skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I understand that. I'm not saying that. The parent to my comment made it sound like there really can't ever be any problems (not verbatim, just the tone I read it with) with the cars, and let's be honest, that just isn't exactly true. I have nothing against Tesla - shit, if I had $100k I'd have the Tesla Model S I want.

Didn't really feel like I should be downvoted for my comment up-stream either.
I'm actually very supportive of the effort to make safe spaces for women in tech.

Rather, I'm unhappy the OP is going out of her way - to the point of making a separate post about it - trying to appropriate values common to other world views as being inherently feminist. I don't think that's empirically true, and I think that's pretty clear from the fact no one factually corrected me and attacked me for asking about it.

Rather, her comment classic "othering" of people you disagree with, and is not how we should conduct ourselves on sensitive topics such as sexism.
My AM/FM Heathkit radio worked the first time I powered it up. One of my proudest moments in junior high.
Well tracking software has been around for a while. I did something like this for a highschool project...
Because I want to. What do you want to do?
There would have been no profit if it wasn't for the shorts, can't exactly sell $750m worth of shares quickly and without losses.
I stand by that comment in light of the fact no one factually corrected me, and attacked me personally in a fit of irrationality, going so far as to cite a study that agreed with me it was confounding factors that largely influenced these kind of community behaviors as if it was correcting me.

I think this shows that people's support of the claim is not because feminist communities actually cause that (or rather, that it hasn't been shown in any clear fashion), but because they want to adhere to the ideology and claim successes for it, even when those successes may be caused by other factors.

Propaganda intended to other people who aren't in their party, start to finish. And I think we should expect better of people than that, when talking about serious and sensitive topics.
I think that understanding basic concepts is foundational. It not only gives you an understanding you can build off of, but also teaches you how to think, how to approach a new problem. You say that kids need to fill their heads with facts, but I think they should fill their heads with concepts that they actually understand. Simple concepts that they understand, not facts, are the raw material for developing more complex understanding when they are more mature.

I realize that I cannot prove what I just said, so perhaps I stated it too strongly. It's possible even, that what I claim is true for some children and what you claim is true for others. I know that an emphasis on understanding has served me well, and that an emphasis on rote memorization has worked poorly for several people I know.
Another Generalization of Fibonacci Numbers
I just updated from 4.2 to 5.2.

No wipe, just overwrite some files and that's it.
I guess it's just something I'd never seen before, impressive at first sight! I did all my physics quite a few years ago and don't remember video analysis like this, although I guess it wasn't really my focus anyway.
I can absolutely concur that it crashes frequently. I have high hopes v2 fixes this. Most of the crashes are due to WebKit bugs that have since been resolved in QT5.
>At a base level, as you can see in a lot of the replies, it comes down to "people believe that if they've been somewhere long enough, they now have a right to stay there as long as they like, and anything else is harsh and mean".

>Even if i thought this was right, I doubt you can find an economic model that allows this to happen, and can survive long term (and as evidence i offer that, in the history of civilization, nobody has accomplished this).

Insurance against changes in housing prices might let people avoid the effects of gentrification much longer. Imagine a bond that pays the difference between the current average rental rate and some "strike price" $X (when this difference is positive).
> I think the anonymity is the core problem

This explains the high level of rational discourse on news websites and Facebook :-)
Ikea introduces its easiest-to-assemble furniture yet
If I was born tomorrow, I would definitely pick Cuba (infant mortality 5/1000) instead of Chile (8/1000). United States is 6/1000 by the way.
FinFisher Malware Analysis – Part 2
Found this on California defamation law:

http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/2igkke/reddit_ceo_ca...

Wonder why it was designed that way.
I would imagine most of the laws and regulations are anti-fraud in nature. Outside of that, limiting the risk exposure of banks that carry FDIC insurance, or some other government backing, is in the interest in of all taxpayers. From my laymen's understanding, if you want to start a hedge fund, take some rich people's money, and gamble it all away, nothing is really stopping you. In fact people do it all the time.
ISTM that term could stand some improvement before being used in a feminist discussion.
The first thing I tried it on was http://hcpdirectory.cigna.com/web/public/providers, which is a typical instance of a site I might like to scrape, but still one of the simpler ones. It was not able to extract meaningful information.
Speaking about pizza, does anybody has the perfect recipe for the pie/whole pizza? I saw once here from a obsessed chef but can't remember the link. Thanks!
Posted three months ago, with extensive discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024982
Let's hope that makes it to the standard.

