skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the only way a project can backfire.

For example, if BlackGirlsCode produces a generation of black women who are perfectly capable programmers but believe that they're only capable "for black girls" and not by the tougher standards of asian men, that's backfiring. Such graduates will not go on to found startups or even apply for jobs at the best companies. They will probably have less overall life success than if they hadn't entered the program.

Or if the graduates are fine, but it's a resume stain, because everyone who hears about it thinks "These are people who need special help. I don't want to work with people like that. I want to work with self-sufficient people." So the graduates can't find jobs or investors. That's a backfire.

Or if it works well for the small number of people directly touched, but the much larger number of people peripherally touched become more likely to think that programmers are divided into "black" and "nonblack" and subconsciously act on that. It's a smaller effect, but a larger group of people and could easily be a net loss. That's a backfire too.
Books can't have a manipulative soundtrack. Books can't put a guy in front of you who triggers all your "this is a wise (wo)man and I should listen to whatever they're saying" brain routines, while the guy radiates honesty (which isn't that hard to fake). Books can't put together slick video presentations that gloss over all the problems while having nice special effects (or even merely "nice cinematography", an even lower bar). Books don't have access to any of a wide range of video-based manipulation techniques that I'm not listing here. Books have a much harder time reaching into your subconscious and bypassing your conscious mind with those techniques.

I phrased that carefully. Books can sort of do those things, but it is much, much weaker. Books are generally much easier to engage on an intellectual, thoughtful level.

Documentaries scare me, and I've nearly entirely cut them out of my intellectual diet. They are way too powerful, far out of proportion to the difficulty of making them or the assurance that they are even remotely connected to the truth.
If this article had a link to the actual document "Existence of the strong solution of Navier-Stokes equations", then we could have an actual discussion about the mathematics.

Incidentally, the google results for "Existence of the strong solution of Navier-Stokes equations" are the article and some links which point to this HN post: http://i.imgur.com/2pf8kMa.png
Do we need a national data breach law?
Support Py2+3 in two separate codebases: How to do it and why it’s great
And Dropbox. And less than they gave Twitter.
Supreme Court to decide the future of Internet TV
Hint: always use a non-default block size (unless you have a reason not to)

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M
^C55034+1 records in
55034+0 records out
57707331584 bytes (58 GB) copied, 6.04479 s, 9.5 GB/s

And this is a 7 year old laptop. I could get blistering fast speeds writing to /dev/null on my latest 6 core i7 ;-)
If you enjoyed "King of Kong", "Chasing Ghosts" is pretty entertaining as well.
Cicada 3301: The web's most baffling and eerie crypto-puzzle is BACK
Oh man, you know the limits on some of those cards are sky high and their spending patterns are already extravagant. What a jackpot.
Name of store is "Neiman-Marcus", not Nieman
The Rust language: memory, ownership and lifetimes
Interviews Alone Are Ineffective When Hiring New Employees
I had a phone interview with Amazon in 2009, when I was between jobs. The interviewer asked me to write out a binary sort function in my preferred language.

Now, I can describe a binary sort in pseudo-code pretty well, but it's been a long time since school (a lot longer for me than for the interviewer, I suspect) and I suggested I just describe what a binary sort was and we could move on, but he stubbornly insisted that I do the scripted exercise.

I then asked, is this type of coding a requirement of the job, because that's not really my strength, and he seemed to become rather irritated. I terminated the interview, and sent a complaint about this kid to the Amazon recruiter who set up the interview (never heard back, obviously).

I'm terrible at writing code in interviews or answering quiz type questions. I'm much more comfortable with top-down types of scenarios--how would you approach this problem, what tools would you use, what languages, sketch out a solution for us, how would you test, what's your documentation style, what version control system do you like to use, etc. I like telling war stories from previous jobs--weird problems I've had to solve, interesting challenges, and so forth. I enjoy talking to people, and usually in these sorts of open ended interviews, I do pretty well.

