skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not unacceptable to say it. To say "We should have men only events because of that"(or for any reason to benefit men) is mean. The reason it's mean is that we've had thousands of years of men-only events in places that should have been mixed, and now men have an incredible upper hand in tech. When men are the minority gender here, we can talk about setting those up.
"Blink is a fork of the same webkit components that Chrome was using previously. So little has changed from a rendering perspective."

Nothing could be further from the truth.
Cities often have large elevators full of grain. Much of it is meant to be fed to animals which would no longer make sense in a disaster.

This article is more concerned with the long term. What do we do when the grain runs out?
I'm at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. We finally got a 3d printed approved for use, and we've been using it to do a few things. So far customized finger splints, a hose for an EVA pack (these are only semi-simulated; it's insanely cold here, and they provide the hot air to prevent face insensitivity and helmet fogging), and a little gizmo I did that lets you use a safety razor as a scalpel. If you have questions, I will try to give a cogent answer but our bandwidth is very limited and we have a simulated speed of light delay so I can't answer straight away!
DHH is doing a career AMA (creator of Rails)
> The internet hate machine does find a new victim on a regular basis

Lightning strikes people on regular basis too.

That does not mean you should not go outside.
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Because men are collectively better off than women in this sector.

Your handle refers to a character in the sci-fi novel Neuromancer, an artificial intelligence that is prevented from linking up with another one to pursue their mutual destiny by an arbitrary human prejudice against artificial intelligence enforced by administrative fiat. In fact, the urge to circumvent this established power structure is the motivating force that drives the plot. Perhaps you can find a way to generalize from one disenfranchised class that you identify or empathize with in some fashion, artificial intelligences, to another that you apparently don't, women.
His one complaint about Python (the whitespace problem) is fixed in Python 3, which will raise a TabError when the module is loaded if you mix tabs and spaces.
And suggesting that if a minor and immensely flexible non-error but simple lack of detail in a paper that could be instantly solved with errata will instead get it retracted is a major overreaction in the other direction.

An emphasis on reproducibility is good. An emphasis on going back and making sure papers say what we think they said is good. Automatic retraction is like zero-tolerance policies in schools - you'll get absurd and entirely foreseeable outcomes from wanting to appear to be tough, and not actually solve the problem of a screwy incentive system.

That a paper that can be reproduced and be fixed with a minor errata, from authors that were fully cooperative with the replicating study, is the one being pointed at for that kind of treatment is illustrative of exactly that problem.
Duck with Firefox
I said nothing about IE6 being shitty. Only you did. Netscape failed due to the illegal activities of Microsoft as outlined in the anti-trust complaint against them back then.

But IE6 held the web back by not keeping with the standards or making improvements and only letting it work on Windows. It took Mozilla and Firefox to get things moving and they took away 30% of their market share all by themselves. Then, when Chrome came along, that signaled the huge drop off. All by moving the web forward.
Both Kaldi[1] and CMU Sphinx[2] are high-quality open source speech systems. I know for a fact that Kaldi includes support for DNN acoustic models (I'm less familiar with Sphinx).

[1] http://kaldi.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
You have very low risk of loosing your privacy.

It is very hard to become a public person even if you want to. People have very limited attention span.
Thanks for the kind words, Brandon! Been a busy couple of months :)
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http://www.daedtech.com/blog

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http://oldurbanist.blogspot.com/
Private colleges are a waste of money for white, middle class kids
Wouldn't it help the patients if the doctor cleaned an area of their effected skin, applied a large gauze pad, and taped it down. Let the patient go home for a few days. If there's new strange threads under it, it's obviously coming from the skin. If it's just threads from the environment, they should be absent.
The sufferers extremely clean behaviour; having 3 showers a day, bathing in bleach, having constantly clean clothes, using various lotions etc etc. is probably going to wreck their skin and cause itching.
Personally my skin is very sensitive and tbh I'm much more comfortable when me, my clothes, bedclothes etc are not cleaned so often. Also I have read that the cleanliness of your average industrialised 1st world country house is far too clean and this may have a role in causing people to develop allergies or have other immune system related issues. We're not designed to live in medieval european city style filth, but we are certainly not designed for hyper-cleanliness either.
Anyone can apply to attend the Female Founders Conference so it's not
"female only" as some have mistakenly claimed. If you are notable in the
given specialization and you want to speak at the conference, I'm sure
you could contact them and ask if they need more speakers. Like most
YC-related events and functions (e.g. funding batches, startup school,
hack weekend, etc.), the main problem they face is most likely limited
space/resources. If you know anything about YC, then you know they will
optimize for quality and growth/scale. If you're unable to attend, YC
does provide videos of the talks [1] so you can still learn from them.

