skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Simply, it helps to see someone who is superficially similar to you in a job/role that you aspire to.

This is the part that's kind of weird to me. Wouldn't this only be true of people with too much emphasis on superficial characteristics? I grant that there are many people like this, but we usually get a lot more info about people than just gender, race, etc. If a potential CS student reads about Zuckerberg and Page and Gates and just thinks "White Male" instead of "person who loves tinkering and breaking things down and creating, just like me" etc etc, isn't that an issue with their predilection for stereotyping? It's like someone staying out of jazz (or the NBA) because they look at its history and think "it's all black people, there's no place for me there" instead of "it's all creative and brilliant musicians (or talented athletes), I would love to be a part of that".

I get that this might be a problem that's not easily solvable so we should explore other avenues as well, but it's bizarre to me that we seem to be embracing that sort of reduction of human beings into a single physical characteristic, instead of identifying it as a big part of the problem.
Don't confuse the product that's popular in hospital that it's for medical use exclusively. Hospitals in the U.S. have Boost and Ensure and those are available in grocery stores and pharmacies, but it's not like they say "For medical use only" Boost's box says "Complete Nutritional Drink" Boost is by Nestle, so of course there's chocolate/vanilla and sugar in it. You get about 12 servings for somewhere around 9-12 dollars. College students could easily buy these. Occasionally I've been known to buy a pack when I'm contracting where lunch options are too fastfoody and a better lunch is a boost and maybe a bag of mixed nuts.

My problem with these supplements is the amounts of vitamins for example contained in a product say nothing of absorption, I'm not even sure we have any good information on absorption. I guess you'd have to put people in a lab, control their eating and drinking for a several weeks and weigh and examine their BMs and fluids to know what's being absorbed.
I think some valid points were made. It also saddens me that "love of books" takes a back seat to "learn to read". What went wrong? Has education quality decreased? Has parenting quality decreased?
I have seen some really good things about Qt.

Are there any user paradigms that work better for Qt? For instance, CoronaSDK really excells at game development.
I think the other part is the audience and target demographic. Despite that, they can still have my donation, I'd rather give a bit and see them fall short than not give at all.
I actually liked sites like eHow, but I'm probably in the minority here. If I wanted a quick answer for a question these sites were providing a good, quick answer. They are not going into a lot of depth, of course, but if I want that then I just use a bit more specific search terms.
We at EFF were really honored when he signed on to our brief on GPS tracking in U.S. v. Jones in 2011:

https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/US_v_Jones/10-1259bsac_ef...

(The position advocated by that brief was accepted by a minority of the court; the majority ruled in our favor for a different reason, based on the physical trespass against a person's car when attaching a tracking device to it.)
Yes, exactly. The other half of the article feels exactly the same: "PBS decided to kill the show, so LeVar is obviously wrong for wanting to continue anyway". It doesn't present an argument that teaching language is more important than creating a desire to consume books; it just appeals to PBS's authority.

But aside from the article's shortcomings, I do agree with their sentiment. You typically see Kickstarter pages explain what they need the money for in some level of detail -- who would want to give strangers money otherwise?

The idea of promoting literature to children is great, but that's just a mission statement. The entire pitch is frustratingly unspecific about what exactly they're making with their million dollars. I can take some pretty good guesses, but why should backers need to guess at that?
The "Race" sections on government and employee forms always have an opt-out/no-response option. They're not tracking anyone against their will.

It sounds a bit like you're perceiving the world as it should be, rather than as it is. Of course you and I know that "race" is nearly meaningless in terms of actual ability--but as long as there is widespread, systematic discrimination based on skin color, race remains very real in practice. You can't fight that discrimination by passing a law against it and then pretending everything is perfect forever. You need to be able to see where and how racism persists and fight it on the ground, and to do that you need to track the comparative treatment and experience of different people.
Quartz.NET is built around a scheduler, HangFire is built on top of message queues. If you want to off-load a task from the request processing pipeline, message queue is more preferable solution, because it can greatly reduce the latency of background job processing.
Interesting touchstone for something that I've always thought about these things, but that seems to go against the popular opinion here.

From my general experiences, I believe that the majority of what appears to be sexism, racism, etc is actually about respect, and not what the poor treatment appears to be about. When a person has self-respect and is generally respected in the peer group, these sorts of ridiculous, cruel, ad-holmium type attacks just don't happen, or vanish about as soon as they start.

