skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is a good alternative to twitter? (Preferably open source and being used?)
So did she get @girlgeeks back then?
It's actually based on Relation theory, but Set theory is pretty much a requirement.
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so these "journalists" sold souls to devil to be able to report on devil and at the end of the day devil will get their souls anyway and they won't get any reporting done too. Not to have a cake and not to eat it too -- one would like to say!

Journalists are there to report. These guys are in trouble because they forgot about it what their jobs are all about.
Are cryptocurrencies the new dotcom stocks?
If you don't know what an I2C interface is, then you're not in a position to make the criticism that you made. If you were at all interested in expanding your knowledge, a simple google search would reveal that it's a ubiquitous serial interface for communicating with peripheral chips. All that requires more work than just blindly making critical comments on an online message board though, so why bother?
How is this getting upvoted?

There is literally zero information here. Girlgeeks might as well be a 4chan harrassment account.
Then the agencies are endangering their own countries. It is simple math - the world produces much more geniuses that NSA employs (or GRU or anyone). If you deliberately introduce weakness someone will find it. And the entity may not be friendly.

The problem comes because the win of the cold war somewhat skewed the western view of their own capabilities.

When NSA had adversaries that they deemed worthy - they took the effort to strengthen everyone's communications. Right now while looking at the others with disdain and (wrongly) refocused the efforts on terrorism - they prefer weak networks.
jarofgreen comment has a great link. http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/comment/2011/who-owns-your-t...
Not "always". Prior to the downforce era, it wasn't unusual to use a single set of tires for several race weekends.
Never heard about her before, but here's the account in google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?output=search&...
I have one.

> "4chan Pass users may bypass ISP, IP range, and country blocks"
> "Pass users cannot bypass individual (regular) IP bans."

So, if some random spammer uses the same VPN server, it gets blocked by an individual ban. This rapidly happens to all popular shared VPNs.
It's not minor. What you should be considering is how many of the coors+miller drinkers would have drunk other things without the blanket advertising.

A better example: Coke vs Pepsi. Two big brands. Lots of people will claim they choose whichever they drink without advertising making their mind up for them. Yet there are plenty of other colas out there, with very similar tastes, that hardly anyone drinks. This is low technology stuff, sugar water, it's not that hard to make a cola drink taste good. The reason why people only buy the big brands? Marketing.
Nationalism is mostly pretty evil IMHO, but nation states are actually providing a crucial role as a check on the power of corporations, the boards of which would otherwise be defacto global lords. The tension of diplomacy between nation states is critical to keeping everyone honest. My biggest fear for the future of the planet is a consolidated world government with real power (as opposed to the United Nations) because I think serious corruption would be unavoidable over time.
yeah, and been building it(herself) to over 7000 followers.
To my eyes, they're trying to bring attention to a non-existant problem (that has been solved pretty darned well with casual games ages ago) to increase readership on a pretty flamey topic, together with their twitter buddies.

I believe there are very fundamental differences between males and females and that the optimal game design would target very specifically those differences (or at least be very aware of them), unless the core of the design is the actual male-female dynamic or ecosystem. It is also more optimal to target one or the other because of the ad networks in today's world.
I believe that if you need to upload a press release on your Website it's far too late. The damage has been done at that point. If you don't even fact-check on these kind of posts that destroy people's companies & lives you're just not worthy.
And to me it isn't hypocrisy, since the main argument to CAH against Penny Arcade was that they screwed their expo over by drawing that kind of negative attention to it.
Why are more programmers not freelance these days?
Whitfield Diffie
I usually also bring up these arguments, but there’s also one more possibility: she actually likes pink. Like, I like pink too, and pretty sure I’m not a girl.

The problem isn’t that some girls pick pink, it’s that the pink is chosen for them. Even if 90% of girls preferred pink by default (which, as far as we can tell, they don’t), it would still be an issue if the 10% got it effectively forced upon them.

While feminists often talk against false dichotomies and essentialism, the biggest point is that even if the differences were true, the amount of „exceptions” is high enough to care.

But, finally, about the „power of marketing” thing: yes, marketing is quite terrifyingly powerful, and I’ve seen enough of it effectiveness of work to think so. That’s why I find people who think that they „ignore advertising” a bit on the ridiculous side. Maybe there’s a few cases where you noticed it and managed to overcome it, but there’s just no way you’re unaffected by it.
Aside from space issues I don't think you'd need to spend any weight on safety gear at all.

To keep the audience alive, the track safety upgrades would be unfortunately expensive for track owners.

