skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this sexist? Typical Techcrunch making a big deal about nothing because they know the whole "women in tech" thing is hot property right now. It's just a lame attempt on Microsoft's part to be funny, the title made the letter seem so much worse than it was.

If Apple did this Techcrunch would probably have spun the article saying how revolutionary Apple's marketing tactics are and that email campaigns like this are the future of product marketing. The bias of Techcrunch writers is so obvious, I am surprised people still visit the site, they are the Fox News of tech journalism.

It's not like the letter said the following:

"Hey woman,

I know you're busy making my breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the last thing you want to hear is me talking about the new fangled gaming console coming out, especially considering you're probably tired from cleaning up after me and ironing all of my business shirts.

Think of all of the fun we can have together. While you're making me a sandwich, I can yell things like; get me another beer woman and pass the mead wench, while I am yelling obscenities at 13 year old kids in Call of Duty. I can then show you a character I created in a game of a woman with large breasts & mini skirt and then make you feel so insecure about how you look that you develop an eating disorder and get breast implants. It'll be a win-win situation."

Now that's what a sexist letter would look like, but you know what? The original letter implies the person sending it has a girlfriend or wife who doesn't like playing games (my girlfriend sure doesn't like playing games, I'd probably send it to her and she would laugh). The tech industry has become so obsessed with the whole women in tech issue that they will distort anything they can to cause controversy and get ad impressions.

Techcrunch is a sinking ship, they haven't been the same since Arrington left and The Verge hit the scene, anything for a story it would seem.

I posted this as a comment on the story as well
Right, I self-diagnosed myself after some research... But I plan to visit a doctor in the near future. I updated the post with my symptoms.
Might I have know something else about how did you build your credit system? Im interested in it for a uni project.
There Are Dozens Of Digital Currencies That Are All Going Insane Right Now...
The triviality is not bound to the network of people - the valuation is. And yes, the change is also trivial - and that means that once people realize that valuation is just about being first, then by starting another scheme the valuations of all the other will dilute.

Does anyone remember the million dollar page?
This article is posted on DealBook, a financial-news website founded by Andrew Ross Sorkin [1]. This person has always had an anti-Bitcoin stance, probably because he clearly does not understand Bitcoin at all (see him interview the Winklevoss twins about Bitcoin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oGuKEazS5o ) and people tend to be dubious or scared by something they don't understand.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ross_Sorkin
Why have so few successful startups come out of Google?
Actually, I'm a little baffled how someone who knows about stat has such an odd idea about how files work.

How could you possibly know how many newline characters are in a file without looking in the file?
So, to be perfectly clear, it is more than possible for you to sync the photos from your computer, hit the "backup now" button, have Backblaze respond back that a backup is complete, and then find out that all of those photos you thought you had backed up were not there.

All of this to make it look like your application is performing better than it actually is.

On top of that you keep doing that infuriating thing where you ignore what people are saying and respond as if they're idiots or by trying to deflect the issue. No one expects you to run when the computer is off, and pretending like that's what's being said is downright insulting. What they do expect is that hitting the "backup now" button, and having your application respond that their files have been backed up, should actually mean that the files are backed up.

The more you talk the more you try to twist this around into something it's not- a visual glitch, misreading your policies, or people turning their computers off when they shouldn't- rather than trying to understand why your customers are upset and actually deal with it. That's why this issue has grown, and why we keep having these conversations- you guys have zero concept of responsibility and would rather insult your customers than actually make a viable product.
Considering the extent to which cigarette vendors around here keep their merchandise locked up, I don't think they're willing to take on a lot of "I hope these bitcoins are legit" risk.
How to open yourself up to new opportunities
It's always a treat, both intellectually and visually, to see new posts by Ilya. They are consistently excellent. You would be well advised to read the previous posts as well.

On a related note, I didn't realise that websockets didn't already support compression. I just assumed that you could use your standard gzip HTTP compression, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I also developed a similar project:

https://www.btproof.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5790382

Recent changes to Bitcoin made the method I'm using to timestamp the data on the blockchain somewhat problematic [1], but I'll be working on an update once I release another Bitcoin-related project I'm currently working on (hopefully in the coming days).

[1] https://github.com/shesek/btproof/issues/1
Only there weren't any contracts here. How about: "work should be conpensated" and "give it for free and make up in volume/exposure is BS"?
Photoshop.

