skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought Moot (as the founder of 4chan) was equipped to build a product far different than something tame like Canvas. It's never good when something fails, but I hope he gets in touch with his weird side and relishes the fact he created one of the most bizarre places on the internet.
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As someone who wasn't following GitHub as a company, I have to say I quite appreciated the gif. Sums it up in all of 2 seconds. Bravo.
Care to share your research data that this has to do with stigmatisation?
And what exactly is "this field"? Field of those believing that the cause is stigmatisation?
How about this assumption, which, I believe is also false?
I was thinking just take the ledger of all transactions and exclude everything but land transfers.. that doesn't work though because none of his transaction functions would properly model the way the real land transactions would happen due to feedback with the hidden transactions etc.

I guess the Norvig approach would be to feed in all data from the real economy and tally random sequences of transactions of various lengths, like linguistic n-grams, then for the model just generate transactions using Markov chains derived from that data. If it works for translating languages and modeling human thought, no reason it shouldn't work here.
Thirded. My media server is 6 terabytes worth of WD Green drives and they don't exhibit the issue described with stops and starts and I've never done anything to shut the "intelligent parking" off.

I guess YMMV depending upon exact OS and software used to access the device, but most media playback software will run a big enough local cache that it is requesting chunks of data long before it absolutely requires them for playback to work without a hitch, giving the drive more than enough time to wake up if it has parked itself.
The reason for a Female Founders Conference is presumably that women are under-represented among founders. A quote from Paul Graham may explain why:

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
"One advantage startups have over established companies is that there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, I would be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had small children, or was likely to have them soon. But you're not allowed to ask prospective employees if they plan to have kids soon."
Please, for the love of god, stop with fearmongering about overpopulation already. It's pure nonsense.

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#growthrate

"The latest United Nations projections indicate that world population will nearly stabilize at just above 10 billion persons after 2062." [1]

Also recommended: The documentary "Population Boom" by Werner Boote [2][3]

[1] http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/publications.htm

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3107706/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[3] (German) http://www.populationboom.at/
For those who use Arch Linux, It's already available in the AUR.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rig/
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I think you should revisit your definition of discrimination. Discrimination is treating someone unfavorably or with prejudice due to their gender. This event is for female founders and promoting them. There is nothing against men, against male founders, or the sex in general.

Just because something is for one subject does not mean it's against the opposite.
> Never confuse NSA revelation means we must implement things so secure that we can't even tell Bob is Bob. We can't have 100% anonymity and we can't enforce that. The world needs interaction. The ability to choose is the right direction and I hope companies will start to realize that we don't live in the 80s anymore.

I want to quote this for emphasis.

One of the huge mistakes that drives our current despair is the unconscious ideal of a world where we aren't significantly interacting except through anonymous transactions. This isn't tenable. More importantly, this isn't human. Privacy is less about having security and more about convincing other people to avert their eyes. That's why the fault is on the NSA, not on, say, messaging protocols. Privacy is not sneaking into someone else's home. The burden of maintaining privacy is on the person who could violate it.
We can easily expect GitHub to continue its exponential growth. The timing seems perfect to me...Chris will take on a role that will require him to ensure that the product remains excellent and will implement the innovation that Tom will be responsible for. Both suit their styles.
LocalBitcoins.com is one of the most expensive places to acquire (only small quantities of) bitcoins... and the riskiest.
I've had 4 Green 3TB drives in a raidZ for less than a year. First few months were great, then I had to replace two of them a couple months ago due to data errors and another just started failing so today (literally as I write this) I'm replacing the other two.

Don't use Greens for anything that's on and could be active 24/7. The aggressive load cycling kills them.
Wish you had an Android version :/

Kudos anyway, great idea and looks like a great execution as well!
Drone strikes are much more accurate than conventional weapons. Nothing is 100% accurate 100% of the time, so using them vs. carpet bombing an entire neighborhood is a good thing, not bad.
If you're curious, DailyDot published a lengthy profile of him a few months ago that wasn't bad

http://www.dailydot.com/business/4chan-10-years-christopher-...
If we didn't provide an autoupdate mechanism, then developers would just implement their own. Frequently, these handrolled systems would have security flaws. We have an existence proof of this: it happened in the Greasemonkey ecosystem.

We might propose that we could prevent these hand-rolled systems by restricting eval(). Well, we already restrict eval for different reasons. What we see is a lot of people working around the restriction by injecting code into websites (!!).

