skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were truly synthesized from scratch -- individual atoms plucked one by one from the air -- the answer to the question of whether or not it is kosher is mu (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mu.html) as kosher is inapplicable to non-food items.

Even if the donor cells are from non-kosher animals, there is a modest body of responsa (case law) that seems to permit it. Some authorities permit the use of gelatin made from non-kosher animal bones, claiming that the end product is totally different in nature than the starting (non-kosher animal) product; and that creating the gelatin required putting the animal product into a state of total inedibility, thus removing it from the domain of kosher/non-kosher, notwithstanding its subsequent reconstitution into edible food. Vat-grown meat is supposed to be very similar if not identical to bio-meat, so it's unclear if these authorities would rule the same way for vat-grown pork as they do for pork-derived gelatin.

Even amongst sources who do not abide by the above ruling (and it appears a majority do not), there may yet be hope for the kosher cheeseburger. If the donor cells which are vat-cultured are from a kosher cow, the resulting food may not be considered meat (with respect to the prohibition of mixing meat and milk). Again, based on responsa regarding the gelatin question, gelatin made from kosher bones and hides is parve (neither meat nor dairy). However, these responsa seem to agree that one of the main arguments that this is so is because one stage of gelatin creation is processing the raw material into what is essentially non-food, thus eradicating its inherent "meatness" (but nothing can remove its applicability to the question of kosher). This may or may not be applicable to the case of vat-grown meat; however, if the process entails some cells being stripped away from the meat and/or pulverized into something inedible for a period of time, the resulting product may well be kosher but not considered meat. The only question left would be: american cheese or whiz?
>Combinatorics isn't really abstract as far as math goes.

Huh? Is it naturally abstract?
The world is a big place - annual lead production is approximately 7 million metric tons.

Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/news/lead-uses-that-go-back-...
That was it! I couldn't remember the name.

http://www.starbucks.com/clover/
what about gangsters.ycombinator.com I smell a startup
Wow - love the concept and vision here. Were I such a person, I might dub this payments 2.0.

This image on their home page gave me chills, though.
http://a1.sqimg.com/static/6c1cc3c1ad109e13d0be182c75c470762...

But that's likely only because I'm a half-paranoid security geek.
The name's good enough. It's no worse than Xynga.
You seem to be referencing this: http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/gosling/scal...

Is that correct?
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Because so many of the proposed solutions 1) will actually be worse for the environment, and 2) be massively expensive, and 3) will provide massive opportunities for rent-seeking and gov't corruption.

Even before the CRU leak, I suspected the science behind it was bad, because there was no transparency, skeptics were being marginalized, and discussion about the core issues behind it were forbidden. These are not the actions of concerned scientists trying to get the word out, these are the actions of political thugs angling for more power.

I think the majority of skepticism is rooted in folks smelling something fishy with this whole issue.
Now they just need to come down in price and get the spectrum right. While the fluorescent lights are already competitively priced, LED ones are still rather pricey, at about €15-20. The spectrum emitted by the pseudo-white LEDs is also unpleasant (primarily yellow + blue), the RGB ones need to become cheap enough.

RGB lamps could also have some interesting extra features, like adjusting hue based on time of day, which might help insomniacs (such as myself).
Heres some anecdotes for you. Im a guy, i gave up on programming for a while because i perceived it as both boring and dry. I didn't want to work in a cubicle, so i decided that maybe some of my other hobbies, like photography, drawing or writing could become my career.

I knew i was a techie, I've grown up with dissembling stuff and figuring out how stuff works and making stuff, its just that i didn't see programming the same way i saw drawing in my notebook. I do now.

If there are women reading this, and you LOVE making stuff, don't let stereotypes get in your way. If you don't like assholes don't work with them, if you don't like cubicles don't work in them, if you don't like smelly apartments with star trek posters on the wall, don't work there. Build your own environment, find like minded individuals and MAKE THINGS. I don't know if being a woman makes this harder, it probably does. Me, i can handle asshole nerds and their smelly apartments(i am one), but i avoid dry and sterile offices and bureaucracy as much as i can. Perhaps the extra effort isn't worth it, if i couldn't work in an environment of my taste, i probably wouldn't be a programmer, and be an artist instead, even though i SUCK as an artist a lot more than i suck as a programmer, and i don't find it as much fun as i used to when i sat bored in a classroom in high school.
Er, at least in certain contexts, calling a woman blokeish is implying she's a butch lesbian. I used to be a female computer scientist with a buzzcut (and the pockets thing). Everyone thought I was gay.

(I'm not.)
They gave you two letters, I'm pretty sure. But I've mostly forgotten.
Sounds like the opposite of Amara's Law: "We tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change and underestimate its long-term impact."

Very little has to go before Flash gets a hard time: see how little it has hurt the iPhone that it doesn't do flash.
"haven't RTFA yet, but i'd be interested in seeing whether the same gender gap exists in other countries; from talking with friends who grew up in places like Eastern Europe, it seems like it wasn't as 'nerdy' for women to like engineering, math, or computers, so more talented women got into the field in college and as a career"

This is a very interesting point. When I was in college, many of my 300 level or higher CS classes had more women than men. The women were either from China, Taiwan, Japan, or India.

