skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a guy, and I grew up pretty rural and it was not terribly uncommon for some of these ideas to float around. Many girls I knew were not taught anything at all except all the various religious negatives about women's reproductive bits and as they hit puberty had no idea what to do.

A few teachers in my high school took it upon themselves to provide a sort of underground sex-ed for some of the girls who couldn't get parental permission for the official classes.

There was a fairly large Pentacostal group at my high school (you may recognize them as guys dressed like 1920s farmers and girls with long hair and all denim floor length skirts) and this group of teachers were a virtual life-line for those girls. [1] [2]

1 - To get an idea of what the mindset is read this page and the comments http://www.themodestmomblog.com/2012/07/why-i-wear-skirts-al... and then meditate on why women growing up in this have a terrible lack of knowledge and misunderstandings about their bodies.

2 - And another post on similar, but from somebody who escaped from it all http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2013/06/how-i-u...
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You mean xyloexplosives?
I don't see how quantity suddenly transforms a permitted thing into a forbidden one.

If I don't need your permission to look at your car's licence plate on a public street and write down when and where I saw it, or simply take a photo of said licence plate (as photos currently include timestamp+location) - then the situation doesn't change in any way and I still don't need your permission even if I did the same for a thousand cars this morning, and my buddies did the same thing for ten thousand cars more.
So the only possible marginal rates are 0% and 100%. Good to know.
It doesn't weight much relative to copter, so battery charge is not affected.
It's a shame they cannot figure out how to make a SETIcoin or folding@home coin, where you earn based on how much data you process for the cause.

Would be better than just burning electrons for scrypt.
>Building a Solution Without a Problem

This isn't necessarily a mistake. Think about something like Ronco, probably the most well-known company behind late night infomercials. The founder Ron Popeil built an empire based on solutions without problems that lasted over three decades.

And he's not the only one. So called "pitchmen" have been successfully building careers on marginally useful products since, well, long before the term "pitchman" came about.

It's really all about the hype. Now the question is this: would you rather build something you enjoy that isn't really useful, and then convince people that they need it anyway? Or would you rather build something less fun that actually makes a difference (and you'll still have to convince people they need it)?

I don't think that question has a right or wrong answer.
Cargo-cult typing, or: Objective-C's default type is id
under that logic we should all be implanted with a sensor the records audio video of everything we see, say, and hear, as well as providing real time location data.

After all you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.... right
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You know what would be totally awesome? A cryptocoin whose core workings are derived from Charity. A coin based on Charity† would offer stronger safety guarantees for complex contracts than any other existing or proposed coin (certainly more than Ethereum). Especially if extended to implicitly capture complexity.

†If you understand the multiple levels on which that statement works - especially on a site named after a fixed point combinator - then I think you will agree I deserve to feel as clever as I did when I wrote it =D.
I had the same experience (went to Sri Lanka for ten days). It was great. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make meditation a habit.
Do tell what the movie is.

I like the original transformers movie, great dialogue and outstanding jap. animation.
What's your favorite movie? I'm wracking my brain, trying to figure out which movie you're talking about, but I can't quite think of it.
The indictment establishes a pattern of speech but doesn't establish actual unlawful offenses. No, I don't think he was threatening violence. The FreeBB people have written a bit about this. http://tumblr.freebarrettbrown.org/post/77390763109/debunkin...
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The issue is that a lot of intuitive stuff is wrong. When you formalize, you remove the simple, intuitive explanation - but you make it much harder for you to remain wrong, if you are wrong - or to become wrong, if you started off right.

As a simple explanation, consider the difference between explaining the Monty Hall problem - which might seem to be philosophical, open to interpretation - and coding it up. The moment you code it up --- go ahead, code up a monte carlo simulation that compares the two alternatives of switching doors or maintaining the same choices, and spits out a running count of which is what percentage correct. I'll wait while you code. ---

the moment you do that, you see two lines in your code that make the explanation 100% irrefutable and completely obvious.

That is why papers are written this way. Intuition can go both ways.
How on earth did you pull this quote out of thin air?
Hi man, saw the suicide thread was killed, odd.
Anyway, that's a lot of deaths and 2014 still has 9 months left.
This is the exact problem I have with shows like Jon Stewart and Colbert: when they can make you laugh at all the corrupt shenanigans in politics and government; it diffuses the actual need to do anything about it. It creates a false sense of superiority in the viewers whereby they think "I'm so smart to recognize how corrupt the government is! Ha ha" and then people go on about their lives not changing anything because anger has now become nil via humor.
The new hot startup model is being an exceptional middleman
The problem with those sets is there are no female firefighter minifigs included.
Indeed. It should be:

>TL;DR: concurrency is unspecified in _C99_.

