skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we can saturate our internet connections with one video stream. That means it's not fast enough. Presently living alone so this is mostly a nonissue for me, but what about people with 2+ users at home? One wants to watch the latest Doctor Who, the other wants to check their email and browse the web, someone is losing out.
Based on my corporate experience, there is normaly at least one department that is the opposite of IT in terms of gender balance - Human Resources.

I wonder if people women in Human Resources are running campaigns to recruit more men into their departments?
> This is especially surprising considering that many of their partners are ex-Accenture, a company that in my experience placed a strong emphasis on recruiting and promoting female talent at the highest levels.

The minute someone throws out Accenture as a positive example of how to run a business is the minute they lose their own credibility. It turns out it's easy to hire whoever you want if competence is not a requirement. Otherwise, if you hire in a field where most qualified candidiates are men, your employees will be predominantly men.
Exactly, when I started looking into doing a few side projects for some extra scratch I went to my employer and had them draft up a letter explicitly releasing me to do side projects as long as it doesn't affect my work or their customers.
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Actually, this is exactly why those who mire in poverty have more children. The logic is that more children = safety net in the future. This is usually prevalent in societies and countries without strong institutions. Hmm...
29,388 words. Serious question: has anyone read the whole thing?
Seems a lot to lay at one man's feet
You're reading things into my comment that I didn't write.

The parent I was responding to suggested that he might have openings at his company for which there aren't any "good" (or even any at all) female applicants. I find it absurd to suggest that there are zero qualified women existing in the world, so the problem is one of finding and recruiting them to apply.
>The link you quoted directly states that the quality of grain protein is relatively very poor and limited by lysine content

Which is why it is corrected rather than reporting 1:1 like with proteins that are close to an ideal ratio. That is the entire point, you literally just complained that I provided evidence supporting my claim.
AT&T says it doesn’t have to disclose NSA dealings
Did I say corruption is the only issue? no.But corruption is the main issue. Competence won't get any better if corruption does't come down to "acceptable" level.
The communist government and associated land reforms have a lot more do with Kerala's successes than "reduced tolerance for corruption
And why did that happen? Because the land reforms were executed well.And it was executed well because system was not corrupt.People generally don't think that "let us dupe the system and get away with that".
oh I am sure the NYT will devote endless pages the next couple of years to blaming all the woes of NYC on him, use it as an excuse for why the new guy can't fit it all fast, and so and so on.

The question most New Yorker's should be asking is, how do the people who run this facility (Audburn) have jobs? How do the people the report to allow it to happen and if they do, they why are they employed? Having been around some big city "care" its really simply, the bigger the government the less it has to care and the more people that slip through the cracks. Too many programs competing for the same dollars, too many programs with their own rules they barely serve anyone, too many programs for those who need help they have to spend an inordinate amount of time applying to each.

I am quite sure the living conditions don't help the outlook of her parents and in part keeps them down looking for releases. Yet for all the billions spent to take care of the poor it makes you wonder, where is it all going?
It doesn't back up the idea at all. The bankruptcies in Canada have nothing to do with medical costs.
While I don't think that was the tone intended, I too read the sentence that way.
Ask HN: Wouldn't It Be Better If Wikipedia Had Ads Than Asking For Donations?
- I always ignore ads and I understand that companies need to pay their bills, so when websites have ads it doesn't annoy me.
I've encountered very little ignorance of the irony; rather, I thought it was generally understood that Snowden's presence is tolerated out of political expedience (and as a bargaining chip) rather than any lofty ideals.
Probably because it will be on a measure of relative, rather than absolute, poverty which can be defined to be whatever people would like it to be.
The "lump it" method doesn't work, it's top news for a day then everyone gets back to what they were doing.

Dripping it out better highlights the incompetence of those who were tasked to keep it all in check (including journalism as a whole) and the extravagance of what has been going on by matching the scale of the surveilance to the scale of reporting.

It also highlights hypocrisy, such as the initial Merkel reaction "how dare they! Oh, well carry on" with the reaction after the revelations that Merkel was spied on "How dare they! We can't let this go on".

