skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if this satire is against PG or against Valleywag.

Judging by the final sentence, it seems like the former.
If the Supreme Court decided tomorrow that anything the NSA does is unconstitutional then the laws would either be rewritten immediately or the government would challenge the ruling and force the justices to change their minds.

"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

(this is not a new problem)
Well yeah you don't need meanings for some songs that pretty literal like that, but if you listen to say some of Lupe Fiasco's top songs where he has a metaphor referencing another metaphor every line then those meanings can be pretty helpful to decipher what he means.
How many women and non-Asian minorities does Matasano end up hiring with that process?
Bitcoin does solve an economic problem: it sidesteps the usurious interchange fees of Visa and MasterCard, allowing low friction micro payments to become a reality on the web. One doesn't even need to hold any Bitcoins to make use of this feature; just convert on demand.
Off-off-topic, ris means lynx in croatian.
Could you not just as easily argue that drone operations take place there because they're powerless against them? Perhaps it's also their inability to protect their population adequately that America take advantage of.

In my opinion the real issue here is that innocent civilians are getting killed in a nation America have no official presence in, and certainly no state of war with and where there is no chance of recourse. Are civilians in failed or almost failed (whatever that really means) nations fair game? Is there any precedent for killing civilians without either declaring war or at least putting a presence on the ground?

Actually, there probably is - and it's probably best referred to as terrorism.

Anyway, I agree that arguing here isn't going to change anything - but I disagree that these people are fair game just because of where they are and what goes on there. I don't think it's venturing far to say some are justified in hating America, that doesn't justify terrorism.
Taken to its logical conclusion, the "burning need to create" argument implies that creative people don't respond to economic incentives at all, and that copyright doesn't help increase creative production at all. I've seen people make that argument. But that's just not true; at the very least, making money from your creative work can mean you don't have to work a regular job, and can focus on being creative.

And sometimes people work a job not to support themselves, but to create inheritance money for future generations.
Interestingly, I just tired this using Vidalia (the Tor browser).

> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 3,726,837 tested so far.

I may be using an outdated version of Tor. Did they reset their data at some point? I can't believe I'm the first person to have tried the test using the Tor browser in my time zone.
"But marge, I swear I thought you'd never find out"

That's a Simpsons quote. That it's relevant in this discussion is cause for dismay.
I've geen getting the same old spammy sites in my results for years. Why not start there instead of the genuinely useful rapgenius?
Turning designers into founders
Sarcasm is a brilliant tool to use against derailing.
Another weak article from the british Economist.
I don't think it will be viewed as a currency (I agree with Krugman), but I do think it could viably be viewed as an asset backing a currency. Here's my idea: There's nothing stopping cryptocurrencies from eventually becoming centralized. Successful alternative cryptocurrencies will pop up and will be backed by governments or businesses, giving them real value. There will be a market between all cryptocurrencies and centralized currencies will be built on top of that market. Inflation will happen whenever anyone creates a new currency and people want to buy it. So crypto-assets will serve as a base for viable (inflationary) currencies. It wouldn't matter if bitcoin or any other individual cryptocurrency succeeds or fails as long as that market remains, and it will due to all of the benefits of cryptocurrencies in general. I'd be happy to hear any flaws in this idea, I haven't talked about it with anyone yet.
But if anything your own example seems to reaffirm pg's point. You fished a computer out of a garbage bin and therefore had some coding experience before university age. You found it on your own. PG observes that this is 'invariably' a quality of the most successful founders and therefore (presumably) one which he looks for in prospective founders.
Having posted on leadership and personal development without missing a day for three years, I've lived and thought a lot about daily activities.

I haven't researched it, but this article supports what I suspect, that there is a high correlation between successful people and people with daily activities who stick with them -- but not just any routines. They have to challenge you, you have to do them out of personal motivation, and they have to improve you. Personally, I do burpees twice daily, post daily (though I often write many posts per day), and I got this idea while doing cold showers daily for thirty days.

Lately I crystallized a lot of daily habits into one overarching concept that I think has a fundamental role in creating success for many types of people in many fields: the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity, or SIDCHA, which I wrote more about here -- http://joshuaspodek.com/number-one-best-tool-improve-life-se... -- and will continue to explore. I wonder if SIDCHAs might be a personal development counterpart to the Minimum Viable Product, speaking very vaguely.
Couldn't the same argument be made against any other attack aircraft?
Unless someone invests time into creating a safe, open-source USB passthrough device. I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to do for specific USB classes. It could even spot a "charge-mode" switch which cuts data lines as an option.
I have almost immediately remembered this: http://xkcd.com/927/
Good point, I failed to mention that explicitly.
hahah, you recall that the top science students you knew were women? How convincing!

