skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, and I meant it seriously, it does at least propose a non-silly mechanism that makes sense. But it A: proposes a sweeping result which, if taken seriously, ought to invalidate a lot of other experiments and B: pushes a moderately political button with the gender issue.

Neither of those is a disqualifier, but A in particular at least somewhat gets into the realm of "an extraordinary claim that will require extraordinary confirmation".

The proposed mechanism would also seem to imply that female hunters don't exist. I would have preferred a proposal that you're inclined to hide your weaknesses around a male in general (lest he either take your woman or harass you in other ways), and the mechanism is likely keyed off of testosterone in general rather than mouse smells in particular, which seems reasonable.

My head isn't going to explode if this is established by further experiment. But it's suspicious to me.

To siyer's point, impeccably-done research can still come up with coincidental results, unfortunately.
It's much simpler than it sounds, only 7 lines of code in the sample posted. The point is that most people don't want to share their private key or their users' private keys, justifiably so.

The alternative is building the full binary transaction on your end, which involves selecting inputs, generating scripts, worrying about fees, etc. Implementing that is a week's project. Using an API is 5 min.
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Negative reaction to “meritocracy” is hardly knee-jerk. In fact, the word was coined as criticism of the concept: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
Absolutely. There is a political problem here. Nobody wants to be in the control group. The fairness of the experiment doesn't lend itself well to the social-democratic thinking of the Nordics (everyone is supposed to be treated equally).
Yeah, indeed. I think with the flak this article is taking elsewhere in the comments people might be reading this as an argument against him. I know that was my first impression, glad I asked for clarification.
I like some Nickelback songs. Also, I don't hate on Java, I've even gotten seriously into it for about two years (for a university project and later got a job based on that), and it just made me unhappy (which is a big deal for me, for unrelated reasons). However, I never felt unhappy coding in Ruby (love it!), C (even though it was/is frustrating sometimes), C++ (ok, I am relatively new to it), Python, JavaScript... I tried other languages like Haskell, Erlang and similar, that didn't stick (Erlang syntax will plague me with confusion forever, probably), but nine of them made me unhappy when I worked in them.
"We do not log that information"
The power wall theory is bit odd though. Why are modern Intel desktop CPUs limited to so low power budgets? Ivy bridges were just 77W (TDP), and now Haswells are apparently 65-84W. Desktop platforms should be able to handle far more power, at least in the 100-150 watt range. Meanwhile desktop GPUs are hitting 200-300 watt TDPs regularly, with far more limited cooling systems.

Why isn't Intel able (or willing) to push the power envelope higher in desktops?
Just a question partially unrelated: Since when it is legal to make a non-disparagement agreement? It is like a wtf limitation of freedom to speech and tell the truth

Never ever heard of something like this in EU and I can find only articles related to US. Anyone can instruct me?
Given that we seem to be hitting the practical limit on CPU frequencies, it's interesting to speculate on what kind of (single thread) IPC headroom is still available. You can model those IPC limitations by assuming a CPU with unlimited registers, unlimited functional units, a perfect branch predictor, etc. and seeing how much ILP you can extract from benchmark code. Tighten the CPU's constraints and you get a sense of which capabilities are most valuable.

Wall 1991[1] is the classic paper, AFAIK, and saw a limit with "quite ambitious" (for 1991) imagined future hardware at around 5-7 IPC in a 'median' benchmark. I'd be interested to hear how close Intel is getting and whether anyone's updated that result.

[1] http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~dbrooks/cs146-spring2004/wall-i...
Not necessarily. Evolution isn't magic and lots of species go extinct. And evolution has never been optimizing for the survival of the species. It selects for individual fitness and sometimes even the fitness of individual genes.
This is mis-reading the thesis. Those franchise-agreements and associated rgulatory structures are the premise. The bit about "everything that is wrong with American Capitalism" more or less logically follows.
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BTW, Stuart McMillen made an excellent comic about Rat Park. I think it may have been linked on HN before, but just in case:

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/
Is that site serious or a parody?
I can see an argument a 6-hour day hurts workers. They get less pay while putting in more effort.

If it's true there are 5 stages to producing ideas, a 6-hour day benefits from unconscious thinking done away from the task [1] at lower pay. Whereas an 8-hour work day benefits some of a worker's thinking for their non-work projects, which currently happens on the job.

The substance behind the work is more important than its structure on paper.

