skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"For example, take children of age ~7. Boys love playing with cars; girls do like them a bit too, but it's pretty clear they prefer simulating social interactions, specially dolls talking."

Bullshit. Do you have a source for this, or are you just unaware of how bigoted this is? It is not 1950. I am not going to agree that "girls like dolls and boys like trucks" without some reliable evidence. I'm sure if you marketed trucks to girls long enough and dolls to boys long enough, they would prefer the opposite just fine. Here's what you've been arguing:

Left handed people prefer not to use scissors.

Therefore, scissor manufacturers shouldn't bother to make left-handed scissors.

This is in spite of the fact that, when asked *why* they
don't like scissors, they tell you "because they are
uncomfortable to use."

"Left handed people prefer not to use scissors because they are uncomfortable, therefore we should not make comfortable scissors for left handed people."

I'm sorry that I'm unwilling to jump on your circular logic bandwagon to defend your obvious bigotry.

PS> I'm still waiting for you to explain why women should be nurses and men should be doctors.
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Hey, sorry I missed your message on LinkedIn - I don't check that very often! Needless to say, we're not out of business... not sure what happened with the email bounce - we use Google Apps, so things are usually reliable. Anyways, feel free to try that again - maybe it was a temporary issue on Google's side.
Apple bundles new crash reporting service with latest Xcode 6.3 beta
Whenever someone gives the response you just gave, I wish they would also consider how inefficient the current system of jamming hundreds of developers into small rooms is. Communication with distributed teams is certainly imperfect, but I think that there are bigger drawbacks to hiring an entire team in one place and forcing them all to move there and work in less than ideal conditions.
Amen. For 15 years I've been hoping that the dream of fully distributed teams would come to pass, but I don't think we're there yet for many use cases.

In particular, I think distributed teams work best when a) people already have strong relationships built via plenty of in-person interaction, b) they meet regularly in person, and c) the nature of the work is relatively predictable.

There's definitely some work like that, but early-stage startups benefit a great deal from in person communication, which is high bandwidth, low latency, and very high quality.
As someone else said, you'd never be able to re-enter the country and would risk having your assets in the US seized.
Flynn cofounder here. The primary difference between Flynn and cloudfoundry, dawn, deis, dokku, octohost, openshift, tsuru, etc is that Flynn is designed to run everything itself, not just 12 factor web apps. Most immediately this means that you can run databases inside of Flynn alongside other apps. In fact we've already wrapped up postgres.

Flynn also tries to be more technology agnostic, for example we don't depend on CoreOS or Docker.

It's worth noting that several of the other platforms including Deis claim to be production ready today while Flynn is still a few months out.

The difference in both features and goals will be a lot clearer in the coming months. What we have today is just the foundation and minimum viable feature set. Once that's rock solid, the real work gets started.
At this point, journalists are intentionally doing this just to guarantee some attention from people calling them out.
400 years ago, somebody went on a hunting trip and killed a bunch of dodo birds. What you're saying is kind of similar to that guy saying, "Eh, I killed 30 of the beasts and nobody tried to stop me. So I would say that no, the dodo is not in danger of extinction."
How to create an Android keystore RSA key with infinite validity?
Trade school meets Bachelor's Degree.

I posted this because there have been a steady stream of student debt and other higher ed stories.

While I do see the value in providing this type of training/education, I'm not convinced we should be creating new entities to provide it.

It seems like there is an opportunity for local community colleges to expand their curriculum into this area.
It's not really about cars themselves, it's about: 1) sitting in traffic 2 hours a day to get to work and back, 2) not being able to walk from place to place when out (usually

As someone who went from 100% car culture to 100% no car culture, the best is having some walkability, a train to take you to work and back, and a car for weekend errands and road trips. When we all have kids we're going to want cars, too. Both extremes suck.
Do you... Do you just desire UI to not be animated at all? that the next item in that list just appears at the top?
They define what they mean by the word private, and then prove their mechanisms satisfy that definition. It's not a disagreement about the word "provable," it's that you don't agree that their definition of privacy is a good definition of privacy. That's fine, but your reason seems suspicious. If they could determine any information about you, then such an algorithm would fail if your data were not collected in the first place. Being able to derive private information implies the ability to distinguish.

And I misspoke about polynomial time adversaries. Reading closer it looks like an information theoretic guarantee.
True, another good idea, thanks! :)
Seems like great content but I wish they offered a preview (the first lesson) before requiring an email address.

On a related note, a Thinkful alum and I just launched on a guide together highlighting the same process but direct towards the client. As the intro paragraph states, we're hoping to help the client understand the hiring process without any frustration and uncertainty. All feedback welcome.

http://www.thinkful.com/learn/how-to-hire-a-freelance-develo...
Ask HN: Does technology stack affect your company's prospect for getting bought?
I imagine for a prospective buyer, knowing a company is built on Rails provides comfort in knowing that he can more easily find developers than for something like, say, Yesod. Everything else being equal.