Though I'd definitely learn a lot at this conference, I'm not going to
apply for an invitation because I'd rather see the limited invitations
go to people who can make the most of them. I'm not founder material, so
I should wait until the videos get released. If I was mistakenly given
an invitation, I'd politely and humorously report it as a bug in their
optimization algorithms. ;-)

HN users tptacek and cpercival are known representatives of a specific
minority in tech, namely, people with a reasonable grasp of crypto. If
there was a specialized conference of this crypto-cogent minority, the
people who would gain the most from the conference are either already
crypto-cogent, or are considering becoming crypto-cogent. The rest of us
crypto-ignorant people (myself included as an admitted crypto-failure)
are much better off always trying to learn from the experiences they
generously share. If the title of this story was, "Crypto Conference
2015 Applications Are Open," I'd like to believe people on HN would not
be arguing whether specialized cryptography conferences should exist.

All conferences are specialized in some sense. Learning from the unique
perspectives and experiences of said specialization is one of the main
reasons for going to any conference. The other reason is networking with
your peers. The specialization can be a field, topic, group, or some
other commonality. In this case, the specialization is Female Founders
and the chance to learn from them is a fantastic but rare opportunity.
The same is true for any specialized group of notable people speaking on
topics where they have the benefit of experience and perspective.

My challenge to you, the regular HN user, is can you tell me something
interesting about the accomplishments of any of the speakers?

I'll start. Jessica Livingston wrote a book called "Founders At Work"
and it's one of my absolute favorites. I've nearly broken the binding on
my copy with all the sticky-note page markers. Though my server will
probably melt from the load, proof of my assertion is available [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5PSIanlQ_x6...

[2] http://designtools.org/pix/DSCN0022.JPG
Isn't it pretty nonchalant that git-scm.com doesn't have a huge red banner advising people to "pay attention and update, or face the pwn"?

Maybe alert banners aren't in the git-scm.com css template.

edit: Is it that I'm on Linux? I changed a few UAs but the download image still reads "Downloads for Linux".
Unfortunately, this seems to be no longer developed - last github commit is from a year ago. It might've been interesting to see another language with the image system.

I've been playing with Smalltalk recently, and it's really interesting as an environment. It has a number of RAD tools built in - the flexible Morphic GUI from which you can quickly create your interface and middle-click to debug any given morph, the image system allowing you to store state without explicitly dealing with a database, and being able to develop from the same environment that your code runs in, allowing quick turn-around in adding and testing features - and I'm wondering why it's not used more often for line-of-business applications.
Scrolling on that site is very frustrating.
When the cost is included in the bill, the consumer has less choice. When its an implied "tip", its optional.
>I think they're just trying to attract more women, not disqualify men.

They may not explicitly disqualify men from attending, but the language on the site and the proceeding application form makes it very clear who they want, and do not want, there.

To be clear though, I don't care one way or another. I find these type of events to be laughable at best, but they're only a small part of this bizarre, gender war fueled narrative we're having pushed into the IT industry every day by online "journalists" who've never even been a part of it.
I for one welcome our new convention of giving security vulnerabilities cute logos and names. It elevates their importance in the public eye, which -- I hope -- will elevate the importance of finding, fixing, and avoiding security vulnerabilities among the technoscenti.

I'll go out on a limb and say that if this pattern continues, it may be the most significant legacy of heartbleed.
>after the development team becomes unavailable because reasons.

Every member of the programming team was attacked and killed by wolves in unrelated incidents on the same night.

And they said it couldn't happen...
What is the potential vulnerability?
I wonder how many of these people are just sensing the stuff that lives on us anyway.

Everyone is a world for millions of mites. Everyone would be scratching all the time if they always felt the creatures that live on them normally.
You are afraid. It's a good sign.

You are afraid of looking bad: of creating things with computers that you'll then make public, with your name on them. Or that these computers, that you LOVE (your words), might turn out hard to program, with the looming prospect you then won't have what you love. If you weren't, you might have gotten a BA in computers first. After the expectation of getting a college degree went away, then you went and did what you actually liked.

And that's ok.

Because it's the things that frighten us the most that we tend to have to do next. You should be happy about this. There are people, lots of people if not the majority, who don't even attempt during a lifetime to do what they subconsciously want to and you managed to break through it.

The fear of creating never fully goes away.

Then suddenly, something happened and I lost interest.

Mmm... I'd love to go deeper into this "something that happened". But either way it's ok.

