skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has some sources:

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/31/the-poor-and-th...

But... I'm not sure it's a fair comparison. If the poor reproduce much earlier than the rich you're comparing multiple generations with a single generation.

By the time our hypothetical "fit" billionaire has just finished his family of three, a hypothetical "less fit" poor male may already be a grandfather.

Of course, this doesn't include unofficial offspring, multiple marriages, and so on.

It seems quite hard to get accurate numbers.
Does 18F Pass the Bechdel Test for Tech?
It will still exist in some versions of Windows 10, but Project Spartan will be
the main way Windows 10 users roam the Internet.

No, it will be Chrome or Firefox :D
The problem with Scala isn't productivity for a single developer or a small team, or a matter of how much you like it, but how productive it is in large teams. There are big problems of separate teams in the same company writing Scala code that the other teams can't understand, and arguments over style taking over most of the code reviews.
No it's not. If I go to Chic Fila I don't need a church sermon. If I fill up my tank at Exxon, I don't need a lecture on why I'm not driving an electric vehicle. If I buy a book at Barnes and Noble, I don't need to be questioned on why my selection doesn't vibe with the cashiers political opinion.

It is not your job at any of these places to gauge whether I need a dose of your political nonsense. You don't know me, you don't know who I've hired, who my friends are, my roommates, my past relationships, my religion, my orientation. And it's none of your damn business either.

During the nonsense in NYC over Michael Brown there were a handful of rabble rousers whipped up into a frenzy by an irresponsible media and irresponsible political leaders. The vast majority of the city were on the subway, black and white together friends and coworkers, living their lives in harmony, talking, laughing, and being a community.
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Oh god no. Mobile networks ARE NOT designed to handle torrent type traffic. You will destroy RF bandwidth at towers, as well as backhauls. The best iOS update methods are still "push notify update available to client, fetch over wifi when plugged in and screen locked" and if after a significant amount of time the download doesn't occur, only then fallback to a cellular download directly from the CDN, still at night when usage is extremely low.
Thank you so much! has this issue been filed to ubuntu? I will do it if it hasn't.
The point is that 95% of adults have already done #1 and #2 and half of #3, and they have experience giving their credit card info to other websites.

Maybe if you were starting tabula rasa with eleven year old children who'd never had a bank account or used a website before, maybe then bitcoin would be easier (provided they didn't get hacked and have their coins stolen[0]).

[0] https://twitter.com/Coinapult/status/577892916309291008
Just the usual post-Snowden concerns about MS...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
At the very least, it's good practice to make the effort to refine the skill of small talk with strangers, ice breakers, and acknowledging our shared existence on this hunk of rock flying through space.

We're all in this together, and we all have our daily grinds and griefs.

Feel free to scoff, and scoff aloud at least because maybe someone else will hear you and let you know they're in the same boat.
It's inevitable:

http://xkcd.com/927/
Packaging = Marketing. It's expensive, but it makes your product seem better to the end user. Yes, Apple has more money to spend on marketing, and your small startup can't compete on that front.
A lot of people are commenting about Facebook being "yet another entrant" into the wallet & payment game. I'd enjoy the ease and simplicity of having everyone on a single payment platform as much as the next guy, but it's simply not realistic. There's too much at stake for Google, Apple, Paypal, Square etc. to just give up.

Instead, I could see this taking a similar direction as web authentication: instead of "Login with Google+" or "Login with Facebook" buttons, you have "Send $ to Google Wallet" in your FB-pay interface.

I'd also point out that Facebook, by virtue of having a ton of data about their users, is well positioned to do things like identity assertion and fraud analytics; two of the more critical aspects of digital payment. Makes sense to me that they join the fray.
I blame Lucas.

Seriously though, I don't like Venmo's "cash out" approach, but maybe that's because I don't use it enough to want to carry a Venmo balance.
The point was that I wasn't actually looking. So many of the articles on HN, and on tech blogs/news sites around the Internet are about gender inequality. As a human being, I can only encounter so much of it before it starts to affect how I view and interpret events around me, without realizing it. "Are they asking me to be a speaker at this conference because I'll provide valuable knowledge to the attendees, or is this a 'token speaker' situation?" It gets to you, after a while, even if you're actively trying not too let it.

My whole point was that that situation is bad, and hearing experiences such as ones from MTF or FTM transgendered individuals in tech can be valuable. I don't see any reason for you to be a jerk about it here.
> I'm... not sure what they hope to accomplish with this.

A good PR campaign? They are in the news. People may go to Starbucks to see this in action etc.
You could have said the same about USB wall sockets when USB first came out.
That looks pretty cool. I don't know if there's any benefit over a traditional 3D printer, but it looks pretty cool.
No confusion here. You stated as quoted, and I responded to it.

