skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your comment has plenty of interesting content, but telling people that they should be ashamed to live somewhere where other people commit crimes is completely senseless.

Arguably, the attitude that this is senseless -- that, IOW, people have no responsibility for the qualities of the broader society -- is part of the problem.
On the other hand, a typical person driving between Denver and New Orleans knows they just put 14 gallons in the tank and would probably like to figure out how far until their next required fuel stop.

Different use cases mean different natural measurements.
Are there enough people in the 1%, concentrated enough to form a critical mass, to protest the .01?

I would imagine it would take a lot more sheer numbers. Plus, they're doing relatively well already no? So how many are pissed enough to risk what they already have?....
"...go ahead and grab it with flour on your hands". I don't know about you, but I wouldn't grab my smartphone with flour on my hands. Neither would I be trying to take a picture of a barcode with my cellphone in one hand, baby in the other, phone cover flapping down over my hand making it tricky to see what I'm doing while I try to pudge a greasy thumb at the "shoot" button while... blast I dropped it and it's bounced off the granite bench top onto the tiled floor.

"My smartphone has this computational ability" does not equal "my smartphone is in any way designed to be ergonomic or convenient for this task"
Not to mention who actually clicks those LinkedIn emails...
The original title: "Is the Oculus Rift Sexist?"

To the GP: Which word(s) should be used to describe differences in people due to hormones and biological factors?

Using that particular word in the title does seem a bit keen on generating controversy, but the ideas presented are interesting and I don't think the article should be flagged.

To the author: If we agree that systems and institutions often include these biases and might be correctly described as "sexist" then what can or should be done in this particular case? It is probably possible to develop better technology which handles all the factors involved in 3D vision, but if for example a male researcher is testing a new VR system and he is biologically predisposed to notice/optimize for certain factors, is it unreasonable to expect that the finished product will work better for men than women on average?

And is that not a good reason for more women to develop or help develop these technologies?
After evidence of fraud, Indiegogo responds by deleting anti-fraud guarantee
>> it's highly likely that "choice" is really a very complex chemical process, rather than some independent act that a unified person entity performs in complete isolation from their brain and body

I see this as a false dichotomy. It's the old mind/body duality again. Your assertion about chemicals is not wrong, but you'll run into trouble if you act as if it negates the subjective perspective.
Forget the top 1% – Look at the top 0.1% (2011)
5-year-old hacks Xbox, becomes Microsoft 'security researcher'
I don't know how a/b is somehow magically easier than b/a. They're both involving division.

Most cars outside of the US report L/100km.

For example, if you have to go 250km and you're running at 8L/100km then you need 2.5x8 = 20L. If your tank holds 50L, then you'll need nearly a half tank.

If you want to know how far you can get on a half tank, say 25L, then divide that by 8 to get roughly 6, or 600km.
The article is definitively thought provocking. About the influence of 3D games, if women/low androgene people take different visual cues, wouldn't there be the same effect that with virtual reality?

IMO 3D games for instance are also heavy on parallax and poor on color and shadow rendering, their players would self select for being able to mainly rely on these, while other people would be mildly put off (eventually without understanding clearly what's happening, and think that they're just not into games)
The New Gay Orthodoxy
Having attended a very left wing liberal arts college and, therefore, being very familiar with the terminology used by sociologists, I intended the above to be explanatory rather than either an advocacy of or an attack on the leftist definition. Could some of the downvoters please explain which side they're coming from and what aspect of my post they found problematic?
The part of it that people find cool is probably e, i, and pi being related, when at first you wouldn't think they had anything to do with each other, before knowing any of that.
SRS is one of those things that make thinking about education depressing because it makes it obvious that merely being a massive improvement over the status quo isn't enough to get widespread adoption.

It is absolutely wonderful. I recommend downloading a shared deck and using it to get into the habit, then building your own. There are better and worse ways of using it but it's been a real help to me in learning Chinese.
I wrote a small laravel deployment app where it will run a set of instruction when triggered. So from my localhost I will run git push origin -- master. Once pushed, I run php artisan command:deploy [app-name] [branch].
I've been building a small-scope SRS app for my high school's mandarin curriculum as a side project in Node. Building a simple Leitner system is amazingly simple, and while I don't support the same level of analytics as Anki, the effect is similar. I'm looking foward to launching later this week!
It strikes me as flagrantly lot of things. There's been a nice string of NYT articles in which people from planet trust fund try to comprehend disadvantage.
You are adding qualifiers to it that were not present. It's a careless, obviously mostly false claim. An idea so tenuous should need evidential support, much less handwaving. I don't get the feeling the author put much thought into it.

The article said:

"it’s the purely technical people — not the businesspeople — who get the respect in the tech industry."

