skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do it all the time. Feel free to check out the NANOG mailing list archives regarding the recent NTP UDP amplification attacks: https://www.nanog.org/list/archives/historical
Great news! It's unfortunate that record labels still pursue a Twentieth Century licensing-based business model. While I do believe that what's bad for major record labels isn't necessarily bad for artists, I do understand the point that record labels acted as quasi VCs for artists prior to the rise of the internet; prior to the introduction of platforms like Kickstarter, there must have been a fairly substantial void in funding, especially in the early to mid naughts. Hopefully sights like Bop.fm can help fill the funding void for emerging artists in combination with crowdfunding sites and streaming platforms.
There's actually a community of all-RGB pic creators:
http://allrgb.com/
"Distribute" or "Invest"?
It's not a poor methodology if you are simply measuring starting salaries only, or if salaries never increase. But it is reckless to make a bold declaration that "there is no gender gap in tech salaries" based on this data.

I don't think it's hard for people to imagine that there is less variance in starting salaries. Reading into this data and thinking it applies to anything beyond that is a guess and should be treated as such with that guess being tested in future studies.

Even if you demonstrate there is no wage discrimination over the course of people's careers, it doesn't account for the huge gender gap in the industry.
Hm, you're talking about teaching symbolic manipulation using calculus, but for me the real ideas of calculus are integration and derivation. I think those ideas are very valuable, and symbolic manipulation is just one way to solve those problems.
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I swear to god, every time I read a post by Jason, I wish he was my manager. I consider myself a highly productive person, but constantly hampered, directly and indirectly, by terrible managers. Jason always comes off as the kind of person that amplifies the abilities of his team. That is all...I'm gushing and its embarrassing.
> I've never seen the lag (much less "incredible") in any model I've known.

Check out a Smart fortwo on car2go sometime and be amazed :)
> The mechanics of basic calculus are remarkably simple.

Interesting comment, calculus in its modern form took around two hundred years to get a firm logical foundation.
Working here. You might have better luck viewing them on the creator's YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/user/tinimakoo/videos
This is one of the most bizarre things I've seen in a long time.
I suspect it will not change because stopping negotiation is not actually achievable. Certainly you could disallow negotiation for direct, monetary compensation, but that would just push the negotiation into other areas. People would start negotiating for more vacation, more holidays, better benefits, a bigger office, a company car, an assistant, a private "education budget" (ie, pay me to take a vacation) or whatever else they can. The number of ways to compensate someone are limited only by imagination and can move much more quickly than regulation can catch up.

A small example of this is when the US froze wages during World War 2, thus employers started offering perks like company-paid health insurance. That has since evolved into the mess we have now - that sure worked out great for everyone, didn't it?
Interesting write-up about the challenges of tackling this kind of issue when building materials and construction have no standardization that many gutter guard products rely on.

One thing to consider in developed countries is that some products slide under the first row of shingles and may void your roof warranty... then again most of us around here like to do that sort of thing with our projects, albeit with less expensive investments than our houses.

It seems the only real solution is to ensure the product has no real holes or openings, like certain fine mesh products that have holes only microns in size. Again, it seems the real problem here is standardization and it presents an interesting entrepreneurial opportunity.
Win now. Lose overall. Thoughts on shortsightedness from Naval.
Politicians don't say anything useful because everything they say is fodder for the media to find something to excerpt, distort, and then replay endlessly out of context as an attack. The media has forced politicians not to say anything.

Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main
du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi
le faire pendre.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of
the most honest of men, I will find something in
them which will hang him.

-- Cardinal Richelieu (attributed)
Protecting people from themselves has plenty of precedents - food industry, handrails...

Regarding your second point: Many things that are not embarrassing or compromising (in a negative sense) are rightfully kept secret.

Anyways, great topic, not so great subthread, I'm out.
Querying the Enron email trove with Lucene and Orchestrate
If a malicious incident like the below happened then Google wouldn't even be liable, unlike data that is kept under UK control.

From http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...

In at least four cases, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, according to a source close to the incidents. In an incident this spring involving a 15-year-old boy who he'd befriended, Barksdale tapped into call logs from Google Voice, Google's Internet phone service, after the boy refused to tell him the name of his new girlfriend, according to our source. After accessing the kid's account to retrieve her name and phone number, Barksdale then taunted the boy and threatened to call her.

