skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Should she not write about it?

Frankly, why should she write an entire article, other than perhaps on her personal blog, to complain that she can't find a man who's good enough for her standards?

>Or I could say "raise your standards" beyond vanilla, non-challenging, pleasant writing.

Ok, you want challenging? Here's challenging: I would find many of the same people insufferable as she does. That doesn't mean I feel a right to go telling the whole world that most people around me are unworthy of love or friendship, and that the world will have to fix itself by importing a fresh supply of people I happen to like.

There was a time when I might have thought like that... at age 15. Well, and maybe up through 19. And I still have a hard time finding real common ground with people who aren't at all nerdy.

But hey, diversity is the spice of life! I like having things I don't understand about explained to me! Just last night at Shabbat dinner, I sat across from a fresh new cellular biology grad-student and asked him what his lab does. I did not dismiss him as a peer, even when I grew disinterested because the talk turned to the various drugs he and some electrical engineering type had indulged in during undergrad. At that point I went over and listened to my friend the host of the house (and twenty-something Lubavitch shaliach to my neighborhood) giving his religious lecture for the evening.

Whom did I dismiss as a social peer, politely ignoring for the rest of the night? The guy who thought there was something unpleasant about describing growth rates using terms like "logarithmic", "linear", "polynomial" and "exponential", who considered me less human for knowing.

This is something that has happened repeatedly to me throughout life, and it leaves me with rather more empathy for the boring nerds the author doesn't like dating than for the stuck-up philosophy-major-turned-journalist who can't be bothered to take an interest in lifestyles beyond the underground hippie/artist/rocker crowd that brought her to Seattle in the '90s. To me, she sounds like an insufferable hipster, coincidentally.

Maybe she'll never take an interest, but these are still human beings, not spoiled meat. Just because I don't like brogrammers or workaholic money-mongers on a personal level doesn't mean that I want them dehumanized, any more than I like being dehumanized for being a nerd. Let's have this subcultural holy war! Why do the hippies and humanities majors get to talk down to the rest of us?
I think it's just because of the pushy nature of so many ads on the web or mobile apps.

An example of it done well would probably be The Verge's mobile app for Android when their primary benefactor was Starbucks - when you'd launch it after a while, you'd get a quick ~2 second splash screen that showed the Starbucks logo while the news data was being loaded.
Income mobility in the US hasn't changed. This is the strongest counterargument to complaints about income inequality leading to unfairness I am aware of. Growing up in America I was raised not to be jealous of my neighbors' wealth and influence, but to take stock in the fact that America was a country where opportunity made it so you could become wealthy. It seems this hasn't changed, but the notion that some have more than others is considered inherently unfair seems to be a new phenomenon.
Google's Motorola Mobility has said it will close its Fort Worth, Texas factory after its Moto X smartphone failed to appeal to consumers.

The facility - which is the only smartphone factory in the US - opened in May of last year.

At its peak, the factory employed 3,800 people, although now only 700 workers remain.
That's the whole point: There's no way to determine "unauthenticated" SSL versus MITM SSL. Once you have that "worked out" then you've solved the issue of self-signing in the first place.
If it's true that the rhythms of automated cargo management make it resemble a ballet, there's no way that such a heavily edited piece -- each sequence a second or so long -- would show.
> On a GPU, you get things like both branches execute, but then it just throws away the half that shouldn't have run

It's not that weird. You don't really have thousands of parallell processors, but a single processor, operating on thousands of values. (Like SIMD on steroids.)

Since all operations must be done identically on all values, a "branch" is really doing both branches and recombining them with a mask of equally many booleans - as you say "throwing away" the unwanted branch.
> This public debate is dominated by the discussion of the top 1 percent. And the top 1 percent is important, but focusing on the top 1 percent conveys the message that the game is all rigged, that if you’re not in the elite stratum, there’s nothing to shoot for. And that’s just not the case.

Perhaps, but if you want to actually change things it is important to look at where political leverage is concentrated.
In my country you can. There is also a 20 year limit to prison sentences, no matter the crime. The objective of the judicial system is not to punish but to recover dysfunctional society members. As such, it makes no sense to punish anyone with a life sentence, no matter the type (prison or fiduciary).
I've worked at big companies, small companies, and government agencies.
You're asking for specifics based on generalizations, which is what I was suggesting you can't really get.

Corporate policy in Corporate America is, much like everything else, basically the same across the board, for legal reasons.
What's written down isn't the real driver of company culture and individuals enjoyment and fulfillment in their jobs though.

I've worked ridiculously horrific hours for substandard pay, but loved it because of the team and folks I was working with (common thread from the military: working in the face of adversity breeds camaraderie). The company, boss, the end users could have cared less and provided nothing on your list of 'good things', but it was still a job I enjoyed working at.

