skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6736900
Have a look at the front covers of T3 magazine some time...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=t3+magazine&tbm=isch

There's a theme there.
A reasonably large amount, ranging from cool toys to the latest apps and random websites they've come across. Add on a lot of technology magazines may as well be men's magazines due to the content focus, tonality and usage of scantily clad women caressing the latest tech products.
It mentions later in the article:

> "One of the magazines we studied, Glamour seems to recognise the value of advertising with 6.3% coming from tech companies. In this regard the publisher is somewhat ahead of the trend."

(Side point: Jumping on a "problem" you found in the first paragraph, and ask a question answered a few paragraphs further in, looks rather like you're interested in confirming your bias that this article must be wrong. That isn't a good way to learn about how the world works - If you're only reading HN to feel good, no problem, but I come here to learn stuff.)
DDR4 Memory Will Be Released By Next Month
A 3-D Printed, Hand-Cranked Computer
Indeed, the login thing kind of kills it.
I agree, people interested in technology buy technology-related magazines. People interested in fashion (don't assume just women do that, it's a bit sexist) buy fashion-related magazines.
could this be the etymology of "bells and whistles"?
Like others, I also agree dataclips are very cool (I even blogged about them: http://giovanni.bajo.it/post/51299442521/making-monitoring-g...).

I understand that "forks" and "follows" are easy concepts, stats are cools, etc. but I personally wouldn't want to pay double or triple for that (and I'm not a DBA, so I feel the pain). Not that my word counts much as I'm on the smallest Heroku production plan, so I guess my bill isn't exactly interesting for this kind of discussion. In my case, I would say that even saving $25 off $50 can be offset by these additional niceties. But, I don't know what I would think if I were a customer paying $1000/mo.
Magazines are crap. Why we should care?
Gendered behaviours (according to society, your peers, etc) permeate all sorts of things that you personally might not consider "gendered". I wonder how many girls would get surprised questions if they read a tech magazine, compared to the lack of attention they would get reading Heat...

Not that some of them don't, but that's not how society expects them to behave (wrongly, of course), and most people hate standing out.
"There's no time to sharpen the saw - I'm too busy cutting down the tree"

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/03/sharpening-the-saw....
There is no problem; it encrypts in counter mode and then adds a MAC. :-)

It's just a specific MAC that has its security properties intended to work with the counter-mode encryption, and lets you use the same key, and basically gets the details right for you. But the motivation for it doing encrypt-then-authenticate instead of vice versa is presumably the same as with separate encryption and HMAC.
Yes, or you could always carry only the Visa. Works splendid, especially when the VISA is bound to a debit only account.
So this is something that has been on the back of my mind for ages (at least a few years / through one or two relationships now) -

I used to subscribe to Men's Health / Fitness, a Motorcycle Magazine and another tech one (T3 or stuff, I can't remember) - and they'd all be on the bookshelf (dozens and dozens spanning a couple of years).

Whenever my any of my previous significant other(s) would thumb through them - they would always comment on how much more practical and informative they were - literally everything was put there in some way to help you become a better person; from fitness tips and guides, to the business insider interviews and "lifestyle" hacks / articles, down to the insider information on upcoming gadgets / vehicles and what not.

These was in comparison not just to the top selling female magazines (Marie Claire / Cosmopolitan etc), but with the equivalent female magazines (Female Fitness etc). I haven't read any of these magazines recently (in about 3 years, since the onset of tablets and whatnot), so I can't comment on how they are now but it definitely came as a bit of a surprise to me to see how different they actually were - and how they actually continued to reinforce an incredibly old fashioned female stereotype; I don't know how else to describe it other than the "dumbing down" of information targeting females, and a subtle encouraging of various fashion / gadget trends that need to be followed to "keep up with the times".

I couldn't help but question it all, and wonder why women would actually buy them ... and then my mind would wander over to women's issue's and how magazines that make them question their image and self-worth, talk down to them and greatly encourage the whole celebrity / paparazzi environment whilst touting feminist ideals etc etc ... it's a whole other world that I am in no way equipped or educated enough to think about; a giant paradox thrown inside pandora's box.
Curious question. If you deploy a wallet app trough an app-store (such as iOS appstore or google play), people send coins to that wallet and then the app-store pulls the app, which will also delete the app from the users device, the coins are gone no?

I'm assuming that Apple or Google won't take responsibility for the wanton destruction of your property.

