skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in pretty accurate simulations using just the law of gravity as we know it, if you simulate the galaxy, it'll fall apart. If you add in some mysterious dark matter, it stays together.

Seems like there are two things which could follow from that:

1) We don't completely understand gravity at scale

2) Dark matter in some form or another exists

It just so happens that the huge majority of evidence points to #2.

I'd be hesitant to accuse a huge body of research collected hundreds of people over decades of making some sort of trivial error like that.
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I've been there. I'm officially topped out in my career field for the next 20(ish) years because of children. Anyone who moves past my current point either has no obligations, or have children who are out of the house as adults already. I made the choice to not let that stuff bother me. I miss out on some choice assignments. I miss out on some really interesting work. I miss many late-night brainstorming sessions and conversations with coworkers that are intellectually and professionally stimulating.

But I also got to take my kid to the circus for the first time last fall, I took two weeks' vacation this spring to just monkey around with the 2 year old for a while because the weather was supposed to be nice and trees were starting to leaf out, and tonight we have a play-date at a local jungle-gym while I know some of the other individuals at my level will be here until 8 or 9 working on a new center (and big-time resume boost).

As with everything, it's all about identifying and sticking to your priorities. You'll lose in some aspects professionally, but work isn't everything.

What did it for me was volunteering at a nursing home. Listen to the folks in those places. Do they talk about the choice work assignments they had? Do they talk fondly about the long hours they worked? The money they made? The stuff they bought?

Nope. They talk about travel, family and friends.
Wow - thank you for the tip! Going to double-check my own details now.
This is way better than Facebook integration, cause let's be real, who really uploads pics there regularly anymore? Ha.
Another KSP observation: air resistance is much more of an issue at sea level, and it lowers specific impulse.
So instead of empowering women to negotiate better - they drag everyone else down (including the women who CAN negotiate!)

The way to equality should be lifting everyone to the same platform. Not dragging everyone into the mud.
Thanks for sharing. This is a history I was completely unaware of.
> There was just no reason to write a memo like that

There was a very good reason to write it. Internally Nokia was delusional and confused, and desperately needed a wake-up call. Nothing less would have sufficed.
How to Create and Verify JWTs in Java
"verifiable" is probably a better replacement; the intention is that everyone can agree on whether or not the expectations were met.
Or, if it is a social network, acctually hurt the value of the company to be acquired. It's certainly a good thing for a social network to have the status of "the place to be" and not "the sinking ship".
It doesn't look like they found or exploited any solution but rather the judges were determined to let them win regardless of the quality of their entry.
Which has zero to do with what kind of establishment Subway is. Which is, Not a Restaurant.

And yes, they tick me off in a way that gets a rise out of me. Charging $9 for substandard sandwiches and providing zero service.
As long as the line is more on the side of the majority feeling it fair as opposed to a certain minority feeling it advantageous, then I'm fine with that.
There is a new deadline for the Call For Proposals of EuroPython 2015 in Spain. If you are interested to submit a talk/poster. Don't hesitate to submit it.
How far would you take it? Would you support a law that mandated that taxes had to be paid in person, at one central office, with a long line in a hot, crowded room, and also they have crying babies and car alarms? That would be an even bigger pain and lead to even more pressure to eliminate taxes.
And the same could be said about Firefox, yet it never happened.

Damn it, since Firefox canceled their deal with Google the latter has taken to pitching Chrome whenever a Firefox user visits Google.com.
Thank you for the admonition. I am double majoring in CS and Philosophy for a specific reason; i want to manage devs and IT wizzards. I want to function as an informed go between for the sweat stainless white collars and the yellowed white collars that do the work. I love the theoretical space of design and networking, but i have very low expectations of my actual capabilities at the nuts and bolts. I am a [failed] writer and indy movie producer, but i want to be 'part of your world'. I have been trying to self educate, but it is not simple with no mentor. I see uni as a chance to be around people who are smarter than me as well as make time to write the novels and short stories that make me happy. So i am going to start in CS and Philosophy, audit engineering courses and IR courses, then switch majors to whatever seems appropriate. I am a bit older than your typical freshperson, and i am building a trajectory for post-grad, but really i am button mashing like it's StreetFighter. ANy advice is appreciated; i will look into the Maths Degrees.
Improving performance – A full stack problem
The media loves gender-related news because they are so divisive. They provoke our emotions and pull us into wasteful and hateful arguments. Such news are almost always the most read ones - the most profitable ones.
Yelp.
From the title "Infinite Ulysses" I imagined an unending extension of the text of Ulysses using a Markov text generator. Perhaps that would be better suited for Finnegans Wake.
InVision
You could just go to https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders and click on peoples' profiles to see...
Help at-risk youth get careers in tech
Really cool, the web interface needs work, but the idea is great.
Some Music Is Inherently Bad–But People Can Be Convinced Otherwise
They mean metrics you can check such as "sales increased 50%" as opposed to things like "we reinvigorated the sales paradigms" which you can't prove true or false.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability)
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> But then who does really?