Begin & end arguments are distasteful boilerplate (safe for these few times when you need a subrange or pointer pair)
I'm still not clear on what this library actually does...
I don't know if it counts if they're only wheeled out as token examples when the topic of women in technology comes up.
That's not how it works. You're not privy to the internal operations of Yahoo simply because you own stock. And as regards your role as a security researcher, they're not obligated to disclose logs or, indeed, provide you any detail whatsoever about their security response. They say they've contained the problem, you (presumably) can't still perform the exploit, end of story, unless you have evidence that more servers were compromised than Stamos admits.
Full agreement - any subtraction algorithm is fine, as long as it's well-learned (which takes a non-trivial amount of practice).
Wow, this is the definition of myopia.
I never got any good ollies in high school. Watching the vids and reading the article I think I realized something I never understood. It looks like most of the skater's upward body acceleration is coming from using the the _left_ leg, with the right foot going along for the ride (and smacking the tail down). I always tried to get the major jumping lift from my right leg, while also somehow smacking the tail at the same time. I think I've always had it backwards!
We have several participants in our program who are making a pretty decent living, especially the ones for whom a US$5000 reward is comparable to their nation's per-capita GDP. We are hoping to highlight some of these people in a future talk.

I personally think that the opening created for those without the educational or economic opportunities available to developed world researchers is the best side effects of bug bounties.
That works in my test locally. The cloud servers are rather overloaded at the moment and also sometimes Tor is just flaky. Here's the request/response: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=KncMgbfB

edit: note that there's a couple different search forms on that page. If you run this on your own machines you can use the Form Query API which lets you specify a form ID and then set specific values for each form field (e.g., for a provider search with City/State and Name). And you can use any non-Tor proxies or a direct connection.
Out of interest, are a lot of people using Mailgun for incoming email forwarding?

We do it because (1) Mailgun is great, and (2) it supports catch-alls, so for example, /(.*)@foo.com/ goes to $1@bar.com. This allows our company to have one Google Apps account, but multiple email domains. Our DNS provider, Gandi, has email forwarding but not support catch-alls.

My understanding is that this is not precisely Mailgun's intended purpose, but that it's fine.
My reading of TFA was that they liquidated their holdings and sold the stocks short. Of course short-selling can hedge a non-liquid position, but that wasn't what was portrayed. After all, they didn't just not-lose; they "won" big.
It's my opinion that any active trader (of which hedge fund is a subset) that consistently beats the market is engaged in some form of insider trading.
A Facebook spokesman says the company “doesn’t have shadow
accounts or profiles – hidden or otherwise – for people
who haven’t signed up for our service,” and a 2011 audit
by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner confirmed this.

Does anyone really believe that Facebook is not assembling shadow profiles for as close to 100% of the human population as is possible?
Yes exactly. That's the reason so much practice is necessary. When you learn subtraction, you need to see lots and lots of number combinations, many of which you'll initially get wrong, but soon learn to do correctly, then recognize instantly, and finally use as building blocks.
> Peru [...] Mesoamerican history ...

Pre-Columbian history, maybe? (Mesoamerica is Mexico and Central America.)
Pediff – tools for visually comparing web pages
Ebola Infects Spanish Nurse, a First in West
MariaDB and Trademarks, and advice for your project
Solve a problem simply, and it could be revolutionary.

Solve a simple problem, and it will not be.
I agree a bitset is probably a better use here, but this may be a case where the requirements or actual usage numbers tilt the design this way?

I'm guessing if the size of the vector is very large, and the set bits are very sparse, then this threshold counter idea would be faster. But that would beg the question of why a bitset and tracked offsets (similar to the other idea mentioned in the article) wouldn't be fast either. Especially considering the caching effects of the bitset.
You're right, but you're not going far enough. He says Chinese makers have been doing it so long it no longer resembles what Americans would recognize as such. American Makers generally don't strip junkyards for raw materials to manufacture into screws. He's saying the American Maker movement is an infant version of what the Chinese are doing, and that the only way to really comprehend how different they are is to develop an appreciation of the craft traditions in America that have been passed down, mostly by women, for generations. He's saying the Craft spinoff of Maker failed because it was like a baby trying to lead a mother.
Creating Tor Hidden Services with Python
You have causation wrong. Cuba is now communist because it was one of those dictatorships. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista

The countless dictatorships, puppet governments, and US/European interventions didn't start when Castro and Che came down out of the mountains in 1956.
The argument is actually fairly simple: behaviors that have been known to cause fraudulent or deceptive activity in the past are placed under more scrutiny or outright banned.

For example, it becomes quite easy to hide fraud when a single entity is both an investment bank and a mortgage lender.

In my layman's opinion, a lot of the problem comes from the fact that accounting is not an exact science. For a large company with many revenue, expenditure and investment streams spread over the course of a year, accountants have a lot of leeway to massage the numbers as they see fit. Until the house of cards comes crashing down ala 2008 it can be very hard to pick apart what is actually going on from the outside.
Too much speculation. For example, the `Doers` might opt for retail jobs where they work as cashiers. Exact ratios such as 1/3 are also confusing, for example an automated packing robot could replace 4 people in a specific job, but those folks might another equally menial but nevertheless tricky work out of reach for machines.