To keep the cars on the road, I suspect expensive track modifications would eventually be required. Perfectly vertical turns, perhaps.
She's the woman behind this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Geeks_Scotland
Indeed, updated my comment to be more accurate :)
I am not sure there is evidence our brains are wired differently http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/02/men-women-bra...

and different behaviour can be observed among girls and boys in a very young age (<5) J. Medina describes it in his book "Brain Rules" women have some areas of more developed and vice versa, therefore they perceive some things differently, such as they they tend to process information in more complexly. So I am not sure it's "all marketing" although I think it plays part.
>In 1975-76, Diffie and Martin Hellman criticized the NBS proposed Data Encryption Standard, largely because its 56-bit key length was too short to prevent Brute-force attack... Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has shown not only that NSA actively intervened with IBM and NBS to shorten the key size, but also that the short key size enabled exactly the kind of massively parallel key crackers that Hellman and Diffie sketched out. When these were ultimately built outside the classified world, they made it clear that DES was insecure and obsolete. In 2012, a $10,000 commercially available machine can recover a DES key in days.
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The model is similar to lwn.net, where if you're a sub you get the great stuff straight away, if you're not you get it a week later. Which has always appealed to me.

This seems to be similar to that, with the huge difference that the article is then "freed" totally after 9 months. Great idea, I'll sign up for this.
I think it's good if they have a balance. By all means wear pink party dresses and have tea parties with your dolls, but encourage them to climb trees, ride bikes and have rough and tumble time with their Dad [1]

I always remember some research about when parents are watching their sons and daughters on a climbing frame. With the boys it was "See if you can reach the top!" and with the girls it was "Be careful!". Don't do that.

[1] http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/02/07/the-importance-of-r...
Americans are bad at math and average at science, study shows
... and in Haskell too.
The funny thing is, that i first read Snoyman instead of Snowman.
Why healthcare.gov desperately needs techops
The capacity planning & load testing on healthcare.gov were severely lacking. From caching, to autoscaling, they dropped the ball.
This is so tangential, that I'm going to "risk" getting a few down votes to just put it out there.
There was this ad - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=izrNv4nMxAg
This is idiocy beyond comprehension. Why not to complain that there aren't as many dresses or boys in department stores. Maybe sue them to, huh?
I'm sending you an email. I know someone at IMMuB (Brazilian Musical Memory Institute) [1] that will be interested in the Brazilian clips you have.

Thanks for posting!

[1] http://www.memoriamusical.com.br/ (in Portuguese)
App.net[1] is probably the most popular alternative, although not open source. I believe StatusNet[2] is the most popular opensource alternative, although I don't know of any large networks based on it at the moment.

[1] https://join.app.net/
[2] http://status.net/
I wonder if this drive to reduce latency will lead to a neutrino communication system. That way the signal can make a straight line between two points and be even faster.
"As of implicit parameters / implicit objects - ok, but what do you suggest as a replacement so that map/filter/reduce preserve types correctly? Or how do you do type-classes then?"

I don't have a specific answer to this question, but I do want to warn you that this is a dangerous line of reasoning. Given a complicated object like Scala or C++, you can easily have a situation where each individual element is necessary to support two or three other elements of the overall structure, yet, the overall structure can still be too complicated.

And to be clear, I'm not even saying you're wrong. Maybe there isn't a better choice. Scala's choice to be compatible with Java creates a very strange design situation. I'm just saying, this isn't a safe line of reasoning. I think it makes it very easy to become very short-sighted about your options by encouraging you to always be very locally focused.
As a parent of two pre-school girls, this is a concern of mine. But in some ways I think this issue is worse for boys than girls. Girls are "allowed" (but not encouraged) to shop from the boys section. My daughters have and use some boys' clothing, toys, furniture, etc. But a boy wearing pink clothes or dancing or playing with dolls is setting himself up for extended teasing.
Turbocharging has been making a huge comeback in the US over the last 5 years, driven mainly by the increase in fuel economy it affords. The biggest example of this is Ford's Ecoboost engines, which are all turbocharged and direct injection. Many 2014 Cadillacs are V6 turbos. There are countless 1.8 and 2.0 VW and Audi turbos on our roads. Let's not forget all the WRXs and Mini Cooper S, Acura RDX (<=2012), Mazda CX7, Hyundai Veloster and Sonata.
She's about 65 now...
Ask HN: Apple submission doubt
Hello,

we're finally about to submit our app to the Apple Store. But, we have a doubt. We're starting as a social network, then the next step will be to become a marketplace where user will be able to buy and sell within the app.

The problem is, till we build the marketplace, we'd like to collect the price of the objects the users will want to sell, this to avoid users to edit every object in a second moment.

For now we have a On Sale button with a pop up message "Nice! your item will be on sale as soon as the marketplace will be online" and a price container. As far as I know Apple will reject app with not active feature, so I was wondering if you could give us some ideas on how we can move on this.