When a person does not respect themselves, though, or acts in such a way as to lose respect in their group, then there's a certain type of person (mostly those brogrammer idiot types) out there that will seize upon that and attack that person with whatever they think will make them the most uncomfortable and upset. Sexism, racism, bigotry, any way that the person is different from the others, anything that they're insecure or uncomfortable with. The person doesn't really feel that way; they just use it to attack the weak. Of course, that's pretty asshole-ish behavior too, and I'm not sure that I'd call that better than actually being bigoted.
Do you have experience with massive http conf files? They become very hard to maintain! There is always going to be tradeoffs between maintainability, speed and ease of use. It just depends what sort of application you are running.
Oh man, I love it! I have been playing with this idea for a while but I'm happy to see a stellar team finally make it happen. The system looks beautiful both inside and out. I just hope it can be produced for a reasonable price.
"He served two terms in the N.H. legislature and ran for governor in the primary election of 1986, losing out in the end."

EDIT: Glad to see someone of this bent taking a legislative seat.
Millennials are playing it safe, and that makes them bad investors
Dolphins aren't pinnipeds. Just sayin'
If that was the case, why not fix the bug and then tell everybody to upgrade to the new fixed version ASAP?
Congratulations! The premise behind the company sounded cool when I first heard about you a few months back, exciting :-).
Turkey voting for christmas

That was a new phrase for me. It seems to be chiefly British but the Wikipedia page suggest that the American alternative is "turkey voting for thanksgiving." I searched google ngrams for "turkey[s] voting for christmas|thanksgiving" and it seems that the British variant is a relatively recent phenomena. NGrams has no results for the American variants. Is this a common phrase in the UK?

Google NGrams result: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=turkey+voting+...
I think he left out the fact that not all browsers in use are standards compliant, each browser handles javascript differently, and the html5 standard keeps changing which affects the javascript that you write. That seems to be a large factor.
Because public transportation is horrible in much of the US, that's a 4.5-hour commute.
I've just looked up a few, and they all resolve. Any examples of TLDs where tld.tld is forbidden?
Microsoft – Escape from XP Easter Egg
Lets just fork the sucker and call it a day. They developer is anonymous and if he wanted to stop people he would have to reveal his identity and that is not going to happen.
> This is the construct. It is our loading program. We can load anything from clothes, to weapons, to training simulations.

- Morpheus, The Matrix
That's true, although even a non-legally binding pledge (do pledges like that exist? IANAL, but from my time in law school, seems like the best solution would be to set up a foundation with a goal of using patents defensively and filing it under its name or something) is better than a troll filing the patent, in my opinion
Well the very next sentence continues "This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt" which could easily be read as a prepared response to the person brandishing the NSL who is now annoyed that the authors have suddenly decided that right NOW is an 'entirely natural' time to end the project.
I am unsure of the details but there is a "nursing home" for mentally disabled people across from my house (in Canada). It has careworkers there 24 hours. They come and go as they please (the door does lock though and they need to wait to be let it). Families come and visit. It seems like a great thing to have.

It is also close to a university so some will take courses and others find small jobs on campus, if they can.
Aye. Crowdfunding is an excellent way to securing investment without the project being beholden to shareholders expecting a big payout at the end.
Go to http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools, select a VM, and scroll down all the way to find the original link.
I'm assuming this is about engineering hires. If they both interviewed well they'd both get hired. Of course, getting past the resume screening is not equally likely, but I'd expect an English major applying for an engineering role to have something more than their not-entirely-relevant degree on the resume to make up for it.
Its under development, much to be added. Thanks for your concern.
And into Windows 8. What kind of escape is that?

Cool looking game though. :-)
You know, that's actually a good point. I hadn't really considered the cultural context of that issue in France. Americans tend to be very German focused when thinking about it.

I guess the good news is that sometimes we find European politics about as baffling as I'm sure Europeans find American politics at times.
Hah, nice! I run PortableApps.com, ranked on Alexa at 8,171. We get 1.5 - 2 million visitors a month. We've never done any advertising or major partnerships, it's just been word of mouth and organic press coverage. What's your #14?
how would that work on windows? run linux in a vm and share over samba?
In addition, as of January 2013, merchants are allowed to add a surcharge.

http://usa.visa.com/personal/get-help/checkout-fees.jsp
We already have the source.
I haven't really checked out the Kickstarter -- Reading Rainbow doesn't tickle my nostalgia fancy as much as some people, so while I'm glad they have a chance to contribute if they want, I'm not really interested in it myself.

