skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This amounts to the "you can't handle the truth!" argument. It may be true that the average citizen, and thus the average jury member, is unaware of what ethically-conducted police work looks like. But that doesn't seem to constitute an argument that keeping everyone in the dark about what average police work looks like is an overall good thing.
That's what I wanted to ask.

All that "single, female, non-tech" doesn't make much sense to me if a team of developers was hired to create this website.
TL;DR: Kids in their 20s can be shallow and superficial, focusing on appearances rather than qualifications or demonstrated abilities. Given wealth and power, they become ageist despots.

For some companies, I'm sure hiring Socrates, rather than Alexander, is more productive.
> I know someone who works there will probably say it's not that good

I'm reliably informed that with laptops, remote working and a slightly more mercenary feel to the bar, a significant number of new graduates just don't place as much value in joining a chambers as they used to. Furthermore, a lot of the duties of clerks, once completely indispensible, can now be fairly easily absorbed by the barrister.

This feeling is understandable; I'm sure it can be difficult to justify the rent of a desk or room - all the nice feature you've mentioned are not things you can immediately put a £ amount to.

Middle Temple is certainly a lovely place though.
At some point, your demo asked me to think of your children, which seems to fall into a cultural stereotype.

On the internet, no one knows your a dog.

Or cares, really.

The larger point is: you invited me to think of your children, without giving a compelling reason why I should even care.

This is the internet - it's depersonalizing, anonymizing, delocalizing, and dehumanizing. Pretty much the antithesis of everything related to traditional haggling.

So, tell me again: who are these children, what do they look like, how old are they? If they're old enough to work, why aren't they, etc. If they're not cute, by my cultural standards which you have only a small chance of guessing, then what's up with that?

It's much easier to either drive a customer away or raise non-germane questions during a depersonalized haggling event. It's also way to easy to have those questions begin driving the conversation in the customer's mind.

Note: I'm from a culture where haggling over price is not the norm and I'm not a fan of it. YMMV where you are.
Show HN: Project Showcase
http://www.fullstack360.com

I put this together as a way for independent developers like myself to showcase their projects, personal or otherwise. The target audience is non-tech people who want to see examples of your work. As a contract developer in NYC, I find that LinkedIn and other convetional means (e.g. resume) don't always do a great job of showcasing your abilities to non-tech people.

On another note, I am running a meetup at the Hive55 coworking space on April 2nd from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. I will showcase two or three projects selected from this site. If you are in the NYC area and would like to present your project to my meetup group (http://www.meetup.com/Full-Stack-iOS-Development-Group), submit your project to this site and I will contact you directly. I plan on doing these meetups 2x a month or so. Thanks.

edit: the search bar doesn't work yet.
This is a really impressive story. I wish we got more background about the 2010 era, before she hired engineers in San Francisco? Was this site completely freelancer developed initially? How many users did she get before shipping out to cali?

BTW, this site is really taking off with young, social-media crazed teenagers, so keep an eye on it! Already at 8MM users, it's similar to pinterest with a business model that really makes sense.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/10/21/i_spy_with_my_bastar...

Looking back at the BOFH it was actually surprisingly educational.
Just to add to your point, having a fairly large culture of start up founders in their 20's nowadays adds to the problem (1). People gather around them people they can relate to - it's sub-conscious. A 20-something and a 40-something have few overlapping cultural references in entertainment, night life, flavor of the day programming languages/frameworks/build systems/etc., and problem domain. I see a number of social media sites/apps whose purpose I don't understand. I'm on FB and have Yelp'ed a few times but resist even Twitter because I'm on information overload all the time raising a child. Interviewing at a social media start up would become uncomfortable quickly as I pretend to understand what "itch they're trying to scratch".

If more founders were in their 40's, would reverse discrimination happen? "So, you lack systems analysis and operations skills and you've only used one flavor of *nix...(phone reminder goes off)...Quite sorry, I have to end this interview early to pick up my daughter from daycare, she's vomiting. Oh, you'll go early to SXSW...is that a new airline?"

Is it illegal for a start up to discriminate against me if I have the technical acumen? Sure. But the hiring person doesn't have to consciously discriminate. It can happen just by placing greater emphasis on the lack of experience in a particular framework when the real reason is that the hiring person just didn't relate to me as a 46 yo in any way.

1. I'm not implying that it's a problem having a large number of 20-something start up founders. People with time and energy to solve cool problems is only a social benefit.

(EDIT: Changed asterisk to 1.)
That's the real question. It's not like being a female is a handicap or something.
I like it.

How about this:

1) based on previous spending habits of a user on the site, and/or credit score, social media profile or a simple age, location profile, the shopkeeper (system) knows a rough geodemographics / personality of the user.

