skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably something similar to the Gmail "Undo Send" example? Time limited reversal (in this case specified by user preference) to give you at least some amount of time to reverse your actions before they become permanent.

It's 5/10/20/30 seconds for an email, which seems like a good fit for that use case. Perhaps a Facebook profile delete or mail delete might be more like a 5 min/1 hour/1 day option set, since it doesn't interfere with the primary purpose (i.e. I wouldn't want to wait an hour for all my emails to get sent, but I might be OK waiting an hour for them to actually delete).
What truth there is in this article amounts to a (significantly outdated) survey of the state of women in society. All it presents is correlations. It's a mathematical fact that you can know nothing of causal effects between correlated results based solely on such statistics.

In other words, what this article is saying is:

1. Women are demonstrably less represented in STEM fields.

2. Women do demonstrably less well in certain metrics we associate with STEM fields.

3. This is because women are biologically less interested/able/adept at STEM.

Every bit of evidence in the article supports 1 and 2 (at least as of 20 years ago). The only support 3 gets is repeated statements that 2 is the natural, inevitable order of things.

There is no reason to believe a word of it.
It allows for multiple screens to be broadcasted and the screens to be sent to everybody. Everybody can also chime in. Apparently, it was a one way feed from the President to everyone else. Nobody could chime in. How is that a conference call.
>As a consumer, I say screw the internet of things.

I think this is attitude is throwing the baby out with the bathwater and just assuming the worst. The usefulness of knowing when something in my refrigerator is outgassing something harmful, remotely accessing how much flour I have left so when I am at the store I don't overbuy, or dialing in my energy usage are all very smart and efficient uses of the technology that make my life better and more cost effective.

As with everything the key to adoption is getting the user interface correct. The companies who are working on these things just haven't gotten that part right. I think it will take an industry approach to make these things work; a naiive example would be a milk carton that by default talks to the refrigerator about spoilage and quantity levels.
Grand People's Study House is apparently unheated..
This is a pretty shallow article - especially irritating because it's referenced with a bunch of things that have no relevance. I love in particular:

There are a lot of stupid guys out there. And when you mix stupidity and risky behavior, you often get death. In the United States, men make up about 92% of workplace deaths

Exercise for the reader to think about why that might be the case…

And another:

A study of attrition of women in engineering and science programs found that frequently cited barriers were isolation, lack of self-conﬁdence, and lack of interest in the subject matter (Brainard & Carlin, 1998). That’s hardly the stuff of societal discrimination.

That is exactly the stuff of societal (and social) discrimination. Not because people are saying "You're a woman, and you'll be rubbish at this," but because the extant lack of gender balance in these fields perpetuates itself; if women don't want to be scientists and engineers, it becomes harder for those women who do. There's a tipping point.

From a statistical point of view, there are ultimately psychological differences between men and women. That fact has as near as possible no relevance to this discussion - obviously so, because it's patently obvious that men are not - what, ten times better at running tech businesses? Twenty times better? And we can conclude from this that there is an obvious bias in terms of the people who end up running them.

Mika points out that there has been decades of work put into encouraging girls into STEM. That's true, kind of, but this is something which does take decades to achieve. Kids' career preferences can often start at a very early age, and the only way to improve the proportion of women in tech is by making the field open and accessible to young girls, and to promote that option to them.

Hamfisted "women are just different and we shouldn't worry about it" articles are probably not helping.
Game Changer Awards – Most Innovative Tech Products 2013
Someone remind me why wealthy businesses buying amendments to legislation isn't criminal corruption? I have a hard time remembering...
For reference, iirc last time I ran the numbers, SRP brute forcing has a work factor of 1000 compared to a single round of md5. Aka, not enough.
Then it works. Case closed.
I do think it is very good what his foundation is trying to achieve. But do you believe all his actions are good? Do you believe all his past actions regarding this issue were right? Beware of Halo Effect.
> there's little we can do about it

Absolute nonsense. We can lobby to have DRM-encumbered media state it explicitly on software packaging, not unlike the poison warnings on cigarette packaging. It's a horrible concept that deserves little else than derision and ridicule.

I'm in favor of a sliding scale of awfulness in DRM -- from simple watermarks, passive interference with gameplay, to always-on spyware. Innocent users get caught up in the DRM shitfest and their experience with the software is severely degraded where it can get so bad that people cannot even use the software/media that they paid for.

I'm not even going to get into the silliness of not owning the software/media that you pay for (eg: buying an ebook where you don't actually own your copy, but instead you're licensing its usage).
I predict "Your Home IoT Firewall for Dummies" is going to sell big.
I think we can agree that we don't know the facts about what"the person in question" (mike) chose to do that led to the terms of his parole being violated.

Maybe he was stopped and questioned by police, and couldn't get transportation back to the parole house in time. Maybe he was doing a drug deal our saving a burning bus full of children.