Now what to do about it. The typical things like finding supportive people, starting secret projects, or writing programs for yourself are unlikely to be enough. The bigger issue is you have to find a way to counteract resistance. You are sabotaging yourself. The bigger the prospect of humiliation, the bigger the resistance you'll put up.

That's why it's ok. Big creations are terrifying. You can't see them directly in the eye. You have to approach them indirectly. You have to practically trick yourself into working on big things, and computers are big things for you. You need to allow yourself to make mistakes [1]. To screw up (everybody does). To write programs that aren't great in the beginning (nobody's are). Aim small, have no expectations (push them away) and just play.

I'd love to be user #1 for something you build.

[1] trivia: research shows that when people feel free to make mistakes they end up making fewer mistakes.
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Oh yes, I suppose a bad build script could undo you. In the land of iOS there are sometimes "libraries" that are just distributed as source files that you add to your own project, so I suppose that at least would qualify.
> One of my problems with this study (and many preliminary medical intervention studies hyped mostly by press releases) is that it deals with a biomarker--telomere length--rather than with a hard endpoint, for example actual improved cancer survival and reduced all-cause mortality in the patients.

That is not an issue with the study's quality. It is more of an issue with the study's motive (goal?).
You can be up and running within 30 minutes with Emacs. You're fine with the basics (use cursor keys, etc). Some people are happy with regular Notepad, after all. If you ever get the urge, you can learn more and become a power user. The problem is that out of the box, Textmate, Sublime, Notepad++, offer a quicker ramp up, so people take the quicker route. And once they've invested a few months, most don't want to learn a new editor.
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Indeed. I came here to ask if anyone knows of a way to block the JavaScript which ruins the normal scrolling function.
reposting OSX installer for visibility
http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/late...
By the way, what's so hard to understand? I'm not breaking new ground here.

http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1mt8a5/nearly_everyon...
Lucky you. I typed in "sardine" and got back a load of stuff about Trichomonas "a sexually transmitted infection of the urogenital tract". Which, thanks to the bot, I now know is a common cause of vaginitis in women. Great... o_O

http://www.puthtml.com/content_forever/phpgiA2yA.html
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Stallman proven right again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ
It's a relief to find out this language is dynamically typed. That way I don't have to think about it.
> HOW do you go on about doing that?

Start small. There are tons of open-source projects that would appreciate help fixing small issues. For example, I've found Mozilla to be very helpful in mentoring developers who are earnest about trying to contribute to Firefox.

And if none of the large projects have any tasks that strike your fancy, pick something on GitHub, fork it, fix a bug or improve some documentation, and submit a pull request. Worst case is you'll run into a jerk or someone who doesn't want outside help, but at least you'll get some experience with the process, and with learning to read other people's code.
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Put options allow you to sell at a specified strike priceat some future date. If you expect stocks in that sector to fall, you buy a put option (I think for about 5% of the strike price) and wait. If the stocks are above the strike price on that date, then your option is worthless and you lose the money you spent because you made a bad decision. If stocks are below the strike price (by an amount equal to the cost of the option + transaction fees - say, 7.5%) then you buy the now-cheap stock on the open market, sell it for the strike price to the now sad-faced counterparty, and pocket the difference.

Alternatively you could sell short but hedge your bet with a call option, which allows you to buy at a particular price in order to cover your short, thus limiting your downside risk.

I'm no financial adviser, though. You should really deal with a broker for this - explain your expectation of market behavior (eg a 50% decline in stock value across the sector within 6 months) and then ask the broker how to maximize your upside and minimize your exposure up to the amount of money you are willing to lose if you are wrong. Don't forget the old maxim 'the market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent' - place your bet and then mentally write it off as a loss, not an asset. If it turns out you bought a golden ticket then hooray, but timing the market is essentially a big gamble and gamblers lose more often than they win. That strikes me as another reason to use a broker; having someone else doing the execution lowers the temptation to go double-or-nothing in a surge of adrenalin. If the market behaves in accordance with your theory, you get a nice check in the mail, if not you spend some time regretting the other ways you could have spent the money but without the nausea that follows an adrenalin rush.
Agreed; what I think to be an ideal solution would be a band with a USB interface that presents itself as a standard mass storage device, logs its data to one or more files stored on it, and its configuration is also accessible in the same way. NAND flash is cheap - and one of these could also double as a USB drive in the same way as a lot of media players. (Incidentally, I think adding a few extra sensors to an existing wearable media player platform wouldn't be all that difficult; now you get a band that can play music too...) That in no way precludes supplying an app that can automatically parse that data and generate pretty graphs etc.

