skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't need to be nice about someone invading my personal space

Yes, I agree. But of course not every woman is willing to be outright confrontational and thus resort to "grin-and-bear-it", which is why I was thinking about other possible avenues based on my experiences receiving blowback.

I realize it's a different story actually there in the moment than it is for me, an armchair warrior, but the only ways I know of to get around that are 1) making choices to avoid the situation (which never go over well in discussion) and 2) behavioral changes. I avoid #1, and #2 is not an issue with anyone I have any influence over; everyone I know would immediately ostracize that person if word ever got out. So all I've got left to discuss is possible reactions. :/
>Like if your computer folds a correct protein that solves a problem re cancer or aids, you get 1 "humanity coin" ?

There have been a couple of attempts. GridCoin comes to mind. It works like a regular coin but you get a huge speedup in mining from Boinc credits. Probably easy to abuse and depends on a centralized server though so I'm not sure it could actually work.
Notice unease. "Hey (groper), haven't you only just met (gropee)? Bit inappropriate to have your hand on her leg like that?"

Risk is that she may avoid confrontation by saying something to defuse the situation and the groper then misses the point and just takes you as an obstacle, thinking or later saying "It's hard enough to meet women without you blocking me, man!" Response to that is easy, of course.
Sadly, many users just don't read past the title.
And users familiar with other suggestion engines (pandora, etc) expect to teach the system their taste and relevance.
Okay, I have to admit I picked SF from comments.

I think this issue doesn't have to be correlated to "% of women in STEM majors". I think that by tackling this as simple the numbers problem you're only making it worse.

Maybe it's not so much Bitcoin attracting certain early adopters, rather USA having a peculiar supply of early adopters (for many things) that also happen to clash with USA's supply of women? This way you can't win, Bitcoin or no Bitcoin.
Spoken up, or, much more easily and effectively, given the perpetrator nasty looks, not have invited him around the next time, gossipped about him behind his back or whatever else is part of the usual creep treatment. For all the reluctance tech people might have to consciously engage in this sort of herd animal behaviour, it's a component of social interaction that isn't going anywhere anytime soon; if they refuse to deliberately use it in situations to an end they can agree to be good, it will just wind up being used to random ends in ways the people doing it are not even aware of. In addition, this way, the pressure of having to "start a fuss" by lifting something unspoken into the realm of explicit discourse if they don't want a situation that is unpleasant to themselves to continue will be on the people who were at fault to begin with.
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Sam knows Stripe's numbers. So the fact that he was able to see inaccuracies immediately is more meaningful than the fact that you read the entire article and found it useful.
Interesting that you pick that, it would be more meaningful if TLS/SSL was not vulnerable to man in the middle and certificate spoofing (respectively). The security is useful, but is it sufficient? Sure searching for hash collisions provides a use, but would it not be interesting to devise a way to provide proof of work for a problem that had more useful results. A good example would be solving satisfiability problems posed in previous blocks, it is easy to calculate the difficulty of the problem and the solving solution is not much better then trying random solutions and hoping and the results is instantly verifiable. It would let people encode meaningful problems to be used as proof of work.
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For something like self-driving cars I'd have ten times more trust in a company that excels in humility than one like Google with success and experience in data mining.

Hubris and excessive confidence in engineering ability here are a recipe for disaster.
> So nowadays I am of the shove the offending body part off and "get your hands off me" mindset because it doesn't really matter.

Awesome, as a guy, that's what I think women should do.
I just watched the show on local tv and Magnus commented afterwards that he did something against his principles and gambled that he could trick Bill into it.
The set of features is different with for example typo tolerance, if the limit of 1000 entries is a problem, we can increase it.

We have written a blog post about the change if you want more details: http://blog.algolia.com/hacker-news-search-algolia/
God I hate feminists.
For most of the cases, answers can be found in the listing, and guests are looking for clarification or confirmation. As we do get access for the listing, we can learn a lot from your previous responses and repeat that in future scenarios. Also, as we are experienced hosts we understand Airbnb platform better so we can give answers to problems people face with.

Lastly, you are right, some of the questions cannot be answered by us, those are a fraction of the inquires and we give you, the host, the option to not let those interrupt you in your vacation. If you do want us to send you important questions we will. Think about us as a personal receptionist desk.

