skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am more interested that in all the backlash, I haven't seen anyone trash Valleywag

I see most people taking Valleywag/Gawker being trash as a forgone conclusion. Take tptacek's top comment in this discussion two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6977412

Anyway, I don't think this issue is as simple as women being pushed away from STEM fields at a young age. The gender discrepancies seen in different undergraduate STEM programs don't quite support that idea; women have a much stronger showing in the natural sciences than engineering or computer science.

There may be influences at a young age in play here (I strongly suspect that there are) but it seems to me that it is not as general as STEM.
Japan’s homeless ‘recruited’ for cleaning up Fukushima nuclear plant
> Similarly, teachers must be given incentive pay to induce them to exert themselves . . . Do we really believe that giving them $50 more, or even $500 more, as incentive pay will induce them to work harder?

No, I don't believe that at all. The idea is that you give teachers incentive pay to reward high performers and to attract individuals who are better teachers, and to give the high performers a reason to stay in teaching rather than to defect to another field. Similarly, the idea is that you give the CEO incentive pay to incent him to be a CEO, to attract good CEOs, and to keep your good CEO rather than lose him to another company.

Maybe these ideas are flawed, but certainly the notion is not that by giving the CEO incentive pay he will toil for 7 days a week at 14 hours rather than just 6 days at 12 hours.
English version http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?zg=full&hl=en&utm_sou...
Nah, I'm convinced that if we were to stop elections, and go to a 100% random lottery that selects 200 random citizens w/out any idea of their credentials, we would have a healthier political system than the one we have now.
"Mr. Graham has since said the “these” referred to women who aren’t programmers. In our opinion, he didn’t say that to us. We’re happy for him to have clarified to the public."

The word in question, "these", refers to this sentence of the interview:

"We can’t make these women look at the world through hacker eyes and start Facebook because they haven’t been hacking for the past 10 years."

I think it's pretty obvious that he is referring to women that haven't been hacking for the past 10 years when he used "these". How else can you take that sentence to mean?
be careful though. the graph shows:

"In the 30 days from November 15th to December 15th, Paypal grew by 4.4%, Stripe by 6.3% and Bitcoin by 17.8%"

I.e. it's trending faster at the moment. It might be 1% of paypal-related repos.
Holy cow, that looks like cut out of some alien abduction film..creepy shit..

Not it's not related to that. From what I understand, it transmits the force directly, not using a physical "robot-hand", but pressure I think. Maybe I was fooled, because as miahi said, it's not really clear from the article.. Nonetheless if it's what I think, then it's a worthy news. Funny I didn't think of Star Wars, but that's as close as it gets I think
You know, I feel you are quite correct on that. It's hard to remember back to those times these days.
You can thank people like Adria Richards and the Ada Initiative for this. They taught us that you can get fired and become internet infamous for joking about dongles.
> Are there any documented cases?

Could that happen? It's not that hard to know that the doors can be locked, and if so, you pretty much give up on trying to get in to the cockpit to take over the plane.
Let's all remember why the TSA was created; solely so the Bush administration could buffer the economic impact of their shit economic policy and the effects of the terrorist attacks that group of feeble minded simpletons played right into. It's a make-work program, plain and simple.

Initially, the Bush administration and the GOP resisted the creation of a Federal airport security service. They were not at all excited about a big new (particularly unionized) government workforce. But the Democrats fought for it and won that political argument. Here's a contemporaneous news account that covers the basics: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=87570

How did you end up remembering it differently?
Excellent. I could see myself using this (especially nowadays that screens are big enough).

Before clicking the link I was afraid this wouid be about "Priority Inbox" or any other way to let Google categorize my email for me, which I don't trust them to do other than the spam filter.

Lately, however, the constant UI changes are driving me into thinking about moving from web-based GMail to some other, more stable alternative for reading email. (Really, I'm even considering adopting a terminal client like mutt. At least I know _that_ I'll be able to keep using exactly the same way 10 years from now.)
There is absolutely no defense for editing a quote.
First you have my condolences and sympathy. Many times I have been in that same position, coworker is a jerk, bully, harassing me, being abusive and violating company policy.

