skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nobody is wrong to feel profundity in the mundane, but LSD can have you feeling a profound connection to a piece of cheese, or suddenly realising that all humanity's problems would go away if we just wore more purple."

I can't speak to your experience on LSD, but for me LSD removes boundaries in my mind and provokes me to realize that we humans are way more similar than we are different. In fact, the same goes for other animals on this planet. LSD makes me realizes things that I technically already knew, but didn't feel.

How does LSD affect you?
Note in response to responses: Admittedly my experience is limited to a few times that I've been in the more busy areas of Chicago and NYC. I'm certainly open to the idea of coming up with something better, and if an unregulated alternative works, bring it on!
This is a really, really bad article, the author clearly didn't bother to read the study.

I just skimmed it, 64 pages is a bit much right now, but from first look:

First of all, the study [1] just checked graduates one year after graduation - i.e., absolute entry-level. This may say some things but doesn't say anything about female computer scientists in general.

Second of all, the study checked many, many differences in pay - some of which are statistically significant, some are not. The author of OP's article just listed one of these comparisons. To quote from the text:

>All gender differences reported in the text and shown in the figures are statistically significant (p < 0.05, two-tailed t-test) unless otherwise indicated

Moneyquote:
>Women working full time
earned $35,296 on average, while men working
full time earned $42,918

and

>In fact, the
pay gap exists within nearly every category of
institution and level of selectivity. Among public
and private college graduates, women earned
81 percent and 86 percent, respectively, of what
men earned one year after graduation. Women
who graduated from public universities earned
86 percent of what their male peers earned. The
pay gap was largest among graduates of private
universities, where women earned just 75 percent
of what men earned

And yes, that's a statistically significant difference. It's the very first two figures. (Edit: And depending at which paygroup you look, OP's 6.6% is really low - it goes up to 25% difference!)

tl;dr: There is a pay gap and it's statistically significant.

[1] http://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/graduating-to-a-pay-gap-th...

Edit: The only thing I can find that is not statistically significant is the pooled pay for women in "Biological, physicial sciences, science technology, mathematics and agricultural sciences" and "Business" - i.e., something different than what OP claims, especially since the average of these jobs is likely to be different from the average of each job itself.

Edit2: I finally found OP's 6.6% pay difference, which is a complete misunderstanding of the article they copied from here [2].

>According to the study, there are seven professions with pay equity. When controlled for all factors other than gender, the earnings difference between men and women is about 6.6%, something most people don’t know.

So the 6.6% are not the pay gap in computer science, but the pay gap for _all_ jobs clustered together! Then it's no wonder that the 6.6% are not statistically significant, several different populations with different means are merged, and since t-tests compare the means, you get no significance.

[2] http://qz.com/182977/there-is-no-gender-gap-in-tech-salaries...
It's not a promise - the company owes you that vacation; and if you somehow don't use them, you still get paid for the unused days at end of employment no matter what. Even if the company goes bankrupt, as employee salary debt tends to outrank most other debtors.
P2P crypto-exchanges can't come soon enough. Now the hacker's focus will be on Bitstamp and Coinbase. Hopefully they'll do everything they can to protect themselves, but it's probably just a matter of time before they get broken, too.
Personally, I don't use any illicit drugs, smoke tobacco, drink alcohol, or drink coffee. I never have done any of these things either. I used to drink soda pop, but I cut that out of my diet a few years ago. I'm not even really tempted to start any of these things either. Sometimes people give me some flack about it, but I'm used to that by now, and once they get to know me they drop the issue (except for a few people who simply refuse to let it go).

I don't know how much this is positively affecting my health, or if it is at all.
They're offering new customers your exact service for less than half of what you're paying. Definitely get on the phone and threaten to leave:

http://imgur.com/rIrcxmJ
You can audit binaries. So definitely not "You can't full stop". Most people are in no position to audit all the source code they use, just like most technical people are in no position to audit binaries they use.

(And I'm putting aside the whole issue of backdoors in hardware, compilers, etc.)
You could say the same about any current mobile OS. I think that having this kind of apps is better than not having them at all. Nothing in this life is 100% secure.
Damn right it is.

My doctor has always told me a daily serving of meat is about the size of a deck of playing cards. Shrimp help's me maximize the flavor and fat in that serving. That's about how much shrimp I mix into my giant bowl full of veggies and it fills me up and tastes delicious.
All protein types are not created equal, for one thing.

It's entirely possible that the negative association with protein has a lot more to do with the over-consumption of certain types of meat.

