skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nor can you name a single device that is not built off of something non-war related. If you refuse to admit your logical fallacies, then I have no point arguing with you.

You think that your psychopathy puts you in some elite category of non-labouring factory commander. It doesn't, it just makes you aberration to be tolerated until you all kill each other. Your failure to ground your value system into your nature -- a fellow human -- makes you an evolution inconsistency waiting to resolve itself. That is why you are outnumbered.

If not, you'll find that the future holds unexpected surprises for you as your pet machine comes to crush your frail body, only after realizing through trial and failure that you weren't able to transcend your physical nature.
Yes, that's definitely a problem, particularly the way most classes on services like Udacity are done. You can't just videotape the lectures and translate the homework/quizzes into a MOOC and expect that it's going to be compelling.

Khan Academy definitely gets this right where other MOOCs really fail. The quizzes are actually quite engaging and the 'gamified' point giving, despite being incredibly cheesy, really seems to work.

I agree that there is no replacement for TAs and the professor, and I think that's where a lot of confusion about MOOCs stems from. This is where 'flip' teaching comes about. Instead of wasting time doing daily lesson planning and grading papers, the TAs and the professor spend their time helping students out who are having trouble. The students can watch/re-watch pre-recorded lectures and then take quizzes during class time which can be graded by the computer.
I think the real question is: do they want "help"?

They're doing perfectly well. They fill their role, they do their job, they do what they want during their free time. Who are you (or anyone) to say that needs to be changed?

The last paragraph of Hansleman's post captures it perfectly:

> The Dark Matter Developer will never read this blog post because they are getting work done using tech from ten years ago and that's totally OK. I know they are there and I will to support them in their work.
A... Genuine Advantage!
Some of us believe that broadband should be considered a public utility, in which case it is appropriate to subject providers to these regulations.
Oh, none of these programmes are tests. If you a into that kind of thing, you should also compete in the Mathematik-Olympiade (and physics and chemistry olympiad, too). There are also Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik and Bundeswettbewerb Informatik, that are fun to take part in.

Drop me a line (email in profile), if you want to learn more. I grew up in Germany, but ended up all over the world, currently I'm in Singapore.
But the argument for creating this law is that letting people do whatever they want does hurt others, and that limiting it can prevent or soften the tragedy of the commons.
Ten observations around 2013
I really wish I could draw. And I don't even mean the incredibly detailed and skillful paintings that get the most attention, I mean simple line drawings like this that completely and undeniably capture the essence of what a simple object looks like in the least amount of detail possible.
any particular reason you do not use chromium, the OpenSource version of Chrome?
As for #10 -- "Critique code instead of people – be kind to the coder, not to the code" -- I find that in almost every place I've worked though, what happens is "that guy" who used to work there (or even the guy who didn't happen to show up to the office the day we found the bug) becomes the scape goat for the poorly written line. Interesting that we need to blame the problem on someone! Maybe that's just specific to where I've worked, but I think it might point to deeper problems.
Mark Ames (Exiled, NSFW) new long reads have genuinely improved the respectability and depth of Pando Daily, since its recent merger with NSFW.
For OT to work you would need the ability to track all the changes and mirror them to the other users. React appears to have the ability to track changes, but I am unsure how easy it would be to mirror them over the network.

There's a great article here that describes how OT and other synchronization algorithms work (OT is event passing): https://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/
There was a Gawker article a while ago that accused the very concept of the site of being racist.

Of course, you know, Gawker... not to be taken seriously.
If it's hidden, undocumented, and allows a malicious person to make your device do things it shouldn't then, yes, it's a flaw.
IIRC, Paper money used in the colonies had the exact same problem as Bitcoin, but many different forms of them worked prior to the establishment of the United States and the US Mint. Not everything pre-United States was traded in gold, furs and wigwam. They were a fiat currency that could not be used to pay taxes.

What Krugman fails to consider time and time again is the notion of "fitness for use". For international transfers, bitcoin has greater fitness for use than any international currency or other medium of exchange out there. What's missing is fitness for use for day to day transactions, usability, security for the average person and volatility. The former three are being worked on by many people and being solved little by little, and those three are contributing to reduce volatility relative to it's moving average price relative to other currencies.
There is one major difference: Since the Snowden affair, the United States no longer have allies.
I agree, curiosity and passion are something you either have or you don't. As an industry we need to improve our capabilities and continuously demonstrate our value and a subset who are lacking or have outdated skills risks influencing the perception of the value of the whole.

That said, if we can't make people want to be interested we need to find another way to reach them.