The iPhone image is from teehan+lax
http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/iphone/

and the screen is an actual screenshot
Once-great SSD manufacturer OCZ filing for bankruptcy
That's the mind-blowing thing for me about this article. The idea is that it can't compete with other organisms out in the wild. Out in the wild, other organisms reproduce too quickly, are too aggressive, devour these bacteria, etc. But these bacteria have something that allows them to survive in a clean room's extreme environment, something that kills off other more competitive organisms. This is the very definition of niche.
Hm, let's see, these markers indicate a high probability of low intelligence, and over here, shall we say lack of industriousness. Here's one that's tied to problems with authority. And this one is correlated to serious chronic health problems, how much sick leave do you normally take? By the way did you know your Dad is the same as mine?! I sure didn't.
Is Neuroscience the future of marketing?
Actorify
The author is trying to use that relationship to stress a point which stands no matter whether the founder is related to Google founder or not. Take that piece of information out and the point that the author is making still stands. Google has showed us that by luring people to share their private information, it is possible to sell your users eventually. Now you don't have to be related to a Google founder to learn and use that business model. If there was any other company that followed the same practice and didn't explicitly allow me to own my data and delete it from their databases I'd be worried about that company as well. No matter whether they are related to Google or not. The relationship to Google just make me extra worried because of the history of Google.
I wish there was a reputable market for shorting bitcoins. It'd be nice to earn some interest on my long position while providing the naysayers a chance to bet against it. It'd also help with the volatility.
+1 - that's the reason. Same reason why Facebook collects demographic data, interests, favorite tv shows, martial status, etc. It's all targetable.
You could even simplify and say that Jekyll is a build script
The same reason people deserve not to be born into slavery. A basic human right that we respect now, that we didn't always.
What you're pointing out is your misunderstanding of the authors intended use of language (I'm not saying it's grammatically correct, but their intention is obvious.)

"a link existed between the creators of Silk Road and Bitcoin" === "a link existed between the creators of Silk Road and the creators of Bitcoin".

The "creators of" phrase applies to both subjects (or subject/object, I get those words confused) --- this is a common grammatical construct regardless of my confusion of the words subject and object --- the application of the phrase to both I mean.
Ask HN: How would you train a competent student in your field of expertise?
Please list your expertise. What resources (e.g., books, videos, classes, languages, pivotal knowledge) or activities would you have a competent student perform to sufficiently become your equal in that subject?

The goal is to clone your knowledge. What experiences have shaped you? Can you provide a track path of learning material that readers of can use as a guide? What should the student learn, in what order, etc.?
I wonder what 23andMe would find if I submitted my dog's spit. Might be worth teaching him to spit.
>Bitcoins are a currency, there's no need to convert them

Yes, unless you want to, you know, buy something...
If at all possible look for a CC that's known to be a "feeder school" for a reputable University. They usually have a pipeline into the schools and experience helping get you there.
OpenSNP
I wonder if the price of drugs will go down as Bitcoin becomes more liquid and/or anonymous.
Looks really good! I've been working on a universal build task format to supplement Grunt plugins. Basically, the idea is to get the flexibility and convenience of Grunt without the lock-in. Do you mind if I email you about it and get your feedback?
This is a fantastic article, and it highlights some of my worries as a Bitcoin lover. It would seem the only times one would use Bitcoin over USD is if a Bitcoin-specific benefit (for instance, anonymity when buying illegal goods) outweighs the cost of using BTC over USD. In a deflationary economy I can't fathom why someone would spend BTC over USD buying a legal good, except maybe for the kick of having spent Bitcoin.
In any financial exchange, both parties, the buyer and seller, need to come to agreement on a price.

Given the fact that current BTC to USD exchange volume is fairly small, it wouldn't take that many large global goods and service providers pegging their BTC/USD exchange rate to cause the speculation market to collapse.

Those that recently bought their Bitcoins at $900 would sell below the current high price to realize their gain and avoid a potential loss, then those who bought at $800 would follow suit, and so on.

In very short order, Bitcoins could be trading in single digits.
At dot-com time, everybody said "this is a new economy, old rules don't apply". Same in this thread "Bitcoin is a new technology, old rules don't apply" ...
That's a really good writeup. Some of the details elude me though. I don't understand why it's called "stocastic". Is it because of the binding probability matrix? How is that not just a normalization step?

Am I correct in thinking that what SOS does is to find the datapoint at the position of lowest flux density, where flux is generated by datapoints and falls off according to some Gaussian-like function of the dissimilarity metric?

In other words, it's like you've got 100 senators standing in a 172 dimensional senate chamber, positioned according to their votes, and they're all shouting. SOS finds the one who suffers the least hearing loss? Except that it's not exactly like sound. With sound, you could have two big outliers shouting directly into each other's ears. They're definitely outliers, but they're still going deaf. The gaussian is somewhat like specifying a minimum distance so that halving the distance doesn't double the flux past a certain point. And it's nice and continuous instead of a hard cutoff. Anyway, is that an accurate way to think about it?