If you live off of nothing but bacon as your source of protein, I'd argue the sodium and cholesterol in your average variety processed bacon are likely to be very dangerous for your health long term. Versus getting your protein from high quality whey or salmon. Did this study control for the source of the protein?
Yep it was mostly local advertising. The biggest problem for local broadcasters is their costs for have gone up dramatically while viewership has declined. Bad mix.
Exactly,

The first point that's not quite understood is that this generally stops the bank run because people don't feel worried about their money anymore (or not all given existing state insurance).

The second point is that the "inflation of funds" actually didn't happen at the point when government printed money but at the point when the private institution multiplied the perceived amount of money in the system. Think about it, people that are withdrawing their money during a bank run don't suddenly feel richer.

The third point is that banks can and have operated fractional reserve systems using gold just as MtGox seems to have done with bitcoin. 19th century US banks printed their own gold certificates and failed on a regular basis.
The only problem with your comment is that construction is under way at a record pace (well, since 1906)
It's not just an interesting idea - it's very much the norm in much of the banking industry in my neck of the woods. It's generally considered one of the best ways of picking up internal fraud.

One example that springs to mind from Australia was a branch staffer who had managed to rack up A$5 million dollars in fake mortgages. Went on holiday, the stand-in noticed dozens of mortgages to the same PO Box, did some digging...
Just updated the readme to include a link to http://learn2spritz.com/ :)
I have no doubt that Microsoft will do well on future editions despite Windows 8. What I do think is that anything with Windows 8 in it's name is always going to have the touchscreen/tablet stigma attached to it.
What Heroku Add Ons do you use for monitoring production apps?
My (anecdotal) experience has been that given a large enough organization, you're probably going to run into a lot of subsets of the organization that just don't know any better or aren't aware of the company branding strategy and guidelines. It's probably a reasonable bet to say that most of those groups won't be creating public facing content, but I've seen it happen often enough before. Not a broad study, but an interesting note.

Basically, just that it's useful to remember that large organizations, as much as they'd like to be, aren't always as homogeneous and cohesive in branding and approach as they'd like to be.

The following is also anecdotal: I work in the contact center world, and it's pretty surprising just how isolated and disconnected some companies are when it comes not just to brick and mortar vs e-com, but e-com and it's call centers.

Add in more prefaces/cya's that I haven't done formal research on the subject where necessary :)
Everyone I know who's worked on microsatellite imaging has talked about the financial district. The thinking goes: watch the Panama or Suez Canal and you're the first one to know when an oil tanker gets delayed, etc..
Unless you can identify the biological mechanism that supposedly makes women less likely to work in STEM fields (nevermind that in some countries and fields this doesn't hold), yes, it is hard to believe.
Do you pay for software?
In EU, the implicit assumption is that if vacation isn't taken, then it's because of company pressure - so generally companies must ensure that their employees get vacation or they're in violation of labor laws. Saying "well, he could've taken the vacation and we promise that it would have no effect on raises/promotions/whatever" is not an excuse, the employee must have had X days of vacation, period.
> On real sites, though, it's important to keep control over exactly when the increases in scale are triggered.

I flatly disagree with this. It is typical for some significant alterations of layout to take place somewhere in scaling it down, but that is not incompatible with something like this. It is entirely feasible to have most of your responsive design using a technique like this but at a certain point change the layout; also, the font-size need not be a globally continuous function; it's entirely reasonable to have local discontinuities where you adjust the m or c of font-size = m x + c for a range of widths.
This image I made back in 2009 illustrates perfectly why having limited serifs in a sans-serif typeface can increase comprehension:

http://i.imgur.com/Jgj17qR.jpg
Oh I'm not advocating that this actually being used as a captcha. Though, as a thought experiment, I think it would be more effective if you had, say, eight gifs. Instead of an either-or choice you could ask the user to choose all that match a given condition.

I had a teacher who employed "multiple multiple choice" questions on his exams. The question would have some number of choices (e.g. a,b,c,d,e) and you had to choose the correct answers. These questions were tricky because the answer choices could all be wrong (meaning you select none of the answer choices), could all be correct, and any combination of the answers could be correct. It made guessing go from a 1 in 5 situation to 1 in 32. I was not a fan.
what's the latency like, since they use some amount of microwave wireless infrastructure?
I used to sell platinum (in-game currency) and items on a private Everquest server for the equivalent value in dollars.

the interactions I had with the farmers who sold to me, server staff which were working against me, and the buyers of my goods were probably some of the most memorable i've ever had online.
Gender differences in personality are larger in more egalitarian countries: http://m.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/what-lean-in-...
The scrolling in the website is chopy.
oh sure - in desperation people will take the jobs they can get, but what it does is wash out the natural tendency for men to prefer stem - which is very clear if you look at western nations and those considered to have good sex equality in general (Scandanavia, western europe)

its a shame i cant find any of the studies on this to link. they are buried beneath rubbish populist/magazine articles on google...

here is some wiki on something related and well studied - which would not be contentious imo if it were not for the popularity of political correctness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathizing-systemizing_theory

and a related paper: http://docentes.cs.urjc.es/~odeluis/Docencia/ABP/Articulos/b...

i am ashamed to belong to a society that necessitates such an article saying in its opening paragraph 'Leaving aside politcal correctness, there is compelling evidence...'
Even before then, C had the concept of a boolean expression, and ints were used idiomatically as bools.