I have analyzed the records of the World Cubing Association, and there is 1 woman in the top 100 ranked [1].

I have analyzed the ratings of the American Scrabble Association, and there are 6 women in the top 100 ranked [2].

It is well known that there is only 1 woman in the top 100 ranked chess players (FIDE).

I have analyzed the ratings of the European Go Federation, and there are 0 women in the top 100 ranked [3].

But no, I guess I must defer to your remembered impressions.

[1] http://rcm-papers.info/gender-and-speedcubing.html

[2] http://rcm-papers.info/gender-and-scrabble.html

[3] Forthcoming
See also "enclosed but not encrypted" which details the hopelessly broken encryption provided by some enclosures.
Everything's easier said than done...

I can. Here are three: Salesforce. Amazon. Google.
Actually it is what I remember from most girls in high school (late nineties): they want to work "with people instead of machines". It's a stigma that existed then in girls' minds and presumably still does, at least where I live.

I'm all for more women in tech, even if only to make the workforce more diverse. I'm also all for more minorities in tech, sure. Where I live, working in a tech job means 95% of youf colleagues will be white, male, middle class thirty-year olds.

But I have a gut feeling that at least in my environment, it's the fault of young women's mindset, not of "the system".
The Double Helix of Inequality and Well-Being
Yet I rarely hear about the cultural problem of not having enough males in nursing, or how we can encourage more male nurses.... Why is that?

Because you're not reading the discussions in the nursing industry. It's a recognised problem there and they do want more men involved.

The technical world also has a much larger online presence, unsurprisingly.

Same goes for elementary school teachers.

Same goes for elementary school teachers.
If they are smart, they'll mandate micro-usb, which is the closest thing to a standard that we currently have.
To any given government, Bitcoin looks like just another foreign currency. In many foreign countries, you can get dollar denominated bank accounts. How is Bitcoin any different than this status quo?
And the NSA is {possibly|likely} monitoring the internal communications of those pen testing companies.
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You're welcome. Happy to answer any q's!
Don't forget micro USB 3.0.
> You argue that it's as simple as just doing merit-based analysis, which implies that because women are so scarce in the field, it's because they've failed these impartial merit based tests. I'm arguing that it's quite possible that these impartial merit based tests don't exist.

Sorry, this isn't what I meant to imply at all. That was very much a "how things should be" rather than what things are like right now.
It's not exactly clear but I assume this means they'll have to provide some sort of converter to Micro USB or whatever? It's a great idea to have a common connector, but Apple aren't going to use the same as everyone else and everyone else seems to be compatible now anyway. It looks like the end result might just be iOS stuff costs a bit more and governments get some more tax money from a ridiculously marked up converter.
This isn't specific to React; in large GWT apps we use an event bus. Perhaps you could do the same thing?

Or, instead of an event-based approach, you could could pass in an object and use Object.observe() to observe state changes.

It looks like React just implements the view in MVC, so you still need a separate way to observe the model.
So essentially an internal, military-grade Metasploit.

It's not surprising that NSA would develop and maintain a strong repertoire of exploits for popular infrastructure. What else did you think an organization tasked "to produce foreign signals intelligence information" was doing with all those computer security experts on staff?

Is there evidence that NSA was planting backdoors or that US tech firms were cooperating? Isn't it more likely that NSA was simply discovering (and possibly purchasing) 0-days just like everyone else?

They can do that with foreign equipment just as easily. Switching to non-US hardware is just irrational.
You could make a fairly strong argument that these days the US is not much of a representative democracy; and that it is more of an elite oligarchy which performs a theater of democracy for public consumption. When overt criminal activity by elite institutions goes unpunished (see NSA, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, etc.) and popular movements for reform are crushed (Occupy) or coopted (Tea Party); it's hard to claim the moral high ground for our form of governance.
Man, you weren't kidding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_telephony_in_Africa#Curr...

Just need to work on that blockchain size given GSM speed limits.

EDIT: Apparently there are clients that don't need the full blockchain now?
Have you explicitly entered http://www.facebook.com into the address bar in the past by any chance?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Headley

A terrorist part of the 26/11 attacks on Bombay who was an informant for US DEA.

Which NGO should I contribute to for the DEA to realise that human life has value beyond the territorial borders of United States? White Men's burden is back.
Heh, and even then, which type?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/4/5173686/usb-type-c-connect... (USB 3.1 Type C announcement)
TRE: The approximate regex matching library and agrep command line tool.
Indeed. It already exists. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD820ZM/A/lightning-to-mic...
I find it amusing that those in favor of net neutrality consider themselves on the side of freedom.
Not angry, just an internet tough guy. I do not respect the place "we" are at and I would not claim the U.S. as my country.
Researchers have can get images of bystanders from subject's eyes reflection
If some disaster happened and we wanted to restart the technological revolution without any tools from said technological revolution. It's a good thought experiment, and if anything ever should happen, hopefully we don't lose centuries of technological advancements.

