skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would want to see this experiment repeated trans females who (assuming the presented hypothesis) should see the inverse relationship.

Yep, there are ancedotes about trans women just as you predict:

> Joan Roughgarden is a biologist at Stanford who lived and worked as Jonathan Roughgarden until her early fifties, and her experience was almost the mirror image of Barres’s. In her words, “men are assumed to be competent until proven otherwise, whereas a woman is assumed to be incompetent until she proves otherwise.” In an interview, Roughgarden also noted that if she questioned a mathematical idea, people assumed it was because she didn’t understand it.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119239/transgender-people...

> I suspect a better (and likely cheaper/easier) test is to take the same papers and present them under a male and female author name.

There have been published scientific papers looking at (sort of) this. Send out job applications for a lab manager, and randomly assign a male or female name. Same job application otherwise. Male applications get more job offers and more money.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201... http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474

We might give out to Creationists who don't want to accept reality about evolution, but well...
I think it's a play on the what the words usually mean, in this case not homicide using a car, but homicide of the car (concept, as we know it).

Edit: As to your second part, why it's on HN, that's fairly obvious to me. It's about the change in culture and society that may come about due to automation of driving through technology, which may be very significant.
What GPU vendors call cores aren't. It's like calling hair brush pins as hair brushes.

I think something should be called "core" if it can branch instruction stream. Predication doesn't count. A single core can run multiple instruction streams (GPUs, Intel Hyperthreading).
I've long been a big fan of the app, and I also quite liked this post. Thanks for all the lovely weather predictions so far and congrats on the deal!
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You can get them if you look through the network request the browser makes. Largest I saw was 4096x3096, which is just perfect for desktop backgrounds!
It's on HN because I submitted it, and others voted it up.

For the other questions, I encourage you to read it and see if you can find the answers for yourself. Even if you decide after doing so that its argument is flawed, or that it has no argument! Vigorous disagreement is what makes comment threads interesting :-D
Vincent Laforet was also one of the first to shoot a video on the Canon 5D MkII - also involving helicopters over NYC. http://vimeo.com/7151244
I can't recall the expedition or details, but on one artic adventure documentary I watched a while back one of the participants took 'too long' for a number 2 (> 30s), and his 'free hand' (sans gloves) become frostbitten so badly that he had to quit. He was kicking himself over a 'noob' mistake.
I don't really see how that matters. This only shows how utterly broken the concept of "patch Tuesdays" is ...

If you plan your internal deployment updates based on the belief that the schedule will never change, then I'm really sorry for you and your users. In real world, not all issues are reported in advance - some are observed in the wild, and in that case you have to fast-track the fix. If you have no way to do that (e.g. because the vendor only releases fixes on Tuesdays once per month, or because you decided to choose such schedule on your own), then good luck. That might have been appropriate in 1995, not in 2015.

There are many projects and/or companies publishing fixes continuously, and leaving it up to the users when/how to apply them in production. That's essentially what all the linux distributions (RH, Suse, ...) and smaller projects do.
U.S. military Twitter feed hacked, apparently by IS sympathizers
Linking my posts in a thread above[0].

The goal of Uber is to earn money by allowing utilization of the massive unused transportation capacity bound up in personal vehicles.

As detailed in a child post of the linked thread, taxi-driving was not a long-term full time opportunity until many regulations (supported primarily by trolley/streetcar incumbents who could not compete with jitney service and by municipalities who could more readily collect fees/taxes from those incumbents than the jitney ecosystem) forced huge scarcity in the provision of point-to-point on-demand transport.

Disclaimer: I am not claiming all was perfect, and the thread linked indicates several of the negatives, and the article[1] referenced in the other thread goes into more detail. The argument is that transportation need not be a full-time job; there is sufficient excess capacity that the primary benefit of Uber/Lyft comes not from providing a new livelihood, but in destroying a large source of deadweight loss (large sunk costs in personal vehicles with often-superfluous carrying capacity).

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8875039
[1]http://www.jstor.org/discover/724795?sid=21105612783593&uid=...
Bullseye hit on a pet peeve of many years: the confusion between phosphorus (a noun) and phosphorous (an adjective).
I'm not so sure this is true in general. If you believe chip works, it's definitely false for Apple's A8.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8562/chipworks-a8
pompous (affectedly grand, self-important)
"with 40% less power, 80% less food waste and 99% less water usage than outdoor fields" Sounds like its less expensive. I'd imagine the upfront real estate costs will nominal when annualized.
@zapher: Could please explain this comment:

"SQL doesn't have the notion of "distribution" built into the language. This can be added into the database, but it isn't there in the language."

Are we expecting SQL to need to support "distribution." ??