The vast majority of people handle constructive criticism better than 'throw a tantrum on Twitter and block everyone who replies to you'.
"Building static HTML pages" is not always inappropriate for a hackathon. For most college-level demos, a mostly-static demo with just enough javascript to pull data to make it feel fresh is a "hack" that will get you further than your peers. Depending on your level of ethics, some companies will actually do demos that are this level of wire-and-duct-tape to sell the product, and then build it afterwards. The one big catch with this approach is that you can't pitch something that's non-trivial technically -- if you do, and can't demonstrate you figured out the secret sauce, then your pitch becomes worthless.

Many first-timers will walk into a hackathon with just their laptop, and get stuck in the trap of setting up their environment over the whole weekend. They'll spend hours trying to download an IDE and interpreter/compiler and libraries over a poor or nonexistent internet connection. For these people, "build some static web pages" is one of the easiest ways to get them to the point where they have something they can comfortably demo in front of their peers -- and so what if it doesn't really work; they had fun and can come back next time.

If you build a thing that really works, fine. But a lot of people also walk into hackathons with pre-formed teams and 80% completed projects (idea, mocks and artwork already done; IDEs already set up; maybe even hardware already wired up) and having an emphasis on "real working code" for a time-constrained event only encourages this sort of "cheating".
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There are no people with karma > 250,000. The current highest user is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek with 208,XXX.
“Brick by brick, the wall gets higher, and then suddenly, a wall.” All it takes is one brick, and the commitment to doing it again tomorrow.

Wow.
EDIT - I didn't realize those links where for 3 years of the same event...

The hackathon you link to is from 2013, the article is from 2 days ago and that repo you link had its first commit 4 days ago.

Perhaps her experience is based off what was presented 2 years ago at the actual hackathon and not what they've produced in the subsequent time?
It's not IIS. It's HTTP.SYS. New configs have Powershel remote or WinRM. They use http.Sys and are vulnerable.
I think the cult of work has a different meaning for me. I've found that work is the one place where I am respected by many, and appreciated for output and creativity. Thus, I am drawn towards it to satisfy my own desire to have worth. I value it more than almost any other activity in my life, and that causes me to work more often than not, simply because it's the way I can feel better about myself?

Having a bad day? I can help another team's project and clear tons of their roadblocks. I now feel successful.

It's less subordination, or the other aspects for me. It's validation of self. I've spent my entire life working on technology, and I know it better than I know anything else.

That's where I need to escape. I am in the process of trying to create new hobbies to gain value in, because even though I don't think there is a problem with me working constantly, it clearly is a problem to my family and friends who don't see me as often as they could.
More patent trolling coming?
Ask HN: API for ACH debits now that Balanced is gone?
Is there an API for ACH debits? Looks like Stripe does not support them, and Balanced shut down.
Modular Robotic Vehicle
>Do you have evidence for someone being branded sexist for merely not bending over backwards to prove that they aren't?

Maybe not a specific person or event, but would the constant demand for "diversity reports" from tech companies from the "tech media" not be an example of this? And the subsequent shaming by the same media of these same companies for having too many penises in the office, or too few vaginas?

I apologise for the vulgarity of the above, but that's what it is when it comes down to it.
Your assertion that women "need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development" is insulting and distasteful.

My mother and grandmother were both software engineers at IBM, at a time where the male dominated tech culture was MUCH worse than it is today, and they both did really well. My boss, a woman, is arguably the best software engineer at our company.

Women don't need handholding. They need incentive. They need to be exposed to tech culture. Lowering the bar for women and putting them on a pedestal for showing up does a great injustice to women like my mother and grandmother who, despite working in a culture which heavily discriminated against women, became kick-ass engineers.
Congrats to the founders they did it again! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgeball_(service)
Yelp.

And don't blame the cool kids for not using a crappy service.
The entire world.
are you using Poe's law?
Cops who don’t know the law are protected by the Supreme Court
As a user of Google search and Android, I want Google to bundle services. Android would, in my opinion, be impaired if it didn't include Google play, gmail, chrome, and Google Maps.