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In fact, if you take into account the time it takes to propagate a block across the network, shorter confirmation times may actually lead to less security.

e.x. if the confirmation time is 60 seconds, and it takes 30 seconds to propagate a block across the network, the miner that just mined a block will have a huge advantage in computing the next block.
This book doesn't directly address your concerns, but it's related, and I found it very thought-provoking: http://www.amazon.com/Times-Arrow-Archimedes-Point-Direction...
Ask HN: Dow down over 300 pts.
http://www.cnbc.com/

Are public markets finally breathing?

Major market around the world down with Chinese number, Argentina Pesos/USD spread.

Where do you guys think the market will go from here?
> But of course not every woman is willing to be outright confrontational

True, but men are generally outright confrontational and when dealing with men, speaking their language is likely to lead to them understanding in the moment what just happened.
> If you don't know who any of these people are, or how they know each other, it's hard to tell what's going on.

By default, a meetup group of strangers is an environment that should be free of harassment, it is better to speak up and be told that contact is OK than to say nothing and let someone fend for themselves.
I'd agree that using the term 'wage theft' roughly 500 times in the article seems way over the top, and makes the whole article sound like left-wing propaganda.

Yeah, it's illegal, and I don't have much sympathy for them getting whatever happens as a result of the collusion investigation, but it does seem pretty weak. The best proof I can think of that they were or were not effective is to look at engineer wages at companies that were not subject to these agreements, like startups. Most of them are probably too small to benefit from tech giants agreeing not to try to recruit their people, or at least stand to gain much more from paying excessively high salaries to recruit from those tech giants. So are there a bunch of startups routinely paying much more than normal salaries to hire top talent quickly?
I'm not saying the author had a responsibility to fight back, but I'm having a hard time justifying her "right" to not say anything. If she doesn't say that she doesn't like it, the guy has no reason to back off, at all. Not justifying what he did at first, but it would justify everything he did after that.
I don't think there are only 5 people on the team. Could be a coincidence or may be some hacker timed it to perfection.
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The way that values basic human decency and empathy the most would be to notify the organizers and ensure that they don't just ignore your complaint, and to talk to the person who was assaulting the other person.

Unfortunately, I'm jaded enough to believe that no good deed goes unpunished, so in the same situation I'd just notify the organizers.
Sure, I know there are lots of forks of Bitcoin. I'm talking about forking the whole economy though, which requires being able to at least trade for basic survival needs.

From an existential point of view, there is no such thing as fairness and yet, people still create whatever notions of fairness. Fairness tends to be deeply rooted into emotional makeup of a person. Many conflicts come about because the parties involved have different, deeply rooted sense of fairness.

Forking in open-source software allowed it to more or less outcompete commercial software in many (though not all) areas, and what finally made it work was a relatively cheap way for forked projects to be merged back together again. In other words, if we are forking along the lines of fairness (and come to think of it, notions of fairness are the psychological factor from which economies arise from), then eventually, for things to work out means being able to merge economies back together again.
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Why is Balanced not being recognized as (YC W11)?
Past few submissions haven't had the YC designation added to the company:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7118142
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7111087
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105416
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097460

Is this intentional or somehow significant, either on the part of HN or Balanced? Just curious.
I don't get how this is happening. Why are those links even in the search results?

Also it's not showing either of those sub-items for me when I google "gmail", so I wonder if it's fixed now.
> Developers are users.

Developers are users, but so are non-developers.

The question of whether developers should be able to restrict freedom of non-developers is the question of whether some users should be able to restrict the freedom of other users. This is an ethical (subjective) question.

Put another way, should landowners be allowed the freedom of having serfs or indentured servants? Not allowing them to do so is restricting the freedom of some people (the freedom to own serfs). But allowing them to do so is restricting the freedom of other people (the freedom to be... well, free human beings).

As a society, we believe restricting the freedom to be human beings is ethically abhorrent, so we have no qualms (anymore) about restricting people's freedom to own serfs.

Maybe you see non-free software as ethically abhorrent, the way slavery is, maybe you don't. But that is the axiom that the free software movement (and the GPL) is based on - to understand free software, you have to understand that principle, even if you disagree with it.
Maybe a casual usage currency would compliment the more serious (and polarizing) BTC or LTC. There were comedy coins before though, I suppose the meme is the only reason Doge has taken off.
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Why is that women have to prepare themselves to deal with aggressive behavior and/or pretend nothing happened and hope someone doesn't violate their personal space again? That squarely puts the blame on women for the harassing behavior of others and makes it their problem, when the reality is that the problem is with the harasser and people need to speak up.
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You defininately need more than 300. Also you need to make sure you have people from different areas.