Simply put. Which is thoughtless nonsense that belongs in a poorly thought out livejournal post and not in a serious article in the new york times.
Here's an article from Planetary Society blog about getting geostationary satellites to geostationary orbits:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/20140116-how-to-g...
Historically most coups and revolutions are led by lower-upper sections of the population in question (colonels & young lawyers being the most stereotypical). They are the ones who have enough social capital to do something effective, haven't been quite co-opted or selected for obedience, and see their ambitions thwarted by the people directly above them.
The majority of this book is also highly portable. The techniques can be applied across languages very easily, although, the Haskell implementations are very elegant.
Realistically, knowing that you have 200 miles of fuel is often useful when driving in that part of the country. There's even one part of I-70 with 100+ miles between gas stations, IIRC.
Doesn't seem very surprising. It's a common assertion that males are better with spatial tasks in order to make them better at hunting while women are better at color detection to make them better at gathering and identifying things like ripe fruit when gathering. It's pretty common to see certain animals that have very little color capability, but good motion detection. This is just a hormonal switch for that, which makes sense, if genders were once indicative of roles. It doesn't seem to far off from visual input to encourage shade detection vs. motion detection.
The effect looks cool, however if the capture is loss-less it might be possible to create a shader to flatten it and make it natural looking 360-degree video.
Does he mention what software he used to stitch the views together? (I looked but don't see it, but I'm going through Google Translate)
> That is, my naive understanding is aligned with what a sibling post said. That there is an "ideal" torque rating of my engine. Seems that if my cruising speed isn't stuck at that number, than some gearing changes could be made to put me there. Why does that not work? (Adding a 7th gear, for example, seems to be a natural idea.)

You could add more gears -- or you could just use a CVT.
Most systems have sha256 or sha256sum utilities, too.
How about using Soekris or Alix for a router instead of Netgear?
Famous last words :)

Please audit the code! Just like tarsnap, spiped is eligible for bug bounties.

I can see this being a simple basis for connecting infrastructure together without exposing potentially sensitive data.

Yes, that's exactly it. The use case is "I have a bunch of servers and I want them to talk to each other securely". Ten years ago this would have just been a matter of stringing cat5 between them, but Cloud changes that.
This just moves the problem to space warfare, so things work...until your satellites are knocked out in space.

But, I understand the premise.

Personally I think another angle is important: more competition, hopefully leading to more accurate navigational data streams.
Which is fine. But I'd prefer not to subsidize your lifestyle choice I do now through my taxes that subsidize your fuel, roads, and emergency services.
U.S. tech startups: An endangered species?
I was wondering this as well. Perhaps this is an example of a new, computer-assisted paradigm of math, where after extensive computation, a proposition is accepted as true if the probability of its being false is judged to be sufficiently small. I don't have the exact reference, but there was an article in some AMS publication about this in a few years ago.
http://davenport.geek.nz/bitcoin-day-5/
It's not that bad then either.

If you have 3 gallons per 100 miles, then 3 fits into 14 a bit less than 5 times so you will get like 470 miles.

I mean it's not going to be exact anyway depending on the conditions.
Because society badly needs technology solutions to its problems, and it doesn't help if alpha male "broey-ness" excludes whole segments of society from being able to pitch in and work on them.

You'd also think tech would be a forward thinking industry that considers any discriminatory "ism" to be overall harmful and a problem to be worked on like any other.
Securing Internal Dashboards with Oauth
Your example isn't really a good one because your friend isn't a service provider, she's an uploading user to a service provider. So yes, when you go right to the source user, you are somewhat circumventing the DMCA process but imagine how inefficient that is in the most common cases.

The point of implementing a proper DMCA notice and takedown system is to take advantage of the DMCA safe harbors. I guarantee YouTube, as a service provider, isn't NOT taking advantage of the DMCA safe harbors and claiming its notice and takedown procedures help to qualify it for such (perhaps even stronger than the default, perhaps not).
"The top 1 percent of American households had pretax income above $394,000 last year. The top 10 percent had income exceeding $114,000."
the Midwest.
Concerned About Twitter, Concerned About Design
Yes, as noted, it's a three part structure:

try { MayThrowException(); } catch(MyExceptionType ex) { HandleIfException(ex); } finally { AlwaysRunCleanupRegardless(); }
It seems silly for any company to say that they can stop "any and all cases of fraud". That's just impossible. If they had a mechanism to prevent all fraud, it would be worth billions of dollars (assuming it could be applied to payment processors).
When taking into account wind resistance, the optimal speed for efficiency varies greatly with the current weather conditions too: with a tailwind, the optimal speed goes up, while the opposite is true with a headwind.

