skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a counter-point to this that is likely to be unpopular, but it's deeply rooted in human biology and isn't going to go away any time soon. Attractive young women may have difficulty getting people to take them seriously, and have to deal with things like frequent unwanted sexual advances, but they have no trouble getting laid. Attractive young women have easy, practically unlimited access to sex (if they so desire). Unsurprisingly, this comes at a cost.

Meanwhile, while it's easier for men to be taken seriously, and they much less often have to deal with sexual harassment, they often have trouble getting laid—especially with the aforementioned attractive young women. It may be true that "the vast majority of guys...are simply not aware that women...go through this stuff all the time". But it's also true that the vast majority of women are simply not aware of how hard it is for young men, especially nerdy young men, to get appealing women to have sex with them. They would be utterly flabbergasted if they learned just how many computer geeks, science grad students, etc., have never even kissed a girl, much less had sex with one.

We see that there are plusses and minuses to each respective situation, but arguably men have it worse off, because women can complain freely of the terrible things they have to put up with, and they're generally met with sympathy by the mainstream (and backed by the full force of Federal law). Meanwhile, men who complain that attractive young women won't sleep with them are shamed and belittled, and told that no one owes them sex. Which is true—but is hardly helpful to the proverbial 40-year-old virgin.
Thanks for that link, it looks like it'll make for some fascinating watching.
I was picturing an App, "So The World Has Ended," which you could run on an Android that's powered with solar panels.

I pictured RAF / Special Forces handbooks. Describe clouds, knots, wildlife, foliage, etc.
I've begun to notice that if someone is complaining that another company stole their idea, they're usually nontechnical -- business, design, etc.
I'm amazed that there hasn't been more conversation about this - kudos to both you and Strava for this. These tools and this data set seem to have huge potential for crowd-sourced mapping.
The Unix Time-Sharing System
/shrugs

Seems weird from the outside, but the feeling is really quite nice, and very relaxing. The pseudoscientific name is annoying though.
There is a good chance that EMP will be involved. Your device probably won't work.
I know a few people I like and whose opinions I respect who talk like this, and if I don't make a conscious effort to ignore the uptalk, it drives me mad.

What is it? Why is it so irritating?
Bought this book (the kindle version of course, with a silly grin) and it actually addresses (in the first chapter) how having a hard-copy version of Wikipedia is not adequate at all, and it wasn't designed for the task of rebooting society/technology.
Did you read the post? Which substantive point in the post do you disagree with? If you have a problem only with the tone of the post, or its framing, then an honest rhetorical strategy would start by conceding that you agree with the substantive concerns of the post before moving on to attack the writer for tone, framing, or approach.

As it stands, the comment you wrote could have been written by someone who hadn't read the post at all. I imagine that's not the message you meant to send.
Turlock! I was in Lodi. I do remember the BBS scene fondly; I was in my 20s by that point.
The "radio drama" is available for free listening here: https://archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy
I doubt it. How important would the heavily debated subjects be to a post-apocalyptic society? I'd imagine they would care much more about husbandry, carpentry, metallurgy, and primitive industrial chemistry than whether or not X person was notable enough to deserve a page or precisely how long Colbert managed to keep the page about the extinct elephant altered.
Coal - there is lots, and lots of readily available coal.
I agree that we should be judged as individuals, but if you are white and male, then you should also be aware that you are perceived differently and generally more positively in many situations than minorities and women. If you apply for a job or a loan, you have an advantage. Even without a Stanford MBA, you would have an easier time getting VC funding than more qualified women and minorities.
It seems you are doing the same thing you are accusing me of by not addressing my points. The specific calls to action she makes for the most part seem reasonable. But they are hung not just on a poor tone but a general worldview that in my view alienates both genders from one another and in general would cause more friction and emotional hurt in day to day life if it were adopted by all. Hence the reason I called out what I saw to be a poor comparison, the OP and Shanley are coming at this from what I think are completely different angles. (And yes I agree with you, the 'tone police' card is overplayed and stupid.)
What kind of storage is binary technically?

Are you thinking that the digits should be physically unconnected solid objects? That would be an unconventional definition, not the one used by computer scientists and engineers.
Completely agree. I suppose the benchmark tests were a good start, but far from complete. To back up what you said here is a post from 2013 "not all Mac SSD's are the same"

http://blog.macsales.com/19008-performance-testing-not-all-2...
Have you ever tried learning math, or physics, from wikipedia? It's nearly impossible. I agree that preserving some sort of encyclopedic form of knowledge is a great idea, and that wikipedia is the best we have at the moment, but in the event of apocalypse, it would be pretty much useless.

