skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not at all the same kind of thing. Here's some male nurses talking about their experiences:
http://allnurses.com/nursing-career-advice/you-ashamed-being...

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I'm not "ashamed" of being an RN but it's hard when you are a guy and around other people that are uninformed about nursing. I dont use the term "nurse" because many people associate that term with a variety of menial jobs. I tell them I'm an RN. Even that doesnt register with many people. Of course being a guy I'm always asked "when are you starting med school?" or I get a veiled smirk and they say something like "oh you're a male nurse.." as if I'm a pariah or something.
"""
> As I understand it, the primary reason Lightning was chosen over micro USB was simply that the iPad needs more power than micro USB is specified to provide.

I don't think that's the case. First, they were coming off the older 30-pin dock connector. Second, the connector needs to do far more than just syncing and charging. It's also used for video out, audio out, sensor input, and who knows what other future updates. Apple designed Lightning to be very flexible for future use.

Honestly I don't believe that if USB 3 was more common Apple would have gone with it.
You could (from the most painless to the more painful, in my opinion):

- Use an addon and change your useragent to something common (I use Firefox Nightly, so changing it to a Firefox stable release would make my browser less unique. Blender is a firefox addon that does that)

- Remove as many plugins you can (click2play won't help here, a site can still see the plugin you have installed).

- Enable click2play for the plugin that you still have installed (avoid allowing the site to fetch information with those plugins)

- Disable cookies (If you want to keep a whitelist, I suggest Cookie Controller for Firefox)

- Disable javascript (NoScript for Firefox)

Note that those could actually make your browse more unique, since most people allow cookies and javascript.

As a quick example of that, my browser has ~20 bits of information (one in 1.242.524) with Flash enabled, but ~22 bits with flash disabled (unique).
While you are correct that telcos currently enjoy a certain degree of regulatory capture, they are also natural monopolies/oligopolies in the sense that competitors have an astronomical barrier to entry. It's tempting but naive to think that all we need to do in order to see the market right itself is to eliminate existing regulations.

What we actually need to do is to change regulations to encourage competition, both by eliminating explicit monopoly rights and by mandating and/or price-controlling B2B bandwidth/traffic sales so that incumbents can't kill new entrants without beating them on a level playing field.

Forcing telcos to act like "dumb pipes" is one type of regulation that forces them to compete against each other (otherwise they just lump their market power with media providers until they are once again too big to challenge).
Check out "Physics for Future Presidents" by Richard Muller. It gives an overview of physics, emphasizing why the concepts are important in the modern world, rather than the math details.

If she's interested in biology, you might consider "Animals in Translation" by Temple Grandin. It's more about animals than about technology, but it touches on how understanding animals affects the low-tech systems that you use to handle them.

For interesting/easy intros to why some math skills are important, look at Darrell Huff's "How to Lie With Statistics" or John Allen Paulos' "Innumeracy" (or "A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper").

I haven't read any of them, but I hear Petroski's books recommended.

For a great short read that touches on architectural engineering, law, and ethics, look for Joe Morgenstern's "Fifty-Nine Story Crisis" which appeared in the New Yorker in May 1995. It's about how the structural engineer for the Citicorp tower realized its design was flawed, after the tower had been built and occupied. You can find it on the web.

Some of these are not overtly about "learn this technology", but to me they all sell the idea of technology and science as both central to our lives and interesting.
Your justification for the murder of innocent civilians falls short in many ways. You have simply rationalized the murderous ideological propaganda of the US military-industrial complex.

As long as you keep murdering just goatherders, you may indeed still get away with this kind of impunity. You fail to understand, however, how vulnerable the ones doing the killing are, to reprisals and retaliations.

It only takes a small bit of serious hacking and/or data mining to figure out the home addresses of everyone involved in these massacres, and from there to schedule them one by one for termination. The 40 million Target credit cards were much more difficult to obtain than that.

There is a tremendous asymmetry of information between your centralized murder engine and your decentralized enemies. The database of everyone involved on your side exists and can be stolen. The other way around is not true, regardless of all the surveillance that the NSA does. Therefore, the murderers are guaranteed to lose this conflict.
Agreed, I consider this a feature of the devices, not a bug.
Except it won't be here for 2+ years and no one has even seen a doodle of what it looks like. Right now, it's basically vaporware.

I do find this odd though. I thought everyone else had standardized on USB-micro because of a previous dictate by the EU. I'm not sure why they're doing it again.
Breaking Secure-Boot on the Roku
So its true; scientists have underdeveloped senses of humor.
Make Sure Your Columns Don't Collapse Horizontally
I don't see it as a flaw, but now that it's brought to light I think it deserves more investigation. I'd really like to see an open-source SD controller, maybe even one of the SD-to-raw-flash type.