Some industries require formal certification and demonstration of ongoing professional development, but IT generally doesn't (although there are pockets which do). Some of the best developers I have worked with have had no formal training, however, just passion, curiosity and a willingness to put in the hours to learn and excluding them would be a mistake. So how do we do it?
You may think it's wrong, but a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the former president of the American Psychology Association would disagree with you. There is a chapter in his book (http://www.amazon.com/What-You-Change-Cant-Self-Improvement/...) where he talks about gender identification as nature or nurture.

He argues, quite convincingly, that girls raised as boys still like dolls and boys raised as girls still like firetrucks and bulldozers.

I would recommend the book.
What is the future potential of the business?

Do you personally have what it takes to lead it to that potential?

Are you a starter, who gets bored after the technically hard parts are solved?

Would the proceeds, if invested in a combination of bonds and dividend bearing stocks, provide an annual income that you could live on in a modest manner for the rest of your life? By this I don't mean SF, NY or London but a nice location with a more modest cost of living.

If you are getting bored and the exit would provide you a base salary for the rest of your life so that you could explore other new ventures ... I would take the exit.

In the end no one but you can really decide but these are some of the questions I would ask myself.
Hospitals have a limited competition as well in other countries. Healthcare is also regulated in other countries, maybe not as much
Just to be sure (one can never know nowdays) – that's sarcasm right?
You love the phrase "regulatory capture", don't you? :)
With the clients of out main money making application (investment banks for the most part) IE8 is well over 80%, possibly even 90%, though we are increasingly seeing the use of Chrome too as that has started making its way into standard desktop builds to deal with the increaing number of apps that are out right refusing to support IE8. MS are starting to lose a chunk of corporate use here: by not offering an easy way to run modernm IE and legacy IE side-by-side they are essentially giving market share to Chrome as some corporates can't drop IE8 easily (due to some intranet apps they still rely on) but are starting to need to have something more modern at the same time (they would use IE10 instead if they could easily run that along side IE8).
And the investment already poured into it. A lot of people now have a vested financial interest in making it succeed. There are enough of those people to make it self-sustaining while the kinks are worked out.
Their data-set it is quite old at this time, so it's simply too new to give you an accurate fingerprint stat.
I believe both types of drones are needed, if the "fly-to-pakistan-and-drop-a-bomb-on-a-compound"-drones didnt exist, the SOF guys would have more to do, and would take more losses, I guess.

I'm pretty sure the intel needed to carry out a drone-strike is insanely high.

Drones are also great when the insurgents flees on their motorcycles, as often happens when the ground forces come in.
Electric cars may hold solution for power storage
The iPhone 4 was released June 2010 and I know people who use iOS 7 with it.

Sure, it has hiccups but the point was more about Apple not abandoning the users than about how well older products run the new stuff.
USING VLC PLAYER AS AUDIO AND VIDEO CONVERTER | Onenaija Blog
Instead of performing OT at the DOM level, you could do it at the data/JSON level with ShareJS and continuously feed this JSON into React.
i'd argue that there are things that make a lot of sense being standardised. think about power outlets [0] on the wall. if you have ever been to a country using different power outlets, you know what i mean. wouldn't it be awesome if every country were to use IEC 60906, as it was envisioned in 1986 [1]?? I'd argue that power supply and perhaps also wired communication (ethernet cables, anyone) are prime examples where standardisation is very benificial.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1
Physics for Future Presidents is a great book - my wife gave her a copy last spring. I don't know if my daughter finished it but I know she said she found it interesting.

We have the the math books you mentioned but I haven't heard about the others before. Animals in Translation and Fifty-Nine Story Crisis look really good. Thanks for the reference!
I think that each gender has a different natural tendency to various professions but these tendencies are amplified by the culture.
Nothing guarantees that a new currency will displace Bitcoin rather than complement it. A second or third or fourth crypto-currency with broad adoption like Bitcoin would help Bitcoin more than hurt it since they would suggest that crypto-currencies are here to stay forever.

It's entirely conceivable that in the future there are half a dozen or more crypto-currencies out there that provide different qualities that make them more or less fit for use by different groups of people.
For those interested in Deming (and as you mention Toyota's management) see Online Resources for W. Edwards Deming’s Management Ideas:

http://blog.deming.org/2013/09/online-resources-for-w-edwards-demings-management-ideas/

From The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog.
It's an interesting time to be writing articles like this. Afghanistan, Iraq then the 2008 financial crisis. America lost prestige and the economy shrank considerably. These factors, real and perceived, coincided with the ongoing rise of China who for the most part avoided a real let down. I suspect that when we look back in 5 years from now we will really see 2013 as the last year of this low point. The US economy is finally rebounding - Q4 GDP looks very impressive. With lowered deficits and an improving job market citizen interest in politics will lessen. This will increase the ability of the US to play a more proactive role internationally again. Secondly, there are very troubling signs coming from China in terms of their own banking system. We know there's a shadow banking system and many failed enterprises are propped up. And, they're still a 1 party authoritarian state. I'm not sure how long the Chinese people will be ok with that; especially as their population ages and their middle class expands.