But then, instead of just summing the rows of the affinity matrix and normalizing like I'd expect, you normalize rows so they sum to 1 (the binding probability matrix) and multiply row values. My intuition tells me that'll give the same ordering as summing and normalizing. Is that true? Is multiplying the rows of the binding probability matrix different in an important way?

I really like the role that the gaussian plays. That's a new tool for my toolbox, thanks!
Well, that's an interesting question... Would a company be any better off incorporating in hong kong or something when it comes to patent disputes? I've been looking into this for various reasons already...

How about a foreign corp that owns the IP (which a patent troll may at some point arbitrarily claim was infringing) licensing that IP to a US-based corp. Is the US-based corp exposed to any liability? Probably? Maybe?
You'd think Scientific American could manage to spell Sergey's name right.
>Many welfare recipients are required to undergo drug tests, despite the fact that many Americans take illegal drugs while still being good parents and holding down a job.

Had to stop here and evaluate if I should read any further. The author is suggesting that we give people money to directly break the law with it?

Even more importantly though, the percentage of welfare recipients who use illegal drugs and are good parents and holding down a job is less than 5%. Thus the requirement seems common sense since we do not wish to merely reinforce and enable bad/illegal behavior.
>there's no need to convert them.

Have you tried paying your taxes in Bitcoin? The IRS (or regional equivalent) is not going to accept bitcoin any time soon and they will want you to pay taxes on, for example, profits. There is a need to convert, don't believe otherwise.
Can someone summarise why the FDA have any say in genetic testing? It's not as if they are selling a drug or other substance that might be incorrectly made or labelled. Presumably spitting into a vial can't cause harm.
Think back to how news reporters tried explaining the internet when they had never used it and had no idea how it worked.

You wouldn't even today expect a news reader to be able to explain how the internet works even though they probably use it 24/7.

People will write what they think people want to read about, the key is trying to find the articles with proper research.
a symbolic gesture with zero teeth, exciting.
'Cryptocurrency' on the rise: Bitcoin tops $1K
After Microsoft stops providing security updates, it will no longer effectively work.

You really, really need to upgrade somehow.

It really is necessary.

If you can't upgrade Windows, you need to consider moving to a different operating system.
That's funny, I thought Mr. Vengeance was the best...artistically...whereas Lady Vengeance was the "safest" of the trio. Mr. Vengeance is astounding in its depths...however, it's not a movie I'd ever put in just for fun. In fact, I can't remember re-watching it after the first couple of times I saw it.
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I'm not convinced.

It's only easy to buy a house for $100M if you have $100M you can spare for house-buying. And then you only get to choose from the rather limited range of $100M houses that are available for sale.

Similarly, you only get to sell a house for $100M if you have a house that nice to sell. And then you only get to sell to the rather limited range of people willing to buy a house for $100M.

But perhaps I've misunderstood. If you happen to have $100M burning a hole in your pocket, it's easy to buy a house that would normally cost $1M with it, because most people with $1M houses will happily sell them for $100M. But the parallel to that is that if you happen to have a house that would normally cost $100M, it's easy to sell it for $1M. Which it would be.
Totally agree, typical TC linkbait. Examples picked by TechCrunch are not even default ones, so they crafted the letter to sound sexist and than complain about it...
CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store
Yeah, that's how Reddit got off the ground. Worked out pretty well for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeDzx4SUME
Which looks cleaner, "丄" or "┴" ? I.e. "ǝɹǝɥ┴" or ǝɹǝɥ丄" ?
Show HN: JavaScript for Non-Programmers: Code a Pong-Like Game
Manufacturers need to do a better job making these appliances easier for consumers to keep updated. And this isn't just a problem with Linux, it is a problem with the designs being fire and forget.
I'd love to more about how gift cards in general work. Is it like a numbered swiss bank account where when you buy a card and the account number/password under the scratch-off on the back is your only access?

Clearly there are multiple gift card networks, but how does a company go about getting a card setup for their brand/product? And how would a business like PIA be allowed to use other brand's cards? The idea of a gift card being a deposit would make sense in this case.
If you're going to market something that can allegedly test and diagnose illnesses, it sure as hell should be tested and regulated.

I hope 23andme is shutdown.
In their defense, transliteration is weird. The spelling they used isn't one that Brin uses, but is one that is used for Сергей by other people.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5...

"A male given name, Sergey or Sergei."
He was still winning the other day, so I'm not sure how that was a great way to keep people from voting for him.
Thanks for making the library, glad to see you put lots of time into the docs too. Hopefully the can of worms you've opened doesn't drive you crazy, personally I would've stopped the second I found myself writing something like this...

$($($($('.nH .if').children()[1]).children()).children()[1]).children()[1]

:)

[1]https://github.com/KartikTalwar/gmail.js/blob/master/src/gma...
What the Envato CEO does in a Day
Linux tools to treat files as sets and perform set operations on them
If asm.js is not VM bytecode, what is?