The OP seemed uncertain about going to this interview in the first place; he had a pretty good situation, he doesn't really like the interview process and is not that comfortable with that type of social situation. He didn't like breaking his routine, either. Therefore, it's not too surprising if his lack of enthusiasm came across.

What's inexcusable is for him to have invested all that time, and for them to have invested all that time, and not to give him the courtesy of a one liner email followup, especially after a verbal offer was made. Annoying, but not at all uncommon. It's happened to me, too; I remember in particular an all day interview at GTE, a verbal offer, then nothing. The only thing you can do is just shrug it off and move on.

(If it's any consolation, I've cut back on Amazon orders since they started charging state sales tax where I live. I philosophically disagree with the "use tax" concept (a whole debate for another time) so I just switch to buydig or ebay or newegg or whoever else is still tax-free. As it turns out, though, AMZN still has the lower price in many cases, so I might still order from them, though sometimes I can get it from an Amazon Marketplace Seller for less.)
Apparently we take the "point" of a story to heart even if dishonestly told, and we think we won't, because we think it's dishonestly told

So yeah, very powerful, perhaps too powerful

Source: http://boingboing.net/2013/12/24/you-are-not-so-smart-podcas...
Twitter, just like Facebook, is grossly overpriced/overvalued. The number of users for both are impressive to say the least, but neither is making a profit that can justify the value of the companies. Both companies seem to have a business plan straight out of the dotcom era, that is: "let's slap some ads on and see if that works".

At this point I think we have seem what will be the downfall of Facebook, teenagers not thinking it's cool. As for Twitter, it might be a US vs. Europe thing, but I honestly don't know more that a handful of people using Twitter and all of them still have Facebook as well. Twitter is a broadcast platform nothing more. That works great if you want to follow celebrities, but if the celebrities are the reason for using Twitter for many, then Twitter is going to be much more vulnerable to an exodus that Facebook. Facebook users won't move to a new platform before all their friends have moved as well. With Twitter you just need to move the top celebrities and their followers will leave as quickly as they signed up.

In my mind Twitter has an impressive broadcast platform, but they aren't making the money to justify the value of the company and have no clear way to do so in the future. Someone is going to have to foot the bill at some point. No one is going to pay a subscription fee for neither Twitter, nor Facebook. That leaves ads or having companies and celebrities paying for their posts.

Twitter has a funny way of working like an little bubble. People on Twitter believe that everything revolves around Twitter, while the rest of the world are at most vaguely aware that it exists.
> Also, my phone has a password on it, and the coinbase app and my Authy app both had passwords on them.

What difference does that make to malware/trojans? Presumably they already have those.

To elaborate:

Trojan on phone catches passwords, phones home & hands them over to the malicious user. Malicious user initiates BTC transfer, uses trojan's remote command and control to bypass 2FA. Job done.

From that perspective, whilst CB could see that a person from a given IP accessed and transferred from your account, what do you expect them to do? Come round to your house and forensically dissect your phone and PC to see what went wrong? Even if they did, to what end? It's not their problem, it's yours.

If you want reaction, go report the crime. If you think Coinbase should refund your BTC, take them to court. Heck, do both. The chances of getting your BTC back are slim to none in any case.
I'm seriously considering turning my high-beams on when behind one of these godawful supernova-machines at an intersection at night. Definitely won't buy one with them.
I think that sort of legalism is unhelpful, especially at Wikipedia. In my view, the most important policy at Wikipedia is the one which says, "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:IAR

The point of it is that people should always be thinking about Wikipedia's mission and vision. Rule-systems are always leaky, and on Wikipedia people should never use the excuse, "Well, what I did wasn't against the rules."
Classifying images with a pre-trained deep network
I can't speak to the Clojure introduction, because I was already semi-familiar with the language. However, I found your site via Google a few weeks ago when I was looking for an introduction to Emacs + Clojure. Having gone down this road several times in the past, I have to say that this is the best tutorial I've ever found on that topic.

