skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For two reasons: simplicity doesn’t really have a good metric to be minimised, not when it comes to unexpected, seemingly daring or irrational behaviour. Batman’s Jocker character provides tons of example of that, but more to the point at stake: some might see a plane cashing without a trace as complex, while others think hiding is hard. Some might see a highly normalised Relational table as simple, because it can be safely explored it it’s entire possibility space, while others prefer to have no norm, and one long list of untyped events, because its assumed structure is straightforward.

When it comes to likelihood and explanations, Dan Ariely has done tremendous work on explaining how a more detailed story, especially one pandering to our anecdotal prejudice, seems more likely: He commonly gives the example of how a shy person seems more likely to become a librarian than a factory worker but… ‘shy’ isn’t very specific trait, and the less glamorous option is ten times more likely overall, making the likelihood for a shy person to be screwing bolts far higher, dozens of times actually, than lending books.

There you have both: Are they terrorists? Are they skilled? Can pilots make mistakes? Both are unlikely events that may or may not match our experience, actually our mediated experience: few people have met active terrorist and lived (well, the same Dan Ariely is a known exception) or been flown by a bad pilot and been able to tell the story.

It's not complexity that they like, as much as a comfortable prejudice, that either Hollywood-grade airplane-acrobatics are common, or that horrible people are very cunning. You can quote statistics, but then again I don’t recommend it: you’ll become tedious, dull and insensitive before you are even done explaining your methodology about average-end-of-quality-of-life (death is too… binary) and how airplane catastrophies are actually generally positive.

I, for one, can’t get out of my head that there is an increasing disparity in every industry, especially all cultural ones, leading to PR becoming overly sophisticated, and that promoting a movie requires connexion to up to News casters (obviously, see all ‘promo’ segments) that might have been upped to pirates (for documenting Captain Philipps) therefore… this must be Liam Neeson promoting his latest action flick. That’s like, such a good idea I can’t believe no one has tried it earlier.
I disagree; apps were never a guarantee. Steve was adamant about not having 3rd party apps on the iPhone for a long time. However, with 20/20 hindsight it's easy to see.
It will also make people less stressed when dealing with cops (as they know the cop will behave well), and it will discourage people from resisting arrest / attacking the police, because they know they'll be caught on camera.
If the scandals described in this article and Taibi's articles are the result of a few bad actors, and if the result of these scandals is a broad perception on the part of the public that the entire financial sector is corrupt, then Goldman Sachs should be interested in policing its own.

I wonder if G.S. feels unable to police itself, or maybe they feel the aluminum story is not a problem, or that what they did was harmless. I don't know what they think about what they do. I can't really blame below average people for cheating -- they're not good enough to win playing by the same rules as everyone else.

But if I'm to draw a circle around the corrupt people should I draw it around a piece of G.S., or around the whole company. It seems like the scandals keep happening, and that market manipulation such as laddering and hoarding are considered by the financial industry as another way to make money.

If the financial industry isn't greased entirely on deception, then I'd like to know what percentage is deceptive and what percentage is figuring out a hedge plan for e.g. BMW's exchange rate risk. I can see how billions can be made one way, but I don't see how billions can be made the other way.
They took off the two factor auth which was previously required to get into my account.
Please take your ridiculous bullshit and shove it back up your ass where you got it from. Also Zionists are evil pieces of shit so you shot yourself in the foot lumping them in with everyone else. I take it you are probably a Zionist yourself though.
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seconded - btw do you have a STEM related degree though? there's now an additional provision for OPT extension if you graduated from a STEM related field.
Booth-babe stuff aside, I thought the article was primarily about being non-technical at a startup.
I just want them to delete my data.
The ridiculous real estate portfolio of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison
If you can override the animal instincts to kill other humans, why is it so hard to override your thoughts and just treat all other humans with the same respect you'd give your best friend, at least until you see a valid reason not to?

No one is saying that getting a beer after work is bad, or telling jokes is bad, or that thinking is bad. this is hand waving. We're asking you, again, to a) understand that lots of drinking leads to situations where women are harassed; b) telling sexist, racist, homophobic jokes is not appropriate in any professional context, and that you should be human enough to override your animal instincts.

To be frank, your post comes off as irrational, and immature. You sound very young, and very entitled.
I really wish they provide some data like this even if it is anonymized or whatever. It would possibly make it less instantly repugnant if they could actually point to even a handful of cases where not having this data directly lead to a loss of life or similar.
My first iPhone was a 3GS. I don't remember its predecessors as being especially compelling. In fact, I bought a Treo likely after the original iPhone was available. It's also worth noting that the iPod, for all its seeming inevitability in retrospect, was just another MP3 player until about the 4th generation. In general, the ecosystem aspect of Apple was underappreciated by most because the concept just didn't exist in mobile (or, for that matter, consumer) devices at the time.
> The thing is Google and many of the Android device manufacturers really do thow shoddy goods out the door. not always, not every product, not every time, but embarrassingly often.

