skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really surprised that none has actually read the transcript. Here is a quote from the next question in the transcript:

Eric: What you’re saying is that they’re not out there to be found?

Paul: I don’t think so. I don’t think so. It is changing a bit because it’s no longer so critical to be a hacker

So PG's views are actually exactly that - in general no suitable female startup founders exist in the world. That isn't bad per se as an opinion, or makes him misogynist, I'm just surprised how people that have a positive outlook of someone can defend them even in a clearly wrong situation.

Btw I'm not affiliated with that news website in any way, just couldn't bare to see a community - that is normally so ornithological - go crazy over defending someone who doesn't deserve it.
For people interested in Stack computers, Eric LaForest did a thesis on them : http://is.uwaterloo.ca/Eric_LaForest_Thesis.pdf (from Hamblin RPN to Forth processors)
So you're using your B6700 as the single big mainframe at your university ('big' is relative here your phone is almost a 1000 times faster and has a 5000 times as much memory and 'disk' storage at one 1,000,000th the price - we bought 1.5Mb for ours for a million dollars)

You're a full professor, very important in the world, and you're running a big multi-hour data analysis run and the compsci student at the terminal next to you is writing a compiler (that would have been me) - every time they test their compiler code the system crashes and scribbles garbage over the hard drive a day later they've recovered the disk and that student is sitting there again ..... you go and see the powers that be

Basically if you wanted to write a compiler for this multi-million dollar platform you needed to have one for yourself ..... only one I know of was written outside Burroughs (UCSD Pascal) - my compilers were all interpreted until we got a Vax
Marvel Halts Sales of Periodical Comics in Bookstores
Stalin is a bad example. By forcing industrialization on the ussr, he has increased average life span of the population by something like 15 years ( measures in 1958) and enabled the ussr to defend itself against the Germany which saved countless lives, and increased living standards, education, female equality greatly.

In his case, and the case of Chinese communism, it somewhat debatable whether a strong government is preferable.
Looks like Mills himself and investors involved are in the comments section via FB (so they're using their real identities). One of the investors even still believes in Mills and states he invested 48k.
PHP Tour Lyon calling for papers
We can argue about the details but the underlying story is accurate: the cost of higher education has gone up a lot while the income of college graduates has been flat or declined slightly. This is not news[1a][1b].

The big question is will collage graduate wages rise in the future so that these debts become manageable - many are concerned they won't and these debts will consume many years of their earnings. And nobody is predicting college inflation will decline anytime soon so college may be even less affordable in the future.

BTW - Undergraduate and graduate enrollment was up only about 25% (flat since 2010)[2] while total student debt tripled since 2003. Average student debt probably nearly doubled since 2003 (up 58% 2005-2012[3] do the math to estimate 2003-2013 - up about 92%).

[1a] http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/arch...

[1b] http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/24693728700/dont-fall-for...

[2] http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/09/03/number-of-students...

[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/01/29/more-e...
"The ones who work at Silicon Valley startups and lecture the entire industry about how things work, then surround themselves with like-minded people to have strength in numbers" - Love this... this phenomenon sounds so familiar in my job I really think it should have a name. Anyone know if it has a name?
League of Legends Hacked – A Publicity Stunt or Retribution
Enterprise profiles offer complete control over an iPhone in iOS7, including bypassing password, installing apps and so on. In theory one needs to install a profile by hand, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to do it remotely with the right vulnerabilities. Some devices can come from the factory with an ID that auto-enrolls them with an EDM profile, including after OS reinstalls. I don't remember if Apple can push profiles, but I think it can.

More info on Zdziarski's blog.

Anyway, all devices with centralized managment like Android, iPhone, Blackberry can't be secured IMHO against such a capable adversary. When an actor can push stuff to the device it's hopeless.
The drawing the NSA made for its hacking system FOXACID
Welcome to the ways of media. My only question is: Why is it such a surprise to you that this occurred, when in fact .. This editing/re-positioning is normal and accepted behaviour in media organizations, and has been for decades. You should have known that the reporter already had their story goal filed - embarrass the PG/VC crowd somehow - and then they went to you for your interview, farming whatever they could to build controversy.

Controversy is the product, not informed readers.
That's a valuable slide deck, thanks for sharing.

I'm about to join a small company that doesn't have many good engineering processes in place yet (code review being one of them). It's a big red flag for me too, but I also saw it as a challenge and an opportunity to improve how things are done there.

I have experience with some of these processes because of the open source development that I've done, and that's one reason why the lead dev wanted to hire me. Hopefully I can make a positive difference in their engineering culture! Would love to hear advice from anyone who's been in a similar situation.
The test appears to be very resolution-dependent.