In other cases involving teens of both sexes, Barksdale exhibited a similar pattern of aggressively violating others' privacy, according to our source. He accessed contact lists and chat transcripts, and in one case quoted from an IM that he'd looked up behind the person's back. (He later apologized to one for retrieving the information without her knowledge.) In another incident, Barksdale unblocked himself from a Gtalk buddy list even though the teen in question had taken steps to cut communications with the Google engineer.
Are we still discussing the whole women vs men in tech thingy?
I miss when HN used to discuss real issues.
This story doesn't hold up under scrutiny. In modern times, if a device has been designed, another one can be built using the knowledge acquired from the first project. So the fact that the prototype rocket pack's location is not known doesn't matter, all one needs is the specifications and method of construction.

The story resembles the kinds of stories told in the pre-industrial era, when one-of-a-kind devices were built that could not be recreated, like the Antikythera device:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

But this isn't how modern technology works. Something is rotten in Denmark.
>> Note that, suddenly, Web Crypto is starting to look damn good

OK so we can also boot Linux in a browser, if you stick with it apparently you can do just about anything in JavaScript if you're willing to spend the CPU cycles to do it.

Why? ChromeBook as an example, why move everything into the browser so that the OS is minimized or even removed, you're still going to face the same software problems.
EDIT: For the user whom penalized my comment score, why?

Probably because you claimed that the example was contrived when it is actually very real, and is something many visitors to HN have specifically faced, and is a particularly ironic case given that the target software is critical security software, given essentially the keys to the lands.

Ultimately many of us simply have to assume that Google's pagerank is the surest sign of the credibility of a link, but of course we know that can be gamed. And even had this site been on an appropriate domain with HTTPS, even that shows little given the completely lack of vigilance by most SSL cert firms now (partly at the behest of the tech community who find the cert process annoying and expensive).
If you are wondering why searching for "firefox" leads people to install malware the main reason is that most of the ads Google shows for that term, and which appear at the very top of the results, take you to sites with malware downloads.

I've mentioned it a few times on here before[1], even directly to Google employees[2] and they don't seem to give a shit at all. I've even noticed searches for Chrome sometimes show links to (what appear to be) malware sites now[3]. Maybe that will motivate them to sort this out but I'm not hopeful.

Putting my conspiracy hat on; it seems like there isn't much motivation for Google to sort out the problem because every new malware loaded PC is another potential convert to a locked down cloud based platform like ChromeOS. There isn't really much downside for them in making Windows as horrendously unsafe for non-experts to use as possible. Why Mozilla aren't screaming about it constantly is more of a mystery to me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7101939

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7089727

[3] http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png
Trinity Resource Kit: http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12

Among other things, it boots a live linux CD that's packaged with a handful of 3-5 antivirus scanners.
Nice title, lousy default-width typesetting; nobody has an e-reader that will fit this, and it would look equally bad in print. Also, it's 'formulae' not 'formulas'.
Hi minimax, you are correct - if you lent at 5% interest with a 10% default rate, you would lose money.

Note that most borrowers offer interest well above 5%, and lenders are free to fund the loans at or below the offered rate. In my experience, many lenders have opted to fund at low or even zero interest because they wish to offer their selected entrepreneurs low-cost loans, rather than make a profit. The rate paid by the entrepreneur is more important to them than their own rate of return.

We don't interfere in our users' interest rate decisions, other than to limit the maximum interest to no more than 25%. Our platform accommodates all lending philosophies, from those who do not believe in charging interest to those who believe the best way to help entrepreneurs is to structure transactions in a way likely to generate positive financial returns for both lender and borrower.
> no Google staff would be able to access the data

Well that's obviously bullshit... But aside from that, if it's commercially available and pseudonymised, I can't see much wrong with it.
I don’t know why this comment struck me as odd … maybe it’s because the only people I know who identify themselves specifically as “nontechnical cofounders” are women.

This means that you seriously need to go meet more founders. There are probably as many non-tech founders who are men as tech founders. These founders(such as Alexis from reddit) have filled the role in a very similar manner as Jessica describes.
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I hate it when types get coerced behind my back.
Thanks for the Monday smile, submitter.
Have you experienced any places or cultures that have not yet adopted a debt based economy? I don't know if any still exist but if so is there any concern for introducing a debt based economy in an area that has so far resisted it? I guess your service wouldn't have much value in an area that doesn't already have a debt based infrastructure in place. Do you have any particular thoughts or opinions about economies based on debt? Can other modals exist?
I have an unrelated question, which you might have strong opinions on or information about.

