skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, the model I find most useful is a bimodal distribution: the average for men and women is indeed fairly different on the parameters you describe, but there is quite a lot of overlap, and individuals who are past the mean of the other gender. There's no need to apologize for acknowledging that the means are different; there probably is cause to apologize if you insist on treating people as if they were in two distinct, narrow columns with a huge gap between them.

The results with differences in children are there, but the claims of innateness are overstated (not false, merely overstated) - children are treated differently, in terms of how they're talked to and bounced around, even in their first week of life. I don't believe the social differences in their treatment have absolutely no impact.

I hate forcing people into 'traditional' roles - and those roles tend to be an idealized version of how people think their grandparents lived, anyhow. I'm in favour of letting people be people. I think children should be encouraged to follow their interests, and learn how to interact in at least one culture, but not forced into moulds for the sake of ideology. If someone wants to learn about fashion, makeup, or piloting fighter planes, great; if there are statistically significant differences in who is doing what, fine; if you're forcing people into one thing or another based on traits that correlate (such as their gender), stop. Don't force someone to chose a profession based on their gender and opposed to their interests, whether you're shovelling sand with or against your society's tide.

Good lives can include good marriages, and probably do for most people, but don't necessarily have to; people are diverse. I'm sorry to hear your marriage ended unhappily, but I would hazard a guess that it wasn't purely due to you not understanding women as a group, and at least partly not understanding the needs of the particular woman you were married to; the two may have been similar, but certainly were not identical.

Purely anecdotally, I'm in a happy relationship with a man, like technology far more than even the average male open source programmer, and don't care at all about fashion, makeup, gossip, or hair. I'm not 'traditional', and I have no desire to be; I am happy.
Alexis (http://about.me/alexis) is more Josh Radnor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Radnor) if anything.
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Benjamin Briggs makes a lot of good stuff. I'm a bit of a NES nostalgic when coding. My love for coding began in 98 when I built my first website (a Zelda 64 Ocarina of Time fan-site)

http://benjaminbriggs.bandcamp.com/track/this-track-may-snac...
(Let me know if you recognize the sound at 2:14 (clue its from an awesome NES game)

https://soundcloud.com/zedd/zedd-legend-of-zelda-original

I also highly recommend OCRemix.org if you too like game tunes.

When not feeling gamey it might be Muse, Ratatat, Kamelot or whatever else feels a good pace to code with.
But, did you beat Andrew's evil incarnation, Werdna?
The biggest problem of using @extend this way is that it makes the CSS file grow really _really_ fast. I’ve done things in similar way in the past in a medium-sized project (though with Blueprint and custom utility styles since Bootstrap doesn’t existed back then) and ended up with selectors that looks like this after compilation, but for the whole file:

.tag,
div#main h1 span,
div#content h2 span,
div.comment ul.info li.username span,
div.comment ul.info li.comment span,
div.sidebar div.search span,
(a lot more selectors here),
div.footer ul.links span {
/* … */
}
.tag:hover,
div#main h1 span:hover,
div#content h2 span:hover,
div.comment ul.info li.username span:hover,
div.comment ul.info li.comment span:hover,
div.sidebar div.search span:hover,
(a lot more selectors here):hover,
div.footer ul.links span:hover {
/* … */
}

Then I hit the 4095 selectors limit[1] in Internet Explorer. That pretty much force me to cleanup the whole CSS. In the end I took similar approach to Bootstrap classes, which make the CSS file size and number of selectors much more manageable.

[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/05/14/10164...
He's just being honest and saying one will get more page views than another, not evaluating the merits of the underlying businesses. Perfectly rational since it's what he's been incentivized to care about.
Russia reveals U.S. confidential report about Obama plan....
The last tip on naming windows after remote hosts is nice! Now it'd be nice if we could run similar to ssh's LocalCommand on exit too. Turned out that I'm not the first to ask this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40899/ssh-localcomma...
With workaround too.