I write database software on a very small scale with low transaction hits in your classic sense (select, update, etc..) and never needed sharding but one thing that has recently come up in my world is the need for data to be mirrored at geographically separate locations for both selects (reporting) and updates.

I used software and database technologies to over come these but never any crafty SQL calls. Like inserting into two or more databases to keep them in sync...

Are the DB engineers of the world trying to progress SQL to overcome these things at the SQL level?

One Example: Oracle and Postgres both have streaming replication that has nothing to do with SQL (yes I know you can use SQL commands in postgres to start & stop it but it's postgres specific) but as far as I know, these are replication technologies below SQL.

So I was genuinely curious or thought I was missing something; I still kind of do as I've not stayed very current with the state of the art.
> Historically, it's more likely that the vulnerability was already known among cracking circles,

Why do you say this?

It implies a world where software is almost perfectly secure, and there are only a few bugs to fix, and then it's perfectly secure, and we are all happy.

In reality, there are effectively an infinite number of bugs out there, many with security holes. Finding one and going through the motions to fix, patch, test, and release still leaves you software with plenty of open holes.

If you magically theorize "the bad guys know about all the holes already," then they are still going to exploit all the other holes in the system, because they magically know about them, too.
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Dang, they banned him from computer use for 3 year and he is still making awesome stuff after that? What a bad ass.
In the plus side, it demonstrates how serious the state perceives the threat of "weaponized" javascript and can be a legitimate defense if someone is ever pursued for using noscript-alikes.
It's almost exactly the same car that the devil drives in Job by Robert Heinlein.
A great deal of what feminists blame men for, is really women competing with women. Size zero models for example.
Is there anything wrong with trolling hacker news?
Out of band happens when there is a security issue actively being exploited in the wild.
It's not about this causing issues IMO. It's just.. why? Why would '+' not be commutative? Why not throw an error? What is the use-case for "adding" '[]' and '{}'?

Or, put another way: why would a programmer want to have this "feature" instead of being notified: "hey, you're adding '[]' and '{}', that doesn't make any sense, fix that!"

Sure you can work with a language like that. But it sure doesn't feel like somebody thought all of this this through.
There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read", he said.

Is he really so naiive to think he can stop people from using secure encryption on the internet?
rdtscp also consumes an extra register though.
Have you ever tried to copy a painting? Try it sometime, you'll learn a lot.
He said: “In our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people which […] we cannot read?”

Yes, we do.

It's awful that he can say we don't want something that would be protected in the US.
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I can't tell whether this is hubris, technical naïveté or just an attempt to garner votes. Possibly all three. But let's assume they are proposing a ban on communications methods that cannot be lawfully intercepted (that's certainly how Cameron words it).

Firstly, we know it's technically infeasible, secondly it would have a serious chilling effect on UK Internet companies and the digital economy, and thirdly it would actually take very popular apps and tools from young voters hands. So does he really think people will be panicked enough by the threat of terrorism to vote for it?
But "Desktop is dead!" (even though everyone uses it and everything is made on a desktop)
Why not use a good Tomato build? This is my favourite at the moment and gets updated quite frequently:

http://tomato.groov.pl/
I appreciate your intent. But as a sexual minority myself, I would be insulted if someone treated me differently because of it, even if they meant well.

By all means, we should confront our biases, but for me the answer isn't layering new biases on top of old biases.
Agreed, but robots aren't perfect just by virtue of being robots. They are only as good as the systems design and programming that goes into them.

Given the quality of programming that goes into lots of other "smart" devices these days, I'm not sure having a robot drive is all that much less scary than having me do it.
Wrote something similar: http://blog.higg.im/2014/11/19/getting-off-twitter/

The churn rate for Twitter is massive these days. The only ones still hanging on are the early adopters and influencers. I am not quitting entirely, just refusing to log in for a year.

Note: Updated the note worthy links at the bottom to include author's post :)
unintended consequence: important works are only sent to the largest museums in the largest cities where traffic flow can support it the tax write off.
IBM made other dependable keyboards besides the model M. I have a stash of quiet KB-6323s to last the rest of my years.
Ssh, this is going to happen sooner or later and result in quadcopters being banned forever. :(
Drawing with multiple box-shadow's, nice (performant??)
If you show how to break a system, don't you implicitly show the parts that are broken that need to be fixed? The entire protocol is so poor you should probably just not use the tech anymore.

The cryptography method uses a key of 4 bytes and is reused constantly, that's pretty much reason alone to dump keyboards using that encryption scheme.
Refocusing on 'gender equality' is a great way to exacerbate economic inequality by distracting attention from the latter issue and crippling certain groups from advancing effectively.

