skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how my reply to you baked hostility into it. I didn't mean to offend you by saying you should have remembered. It was a generic "you", not you specifically. My apologies if I did.

I say it was misogynist filth because it was. Not everyone's comment is equal. I'm not going to treat someone with respect if they spout garbage about how women have no place in programming; how men have "logical brains"; how they wish for the days when they could crack jokes about breasts without all those uppity 'females' ruining the place. A spade is a spade, and those comments were filth that didn't deserve the bytes they were served through. You might as well be asking me to be nice to the KKK as they claim black people are an inferior race.

I'm not sure what the point of your comment is, though. You're chiding me for attacking those groups and complaining that I'm setting up any child conversations to be hostile, but you use the last sentence of your reply to attack me, all while contributing... nothing. I mean, there's not really anything in your comment. Was there something I should be responding to, specifically?
Perhaps, but with a feature phone there's much less for the eavesdroppers to see.
The engineering team could adjust the scales to automatically tip an empty box off the line, recording when it was found. Win (data to identify the source of the problem)- win (line guy doesn't have to walk over) - win (no empty boxes shipped)!
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Be a little more secure this new year
Hm, now I'm paranoid re the little "special teams" that article mentions that intercepts the mail package and plugs in whatever doodad the NSA has into the phone, and then sends it along to the customer...my new iPhone had a fingerprint smudge on the screen plastic protector packaging that I otherwise attributed to some overworked Foxconn employee but now I have half a mind it was some NSA agent after 1 too many pizzas....
mgrunin isn't alone.

I have been having severe issues with Coinbase recently. Attempted to sell a small amount (less than 1) Bitcoin, and it has been nearly a month now -- no money in my bank. According to their own customer support representative, the transaction should take 2-7 business days. It has been more than double that. I've inquired again as to what the heck is going on, but I'm still waiting for a response. Unless they can get their act together and complete the transaction soon, I don't know if I'd trust Coinbase with my money.
We can easily qualify the example to avoid using a black box...whether its 'taxable' income or 'marginal tax rate' etc. (which are actually implied). If you're saying something beyond this, then just say it.
There's always "that guy" who makes this comment. We should start giving out "StackOverFlow style badges".

The sad fact is that it doesn't matter how secure your phone is because there's a weaker link in your security chain. You...
Apple being Apple, they wouldn't tell you. But I'm sure someone in there is thinking it. They did hire Geohot after his jailbreak...
Well, not really. There are plenty of equality movements that have been quite successful.

But the real point is that if we believe that jobs will be more technical in nature and that deeper knowledge of technology and coding will be required, maybe we should be concerned with the current ratio. Thus we not only create a skills divide, but one that grows into an economic divide as the better paying jobs are technology jobs. Maybe this is an "equality" movement worth putting some energy into.
reads post

realizes there isn't a lot of substance to most of the comments

goes back to programming
Interesting. What industries benefit more from preserving this old architecture than they would from reimplementing for a more mainstream system?
It seems like this would depend on whether marketing is used for good or evil. For example, showing a lot of people how your project actually works and why you might want to use it (as Apple does sometimes) is taking the high road. A stronger marketing campaign may work well due to better user education, in which case it's not necessarily "unfair" that a somewhat weaker but better-understood product wins.

But of course there are the usual dirty tricks, too, causing user confusion as you mention.
The full transcript is at the bottom of the submitted article's page, and from the conversation, it's pretty clear that pg thinks there isn't anything he can do. When asked what YC could do to bring more women founders in, he says they don't exist and then says we need to start looking at middle school computer science curriculums. Those are two things he flat-out said; I'm not reading anything into it.
>I've seen one go for $600k.

Without revealing the actual site/method/whatever; can you please explain how the 0day exploit market works?

I can make basic assumptions that it is deep-web-forums/TOR/Whatever... but can you enlighten me as to how one might go about selling/buying such an exploit?
Because then Apple would be promoting and adding money to a market it does not want developed and also probably engaging in illegal transactions.
What you'd want is an encryption system that had two passwords: one that was accepted and caused the de-encryption of a volume of data that looked real, plausible, and had recent atime/mtime timestamps but wasn't actually your secret data. You would also have a second password, the existence of which you wouldn't reveal, that would also be accepted but result in the de-encryption of your true volume with your secret data.

I think truecrypt has something like this but I wouldn't trust truecrypt to my data. Not in this day and age.
Nobody is saying it's unreasonable amount or shouldn't have been spent, and I consider the money's origin utterly irrelevant. But it is not a trivial amount of money. Unless he moved recently, I believe Ingo Weinhold lives in Germany. His income for this year just from Haiku work exceeds the median German household income. I'm sure he's not working at market rate, but he could be said to be making a living off it.