The downside is that if go like ssh A then ssh B, display doesn't update. But I don't this too often anyway.
TMTOWTDI: There's more than one way to damn it!
Can't you do the same thing with LESS?

body { .container; }

body > header { .page-header;
p { .lead; }
}

etc

Then you can make use of bootstrap's variables as well for customizing? Obviously personal preference LESS vs SASS, but no reason you _need_ to switch from the default
Because, after ten years, he will get out and become a model citizen. Right? If you don't deal with the root of the problem, the monster you create will be your undoing. If the feds keep doing this, it won't be pretty. They are creating a lot of monsters.
Reasoning from analogy is the wrong way of saying what people have in mind when they provide examples to explain what it is. To me, it sound more like reasoning form what already works. In most examples I have seen, it is mostly about solving a problem using existing solutions/packages available and add your own flavor to it. That's why the "analogy" thinking because that's how the idea is presented, people pitch the idea using other's solutions. But what Elon Musk is different from others is that his thinking is stemming from scientific research more than you think it is. It is asking about the right question by digging deep into the core of the problem until you cannot dig any further. For example, in Elon Musk's example of battery, you first start with a goal: how to build an electric cars that is cost effective. You break the goals down into smaller problems, and you could recognize that battery is the biggest contributing factor in providing the solution to this goal, then you ask, why is the cost of battery so high yet it yield so little? Then you break the problem down into further smaller problems such as the cost for each component that comprised the battery, then you keep reasoning from there until you can find a ground where you can start reasoning back up. Personally I think the name "First principle" is also misleading since it is not mainly about principles, but more about asking the right questions.
I'm not sure that this is a distinction (C++ vs. Python replacement) that means all that much.
Person says overly angry thing on the betweentubes

Yeah, stop the presses. If commenting online and especially on places like 4chan has taught me anything, it's that anonymity lets people vent their emotions in ways they never would face-to-face. I'm sure you can find a similar list of shit I've said online and acted like a psychotic asshole. I can probably compose part of that list right now off the top of my head. Sometimes you need to say the angry words and let people tell you you're wrong to learn things once your head cools down.
For many colo centers, there are both weight and power limitations on a per-rack (or per-cabinet / per-row) basis. One wouldn't want a ton of disks crashing through the (often raised) floor!

For compute clusters, power is often the limiting factor; for storage clusters, weight is often the limiting factor. If you put these clusters in a general-purpose colocation facility, you'll end up with half-full racks. Density on a per-rack-unit basis is not necessarily important for most of us.

Of course, if you're Amazon's size, you build your own facilities, and you can make sure to support the weight and power requirements of whatever custom hardware you can dream up!
He should have stolen a few billion dollars, and worked as a trader for HFT firm. He would have been promoted to a better paying job, instead of going to prison. Lack of vision I guess ...
And when can we put bounties on Facebook bugs?
Unless the definition of rehabilitation in the US is different from the rest of the world I don't see any attempts at that. What I have read is increasing "tough of crime" during the decades.

For effective rehabilitation program you need a few things - low sentences for non violent crimes , social norms that not reject the ex felons and allow the reintegration.

Also you need robust job market and social safety network.

And i think that sentencing should be done on scientific grounds and not moral ones.
Really great to see this finally available, not only for the streaming service, but because at this point Google seems to be the only one dealing with music lockers the right way.

I've been using Google Music as a backup of my library for quite some time, but recently have found using it as my primary player much more convenient that loading iTunes and dealing with iTunes Match, which IMO, is broken. (there is a side story her about moving countries, but that's for another time).

Would love to see a Rdio/Spotify-esque native application as well, but that might be asking a little too much.

