skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pressure of not being a 25 year old guy, basically. Or 25 for that matter.
Of course there are other tactical options.

All big jets have fly-by-wire systems that could easily be remotely commanded. There's no reason why hijackers should be given control of the aircraft; indeed at this point the planes themselves could probably be programmed to refuse to point at the ground in urban areas outside of a glide path.

That leaves them with the option of blowing up the aircraft at inconvenient places. That's a significantly tough and narrow plan of attack.
Is it really deserving of the level of vitriol heaped on the issue? Even as printed it would only be mildly controversial, and even then not nearly noteworthy. It strikes me as me as offhanded comment from the first time I heard it.
> According to MS, this campaign came out of a survey where something like 45+% of users didn't know Gmail scans their emails, and 80+% of those didn't approve of it

You think when they brought veteran political campaign pollster Mark Penn [1] to run the anti-Google campaign, he brought political-campaign-style negative ads but left the push polls [2] at home?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Penn

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll
When somebody gives you tips on getting free food from restaurants, or saving money on your taxes, detecting whether someone has tampered with your computer, or X - arguing that you can't "trust that this is an absolute guarantee" of X is always going to be a strawman argument.

You should save those arguments for people who actually claim that you can trust that their method Y is an absolute guarantee of X. Hint: the words "absolute" and "guarantee" will be in the post.

edit: the only occurrence of "absolute" in the article:

>Short of keeping a machine with you 24/7, there is little you can do to be absolutely sure these things don’t happen[....]
Does it really surprise or disturb you that PG takes a special interest in things said about himself? It should not.
This is a very interesting approach to describe the mortality rate as a function of age. I wonder how this theory ties in with more established theories of aging, such as the Evolutionary Theories of Aging (ref. http://www.genetics.org/content/156/3/927.full)
You... might want to reconsider that analogy.

Claiming that News Corp is a media company is somewhat tenable. They sell "media" direct to consumer, among other things, and media is an end product.

Claiming that Google is an ad company is, similarly, tenable: they sell ads. Showing ads is the end product.

You may just have been making a joke, in which case I apologize for the lengthy response, but claiming that a circus is a ticket printing company in no way relates to either argument.

Tickets are categorically not a product. Nobody would care if a circus uses tickets or stamps or facial recognition. They are a means to admittance to the end product. The show. That's why they bother with the elephants and acrobatics.

Google, on the other hand, is in fact an ad company. They sell ads for the vast majority of their revenue. That's what they do. They dabble elsewhere and are expanding to new areas which is totally fine. Just look at the history of Nokia--ever heard of Nokia the paper company or Nokia the galoshes manufacturer?

However, as a company that is exploding with cash from the ad business, Google has clear priorities. They maintain their current revenue and use their fantastic capital for other stuff that at the very least won't hurt that business. More likely, they invest in things that will further it by collecting your information and showing you ads. Like the Chromebook.

All that said, the Scroogled campaign is silly and not an effective way to raise that issue.
Yeah man. Nothing wrong with continually asking a questions ;)
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Not necessarily - quantities like, for example, sqrt(2) can be represented symbolically. So can quantities like e and pi. You can get around this by multiplying all edge costs by twice the number of edges divided by the smallest non-zero difference between costs, then rounding to integers. Or something similar.
At least in real time...
>No one would intentionally make the choice of having their data shared with other users, and if that is a business model they rely upon they need to find another.

Unless they do not care if their data is shared, and would be willing to let it be shared for a reduced cost.
1.)The fact the female founders are asking for this, tells you that they don't feel on par with the way things are being done today.

2.) Paul has admitted to being susceptible to the Mark Zuckeberg effect, at least he was honest about that and should be respected for the fact that he realizes that. Most VC's i believe also fall into this trap but don't admit it.

3.) Now what are we going to do about this? Shrug our shoulders and just say this or that won't work or get to trying solutions and iterating on that?
These days "Always be learning" and "Always be googling" seem to be the same thing :)
Thanks for the clarification. The paywall was my main curiosity. Was/will the profile ever be published?

EDIT: Found it: https://www.theinformation.com/When-Founders-Fight-They-Call...
Whoa whoa whoa, it's considered ok to mess with a quote like this and completely ax things out? And editors are ok with it? In the journalism industry and with with reputable print/electronic news outlets, when something is on the record (as I assumed this is since there is a transcript), are quotes actively edited to the point where key words are removed?