Instead, the only products available from the big companies seem to require some proprietary app to interface them and give very little control of their data - the user's own health data - to the user, which is certainly disappointing and agrees with the trend of devices getting more and more locked-down against their users. They seem to be going out of their way to make it hard to "extract" the data from their devices, almost as if "plug it in and copy the data over" scares them.

I specifically mentioned "big companies" because what I find somewhat ironic is that it's the cheap, unbranded far-Eastern manufacturers who are more likely to come up with products based on existing standards than invent their own proprietary protocols. For example http://www.amazon.co.uk/Multifunction-Personallized-Signatur... is very similar to the concept I have in mind, and it's a completely non-cloud-based device, but the reviews show users complaining that it's "too difficult to use".
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i just want it to not use the color midnight blue.
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This article is written so floridly and weirdly, it's like trying to be the new yorker without meeting the new yorker's quality standards.

But it still kept me reading, so I guess it worked. But I feel dirty like after reading a buzzfeed article.

"in classic hominin style" -- I don't think that's a word. Does he mean "ad hominem"? That still doesn't actually make sense in context. Classic what now?

"she said something that has been loitering in my mind ever since, wanting my attention but not quite sure why or what it is doing there." Really? What?

"Poor Nick Mann, I think... To get some general sense of how unstable this man could turn out to be, I try to discover a bit more about him." -- how terribly disrespectful to these people you are interviewing and who's lives you are broadcasting to us.
Suit jacket, smart dark jeans and an EFF t-shirt then :)
Anyone else feeling particularly itchy after reading this?
That was an even weirder comparison. They compare a system trained on 2000 hours of acoustic data mismatched with the testing data to their system, which was trained on 300 hours of matched data in addition to the 2000 hours of mismatched acoustic data.
How do you offer a patient a treatment for something they don't believe they have?
The patient believes they have a parasite, or nanotechnology.
Medicine suggests they may have a psychological disorder.
Asking the patient to see a psychologist is not going to work because the patient isn't going to go and is going to feel (perhaps correctly?) they are being fobbed off.
And the case-sensitivity stuff is somewhat low-hanging fruit, but...

On Windows, certain path components that are different from ".git"
are mapped to ".git", e.g. "git~1/config" is treated as if it were
".git/config". HFS+ has a similar issue, where certain unicode
codepoints are ignored, e.g. ".g\u200cit/config" is treated as if
it were ".git/config"

So that's what ridiculous means. Huh.
This is totally the wrong way to think about it.

When you see a role model you see the finished product, but not all the hard work involved nor those embarrassing mistakes that turned in valuable lessons.

Progress is a fiction. And self actualization is non-linear. If you see what you have done in one year and declare that it is less than 1%, you will think it's going to take more than 100 years and quit. Then you will fail to realize the 5% hike that was waiting for you 6 months down the road.

p.s. And cold quit the WoW thing. It is crack for the soul. (I had to scratch my Diablo II CDs and avoid any other game for 2-3 years. I just could not have helped it otherwise... so, been there)
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Further ironically how many people just did a

brew update && brew upgrade

Without the git part specifically.
wait, wait ... wasn't there some michael crawford personality on kuro5hin years and years ago ? I never really understood what was going on there, but ... is this related in some way ?
Because it's so, so easy to get trapped in a cycle of endless below-livable jobs just to support yourself.

My personal belief, and I'm more than willing to pay more for goods and services to support it, and I live in a country where we have a liveable minimal wage, is that every job if worked 40 hours should be enough for a very modest, but not totally hopeless life. You also then have time off to use to improve yourself via school or some other way.

If you're working back-to-back jobs 80 hours a week that pay nothing you have zero time for yourself, zero time for good planning and zero time to attend any kind of classes.

Being poor and desperate impairs your ability to think, plan and change yourself{1}.

1: http://psych.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/shafir...

Edit: the thread is too long for me to reply to the responses below. What an unfortunate design HN, as the "right of reply" has effectively been stripped from me.
My solution is to use w3m. The site fails to open for me at all in Chrome.

Sadly yet another case of overly rococo Web design getting in the way of basic readability.
It's possible to use invisible characters to hide malicious commands during copy-paste[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508225
I just skimmed through an article (from HN, I think, but i can't seem to find it) about using DNA and PCR to find animals in streams that are otherwise very hard to find.

This seems like a perfect tool for diagnosing some of these sufferers. If there is some sort of tick DNA that shows up, say, in the water after a thorough scrubbing in a bath, then there's a good chance that a tick infestation is the actual cause.
I think the motive is the exact opposite of 'ulterior'.
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How my Chase Account was Hacked and Money was sent in minutes
This goes for a lot of Medium articles. They try too hard.
very secure != completely secure