Parole officers aren't required to make exceptions for these things.

Reality its complex, which is why some networking algos have which is why h and failure modes.

He can choose to try, or choose to do his best, but he can't choose to amide by the terms any more than you can choose to catch the bus.
You should quote your vars in the if check, otherwise it doesn't handle spaces very well. (And really the master key should be a master passphrase.)

A few years ago I whipped this up: http://www.thejach.com/public/pw2 (I don't recommend other people use it but it works for me.) I type in something along the lines of "my secret passphrase ycombinator.com". It doesn't do hash iteration and uses the hash as a seed to Python's RNG which I use to get random bytes and then have a password character-space of any printable character -- it also outputs an alpha-numeric version along with different string sizes to handle those dumb sites that put restrictions on your password.
I actually like your reply.

I'd add that the mindset as well as experience of a service provider should contain a clear path for client to make more than the cost of the service.

And that includes the understanding that some clients are not willing to make money, even if they have valuable business to offer.
That happens more often than not and such clients needs to be filtered out early.
Nanoparticle Both Kills Cancer Cells and Helps Image the Killing Process
Pretty cool, nested classes do not work though. Throws "Method must have a return type".
Hardly IBM and Microsoft. The headline should read "thanks to easily bought senators". IBM and Microsoft don't have any real say, only the senators do. If the senators choose to destroy their own country for monetary gain, it's still not the fault of anybody else. This blame shifting is getting old.
The history of standardized testing and the history of statistics 'proving' that minorities are innately different in some way are inextricably linked. The original intelligence tests 'proved' to the American populace that Italian and Irish immigrants were intellectually inferior to Anglo Saxons because of their lower IQ scores. Magically, as those populations integrated, their IQ scores normalized. Oops.

This article reads like those (thankfully) classic evolutionary biology texts. Statistics bookend arguments that draw wild inferences. I feel sorry for the numbers, they're crying out, "Wait a second, I'm just a standardized test score, I can't tell you that it's because men always fashioned weapons! Weapons didn't even factor into my study!" How does it follow that standardized test scores can prove anything about nature vs. nurture, especially when they have a history of not doing so?

It's a hallmark of that area of modern evolutionary biology to say, "I'm saying what everyone else is afraid to." Well, people are afraid to say it because they're afraid to say wrong things! One should not ignore statistics that show differences between populations, but one should certainly not use them to confirm one's own essentialist beliefs.

Especially in this environment. The burden of proof should be squarely and severely on the one arguing that differences are innate, not on those arguing that differences are malleable/cultural. Why? Because once society has concluded that differences are innate, then glass ceilings turn into concrete ceilings, and discrimination becomes institutionalized.
6 Years of IT Toil Is Worth, Um, a 3% Raise
That settles it, I was tossing around whether to get the Xbox One or the PS4. I'm voting with my wallet and getting the PS4. Fuck Microsoft.
It took me 7 tries before it found an edm group I asked it. LTJ Bukem and Dillinja don't make the cut.

These services are clever, but I usually know all of their suggestions. :-(

And yes, I'm trying to do better.
...there are many campaigns that are no longer active or have relevance. The learnings from that can be made public.

Sure, that could have value. It would require a long term pre-publication plan that says, "At some point, I'm going to trash this successful campaign so that I can write a book." I don't know that you do that though, do you? If you're making $10,000/yr with AdWords, would you really trash that so you could make $10,000/yr with a book that's going to be "stale" within a year or two?

FWIW Perry Marshall's basic guide to AdWords is a good start for most people.
Ender’s Game is Already a Reality for the U.S. Military
Is there a variant of SRP that would provide the same level of protection against a server hack as bcrypt?

Edit: it looks like it should be possible to replace H() in SRP with bcrypt or scrypt. Wouldn't that mitigate brute forcing from server hashes?
I've came to like some of the components of ghost:
https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/ghost
- An app that can come up with billion dollar startup ideas.
I'm from the US but I thought similarly when I read that. Absolutely disgusting that she'd compare arguably the worst human rights violator in history's regime with the US's rather humane prisoner treatment. Inexcusable alarmism from an academic. And most people here already have an imaginary chip on their shoulder concerning the US (most of them actually American) so of course they'd passively agree.
"She went to Germany since she had German citizenship (he didn't)."

They were married and had been for a long time (i.e. demonstrably not a "sham marriage"). The husband would have got a permanent residency and work visa in Germany.
At least the number of broadcasts and their account status as a "Broadcaster" are publicly visible:

http://mixlr.com/organizing-for-action/
> The world at large isn't ready to hear these statistics, and overall that is probably a good thing.

I agree. Research and data might make people feel bad, and not making people feel bad is obviously way more important than increasing knowledge.