So maybe deploying wallet apps on devices where you don't control when your wallet gets nuked isn't such a great idea.
The coolest gadgets you shouldn't miss in 2013
I declare today to be "Merge All Your Cards Into One" day.
Off-topic, but they should have gone to http://thebikehut.org/ : the guys are lovely, the bikes are great, and you only need to give your name and passport number (that they don't even check) before renting a bike. That's right, no deposit. I paid by cash when I brought the bike back at the end of the day. Amazing trust.
With EMV the banks have introduced what they call "liability shift" which means that if a merchant has a chip and pin terminal and someone manages to use a fraudulent card through it the bank will bear the cost. So there is no chargeback. Though this also means though that if a merchant doesn't have a chip and pin terminal and accept a fraudulent card through the magnetic stripe then they will get a chargeback and have to cover the cost of the fraud.

http://www.enterpriseefficiency.com/author.asp?section_id=10...
I'm not sure about this logic considering one of the earliest adopters of EMV was the UK.
I am aware of lifting, but the question is if you have monadic code and pure code in different modules (or you need to go through function which was previously pure), where do you put the lift? If you put it outside the module, you break the modularity. If you put it inside, well then you might as well make the functions monadic in the first place. Basically if you have functions in module API (which may be in itself pure) that may eventually end up calling unpure functions, you have to provision for that somehow, either in the module by making them monadic, or in the caller via lifting. Either way, it's not as clean as it could be.

But I thought about it some more, and to me it seems that actually parametrizing the functions to outside world is not that bad; it's a kind of dependency injection, and seems fine. What is really problematic is returning all the IOs (or other monads) from them; especially since you cannot curry return parameters just like you can entry parameters. So even if that could be replaced by some other mechanism, it would be helpful.

But I didn't know unsafePerformIO, sounds like it can be helpful in some cases.
I used fair amount of excel that is the reason why I am commenting. Just because you can enter some numbers in cell you cannot call it a spreadsheet. The main problem I see in your spreadsheet is the data entry. After you enter something you have to hit tab. no other key works. The main feature for any spreadsheet should be ease of data entry. Also other feature should be selecting the cell with mouse (instead of entering A1 I should be able to select A1)
I hate this kind of scroll website, using the mouse wheel to scroll just means everything is really jerky and isn't ever quite lined up, or correctly faded.
It really has everything to do with not being rich. A million dollars is not rich. 100 million is.

When you have a million, you make passive income of 60-70k per year. When you have 100 million, you make passive income of 7 million per year (but probably much more), which gives you almost 600k per month. You can do anything and you really don't care about saving money at this point, so you can spend all of it. As opposed to 5k per month, and you are living off 3k per month, trying desperately to save money to re-invest every year.

Donating my money would just make me panic more. The problem is that I have nothing except money. I need to start on something, but I don't know what.
It means that rather than the waiter taking your card away and coming back 5 minutes later, they bring the machine to you (or you go up to the front desk) and you pay there. Certainly makes me feel much more comfortable, whether or not it's really any safer.
Yes, but the article suggests that there might be demand for something that does not exist at the moment.
> Plus there's a lot of value in learning how to work with machine images that goes way beyond hosting a web app.

Every minute I spend doing that is a minute I spend not doing things I enjoy. YMMV though.
Animating route transitions in ember.js
I wonder what the unintended consequences of taking energy out of such currents would be to ocean wild life.
Because running a VM still incurs a lot of overhead. Which is a bit excessive if all you want to do is run a terminal.
I prefer the security and convenience of having only two cards, a debit and a credit card. Unfortunately for many, making it even easier to use their cards will simply load them up with debt.
Dangerous Ideas - speech by Alain de Botton
I don't see this an issue from the rental point of view but considering the average enterprise's ability to properly secure anything from hacking I'd beconcerned about this being hacked so I wouldn't want one of these.
I can't speak for the US but some of the top 'mens' magazines in the UK are disgraceful. FHM, Loaded, Nuts, et al.

You mention how the top womens magazines "reinforce an incredibly old fashioned female stereotype", well these mens magazines are arguably worse considering the primary content is boobs, toilet humour and football.
Apropos of nothing: Google Glass and Marissa Mayer both got very long spreads written about them recently in the US version of Vogue. (I buy a copy periodically when visiting the US. Business-related research expense.)

n.b. If you do this regularly you'll be able to make pretty accurate predictions about 30% of the magazine by reference to 70% of the magazine.
Ask HN: Could Bitcoin be set up to fail?
An accelerated economic experiment, perhaps a test run for the fate of the global economy?

Maybe as a warning sign from a clever inventor, to expose the fallacy of the current global economy?
As a foreign worker you get tax discounts for the first 2 years. Can't remember exactly how much it is but it's a lot.
That is an interesting observation of blowback from NSA overreach (stronger crypto enabling bonafide bad actors to escape detection).

I appreciate the response, as I feel like many people post here with sort of an implicit perspective that it is obvious that pervasive NSA spying is a catastrophe.

