skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear's only an option if we have breeder reactors that can reprocess all the waste into non-radioactive outputs. In the meantime you still have all that radioactive plumbing being replaced that needs to be handled, and I really don't want that being buried in my watershed, food bowl, or anywhere that might end up being a watershed or food bowl for people elsewhere in space and time.

So find a way to build a nuclear reactor with non-radioactive outputs, built with materials that do not corrode due to the radiation, and we have a deal!

Oh, and the final result needs to have a higher EROEI than current state-of-the-art solar panels.
+ Redis
Thanks for mentioning that -- we're familiar with the international baccalaureate; my wife went to the United World College in New Mexico.

It was completely different from her educational experience before that (not unstructured, but still... much more open-minded about education, and smart about guiding students to think about their place in the world) and the experience had a huge positive effect on her life; we are in touch (and in some cases, close friends) with a startling high percentage of her classmates there, and we've met up with (and often been hosted by) UWC classmates in Austria, Netherlands, India, Australia, France, Malaysia, and various parts of the US (and probably some other places I'm forgetting at the moment...). And despite being quite a diverse group, they're generally pretty interesting people to talk to.

I didn't even know such options existed when I was in HS; and probably would have thought it wasn't for me, at that age. But looking back now, I wish I'd gone as well.
A common cough remedy in rural areas was a two tablespoons of kerosene chased by a tablespoon if honey.
This is beautiful! The synopsis is a wonderful feature, though I did notice some weirdness with the aggregation of sentences into paragraphs. Sometimes important noun-phrases were cut off completely changing the meaning of the resulting sentence.

Still I worked on a project like this for ~8 months before retreating to get more math background info. I am incredibly impressed to see a tool like this arise with such a level of quality. Well done.
Sigh, not this comment again.
Could you explain where you think the issue here is? Are you saying, as a user trying to upload, you could possibly (presumably accidentally) upload your passwd, or as a user of their site, you could somehow see their passwd file?

If it's the former, I think that's a 'vulnerability' with any site that has a file chooser.

If it's the latter, could you elaborate where and how you would do so? Perhaps you're saying you could load it through the simulator that's running on the actual computer/vm somewhere, but those simulator environment are sandboxes (afaik) so that you could only access files on within the simulator's context.
I have been promised a promotion. So far it means attending far more meetings, and never getting much code written. I much preferred doing the "grunt work".
At the very minimum, this requires physically interacting with the security key (by touching it), which prevents software from silently using the key to authenticate in the background. Then again, if your entire machine is compromised you basically have a MITM attack so close to your side of the channel that it is virtually impossible to do anything about it.
> You know what I really wish? Programmers would spend 1/100th of that algorithm studying on learning to write readable, maintainable code.

IME, programmers that write readable, maintanable code and those that have a solid grasp of algorithms and theory as it applicable to the problem domain tend to overlap considerably. Having a clear analytical mental model of the approach to the solution leads to clearer and cleaner code -- and, where necessary, clearer and more useful comments -- than hacking your way to something that works. (And I'd say thats as true of my own code -- where I've done work on both extremes of the clear model to hacking-my-way-through axis -- as of others' code I've seen.)
Florida...but maybe I am just surprised not to see 10 varieties at the entrance of each supermarket...it was just so prevalent and easy to find in Germany/Austria.
You know, this might have more to do with it than the actual marketing of the time. As shown in another post here, home computer makers tried to market to the whole family. And why wouldn't they? Computers were relatively expensive and esoteric, why not aim at their uses for everyone in the family? And they did.

But WARGAMES and that whole media portrayal that followed of the computer hacker/enthusiast was definitely male and outsider.

Interesting point.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/10/5396920/drone-strikes-have...

"An anonymous former drone operator for Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) told The Intercept — a new publication helmed by Glenn Greenwald, who broke the first of many NSA revelations last year — that the US military and CIA use the NSA's metadata analysis and phone-tracking abilities to identify airstrike targets without confirming their veracity on the ground. The claims were corroborated by documents provided by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden."

Eh? You sure the NSA doesn't help provide targeting data?
That illustrates the advantage of electric cars, even if the electricity is currently generated by fossil fuels.
> The district court said it felt bound to dismiss her claims because of a 1979 Supreme Court case, Smith v. Maryland. That case involved the collection of the phone numbers dialed by a criminal suspect over the course of three days. It’s one of the cornerstones of the so-called “third party doctrine,” the idea that people have no expectation of privacy in information they entrust to others—and it’s outdated to say the least.

