skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original article may have been wrong, but I agree with the last paragraph, that says we should focus on individual discrimination rather than ratio of men and women in particular area.

I think that the position, that men and women are on average completely mentally equal, is untenable. People are not blank slates, and since there are obvious biological differences in physical appearance, I find it very improbable that there are no differences in thinking as well. And there are actual studies to prove that, I believe.

That's my main gripe with the argument by ratios, because it implicitly relies on something biologically factual, that may not even be true. But in my view, equality (of opportunities) and non-discrimination is moral regardless whether or not men and women (or other groups, for that matter) are actually on average different or not. And in my view, by depending on biological facts, rather than arguing from moral standpoint, the equality proponents may shoot themselves to the foot.

But even if they were equal, there can still be perfectly valid cultural reasons for the gap, and no discrimination is necessary to explain those (it's an argument from dynamical systems which I already explained elsewhere). So while percentages can indicate discrimination, and in many cases do, they are not a sufficient condition for that.

I also have to say, although it will sound harsh, that while there is lot of discussion about women in IT and on the company boards, there isn't much discussion about more women in military or plumbing or construction. I think the money and prestige aspect (that the former jobs are better paid) plays a role in this as well. So maybe if the prestige difference between those jobs would be less, the people would be freer to pursue their interests, without ratios or money dictating them otherwise.

In other words, what is the purpose of having equal number of men and women in some field? Is this a complaint about money and prestige, or individual satisfaction with the selected job? Each case should be addressed differently, and I can think of better solutions for either of them than trying to impose equal ratios.

(That said, just for the record, I think that positive discrimination is in many cases helpful.)
only if the company incorrectly assume that their signing will be overlooked by most of their customers.

If a big fuss was made about such problems, they might chagne their tune.
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IIRC the one with the biggest fallout was some Pakistani ISP which fucked up a YouTube block order - they broadcasted the null-route to the entire Internet and Google couldn't do anything, lol.

I never heard the 'Pakistan shutting off Youtube globally'-story, so for those equally interested:
http://www.renesys.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nanog43-hi...
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This is hilarious and as a bonus it induces the warm, smug feeling I get when reminded I'm thankfully out of the dating game and happily married to a beautiful, smart woman. Good luck, kids.
The first comment is sort of a buzzkill:

"I guess I see what’s supposed to be funny here, Rob, but I don’t think everyone will. As the man behind an awfully high-profile startup, I don’t think this is likely to attract any beneficial attention to you, and may very well attract some negative attention. Even if this is meant in good fun, I’m not sure it’s in your best interests."
Freedom, in Stallmans words, is not meant to be 'free as in beer' (like free skype calls). Instead he refers to the freedom to read, modify, understand, and ultimately choose everything about the software that you use. I.e. be able to answer these questions (say about Skype):

- Is any communication not properly encrypted

- Is your communication being spied on / being recorded

- Is there a way to add feature "x" to the application

- Is there a way to remove feature "x" from the application

- Is there a way to use the application on your specific hard / software

With Skype, none of that is possible. You can't see what's happening with your Skype calls internally, you can't see if there's somebody else listening. If Skype comes out with a new interface, and you really don't like it, you can't change it, if Skype removes support for older operating systems that you just happen to have to use because your IT department still wants to run Windows XP, then you can't support, change or fix any of it.

Of course, Skype is a free product, so you may say the proverbial never look a gift horse in the mouth, but Emacs is also a free product, and provides all these benefits I listed above.

You have to understand Stallman as someone who is concerned about the future, not so much about the now. Right now using Skype is all fine, but imagine the world in 20 years time, when everything is connected to software, and every movement you make is tracked. Wouldn't it be nice if all the software then would be fully transparent, allowing you to see every detail that is happening, and change it all to your liking, without being afraid of what happens if you do this or that.

Sounds like an utopist dream right? And Stallman is the guy who tries to fight for it, however unwinnable the fight may seem.
I'm torn on this.

On the one hand high frequency dating is a good thing because it adds liquidity to the market.

On the other, it raises the risk of of increased volatility and flash crashes (when your partner finds out).
To add to that, the grazing animals don't need the antibiotics just to survive their conditions, only the ones in concentrated confinement need them.
Understanding downside is much more crucial for continual survival than upside: what is the worse case scenario, bottom line analysis - are the heuristic tools routinely used by people the world over.

A new solution to bacterial infection control problem is due and it might come with even greater benefits than antibiotics. The article makes us appreciate the pain of the problem and puts a greater value on achieving a solution.
Ask HN: How to go about Open Sourcing a product?
Our startup has a cloud storage gateway product that can talk to multiple cloud storage providers. This product has not seen a good uptake in India, due to a variety of reasons. We are considering open sourcing the product to gain higher visibility among the interested audience.