I know things are taken out of context, and quotes/sound bites can be selected and presented out of sequence, but actively editing the quote seems absurd and beyond anyone who honestly thinks they are reporting something accurately.
I've said it before and I will say it again: Gawker is simply professional trolls. They exist only to shit on everything, the farther away from their rigid liberal ideals the better. I wish people would ignore them completely.
I much prefer having window management stuff on super since I use a lot of terminal apps where alt is important. Can't overload too much there or things get funky. And I have a lot of custom window management keycombos for i3 because the basic set are a bit bare.
"Equality" movements are doomed to fail. I don't believe that in a perfectly fair world, men and women would equally participate in every profession. If you focus too much on outcome you are taking on an impossible task.

What's important is fairness and equality of opportunity.
You may be right but if you are, it means being a hacker is a (necessary) criterium of the YC's approval process: is it?
Is the difference between a 'good' wantrepreneur and a 'bad' wantrepreneur really just effort? Or resources? Team structure?
As sad as it may sound, the most annoying thing about Python 3 for me is this:

print "Hi"

vs

print("hi")

Other than that, as Alex said there isn't much difference between the two.
Safe(r) than just sending it in the clear so the server can read it, probably. However, if your server gets compromised, the JS code doing the crypto can easily be replaced to just return the results plaintext...in which case you're still doing SSL, so good job, but the CC#s are vulnerable to whomever wishes to sniff them on the server, which is pretty much how most online systems work anyway.

Couldn't hurt to use asymmetric encryption using the provider's public key, but just beware that without packaging/signing the crypto code, it's a tossup whether or not it's actually there.

Edit: if it's absolutely imperative that the server not be able to read the message, then not packaging all the code is unsafe. However, if the server not being able to read the message is nice to have but non-essential, then by all means, run your code in a webapp.
I used to be like that. What came to help is an Android app [1, 2] asks math questions to snooze or disable. Figuring simple ones like 9 + 4 = ? is enough to activate the brain into waking life.

Several surprises came to me with this:

(a) How hard it is to figure a simple one like 13 + 6 = ? when half-way asleep!

(b) Improvements in my mental math speed! My brain has started arriving at the answers without consciously calculating. Thankfully the app allows increasing the math difficulty levels. I am now at the level of 67 + 54 = ? LOL!

(c) After having used this for several months with a consistent wake up time, it is not painful to wake anymore, even without the alarm. I never knew I could get there.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alarmclock...

[2] I am in no way associated with the above app. Plus, I am sure there would be many with the same feature.
> If Microsoft products are truly better than Google/Apple, they should move the conversation to those products, rather than discussing their competitors.

If they were, they would be.

> I hear more about Chromebooks from this campaign than I do from Google's own ads.

And the main thing I hear from this campaign is that Microsoft is desperately afraid that I might by a Chromebook.
You're exactly the sort of person I'm talking about. People like you are afraid to be comfortable in a work environment for fear that they'll be fired for saying or doing the wrong thing. Provided you aren't a sexist/rapist, I see no reason why you need to be walking on eggshells all the time at a place where you spend a large percentage of your day. It makes me sad that my presence would make you uncomfortable when I haven't said or done anything to you. While you and you alone have the power to change your behavior (and it would be awesome if you gave women the benefit of the doubt because we're not all this way...promise), I really can't place 100% of the blame on you either. Events like this are conditioning people to be afraid of these issues, not solve them.

I just want to come to work, maybe draw stupid things on a white board, make cool shit, and go home. I'd really love it if my vagina wasn't the deciding factor in whether or not I was capable of STEM or whether or not I was capable of working around other human beings.
Agreed, this isn't specific to this industry. In fact, most humans flock to this sort of journalism. It's how gossip rags make their money.

But this industry is more forward-thinking and adept to rapidly changing than most, and is most capable of making progress in workplace equality, among other issues. To let trashy journalism get in the way to the point that it has is to severely hinder the potential for change.
The difference here is he was not supposed to be interviewed, he was offering background for an entirely different piece, and they turned the discussion into an "interview" after the fact when they presented pieces of said material claiming it to be an interview.
I think the argument only applies depending on your definition of "risk for suicide" and whether you believe there are people who never under any circumstances in their lives feel suicidal even for a second before snapping out of it.

Killing yourself requires two things: the will to do it and a means. If you have a loaded gun, the means is a constant: at any point in time you have it you could use it to kill yourself. Will, on the other hand, is a function dependent on a bunch of things: bad news, time, emotional state, social interactions, etc.

I would define "risk for suicide" in terms of the combination of both will and means. As such, unless the individual's will to commit suicide is absolutely and always zero, adding a reliable means would always increase risk of suicide. I guess it's up for debate whether there's anyone on the planet who has never felt suicidal for even a second in their lives.
> The problem is that high-capacity magazines can be extremely dangerous if actually used in a crime. A prime example of this is the North Hollywood shootout where the gunmen had several 75 and 100 round drum magazines.