I just finished reading http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465016154/ which espouses the theory that the root of a lot of problems is that countries set up formal property systems that exclude most of their population, and then fail to capture the contracts that people actually live by. Because of this, people are unable to secure loans because they can't prove to the broader world that "their" property is theirs.

It is a classic, "Here is the problem, fix this and all else gets better" kind of prescription. I'm always suspicious of those.

But as an expert in this area, what do you think of this one? Is it as big an issue as they claim? How much would fixing it help?
What happened when our OSS project stayed on the front page of HN for 24 hours
Those also aren't Russian troops either. They aren't in regular military uniforms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive
Did anything ever come of the conversation concerning a mutually-agreeable comparison of the performance of NodeJX and Vert.x [1]?

[1] https://twitter.com/obastemur/status/425638466433474562
Great list of partners. I wonder if those companies will be seeding experts with their employees or if they're actually reaching out to their own communities?
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What happens when an ultimatum is given and Russia does decide to do something?

“also be remembered that there have been ultimatums at all bases, including the one I was inside at Feodosia yesterday. They were ignored, and nothing happened.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/ukraine-crisis-...
I was a subscriber and loved the screencasts.

Mahdi (googletron) responded to mails really quick as well.

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Is http://tech.taskrabbit.com/blog/2014/02/11/rails-4-engines/ another one of those?
Although I didn't say it explicitly in the particular sentence you quoted, I did say (pseudo|a)nonymously just after. I'm not suggesting identifiable health records should be searchable by all!

You raise interesting points. I think you are quite correct in saying these things are likely to happen. But I wonder whether hiding such information is actually the most efficient strategy. I mean if some divine power gave us all the ability to see inside each others minds, and ergo all the bullshit, lies, and politicking that makes up a great deal of human interaction was to evaporate, wouldn't the world be a better, more forgiving place? Obviously this is all a bit esoteric, and the game-theoretical analysis of moving from the status quo to a world of almost creepy honesty would almost certainly show that it could never happen, but I find it a useful thought nonetheless.
It's not just "I don't know" that is important, but also the next part of the thought: "but I can find out."

Just admitting you don't know is great, but it's not good enough. You have to also be able to take the next step and find out.

If I ask two people if they know how to do something, and one of them says "I don't know" and the other says "I don't know, but I can find out," then... well, I don't really need to complete that thought. You can see the difference right there.

But other than that, Jason is spot on. This is something I've been keeping an eye out for for years. When I interview people, I ask a question, and when they're clearly bullshitting me, I'll stop them and say, "It's okay if you don't know." The best candidates will often back down, like Jason did in his example, and say "Yeah, I don't really know, but I'll figure it out."

Bullshitting me with an answer isn't a red flag. It means you're at least thinking about the problem. But admitting you don't know but are willing to figure it out is a far, far superior answer. Very few real-world problems demand an answer RIGHT NOW. Most can wait until some research is done.
I wonder if Ford will upgrade existing microsoft sync systems to work with this?
probably because in most cases the domain model doesn't get that complex.
1 - more roleplay
2 - perceptions of women in management, says nothing about earnings, concludes people may actually prefer female managers.
3 - Says women who alter their behaviour in certain ways actually do better than men.

I'm not sure of the point you were trying to make, but they don't seem to support the idea that women are actively penalised for negotiating out in the real world.
> Isn't that the whole point of using a preventative approach when it comes to your site's security? So you don't learn the hard way?

I'm not sure I'd classify being subject to DDOS as a security hole.
I've used flash cards (SuperMemo and Anki) for mathematics and do not see anything wrong with using flash cards, memorizing the solutions to 500 complex analysis qualifier exam questions and using spaced repetition algorithms. I would prefer to have a perfect memory and not to (have to) rely on such techniques, but life is short. J.F. Jardine once told me that "there is no right way to do mathematics."

But I enjoy solving problems, e.g.,
http://publicsphere.org/2014/02/07/exercise/
http://publicsphere.org/2014/01/04/fibrations/
http://publicsphere.org/2013/12/23/markets-and-market-games/
http://publicsphere.org/2013/12/14/elementary-equivalence/
http://publicsphere.org/2013/12/12/another-problem/
http://publicsphere.org/2013/12/08/problems/

I have many more in password-protected blogs, notes, etc.