EDIT: The lack of a online/offline music toggle is really disappointing.
This is true. However, the point of these offers is to rope in people who think of credit cards as "free money." I don't think Wallaby will drastically reduce the number of marks for these companies, since the people using Wallaby are going to skew smarter.
Nah, just have the major banks start issuing chip cards, and then providing chip terminals to merchants. Once the terminals are in-place and work, everyone else has a strong incentive to catch up (fraud prevention) and a lower cost of entry (since they don't have to push merchants to support their new tech).

Once a quarter of cards sport chips and a quarter of machines support chips, it's just a question of issuing new chip cards when old cards come due (or get lost/stolen).
Oh, when people raged their heads off because Xbox had 3 GB of memory dedicated to the system I kind of imagined that the PS4 didn't.
I'm not sure that's true. Maybe you're thinking about implementing GCM without lookup tables; GCM is most often considered in AES context, and is infamously tricky to do in software in constant time and reasonable speed.
Open Source Software used in PlayStation 4
If you can produce a collision against SHA-1 the Bitcoin network will pay you 2.47 BTC (which is worth about $1111 at the current market prices): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=293382.0
Judo business strategy...what? You're telling me that you that motivation is a bigger asset to a few 20 year olds than all of the scale, capital and business experience of Walmart, and therefore you'd rather compete against Walmart? Do you think Walmart became the dominant business it is today by just sitting around and not competing (and winning)?

Sorry, but I have to disagree. Capital, economies of scale, strong management, etc. -- these things are very real advantages and matter to the viability of a business. I'm not saying it's impossible to compete with entrenched businesses, but don't think for a second they're not able to compete right back because they don't have "judo business strategy."
I've known people who bought one way flights and came back when they wanted to. But making it a journey from one place to another seems really interesting.
For me, it helped me get less mad about Go. ;)

A Python replacement accepts that GC is mandatory, while a C++ replacement needs to not have a GC, as the most prominent example of this distinction.
Meet the Bronies: The adult men who like My Little Pony
Probably not. And, when it comes to crypto compatibility, there really is no such thing as "normal". It's all still early days.
Rap Genius Says It Will Seek Licenses for Lyrics
Ah, I see. The problem is that it uses PKCS #1 v2, which defaults to SHA-1. It seems OpenSSL does the same. That is unfortunate.
What is the Haven on NCL Cruises
Suggest these for a clickbait headline:

"This Company will REVOLUTIONIZE Education Technology... Why Haven't You Heard About Them?"

"Meet the CEO Who Says Most Learning Apps are TOTAL CRAP"
Actually, Joins are Easy in MongoDB.
Want to get over your fear of rejection? This game can help.
I plan on writing a follow up post with details and ideas on how to acquire users. I'd just say think outside the box. Particularly when it comes to writing. Don't just write for your own blog. Guest post with quality, useful content for other blogs (with readers). Also, always reference your product but you don't have to write directly about it.

Ex:
5 Ways to Get the Best Price on Christmas Gifts
Here's a very thorough spreadsheet from the FlyerTalk forums: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/17837493-post1.html

There are a handful of credit unions that issue dual C&S/C&P cards. It's a little harder to get one than an ordinary card, but probably worth it if you're traveling abroad. (I got one from Andrews.)
Nah, there will be a call for consultants to come in and fix the "Y2K55 Bug".
Lame Puns Ahead: You Know When You're A Programmer
Considering that there are people serving life sentences for stealing $200 shoes. 10 yeas for $700K seems low.
What really concerns me is that these Coin people are now selling, for a trivial fee, a system for other people to clone my card. If I lived in the US where mag stripes were the norm, I would be seriously concerned about this.

Thankfully, in Canada, everything is done via chips, so even with Visa purchases my card never leaves my hand (or at least, my sight). Restaurants bring the terminal to your table, they process everyone there, and then you're done. Sending your card away feels almost archaic now (and a bit patrician, which has its appeal).
Can it be configured as a distributed No SQL database like Cassandra?
Scraping isn't hacking
I hope he didn't really mean "swat" and it was simply misinterpreted by the writer. Perhaps he meant bringing in a SWOT team [1]. In big corps I've often heard SWOT used when an emergency happens.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis
King at the end of the meeting clarified that he never asked Oracle to bring in additional people – just better ones.

