skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried a Solowheel a couple years ago with a group of other unicyclists. I thought we'd all have no troubles the first try, but it did take a couple minutes to get the hang of it. I thought the training wheels actually slowed down our learning.

After a bit, most of us had no troubles going up and down a very steep hill or going full speed on the flats.

It was fun to try, but I couldn't see buying one - too expensive. I also found my shin bones hurt after an hour of messing around.
> Feminism is the radical notion that women are people, and that we want to be treated as equals. Don’t let someone else pretend otherwise out of their own misguided notions.

So what do we call the feminists who work to suppress research that shows gender symmetry in domestic violence?

What do we call the feminists who demonize men as rapists, deadbeats, child molesters, and abusers?

What do we call the feminists who lobby against equal parenting rights for fathers and for stripping the right to due process of those accused of domestic or sexual violence?

Feminism is not about equality - that would be called humanism or egalitarianism and would not focus on one specific identity group.

Feminism is the dying ideology of demonizing and subjugating men. Feminism is Marxist ideology maladroitly applied to the genders in order to paint the male gender as sub-human, innately heartless, and evil oppressors, while painting women as perpetually innocent victims.

A movement truly concerned with equality would address areas where human rights are actually unequal such as the outcomes of family courts or no-fault divorce law. Instead we see feminism focusing on non-issues to further their political agenda (#banbossy) or in warping every situation in which a woman gets slighted by an asshole male into proof of "patriarchy".
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I've seen those kinds of more extreme articles (and writers) on modelviewculture before, so I think it's fair to judge a publication by what it publishes. And some of these talking points were adopted by ultra-feminists.
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Exactly! I could have more easily paid my way through college :-)
Former Psych major here (not grad student).

Pretty easy to test yourself: Walk into a random aisle in a grocery store and say "Can anyone help me?" Elsewhere, point to an employee and say "can YOU help me?" Observe difference in results.
> The competition in this space has provided some wonderful innovations in a very short period of time.

This is absolutely true! Let's do a feature comparison of when Balanced and Stripe have launched some new features:

Balanced Stripe
MP payments 11/16/12 2/24/14
ACH Payouts 2/14/13 6/24/13
Push to Card 1/24/14 5/22/14
Bitcoin 2/20/14 3/27/14
ACH Debits 2/28/13 (in private beta)
metadata 11/16/12 10/30/13
auth/capture 11/16/12 6/20/13
same-day payouts 2/25/13 (2 day payouts in private beta)
Dynamic Soft Descriptor 11/16/12 3/14/14

Everyone wins.

It's tough because we (I've actually just left Balanced, and, in the interest of full disclosure, have been a Stripe customer for a few years) are so open, our roadmap is basically public. Today is the day we originally said we'd launch production push to card, not beta, so it's fun to see Stripe launch this feature today.
Well, burst my bubble and call me Slim.
Your last point is important - for many people the Surface tablet isn't competing with the iPad, it's competing with the MacBook Air. And it's already winning on price there.
Why should he be less snarky? After all, the tech industry supposedly loves straight-talking engineers like Linus Torvalds who don't beat around the bush and tell people bluntly why they're wrong - so much so that we even let them get away with gratuitous personal insults and misguided arguments.
> We are going to respond my making generailized hate speech towards all men in the industry.

This is a large part of my problem with some of the MVC writers. If you're a male, you're guilty. If you're white and male, you're really guilty.
Thank you for the well researched and thoughtful post on the potential "educational" benefit of Osmo.

As a parent I like to think that the top of my list of buying qualifications be that something is educational and enriching.

But from a product perspective this thing just looks like FUN.

And my reality is that spending $50 for "fun" potential for my little kids is a no brainer.

That it's interactive and even POTENTIALLY educational is the icing on the cake, not my primary.
I think the difference is your market though. Was Addy US focused? In Kenya, desperately describing the color of the tree in front of your gate to an Ambulance driver as a loved one lays dying is a very realistic situation. With poorly signed streets and no number system to speak of it seems to me there is plenty of incentive.
Square takes a hit for each transaction and makes it free for its users. Stripe has an API that allows anyone to implement this. Making it free and suffering these kinds of losses is a bad business idea.
I'm in a similar situation and after much research I just got a refurb 2013 13" MacBook Air. The only difference between the 2014 Airs is 0.1 GHz (and a couple hundred dollars).
I had one and I don't remember it being necessarily delicate, say broken from a drop, but a lot of them shipped with engineering flaws, so returns were normal. I think I had to return mine at least once. Dust would get under the screen as well, but I learned to live with it.

The forums were full of people complaining. Just normal wear and tear would break them. Not sure if they ever really resolved the quality issue before folding. You really felt like a beta tester with the Danger device.
The Fermi Paradox - absence of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence
> It sounds like the conclusion is to kill one of the only things the consumer PC industry has going for it.

