skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, there has been no significant update to the MBA since they released the first 11" version.

Just lame incremental chipset and processor improvements.

All anyone wants is a retina MBA and it's getting more and more grating as 1 and 2 and soon, 3 WWDCs come and go without it.

(I have a 2008 MBA)
That's the thing, though. By promoting a more feminist, egalitarian, diverse culture for tech, we by definition eliminate the jerks. Why do we have to take as a given that we have to take the jerks along with the money?
>I think it takes someone from outside to really tell the difference.

from far outside :) It is hard to explain to anyone who hasn't seen local young women there spraying "Vapona" insecticide ("dichlorvos" ("dichlophos" in Russian)) on their open legs - quick and convenient solution for wearing daisy dukes in a killer mosquito and flies area :) If you know what Vapona/Dichlophos is and how it smells and what it does to your brain ...
This is pretty lazy. Understanding radical feminism and its context both in the 70s and today takes time, reading, and empathy. You're opting for feel-good MRA and it's boring.
Just started reading http://www.amazon.com/Feed-Mira-Grant-ebook/dp/B003GFIVSE/re...

So yeah, hope we don't cure the common cold with a mutated virus any time soon LOL.
I presume with Stripe you can only send from your Stripe balance, which certainly can be funded with credit cards (yours or others), but you'll pay the 2.9% + transaction fee on the "inbound" (CC) side, which (I think?) would cost more than the miles. In that scenario you could skip the debit card part entirely and just charge your own credit card and have the money go to your bank account.

The miles hounds have throught through these scenarios pretty thoroughly :)
I think the idea, officially, was more in lines of "we're going to pay lip service to his religious customs because we don't want to inflame moderates who care about that sort of thing", but yeah. It makes sense to me that they would do it that way, but it certainly leaves open the possibility that everything was not on the level (which I consider plausible, but not not necessarily probable).
> This table of contents is beginning to seem very familiar (I've done Google's internal machine-learning course and looked at several other courses/tutorials on the net), but what I'm wondering is: how do you do the more basic operations of feature and parameter selection?

I have thought about this problem for a long time. Initially, I used to think it was a mere matter of finding clever Machine Learning algorithms that could auto-magically detect features for you. There are others who think it is a matter of throwing a bunch of subject matter experts into the problem and building feature vectors. I have worked with both philosophies of people. I think the answer lies somewhere in the middle. And it is a fucking hard problem.

You need to do some clever algorithmic work. Maybe use a PCA or your favorite dimensionality reduction trick but also be clever enough (mathematically that is) to realize when PCA is brittle and when not to use it. You also need to have enough understanding of the subject to be able to ask the right questions from your subject matter experts. It is easy to get five people in a room and ask them to describe a song. But it is much harder to find out the right way of asking them: Is this song the kind of song that you would dance to while drunk on three beers in a podunk town in the Mid West? That requires experience to get that sort of intuition.

The only thing I can recommend (pun unintended) is to keep solving these problems, focus on the domain(s) that you are deeply passionate about. Don't spread yourself too thin and make yourself to be a general purpose Machine Learner. That is the only way to get to building beautiful end to end products.
it should be noted that pointing out #3 doesn't make it an invalid point, and it certainly has nothing to do with why the issue exists in the first place.
Short Read:: The Best Lifestyle Is One That Pulls You
When interest rates are low, prices are high, and when rates are high, prices are low. It's fairly straight-forward. Your payment works out about the same. You should buy when rates are high and prices are low because you can renegotiate the rate later. You can't renegotiate the price.

Rates are still pretty low now, and thus I continue to rent.
And this thread is why I never shake hands with people.
I can verify their existence, but you don't need to take my word for it - much of the research on fully homomorphic encryption is publicly available through the IACR's online preprint database, http://eprint.iacr.org . I doubt FHE is a good solution for your project, though. The technique is not quite ready for primetime due to seriously slow performance. It gets better every year but it will be a while yet before you'll be able to diff an encrypted file using FHE.

EDIT: Though now that I think about it you might be able to code a custom diff circuit for FHE that borders on feasibility. It depends on the algorithm used, really. File diff seems spiritually similar to some of the bioinformatics work being done with privacy-preserving edit distance computation on encrypted DNA sequences.

EDIT2: Here's a paper that discusses an FHE 'hardware platform': http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/106.pdf
I've been telecommuting since 2000 and definitely pets help. I have two cats and a dog.

Sometimes I work at the library or cafés. Meetups are great too.

Volunteer work outside the house once in awhile.
PySiteCreator is a small tool I wrote a while ago. It lets you create a web site by writing it in Python.

