skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why Y Combinator Funded a Radical Political Party in Argentina

The title made me laugh. If I told you some wealthy Ivy League guy/gal who used to be an intern for the Bush administration was building a political party... you would figure out this new party would end up far from being "radical".

> Mancini's Partido de la Red—"Net Party," in English—is a wild experiment in direct democracy that seems to take inspiration from both Occupy Wall Street and Reddit (a Y Combinator alum and ongoing investment).

"Net Party" has nothing to do with occupy Wall Street. The founders are a few wealthy Argentinians. I find hard to believe they are building a tool to change the status quo in any way (this would mean a risk of losing some of their privileges). It looks like a great self-promotion project though.

Also, the article later mentions: "DemocracyOS already had some revenue when Mancini applied to YC". Now, that makes a little more sense: DemocracyOS is a for-profit endeavor, after all. Gotta give them some credit: mounting a mock political party (and then selling it as a product) is one hell of a marketing stunt! The fact that there is some money making future behind the initiative also explains the backing from YC.
I agree tap-click is awful. MacOS does a fantastic job at supporting both modes.

Other laptops... not so much. They seem to expect tap-click, because they get so confused when there are two fingers on the pad. I want to move with one finger and click with another. This requires some real software intelligence, to know that the click-finger should not affect the move-finger's motion, and detect when you're doing a multi-touch gesture vs.just clicking.
Well I just looked at the first paper, and now look at the credit suisse paper I linked in another comment ( https://www.credit-suisse.com/newsletter/doc/gender_diversit... ) which has charts for 2005 to 2011. There was a "crash" in mid 2007 that somehow reversed the trends for companies with or without women on the board. Before that, zero-woman companies were outperforming the woman-companies.

Now it seems rather curious to me that they choose 2004-2008 for their comparison (in the first paper you linked to). So strangely, they catch exactly that crash point in their interval.

It's always the same shenanigans...
Oh, no, it's useful for what it's designed for: to protect communication between two computers. If I have IPSEC protecting the connection between my desktop and my internal DNS server, and between my desktop and my database server, I know that connection to my database server is protected by IPSEC.

It doesn't protect the mapping between a computer name and a IP address, but that's not its job.
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San Francisco has those too, like on the Geary/O'Farrell corridor, though not on every bus route.
Because 5 or 10 is any less arbitrary?
> If you don't like it, drop it.

I think criticizing something that you decide not to use is pretty valid, doesn't justify an ad-hominem attack, and certainly doesn't count as "hate".
> A proprietary copyright license is a explicit statement of intent, in which you state that you are going to sue those who share the program.

No, its not.

A proprietary copyright license is a explicit statement of intent, sure, just as a free software license is -- but any license, proprietary or free, is an explicit statement of intent not to prevent certain uses. It may also be an implicit statement of intent to take action, including lawsuits, against those who make use not permitted by the license to the extent that is within the licensors right -- and, again, this is just as true of free software licenses as proprietary licenses.
Couldn't this just mean that firms who hire a new CEO regardless of gender see an increase in stock price?

If they did the same test but for any new CEO I wonder what the results would be.
I do this too- works great and GifBrewery is a nice tradeoff of quality and usability.
Different languages can define different collation rules even when they use the same graphemes. For example, in Swedish z < ö, but in German ö < z. Same graphemes, different collation.
100% suggest you to download this app. Better then yelp! Bored and need something to do? This is your gateway to a lively life.
Sure, but at least it means simple optical splitters can no longer read the contents of your web traffic. That's arguably not worth a whole lot, and may trick people into feeling safer when they shouldn't. But if nothing else changed (no browser indications, etc), wouldn't using DH on all HTTP be strictly better than nothing? Theoretically. In practice, I suppose entities just replace their splitters with a retransmitter and we're back to zero.
Here is a link to a companion post to the Fortune article with more detail on the study: https://www.quantopian.com/posts/research-an-update-to-inves...