> We shouldn't accept these disparities as driven by natural forces until we've tried everything we can imagine to try to bring the differences in line.

I agree. Personally I think we should withhold all math education to males until they are 21. We can discontinue this policy when there is a 50/50 gender split among all STEM workers, educators, and investors.

> we should assume and act as though differences are due to bias long after the differences are well proven to be natural

Yep. 1+1=3. Doesn't matter if you can prove that 1+1=2.

> It is a case where being wrong in one direction is not very costly, but being wrong in the other direction (and thus institutionalizing bias) is disastrous.

Yep, unimaginable catastrophes.
Nothing. There could be genetic differences between people of African descent and others and these might affect intelligence.

In fact, we know there are genetic differences, we just don't know that they affect intelligence.
Gmail's "undo send" functionality faces a similar but different problem: once an email has actually been sent, there is no way to undo it. They way they solve that is by letting you configure a delay, so you have some period of time in which the email hasn't actually been sent yet so you can undo it.

Something similar could work here. When you delete some data, it gets soft deleted (still exists in your database/etc, but is considered deleted by the application). After a matter of minutes (hours?), it gets actually deleted. You've got a grace period in which you can undo the delete, and then it's gone forever.

Since the most common use case for an 'undo' feature is undoing something you did very recently, that should strike a good balance.
Some chinese, korean, japanese have very flat faces. You cannot tell anything from reading them.
Why is this here? Holley, Khorana, and Nirenberg got the Nobel Prize for figuring out the genetic code in 1968 so this isn't a new result. And I don't see anything technically interesting about the implementation of this web page. (Not trying to be snarky, just puzzled.) If this page gave the 3-D structure of the protein, that would be cool.

Edit: if you don't understand the genetic code and DNA, you really should learn a bit about it since it will help you understand a whole lot of tech things. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code
I'm surprised OFA thought it'd work at their scale at that price point. I'd definitely be cautious and offer to pay more if I was their procurement officer. It could definitely ruin your night.
I used to have similar problem where I lived...

The USPS guy would regularly heave a package over a fence onto a stone patio (fragile packages be damned). Or lasership (a last mile carrier) would never actually deliver on time despite marking it in their tracking system as delivered (yet they would magically show up the next day claiming that it must have accidentally been delivered to a neighbor, though none ever claimed they did).

I would gladly pay a premium to choose delivery companies.
The tablet memory mark-up scandal
Show HN: My first iOS app: FrameParty (snapchat + photo frames)
Of course not. He ran a powerful company in a ruthless manner. I just said it's daft to think he's personally involved in this particular event.
Should we have associations, guilds, licensing?
Everything looks like Eastern Europe in the 80s, except that, as many people noted already, nobody is smiling.
Funny how the actual API we want on 90% of these devices is actually all pretty similar:

Read/write the on/off mode, and get text notifications with severity (Info/Warning/Emergency). This is not some nightmarishly complicated interface. I'm sure we can all visualize what a good cellphone app would look like.

It seems like the big hurdle with home automation is the lack of a standard server for all the client devices to connect to. The challenge will be getting these disparate appliance companies to sit down and agree to anything... that won't happen until a big player gets enough of them onboard to make it a "must-have" feature.
In cases of bribe, do you blame only the receiver, or the one who gives bribe, too?

And as a non-American I fully see this as nothing but bribing. The only difference is that in US paying money to pass or fail bills like this is "legal".
You think that California and BC have similar population densities? Not even close.
While it is a good point, I don't think that's directly analogous: I was talking about population statistics and biases that lead to different outcomes in different groups.

Two similar but not identical dichotomies:
* A population difference is due to innate differences vs a difference is due to systemic biases
* An individual difference is due to innate makeup vs a difference is due to individual choices

The question: Why is the % of people with X characteristic in Y profession lower than the average. Applying my proposed standard above to that question, assume differences are due to biases until sumarily proven, we still aren't encouraging or abiding discrimination when X characteristic is sexual orientation.
Do you mean congressmen?
Overeducated? What is the optimal level of education?
I don't know what the original, now-deleted message said, but Gates is still chairman of Microsoft's board. I'm sure he isn't micromanaging lobbying efforts, but he definitely has more than nothing to do with this.
I have the Superlux HD681, which are pretty close to the HD668. They sound great. The amount of sound they leak is modest, but they are definitely not great as far as isolation goes. In general, I'd go with in-ears if isolation is important to you. If you can't tolerate in-ears, a good pair of closed headphones like the ATH-M50 will do well, but you'll have to pay more $ for the same sound quality (at least in my experience).