Since it is specified in C11's memory model.
learning from only the last couple of years risks ingraining habits that might be dangerous going forward, as the last couple of years have been a bull market. Once you've been through an entire market cycle, there will be even more perspective.
Things have evolved in the meantime and I think with current technology newer unmanned projectiles can be sent to surpass the 37-year old unmanned spacecraft, if that would be a goal. To take those "16 light hours" as a benchmark is not fair.
When to use a framework
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Is there any reason to assume that LEGO is really evil? I for one am thankful for it's existence, because my kid is having a lot of fun with it.

LEGO is not alone in this regard, but they do create wants out of nothing.

So, you have a child, and this child is happy. Then the child sees a LEGO set, the child wants it, and now the child has an unsatisfied want. Child gets LEGO set, set satisfies synthetic want, child is happy again, and welfare returns to its original state.

Now, you might argue that there is a net increase in welfare from start to finish, since the child may have learned something new or acquired new experiences. Ok, sure, but after the 4th or 5th set, you are going to see some diminishing returns. And in this regard, LEGO's interests and your interests are opposed.
That's a poor comparison. I find it hard to believe that mathematicians are still trying to decide if the set {1, 2, 3} is finite or infinite.

A "startling large part" of all science fields like this.

Physicists don't even know if the gravitational mass of an object is really the same as its inertial mass. Or if there are true magnetic monopoles. And that's after over a century of trying.

Immunologists have barely scratched the surface of how that field works.

Economists make lots of conjectures, with lots of math to back it up, but it's not a perfect predictor of the human economic system.

Biological evolution still surprises us, 150 years after Darwin and nearly 100 years after the neodarwinian synthesis.

Chemists still don't come close to handling some of the reactions that natural systems have figured out.

And so on.
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Excellent article. I like the idea of running my own CA, but prefer the Userify disconnected model instead.
great_success = sum([i.debug_skill * log(i.audit_time) for i in code_reviewers])
The repo companies here are journalists. They are collecting and reporting to their customers truthful facts. This does invade privacy, but so does TMZ.
Why is this on HN? Somebody help me out here.
Show HN: Beander, a platform for micro-roasters
Hey, we built this during Startup Bus. Currently, specialty coffee is a 16 Billion dollar industry and there is no platform to connect small independent roasters with the large importers of raw beans. We simplify the current system which involves digging around on outdated excel sheets. We hope to help importers move their extra product and micro-roasters obtain the exact beans that they want.
If I'm walking on a public street, then that isn't private information - unlike medical information that's entrusted to some specific people bound by restrictions, what happens on the street is public data. And I'm perfectly allowed to say "hey, you know what? Yesterday I saw Belorn walking down that street!" no matter if you want to hide that - it's not dissemination of private and sensitive information.
Thanks so much, you are so kind.
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Anti-dilution for someone who owns 3% of the company can make sense. Anti-dilution for someone with 50% or more of the company doesn't.

If 5% of the shares are protected from dilution, that still leaves 95% of shares that can flex.
All of these statements are false.

Prayer is communication with a God(1), while meditation is simply quieting of the mind(2).

Therefore, one is not a warped form of the other. The two are distinct.

Finally, meditation is a etymologically a western term(3)

(1) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prayer
(2) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meditation
(3) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=meditation
If you can't understand how indexing turns bulk data into information you are clearly beyond help. Hint: there is a whole industry involved in data mining, and since time immemorial what distinguished a library from a pile of books is the library index.
> Don't you hate it when people conflate money with credit

Is it any wonder? Any medium-of-exchange immediately becomes credit -- a claim on some unknown-person's future offering of something.

Everything else more-complicated derives from this inherent money-is-a-claim characteristic IMHO.

The medium truly is the claim, aka credit.
Reuse is good. But my fear is that people learn the intricacies of Rails over SOLID Ruby. The basics are worth practicing over and over again -- the benefits accumulate much like compound interest. Whereas there's no guarantee of Rails being around in ten years.

There's a certain sort of intellectual deference that is given to these frameworks (much of it has to do with how readily people accept things said by famous/rich people). For example, is MVC really the best way to write traditional webapps?

We need more iconoclasts.
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The mainstream tool will be some kind of style editor. Maybe it'll incorporate a spellcheck and some other monolithic features. There'll be a pipeline underneath - to send things to paper or web or archive or accounts.

LyX is already (mostly) there: http://lyx.org
While it's mostly LaTeX based, I could easily see it using any number of backends (another feature of pipelining underneath), such as markdown, roff, etc.
My thoughts exactly. I was making these... when I was 5. WTH??
In the licence plate situation the point would be that this isn't personal data, and thus the data protection directive and the consent requirement doesn't apply.

