skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the freezing option is available, the system will tag the women who start families as not seriously committed to the job. That's the real intent.

In my previous job the manager liked to say that he needed to find out who of us were the chickens and who were the pigs. That is to make breakfast breakfast the chicken contributes and pig commits. Anything less than full commitment results in retribution from the company.
Doesn't work on Safari either, same problem. Tried every combo of checkboxes.
since theres no url associated any trusted ca-signed cert is valid (for example a cert from startssl).

if you use self signed that actually protects you since then the client complains.
SOME clients pin the certs (thus you cant impersonate the AP even with a trusted CA-signed cert) but its still quite rare.
unless you got an iphone/ipad ;)
Along with the other posters here, I am also "horrified".

But isn't this more-or-less the same at most/all other companies? They become old and sclerotic and hidebound and resistant to change. Aren't most old companies guilty of the equivalent of the "GM nod"?

a staple of GM managers, nodding in agreement
at steps that should be taken then doing nothing

Maybe companies like GM eventually run their course, and should be allowed to die. Maybe we were wrong to bail them out in 2009? Would the country be better off if a new company could take GM's place?

But, of course, GM couldn't be replaced "as is". It could only be replaced by something more in tune with the times. It's only a {relatively speaking} tiny company, but Elon Musk and Telsa could be "the next GM". Until Tesla eventually runs its course!
How a wiki is keeping direct to consumer genetics alive
That might just be the most stupid misfeature in the history of IT.

Not only is a "hidden" AP not really hidden at all, it makes a lot of functionality much more difficult, such as channel choosing and reconnect.
The couple should be allocated some large number of days which they can choose to divide between them in any way they want. This is how it works in many scananavian countries, and I think a similar system was recently introduced in the UK too.
obviously people able to setup their own VPN arent the target. even when connecting on open wifi without vpn im pretty you would spot anything suspicious
> Most industrialized nations have stronger restrictions on free speech than America, for example.

Yet, most have a higher quality of life. France (for example) works the fewest hours per week, yet the highest GDP per capita (EDIT: added hour) hour. They get 5 weeks minimum for vacation per year, plus 22 days more if you choose to work more than 35 hours per week!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_emplo...

"Think about it. Nationmaster ranks France as #18 in terms of GDP per capita, at $36,500 per person, yet France works much less than most developed nations. They achieve their high standard of living while working 16% less hours than the average world citizen, and almost 25% than their Asian peers as per UBS. Plus, if you visit France you'll also realize that their actual standard of living is probably much higher than GDP numbers would indicate.

Thus, if one were to divide France's GDP per capita by actual hours worked, you'd probably find that the French are achieving some of the highest returns on work-hours invested. Labor Alpha, if you will.

We can actually calculate this Labor Alpha using statistics from Nation Master.

France has $36,500 GDP/Capita and works 1,453 hours per year. This equates to a GDP/Capita/Hour of $25.10. Americans, on the other hand, have $44,150 GDP/Capita but work 1,792 hours per year. Thus Americans only achieve $24.60 of GDP/Capita/Hour.

This puts the French Labor Alpha at about $0.50 GDP/Capita/Hour over the US. It may sound small at first, but add that up across millions of people, and a few decades. Now you've built a lesson for the rest of the world to learn."

http://www.businessinsider.com/are-the-french-the-most-produ...
Much of what doctors do could and has been written as expert rule-based systems. You might find the 1980s Mycin program for diagnosing different kinds of infections interesting; it was said to outperform members of Stanford medical school faculty in the domain that it addresses.

One problem with this style of tech is that your program is only as smart as the rules you give it, and you need seasoned doctors to help put together this knowledge. Even if they had the time, what doctor wants to facilitate the commoditization and automation of his or her profession, the undermining of their voice of authority?

I also question whether regular people have enough common sense and medical vocabulary necessary to safely operate such a system on their own behalf. Seems like it would be a fertile ground for lawsuits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
Actually I'm not.

Sexism isn't a weird term to use when women are discriminated against for having kids, when men are not.

I have heard from a former bosses mouth that women are less productive having kids, despite myself and my former boss having had kids and being quite able to deal with having kids and getting shit done.