It's not meant to be a full-fledged static site generator, and has only a few features. I first wrote it as a tool to create wikis programmatically (and hence called it DSLWiki), but then realized that it can be used to create general web sites, so renamed it to PySiteCreator.

Blog post about it:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2009/11/early-release-of-pysitecre...

PySiteCreator on Bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/pysitecreator
Why not go to the root cause instead of using hacks to fix the symptoms?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer#Causes

We need to fix our environment instead of hacking ourselves to deal with a broken one.
> Anyway, nobody actually likes taking cabs, so perhaps rather than trying to reinforce their previous monopoly the cabbies should try to improve their own services, maybe with a cab-summoning app similar to Uber.

That's pretty much exactly what Hailo is currently.
Somebody stating their views based on past experiences interacting with the community the authors are part of is something other readers might be interested in. See the post by "226jg5" below.
Most Desired Dev skills? Not Ruby, Node, or Go.
Ahh, the good old days. In 1997/98 I created a website for my hometown with photos, cinema schedule and the like. I "designed" it Coral Draw und Adobe GoLive. It was a time when you were hip if you used tables for the layout. And if you used Server Side Includes, you were quite the hacker.

My first real web development project was an appointment scheduler. In 2000 a potential client wanted one but we couldn't license one from the only company that offered that kind of software at the time in Germany. Thus I taught myself PHP and MySQL and within a week I had a working prototype. Users could reserve appointments and admins could manage them.

The deal with the potential client fell through, though, but I continued working on the code. It was hard going because back in the day, there were no PHP frameworks (that I knew of) and no CSS frameworks.

It's been moderately successful and I still have happy customers from that time. I only wish I had done early on what I did two years ago: offer it as a hosted service (or SaaS, as it is now called).
I resisted buying for a long time for mostly flexibility reasons. Eventually, with a 2.85% 15 year rate and a roughly 2.5% home price growth rate it was just stupid not to buy.

This is a great tool. I would have to find a rental for nearly half (60%) the going rate in order for renting to make sense in my area.
Interesting. I've only ever had good experiences with black cabs. Especially if there are road works or traffic, they seem to know exactly which street to turn down without any sort of aid.

The Uber drivers I've used in London have always used GPS and gone down routes which I would consider slower and more expensive.
> There's no such thing as the "male gender"

Maybe it's a cultural thing but here in the UK at least I think male and female are seen as genders... What word should the parent commenter have used? "man gender" is not grammatical, so I can only think of one other option; "male".

(edit: and in case I'm misunderstood, I don't mean any kind of subtext on the wider debate here, I'm just asking because I think 'male' is a gender and am confused).

(edit: right, found this: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/gendermed/sexandgender.html so basically it's the difference between sex and gender. I wasn't acutely aware that the words male vs masculine carried such an important distinction. I'm not sure if they are commonly used in that distinct way).
In some cases you can get month-to-month, it just may cost you more. You can always break your lease but there's a financial penalty of some form for that.

In most cases you can only sell your house if someone is willing to buy it. Although renting it out is an option but you'll still be tied to, and responsible for, the property.

Personally, I don't see the big deal; there are pros and cons both ways.
CoreOS is already working great on GCE http://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/cloud-providers/google...
We also wanted to offer a way for regular Debian users to get easily started with Docker on GCE.
You had me right up until this point: greatest patriots of our generation: Timothy McVeigh, Andrew Stack, and Marvin Heemeyer

Uh... those guys don't land on my list of people I want to glorify.
Do you have a link to Felix Salmon pointing out that this demonstrates Modigliani-Miller?

Edit: Thanks!
>In this article you were actually all nice and I read right to the bottom. I certainly do find it a lot easier to listen to and agree with people that aren't spilling hatred at me. I never want to feel like I'm giving time to somebody trying to extract some psychological harm as revenge on my gender - whether or not they have a reason to be angry with the status quo, the target market often doesn't last long enough to receive your message.

This is true, yet such a delicate matter. Allow me to digress from the primary issue at hand to share an anecdote.

When I first read about the "check your privilege" controversy at my alma mater [1], my reaction was "we definitely have acute class issues, but by opening in such a confrontational way, we're taking away any possibility of having a constructive dialogue." Delivery so profoundly affects how we respond to the raising of an issue, and can be the difference between an instinctive defensiveness or a considered opening of the psychological gates.

The letter to the editor to the NYT piece puts it well:

"Most disturbing about the “check your privilege” comment to people making arguments at Princeton University is its utility in changing the subject away from their ideas, conservative or liberal. This kind of dismissive labeling needs to be called out for the ad hominem attack that it is. Recognizing it for what it is could undermine what it does, which is to sabotage debate."