Not acting because "unsavoury elements will benefit" would just lead to a paralysis, unsavoury elements always find a way to benefit, it's part of what makes them so unsavoury.
Fosters home are often incredibly bad. I have been told by foster parents to keep your kids out of that system at all costs. (Those foster parents obviously cared about their children, but they've also seen children come through who were previously taken in by someone else just for the paycheck.)
It makes sense to lay (some of the) blame at the feet of her parents because they had a choice. Everybody has a choice. Mom didn't have to smoke crack. Dad didn't have to deal drugs. Did they have the same opportunities as rich white kids from the Upper West Side? No. Does that mean that the choices to smoke crack, deal drugs, and have eight kids is something we should just ignore? Certainly not.
There are laws against outright discrimination. The economic benefits will cause the market to sort it out eventually.
Of course not. Feminists will tell you this with a straight face: it's only sexism if it disadvantages women.

That's why feminists only started caring about STEM when it became high-status. Feminists are glad to let men do all the low-status shit jobs, like garbage collection or construction or working in oil fields, as long as such work remains low-status. 20 years ago, programming was low status and women were obsessed with becoming doctors and lawyers because medicine and law were very high status. 20 years from now there will be lots of women programmers just like there are lots of women doctors and lawyers today.
PhoneGap build, 6 frustrating issues explained
Using Safari with ad blocker and I can see the content.

I really didn't want to install an ad blocker but the damn pop-ups were getting too much.
"Poor people would be empowered, the mayor argued, and homelessness would decline"

Does anyone know of other places in the US that has taken this approach to poverty and what the results are? I am genuinely interested in understanding how "empowering the poor" works in the US. I know there are several reported successes with micro-lending to the poor in other countries, but I wonder if such go-getter mentality exists in the American society.
I presume you say that because C-x and C-c don't act as cut and copy when there is no region, that there is no actual conflict? I use commands involving C-x and C-c with the region active fairly often; both because the command applies to the region, and also because I want to keep the region active while I do something else.

I agree that CUA mode without binding the CUA keys is useful.
Ha. In your "about" I don't see it. Can you help?
Preach it, Brother!
Janitors. But they're not people, right? No reason to pay any attention to them.

Also, let's ignore all the people in the world who don't even work at large, prestigious, and highly profitable companies in the first place. They don't matter and aren't to be considered even part of society.

You are thinking inside of a bubble and ignoring everything outside it. You're constructing a highly exclusive slice of society with developers at the bottom, million-dollar attorneys in the middle, and rock-star CEOs and billionaires at the top. There exist thousands of towns and small cities, each with many, many thousands of people, where 95% of jobs are worse than almost any given programming job in a larger city and very significantly worse than a programming job at, say, Google or Facebook.
14/14 company partners were male. They claimed to support diversity within their organization.

The probability that the "supportive of diversity" claim is true and that the make up of the board is all male by random chance is quite small (naively, 1/(2^14) ).
Luecierna Inc. gets acquired by SmartBear Software
The Ultimate Holiday Gift List for that special programmer
Some Sony TV's have this ... I like the effect during films, but I don't know why I like it... intuitively it feel like it should reduce the apparent contrast of the picture, but it instead feels like I'm watching a larger screen or that there's more going on in my environment.

I'm going to hypothesise something to do with how brains process our peripheral vision.

Anyway, not sure how much fun it would be to to run it on a monitor that has vim/consoles 90% of the time... maybe it would encourage me to tab certain syntax highlighted code to the far edges of the screen and go wild :)
The Guardian have had a large focus to try to pick up US readership for a while (e.g. They launched CIF America).

The NSA coverage has probably helped them in that mission, in fact it is probably motivating a lot of their NSA coverage, the UK "switched off" over the issue almost day one.
Not that you need to fit into everything in either list. For example, I strongly prefer static typing (haskell guy) and I still prefer clojure over scala.
And probably China didn't want to.
This is good advice, but there is still the question of where to donate the money. Charities don't respond to market pressure the same way a firm selling goods or services does, so lots of charities exist that do middling or even negative value for their donated dollars.

Has GiveWell done evaluations of programs to end homelessness?
Snapchat Files For Restraining Order Against Ousted Founder
Look to actions, not words. The US is certainly not a small government country by action, regardless of its words.
C-c most definitely causes conflicts. It is where "mode-specific-keymap" lives, which is the default and conventional prefix for custom bindings. While it's near-empty by default, various modes bind things inside it.

By the time I learned of CUA mode I a) got used to C-y/M-y/C-w/M-w; and b) already written "free-rectangle-mode" which gave me the same freedom of movement when selecting rectangles. It was one of my first emacs hacks :) Combined with rect-mark mode it would probably look very similarly to CUA rectangular selection, but I didn't feel the need for showing visual rectangle. Also default rectangle handling has a big advantage of starting both line and rectangle selections with the same key.

