>most Americans drive automatic (software) transmissions.

Again a seperate system, and you still have a neutral position.
Anyone is still using Java in the Browser?
Daily Commute and Coursera Course Completion Relationship - My View
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@ismarc , I have never had to encounter your particular use case. Is there a bug report with details for duplicating this ? Like I said, I am not a fan of Mongo and were I to encounter an issue like yours in my use cases, I would bite the bullet and migrate to something else.