But on the other hand, I think we should be enjoying the relative freedom of today (and trying to preserve it for the future); it seems too many are trying to spin "security" as something beneficial, when what they are really saying is "we're making things secure against you and taking away your freedom so we can control what you do; it's also effective at securing against attackers, which is all we're going to promote". If this line of thinking continues we may see devices in the future that are even more locked-down and user-hostile.

(FYI I've worked with embedded systems for quite a bit and also knew SD cards had firmware in them that could be modified, but never really investigated it - just put it in the back of my mind as one of those "I'm curious enough that if I had the time I'd have a go at it" things - along with several dozen others.)
So... I'm supposed to move to another city, maybe even state, in order to place competitive pressure on my ISP?

Of course you mentioned the monopolistic ISP situation that creates that problem, but that seems to just be handwaving; I don't think you can point to angry consumers as a solution without explaining what exactly you think those angry consumers under a monopoly can possibly do to improve their situation without government intervention akin to the current FCC neutrality arrangement.
Those interested in Stoic philosophy would do well to just skip to the primary sources. Not to say the guide you posted isn't a good book (I'll take your word that it is!) but Stoicism is one school of thought that I'd say rewards reading from a blank slate. As opposed to, say, certain domains in analytic philosophy wherein understanding is impossible without years of prior reading.

Seneca's various Letters [1], Marcus Aurelius' Meditations [2], Epictetus' Discourses [3] are all good places to start. There are a variety of translations for those titles available for free (see links).

[1] - https://archive.org/stream/Seneca/Seneca_djvu.txt
[2] - http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
[3] - http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.html
Why would Wikipedia be given cheaper than say, dictionary.com or nytimes.com? Or what about this website and all of the links it provides access to? "Poor people" need access to high quality content too ya know :-P.

Unless you want to create a scholarship foundation to provide free unlimited access to everything for these folk? Then a nice lottery can make it so the lucky few get that scholarship.
Sometimes they can't tell if someone is carrying a weapon or not. Consider that for a moment. Even if they are carrying a weapon, why should that be enough information to issue a death sentence for them and everyone in their near proximity?
I ran a marathon before and I can tell you there's no negative effect, aside from the obvious muscles soreness. OTOH, I can spend all day tell you about the benefits of training for and running a marathon.
The Bombay terrorist bombings are indeed -- like so many terrorist attacks -- a false-flag operation, organized by the United States' intelligence services.
Girl Power <3 <3
Morality is mostly an allusion of circumstance
> A women cannot be driven out of coding by anyone other than herself. This is not a social thing.

Anxiety toward certain fields driven by experiences in formative years -- including experiences of other people's attitudes, which may include bias in perceived racial or gender abilities or roles -- is a real and often socially-induced thing, and the most well-known manifestation is math anxiety.

Its not really hard to see how this can relate to programming, particularly given the close relation between programming and math.
The freedom of the telcos to act as highwaymen? Consumer protections are necessary for basic utilities. Especially either the numerous de facto monopolies that exist in the consumer telco market.
That's why I /really/ like Chromes "tab to search" feature. When I visit a site with a search field Chrome remembers it. When I start typing the domain the URL bar says "Press TAB to search X", then you type in your search terms.

We're switching from Chrome to Firefox at work and their site-search is incredibly clunky in comparison.
US Telcos = Natural Monopoly + Regulatory Capture

> The cost is so high partially due to special agreements

This is true, but it doesn't contradict the fact that telcos are also natural monopolies.

Let's play a game: pretend that all of these special agreements have suddenly become invalid and the market has become deregulated. Assume you have (or can acquire) the technical expertise to challenge them. What's your business plan?
It is standardized because in 2009 the EU told them to either sign an agreement to do it, or have a law to force them [1]

They signed, but most refused to extend beyond 2012 (partly because they saw apple not really playing game), so here come the law. As long as I can keep a single cable to charge everything, I'm happy.

> The Common EPS Memorandum of Understanding expired at the end of 2012. The European Commission reported that all of the MoU signatories, "have met their obligations under the MoU," but that most of the signatories declined an EC request to extend the MoU beyond 2012

