skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In thinking over the topic a bit more, as well as reading more on it, I think I've come to a more nuanced understanding about it all. It's not that people want a 50/50 split, it's that they want more women who want to be in tech, to be in tech.

I always thought it was that they wanted a 50/50 split which never made sense to me. After reading the recaps of the female attendees, it hit me.

Carry on.

As for the on-topicness of the initial post, guilty. I had just read the "no gender pay gap in software" and so my mind was in that mode.
Good point. I believe growth is one of the most important factors. Though in many cases one wouldn't have a clear idea about it as the idea might change over time (think WhatsApp).
Don't work for stock, kids. Work for salary and assume whatever options they're offering will be worth nothing, as it usually is. If the startup wants all employees to take options then say thanks, I'll take whatever options you're offering, but I still want market salary.
Equity is not pay. Get paid what you are worth. Don't work at a startup to get rich–Work at a startup to get an experience you can't get elsewhere.
Depends on what the outcome of learning is supposed to be. If it is to simply recite 8, then what have you learned other than a factoid? 72 circles in 9 columns is 8 rows of circles and now you see the relationship clearly. If you rotate your grid, you have 8 columns of 9 circles. If the next question is 72/12 or 72/3 those relationships become even more apparent as the shape of the grid changes.

I see no problem taking math out of abstraction in this way, especially as one moves onto visualizing more complex math. Seeing how the symbols interact with their meaning is a good thing.

I recently introduced my 5 year old to Dragonbox. She picked up algebra quickly, without the formalities, of course. I was pretty amazed by how quickly she understood it, too.

Playing with numbers is a really a great way to learn the meaning of formulas. There are entire schools of thought, such as Montessori, that believe numbers should be taught in this tactile way. Seeing it first hand, and comparing it to my own struggles as a child, I'm inclined to see great value in drawing 72 little circles out.
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Don't worry, technology will solve that soon enough too.
In my comment above, I said this is the best tutorial introduction I've seen, even with its few limitations regarding differences between regex implementations.
Actually there is a large body of people looking to use cubesats as ADS-B receivers: http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/SummerWor... (PDF Warning)
A defining characteristic of capitalism is that profits go to the owners of the means of production, not those who actually produce. It's not the person who uses the machine that multiplies their effort that make ridiculous amounts of money, it's the the owners of the machines that do. And as time passes, the set of people who own the machines and the set of people who built the machines will presumably only continue to diverge.

Taken to the extreme, you reach a point at which machines can run entire businesses. Profits will go straight to the owners of the machines.

To look at it another way - labor is not priced based on productivity of labor, but rather, supply and demand. As we continue to become more productive there's little reason to think that those who are becoming more productive are those who are earning more. Indeed, looking at a graph of real wages versus productivity over time (quick googling yields http://thecurrentmoment.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/productivit... ) it's hard to imagine that labor's share of wealth isn't decreasing. This is not a surprising result; as it's supply and demand that sets the price of labor, the impact of replacing people with machines is that there's greater supply on the job market (everyone who is out of a job) combined with less demand (as most industries aren't constrained on number of people they can hire).
What are the chances of code reviews for free time? (processing_time = start - end ?)
Pretty sure what I think I know about the Web isn't wrong, though I doubt this article will enlighten me if it is.
Kind of sad, really, because it once had some useful meaning - like 15 years ago. And we hardly need another synonym for "clueless douchebag".

I have to admire the trajectory of the word's decline. It joins the ranks of "conservative", "liberal", and even "neoliberal".
The black box pinger isn't really designed to locate a crash site, IIRC, it's to locate the black box within a crash site that could cover several square kilometers.
Who can forget QEMM and the joys we had running multi-line BBS's.

Such nostalgia.
Isn't that exactly what Marscoin (www.marscoin.org) does - trying to privately fund space exploration by letting people buy into the altcoin.
crowd equity will be huge
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When I have a simple app send a password to the server, I like to generate a hash on the client side and then rehash again on the server for storing.

As far as APIs, the good ones will hash your secret key together along with other data unique to your HTTP request, in particular the headers and the datetime. This is a good idea because: 1. you are not sending your secret key in clear text 2. it makes it difficult for a man-in-the-middle attack because they cannot just take your hash from one of your requests since it will be invalid after received or if some time has elapsed.

For an example, see how Knox sets up requests for Amazon AWS:
https://github.com/LearnBoost/knox
Assuming I'm ready to commit to it (nearly) full time, what factors would I look for before deciding it's safe to jump ship (from my current job or whatever)?
Twinder – the App that lets you find your long lost twin
Finally-- Twinder is here.
I don't particularly need a regex course, but I have to say, this site is so nicely designed, so easy for the eye.