And sometimes they put out products that many people think are embarrassingly bad that turn out to be wonderful (e.g. Galaxy Note). Apple and the Android ecosystem have radically different development models. Merely looking at the raw output is a poor way to understand what's really going on.
>Fact of the matter is, it's too early to say whether she was wrong or not

Obviously, but you can speculate and weigh the possibilities.

We have a disgruntled employee (who is no longer with the company) writing a piece attacking her former company and some people working there. That brings a lot of doubt over the validity of her claims already.

Add to that the hilarious debacle this employee created a few months ago over a rug that so brazenly included the terrorizing, offensive, gross word 'meritocracy' on it.

If someone thinks 'meritocracy' is sexist, might they also think a totally ordinary workplace happening is sexist?

My bet is on her claims of sexism being a waste of time (you do know that you can speculate on something without being totally sure, right?).

For the rug thing: http://www.google.com/search?q=meritocracy+github+rug
The problem is not men hitting on us and it being awkward. I can handle that, whatever. The issue is being seen as ONLY sexual objects. Normally things start out great. Oh, you're a girl in tech? That's so awesome. Now I can talk tech, a topic I'm comfortable with. However, I can't tell you how many times I've mentioned my fiance and the conversation comes to a screeching halt, see ya. Or I let it go on without mentioning anything, and the boundary isn't set and there is awkwardness later on. It is a different dynamic and tricky to navigate. If I was a guy, they'd be happy to talk business and learn about my startup. We never got to that. I find it hard to have as positive of an experience networking as my male coworkers seem to have. I'm not saying this is sexism or any other loaded words, its just a challenge.

So while being a technical female has a lot of positives (we are more rare and stand out and people might find us pretty and want to talk to us), there are legitimate issues regarding professionalism in work and conferences. No one is saying men are monsters...well, I'm certainly not.
There are some people trying to remedy this issue. While the Golang designers don't feel the need to include it in the language, others may resolve this. Id recommend reading the goals doc, as they seem to have a good starting point.

http://www.goinggo.net/2014/01/go-package-management-for-201...
I have used most of them including Hipchat and for some reason Slack seems to be the best, with full features, like hubot, sharing documents, links, private and custom chats etc. This project looks like it is going in a similar direction and could really compliment Dropbox and compete with Google Docs. Just as long as they don't make you agree that all stored data is theirs to keep (yes Google does this now).
Correct easy to point the finger after the fact however this is not a one of case, specially of now it all wallstreet firms and analysts. The source evades me but there have been more than one bloomberg articles brushing of a new technology as a small stint and "fan club". And i think it is fair to rub it into the faces of firms like bloomberg and economist whom have a "mater of fact" stance/tone.
Thinks, not knows. Probability estimates should not be confused with certainty.
Assuming arguendo that data = information, a printout will suffice. Your conversion will be manual, but you should not expect a complicated, performant, object serialization format to last through several generations of computer architecture.
Now run by the DHS and the NSA!
Are you suggesting to commit computer fraud in an attempt to break government security systems, thereby giving terrorists and pedophiles free roam?
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Dude, it's really not hard to have a technical conversation with someone and not come off as creepy. If you feel like you have to worry about this all the time, there's something seriously off about your interpersonal instincts. I'm a pretty socially awkward nerdy guy, and I've never had a problem with being able to have a technical conversation with a woman without being accused of "mansplaining", "being overly aggressive", being "screamed about on twitter" or the like. If all of those things are happening to you, you're probably going about it wrong.

Remember, you hear about the worst incidents online. The things that make it to the news do so because they're newsworthy, not because they're commonplace.

Since many of us are socially awkward nerds here, let me give you a few hints:

Inviting someone for beers after a conference is not hitting on them. But if you're really worried it appearing that way, make sure you invite more than one person; it feels much more like an after-conference beer than an invitation to a date if there's a group of people.

Complementing someone on what they're wearing? I complement my male coworkers on their new sneakers or spiffy new jackets sometimes; it's no more creepy to do the same for a female coworker. But I wouldn't do that to some guy I just met, only someone I've known for a while and already have a professional relationship with. If the first thing I said to a guy was a complement on his shoes, that would sound a little weird, wouldn't it, like I might be hitting on him? Same rule goes. Don't make a complement on a woman's clothes or appearance be the first thing you say to her, that makes it sound like you're hitting on her. But if you've known her a while and you notice that she's gotten a new haircut or new jacket, it's not a problem to mention it.