My bet is that basically any significantly sized extension would implement a workaround for any autoupdate restriction we tried to employ. Developers really like the ability to update their product, and the workarounds are not that hard. And these workarounds would be worse than the original problem - that sometimes good people turn bad.

It would also destroy the value that autoupdate provides which you are forgetting about: most of the time it is used by good people to do good things. We frequently find extensions with security problems, tell the author, and then they fix and push them to users. Without autoupdate this wouldn't be possible.

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As for your proposal for how to restrict the levels of access extensions have... As I said above, we do this kind of thing already. You can read all about it here: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/permission_warnings.h.... We have a very granular security system.

For example, it has been always been possible to write a youtube downloader Chrome extension that only has access to youtube.com.

Flashblock would theoretically be possible with the upcoming declarativeWebRequest API (http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeWebRequest...).

However designing the right APIs that have narrow risk, yet are flexible enough for developers to want to use remains a difficult problem that is unsolved except in specific cases.
Since you are against this conference in principle, I have a feeling you're only bringing up the trans issue to cause trouble.

But, you're right, it has been an issue at some conferences. So it's worth clarifying.

The Ada Initiative does not represent all women in tech, but they do help organizers with codes of conduct and other policies for female-friendly conferences. It might be good for jl and YC to consult with them. Their policies are inclusive: http://adainitiative.org/faq/#how-does-the-ada-initiative-de...
Of the speakers of this event, Diane Greene spoke at Startup School this past year. Here's the video of her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEeFxq2X_c

Jessica Livingston gave a talk in 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQJ6zsNCA-4), and interviewed Ron Conway in 2013 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bm-Xj2jMCk). I'm sure she's given other Startup School talks, but I can't find any right now.

They're good videos, whether or not you can go to this conference.
It may seem surprising that a seemingly successful product could fail, but it happens all the time. Although we arguably found product/market fit, we couldn’t quite crack the business side of things.

Hopefully people will read into this and learn that building a product without figuring out how to make money and just hoping it becomes obvious -- or that someone will acquire you -- is NOT a business model.
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Could you please point out what part of that supports the idea that a leveling off of the population would be possible without contraceptives?

Both of the replies I've received so far appear to completely misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not saying the population will grow without limit no matter what. I'm saying that contraceptives are vital to avoiding that. Which is not at all contradicted by the fact that our world appears to be headed for zero population growth, because our world contains readily available contraceptives.

Do people not read, or what?
The best place to start would be to diversify the lineups at Hacker School.

If the sentiment is that female founders are uncomfortable at conferences full of male founders, then cordoning them off isn't going to help. I don't think this conference is meant to address that particular issue, but I believe it may be a by-product of it and conferences like it.
In support of the other post going on here, let me crib a Catholic source I happen to know of:

> ... attention is of the very essence of prayer. As an expression of sentiment emanating from our intellectual faculties prayer requires their application, i.e. attention. As soon as this attention ceases, prayer ceases. To begin praying and allow the mind to be wholly diverted or distracted to some other occupation or thought necessarily terminates the prayer, which is resumed only when the mind is withdrawn from the object of distraction.

-- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12345b.htm

So there's nothing intrinsically wrong with it, and if you're starting to lose some of your faculties and of this is a device that helps you actually accomplish the prayer that's great... but if you're all like "oh, great, this will get me my prayer points faster", you've missed the point of the entire exercise.

Many forms of prayer, especially the repetitive ones, are devices for focusing attention (e.g. the rosary). There are also parallels in Eastern forms of meditation that employ chants or mantras (e.g. Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ).
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having separate bathrooms is not discrimination. Having bathroom only for one gender would be.
Yes, exactly. But modern economics isn't actually measuring that, and I think is in a certain amount of denial about it occurring at all. Economic growth is growth in GDP. GDP is calculated as function of price, and although it's adjusted for inflation, the vagaries of the monetary system mean that inflation is a very poor proxy for the actual growth in the money supply. [Which btw. is well known within Economics - better known there as the mystery of the 'monetary policy transmission mechanism'].

Go back 150 years, and production was measured as production (tons of coal, etc. You can see this in historical records like the German Statistical Yearbook's from the 1870's.) Today's economists make measurements using money, and ignore the very real problems of money as a unit of measurement.

For example, take the quantity theory of money (and note the word theory there), MV = PQ. V - velocity of circulation of money cancels - this was pointed out in the 1930's, but for some reason has never made it into the textbooks. We're left with P(prices) ~ M (quantity of money)/Q (quantity of transactions.