2) First price shown is variable depending on this algorithm. Some users who are poor will have cheaper prices. Richer ones, or users who like to spend time haggling will have higher ones. I've no idea if this is the best strategy - but some game theory and psychology of shopping will be used for the algorithm, you can work that out :)

3) User is able to purchase, or haggle.

4) Different users have different floors.

5) RNG - Sometimes a user will get a product for much less than the floor. They will feel as if their haggling got them a real bargain, because they really did! Sometimes the retailer will not sell the product unless they are making a larger margin than before. Retailers who use the system will feel as if they are making a real profit, because they really will be!
The search space is not that big. It depends on the granularity of the decisions, but in SC2 most algorithms will work on the supply scale (with resources as constraint). Meaning you only have 3-5 decisions to make at any supply count. In this case considering the extractor cancel is a nice touch and I assume it was a special case because it's a known trick which makes no sense to consider for any other buildings.
I saw Deena's presentation at 500's Commercism conference and it was really inspiring. An entrepreneur that doesn't fit the stereotypical valley entrepreneur has executed an idea that users really seem to use and love. Good for her.
I had some issues with Flash too. I found re-installing it fixed things for me. Maybe try:

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

and see if it helps.
That isn't aegism, that's someone who "looks" like Zuckerberg. Lots of people who look like Bill Gates gets funded too.

And there's a difference between investing 15K in a startup and 1M+. I highly doubt anyone invests millions of dollars because a founder looks "young"
Does anybody else think the future lies in collaboration, not competition?
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Loved a particular slide about how they (she?) did it: "The right people: builders and get-shit-done-ers, pragmatic, non religious about tech, move fast, team over rockstars"
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Better yet, "Jsonb functionality has been committed to PG"
Congratulations on the site launch! I've been using trunk builds in production for the last three months. Very few issues for pre-alpha software.
It depends on what your data looks like. If you've got a collection of JSON documents that gets served verbatim through a JSON API, Mongo is a natural fit. If you've got a domain model with different types of entities and links between them, Mongo is aweful.

The app I'm working on right now evolved from the former to the latter, prompting me to switch from Mongo to Postgres, and it's made the code base much, much simpler. Mongo gets really painful when you have to fetch several documents (serially, because you have to follow the links between them) and join them at the application level before rendering the output.

For that kind of application, SQL with joins and sub-selects is so much better.
To prevent this attack, disable auto-loading of FireWire drivers within the OS. I believe one of the Linux driver stacks already does this & OS X protects itself when the machine is locked.

Also, FireWire over USB is repeatedly mentioned as not working.
Gender Baiting. It goes along with the whole Silicon Valley is Misogynistic theme.
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We offer for consideration our patent registered inv ention for working out a pilot-plant for the business in ths Solar Energy field.
But even that is still tech. I mean _someone_ had to download the source, install it on a server, activate the theme, etc. I'd like to see more about the initial site.
> "It's a shame not more people use it."

Putting aside the legal issues, I am not ever going to introduce unnecessary expletives if I want people to take my work seriously/professionally. If I do see a license like this I'll automatically assume that the author isn't taking that particular code seriously and treat it accordingly (ie may use personally but never professionally).
You're right, this was before the new Google privacy policies. But he did say that phrase in order to downplay Google's own responsibility in retaining search information. More importantly, propagating the idea that you should only care about privacy when it comes to things "that you don't want anyone to know" is irresponsible, and it's worrying that it comes from the single biggest handler of personal information in the world. Bruce Schneier said that a lot better than myself: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_t...

About the new privacy policies, here's another interesting part from that same interview, which to my knowledge hasn't been transcribed anywhere:

But Eric Schmidt says protecting user privacy is Google's top priority.

- Where does all my search info go?

- Well first place our privacy policies are fully disclosed on our website and it's all written down very carefully. The most important thing we do is that after 18 months, the search information that you entered is so-called anonymized, it's literally gotten rid of and we can't go back and track it back to you.

Two years later Google would overhaul the privacy policy and get rid of most safeguards, including that "most important thing". Today, Google could retain your search data for any length of time or use it in unrelated products for any purpose they wish. So much for privacy being "Google's top priority"...

(To be clear, I'm not blaming Eric Schmidt since he was no longer CEO. I just want to highlight the striking fact that his whole defence would fall apart.)
Well in joshbert's defense the original phrasing already says "single, female, non-technical founder with no team" which would make this interpretation slightly redundant, so I can understand why he read it that way.
What the heck, HTML and CSS?
I recommend reading http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/ on this topic.
Do you have a reference for that - I had a quick look through the documentation for this new feature and it looks mainly like a better way of storing and accessing JSON data - not sure it helps with updates.

