skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll echo what is said further down; it is good to see a reasonable look into homelessness here on HN.

I literally just came bsck from a vigil for a man who died in a self-lit fire in an abandoned moving truck parked in my hometown. The vigil was attended by homeless advocates of all political stripes, had a local police officer singing at the beginning and end, and a gubernatorial candidate was around as well. The "issue of homelessness" is definitely complicated, and amongst the crowd tonight, all holding candles, were those who take stands for rental vouchers, more conservative "housing first" policies, expanded mental health care, and a few other approaches. There were plenty of compassionate Christian conservatives there who I appreciate for their emphasis on pragmatism and on human dignity, even though the solutions run against their deeply held political beliefs.

As someone who has always felt just a day a way from slipping into homelessness myself, including struggling with alcoholism - the one thing I can say for certain is that the only way to address this is by continuing to address the issue honestly, trying the best we can with evidence of what works. I wish I could say I trust my faculties, but week to week its obvious I have a problem, even back when I was 9 years into sobriety..

In America, we definitely err on the side of personal liberty and responsibility, and though I agree with that in some abstract sense, it is obvious to me that moralizing the issue as one of choice, or as one of laziness vs. hard work and determination, is a failure. We can do better, and we will, but in the process we're going to have to accept responsibility for each other in a costly and politically inconvenient way.

The fact that people came out tonight in my hometown to celebrate our common humanity, despite another tragic loss, is admirable. It is what defines us as a human family. Although the circumstances anger me personally, all these people tonight, and the people here on HN, prove there is a solution, even if it is a hard process and not a clear destination.
Maintain unity within the political coalition.
Organizational Thinking (about social at Google) (2010)
The point of destroying is presumably that you don't pay whilst you're sleeping, or otherwise not using the server.

Re: data, you can (optionally) do a wipe when you destroy a DO, but you could just delete the logs or turn off logging, which would be faster. Having said that, I'm not sure what in the logs would be harmful to you.
As a logical thinking human being, if you are constantly being told you should go be a teacher, nurse, etc and then you end up in a field where you are told you do not belong. Where every day you have to wonder if the guy smiling creepily at you is listening to you or staring at your chest during scrum. Where you wonder if you should report the guy who would not let go of your hand when you and your coworkers went for drinks after work or if that would make them fire you for being a disruptive influence. Or maybe you should just not socialize with your coworkers.

If you are an intelligent human being who could go do and learn whatever you wanted, which was why you went, fuck conformity, I'm going to program and did it, why would you stay in an environment where you feel unsafe, objectified, and unwanted?

And at the end of the day, if another human being tells you that your actions make them feel unsafe, objectified, and unwanted, why is your reaction to tell them to leave?

Have you considered that perhaps there are girls who do not like playing with dolls? Who wanted the legos and Knex, who their parents had to threaten to keep them from taking apart the television and wanted a soldering iron instead of Barbies. That the very girls who ignore the conditioning you mentioned who make it regardless of social pressures when they realize that you, their peers, will continue to think they do not belong and they will have to fight your mentality for the rest of their lives, that you would rather believe that they simply can't hack it so you can justify the job distribution, why should they have to endure the perpetual questioning, lewd comments, uncomfortable stares, and stress? Why as fellow human beings would you ask that of anyone?
Again - if it's so incredibly awesome for consumers...why not let them choose to arbitrate instead of forcing them?
There is trusting your employees and not feeling the need to scan everything they say to each other looking for boogiemen...

and then there is not trusting employees who have access to your conversations to also not feel the need to scan everything you say to people looking for boogiemen.

There is no dissonance here.
Apple Launches Replacement Program For Faulty iPhone 5 Sleep/Wake Buttons
The study does break it down further, and the result actually made feel ill.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2427725_code...

Go to Page 55+

Things aren't so bad if you're white female. If you're hispanic female, you even enjoy advantages in field of science.

