skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ratio is actually far worse! A lot of 'adjustments' go on during census times. The net ratio is close to (<850 women) per (1000 men). You are right in pointing out that its going to get a way more worse very soon.

The main reason for that is dowry and extremely bad treatment meted to women in India. Most people prefer to not have girls at all given these scenarios. Imagine having to spend money on your daughters education, tending to physical safety and then only to find the boy's family asking for big money gifts during marriage. And not just that, in most common cases the demand for gifts just keep coming infinitely even after marriage. The demands are insane of course- Asking for large quantities of gold, real estate, or just plain hard cash, cars combined with a demand for lavishly marriage party are a common place here in India.

Some people have absolutely no shame and sense of self esteem and resolve themselves to this kind of begging to get money. This includes people from all over India, regardless of caste, religion, color, regional, linguistic belongings.

This whole thing promotes a culture for a madness to have male children.

I am assuming marriage among people of same gender especially men is going to be a common place in India only a couple of decades from now.

>> Should men who don't have or can't find a normal relationship

Such men should actively work towards a society that doesn't kill girls before birth and after wards. If they can't may be they should suffer and live in the society they built.
It's a bit laughable to presume that the NSA would be interested in a random company's laundry, or would divulge it to anyone else. Snowden's leaks do not contain any evidence of this, and yet it is well known that the Chinese, in fact, do spy for corporate gain.
That's not controversial.

At least to me as an India, that's what is happening here all over the place.

There is one more theory going around. Soon same gender marriages among men are going to be common here.
I lived in the Bronx for a couple of years in a boarding house which is part of the Kolping Society founded by a Catholic priest intending to provide a home-away-from-home for young workers in the cities of industrial Germany. There's also a Quaker house near Union Square that is over a hundred years old.

http://www.kolpingresidence.com/
http://www.penington.org/
I assume so, someone would have gamed that a long time ago otherwise.
Yeah I clicked the link from the email update. Wonder if that exposes some kind of security flaw?
Thanks, I do both of those.

I'm still holding out that there's a permanent solution and I'll be able to fix this completely.
Speech Recognition in Javascript
Disabling CAPS is one of the first things I do when I refresh a system. I've always wanted to find a better alternative, but as of yet, it hasn't presented itself.

I've thought about mapping it to alt+tab since I use VNC quite a bit.
Interview with a blogger turned growth hacker turned entrepreneur
<citation needed>.

I've never heard of this kind of kickback scheme, in >10 years at several large research universities in the US.
Happened with me too,few days back I got a notification about some payment into my account by Google Admob and an email about refund, I thought it must be some unused fund but yesterday I got another notification about google taking it back! I was puzzled that is it my bank account or google's, they seem to be doing whatever they want with it.
Does nobody use the Caps Lock key as a caps lock? Pretty useful for that.
Coco: I'd rather be writing Perl-flavored Ruby.

LiveScript: I'd rather be writing Perl-flavored Ruby, with a Haskell syntax. ( http://livescript.org/ )
Rewriting the headline from the original wasn't a bad idea, but it should be "gets" instead of "get".
The only other ones I know of are on his website
http://cliftonlabs.net/TechnicalArticles.html
It is, and I agree, hence I paid. It just feels like a lot comparatively, but the value you get is on par. This is a ver KISS and I like that.
Google offering free Chromebooks to Indian schools
There is nothing wrong in looking after other opportunities, just like as an employer you would constantly look after new candidates, welcome to 2013!
Manager will assume that you have something else lineup up already anyway.
[http://bit.ly/1kKXzvq]
Kudos to internet for being accepted by ~35% of earthly population till date.
It is way too much parasitic, even more than humans.
The journey is longer than it seems.
In the US, the PIN-pad has no way to validate the PIN by itself.

