skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have one of these cards. When I went to add my other cards to Apple Pay yesterday, I was surprised to see that it wasn't automatically added as my default Apple Pay card because it's my main iTunes account card (which is supposed to be what happens).

Puzzled, I tried manually adding it. Nope, unsupported.

So then I activated my Capital One card, which went perfectly fine. Then tried my Simple.com debit card, which failed, but I know they're working on compatibility. My Fidelity account card I never expected to work, but tried anyway.

So then, still curious about what was going on, I called Chase directly and spoke to someone about it.

She really did seem to be confused, initially, about why the Amazon card wasn't supported. She acknowledged that some of their cards weren't supported right now and was about to make that her official statement on the matter, but then after a minute or two she seemed to either look something up on their internal computer systems, pull out some paperwork about it, or silently gesture to someone in the vicinity (manager? who knows), and then told me that the Amazon card would be working with Apple Pay in the near future. What information she based that on, I can't say, but that was the clear indication.

Given that Chase is obviously ok with customers using Apple Pay (they likely see it as being in their favor for us to use Apple Pay due to lower risk of fraud related to merchant leaks. Target. Home Depot. Enough said), I imagine they would like me to use this Chase Amazon card with Apple Pay too, particularly since I use it a lot everywhere.

I expect this issue is likely some boring detail that hadn't been worked out by the time Apple Pay went live, rather than a political issue over Kindle books or hypothetical competition from a mobile Amazon Payment service tied to Fire phones.

And I doubt Amazon has all that much say in what Chase does with customer accounts that they consider "theirs" anyway. For all intents and purposes, this is a Chase credit account and a Chase card, not an Amazon card (Amazon Store cards exist, but this certainly isn't one of them).

Chase is the one extending the credit line, Chase is the one who assessed my risk and ability to pay before setting the terms on the account, I can visit a local Chase branch to talk to them about it, I pay it off by visiting chase.com or using the official Chase mobile app, and were I to default, it would be Chase suing me. The only indication that Amazon is even involved is their logo on the front of what is otherwise VERY obviously a Chase branded card, and that the rewards for the card are applied as credit toward Amazon purchases.

We'll see what happens, but a week from now, a month at the latest, I expect it'll work. And if it doesn't and Amazon really is screwing with this card's Apple Pay compatibility, the only effect it'll have is to make me favor other cards instead, and only use this one to pay for Netflix every month just to keep it in use.
Well, we see evidence for magnetic reversal in the geological record. It happened before, and a lot. Also, the strength has gone down to about 5% before. This much I'd take as fact.

What is not clear is the effect this has on the biosphere. Calculations have been made for different magnetic field strenghts during the reversal and it seems that radiation can go up. By how much and how much of a problem that would be.. well. Speculations plus calculations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_reversal (also has tons of papers in the links)
Hopefully this an aberration, not the norm

Startups that hire unskilled labor are only pulling back the curtain on the actual job market. If anything you can expect to hear more about it as the tech startup world starts building things that require more staff than an engineering department.
"No. Once you agree you are talking off the record, there's no going back on that."

Of course there is, for instance if someone was threatening to harm you or others, it really wouldn't matter if you had agreed to keep things off the record. There is a difference between professional discretion and complicity.

edit - you described the tactics they possibly used and the potential strategic blowback, but ethically you answered your question for yourself already when you conceded that they are entitled to do that form of investigative reporting. They are a newspaper.
And those properties that statistically discourage an entire sex from pursuing Computer Science are...

The problem is that I have seen no significant evidence to support such a claim. And on the flip side, it seems rather straightforward to argue for culturally guided decision making. Marketing, toys(Barbie vs Tools), socially approved courses(home economics vs woodshop), socially approved professions, 'traditional' family roles, historical religious convictions... These make for a convincing argument. And they're especially so when you begin to dissect the progress women have made in other professions, and the changes in cultural attitudes over time that have helped them make and hold on to such gains.
While not conclusive, some of you may be surprised to discover that there exists some evidence, for a physiological basis for the E/I spectrum.

An fMRI study of personality influences on brain reactivity to emotional stimuli.
http://spl.stanford.edu/pdfs/2001%20Behavioral%20Neuroscienc...

Neuroanatomical Correlates of Extraversion and Neuroticism (Neuroticism correlates with introversion in this context)
http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/12/1809.full

Happy faces trigger different brain reactions in extroverts and introverts
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2002/july10/sciencegab-710.htm...

and study:
http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/DSS/2012-2013/Gabrieli/CanliScienc...