Imagine for instance that you don't know what electricity is. Now read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity. There is no useful information there. Looking around now, I can't figure out any way I could come to any sort of reasonable understanding. This is a familiar feeling for me - it's the same feeling I get whenever I look up some new (to me) mathematical concept on wikipedia.

Wikipedia is not meant for teaching. Now, a wikipedia of textbooks (wikiversity?) would be extraordinarily helpful in an apocalypse, as well as every-day life.
Stephen Hawking Says A.I. Could Be Our 'Worst Mistake In History'
Flappy 2048:What happens when Flappy birds suffered 2048?
This is a good point. Surely Square have a plan for when America finally joins the present decade and adopts EMV/Chip and PIN? Or are they hoping to bootstrap pure mobile payments as an alternative? I don't see a competitive advantage in the latter scenario when PayPal already have a system with photo verification rolling out here in the UK.
You understand that Britta wasn't saying "tell all your male friends to follow everything that Shanley says", right? She was saying, "this Shanley post has good suggestions in it". It turns out you agree.

If you'd like the "tone police" card to get played less often, stop burying the lede that you agree with all the substantive points of this-or-that feminist blog post under a mountain of concern trolling about tone.

You can buy yourself the rhetorical space to criticize someone's tone by demonstrating that you took their substantive points seriously. But read your comments; you can see clearly that you did nothing of the sort here.
How did Egyptians move pyramid stones? Mystery may be solved – CNET
Light/dark being good/bad in the European sense stems from good things being light and bad things being dark. Fire is good - it keeps you warm and cooks your food. The soot and char left over from the fire is bad, relatively useless. The day is good - it's when you're out and about, able to see and do things, and it's warm. The night is bad, you can't do much, it's hard to see and get stuff done. Criminals do their deeds in the shadows, where they're hard to see, as opposed to morally righteous actions, which are easily performed in the full view of day. Certainly in the christian theology that shaped Europe, dark refers to shadowy nefariousness, and not dark-skinned humans.

The black finance thing is rather simple - in bookkeeping, a positive total is written in normal ink, which is (usually) black. A negative total is written in red ink, to make it stand out. Being in the black just means you're not making a loss, though when used colloquially, as you say, it means you are flush with cash.
I will admit I did not read the article.

Flash is trending towards fewer higher capacity chips. In some cases this is resulting in less parallelism and slower response times for individual reads and writes.

Not saying anything about this article and set of hardware, just in general that this has been my observation with new models of SSDs as they are released.

Unfortunately the way most applications are written the response time of SSDs is the primary benefit because they present low concurrency and don't parallelize the procesing of data as it comes off of disk. Still way better than seek times on spinning disk, but far from what could be.
It would be after a little while of using the language, I just don't think it should optimize for new users.
Keylogging to find wifi passwords?
Recently my legal guardians have decided to change the wifi password daily in an attempt to limit my internet time. I was thinking of using a remote access keylogger to view the password. Most of the ones I've found are too elaborate/expensive. Any suggestions?
We're releasing team management with rights and roles alongside a host of other features this month. This is great feedback and, ultimately, a lot of what we hope to solve. We are as into creating dev tools as much as building out marketplace features. Let's chat! ben @ addonlist . com
The Future of Dragon Boat
First, coat a sheet of paper with egg whites containing some dissolved salt, and allow it to dry. Now dissolve some silver in nitric acid, which will oxidize the metal to soluble silver nitrate, and spread the solution over your prepared paper.

OK, scavenge a silver spoon. But now how do I get nitric acid? Google: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Nitric-acid-The-Complet... Yeah, that wasn't intuitive at all.

Sodium thiosulfate is the fixing agent still used today and is relatively easy to prepare. Bubble sulfur gas through a solution of soda or caustic soda

Where do I get gaseous sulfer? How do I make caustic soda?

Setting aside the choice of photography as a "critical development" (vs metallurgy and the like)... this guide needs to be a lot more comprehensive if a layperson is expected to use it. I mean... I'm a decently-smart guy (PhD in electronics/robotics). I could build decent electrical circuits (generators, point-contact radios, basic batteries) from scavenged bulk materials, but I'm already lost in this chemistry. :-/
>Is it that hard to download a recording app, like the aclu police recording app, and have the most water tight sexual harassment suit ever?

So you're suggesting the solution to sexual harassment is for women to go deeper into an already uncomfortable situation and gather evidence for the 'nuclear option' that can potentially ruin the careers of both parties? That's complete nonsense. Nobody wants to hire somebody they think might sue them. Since women who file big sexual harassment suits face serious repercussions in the job market later, it's usually an option of last resort.
Meet Jeane: A far-fetched but brilliant idea to begin networking our cars
That said, good intentions don't lessen impact on victims.