The PIN-pad is a separate, black-box peripheral of the POS terminal. The POS commands it to read a PIN, and, when the customer finishes entering the PIN, the PIN-pad replies to the POS with a 16-byte (IIRC) encrypted block. The clear-text PIN never leaves the PIN-pad. The POS includes the encrypted PIN-block along with the mag stripe data and other info (such as the merchant account and the amount to charge) in its charge request uploaded to the payment processor. The payment processor then decrypts the PIN as part of the process of deciding whether to approve or decline the transaction.

>Is there a real flow online one can read?

Google for "PIN-pad protocol" or "DUKPT" (the encryption scheme commonly used).
Lots of people have no need for locked caps.
i ran org-mode with vim so i set caps lock key to ctrl and right Cmd key to esc.
Sociopaths, not psychopaths. Psychopaths lack planning ability and often exhibit poor impulse control. They're often pretty easy to spot since their behavior is generally obvious.

Sociopaths, on the other hand, are very much worse. They are clever enough to "pass" and to create and pursue long term plans.

I have unfortunately worked with one guy that seemed to me to be pretty far along on that continuum of sociopathy. He was constantly backstabbing and manipulating and really fucked me over hard, all because he saw it as a way to get ahead. He lied, dissembled, and only in a truly transparent group setting was I able to call his actions out.

I went on Christmas vacation with everything "good" with my team and came back to my manager asking me why my module was "completely fubared," according to my colleague. So I sat down with my manager and my accuser and went through the code line-by-line to explain the function and reasoning behind the code, then showed it working in our codebase repo. My accuser, with nothing else to throw at me said that he "had been confused by the names of the classes."

He still managed to convince management that I didn't deserve a bonus and he did, despite his poor track record. THAT is the danger of these sorts of people, and a hard lesson learned that I _have_ to play politics enough that I am sure I am not being thrown under the bus rather than just focusing on being a creative and productive member of the team.

While my manager and the accuser were good buddies through most of the project, the accuser's true nature began to shine through and now he's moved across the country, presumably with new bridges to burn.
Let's take one situation as an example. You're a woman experiencing domestic abuse in a mandatory arrest jurisdiction (means if the cops get called for a DV case, somebody is getting arrested). Your abuser also happens to be charismatic. You call the cops, your abuser cuts his own hand with the knife and convinces the cop that you were the aggressor, you're going to jail. Also, maybe you have trivial amounts of drugs in the house. Etc.

Google: "net widening effect"

--

Hell, I'm white and middle class, but I used to look like a hooligan and the one time I called the cops (when someone I invited over to the house stole all of our laptops and a bunch of cash) I ended up spending the day locked in an interrogation room under suspicion for being an accomplice to the person that robbed me. (Somehow the cops became convinced that I arranged the robbery of myself to pay off a drug debt that I owed this person, because he was a known drug dealer and I invited him into my house)
I wonder if anyone has posted any resources on how to design proper mobile pages?

For my own personal site[1] I tried my best to maximize the viewing area while keeping some padding of the text from the edge of the screen for "comfort" and a small pinned navbar for usability.

Idk if that is best practice though. I want to see one so that I can follow those for a few projects I'm currently making.

Also: I want to see a millisecond by millisecond breakdown of what happens when for a typical mobile page load.

[1]: Shameless plug, but I don't really design mobile websites that also acts as a desktop one: https://shuhaowu.com
Mine's mapped to escape because vim.
It's not as hard as it sounds to report on Silicon Valley from NYC. It turns out, you just have to copy and paste tweets, add a bit of snark, and then contact the tweeter's employer for comment. It probably adds 10k pageviews if you get someone fired.

It helps that you don't have to be accurate. For example, take this juxtaposition:

"Anti-Foreigner VC Also Supports Hiring Discrimination" by Sam Biddle[1]

"Y Combinator reaches farther beyond Silicon Valley" - including startups from 22 different countries in the latest batch[2]

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/anti-foreigner-vc-also-supports-...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-24/y-combinator-reache...
> Ukelele even still works on Mavericks.

Why wouldn't it? They didn't change the entire input system in Mavericks, did they?
Disruption in Indian Politics
I don't understand the point you're trying to make?