My one and only point is that you can't say Haiku is just a hobbyist OS. That's simply not a reasonable answer to the question of what its purpose is. It's just dismissive and insulting to the person who asked the question.
Post-social network it's no surprise that people fall into these traps. Don't invest in what you don't understand.
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Fear is easy sell.

And TSA is a big business.

'nuff said.
I guess this would be a DH1 on the disagreement hierarchy?
It's seen as a status symbol, of youngish successful tech people with disposable income. It's conspicuous, so people see it as typical conspicuous consumption, with the feelings that come with that. I think that's it, though I'm not entirely certain.
It doesn't make any sense to add up the highest marginal tax rates like that though.

In your example of someone earning $90k in CA, the federal income tax rate of 28% only applies to the $2150 of income above the threshold of $87,850, the rest is taxed at lower rates according to the lower brackets. The same applies to state taxes, except the brackets are different.

The effective tax rate (e.g. the total amount of tax you pay / your total income) has a lot more meaning, and that one is a lot lower than 50%.

The original claim that started this thread, "Personal income taxes are about 50% in the US", is not true at all.
Hey, can you post your email username/password here so we can all read your mail?
Your apathy has been duly noted. Thanks for taking the time, and keep on keeping on.
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That this could be even considered as the tech highlight of 2013 shows how little has happened. The camera in that phone wasn't a technological leap in any sense, it simply made the trade-off of 40MP pixels vs massive shutter lag, less light sensitivity, more noise and slow processing. Some of these compensated for in software, but the images it produces are not that different from every other modern smartphone.
I think PG would agree with everything that you are saying -- and he really hasn't said anything otherwise. We could all maybe totally agree that peer pressure runs against girls, economic status matters, and so on. What is the result of all that? Less women with the right ability at the right time for YC. I don't think there is much to argue about there.

But then you assume that PG isn't doing enough to support women. But that's just an unfounded assumption born out of nothing. The only reason why we're even talking about this is because of some mis-quote to begin with. It's frankly all a bit pathetic.
Fair enough. I do care. So, which of us matters more?
Ok! Isn't this obvious?
I've heard from a couple of different sources that the word "Glasshole" was invented on the Google campus, to refer to the early prototype wearers who were strutting around on campus...
> ... but since I have learned attempts to resolve this on my own are at best futile or at worst provoke further attacks ...

He sounds like a nutter, getting a new job sounds like a good idea.

I was just thinking, he said sorry, which I find surprising (although whether or not he is sincere is another matter). At my last job I never got an apology for bad behaviour. A young girl who I worked was fucking horrible, when I demanded an apology for her threatening to punch me in the face, she just denied it like a cunt.
The protection from snooping government for law abiders isn't for humdrum people like you. It's for people working to make the world better who come under fire through no illegal activity of their own.

Did you know the FBI put MLK under surveillance at the orders of Bobby Kennedy (then-Attorney General)? They didn't find evidence of crimes, so they threatened to publicize his extramarital affair if he didn't give up his civil rights work.

It's about preventing unchecked government power over those who aren't criminals who are working against the status quo.

OF COURSE you don't care if the NSA reads your email. You don't change anything, and consequently don't matter.

We as a society care if the NSA reads the private emails of the next important up-and-coming political party leader who will break us out of the corporate-owned two-party system. THAT'S the person we're trying to protect, not boring uninspired people who "have nothing to hide".
I like the idea. I would donate towards a more secure AOSP.

Unfortunately, no matter how much you sure up your phone's OS, there is still a massive, gaping hole in the form of the baseband processor. Until we have phones where the baseband is a tightly regulated slave processor, accessible only through a low-privelege mechanism (like a USB port), we can't really hope to have truly secure phones anyway.
I used my Fujitsu tablet every day for 4+ years. Best laptop I ever had... and the "tablet features" were amazing for note-taking and presentations. Just sayin'... some of us remember.
Based on your last two responses, you might want to google "begging the question."
Some patronage. I'm not sure any coding community is as hostile towards another as C's is to C++.
Yes, this is exactly the same impression I got. I am surprised so many people are calling BS on the blog post. Gaffes happen, and the best solution is to apologize succinctly.

It's a sensitive topic, because women are underrepresented in YC and software engineering as a whole, so trying to nitpick the grammar in the interview is insensitive, and sends the wrong message. Rather than turning this into a debate, pg should have agreed with the spirit of the valleywag article while calling out the edits as an aside, and used this entire situation as an opportunity to increase awareness of the problem (which is a problem) by stating firmly that he is 100% willing to work with people who want to help increase women's presence in computing.
I have a $280/month plan that has a $5,000 deductible. Most doctors visits are covered entirely, and a few have a $35 co-pay. That plan includes myself, my wife, and our 2 year old son.