Similarly, Google search would be worse for me if it didn't present me with instantly relevant results like shopping, wikipedia responses, imdb style results, or quick answers to unit conversions and equations.

Yes Google leverages its dominance in search and mobile to bundle services, but is this something that the EU should fine Google for? As a consumer, I don't think so.
EDIT: adding the output caching rules confirms it. BSOD :(
Are you sure that's the right team? Pretty much every commit in the repo is by a man, and I thought the author mentioned an all-woman team.
What is the biggest bootstrapped company?
I'm currently building a business based on a groundbreaking idea in a huge market. It already has some traction.

I wonder how big it can become without raising money.

Are there any examples of companies that became really big while being profitable from day 1?
>What would be a viable way for Google to fix this that doesn't hurt users?

Assuming that any of Google's business practices needs to be "fixed" (a claim that's debatable and has been rejected by U.S. FedGov), you've put your finger on the difference between the U.S. and Euro regulatory approaches.

The European approach is more inclined to protect competitors that complain about a rival -- in this case Yelp, Microsoft, etc. are doing that. Note protecting competitors from rivals is not the same as protecting competition; in fact, having bureaucrats cripple some firms and favor others can reduce competition and injects politics and lobbying and who-golfs-with-the-commissioner into the process. It also can lead to bizarre results like the lack of a reasonably viable way to "fix" things.

The U.S. approach toward dominant firm behavior (well, since the 1970s) has been different. It focuses on intervening when there's consumer harm, or at least tries to. If consumers are not harmed, the logic goes, there is likely no reason for the Feds to intervene. This is why the FTC did not proceed with its case against Google. U.S. law also emphasizes economic analysis, which stands a better chance of grounding the analysis in marketplace reality.

A colleague and I wrote about the different EU vs. US antitrust approaches here: http://news.cnet.com/Intel-probe-highlights-EU-U.S.-regulati...

Note Microsoft enlisted U.S. politicians in its attempt to fend off broad EU antitrust actions; here's my article from 2004: http://news.cnet.com/U.S.-politicos-fire-at-EUs-Microsoft-ru... Google doesn't seem to have the same depth of congressional outreach, especially among Rs predisposed to be skeptical of antitrust actions.
The presentation is from PyCon 2008. Some of the statements from there are no longer true.

For example, Python 3.3, as described in PEP 393, has a flexible string encoding, and will switch between 1, 2, and 4 byte internal representations.

Things have changed enough that I would not point people to that presentation. I do not know of a newer one, but I haven't looked either.
So where does the obvious gender bias in the industry come from? It's actually gotten worse since the 1980s, not better. There are only two explanations for the obvious reality. One is that women simply aren't as good at programming as men are. The other is that there is a persistent and difficult cultural bias against women in this industry.

Most of us would agree that it's the latter. So the question is, what do we do about it? Whinging about how terrible it is that we are even talking about this isn't it - that's just wrapping bias in silence. Any good engineer can tell you that a problem doesn't go away just because you stop acknowledging it.

The author makes an excellent point... that "Thanks for showing up" awards aren't a solution, either. We love our craft because it's hard, because it measures us against hard reality rather than the soft vagaries of social politics. We cannot bring gender equality into software engineering by trying to turn it into social rather than technical victories.

But complaining about the "assault on the technology industry" in the form of pointing out that we have a sexism problem? That's not good engineering, bro.
From all i have read, direct strikes on gear is a grab bag of destruction. I've read that in the Vietnam Conflict guys would get shot and the bullets would bounce off of their skin [strange effect of velocity, turbulence, and chance], so i bet there are examples of "look mom, no destruction" but i tend to side with you, at least as the guy managing this project: at no point am i going to say "cannot fail", "works everytime" or any version of the two. If you have never been to Maine, it is beautiful. If you have never built in Maine, don't get attached. The sea wind destroys everything. I kept my tools covered every day on a 42 day stint except 1, and the rust is ubiquitous. So i build to fail. The real question is, how long can i draw out the failure?
Related, but unrelated: Many people who perform a search using the default on their browser do not know whether they are on Google, Yahoo, Bing. They just Googled it, Google may as well be a verb to them as in "I googled it on Yahoo. The first link was from Foursquare."
>The investigation will attempt to determine whether Google is using its position to discourage the inclusion of rival applications on Android-based phones.

Shouldn't this also apply to iOS?
Can confirm. No Output Caching rules defined, I am still able to reproduce crash.
[EDIT]
What is handy is that it appears that disabling "Enable kernel cache" takes effect immediately. No iisreset or server reboot required in my testing environment.
GAO investigators spoke to cyber security experts who said onboard firewalls intended to protect avionics from hackers could be breached if flight control and entertainment systems use the same wiring and routers.