Now if this equation is valid (and it is mainstream economic theory, although the presence of a cancelling issue probably isn't a good sign there), then we have an inverse relationship between the quantity of money in the system, and the quantity of transactions (i.e. production), indicating that actual economic growth in the sense you're using it would cause decreasing prices, if M is held constant.

OTH, if that equation is wrong, then how can we measure anything with money, since we don't know what the relationship is between production and prices?
I would imagine what you're talking about is a violation of their terms of service.
I am very impressed by the transparency here, and appreciative of the data. I'd never heard of Backblaze until now, but now I'll have to pay closer attention.
Its possible to come up with elaborate, possibly true reasons the fish aren't biting. None the less, the point is the fish aren't biting.
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population..."
I feel like one of the problems moot will always face, simply because of his legacy, is that his core userbase with any venture will end up being those who frequent 4chan...possibly be the hardest to monetize group in the world.

While the app was successful in the sense of popularity, it was not successful in the sense of profitability. That line is far too blurred for far too many startup founders nowadays.
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I'm having trouble finding good ones these days. I'm trying to find stuff that isn't geared towards sensationalism or click mongering with a tech focus.
15 years of Perl and I just now learned about the yadda-yadda ... thanks!
I just noticed the guy's username. I know him. His objection is religious. So the inference is correct, at least in this case.
I think the idea is to use simple physical media, like CDROM, where hiding a malicious payload is far more difficult since there's no embedded electronics on a disc.

If that's too cumbersome, one could always implement a simple teletype-like system with a low bitrate. Like an automatic machine that can physically press keys on a keyboard. Then remove every key except letters, numbers, shift and tab.

You could use a similar system or OCR to get data off the gapped machine.
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> self-identified feminist

as opposed to what? Certified feminist?
ah that's fantastic - I mis-read and thought that was how you launch the app, rather than package it. thanks!
Derp. I meant to write "Windows 7". What I get for commenting on HN using an iPad.
What I'd like to see change in the physical retail experience
Again, there are two different meanings of the word discriminate. Having different bathrooms is discriminating between the genders. Treating them differently. Having bathrooms for one gender and not the other would be discriminating against that gender.
> I don't see how your criticism refutes Myth 1

I'm not refuting that the myth is a myth (though I think its more of a strawman that Gates attacks poorly than a myth), I'm pointing out that Gates particular attempt to argue from so-called "income per person" trends (that starts with mistreating GDP per capita as "income per person") line of argument against the "myth" is fundamentally flawed.

I don't think poor countries are "doomed to stay poor". But I don't think Gates attacks on that supposed myth (which I don't think is really a particularly dominant belief) are very good, and particularly I don't think they support the alternative thesis he is presenting to the "myth" (which seems to nbe not merely that they aren't "doomed to stay poor", but that the "poor" countries are in fact not poor now.)

> Take a metric, look at it over time. Watch it change. That's exactly what Bill Gates did in his piece.

Except that the metric he takes (which he attempts to conceal by presenting it as something it is not) includes wealth extracted from the nation to other nations, as well as income earned in the nation, so it isn't actually a good measure to show whether the poor nations are actually getting less poor over time.

Taking a metric that doesn't actually measure the thing you are using it to measure is, well, wrong.
A good example of how the most successful, and innovative people can still fail. Sobering.
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Are you referring to 4chan? If so, I think Twa^Hitter is far worthier of that title.
Out of curiosity, does anyone have statistics handy for the number of female-owned businesses of all types, outside of tech?

You know, unsexy things like accountancies, laundromats, daycares, restaurants and food trucks, gyms, and so forth?

I'm curious what the baseline here is.
Just because something is not against one subjets doest not mean that there is no discrimination.
The usd has intrinsic value - it saves you from years in jail if you cough up as much as Uncle Sam requires of you every year.
I don't think those are actually traits. They look more like mixins.

If they were traits, there wouldn't be any point to also having interfaces, since traits are a strict superset of them.
I'd be interested in this. We'd pay if it was accurate, fast, and available.
He needs to move all his infrastructure to OVH servers before he can talk seriously about 'keeping the lights on' as long as possible.
It calls into question one's worldview as a feminist if you are busy discriminating on gender expression.

It seems logically inconsistent.
I don't know if perl is short of newbies. But if the source about not liking java as it was in 1997! then maybe they need to re-think about how to evaluate using a language in 2014!