Unfortunately, the type system can't save you, so it's up to you to keep your promise to return the correct thing. Not even C99 can save you:

$ cat booltest.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

bool moo() {
int rv = -1;
return rv;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf("moo() returned %s\n", moo() ? "TRUE" : "FALSE");
}
$ clang -std=c99 -o booltest booltest.c -Wall
$
No, this was in SF. I was just fudging the numbers a little: X was actually 50 hours (which I left out because it wasn’t particularly important to the story). So, if you work X hours a week, you get 4*52=208 hours of vacation. If X were 40, that’d be 208/8 = 26 days. Since it’s 50, it’s 208/10 = 21 days.
$ ping google.com

PING google.com (173.194.33.165) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from sea09s18-in-f5.1e100.net (173.194.33.165): icmp_req=1 ttl=59 time=0.857 ms

64 bytes from sea09s18-in-f5.1e100.net (173.194.33.165): icmp_req=2 ttl=59 time=0.779 ms

64 bytes from sea09s18-in-f5.1e100.net (173.194.33.165): icmp_req=3 ttl=59 time=0.831 ms
thank you. i've been looking for this... my google skills are clearly not adequate :)
How many apps really use GnuTLS anyways? Apache doesn't by default. SSH doesn't. Are most RedHat installations therefore not really affected?
How is it really easy when you need a Facebook account?
Indeed. Watching the video, I've got an impression that they are trying to create a solution to their own big problem.
However, it is a pity that it's restricted to condos and large apartment complexes right now. It would be great if services like this were ubiquitous

One obvious solution is to relax zoning rules in Seattle; a lot more condos and apartment complexes would be built if it were legal to do so, and the benefits would extend far beyond fiber connections (see, for example, Matt Yglesias's The Rent Is Too Damn High or Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City for more).
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this is the notion that cubesats are not 'toys'. That said, given the low cost of compute one wonders if satellite mapping which is to say generation of structured data on orbit from a high resolution locally obtained imagery is something that might get more work.

Specifically there is a lot of work in the mapping industry for taking a satellite image and turning it into a map. But there isn't nearly as much (if any) work about having a satellite, which can image the same spot repeatedly, providing a downlink of the the map rather than the image. By re-imaging you can just punt on features that are hard to guess and wait for the next pass to see if they will get easier. You might also be able to use multi-angle shadow analysis to pull some 3D feature extraction as well.
Reliable real-time processing at Spotify [pdf]
> There are still many taboos around menstruation in India. Women can't visit temples or public places, they're not allowed to cook or touch the water supply - essentially they are considered untouchable.

Note that in earlier times getting water in certain region might mean traveling for miles and then bringing water home, which could be pretty heavy. Same is true for cooking, an Indian joint family could be very big (20/25 members). And cooking for the whole family in open fire is not an easy feat either. So most of household work in a big joint family could be extremely strenuous. Some of these traditions let the woman avoid strenuous work during the mensuration.

Though I am speculating here, some of the tradition indeed could be meant for the well being of the woman. It may not be very relevant in the modern world though.
That said, I'm now at an "unlimited" vacation time place (still in SF), and I've had no problem asking for time off. I took 3.5 weeks around christmas for a trip to New Zealand, and I'll probably take a week this summer to visit family on the east coast (in addition to a day here and there for local trips).
The antenna by itself is useless until Areo transcodes and transports the content it receives. That is the issue.
Huh? I am using VMs from modern.ie (among others). You need XP to run IE8. The IE8 VM is XP.
What's the benefit over building your own network

Many places can't due to lobbying by existing telcos at the state level. See, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7271044 .
Right, and you can't test IE older than 9 on XP... so you need at least two VMs depending on your requirements. I still see a fair bit of traffic on IE8.
Or not. If this technology existed nobody would comment on hacker news because we would all be riding our levitating boards all the time.
Broderbund founder donates company archives to National Museum of Play
Sorry, but that sounds like absolute bullshit.
And the third microsat company with operations coming online soon is Planet Labs: http://www.planet-labs.com

Robinson Meyer at “The Atlantic” did a nice overview two months ago: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/silico...

