skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the top shelf in a box in a closet in my parents' house there is a box of 5 1/4" 360k floppy disks that I saved with the thought that their contents might be useful someday. Now we''re a couple of decades past the time when they were already so old as to be stuck in a box in a box in a closet.

They're no more collector's items or antiques than abandoned half broken code is a valuable resource today. In fact, my old floppy files have the advantage of not cluttering up a Github search when someone is looking for working code.
Didn't consider it, I'm a man though. That seems relevant. I also can not have achieved any of the chemical benefits of crying because you aren't near me. So... I don't know. I don't even really know what you're trying to say.

If you're saying my use of language was extremely strong, you're right - intentionally so because I actually felt like crying and did, in fact, cry a tiny bit after reading these comments. They're horrible and I love HN so much, I can't stand that it can't deal with gender issues in a reasonable way.
The iOS app used to cost $130. Wow.
I wish more states would implement this. It doesn't have to be a house, just an apartment. It doesn't even have to be a big one. Even just a single mattress in a small room or a studio with a kitchen is a huge quality of life improvement--and relatively inexpensive, as it seems they've found. Kicking them off of park benches is about as helpful as sloshing water around within the same bucket and then looking surprised that the contents haven't appreciably depreciated. Homeless are not going to just disappear. (Unless they die, which I suppose is what people like the sledgehammer guy in the article would prefer...)
Indeed. What prevents other homeless people to "migrate" to Utah in order to benefit from that program ? If that's the case, the costs of the program would explode, and the savings would be gone. That's typically what happens. Not sure what they are doing to avoid that scenario.
It makes a lot of sense to encourage minority groups to join a field. An example including men would be something like the American Assembly for Men in Nursing.[1]

Alternatively, there are men-only classes for parenting, and those aimed at stay-at-home fathers.

These sorts of groups are not exclusive to women.

[1]http://aamn.org/
I'm interested to see how they handle usage with the iOS app. I use it, and it had a very high price tag by app standards when I purchased it ($40-50 if I remember right).
Apple Patents Solar Power Converters for iPhone
She did. Look at her main Tumblr page: http://lequaintrellenoir.tumblr.com/
This is a little bit off topic, but although I agree that [1] does fail the categorical imperative, it isn't because "If everybody did this okcupid would be much worse off."

The categorical imperative is not a consequentialist motivation. It doesn't say, "Don't do X if doing so would make Y worse off."
Probably, but it doesn't mean the idea is flawed--just the execution. Also Africa has a rather horrific corruption index, IIRC. I'd almost be surprised if things were planned ahead properly there. With some laudable exceptions, their governments and politicians tend to have a remarkable and depressing lack of foresight.
This a classic example of how to do bad statistics complete with nice charts. A fair and a much better metric would be dollar per hour per TB. Each of these companies manufacture drives in different classes of MTBF. For example WD has drive with 1 million hours of MTBF and they also have drive with 300K hours of MTBF (which is 30% cheaper). Higher MTBF translates to higher cost. In addition you want to make sure you had considered all the discounts. For example, it would be easy to buy WD drives in higher MTBF class lot more cheaper on wholesale prices or deals than Seagate drives without deals.
Specifics - why the Nintendo Fusion leak is probably fake
Just build capsules hotels, just like in Japan. That's cheap enough, and it has everything. But it only works if people can behave well in community...
Like it or not, sometimes it's necessary to choose the less of two evils. There was a time when BEAST was the best known attack against SSL, RC4 was not thought to be as weak as it is today, and RC4 was the only way to mitigate BEAST server-side. Eventually, even Safari/OSX implemented the 1/n-1 split defense against BEAST, at which point we stopped requiring server-side mitigation for it.

EDIT: actually, SSL Labs stopped requiring server-side BEAST mitigation a month or so before Apple finally handled BEAST in OSX Mavericks. It happened only after I had been satisfied that BEAST exploitation was not very likely. You can find more information here: http://blog.ivanristic.com/2013/09/is-beast-still-a-threat.h...
> Perhaps many people end up homeless after making poor choices in life that lead to their predicament

I don't really have any data at hand, but a lot of people become homeless due to health issues, family conflicts, socio-economic problems (high unemployment rates, factory closings, lack of affordable housing), or even by being born poor or homeless... I believe some of those reasons are outside of the control of a single person.
I'm not sure there's enough history to know. Certainly counterexamples are easy to find: cities like Chicago tried providing huge amounts of housing to the poor and those projects were unmitigated disasters and have over the past decade or so been mostly torn down.
But can't you look at this event in the same light? To women, blacks, etc, entering a given field in which you are underrepresented, you are no different than a first time founder with concerns, reservations, a desire to connect with people similar to you who've achieved success and to learn about the obstacles you may face. The set of factors that may work against a woman getting into tech may differ from that that works against other groups doing the same. There's no harm in addressing these sets of concerns specifically. It seems like a more efficient way.
> raising an exception to break iteration

You don't have to.

def mygen():
yield 1
yield 2
return
print "never been here"

>>> list(mygen())
[1, 2]

I agree some parts of python are hackish though. Maybe because of legacy reasons. And py3k didn't fix all of them
Amazon considering online pay-TV service
Drawing with a laser
Why does it need to be visionary to survive?
No better? Arguably much worse, if it took 88 attempts...
Yeah take a look at some of the comments here, and it's understandable why there would be a conference geared towards women.