Post "the Fappening" and the realization that there are essentially no enforceable protections for information you store in the cloud, I'd say Smith v. Maryland makes as much sense as it ever did. After all, back in 1979, call records were stored in a dusty database somewhere, used only for billing purposes. Today, the corresponding data stored by Facebook, Google, etc, are mined, processed, and correlated across time and space for advertising and marketing purposes. If Smith stands for the proposition that the government has at least as much right to access your data for law enforcement purposes as AT&T does for billing purposes, then replacing "AT&T" with "Google" and "Facebook" and "billing" with "advertising" doesn't undermine the rationale of the case one bit.

Obviously you can argue that it was wrongly decided in the first instance, but that's a different argument.
Emacs has had an add-on web browser called Emacs/W3 for 20 years. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs/W3
Usually the dealer laws prohibit manufacturer-owned dealerships
That's what I did in my first iteration, except find is hell.

No wait, I mean find is a really powerful and sophisticated tool, but it takes time and effort to get it to do precisely what you want. It turned out rsync did what I wanted more easily.
> Google is known to not give a damn about paying customers (ref: all the Google Apps customers who lose their email (for whatever reason) and get redirected to a FAQ page with answers to unrelated questions).

Just in case any Googlers are reading: you have a contact form for adsense questions that rejects my email address because my real name has "Cocks" as a part of it.
It doesn't say that it'll do that automatically when run through a pipe.
Not ideal but you can use an iOS CI/CD / build automation service like Bitrise (http://www.bitrise.io/) (co-founder / CTO here) to do the builds for you. If the simulator service has an API you can even automate the connection with Bitrise.

There are a few online code compilers too like this Swift one (http://swiftstub.com/) to work with.

Certainly not ideal but probably not impossible.

P.S. at this time you're probably better with an OS X VPS.
No, it suggests that men and women both are both susceptible to media stereotypes.

He's just suggesting that the "outsider outlaw" is more appealing to men than to women.
Xerox Alto Source Code
No mention of the debug checkbox? That's one of the coolest parts of this to me.
Allegedly drunk.
The account that made that comment is a frequent poster in mens rights & friends subreddits, and probably should not be taken without a SUBSTANIAL grain of salt (particularly given the lack of any data to back it up)
Check out w3m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m
I think the graph here -- http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor... -- provides an interesting contrast. Seems like what has happened is the percentage of women in CS was tracking along with that in architecture or the physical sciences, and whatever happened in the 80s caused it to gradually move down towards (but so far always above) the percentage of women in engineering.
Read the graph again. The dropoff for women is much larger.

$ python

>>> 20000.0 / 17000.0

1.1764705882352942

>>> 12500.0 / 7000.0

1.7857142857142858

CS enrollment for women in 1984 was 78% larger than in 1996; For men, it was 17%.
Instead of the picture in the first slide, could you put the screenshot from the second slide? Maybe it will be more clear than just "A better way to share files and links".
I am a female born in 1983 and have always been deeply interested in computers, but have nonetheless felt inexplicably out of place for it. I was in advanced math classes my entire life and placed out of calculus in college. I took a summer programming class at a different university in 2000 and fell in love with programming. But when I got back to school, I took another CS class that was exactly as described in this article. I can't quite articulate the feelings of isolation and frustration I felt in that class, but they were strong enough to drive me away from CS and engineering for a long time.

I have a History degree.
I'm using two accounts, bare with me.

A joke really didn't work out if it has to be explained at length. Maybe, because secretly I was angry that my english isn't perfect and it's your fault ;)
Right place right time.

In a booming market a company that is only half functional, often to do overtime or heroics, can appear very successful. But as soon as the market cools down to normal or even still accelerated pace companies like this (assuming it's 100% true) start to drop like flies.

High profit or customer acquisition numbers can hide serious fundamental problems for a few years.
I initially was quite annoyed by the tone of the comment.

But purely looking at the facts, is this factually true?

I don't have data that supports one way or another way. Looking at the comments, no one was able to dispute the claim and some other people also echoed that data entry was in fact a subfield of computer science.
I was born in the 1970s so yeah, I was there.

The article implies that, in the 80s, home computers were considered nothing more than glorified pong machines and girls were never seen in any of the ads, which is simply incorrect.

There are countless ads featuring Commodores, Apples, and Trash 80s displaying spreadsheets, and quite a few with girls at the keyboard.

Is there an exhaustive study of computer marketing from that time? I ask in all seriousness, because two links and hazy memories from NPR isn't very convincing.
what a curious piece of writing. it is really interesting to read a liberal arts guy critique software interfaces like a piece of literature. unfortunately, I can't really connect with the critique - too abstract. sometimes, you just need some good screenshots, and captions...

The first thing that comes to mind when I read something like this is, usually the issues are a training problem. He clearly knows how to use wordperfect - therefore it is easier. And if you are an author who never does typesetting, then most of MS word is a waste. If you are producing documents that routinely go directly to customers - MS word is a necessity. PDF the document and ship it out...