Seriously. Surface Pro 3 is the first Windows machine I'll be buying since a Dell I bought for college in 2002. It's the only thing remotely exciting to me in PC-land. I don't know if it'll be commercially viable, but it's the only standout in the race-to-the-bottom PC industry.
Yup, that's the trick. I stopped using shampoo last year - my hair was greasy as all hell for around a month, then one day I noticed that it just stopped. Now, I just go into the shower and scrub thoroughly with hot water instead of shampoo. And it takes a couple days without showering for my hair to get oily and smelly now, instead of just one.

Oddly enough, my dandruff has stayed completely unaffected (and possibly gotten worse)...

Still use a plain bar soap on my body though, can't get past the self-stigma of the thought of only rinsing down there...
U.S. cards just have the card number, which of course is separate from the account number, and then there's the "security code" on the back, which is typically a 3 or 4 digit number. But there is no other account information printed on the card.

Also, I found out when I began working for international clients, the U.S. doesn't participate in the IBAN system. Instead we have something else which necessitates international wire transfer payments be made via an account number, a routing number, and a swift number. It's very annoying. (perhaps business accounts work differently, I get paid directly into my personal account which I'm sure is a bad idea, but it works for me).
I'm looking to pick up machine learning skills, especially on the math side. I've completed the Coursera course on Machine Learning, and I'm looking to take it to the next level. In return I can teach whatever I can - I have some pretty decent Python programming skills.
>At last, it’s time to dig into what happened with MetaFilter. The short story is that I don’t know.
How LinkedIn Knows What Jobs You Are Interested In
Does it play the games you want?

Hardware specs between consoles are really pointless things to compare. It's like trying to compare Windows or Linux for your desktop when you know you absolutely must run Visual Studio.
"There, he participated in classified anti-terrorism missions such as assassinations and kidnappings."

And that's a hero?

Edit: I didn't mean to attack that person, he achieved a lot, and I read about him before. (though I didn't read anything about assassinations)

It was just a snap reaction because the article seems to glorify assassinations and kidnappings, which I am opposed to. I directed this question to the community to see if there are really people here who believe that assassinations are great and worthy of putting on your CV.

At least the guy who wrote the article seems to believe it.
Agreed 100%. Love SF but the crazy homeless person situation there is off the charts relative to everywhere else I've been.
Looks interesting. I gave it my zip code (95051) and it returned two conventions: one in Burlingame, which is ~25 miles away. That's reasonable. The other is in "Columbus"; all I know is that it's ~2000 miles away. I'm assuming that's Columbus, Ohio, although I haven't checked. Regardless, I'd rather see one result that I might possible go to than two results where one of them is literally thousands of miles away; you might consider tweaking how you determine events to be relevant to users.
"Evidence suggests..."

http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch1.htm
See the section on flight 11. Not conclusive but indicative.
AsciiDoc is similar to markdown and offers a much more extensive syntax, but it's no where near as common in the wild.

http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
I think we should go back to a real democracy, not a representative republic.

Why can't all citizens vote online?

We bank online, we pay our taxes online. We could develop a system that is more secure than the local polling stations we have now and vote on laws, regulations and budgets all online.

We don't need congress. We would vote on laws ourselves. We would vote on the budget ourselves. We could even vote on budget proposals line by line. Voting out any projects that only favor local communities. We could approve or disprove going to war. The president would answer to us directly.

Some would this is would be chaos, but it could be implemented on the local level first and then scaled bigger.

Others say that the common person can't understand laws. I say it's imperative that everyone be able to understand our laws. If a law is too complicated, then it shouldn't be a law.

Anyways, just my thoughts.
Yeah, unfortunately, Balanced doesn't have the same warchest that Stripe does, as they've raised way more funding than we are, so we can't use any of that money to price stuff mega cheap.

There are also multiple ways to build this kind of feature. Balanced is doing it 'the right way,' but you can fake it till you make it, and hope that Visa/MC doesn't get mad at you before you build out the real implementation. That way is also cheaper...

As an example of the benefit of 'the right way,' Balanced will be immediate for a large percentage of cards, rather than the 1-2 days that this page claims.
If you do start a study group, please count me in! I've been doing Python for a while now, and I would certainly like to pick up another language.
There's no way to map debit card numbers to routing/account numbers (afaik). They're probably using the ATM network primarily and another method if it's not supported.
> Have you heard of, or come into contact with any of this abhorrent behavior that's mentioned?

Yes.

White, privileged male.

I was attending Pycon 2013 in Santa, Clara. I had just spent the lunch hour with a good friend and his acquaintance, X. As we were leaving X decided it was an appropriate time to quietly share his views about women in tech with me. I was mortified at that moment and promptly exited the conversation without addressing X's comments to me.