Here's a great list of GMO-free brands for you, so that you can continue your lifestyle choice while waiting to see if Starbucks finds that the market dictates going GMO-free. Just remember that it's likely these brands still use pesticide-treated products. Have a great day! http://gmo-awareness.com/shopping-list/gmo-free-brands/
I think you missed the last sentence: your software doesn't need to be a "runaway world optimizer" to be a very destructive machine merely because it's a bad machine that was put in an important job. Again: add up the financial and human cost of previous software bugs, and then extrapolate to consider the kind of problems we'll face when we're using deterministically buggy intelligent software instead of stochastically buggy human intellect.

At the very least, we have a clear research imperative to ensure that "AI", whatever we end up using that term to mean, "fails fuzzily" like a human being does: that a small mistake in programming or instructions only causes a small deviation from desired behavior.
Pressing space in a text editor tends to add a space. Pressing pgdn doesn't.
> why do developers think it is appropriate to benefit from the free/open source library, yet not provide that same benefit back to others (in the form of using it in the proprietary software)

In the case I'm talking about, the developer uses the BSD licensed library and contributes back to it because they do not want to maintain a bunch of diffs and because they're a developer who gets open source.

Sure, the overall program is closed, but the existence or not of one small part of it was never going to fundamentally alter that.
Right, I was going to argue against that too. Changing fonts every letter will always look weird. There's a lot of different ways to shape these letters that are all counted as the same.
It's a bit pie-in-the-sky to say, "everyone has a fascinating story of some kind and you just have to get it out of them." I think that's largely true, but I understand why you might disagree.

That said, I think you need to revise what you consider "worth it" to mean - it's not necessarily the case that you'll learn some useful new skill or hear a great story or derive some other immediately-tangible benefit from talking to people.

Not every interaction is equally valuable, your time is precious and you are an autonomous human being perfectly within your rights to reject a given social interaction, or interactions.

But human interaction is not reducible to an ROI calculation. It's far too complex and multivariate to be computable by your or anyone else's brain - the best you can do is a rough approximation.

I guess this is scattershot, but the phrase: "Just because I find many people uninteresting does not make me a broken person lacking in basic skills" stuck with me because it alone does, in fact, provide us ample evidence that there is a problem. I would never describe you as "broken" - I'm an introvert, I get it - but if you find "many" people uninteresting, that is a priori evidence that it is you who is uninteresting.
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Have you considered the inverse? That perhaps people find it very worthwhile to talk to you? Any way, thanks for explaining. You live your life the way that works best for you:)
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Useful skills? Absolutely. I just prefer not to invest energy in using them more than I must.

My thought process runs like this:

> I've acknowledged our shared existence. Over. Done with. No mas. Can I go back to my book now? It's way more interesting than all this dreary existence-acknowledging crap.

I don't want someone to hear me and tell me I'm not alone. I already know that. I want to go back to my book or whatever.
Sounds similar to a pyramid scheme, which happens to be a felony.
> You don't want a in German and a in English to be different letters just because Helvetica and Baskerville look different.

A much more apt comparison would be Antiqua and Fraktur. It was a commonly-held belief that Fraktur was the authentic German alphabet, separate from the alphabets used by other languages. Back in the 19th century, English-German dictionaries even used Antiqua for English words and Fraktur for German words.
It sounds like the lead developer has no influence on the overall direction of the product and no influence over any management related decisions. Even worse it sounds like the feature set is being handed down on high by a panel.

So the dev is in a dead end role, "forced" to spend his days working on pointless/less important features. It's no surprise that he is bored/frustrated.
Bully for them. Why might I wish to indulge them? I have limited quantities of time and energy, and sometimes I have things I want to do besides indulge the whims of randomly selected strangers.

Which is to say yes, I have considered that. And I'm pleased to have brought you an alternative perspective.
Absolutely. But the two "g" haven't diverged, yet.

We don't give out code points to speculative future developments.

If and when they diverge one will get its very own code point.
I actually had _no idea_ LinkedIn used Scala until I read further down this thread. I am referring to, of course, the large number of contact requests I receive from recruiters about open Scala positions.
This interpretation entails that IE will live on and become Spartan
Setting aside that progressive taxation probably means that the population I was discussing isn't significantly funding their children's education (and would likewise not be able to cover the actual cost of education if they were called on that burden) -- I was responding to mrwarn's comment asking if gov't funded education is working, to which I responded that public schooling is not working, but that the problem is not dependent on the source of funding.

When we turn public schools into private schools (as Chicago has done by the dozens in the last few years) we don't see educational improvements when the students population remains the same. When we do, it's modest or an outlier (and education is filled with outliers).
What will your kid do Summer of 2015?
I'm getting the "old Microsoft feeling again"

Why? What are some specific examples you see?