[1] http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/04/a-techniqu...
You are responding to a charge I never made. I said I had privacy concerns, not that they were snooping into data, selling it to third parties, or abusing the data we gave them (not that we would all ever agree on what "abuse" meant, or ever know what might happen to all of our data in the foreseeable future)
Rhoma identified the employees she wanted to talk to based on an initial list we provided, the evidence she gathered, employees who asked to speak with her, people Julie asked her to speak with, and anyone else she determined was relevant, including Julie herself

You have to read the article if you are going to comment on it.
It's worth noting that Reddit exists to discuss topics, hobbies etc. Yik Yak doesn't have a defined purpose to the same extent Reddit does.
This lack of definition combined with the geographically-centered design (you know your audience) makes Yik Yak far more dangerous than Reddit IMO.
> Why wouldn't you write a test case to test the O() access time of a function ahead of time?

Because asymptotic limits are a lot easier to verify analytically than empirically. You can, of course, easily test the actual performance characteristics under specific conditions, but that's different than testing the asysmptotic limit.

Of course, TDD doesn't preclude analytically verifying those things that can be analytically verified.
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> encoding alone could be considered 'super intelligence' in the sense that it would easily out-think you and I.

>But it wouldn't take too many improvements to get orders of magnitude past our slower-than-a-speeding-bullet organic thought machinery.

These are HUGE leaps to make.

Not to mention that thinking faster =\= thinking better, which is to say that there is no reason to assume that faster intelligence would not be understandable to the human brain.
Not just small companies - the highest users of this data are large engineering consultancies, research institutions are various central and local government agencies. Then GIS firms, architects and planners. Hobbyists use the data, for sure, but there are massive economic benefits in this data, for many industries.
Who is the Julie Esson that also replied back claiming they were not contacted either? A naïve search doesn't show her being involved with github in any way.

http://au.linkedin.com/pub/julie-esson/46/644/b89
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One more point for all arguing "game changer!"...

When someone was on the bathroom wall it was one person or two people... everyone saw it.

You can bet almost everyone noticeable in school will wind up on this thing at some point. Hurt feelings? Sure. But at least you won't be alone:)
Referring to Julie-Ann's complaint as "histrionic claims about gender discrimination" is unjustified and offensive.

To do so implies that she invented those feelings to further her case. There is absolutely nothing in the record to support such an accusation.
If I'm missing something, let me know, but it seems to me that GitHub did about all they could with this investigation (respected outside investigator, seem to be releasing as much as they are able to, although if they stop releasing new information/new stuff comes out through other channels, my opinion will change). They've admitted that TPW's conduct was unacceptable and are trying to correct that from happening again. The allegations about sexual harassment and locking Horvath out of code seem right now don't seem to have any merit beyond Horvath's allegations. Also, Horvath seems to have accepted the outcome, simply noting that she disagrees with the findings, but not raising issues with how they were arrived at or trying to impeach the investigator's credibility. Her belief that none of this would have happened were she male is an opinion she is entitled to, but is basically impossible to prove at this point. It's unfortunate, but, beyond GitHub having a time machine to go back and try to fix this as it happens, I'm not sure what else anyone expects them to do. My hope: GitHub continues to release what they can, they improve all their employee mediation processes, everyone agrees that they made big improvement to their internal culture, and that eventually, this whole ordeal is relegated to the annals of a Wikipedia subsection.

Have I missed anything?
Their conclusion that "Male odors seemed to act like painkillers" seems like only one of several possible interpretations?

My first reaction was that the possible presence of other male mammals provided a selection bias for individuals who displayed less pain. Amongst individuals of the same species, showing pain would be a sign of weakness, obviously, but it might be a similar marker for possible predators. So perhaps all the animals are feeling the same discomfort, but those who sense other males are less willing to perform their discomfort behaviourally?
We have large processes like that in the JVM as well, so it's not like we're allergic to garbage collectors. But we do see problems that are not a problem in our C code.

It's possible that Go might have ways of avoiding this, but it would take a while to evaluate and it doesn't offer much in the way of guarantees (i.e. it may change in the future). Unsafe code would be pointless... Might as well use C.

Rust seems to offer memory control, safety, and strong guarantees. That seems more appealing for the problems I work on.
A couple of counter-intuitive thoughts:

* The smaller car will stop and maneuver more quickly, avoiding more accidents.

* I read a study years ago that said the relative sizes and weights of vehicles did not significantly impact the outcomes for the humans inside. Instead, the relative positions of the 'hard-points' did (I forget the term, but the parts that don't crumple on impact). If you rear-end a truck and its rear hard-point goes through your windshield into your head (albeit a personal hard-point), that's bad news. If its hard-point hits your vehicle's hard-point then I imagine you mostly suffer from the sudden stop, at least in modern cars.
Actually it was non-stop oncoming traffic. The last person entered the intersection on a deep yellow. By the time they cleared my car, I was in a red in the middle of the intersection (as were they, but I got the ticket).
> Overloading operators makes code a lot more readable and user friendly,

Completely true for scientific computing, but I've been subjected to libraries written in scala recently and operator overloading there has lead to some very difficult to read and use libraries.
I don't understand either. It seems the use case is limited to pushing a notification to all devices. I know plenty of apps do that, but it is generally just spammy.