I've felt terrible about that exchange ever since.
>Kat has started organizing casual lightning talks featuring female speakers. The talks have now taken place in both San Francisco and New York.

I thought that attending these would help me in various ways (all the words I can come up with fail to fit my sentiments so I'm going to leave it vague like this), but the link [1] doesn't lead to any resource where I can find out about future such events (presumably they'd be held at Stripe since Kat, the host, is employed there). Does anyone know where I can find this info?

[1] https://stripe.com/events/lightningpies
Is this using the same method that Dwolla uses for their 25 cent transactions?
s/class/common human decency/g

I think a lot of what you're talking about has more to do with an apparent inability of some people to act with any sort of common sense around other human beings rather than 'class'. This happens in any workplace (my mother was a secretary, and had to leave one of her companies because her boss was consistently making advances), but in technology especially so.

Perhaps this is a symptom of the social environment a lot of programmers seem to have in common. A lot of us spend our teenage years alone or with a small group of very close friends. Because of that, certain people might not develop a full understanding of social customs, or worse: deride them as 'silly'. This is a fundamental mark of immaturity, and most people and most programmers grow out of it. Some people don't, and I think it's especially common among programmers because they (and yes, this is stereotype) tend to be very solitary.

People like us tend to spend a lot of time online, where you can make sure you only talk to people who are very similar to you (case in point: HN). Not being forced to talk to people with different opinions results in stunted social growth. A huge part of life is learning to interact with people who are different than you.

When you throw someone who doesn't have a lot of experience with social norms and is used to having everything their way into an office work environment, they generally don't mesh well.
Absolutely not, we were very much Middle East and Africa focused, in fact we've lived in many of the countries where we were going to market. We were in SF physically, but had on-the-ground teams in 15 cities.
This is a really awesome tool, and as someone in NYC currently debating renting vs buying it is very useful. I used to pass around the old NYTimes Rent V Buyer calculator often when people started thinking about the topic, I definitely will send this one out instead.
> what besides the obvious requires mangling?

Rust's symbol mangling allows multiple versions of the same library to be installed on the same system and peacefully coexist. A single Rust program can even link against two different versions of the same library (which comes in handy when two of your dependencies rely on the same library, but are updated at different rates).

You can explicitly disable mangling via an attribute:

#[no_mangle]
fn this_symbol_wont_be_mangled() { ... }

> What took place of split stacks?

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/00...

"Instead of segmented stacks we're going to rely on the OS and MMU to help us map pages lazily."
The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World
(Balanced co-founder here)

You're right.

Our API has been built, but we're giving private beta access to anyone that made prepayments via our crowdfunding campaign [1] first. Private beta will launch next week [2]. We want to make sure the performance (instant payouts & high coverage) is on par with our standards before a public release, which will happen later this summer.

[1] https://balanced.crowdhoster.com/let-s-push-to-debit-cards
[2] https://www.balancedpayments.com/push-to-card
Would you say that the Navy Seals who risked their lives and captured Bin Laden are not also heroes?
Oh. You're one of those people. Look dude, slaves in ancient rome were not 'better off' than free people. They were slaves. They were beaten regularly, if they were attractive they were raped regularly. Sure you've got the occasional happy slave who gets manumitted at their master's death and continues to serve the family, but slavery is and always has been awful for the slaves.

Robots are not useless if they can't think. Robots can't think now and they get a lot of shit done anyhow.

As to the "they will be the same as humans" that's a nice fantasy but it will never, ever happen. Forget the 'robots will never feel true love' or whatever, the fact is that human beings don't have the same processing architecture as robots and so the machines will never react the same way to things as we do. They'll never have the natural human instinct to react to a confusing social situation with fear or aggression, will have no impulse to propagate the species, will not experience fear or pain or anything, because we don't want them to. They will be simulacra, no matter what Asimov hoped.
Here, Mr. (Fuzz|Purr|Meow)[aeo](les|ly|ey)!
Isn't the fact that they haven't announced a Surface 3 non-Pro an admission of something?
Sounds like a good book. Anyone have a link to an epub?
>The surface, although not the most commercially hot commodity out there, is a good piece of kit and has some dedicated fans. It's fundamentally different from anything else on the market right now. i.e. It's a tablet that's actually good for more than mere consumption.

Right. I have no idea if the new Surface will succeed or not and, frankly, don't especially care as I'm out of the Windows ecosystem and am unlikely to re-enter it. That said, IF someone can really crack the code for making a device that works well as both a consumption and a creation device, it seems as if that would be interesting to a lot of people. Apple arguably made the tablet popular precisely by being willing to break from laptop/creation constraints but there's no reason to believe that reconvergence can't happen whether by Microsoft, Apple, or (possibly) some future Chromebook or Linux variant thereof.
I am one of the contributors to the parent article.