It’s an interesting time in remote sensing.
It's important to think about your performance needs before you add any kind of third-party dependency. In production, you might consider using IcoMoon to create your own font with just the icons you need. [1] This library provides everything you need to do that.

The predefined classes give you flexibility when you're developing, but there's nothing stopping you from using your own names. There's also @extend in SASS that allows you to mix in icon styles to your application's classes without adding duplicate rules. [2]

[1] http://icomoon.io/app

[2] http://sass-lang.com/documentation/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#...
spinlock is completely misinformed on this one. Like scott_karana said, the Silk Road was the place to get high quality drugs. If I'm not mistaken, many reputable sellers on the site had their products tested for purity.
There are a lot of new apartments going up in Seattle. I can count five or six new buildings just off the top of my head.
There's a joke in the computational neuroscience community somewhat along the lines of "consciousness is where neuroscientists go to die". I literally saw this happen when I was at the Salk institute as a lowly undergraduate research assistant. Sir Francis Crick was there at the same time, and spent his last 25 or so years in pursuit of a theory of consciousness. I was fortunate (and humbled) to get to talk to him a few times before he passed in 2004, and he was undoubtedly a thinker of superior ability and unbounded curiosity (a pretty awesome combination).

Actually there were (and still are) a lot of the biggest names in the field there at the time (including Crick, Terrance Sejnowski (a professor of mine who co-invented the Boltzmann machine* amongst other things), VS Ramachandran). These are all people who were coming at the problem from the biological &| pure science/math side of things (vs people like Andrew Ng, who Sam mentioned, who have a more CS/engineering based approach).

No doubt they consistently came up with spectacular theories and very interesting models of how a specific regions of the brain may function. How for the most part they worked was this:

1. Come up with a biologically or cognitively plausible mathematical model (many of which were fantastically cool).
2. Implement and run this model on massively parallel architectures (at the time not quite the level of technological sophistication you see nowadays, so things may have changed a lot)
3. To train, use feedback from EEG (this is what I "worked" on, but they also worked with other electrical signals, MRI and chemical measurements at the level of individual neurons).

The biggest progress was made at the smallest level (understanding how individual neurons and small networks work). This was primarily because measurement at this level actually provided useful information. The signal/noise ratio of EEG scalp recordings (which to this day gives me nightmares) was (and is) so terrible that I left the field as a quite disgruntled phd student. Maybe I just didn't have the intellectual capacity, but I never felt like I was working on anything that made sense. This was true for many of my fellow graduate students .. after a couple years, we felt we were doing pseudoscience.

Rant completed, I think the CS/engineering approach is more promising: don't worry about the biology or some grand theory of the mind and just try to do something useful. Since computers get more powerful consistently, we'll incrementally be able to do more and more useful things. If consciousness emerges at all, it may or may not appear like human consciousness. We may not even be able to tell if/when this happens, but at least we would be solving real problems in the meanwhile.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_machine
Yes, let's all get high so we won't face any of our problems...

What a load of garbage. This is science?! No, it's a fucking fraud.
> Why not just setup backups from inside the VM's, while having the base VM image backed up somewhere (once) as well?

That would be quite a project, compared with backing up everything on the host system as I do now.

I have all sorts of VMs. Some of them are extremely minimal OSes (think router/firewall distros). I have no idea how I would be able to back these up from inside the VM. And even for the VMs where I could do that, why bother? It seems like a lot of work.

By having an extremely fast sector backup running on my host system, I can be sure that all of my VMs are backed up, with no extra effort when I install a new one. I don't have to worry about how I would do a "restore" in any of those specific VMs, I can just restore files on the host OS and know that it will work perfectly.

A much simpler and more convenient solution.
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Big companies generally have big legacy code bases they have to support and departments that want stuff done but have little stomach for working things from the ground up and don't care about what technologies you're working with.

I work on a large e-commerce site, we are moving towards Angular where it makes sense but projects that allow us to scrap existing code and start over are few and far between.
Yes, they use NSS not GnuTLS.
I'm curious if this is due to Mt. Gox not trying hard enough. Recently a Bitcoin startup was able to obtain insurance from Lloyd's: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/backed-by-lloyds-of-....

If this theory is true, presumably Karpeles would not have done this after the 2011 hack, because that would be insurance fraud (falsely obtaining insurance on the theft of coins that have already been stolen). It's possible that it would have been more difficult at that point because of Bitcoin being less mature.
The Story of the GnuTLS Bug