I remember using wordperfect, and I remember when word came along - it was like something from another planet (WYSIWYG). I'm sure you could improve word in many ways, but no one seems to be trying. Google Docs is as much of a clone as i could imagine.
> In similar way, you have libdbus which is technically not the actual dbus, but tries anything to launch dbus processes if loaded and initialized as a library.

That can only happen if the dbus executables are installed; libdbus-1-3 Recommends but does not Depend on dbus. This is the standard way of things for everything in Debian, and the dbus packaging is no different from the Kerberos packaging here.

As I mentioned, it would be in violation of the tech-ctte ruling if depending on libsystemd0 also brought in systemd itself as a hard dependency.

> it's a reasonable concern to have.

The entire worldview of systemd is that you shouldn't be spawning things from your current environment (cf. daemonizing in /etc/init.d/foo), you should ask some parent keeper process to spawn the executable. It sounds like it would involve systemd doing the exact opposite of what it currently does if libsystemd were to fork-and-exec much of anything.

For instance, systemd is obsoleting the setuid dbus-daemon-launch-helper, which I am super excited about, having gotten on dbus-daemon-launch-helper's bad side far too many times.
The views in that comment are completely unsubstantiated. There was no evidence presented that "data processing" was ever taught as part of or categorized as computer science. In fact, later comments debunk that viewpoint. Also worth noting that the person who wrote that subscribes to the Men Going Their Own Way movement [1] (his username is thrownaway_MGTOW), which while not an outright debunking of his claims, should give you further cause for suspicion.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Men_Going_Their_Own_Way
This seems to miss an explanation for why the marketing was directed at boys in the first place.
That's because Word has always been a Microsoft product:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#History
I had assumed the name of the company was fake until I read the line at the end about them changing their name and getting a former Amazon CFO.
I wrote my own hack to do the same: https://github.com/aksrikanth/settings/blob/master/bin/setup...

It works well enough, and I have to set it up once.
Of course our bodies handle HFCS and "sugar" differently. There are about a dozen types of common simple sugars and all of them are handled differently because they are different molecules.

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Wait, Google Authenticator lets you provision accounts by scanning a barcode, how does it not list "take pictures and videos" in its permissions manifest ?
I tend to agree that his comments should be taken with a grain of salt. I am curious if anyone here has a more definitive set of data.
> Movies like Weird Science, Revenge of the Nerds, and War Games all came out in the '80s. And the plot summaries are almost interchangeable: awkward geek boy genius uses tech savvy to triumph over adversity and win the girl.

Movies like Revenge of the Nerds are not about nerds triumphing over adversity and getting the girls because they are nerds... it's about triumphing over adversity and getting the girls in spite of being nerds. Or, if the key to their success was really their brains, they used it to overcome an adversity that was caused by being nerds. If they weren't being nerdy and brainy, there would be no adversial story to begin with.

To implicitly suggest that movies like that are supposed to inspire people to become and continue to be nerds is asinine. It's a role reversal concept; not something that people believe happens in real life. The whole point is them being unlikely heroes and winners.

> Ordóñez got through the class but earned the first C in her life.

I guess this is supposed to evoke some "hitting a low" sentiment? The sheer horror of getting a grade that is technically right in the middle? Long live grade inflation, I give it an A+++.
> No one was able to dispute the claim.

There is an invisible soundless fairy unicorn in my room. Please dispute this claim with evidence. Thanks in advance.
Edit: uh, something happened with comment parenting, but anyway, yes, not every ad was mono-gendered, but in practice boys monopolized the C64s and TI-99/4As of the world.

It's chicken and egg situation - it was perceived as a "boy thing" so was marketed at boys. The 80's in the US & Canada weren't exactly Saudi Arabia, but toys were as gendered if not more so than they are today. And people marketing computers had no social agenda, they just took the path of least resistance.

It is, on some level, similar to the tragedy of the commons. Everyone made a decision that worked well for them and in the end the net effect was one that had a lot of negative impact.
Probably the biggest feature over Confd is the ability to run arbitrary commands when a template update completes.
Nothing at all surprising about them being able to raise $30M. The lousiest people are usually also the best at kissing ass.
> Wow.... And these are the companies that are getting funded?

This is probably one of the more obvious downsides to strict capitalism. All that matters with regards to funding is whether or not the company is making profit doing this. If they can abuse their staff, have a toxic culture and still make money, they'll get funded and eventually probably succeed.

Even if they do get sued for sexual harassment or whatever much later down the line (ie. when they're worth suing), it'll still be peanuts compared to their total profit and thus no disincentive to their behaviour.

There is no real capitalistic answer to this problem that I've ever heard of. It requires scruples from the start and that often requires regulation in a more "socialist" style. Regulated work hours, regulated holiday, regulated minimum pay, etc...
Why? Don't really follow your logic.