I really don't know what the right solution to that is, because every case I had they kept the abusive employee but fired me.

I was nice, professional, and asked the abusive employee to please stop that behavior as it had made me feel bad, and asked management to look into it when he or many others refused to treat me like a human being.

In 2001 the stress from that hostile environment was so much, I got stressed out and developed a mental illness and then went on short-term disability and as soon as I returned I was fired.

Ever since I could not hold a job, because if an employee noticed I was mentally ill, they would abuse me, and if I complained about it I would be fired.

Sadly most managers feel that the employee who is picked on should be fired just because they are complaining about other employees. In fact in some cases the abusive behavior is rewarded by promoting the abusive employee or giving them a pay raise and telling them in front of the other employees what a great job they are doing.

Sometimes this abusive behavior is done on purpose to get rid of a coworker they don't like, so they 'skirt' the rules and policies and do whatever it takes to make you quit or be fired. It is called office politics for a reason.
The SaaS products we used in 2013
For those interested in trying this, it's worth noting that you'll need to disable some things like the tabbed inbox.

The step-by-step eventually mentions this, but until you get to that point you won't see any sign of the multiple inbox UI.
Those are not (supposed to be) paid through our income taxes, that's why we get taxed medicare and social security separately. The "vast majority" description does apply if you look at non-discretionary spending.

Edit: I suppose it could be argued that money that goes to the military doesn't directly mean funding wars. We have bases all over the world after all.
(author here)
I have the same angst about interface changes. I am so extremely dependent on being effective in gmail. If they ever force me to use one of the new interfaces of Gmail, it will be a new client for me to learn, thus i might as well learn a completely new client - like eg mutt.
> who has not had screws fall out or work loose from a Dell or HP laptop?

Me. If your laptop is falling apart, it might be time for a new one.
> Chinese people being offended by the colonial label of Peking instead of using Beijing

I think the only Chinese people who would be "outraged" by calling their capital Peking (the old southern way of pronouncing it) vs Beijing (the new northern way of pronouncing it) are the same types getting "outraged" over this ridiculous event - they were looking for something to get angry about anyway. For most I believe it is simply a historical name. Do New Yorkers get outraged if you sidle up to them and whisper "New Amsterdam"?

Anyway, it's still generally called Peking in plenty of languages, including Spanish, French, German and Japanese, and I don't see any great international incidents over that.
$41,500 was spent paying developers to work on Haiku in 2013:

http://www.haiku-inc.org/funded-development.html

This is way past "hobbyist OS".
https://alastairadversaria.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/of-trigg...

Search for "Offence trolling" and read that section please (the whole article in general is good, but that section talks specifically about what you are talking about).
It needs Bluetooth LE. I'm an iOS developer. I need Bluetooth LE to support notifications at least.

Does Android even support BLE yet in a way that's accessible and standardized across hardware manufacturers? I was looking at doing some work with Bluetooth LE last year but was amazed at the lack of attention Google was putting into it. It seemed likely they were going to ignore it altogether for a while.
BIGGEST WORLDWIDE GIVEAWAY EVER 4 BEST CONCERT TICKETS TO ANY CONCERT
If you set off a small bomb in a movie theater you will kill a few people. A small bomb on an airliner will crash it, killing everyone aboard.
Do you honestly not know what a Ph.D is, or are you just making a flabbergastingly disingenuous argument? He has a doctorate in CS, not philosophy, despite the ceremonial Latin name of the degree.
(author here)

Absolutely true. I mention at some point. Should i pull this earlier to make it more clear?
You can determine my personality from a single comment? Wow. I'm sure the NSA wants to hire you.
A pypy-backed Python 4 (with all the features of 3.4) and everyone will jump.
add: so thanks to bascule and michaelt i now realise that the idea is basically increasing the cost to the attacker. by serving the signature and the file from different servers, the attacker has to compromise both servers. by signing with a private key and publicising the public key, the attacker has to compromise either the private key storage or all the public key storages. thanks a lot.
Russ Allbery weighs in on systemd vs upstart
Please understand, I wasn't suggesting that you should have helped your friend with his act. If I did seem to suggest that then I apologize, that was not my intent.