Or does sheer business value render all that moot?
I'm currently doing my PhD in Canada, and here, spouses of the above categories automatically get open work permits for as long as the student/work permit of the principal applicant. Heading towards the job market, there are lot's of opportunities in the US, both within academia and industry, but the fact that my wife would not be able to work is a huge deterrent for us. Add to that, my wife is not in an industry where she would be likely to get a company sponsoring her for an independent work permit.
but what about a hackathon for men? WHAT ABOUT A HACKATHON FOR MEN? also, why isn't anybody encouraging men to take teaching, childcare, or nursing jobs (which pay less than software development)? there have i hit all the squares in the HN reverse-sexism-concern-trolling bingo card?
I don't think I've ever had someone create a throwaway just for me. Thank you.
PHP is fairly thin (as a thumb rule the code size is roughly the same than Python) and it is a glue in the sense that you can consume the libraries in PHP instead of C.

It is not the thinnest layer but I don't think his comment was off either.
I don't think "conspiracy theorist" is really accurate term to define what is going on in most of these cases.

The vast majority of "conspiracies" are more like Underpants Gnomes business models. There's no explantory proposition anywhere. There's no overwhelming theory - put ten truthers in a room and you'll get ten wildly different theories (if you get a theory at all), and no overwhelming facts.

Watergate didn't require any theory - people connected with the Nixon administration were caught red-handed breaking and entering. It's obvious why they might do what they did and to ask who knew what/when. It was obvious people had a motive for covering up a criminal action. It was just a matter of documenting it.

When Iran leaked the Iran-hostage story via a Lebanese newspaper, nobody had a conspiracy theory before that. There was no "why would Reagan do that?" - the motivation was obvious and it was in print. When the -Contra side came out, no one had a conspiracy theory about a connection there. It was more investigation/leaks and a total surprise.

So I don't see where Conspiracy Theories really equate to uncovering Criminal Conspiracies. They seem to be more exclusive than related to each other.
Console OS now available – Android on x86 PC's
Getting on Point with W3C Pointer Events
No matter how much convoluted code your write, it is still a "simple language". Your code however is not necessarily simple or easy.
I hope they reduce the price of orginal pebble. ;-)
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Pebble is getting a very cheap line of credit with theoretically no obligation to repay (hence why any money you give in a KS is a 'donation' or 'pledge').
"OK Google, Start Car", and write your custom Car app?
I highly doubt animated transitions are going away any time soon. Not only do they look great aesthetically, but they improve the UX by giving users hints as to what's going on. They make it much harder for users to enter a state in an application without knowing how they got there or how to leave.

If animated transitions disappear, it'll be because something newer and better comes along, not because they fade out of style.
What kind of surveillance is going on there? What kind of experiments are happening there?
Not if the code in the internal boot ROM uses TrustZone and enters non-secure mode before executing any external code, preventing any other code from using the secure mode. As the article says, that's what many ARM SoCs do, but not all of them, so being able to run your own secure-mode code is dependent upon the SoC allowing it.
The real estate prices aren't close, but what about salary? What about the real estate price relative to salary?
Usually yes but that doesn't change the fact that face features are highly hereditary. I find it very hard to believe that someone could try to deny this. It's basic biology really.

What are you suggesting here exactly? What exactly is the environmental trigger in the womb that forms the faces if not genes?

May I kindly remind you about the concept of dizygotic twins, that is, twins that share the womb but do not share an identical genome. Please explain why they don't look identical.
As thankful as I am that this was made and published, I find only slides with no talk very difficult to try to learn from. I kinda wish slideshare wasn't a thing :/
Prices are always split adjusted, so that is meaningless. My point is, price and market cap are not related that way.
I know that consent would make it okay :-P It's just that:

a) It doesn't alert you each time, b) you can use the Siri without getting such a notification (at least not frequently enough that I remember receiving one), c) Siri doesn't answer with "this is Siri and this call is being recorded", d) it's easy to trigger the recorder accidentally, e) it's not even clear to the user that the request is sent home for processing (rather than being handled locally), and f) this wouldn't cover bystanders.
The whole piece feels like a reference to [0]

Main comments on that one were the difference between software developer and engineer's salary, but also requests for the real cost of living. This addresses the latter.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096002
Indeed the published Le Monde statement was in response to Faurisson. I don't see how this is important. What's important is the attitude of the historians and academics that made that statement. The statement is very clear in that it seeks to supress certain questions from being asked. I don't understand your accusation that the quote is "out of context". The context is that someone questioned something, and 34 scholars published a statement saying that they, as scholars, think that question should not be raised.