If the current batch of people can't get the job done, replacing them is reasonable.
More interesting is it is running FreeBSD:
http://www.scei.co.jp/ps4-license/
The elephant in the room for me is the legion of paying customers running old Microsoft browsers.

Microsoft's regrettable browser-tying/integration strategy has exacerbated web crypto problems. And it doesn't look like Microsoft is going to stop doing it, either--ten years from now we'll be dealing with whatever crypto suites the maximum IE version supports on Windows 7.

I'm picking on Microsoft here, but the same is true for any platform browser. Crypto suites need to be completely modular, enabling backporting to old environments.
You can magstripe in much of mainland Europe still.

The Chip and Pin machines have a channel to swipe. There are very few places where you hand over a card. For example, in the train stations, the machine to swipe a card is on the same side of the glass as the customer. The agent never handles your card.

So they might be more accepting of Coin (given that they don't see that it is different) than American businesses.
> it's less effort to target native apps per platform than to try and use something like PhoneGap for apps of reasonable quality and complexity.

Sorry, are you saying that it's the effort for you to build a native Android app, a native iOS app, a native Windows Phone app, and a mobile web app combined add up to more than the effort it takes to make a single web app and get it to run well on Phonegap on multiple platforms?

That's a pretty bold statement. Are you on a big team? I would expect you'd need at least a half dozen developers to pull off four separate apps, while I can easily imagine a single person building a web app that could run well in PhoneGap.

I just spent six months building a quite complex single page web app with the hope that I could in the future package it in PhoneGap (or similar), so if what you're saying is true then I'm fucked, because it would take me easily a full year to build 3 native apps of the same complexity. Probably much longer.
Ask HN: Could you copyright the data of an IP packet?
In the 'Winning at Candy Crush' thread, I suggested modification of network proxies to give a group of users unlimited lives (thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6739711).

As a response, bmohlenhoff suggested it could be a copyright violation. While I disagree in that specific case, it made me wonder: Could an entity copyright the data field of an IP packet in an effort to thwart in-flight modifications?

I can't think of a reason I like the legal ramifications of such a thing. I'm just curious if it's possible (from a legal sense).
This comes back to my other comment in another thread, that everyone should be outraged at the companies enforcing this type of work/life balance, not Microsoft.
How else are you going to get ads in to the UI easily?
I was up in Canada a few months ago, where EMV cards are ubiquitous. C&S is accepted everywhere, but merchants routinely get confused by the second receipt printing out. I've heard it's the same in Europe.
Bound Exciton: Reality of superfast quantum computers takes a leap forward
hacking is getting access to something you shouldn't have, which is not what he's done. It's definitely clever, don't get me wrong, but the use of word 'hack' here was solely for PR
It is stunning how this past year has changed my views on government. Between this massive healthcare fuck up, the spying, the shutdown, and all the rest that doesn't need mentioning, I am basically becoming a crotchety old conservative who says formulaic things like: "Government can't do anything right"; "Governments never give up power once you let them have it". I basically went from a liberal college student to a full blown conservative/libertarian (if I pigeonhole myself into common stereotypes). Of course, I'm not even that, because I wouldn't vote for those fucking idiots either.
I'm all for that, it's just that the tech press doesn't really cover companies that fit that description.
True, you're not wrong about the idiocy of '3 strikes' laws, but the problem with them is specifically that they remove discretion from the court, rather than the general concept of escalating punishment for serial offenses. If someone steals a pair of socks, a head of lettuce, and a blanket, they should not be automatically treated the same as someone who steals a Chevrolet, a Lexus, and a Porsche.