Personally, I feel that every human life lost is a tragedy in some way. Some are obvious, some not so much, and some we choose not to see it that way. But to someone, it's likely a tragedy to them.

There are cases where I can understand suicide, people with serious medical conditions that give them a life of pain without hope of relief for example. It's a fine line though and one of serious discussion these days. Especially in the US where we have so many of veterans committing suicide, it's truly heart-breaking.

I often wonder what our West would have been like without the gun, but you might as well ask what Europe would have been like without sword and shield. Sadly, we'll never know.

Keep in mind, I personally see a difference between "gun culture" and "thug culture" as it's usually called. One is not necessarily the same as the other.

I find it doubtful that we as Americans would ever move on DC, if we did there are likely really big problems in the world in general. So far our system of changing the hands of power has worked okay. Bumps in the road here and there, a few mistakes for sure, but as long as the current guy is willing to step down for the next guy (regardless of which political office we're talking about) then I can't really such a thing happening.
RIKEN to develop exascale supercomputer by 2020
I don't see how this prevents anyone from adding hardware keyloggers, mics to do side channel attacks on private keys, speakers to jump airgaps, etc.
Not sure. Like I said, I'm an iOS dev. I think the most recent version of android does?
You should be able to go into Settings -> iTunes Store -> Video Resolution and set it to SD - then your purchases are in SD but you can still view in 1080p (at least I believe so).
I would say option 1 + corruption.

The outsourcing provider is corrupt as a whole or the ministry didnt pay the outsourcing provider well.

The ministry gets a lot of money for the projects and find the cheapest and corrupt outsourcing provider they could find out in the market so that they spend and also get the money back through backdoors.

But do note that the developers of the main booking site irctc.co.in may not be the same as the developers of indianrail.gov.in

Security and Usability has not been a major concern for the government websites. If you want the worst designed bus booking website then take a look here: http://www.tnstc.in/TNSTCOnline/
I could imagine an 'off'/airplane mode with a visible red LED on top or something, which, in such a small device clamped to your glasses would be fairly visible, and hard to fake/hack.

Alternatively, some kind of wifi/3g blocker or jammer, could be the answer.

In some ways it might make sense to use a polite version of that, where devices would 'hear' a wifi SSID signal, or whatever, with a 'this is a private place, no creepiness, please' signal embedded in it. To stop denial of service, or only having official jamming, you could have that privacy signal location specific, with a Lat/Long GPS position, and then the whole thing signed against a central server (probably google, but a non-Profit would probably be ideal), so that people couldn't wander around with portable jammers.

Then shopping centers, schools, private homes, resturants, etc, could easily register for a code, plonk it on a jammer or other wifi router, and behold, an illusion of privacy.

If there were government regulation about devices having to obey such signals to be legal for use, then I could see it working.
My claim wasn't due to the danger of a suicidal pilot, but rather the futility of securing a plane against a suicidal pilot. It seems like the problem is roughly equivalent to creating a plane that can operate entirely without a pilot.
Ask HN: Where/What will you be doing on New Years?
Don't be shy! :)
themoreyouknow.jpg

thanks
Strange then that I, a 30 year old, upper middle class, white male, have been randomly chosen multiple times
> It was an editorial mistake that caught pg off guard

I can't understand this. "Guarding oneself" should mean to be carefully watching one's own word in order to avoid saying bad things, right?

Then this would imply that these "bad things" are there, in the mind, but shouldn't be said, right?

And being "caught off guard" would mean that the person (here pg) would have lifted his own self-checker for a second, letting his "real thoughts" leak outside, is that right?