One school may be very facebook heavy while another may mainly use twitter.
I care about what I lose because of copylefting software. I want software to suck less, and if that occasionally means letting someone be a free-rider on my stuff, let it be. At the same time, the existence of the GPL doesn't preclude people from free-riding either. Look at the embedded toolchains that are little more than GCC with a tiny proprietary wrapper, or the many many companies that use GPLed code, and have internal patches that never see light outside of the company. Restrictive licenses like the GPL are not all sunshine and roses.
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Ding ding ding.

You just walked into a huge room of strangers, were hugged, were groped and are probably feeling VERY anxious and uncomfortable. And I'm supposed to what? Cause a scene and now have ALL of the attention of a room full of guys on me? Etc.

Empathy, again, reigns. Imagine yourself in this situation, people. If "empathy" is so hard, imagine yourself in a room of gay guys who are there to have a book club and then one starts touching you. /shrug
Well, it would certainly become frozen at some point. I'm not sure if itd happen after it already completely collapsed.

Disclaimer: I am just a physics enthusiastic, take that with a pinch of salt.
She shouldn't need self-defense.

I'm a male, pretty scrawny, middle aged. But if I'm in a group of men, and a female comes by, and one of the men is groping her, and she tells him to back off, and he won't, I'm going to get in his grill. (Think of it as self-policing for the male community.) I strongly suspect that I won't be alone, but if I am, I'll do it alone.

My mother got a master's degree in math in the 1950s. She had to put up with a professor telling her that women don't belong in math. No woman should have to put up with that crap in 2014.
I watched the Skavlan show tonight, and found the whole thing very fun. The true story of Irish adoptions was particularly harrowing, but the chess match lightened the load.

It didn't seem that Bill knew he was going to be asked to play chess, and he seemed to take it in good humour.

Bill prefaced the game with apologies that nobody should expect much and that he was a much better Go player.
Your freedom ends where it conflicts with the freedoms of others. At that point, clearly something needs curtailing and the question is what/how. The GPL is one resolution.

My freedom to swing my fist stops at the tip of your nose; my freedom to modify legalese surrounding GPL software stops when it would deprive others of their "four essential freedoms" (in the words of the FSF).

0. The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.

1. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

2. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.

3. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes.

If you don't believe that these are important and should be respected, then you shouldn't be licensing things under the GPL. If you believe these are more important than the restriction imposed, then releasing under a permissive license is not itself "restricting freedom", but all it is doing (compared to the GPL) is enabling "restricting freedom". When the only thing a change does is make a bad thing possible, it's still better not to make that change.

I find it somewhat interesting we have no viral license that protects freedom 0 and 1 in derivative works but allows adding additional restrictions that conflict with 2 and 3 (or don't, which would make it GPL compatible...).
You are not wrong, but that is not a practical solution if a given women cannot bring herself to implement it.
To state that point in another way, the key here is time dilation. (Please correct me if that's wrong.) Let's assume that your feet send a periodic signal to the brain, a "tingling" that let's you know your feet are still there. As your feet approach the event horizon, the tingling will get slower and slower, because time passes much faster for your head than for your feet. As your feet pass the event horizon, the tingling has become infinitely slow (relative to your head). But there's no sharp line where suddenly something happens as your feet touch the event horizon. (All of this of course only in principle and under the premise that you're not smashed to bits at that point.)
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If Google will fix the user interface of the box, than it will be acceptable.

(1) let the user correct a rating if tapped by accident

(2) offer the option to leave a comment
There was some reasearch that ranked midwestern states highest on a measure of "agreeableness". http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122211987961064719?mg=...

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_nice
I like my job and the people I work with. And it's a good job, mentally demanding but reasonably so. If I was sitting around twiddling my thumbs all day, I might have more energy for side projects. Having a 7-hour-a-day job that requires the same skills as my side project tends to dull my motivation.

I'm definitely trying to get more exercise as at this point I feel that might be the best way to approach the problem.
Lobby for what though? That requires a group of typically complacent people (in this context) to come together to say "something is wrong", and point to a specific thing. And they'd probably be asked to offer some solutions.

The problem is that there really isn't a problem. Non-techies are angry that rent is getting higher and that the local government isn't going to loosen restrictions. From what I can tell the techies don't have a problem with the rent, because they can pay for it, or are moving to places they can pay for because they don't have some ridiculous attraction to a specific location.

It seems to me to be entirely one-sided, and the techies don't care, they'll just wait it out.
Carlsen actually said he was just playing that for tricks, and started trying to explain this in the Skarvlan show itself, but camera pans quickly away.
I use Zoho and have nothing negative to say about them. They lack Android integration, but as a mail service (with a web mail) they are totally fine.