Not saying this is a conscious thing, but this seems to be where incentives are leading people.
Would that not be "vain"?
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We Skyped with a Fallaga Team Hacker from Tunisia (2013)
Can someone explain the rainbow-like colors? This is from the lenses/postprocessing/other?
Of Broken Cap Tables and Meta Startups
They are radically better at very-short-term forecasting: I use forecast.io frequently for knowing when to take the dog for a walk etc.

I don't find them an improvement for medium-term or longer-term forecasting, and I continue to use other sources for these cases.

Good luck Dark Sky, keep improving :)
"site:" will work better than "inurl:" I think "inurl:" limits the search to urls with "news.ycombinator.com" in their url while "site:" will only search the url "news.ycombinator.com" thus limiting the search to HN. So the search would be "site:news.ycombinator.com" then you just use search tools and limit the date.
Saw that one, but my router was not in the list of supported ones.
Note, the Vimeo video is not embedded, it's just an screenshot. Confused me for a bit there...
UK government could ban encrypted communications with new surveillance powers
Nobody's arguing against empathy. And simply saying that privilege is "unfairly reserved" (without any qualifiers) begs the question.

We're saying that privileged people are often blind to their own privilege and others' disadvantages. To them (and I'm in this group), and thanks to things like hedonic adaption, a position of privilege feels like their "natural" state. To have some of that privilege taken away feels like a loss, even though it was nothing they earned on their own in the first place. To illustrate: How often do people hear heterosexuality applied as a pejorative label?
Maybe the self-driving cars will eventually file police reports with their sensor/camera data against reckless drivers.
I'm curious, do you know what you're talking about? It doesn't really sound like it.

Septic tanks do have to be built differently, but they do work at extreme temperatures.

Yes, you do insulate pipes better, yes you do also use heat tape to prevent pipes from freezing. This is pretty standard practice. In general, if you're heating something in the ground, you're going to have it well insulated, and heat it to barely above freezing. The ground, though frozen does provide a great deal of insulation as well. When the air is really cold, the ground is going to be significantly warmer The big issue here is melting that permafrost and causing the ground to sink. This wrecks foundations and cracks pipes.

Yes, we do use block heaters, but you also have to start your car and let it warm up for quite a while before driving. Cars do behave differently at -40, but they are still usable. Once you start dropping below -50F, cars do start behaving really poorly. I wouldn't recommend biking in those temperatures unless you know what you're doing. My dad usually stops riding his bike to work at around -30F.

Yes, the cost of living (for many, but not all things) is higher in remote areas. No, the cost does not rise 10x.

Heating is a big expense, but can be mitigated by building well insulated homes. There is a high prevalance of dry cabins for lower incomes, since the lack of plumbing means you can afford to let a building freeze if you don't have tenants to pay for heat. That said, you can also heat or supplement the heat for your house the old fashioned way, with a wood burning stove.

Yes, many of the issues (and choice) above have a lot of do with poverty. Most of the ways you can reduce the costs of living in an extreme environment (high quality windows, good insulation, a heated garage for your car) require initial outlays of capital. Solutions like wood burning stoves and outhouses mitigate that to some extent.

The article seemed poorly written and researched to me. It's amusing to watch people speculate about things they don't understand.
Swift/Cocoa Type Dissonance
Hm, how high can drone/baloon legally fly?
How will we interact with the #WebWeWant?
Talking almost wholly about yourself (and your job) and not asking about your conversation parter is always a social disaster, whether you are on a date or a business lunch. And yet I see so many people make this mistake.

Listen, and ask good questions! People will like you more.
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The parent comment implied without evidence that that all women putting down women had nothing to do with patriarchy. I gave a reason as to how it might (to a possibly massive amount) be due to patriarchy.

And what if "nature at work" isn't so natural? Go back 50 years and people would say that it's unnatural for 2 men to love each other.
You mean the difference between the element and the quality of glowing?

The adjective is falling out of usage, so you can assume references are to the first unless you are sure otherwise.
Ignorant? I think not. I do not want to trust a mechanical system to see me, identify me, and stop a vehicle doing 100+ kph in time not to kill me. The car in the OP is not one that supplements a driver's vision and reaction time. It is a system that totally replaces it.

Would anyone here be willing to stand on a road with their backs to an oncoming car without human supervision? Thousands of times. In all weather conditions. When the car's systems are 5/10/25 years out of date? That's what motorcyclists must do at every red light: trust that the car approaching behind them stops in time.

Pedestrians at crosswalks have the advantage of signing, lights and cross-streets to alert the system to the possible presence of humans. Motorcyclists must stand in random places unprotected (ie stop and go traffic).
Quoting a symposium with Chomsky talking about statistical AI:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/PinkerChomskyMIT.html

"I think there have been some successes, but a lot of failures. The successes, to my knowledge at least, are those that integrate statistical analysis with some universal grammar properties, some fundamental properties of language; when they're integrated, you sometimes get results [...] On the other hand there's a lot work which tries to do sophisticated statistical analysis,
you know bayesian and so on and so forth,
without any concern for the uh actual structure of language, as far as I'm aware that only achieves success in a very odd sense of success. There is a notion of success which has developed in
computational cognitive science in recent years
which I think is novel in the history of science.
It interprets success as approximating unanalyzed data."