I have no problem sourcing the statements I made here. For the BBC interview, see here (timestamp: 3:33): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF4GFGMNm3g which I quote below:

David: "The judge says 'I always assumed that there was the evidence that Auschwitz had gas chambers, I was surprised to find that there wasn't until this case came along"

Tim: "There wasn't documentary evidence, is what he said, he doesn't say there wasn't any evidence, he said there wasn't documentary evidence"

David: "There were eyewitnesses and he relies on half a dozen eyewitnesses"

The transcripts for the trial are available for you to investigate for yourself, but the BBC acknowledging in public there's no documentary evidence for it, and quoting from the trial itself, should be enough for you to investigate for yourself from now on, and should be convincing enough.

I do not believe in the racial conspiracy theories you're trying to accuse me of. Nor do I need to. I do not need to believe in any conspiracy theory in order to be interested in the facts about WW2, and in order to understand that in the reality we live in, there is no documentary evidence for an event that is heavily glorified and propagandized in the mainstream education system and media.
Ask HN: How does your company use Slack?
I'm writing a report for a class on how companies use Slack, how it affects their productivity, etc. It would be incredibly helpful in anyone who works for a company that uses Slack could provide answers to the following questions:

1. How has Slack affected your team's productivity?

2. What are your top 3 features on Slack?

3. Why did you choose Slack instead of some other form of interoffice communication system (Office communicator, Skype, etc.)?

4. Are there any disadvantages to using Slack?

Thanks for the help!
Growthhackers.com

Inbound.org

reddit.com/r/entrepreneur

reddit.com/r/startups

Those are most frequented by marketers with /r/entrpreneur + /r/startups also frequented by sales/business focused people.

If you post something on any of those communities with some details (I recommend posting to all 4), than you should get some candidates that are well qualified (depending on the project).
If you disagree, please explain your reasoning, don't just downvote. Thanks.
I realize that this is a Canada vs SV post, but I wanted to plug Boulder, CO as a great place to start a startup. We don't have even close to the amount of venture capital funding as there is in SV, but the talent pool is large and highly concentrated, and there are a decent amount of VC firms. Many tech companies both large and small are realizing this (for example, Google is currently in the process of building a 1500 person campus there, expanding on their current presence). Also, quality of life is very high.
Paid training classes _cannot_ work. If free courses on Excel were available, then people wouldn't buy the paid ones.

Paid yoga classes _cannot_ work. If free yoga lessons were available on YouTube, then people wouldn't buy the paid ones.

Paid water _cannot_ work. If free water was available in your faucet, then people wouldn't buy the bottled kind.

Paying for print versions of Shakespeare _cannot_ work. If free versions are available on project Gutenberg, then people wouldn't pay for it.

Ever think there may be varying levels of success, and the free week-long version gets you the basics (I can touch my toes, Yoga success!), but not yet an expert? Just like every other field of human activity?
Well, yeah, it might be common knowledge for some, but many don't know, don't care and I enjoy every time it's "revealed" by some community over and over again.

But seriously though, is there a way to do something with Android phone (like using third-party firmware, removing some programs, configuring firewall) to be somewhat sure it's "safe" while still being usable?
A better Flux using DOM events
we might find out if/when twilio IPOes

I'm guessing it was money+stock, probably a bit over 10M, given that authy just raised 3M in September (total of almost 4M)

again, just a guess out of thin air.
It's the only one that does not require knowledge of other fields - not everyone knows set theory (although yes, almost everyone here probably knows enough).

Conceptual Mathematics needs concrete example to explain the algebra of function composition, and more importantly to prove certain properties and theorems. This presentation's goals are far more modest and the abstract approach allows it to not take up 700 slides.

That being said, I don't think I'd have been able to go through this presentation in its entirety if I hadn't had some previous exposure to the field. So while I disagree with you for discussion's sake, I secretly think you're right.
How many of the Top 200 apps use Deep Links?
Internet-wide nmap scan of modbus services
It's possible to write race-prone code in Haskell if you have several threads reading and writing IORefs concurrently in the IO monad. There are plenty of safer alternatives, though, so there's not much point in writing software that way unless you're actually trying to create a race.

MVars can deadlock, but you can't accidentally mutate/read a value without taking the lock (unless you use IORefs in conjunction with MVars).

STM handles races by detecting them and re-starting a transaction if a race occurs, so races aren't possible. (Accessing IORefs is disallowed by the type system inside an STM transaction, so you're safe there.) STM also isn't susceptible to deadlocks, so it's generally the safest option if you need non-deterministic threading, and invoking transactions from the IO monad fits with the structure of your program.

There's also par/seq, strategies, and the Par monad which are great for parallel computation and aren't prone to races or deadlocks. They can be called from anywhere in a Haskell program and are deterministic -- they're guaranteed to always return the same result when given the same inputs. Results cannot depend on the order in which threads are scheduled.

tl;dr: don't use IORefs and you should be fine
That is a somewhat fair response, that I be honest in what I ask for.