Sentencing laws in general are a really terrible idea IMHO.
Healthcare.gov will eventually be functional, but how secure?
Chegg IPO Implosion, Duping Main Street
This is a nice idea -- the biggest practical problem would be motion blur while the cameras are in flight. If thrown straight up, there's a moment of zero motion at the top that mitigates that problem, but it's still an issue the rest of the time -- fast shutter speed helps but rolling shutter complicates it. Note that you could still get plenty of parallax for 3D from throwing straight up, just not right above and below the camera path, so that minimizes the durability problem from landing on the ground. It also provides a nice prior estimate (and additional constraints) on camera poses for structure from motion as the ball has to obey gravity.

Edit: On the indiegogo page they specify throwing is mostly for outdoor use: "While throwing works great outdoors during daylight, you can also use the camera indoors or in the dark when mounted on a stick or handheld." This would be due to the motion-blur/shutter-speed/sufficient-light problem.
Show HN: Advanced Physics Library designed for Javascript and Node.JS
Win for all the other platforms with millions more users.
Games typically have a very different set of expectations in terms of their UI than "regular" apps. So, that works for games but not in general.
I'd like to try it out without signing up at all. Do you sign up for IRC?
No, he probably did mean SWAT. It's been used by management (as well as the term "tiger teams") to describe a supposed crack team of members that will just swoop in and get everything fixed.
Rehabilitative law went out of fashion in favor of "neo-liberal" policies in the late 70s/80s which put the focus back on individual responsibility instead of what was viewed as the "welfare" approach to rehabilitation in the 60s.

So I wouldn't call today's policies rehabilitative, they are very much neoliberalist, much like American economic policy.
Kent County Open Government site — an experiment on a low-resource VPS
As another Canadian:

1. Chip cards do make this almost completely irrelevant

2. Supporting EMV is going to be tricky, because cloning those cards is also tricky (skimmers have spent hundreds of thousands on it and haven't figured it out).

3. Most membership cards, even ones that have magnetic stripes on them, actually use the barcodes on the card. Safeway, CostCo, Shoppers, etc. all have mag stripes, but they all use the barcodes. The Coin won't help you with a single one of them.

4. If, as a cashier, someone handed me a Coin and said 'It's okay, it's a Visa', I would say 'no'. No signature, no card number, no anything. There's no difference from my perspective between a person putting their Visa onto the Coin and a person putting someone else's Visa onto the coin, and I'm not going to start accepting obviously cloned cards regardless of who's holding it.
This is a strategy template, not a trauma checklist. Unless you're intentionally being Ironic. BigCos may be slow and even dumb but they're not typically stupid.
Fascism is a term that is bandied about without much thought these days. Its well worth reading the overview on the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Many Nazi beliefs aren't strictly fascist, comparing with the Italian Fascist Party may provide some insight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fascist_Party It's easy to conflate the two, and while fascism and Nazism are cleary undesirable they are not the same.

Nazi apologists may for example concentrate on Holocaust denial, while having little time for an authoritarian nationalised state.
You map CTRL+A x2 to send CTRL+A to the shell, and it works.
Nvidia  Announces CUDA 6: Unified Memory for CUDA
> Unless the definition of rehabilitation in the US is different from the rest of the world I don't see any attempts at that.

I'm not saying the current system is rehabilitative, but rather that it's a perverse consequence of attempts in the 1960's at making the penal system rehabilitative. The rehabilitative approach shifted the focus from the offense to the offender. This is logical: in a penal system the punishment fits the crime. In a rehabilitative system, the punishment is tailored to the offender (ideally with an eye towards reducing recidivism).

That backfired, because it turns out criminal offenders aren't particularly sympathetic. Once the focus was on the offender, it became much easier for people to justify long sentences and harsh punishment than when the focus was on the crime in the abstract.

The deep irony of the focus on the offender is that it allows us to punish Jamal from the hood much more harshly than Johnny from the suburbs for the same exact crime, all because Johnny doesn't have a rap sheet of minor offenses and is socialized to look contrite and afraid at sentencing.