At 2560x1600, I get about 1800 objects at 25fps.
At 1280x800, I get ~4k objects at 30fps.
At 640x480, I get 16k+ objects at 30fps.
If someone is using good DSLR to capture you on your dinner, you're probably a celebrity and used to such things.

The idea that the person across the table have a recording device, and every second of our conversation can be scrutinized later or posted on some social network is very unnerving and mood-killing. I don't dinner with people with smartphone turned on to capture every spoken word for exactly same reason.
Show HN: A Twitter and IMDb mashup.
I don't know this game, but if for example Blizzard would shut down the World of Warcraft servers you could still play it on private servers. Same for a lot of other MMOs that do not have their official server anymore like Star Wars Galaxies and Earth & Beyond. People can still play these on private and / or emulated servers.
Yes I realised that and it is hard to just trust someone based on my own opinion that's why -hopefully- I will soon be releasing some software I've been working on for a long time (A node.js blogging engine).
PG has put what he said in perspective - and everything boils down to quoting out of context. You want to be an A class founder - try hard - there is no shortcut even if you are a woman.
There are women hackers everywhere, just like men, just as many. Thing is, men don't notice, and women don't refer to it as hacking. They call it coping, or getting by.
I really liked Arrington's post; but most fundamentally, what is the value of the so-called "tech press"?

Like so many things, free press in general is being disintermediated, since "leaks" happen without it, outside of it, and many times despite its best efforts to ignore them.

Still, one can imagine there's value to the business of keeping the government accountable -- if the business gets done.

But in tech? What secrets are there to uncover? As this story shows, the only "secrets" left are those made up by the press to try and justify its existence.
If I list the accomplishments of the current Pope and explain how great I think he is doing and has always been doing and how he is just an awesome person, then I'm being cultish... even though I'm an atheist?

Your argument does not make any sense at all. It's a string of words ordered to seems to mean something rational, while it is in fact complete gibberish. Listing accomplishments paired with fawning and idolatry is ... exactly that. Reverence, not cultism.
I get the appeal of a premium service, but what's wrong with ArsTechnica or The Register?

I'm constantly impressed by the quality of these site's articles (although I find The Register difficult to get on with for the same reasons I find Private Eye difficult to get on with).
It sadly didn't work at all for me. Getting the following error on Chrome (Version 31.0.1650.63 m): XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/4811371/subscribeFr.... No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://nathanbarry.com' is therefore not allowed access.
This feels like good advice not just for writing a paper but for reading one as well. Explicitly thinking about the structure of a paper certainly helps me get through it. And if something is missing--say, good examples--I know to look elsewhere for them before continuing.

Sometimes, finding a slide deck the author of the paper used is more useful than the paper itself just because they have more room for examples! I've found this particularly true for very dense theory papers where I only half-understand the relevant mathematics.
Also Humble Bundle.
While the underlying message might be true, this chart is constructed to look fatal.

1) Income scale is not zero based and makes a small change seem enormous

2) Student debt should be per person per year, not a total sum which is influenced by the number of students and numerous other factors.
English Libel Law Changes To Combat Libel Tourism
Gold Parsing System - What can it be used for in programming?
I'm not arguing with your distinctions between currencies and assets. I don't care what label you choose to apply to BTC or SPY. I'm asking why a positive real rate of return on BTC will cause consumption to drop in a manner that a positive rate of return on Gold or SPY would not.

I strongly suggest you go read an economics textbook that actually does the math. Working the models will help you avoid arguing with yourself about definitions (a pointless exercise even if you had a partner http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/ ).
Hacking startups ?
Is there such a thing ?
>> "A remote installation capability will be pursued for a future release"

> Here is the interesting bit. You don't put this in a document unless you have a good plan on how to do it.

Well, you also put that sort of statement in a document because a manager you're presenting to asked you about it and you need to acknowledge it, but you don't have any plans to actually do it. Any questions about it can be answered with relatively vague platitudes and "conceptual architectures", and then the feature is left to quietly fade away in subsequent iterations of the backlog.
No Wonder Why Microsoft Has Started Trashing Google's Chromebooks
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/09/nsa-sabota...
One technical solution to this is encrypting the content of ram, using keys that cannot leave the processor. It's called TREZOR. Sorry no link, I'm on mobile . It doesn't work well with current phones but it should work well with cortex-a15 chips (assuming they won't be back doored against this, which is pretty hard to assume. But as far as I know, there isn't a realistic solution to back doored processors ).
Bought Far Cry 3 and it does the same. When you launch the game on Steam it installs UPlay which requires you to have a UPlay account as well. With an account you can launch the game from Uplay.
So they just wait for the company to magically get healthy?
And does Mills get to start another company with VC Money?