Anyway, I'm not surprised people don't use CUA very much - I think that by the time they learn about it it's already too late for them :)
Party game: view this site, posit that each link is to a band's website, and debate what genre of music they play.
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I have a data block on my phone and it's interesting to see what data points they do and don't have. I'm not surprised they know when I'm at work or at home (I connect to wifi in both places), but random places along the highway? Did my phone connect to an open wifi network there?
Facebook's AI lab
You are still suggesting that firms are somehow obligated to go out of their way to hire females due to some misguided sense of morality. Putting in extra effort to find a female developers would cost money that smaller firms may not have.
Testing Honda's "mind-controlled" UNI-CUB β
They're finishing up a kickstarter[0], so it might be a while before they take any actual orders from their site

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/woodenshark/lightpack-am...
He isn't really relevant in the scala community any more, the burden is decreasing, not increasing. Nobody uses lift, nobody talks about lift, nobody cares about lift. Play is the scala framework now.
> Foursquare already had a massive database of check-ins — location information about the places its users most liked to go. And this data didn’t just include the place where someone had checked in. It showed how strong the GPS signal was at the time, how strong each surrounding Wi-Fi hotspot signal was, what local cell towers were nearby, and so on. Leveraging this data meant that Foursquare could still grab a good current location even if users were underground, near a source of radio interference, or facing some other signal obstacle. Chances are, some prior Foursquare user had seen the world through the same flawed eyes and reported his or her location.

This sounds more valuable as a technology than the social network side of the business itself.

If another company wanted to build up a similar database of location information, they could send out a fleet of its own staff all over the world to collect it, à la Google's Street View cars. But Foursquare has managed to sidestep all of this expense and infrastructure by harnessing its userbase as a massive, free source of data input.

Through badges, recommendations, and deals with local stores, they've created an incentive to provide the data they need. And through the mechanisms they have to prevent cheating in the game side of things, they've accidentally developed a way to ensure the accuracy of the location information their system can provide.

Licensing out this technology could become the long-sought-after profit engine for Foursquare, paying the bills for the flashy social network layer on top that keeps the data flowing in.
"if you live in NYC or SF it's a lot more useful than it's been to me"

It seems like services that bring people from vast geographic distances (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) have a longer life than services the geo-limit the audience. If you're in NYC, SF, or LA, geo-limited services work due to density, but you the threshold seems to dive after a couple of cities down the list. Color was the ultimate example for me on something that was so geo-limited that I couldn't imagine it working.
It would be presumptuous to lay the direction of NYC over this era at the feet of anyone else. I think he's had a tremendous impact on the city. Some of it has been really nice for a part of the population, but the neglect is starting to burst through the seams of his tidy-departing gifts to de Blasio.
Apple isn't deciding the legality, they're refusing to allow something of "disputed legality" into the store they run.

Would you be mad at Walmart for not selling a new supplement that was of "disputed legality"?
Sure thing, and I did glance through the github repo for an obvious contact point and couldn't see one. I figured you'd be reading HN and this would be dealt with far quicker by just posting here.

I haven't checked for other things but the same logic about protecting original licensed works should be borne in mind for any commissioned artwork, icon sets, widgets, third party items, fonts, etc.

An open-source version should go into the project (safe defaults that work), and the closed-source/licensed things should just be merged during deploy.

I only glanced for a few seconds, but custom icons and images are the other obvious areas of concern given it's your brand identity and you probably aren't open-sourcing that and have restrictions on how those assets are used.
read the whole thing this morning, took about 90mins.
That's an unproductive, defeatist argument. You could say that about any problem facing humanity today. It just amounts to an excuse to do nothing.

Let's instead start a discussion about shrinking the surveillance state, with the goal of one day overturning it. Even though the odds are against us. Because you gotta draw the line somewhere.
>It's obvious, since I'm 30 and not earth-shatteringly successful, that I have some kind of health story...

What?
You mean that the line is drawn per-city? I would expect it to be national.
When posting such ancient info an indicator like [2004]in the headline would be useful. Also, if you think this is significant why not write about it and link to your article, so that there's something to discuss?
New York subsidizes housing for the poor. A histogram of income in Manhattan is a bathtub curve, with a bunch of poor people that are being encouraged to live there, essentially none in the middle, and then a whole lot of people above 100K.
From the video, they want to to try and get it down to under $50.
Oh, that's totally true. I didn't mean to suggest that he isn't respected for his earlier actions (which, reading it back, I kinda did).