I've also worked for companies that checked every 'this should be awesome' box, and found it soulless, with a poor team of folks doing just enough to skate buy on their cushier salaries and lower hours.

Anecdata aside, it's like asking if it's possible to have a good life in America: it depends on what you want, but probably, yes. Where you live, what you do, who you socialize/work with, etc. is highly personal, and drives everything. While YOU (hypothetical you) may think the Silicon Valley is amazing, I know great folks who want nothing more than to live 50 miles from their neighbors in the woods in Maine. They're happy, etc. doing what they do, living how they live. They'd be miserable in NYC or the Valley. Likewise, hypothetical you would be miserable in their log cabin in the woods.

You might love Google or Yahoo or Microsoft, while someone else absolutely hates it. That's got VERY little to do with policy, and nearly everything to do with your personal life philosophy and the team/individuals you end up working with.
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"People are abandoning their tablets, being less fulfilled with the purchase"

Are there any sources for these 2 claims? Neither follow immediately from the (sourced) claim that tablet sales are slowing - nor are they obvious.
I was also wondering. The reason is that he left Sweden and apparently moved around quite a bit. He is reported to have been residing mostly in Berlin and his girl-friend lived in Gdansk, Poland.

[edit: addition] The reports are ambiguous; it sounds like what they mean is: the Swedish police collaborated with the Polish police to track him down.

Source (in Swedish): http://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/pirate-bay-grundaren-gr...
I'm surprised it's not a requirement of being a CA. Further speaks to the apparently weak standards the browsers have.
and this
http://algorithmsandme.blogspot.in/p/blog-page_27.html#.U4o2...
Because the copyright mafia pays well.

edit: what? is there actually a question of whether these actions were born of corruption?
I've been doing software development for about 2 years, still very much a junior. I currently do backend work (Python, Django, asynchronous queue workers, etc.) for a mid-sized startup in NYC. My company currently needs a lot of infra/dev-ops work, but it doesn't have the resources to train a junior to help in this sphere. I'd love to connect with someone who has some crazy dev-ops/general linuxery skills under their belt, maybe just talk about/watch how they work on large scale projects and get some tips on how to get experience in this area without using my company's infra as a guinea pig.

I'm also very interested in audio signal processing. I've done a little work with Apple's Core Audio API, but would love to chat with someone in NYC who has real experience doing hardcore work with audio DSP.
IIRC, it's NBC who shut Everyblock down.
For some reason, I just see a blank NYT page: http://i.imgur.com/kX37bFR.png
>And worse, if you're trying to have a polite conversation with someone but somehow find out they take p-zombies seriously...

OH GOD! Don't tell me you're some kind of damn dirty naturalist! You people and your scientism! Don't you know Bayes' Theorem can't even solve the Problem of Induction!?

</parody of smug philosophy major>
@sergiosgc: Which country is that?
Laptops are not innovating and to me that's what really killing laptops. Sad that people are hardly innovating in the laptop space and blindly following the tablet money without understanding why tablets are making money
If I correctly understand you to be saying that record labels and artists have aligned interests? I don't think most artists would agree. Not due to any techie meme. It's a musician "meme", or rather ~50 years of history of labels screwing the vast preponderance of musicians. (Short version: Paying tiny advances, followed by no royalties due to creative accounting of supposed expenses.)

It might be the case that a few platinum artists have more in common with their labels. As might a bestselling author like Gladwell with his publisher.
Finding out what someone is interested in. Search queries or specific articles. Determining their browser information.

If the site is particularly trusted (say, a news site), misleading users into trusting another party. If CNN ran an article about how adding some SSL cert to your trust store would make YouTube faster, a lot of people would do it.

Or you could directly attack the user by providing false information.
I thought that the speed of electricity, actually electrons in a cable for a consumer use was around 1cm/s.
If swedish bankruptcy law is anything similar to the German then he possibly can not. (Liabilities resulting from criminal action are not covered by bankruptcy laws.)
10 features of Python that you can't use because you refuse to use Python 3
"true safety" like "true Scotsman"?

Realistically, you get "better safety". Operator knowledge gets you better safety. Better languages get you better safety. Better libraries get you better safety. Better testing gets you better safety. Often, each of these has diminishing returns, but that just means that the best outcome is one where don't over-focus one at the expense of others.
NYC, under Bloomberg, invested grandly in hybrid buses, but after several years the MTA decided to go back to diesel, blaming lack of reliability:

http://www.ibtimes.com/new-york-city-scrapping-nearly-fourth...
I have no complaints about the modern standard of education

Here's the thing, which I've written about before (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-part... and http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/beer-and-circus-how...): universities are actually bundles of very different things, especially in terms of major. People who do hard science, CS, or engineering have very different experiences and earnings outcomes from people who do some of the majors that have evolved for those who don't want or need to do much (think majors like tourism management, sociology, some of the weaker business schools), and even they have different experiences from people who major in the real liberal arts (history, philosophy, English—the ones Lee cites).