No. Drum magazines are prone to jamming, which is exactly what happened in your linked scenario (the gunman then decided to drop the rifle rather than clear the misfeed). The same thing happened to the Aurora, Colorado shooter and his drum magazine. An efficient killer would be better off with a MOLLE vest with the pouches filled with smaller-capacity magazines.

> Do hunters or those who enjoy shooting weapons legally NEED high-capacity magazines? The answer is no. Under no circumstances does a civilian actually need or would even benefit from a high-capacity magazine unless they were killing people, cops, or zombies.

The 2nd amendment was not written for hunters or people who enjoy recreational shooting. It is an emergency brake against tyranny and a prodding towards militia defense of the country rather than standing army (read what James Madison wrote about the subject), so yes it actually is about killing people. In a time when all branches of federal government seem to be ignoring the Constitution, I for one am glad that we still have it.
Any group underrepresented in [valuable activity x]relative to its distribution of talent.

You can theoretically have a distribution in which natural aptitude is equal, the distribution is skewed (more men than women) and it's not horribly inefficient, but I think if you spell out the assumptions of such a distribution, it's not especially realistic.
If you're on Chrome (in which case there will be no lasting victories, only small ones), there's this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iba-opt-out-by-goo...

This looks like it does the same thing for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/targeted-adve...

There may be IBA opt-out extensions for other browsers. AFAICT all they do is permanently block the DoubleClick and related cookies.

This, in combination with Adblock Plus, seems to do the job for me. There are a lot of people complaining that the extensions don't work, but they probably do not realize that these only block the collection of new data tied to your browsing history, and not the display of the ads themselves, which is what you need Adblock Plus for.
I would not say that 25+ is old, but I would say that it is slightly older. Slightly older than the people typically interested in a "fratty" culture.
The title is misspelled. It's "Symbolics"
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Sorry, I don't think you're understanding me. Ironically, this is a demonstration of the point I was trying to make. :D

You see/read/hear something. It doesn't make sense to you. It seems ridiculous. How do you know whether it actually is ridiculous or there's something critical you're not understanding?

Assuming you believe the theory of evolution, consider how fundamentalists think about it. They will say it's "obviously ridiculous" and have a million reasons why. Nevertheless, it's not ridiculous. Rather, there's something (many things) critical they're not understanding.

It "seems" ridiculous because it contradicts their prior understanding of the world. How can you tell when something is actually ridiculous or it's your prior understanding of the world that needs to be changed?

This is a more general and personal question. Feel free to divorce it from the issue of gender and privilege if you like, it's really a question of "personal epistemology."
An earlier comment mentioned that all the different professional programs (law, medicine, business, etc) that lead to top, well-paid jobs, are competing over the same top-5% elite group of girls/women.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6981040

Adding CS/CE to this mix won't necessarily solve things. Improving the pipeline is a reasonable step, but it takes time for the effects of those efforts to be realized.
I wonder if part of it is that hackers look down on female-dominated lines of work. We imagine that being like us is the best thing in the world. It is a decent line of work, mind you, but it has its downsides and not everybody is cut out for it.
It is interesting how USA is portrayed as a leading country.

Amongst things, What is the point of having to register to vote.

All the fucked up bureaucracy that USA has reminds me more of a dictatorship than a democracy.
Yeah the definition on UD definitely misses out on the negative connotation implied.
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HN loves to dump on C++, and in some senses I understand why, but Stroustrup had this figured out over 30 years ago. You don't break compatibility. For all the ugly warts in C++ due to the requirement for compatibility in C, I can take a C code base from the 80s (say a BLAS library or something), use it with my C++11 code, even using things like std::vector, std::string, or shared_ptr, without any real fuss. The idea that somebody will adopt a language very close to another language that they are already using is dubious at best. And that is what Python 3 is - a different language quite close to another perfectly good language. Why take on all the difficulties and heartache when I can just continue using this perfectly good language?
Ah. Makes sense, thank you. I'm sorry if I set up a strawman, and it's worrisome to think I'm doing this without realizing it.

In order to not do that anymore, I'll need to figure out how my argument was a strawman. It seems like the only reason people are interested in this is because they're believing it provides some sort of security; else it wouldn't be interesting by definition. So it seemed reasonable in turn to point out that this method isn't reliable.