Asking about someone's projects? How would you imagine that would sound like flirting? Just make sure you're actually interested in someone's projects, and not just using it as a "get to know you" before trying to ask them on a date.
> Your qualification to make this statement is that you are a woman who has written 3/4 of the company's code, right?

3/4 was just a number I pulled out of my ass, but the point is if you're bringing hella value to the company you get treated like you're someone they can't afford to lose no matter what your gender. For example if you have impressive github open source contributions, experience scaling distributed systems, strong web-dev skills, infosec skills, and you've been a core member at a venture backed startup or two then you can get a job as a lead developer. There is no gender discrimination at that level of experience.

You need to know a hell of lot more than just HTML/CSS/ and a scripting language/framework... you need to understand how the Internet works and how computers work in general at a deep level, and you need experience dealing with the kinds of technical challenges that a startup might face as it tries to grow towards web scale. I could name off some solid examples of women who fit this bill but there's no reason to name names.

Women are not excluded from the market because of a sterotype they're excluded because in general they don't have the actual skills needed to do the job, and the reason they don't have the skills is because they didn't grow up hacking computers. They didn't grow up hacking computers because 10 or 15 years ago they bought into the stereotype that computer hacking is something for nerdy guys only. It just wasn't cool to major in CS back then so not enough women were into it, and you just can't get good at this stuff without > 1 decade of experience minimum.

It is about stereotypes but it's women who were doing the stereotyping and were not getting CS degrees when they should have. Now they just don't have the skillset because they haven't been doing it long enough it's as simple as that
I just reread the article to be sure I hadn't glossed over it, and I personally do not see any clear account of sexism. She says it was there, and I believe her (because sexism at a tech startup is about as surprising as ants at a picnic), but she doesn't clearly describe it at all. None of the specific grievances she cites have any clear connection to her gender.

PS: Sorry people are hating so much on your reply. I do appreciate your overall point.
Windows 8, for all of its faults, comprehensively demonstrated that it isn't Microsoft that's unwilling to let go of Windows - it's their customers (which isn't surprising for a company whose products are in the process of being disrupted).
O-3 visas are issued to the spouse and children of O-1 visa holders. Did you mean something else?

http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...
Don't even bother trying. The people that post the definition you are replying to either willfully ignore the basic logical flaws of their argument or they have been brainwashed and lack the mental fortitude to actually defend what they are saying. You will not get a a meaningful response.
For one, I love local by default. Having a package manager that deals with a global context makes things considerably more complex. Having everything local allows you to isolate one crate's (if we're speaking in Rust terms) dependencies to another crates' dependencies.

NPM also has the ability to have isolated dependencies from each other dependency. For example, module A can pin module B to version 2, whereas module C can pin module B to version 3. So you have independent copies.

Now, that worked for a dynamic language where you don't have to deal with static/dynamic linking. Would it be appropriate to statically link two modules that are the same, but at different versions? Maybe not. That would lead to massive binary sizes.
I was fortunate enough to work with the author at the startup she mentions. And I don't use the word "fortunate" lightly; she was absolutely a key player on the team. I'm happy to see that she had a positive experience with the rest of the (male) team!

Maintaining a good company culture™ was very important to me and the other founders and we were very aware of how much our early hires would contribute to it. An important part of that culture was only hiring the best and smartest people (yes, it's cliché, I know). It did not even cross our minds to hire an operations manager (or any other role) who could not understand and comfortably explain our product, for instance. I think that did a lot to set a tone that no one should have lower expectations set for them nor was somehow in a "second-class" role.

P.S. In my defense, it was darn good beef jerky.

EDIT: English is hard.
San Francisco or bust: Class war and why we need to stand and fight to save our city
I've heard some claims recently (perhaps true) that Jobs didn't want third party apps, but at the time the interface was so obviously suited for apps that I assumed that they simply hadn't had time to put together what was needed for third parties to build apps. At the time they talked about web apps, but it felt like stalling, then a year later the app store launches.
An interesting article, but it annoys me when the author talks of analog computers having "an infinite level of resolution... because they use physical rather than digital inputs and outputs".

Physical machines have varying levels of tolerance, and this impacts the accuracy of calculations in just the same way as a truncated number in a digital system reduces accuracy.

It was a lot more interesting to read about the pros and cons of digital vs analog computers with respect to maintenance, reprogrammability, energy use, and reliability. It's a pity there wasn't a similarly in-depth account of the precision of each system.
This is the best mod of 2048 I've played so far because if I just imagine that I'm playing 2048, I feel a much greater sense of progress.
Why do you feel the need to determine whether I'm a troll or not?