Best,
Filippo
Why is Clojure included in your list of platforms that lose if there is a renaissance in the JVM platform?
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Really useful for small business! I set up my domain in five minutes.
> Google Maps is still undoubtedly better, but Apple have been working hard on it.

The big difference is that Apple only allows Apple to make things better, where Google allows the world to do its work for it.

Example: The URL for the Boston subway system (the T) is "mbta.com". Nearly every single T stop showed up as "mTBa.com" in Apple Maps when it was released.

In the intervening time, they've fixed maybe 1/3 of the stops to be the correct URL - and almost all of that 1/3 in the last two months. (I've been watching, because I thought it was interesting.)

First of all, you'd think if they fixed one, they'd fix all of them.

Second, this is the sort of thing that when you report it to Google Maps team gets fixed within DAYS.
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Imagine if she had been the programmer, and he the boy-toy. Would have looked weird. That's how it looks to the ladies. And that's called 'sexist'.
> Essentially this means that if we can make a customer stick with us longer than three months, they will stay.

This isn't true (try making your service free for the first three months and see what happens!) and is the wrong way to think about. You need to dig deeper to understand why they're leaving. Part of it probably has to do with three months as a habit forming period, but some percentage probably decide your service isn't worth it for them.
No, it didn't invent the image but it popularized this one particular incarnation out of the many that existed.
This has been known to be the case for many years now. What's the news?
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awesome, and great to see TR quoted.
Underdog is all context. There are scenarios where Microsoft is the underdog.
Then he should stop underminding the web himself with HTML5 DRM.
I use OneNote with a stylus and tablet, both for notes for myself and collaboration. It's like a portable, persistent whiteboard.

I used to mostly take notes with pens on sticky notes, but after a particularly tricky production debugging session I managed to cover most of my cubicle with about 60 hastily scribbled yellow sticky notes. I then proceeded to go on a trip for a week without cleaning up.

After returning I had to dispel a rumor that I had finally "snapped".
Ask HN: Did you go to dotJS 2013?
Myself and a fellow programming enthusiast have just returned after travelling to Paris to attend the annual European dotJS conference and the partnered Google Workshop on Dart. We left with mixed feelings about both events. Did you go? If so, what do you think?
I agree. The silly cost and stil 840 hp @ 1x,000 rpm is just a bunch of window dressing for the Lefties. The entire enterprise of F1 will never be "green", once you take into account the production of the cars, the crash repleacements, fuel used in training and lower Fxx series, and...the fact that these clowns fly all of this junk around the WORLD to drive. They are doing to f1 what they did to the America's cup. Basically turning a sport into a spectacle to which no 'normal' sportsman can really relate.
Now THAT is "Hacker News"!
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Psst, you are not allowed to say that :-)

I don't know - there certainly are women who play "hardcore games".

The more I think about it, the less understand what the problem is? For whatever reason, women seem to play less hardcore games. OK - but what is their problem? Do they think women unfairly miss out on all the fun? Then why don't they just tell women "hey, there is this thing called games, it's fun, try it" instead of whining that society made them miss out? Or do they complain that the wrong games are being made - which would be rather weird, because people are apparently buying these games. Or in other words, to me it seems a bit like saying "I would really like spinach, if spinach would taste like chocolate". Yeah, but spinach doesn't taste like chocolate, if you want chocolate, eat chocolate, but leave people who like spinach to their spinach. No need to convert all spinach to chocolate.
Assuming F# is included I actually agree with that to a large degree except for the fact that the division between C# vs. OSS languages is more ideological than anything else.
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Dijkstra advocates creating programs by doing formal transformations of specifications written in mathematical logic, and computers just do boolean algebra on strings of bits, so it's not that Dijkstra advocates formal methods because they are somehow essential to how computation is done in the computer - they are not, especially in the form proposed by Dijkstra.

He is proposing formal methods as a way of thinking about developing computer programs, this is clear from reading "A Discipline of Programming". You can not say "formal methods are a way not to think", because the theoretical existence of a sequence of transformations giving you the final program does not tell you how to find those transformations, so some thinking on the part of programmer is still needed. Of course you can come up with a program by a way of thinking completely uninformed by the formal specification, and then formalize it, but this is not what Dijkstra is speaking of in this article. What I am saying in the comment is that I do not believe many people benefit that much from a formal approach to program development, just like not that many new theorems in mathematics, outside of mathematical logic, were discovered using the tools of mathematical logic. Even the proofs themselves in mathematics aren't done in a completely formal way.
Yes, sure. Making them stick = eliminating the reasons why they leave.
Does one presume there is a "pink gene"?