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_External_Power_Supply
With process sizes where they are today, there's basically going to be nothing remaining after one erase + program. Raw flash today is already struggling to hold the contents of one write cycle as it is, never mind remaneance from several...
For me, the big take-away here is not that SD cards have firmware that can be reprogrammed, but that there's apparently an opening for a comparatively high performance, cheap Arduino competitor. Being decidedly on the software side of things, I have to admit I was surprised to see that a 100MHz core with loads of memory could be produced for just a few cents now. There are probably dozens of low-cost places where fabrication of such a SoC would be only a minimal departure from churning out flash cards. I'd say let's do exactly that!
unrelated but Ben Franklin's daily "to do" list: http://i.imgur.com/a0XsLmL.jpg
Why does Google continue to peer with them then? The whole point of peering vs. transit is that two networks will connect for free to each other to get better service.
When you first started the company, was your goal to be an exit or to keep running the company? If it was an exit, and this chance will give you enough money to live on a comfortable salary for 10 years, I would take it.
The Free Market of libertarianism reknown doesn't exist and can't exist. For such a market to work, each participant needs perfect information and capacity. If you've had any involvement with business should be enough experience to understand that there's no such thing as perfect information once the product is more complex than say, an orange, and even then it'd be a stretch (grown where? what pesticides? which labour? which transport company? where are all the other places I can purchase this orange? ...)
If net neutrality was truly working, nobody would need to renew their contracts with Verizon or TMobile or anybody else. Contracts would be deprecated and all the telecoms would be forced to compete on something other than lock-in and "whatever the latest trendy device is" promotions. But that's hard to do when you're selling what essentially amounts to a homogeneous product like bandwidth. They don't wanna do that. They like guaranteed income and they especially like it when people go over their contract data allocations.

In 2013 there is absolutely _zero_ rationale for contracts to play a part in either the wireless or the pipeline infrastructure. Telecoms know this and are doing everything they can to drag out the death sentence, making it as painful and expensive as possible for everybody involved.

If we let the telecoms do with fiber what's been done with mobile networks not only is the web going to be less neutral, the bias will naturally lead to the dissemination of news and information as being more easily controlled and piped to the masses in sinister ways.
It's the Tor browser, so I haven't installed any extensions on it (the whole point of the Tor browser, as I understand it, is to present the same fingerprint to all browsers).
"History never happens the same way twice"
Actually, history is bound to repeat itself.

Details are details. Similar scenarios unfolded thousand years ago if you're willing to ignore enough details.

A nation will always rise, leads through military power, and slowly fall, until another rises.
In between, there are periods of fast growth and terrible loss/stagnation as well. Being resources, science or/and human lives.
The previous standardisation was based on an agreement, not a law [1]

As for why a law now when it worked without it until now

> "The Common EPS Memorandum of Understanding expired at the end of 2012. The European Commission reported that all of the MoU signatories, "have met their obligations under the MoU," but that most of the signatories declined an EC request to extend the MoU beyond 2012"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_External_Power_Supply
Why MacPaint's Original Canvas was 416 Pixels Wide
This precisely supports the point that Apple carefully avoids the kind of value destroying acquisitions, that shareholders might need to be concerned about.

In the case of fingerworks, it would seem to have been a fantastic act of value amplification for Apple.
Is it really wrong to say that women could be better or worse (in general) at one thing or another?

Who knows. But is that something PG actually said?

Doesn't quite sound like it, from my reading of the interview excerpt.
How does a phone tap have anything to do with this?
Numbers 3 through 6 are questionable...

Unless you directly link 3 with 2, you'd learn a log more and be able to experiment a whole lot more with a VPS.

You can self-sign an SSL certificate and not pay anybody anything...

And you can setup a similar `git push` to deploy scheme. Even on shared hosting. http://sebduggan.com/blog/deploy-your-website-changes-using-...
And you expected them to say...?
Ask HN: I can't seem to find any hardware hackers
I am trying to find a hardware/software dev for a project I'm working on. It involves arduino, OBD, and some other fun stuff.

If you know of anyone or that's you, send me an email hi@josh.ml.
Thanks for that link. After looking through Appendix Table 2 (page 25), it's pretty obvious that the only big outlier is the gap in Israeli high-school students.

Here's a link to the (gated) paper with the data: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272708...

From the abstract:

This paper tests for the existence of gender stereotyping and
discrimination by public high-school teachers in Israel.

Using data on test results in several subjects in the humanities
and sciences, I found, contrary to expectations, that male
students face discrimination in each subject. These biases
widen the female–male achievement difference because girls
outperform boys in all subjects, except English, and at all levels of
the curriculum. The bias is evident in all segments of the ability and
performance distribution and is robust to various individual controls.

Ok, that was surprising. Does anyone have any more information about this?
I totally agree with you - for many programmers, programming is just a job. And I'm not saying that's wrong, but I work with a lot of these developers and my issue / concern is that they are not actually very good at their job - they get by only because expectations of IT in their organisations are low, something which is true in most large corporations and many smaller ones.

When the people paying the IT bills have low expectations to begin with, and are often disappointed with the applications they are given, IT becomes devalued.