It is not clear that if I automate an menial jobs, I won't be able to find another menial job for that person.

I think we will see overall productivity increase, but I don't expect a drastic change in the ratio of `implementers` and `do-ers`.
"The boards are also made of a lighter material, designed to lessen the stress on each corner."

They just made the cheap shit cheaper and announced it as a feature. Thats good marketing.
This put a big ol' smile on my face. I remember Yoda Stories (there was a similar game, Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures, same engine?)

Very thorough RE of the data format. Posts like this are why I still come to HN!
I don't have a finished solution. I only think about it sometimes, but got a promising set of ideas.

A possible protocol for using pseudonyms could be that people create a random IDs at home, and get them signed under a public setup very like our current setup for voting - several people sign it, and each person signs a limited number of IDs. Those people then give the signatures to the voter, and mark in a control that he got the ID. An ID is valid if it has all the signatures.

Ideally we should assure that no data lives the setup after the procedure - but just lighting everything on fire will never feel good enough to be implemented, so I'm out of ideas here.

This protocol still has a grave flaw, the electors can prove how they voted. Impossibility of proof is at odds with verification, but I still think there must be a way to make the proof physically hard.
> I'm persuaded by my personal experience as well as testimony from /r/keto

Being healthy and athletic in the short-term is one thing, living a long and happy life is another. I always feel that the Paleo/low-carb communities focus on the former, but if you can believe the gist of The Blue Zones, then happy centenarians have very "boring" eating habits (statistically speaking): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
This allows our company to have one Google Apps account, but multiple email domains.

You can do this already with Google Apps by adding more domains to your account. If you are using a forwarding service into your primary domain, you run the risk of not being able to properly detect and filter spam from that forwarder (more configuration is required on gapp's side, which isn't always easy to get right).
Lack of userland packages isn't necessarily a bad thing. A well-documented, complete standard library (like in Go, for example) takes precedence over community IMHO.

Even as a Node.js dev, I don't understand the obsession with creating userland modules, and the value in modularity. Yes, a large library of modules correlate with community involvement, but it does not necessarily mean quality.
At last (not that I care personally), but it was one thing separating Google Voice from real numbers and now it's perfect, plus, it means Google Voice is not dead. I only wish they had a webhook API of some sort so that I can handle phone calls programmatically.
Wednesday's lunar eclipse will be special
Forced – does that mean they raided your servers and deleted the old source code or just that you want someone else to do new development following your whims but aren't willing to do it yourself?
I can't see any more detail than your very sparse splash page. Bigger screenshot? walkthrough video? anything? You haven't sold me enough on the product to get my email address yet.
Notwithstanding HN's very reasonable ideas about right and wrong in this case, getting an unauthorized shell on someone's server and cd'ing/ls'ing around is probably illegal in most jurisdictions.
Just thinking loosly here.

It my understanding that the decentralized part refers to the networked validation.

I.e couldn't you imagine a setup where the network collectively invalidates a set of shares and re-issue them back to the original owner. A kind of distributed jury system.

Now the problem of course is that the jury could be wrong and I have no idea about the actual implementation but it seems to me like a potential solution in the future.
Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development [pdf]
Canadian startups bring big data to inefficient industries
Alpha particle strike - two protons plus two electrons, emitted when a heavy radioactive element decays into a lighter element.

Alpha particle is the same as a Helium nucleus, so it has 2 more neutrons and 2 fewer electrons than the article claims.

Cosmic ray strike - a high energy neutron (or other particle) emitted by the Sun.

On the contrary, cosmic rays are very high energy particles mainly originating outside the Solar system.

These particles are gradually absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, so they are more of a problem in orbit and at high altitude.

What does it mean for a particle to be "gradually absorbed"?
Why an “Unlimited” Plan Is Toxic for Your SaaS
Microsoft Research's FlexSense: transparent self-sensing surface
...this is trespass.

If you're not intending this metaphorically, I must disagree. Trespass is a fairly limited act involving a physical presence. Sending and receiving packets with another host that is configured to do that is really not anything like physically inhabiting a place.
I was taken more by the lack of historical grounding of the students in the story. Then I remembered two things:

1) The journalist probably didn't have dig hard, but could easily have cherry-picked a fun interaction for story color.
2) Most history is taught as iconoclasm until the college level, leaving most college students with just a vauge idea of how events happened and why.

