skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that only the headline says "may explain why girls mature faster". Note the use of "may". Yet within days, this research becomes:

"Girls really do mature quicker than boys, scientists find" - The Telegraph

"Why Girls’ Brains Mature Faster Than Boys' Brains" - Time

"Science proves girls do mature faster than boys" - San Francisco Chronicle

There was a similar charade a few weeks back when a PNAS paper about differences in the connections between male and female subjects (concluding that males connected more strongly front to back, females more strongly laterally) turned into hundreds of front-page stories about women being better at multitasking and men better at map reading, before being roundly denounced as quite shoddy research. By then of course, the meme has stuck, because we love having our prejudices confirmed.

The main difference between male and female brains is that male brains tend to be bigger:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/09/25/ar...
You probably mean homomorphic encryption[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
California has ~12% of the US population and a slightly larger share of the national economy. Its laws have long had national effects. In fact, as the 12th largest economy in the world, I think you could safely say its laws have international effects.
I deleted my Twitter account, LinkedIn, and Google+ a couple of years ago. I also Googled myself and slowly removed myself from every other service I haven't used in years. Facebook was the only one I kept as I get a lot of value from it. The only server that has crawled back into my life is Google+, and only for one reason - Android. It's the easiest way to backup all my photos. Not to mention the fact I also use Youtube, Google Music, Gmail etc. and it's only a matter of time until a G+ account was forced on me again. However I don't post to the G+ account and I think I've only followed one or two people.
Bingo @ 2ft.
change it to "incredibly difficult in general" in the first sentence to get at the poster's real meaning.

And the attitude of your post is completely out of line for HN. I'm getting really sick of people with the attitude of "I'm right so I can verbally abuse people who are wrong". You should be ashamed of yourself for writing like that.
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It's been an open secret for years. The Denver Post published stats a couple years ago that showed that around 80% of the red card holders in CO were men age 25 and younger. If you remember from the health care debate, this is the healthiest population around.

It was dead simple to get a red card - go into one of the many shops advertising an on site doc, complain of chronic back pain (or PTSD if a veteran), and there you go. The hardest problem was finding a shop taking new patients, as the MMJ law capped the number of patients per provider.
Yes, it's hard to read.

On my laptop screen a single line is about 35cm long and individual glyphs are about the size of those used in my 3 year old's book. In fact, this is exactly the problem with all such websites - they all look like kindergarten books. It is as if they are trying to speak to you s-l-o-w-l-y because you are both dumb and legally blind.
I would imagine customs will single out anybody declaring their destination as Colorado for extra harassment too.
I didn't realize at first that we had basically accomplished video-phones via Skype, Hangouts, and the internet. Seeing video chat was not very surprising for me, perhaps because it was such an obvious extension of the internet. It's funny how something that I had dreamed of as a kid, and always imagined as a dedicated hardware unit, became completely trivialized and overshadowed by the internet.
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Seems crazy, but the Lift mobile app helped me a lot. It's focus is around getting you to "check-in" to your habits with the aim of doing them for 21 days. There's a social factor too, but I feel quite motivated to not break the cycle after a few days of check-ins.

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Skype Twitter Account hacked
The concept it proves is that a string can be hashed, not the concept it presents.
As I Greek, having the experience of the Euro both theoretically and practically, I can say that the currency per se, it's not a problem but given the way the ECB acts the last 3 years, I don't understand why would anyone give-away the control of the countries currency to a board of people who act in very controversial ways..
Hackers stole millions of Phone Numbers and usernames from Snapchat
I get that, but we might keep that in mind while still having a discussion about real-world feasability of such idea :).
No way for me to know, but I doubt it. I'm talking about very small shops very out of the way, and quite a long time ago as well. I assume it was under the radar.
Hm I think most would agree with a statement like this. On the other hand I think it's important for privacy laws to be in place. We all know how regulations are lagging years behind, so theoretically, this is just the beginning.

In the meantime it's important to comply with it with the simplest means possible imo. That's what we're trying to help with.
This won't work because to me this is similar in concept to URL shorteners. The difference being in the shortening algorithm and the use of expensive domains.