It's a delicate line to walk -- being assertive and resolute, yet communicating understanding and cooperation. But if our goal is actual, gradual change for the better, rather than simply feeling good about ourselves for putting someone down or taking the pulpit for ourselves, then I feel that the means we choose must not fail to encourage our intended audience from lending us their ear.

It is so hard though, since each person's interpretation of language differs in so many subtle ways. We can see it in this very thread, where the same given post is interpreted in a wide range of intent.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/nyregion/at-princeton-priv...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/opinion/a-hot-topic-at-pri...
Yep. In the same Reddit thread, someone ran cloc on the Linux Kernel, and it even reported one ASP.NET file in there too (just like it did with the Healthcare.gov source):

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/265yns/mill...
In many cases sex work is not a physically or emotionally healthy way to support yourself.

In every case it is a limited career that does not scale with age, while inculcating habits and attitudes that make traditional employment or switching industries difficult.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7774603
I have no idea about lavabit's financials but maybe they were not making enough money from the paid accounts. I am assuming a lawyer on retainer would be very expensive.
"Fixing our environment" won't fix cancer.

Cancer exists because you don't need to live to 150 years old to successfully reproduce. It costs too much from a biological perspective to prevent cancer, calories and nutrients better spent on raising children and to some extent grandchildren.

People got cancer back when the environment was pristine, they were just more likely to get eaten by the crocohippo first.
If I were Google I would fund the heck out of homomorphic encryption research.

As Google tries to gobble up even more of everyone's data and every waking habit as they try to improve Google Now and other services, the privacy concerns are only going to grow bigger. It will be not just a drain on their public image (just like it is on Facebook's image), but it would also give competitors a lot more opportunities to take jabs at them. Think Scroogled, but 10 fold.

Homomorphic encryption would pretty much fix all of that, and they wouldn't even need to give up their data collection (or not as much).
CoreOS is a linux distro specifically created to support containerization. It has great Docker support and a built-in distributed key/value store and a container manager for orchestration and service discovery.
It might be more fair if the reviewer also put together a list of UI failings on iOS. It's far from perfect!
I hear you.

But I hear them, too. They just want to develop software, and to ignore all this other BS, and the BS keeps hitting them, and they're tired of having to deal with it. I can see why, too. I can see how this stuff would get to you after a year or two, or a decade or two.

I think the takeaway from their point is, they need to attack specifics when they occur. But I think your point is, they need to not make that their focus, or it's going to ruin their ability to actually work with males.

That's a tough balance to maintain. It stinks that they have to do so.
Betteridge's law of headlines:

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
this was his favorite http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=5df351c0...
I'm better groomed, dressed, and looking than you. I just don't gratuitously soap up.
Inspiration for Article Intro Effects
Would anyone comment on http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/PS/obf4.pdf ?

"On the (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs"

"In this work, we initiate a theoretical investigation of obfuscation. Our main result is that,
even under very weak formalizations of the above intuition, obfuscation is impossible."

I haven't spent too much time meditating on the implications of the paper, so I was hoping to hear from someone who has. Does this paper strike a mortal blow to FHE? Or is this paper pointing out a result that can be ignored in practice?

When I get a few hours I'll spend some time trying to come up with examples of what the paper is talking about and hopefully discover the truth for myself, but if someone here has already done that, please chime in!
In all seriousness, I think the plan was to make sure our bombs got dropped also. It's not MAD if you can't follow up on either the 'mutual' or the 'assured' part.
one can easily see importance of decreasing bacteria load for existence of a species in big colonies/cities on the example of ants vs. other insects - the ants are the only insects having glands producing antibiotic
At Netflix's scale I'm almost certain that paying for the space and power would still be much cheaper than having to pay direct bandwidth costs / external CDN costs.

I wonder how they decide who gets to put a server in there for free, I always thought it was just a matter of money.
In what way is Maven a programming language? Is it simply to disambiguate other XML configuration from the build declarations?
Here is the registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-recovered-address-space

It is space that has been surrendered to IANA for re-allocation.
Not sniping on someone because they've used a definition for a word you disagree with might be a start to getting people to your side of the argument.

Just an thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

> Depending on the context, the term may refer to biological sex (i.e. the state of being male, female or intersex) ...
Correct. The answer is 'No'.
The root cause is our biology. Thus the longer we live, the more likely it is that we will run into this horrible disease.
According to the Modigliani–Miller theorem, the mix of debt (size of mortgage) and equity (down payment) is only irrelevant in a world without taxes. However, mortgage interest is tax deductible, while rent is not, so their result doesn't apply here.

The flat down payment chart is a coincidence, based on the default values for interest and inflation rates, growth rates and expected returns.
> "not all men" attitude is a key way that harassers are sheltered.