The repl and window examples were just what I needed as a complete Emacs newbie. The Emacs chapter was similarly good. It seemed to be aimed at someone who wanted to start writing code quickly. This is the first time in years that I've worked through an Emacs tutorial without firing up vim to edit a config file (at which point I usually realize that I won't be switching to Emacs that day).

Thank you for taking the time to write all of this.
I'm just presenting a possible equation that describes the phenomenon in question.

Lots of people ask themselves similar questions, but with different metrics.

- Why live in an old 400 sq ft efficiency with exposed ductwork and pipes <80th st. Manhattan when I can live 15 minutes away in Williamsburg and have a modern 2 bedroom for the same price?

- Why live in SF, making below market wages working for some startup, renting a bedroom in some guy's basement, when I could live in a deluxe 3rd floor walkup in Sunnyvale?

- Why live in either place when I can take a dev job near Miami and enjoy round the year sun and beach, own a house and have a better cost of living anyway?

I'm not saying I agree with these questions, or the motivations behind them. But then again, I live in a very walkable, high service suburb instead of the nearest big metro area also. But I'd just as happily live in a small 2 br in NY. I grew up pretty rural and remember asking myself questions like

- Why do I have to spend 2+ hours a day driving to/from work every day?

- Wouldn't it be nice if I could live in a place where I could walk 5-10 minutes to get any of my basic services taken care of?

- Wouldn't it be great to live in a place where I simply didn't need a car?

- I'd like to have more people nearby to associate with.

- etc.

So I get the desire both ways.
It is a troll: feministsoftwarefoundation@loves.dicksinmyan.us (https://github.com/Feminist-Software-Foundation) ...

What is amazingly sad is that an obvious troll was taken seriously. Has the discussion gotten so skewed that obvious trolls can't be seperated from real complaints?

Swift action was taken out of fear -- fear of being called a sexist, fear of being judged... it just makes me sad all around.
The company most probably doesn't store credit card numbers. It's not clear what was stolen and how.
Middle class incomes have been static if not declining for a long while now.
Salesmanship That Led To One Founder's $3.4B Success
This title is outrageously misleading.

Turns out this is a policy assessment of those companies and whether they publicly stand on the side of users when the government attempts to seek access to private data.

This a 6 point assessment:
1. Require a warrant for content of communications.
2. Tell users about government data requests.
3. Publish transparency reports.
4. Publish law enforcement guidelines.
5. Fight for users’ privacy rights in courts.
6. Fight for users’ privacy in Congress.
Any implications for computational fluid dynamics methods?
Judge scraps Chicago's ban on retail gun shops
This is a rhetorical question, but tell me, do the credit card issuers even lift, er, I mean, care about security?
You're funny.

I might say, I express my excitement in other ways. (cue a joke about is that a banana in your pants or are you just happy to see me)
Probably both.

I foresee both sincere and satirical efforts of such extremist "gender neutral" feminist edits to increase in the coming months after the libuv incident.
I don't think this "benchmark" is that relevant anymore. It feels way too simplistic post-Snowden revelations.

I think we need a more comprehensive benchmark, that also includes the type of security they use (perfect forward secrecy, 128+ bits of security), as well as stuff like not tracking your private conversations, and so on.

While many of the companies there fail even at this benchmark, it makes it sound like a few of them that have 4+ stars are very "privacy-focused", and that you should feel very "safe" with them, and again, post-Snowden revelations, I don't think that's so true anymore.

In a new benchmark, companies like Google and Linkedin would probably get 2/5 stars, or 3/5 at most. Maybe make it out of 10, so you can still include other companies that may have privacy level at 1/10, or 3/10, which is harder to show in this 5/5 type of rating.