There certainly are women who can't set appropriate boundaries just like there are men who always need to rush off to save their children from some emergency. At one job we joked about starting to coach sports so we could take Friday afternoon off because most Fridays one guy was always gone 'coaching basketball'.
Maternity leave is paid by the government not by the employer in all the countries I heard it exists in.
Nice game! I did not think i would finish, but it kept me hooked. The cooperation mechanics were fun.
I have a feeling you're just disappointed you can't poke into the code yet? :p
That is not what sexism means, but what many people, on HN and elsewhere, think it means. Sexism is any gender based discrimination that is not 100% provably biologically justified. The (correct) assumption being that many biases, especially towards women, are so culturally ingrained that people aren't conscious of them. Many if not most cases of sexism lack any conscious malicious intent, and are often even socially acceptable (because most cultures are sexist) .
Lost connection to server??? NOOOOO
One could only dream, though of course, that requires you to get a job in france; they have their own unemployment problems and a quoted 10% unemployment rate [1]. I'm sure it's much higher amongst the youth and minorities.

Does anyone know if that rate is best compared to U3, U4, U5, or U6?

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11101137/Sick-F...
Start again? :-o NOOOO
Just a heads up, I'm on a touch screen and can abuse those pink parts pretty easily by just tapping the screen on the other side of them.
If I wanted to skim personal data like described in the article, I would start a cheap anonymous VPN provider.
In what sort of world default DROP is not a widespread practice? Quickly googling, eg both Ubuntu and CentOS wikis advice for default drop, as do lot of other guides.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo#Blocking_Tra...

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables#head-724ed81d...
does anyone else dislike the whole WebGL experience that google is using for maps, earth and also this. the performance is just laggy and terrible...in all browsers. i've switched back to classic maps and it loads instantly, zooms instantly and is overall a superior 2d experience.
That's not quite right. The Cobalt, like a lot of cars, has a seat-belt pre-tensioner. This is an explosive device that pulls in the seat belt by about 4 inches when the air bags fire. The seat belt's basic inertial locking function still works without power.

Anti-lock brakes, on the other hand, definitely require power. They're computer-controlled, using pulse counters in the wheels, electrically-controlled brake valves, and rate gyros. With ABS, jamming on the brakes is just fine. Without ABS, jamming on the brakes is awful. In the first crash mentioned, the driver not only jammed on the brakes, but having entered the skid, turned away from the skid, which makes it worse. It was also a side crash, so the air bags would not have fired. Who practices non-ABS skid recoveries in cars any more?

Losing electrical power in that car is a big deal. You lose propulsion, power steering, power brakes, anti-skid braking, seat belt pre-tensioning, and air bags all at once. That's bad design. All those electrical functions should be enabled until the transmission is in PARK.
I flagged this article not because of the actual article, but because of the discussion here which has turned pretty negative and sordid. The anti-american comments and politics are a huge turn off.
Not one company should be bailed out. If a business fails, those who think they can run that sort of company better should step in and buy the assets and give it a go.

In the many or most cases where companies have built what has become core infrastructure, regulations already exist for orderly shutdown and sale of assets without disruption of service.

If a company becomes 'too big to fail', this means regulatory capture has already occurred and you have far greater problems to resolve than mere bankruptcy.
Most houses have windows, which are usually a lot less secure than walls or doors.

If you want to get in, you can, it's just a matter of time.
This response highlights exactly what I was thinking but leaves out a question I was asking myself. The original author appears to be angry that they are offering this benefit. How did this benefit come about though? My guess, for what it's worth, is that some women working at Facebook or Google were driven enough (perhaps to a fault) that they were willing to go to extremes to ensure they could work now and focus on a family later.

How would it have played out if a particularly vocal employee asked for this benefit and was rejected? New headline, "Facebook says, 'Female Employees Must Choose between Eggs or Career'"

Damned if you do and damn if you don't. Facebook and Google are giving them the freedom to choose. Just because it might be a good business decision doesn't mean it's as cold-blooded and cynical as the author would like to believe.

Edit: Original reply was deleted for whatever reason. My last paragraph is more or less a summary of that same post.

Edit 2: Added a couple works to first paragraph, last sentence - "(perhaps to fault)"
I got frustrated with them and just used a game-pad to move perfectly across them. :)
I was completely expecting some stats read out at the end, saying I had spent X time in levels that selfless people had spend Y time in.
No. A lot of the verbs have changed in k.
The premise of the post by myhf (the one I'm replying to) is that the law and women's choices (not biology) that make women less valuable than men. According to your definition, if this premise is completely correct, it's still sexism. Am I correctly interpreting your views?

This idea of "100% provable" is also odd (and an impossible standard of proof, even in pure mathematics).
Every PIN Number – Fake Name Generator
Not that many, 23 or so. Finish it, it's satisfying.
The salary difference between the US and the rest of the industrialized world is so massive, especially at IT giants, that probably even a completely unpaid leave would average out to more money than in, say, France.
Spot on.