We mention a whole slew of 'what happens when you report harassment' incidents:

- http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...

- http://archive.today/20130110113908/jolieodell.wordpress.com...

- http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/705/

- https://medium.com/@geeekcore1/d96f431f4e8e

- http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=5698

- http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassm...

- http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger...

- http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/blogger-writes-about-b...

- http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassm...

- https://medium.com/@geeekcore1/d96f431f4e8e

- http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/705/

- http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...

I also want to mention that we were super scared of publishing our individual experiences for this exact fear and questioning of our lived experience.
Replace ideology with logic.
> Also, he was the CEO of a tech startup, and the tech startup media did all the reporting on it, and all his investors literally said 'congratulations, I'm glad this is behind you' after he pled guilty.

Still has little to do with gender bias. The investors are there for the money. I've seen companies keep known alcoholics around because they provide enough value for said company to deal with it.

The issue isn't that it happened, it's attributing it to simple gender bias. It's dishonest.
I imagine that given the array of Android tablets it's much harder to design such a thing for them, not just because of the differing physical form factors but because of the varying capabilities of the cameras themselves.
> And it's already winning on price there.

Is that still true if you need a keyboard?

Price doesn't seem to be the deciding factor for the people buying apple hardware.
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And you still need to pay taxes (rent) to your municipality (landlord).

So if I summarize, you can't do what you want with it and you need to pay your landlord.

Why are people calling this 'owning' a house?
> Well, Chrome could make this viewer not increase the surface area of the browser just by changing it to a NaCl plugin. After all, it already exposes the ability to run native code inside NaCl to the web. ;p

AIUI from the NaCl guys, it already does.
The N-Trig only has 256 levels of pressure, while the wacom has 1024 level. So it sure doesn't stack upto the old wacom digitizer. However its interesting to compare it to the human hand which can only recognize 32 levels of sensitivity.

Maybe the reason to go with N-Trig was to cut down on cost and they found a way to get rid of the parallax issue (The lag between the pen scroll and the actual output)?
If you don't know who Victoria Secret is, and you don't know they sell bras, and you land on their page, and they don't have any pictures of bras, and you aren't thinking about bras, and there is absolutely no indication of what they do, would it immediately spring to your mind that they've solved the "I need structural support" problem?

I contend that the answer is "No".

I wonder if you're looking at the page already knowing what they do and what problem they're solving.

So imagine you have the problem that OkHi are solving, that you could use their solution, but that you don't know that they have the solution. Now imagine that you end up on their landing page. Have a look. Go on, have a look. You arrive, not thinking about the specific problem. What is there that tells you that:

a) they understand your problem, and

b) they have a neat, clean, efficient and effective solution.

Nothing.

They need to make it clear that they have a solution to a problem that you might not at this moment remember that you need solving.

I understand that you think I'm not in their target market. (In fact I am, but that's not the point.) The point is that a landing page should bring to mind why they need you, and make sure you know that they are a brilliant solution.

But if you think it's fine, and they think it's fine, then maybe I, someone who actually might be interested in their solution, is obviously wrong, and the feedback is obviously misplaced. It's not like the public is ever right about the service being provided for them, and the implementors are always right. Screw feedback - that's useless.
The Illusion of Motion
> As a general rule of thumb: if women have it bad, men have it worse.

Can you honestly write that and actually believe it? Even better, can you give some examples to justify it? That's a pretty big claim, and one that, at face value, seems pretty unlikely.
It actually works in our test API for anyone. Check it:

Make a card:

$curl https://api.balancedpayments.com/cards \
-u ak-test-2qEM0Znvd8LIVbZ01LbFHvHgab4fkNr3c: \
-d name="Johannes Bach" \
-d number=4342561111111118 \
-d expiration_month=05 \
-d expiration_year=2017

The 'credit' link in the response is that comes back is '/cards/CC2mEWYlYvod2E1w3TJHOiGh/credits'. So we push:

$ curl https://api.balancedpayments.com/cards/CC2mEWYlYvod2E1w3TJHOiGh/credits \
-u ak-test-2qEM0Znvd8LIVbZ01LbFHvHgab4fkNr3c: \
-d amount=10000

We will turn it on _in production_ for people in the beta period. Some customers have already integrated it in test!
> I hear about more harassment towards the women I'm friends with after any given night of drinking at bars than the total I've ever heard from them about work.

Do you mean from men at bars in general? Or are you talking about when they're out with coworkers/other people in the industry?
Pretty sure the "hero" bit is referring to the part where he reportedly died fighting the 9/11 hijackers. Careful you don't fall off that high horse though.
"Reports from two flight attendants in the coach cabin, Betty Ong and Madeline "Amy" Sweeney, tell us most of what we know about how the hijacking happened."

"As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him.27"

so where is footnote 27?