What are tactics used to open source a project, that can help us gain a good community & (hopefully) garner traction. I remember seeing a couple of links earlier this year on how to successfully open source a project. Unfortunately my search did not yield any useful results. Any pointers?
Awesome ! very usefull !
if google trends is your criteria for investing you should probably go long justin bieber.
He explains this here: http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Paragraph starting with "I firmly refuse.."
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This is a low level, data-structure type of library, whereas the one we wrote is part of a stack between HTTP and SPDY.
I'll be voting LibDem too. They stand up for civil liberties more than Labour or Conservative. Hell, I would vote for a party that had Ron Paul's values and I am far from being right wing. At least he would strongly fight against the erosion of civil liberties and that's the top priority for me.
Spot on. One should also keep in mind that when photography was something new and rare people also took it very seriously and didn't smile in the 'western' world. If you only get relatively few number of pictures taken over the course of your life you want to leave a respectable impression for the future generations. I'm not sure about how wide-spread and available photography is in NK but that might also have to do with this.
I second this. So tiny, yet with such great sound quality.
AHK is based on AutoIt v2.
Indeed he's not an economist (not am I). GDP is not highly correlated to money supply, and the value of bitcoin will largely depend on how it is implemented in that 1% of transaction. If bitcoin is used as a transactional currency, there is much less value than if it is used as a value store.
Why is Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble on this list?
Interestingly, I've actually been put forward as an interviewee for two of the companies on the front of the linked page (Gamma + Cobham) by your usual nefarious job agents trying to get anyone in anywhere for a chunk of commission. My speciality is code, data and operational security so I assume they were interested on that basis.

The agencies and the companies themselves describe them in a completely different fashion, almost as if they have to hide what they really do to get people interested.

I turned both down on the telephone interview stating my objection and why.

The agent gave me a face full over it because I embarrassed him to his clients. I told him to pick some better clients.

I get the feeling that a lot of these places hide what they do until you get there. The agents will sell you to whoever as well. Watch where you step.
Scala is more popular now than Python was at the same age, and it is used for much more serious stuff than currently Python is.
Call me when JavaScript supports threads and not just web workers :(
>high frequency dating is a good thing because it adds liquidity to the market.

Ewwwww.

The door to a whole world of truly unsavory double-entendre has been opened.
The Bitcoin Hype Cycle
I think it can safely be stated that the law changes makes life easier for "regular" prostitution, i.e. prostitution going by the law. It doesn't criminalize anymore, it doesn't exclude. It's not just about welfare, like the article seems to mockingly assert at a point, it is about social security, medicare, ...

As for whether it leads to more prostitution overall, that is not scientifically established.

Admittedly, there is a sector of prostitution, where that law didn't change a thing. That's where the actual crimes happen.

Nobody created the liberalization laws with the intent to lower prostitution rate overall.

The situation before was a bit more aweful than with the (liberal) law. Prostitution was legal, but only doing it. When it came to legally enforce payment, sex workers didn't have much in their hand. That arguably supported pimping and bringing the "sex business" into shady regions.
How would a work of sardonic fiction affect this man's reputation?
This is simply brilliant. The escalation from a typical nerd's "I've optimised my social life" post to absurdity had me in stitches.
Should I get some salt for you to rub in?
LOL! I just got at the robot part that this was a fiction :P
It denies freedom to the software more than freedom to the person. For copyleft licences the software is most important; for permissive licences people are most important.
See http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-deve... for a source and some diagrams explaining the BGP routes. The accident occured back in 2008, and Wikipedia carries a list of successful, big BGP hijacks at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking
This is pretty amazing stuff! Makes me wonder what else is written in that Codex Atlanticus. Anyone got a link to a digital version of the original manuscript?

PS: Yes, the word "Codex" especially in conjuction with Da Vinci reminds me of Assassin's Creed
I have found WYSIWYM concept (What You See Is What You Mean) and WymEditor[1] in particular a very useful solution, at least for website editing.

Previously I have used Xinha, FSCKEditor and similar, but there was always some problem with the resulting markup. WymEditor copes much better in this regard... (not affiliated, just really like the concept and WymEditor)

[1] https://github.com/wymeditor/wymeditor
> All this being said, I do agree that you can't really distinguish nature from nurture.

I agree with this as well, and I would go further in that. I think, in moral arguments, we should just assume "nurture", and that what is the "nature" is uninteresting for the moral argument to apply. So whether or not men and women are equally good at IT by biology is completely irrelevant to the question of discrimination.