If someone pushes me hard because I might have been hit by a falling item, that has less impact on me than if someone pushes me hard because they want to start a fight or get the better of me in some way.

Most human actions don't result in the finality of death.
this is a serious question.

does anyone know if woz lifted weights or participated in any other kind of serious athletics when he was younger? he's always very fit and muscular in early pictures and as many athletes do, he's gained some weight in later years.

i only ask because some contemporary biopic films/representations have portrayed him as out of shape in his early years and that's clearly bullshit.
Do you really think I "hate" you or are being hyperbolic to make a point? If so I think it was lost on me.

Anyway, your appearance has power and privileges whether you (or I) choose to acknowledge it or not.
The Bay Bridge will have a bike bridge to Treasure Island. The old span needs to be removed before it can be completed. Currently one can ride part of the path as an out and back route. http://baybridgeinfo.org/path
hey, at least swarmly shipped it already..http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/02/foursquare-swarms-over-swar...
Another country heard from: Why Microsoft should buy Canonical
I agree Wikipedia isn't great for approaching new topics.

Have you heard of Simple English Wikipedia? It does describe (e.g.) electricity in a useful way.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity
The photography chapter is from the middle of the book. It reads like the required components were already covered in earlier chapters.

Edit: chapter 5 covers making sulfuric acid and then describes making nitric acid. It doesn't go into detail other than reacting sulfuric acid with saltpeter.
Edit: I can't reply to the children (might be my karma game) and so I'll reply here.

Sometimes it takes a few minutes for the relevant 'reply' links to show up. It tends to happen on busy threads; I understand it's a mechanism to slow down flamewars.
Digital Health: Lots of Hype But Little Progress
Is the variance between manufacturers really that dramatic? If so, as a future buyer, how can I make sure I get the fastest among the ostensibly identical SSDs for a given configuration?
The irony in this whole thing is that people like the OP are precisely why NDAs should not be signed. When you are a company like foursquare, ideas like swarm arise naturally from product evolution.

Sure, you may have had the same idea 4 years ago but 4 years ago, it could have been a terrible idea. This brings me to my second point: OP is highly underestimating the importance of timing. It's akin to someone telling you everyday that you need to get treated for cancer; and then years later when you do get cancer, claiming he was right all along.
Why is apple suing samsung for software patents?

Samsung don't write (much of) the software.

EDIT: I know Apple CAN sue samsung, but I don't know why. Google are writing the software, all the features described are google features. Android is what iOS competes with. So I guess my question should have been: Why isn't Apple suing google?
Yes, it really *is* different for girls.
HN disallowed my comment because I'm New-ish. Valid reason. But I still have something to say.

It's different for us. But, we're used to it. At least, I am. The trik (write this down) is to always be in a position to say No. "No, I will not have sex for you in exchange for an A." "No, I will not have sex with you to hold onto my gig."

Nope.
Crap - I just bought a new Macbook Air the first day it was available. Oh well, I guess I'll never really notice...
"Payment processing is much more stable, and I don't think it's even possible for another company to price gouge."

Another thing that makes me think "Commodity."

And the square "dongle" is anything but a good experience. I travel a lot, and I dread every time I return to the Bay Area and have to deal with Taxi Drivers and their attempts at getting credit cards to swipe on the dongle - about 5-10% of the time we just have to enter the numbers in, paying usually takes 30-40 seconds all in, and I don't get a paper receipt which adds another hassle when doing expense reports.

Compare to Singapore where my transaction time with comfort cabs is <5 seconds and I get a decent receipt. (Of course, I also end up paying 10% admin fee for using a credit card, so I pay for that convenience)

Part of this is skill - swiping the card through the square dongle takes a lot of skill - I note when I pay at a food truck (100% square in Redwood City) - they seem to be able to do the transaction in about 10 seconds.
Hey, I'm being super snippy. Thank you for responding gracefully.
Seems like you could emulate this easily with Dropbox and a couple shell aliases.
Yep, came here to say pretty much the same thing. There are also some mountain bike trails of so-so quality down by the "blue bridge" in North Minneapolis over the Mississippi. I grew up around there so haven't checked it out in 15+ years, but it was both fun and kinda sketchy at the same time back then :)
Except if you give them a procedure that doesn't make sense (Like divide the restaurant by Zero) you either open the restaurant for international terrorists, the place blows up or they snap and go postal.
I really like this idea and it got me thinking about a lesser, but still bad, disaster:

If all computers were to disappear tomorrow (let's say a super-EMP, or something) how could we quickly restart the digital age? As in, what source code/chip designs would we really wish we had on paper somewhere, so a relatively small team could get modern computing going quickly?