I'm not sure that this makes sense. Saying that someone's behaviour is unusual - not typical of most men - does not sound like sheltering them. Most men don't harass women, ergo the men that do are a minority whose views and behaviour are out of step with their peers. I think we need to say this more.
It is good to see someone trying to solve real problems instead of problems programmers have when building a new framework for developing web-deployment tools.

But, this really should be a P2P network with a petname system or something like that.
Does having images help your ranking?
I prefer not to get my perspective on real life from fictional entertainment media.
Predicting a global economic crash in 2025
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Nitrosomonas+eutropha+inf...

Note how first Google can't find any results, then redirects you, and how none of the redirects I see are talking about any infection either.

I doubt an ammonia-eater is very long for the inside of our bodies, regardless of the status of the immune system.

The whole "life will find a way" concept is really a horrible way to understand bacteria. Bacteria are, in fact, incredibly fragile, almost incomprehensibly so. They gain strength both in their sheer numbers, which makes it hard to get all of them off or out of something, and the sheer diversity of the various species (and to a lesser extent, within species), which means that for any given condition, there's probably some species that can survive or thrive there. Bacteria in general are extraordinarily powerful and resilient... but those properties do not extend to bacteria in specific. In specific, I see no reason to suspect this species even shows on the threat meter, as compared to any ol' cold virus or conventional bacteria infection. I reserve the right to change that assessment if someone provides more evidence.
Intel intros datacenter admin software with focus on OpenStack
The utilities pay Nest $25 + $15/year for each Nest owner that agrees to sign up, while the owner gets a one-time $85 rebate. Excuse me?

I'm all for helping lower peak demand, but if the utilities are going to be saving billions, I think this should reflect an ongoing savings for the customers, too.
If Google et. al. can manually punish you, they should be able to manually un-punish you also. That this feature doesn't exist is a serious design flaw. A human being should always be able to look at a site and say, "Nope, you're good." and let you be ranked naturally again.
This is one of the best written summaries about discrimination that I have read.

I will be sending this on to a number of friends both in and out of the industry.

Edit: I am rather embarrassed to say that my comment was the first after over 50 minutes on HN. This a major issue for our industry. I remember when I went to college in the 1980's, the Computer Science programs had a very high female enrollment compared to many of the other math/science/engineering fields. It is very tragic that our industry has regressed in the numbers of women.

Edit 2: Ah so it appears the original article was cross posted. I did search HN for other threads to the above link
If every taxi ride I have ever taken wasn't so shitty I might care but they were and I don't. I live in Lexington, Kentucky and I don't use cabs very often except to get home from the bars on occasion, get a ride to the airport, and once or twice when my car got locked in a parking garage downtown.

On 2 occasions I distinctly remember calling (or used online tools) to scheduled a cab ride for ~1hr in the future only to be called less than 15min later by the cab driver letting me know he was out front. Also I've called a cab on at least 3 occasions and they never showed up and I had to call again. Every cab I have ever taken only accepts cash which I rarely have on me and getting change back is awkward and so I normally end up overpaying so I don't have to deal with it.

I have been patiently waiting for Uber/Lyft to come to Lexington and about a month ago Lyft came. I was ecstatic and signed up right away and a few days later had my first Lyft ride. It was the most refreshing ride I have ever had. Not only did I not have to worry about the driver not showing up but I knew what car he was driving and had his picture on my phone and so it was very easy for me to spot him. The drivers have all been very nice and their cars have been clean and took me straight to my destination without me having to give directions unlike the dirty cabs I've ridden in with drivers that barley speak English and don't use GPS.

I will never use a taxi again if I can help it, Lyft has provided me with an amazing alternative and I would gladly pay double for a Lyft driver because the experience is so much better than a taxi.

YMMV.
Claiming back /8s from companies won't work. 16 million addresses is just a drop in the bucket compared to growth in China, India and other countries.

It would take years to arrange the return of 100 million addresses compared to the demand for a few billion addresses with even conservative growth.
I'm curious how this works for people with long hair. To a certain extent, shampooing less can be great for your hair, for a lot of the reasons discussed in the article about skin care. Sulphates strip out your natural hair oils and do a bunch of bad things, so sulphate-free shampoos are a lot better. Additionally, once you get your scalp accustomed to less frequent shampooing and it stops producing tons of oil to compensate, life for your hair can be pretty good.

That said, I can never seem to get onto a cycle of more than just a couple days without shampooing before my hair is just too oily. Washing with just water isn't super sufficient either when you have long, thick hair.
Brands Are Like Wine: I Consume Them Both Irresponsibly
How about Fedora (etc.)?
This has always been my experience with brand-new wireless standards. I wait a bit to buy in.

Bought my N450 router right when AC was first coming out, it has been great.