You can check out the full analysis and data set in a shared IPython notebook.

The study was done over a 12 year period because that's the full length of the pricing data available in the backtester Karen was using to do the study. It would be interesting to extend the analysis back in time as well.

NB: I work with Karen at Quantopian and we both have two X chromosomes :)
It also makes sense for businesses to consider them as a payment option given the reach, and if it takes off, the likelihood that a user will keep their payment details current.

Expired credit card churn is a huge issue for any successful SaaS business, and someone is much more likely to keep their payment details updated with a service they pay through regularly than they are entering one-off CC info. Adding FB to the mix with Apple, Amazon, Paypal and Google would make sense for a lot of companies (although probably entails a whole host of headaches).
Spacebar does nothing for me in Chrome.
Also, why are they comparing companies ran by women in the Fortune 1000 against the S&P 500? Is it because the Fortune 1000 has the best performance by female CEOs while in the same time period the S&P 500 had the worst performance they could find?

Also, what percentage of companies in the S&P 500 where ran by women? I didn't see that anywhere.
This paper was a good read. I recently have done some work using libhugetlbfs to use huge pages for an application and you might want to consider using an Arena backed by huge pages. For very large structures TLB misses can really add up, and huge pages can improve performance by a large margin for workloads where lots of large buffers are being accessed and scanned. If tests suggest that you should go this route on your workload, I would suggest managing the pages using libhugetlbfs directly instead of transparent huge pages.
The problem with quitting before getting a new job is:

There's no guarantee you can find a new job right away, no matter how hot your skills are or how brilliant you are.

Also, you have less negotiating leverage when you're unemployed. If you are currently making $X and you get an offer for $X, you probably could negotiate for $X+10 or $X+20. If you're unemployed, and have been on the market awhile, you might get lowballed into taking $X or $X-10.

That actually happened for my current job. The boss was considering initially offering me my current salary, but I honestly said "I'm not so sure. Maybe I'll just keep looking instead." Then he wound up offering a 30% rate increase.
Ubiquitous Programming with Pen and Paper (2012)
But ò has it's own codepoint, whereas the ending character in the Aditya's name does not.
TCC packs a C compiler, assembler and linker together, So it has a large amount of functionality, even if it is no longer so tiny. The code style is really dense too. Frequently using single letter function and variable names.

e.g. Outputting data into the final data segments uses functions named o() and o32().
The Fortune article refers to analysis done by my colleague Karen Rubin.

The research was done in an IPython notebook, on the Quantopian platform. You can see (and copy) the full notebook here: https://www.quantopian.com/posts/research-investing-in-women...
> ...finding that women CEOs in the Fortune 1000 drive three times the returns as S&P 500 enterprises run predominantly by men.

Apples to oranges. Why not compare female-CEO companies in the Fortune 1000 to male-CEO companies from the Fortune 1000? Why not include how male-CEO companies from the Fortune 1000 compare to the S&P 500? Why not compare female-CEO companies in the S&P 500 to male-CEO companies in the S&P 500 to the average company in the S&P 500?

Most importantly, why do people's critical thinking skills go right out the window when female positive news stories hit?
All numbers regarding things that will happen in the future tend to be estimates, no matter which long term engineering project you care to pick. For fairly obvious reasons.
You mean webm? :)
Do the "wells" offer any real benefit over a regular split keyboard?

In my opinion, yes. The keys conform to your hands, rather than the other way around.

Also, the idea of a split keyboard was popular some time ago. Is it still considered important?

Again, in my opinion, yes. Absolutely. I'm sure this varies to some degree by body size, but I find it profoundly irritating to have to shove my hands together.

Mechanical keys are great (which the Kinesis uses -- Cherry brown or red -- aside from the previously mentioned, horrid F-key row), and a few keyboards royally screwed up by purporting to be ergonomic by shape, but using really awful keys. Specifically, the Microsoft 'Natural' was an ergonomic nightmare. Every key was a simple friction post-mount, including wide keys like shift keys. This meant that you'd type along and occasionally hit a really high resistance key. This flared my tendinitis up like you wouldn't believe.