I'm tired of hearing the same old excuses for discrimination, namely "pattern matching." It's bullshit. It's everywhere on this thread as it so often is when posts about discrimination and harassment reach any level of awareness on Hacker News. And while most of the time I generally ignore it, rolling my eyes and occasionally just become depressed as hell, sometimes I just get fed up and decide to call it out. Then I vent it out and get back to work. I don't care what you label it as, in fact the whole concept of labeling is precisely the issue.

Treat people with respect. That's all any of us want. But when we say that nicely we get ignored. When we say it strongly, we get labeled everything from bitch, to sociopath, to irrational, to whatever. There's no win. So I just say what I think and let the chips fall where they may. Upvote me, downvote me, I honestly do not give a shit.
Detection of primordial gravitational waves announced
IMO it's a ridiculous allegation, anyway. Guys aren't bad at talking to women because they want to be, so telling them "Hey that thing you're ashamed about, well you should feel even worse about it now" isn't useful.
Is it possible to hack a transponder and make it appear to ATS that a plane is a legitimate craft? Would it be possible to have someone on the ground act as "ATC" and pass off the plane to an unsuspecting ACT so it can enter another countries air space?
Unity would have to fork Mono, as would Gnome and Canonical and Redhat, etc... The comments here seem very trusting of Microsoft. If it was Oracle a fork would be a given.
> every tile in the 2x2x2x2 cube is effectively in a corner

Time for the 3x3x3x3 game. The board would look like a Sudoku grid.
Ask HN: Can you detect a drive-by zero day browser exploit?
Say you visit a page that has a zero day vulnerability on it, is it possible to tell if your computer is being compromised, such as browser freezing, unusual disk activity, crashing browser etc.? If it is detectable, is it possible to stop it midway through it (possibly downloading and executing)?

How did the people at CanSecWest come up with so many zero day vulnerabilities? Does it take a genius to discover such vulnerabilities? What tools are used? Is it a huge leap for a software developer to become a penetration tester/security expert?
Do you live on this planet? It's about competitiveness. It's not just about being able to be a founder, if there is a foreigner doing the same product with more success, the American's startup will eventually die. So foreign countries can get all the best talent with their flexible visa systems, including Americans, while America only has access to local talent. That's not really pro-American...
As a white man, and a software developer, I have never EVER found any prejudicial advantage in being white. Not once. In fact, I have felt distinctly disadvantaged when competing against Asians and Indians. Asians of any variety, south or east, very frequently experience preferential treatment over whites in technical fields. That's no exaggeration, based on my personal experience. Mind you, I don't begrudge anyone for it, but it's certainly a reality I'm tuned into.
I suppose it isn't obvious from the rule I gave, but it doesn't necessarily have to even be web accessible. Why does it matter so much anyway?
Incredibly arrogant? Really? Sorry, but you're definitely mis-reading that one and you've clearly never met Sam.
I find using both hands on the keyboard irritating.

If it was possible to double-hit the up/down/left/right arrows (i.e. twice in succession quickly) to move between dimensions, then I could use it with one hand.
That makes sense.

I think my intuitions for the discrete and continuous are similar for 2D and 3D. Are they fundamentally similar? How do they differ, even if only a little? It seems that discrete 4D intuition should somehow help with continuous 4D intuition.
I suggest you investigate oAuth instead of rolling something yourself. That's how Google, Facebook, and Twitter solve this problem. Pick whichever version suits your needs,

http://oauth.net/core/1.0a/ (2009)

http://oauth.net/2/ (2012)
The thing that's different in this case is that Satya, and not the original founders, is calling the shots.
why couple this to a particular notebook? i hate those small things
I've tried but the audio never seems to work (with ReCAPTCHA in particular).
For me the biggest issue is that Apple went too far in trading utility for portability with their adapters. For instance, there's at least one model of MacBook Pro (from a few years back) that, when it's running flat out, drains its battery even when plugged in. I know that's a perfectly reasonable tradeoff for the many people who don't use the full power of their laptop most of the time, but for someone who wants to it's frustrating (especially since, so far as I can tell, there isn't even a more powerful adapter you can buy up to).

I happen to prefer "the brick" Lenovo bundled with a comparable laptop. It does the job when plugged in (can charge the battery even if the laptop is going full blast) and there are adapters I can buy down to if I want something more portable.
Ah, that's good news about Paramiko.

Twisted is a bit of a bigger matter. A lot of the Python 3 tasks have been closed, but it's a pretty big beast, with lots of corners for bugs to hide in.
I do not believe this thread just happened.
I was thinking of it as a way of protecting against design flaws. Similarly, I think -- and Ed Snowden recently said the same thing -- that for max security one should wrap things in a sequence of different kinds of cryptography.

And by the way, not all parts have to be individually robust.