We are all quite healthy, so the plan is pretty cheap. Unfortunately it is going up to about $375/month with a slightly higher deductible starting next year.

With my previous job they paid for a plan that was about $700/month and had a $1,500/year deductible. Though that was more expensive since I was on a group plan (and I'm cheap to insure).
Even regular, non-hatchet-job journalism is usually pretty bad. Being reported on is a profoundly weird experience: open the paper, and see your day-to-day life distorted beyond recognition! It's pretty eye-opening.

I think the best solution is to avoid most journalism altogether, and get news from blog posts by people who know what they're talking about, care about it, and have no reason to lie.
It sounds like the DMV staff you encountered were bigots.

Not just bigots; they failed their jobs. Could be a serious legal case. (If true.)
It wouldn't be hiding biases, it would be making them inconsequential. That's pretty much the best you can hope for, once you admit the possibility that there's no such state as bias-free.
unless if it were a 24 hour clock. also, if it showed the date as well, it would only be right once.
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I had a super easy time getting insurance when I moved to self-employed. But that is something a lot of people are scared of. That is a nice thing about the ACA, you don't have to worry about that.

But I am annoyed my insurance costs are going up by quite a bit, but in the grand scheme of things I still pay very little.
Makes sense. I look forward to figuring out how to apply TDD- and BDD-like methodologies to non-software processes.
I think they're on to you. Quick, hide the evidence.
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I'm writing a new course that is a follow-up to Authority. That is being dripped out one chapter per month. I also have case studies of other profitable audiences (my friends I admire).

Finally (and currently the biggest part) I have a forum of 20 like-minded people all helping each other out each day. I'm pretty active as well. Just answering questions ranging from landing page feedback, pricing advice, to which audience you should choose.
Fuck Ya. Here Here. Sorry for the expletive, but you sure did nail it.
Ha, thanks. :) I'll keep trying!
> There are a variety of social and cultural factors that push the majority of women away from hacking at a young age. I can't point the finger of blame at anyone in particular, but I can report on what I have observed. Women are generally underrepresented in computer science departments, engineering programs, computer clubs and yes, startup incubators.

I don't think women have to even be pushed away. I would assert (and am more than happy to be proven wrong) that in many if not most
undertakings where the ratio of hours of fun to non-fun (I wish I had a better way to describe what I'm thinking) are low, you will find a lack of females. One example is "hardcore" personal investing, I'm talking investing forums, twitter, etc - if you are familiar with them, once again you will notice it is a sausage-fest. Women aren't pushed out of these communities or discriminated against, they simply are just extremely disproportionately not present.

For whatever reason, I think woman who choose to excel in a field tend to focus on endeavors with clearer and more structured formal paths. For example, you will find plenty of female representation in finance in universities and as career professionals. But after quitting time, the people putting in the extra hours in forums and on twitter are disproportionately male, as are the people who have been coding multiple hours per day since under 10 years old, or multiple hours after quitting time once in their professional lives. These are simple facts. Only when race or gender is involved would anyone ever suggest this not relevant to success.
Debian stable has base 4.5 as default, so this wasn't compatible immediately for me. I had to change the .cabal file to use base 4.5.
But has the goal of Perl 6 as a project remained static? I'm relatively new to the Perl community. I know you are around since a very long time.

But I think the goal has changed from "Let's fix Perl 5" to being a more bigger goal of developing a language what Perl 5 would likely look after say 3 decades of iterations. I can't say if that is good from a purely practical perspective. But it does sound like worthwhile goal to chase.

Lets take a look at Python 3 itself. Yes they finished the project, but 5 years after that- Now what? Users don't seem to a have a valid reason to move away from 2.x series for merely small time incremental improvements, while forced to migrate bulk of the infrastructure and code for nearly ~0% productivity gains.

Perl 6 could have come out by 2005-2006, and if it were to be merely a incremental non-backwards compatible change over p5. We would be having similar posts about p6 as we are having now about Python 3. Imagine a refined, yet not that beneficial p5 breaking CPAN. I am sure you wouldn't like such a situation.
The usual suspects: government/military, banking, insurance, transportation. Large legacy systems, source code possibly lost, that need to keep running.
Question is what if the data is misused ? At this rate, it's very easy to get who supports which politician etc. Democracy may become a sham. I don't know, everything mentioned in the movie "Enemy of the State" can come true.
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was quite happy to find find this library, and i don't think it's been mentioned here before, so i thought i'd post it.
I would say it's pretty clear that PG thinks there isn't any more he can do. Lets not assume that he's doing absolutely nothing now.

I'll ask again: isn't it possible that he's right? There seems to be general consensus that girls do not get into computing science at a young age. So it makes sense there would be shortage of women with right ability at the right time for YC. There's nothing controversial about that. And short of inventing a time machine there isn't anything PG can do about that.