An event-related potential analysis of extraversion and individual differences in cognitive processing speed and response execution.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10821201

Individual Differences in Amygdala-Medial Prefrontal Anatomy Link Negative Affect, Impaired Social Functioning, and Polygenic Depression Risk http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/50/18087.full
Robe Pike seems to like to lament the fact that systems research is irrelevant. Well, PL research sure seems to be irrelevant - either something he is largely unaware of, or doesn't feel he needs - to him.
FYI, what you call AirBART is actually AirTrain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_(San_Francisco_Interna..., which you can also use to get a rental car or to go to the parking garage.

AirBART is the shuttle bus service between OAK and BART. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirBART
Try working in Japan! :-) [1]

Fortunately, I haven't encountered any users of Microsoft Works, but use of Excel outside actual spreadsheet work seems to be so popular in Japan.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689411
1. It has O(1) lookups (it has to probe at most 2 constant-size buckets) and O(1) amortised insertions (the probability of needing more than k swaps to find an empty slot decreases exponentially with k).

2. It's geared for low false positives, 3% or lower.

3. It does have false positive on lookups: signatures are lossy.

4. It has comparable space requirements to bloom filters for the same error rate and set (not universe) cardinality.
Grew up with Atari 800xl in 1980s in communistic Poland and confirm the same. It is quite obvious what happened but first what I really don't like about the article:
Object ovation of women. You have "agents" who decide for themselves -- men -- and objects who need to be told/encouraged or have stuff explained as otherwise they will apparently not understand why they should study CS. Or have mammography ( when was the last time you seen an ad explaining men to have prostate checked? ), participate in politics, etc? You don't tell agents what to do. Agents take action by the definition of being an agent. Objects on the other hand need to be told. Feminism is objectifying women this way.

And explanation of why not these many women are in the CS percentage wise today as in 1984? Easy. As CS became very popular instead of being highly scientific niche subordinate to mathematics department, it just became as any other engineering department - overflown with men.

Btw, I studied English language for my Masters. Hihhly recommended : male/female ratio 1 to 7. 😉
And no, there are no articles encouraging men to take foreign languages as their University Major. As we are not objectifying them as feminists are objectifying women. We know that advising agents would be inappropriate. But if you want to spend 4 or 5 years with chicks around you -- go study foreign language. And you can still pick up programming after partying with them for five years 😉
Interesting. They decoded that from crop cycles.
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Thanks for the information!

I guess that leads to `excellent' non-upgrading of houses that have long term tenants in them.
For me something like list comprehensions is simply a matter of learning and expertise, not cleverness. Somebody banning them for "cleverness" reasons should be called out for what they are really doing: setting a (sadly low) knowledge ceiling.

The real problem of cleverness is when people are bored of being code monkeys and start inventing things that complexify their project without any legitimate justification. Like "a cron job and a two line shell script would do but why don't I design my own multi-tier scheduling cluster"
As someone who has always thrived around computers and programming tools, I wish I also had a History degree. Some of the most interesting stuff I have ever read is history related.
I was listening to an episode of the Jamil show (A homebrew podcast) interviewing Annie Johnson, last years american homebrewer of the year and the brewmaster for PicoBrew. She creates recipes for the machine that users can download, as well as helping to qa / guide the product. She brought in samples from the machine to compare with samples that she brewed traditionally. The hosts (many of whom are respected BJCP judges) were blown away by the quality, and opined that this machine should be banned from brewing competitions because of the advantage it would confer. A link to the episode: http://thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/1068
And why should recreational fishing be biologically less appealing to women than men either?

- from a woman who quite enjoys fishing, tyvm
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You're absolutely right that you have to be careful about how you assess students' mastery of a subject. The fact that this does not seem easy isn't a good reason to shy away from it. A few ways that this can be dealt with:

- Many courses already have a final exam well-established. Some states are starting to require that students be given the option to test out of core courses, and one option is to let them take the final. This doesn't mean take the final as many times as you want until you pass; we can set reasonable limits on offering opportunities to test out.

- Portfolio-based assessment moves beyond just using standardized tests to assess competence.

At my school, we set up independent studies frequently for students whose educational history is often checkered. These students develop a set of skills and knowledge in their course of study, and then demonstrate their understanding in a variety of ways. If you've set up the structures effectively, it's not overwhelming to individualize instruction for students who need it.

One student's story: I knew a student who passed Algebra 1 and failed French 1 in 8th grade. In 9th grade he was given Algebra 1, and he was placed in French 2. His school wouldn't switch his classes; he failed Algebra because he refused to do all the work over again for a class he had passed, and he failed French 2 because he was in over his head. We gave this student the chance to test out of some of his math credit, and placed him in otherwise appropriate classes.