I wonder about the next 10 years or so and whether the US will rebound and China will finally face challenges they can't simply overcome via spending.
Reincarnation is the most likely explanation for differing talents.
That and the use of "Windoze" without a hint of irony makes me label this an unreliably biased source. As much as I'd love to se IE8- vanish and don't care what happens to IE9+, if this article said the summery sky were usually blue I'd want to verify the facts with other sources before taking them as stated.
If you think that the concern about DEA and SWAT can be easily dismissed, consider that SWAT teams regularly get involved in serving warrants for non-violent crimes -- in 1995, 3 out of 4 SWAT raids were based on drug warrants alone... and mistakes on those warrants can be made repeatedly:

"Perhaps no one was more victimized by the battlefield mentality that had set in at the NYPD than Walter and Rose Martin. The Brooklyn couple, both in their eighties, were wrongly raided more than fifty times between 2002 and 2010. The couple filed numerous complaints with the police department. They wrote letters to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly. They were ignored. In 2007 they at least got someone at the NYPD to try to wipe their address out of the department’s computer system. But the raids continued. It wasn’t until the couple went to the media in 2010 that the city finally looked into the problem. Back in 2002, someone had used the Martins’ address as a dummy address to test the department’s new computer system. When the new system was implemented, no one removed their address. So anytime NYPD cops in certain precincts used the system for a warrant and forgot to remove the dummy address to put in the correct one, the police would end up at the Martins’ door."[1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americ...
It depends on your workload - the GIL is still there after all. If you use the multiple processes you may get away with that. The article mentions this case, but uses PIL, so, the CPU-bound part is running compiled C code with very little GIL interaction.
Bandwidth and number of incoming connections.
If that happened, I could understand it. If you claim the thread above is summarized by that, you're hallucinating.

I simply said that bias can be invisible and it useful to have formal methods for catching it. I don't see myself as a "feminist activist" by any means.

I think the feminist activists who do sometimes uncritically toss around accusations of bias aren't really helping. But when I notice people reading my nuanced position and hallucinating a feminist rant, it increases my sympathies. It also doesn't speak well of people's abilities to see their biases (I wouldn't claim perfection for myself of course but the argument seems involve the claim that some people have no need for formal methods to correct their biases. I beg to differ, everyone needs that).
My concern is that whilst they think they are doing their job, the people paying them don't think they are doing it well enough or doing enough of it to value it. I'm seeing more and more development jobs off-shored or out-sourced not because that results in better work, but simply because it results in the same work being done more cheaply. That's great for the companies and countries that are picking up that work, but it's leaving a swathe of developers who are "mid-career" who are at risk of becoming unemployed and whilst they may get new jobs, they may not earn the kind of money they are used to.
Some blogs for those interested in Toyota's management practices

- http://www.gembapantarei.com/
- http://superfactory.typepad.com/
- http://www.leanblog.org/
- http://management.curiouscatblog.net/category/lean-thinking/
Sure, if "gender equality" is a euphemism for school grades being biased towards girls:

“If, as the data suggest, young girls display a more developed ‘attitude toward learning’ and teachers (consciously or subconsciously) reward these attitudes by giving girls higher marks than warranted by their test scores, the seeds of a gender gap in educational attainment may be sown at an early age, because teachers‘ grades strongly influence grade-level placement, high-school graduation and college admission prospects.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/why-girls-get-better-grade...
Amazon Holiday Delivery Woes: Send In the Drones
How Salman Khan of Khan Academy hires
This "Vehicle to Grid" idea has been around for a while. The article cites some progress (a trial program in SoCal).

It's noted that using one's car to contribute to grid stability may void current battery warranties, about which the article notes:

"Innovators in the field are gradually convincing car manufacturers of the potential to create a "value proposition for the car owner" and thus boost sales, Gage said. Ultimately, however, carmakers may be put at ease by experiments being conducted by the military."
Humans have no right to exclude others from areas of land larger than their house and a small garden.
Haha. Maybe Jai and Viru methods are doing server side processing :)
>I consider everybody here very smart. In many cases smarter than myself. Therefore, could somebody please explain why we would give the government, which has shown itself to be terribly incompetent with technology issues, the ability to enforce net neutrality?

Because it's not a technology issue, it's a business fairness issue. You know, the same way we let the government handle contracts.

>Seriously, I can't get over the dissonance here. If it's such a shitty idea, let consumers decide.

One's the genie is in the corporate box, there will be no turning back. The consumer cannot decide if he is not even provided with an alternative -- or if any alternative is more expensive. Like you couldn't decide about carrier-locked phones all those years.

You either push for fairness to be regulated in law, or let the 4-5 top players divide the pie as they like.