That said, it's not like they're pulling down your pants and checking if you have a dick at the door. Men can go. It's a conference to help women with the challenges they will face specifically as females in the tech industry. If you find this topic interesting, then by all means go: man, woman, or anyone inbetween.
I'm sorry you didn't like the prize, but is it such a stretch that prizes at a women-in-tech conference would be targeted at women in tech?

You might not realize it, but women face a similar issue all the time at conferences/events where "unisex" (really men's) cut t-shirts are given out. These t-shirts are generally quite flattering on men and not-so-flattering on women, so I'd argue they're the woman's equivalent of your purse.

I went to the Grace Hopper conference this year and it was very refreshing to see that every company that gave out t-shirts used female cuts, since those are t-shirts I'll actually wear!
Maybe this is the sort of fee that would have prevented that transfer. Kind of - "gee that's a nice store you have here, pity if something happened to it".
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4208v1.pdf

Full study for anyone interested
I like how it has more I/O options than the real thing.
I'm respectfully dubious about the safety claim. Maybe perceived safety, but the last time I checked in my city (Baltimore) violent crimes weren't being perpetrated by the homeless, but rather the homeless are often victims. So, its safer for those people taken off the street.

More importantly, it unburdens city ERs and police departments. So, ok, maybe there is an indirect safety effect from freed up police resources.

Interesting how hairy and interconnected all of these complicated issues become when you dive into them.
> What Are Some Stupid Things That Smart People Do? (quora.com)

The "stupid things" list should certainly include visiting quora.com, a tar-pit masquerading as a website.
>If your argument is that I'd have to convert bitcoin to dollars in order to pay taxes, that's a nonargument.

It's not a 'nonargument'. It's true, and very relevant.

>I am sure they would take Bitcoin directly if pressed.

That's speculation. You have no reason to believe they'd accept bitcoin. As of right now, they do not. That's all we have to go on.

>Just ask the FBI, who is now in possession of the largest bitcoin cache on the planet... I suppose you think they're just going to erase all of them because, you know, they're not "backed" by anything?

Is there a reason for making this absurd strawman? Where has anyone ever suggested that people should erase their bitcoins because they're not backed by anything?
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Yeah I paid over $30 for the iOS application, was a little bummed to see the announcement.
However it says that they will still all work - there will just not be any further development or bug fixes.

Quote from the email I received:

"While your existing Ignition app will continue to work as it always has, it will no longer receive updates and bug fixes. However, you may switch to the new LogMeIn for iOS/Android app at any time. It's free to download and will work with a Pro account."
Microsoft remotely deleted a Tor-based botnet from more than 2 millon systems
I think you are missing the point of his strategy. Before this he had 6 dates in nine months, his primary problem was the top of the funnel. I don't think this strategy helped him improve quality, but it did lead to quantity which at the end of the day got him this result. And I think with online dating quantity matters as the signals you are using to select are so poor.
I think what you said is very typical. Apps are like mini toys or online games. People lose their curiosity very soon since there are so many free choices out there. We cannot expect or take it too seriously for the long run. Being adopted to a certain extent as Canvas DrawQuest is good enough.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7095401
Why Reverse Racism(and sexism) is not what you think it is [standup video]
The first 2,500 are always free. So 2,501 would be $0.001. I'll make that clearer on the site -- thanks!
Maybe you meant to comment on the Backblaze blog post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7095357

Funny that you're talking about "nice charts," though. Exactly what OGS made.
I am still looking for a DAG based mind map instead of a tree structure. Bonus if the editor could tell me the shortest path between distant nodes, further solve it in a constrained time.

And I always think of nodes first then connections, many mindmap editor force you to create edge first, this drives me mad.
Basic income or a negative income tax would be a better solution.

Giving people free homes creates a perverse incentive.
This study is based on a couple of very shaky assumptions. The first is that they're modeling the decline of Facebook on the decline of MySpace, and assuming that their traffic/popularity curves are similar. I think the two sites are completely different animals and all comparisons became invalid when FB launched their app platform in 2007. Maybe when they launched their News Feed in 2006.