So, yes, consistent, reasonably light key pressure is absolutely critical, but in my opinion the separation of hands AND the additional employment of the strong thumbs for more than space is a great idea.

Oh, and by the way, note that on the Kinesis the arrow keys are just below the primary keys (up/down are right hand, left/right are left hand). You don't have to move your hands from their home row position to use directional keys. In my opinion, this is the correct solution to the problem that vi/vim solved by using h/j/k/l for navigation, at least for non-gaming applications.
UC's job is to coordinate. There are plenty initiatives for all kind of languages. I havn't contributed, but I followed the mediaeval unicode initiative a bit. The barriers for contributing seem very low. The Wikipedia-analogy elsewhere here describes the situation very well. Complaing Unicode sucks for language X and the consortium is to blame is like complain that the x language Wikipedia sucks and wikimedia is to blame.
This article is imbued with its own form of curious racism. In particular, I became suspicious of its motives at the line:

> "It took half a century to replace the English-only ASCII with Unicode, and even that was only made possible with an encoding that explicitly maintains compatibility with ASCII, allowing English speakers to continue ignoring other languages."

ASCII-compatibilty was essential to ensure the adoption of Unicode. It's not because English speakers wanted to ignore anyone or anything, it's because without it, it would never have been adopted, and we'd be in a much worse position today.

In other words, the explanation is technical, not racial.
For Hardee’s workers, it’s not a parable, it’s a job
If you want to design your own keyboard layout and get the CAD files automatically generated, check out this tool:
http://builder.swillkb.com/
Yikes, that's bizarre. I don't even think the conclusions they draw are even correct: there are many solutions I build from scratch because they're easier to maintain. e.g. this morning I needed to fetch data from 3 APIs: google analytics, twitter, and soundcloud. I could have downloaded the PHP lib they bundled for each of them separately, read their docs, and pulled my data from those. Instead, I just looked up their API docs, found the endpoints I needed and fetched what I needed with libcurl. I think it's easier to implement and maintain 3 simple calls to curl than it is 3 different libraries. Conversely, there are many 'standard' solutions that perform quite well, e.g. underscore.js has many methods, such as its .each(), which often outperform their builtin counterpart.

Questions like that are like being asked if you prefer:
A) A backhoe, because it gets the job done faster.
B) A shovel, because you have finer control

without being told what it is that you're actually digging.
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Oh you can easily figure out render performance differences in milliseconds with your eyes. Try that. For example, a difference of 300 milliseconds is noticeable by me. I don't know what are you 'attesting' there. I'm not a web-developer, but just 'a developer'.

Also, what evidence you have that says Firefox can't be slow(even with all the add-ons it supports). In fact, those hundreds of bugs will be quite a sufficient evidence that it indeed is for many people. (It's coming from someone who still hasn't converted to Chrome)
Its not too bad to write a Go compiler in Go, simply because of this package https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/go/ssa by the Go team.

I really hope someone writes a Go to C compiler in Go, as combined with my C compiler, they would create an entirely new and self hosting implementation of Go.
That still sounds fishy, how about uploading it to Dropbox/Google Drive? I am not talking about hosting the software in EC2 and then giving access to third party users, just running it there instead of in your own servers, for internal use. Are you "conveying" your software to your ISP whenever you upload a copy as well? (you are technically requiring multiple parties to copy parts of the software into the buffers of many intermediate routers...)
From the article: "Trina Starkey, who is 18, spends hers on rent and ramen noodles."

From 'Ramen Profitable': "Ramen profitable means a startup makes just enough to pay the founders' living expenses." [0]

[0] http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html
Not at all. I agree with you that Free Software is more important than ever and that current trends in computing are dangerous in many more ways than they were when RMS founded GNU.

But I reserve the right to find him personally irritating, despite my general support of his cause.
> The corrected DNS will take 4 hours to propagate.