I still maintain that all of the issues you've outlined are not going to considered that bad by your average citizen. Especially in comparison to the pain and cost of duplicating Google's type of services on a personal or organizational level.

So what is interesting to me is that, if you grant my premise that your average civilian is not going to be that upset by this, so many tech types have such an opposite response.

While it may be more doable for a techy to set up secure web services, it still strikes me as an outlandish use of resources given that the vast majority of them truly don't have anything to fear from the NSA.

Figures like Snowden are a special case, as are anti authoritarian crypto activists, as the intelligence community obviously sees them as a threat.

My thinking generally is that there is no way to stop the NSA and similar agencies from spying like crazy. So if we all just assume that all of our electronic communications are non private, it simplifies the issue. (Considering the internet as public space). So to have secure computing, you simply can't hook your computer to the internet.

What is more disturbing to me than the spying is the ridiculous over use of secrecy and classification, which I think breeds far more opportunities for abuse. For pulling the curtain back on this, Snowden is a hero.
Steam pre-orders was mainly what I was referring to. I've seen a lot of other pre-orders but I'm not sure they were U.S. based.
This is definitely link bait. Indicate that a YCombinator startup is a waste of time and you are guaranteed to get some hits. Or get upvoted on HN.

> I believe we should be moving away from cards altogether. I think google wallet, square, and other RFID/NFC technologies are thinking about the future, where our devices are consolidated and integrated with the world around us.

That's like, his opinion, man. I personally think that cards are going to be around for a very long time whether we want them to be or not; for one simple reason: infrastructure. There are just too many card readers in the wild to feasibly displace the technology. For example, I can't use Google Wallet in South Africa (even though I would love to be able to) because we simply don't have NFC paypoints here. I doubt there will ever be. Dynamic cards seem like a really clever compromise in the direction of that "perfect world," and when I say "world" I mean it - cards are a world-wide technology. NFC is not.

The author clearly has a problem drawing a line between what is feasible and what he wants. We probably all want NFC payments - the reality is that most of the world won't get them.

If you really think about it all Coin are doing is creating a compatible addon for existing card reader that let you use NFC (or BLE, but the technologies are similar) with any of them.

> Legality of preordering

I am struggling to figure out how exactly this argument means that the cards are a step in the wrong direction. His one commenter (Alec Joy) also points this out:

> For those to lazy, or too trusting of Dan's word to click the link, I would like to present the first sentence of the article he linked to, and suspiciously the ONLY sentence of the response he omitted from his quote.
> "It is not illegal for merchants to charge for a product before it has shipped. "

Shameless link baiting.
Recent surface warming has probably been underestimated
Building a Strong Engineering Culture (BBC Develop 2013)
Ask HN: Startup idea - bitcoin inheritance
In the, perhaps unlikely, event that bitcoin becomes mainstream, there are going to be lots of people with significant wealth in cold storage that risks being permanently lost if they die (or stolen if their inheritance documents reveal too much). So we need a way of getting private keys to beneficiaries without risk, perhaps involving some kind of secret sharing scheme and reasonably trusted third parties (lawyers, friends, relatives). I've spent some time thinking about how you'd achieve this, and have concluded that it's beyond me. But if anyone here wants to try it, I'll be both a tester during development and a customer.
People would likely forget about cosmetics to some degree if they weren't advertised so much, they are pure luxury.

Technology provides functionality (beyond luxury) used in everyday life, so it doesn't have to advertise as much. Cosmetics have to advertise to just stay alive.
Eerie feeling: what a weird war, "won" by detonation bombs over one's own territories.
Totally over engineered insecure solution, for already oudated technology. Sounds like a great thing to invest on.
One example of a mobile app solution is [1], a low-tech solution is [2].

[1]: http://www.keyringapp.com/

[2]: http://lifehacker.com/5719587/make-your-own-consolidated-loy...
>The current options in those cases are forceps — large, rounded pliers — or suction cups attached to the baby’s scalp. In untrained hands, either can cause hemorrhages, crush the baby’s head or twist its spine.

Really? you mean these things are going to be available at WalMart so that untrained people can use them?

I really cannot see this being adopted. how are you going to slip this thing past the cervix and pubic bone? The whole reason that you need this thing in the first place is that there is literally zero room there. Also, the inflation is going to cause an even larger object to have to move through the birth canal thus exacerbating the original problem.

How are you even going to know if you have it on completely? you really cannot see in that tight space.

What about fetal distress? I cannot imagine that this thing squishing their entire cranium would bode well for distress which leads to many potential complications.

Maybe most importantly is the fact that this device would likely prevent the infant from ingesting the very important birth canal bacteria which colonized as flora in the baby's gut. c-section births lack this as well and they are at much higher risks for many things because of it.