The Cantor set shares the property that "for every two [points in the set] there are infinitely many [points in the set] in between", but no one would describe it as looking like a line. It's rather sparse.
Only $0-$4 is available (at least in Chrome 31.0.1650.63 and Firefox 26.0).

You can check what's available in the console command line in Chrome with

Object.keys(console._commandLineAPI)
Is there a profession where answer is 100%?
The people at valleywag have to know, deep down, about the fundamental dishonesty of what they do. They have a choice to do a different, honest job instead of pandering to the worst instincts of humanity.

The people at the second-tier mud-slingers that repeat stuff off of Valleywag (Business Insider) are just as culpable.
I agree! I think it's possible to teach kids programming from a very young age, provided they have the right tools. I'm teaching my grade 3 son how to program, and I'm doing it by writing a book which he is following along with:

https://leanpub.com/programmingforkids

I want more beta readers though!

I've made a free coupon "hackernews" which has a 10 use limit (for individual use or any of the school packages). If you want to use it with your classes, go ahead. I'd love feedback!
> rather than acting as mindless sheep following who knows what.

I'll tell you right now, that anyone who uses that phrase is more of a "mindless sheep" than those he criticizes.

> What I am saying is that you want a small non-intrusive government at all levels, from local to federal.

Not particularly. There is no intrinsic reason to want a "small government" over a large one (or vice versa). What you want is an effective government, that best matches your interests. Of course, everyone has their own interests, so the best rough metric that we've come up for maximizing the effectiveness of the government across the whole population, and minimizing its harm, are democratic institutions with various protections in place to prevent various types of abuses.

Likewise, you don't necessarily want small corporations or large ones. A large corporation has more power and is able to abuse that power more; but it is also frequently more efficient than having lots of small actors, as lots of transactions between independent actors can add friction and cost.

Distributed systems have problems, as they can exhibit lots of complex behaviors that can cause destabilizing feedback, and they can be inefficient. Centralized systems have problems, because they provide single points of failure or points of corruption that can be exploited for gain. Some balance between the two of them is necessary, and it's also necessary to spend effort on simply fixing problems that come up rather than thinking that every problem can be solved by adhering to some philosophy of "big government" vs. "small government".

> mindless sheep ... wake up and see what is really going on.

Did you really just write a long winded "wake up sheeple" post? Are you trying to be a self-parody?
I can't stand the caps lock key at all. I pop them all off my keyboards.
Please, please, please do not teach programming in a 1960s-era style text editor with one font color. Syntax highlighting exists for a reason- it breaks down code into units that we can easily see and understand. If your code is all one color, new programmers will see it as a bunch of foreign gobbledegook, and it will be harder to single out the differences between functions, variables, includes, etc.
Ah, thanks for that interesting analysis!

> if we combine forces, we make (X+Y)•(1+delta)%, where delta>eps+iota. So we not only get our normal winnings, but we win an additional reward for joining forces.

I'm not convinced that that matters. Let's say you're right and that your math is flawless (it's late, so I haven't verified it).

If there is just one cancerous pool growing, then doesn't that make the job of policing the network even easier? Have a look at Stephen's post on btctalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324413.msg3478147#ms...

Using his method (or something similar) it would be rather obvious that something was fishy about the blocks this group was publishing. If it could be developed into a proof, then the entire selfish pool would be permabanned from the network, publicly tarred and feathered, etc. and there would be no problem.

Am I missing something? (If I am, don't jump too hard on me please, I'm about to head to sleep! :p)
The entire system is designed so banks implicitly trust each other. As with anything else, as a business grows you eventually start cutting out middlemen to reduce costs. Eventually large players are treated effectively as banks themselves, and can push any transaction they want into the network. As long as things total out correctly at the end of the day between individual banks, nobody really gets in trouble.

It ends up being a lot more complicated than that (as everything in banking is), but that is the general idea.
That sounds terrible - dystopian even.