If a company that tracks everything receives a "top privacy rating", I don't think the benchmark used is very useful.
This makes sense, but it is a moving target and the situation of over-supply/under-supply (or more likely the degree of under-supply) will go through cycles. Under-supply will likely be served at some point by developers, save hostile zoning as Michael points out. In SV, there are several very large projects where 50 acre(?) office parks have been torn down and are being replaced by tract homes on postage stamp-sized lots. So clearly, these developers are banking on sustained or recovering demand. A lot of that demand is foreign: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101168745 and more is driven by the wealth creation at Google, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, et al. : (2011) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-15/tech-ipos-boost-dem...

Prices are really pretty incredible. Here are charts for Palo Alto, Los Altos, Mountain View and a couple of others. What is astonishing is that these are communities with 50,000 - 100,000 residents. Not small enclaves. Yet the 'median' price exceeds $2,000,000 in Los Altos: http://www.siliconvalleymls.info/blog/

On a national, inflation adjusted basis, prices are about where they were at a peak in 1990: http://www.jparsons.net/housingbubble/

So at least here in the valley, the homes are currently being purchased at incredible prices by wealthy immigrants and newly-minted millionaire-techies.

It has been a fairly common occurrence that people who have owned homes in Silicon Valley for many years reach retirement age and cash out. Then move to Oregon, Arizona, Reno or just further inland, and live well.
Exactly my take as well. Maybe OP has a valid point but I struggled to find it.
Twitter is built on open source software
Reminds me of xpilot back in the days.
Would you believe me if I told you that Alexander Fleming's grandfather actually was a coal miner?
...if only there was a way to buy stuff on the internet without giving out sensitive data to merchants that can be used for fraudulent purposes...

cough cryptocurrencies cough
Maybe a stupid question, but I am not clear on what happens if, in between you send a pull request and the code is merged with master, the master branch itself gets modified. In that case you couldn't rebase and you could have merge conflicts with master, or am I missing something?
I wasn't sure if it was a troll or a mentally unstable person (although trolls arguably are too,) but either way this was still an excellent way to deal with this.

Ideally Chris would've made the troll improve the correctness of his edits, in which case they might actually end up having a net positive effect, but it was still handled pretty well.
This isn't fake. They has been used for indeterminate gender since the 1800s

Additionally, we already do not use a singular (thou/thee) for 2nd person anymore, only "you"
Tyra Banks Dating Shervin Pishevar?
We use "you" instead of "thee and thou" now
In Dutch we have tons of hard to translate proverbs, 'High trees catch a lot of wind' comes to mind in this case.
The QP framework does this through dual licencing, so they sell a commercial version of exactly the same code that they also release under GPL.

http://www.state-machine.com/licensing/faq.php
I remember being slightly puzzled by a line in Cryptonomicon where the Colt 45 was described as being created to stop some particularly tough
Philippine rebels - I remember wondering who they were rebelling against...

I found out recently (yesterday) that the US occupation of the Philippines in the Philippine–American War was particularly brutal - here is a clipping from the NY Time describing the "water cure":

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F07E...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War
Which assumptions were weak? I'm not sure what the comment has to do with the US, but the Russophone world is well aware of the importance of this problem to the effect that one would expect news of any consensus on the validity of this approach to percolate to the Anglophone world almost immediately. My Russian is pretty terrible, but my math is decent enough, and the article spends at least the first 12 pages motivating the problem and defining standard notions that any undergraduate should be familiar with. This is another red flag.
I'm curious why you think that would be funny, since in my opinion, that is the most likely outcome should such a solution exist at all.
Yet another reason to pay with a credit card and not debit card.
"There are a lot of people that are just defective by habit, character, moral values, work ethic, and will never get better."