From the source code side, I'm thinking the opcodes necessary for a Forth compiler, a compiler for some restricted version of C in Forth (to keep the source code size down), a quality C compiler written in the simple-C and the source code for some vaguely POSIX compliant system (MINIX, maybe?)

I'm curious if it's at all feasible to put that much source code on paper...
Because reasons [1]

[1] http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/articles/64028-image/ch-b...
I think once you're on Box you're not likely to go anywhere. And Square is burning almost as much cash, just not on salespeople.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electroni....
I have a harder time reciting the alphabet backwards than forwards.
Once, while writing a new program-loader-and-debugger/"bios" for a Z80 clone, I had a particularly nasty heisenbug.

The problem was my new code "usually" worked. About 25% of the time it would simply fail to do anything (it worked perfectly the other 75% - "umm... aren't computers supposed to be deterministic?") Of course, every single time I did anything to try extract any useful information from the device, it would work 100% of the time. Even tossing a quick 2-byte sequence to flip an I/O pin made the problem completely go away.

The problem was, of course, that the hardware wasn't quote done rebooting, and needed to be left alone a tiny bit longer after hitting the RST pin. About 8 cycles longer than when the hardware engineers assured me it would be "completely safe". Any time I added debug code, it simply worked as the needed delay, and was solved by a very carefully documented sequence of NOOPs.

What made this particularly infuriating, though, was it's seemingly arbitrary sensitivity to when the real code was started. Depending on how much you padded with NOOPs, several behaviors were observed.

#NOOP | Behavior
---------------
0 | original 75/25 ok/fail split
1 | always failed
2 | always worked
3 | always worked
4 | worked ~95% of the time
5 | ~80/20 ok/fail split
6 | ~50/50 ok/fail split (not a lot of data)
7 | *almost* always worked (I think I saw it fail once)
8+ | always worked

Of course, the various stuff I would add for debugging tended to line up with the cases when it DID work.

sigh

I miss working with that chip. Z80 assembly is kind of fun. Well, except for when my boss told me my new loader had to work on our slowest 4Mhz part. Receiving a program over a 115kbaud serial line, verifying CRC-8, and writing it to flash is pretty hard when you have to do it less than ~100 clocks/byte....
I think you're seeing a couple different effects here.

1. The data is reported from a many varieties of GPS devices and phones. So the data is noisy. Some singles tracks will be very noisy, to the point of being fiction.

2. Not all of these tracks are on the road. If you click between bike/run/both you'll see the bike rides are more correlated with roads and the runs seem to have more "off roading."

3. some of those paths are sidewalks and pedestrian bridges and underpasses.
That map is no where near accurate. Most of Europe is essentially nothing but a cycling and running route and should essentially be lit up red all over.
Because Samsung is using them in their products and profiting from them.
Why do you say that normal people do not think these reasons good enough? Why can't both the facebook-users and the non-facebook-users be normal?
I think the real key here is not ide friendliness, but "compiler as a service." The compiler, by definition, is already capable of understanding our code. If that understanding can be exposed as a standard api, we can build up a set of powerful capabilities for refactoring and much deeper programmatic transformations. With very large code bases, this is no longer just nice-to-have ... it is the next tool we should rationally insist on.
FPGA Defined MultiCore Arduino for Raspberry Pi Interfacing
'current' top comment. As I write this, the current top comment talks about how men in general don't really understand the harrassment women get.
What is Mori?

ahh, found it. http://swannodette.github.io/mori/
Return policy
Patent holder can sue anyone using an infringing product. That's why you sometimes hear about patent trolls threatening to sue mom and pop operations if they have a fax/scan/copier and extorting a settlement.
There is just plain something screwed up with a system that rewards someone like Steve Ballmer with any kind of stocks whatsoever, let alone fire him before he has a chance to ruin all kinds of sure things.
You really need to re-evaluate your perspective on sex. You say you understand it's true that no one owes men sex, but you clearly don't understand that.

Both men and women are owed the respect of not being offered frequent unwanted sexual requests. Of getting people to take them seriously, based purely on the merits of their work.

Both men and women aren't owed sex. And it's not a "downside" to not have something you're not entitled to not be given to you. It would be a downside to have to pay for clean drinkable water. Or not be allowed to get public transport to work.

If someone approaches you in public and asks you to have a coffee with them, you don't owe it to them to have it, and your refusal is completely ok. They have no right to get upset if you refuse. Just because everyone else has refused them before doesn't make them suddenly entitled to have coffee with you now.

If no one wants to have coffee with you, you need to make it appealing for them to have coffee with you. This isn't just looks, and you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself and blaming things you can't change.
Mandatory as of October 2015 next year actually.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2014/01/28/america...