Why on earth would they use the same network?
Why we put our competitors on our SaaS pricing page
Maybe not fasting, but a dietary switch - http://whole30.com/
Indemnity against mistakes made by the IRS for sure; against the taxpayer intentionally hiding income, not so much. Then there is the whole problem of determining intent, but that's already a problem.
If that's their response it's way off the mark. Google is a huge company and yes Android is one aspect of it that is wonderful and open. However the aspect being scrutinised by the EU is its search monopoly.

It's no defence to just hold up a shield of good behaviour within another realm of business.

Personally I'm torn on the actual issue anyhow. I'm trying to see why a private company like Google is bound to any degree of public duty on its own websites. Are search engines special domains where the owners can't advertise their own products above and beyond all others?

Yes Google have search dominance, but it's a free service, there should be no pressure on Google to weaken their self-advertising on a free platform. Instead the onus is on its competitors to offer compelling reasons for searchers to use their platforms over Google's.
Tested a site which got reported as vulnerable and the site is still up, so I guess not :)
As all our servers are behind a traffic manager product like F5/ZXTM I'm experimenting with removing the range header so it never reaches the webserver as some app's rely on kernel mode caching to achieve performance.

Also my tests seem to indicate that just having kernel mode caching enabled even if you dont have any rules still seem to cause a BSOD.
You state for web services that spit out JSON that Golang is better. Typically the JSON is a representation of data from a database (relational or otherwise) - how do you envision Golang doing this (spitting out JSON) well?

From a cursory look at Golang, I think there is a serious possibility to displace a lot of enterprise Java stuff especially web services that process XML at scale. There is so much baggage and stacks of frameworks to contend with that something much closer to the bare metal, so to speak, would be refreshing to use in that space. But if the DB handling is lacking that could be a turn-off for displacement.
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Airship to Orbit: Cheap, Bulk, Safe Access to Space (2004) [pdf]
> "You don't have to care if you don't have anything to hide"

I never quite understood this argument. We have something to hide, that's the whole point. I don't want somebody to look at my phone messages. I don't want to share with the government every sily joke that I may say at home.

Should I work on secret businesses, I certainly wouldn't want any random agent to read about what I'm working on. We all have something to hide, the whole argument is bogus ...
Are you even remotely surprised, digi_owl?
The problem is that the type checker won't catch you when you accidentally call foo(true, false) instead of foo(false, true). Using enums is a valid solution, though.
The scare quotes around "tech media" just remind me of people who rant about the "mainstream media".

The tech press is pretty much the most sycophantic press sector out there, in its relationship to the industry it is supposed to critically cover.
Are you sure you didn't just write: "An 'actual women programmer' said something from which I can extrapolate into my own agenda?"

Also: if what they wrote was right, what does it matter what their gender is? Right is right, wrong is wrong.
You might be interested in a classic (well, pre-Microsoft antitrust) book written by a professor who has specialized in antitrust law. I've interviewed him a few times. Excerpt:

"Professor Armentano thoroughly researches the classic cases in antitrust law and demonstrates a surprising gap between the stated aims of antitrust law and what it actually accomplishes in the real world. Instead of protecting competition, Professor Armentano finds, antitrust law actually protects certain politically-favored competitors. This is an essential work for anyone wishing to understand the limitations and problems of contemporary antitrust actions." http://www.amazon.com/Antitrust-Monopoly-Anatomy-Independent...
So it's about ethics in tech journalism.
Nothing is a giveaway. It's all in exchange for your data, which is what they are profiting off of.

And yes, Ara was an awesome Motorola project that Google will now ruin with walled garden design. The endoskeleton is not intended to be third party-able.
See, this illustrates the fallacy of the "yelp extortion" argument: what the rep said was totally clear -- when you advertise, your rating gets better. It did not imply that your rating gets better because they'll change it. That was your leap to an unsupported conclusion.

Moreover, assuming that s/he did say what you're quoting, you have to put it in context: Yelp employs hundreds (if not thousands now) of telephone sales reps. They get paid crap, work in a call center, and have zero ability to influence anyone, anywhere. Sales people, when incentivized to say things for money, tend to walk as close to the ethical line as they can without going over. I haven't looked, but there probably is data showing that advertising increases your rating. It wouldn't surprise me.

Every time I've bothered to dig into these claims, it's a story like yours, where a business leapt to a conclusion because they thought they heard something that validated a rumor they read on the interwebz.
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Carefully re-read the parent comment and ask yourself if he was being truly serious.