The second is that they're basing it on Google Trends data, which is obviously based on searches for Facebook. With the enormous shift to mobile and users going directly to the app, I think that throws a serious kink in trying to apply 2007+ trends to 2014+.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4208v1.pdf
http://www.r4i3dscards.co.uk
"There are some things that women just don't get about men"

Seems more like you don't really get what it means to be a man.
AT&T has recently tried to charge me a leasing fee for my U-verse router. I called in and explained to the person on the phone that I own the router, and referred him to my first months statement were it specifically states that I paid $160+ for the router. The man on the phone told me that their policy has changed, and they now charge leasing fees to everyone who does NOT own their own equipment. I explained to the man that I do. His answer: "As a favor to you, because you are such a long customer, I am going to waive the fee for now." It took me another 20 minutes on the phone to explain to this imbecile that I can not possibly be required to lease my own equipment from my self. His final statement to me still was: "Yes, I can see here that you own the router. Because you feel so strong about this, we are not going to require you to pay any additional equipment fees." I was fucking speechless.
Interesting; though with antimatter you can control the emission by controlling M/AM recombination rate, whereas the best you could do with a BH is optimize when you feed your BH so that it's output is mostly when you need it (from what I remember the decay rate increases rapidly with decreasing size; not sure about absolute energy output though time).
Reminds me, stealing electricity wasn't a crime in Germany for the longest time.
It used to. As far as I know RHEL 6.5 was the first to enable Elliptic Curve cryptography by default. Fedora 18 and later were updated to support it, too. For more details, see here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901
The "less money" part is not so obvious. The article does not go in details about that part, so it's very hard to say whether it's BS or not. A house needs frequent maintenance, renovation, cleaning, etc... and this costs a lot of money in the mid-long run, as facilities degrade.

As for the ideology itself, I wonder how people who are working just to get enough money to survive and rent a place feel about this. I would be fine with the idea that a homeless person gets a home for a while, as long as they actively sort their life out and find a way to get to work again in a reasonable timeframe. Unless they are mentally ill, of course.
As long as you use Google Chrome, the Chrome Remote Desktop extension has been a pretty good substitute for me.
I paid $30AUD I believe... the announcement said this in the email:

"While your existing Ignition app will continue to work as it always has, it will no longer receive updates and bug fixes. However, you may switch to the new LogMeIn for iOS/Android app at any time. It's free to download and will work with a Pro account."
If it is a traditional black hole, it has to have a pretty large mass to have a manageable energy output (they burn faster as they lose mass).

On the other side, if it is too large, the energy output is miniscule.
There's a lot of factors here, but why would the majority be silent in tech? Is it because they feel like their voice is belittled?
Expectation must be adjusted. A lot of apps and even real world products should shoot for a short term profit and gain in before the majority of people lose the curiosity and become tired of it.
Forbes: “Should Microsoft Acquire Yahoo For $53 Billion?”
Eventually the only people on the street are people who are unable to cope/deal with the system and who fall through the cracks, such as mentally ill.

This is a pretty variable part too, perhaps even more important than the actual "official" level of benefits. One of the bigger differences I've noticed moving from the U.S. to Denmark is not so much that the social welfare system is more generous (though that's true also), but especially that it's more proactive and less bureaucratic. If someone mentally ill is in need of support, qualifies for it, and cannot navigate the system themselves, a social worker will help them out. If they need somewhere to live and can't rent their own apartment, they'll get helped out there too. Someone will literally rent them an apartment, take them to it, make sure they settle in, and then check back later.

In the U.S., none of that is true. I have some pretty recent experience with an American uncle who has advanced M.S. and has gotten basically no useful support. For a while he was unable to live alone, but officially the government didn't give a shit, so he did anyway, and injured himself regularly. He alternated between living in his apartment for a few weeks at a time, and ending up in the emergency room several times per month each time he injured himself. You might think: at this point, shouldn't he move to an assisted-living facility? It'd actually be more cost-effective, but nope, neither SSI Disability nor Medicare Disability cover that. SSI Disability will pay his rent to live at home, and Medicare Disability will pay his hospital visits, but neither will pay for him to move to somewhere that makes more sense.

He would probably have ended up homeless or dead if some family members hadn't agreed to take over power of attorney, navigate the system on his behalf, and find money to pay for his rent. The U.S.'s joke of a stingy social system surely hasn't done anything on that front.
As Mr Deming once said, "In God We Trust. All others bring data."

I'm impressed that the typical moral outrage of people being given "handouts" was short-circuited by rational data analysis, and a solution driven by said data. Kudos Utah!
Yeah, I feel like all he did in the end is find a way of getting a lot of people interested in his profile (by tweaking the score so that it would be as close as 100% as possible) and then go on a lot of dates.The real issue here is probably the asymmetry in male/female messages and requests rates on OkCupid...
Yeah, even something like that would work (maybe a little more spread out in places that aren't so urban). It's just appalling to me that so many people don't even have a place to stay out of the snow in this day and age. I wonder how many homeless you could house for a month for the cost of [insert luxurious iProduct here].
Didn't consider it, I'm a man though.