Consider this, where would we be today if the Library of Alexandria never burned?
I've been under the impression that this is already the reality (minus iPhones)
Those companies were making a lot of revenue in a huge market before they expanded. It's comparing apples to oranges.
Furthermore, the main point of the commentary is that we, the people supporting the politicians sanctioning these drone policies, should be asking questions. The appeal may be emotional, but demanding more transparency so that that we can make informed decisions on whether to support these programs is not just reasonable, but the right thing to do.
I think it was Yoot Tower. And the dev was, fittingly, named Yoot Saito.
This is from the same team that brought us the 'scroogled' campaign? I doubt they know what Rap Genius is....
For some of these politicians, pork barreling is a military objective. Every one of these drones is jobs for their constituents.
> You are not storing data, you are storing probabilistic
approximation of your data

Ha!
I do this with XFCE and it works really well. You just have to prevent xfce-panel and xfwm from starting up and autostart i3 instead. Replacing i3 with xfwm on the fly also works like a charm, I can toggle between tiling and floating WM's using keyboard shortcuts.
> I believe that the whole dust up is a matter of gender-based difference in interests. Nothing more, and not a real problem. Which is why YC is scratching their heads about how to solve it.

This argument doesn't entirely follow and in my opinion unfairly misrepresents pg's position. Pg hasn't said that there is no "real problem", what he said was that he didn't know what he could do to solve it.

Personally I have witnessed a lot of sexism and even discrimination, so I don't believe there is no real problem. Maybe women are less interested in computer science than men, but maybe a few of them drop out due to the pervasiveness of sexism in the field? Or maybe interest would be higher if it didn't have this reputation?
There is a package lambda.r (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lambda.r/index.html) for the statistical computing environment R that implements functional programming paradigms. R is not a strict functional language, though. The package author plans to publish a book on this topic, see http://cartesianfaith.com/2013/09/21/preview-of-my-book-mode...
What makes that amusing?
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LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?
Any idea why it would be $20?
I remember that too, but I don't think that's how it will go down in this case. A mandatory EU standard has such tremendous weight that it will force a huge share of the market to comply. If the standard is actually any good, there will be no point in not complying with it in other markets. There is already a semi-mandatory EU requirement for micro-USB chargers which has reduced the number of cables that I need. If they standardize on the Lightning-like reversible next-generation USB (which is close to standardization, and looks good), then that's going to be the next universal connector.
Weren't Deming's ideas the genesis of the whole "Total Quality Management" fad in the 90's? What happened?
> Is severity the right word here?

Probably not. You can replace it with "amplitude" or "magnitude" if you like.

Speaking of poor word choices, I strongly disagree with your usage of heterogeneity ;)

> Is this just a feeling you have, or do you have concrete samples from the scientific world, or even somebody that shares this view who may be trusted on matters such as this?

There is some material that can be googled with terms like "gender bias in research" on similar terms. For a popularized take on a part of the dynamic, start here: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/421746.article

But an even better method would be to simply engage in critical observation. The next time a big study announces (and most likely confirms already expected) gender differences, look at who is doing the study. Check whether the methodology is even half-way sound, if there were enough test subjects and look at how they were recruited. Especially in psychological studies, search for ways the study might have been primed. Also, what's the track record of the researchers themselves, is this a study to follow up on previously uttered extreme claims? Look for cultural bias. Look for warning signs such as the invocation of fictitious prehistorical "facts". Look at the assumptions behind the study, and at the way the media spins the results to conform with accepted stereotypes.

In the end, no, you will probably choose to trust people and researchers who already agree with you. But it's worth a shot taking a look behind the scenes of these big "scientific explanations" that seem to be evolutionary (=pop) psychological justifications for convenient cultural norms.

I am somewhat pessimistic about finding common ground if you self-identify as a religious or conservative person, however, this is a point where we might start:

Discard science and evidence, discard models and reasoning, discard culture. Let's just talk about people. In the parent post I already talked about female programmers being saddled with additional hurdles. Obviously we can agree that this is a bad thing. The only other thing we should probably agree on is the idea that female voices are somewhat missing in our hacker culture, based on the assertion it'd be a richer and more prolific culture if we worked even a little bit on seizing the incessant discouragement of women to enter this profession. That's really it, the whole thing. I'm not even talking about this controversial notion of active encouragement, let's just stop the discouragement.
My post was only intended to critique a very specific toxic behavior, and the closing question an attempt to demonstrate its severity.