I would far rather the google data be made public
Worst possible knee-jerk reaction.

Data outside the US is the easiest for the NSA to access. It's only data that never leaves the US which in theory you can argue is subject to warrants.

Of course, since it's so easy to redirect your traffic outside the US using BGP, it's not really a defense no matter where you are storing your data, but the clause is certainly pointless.
Ah, that's a good point. On film, the horizontal size is the constraining factor, and they can choose how much vertical real estate to use per frame to give the aspect ratio they would prefer.
One consideration with console.assert() is that it does not interrupt execution as you might expect it to.
I just remap caps lock to act as a random modifier each time it's pressed. It seems absurd to set it up any other way.
I totally don't buy that Google has a monopoly on search. Anyone here could start a search engine tomorrow. Sure, it might suck, but there is no barrier to entry. It isn't like Ma Bell telephone companies who had blocked other competitors from running copper wires to homes via tons of local ordinances... which reminds me, its pretty hard to have a true monopoly without some help from the government.
The biggest issue I have with this is Google's practically non-existent customer service.
Brain size is correlated to intelligence in humans by 0.35.

Cooking food is an adaptive behavior that reduces disease and alters nutrition. It was the gradual exploitation of nature for the domestication of monocultural, industrial agriculture with supply chain processing that makes for most food modern people eat including "convenience" foods. This division of labor, whether organic farmer or pseudo-family megafarm, is what renders individual hunter-gathering a waste of time. From this over-abundance of calories and protein, it could support more robust bodies and larger brains, but it's a moot point considering obesity and the inevitability of the technological singularity.
It may have something to do with the transition from "old" to "new" Admob. Advertisers can request refunds for unused funds from the "old" Admob, maybe that job had a bug and refunded everything. Makes you wonder how that's possible for a company that has the supposedly brightest of the best developers.
> Doesn't matter how you achieve a monopoly: it's defined by dominance, not bad-behavior.

Well when you describe it like that, makes me think antitrust laws are just silly. Isn't the job of a company to be the best and beat their competition?
Citation?! I'm telling you from experience. The best known example I can give you is: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Stanford_Resear...

Here's a recent article about universities resisting efforts to curb overheads: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/03/17/harvard-mi...
Yes, exactly!

What I don't get is how hard it would be for someone to say "Hmm, maybe redirecting to the home page is actually a pretty awful idea. If that's the best we can do, maybe we should only auto-redirect pages where we actually know the equivalent (static pages and such) until we can afford a better solution."

As a side note, I've just realized it's things like this that are why I can't stand front-ends that are built on or tightly integrated with the same ORM the backend uses.
Rear wheel to help park in tight spots (1953)
Brain size is correlated to intelligence in humans by 0.35.

Cooking food is an adaptive behavior that reduces disease and alters nutrition. It was the gradual exploitation of nature for the domestication of monocultural, industrial agriculture with supply chain processing that makes for most food modern people eat including "convenience" foods. This division of labor, whether organic farmer or pseudo-family megafarm, is what renders individual hunter-gathering a waste of time. From this over-abundance of calories and protein, it could support more robust bodies and larger brains, but it's mostly a moot point considering inevitability of the technological singularity.
If they didn't process the take backs as reversals, you can dispute the transactions.
Ask HN: Have you remapped the Caps Lock key? [Poll]
A submission to Hacker News on remapping the Caps Lock key (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6969401) got me curious. From the thread, it looked as if most people remap their Caps Lock key to something else. Since these answers may be heavily biased (it was a thread about remapping that key, after all), here's a poll.

If you want to, please provide any alternate mapping you're using in the comments.
Care to post your slate configuration file? I've just started using it and am seeking inspiration.
I guess only big tech companies can have patents.
> zoom in to full width

Narrow column layout are awesome: You can zoom in to full width, resulting in big fonts for your screen. Most website's fonts are too small by default to be read on an iPad. It gets worse when I'm on a subway or reading while walking home (90% of my HN reading time): Font to small, can't zoom, = leave the website.