Then I plainly, furiously disagree with all the process:

- I disagree that pg has "bad (hear sexist) thoughts"

- I disagree that saying something about female founder is sexist

- I disagree that social issues should be solved by guarding oneself from saying misinterpretable things

- I freaking disagree with all this new trend, I believe it is an extremely dangerous experiment on human minds.

My theory is that the essays pg wrote against PC are the reason of the attacks he is experiencing right now.

I nearly moved to the USA 3 years ago. I am happy I did not and stayed in China because all in all I prefer China's censorship, which is plain and solid, right here, and doesn't hide.
JPMorgan's Mistake Was Not Hiring Chinese Princelings Fast Enough
Ask HN: Has anyone used chocolatechip-ui to build a mobile app yet?
I am thinking of building a mobile app using chocolatechip-ui and meteor.
Wait, Ms. Lessin is one of Rapgenius crew?
Startup Engineering from Stanford on Coursera. Life changer for me.
Citywide RFID Master House Key?
Thanks for the feedback! In my defense, I can only say that I was a less-experienced coder when I wrote that. :)

The comments were intended to extend the preceding prose explanation rather than being comments per se. The actual code is not much longer than the naive version, though, so if I get around to writing an updated version, I'd probably find some other method of conveying that info.

Some other things I'd do differently if I were to update it today:

- I'd write it in Javascript and provide a little interactive applet to play with it. (Similar to my posts on primality testing: http://www.akalin.cx/intro-primality-testing and http://www.akalin.cx/primality-testing-polynomial-time-part-... .)

- I'd upload the code to GitHub.

- I'd add unit tests.

Cheers!
His point is that no one remembers the Tablet PC and everyone remembers the iPad. But that's a really weak argument to me. The Tablet PC didn't just fail because the form factor was 10 years too early and because the design missed the mark... but because the product was abandoned. If Google keeps up, stays hungry and keeps working through the early issues they can come out as the market leader just as easy as Apple or whomever tries to follow.
Probably wouldn't hurt to at least point out that you won't see anything change until you get to the "turn that stuff off" step.

It also took me a little longer than it probably should have to figure out where "Choose right side layout" was configured.

Thanks for writing up your technique!
by no way is this an endorsement of noah kagan (appsumo) - but i've always loved his stuff...

this video is great -- "Are YOU a Wantrepreneur?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LZU8oa2RqQ
I would consider this to be the definitive comment that puts to bed the argument being pushed.
If the TSA killed every 1000th passenger, and no bombs went off on planes, would that be a sign that this measure is working?
Link worked for me! I wonder if there's some MailChimps reading HN.
When I heard that Strava was on it, I instantly wanted one (and had no interest beforehand). Sports is to wearables what the spreadsheet was to the PC.
I don't know about this calculation, but I can tell you that as a salaried employee in Singapore at the local equivalent 100k USD a year, you'd pay around 5% in taxes without any deductions necessary. (That's around my situation.)
Of these, I've only used Github and Hangouts this year. Okay, Dropbox maybe twice because people sent me files with it.

But the service that wasn't listed and that I'm currently in love with is Travis CI ( http://travis-ci.org/ ). Finally waking up to continuous integration was a blessing.
its not about language's capability. Its about using extensions/plugins to support multiple formats and things in the templating language.
Intro to Machine Learning on Coursera was pretty great, just the right level of difficulty for a novice high schooler.
Gentoo certainly gives you the tools to make a great system, but it needs far more than just an installer to get there. The whole distribution needs a lot more curation. It takes far too much research to figure out which options are potentially useful and which are just relics or break too many other packages or include a feature that is impossible to put to use.
You don't need to enable auto-archive if you learned all the keyboard shortcuts: [ and ] are 'remove from current view and go to next/previous', which removes the email from the inbox if that's where you process mail. ( or { } to explicitly archive from any view)
My HP tc1100 has about the same functionality as a 1st gen iPad, only with more RAM, 1/5th the battery life, resistive stylus screen, and twice the weight. That's what it means that it was "10 years too early." That said, HP was a premier tech company in its day, and the tc1100 was a tour-de force of industrial time for its time.