This is a poor replacement for vacuum extractions (suction cup method) IMO. Maybe in developing countries it could be helpful (MAYBE safer for untrained midwives), but I doubt even that, given it's own disadvantages.
More, uhm, sophisticated designs are already in deployment:

http://www.marineturbines.com/
What the statistic completely ignores is that the £394 a year spent on tech is almost certainly spent on one or two big items. I'd say iPhone ownership is fairly ubiquitous - the average cost of an iPhone is probably about £360/year. The rest is probably made up of the fraction of a tablet or laptop that the average woman purchases each year. Even if someone theoretically spend £394 a yer on tech, it doesn't mean that advertising a tech product to them will make them buy it. Phone purchasing decisions happen annually, laptops or tablets even less frequently. Cosmetics, on the other hand, are purchased across many small transactions in a much more continuous manner, giving far more scope for effective advertising return.

And as others in the comments have said, magazines are really about delivering adverts to customers.
The worst mysoginists are often other Women.
On Goldman Sachs let's agree, to disagree. I'll just post a couple of links which will enhance my conspiracy theories:

[1] How Paulson Gave Goldman the Lehman Heads-Up
[2] The Great American Bubble Machine
[3] The Joy of Sachs - P. Krugman (Stiglitz has also commented on this)

You are confusing finance with economics (in general) here but even in finance the entire establishment is based in some kind of universal rationality and auto-regulation when clearly that's not the case. Moody's should be out of business (along with the other 2 rating agencies) for giving triple A's to Lehman a couple of minutes before the collapse went public. Why are they still in business? The market apparently didn't hammer them :-) ...

Can you give a sample of a pure economic theory applied in any section of finance? I see pure math there, and a lot of inside trading and not economic theories...

[1] http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/10/how...

[2] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/opinion/17krugman.html?_r=...
>I have saved over a million dollars and I make over 60k per year in passive income (actually made 160k so far this year)

In my eyes you are rich.

It's perspective.
With https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0038 the protected private key can be stored securely, and family members could be given the passphrase during the owner's lifetime.
"Everywhere" else in the world has managed - the combined population of countries that have deployed EMV / chip and pin is vastly higher than the US.

And it is coming to the US too, in some form or other: Pretty much all the major banks have committed to introduce it (though in some cases chip + signature) by mid 2015.
Why people in US are so crazy about credit cards?

I have 2 cards, only one is actually credit, but that's because I am expat, so I still keep one card from my home country.

Someone mentioned owning 16 or 9 cards, which sounds so unbelievable to me.
Launching our spectrum database to help users access TV white space spectrum
Heh, I long for the day I have 60k in regular income, let alone passive. $1m in savings is the sort of thing I dream about.

If this is your situation and you are still not happy, I would suggest speaking to a professional about what else in your life might be lacking.
Thanks for taking the time arnehormann, I assumed it would be split into packages at least. But I'd much rather see simple extensions that add setup/teardown, and maybe something that demonstrates how to replace the Test_main function (whatever it's called) for modifying output, probably it's all in here somewhere! Thanks!
Google Spectrum Database API — Google Developers
From what I can tell, this has been patented, but was implemented in part by Postgres much earlier.
What I learned from using displaytag and appFuse
My hypothesis is that there's a more important factor. Cosmetics companies' expected return on an ad in a women's magazine is higher than tech companies' because of the focus.

For a tech company women are at best 50% of their target market. For a cosmetics company, women are the market. Their Excel sheets just show they can bid higher on the ads than tech.
That's a tech magazine, even if the cover doesn't imply that...
Its worth noting that ad spend is a functin of deep pockets, no relevance or general importance to society. One historical comparison is that during the financila crisis, the Auto industry's ad spend plummeted and the top TV advertiser became Mobile phones. The importance of auto's, however, has generally remained unchanged. Its just that advertising is a key element in the business model of soem industries and is less in others. Clearly, given the markups and the insecurities preyed upon by the industry, Beauty products are heavily reliant on ads for both sales and luxurious margins.
Not "largely" but rather "initially". IC development was probably accelerated by missile development, but it's difficult to say by exactly how much.
> if all you want to do is run a terminal

Then Git for Windows (which is built upon MinGW, and includes bash, grep and whatnot) + MinTTY is immensely more useful and lightweight than Cygwin.
The ultimate guide to everything Dribbble
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Yes, but ... this discounts the practical consideration that the defense is going to change situationally, too. 4th and 2 is going to look a lot different than 4th and 17.
"The SeaGen S system at Strangford Lough was subject to a rigorous 3-year Environmental Monitoring Programme. The studies concluded that installation and operation of the SeaGen system, together with the mitigation put in place, has not had a significant impact on marine life at the site."

You can view the report here:
http://www.marineturbines.com/sites/default/files/SeaGen-Env...