Spam filtering works well too.
I think you've reached the point where analogies break down, and you'd have to do the math and physics to resolve your objection.

http://xkcd.com/895/
> If I ever had to defend my intellectual property, I could do so myself, and the case would be over quick. That is more important to me, as a developer without access to lawyers, than ideological battles.

The case would be over quickly, but you may not be happy with the result.

If you are not well-trained in copyright law (specifically as it applies to software), you are not going to be able to enforce the BSD license any better than you will be able to enforce the GPL, without a lawyer. There are just so many other ways that a well-funded legal team can give you the run-around.
Hypothetically, if strong AI requires something like a full simulation of a human brain, then those are certainly practical concerns. Of course, one single, slow implementation would be quite impressive on its own.

I don't think the bar has been raised, not since the Turing test was formulated and popularized. The criteria are pretty clear.
Make sure any respondents/agents have the same passion for your listing's reputation and reviews otherwise it can make for a poor situation.

My best Airbnb experiences have been when an owner/family has been the contact. The worst have generally been where there was an intermediary - some have been exceptionally rude. Had one in Milan where a woman just waved her hand mid-sentence, couldn't be bothered answering my second question (do you have the keys so we can lock up when we go out), gave me a set of 8 keys without explanation and walked out. The apartment had no info sheet or anything. Would've taken her 30 seconds to point out what needed to be locked and which key matched which lock. It was lucky that I held her up to clarify because she'd given us a set of keys for a different apartment.
It sounds to me as if you don't have a lot of experience. Neither have I, but I have met women who flirted with other men so that their boy-friends could get in a fight with them. Or women who would claw your eyes out because you hit their boy-friend, even if the same boy-friend hit them a minute ago.

But why do I bother - just go ahead and do what you feel is right. Maybe your feeling for such situations is simply better than that of other people.

How many times have you tried to interfere so far?
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>She shouldn't need self-defense

I agree that she shouldn't have to worry about this sort of situation, but that doesn't mean that she doesn't need to worry about it.
As a kid I played a lot of chess with one of my childhood friends. I was always (almost?) winning.

Imagine my surprise when in high-school I played with a guy who learned to play chess as a kid.
He beat me just as fast as Bill Gates got beaten.
Then he beat me, but slower in subsequent 7 games that day and then some over the following months. But one day I finally beat him. I guess he got a little careless after all that wins and I learned good bit from him.

Interestingly I beat his ass in checkers every time. Also interestingly roughly about the same time I played chess with an actual math genius (distance between two lines of his reasoning required whole page of careful explanation for me) and he was making dumbest moves I've seen because he barely ever played chess before.

Games are not about thinking. By thinking long and hard you can get to 5-10% of skill of a master. The rest is learning from books and stronger opponents.

I had another friend. He had played significantly more unreal tournament than quake, I just the opposite. I was kicking his ass 50 to 1 in quake even on a slower computer with smaller monitor and crappier mouse, but he was kicking my ass 50 to 1 in Unreal Tournament and I wasn't bad at that game. I was as good as any of my friends except for this guy.

I guess my point is that skill is very specific to the game and must be earned.
I'm kinda surprised the researchers were "stunned" by the initial results, trusting those young whippersnappers to be al truthful...
Is this a real "update" or did you just create your own unofficial alternative? I thought the original was by the Octopart guys?
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I have two daughters and I would tell them to say forcefully "Get your hand off my waist/leg" so everyone can hear it, and then physically remove his hand from her body. Then it's her option whether or not to make it a police matter or stay at the event and blow it off, depending on how she felt about it.
Understandable, but meek people get walked on; that's simply how the world works. How it out to work really doesn't matter, practically speaking you must play the cards you're dealt. If a guy hits on a women and she doesn’t like it, she needs to end it somehow, either by leaving, or by confronting.
This has happened to me. What I got back was a hurt look with, "I'm just trying to be friendly!" Honestly, what do you say to that? Some guys have a magic talent for turning it around and turning you into a villain for daring to assert your boundaries.
That post explains a lot. Thanks!

Is there a way to query on the created_at parameter?
>>>Immediately becoming physical is a valid showing of sexual interest. If she wasn't interested, she should have stopped it immediately.

This may be a cultural thing, but I wouldn't touch (in an intimate way, like a hug or thigh grope) someone I was interested in without a pretty clear sign it was welcome. It's just not appropriate.

Why should the onus be on the person being touched to stop it, and not the person touching to not do it? What if someone you showed no interest in touched your genitals, for example?