But the numbers for Chinese and Indian (both genders) look absolutely atrocious. I'm seeing on average 30 percentage point difference, but as much as 60%+ in some fields.

This is just disturbing.
The days of failure behind it, Slack forges onwards with $42.75M
Not even that, now that I watch my hand truth is only my fingers do the motion but it's mostly because I like to work with a high sensitivity setting (less than 2cm to go through all the screen).
Do you keep a binary log of your network traffic?
This is why I worry about cloud backup — as things stand (local + periodic offsite backups), I periodically flatten and bare-metal-restore my systems for the sole purpose of testing backups, so I have a reasonable level of confidence that the backups will work as intended when disaster strikes. For $250, I'd probably never do this.
You really think SpaceX loads aren't insured? This seems impossible.
It's not, but should we also not protest those as well?

Do we not teach children wrong by showing we are displeased? That silence means their actions are acceptable. Perhaps not reward-worthy, but acceptable. Thus are you saying that the behaviors shown on TV, shopping malls, bars, that is how you want you, your friends, your children to be treated?
Grounding. That's why USB sucks. If you work with precision instrumentation, USB introduces ground loops and forces unpleasant grounding configurations.

I've been looking for a USB 2.0 High-Speed (who came up with these names, where Full Speed is slower than High Speed?) opto-isolator for years. (Corning's new "3.Optical" cabling looks great, once it makes it to market)

HN have any pointers?

Edit: Looks like 3.Optical cables appeared for sale ten days ago! http://www.corning.com/news_center/news_releases/2014/201404... , http://www.eaccu-tech.com/usb-3-0-optical-cables/usb-3-optic...

Hm. They may be "for sale", but availability may be slim.
Amazon has lost 30% of its value between the last 2 earnings reports.
Join the club. I've reported it before as well, years ago. I even discussed it on my FB wall at one point with some tests against my own site. I never re-tested, figuring they'd take care of the issue. Guess not.
I manage the Hipchat system at my office. You would be amazed at how few features there are on the admin end. I can only change peoples nicknames, room names, and turn on/off guest access. And upload emoticons. That's the only admin action I ever use.
Notify over 200 tech blogs about your new app
Nice demo. I love "shelves" on mobile apps, but I found all of these except "slide in on top" annoying. The rest reminded me of those ridiculous Powerpoint transitions where every letter falls into place one at a time. Do a favor to your users and don't let novelty transitions overshadow actual UX.
I guess linking to NACA was more to highlight some of the other downsides of forced arbitration. I agree with your counterpoints to NACA's claims but ultimately forced arbitration still prevents someone from using the justice system simply because it's too costly to the corporations. Again, cases like the KBR/Halliburton can have atrocious consequences.

Again the NACA link was to highlight the problems with forced arbitration. I wouldn't want it to detract from the fact that forced arbitration is a terrible policy.
What will this be that OpenID isn't?

Why should a developer choose to use this authentication solution over one of the popular OAuth based systems (Facebook, Google, Twitter)?
Yup. That's a reason why I'm a big fan of the High Frontier, space exploration, and settlement.

So when something goes boom, here, there will be some people, elsewhere, to help rebuild.

Worst case, the species will carry on.
A USB over twisted-pair extender, like [1] works. They just look like an extra hub to the USB stack.

[1] http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/B203-101/B203-101-N...
> They are _paying_ for it after all.

They pay for the toilets too, but that doesn't mean they have surveillance access to everything you do in the bathroom.

Not saying that there might not be a good argument that they ought to have read access to company chats, but it certainly doesn't follow from the fact that they pay for it.
Lots of nice juicy history and interesting detail, but someone who doesn't understand Unicode at all should probably start with this classic article first:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
(The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets)

and then return to read the featured article.
I feel like most of society can't handle being alone ever since social media "brought us together".
Because lawyers are very good at convincing consumers not to with promises of big dollars?
Tablet Keyboard Improvement
I love tablets but hate typing on them. The major issues are with typing, copying, pasting, etc. I think this problem can be easily fixed but nobody it working on it. For instance, cause when I select stuff with my fat fingers I can seldom hit before the right character - as such arrow keys (forward and back, possibly with a frontspace (opposite of backspace)) would be useful.