When schools mess up, they often times have no idea how much that impacts individual students and their families.
It's a backend-as-a-service, like Parse, but based on realtime server-push functionality.
> I use a dozen init systems, each for a different situation, and I'm interested in keeping it that way.

You might like that, but it makes life hell for developers who write and package any kind of daemon/service.
I have a 2yo who has been obsessed with cars from the time he could crawl. We never encouraged it (don't own a car or a tv, no siblings) - actually got him a few dolls to try and balance it out.

I think that once you have kids and observe them do gender-specific things from a very early age, you dismiss all the talk of 'marketing is responsible for it'.
> In this case, all you have to do is look at how they tried to defend against the universal healthy user bias (you know, the same thing that led to such epic fails as hormone therapy?), and see that all they did was adjust for weight and some self-reports. Bzzt.

They actually adjusted for age, smoking (never, former, current), pack-years of smoking, energy intake using the USDA's HEI, alcohol intake, physical activity (some/none), BMI, and waist circumference. They also didn't include anyone with prexisiting cardiovascular conditions or diabetes.

Their results confirmed earlier studies very strongly -- race, 'never' smokers, younger age, and healthy weight all corresponded to longer telomeres (P < .001), and their results showed significance with sugary sodas.

> You know what sugar-juice and diet soda have in common? People think they're healthier than regular soda.

I'm not sure what you're trying to imply with this one though. Just read page 5 of the actual study. This is good science and generic insults are just noise when everything is actually addressed:

http://www.chc.ucsf.edu/ame_lab/pdfs/Leung%20et%20al%202014a...
She's not talking to some faceless group or venting in a vacuum, she's on a website that is a community of programmers. The plumbers have every right to think I'm an effete nerd, but if someone tells me my misogynist behavior is excluding women from the field of programming I care.
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Yep, and the result is I have needless sprinklings of "www" in my shell scripts cause of habit. Technically I don't need it the moment I pipe into grep, but oh well ;) Anyway I personally dislike the SysV-like 'I need to add stuff like -aef' to get all that on-the-screen/into-grep vs the BSD-like it knows about TTY but I can convince it otherwise into stuf like 'less -S' - personal taste I guess.
To the tune of almost $46 million dollars at what I'm sure is some absurd "valuation" in the hundreds of millions.

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/handybook

Their included Twitter feed is blowing up with damage control.
Lyft and Uber tend to have better prices than cabs. I keep both apps around because the difference in price can jump around quite a bit - sometimes up to 2-3x.

However, the ideal transportation if you're visiting is to simply walk around. It's amazing how easy it is to walk everywhere in SF.

For Alcatraz, just grab a lyft/uber to the pier and take the ferry. By the way, if you have time the longer, late evening tours are quite interesting.
This is the reason I use Org-mode. It provides simplicity of formatting like Markdown, but provides enough flexibility to export to format of my choice as needed. (Mainly, when I provide documents to others, I just generate PDF via LaTeX, but other formats including MS Word can be created fairly easily via ODT export.)
Completely agree. There will always be good names available. Curious if PG would still rate textpayme high as I think its an awful name!

Selfishly curious, how would you rate my company's name, Modea?
You've made some really good points. I guess I read the parent post a bit differently. I was looking through for a summary of how the lifestyle difference between soda drinkers and fruit juice drinkers had been handled. When I saw that post, I thought woowee, here's the thread where the answer will come in. A brief synthesis of the page you mentioned would have really helped me determine the credibility of the article. I can, however, understand the frustration with the statement of "this is more likely [some other reason] than the experts' conclusion." More reasonable is "If you've read the full article, how did experts deal with [this other reason]?" If the answer is complicated and occupies a full page, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for the cliff notes.
I agree. I get what it does but i don't like the overall color scheme.
Hey that watch stuff is pretty neat, I might have to switch back in some of my containers :-)

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd/commit/16d6b347c3d3...
"Vulnerabilities in this interface can potentially allow a privileged userland process to escalate its privileges from ring 3 all the way up to that of the platform firmware, which attains permanent control of the very-powerful System Management Mode."

That's the part to get worried about right there - fiddling with SMM is Serious Business. For instance, it's the sort of place NSA hides rootkits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode#Problems
I'm not suggesting that the amendments should be read literally, I'm suggesting that in this particular case there is very reasonable difference of opinion about what should and shouldn't constitute people's papers, effects, and private property for the purposes of federal law, and it could use to be cleared up by people who are elected.
This is interesting stuff. I think a paragraph near the end of your second link is noteworthy:

> But pressure on the company—it is dogged by accusations that its dynamic pricing can bleed into straight greed—has seen Uber strike deals to limit surge pricing during emergencies.