I rarely ever saw an American woman in any of these classes.
Looking forward to using this tool regularly. Congrats.
Which CL do you use? I find some popular CL implementations too buggy to be usable.
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I'm using the OpenBSD term, since it's what I got started with in the early 90's, when I wrote the OpenBSD advisories. It's not strictly a "root" vulnerability; if you have no SUIDs except for qmail-queue, it's a qmailq vulnerability.

I'm guessing you got downmodded because nobody cares, although being wrong couldn't have helped.
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You are right. This is done with webkit-specific animations, transitions, and 3D transforms, which Apple has proposed as modules for CSS3. As all of these modules have yet to reach the status of recommendations, I think that the title of this post is a bit deceiving. For now I have to call this a proprietary webkit demo.
That was my gut reaction as well. But then thought about it this way. The programmer can solve with problem with z-index and now the designer can add stuff without interfering with the program.
Are you saying that you think this article is an example of "paranoid conspiracy theories"?

No, I didn't read the article. But lately there have been far too many items on the HN front page that are nothing more than conspiracy theory ramblings, and with comments to match. There -have- been a few with reasonable takes on the scandal, but most are just... bleh.

That so many, in my opinion, stupid items end up on the front page annoys me for two reasons: 1) they're not "hacker" (and not business either) and obscure real content, and 2) it lowers my respect for the HN community.
It's emotionally draining to wade through all the crap being spewed around (I'm not blameless!).

But in a "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" kind of way, I'm hopeful this mess spurs renewed efforts to (re)construct a healthier, scientific basis for objective analysis.
Safari 4 on 10.6, no problem.

On another note, did anyone else site through all of the credits just to see if a rebel blockade runner would actually be rendered?
That's not a very good comparison, though, because the person isn't usually carrying out the algorithm. Every engineering discipline is concerned with cost containment (energy-efficient appliances, bridges that require minimal repair, satellites with as little mass as possible). This is what time and space efficiency are for computer programs: cost reduction. Sometimes the costs are incurred by the manufacturer (efficiency of the Google web crawler), and sometimes by the consumer (efficiency of the OS), but it's still cost containment.

Now, if the programmer were actually carrying out algorithms, this comparison would be entirely sensible. They're not. They're just trying to make them use as few resources as possible.
Kudos to the Sproutbox crew for delivering a much needed collaborative tool.
Link is restricted access, you are permitted to read about the balloons here http://www.emilitary.org/article.php?aid=14878
Hmm, does that mean I should probably return my bag?
There's a difference in the way women and men react to poor performance/failure, I read about it fairly recently (possibly on HN?) but can't find the link right now. Will be back if I find it.

Anyway. Women who do badly in the first few weeks of a course will think it's all their fault and drop the course. Men who do badly in the first few weeks of a course will think it's the course's fault and carry on.

Here's the problem as I see it. You're accepting less qualified girls because you want girls in CS, but you're putting them up against a hard course that challenges their self confidence and belief, while their classmates -- typical boisterous male freshmen? -- are apparently coasting along (even if they aren't, they won't show it to the girls).

I'd suggest a summer preparation self-study course (before my CS degree started I had to practice some math questions and read a book about the foundations of CS, which helped a little bit. Some kind of Informatics Olympiad thing might have been more useful) that also overlaps with the beginnings of CS1. That way the start of the course won't seem too bad. At the risk of positively discriminating (though looking at the numbers this is merely fixing a problem), ensure the female students have extra help with the course. Assign a TA/RA/senior student to help them out by e-mail or something. Make sure any less qualified male students get the same help, though.

Just a thought. :)
We have a kitchen which contains about 7 small spotlights. I thought I'd try out some LED replacements, which each contain like 10 small white LEDs. They were more expensive, but I thought it'd be worth a try. A bit like these http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/product/productPage.jsp?produ...

The issue is, they look bright when you look at them, but they actually provide absolutely no actual light. Even when we had 7 of them, the room was almost pitch black. I actually think it's a bit of a con to even sell these things, knowing they are unusable for most applications.

>> "While it is indisputable that LEDs use a fraction of the electricity of a regular bulb to create the same amount of light,"

I'm not sure on how they measure 'same amount of light', because all of the energy saving lights I've ever seen are absolutely no where near as bright as standard lights. Which is a shame.

just my 2c
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Would placing the spaceships crew behind its black hole engine provide adequate shielding from cosmic radiation and blue-shifted photons/particles? Killing two birds with one black hole, so to speak.

Also, wouldn't being in such proximity to a black hole negate the need for time dilation effects of speed anyway? If you can build black holes, speed is meaningless as you essentially have a stasis machine. You could travel at .1c, reach Alpha Centauri in 40+ years and never even age a day if you can get close enough to the event horizon.
> of course, i don't have any concrete examples to back up this vague hand-wavy statement [that "men and women see the world differently, women might be able to come up with different"], but i think there's something there

Lots of people believe that, but I've yet to see an example. Since we make a lot of decisions based on it being true, I'm troubled that we don't know if it actually is.