[NB Not being snarky... genuinely curious about this!]
This is what came to me first. I have unrestricted physical access?

I probably own the machine. If the data on the storage is not encrypted, I own that too.

If I don't want to disassemble anything, I just plug in a liveUSB and it's all mine.

If the BIOS has USB/CD boot disabled? I pull the CMOS battery.

If that fails? The google probably knows the BIOS reset sequence for your board and soon so will I.

=======================================================================

Physical security is important too and FDE is not optional. [Even if you have nothing to hide]
Except for step three, I think you just described Amazon.com.

Amazon - I know they're fscking me, but they make it seem so reasonable, dammit.
Specifying characteristics of exemplary people, can serve as an encouraging example for others with those characteristics. Maybe another potential future female founder will read about her example, and decide to pursue the same path. Not everyone needs that, but sometimes it helps.
For comparison I just calculated the same for Germany and Poland (1 person business, income tax, "gewerbe" tax for Germany, health care, no tax agent, no retirement for Germany):

In Germany on 75,000 EUR profits you have to pay ~30,400 EUR and get to keep ~44,600 EUR. Total taxation rate at this level is ~40.5%. At 1,000,000 EUR profits you get taxed ~49.5% and have to pay ~494,000 EUR taxes.

If you moved a few hundred km to the east to Poland which has an opt-in 19% flat tax rate you would pay only ~15,000 EUR on 75,000 EUR profits and ~192,000 EUR on 1,000,000 EUR profits.

So France seems to be "worse" than Germany tax-wise. Something I wouldn't have expected.
It's only relevant because in today's startup environment, "single female, non-tech, no-team" is considered an outlier regarding the characteristics of a successful (subjective) founder.
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> Because I totally would remember this and am much more likely to return at a later time.

i would totally remember what a waste of my time it was, so yes in that sense you are right.
I never had this problem and wasn't aware of it, but I'm glad to know it, because it sounds like something awfully hard to debug if you don't know what's up.
If it has sensitive data on it, the Linux computer should be locked in a room. Physical access = ownership, every sysadmin knows that. Plan 9 terminals don't have passwords for user accounts, if you want access to privileged data you then have to authenticate with the dedicated authorization server. Linux is a 1960s OS, it boggles the mind people even still use it.
10 Oldest And Most Important Open-Source Programs Ever
Ask HN: What's the most important metric that you track for your startup?
This is for some research on business intelligence for startups.

I'm really keen to get an idea of the parallels between types and phases of startups, and the metric(s) tracked to indicate progress.

Thanks in advance :)
The nice thing here is that it's easy enough to write a mongo compatability layer on top of Postgres (hell, it probably already exists...), allowing you the just-get-to-it ease of mongo combined with the substantially superior engineering of Postgres.
It's really inspiring to see an idea go from conception to 'success'! Thanks for sharing your timeline!
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Other side: why does everything need to be watered down, emotionless, PR speak?
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It isn't but VCs have been known to avoid female founders for fear of them not working as hard as men since 'they'll have a baby sometime' or some nonsense like that [1]. Also women face gender discrimination in the bay area. [2]

source: [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/pregnant-founders-response-to...

[2] http://valleywag.gawker.com/this-is-why-there-arent-enough-w...
Show HN: Cuff – a small utility for binding UI controls to DOM elements
I've always wondered about the broken back button. Thanks for shedding some light. BB10 OS sort of implements the application stack as you described, but it's focused on social and messaging applications (so you don't need to drop out of your current app to share)
How an Under-Appreciated iOS 7 Feature Will Change the Internet
I've only just graduated from university last year, so...
Excused, but not that you missed the obvious "Most English verbs will have reflexified".
"I am not tech, but i started with doing tech (website?) stuff". Am i missing something?
Ah, the memories. I had to thrice reinstall DOS on my childhood computer because of that. I later learned that editing binary files in a text editor wasn't a very bright idea...
Considerable research has found that fluid intelligence declines with age. There is a 2006 paper "Age differences in fluid intelligence: Contributions of general slowing and frontal decline".

We know that 50-year-olds are not as strong physically as 20-year-olds. The brain is an organ, and it would be surprising if every part of the body except the brain worked less well as one aged.
Apologies for the late reply. Do you have a source for that request of Merkel's?

You specifically mentioned "forget their role in two world wars". That is not the same as stating the - historically accurate notion - that Germany was not the sole party responsible for WWI. A major instigator, possibly the most important, but my no means the only one.

No mainstream politician in Germany denies German responsibility for WWII.
Simple Rule of 72's
In case anyone wonders why this isn't a pull request and instead a published fork...