When companies indirectly demand that you put your personal life on hold for them, you know they have gone too far. What next? Employment contracts that stipulate no pregnancy because they offer egg freezing?

This kind of contract creep and rights erosion is already happening for things like non-compete agreements where employees sign off the right to get gainful employment elsewhere when it makes sense to do so. It just feels like slavery is creeping back up on us.

We live about 80-90 years, I don't think the present culture of slaving your ass off for an app while missing out on all of life is worth it.
And the airbags wouldn't go off, either, without the key turned on.

But having your car suddenly go from having abs -- where jamming the pedal down is probably the right thing to do -- to a state where the driver must pump the pedal is probably more than virtually all drivers can handle.
Could you please find somewhere that includes "companies indirectly demanding that you put your personal life on hold for them" in writing? I might be missing it but appears they just have the option to do this procedure.
What is amazing is the cost: Just $185 million. A brand new 747 costs $350 million. At the end of the day it does something simple. It holds stuff and floats while engines push it.
The CTO mentions globul [sic] and globe illumination, but he meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_illumination
Perhaps you don't know that some employers in those God-forsaken socialist countries will offer a “top-up” benefit, which pays a portion of your regular salary in addition to normal maternity/paternity benefits.

I don't understand why American-elite are so tax adverse, higher taxes could be used to support a more stable society, and consequently, protect their own wealth.
According to the premises of myhf (the guy I asked the question to), women are discriminated against for being riskier and less productive employees than men. This is because women have special legal privileges that men don't have and will exercise them in order to work less.

The phenomenon you are describing is an entirely different one. The phenomenon of viewing a woman who leaves her kids at home more negatively than a man who does the same would in fact fit the definition of sexism I described. It is also completely unrelated to maternity/paternity leave and the rest of this discussion.
GDP (PPP) per hour worked is over 10% lower in France[1]. GDP (PPP again) per capita is over 30% lower.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...
'Cheat' to get you past thin red pathways: line yourself up with the pathway, and jam yourself against the wall opposing the path. Take your cursor outside the game box, then bring it in from the opposite side. Your cursor will snap across to the wall opposite where it currently is. My hand is a bit too wobbly for those paths, so I had to 'think outside the box' to get past them...
All sympathy to the families involved; what makes this the worst auto scandal in history? Are there numbers for this or is this based on public opinion?

Disclosure: I have been a GM employee since 2013
(working in a health IT startup)

On 1:

So, the big thing is that you never actually want to replace the doctors. Their egos won't allow that, they'll see it as an existential threat (which it is), and most importantly: you don't want to give that kind of power to a device which doesn't function as a moral agent.

On 2:

Sometimes, you'll be getting advice from somebody like tptacek...sometimes, you'll be getting advice from losethos. I wouldn't trust my healthcare to random bozos on the internet.

On 3:

Almost all of it is their problem, I'd say.

The increased focus on billing and everything else means that the doctors have to deal with madness they wouldn't have to otherwise. The fighting and billing cycle can take literally a year, so no honest doctor is at an advantage not billing everything they possibly can, and any institution (read: hospital) is going to force that sort of hand-wavy arithmetic (because of the opposition of insurance providers, in turn because of previous bad actors).

The amount of money thrown into these maws anyways (from both insurance and Medicare, a weird issue unto itself) serves to raise the price floors so that you can't even pay for yourself if you want to, because you're literally on a different marketplace.

The companies also go and force you to use doctors that aren't necessarily convenient to you, maybe many miles away. If you try to use a local physician, well, tough shit, you might have to pay for them anyways.

I could go on and on and on and on...

It's a fractal of sadness.
When I read this story, I thought of parallels to large complex software projects (of course). You could call a large software system that would take more effort fix than has been been spent to create it so far "totalled", like a badly crashed car. It happens (usually with government payroll systems it seems).

GM seems to have "totalled" their entire lineup of cars designed and produced over the last 20 years - the quality of their organization's work has been so low that it's not really possible for GM to find and fix all the serious problems on all the cars they've made. They would have to dissect all the parts from a sampling of cars of each year, since they can't even trust that the same part number is really the same in different years! It's probably cheaper to make a couple new car models, really make sure they're not defective, and provide everyone who still has a GM car with a replacement car. Cheaper, but maybe still not possible. "Good enough" massive recalls will have to do.
You are arguing with the facetious reasoning in a cynical and hypothetical example of a perverse argument for a program I acknowledge I disagree with.