Personally, I think they got slapped so hard by Windows 8 that I expect Windows 10 to be pretty great. They had me at "console window" (though likely I'll still be using ConEmu).
It'll backfire if white people are over-represented in management and black people are over represented in low wage barista level.
that's 2.7M people willing to work for and assist an entity that openly tortures and murders without consequence, so yeah seems like they are on the same page to me.
is there a way to render pdf into html that can be viewed in a browser?
Thanks for pointing this out! In addition to not wanting a minimum, it's also bad to fix the number of samples. Then you know that the more you get sampled the less likely additional samples are. Might not matter for some applications but, as you say, it can subtly affect your behavior.

The right way to do the sampling is as a Poisson process, ie, where the gaps between samples are drawn from an exponential distribution. Details: http://tagti.me
Will it get me my coffee any faster?

Will it make me feel better about an incident in elementary school.

Will Starbucks pay their baristas hazard pay when someone inevitably gets offended?

No. So, can someone explain why this would be a good idea?
Finally, i can satisfy the urge to send money to friends.

Seriously?
> > It seems like you're trying to single out combining pairs as "less legitimate" when they're extensively used in the standard.

> I'm saying that Unicode only does it in English where it makes semantic sense to a native English speaker.

Well, combining characters almost never come up in English. The best I can think of would be the use of cedillas, diaereses, and acute accents in words like façade, coördinate and renownèd (I've been reading Tolkien's translation of Beowulf, and he used renownèd a lot).

Thinking about the Spanish I learned in high school, ch, ll, ñ, and rr are all considered separate letters (i.e., the Spanish alphabet has 30 letters; ch is between c and d, ll is between l and m, ñ is between n and o, and rr is between r and s; interestingly, accented vowels aren't separate letters). Unicode does not provide code points for ch, ll, or rr; and ñ has a code point more from historical accident than anything (the decision to start with Latin1). Then again, I don't think Spanish keyboards have separate keys for ch, ll, or rr.

Portuguese, on the other hand, doesn't officially include k or y in the alphabet. But it uses far more accents than Spanish. So, a, ã and á are all the same letter. In a perfect world, how would Unicode handle this? Either they accept the Spanish view of the world, or the Portuguese view. Or, perhaps, they make a big deal about not worrying about languages and instead worrying about alphabets ( http://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#4 ).

They haven't been perfect. And they've certainly changed their approach over time. And I suspect they're including emoji to appear more welcoming to Japanese teenagers than they were in the past. But (1) combining characters aren't second-class citizens, and (2) the standard is still open to revisions ( http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html ).
But it involves people signing up for a new bank. The barrier to entry for Simple is huge.
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I don't know what?

If you're just here to randomly insult people, please leave.

Update: ah, you just mishandled the threading.

But still... I asked very specific questions, in order to understand your point, and you're very combative. My point stands.
I believe that was only speculation as to the method.. Though the alternative that was speculated was transfers at a loss to Square (with an increased user base as the motive).
I admit this was my one complaint about their API when it was released, since it meant I couldn't do thinks like write Uber for Glass. Their branding document is very detailed and handy to make their buttons look good on mobiles too, so I liked the quality of their work otherwise. Since they fixed it I'll have to take a look at doing the hackathon, I guess. Although maybe I'll have to put it on a watch instead of a Glass since Glass is dead.
The encryption is really quite good. It's actually very rare to have a problem with the crypto. Compromise of the trust network is much more common and is really the problem with today's crypto systems... read a bit about superfish for a good news worthy example of abuse of trust.

When reading the https gov doc -- it's very important to remember that the government runs its own CA.
They'll probably just call it "The Internet."
Out of curiosity, before Unicode came along what was the state of the art for encoding/writing/displaying Bengali?

Sometimes I think issues with Unicode might be because it's trying to solve issues for languages that haven't yet arrived at a good solution for themselves yet.

Latin-using languages ended up going through a very long orthographic simplification and unification process after centuries of divergent orthographic development. These changes all occurred to simplify or improve some aspect of the language: improve readability, increase typesetting speed, reduce typesetting pieces. Early personal computers even did away with lowercase letters and some punctuation marks completely before they were grudgingly reintroduced.

I'm more familiar with Hangul (Korean), which has sometimes complex rules for composing syllables but has undergone fairly rapid orthographic changes once it was accepted into widespread and official use: dropping antiquated or dialectal letters, dropping antiquated tone markers, spelling revisions, etc. In addition, Chinese characters are now completely phased out in North Korea and are rapidly disappearing in the South.

It's my personal theory that the acceleration of this orthographic change has had to do with the increased need to mechanize (and later computerize) writing. Koreans independently came up with workable solutions to encode, write and display their system, sometimes by changing the system, sometimes by figuring out how to mechanically and then algorithmically encode the complex rules for their script. It appears that a happy medium has been found and Korean users happily pound away at keyboards for billions of keystrokes every year.