I think it more important to show that women have always been part of computing and that they, traditionally, did not get the desired work. They got the parts the men did not want. The "lack" of women in Computer Science then becomes a challenge: Can you highlight and surpass the work of the un-sung who came before?
We're using Mailgun for other things on that domain. Also, we're on the free version of Google Maps, and email routing is only available for the paid "Google Apps for Work" plan.
It's an anecdote, but my mom grew up on a small farm and she remembers hearing the squeals of a piglet as the sow ate it one time. She didn't eat pig for a while.
Nurse in Spain tests positive for Ebola in first infection outside west Africa
Very interesting, thank you for the correction. I lived there when I was young, but never realized this was the case.
Bolt here probably references thunderbolt, and they both references (rain)storms.
My favorite instance of emergent mailing list behavior was when a trouble maker named GUMBY created a "PLEASE-REMOVE-ME" mailing list, just for people who sent email to another entire mailing list asking to be removed from it, instead of sending their request to the administrator at mailing-list-name-REQUEST.

Whenever somebody would make that faux-pas, he'd add them to the PLEASE-REMOVE-ME mailing list, and the emergent behavior was that those people would discuss amongst themselves the fact that they really wanted to be removed from the PLEASE-REMOVE-ME mailing list, until they eventually learned that the way to get removed from a mailing list was to simply send email to PLEASE-REMOVE-ME-REQUEST, instead of the entire mailing list.

Worked like a charm!
Nginx, Node.js … and Twitter Bootstrap, obviously. (scnr)
We appreciate the feedback. We will try to get some more details and screenshots on the home page soon. Hopefully you'll try it out in the future!
Ask HN: Why did you choose a particular “flavor” of Linux?
I'm thinking about jumping ship from OS X, and buying a machine to run a "true" distribution of Linux. I'm wondering what are some of the pros-cons of particular Linux "flavors."
Is there any reason why I - being perfectly happy with my American citizenship and residency and having zero intent to change either - should avoid getting one for the novelty of it? I mean, is there any possible downside to getting this thing out of a sci-fi novel?
Preventing foreign physicians from practicing in USA is kind of the whole point of having a "profession" with lobbyists like the AMA. If they had to compete with H-1B'ers, they couldn't afford to spend so many years and dollars in training. Also health care would be much cheaper, which would step on a lot more toes than just those of the M.D.'s.
Here's how I would play this game:

Siphon as much data as possible. Keep it indefinitely, but don't synchronously add rows for shadow identities. Instead, build a querying infrastructure that projects your mountain of data into forms you can exploit at runtime. Part of this is sorting activity into unbound identities.

Now you get to have your cake and eat it too: all of the delicious privacy invasion, with the PR/legal bonus of being able to say you don't have "shadow profiles".

I'm sure Facebook has shadow profiles on everyone, just as I'm sure they're smart enough to prove they don't.
Ebola patient receives experimental treatment in Dallas hospital
It's a side note in this article, but those unfamiliar with Xiaomi should do some light reading on the topic. It's a controversial company that publicly aspires to be the "Apple of China," and is often accused of simply ripping off Apple designs. My hunch is that we'll hear a lot more about Xiaomi in the American press in the next few years, even if in passing, and just as a curiosity.

Xiaomi is not the only reason Samsung's been hurting. But its dirt-cheap pricing strategies have taken a serious bite out of Samsung's position in the crucial Chinese market.
What Is Counterparty? – David R. Sterry's Blog
I wouldn't fault Common Core. I'd fault the textbook. That little page on counting-up subtraction didn't make sense to me either, so I went to Wikipedia, read this shorter snippet[1], and understood it immediately. That textbook's just crappy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtraction#Counting_up
I always assumed that "bolt" refers to the threaded fasteners, not electrical bolts. The analogy they are going for is that they are the components responsible for "bolting" spouts together (although, the mixing of metaphors bothers me a little bit... why are we using bolts to fasten fluids together?)

To be super clear about it, a "topology" in Storm is a directed acyclical graph. The nodes are called "bolts" and the edges are called "spouts".
And that would be a very uninformed opinion.

Think of it like this: traders and everyone in the finance business devotes their entire working life and career to figuring out how to trade.

Programmers spend time learning, creating side projects on Github, poking through open source projects, working on projects at work, etc... In the decades that span a normal career, that's a lot of code and a lot of learning that a programmer accumulates, which is why they're able to create nice things.

Traders are the finance equivalent of all that knowledge (the good ones anyway). You don't think that after so much experience, it might be possible that a trader can make money in the market without cheating?

The traders that do cheat though, do so because of greed, not because it's impossible to make money...
Well everyone here is as anonymous as they choose to be, apart from being outed by mods. Given that mods can ban any person with a click, I don't see any excuse for them punishing people by selectively providing their personal information.

The original post was
>Can we have a publication named "The Forgotten Male Programmers Who Created Modern Tech" now?

Is this really the sort of thing that warrants violating a persons privacy over? If we are going to use "name and shame" surely it should be for things that are manifestly abusive, not expressing an opinion.
If you don't like that measure, suggest another. It's not as though infant mortality is some minor thing that no one cares about.