Lumping all those "college" degrees together makes very little sense, since they're actually accomplishing very different purposes.

I wish more articles on the subject would emphasize this point, and I wish I could explicitly tell every incoming college student this, instead of waiting for them to figure it out on their own.

Universities have never met the ideal that we hold them to but, on balance, I think they are better than the alternatives

What "we" really need is less stigma against vocational schools and related college alternatives. Not everyone likes sitting still at a desk and doing abstract symbol manipulation (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/the-problem-with-ju...). And that's okay! Right now we don't have very good systems for those people, and vocational schools are stigmatized.
I wonder what the battery life is like, and whether they have any automated ways to get them charged and back in the sky. Like auto-landing on a charging bay - kind of like how Roombas dock and recharge.
The word "conspiracy" does not imply lack of evidence (although it's often used that way in popular culture). In fact, "conspiracy" is a legal term [1] describing an illegal act of collusion.

And in this case, part of the conspiracy was confirmed by the court, and there were some convictions. From Wikipedia:

In 1949, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California,
Phillips Petroleum, GM and Mack Trucks were convicted
of conspiring to monopolize the sale of buses and
related products to local transit companies
controlled by NCL and other companies ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(civil), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)
Some CAs offer a "service" that will generate the key and sign it for you. So you just follow the CA's wizard and never generate a key locally.

I saw a sorta tech-savvy person doing this and they didn't see anything wrong with it. It's yet another thing that CAs should not be allowed to do but get away with anyways.

Most people setting up web pages simply have no idea what's going on with a CSR. It's all some weird files to them. Most of them probably think the key is included in the certificate the CA sends you.
I did too initially. Reloading the page got me to the article.
probably a plugin / chrome extension issue.
Nice idea.

I get "Well, this is taking longer than usual...". Nothing loads.
I might not be Gladwell's biggest fan but there is no way he is as confused about this situation as he is pretending to be. Not surprising he wants to stay out of this fight, but I am surprised he took on a naive bumpkin caricature to do so.
Since there's no way to distinguish MITM and an unverified certificate, it can make people think they are secure when they are not. That's not "more secure".
Strictly speaking that should be association football, although everyone calls it football outside the US of course.

"Football" existed before, but simplifying somewhat, just about all the modern games of football derive from rules codified at British private-education schools in the 19th century. So for example, rugby football originated at Rugby private-education school, which then developed into American football. Off the top of my head I can think of association football, American football, Canadian football, rugby football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football.
Sounds like Norway.
So I own a burger restaurant in the bay area.................

You would be surprised by both the number of people that can't do basic math (i.e. figure out what combination of coins leads to $8.72) and the number of people that want a minimum wage job while they already have a college degree (worst being one in CS...in the bay area? really? followed up by a foreign MBA...)

Also, one day I was standing at a bus stop near the restaurant waiting to go back home and I listened to 3 ~18 year olds talking about their college classes. This is roughly how the conversation went: "that fucking bitch (at the local college) won't let me take statistics. just because I failed algebra 2 doesn't mean I can't do math. I'm really good at math! I passed geometry and shit! why can't I just take that statistics class?" "yeah algebra is really hard. I took regular algebra in high school and i had a lot of problems...I think I have to do it again" "I'm really bad at math. I have to take a couple math classes to graduate, so I might just drop out of school. I can't do that shit, I don't know how you can go on about wanting to take statistics". Then they went on about how science, english, and other general education requirements are bullshit. So I'm standing there - went to college at 16, forgot more math than all of them combined will ever learn, read biochem texts for fun on holiday and I _want_ to have the luxury to study hard and go to med school. My parents sacrificed a lot to do everything they could for me too - their parents couldn't. Life is unfair.

I had flashbacks to high school where everyone in my program within an inner city school were in honors precalc or AP calc AB/BC and AP statistics classes, but we shared PE classes with the "regular" school and we helped a lot of our fellow students learn basic algebra to pass high school exit exams and tests in between activities. Makes me want to figure out how to overhaul education in the US - it's garbage and it's failing everyone - my program full of "geniuses" and the single parents working a job struggling to graduate high school alike.
Ask HN: Rest server project suggestions
Hey everyone,

I'm looking for project ideas to practice building back-end services and was wondering if anyone had any ideas for relatively nontrivial projects?

Mostly looking to get my hands dirty building Java API's that serve JSON, or could power a ruby web app, etc.