I'm digressing here, but pre-unicode, how had Bengali users solved the issue of mechanically and algorithmically encoding, inputting and displaying their own language? Is it just a case that the unicode team is ignorant of these solutions and hasn't transferred this hard-earned knowledge over?

(note, I came across this page as I was writing this, how suitable was this solution? http://www.dsource.in/resource/devanagari-letterforms-histor...)

I'm asking these questions out of ignorance of course, I don't know the story on either side.

On a second point, I'm deeply concerned about Unicode getting turned into a font-repository for slightly different (or even the same) character, that just happens to end up in another language. For example, Cherokee uses quite a few Latin letters (and numbers) (and quite a few original inventions). Is it really necessary to store all the Latin letters it uses again? Would a reader of Tsalagi really care too much if I used W or Ꮃ? When does a character go from being a letter to being a specific depiction of that letter?
As does Safari. Apple hasn't updated the Windows version in well over a year.
...and the congregation said AMEN!
I'm sure you didn't mean it but your post comes across as entitled.

YC has no obligation to share stats and just because you disagree with the methodology doesn't make them unethical.
>I guess this is scattershot, but the phrase: "Just because I find many people uninteresting does not make me a broken person lacking in basic skills" stuck with me because it alone does, in fact, provide us ample evidence that there is a problem.

I agree! The problem is that people are remarkably intolerant of those who are different. For instance, if you don't find randomly selected people all utterly fascinating, it must be that you're a broken person.

> but if you find "many" people uninteresting, that is a priori evidence that it is you who is uninteresting

Well. No. The two are not bijective. You can be a very interesting person to most people while still finding most other people not very interesting. The reverse is also true.
A sample size of 3 is not a pattern. The plural of anecdote is not data.
All good points. I'm not trying to say one improvement is more important than the rest.

I support their initiative too, but we have evidence of their compatriots performing MITM attacks as well so this is a multifaceted problem. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/new_nsa_leak_...

Also it is aggravating to me that the cost of implementing SSL on a single site is too high because of the CA signing cartel. In my experience this is the main reason that many sites eschew the matter altogether. We're creating a digital security ghetto like this, and it is completely unnecessary.

This is one area where government has the capability to lead the way at a very low cost, which is all I was trying to say, perhaps with a bit too much snark.
“We’ll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we’ll also have a new browser called Project Spartan, which is codenamed Project Spartan. We have to name the thing.”

Ummm that's confusing. If you're going to kill it, kill it dead.
Can we put some sort of warning on sites with auto-play video please?
> And you're confusing an argument about my right to know about what I'm eating

Honestly, you don't necessarily know what you're eating with non-GMO crops, either. As a previous poster mentioned, we've been selecting for certain characteristics for hundreds of years, which is just a slower way to modify genetics. If the innovators in this sector would have avoided using the word "genetic", nobody would care. But just like "Nuclear" there are certain words that the uneducated Fox News-consuming public froths at.

Being someone with no shortage of empathy (despite my obvious abundance of sarcasm), I like to try to understand people that I disagree with. But what's all this about pesticides? That's a separate matter entirely, and isn't specific to GMO crops. You are wanting to specifically avoid GMOs, which is your right to do, but you shouldn't expect everyone to add a warning label for something that science has conclusively stated is fine. Hell, some GMOs are engineered such that less pesticides are necessary. That's a big win to me, personally.

It'd be like asking for warning labels on faucets because some people think the government puts mind controlling agents in the water supply. Some fringe nutjobs have 100% unfounded theories, therefore everyone else should have to humor them? Nah. You can avoid GMOs and stick to products that are clearly labeled, but that's not a realistic expectation for everyone else. Those non-GMO labels are just taking advantage of this poorly informed minority, kind of like the Gluten-free craze.
"Dear Sir/Madam,"

"I am a wealthy Nigerian heir of our national oil company. I need my funds unlocked but unfortunately do not have $100 for internet access. Please send $100 and you will get your share of my inheritance in the billions of dollar."
I hope they name Spartan after their magical browser girl mascot, Inori. She's cute.
Well, they do reserve the right as private institutions to push agendas if they so desire.
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Another interesting tack is happening in Mirage with a TLS stack written in OCaml.

https://tls.openmirage.org/
What if the buffer is aliased? In rust, when you transfer ownership, you can statically guarantee that there's no aliasing. But AFAIK that's not possible in go.
What is the point of spamming pictures of humpback whales on an article that has not a single thing to do with that species?

Otherwise, nice story.
If the issue is that you just don't want a "career" - that's easy to solve.

Just get whatever job you can get, try it for a bit, then quit and move onto the next.

Who cares if oil rigs are shutting down, go get a job there and work until you are bored and move on.