But I don't think he'd be thought about the same way if it wasn't for the second act. A lot of people are unfairly imprisoned by despotic governments. Not many become unifying figures in the way that Mandela did. So I don't think the comparison to Snowden is a good one.
Their switch to a .com domain, and expansion of US-focused coverage was well-timed to coincide with these revelations.
kungfuton, you appear to be hell-banned.
It is true, however in a system like this there have to be failures. Only a small portion of the kids demonstrate enough intuitive capacity for learning, like Dasani, that the meager resources available are utilized for them. Therefore the percentage of the population who fails is by necessity larger. So her parents are of course autonomous human beings, but they lived in a structure that was incapable of not producing them.
I don't hate my ISP.
But I've got no cap, and good speeds.
That's okay. They'll just give that poor officer paid vacation, er, suspension with pay, until the incident dies down.
The title should be suffixed (2011), reflecting the latest changelog date by the 'googlecl' author.
This doesn't sound right.

The in-app purchase rule only applies to virtual goods. A bus ticket, much like a plane ticket, should not fall under this rule. And, in fact, you are prohibited from selling real-world items via in-app purchase.

What you're buying isn't the virtual ticket. It's the bus ride.
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law"
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
I clearly made my point extremely poorly. I am not, in any way whatsoever, making ANY POINT about the board of the company the author applied to. I am SPECIFICALLY addressing his assertion that a board must have women for the company to be successful.
Stop spreading FUD. Bitcoin is, so far, perfectly legal.

USA: “We all recognize that virtual currencies, in and of themselves, are not illegal,” Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general at the Justice Department’s criminal division, said at the hearing. Source: http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2022288065_b...

China: "The People’s Bank of China [...] has stopped short of banning the world’s most popular digital currency outright". IOW they still allow people to trade bitcoins, if they wish to. Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/china_bank/

Thailand: the Bank of Thailand may display an anti-Bitcoin stance, but they have no legislative power to declare Bitcoin illegal: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264389.0;all
I'm reminded of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbXTBPN1HhA

How does it help? Yesterday, we had a whistle blower in here. He helped by revealing the illegal activities of his government committed against their own people. How does racing a Formula One car ... help?
Problem: Need to eliminate spam and robots while not hurting user experience

Task: Users filter results but need to send a request to the server on each filter. They will probably filter ~40-50 times to fine-tune their search but ever since I introduced a captcha the use rate of the tool dramatically decreased. Curious what you have in mind.

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I have a kind of underlying incompetence too! If only correlation implied causation. :(
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of why the judiciary is the US is setup the way it is. Judges are appointed by the Executive, but they are essentially immune from any political pressure after they're appointed, as they don't have to get re-elected or re-appointed. The courts do not always side with the power of government, as has been shown multiple times (e.g. recently barring the FBI from throwing GPS trackers on cars without a warrant).

Judicial nominees are typically confirmed very easily by Congress, so you definitely need some sources if you're gonna claim that corporations have undue influence in who gets appointed to be a judge.

You've spun a conspiracy theory that is hardly supported by any facts, you've not cited a single source, or even referenced a real-world event to support your claims. You need to try harder if you want to convince people their government and their freedom is a lie.
Clicking into a nearly 30,000 word article describing a very complex issue and boiling it down to a vapid attempt at a witty one-liner is a great way to stay ignorant.

Reading Daeken's comment would be a good start toward turing that around.
Of course, but Apple has explicitly stated that, if you want to make an app that goes against App Store guidelines, you're welcome to make a web app. Apple would have to be in the business of Internet filtering to change that policy, which I really do not see happening.
You ignore ads, so presumably you ignore the ads on Wikipedia asking you to donate. Why then do you care one way or the other?
Dave Eggers' New Novel Says Your Tech Startup is Unethical
I don't think so. If they introduce ads it introduces the opportunity to have perverse incentives. Right now they want to have the best content for the most people. When you make money off ads it is all about page views, content quality is an afterthought.

Imagine a wikipedia where each sub-section is paginated to generate more page views like Salon or Newsweek. This is why I think we should support wikipedia directly, so that wikipedia's goal is to make and awesome experience so that we donate again.
Looking at the map where that happened, that's an incredibly bad part of the road. There is a hill with very little visibility of what's in front of you as you pass it. There is a bike lane further down, but I think at the hill the road narrows and there is no bike lane or protected area.

And of course people go flying through that section. Cops aren't the only offenders there, but they sure don't make it any safer.