>Google Fiber et al will just eat the major telecoms' lunch sooner or later anyway.

And who told you that Google WONT take advantage of crashing net neutrality itself?
Thank you for reminding me of Dragon's Egg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
Read it many years ago, was great fun. I guess it "inspired" one of the better Star Trek Voyager episodes, Blink of an Eye,
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Blink_of_an_Eye_(episode)
>USB 3.0 is not an order of magnitude inferior to Lightning.

USB 3.0 micro plug is order of magnitude inferior to Lightning in arguably the most important part - experience of plugging and unplugging, which you'll do at least twice a day.

Until we can survive on wireless power, I'll take reversible Lightning over that ridiculous oversized Micro-B USB 3.0 (even the name is ridiculous) plug any day.
That's exactly my point. It was supposed to be forbidden domestically and that added trust to US-made technologies. However, now that we've learned that US companies are completely fair game, the level of access the government has to domestic companies via moles, NSLs and other acts of espionage, we should assume that domestic companies are far more compromised than foreign companies. This assumption is not only reasonable but the responsible assumption to hold if you are a foreigner.
If it isnt clear then there is a problem.
The EU is too large a market for Apple to give up, and the EU will keep products from the market, if needed.

Apple will move, if pressed hard enough. I also think economies of scale will force the world to follow what the EU proscribes, just as the EU's lead free soldering requirements changed soldering (almost) everywhere, and just like California's emission guidelines affect cars (almost) everywhere.
I am certain that a few have dropped out due to sexism and discrimination. And certain that a few others have tried and found that the social aspects of working in a team of programmers, even polite, respectful ones, is just not rewarding.

Can we hear from those who felt kept or pushed out, please? If it is a real problem, where are the marches and movements and leaders at the podium? I suppose they don't hang out on HN, but they should be high profile, given that the media seems to be really interested in this story.

Here's a recent, related article (October, 2013) with a few anecdotes. http://www.businessinsider.com/7-things-keeping-women-out-of...

There is one comment. From a guy.
Some more up-to-date links:

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/mar/23/advocates-say...

http://aamn.org

http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/enhanci...
> "girls just don't like computers"

I believe* in something very similar – that girls have a lower natural inclination to computers and programming than boys have. Is that considered wrong or politically incorrect?

*believe = about 85% confidence
The industrial base of the US is geared to manufacturing cold war weapons. Chinese industry is geared towards consumer electronics. Which could produce 1 million drones faster? Remember that a smart phone contains many of the key components for a drone.
Read Brandeis decisions, think about how much sense they make and then realize he was usually in the minority.
I posted this before.. but here are some things I do to stay on task (or at least try!)

Lifestyle:

* Sleep ... 7.5 to 8 hrs, no more no less

* Wake up at 8/9 to maximize hours of sunlight

* Lift weights 4+ times per week... the four hrs you spend in the gym will be made up for with 10 hrs of productivity throughout the week

* Healthy diet (high protein, low carbs, low sugar, fresh food)

Computer:

* VIM

* Avoid HN

* Start working right when you get up

* Answer emails / do other menial tasks when tired

* Get rid of all notifications: phone silent/vibrate, no Gmail/fb/twitter notifications outside of the platform itself
As a physicist and mechanical engineer ... I have absolutely no idea how femtotechnology is supposed to work. The entire premise seems to be: "quarks are smaller!" So? You know what you get when you put a bunch of sub-atomic particles together? Atoms.

I would like very much to see an actual femtocomputer design, one which has a chance of working (as a commentator in the h+ article points out: "Unfortunately, this relies on assumptions that contradict known physics and ones that have not yet been proven."), so I could at least understand what it is supposed to be...
If I could learn to draw (as an adult, earlier this year), you most certainly can. Check out Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

What surprised me is how technical and detail-oriented drawing is - at least how I was taught. Didn't feel at all "artsy."

I'm looking across the room at a self portrait that's very nearly recognizable(!). If you are willing to put in some hard effort, drawing is totally doable, even for the completely "untalented."
Apple may be forced to ditch Lightning connector in Europe
Re: #17, I bake this into my contracts and it can do wonders for cash flow.

I also run an app that helps with writing freelance contracts and the ability to specify payments is a primary feature. Check it out if you have trouble with this: https://properapp.com.
Not as much as I despise both the thing it refers to and the propensity of self-styled libertarians to pretend that it's the only problem in the world :)
Oh, I could find uses for it, especially if it presents as a usb midi device[1]. And I'm sure it can be used for some fun things and actually have a place in a live set. It just feels like a toy, rather than a serious bit of music kit for musicians (even if it has been used by serious ones, however anything can be used by musicians :P)

[1] Actually, if it did, that would get me a lot more excited by it!