If asm.js is "native code," then what an example of VM bytecode that is not "native"?
1) The tax rate is not perfectly progressive; in fact as you describe it isn't progressive at all. If ALL income is taxed at a flat rate, there is no progressive increase in the marginal rate by definition. A "progressive tax" isn't dependent on the source of the income, only on the delta in marginal rate as incomes rise.

2) No rational person eschews more income simply because they'll pay X+dX% on each marginal dollar instead of just X%; such an action is just not on the radar of any rational actor.

3) No argument regarding the simplification of the code, however "which would also increase revenue" is a pretty extraordinary claim you haven't backed up

4) No argument here

5) Demonstrably untrue; the government will still have--and will still act on--plenty of things to "manipulate" social policy (e.g. by the award of contracts, enactment of other legislation, etc.)

6) This is just flat-out unproven assertion

So no, "we" don't see "Libertarian thought" as being both "MORE 'fair' AND more compassionate" at all.
Books, videos, and classes can only take you so far. If you don't use the knowledge you've acquired, there's no use in keeping it around, and the brain will slowly "forget" things over time.

What is most important is having a solid base and then getting real world experience. This applies to all fields of expertise.
Perhaps it would make more sense to say "you don't have to use the same CMS for everything"
> So it's illegal to violate an agreement you didn't enter in? That makes no sense, sugar.

Yes. Downloading an album or movie without paying for it is illegal. This isn't in dispute.

> He states that they had to written, explicit contact. Care to read my post again?

I read it, your prior post was very short. See my quote above directly from his blog post; there wasn't any contract.
With your US passport, the world is yours
Presumably his contract prevents him from discussing internal issues with any outside party.

(Knowledge source: Got totally screwed by a business partner via legalese and had all my work stolen, ended up doing half a year of work uncompensated, can't legally talk about it or the partner, and loss < cost of litigation. Ah well, water under bridge.)
A business opportunity.
Yes, of course. The article does that.

[23andMe] ... edged closer and closer to marketing their services as a way of predicting and even preventing health problems. And any kit intended to cure, mitigate, treat, prevent, or diagnose a disease is, according to federal law, a "medical device" that needs to be deemed safe and effective by the FDA.
Show HN:I raise you Love As A Service, the RESTful API
On behalf of the anonymous good people of the world: you are wrong.
The point has nothing to do with the relationship between the companies. Like the commenter upthread said, it was a clumsy way to transition into the topic. 23AM could be a Microsoft spin-off, or a Bloomberg company, or a Koch Brothers company: the same points would stand.

The reason Google matters is that it demonstrated that the business model of hoarding and capitalizing on personal information works. The rest of the article spells out ways in which 23AM is already capitalizing on its stored information.
Technological progress is exactly why we have an inflationary money system. Those who invest their money in the technological progress, has a bigger pot of money to aim for so their expected ROI isn't, on average, negative after adjusting for risk and tranasction costs. The person who works to create it can push for a pay rise that keeps pace with inflation. The person that buries their money in a whole in the ground gets a smaller share of the additional wealth they've done nothing to create. Boo hoo for them.
While I have no particular knowledge of the case, the FDA checks that services are safe and effective. Basically that the company isn't selling proverbial snake oil (or literal snake oil, I guess).

Providing incorrect or misleading information could lead to people making health decisions with potentially serious consequences. If that information is wrong people could take unnecessary risks with their health.
It depends on what your needs are. If you need a central web interface with multi-stage workflows, multiple authors, image management, future publication, etc, then Jekyll isn't a CMS. But Jekyll focuses on content, handles markdown, reads metadata, and uses templates. For some people, that might be plenty. A pretty web interface isn't a must-have requirement.
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Go see a doc. There are many other conditions that can produce similar symptoms, particularly problems with the hamstring tendons.
Google is aware that people are building tools on top of their UI. If they were against it, they could pretty easily thwart it (e.g. by randomizing their HTML/CSS, or by serve different versions to different users). The fact that they haven't taken time to do this is, I believe, evidence that they aren't hostile to these efforts.

Also, I've personally been in contact with people on the Gmail team about this kind of stuff. They are, generally, supportive, but they're very clear that they'll make no guarantees about stability.
Some of this writing had been on the walls:

If you're a fan of conference calls, then you probably already know that OCZ isn't in the same rosy position it has been in years past. Fortunately, its enterprise-oriented offerings are really helping the company's bottom line. But the situation is darker on the desktop. It's still in the position of needing to source NAND from the fabs manufacturing it, which means it's paying more for the flash it uses and perhaps unable to ship as many units as it'd like.

But again, if you listen to earnings calls, you might already know all of this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/vector-150-ssd-review,36...