Right now the only way to correct a word is to press somewhere behind it, type in the new one and press again in front of it. we need a keyboRd that can surf the full '.text' space with keys (like Turing complete or whatever for the keyspace applied to typing) as most tablet keyboards can't navigate everywhere with keys in a text box area).

I post here hoping someone with the can-do attitude will make it happen.
It was a colossal pain in the butt using USB in mobile robots like we did at Anybots. There aren't compatible locking versions of the connectors. Ethernet/RJ45 is much better without requiring thumbscrews.
It would break my current usage of unions.

typedef union
{
struct sockaddr sa;
struct sockaddr_in sin;
struct sockaddr_in6 sin6;
} addr__u;

as a way to work around the BSD socket API without horrible casting all over the place. Change the "union" to a "struct" and the code no longer works. Is it subverting the type system? Yes. Is casting subverting the type system. Yes. Pick your poison.
Well, if you feel envious of women who can sleep with people for money, you may still be able to find men who will accept your services as a prostitute. Since you seem to think it's so cushy.
That's why I use a trackball.
Better for the cord to come out the back of the computer than the front of the mouse.

Besides, even PS2 connectors will come out if you yank on them hard enough. I can't remember owning a mouse with a locking cable ^^;
Perhaps that's true for your very specific use case but the same is likely to be true for other people using your build system. autodetection is great when it works and horrid when it fails.
I've never had a problem with it... the restaurant which is the subject of the article itself is just characteristically sneaky Dutch marketing.

Wine and some literature or a notepad for creative flourishes are often better company than people... and can help one to take work and life less seriously. This is a situation in which strong service people can really make a restaurant shine. Also, often I find eating alone I am actually able to meet fellow diners, occasionally single and attractive ones, with relative ease!

Similarly, if feedback is requested by staff or I feel compelled to offer it at the end of the meal, I can be honest and open about my impressions and not have to curtail perspective to avoiding looking like a snob to my dining companions. (An aside, is that IMHO one mark of a great restaurant is one that invites and accepts graciously feedback from its patrons.)

France, Romania, and Los Angeles have the most single-dining friendly cultures I've encountered. Holland does have it but it can be a pain in the ass to find quality restaurants, and very hard to find anything done well that deviates from the European cuisine matrix. Much of Asia (Thailand, South India, China, etc.) has a great single dining culture from a more practical perspective: less white tablecloth, multi-course meals and wine lists - more convenient menus and hands down tasty single person optimized relatively-balanced meals, at least for a portion of their cuisine.
This seems like an appropriate time to remind everyone that your work email belongs to your boss, not to you. Don't send private emails from your work account. Likewise, your work laptop isn't yours, it's your employers. Don't do personal work on it.

My team tested out HipChat, and it's rad, but I had trouble convincing anyone it was worth the cost over terrible Lync, which we already have, despite it's complete lack of stability on the Mac. We're now secretly using Slack, and enjoying it pretty well. The "native" client is also really nice, bringing just enough native experience to a web view.
Because a perseverance in being stupid made the choice of a long series of bad choices.

Motorola 68K and specialized high quality embedded units? (like amiga):
no it will be overprices compared to the cough future price of an evolutive PC. Which final form are below average quality and overpriced embedded devices.

Had you followed the way of the old wise and chosen motorola architecture, you would not have theses problems. :)
Oh, you have friends. Must be nice.
Fluid keyboard-only editing of typeset equations is Lyx's most valuable feature to me. I'm sure Lyx was inspired by some prior art, but I haven't come across another app that allows me to write up lecture notes from a blackboard with the speed of a stenographer.

I would love to see a web app that aims for the same thing.
Noisli – background noise and color generator for working and relaxing
HSCTF – A hacking competition by high schoolers for high schoolers
HSCTF – A hacking competition by high schoolers for high schoolers
I am mostly familiar with the original content they have like the show 'Pioneer 1'. I haven't ever tried their bundles.