So for example with current shorteners you have:

http://shorturl.com/{algorithm for unique URL goes here}

In the above case using a browser plug in can also eliminate any server side resolution of domains.

With this proof of concept:

http://{algorithm for unique URL goes here}.com

... Except the implementation costs $ if it is to be accepted... And to be accepted it needs to have a benefit that isn't solved by URL shorteners.
I guess you could say that HTML meets that standard. For example, <h1> through <h6> headers could be rendered by the browser accordingly; most default renderers still display things mostly the same way Netscape Navigator 2.0 did back in the Win 3.1 days (disable CSS on a site and you'll see).

Marked on the Mac, which is a Markdown renderer, loads .mmd files and renders them against a CSS template which you can swap out. That fits the MVC idiom nicely, although far from a perfect implementation as it's merely meant for viewing markdown files, not everything on the internet.
I would be in favor of this idea if a little more thought was put into how the hashing function works.

As it stands, someone typing in:

food in Chicago

will get a different URL than:

food in Chicago

And the same goes for: Chicago food, chicago food, food near Chicago, etc.

Every one, with a single character difference (extra space, different word order, capitalization difference, regional spelling like theatre vs theater, etc) will result in a different hash.

You've now made 'humanized URLs' into 'no one will guess your domain'.

It's an interesting approach to avoiding search engines, but it doesn't solve the problem that search engines do solve: multiple similar but different entries resulting in the same "appropriate"/top website result.

With this approach, not even face book, Facebook, and facebook would result in the same .com (and please don't suggest just purchasing a billion domains and redirecting them all).
I'm sorry if some consider my comment offensive - but it is, at least as tons of reports suggest, the pure truth that vastly more blacks get fucked up by US justice system than white people.

And this is unacceptable for a self-named "world leader".
The database and download exclusively on convoe: http://convoe.com/topic/127/introducing-snapchat-database
[I'm assuming the author posted this. MidsizeBlowfish has no profile information.]

Good stuff, and just one of the many reasons that most A/B testing practice is flawed. I haven't seen the SPRT used much in practice. I'm not sure why. A quick Googling indicates non-parametric sequential tests have been developed. What about the case with more than two alternatives?

My field is bandit algorithms, which are a generalisation of hypothesis tests. Here there are algorithms like Empirical Bernstein Stopping (http://icml2008.cs.helsinki.fi/papers/523.pdf) which achieve the same early stopping from a different approach. If this is of interest sign up to the course I'm running (http://noelwelsh.com/data/2013/08/16/free-bandit-course-draf...) -- I plan to cover this algorithm soon.

BTW, you have a very formal writing style. I think if you're trying for a more general audience you should loosen up a bit. This ain't a journal paper. :-)
Curious why people downvoted this?
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Russia, probably.
> Hypocritical politicians who commit crimes are like retired teachers? Fuck you. You wormy douchebag.

AMEN
Official Skype account on Twitter hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Meet the man who sells fake Twitter followers
Not sure you are correct on the first point. Border Patrol are law enforcement officers. Though they are primarily focused on border enforcement, I don't believe they are confined to that. A Border Patrol agent could probably give you a speeding ticket regardless of whether you had recently crossed the border, if he observed you speeding (guessing few would do so however).

If you're saying that absent any other reason, you would have to have recently crossed a border for the initial stop to be legal, maybe you're right. But random checkpoints for intoxicated drivers happen everywhere, and are legal.
I hate reading on any screen but my black and white kindle.
You're right, looks like someone already bought f02970848a63988965aa40cd368ffcf9046209ca.com
The only reason Objective-C is not a relic of the past is that Apple are stuck with it. Some people mistake this relationship and think ObjC isn't a piece of shit. Poor fools.
"This contrasts to something like alcohol, which causes neurological damage"...

Not true, except for long term extremely heavy drinking.

Moderate alcohol consumption is neuroprotective.
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THC is already legal in pill form with a prescription. Again as I've stated, there are zero successful clinical trials (in the USA or anywhere else) that show smoking marijuana is beneficial. Standard scientific proof requires clinical trials.