I'm working with a team at the moment where we have introduced a structured data access architecture (.NET shop, so Entity Framework underpinning a repository model) and it has transformed the productivity of the team. They are no longer writing the same data access code in 5 different places, testing it 5 times and finding 5 different sets of bugs. They are now writing the code once, testing it once and re-using it.

The team hadn't even heard of Entity Framework, despite being a dedicated Microsoft/.NET shop and Entity Framework being around for several years. Getting them to move from their hand-coded approach, which was what they learnt for .NET 1.0 was a challenge but, having done it, they wouldn't go back and love the flexibility and power the new approach gives them.

This isn't a discussion about technologies though. I'm sure that there are many other teams just like this team and I'm interested in how to get to them to introduce new technologies and ways of working. The more productive we are as developers, and the more "delight" the applications we develop are, the more valued we will all be as an industry.
Perhaps I didn't phrase it right - definitely think that bitcoin working until it doesn't is a serious, probably insurmountable problem.
Scientists racing to build invisibility devices
Men are obviously biologically different than women in a large number of ways; the exact degree to which those biological differences affect behavior and attitudes is unclear, but we know that differences in, e.g., hormone levels within a gender have behavioral and attitude impacts, so its at least likely that there is some degree of such impact from that and other biological differences between genders.

If you define sexism broadly enough, that may be "sexist", but it doesn't stop it from being well supported by the facts we know about the world.
That's ignoring the presumably large contingent of users including myself and other commenters here who use Google as a direct line to search Rapgenius, like "Rapgenius Kendrick Lamar swimming pools," as it's faster than going to Rapgenius itself.

You could get more accurate numbers by looking at at percent of search traffic to Rapgenius does not include the keyword "Rapgenius" (though you can't do that anymore since google now scrubs SERP referrers).
Apologies for communicating my thoughts poorly. I was confident that the integration was intentional.

I had intended the trivia about gmail:chrome integration as a way to illustrate the parent's opinion that Apple controlling the user experience on the iPad is, ultimately, a moot point.

If Apple cannot prevent the distribution third party browsers (note: see caveat in comment above), and they cannot prevent other apps from invoking those third party browsers, then Apple cannot prevent a company with sufficient drive and resources from creating a self-reinforcing ecosystem on top of iOS. All they can do is raise the barrier to entry, to increase the likelihood that smaller players will build on top of the iOS ecosystem, rather than do an end-run around it.

Just in case there is any ambiguity, I am glad that Google is innovating (to the extent that they are permitted) on top of iOS. I tend to buy Apple gear because I think that Apple makes very good hardware, and I use OS X because it's a desktop-centric Unix that runs software from Adobe and Microsoft, and lets me watch videos from Netflix and Amazon.

As someone who has used Apple services since iTools debuted in 2000, I think that Apple's services (iCloud, iTunes, etc) are strictly "ehh." I'm glad to see the competition. If Safari usage numbers tank as a result, well, that's a solvable problem.
I find it amusing that those think freedom is only about their ability to pay for things, not to be FREE from paying additional money for things they have already bought.
It works for I/O bound tasks. For CPU intensive tasks, you have almost no improvement. I use it a lot for web scraping.

You can from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool. It is not well documented too, but at least the package makes sense.
My ISP - Virgin in the UK - has a transparent proxy cache for streaming video sites. If I want to watch an episode of Breaking Bad then it is there, instant. However, that 1992 B-side tack with 200 views 'buffers' for a while. That probably is because it is not cached down the road or further upstream at some Akamai CDN. It probably has to come straight from the heart of the GooglePlex, Sergei's very own hard drive...

Given that most people watch what they are told to watch, i.e. the same stuff as everyone else, and, since almost all of that can be cached by the ISP, why would they throttle? The final mile I pay for, I could buy the basic 'throttled to 5Mbs' service but they kindly let me pay for a sensible level of bandwidth. How is this throttling thing different in the USA?
That is quite a commonly useful technique (that I'm surprised more people don't know about).

Straying of topic a little...

You can use repeating patterns with prime periods to generate large tiling backgrounds that don't exactly repeat for a long time and so forth (the method is used in many games with procedurally generated landscapes to apply textures that don't repeat often enough to be noticable).

Even nature makes use of prime periods to avoid clashes.

See http://www.sitepoint.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-mat... for more detailed examples.
mpv v0.3.0 - new version of movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2
Perhaps simplistic is the wrong word. To me the sample chapter[1] doesn't seem like it would be very engaging for my daughter since she's only perhiperally interested in things that lead to computing. But thanks for the recommendation and I'll take a closer look if I see it on the shelf.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/4677.aspx
sorry to disappoint you, but "charger" in this context means power supply PLUS cable.