In the motorcycle example, there is no personal data involved whatsoever - it's just a photo that some motorcycle was there; again, DPD doesn't restrict anything at all for such cases.
I wouldn't put it so absolutely, but I agree that the kind of people who manipulate some of the most complex systems ever devised by humankind, are the kind of people who would probably benefit greatly from a trip.
I can see a sort of opt-in thing working. And that would be better than just sending out camera equipped cars to scan all the vehicles. But in the same way that I would agree to a tracking system I would also agree to an automatic debit from my account each month. At least that way there's no location data for the government to subpoena.
You're dumb. Please read an actual book on economics not associated with Mises or his filth.
Log scales are for quitters, relevant xckd: http://xkcd.com/1162/
I personally think those complaints about female LEGo are ridiculous. I have half a mind to calculate how much it would cost to buy all LEGO kits that have no figurines at all - probably way more than any average family would ever spend on LEGO at all.

Also the question is how do you identify female LEGO figurines? If you add feminine traits like lipstick or long hair, aren't you cementing another stereotype? Or adding boobs - again you are exposing yourself to criticism. I'd say as long as it doesn't spot a beard, any LEGO figurine can be taken as male or female at wish.

I suspect the criticism assumes LEGO firefighters are male unless they wear lipstick, because I don't think all LEGO firefighters are bearded.

And, as you say, what is the problem of playing with a figurine of the opposite sex? We even bought our son a Playmobil horse with girl tender that came in a pink box. I have yet to notice any trauma it might have induced. Maybe the payback will be in 20 years when his psychotherapist will expose our deeds.
Maybe it's for donkeys.
Could you elaborate a bit? This sounds promising but I'm having trouble understanding how it would work. You need to donate to charity to verify a transaction?
Wow, the "linked shapes" feature is something I've wanted in a font editor for a long time. Is this the first font editor with something like that, or has it been done before?
Among others. Ruby was GPL/Ruby-licensed and is now licensed BSD/Ruby, which makes shipping OpenSSL easier.
the_ancient - under that logic, I should be allowed to record what I hear, and if I catch you ever lying to me or breaking your verbal promises, you won't be able to deny that.
This information is all public, it is only becoming more searchable and cross referenceable by computers.

Where have we seen that before? Many years ago when facebook first revealed the Newsfeed. There was a huge backlash, to which Mark Z personally wrote to all users, "Relax, breathe, we hear you." He went on to explain that all the info in the newsfeed was already public, just better accessible to us for consumption.

The inexorable march of technology proceeded unabated. The next few years produced the slogan "privacy is dead" on the social networks. So many people now post mundane details of their lives IN ORDER for others to read and to collect "likes".

Fast-forward to last year: Graph Search comes out, to help us all find what we're looking for using only the data available to us, and facebook doing the searching. No big splash this time. The graph search is arguable much more dangerous to privacy than ever:

http://gawker.com/5978327/men-interested-in-men-in-tehran-an...

And the inexorable march of technology continues. Remember - it's not that you're caught on camera in a public place that's scary. It's that later, all the information can be cross referenced and mined for any purpose.

Should I write a blog post about this?
Because it's a nice physical hack. I personally haven't seen it before.

Also, because some people (myself included) upvoted it.
That is plain nonsense.

There copious amounts of solid empirical evidence on the effects of meditation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation
"ban most uses of license plate readers, ... making exceptions only for law enforcement, toll collection, and parking regulation."

That is the worst thing. Either allow everyone or no one. Giving more and more capability to special interests is how we have gotten into being a surveillance state and become very unbalanced authority / responsibility between different segments of society.
Ugh. I thought we left custom scroll bars and scroll behavior to die with Flash. I'm tired of choppy scrolling pages with a "pretty" colored scrollbar.
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With one motor, if the vehicle is spinning, you could perhaps have a burst of increased thrust at a particular point in the spin and use centripetal force to move forward.
Because somebody posted it and others found it curious and interesting - among them me. I didn't upvote it, but I found the potential explosion velocity surprising. It may not be of interest to you, but hey, I usually ignore like 50% of the HN homepage right away since I don't care about them. However, I don't go run around and post "why is this on HN?" in those threads.
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If there are diminished returns, wouldn't that mean the kids interest has waned and it will move on to other toys?

There will always be infinitely more things kids would like to have than you could possibly buy. So you'll have to deal with rejecting wishes anyway.

I still prefer them craving for a complicated LEGO model to craving for chocolate or TV shows.
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> It's remarkably hard to find a security problem reading the code unless that security problem is blatantly obvious.