The model that has become dominant in statistical AI -- positing a basic grammar that is strongly underconstrained and eliminating spurious analyses not through "universal grammar" (i.e. presupposed innate structures) but through learned parameters, would be something that Chomsky has been very much against; Simultaneously, work that models grammar with enough precision that you could derive predictions from it (e.g. Ed Stabler's grammar implementation) are seen as nice-to-have but not central to the undertaking of generative grammar.

And I think Chomsky put his thumb right on the difference in goals: Chomsky defines progress in linguistics as work that posits the right ("universal") structures, and argues that these are cognitively real and innate, whereas statistical AI is more interested in predicting useful things with structures that may or may not correspond to anything that is cognitively real.

To people nowadays, the whole notion of constrained "universal" models with few statistics versus underconstrained "statistical" models seems to be a very minor one, since today's statistical models have a lot of structure, and people doing generative grammar aren't totally opposed to using statistics or optimality theory to select most-plausible structures. But, back in the day, when the most expressive statistical models people used were HMMs [hidden Markov model - a probabilistic regular grammar] and PCFGs [probabilistic context-free grammars], the gap was much wider, whereas nowadays the models are a bit more similar while the goals are still different.
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> Had we gone just a few thousand more feet up (around 11,000-12,000 feet) we would have needed oxygen masks!

Really? I was roaming around at the top of Mauna Kea last summer (14K'), and hiked to the top of Mt Lassen too (10.5K'), but never felt the need for ozygen masks.
No, a great deal of what feminists blame the patriarchy (of which men are the massive benefactors of) is ....
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Also see Stephen King's memoir "On Writing" : http://www.amazon.ca/On-Writing-Anniversary-Edition-Memoir/d...
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Without permits, I think it's limited to 500 ft. Not that high, I'm afraid.
The "like toys" effect is from the tilt-shift lens he used for some of the shots. Not sure about the colors though.
> What GPU vendors call cores aren't. It's like calling hair brush pins as hair brushes.

I agree. In the past I posted a decent (if I do say so myself) introduction to hyper threading and SIMT here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8245360

I simplified and just said "core" in this post because it was getting a bit long in the tooth already.
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It used to be that about every 15 years somebody would write an article about the awfulness of men in Washington, DC. I am not prepared to say that I was ever much of a bargain, but reading the articles never really told me why I should care. If I were 25 again and working for Amazon, I suspect I'd have the same reaction.
And headers for memory subsystem (DDR SDRAM)! I mean, I know usually there's cache line sized interleaving repeating for each memory channel, but it would sure be nice to reliably control which memory access goes to which memory module.

With NUMA physical memory ordering gets even uglier, usually each physical socket's memory is in a big chunk, but sometimes it's also interleaved every 4 kB.
Admitting that market failures exist doesn't imply that government regulation will necessarily improve things.
Don't most of the problems with nerve stimulation in existing MRI systems come from the gradient coils rapidly modulating the magnetic field, rather than people moving around?
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Big advertisements probably have a lot more color than the normal red-yellow-white you see from traffic. Chances are it's not quite so vivid to the naked eye, but a camera sensor with nice flat full-spectrum sensitivity can reveal all the color. You see this a lot with telescope photos; in low light our eyes mostly just pick everything in the sky as white dots, but a photograph can capture a lot more.
It seems battery technology field has a lot of "great breakthrough just around the corner" type announcements. Seemingly more so than other fields.

Wonder if "improved" battery idea is much easier to sell to investors who maybe not as tech savvy, but nevertheless everyone thinks they can understand the idea of "better battery" rather than say special coating for turbine blades.
Hence Service Workers: http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/
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I'd rather have a more functional Spotlight out of the box, but Flashlight and Alfred fill that hole nicely.

(actually I'd love to have a text-input Siri on my phone)
There was a time when GET forms were pretty common for search interfaces. It still works fine, but I think the sentiment against 'ugly' URLs mostly wiped them out.
One nice thing about sulfur is we have a tremendous amount of it left over from cleaning it out of oil.

There's so much of it just sitting in huge piles it's effectively free.
Regulations require it, also air likes to cling to to the surface, plus you had a chance to acclimate and/or are experienced with such a thing.
Patriarchy just means "general purpose bad thing" doesn't it? It's just a way of saying "men are to blame for everything".
I love this app. The only issue I've been noticing lately is it's been predicting snow when it's really rain. I wonder what could be causing that.