I agree that it's the wrong question to ask in order to attempt to solve the problem in general.
>I know several women in the industry, from marketing wizard to expert programmer with publish credits, who have to tip toe when they go to a company because men are being trained that all women are like Shanley in the industry

And that is what pisses me off about this kind of nonsense. If it was just idiots being idiots I wouldn't care, but this shit actually affects people. My wife doesn't to go to conferences or involve herself in the programming world outside of directly doing her job any more because she feels like everyone is afraid to talk near her much less to her, for fear of losing their job over something they said.
About an opt in filter provided for customers who ask for it?

I think those filters are generally lousy.

You say that canadians would be up in arms. So, can some say "cunt" on daytime canadian tv?

I ask because even in the US showing less than a second of partially uncovered nipple resulted in a fine of $500,000 for one broadcaster. I don't know much about the US system so maybe I'm wrong but that's an example of a government preventing people from broadcasting something. See the good wife episode where swear words are obscured in a knowing way by street noise outside the court.

If you're talking about government blocklists most people are okay with IWF because the scope is tight and there's no feature creep so far. Most people in the uk don't want images of child sexual abuse to be easy to find. But the proposed filter isn't goong to be like that; it'll be much more like existing net nanny software, and people realise that software is rubbish and stupid.
When I try to use xfce components they interfere a lot with keyboard shortcuts. I'm not sure why, but most of the gtk-compatible DEs bundle keyboard shortcut stuff with the settings-daemon, which is really the piece I miss most. It just leaves things feeling more broken to me, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I think that already existed for years, and Apple is pretty much the only one in Europe who offers an adapter for their charger, while everyone else uses micro-USB.

So I may be wrong, but I think this is about actually forcing Apple to provide micro-USB directly.
It's clearly the oppressive white males' fault.

The general public have no idea what "debug java threads" or "maintain virtual server farms" means, and being a programmer isn't particularly associated with long work days. It's also quite a stretch to call driving a race car a 'tech job'.

I think you need to reconsider your perspective on the issue.
Seriously?

Because they're demanding the freedom of the telcos be overridden in favor of our own personal interests.
Agree that trying to turn it into an object pipeline is way too heavy.
Two data points? really?
I've never heard a disparaging remark about Deming, personally. When I worked for IBM in the late 1980s and early 90s, he was practically worshipped. When did he become controversial?
The Geek's wonder drug is Hacking itself.

The chemical alternatives are all depressingly poor substitutes.
A&A refuse customers who opt in to filtering.

http://www.aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-realinternet.html

This is the correct solution to the problem.
FingerWorks and PrimeSense are both examples of Apple buying technology companies. FingerWorks stopped shipments when Apple bought them, limiting FingerWorks technology only to Apple products. We've yet to see what they do to PrimeSense.
I made a Seinfeld Lorem Ipsum Generator because why not?
The sticking point for me is that the market is already regulated such that it makes it very difficult for a competitor to challenge companies who engage in exploitative practices (and for similar reasons, the incentive to collude is extremely high). In a free market, net neutrality wouldn't need to be regulated because companies who attempted to enact business plans like the AT&T plan described in the article would rapidly find themselves losing marketshare to competitors.

I'm not really okay with the idea of regulating net neutrality from an ideological perspective, but from a practical one, we're kind of stuck with the market we have - effective regional monopolies are granted to a very small number of companies, and there is very little space for counterbalance from competition (which is why Google Fiber is such a Huge Frickin' Deal!). Left unfettered, the end result would likely be that the AT&Ts and Comcasts end up leeching their customers dry on both ends of the pipe, because those customers don't have any alternative.

In my ideal world, there would be no need to regulate net neutrality because I could penalize bad companies by refusing to do business with them, and getting my friends and family to do the same, but we don't have those options - choosing an ISP is a lot like choosing which knee you want to be hit in. In a market where companies have been granted regulatory monopolies, the invisible hand is rather ineffective.
The same reason the regular lightning to USB is:

* Because it's an active cable, not just a pin mapping.

* Because they can.
Freedom of telcos to do as they wish with their pipes vs freedom of users to use the pipes that they pay for access to as they see fit.
Retail Indoor Locationing (aka iBeacons) and their applications in stores will not become mainstream.
Seriously?

Because we don't call them inalienable corporate rights, we call them inalienable human rights. Equating a corporation to a human is part of what got us in a whole host of messes.
This is the wrong way to go about it. Create a BOINC project to do the actual data analysis. Use Ripple, colored coins, MPEx, or any other currently usable asset-issuance service to create "planet hunting credits." Each time points are credited to a user in BOINC, send them shares. That's it.