A good way to practice regex is to use one of the many online regex tools to validate your understanding. My current favorite is http://www.gethifi.com/tools/regex# because it shows the group.
China owns part of many industries, Governments that start having issues start selling their stakes and come up with plenty of money. Like everyone I am fascinated with China building new cities where no one lives, but they are going to totally get away with it and come out the other side unharmed.
This point of view is appealing but doesn't match observation.

"Some people getting paid more, even thought they do more work" -- I don't see a correlation between hard work and high pay. Musicians and professional athletes only "work hard" compared to a bricklayer if you completely pervert the meaning of the words.

"those who command technology have more power than those who do not". The power brokers and very rich in our society are only tangentially connected to technology. There is no interpretation of the power structures in western society that could lead one to think that command of technology leads to power or influence.
It makes a perfect sense, I will definetly try.
I'm sure early employees at Google, Facebook, Dropbox, and WhatsApp feel the same way.
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Of course it's not an equivalence. But it's also not an analogy, either. There are really no similarities between the two.

Just being capable of being a translation target for other high-level languages is totally insufficient to be considered similar to assembly language.
Yeah, yeah, pee pee in the coke, we know already.
I've been thinking about this for a while, particularly with bandwidth as the scarce resource. I don't quite grok the connections between the crypto aspect, the stock aspect and the currency aspect.

The problem is that (the way Naval treats them) each of the main variables seem arbitrary, but could easily determine whether the economy you create is viable.

> Pre-mine or early-mine Appcoins and keep some non-threatening amount.

In Bitcoin, though the system itself is "trustless", participants trust that they are all treated equally according to the protocol & open source code.

In the case of a startup raising funds, you wouldn't get the same sense of altruism. The incentives are not aligned for the major players: the startup founders, the protocol developers, the other coin owners/shareholders and the miners.

Should an arbitrary pre-mined amount be set (as the founders' equity), and simultaneously be non-threatening, what is to stop the network from invalidating the pre-mined amount at will?

If it were instead threatening, why would miners be interested in spending compute power?

Naval also writes of supporting the open source developers with transaction fees. Unlike the commodity on which the coins are based, these are not easy values to calculate.

Certainly there are a lot of possible new models, and autonomous corporations are very exciting. I just don't see how you can add a founder-controlled, for-profit startup to the other players in a crypto currency ecosystem (the miners, the non-profit developer foundation and the coin owners) and get something that works.
That is exactly the kind of confusion I was having.

Do you mind sharing what your startup is about? How much time do you spend on it in a week?
As soon as the Southeast Highspeed Rail project looked like it was going to be viable, the mayors of all the small towns along the route started lobbying for it to stop in their burg.
Why, When and How Much to Entertain Consumers in Advertisements?
With full duplex communication you can.
Innocence abroad
Yes you're right, I thought that would have been the case. Just putting it out there for people who might think they are safe.
Not sure of readability, but this surely is a neat trick to avoid null pointer exceptions, etc. (and it can be extended to cover other, related cases..):

String myString = null;
if ("foobar".equals(myString)) { /* ... */ }
Is there a group for older white males trying to break into the industry?
Use case: Abe is able to shell into host A and host B. He wants to transfer a file to B but he's being watched by [NSA, SMERSH, his boss].

Not airtight, but ... something like that?
The economic conditions and market factors of running a business in the United States have also contributed to this system, allowing almost any citizen the opportunity to "make it". Many have benefitted from this system, some significantly.

The protections and opportunities afforded to these businesses and business people has as much to do with their financial success as it does with the amount of hard work they've put in to building their companies.

There is an argument to be made that these ultra wealthy citizens almost have a responsibility to give back to the lawmakers, regulators, officials, and economy of the country which has enabled them to rise to such economic heights.
Running a DNS server isn't inherently harder than running any other type of server. I think the point isn't to pwn any existing DNS server, but rather to hide communications from e.g. an IDS.
Whoops! Sorry for misreading that.

I completely misread "Handy" as "Hardly" and then saw "Hardly. This does gloss over some of the notable differences . . ." which changed the entire tone of your comment for me.

My bad.
If you invest money to acquire any security, it's good to understand the things that affect the value of that security (the prospects of the issuer, the contractual terms of the security, the terms of securities which have priority).

If you invest time (your labour) to acquire any security, the same applies. If the value of the security (based on the information you currently have) to you is low, then you can treat is as zero and not worry about doing your due diligence. Otherwise, even if you aren't in a position to value the company, you should at least understand the financing structure (i.e. the # and key terms of all issued or authorised equity or debt securities).