First you never mentioned "smoking" in your parent (I quoted it in my earlier reply for reference).

Second 'clinical trials' are a specific thing. In the words of Inigo Montoya, you keep using those words, I do not think it means what you think it means.

A clinical trial is only done at a specific stage of clinical research or commercial drug development. Clinical trials are an expensive process that must be paid for by the researcher/company looking to market the drug. You may want to read up on what a clinical trial entails before you insist on it being the only useful scientific metric. Clinical trials are also primarily concerned with safety (it is at least 2 of the phases of the trial).

You may want to reconsider your use of 'clinical trial' in your criticism here.

Edit: Last it seems that you did not even bother to read or comprehend my comment/links before you replied with a comment that attempts to change the subject (smoking vs THC in pill form). That seems like very 'trolly' behavior and I will stop responding if you would not like to actually discuss the subject.
First Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Empire, and all that entails, the purges, the gulags and so on. Then it was occupied by the Nazis, and all that entails, death camps and so on. They were especially keen on punishing anyone they thought might have found a way to co-exist with the previous invaders. Then after that, the Soviets again, keen to punish Latvia for "surrendering" to the unstoppable Nazi war machine. The Soviets were keen on lebensraum too, and set about deporting Latvians on an industrial scale, and colonizing the country with Russians.

They are still finding pockets of exiled Latvians deep inside the Russian interior, and asking them if they want to come home.
I'd hope that all costs are transparent at public universities.
The author keeps referencing posting 'links and videos'. I guess the value you get from Facebook depends on how you use it. I occasionally post a cool video I've found (and I usually post that specifically on the wall of someone I think would like it) but 80% of the stuff I post and my friends post is not links to content on other sites. Most of the content posted are photos or people messaging each other through wall posts rather than PM. Although it's obviously not all useful to me it makes Facebook's Timeline feature more interesting. Going back and seeing links posted would be quite boring. Seeing messages people posts to me or photos or comments on an event we were at are nice to look back on.
Not sure why you say that. WordPress.com offers 2-Factor Auth:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/two-step-authentica...

There are also tons of available security plugins & pretty extensive documentation on hardening a self-hosted install:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
In addtion to the things that other commenters have mentioned, there is one more difference between having your currency pegged to the Euro and being a Euro country: when goods are traded between two Euro countries, these goods aren't really paid for. Instead, the sale is transacted through the so-called TARGET2 system. Wikipedia describes it like this:

A Dutch importer, for example, might place an order with a Spanish company. Payments to and from the accounts of the buyer and seller are channeled via central banks, so the Spanish exporter's bank gets a credit with the Banco de España, which in turn has a claim on the ECB. The Dutch importer's bank owes its local central bank, leaving De Nederlandsche Bank with a debit at the ECB.

The idea behind this was that the liabilities within the TARGET2 system would cancel each other out. To everybody's utmost surprise, however, this has not happened. For example, Germany is currently being owed over 650 billion Euros. Needless to say, the countries who owe this money don't have it anymore.
Usually in exchange for other perceived advantages? -- Less travel restriction, a more open market for products, potentially ability to look for jobs in other EU countries (but I am not 100% sure about this one).
The wooden things that cover the windows are normally called shutters in English
I really don't think that a binary loader would be that big of an issue. Unless I'm missing something, I would say that it would be one of the easier things. I'd guess that implementing all the frameworks would be the worst part.
"Don't use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook),They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments.More details soon #SEA"
> They're getting their first customers with minimal technology, and often no code at all. Instead of building fancy technology from the outset, they're hacking together inexpensive online tools such as online forms, drag-and-drop site builders, advanced Wordpress plugins, and eCommerce providers.

In order to hack together inexpensive tools and make your website look decent, guess what, you need to KNOW a couple of things such as HTML/CSS/PHP (wordpress) or Ruby (octopress), Python (Django) or whatever.

The examples described offer kind of services that can be build with wordpress plugins right? Okay, but even to make these plugin work properly together, you need at some point someone who knows how to write code.