Seems like he could very well trick more investors in the future and if I read an article on TechCrunch about him founding a new start-up I'd be extremely upset that a douchebag like him gets a second chance while harder working and more honest folks don't succeed because of a combination of lack of connections and "shyness". That's an awful read to end the year.
Ask HN:How to understand advanced topic in programming language ?
hello everyone,
it's been 3 years that I'm programming, but until now I find dificulties to understand dificult algorithms, such as recursion, quicksort, and lots of other stuff, for example the speed of algorithm, so I solve the prblem that is in projeteuler this website but in more time , as I have not done the mathematics in the university, I think I still have gaps. whats kind of advices can you give me .
for example of mathematical book or topics to help me to solve dificult algorhitmes.
thank you very much
But what if PG had actually said what was attributed to him? It goes against some current prejudice, but it is a view that someone would be entitled to hold, given how few women hackers actually exist. It is simply not known why this is (or why there are relatively few women in some other fields such as physics or math). The simplest hypothesis - that it is of biological origin - has simply not been refuted by any evidence. Why should anyone hound people who approach this issue in a rational way (rather than ideologically)?
Hmm, just read on this Jack guy. What was that thing? He was 35 years old and wasn't sick or obese.

Now, for people who believe the generally good nature of states (and/or Santa) this might not even raise an eyebrow, but for people who have read their history, well...
The sets of a and b are not exclusive, until _you_ explicitly declared them to be exclusive.
I highly recommend 'Practical Ethics' by 'Peter Singer'. You will start seeing how you can apply critical thinking to various moral questions in life without clinging to any religious book. If there are facts to learn about human happiness then 'science' only(this includes economics, history, philosophy etc, basically all forms of rational discourse which are open to criticism and change) should suffice.

There is some good advice in Bible but there is lot of crap too and if you choose to cherry pick, its fine. Just keep in mind that your innate morals themselves are making you pick and choose. It was not written for a person in 21st century whose world is unfathomable for the Bible's author.

> I don't claim that you're wrong, but it is very hard to preserve moral values in an atheistic ideology

What do you mean by 'preserve'? Why can't moral values evolve overtime? At this moment, people eat mammalian meat happily without concerning about torture that those animals go through. I have no doubt that 100 years from now, people will look at this tradition similar to how we find slavery now. Slavery was so prevalent(and useful) that there seemed to be nothing 'wrong' with it. No surprise, that Bible didn't mention anything against it. But society evolved and soon it became something unthinkable. Some act which was not wrong, suddenly became very wrong. Similarly many moral values were not 'preserved'. I hope you see my point(literally and metaphorically).
This scrolls really slowly for me. Anyone else?
Talk version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3dkRsTqdDA

Highly recommended. Simon is a very good speaker.
Art History vs Computer Vision
The Postmodernity of Big Data
I suspect it's because there are backwards-incompatible changes between 0.x versions, whereas 1.x should (arguably) be backwards-compatible.
Right, forget about the age thing. Do what you like doing. The problem with "I'm 15 and I did this" is that it's also easy to go with the flip side, which is "sorry this was such a disaster, but I'm only 15." You should never use your [age, race, sex, creed, disability] as a factor in what you do. Get your mindset right and then just build stuff.

ETA: I can point out all kinds of people who wildly succeeded despite huge adversity. You won't see these guys mentioning how they were able to do well despite X. Really, the achievements should speak for themselves. You shouldn't have to dress them up. If you do feel that way, then maybe you need to take a step back and think about what's next. What can you do to level up and take you out of your comfort zone and give you a greater sense of accomplishment.
Agree w/ the first part but it's not sexist at all for him to note the demographics of the pool of talent he's choosing from.
The people at the bar down the street are not engaging in pseudo-intellectual discussion when they discuss an instance of the current foreign policy that was in the news that day, even though they know nothing about political science and the art of foreign policy. Your definition includes that and is thus just silly.

Just entering an opinion on a subject you don't know 'enough' about is not pseudo-intellectualism. Pseudo-intellectualism is making it seem like you have significantly more intelligence on a subject than most other persons or have put significantly more thought into it, often connecting a subject to other subjects, and are thus qualified to make more informed comments on these subjects. You can lend more credence to your comments by using the correct academic vocabulary, but can be caught as a pseudo-intellectual by using it in the wrong way.
GOG does have a few games with DRM even though they advertise as 100% DRM free. They have also sold games that phone home, although I don't think they have sold any that have phone home DRM. They are more reliable than anywhere else I know of, but do have some amount of false advertising.
- Write more
- Get a little better in what I do daily
- Exercise more
- Buy a house
- Travel more
Probably the right quantity for the graph would be CPI for education:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CUSR0000SAE1
That might still be an understatement. He wrote one of the top books for (Common) Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

Peter Norvig on the book: http://www.amazon.com/review/RRFAH7G81ASUL/ref=cm_cr_dp_titl...
How to choose your course: Factors to consider
Some googling turned up his blog post: http://shinytoys.org/blog/war-in-a-bottle
You say this like he stopped learning and stopped getting more experienced since the 1990's.
Perhaps no one is going to say it, so I'll say it: The nonchalant font makes these slides easy and fun to read.