Since they redesigned their site, it is very difficult to figure out what stuff they have released in the past, but Wikipedia and the Internet Archive can help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VODO

https://web.archive.org/web/20130129195347/http://vodo.net/f...
If there are more men then women in prison, it can only be because men commit more crime, right?
Those kinds of drives are being used by individuals a lot for archiving things like genealogy. I would expect there will continue to be readers (perhaps not <$10) for a very long time.
And as always, something else came along to fill the void: comedy. Shows like "The Daily Show", artists like Louis C.K., and even web comics like "Dinosaur Comics" now do the job irony allegedly left behind of revealing the hypocrisies and absurdities of the modern world.
"It's an interesting project but practically speaking $100 (no contract) can already buy a pretty good smartphone these days... and one with a more "unofficially open" SoC too."

Does that smartphone with a "more unofficially open" SoC
boot from SD card?

Is it OS agnostic?

I would actually be willing to pay more than the going rate
for a "smartphone" that that allowed me to use my own
bootloader and my own choice of OS, and one with no ties
to search engine ad sales companies or the like.

I just want a handheld computer with a decent enclosure
and which can be controlled with time-tested, open source
drivers.

It does not need to have impressive specs, just a small form
factor and easy to control with any open source OS.

If it can make phone calls, all the better.
There are lots of them. Just look at what GTA04 and Neo900 are using (Option and Cinterion). Such project can't accept closed baseband being highly integrated with main CPU and RAM like most of modern smartphones do, so they use ready 3G/LTE modules to move it out as a USB peripheral in CPU perspective.
Population is one number. Birth rate is a derivative of that. A rate of change in birth rate is the second derivative of population.

Population'' is clearly negative -- the global birth rate IS in decline, and has been since 1950 according to the UN (I don't see earlier stats). Population is still increasing because Population' is positive. (well, actually Birth rate > death rate).

Per country, it actually is a median vs. mean problem; most countries (hence, median) have below-replacement birth rates; there are a limited number of countries with substantially above replacement birth rates, due to both fertility and the demographic composition (lots of young people).
FYI: Its a Drupal7 site hosted on new jersey linode so they can't really be php haters - maybe self-haterz. Using TypeKit. Sophisticated enough to include a custom server header and a California specific Privacy Policy but a UK one (although it could be copied). Video by Wistia.

-- HEADERS --

Server	The Codebabes server

-- Traceroute --

8 router3-fmt.linode.com (65.49.10.218) 14.891 ms 9.519 ms 14.410 ms

9 li679-236.members.linode.com (23.239.1.236) 10.002 ms 9.691 ms 9.229 ms

----
I wonder if you could build a passenger pod which attaches to the airframe. The pods get swapped when the plane comes in to the terminal. The new pod would already be fully boarded, and deplaning people on the arriving pod would not hold everything up.

I guess whether this would be worth it or not depends on whether the advantages of "0 boarding time" from the airline's point of view offset the cost of the infrastructure and extra weight required to support such a system.

From a security point of view, you could keep the pod completely decoupled from the other parts of the aircraft (e.g. no cabin access, not "coupled into" control systems).
That's because the Mac OS X FTDI drivers that FTDI provides are absofuckinglutely terrible. Don't install them, use libusb from userspace...
Capitalism fells communism in Marx-Engels copyright flap
EDIT: With regard to what I pointed out in my original comment (below for reference), I believe the Nature article chart is in error. Reading the actual paper (p.55), the gap in "engineering and computer sciences" (while smaller than some other fields) is actually more statistically significant than some of the other results. I suppose that may be because they were able to trial more professors.

I guess that means, be careful trusting charts, even from Nature's blog. The smaller gap may still count for something compared to a few worse fields, but it's not among the statistically-unclear results of the fields studied.