Obviously @mdo can write whatever he likes on his projects, and it doesn't feel right to "correct him" with a pull request if that's how he chose to write the resource.

In the original HN post[1] there were a couple of comments about how some people might want to share this with kids who are learning to code. If they want to share the knowledge without a couple of "bad words" spoiling it now they have a way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457132
> Why not encourage private citizens to record their public lives? Most of the arguments for recording police apply to everyone: Allegations are quickly discovered to be true or false. Everyone involved is less likely to be violent. People are more cordial. Determining guilt or innocence is much easier. Was a shooting self-defense or manslaughter? Did the eyewitness really recognize the defendant on the night of the crime? Etc.

This has already taken root in a bunch of countries, to an extent. Dash cams are ubiquitous in Russia, though it's this restricted to "when I'm in my car" (depending on make, dash cams can record only the outside — front — or both inside and outside)
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Churchill was right. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Apparently "Thousands of ‘secret keys’, which unlock access to private Amazon Web Services accounts are currently available unencrypted to members of the public with just two clicks of a mouse."
Not enough whitespace in that answer
I like Mr. Fry and agree with part of your and his message. What bothers me, though, is that it sounds as if you are trying to say that there is only one type of word, and that there is really no such thing as "profanity". But that robs profanity of its usefulness (for example, some recent research shows that swearing can actually alleviate physical pain - but if no words are considered "bad," this probably wouldn't work any more).

The whole idea of a swear word is that it's supposed to be strong, and, yes, offensive in some way. That means that there will be contexts in which profanity will be inappropriate, and there is nothing prudish about knowing this. Good writing means using the right word for the right purpose, and sprinkling swears inside a technical article usually comes off as cheap and lazy.

Your attitude changes when you have children. I used to use more colorful language more routinely. But there are various reasons you don't want to hear those words coming out of your little ones' mouths, yet.
Deena Varshavskaya (Wanelo) at Startup Grind 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgtHV8DSrgI

Glimpse Conference SF 2013: Fireside Chat - Wanelo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1g4s4HmLIU
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Got sofa. Entered price of $800, less than half the original price, then came up to $1500.

"Why don't you make a move in my direction?"

I guess the Turing test remains to be passed.

Any kind of response like this makes it obvious the system is a lot less intelligent than it's pretending to be, which is a huge turn-off to me.
if you want something that scales better use minhash. You get a similarity that is approx jaccard but with a lower footprint memory and cpu wise.
A new study from MIT describes “living materials” that combine bacterial cells with nonliving materials that can conduct electricity and emit different colors of light. Researchers say that future applications could include cheaper, more efficient solar panels and biosensors.
After Doug Engelbart died I poked around and found a clone of his Augment software. It's a Windows 3.0 application, this company still uses it and sells copies for $150:

http://www.ndma.com/resources/ndm8543.htm

Comes with a decent manual. I've played around with it a bit but not too much so far.

It's limited to 8-character filenames, and seems more mouse-dependent than I prefer, though maybe I just don't know all the tricks. These days, emacs with org-mode and evil-mode might be a more productive implementation of similar ideas. But it's still pretty interesting. Curiously, one thing that people have criticized as unintuitive is its modal verb-noun command structure, which as a Vim user I find completely natural.

How well this software really captures NLS, I can't say.
I think part of this comes down to the vast improvements in documentation over the last ~10 years. The Arch Wiki is an incredible living document for installation and configuration of all Linux flavors. The Debian Wiki isn't as clean or up-to-date, but all the AskUbuntu stuff is helpful in that realm. Installing Debian on a desktop was a headache for me in 2002, but just last week I got it dual booting on my (recently abandoned by Apple) Macbook with 100% functionality.

I don't want to downplay the great work that's been done on the software side, but my experience really reinforced the fact that improving documentation is a real contribution to FLOSS projects.
Show HN: Turn any Surface into a musical keyboard
Keep in mind evolution managed to make strong AI, us, through pretty much blind, random mutations, and inefficient selection.

The thing about deep learning is that it's not just nonlinear curve fitting. It learns increasingly high level features and representations of the input. Recurrent neural networks have the power of a Turing machine. And stuff like dropout are really efficient at generalization. My favorite example is word2vec. Creating a representation for every English word. Subtracting "man" from "king" and adding "woman" gives the representation for "queen".

Speech recognition is moving that way. It outputs a probability distribution of possible words, and a good language model can use that to figure out what is most likely. But even a raw deep learning net should eventually learn those relationships. Same with image recognition. I think you'd be surprised at what is currently possible.

The future looks bright.
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Your right, that's why i'm moving abroad too,though i dont know where yet.