But when the history of this day and age is written, we're going to look back at Kickstarter as a candle in the darkness -- right now it's one of the very few ways in which "new media" is grappling seriously with the idea of figuring out how to get consumers pay content producers for content they want, rather than requiring content producers to figure out how to turn their creative endeavor into a convenient medium for advertising. The way some people want to throw it under the bus just because people are actually using it to make money rather than keeping it "pure" for the starving artist annoys me. I want people to make money off Kickstarter. I want more and more content to be made because it's what consumers want, not because it's how advertisers can reach consumers.
Show HN: Gmelius, Gmail the way you want it.
None of that was part of PRISM.
Can you define Google quality traffic exactly?
This site was due for a revamp anyway. Nowadays some of the most exciting maps are created with OpenStreetMap -- and the blog was featuring most of them anyway. The Google Maps name was not giving OpenStreetMap its due credit.
How is it doing that?
To be clear. You're saying apparent skew by sex of characteristics is simply down to inequitable consideration of the populations?

So, for example, men aren't in any way - as a population - stronger, say, and so more capable as bricklayers [in general] it's just that we're not analysing the populations properly? So, you'd warrant that arm strength, which follows a close correlation with sex (ie if your arms are able to lift more mass you're more likely to be male) has no bearing on ability to manipulate heavy weights. Just as an off-the-cuff example.

In anticipation: Don't come back with the "but there are female bodybuilders who can lift more than most men" type retort either, lets be adult about this. Of course there are, that offers no refutation.

I'm saying take a randomly selected population of 1000 women and 1000 men, teach them a skill. Test them. One population will be better generally than the other across repetitions of the experiment.

FWIW in my country girls perform better on average in maths at school, so maybe women would be better in the proposed experiment than men. Of course that speaks nothing to whether more women want to be programmers; it would be interesting nonetheless. Now take the top 100 [say] performers: sometimes [within an instance of the experiment] their modal sex will be the same as the better performing group, sometimes it will differ but I'd warrant across repetitions of the experiment the modal sex of the top performers is largely stable across many fields.
So now I am supposed to search on eHow directly? Oh noes.
An introduction to Selling Outside the Mac AppStore
"DISH will use Coinbase’s Instant Exchange™ feature to exchange bitcoin payments to U.S. dollars at the moment of the transaction"

Bitcion is probably pretty far off from being stable enough for things to cost "X Bitcions". But out of genuine curiosity, can someone list the benefits of paying with bitcoin besides anonymity/privacy (which for DISH's account-bound customers is irrelevant). I suppose it saves DISH from having currency-specific payment processors in each geographic region if they wanted to reduce admin overhead, but the conversion fees would still exist in a sense from Coinbase's fees.
Ian Landsman
Their service, as in customer service, is phenomenal - the biggest downside is the paucity of Allpoint ATMs. Lack of checks is also sometimes annoying.

So far, it's been worth it for Goals, although I think you have to use them a bit unconventionally for things to really go well.
> It sounds like he wants those topflight English majors after all: graduates adept at conceiving, articulating, and supporting their own ideas—not some “specific answer” the professor is looking for. Bock just doesn’t realize they are what he is looking for.

Guy Raffa goes so far as to claim that those topflight English majors are what Bock is looking for.

If that were true, then a team built on this core principal should clearly be better than one built without it.

If you see a fallacy in the last sentence of my first post, please explain it to me. Calling something a fallacy is your thesis. Now it is your job to prove it. Irony, indeed.
Wait you mean a for profit company's goal is to maximize profit?

We need to stop pretending Google is a rich Mozilla, They're a poor Microsoft.
> In other words, when Reading Rainbow began in 1983, the big question was, “how do we get kids interested in reading?” By 2009, that question had become, “how do we teach kids to read, period?”

> Unfortunately, it’s unclear how the new, digital Reading Rainbow will address that disparity — if it chooses to at all.

Maybe it will address that disparity by recognizing that there is a disparity: those are two different things that both need to be addressed, and it was ridiculous to focus on one while completely abandoning the other in the first place (to be fair, PBS funding somewhat forced the issue).

This is Reading Rainbow continuing to go after "fostering a love of books" and no, not teaching the basics of reading. Why is that an issue?

edit: it also isn't going to be for the desktop, but for the web, something still much more ubiquitous than tablets, especially in low-income areas. Explicitly supporting and testing on the mobile web would be a great goal for them, though, if they don't already plan to do so.
Nobody is updating Windows 8.0
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But we've (ab)used labor as a trade good for income. We have an entire ... "geometry" built on that "axiom".

If we don't replace wages as a social mechanism, then it's Arnold Kling's interpretation of Vickies and Thetes of "The Diamond Age".

This is breaking down, and people like Charles Murray write (frequently perceived-to-be) incendiary texts that lay a perceived more general breakdown in society at this breakdown's feet.