So rule #8: Let people use the pinch-to-zoom on your mobile website (Ironically, the OP itself has pinch-to-zoom disabled).

Which leads me to a more important point: Why do "responsive" js libraries sometimes disable pinch-to-zoom?
An answer that I have given to a friend asking the same question is: Imagine you want to build a big building and you are given as many square boxes as you want, how do you build the building? Easy, you stack a bunch of boxes one on another until you get the shape and size you want. But what if you want to have a triangular roof? You're stuck; theres nothing you can do. Therefore, imagine now, that instead of being given square boxes you are given rectangular boxes. Now in order to build the same house that you built before you need to take a bunch of rectangles and put them together to make squares and then do what you did before. Thats soooo much more work. However, now you can build triangles.

This entire situation is like the programming problem that the author describes: specific tools designed for a specific problem will be easier to use to solve that problem. The moment, however, you want to use that tool to solve a problem that it wasnt meant to, you're stuck.
inoremap jj <Esc>

Best .vimrc setting ever.
Keep your online life private
São Paulo has a great mapping/index of graffiti art. Might be of interest to you. Related to this http://jungledrumsonline.com/articles/travel-articles/take-t.... I couldn't find the database link
BUT IT MAKES SARCASTIC COMMENTS SO EASY TO WRITE.
So I have a phd in math and I do tend to think less of other mathematicians who argue against infinite sets or uncountable sets and such, the argument's been over for a hundred years, you lost, deal with it. It's mathematical geocentrism.
Actually, I've seen 2560x1440 called "2.5K" (at least Blackmagic calls it that in their Cinema Camera which shoots 2432 x 1366), since 2K has a well established definition of 2048x1080, or some crop of that to meet a desired aspect ratio. In film, 4K is defined as 4096x2160, which is exactly 4 times the number of pixels as 2K.
I second the idea of using Prelude to start with Emacs, along with the package manager which makes the initial setup and adding modes/stuff very easy (see http://melpa.milkbox.net).

I haven't seen any lost functionality by using evil; modes that define bindings continue to work, and the usual C-x/C-c/M-x/whatever works fine with evil. There is the odd major mode that doesn't work with evil out of the box (usually if it redefines j/k) but most have no problems. You can still use most (all?) regular Emacs movement commands with evil as well.
I use caps-lock instead of shift. For example, I do "CAP-LOCK, LETTER, CAPS-LOCK" to type a capital letter. It's less efficient, yes, but it works just fine for me. Explaining this to anyone gets "you're kidding" views, but I assure you, the caps lock key is already quite useful to me.
That makes sense for news or trip reports, but what has changed about keyboards in the last year? Nothing I can think of.
Isn't hyper its own key, not a combination of the other modifiers?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-cad...

Emacs seems to think so:

ELISP> (kbd "S-s-C-M-x")
[176160792]
ELISP> (kbd "s-C-M-x")
[142606360]
ELISP> (kbd "H-x")
[16777336]
I don't see why we need to be shackled to the bounds of countability.
Sometimes, when those dollars are earmarked for specific equipment or food purchases, donations are about clandestinely subsidizing industry or agriculture back home. In the case of food aid, this is especially pernicious, because these foreign food purchases flood local markets and undermine local food production, often making the food-availability situation worst post-donation.
US companies would be lucky if all this did is reduce their international sales. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

By far the worst damage is all that lost capital is going to flow into helping to generate a vast supply of new and bigger competition overseas. So not only will the US companies lose sales in the immediate future, they'll face amplified competition that will hit sales even more so long term. Even if the US Government has cleaned up this mess by the end of the decade, it won't matter, the financial consequences will just keep rolling.

When it's all tallied up, I think the NSA and US Government abuses will cost the economy trillions of dollars in value over the course of a few decades. Something akin financially to a hundred September 11th attacks in damages. Oh the staggering brilliance of the DC machine.