Then I guess I would consider most (C code) security problems rather obvious. The kind of stuff you see patches linked to in CVEs.. good old buffer overflows, off by ones, arithmetic screwups (mixing types or not checking for overflows), missing return value checks, the occasional swapped parameter, typo, simple logic whoopsie, etc.. These are incredibly common and rather easy to find once you get used to that sort of grunt work. But obviously you have to know what to look for.

The remarkably hard ones (for me anyway) are much more subtle, things like race conditions...
It's regarded enough to be used by Java, Flash, Networkmanager, and Libreoffice... API is very low level though when all you want is a secure socket.
Is the world short on novels, or symphonies, or masterful Chinese calligraphy scrolls?
Yes it's true. That was a deciding factor to try it as she is against drugs for herself by fear of bad trip :)

The only downside (well except the breaking the law thing) is only that you have to be off the regular treatment to try it, so you may have to endure the pain for some days.
How would you identify a female firefighter minifig as female?

Edit: here is a random LEGO firefighter I googled. What does make it male? http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61cMG%2BjM8hL._SL1500_...
which they have incentive to do - get in on the ground floor and cash out

So they have savings in Bitcoin, plus an income in the form of mining fees, and they have an incentive to destroy those savings and income because they can invest instead in a completely new coin, of which 99%+ fail without ever getting anywhere? That makes no sense.
Does it matter what it costs? Hacker News isn't "open source" news, and software is a business. If you're not into business to make money, you're not in business. You're playing.
Because this video perhaps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvQ9InhEKu0
At a certain density of plate scanning devices, the plate tracking becomes real time.
Fixing the strlen()s is easy but the binary stuff is harder. Assuming it hasn't already been done.
Chicago accelerators suck for a lot of reasons. This is one of them.
The academic journal PLoS One should buy hard drives with its profits
This is going to be rough, but here are some scattered thoughts in a Q/A format:

I want to get into a startup, where do I start?

Find a problem and sell a solution. Not rocket science.

But I can't find a problem!

Try getting outside of the hedges of your university and talking with normal people, business owners, and civil servants. I will give you a hundred bucks if you can't find anyone with something to bitch about.

But I don't have a solution. How can I build a solution without being technical/having money/knowing a programmer?

Where did I say anything about building solutions? Customers don't care about tech, they care about results. Find something somebody else has already done, maybe several somethings, and string them together, and sell them. Charge arbitrage--think of it as a laziness tax for the customer.

I'm a programmer, and I have this neat idea to solve a problem I have.

That's not a question, and besides, nobody gives a shit anyways.

Well, what I mean is, how can I turn this into a business?

You probably can't. You probably don't have the business/people skills yet--find somebody that does, and try to sell them on the idea. If that doesn't work, find somebody else. Once you've got one, get them to do the sales stuff.

But my solution to this problem is awesome/elegant/clear/in Ruby!

Again, nobody gives a shit. Go Tell HN or /r/peoplewhogiveafuck.

~

It's not some magical process making a startup/breaking into the ecosystem: find people who know more than you, and ask them questions--or even better, try to find a problem people will pay you to solve.

Being a successful startup, now, that's a whole 'nother problem entirely.
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I didn't know it, and I find it highly interesting.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
The article mentions that 'full control' becomes increasingly unlikely as you lose rotors, but partial control is still possible. You can influence how fast the quadrocoptor falls, reducing impact velocity or steering it to crash in a more favorable location.
I have never seen these before. It is nice to see things other hackers consider perfectly normal part of growing up that I completely missed.
You won't even get one in chicago for that
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Surveillance carried out by individuals and corporations, even if universally available, doesn't make surveillance by governments any less bad. The printing press was an instrument of giving; surveillance is an instrument of taking.
Thanks armarcus!

I think it would be wise if they put that content on the actual landing page for readraptor.
Never thought I'd be sharing an A-Trak video on HN, but there's a nice implementation of these in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GbYR5Aud4Y
Can you understand how individual letters may not be copyrighted, but an arrangement of them into a large text may be?
Works for me...?
Fundamentally, this is a hash table. Build it for the US Government
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I was a bit curious about this quote:

"It turns out that their corresponding set_subject_alt_name() API only takes a char \ pointer as input, without a corresponding length. As such, this API will only work for string-form alternative names, and will typically break with IP addresses and other alternatives."

Yes, an API designed for strings will break if you pass it a struct in_addr or something, but it should be fine with a dotted-decimal string, right?
Not much of a platform if all it does is trying to sell beans. There's barely any info about the beans or discussion around them..

Barely a MVP.