If Google Glass is the best one of the premier tech companies can do now, then it's clearly too early.
Affiliate dickheds hack 1000's of Joomla sites to inject hidden links
> it did bring to light some unconscious bias on his part

Can you expand on that? Because from his actual quote I don't find anything unreasonable or biased about his opinions on this particular issue.

It seems to me like while pg is no longer guilty of being overtly anti-woman-in-technology, his reputation is now unfairly tarnished by this attention.
This article is useless without pics
Why Coding is not the Best Use of Your Time
I come to HN for the interesting links and discussion, not for pg. You really aren't prosecuting your case very well. In all your comments, I can't see even one solid example supporting your arguments. All your arguments are ad hominem, I'm less than impressed!
That's what a house ad is: and ad for yourself in your own product.
I'm a high schooler. My knowledge is mainly in the front-end realm, with the vast majority of 'programming' I do being in JavaScript. Do you think I would be able to take it successfully?
Dear Jessica, let me introduce a tool that you can add your journalistic toolkit: square brackets. As user Kosmonaut says in an "English Language and Usage" post: "[Square brackets] are used to indicate that a direct quote has been edited — to fit the surrounding information, or to add context that does not show up within the scope of the quote."

See, originally, the word "these" appeared where "[Square brackets]" appears in the above quote. However, since you don't have context for the quote, you wouldn't have known that "these" referred to "square brackets". So, I put "Square brackets" in square brackets to add clarity to the quote.

I hope I have shown you how useful square brackets are and I suspect that since you seem to be involved in journalism, which often involves quotes, you will find opportunities to use them!

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2271/what-is-the-...
What was it, _South Park_ that did the "Simpsons did it" episode? Thinking about some of the things that came along 20 or 30 years later remind of that. Virtual machines? OS/360 did it. Virtual memory? OS/360 did it. Non-executable data? OS/360 did it. I was a security lead for a product while at Microsoft when the NX was being implemented, and wondered at the time why it took 35 years to get around to that. (I've never worked on a 360, but did some work its successor the 370 and OS/370 some many years ago.)

Even the Burroughs had multitasking before then, in the early 60s. And how can you not like a system with a "HEYU" instruction to interrupt other processors?
Silicon Valley Hustle: Former Motionloft CEO Accused Of Defrauding Investors
It's 10x, maybe even 1000x harder to make it as an artist or musician than to make it in finance, engineering, nursing, or accounting.
He seems to have made a mistake. pg has BA in philosophy.
Fantastic, just set my inbox up using this. So excited.

One other hack idea:

If you use your android phone to send reminders ('Note to Self' voice command)

You can set up a filter for mails with
Subject:"Note to self"
Apply label 'yellow-bang'
Skip: inbox
In what reality would a long drawn-out firefight between me and a bad guy happen often enough for me to be "seriously inconvenienced" by the fact that I only have a 10 round clip? Does that ever actually happen?

The only way I can see that happening is if I'm wildly firing rounds towards a target hoping something hits. Not very realistic.
I don't know.

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Legislating away cell phones seems like it infringes my right to regulate my militia.
White Christmas
Ah, almost any new X is massively better than 4 year old Y. Exceptions are the real dogs, like Windows Vista and eMachines.
I've recommended learnxinyminutes.com to tons of people, I even showed it to my landlord when I was visiting Thailand. Very cool project.

For me: I re-built Namecast (https://www.namecast.net) this year. It allows you to manage your DNS using Git and GitHub.
That's fine until you have multiple lines that goto closefile or freestring, and you mix them up at some point, or you try to refactor the code and forget to update one of your gotos. The resulting bug will wait beneath the waters until one day you get a mysterious "out of file descriptors" or "out of memory" error at some random place in your program after it's been running for awhile.

And really, the extra condition check likely isn't going to affect the critical path, but it will make it a lot easier to reason about the code, especially when someone else has to modify it.