Spin is everything here. They could just as well have said, "Uber takes steps to limit ride availability in emergencies." That doesn't sound so good.

Ah, but the research suggests that, in this case, a very limited price increase can have large effects on supply. If that is correct, and if Uber plays their cards very carefully, then they should be able to have their cake and eat it, too: ensure ride availability during emergencies, while capping surge pricing.

Ain't mathematics (and economics) wonderful?

P.S. Thanks for the additional links.
As a counterpoint, the Wikipedia definition of startup was coined by Steve Blank sometime in the past ~5 years, so it's not exactly ancient history.

I think if we place emphasis on the word "scalable," PG + Blank's definitions are compatible. Both distinguish "startup" from "new company." I don't think most people would categorize building a tech company and starting a hair salon as the same activity because of the force multiplier of scale.
Yahoo was around and well established before google even showed up. If Yahoo was a new startup today then it could struggle.
Interesting, that site is showing a "network error" in the console on Firefox in Windows for me. Have to see if it displays in Firefox/Linux.
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no south park fans here i guess
This definitely seems to have the makings of Segway 2.0. One can only hope this yields better results, but I'm extremely skeptical. I can't imagine this in a form factor that would be comfortable for the average user.
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Puts me in mind of Asimov's short story Good Taste.
Abuse is about power and control, not "desire."
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I love the fact the Computer History Museum is keeping this source alive. But without an Alto Emulator, it's almost worthless. Kinda sad how much technology is dead simply because the hardware is gone to run it.
Note that Autism and Asperger's Syndrome are "male dominated". Something like 4:1.

If you have a field toward which nerds gravitate, it will become male-dominated.

What happened around 1984? Yes, home computers were becoming much more common as the article aptly notes.

But what else? It was becoming obvious that the people who flocked to these things most, who outright related to these computers, were nerds.

Popular culture latched on to this instantly!

What was on the big screen and on TV?

- War Games (1983)

- Superman III (1983) - Major character is a computer nerd played by Richard Pryor (August "Gus" Gorman).

- Riptide TV Series (1983) [1] - Major character Murray "Boz" Bozinsky is an utter nerd

- Whiz Kids TV Series (1983) [2]

When 1984 rolled around the trend went all out:

- Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

Nerd stereotypes were in the spotlight, as well as the connection between nerds and technology, especially computers. And that of course is going to have some effect on enrollment in fields of study having to do with computers. Young people respond to stereotypes in mass culture.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riptide_%28TV_series%29

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_%28TV_series%29
From the site:

> When will the Pole Shift occur?

> Best we can tell it will occur between May 20 and Jun 12 in 2012. See the source Zetatalk clues, and Crop Circle clues that give this final result.

Oops!
Firstly, 10% per capita means 20% per capita because nobody pays tax. Secondly, nobody knows the real numbers because it's largely a cash economy. US real estate is largely empty too. People here don't need cars to live, and overheads on everything are far lower, so 20% per capita is actually a much nicer life than in the US. Say you have $20 per day, you can live really fine here. People are supported in retirement by their families, who they continue to live with, so there's no need to save as much beyond your children's education. Hong Kong 'unrest' is irrelevant to mainland China, except to show that the government has already vastly improved its capacity to respond to such situations. Everyone here knows exactly 'how its going to work': the Communist Party will stay in power.
>I'd say Smith v. Maryland makes as much sense as it ever did.

I'd agree, but I don't think it was a good decision then, either.
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Apart from this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500

From : " "A reduction in salt intake led to a significant fall in blood pressure, even in the healthy volunteers," explains Jens Titze, from Erlangen-Nuremberg University." ..
"Titze gradually reduced the daily salt intake of the 'cosmonauts' during the course of the world's longest metabolism study, while keeping all other nutrients unchanged."

But well, it's not something every study can do.

[] http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10525/873...
It's a shame the license they're offering it under is restrictive; non-commercial use only means it's not DFSG-friendly or anything.
How much of which jam did he eat and what did he look like? (colour/intensity)
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I completely agree that open sourcing the project does not guarantee that the project will continue to function. I also think that after a company goes out of business they have no responsibility to keep their project functioning. Once they open source it, anyone is free to put in the work to keep it going and I can't think of a better guarantee a company could reasonably give.
It'll be interesting to see what Google does with firebase. There are already alternatives out there - but question is - which of them will succeed next?
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If you're planning on a trip to Alcatraz over the weekend, check for tickets now. Weekend tickets typically sell out before weekend.
That's an interesting graph. The article makes the claim that this was an effect of computers basically being sold as toys (which are almost always gender targeted in their marketing). But this graph also makes me think about the huge and longstanding push to align software development with traditional engineering practices...that may also have been a contributing factor.