For some extremely comprehensive comparisons, see http://www.head-fi.org/t/478568/ (in-ears) and http://www.head-fi.org/t/433318/ (portable headphones).
I wish they went more into detail about the devise itself. I was hoping to see a picture.
It sort of makes sense. I suppose, in my naive understanding, that it would somewhat reverse the current situation. Right now, you invest by buying stocks, bonds, etc., because cash loses value over time and stocks hopefully gain value. If we all used bitcoin, though, then you could viably "invest" by simply saving your bitcoins. The currency itself would be the investment rather than something else. Obviously, though, you'd still have to spend money in order to acquire anything.

I'm really out of my depth economically here, but couldn't this inadvertently lead to a sharp drop in general investment in publicly traded companies?
You have two real options here:

In Ear:
On in ear, you should spent the extra money for custom ear molds. This will allow for all day comfort:
http://www.sensaphonics.com/

If the headphones you are considering are not on this list, then I would not consider them.
I like shure, but you can also get etymotic research.

Over Ear:
Beyer Dynamic DT 770. Velour ear pads (for all day comfort and isolation)

I have owned: Shure E2C, E4C with custom molds, Shure 840, Beyer Dynamic DT 770, Bose TriPort (previous lightweight champion, but lacking on sound)

I have tested extensively: Audio Technica m50 (more base response), beats (too much bass), All kinds of sennheiser under $150, and various other brands under $200.
Good for you. I threw my win phone out of my car in anger the other day and broke it. I will not be buying another.

I've already decided not to renew my MAPS and MSDN subs again in December thanks to the epic crack smoking going on.
Supercomputing's big problem: What's after silicon?
AdWords is not so simple that you can setup a successful campaign just by following a guide.

Your question is like asking "Is there a complete guide for how to set up a successful business?" There are too many what-ifs for any guide to be comprehensive.

Seeing actual production campaigns is a great way to learn, but beyond the basics this doesn't always teach you much about what to do in your own campaign unless it is in the same vertical.

If you give me some details about what you are trying to accomplish I can give you some guiding principles. Reply here and I'll reply in public or email is in my profile if you prefer.
"Fastest growing" ... http://xkcd.com/1102/
Really quite neat. The sound of this thing is incredible.
I photo bombed a wedding photo in that same spot. Apparently most Pyongyang weddings include a family photo there, several a day. They were not smiling in their photos, and I don't think the bride smiled at all (the dress and makeup didn't look entirely comfortable). However, there was plenty of smiling in between photos, mostly caused by the awkwardness of our inability to communicate.

That reminds me, I read somewhere that people in North Korea tend to smile when uncomfortable.

In an amusement park, at a bowling alley, at dancing events, in the park, and playing in streams, it seemed like people smiled about as much as you would expect them to anywhere else. I encountered some who wouldn't stop smiling.

What always tends to happen with photos and conversations of certain things (e.g. DPRK) people tend to see what they want to see and manifest their own narrative. Tend to.
I wonder how people associated with Microsoft and IBM deal with the morality issues surrounding them. What they are doing is clearly evil and detrimental to innovation.

Bill Gates receives a lot of credit for his humanitarian work; but at least part of that wealth seems ill-gotten. In my mind, real heroes are people like Torvalds and Stallman; relatively unknown but the impact of their contributions might have already superseded what Gates has been able to accomplish.
Not so much windows, but if you run your app in ie, you will run out of memory in a day or so. I had auto reboot every night at midnight. On the other hand I have run a small tomcat server on a cheap hp box running bare minimum win7, and it literally ran for years without an issue.
What’s Wrong with Healthcare.gov: A Technical Run-Down
Even the DoE is trying to help battery technology along with $120 million in research funding.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/142155-doe-calls-for-a-...
I hope that this article is a witty attempt at self satire!
Software patents reform -> medical patents reform -> cheaper drugs?

He still did not comment on his Monsanto investment shenanigans.
turkey is shit js
I can't say much about the actual environment, as I'm not an R programmer, but I can say that I really dig the tutorial you guys set up, with the flow of dialog boxes pointing out different features. Well done there.
Forget the measuring tape, find Waldo with Mathematica! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-wal...
Because the founding fathers were exceptionally rich businessmen, and wanted to found a representative democracy of successful businessmen?
Yeah, all those building codes do is put a big layer of ineffective bureaucracy between the people who architect and do construction and getting work done.

Yeah, all those sanitation codes do is put a big layer of ineffective bureaucracy between the people prepare food and getting work done.
WHy is this here?
Except it doesn't seem like people are saying "lets get this measurement right so we know what needs to be done". Instead it sounds a lot more like a self-righteous group determining what isn't and isn't the correct way to do things so that we can begin getting noise free measurements.
Any explanation for the downvotes? I concede the value of rapid application development, but objective-c itself doesn't provide this at all - rather the libraries like UIKit or Cocoa coupled with the Xcode development environment do this.

Objective-C is measurably bad for my code. I have reams of data to support this... and its all trivially reproducable.
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