Any app that needs to send custom push notification to individual users needs to have connected the user_id to the device_id. Once you go the Urban Airship route, there is basically no way to do anything useful with push notifications.

Parse seems to be the only 3rd party service that can do something useful, but you would need to use their user/authentication system.
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I live by a major American university and all Yik Yak is used for is Greek rivalries ("Sig Eps eat butt") and recording their "tfm"s
Smart. A good lesson in identifying misplaced assumptions, thanks.
People go to the bathroom to relieve themselves, people use Yik Yak to be entertained[1] by the hurtful gossip people have to say about one another. When I go to a urinal I'm not scanning the walls for slander, and any slander that's there isn't instantly accessible anywhere on campus.

[1] Obviously some users check Yik Yak to see what's being said about them, teachers may check it to be aware of what students are being targeted, etc.
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In general there is no legal or moral barrier to being paid for your silence, as long as you are not covering up an actual crime by doing so.

Keep in mind that this isn't an employment contract clause, it is a cash bribe to stay quiet. Your freedom is not impaired: you have the choice between saying whatever you like or taking the money.
I beg to differ. Nowadays Skype is always inquiring people to convert their account to a Microsoft Account! The "Metro"/"Modern" version of Skype for Windows 8 even requires a Microsoft account.
This reminds me of the great transformation of Drum Hill Rotary into Drum Hill Square:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Drum+Hill+Rd/@42.6225607,-...
The resulting design is ridiculously confusing and unintuitive. The first time I was driving to it I thought:
"WTF were they thinking? How do I get into the right lane?"
Then it changed to
"Woah, I got lucky, I'm sure I will get confused the next time"
and then
"OK, somehow I keep getting it right"
and
"Wait, I am no longer stuck in traffic here?"
"Not even at 5pm?"
"...woah?"

Yes, designing the traffic lanes works.
What does that regulation look like to you? It's easy to say "regulation is the solution" but regulation can mean a lot of things. What's the easy regulatory solution?
If it is anonymous and unfiltered, it is possible to shit-spam it. Write some server that can find proxies and write random words from dictionaries to fill up so that it becomes impossible to filter the mean from the nonsense.
Gotta take them by their game ! However, if it grows with too many people that have the free time to post (ala 4chan) this strategy becomes too difficult. For a highschool, shouldn't be too difficult ?

Btw, I don't know the specifics of the "app", but it could be done, even, with basic captcha imo.
Apologies, polymorphism is a loaded term that could mean different things depending on your background. I mean parametric polymorphism, i.e. generics. What makes you unexcited about them?
There's a great use for an app like this, and it's something I've wanted forever. Unfortunately, the only people who download and install it seem to be assholes.

That reason is alerting people around you to things going on. If I see a firetruck going past my office, I'm going to want to know where it's headed, for a number of reasons (is there anyone I know involved, are people safe, am I going to be delayed getting home, am I in any danger). Local news isn't going to pick up every fire department response.

Or in more positive ideas, a spontaneous block party is happening down at the local ice cream shop. I'd love to walk down there, but I don't know it's happening. Hyper local services would be incredibly useful with leveraging technology to bring a community closer together. Twitter could solve this problem, but I need to know who to follow. With hyper-local services like Yik Yak, I wouldn't need to follow anyone. The information would just be there.

>if taking down an app could save a kid's life then shouldn't we do it?

It's not technology's problem, it's society's. We could save millions of lives by getting rid of cars. Thousands by getting rid of cell phones. There's a reason we don't do that. There's a much easier answer to the problem of how to protect children from being bullied on Yik Yak: teach your kids the value of walking away.
> Unfortunately the negative posters have more to gain. By putting down someone they get a minor lift up in their own self-image, while boosting someone does not provide nearly such a strong reaction.

I'd like to disagree with you, but in the end we're all selfish, and clearly anonymous communication is often a channel for negativity.

I feel like your explanation is wrong, but the end result is the same heh.
Cable monopolies are state sanctioned and state controlled, and thus fall under the Parker immunity doctrine[1]. Its the same doctrine that permits tight state regulation of electric, gas, and other utilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_action_immunity_doctrine
If you guys like Python and are having second thoughts about Go, take a look at Nimrod.

Also, I personally look at Nimrod as a faster and slightly cleaner Python with a few extras, and I don't try to break the compiler using all of its cutting edge features. If you use it that way you will be happy.
Is there any way to get in contact? I might be able to help.
No one should consider gender and racial diversity in the hiring process or any other aspect of a company. Hire the best person, period.
Throwaways with no user history that post inflammatory comments frequently tend to get called out and downvoted.