I suppose that's literally the definition of a strawman (they never claimed it was absolutely reliable) but I'm trying to understand why it was bad to infer people would see this as a protection mechanism rather than a detection mechanism. I'll be careful about this sort of thing in the future though.
Yes. The whole problem of every controversy involving YC rests on the fact that there's no control population.

The great majority of YC alumni are young white males. Every time the issue is raised of some minority or another being under represented, the answer is invariably that the process is completely fair and that the problem lies somewhere upstream.

That may be so. But wouldn't it be interesting to have some proportion of YC selected purely randomly and see what happens?
Actually if you watched it, the claimed purpose is not for commercial, bloomberg is just trying to tie that link for reporting purposes.

Besides that, it's a govt run op... do the math.
Oh. I've tried finding that exact publication - they took a video of a city scene with dense fog/clouds in the background. If you'd play the video you couldn't see any shapes through the fog. At all. But after passing the whole video through reconstruction/de-noising, they've been able to recover the background (you could see s mountain, instead of dense fog).

It is not surprising and it's a pretty standard result actually. Can be called by different names (sparse sensing, denoising, superresolution, ...) and done by different methods (BP, LASSO, ...), but it always comes down to having a model (with some priors, e.g sparsity prior!) and using that model to re-project the data from your measurement projection into the projection of some interest to you.

I have no idea at what level you are, so I'd suggest this very well presented lecture (1 hour total): Compressed Sensing by Terence Tao http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC94A02A1218B24DF if you want to learn more. Examples of image recovery are in the part 5, part 6.
Having lived and worked in the health care industry in both countries, I'll have to respectively disagree. I can see how your personal experience must be very frustrating, and I'm not attempting to belittle that.

However on the whole the Canadian system is better at delivering the health care that is needed. Overall, it works better for more people, more of the time, and much more efficiently (i.e. cost effectively). The latter point means that sometimes people with non-critical issues have to wait -- usually not very long notwithstanding the stories people sometimes focus on (the dramatic failure modes of the US system are much, much worse).

That being said, if you a) have the right insurance, b) live in the right state, c) have money, and d) live in the right part (typically urban) of the state -- you can get very good care very quickly in the US. Unfortunately that leaves out an awful lot of people.
I think many in the tech community do look down on other professions. All the support for 'women in code' programs indicates that.
Only 1 and 3 are relevant, and I don't believe either of them are true. The rest of those apply equally to all sorts of other skilled trades.
this is why running large ruby apps on 64 bit OSs can take up a lot more memory than 32 bit.
It's a myth that Hitler Nazi movement employed gun control to any amount to gain power, it merely employed it as an additional mean once it was there, owning a gun wasn't really of much help at that point.

Also it just brushes over that facts that just 12 years before that guns were outlawed completely after WWI in Germany (analog to 2001 as of today), that the Weimar Republic witnessed some rampaging street violence between the different anti-democratic forces and that the main part of the executive wing didn't like democracy ever and had sympathy for nationalistic forces. The Nazi Party was backed by the majority of the German population in a general election in 1933 which makes pretty made pretty much most of the German population an "ultimate extremist group".

In my view Halbrook is more of a pro-gun rights lawyer who wants to sell books than a historian.

Heck it weren't even the Nazis who came up with this in Germany. It were the ruling monarchist in 1878 with their "Sozialistengesetze" who denied Social Democrats, Socialists and Communists the right to acquire or own guns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Socialist_Laws
Hmm, most results are decent for me, and though I need to reach for the Google app once in a while, I don't even keep it pinned to start anymore.
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Right, but consider this - the bad guy knows when and where he is going to strike, the good guy doesn't. Say we were able to wave a magic wand and all the magazines over X rounds were to magically disappear and turn into (X-1)-round magazines. The bad guy, because he can choose where and when he is going to act, can adequately prepare and just bring many magazines regardless of artificially-restricted mag limits. The 'good guys' generally prefer to carry one or two magazines for convenience, regardless of capacity, because they have other things to do with their day besides committing crimes. Laws that restrict magazine capacity reasoning that criminals will be 'less dangerous' with lower-cap magazines are misguided - those laws (like all gun laws) only apply to law-abiding gun owners, and only serve to weaken them.
In theory it would be possible to make a website where you just type in your taxes paid and then it shows a pie chart of where each percent went.
You can major in CS without being a hacker, and you can be a hacker without majoring in CS.

Many, many hackers enter CS programs precisely because they are hackers and want to learn more about computers. Others take a different path.

Some people in CS aren't into it because they love it, but because their parents want them to get a "useful" degree, or because they heard that they can get a good job. All reasonable motivations, but different from doing something due to intrinsic motivation.
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