You seem to dismiss the plausibility/utility of feigned empathy.[1]

Headline> Babies do fake cry to get attention according to research

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10577825/Bab...

[1] Nothing personal, just connecting the dots.
shrug you can model anything as an illness if it has vaguely the same characteristics. Just needs some ability to spread via connections, and some ability to cure a node and make it immune to reinfection at the same time (for example, getting over the sickness and becoming immune, dying of smallpox, or getting bored of MySpace).

I guess you could attempt to model a person's use of a social network as a result of attractors and repulsors. Attractors could be wanting to stay in touch with friends. Repulsors cold be simple apathy, or lack of novelty. When the balance of the two drops enough, you get bored of Facebook (or whatever), and stop caring about it.

...anyhow, the study uses a funky metric/proxy (google search trends...). They claim it works.
But people are totally full of it on what their deal breakers are. They'll thoughtfully answer a survey one way but then behave very differently in smelly meatspace.
I commented a while back on LinkedIn spam, and got the distinct feeling I was an odd one out here (and that it was up to me to filter their crap out). Their service provided me with the contact details of someone who damaged my car - and calling his employer got things rolling fast after weeks on inaction. However the LinkedIn spam still tracks me down occasionally months after fleeing the service.
White/male/cigender privilege is having a sense of humour and not being butthurt constantly, didn't ya know?
Exactly. Why else quote a study that the author readily admits is faulty?
I celebrate this. Two people found love and are getting married. I think it's great. He answered all questions truthfully but let the code determine the weight of each answer. It's not like he wasn't giving honest answers. And yes, he created two profiles, but then deleted one. He wasn't sure which group of women he'd match up with best. I guess you see this as fundamentally dishonest but I think the couple says it best:

“People are much more complicated than their profiles,” she says. “So the way we met was kind of superficial, but everything that happened after is not superficial at all. It’s been cultivated through a lot of work.”

“It’s not like, we matched and therefore we have a great relationship,” McKinlay agrees. “It was just a mechanism to put us in the same room."
Where would one submit picks? What are the odds of winning?
In exchange for not having transfer fees, you get no protection against fraud or theft. Not such a great 'advantage' for the average person, is it? Oh, I know, you can use escrow and other services to guard against that. But guess what? They're not free!
You're right that under the assumption that the OkCupid algorithms actually work, the best strategy is to just answer the questions honestly. If they don't really work all that well, just gaming it to give good results would be a rational strategy.
I'd been wanting something like this as I have a few physical mailboxes but rarely need the physical mail itself. Do you have any useful links to the 1583-based providers?
The primary question I hoped to see answered in the post was who (ideally, which individual person) would become the open source repo's maintainer. Does anyone know?
>would probably have ended up homeless or dead if some family members...navigate the system on his behalf.

This is what I've observed as well. Part of the reason I feel like I have to move out of the US as soon as I possibly can is that I have no blood relations to take care of me if I become fully disabled again. It's absolutely terrifying.
Humans haven't had that problem for thousands of years. For thousands of years our friends and family were mostly our neighbors if not actually living in our households. You could argue that Facebook and social media in general has perverted the notion of what a "friend" is.
There was a good book the other year that covered the failure of Chicago public housing. Basically they demolished a lot of serviceable neighborhoods and shoved all of the displaced people into Concrete silos with people from all over the city, but not necessarily their old neighborhoods. Then, they never planned for or accounted for children and teenagers who roamed the buildings unsupervised while their parents were working or out looking for work. In the old neighborhoods, children played in the streets where any number of people could see them from store keepers to police or nosey old people. In the high rises, they were left completely to their own devices. Additionally, these high rises were built apart from other things in the city and not very accessible by foot. This meant that you couldn't walk from one to a grocery store, your church, your job, or anything really.

So basically, Chicago built giant human warehouses to store all of the poors they had collected from around the city. Not hard to imagine why that failed. IMHO, Utah's program of housing the chronically homeless is totally different.
An excellent move by Amazon. This is something I've been waiting for. I hope it becomes a reality though...
Orwell had tuberculosis, not uncommon for people from urban environment in his day. That's why the "bad lung". Whether he smoked or not is probably quite irrelevant.

Orwell fought against Fascism ( both of the Lft and of the Right) , and mercantilism/empire. Not capitalism. Something can be one of those, but not both. These things are quite precise terms that have very specific meanings.

The point of 1984 is not that some sinister cadre has seized power ( that's more like Alan Moore in "V for Vendetta" ) but rather that people stopped wanting to think at all, and the resulting regime met their preferences
better as they simply stopped thinking at all.
Like http://daux.io/?

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