Pink is an artificial societal constrict of recent invention.
I guess this has nothing to do with improvements in IT. The society as a whole has changed. Back in the 70s there were severe inequalities not only between sexes. When you look at IT I guess the improvements are even severely behind many other modern areas of work.
Sorry about the off-topic: does anyone knows whether the caricatures that illustrate the article belong to a concrete category and/or are associated with a particular style? I'd really like to read more about it, but the books I've found about cartooning are very different from this style.
Nothing has changed, don't they lure you with similar things at google? Today it's free food and other perks, http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/benefits/ but it's really the same.

On the other hand, perhaps this kind of ads should motivate girls to be attracted to programmers: stable and well remunerated jobs. I've not written "programming", right! Check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MejkH61o_U
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Yes, my "you are wrong" was not denying that torture can get useful information. It referred to the comment "no one doubts that", which is wrong. That's why I followed it by saying "for many people it is an item of faith that torture cannot produce useful information".
Can you explain where the definition gets circular so I can fix it, I'm sorry, but I can't find it.

1. An object is something that is not a subject.

2. A subject is a character, something I can identify with, something I can attribute some characteristic to.

3. To objectify is to remove from a subject the characteristics that makes it a subject.
My point was that learning that they leave most frequently in the first three months might not be the Eureka moment the post implies.
Yet when you dig a little deeper, studies on priming usually get wee p-values and barely significant, temporary changes in behaviour, if any. And when they do show something more, they're impossible to replicate, or straight-up fraud.

You're right in that these studies do not support the article. The question I have is this: how do you study this alleged phenomenon in a controlled way? Culture, by its very nature, is a vast and complicated mess of interactions between individuals in society. If you take a group of people out of society and study them in isolation, you aren't going to see the same effects. It's like trying to analyze a drug in vitro and then draw conclusions about it in vivo; it just doesn't give you the whole picture.
Is that "for no reason that I'm aware of", or "for no reason that she's aware of"? (I'm pretty confident that there's a reason, even if it turns out not to be a good one.)

> This has happened before, she gets targeted for her great work in trying to balance gender equality in tech.

It sounds like you're implying a causal relationship between these two clauses, i.e. it has happened before because she gets targeted for her work. But the link posted in this thread suggests no such relationship.
My own observation has indicated that misogyny is still very common. What is new is more lip-service paid to the concept of inclusion, but the old attitudes are still there. Sure, corporate anti-sexual harassment rules have certainly curbed many of the symptoms: you don't see men in power pinching the secretary's ass anymore. But it hasn't seemed to have changed the thought process: i.e. that men in power view women as secretaries rather than as peers.
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Would examples of large, unsuccessful marketing campaigns, be equally strong evidence that marketing does not affect our perceptions of cultural norms?
It seems a bit arbitrary to omit mention of Lua's native ability to be trivially embedded in C and C++ programs. Why limit yourself to transpilers?
Yet another reason to buy old cars. Screw "black box" recorders and the current congress-think towards mandated gps tracking.

On the other hand, having worked on a similar setup while at university, these are not particularly difficult to build. Mounting one in the boot of said old car would make for a wonderful time when the rozzers come calling.
These are not alternatives to twitter, anyone with basic comprehension of how to run a rails scaffold could build a twitter clone. A real alternative to twitter would be something with a similarly huge community to get your voice heard and followed. This leaves alternatives to facebook that now allows following or according to stats but still far behind facebook: google+.
Nice, buy a $10 book. Own a $1000 drone.
I think the ideological part plays a big role in keeping people away from C#, unfortunately
The upsetting thing about this is that it makes twitter out to be anti-women. What other interpretation is there? That is, possibly somebody is unfairly targeting @girlgeeks and lying to twitter to get it suspended. But if so, twitter should be smarter than that.
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I found that the advanced optimisations broke our Javascript when I compared the two a couple of years back. We weren't interested in rewriting our Javascript to make it compatible with the Closure.
Every 1, 2, 3, and 4 letter dot-com has been registered for ages. Why is this on the front page of HN?
That doesn't explain anything though. What was the reason the account was suspended?
No it wouldn't have looked weird. That is just the typically baseless claim feminists insert into their arguments.

There are lots of ads that claim product x makes women more attractive to men.

I could agree that it would have looked weird in the sense that most ads look weird. Most ads are completely ridiculous. To get worked up about them is somewhat useless. Their weirdness is also probably a function of their shortness, though.
> Carriers request features, change specs, and pick winners.

I'm not sure this is true outside of America, where we have less of a carrier mono/duopoly. Certainly here in the UK - carriers are required to unlock phones if you ask nicely, >6 months after purchase, and most smartphones can be bought unlocked (I've bought my last 3 smartphones this way.)
There are no obvious factors in my daughter's life that should bias her towards pink girly toys, yet she is absolutely obsessed with girly pink clothes and toys.

Does she go to school yet?