Are they not also more prone to being hell-banned?
I've said it many times before, but humans are primates. No matter what we say to the contrary, if we act like primates, look like primates, and have the DNA of a primate, we are most likely primates.

Why are adults still surprised when they see young primates act normally? Adult humans spend an incredible amount of time trying to prevent children from behaving in the ways their natures dictate. Are we so surprised that they viciously fight to establish a status hierarchy in high school? All primates do this. Adults do it too, but in a more nuanced way (money, fame, power).

The sooner we start dealing with the reality of what we are, the easier it will be. The more we deny it and sprinkle it with feel-good nonsense, the worst it will become.
She was allegedly paid to sign the agreement. Gag orders can be a normal part of out-of-court settlements - the person allegedly harmed receives financial compensation, and the entity that allegedly did the harming brings the issue to a close.
Yeah, exactly, and even though you're technically prohibited from excluding Americans in the job ads, take it from Cohen & Grigsby, there's plenty of ways around that problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

They'll teach you how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified American applicants.

You can thank them directly here: http://www.cohenlaw.com
(Personally knowing very little about OS X development...)

Are there 10.9-specific features at work here preventing it from being 10.8.5-compatible? I also haven't upgraded yet.
What is it with HN lately?

Anyone makes a post and 17 people feel obligated to argue... even if the point is irrelevant. Very seldom do they even bother to stick around to back up their arguments.

Now, I know everyone wants to appear smart... but really... this is getting kind of silly.
We are part of the problem. We incentivize creation of net-negative utility apps like this in the hopes of procuring the ever elusive VC funding (proof that you've made it). We chant the lie of 'progress' and 'disruption' for it's own sake. We tolerate a nascent celebrity culture not unlike Hollywood.

What other app-trainwrecks are to come?
> written on bathroom walls

I don't know where you went to school, but I certainly didn't see up-to-date gossip on hundreds of students plastered to the bathroom walls.

> passed around in notes

Notes can be viewed by one person at a time and can be entirely removed by a single person.

People have always been mean, but now people can be mean very efficiently.
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For one, free() is a no-op on a null.
Of course, speeding through side streets is to be much preferred, the purpose of such streets being solely to permit the swift passage of motorized traffic ;)

The ages of the naysayers in the article were interesting, though this could simply reflect people the journalist and their colleagues knew. To be revisited in 20 years, I think...
There's a pretty nice Java variant of this from JBoss: http://aerogear.org/docs/specs/aerogear-server-push/#overvie...

Works with Apple’s APNs, Google Cloud Messaging and Mozilla’s Simple Push.
That may be your opinion, but humans don't work like that.

It's a question of which human folly you magnify with your technology. Whether it dies out quickly does not matter once the damage is done.

Also - keep in mind that what you dismiss as a flood could be mistaken for popular opinion by others.
What's more, you can specify as many Host aliases (on one line) as you want (with wildcards):

Host 192.168.* *.foo.*.com *.bar.net
I'm sure most of the students at the school do know that. The app is completely anonymous, so for all we know, the nasty comments could have been made by just a handful of students.
Because it's a headache and hassle that's not worth it. Using a saas service is not a large expense and frees up time and mindshare to focus on things I can add value to.

Best case scenario you have to:

1. Worry about Apple AND Google push notification infrastructure
2. Manage device tokens
3. Forever add one more cron to your life to manage device token invalidation requests for Apple (Is there something similar for Google? I dunno)
4. Gotta keep your certs/keys updated

Yes, you can work around all that stuff. Of course you can, people are doing this after all. But an even better option to me is to spend a small sum and let somebody else worry about these boilerplate systems.
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Wait, what is the "incredibly similar story"? Is that public? I thought she signed a non-disparagement agreement and we don't know the actual circumstances.
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What is the left?

30 years ago you had a number of credible single issue groups on the environment and such and also various sorts of socialist and revolutionary organizations.

Today you have 'people who vote democrat' and 'professional democrats', a few bizzare singular cases (nyt editorial page) and a few marginal groups, often super single cause (don't track in my back yard.)

Professional leftists know where their bread is buttered on and they are unyielding advocates of yellow cabs, teacher's unions, phone companies, big content, rent control, anything that gives somebody a legal advantage over somebody else to create an alternative status hiearchy.

They have nothing for cyber libertarians since once the former graduate from the uni they are no longer a protected group.

People like Stallman refused to take the opportunity to talk about the influence of the military on computing because they too know where the gravy train is. Again no connect to the left.

And none of the race class gender people know enough to complain that female and non WASP voices get distorted by cell phone codecs...