I can't quite remember that saying about pots and kettles. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

"I’ve seen people put up donation pages to help them buy PS3s or a House and random strangers donated. So I figured what do I have to lose in asking the following: Are you a bitcoin billionaire? Have a fraction of a bitcoin to spare? Help a designer out and send them my way: 15XeyenVEmfYsL2wBF3PrTZhRtMCbvQ2DR"

My god. Look at you calling poor people filth while begging for money. I changed my mind: I really hope my neighborhood has priced you out.
It doesn't take much effort to find the actual article. Here you go:

http://www.math.kz/images/journal/2013-4/Otelbaev_N-S_21_12_...
Your milage may vary, but I've found that queries which works fine for Google does not work equally well for DDG and visa verse.

You search DDG differently than you search Google. And let's face it, you're already well trained in searching Google, even though you don't really think much about it. If you doubt me, ask someone new to the web try to use Google. The way they search will make your eyes roll. Because you know better how to use it.

Same with DDG. You're just not there yet. Besides Google has a more opinionated search, so it will more aggressively attempt to exclude parts of your search query and infer other possible meanings from the words left. And then it will search on what it assumes you meant, no matter if it is right or wrong.

DDG will search for what I ask it to search for. As a technical user and pedant, that suits me better.

I also have to say that your queries sounds very unnatural to me. They go along as if they were almost English. With DDG I just search for the basic keywords. If I know I need/want domain-specific limitations, I can apply bang-operators for that !so to get stack overflow, !w for wikipedia, etc.

In complex matters like these, there's obviously room for taste and opinions. But with that said, I'm getting fed up with the meme that DDG is inferior to Google. For my needs, I consider Google search the inferior product by now.
Think of it as a proxy… Follow the links and the references on that site, and see for yourself. The site has tons of them.
This is the first I've heard of another programmer using the T100. Are you using it as a terminal to a more powerful computer, or as the actual computer? If the latter, what does your dev environment consist of, and what platform(s) are you programming for?
In some elections, inquorate elections do not stand, and a re-election is required. This would be a good idea, but is unlikely to happen.
In some places (notably Australia) government feels legitimated by compulsory voting (even fr expats). I don't know the sanctions for not voting, but voting turnout there is high.
Real pirates often try as hard as possible not to kill people. Crew are usually worth more money alive. If you do kill someone, often you get fined by your captain and have to continue piracy to work off the debt.
Odd that they'd include the Bells (Verizon, AT&T) but not TMobile or Sprint.
The Founder Hounder - gold diggers silicon valley style
The break even point is about 6 months for the light instances and a bit more for the medium ones.

Actually I ran the numbers for some of our (higher end ec2 instances). And some of them you break even in 6 weeks
1) While that may be a bummer to you, it's a feature to me. I hate having Google assume I want local content or value that higher than other content.

2) I don't go to a search-engine for news. There are better tools and sites for that.

3) Excuse me. I just suffered a parsing error.

4) And this is why I use it. Google search has become a bloated UX disaster and Google is a creepy company. Just plain search sounds great!
no. you don't use me. I shall not get used, sir!
I have to say, I support this type of thing. It is social commentary in a way. Every patch that gets merged (as this one did) that is absolutely ridiculous shines a bright light on the fact that it isn't the content of the patches that matter.

If you can't tell the difference between an obvious troll with an email address "feministsoftwarefoundation@loves.dicksinmyan.us" and a ridiculous patch from a real one, I think the community needs to take a beat and think about why. Why could it be taken seriously? Why wasn't it challenged? Are we so terrified of being called a sexist that we will do insane things?
https://github.com/Feminist-Software-Foundation "feministsoftwarefoundation@loves.dicksinmyan.us"
Oh Amazon... I had some interviews with Amazon years ago. The very first face to face interview and the very first interviewer was asking a question about finding a "median element", I heard "medium element" (which made sense in the context), and in the end it turned out he meant "average element". That was one worthless interview.
Vinay Deolalikar.
Aaron Swartz - SOPA and The Day We Fight Back
I actually meant Xenserver (which is open source, too), but you do have a valid point. Xen's in use a lot.