This misconception bothers me a lot. DNS changes are complicated: there's no "n" where "n = the amount of time where any domain will magically be fixed".

"Propagation" is based on the configured TTL values of the specific DNS records requested, for the specific zone. Add in layers of application/OS/intranet/ISP/DNS provider caching, and it's a complicated nightmare to fix/predict reactively.

Most BIND9 installations use 86400 seconds by default: 24 hours. And some domains use more, some less, some have dynamically generated TTLs to simulate changing of records at a set/recurring wall clock time, instead of a time to live, some DNS caches are reset frequently, some caches retain values much longer than allowable by TTL...
Plus PayPal has the friction of forcing you to log in. Which many of these other sites skip.
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The one part I can't believe is that 86% of people think they're "Usually [seeing] diverse opinions through social media".

The "filter bubble" is going to get worse and worse, it seems. Has anyone had any good experiences where a piece of information technology (forum, reddit, twitter, insta, etc) didn't encourage a filter bubble?
Thanks for sharing. What kind of reactions have you gotten to this research?
Venmo uses actual ACH transactions which are free, it's like writing a check but there is a delay. FB, Snapchat, and others are likely eating the cost of the debit card "swipe" in hopes of garnering users.
Yes. In this context 5 or 10 are less arbitrary. This is due to their regular usage.
> Talking about Bengali being the seventh largest native language, then saying that US$18k is too expensive for a stake in solving this problem?

West Bengal and Bangladesh aren't exactly the richest places in the world.

> Emojis with skin tones, something every human can use, that have arrived before a character that only Bengalis use is taken as an "outright insult"?

Nobody is being inconvenienced by the inability to send emojis with a darker skin tone. People definitely are being inconvenienced by not being able to write a common character of their native language.
I'm happy to see experimentation in new wind technologies, but it makes me sad to see things like this grabbing headlines when floating offshore is such a strong contender that just needs some more funding for the engineering effort (mostly because it's pushing the currently tested limits of carbon composites).

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/07/news/bangor/umaine-get...
Are you using it for writing codes ?
Data flow from the database to the UI: Three layers of Meteor
Sure, that's why I said Those estimates are probably going to be reasonable, because I don't think it is a problem that they are estimates.

But it is sometimes nice to peer through the wikipedia and see what lies beneath.
It may be limited to the platform apps... didn't see anything like this in the web interfaces. That said, it's always a pain... ironically the least painful (if both parties have a chase account) is chase's quickpay...
Any significant keyboard change will require some adaptation time.

For example, I went from a traditional keyboard to a Kinesis Maxim, which was a traditional layout but split. That required a bit of typing adjustment, like what you mention.

Then I switched to a Kinesis Classic (old version of the Advantage, PS/2 port). Now that was a pain, literally. Having to interrupt decade-old touch-typing muscle memory was annoying, and I actually experienced slightly increased pain (tendinitis) for the first several days.

Within two weeks, though, I was automatically using the new arrow key position and thumb keys (Ctrl, Alt, Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, Backspace, Delete, Enter, and Space) smoothly.

My change from QWERTY to Dvorak was even more troublesome and a bit painful. I would say it honestly took me about two weeks to become even barely functional, and a year to become completely proficient. I'm skeptical that I've ever hit the same WPM that I had on QWERTY, which I mastered while still an adolescent. Not that it matters, I just think a bit more and type a bit less now. :-)

Edit: for the record, I absolutely DO NOT advise learning Dvorak. Its ergonomic benefits pale compared to the mechanical keys, split wells, etc. Also, it means lots of key remapping for games, copy/paste shortcuts become kind of arbitrary, and so on. Stick with QWERTY, but use better keyboard hardware. Learn Colemak if you absolutely insist on the 1337-ness of 'superior' layouts.
true, but strangely I've never realized that before, thank you
> That still sounds fishy, how about uploading it to Dropbox/Google Drive?