The perl5 to perl6 development, together with the rise of python definitely did put a big dent in perl uptake. As well as perl's reputation for unmaintainable and non team workable cowboy code led a lot of users to drop it. Especially in the area of bioinformatics where it used to rule the roost.
That's why, if you can, you don't let hierarchical authorities generate the data in the first place. It would be much better if students generated the reviews on a trusted third party website with liberal copyrights. That would remove from the authorities the power to control the student-generated data in ways that are detrimental to the students. It would probably be helpful if Yale did stop generating this data so as to increase the incentive to generate the data outside the official channels.
You should, because there really is no downside.

Right, there are no negative side effects to taking birth control, like increased risk of heart disease.
You're not paying for distribution (ok, you are, but not very much). You're paying for the content to be created.
Empirically you do - you've already read 10 this month.
Sales have been plummeting across the PC business for a couple of years now, and Windows has reached a point of "good enough" leaving people little incentive to upgrade outside of HW replacement cycles.

And to paint a even bleaker picture you still have 30%+ of the worldwide Windows user-base still running XP, i.e. while PC-users on the Windows platform, they haven't actually paid for a OS license in over a decade.

The business of selling a licensed OS either shrink-wrapped or to OEMs is seemingly much less profitable than it used to be, and clearly not an area where future growth can be expected.

You can't blame Microsoft for trying to find something else to base future growth on.
Putting who he is aside, I think the very tough realizations they made apply to a lot more than just DrawQuest's situation:

> As we approached the end of our runway, it became clear to us that DrawQuest didn’t represent a venture-backed opportunity, and even with more time that was unlikely to change.

It takes a lot to decide that you should kill something rather than try to funnel more money into it without having an end-game set up.
Radical Feminism (one concept) is somewhat equivalent to separatist feminism, which takes it as axiomatic that women making decisions under the influence of men are not free to make decisions (they're the "all sex is rape" school). Given that, they historically[0] tended to see trans women as male invaders of a female space, which makes them de facto transphobic. Transphobia is not a typical property of feminists who happen to be radical in their views - if anything, it's the opposite (radical feminism is a second-wave school which had its peak in the 70s).
That's the beauty that is used to advantage in physics, systems often behave in similar ways. Such a characteristic is not a weakness of a model, often it is a strength.
You could use any number of models to model the time until drive failure - accelerated failure time models, a poisson model, a Cox proportional hazards model, Kaplan-Meier curves...
> Both of the replies I've received so far appear to completely misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not saying the population will grow without limit no matter what.

Point taken. I'm sorry, and you're right, I don't disagree with anything you actually said.
Well, why don't we find some men and ask them why they don't seek out the advice of women founders already?
That's not irony. That is just the expected result of not being forthright.
Honestly, like Gates, if a small amount of corruption happens - if some % get skimmed off to pad some salaries or expense reports, I'm not going to get too excited. People do that. It's the gratuitous bag of cash -> palace transfer that bothers me.
Great comment. If anyone would like to learn more about feminism, I can't recommend highly enough the book "Feminism is for Everybody" by bell hooks. I find a lot of commenters here and on other sites form (strong!) opinions about feminism and sexism despite not understanding basic concepts like privilege, oppression, and intersectionality. That book is an accessible primer on those topics.
You skipped over the quote where he explicitly calls that out.

Additionally don't most measures of GDP explicitly exclude those cases where the money is immediately siphoned out of the country?

In either case it is usually true that GDP and income per person are at least linearly related, meaning the kinds of comparisons he is doing are valid, since he is comparing the numbers within a country. The scale of growth may be off by little bit, but the fact that growth occurred is still true.
You make a grand for 3 thousand daily visitors? That's much higher than I expected! Is it normal to earn over a thousand dollars a month for a few thousand daily visitors?
No, there are two word, discrimination and segregation. Men having a bathroom and women not (or vice versa) would be discrimination: one have bathroom, other don't. In having separate bathrooms men have a bathroom and women have a bathroom, no discrimination there.
Find the appropriate extension/add-on for your browser (assuming you're using a desktop version) and kill all your cookies from nytimes.com.

Repeat whenever you get the 10-article notice.

Edit: it should go without saying, but... if you find yourself doing this often, consider purchasing a subscription so this service can remain online.
> Drone strikes are much more accurate than conventional weapons.

Drone strikes are conventional weapons. They are more accurate than many alternative conventional "stand-off" weapons that seek to minimize risk to the weapon user, and less accurate (though perhaps more reliable) than many other alternative conventional weapons (a knife is far more accurate than a drone-launched missile, but far less reliable in many of the circumstances where drone strikes are used.)
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Very nice! Can't wait to try it out.

What does the "accuracy" value in the return mean? Maybe I am missing something but I don't see it in the FAQ or docs.