Someone may not be willing to share the entire cap table with you (and it's not on public filings in many jurisdictions) but if they're offering you a piece of paper, whilst refusing to give you the basic info required to value it, it's a bad sign.
The families of the victims in both cases. The notion that justice (& dignity) outweigh the bean-counting. It is sort of parallel to insurance in that regards. The victims of crime and war are a small minority, and the rest of society makes small sacrafices on their behalf. If you look at the average cost of a gallon of gas delivered into Afghanistan, it is 100x markup, two orders of magnitude beyond "reasonable".

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405297020490380...
Google has, at least, hinted in this direction. Developers should get a clue. Or they will find more junk data in their analytics, as users deploy more spoofing.
Why Roslyn is a Big Deal
The budget does not look realistic. It's possible they have some incredibly talented coder who can build the damn thing single-handed (a la Minecraft) but this is unlikely, and failing that I just don't see this ever shipping.

Good luck though, it looks like a good idea and I like what I see thus far.
> I like to generate a hash on the client side

I'm confused. What do you do with that hash then?
Having interned in SF last summer, I would definitely recommend that you take as much time as you can to meet other people, especially those outside your company. The best way to do that is to join the "201X Bay Area Summer Interns" facebook group. I was in the 2013 one and there were almost 5000 members. Every day people were posting with what they were up to and looking for people to join them. Its a great way to meet other interns and experience all of the things that can be done in the bay area.
Superliminal.
Hmm, I would think scp would be way more secure if he can shell into both sessions? idk. There's probably a perfect use case out there somewhere. Still a neat trick, heck you could probably do it with any service, not just DNS, cause you're basically just capturing traffic to receive it...
the Neural Network as a fundamental device is only as powerful as the person who designed it.

However you could add every single possible training data segment in as an input parameter, however if you don't have the horsepower and fast RAM storage to process the information then it will take an extremely long amount of time.

with the advent of GPGPU technologies, neural nets are resurfacing as the goto machine learning algorithm.
This is all very interesting, but what does the terminology of "identity theft" have to do with any of it?
Do, or do not use Yoda conditions. There is no try.
>With respect to airplanes forming some sort of mesh network, consider the bandwidth requirements throughout this link.

Right, but all that is really necessary is groundspeed, altitude, and equipment number. That gets you enough information to find a crash / forced landing site quickly, and to know where to search for wreckage. So, even for those parts of the flight path that are "dark" It still may be potentially superior to low-bandwidth satellite links.
It is sent to the server, instead of the clear-text password. This isn't really necessary if you're using HTTPS, however.
Sorry, but what are you trying to say? What does this have to do with the linked article?
Part of the inequality in income results from the inequality in representation. When the wealthy run the government, of course they are going to stack the deck in their favor.
"As soon as tech yields no more efficiency increases"

So like never, right?
Most likely an agency concept to win new business. Most pitch ideas are just clever things that never get produced.
Seems like Inequality is an old issue, which goes back to monkeys.
As I understand it, you'd expect such a thing to happen during the climb. That's what happened with your linked flight 611, if I'm reading between the lines correctly, and it's what happened on e.g. Aloha 243. In general it would make sense that the failure would typically make itself known as the stress on the fuselage is increasing, not after it's reached a steady state. Not that it's impossible, but the fact that this flight was at cruising altitude for a while before it disappeared would seem to be an argument against this possibility.
Someone replied quoting the "curse of knowledge" wiki article and deleted their reply.

With regards to why video recording FDRs aren't in place, look no further than the FAA [1]. The original request from the National Transportation Safety Board (in pdf) from 2000 is also available [2] although I'm sure the issue has come up since then. However, the FAA doesn't govern Malaysian aircraft except when they fly to the US (I'm guessing 777s were up to code though)

[1] http://www.ntsb.gov/safetyrecs/private/history.aspx?rec=A-00...

[2] http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/recletters/2000/A00_30_31.pdf
Signed up. Funny that your manual payment process sucks, considering its the manual vp.

May I suggest a 7 or 14 day trial, then prompting people to pay once they're invested in your site?

I don't want to pay without trying :/ but might be lazy in 14 days and let a few automatic payments slip through the cracks to your service.
Totally agree. This article smelled ignorance in every single line, and saying Your iPhone is more powerful than the evidence-collecting computers in the cockpit. Simple changes could mean faster answers for plane crashes is akin to complaining that my TI Calculator in the 80s was more powerful that the Voyager's probe processor. Different purposes, different specs, different constraints. The person who wrote this piece is definitely not an engineer and has no scientific background whatsoever, as far as I can tell.
For what it's worth, I've also had a hard time recently understanding what the Wolfram Language and associated products are outside of the marketing bullshit.
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Pelican or Jeckyl + markdown
It's not the person who uses the machine that multiplies their effort that make ridiculous amounts of money, it's the the owners of the machines that do.