By the plain language of the GPLv3, that would seem to be conveying as well. I agree that that is an undesirable thing in a Free/Open license, and quite possibly not the drafters' intent (but the drafters' intent matters little, especially for GPLv3 licensed software where the FSF isn't the licensor.)
I thought the same thing. WA's insurance commissioner doesn't sound happy about it either:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/boomerconsumer/2015/03/17/insuranc...

I called to ask about it, and was told that they were following the recommendations of Mandiant and the FBI; that they may put consumers at more risk if they announced prior to remediating their systems.

It's an interesting point of distinction, as Washington state law requires disclosure "in the most expedient time possible ... The notification required by this section may be delayed if a law enforcement agency determines that the notification will impede a criminal investigation."

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=19.255.010

Perhaps the call center scripts weren't nailed down yet - but they sure didn't mention an ongoing investigation as the reason for the delay.
Certainly not. But they're common defaults. The worry is that if someone picks a non-standard interval, it suggests that they gave conscious thought to what interval to pick and came up with that one. The natural question in that case is why: Is there some economic reason that 12 years would be special, or some matching limitation to their data set? Or did they try every interval between 5 and 20 years and pick the one where the result was most favorable?

Edit: But it sounds like it actually was due to the size of the dataset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222416
I am referring to the first line of Bengali text.

I have viewed it in Acrobat Reader, epdfview, Chrome's PDF Reader, Firefox's pdf reader and my iPhone's pdf reader.

The problems are that joint-letter ligatures are not used, and several vowels signs are placed after the consonant when they should have been placed before them.
We won't get any technical details. The fact that this was pulled off and the initial compromise was a year ago means they've got no alarm bells for someone dumping the DB.

It's negligence at it's finest. Here's to hoping for class-action. 2 years free "identity theft protection" (which is useless to consumers until post-theft) and credit-report monitoring (which is free to them, and again only comes up post-theft) is pretty bullsh*t.

Roll some heads and hand out fines.
If state level actors wanted to MITM all SSH connections to make you accept the wrong key, they could. But it has a high chance of being caught as generally, you'll pay attention when the key changes. Plus you can reasonably verify the key out of band. (And one could imagine an extension to add a bit of CA-style key verification, like, "was this key generated by my account or my VPS provider, allowing you to manually verify one key and then being set for the rest.)

Whereas if you do this on HTTP, a: you're constantly having a lot more "first time" connections. B: you've got no real way to know when the key changed legitimately. Users would quickly grow accustomed to key change warnings and ignore them. Or you'd see banners on sites like "ignore the key warning; I reinstalled my blog and the key changed". Attacks could even inject such a banner.

If you want to manually verify every cert, you can already do that today: just go and add certs to your browser!

Unauthed HTTPS-by-default just adds complexity and a false sense of security and isn't worth pushing out on the public.
>I think a lot of folks tend to assume others are like themselves. Sometimes difference is obvious: my female and asian coworkers are obviously not white men like me.

But somehow, assuming the fact that being a white men is relevant and defining is totally fine? How do people not notice this glaring inconsistency with 'intersectional' identity politics?

This is just original sin repackaged.
Yes, I entered the stock market in Dec 2008, and now contemplating when to exit.
You're asking down-voters to explain their reasoning.

But you didn't provide yours? Three (two, really) lines.

The first one is .. vague/useless/devoid of content.

The second is a general stab at Microsoft for falling back into old habits of 'knowing it better' (nevermind that this is something I regularly read about Apple or the Gnome project guys..), without any details.

The third line is only added as an edit after people expressed that your comment lacks content, and is asking down-voters for explanations.

Again: You didn't explain your point. I can summarize that post as

sigh M$ suxxorz

and while that might be even more useless/use offensive language for hyperbole, it contains all the facts and pieces of information that you listed in your post.

So what is the real problem? Maybe you have a great point. What isn't answered? What features do you think are useless? What features do you think/know/believe are wanted by users?