I know a lot of women in computing and almost none of them started as young as my male peers. These women code and some started their own companies. But they didn't do it in their late teens or early 20's because they hadn't even discovered it then.
Right after we did YC, a bunch of friends of mine who had decent amounts of money asked if they could invest. I turned them all down. They were upset, but we didn't NEED the money and there was no real way they could help us. Reading this elicited a rush of "boy I'm glad I did that".
> By contrast, the parallels to fascist Italy and Nazi Germany and living in a turnkey fascist state are most unpersuasive.

Why? The possibility of a turnkey fascist state is very real. You need only look to history to see how many leaders, once elected, completely ignored all laws and constitutions and legislating bodies to declare martial law and institute a tyranny. How can you say that you aren't worried about that, and the power of a surveillance apparatus in the hands of such a leader?
Glass uses a TI SoC, and TI doesn't make SoCs anymore, so the odds are actually quite high that the hardware will be making a change before going into mass production. It was actually a surprise when they did a feature bump in October and it was still on an OMAP.

A hardware change makes a lot of sense, besides. It's running slightly older phone hardware, but its still phone hardware. It would be silly to say that "odds are" a new phone coming out a year (or even 6 months) after the last version would be keeping the same hardware; I see no reason to assume that here. As long as you can keep power usage down (or lower) and heat down (or lower), there's no reason why you wouldn't upgrade from what's essentially a phone from 2011.
How does it work? I'd guess you're logging into the user's bank on his behalf and initiating a transfer? What are the security and legal implications? Am I expected to trust a 3rd party to have complete unrestricted access to my bank account?
C'mon. Have you ever read a published interview? Do you think even a non-trivial percentage of people speak in complete sentences, with mostly-correct grammar? Seriously?

For what it's worth, I call myself a feminist and at this point I really super don't give a shit about this controversy. PG isn't my favorite, and hanging this whole thing on a single word in a single sentence seems fraught. If that's his fig leaf, he's entitled to it.

Call it a misunderstanding, miscommunication, whatever. It's a distraction from the actual issue under discussion, the dearth of women in tech and what we as an industry can do to fix it.
Not only is the slide from 2008, but it also says it requires "close access methods" and "remote installation will be pursued for a future release." In other words, they need physical access to your device. If we think that the NSA can't compromise a device after gaining physical access, well then I think we should be scared about the competence of the NSA.

I don't have the patience to watch Appelbaum's hour long talk, but unless he has something far more impressive than these documents then he's just another activist who will willfully mislead in order to advance his cause.
> he said sorry

Since every time there has been intervention by my boss prior to an apology, I have no idea if that was requested by my boss or not.

> I demanded an apology for her threatening to punch me in the face, she just denied it

That's really depressing, it sucks that you had to deal with that. May I ask what the conclusion was? Did you end up changing jobs?
There is a lot of software that they don't want to rewrite because it is stable, fast enough, and makes money transactions. That is the general reason a lot of mainframe software is still with us.
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Lol at Cuban telling them not to go to the cops
It's not really a huge secret. I'm sure you could do a little digging and find out what's what. But that said, here's a run-down of the market:

There are lone ranger types and small groups that churn out a few exploits. These guys (the small groups) go through trusted middlemen (usually via encrypted email), who buy the exploits at a discount. Now the middleman has a collection of 0days that he can sell to established customers, which might be government or criminal organizations. Sometimes the organizations want exclusive rights to an 0day (to prevent it getting leaked and patched), sometimes they don't.

On the other, less sketchy, side of things, there are companies that do more or less the same thing. They do the same kind of vulnerability research, but a lot of the time it's on behalf of the company whose product they're trying to hack, or possibly a government organization. They don't usually go through middlemen; they just work directly with the government or company. They can't and don't do anything obviously illegal, which limits the amount of stuff they can make, but obviously sticking to legal activities has its benefits. Sometimes legality is a little fuzzy, but these groups try to tread lightly.
I guess what I'm saying is that going from the original interview to The Information's edit, his quote didn't lose meaning, because it didn't imply that pg thought women were genetically predisposed to hate tinkering with computers. Only when Valleywag got ahold of it and framed it to look like pg was saying that did it lose its original meaning and go from "there's a problem, but it's not YC's fault" to "the problem is genetic, womenz don't computer güd."
Complete bogus - but lets play: If you were the NSA; why would you even hint to the user that you were taking screenshots? Its not like the blink animation is tucked away from software control.
In synthetic benchmarks, Ruby 2.0 is generally faster or approximately equal to that of Python 3.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
True but phones with highest market share are more susceptible to the phones with least market share.