Usually the speed at which you first shift into top gear and cruise comfortably is close to optimal

Although automatic transmissions and lack of tachometers are probably responsible for this, I've noticed that a lot of drivers remaining at the upper RPM range for a certain gear while cruising, when they could've sped up 2-3MPH and upshifted. I don't know if there's a term for this, but it's certainly recognisable as a passenger: the engine is much louder than it should be, often with accompanied higher levels of vibration and discomfort.
link not valid - should point here instead http://butterflyinyou.tumblr.com/
That is your prerogative, but you do not pay 100% of the extra cost for the lifestyle you prefer.
And I don't want to subsidize your police force, welfare programs, or subway with my taxes, but I'm not out there complaining about urban hipsters. More power to them. If you don't like suburbs, don;t live there, and leave them alone.
I recently drove from Raton, New Mexico eastbound along US 87. There were a lot of abandoned gas stations along that stretch. The first operational one was 40 miles away in Des Moines; the next one was another 40 miles away in Clayton.

Sometimes that sort of spacing makes the difference between one stop and two, or two stops and three, on a longish drive. Or, put another way, another 20 miles of range makes the difference between filling up in this town or filling up 40 miles down the road.
I believe you could achieve something similar by passing around NSInvocation instances too, no? But that wouldn't be nearly as cool, I love blocks :)
I think that's as good of an example as any provided by the author as why the US should do away with the mpg measurement. If even the careful author can make a mistake like that, then think about the average person.
From all I know about the period, I'm pretty sure no women would pretend that nature treats men and women the same.
Agreed. For me the issue here seems to be more around their handling of the issue. The new wording of their policy seems more sane/better to me. But they need to address the issue in an open manner ASAP.
> "When are people going to stop bitching"

Well, throwing around words like that so casually in a conversation about gender in tech certainly doesn't help.
Bit of an awkward narrative. Has that undergrad "crank it out the night before its due" quality to it. Lots of words, none of them really saying anything.
Updated look at Project Ara
Can someone explain to me how this data doesn't simply reflect the 80/20 rule to the nth degree and or why it is unexpected??
> Motion parallax has to do with the apparent size of an object. If you put a soda can in front of you and then move it closer, it will get bigger in your visual field. Your brain assumes that the can didn’t suddenly grow and concludes that it’s just got closer to you.

> Shape-from-shading is a bit trickier. If you stare at a point on an object in front of you and then move your head around, you’ll notice that the shading of that point changes ever so slightly depending on the lighting around you. The funny thing is that your eyes actually flicker constantly, recalculating the tiny differences in shading, and your brain uses that information to judge how far away the object is.

I need help understanding the mechanics here.

What exactly is the flicker described? What does it have to do with shading being recalculated? If hypothetically our eyes did not flicker, how would that affect our depth perception?

As a follow up - what would be involved in emulating this in a virtual system?
Only marginally related, but what the heck is going on with the text on gwern's site? Are the per-character varying gray values supposed to convey some kind of information?
I think they mean 4π steradians (unit of solid angle covering the surface of a sphere), not 360° (unit of angle, covering the circumference of a circle).
That's a false dichotomy. There are ways to create suburban areas with forests and local gardens that are much higher density than our current suburban outlay while still being enjoyable to live in. However, it requires giving up the McMansion style of building. The only way for this to happen though, in my opinion, is to incentivize developers into planning these types of neighborhoods vs. McMansion lands (and I say this from an experienced standpoint with a family of real-estate developers).
They're also majority White. Are you saying minorities also don't want to do any "pesky work"?
Over the long term you expect the weather to average out and cancel itself out of the calculation. The question is does the headwind lower your efficiency more than the equivalent tailwind raise your efficiency?
It's an extremely convenient metric.

L/100km is roughly equivalent to L/h at highway speeds, and you can figure Litres to destination when you see a road sign by multiplying L/100km by the hundreds place.

With gas stations being upwards of a hundred kilometres apart in the prairies and northern ontario, especially at night, it's nice that this is so easy.
right, I'm not saying one measurement is "bad" and the other is "good". Just that one is more natural for specific conditions.

Something I learned in grad school (applied mathematics): a lot of people care about metric because the conversions are easy. But a lot of systems are better measured in units that come from the system itself. Traffic flow may be best measured, not in feet or meters, but in multiples of the average car length. If you get too caught up in trying to force everything into metric just because it's usually better, you can end up creating extra work for yourself in circumstances where the system is better measured using itself. Likewise, if you insist on gpm because it's "better" than mpg, you make some calculations a little easier and others a little harder.
I know I didn't upvote your comment because of:

> This is why those on the far left often make statements like "there's no such thing as reverse racism/sexism." They're right based on their usage--it's just a matter of definition.

Don't know enough about it but I think "there's no such thing as reverse racism" is true because it would be just... racism. Or just sexism. Actually the definition given before ("sexism is sexism by the privileged") would allow for "reverse sexism" ("sexism by the non-privileged"). So it seemed kind of inconsistent to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7539781
That's a misconception.