That's a long way of saying I'm already aware of what you're saying. That was the point.
This is actually a smart solution to a huge biological problem.

1) Women have huge downtimes in their child-rearing years. This equates as women being more expensive for the same amount of work for that (short) period of time. This cannot be ignored.

2) Companies wont hire more expensive people just of good will if not forced to do so.

3) Companies won't hire women after child-rearing age. Also they won't hire old men, because they are more expensive and work less. No sexism here, we all get fucked equally.

4) Playing field cannot be made equal for both sexes. Men cannot be given the same paternity leave rights as women, because a man can easily abuse the paternity leave by simply fathering childrens very often, or claiming a child is theirs, something a woman cannot easily do as a pregnancy is very hard to fake. Maybe Google can do it, or Facebook. But think of a blue-collar factory. Can't do it.

You can protest for social justice all you want. It won't happen anytime soon.
Nobody, not even superhuman-like people, can keep up mental ability doing cognitive demanding work for 6 hours straight. 24 hour shifts sounds downright irresponsible. There must be a significant risk for accidents.
Thanks, your mozilla wiki link answers my group video calling question: Loop / Hello is primarily meant for 1-to-1 video calling.

Although this is an awesome development, group video would have made it a killer application.

(for now, you can use https://opentokrtc.com/ to try out OpenTok's group video calling support)
For less than this, the police would arrest a "troll". Whys it OK when a right-on Guardian journo does it?
Obligatory link:

How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-1...
So, erm, what about all the poor people in the US that can't take a journey out to Asia when they need care?

(I don't automatically disagree with your free-market assertion, mind you...we have quite a captive one here. You just need to use a bit better justification.)
Moore's Law is about transistor density, it says nothing about performance.
What's keeping us from creating more physicians to meet the (obvious) demand?

Why the hell should you need to pull 24-28 hour shifts?
It is not only responsibility but also knowledge. The ignition switch engineer may not be aware of what exactly it turns on and off; even if that engineer is, other engineers are not. (See page 1 of the GM Valukas report)

Analogy: does your DBA know about flushing to disk?
Wont be long before they mandate it.
This is good stuff. If anybody wants to dig deeper to articles like this, I have to mention the Hugi Coding Digest[1] (an executable "diskmag") from 2003 which contains all the articles related to programming from Hugi #11 to Hugi #27, including this one.

The topics of the articles are as follows: "Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science", "General Programming Techniques", "Searching & Sorting", "Object-Orientated Programming", "File Formats", "Text Processing", "2D Graphics Programming", "3D Graphics Programming", "Windows Graphics Programming (GDI, DirectDraw, Direct3D)", "OpenGL", "Sound Programming", "Synchronization & Scripting for Demos", "Hardware-centered Programming", "Code Optimization, FPU", "Data Compression", "64k, 4k and even smaller intros", "Windows", "Linux", "Other Non-Wintel platforms", "Active Server Pages", "ActiveX", "Assembler", "C++", "Flash", "Java", "JavaScript", "PHP", "Other Programming Languages", "Miscellaneous".

Hell, it also has some nice tracker music on the background.

Obviously the format is a bit cumbersome -- but I think it's a good dive into the demoscene culture. Also most of the articles are written by hobbyists -- the real young hackers (oh and a few crackers too!) who just want to share what they have learned.

I think it should run natively on Windows and runs on Linux via Wine. Just launch the hugicode.exe -- of course with appropriate security caution, and if you trust me, Hugi and scene.org to have no malicious intent. :)

Why is the hacking culture like this dead? It was still somewhat well alive just 10 years ago, never mind 15 or 20 years ago. Even after so many years, it still saddens me to look back into gems like this Hugi Special Digest from a decade ago and see it forgotten and gone. Not just the contents or the release itself, but the computing culture which has died along with the demoscene.

[1]: https://www.scene.org/file.php?file=/mags/hugi/hugise01.zip&...
The market for this kicked off in the past year or two. Amazon is already on the cloud rendering bandwagon in some fashion[0], and Google joined them recently[1], so it's coming - it won't really be here, of course, until another generation of software comes through and does the integration work.

[0] http://techreport.com/news/25615/amazon-web-services-adopts-...
[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2599080/google-buys-zync-for-...
I agree with you.

I did happen to notice from pictures that these particular parts have the part number cast on to them, so new tooling may be required.
Well, if by freedom of expression you mean the right walk around in a Nazi uniform then yes.

If by freedom of expression you mean the right to be a woman and take off her shirt in the same places men can take off their shirt, then no.
All the longer ones in that list are down as "broken up".