My hypothesis is that women (specifically teenage girls) just aren't interested in the field / profession so they decide not to study it in school or search for jobs in the field.

Perhaps this is because they are discouraged from trying it by their teachers or media, perhaps its because they don't have the confidence to believe they'll succeed, perhaps they think it's not cool, perhaps they don't think it'll be a fun job.

But I guess, I see "women aren't as interested in programming" as a very likely cause for the disparity. And I don't think that's a sexist observation. I believe if we can find ways to get more girls interested we should pursue them, and indeed I root for organizations like Black Girls Code.

We live in too politically correct a world if we think it's bad to suggest that maybe girls _aren't_ interested in the field. I'm not sure that it's the biggest contributing factor, but if it could be part of the story, why are we so afraid to admit that possibility? Because it's not something we'd like to believe?
>> Gee, wonder why women weren't attracted to that.

And men were, because...?
These tales are infuriating.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/9005552/Men-twi...
Is that not ad hominem? Attack the content of his post, not the content of his character.
It's not skepticism, it's rejectionism. Skepticism would have been to look up the paper and then argue that it's deficient in some manner - sample size too small, errors in the methodology, whatever it may be. I'm well aware that many, many published studies are scientifically deficient or overstated in some way, and have no problem with such deficiencies being pointed out.

Asking 'did the researchers consider X' without bothering to even look at the paper is just posturing. It's on the same level as saying 'this looks shopped - I can tell by some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shop jobs in my time.' It may be an attempt to signal hard-headedness and intellectual rigor, but absent any specific target for the criticism, it's worthless.
You mean besides the Planet Money episode, which was well-researched and extensively sourced, with interviews of people who actually study the issue and are not radical mens' rights advocates?
Yes, it is probably not the most correct term. However, I think when people realize the cost of making an App and then realize that chances are they aren't going to make millions, less will want to invest in app development, thus popping the "lets make an app" bubble.
As much as things sometimes sucked during my recent job hunt, holy cow, this is over-the-top awful. The worst of my experiences were exceeded within three paragraphs.

I did have to deal with one company that said they had trouble "finding senior people" when the whole office was a playground. But no one told me any sexist or racist jokes.
You're picking a pretty fine nit on the meaning of the word 'intention.' I see your point, with the exception that you don't know what Apple's intentions are. We have a few pointers, though. The fact that Chris Lattner and some on his team are interested in open-sourcing it is a good sign. Given his wording, I would even say that he intends to have a discussion about open sourcing it. We have even less evidence that Apple intends to leave Swift forever closed source — it's simply the status quo.

Apple, as a corporate entity, likely has no intention either way right now. Even if it did, Apple rarely broadcasts its intentions. Swift will likely be closed source until suddenly it's not.
[...] when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes [...]

Doesn't anecdotal evidence suggest that children quickly exceed their mentors (parents) when exposed to 1980s consumer hardware? (That hardware was deterministic--same key sequence means same result every time. You know, like video games from the same era.)

Being exceeded by your child can be a dramatic emotional event. Are the feelings that a father or mother experience different when the child is a little girl vs. a little boy?

</speculation>
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Very cool. I did some authorship attribution using a twitter corpus from MSR during grad school. The size constraint for a tweet causes users to have a different writing style then on other document types, which makes for interesting NLP problems.
Great, I've been waiting for the release of TweeboParser. Just before EMNLP14 gets started.
Ideas for this particular domain – Beautiful Street
I bought a domain called "Beautiful Street" and looking for some ideas on what I could do it with it. This is my first venture in wanting to create a blog.

Based on the name, what content would be appropriate whether directly related to "Beautiful Street(s)" or using it as a metaphor?

Thank you in advance. Long time reader of HN and always appreciate the advice from this community given to others.
I find this explanation extremely hollow. Most programmers didn't start programming when they were kids. They started when they realized it was a good paycheck.
Name one "oil" fired power plant?

Coal yes, nat gas sure, hyrdo (which is where alot of MI power comes from) you bet yea but I have not seen a oil powered electric plant.

further even is such a thing does exist, generating electricity has a much high efficiency then the IC engine which is by for one of the least efficient systems there is
I've used Word before and I will if I'm required to, but otherwise I prefer to use a text editor and have gotten some strange looks from others for doing that/sending them a document as a plaintext file. I don't understand why people seem to always reach for it even when they're writing short unformatted pieces of text; it's rather overkill for that, and if you've ever seen things like RFCs, it is possible to create some very readably formatted plaintext documents too.

If I'm doing something that needs fancy formatting, then my tool of choice if TeX; but I still focus on the content first, and the formatting afterwards.