And in hiring, we see a lot of employers who don't have to hire well using personal preference instead of predicted employee effectiveness. Got tats? No job for you. Buy birth control? Not on my health plan. No BSCS? No thanks.

Murray at least gets the arrow of causation right here; some people who hold to a fear of rising barbarism think the decline begins with the population and employers are simply forced into this. They think we were okay when iron discipline reigned. I think many employers have a massive narcissism problem. But what else do you expect in a world where "social" means "selfies?"

I'm trying to automate industrial processes in a ... price-dynamic industry , and it's really bleak. You have actual Luddites out there. And, frankly, corporations seem to enjoy encouraging this.
X-37 unmanned spaceplane exists now without any fancy SABRE engines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

The last one was sent up on Decemember 2012 and its still up there. Probably not as cost-efficient, but, there is an unmanned spaceplane in production, but its a secretive DoD project so we don't know too many details nor will it be used for non-military applications.
Got to love the post-apocalyptic "bliss" wallpaper.
What is a customer recommendation worth? More than you think.
Thanks for creating this! I just this morning started a test for a client using Ouibounce (another paid solution didn't have an effective Javascript API so we couldn't integrate it into the test).

I agree about the effectiveness of these (exit intent popups). I can see how they're perceived as annoying but having run many tests with these types of popups the numbers seem to support it. It is possible use them in a way that has value and isn't spammy.
Hence, "they are sexist because they are cruel."
The plural of anecdote is not data, but as a Brit, I am familiar with the phrase.
That was him being imprecise in his terminology, which really only matters for those committed to nitpicking. Replace "industry standards" with "industry best practices" and the meaning of the comment is practically identical.
"(Bezos) picked publishing because it was obviously the most dysfunctional. " , from what I remember from a biography he picked books because they could be bought by users without checking them out first, they are easy to store and mail and you didn't have to pay for them until you sold them.

From Wikipedia: "After reading a report about the future of the Internet which projected annual Web commerce growth at 2,300%, Bezos created a list of 20 products which could be marketed online. He narrowed the list to what he felt were the five most promising products which included: compact discs, computer hardware, computer software, videos, and books. Bezos finally decided that his new business would sell books online, due to the large world-wide demand for literature, the low price points for books, along with the huge number of titles available in print"
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From my life in Britain the phrase always brings to mind its usage in Parliament in 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_vote_of_no_confidence_in_t...) which seems to have been the first time many of us encountered it.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

> he study, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, was released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."

Depends what you call literacy. The US has good rates of literacy (over 95%) but as can be seen from the study quoted in WP that doesn't seem to mean much if between 1/5 and 1/4 of the population can't use printed material to extract information.
Shouldn't Reading Rainbow be economically viable and self-sustaining? I don't see what the problem is here.
Just because the focus of publicly funded programs has shifted from encouraging kids to read more to teaching them how to read does not mean that RR has become less useful or its' goal less noble, only that the checkwriters have different priorities.

That the kickstarter was so successful among the kids of yesterday speaks to its' long lasting influence and positive impact. Even if it's just nostalgia and a catchy themesong driving the money, they will certainly do some good.
I have that issue too. It seems to depend on the mouse. It doesn't happen with my Logitech mouse as long as I set the wheel to "clicky" mode.
Here's Levar Burton explaining that funding priorities changed and that's why the show was cancelled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8adI4e2Lk#t=28 Basically they moved all the funding from shows that showed kids why to read into programs that taught kids how to read.
It's written in PHP.
At MS she was in the business of hyping their tech equities. What's her role now? Creating hype around the KPCB brand? I assume she's not an active investor.
>You made me login to say answer to this.

I am not sure why anyone would say something like this, everyone has to be logged in to post or respond. Are you trying to be threatening? or thinking that saying this would put extra emphasis or momentum behind whatever you said next? I feel it does just the opposite (just an FYI and my opinion of course).

>No we don't and that's a ridiculous statement. There's rappers who objectify women but that doesn't makes us more sexist than any other guy and you can't just generalize rap like that.

On related news, Battlefield and metal fans are starting to kill people because they can't like something and can't think for themselves

Sure, and kids raised by sexist men are no more likely to be sexist right? hearing sexist things over and over and over by someone they respect could never form neuro-pathways in the brain which change thought patterns could it? In other news, the advertising industry has gone broke because no advertisements ever persuade people to think they need overpriced brand-name products to be happy or feel confident.

Comparing someone thinking less of women with someone who starts killing people? Now there are two similar things to compare...
In Missouri, every student (I think it is every third grade student) is given a tree and asked to plant it, free from the Conservation Department.