This morning a friend informed me about Oppia https://www.oppia.org/. I took a few minutes to solve their introductory example, Euler Project Problem 1 (Question: What is the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000?). I did this in Mathematica by combining inclusion-exclusion (expressed via indicator functions if you like) with little Gauss's formula for summing the integers from 1 to n.

SumN35[n_] := 3SumN[Floor[n/3]] + 5SumN[Floor[n/5]] - 15*SumN[Floor[n/15]] where SumN[n_] := Binomial[n + 1, 2]

I got SumN35[999] = 233168.

[OT lamentation ahead] Unfortunately, in my experience, employers don't seem to value this activity--at least I tend not to impress them as a confident person who will passionately defend his answers until shown wrong. I don't have the personality, patience and energy for this kind of bravado. (I have an acquaintance who has the requisite unaesthetic attitude, who is not more intelligent that I am and who landed a job at Google.) I tend to have inspirations that come from nowhere that I have to go back and reason about. The act of convincing yourself that a correct answer is really correct can sound like a lack of confidence to some individuals. To me, projecting confidence requires extraneous cognitive load, but I can be confident for an additional charge.]

If you tell me that using flash cards is morally wrong, or if you have a theory of learning that invalidates their use, I won't argue.
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Having loved this movie since childhood, this was really awesome.
"If you want to find the distance between two points when you have the angle (eg. I'm firing a projectile at a certain angle), use cosine for the length of the x axis and use sine for the y axis. You get the hypotenuse from using pythagoras' theorem."

Using cosine and sine and then Pythagorean theorem to get the length of the hypotenuse doesn't make sense - in order to get the length of the X and Y components with cosine and sine you need to already know the length of the hypotenuse.
Someone who has all the answers, probably has an important answer wrong.

Also, don't look at people's plans, look at their criteria.
Fully public is clearly too far. I just wish I could access my medical records like I access my own email.

As far as I understand, HIPAA regulations make this illegal to even think about. That is what I mean by "extreme".
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I'm not sure why they would attempt this. If they think they're going to get DMCA protection out of it, Lexmark already lost a case that seems to be this exactly:

Lexmark Int'l v. Static Control Components
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_Int'l_v._Static_Control...

All they can do is make it harder for competitors to make compatible cups, but that sounds like a fool's errand.
Just a note that the default tweet is actually too long and needs to be manually edited.
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Clearly, you don't know what you are talking about. LLVM can beat V8. As far as I understand, he put LLVM frontend intogether to see the results and it's not the part of the project yet.
I'm feeling this severely with our build tools at the moment. I use Maven to build all of my java projects. Maven will pull down library dependencies from the Maven central repository or other independent repos that you may have configured. I noticed recently that none of my Maven clients were validating checksums on the libraries that we pull down.

This came about when the domain for codehaus.com expired and it transferred over to a parked site that responded to all requests with advertising. I ended up with a bunch of HTML files where I was expecting library jars. In this case it was merely annoying and caused some tests and builds to fail. If they had instead been providing malicious code that almost looked like legit libraries it could have gone un-noticed for a long time.
Definitely worth looking into, you certainly can't tell a lot from that npr article. Who did the role play? We're they a random assortment of psych students or people who had actually been on both sides of the table? Is there a good reason to think these classroom results hold up outside?
No. That recursive process can be short-circuited by verifying the secure hashes, and establishing the integrity of the installer binaries and source tarballs you've been using to install Linux.
Didn't their patent on the keurig machines expire recently? These machines were invented decades ago, only hitting mainstream in the last 5 years.
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I actively try to dissuade people from buying Keurig machines, or any "coffee pod" machine and this is just another reason why. Aside from the fact that the coffee is watery, the pods just add such an unnecessary amount of garbage to something that doesn't need to generate any waste.

I think the concept is cool but re-usable pods are the way to go. This is stupid of Keurig.
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Keurig is free to do what they want, just as a consumer is free to choose whichever coffee maker they want.

Maybe this will blow up in their face, or perhaps given their market share it will all work out.
Sure - I don't think anyone in the Rails world is claiming to have invented these principles.

The problem is that Rails ships with a very limited set of core architectural concepts, and many inexperienced Rails developers feel like they've got to cram all of their code into a Model, View or Controller.

Once your codebase reaches a certain complexity, principles from other programming paradigms are extremely useful.
Is this sort of like, One API rule them all?

Does AirPair offer SDK for apps integration?
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