Also, for who are not in the know, Simon Peyton Jones is a well respected computer scientist, mostly known for his work on developing the functional programming language Haskell (together with others ofcourse), Haskell research is funded for a large part by Microsoft I think.
It's the opinion of any academic philosopher who has ever reviewed her. It also has nothing to do with her individualistic/libertarian view - Nozick, for example, who shares many of the same conclusions wrote a detailed review of her books in which he exposed her arguments and philosophical analysis as barely at an undergraduate level.

This is why Nozick and others are taught in political philosophy and not ayn rand. You can listen to a somewhat detailed introductory treatment by people well-read in philosophy here: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2013/07/01/ep78-ayn-ran....

One of her greatest sins is her perpetually trashing people like Kant whilst having no idea what theyve said - because she makes many of the very same points. pg does this too.
Uh, Stalin is responsible for more suffering than possibly anyone in recent history. He probably killed more russian people than the german soldiers.

His policies screwed up a significant part of the world for decades.
Opps, by that I mean't a website done in PHP and the WS server was in node.

Also @krrishd, are you still working on your suicide-prevention app, I emailed you about it a few weeks ago and didn't get a response.
I know his academic background. His article on philosophy cannot have taken "weeks" because it is so woeful.
Which is really just going to be read as another "fuck you" to the Python community, the vast majority of which is probably still going to be using Python 2...
I'm insured against criminality. I'm on my own should the government decide to shit on me.
What is this anarchy? Not all government is bad. The government isn't one single entity (the NSA) which has decided to spy on you. If you try to license something like this, you will prohibit libraries, educational institutions, research institutions, government offices, and the citizens who use these services from using your software.
If you are interested in an alternative model: in Germany you go primary school age 6-10, then you go to secondary school which comes in 3 flavors: Hauptschule (general school, total 9 years), Realschule (total 10 years) or Gymnasium (total 12 years). Which one you will go usually depends on your academic performance.

If you go to Hauptschule/Realschule you can do an so called Apprenticeship, which is involves working at a company and going to school for 1 day per week (or so) for 2 or 3 years.

If you go to Gymnasium, you choose to do the same apprenticeship or go university where students will usually study for both a Bachelor and Masters degree (3+2 years). Students have to choose their major when they enroll.

Schools and universities are normally government run and as such free or at least heavily subsidized. Germans believe that education should be accessible to everyone (not sure about foreign nationals) regardless of economical background.

I don't know which model is better, but I think I favor the American one, if it wasn't so darn costly. In theory at least 3 years of collage should never be wasted time.
> It is not clear to me why we should care about the other standard of quality.

Yeah, I think this is a fairly good characterization of pg's audience.
New Years Resolutions for Small Business Owners
It's also great advice. I especially liked the part at the end about using simple and direct language and the active voice. This alone makes a paper much easier to digest even if the subject matter is hard.
What everyone should, once again, learn from this is that you cannot take anything you read or hear at face value. Not even from people you trust, because things may be misrepresented by accident. Often it doesn't really matter, but if you get emotional about a subject and wish to comment on it, you should better be sure you have the facts straight and always temper your responses based on the possibility you don't know everything.
The women/minority questions are great!
The rise of robots and the future of jobs
I have about 250 friends mostly in a 100km radius and about 40%-50% female. Tapping the retry button doesn't do anything
This works well for giving talks as well. I have often signed up to give talks on subjects I wanted to learn more about. In fact I believe the best time to give a talk is when you're still learning a topic, as you're more enthusiastic and have any easier time empathizing with those new to the subject.
The article basically concludes that it doesnt have any inherent value other than the fact that "a lot of people seem to be using it".
We return to the same argument again and again, bitcoin needs to get the fundamentals right. Whenever a question about 'store of value' is raised, btc proponents start yelling about how awesome it is as a 'medium of exchange'.
I for one will not buy btc until it gets the fundamentals right.
Precisely because he's that respected, I was surprised at the font choice, which I disliked (it just seems to mean extra mental effort for me over something I'm more used to).
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