--original below--

From the graph, "engineering and computer sciences" was one of the smallest measured gaps, and further didn't feature the "*" which indicated a statistically-significant result.

So in all the often-justified criticism, the fact that CS/engineering are better than many other fields-of-practice should count for something.

(Interestingly also per the chart, in 'Fine Arts' the faculty discrimination ran in favor of women/minorities, to a statistically-significant level.)
Musk mentioned GPS satellites as one of the kinds of payloads he wanted to bid for. It looks like they fall well within the capacity of the Falcon 9. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_IIF
Women get laughably light prison sentences compared to men.
some of the differences aren't statistically significant?
I am a tad perturbed that a quick skim didn't present to my eyes any statements along the lines of "But we never tried it, at all, so take it with a grain of salt."

Either that or I somehow completely missed the table showing the effect of the schedule on subjects vs. controls, or any other sort of experimental confirmation whatsoever.

To be clear I don't object to the analysis or its methods, I object that it's not being clearly confessed to be an analysis in bold letters.
Those old enough will remember the Apple II and its fully decoded, addressable expansion slots. Each slot with specific addresses for memory mapped IO and space for a small firmware (to boot a disk, output characters to a second screen and so on).

The IBM PC looked remarkably primitive in comparison.
I wonder if they will implement a "off the record" feature similar to Google Chat. Even if the company has access to private chats, some legal departments recommend their employees not use chats or emails for certain correspondence.
More fun facts:

- We went from 128 ASCII characters to 110,187 currently-assigned Unicode characters (or Encoded Character code points, to use precise language)[1]. That's a thousand-fold increase. Who would have thought we'd need so many!

- Unicode can represent 1,114,112 code points. So there's lots of room for yet more.

[1] http://babelstone.blogspot.ca/2005/11/how-many-unicode-chara...
Guess you missed Dropbox's big announcement. Here's their forced arbitration clause:

https://www.dropbox.com/terms2014

It says in the exceptions to arbitration that Dropbox still retains the right to take consumers to court for intellectual property infringement, but if Dropbox has a massive data breach and every private file you have shared becomes public, you're on your own facing Dropbox in forced arbitration.
I'm looking at a USB memory stick right now. On one side is the company name (Kingston). The other side has the device name (DataTraveler). There is no USB logo on the thing.

So, which way does it plug in? Oh, and the USB ports on the front of my computer (tower) are vertical, nor horizontal.
كم أنت كبير يا ابن الخضراء هههه انا لا Ooredoo قطر‬
I'll bet that if it could then suddenly they might start caring more about it.
This looks like a great free load testing tool! :)
Nobody I know has found it confusing, it's a mix of technical faculty. I've only used the desktop app.
If we're going to be talking about "Seismic Stock moves" as being 8%, then AAPL, on the same day, had an 8.5% bump (525 to 570). Do we consider that a Seismic Shock as well?
Yes, this is a good suggestion. Time will tell.
I prefer BSD and this is potentially a candidate.

For now, I'm investing my time in my RPi.
List of Vim plugins for writers
> "This environment gave artists few choices: sentimentality, nihilism, or irony."

I suppose one could call it art to construct a giant synthetic angst generator and bathe in its effluent.
This is all just symptomatic and the informalization of society. Seinfeld was snarky and shallow, but it was ultimately about laughing at social faux pas. We're rapidly running out of things that are morally acceptable but socially unacceptable.
An an HTTP request requires what, 3 packets inbound? Just saying calling it a "DDoS" seems slightly generous.
I don't know what your setup is like but a connection != the requests my webserver can handle.
If you look at previous launches of new designs you will see that the first few flights are invariably not commercial, they carry research spacecraft. These are the qualification flights; until the vehicle has a good track record the satellite operator won't find anyone to insure their bird.

Now the Falcon 9 is an all-new design, and their track record isn't all that shiny - there is a history of missing the target orbit by a fairly significant margin. It's going to be downvoted, but it had to be said.

I wouldn't be surprised if this flight went without insurance.