Thanks for any suggestions!
>running random binaries is not a common usage pattern.

Nor is checking the source code to whatever module or tool you need to compile and run.
Signals travel at about 30 cm/nsec, in coax about 2/3 of that. The actual electrons themselves travel about 1 mm/sec.

Sort of.

You can find out more with web searches, but those are broadly the numbers. Broadly.

http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae69.cfm

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201304161316...
>Frankly, why should she write an entire article
Uhm, I don't know... wasn't there an entire tv series, two movies, and another tv series spinnoff that basically revolved around exactly what this article was discussing? Sure it was in NYC and talked about all men, but still...
This is a problem that most people don't understand. The wireless at our office has 256mb/s over 802.11ac but the wireless hardware adds about 5 to 15ms of latency over the gigabit ethernet.

For gaming this is death were it's not bandwidth that kills you, it's latency.

I wonder how this could work in the "internet of tubes" analogy to explain to people?
Why then do artists continue to sign deals with labels?
Randall's congratulations: http://blog.xkcd.com/2014/05/30/isee-3/
Deep Dive into Eager Loading Limited Associations
"What "we" really need is less stigma against vocational schools and related college alternatives. Not everyone likes sitting still at a desk and doing abstract symbol manipulation"

Amen. Not everyone is good at it, or suited for it, either. Some of the 'blue collar' workers I know are earning more than the college-degree holding workers in my circle, but societally somehow we 'look up' to the office-y professions, regardless of the value/merit of the job.
I sometimes have success on HN. Disasters on sites like Freelancers.com. I run a r&d team and am always on the prowl for good designers and developers wanting to solve hard problems. I'd encourage anyone who fits that criteria to email innovation@ieee.org with info on what types of projects you like to work on and how much time you have to dedicate to them :-)
The issue isn't economic inequality.

The 1% rules.
I'm turning 29 in a couple weeks.
In some circles, the notion that students who are not already financially independant should consider earning potential when choosing what their college experience will be is considered offensive, or even politically incorrect. Some people honestly seem to believe that any college education should be highly valued, and that it is unjust that some programs have poor placement numbers.

This may explain why some articles fail to mention that the value of a college degree depends on the nature of the degree.
Sure, a lot of women want that "tall dark and handsome" guy with lots of money. But the author even mentioned some of the people she went with were nice looking, but either they were egotistical, or they were boring. And yeah a lot of tech guys are boring.

I once had an officemate, did decently in the finance department, was ok looking, but... We were both contracting, I was taking the summer off to travel Europe. He... well he wished he could take a cruise or something, but ended up sitting in his apartment for several months until the next contract came along.
"It's a musician "meme", or rather ~50 years of history of labels screwing the vast preponderance of musicians. "

Oh, a lot longer than that. Since day one for the recording industry, and much longer if you count the sheet music publishers of the 19th Century.

Scott Joplin got a whole 1% royalty on the sheet music for his songs. Died in poverty.

Stephen Foster got paid about a hundred bucks a song. Died in poverty.

Inserting yourself between the money and the talent has a very long and sordid history.
I ran into this when some moron management -- sold by greedy, moron venders -- wanted to share an IBM tools (Rational, etc.) installation between the U.S. and India (primarily -- also some other locations).

Damned chatty software and in many small and synchronous/sequential pieces. It ground to an utter halt and was, in its default configuration, entirely unusable. Quelle surprise.

I'd argued for testing over deliberately hindered (latency et al. injected) network links, before proceeding or at least before placing dependency upon the rollout.

It says a lot that even in this fairly technical group -- a quite significant development shop within a large organization -- no one seemed to get it. Well, one or two did, privately, but there was no effective means to rock the boat.

I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this, other than that persistently over many years, our profession as a whole (as opposed to some more effective parts) has refused to "get" latency.
I dont get it... doesn't amazon already have searching by price/rating?
Which channels drive revenue.

You don't even need to go that far: Which channels have useful audiences?

My guess is that the average Economist reader has far more disposable income than the average Candy Crush player.
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Other projects worth looking at are:

http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/ a sexpr representation of Python

https://github.com/halgari/clojure-py a clojure implementation in pure Python
It's not that it doesn't call the event handler. It's about in which situations it's called and in which it isn't. And because the situation is the same on iOS Safari, Desktop Firefox and Desktop Chrome I guess it is meant to be like that? Anyway, as I said because timers are paused for background apps it isn't really a problem on iOS, but it is on the Desktop (or Laptop).
All those things don't need to be correct in any case. The fact that Heartbleed existed for so long shows that the program worked just fine with the broken code.

Heck, bugs in general are usually code that works in some cases, but not every case. Having a type system to catch all that throws out a ton of classes of bugs.