The obvious solution to this is that the person who uses the machine should also own it. Which means that people who think of themselves as "labor" should be looking for industries where they can own the technology that multiplies their productivity. Such as, just an example off the top of my head, programming. :-)
> "a user on the BitcoinTalk forum posted a message–since deleted by the forum’s moderators–claiming to be offering for sale a 20 gigabyte stolen database from Mt. Gox, including the personal details of all its users and even scans of their passports."

Incredibly unbelievable. It's not enough that they stole bitcoins from me. Their site made no mention of how I wouldn't be able to withdraw them for months without verification - it said "Your limit is 100BTC" and I was willing to take the risk of them holding my coins for a day or two so I could sell and buy back based on recent news. Only to find out by surprise that my risk extended for months while I was required to send them my private documents.

But also, like a slap in the face, instead of turning their servers off once they declared bankruptcy, they now they let the hacker world have access to photocopies of my driver's license, passport, home address, and gas bill?

I can't even begin to express the rage I have for this man and his lies and incompetence. I have never hated someone so much in my entire life.
The novella "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" is a great longer Ted Chiang piece, hard to find nowadays but Starship Sofa did an audiobook reading of it (starts at about 2:03 mark):

http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2008/03/23/aural-delights-n...

They also did a good one of "Exhalation":

http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2009/02/27/starshipsofa-bsf...

[got a 404 on Exhalation but found it on Escape Pod: http://escapepod.org/2009/04/10/ep194-exhalation/ ]
>at least among those with political power, language can be the dividing line.

Yup, the emotional connotations of a word matters to people who are sensitive to that sort of thing. "Job Creator" vs. "exploiter of the proletariat" - Now, to me? my assumption is that both phrases refer to the same entity. They say a lot about the speaker, of course, but not a lot about what the speaker is speaking about.

My observation, though, is that the sort of people who are most conscious about choosing the emotional content of their words are also the most easily manipulated by others choosing words of different connotations.

it seems very weird to me that someone who manipulates others using a certain technique would also be more vulnerable than average to that same technique being used on them.
Black-Scholes' is a big deal in economics and finance. Their innovations were risk-neutral pricing (the r terms in the equation) and replicating portfolio argument. These completely changed how to price all securities you see, not just options. The idea was so radical their paper was unable to be published for years.
I cried like a baby when I read this.
Technology, in the form of capital, will win over labor as the primary factor of production in the near future [1]. There is no shortage of STEM labor [2], only a shortage of extremely skilled knowledge workers willing to work at bargain basement prices.

The only workable solution involves a state redistribution mechanism, which depends heavily on the politics of your nation. Some nations already have excellent safety nets, others not so much. Best to prepare for the future now, than be caught in an ideological war between the wealthy as they decide the fate of the less fortunate.

Most readers here have the ability to emigrate to a nation with excellent social welfare systems. Look for low crime rates, healthcare, education opportunities and low costs of living.

Conversely, if you are an upcoming or current millionaire/billionaire, the world is your oyster. Just remember that death smiles at us all, so it may be worth giving Craig Venter (et al.) some money [3].

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/review-the-second-mac...

2. http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...

3. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/business/in-pursuit-of-lon...
By constantly comparing incoming data to known-good historical flight data and flagging instances that fall outside the norm?
"Better" use case - create a DNS client as a part of your Android/IOS app and send files from victim's computer to your own server :/
A Problem Computers Can't Solve
Hmmmm, pretty interesting and clever marketing technique!
Every year , for the last 20 years, many articles say that we can be sure of the imminent Chinese economy collapse. Then every year they are proven wrong. This is just one more of these articles. The guys have no idea what they are talking about. The education effort is as huge as the infrastructure building effort, and it will bring its benefits. At some point the growing will slow down; at some point it will be 1% yearly growth; but a political collapse is very unlikely, and economic collapse is even more unlikely.
Similar projects you probably know about already:

http://bourbon.io
http://neat.bourbon.io

They appear to be available through both Rubygems and Bower.
"A defining characteristic of capitalism is that profits go to the owners of the means of production, not those who actually produce."

What about the worker that is employed and doesn't spend more than he earns? That which he accumulates is his profit.
Even more upsetting are all of the marketing emails that I receive in my student inbox.
I made a game called Runbow, which spread like wildfire in my High School
At one point I was attending college in Baltimore while my family lived in Chicago. I'm fine with long trains rides (8-10 hours or so) but the routes from Baltimore to Chicago were reported to be 27 hours (For this reason I never actually used them). I don't know how they come up with stuff like that.
We need to have more hackathons for high school students!