I also think this approach will yield best results, because it was shown that people who believe in hard work ("nurture") tend to persist more and in the end be more successful than those who believe in talent ("nature").
FireFox 25.0.1 :/
If an adversary seizes your servers wouldn't you have bigger worries like getting them back or complaying with the warrant?
Don't let the critics get you down! Don't WAIT for success to document it! Start documenting and showing off! gives you more of an incentive to keep at it
> Everything that runs on Linux is accounted for. Every binary that runs in the memory has a very specific purpose, and everything in the kernel is screened by a mountain of people. Nothing is actually happening without the user knowing about it.

This has exactly nothing to do with Linux.
echo "127.0.0.1 subsonic.org" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
Fair enough. But then he says:

> Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.

Let's go over your list for an ordinary phone call. Here the 'client app' is your phone terminal, and the 'server' is the phone operator.

> - Is any communication not properly encrypted

Yes, it's not encrypted at all.

> - Is your communication being spied on / being recorded

I would say yes, at a similar level of probability as a skype call.

> - Is there a way to add feature "x" to the application

> - Is there a way to remove feature "x" from the application

The specs for the phone terminal are not open-source, so you can only do that with some hacking. The same is true for skype, even though there it might be more complicated technically.

> - Is there a way to use the application on your specific hard / software

Irrelevant for a physical phone.

The main difference between the skype client and a phone, is that a phone follows an open protocol, and therefore you can build your own. This is the only reason I can think of why using a phone is 'free' while using skype is not. But I think that if the skype protocol was made open, Stallman would still argue that it is not free and therefore should not be used, and therefore I do not understand his argument.
I don't understand the competition argument. Technology is competitive? Somehow I've missed that throughout my career.

I'm also not sure about the maths argument. Anyone got the stats for accountants? There are more women, I think?

When I started in this industry, almost all the IT specialists had come straight from the accounting department. And the sexes were split 50/50. But even then it was very obvious that the next, university trained, generation were predominantly male.

This post has failed to convince me that the issue is anything other than cultural - from the earliest age. By the time we're thinking about careers, there are so many barriers against women that the effect seen is inevitable.
I love the Slate Political Gabfest. I attended a live show in Chicago, and it was great fun; I strongly encourage anyone who likes the show (and/or who is interested in politics) to attend.

Two other great podcasts, for those interested in US politics, are The Political Scene (from the New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/podcasts/), and Ken Rudin's "Political Junkie," done by a funny former NPR reporter and analyist (http://kenrudinpolitics.com/).
Have you noticed that people who don't get the joke are unable to consider that other people might?

Jokes are funny when they punch up [at people with more power/status]; they're asinine when you punch down. This is an excellent satire, which should have become obvious when the robot shows up...
Israeli restaurant: Turn off phone, get 50 per cent discount
Just Backed this up, and i had a chance to talk to their team and they are super nice, intelligent hardware makers in Egypt, if not the best.the kit uses the hardware components in your mobile device as if its embedded inside, and communicated with your device over a secured bluetooth channel.
Outlawing prostitution will end in the same shit like the war on drugs in the USA.

The politicians see the problems and try to erase them instead of thinking about the causes.

The problem isn't people having sex for money or people giving money for sex. The problem are those who force other ones to do their bidding.
> for-profit pharmaceutical companies aren't going to touch it because it isn't profitable enough.

may be it isn't profitable enough because the other problems they chose to focus on is more "important" in the eyes of society.

I see profitability as a measure of how important society sees a problem as. Not what people say, or what is morally important, but actual market decisions that drives such profits is the real source of truth.
> Yes, it's not encrypted at all.

Right, but at least you can tell. No-one knows whether the encryption Skype claims to be applying actually works. And you can integrate an encryption system into a phone if you want to, whereas if you try and do that with skype they'll change the client so that your thing doesn't work any more.

> The specs for the phone terminal are not open-source, so you can only do that with some hacking.

Speak for yourself. There are open source phones available if you want them. There are no open-source skype clients.

> Irrelevant for a physical phone.

Sure. But I don't have to use a physical phone. I can run a virtual phone on my freebsd box, whereas I can't run skype.

> The main difference between the skype client and a phone, is that a phone follows an open protocol, and therefore you can build your own. This is the only reason I can think of why using a phone is 'free' while using skype is not.

That's not a small difference; I'd say it's the most important difference.
The stone tunnel could become a great game.

The player flies along the tunnel. They are faced with walls, and they need to mine / shoot past the walls. Some blocks in the wall are hard to get through, but score more. Some blocks in the wall are easier to get through, but score less. Occasionally some stones in the walls are power ups - rapid fire or explode the wall or slow the tunnel speed.
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That is fair. Open software could save many lives too (potentially more than the quoted hundreds of millions), but it is definitely a lot less clear or certain.