Knowing how to write code, is a standard knowledge for startups, because is what turns ideas into products taking away one of the biggest expense: Development. If you have enough money, or investors you could outsource that, but for me makes not much sense. Being leader and developer at the same time, gives you a unique view top-down and down-top of your product. You can understand the dynamics of the entire operation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Monetary_Union_of_...
The Twitter account has also been compromised at the same time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6996899
Haha, yes, I am the author. I do have a very formal style, an unfortunate product of too many years in grad school.

The SPRT is a nice toy test, but only useful for point hypotheses. There are generalizations to more realistic composite hypotheses, though.
Gotta wonder what's running through non-techie Skypers when they see the tweets (https://twitter.com/Skype/status/418495453471068161) and all :D
The best music player available as long as you're willing to spend hours customizing its shitty default interface, yes.
economy != control over monetary policy ; but sensationalist media has done a great job at making citizens believe otherwise
Cough..snapchat..this is the value it brings.
Do today's Greeks blame the bulk of their economic problems on outside forces, rather than things they've done to themselves?

edit: I don't really have an agenda with this question - I'm not a European and I'm not invested in any way, really - and I'm a little surprised at how quickly it got voted up. Please just treat it as a sincere question.
I don't see what this has to do with the "irony" context, but:

1) Ayn Rand's writings have had their fair share of criticism, with good reason. However, I'm not sure what the circular logic is in that snippet. Could you elaborate?

2) Randian logic aside, multiple people inventing (as opposed to "discovering") the same thing at the same time is so rare, that the USPTO changed from first-to-invent to first-to-file.
Thanks. A suggestion - the TL;DR is much more helpful if it is before the text - like an abstract.
>As it stands, someone typing in:

>food in Chicago

>will get a different URL than:

>food in Chicago

Why?
I doubt the purported "insecurity" of Wordpress has anything to do with this. Given that they simultaneously defaced a multitude of social media outlets for Skype, it seems fairly likely that they phished or compromised someone who managed social media accounts.
I just want to stress I have no problem with the research presented here, just with the way it is presented - "sexed up", as it were - on the way to the media.
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http://twitter.com/Skype/status/418495453471068161
> but this makes it sound like ONLY the NSA could exploit this.

Exactly right, and that's why NSA can still claim with a straight face that they were not trying to go around breaking crypto in a generic fashion. Like Clipper and Lotus Notes's initial crypto support, NSA was trying to make the crypto safe against everyone but NSA.

Now this is one area where I disagree totally with NSA's actions, but it is true that the way they went about weakening Dual EC DRGB is more nuanced than simply inserting a secret backdoor that anyone could exploit.
A good summary, but for one imortant detail: In UTF-16, some code points (laying on the so-called "astral planes", ie not on the "basic multilingual plane") take 32 bits.

The Emoji, for example, lie on the first higher plane: 🍒🎄🐰🚴. Firefox and Safari display them properly, Chrome doesn't, no idea for IE and Opera.

UCS-2 is a strict 16-bit encoding (a subset of UTF-16), and it cannot represent all characters.

It is the encoding used by JavaScript, which can be problematic when double width characters are used. For example, `"🐙🐚🐛🐜🐝🐞🐟".length` is 14 even though there are only seven characters, and you could slice that string in the middle of a character.
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I thought so as well, until https://twitter.com/Skype/statuses/4184954534710681
My wife generally imports her chinese tea from http://www.teaspring.com (she's a big fan of Bai Hao oolong) and her japanese green tea from http://www.o-cha.com .
Ask HN: Please explain Pinterest
I created a Pinterest page for my startup, and I've pinned 18 articles so far.

But I can't figure out how to get followers or re-pins or traffic.

Has anyone used Pinterest successfully to drive traffic? Read any useful materials on the topic?

I do not use Pinterest personally, which contributes to my confusion on this matter.
Are you aware of Diaspora ? It's both distributed and open source.
I can read your comment as pointing this out already, but an important third option is to stay pegged to the Euro, but at a different exchange rate. That's a very large freedom that you lose when you "formalize" a Euro peg by just switching over to the Euro.

For example:

Year 2024: Our currency is pegged at 3.28 to the Euro.
Year 2027: Euros have become too valuable; our peg is now 4.1 to the Euro.