However, it seems like at some point these basics are societal norms, and I am going to ridiculous lengths to specify what I want for a position.

Personal hygiene is pretty much the criteria for ANY job.
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/me tips his fedora.
This also doesn't take into account that we price helium for birthday balloons at the same price as helium for MRI machines.
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7 days. :)
Umur from Citus here. Our goal is to make CitusDB an enabler for your growth by making scaling out simple for you and your dev, ops and analyst teams. If we've made it a tax instead and haven't saved you significant time, effort and complexity in the process, we're not doing our job.

At a practical level, we offer several ways to accomplish this:
- We provide free, open-source extensions on standard PostgreSQL (pg_shard, cstore_fdw)
- We provide a free community edition of CitusDB for added functionality (e.g. massively parallel analytic queries, distributed joins)
- For enterprises, we provide a sitewide, unlimited license of CitusDB Enterprise. For smaller projects there, we provide support and a per-node license.
- For start-ups, we provide a flat rate of CitusDB Enterprise irrespective of your data volume.

The right approach depends on the company and the use-case. Either way, and given the quick time-to-deployment, any of the approaches should end up as a major cost saver.
Your arguments could be nitpicked, but lets skip that and just take as a given that you are 100% correct. That doesn't change the fact that helium is a non-renewable resource. Conservation makes sense. Maybe it won't matter to us today, or even in 40 years. But it will matter to someone else in 140 years.

In my mind, any decisions made based on markets are a short-term strategy. If a resource is non-renewable, I prioritize conservation. Where practical, I use renewable resources.
"Animation" is a pretty important part of UX. The movement helps the product tell the story of what you're doing.

The user perceives lag after 300ms, and switches thought in less than a 1000ms. If your screen doesn't engage the user while it's making the switch, you risk them starting something else. And where's the fun of building a product people don't engage with for as long as possible? :D
It is not marketing, it is build quality and trust. Samsung spends multiples of Apple on marketing.
It is a new field, I admit, but it shows there's a false dichotomy between privacy and stopping all data collection and analysis.

LeapYear Innovations [1] looks like they have some clients who care about differential privacy. [2]

[1]: http://www.leapyearinnovations.com/

[2]: http://www.leapyearinnovations.com/shroudbase
And it is useful to note that the previous company in this position was also a "tech" company (IBM). The point being that "big tech company" is like "big algae bloom", at some point they run out of oxygen or iron or something and die down to a much smaller size :-)
Why the world needs collectors
Divining the ‘K’ in K-means Clustering
Is there a list somewhere of what is contained in all these datasets?
In my experience, Authy does port your OTP tokens between devices.

The ones that use their backend infrastructure are tied to your phone number, and are ported automatically.

Ones that you import from other TOTP-based systems via a QR code (like Google Authenticator) are private to your device by default. But if you really want, you can turn on the optional "backup" feature in settings, which will upload them to your Authy account and automatically port them between phones.

Sure, it requires an extra step... but to be fair, normal behavior for TOTP codes is to keep them 100% local to the device. I'd argue this is a reasonable default, given that security is involved. TOTP services almost always require a backup method (SMS or scratch codes) in case you switch phones, anyway.
Its riding the haskell bandwagon to some degree. By borrowing ideas from category theory they have some really nice abstractions in practical code. But then it gets more confusing so you want to loop back and see what the actual definition of a "monoid" is, or understand "functors". Even if haskell's idea of functor isn't 1 to 1 with category theory's.
That's assuming they actually delete the data though.
Show HN: RESONATOR – A better way to collect, export and store graphical resources
"If I can make 6 figures in both SF and Raleigh, the cost of living and quality of life are insanely better in Raleigh."

The keyword is "if". Employers in places that say they're lower cost of living are more reluctant to pay the high developer salaries that one gets elsewhere.
That's definitely the case. Plus there are some heavy users while many users try out Siri/GoogleNow/Cortana just a few times and never come back.
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$20K/month is not an impressive claim for something that has "great pay" in the title. You can make that much on a W2.
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African Startup Gives Physical Addresses to Those Without
The IO monad in particular. Monads by themselves don't introduce races/deadlocks.
Title says "Siri/Cortana", yet a large amount of the discussion revolves around the saved history for Google Now:
https://history.google.com/history/audio
Yeah, I know you can make fonts look nice in linux, but distros ship with horrible defaults.
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yeah, who would want to use kickstarter for a risky hardware project!

When you can use it as a store by a company that raised more than $10 million, and this time sell a fully completed product with no special rewards or community input. They didn't even try to come up with any rewards this time - at any price, or show any part of how it was designed. it blatantly has nothing to do with the kickstarter spirit whatsoever.