I earn six figures, and I'm in the 71st percentile, because I'm the sole breadwinner in my family.
I really liked the slow cycling and music at the beginning. I think it would be cool to do a music video like this, with an MC rapping as they walk/dance along, and all sorts of interesting people and scenery come and go over the horizon.
Friend's Macbook and iPhone stolen in SF, Please Share
Taking the formal lawsuit route is also seen as dirty and ruins careers, so there's really no easy way to deal with this stuff when it's happening.
Boo! lame article.
I Want – An app that allows users to earn Bitcoins helping others
Looks like an aesthetic novelty rather than something functional.
As a man with a marginally popular blog and what I'm told is an extremely masculine writing style, I can assure you that virtually no one applies the principle of charity.

For example, consider this post I wrote criticizing my third favorite language: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/why_not_python.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5986158

Then go read the top comments either on the blog or HN. The top python geeks (read: core numpy contributors) in the thread had no dispute with me, yet there was a lot of clueless disagreement suggesting I never heard of multiprocessing/zeromq/twisted/etc. The entire point of the post is that multiprocessing+whatever is fundamentally slower/uses more memory/has worse cache locality than shared memory+threads.

People don't read. They don't apply the principle of charity. They don't follow your links to verify things. This is not a gendered problem.

(If you look for popular posts on my blog you can find lots of other examples, I'm just sticking to a purely technical topic.)
I wonder how you start all the camera's recording at the same time, and how much variation there is in their framerates.

I know the old gopro's used to have a connector for some sort of sync cable to make 3d stereo recording work better,
It might be posible to slave many camera's together if someone reversed engineered the connection details.

Otherwise I imagine that aligning all the video's in time might be incredibly annoying, especially if the framerate isn't consistent from camera to camera.
Yes maybe, but I've been a ruby/js guy for a while now and grown to love the proc/function.
Interesting.

Recently I made a distribution of the wealth of the top 250:
http://checkthis.com/2gw4

Even within the 0.01% you see a lot of differences.
> To provide an example of why this is complete and utter nonsense, BEHOLD, an example of imperative AND mutable programming in Haskell:

It seems that 'this' here must not refer to the parent post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538461):

> Also, if you don't want to make the full leap into "PURE EVERYTHING MUST STAY CLEAN DONT BREAK THE RULES" style code, try Haskell. Imperative programming in Haskell is great! The language evaluation rules may be purely function, but your code doesn't need to be.

with which you seem to be agreeing. Perhaps it refers to the grandparent post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7537877), specifically to its implicit claim that Haskell programming involves "PURE EVERYTHING MUST STAY CLEAN DONT BREAK THE RULES"?
Virtually no one applies the principle of charity

On Hacker News, though, we definitely should.
For an automobile, at cruising speed, the force of the drivetrain pushing the car forward, and the forces of drag and friction are balanced (If the net force is zero, the acceleration is zero).

In the engine and drivetrain, force per unit of fuel is dependent on velocity (this is probably a pretty complex dependency), but you can probably tune the system to have peak efficiency at whatever speed you want.

For aerodynamic drag, it's a function of the square of velocity. You can certainly work to lower the drag coefficients, but whatever the force is at 39 mph, at 55 mph it will be about double, and about 78 mph will be double that.

Realistically, it makes sense to put the peak of engine and drivetrain efficiency in the range people are going to be driving the most; so this is why many vehicles will be most efficient around the 55-70 range.

If you're willing to radically change behavior, you would likely have a much more efficient vehicle if you tuned for 40 mph, and people drove it at 40 mph. At lower speeds, other frictional forces become more significant as well, so maybe tuning for 5 mph isn't a great idea.
I'd love to be able to create OS X WorkSpaces as well.
I suspect that levosmetalo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538317) is referring to the common perception (on whose correctness I cannot comment) that Mono has considerable drawbacks, a perception to whose existence a quick Google search will attest (https://www.google.com/search?q=Mono+drawback).
The flickers are called saccades. [1]

It's not clear to me how, in the absence of head movement, eye movement alone would account for perceiving shading differences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade
It should be alternating lines with red, black and blue not greys, it's to increase reading speed: http://www.beelinereader.com/
Do you know any good guides to getting started with SML, as LYAH and similar allow one to do with Haskell? Also, can you recommend any particular implementation?
Realistically, somebody who is the victim of petty theft is not responsible for the circumstances that led somebody to become a thief. Expecting people who were robbed to feel ashamed that they were robbed is absurd. They are a victim. Not to mention that most people do not have the resources to relocate themselves to a country with less crime. Greggman expecting these people to feel ashamed that they have been unable to flee their country is worse than absurd; it is patently offensive.

If the thief can be said to be a victim of circumstance and therefore not responsible for their actions, then the same can be said even more strongly of their victims.