Also, wow! I knew malaria was a big deal, but I didn't realize it was that big.
The drug wars already tell us you can't get rid of some perceived evil by outlawing it when theres a huge intrinsic demand. Outlaw the buyers, the sellers, the importers.. it has all been tried a billion times, and all attempts have failed.

The problem with the laws in Germany is that liberal laws can't change society. If prostitution is this shady thing where only drug addicts work.. well then no matter the laws, the development of a proper industry is harmed. It will take at least another generation to get rid of the old mindset.
I think that your statement about Sweden being consensus driven is spot on. Whether it be issues on drugs, sex or religion we tend to pretty much have a consolidated view on things - and contrasting opinions are considered extreme. Imagine living in the bible belt, but replace the bible with politically correctness and you have Sweden in a nutshell.
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Ok. To exploit any vulnerability the attacker have to do something. It's just obvious. I don't understand what you're trying to make clear.

> and attacker handcraft an http request packet, bypassing encode and sanity checking which is required in most HTTP client implementations

Well, it's not something hard to do. You don't have to dwell on this. To talk HTTP you don't even need HTTP client (sic!). Telnet or netcat can be easily used instead. I usually use them while configuring web-servers, most admins and devs usually do so.
> smug feeling I get when reminded I'm thankfully out of the dating game

I on the other hand get a warm, smug feeling from knowing that if my girlfriend decides not to see me anymore (or I get bored, whichever comes first), new prospects are a walk to the nearest club/bar away. Good luck to you too.
Fuck all. Different figureheades and parties serving the same idea.
OK. I realized this is not a product yet. I have to admit that I missed it. I apology for bad attitude.
Up to the fourth paragraph I was going to post something patronising about it being a great way to get a fuck buddy but a bad way to form a relationship.

However, having finished the post, I now think that a long term relationship leading to marriage and children would be possible. Some tweaking might be required. Ideally, a long and meaningful relationship could develop with 0 physical contact.
I wasn't suggesting any proprietary APIs or libraries - only that we get to use the /language/ of our choice.

Also I'm not talking about 'functionality [...] from other technology stacks' - I'm talking about getting to choose the programming language.

To current client code, everything would function exactly as before. It's just that you would be able to write new code in any language that can compile to the bytecode the VM understands.

The set of languages available through Emscripten doesn't compile most popular languages. If it did, it would likely fulfil what I'm hoping for, but I'd still be interested in whether it's the best option to compile to a subset of JS in order to run on a VM designed for JS.
If you just want a common runtime, what's wrong with java apps (or the CLR or similar efforts)?

(I mean yes, performance sucks and swing looks terribly ugly, but those were once the same problems on the web; they're not unsolvable by any means)
Clegg's LBC phone in/interview this morning mentioned the topic of surveillance:

http://www.lbc.co.uk/call-clegg-live-blog-67695
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> Then, they'd be happy to pay pennies for safe, secure and clean email system.

That's a pretty big leap of faith right there.

The truth is we already have a cryptosystem that is not only free, but always works. We have had it for years: PGP. Only the extremely savvy use it. We have a non-free one that does cost a mere "few pennies:" digital certificates. Only the insanely savvy use it.

The existence of a system does not imply its use. That should be common knowledge for people who hang around on a website that is mostly geared toward startups.
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But it is so typical for the Economist to make far fetched claims. In my view it is one of the most overrated magazines. Their use of statistics or their pseudo objective way of juxtaposing views doesn't hide that essentially their articles are just a collection of anonymous opinion pieces.
Hah. I like how they describe their figure of "400,000 prostitutes catering to 1m men a day" as the "best guess". What they really mean is that - as usually happens with this issue - some politician or activist group (probably either right-wingers or a feminist group that wants to impose the Swedish model on Germany) has made up a number out of whole cloth. Every time you see a statistic like this, always try and find the actual factual basis for it - good luck though because it won't exist!
what sort of SaaS products are in demand?

I wish there's a list of web products that people want, but doesn't currently exist (or exists in a poor form).
I also have some lemon juice, in the fridge.
Karma - an ingenious appraisal system designed at Digicorp
So you have done a poorly designed website which is nothing but yet another uploader with file compression (using third party tools) and some other falsely claimed features (caring about privacy while using Google Analytics, AdSense, Disqus and did not dig much more). This is an okay idea, but being serious here, this does not take more than a few days to develop and should not have much attention, except if there are surprising features I am not aware of.