However, let's assume that it's true. It doesn't follow that said different is always valuable. It might be good in some fields, irrelevant in others, and bad in some.

In other words, even if "think different" is true, it's not an argument for universal inclusion.

Yes, I know that said "male think" may not be possessed by all males and lacking in all females.
Have a non-broken mirror? The linked freebsd-announce page appears to stop loading randomly with a truncated page.

EDIT: There was a request here for clarification on why the patch worked, since unsetenv was being called on the same vars in the unpatched code. Thanks for the explanation, cperciva.
Sure, and I admit I have no idea how much lead building such a spaceship might take, but keep in mind 2 things:

1) "More than half of the lead currently used comes from recycling." (from your article) - Once the spaceship is built and has left Earth, the lead is essentially gone (for the time being), so the more of those we build, the fewer lead we will have to recycle, and it will get even more difficult to build additional ones.

2) 400 tons for a small capsule, and consider they're proposing a spaceship in which multiple people could live in autonomously, i.e. they need places to live in, but also room to grow food, process their waste, etc. So I'd guess it's much higher than you seem to have assumed.

Oh and btw, I'm fairly certain we also need much of that lead on earth - hence why we're producing so much of it in the first place, so it's not like we have some spare lead in the order of magnitude of, say, 10000s (I'm really just guessing here, though) of tons lying around collecting dust.
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It really seems like you don't understand how Sass works, or at least haven't actually run it. If anything, Sass layers more gracefully than C does over x86, since compiler-generated x86 is incomprehensible, and Sass-generated CSS is probably more readable than what a typical designer produces. Sass also promotes CSS best practices, in part by automating them, and in part by providing syntactic sugar for them.

If your designers can't grok Sass, you do what every professional team using template languages has always done; you back-and-forth with the designer in CSS/HTML, and you convert final comps to templates. Designers by and large don't speak Haml, Erb, Clearsilver, or Cheetarah (or Mum-raah or whatever Django calls it) either.
Good overview. I think the "thinking different" part is important. Many comp sci problems can be solved in very different ways, increasing the variability of thinking might increase the probability of finding the best solution? Or to rephrase, including women, and generally people from different backgrounds might yield advantages over just hiring the best white/asian dudes.
Squad is going to a great product...should help developers collaborate more effectively and write better code.
You're conflating physical and social environments. This article is dealing with the physical environments. The difference is important, because (apparently) an unwelcoming social environment can be overcome, but an unwelcoming physical environment means women don't even try.
They touch on this briefly at the top of page 11: "The most optimistic approach is to solve requirements 2 [accelerate the black hole to keep it with the ship] and 3 [feeding the black hole with matter so that it doesn't evaporate] together by attaching particle beams to the body of the ship behind the BH and beaming in matter. This would both accelerate the SBH, since BHs “move when you push them” (see [3] p270), and add mass to the SBH, extending the lifetime."

The engineering details are left as an exercise for the reader :-)
Interesting article. Sort of confirms what i already knew.
What if someone appears to be lonely, but doesn't actually feel lonely?
SBCL. It's one of the only open source good ones I've found.
God don't read anything about patterns or refactoring. That'll sap all of your creativity and cover you in a tight fitting straight jacket. Read a language spec. That gives you the building blocks. Then go away and play with them.
I'm curious, could you provide any details around the death caused by a software bug?
This is why I keep all my money under my bed.
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ebay should keep improving its software to stop really stop them... in those geographic areas at least
Thanks. When I saw the title I assumed it was a network exploit related to the localhost 127.0.0.1 etc.
The point is that this perspective is missing the enormous creative potential of the computer -- just as pen science is missing the enormous creative potential of the pen.
Agreed. But not only women are repelled by the geeky atmosphere in the computer science. Many extrovert male people get bored and disgusted too.

So it is not really even 50% of the people diversity who create the software. It feels more like 5-10%.

I belong to that 5-10% and I think that among the others there are many who are way more creative than us.
Or even RGB LED lighting that can plug into an Arduino, so you could make that yourself.

Or, I suppose, in the vein of a plant that twitters about its thirst, a bot that performs sentiment analysis on your tweets and adjusts the light accordingly.
I've seen similar results here in Canada with MRIs. I suspect that the problem with Health care IT automation in the U.S. is the overall brokenness of the U.S. health systems.
it's also a problem for men in the field who want to date nerdy women ;)
A Ron Paul presidency would have economically hurt people who make money by relying on the government to enforce anti-market policies. For example, the military spends a lot of money maintaining troops throughout the world. If troop levels were reduced and bases closed, a lot of the people involved, especially military contractors, would suffer, at least until they could find a way to serve private interests.

Also, banks that rely on the ability to create fiat money that the government forces people to use would suffer as people begin to use hard currency.

Also, a lot of government employees would have to transition to private employment.

Since a lot of people are employed by the government, banks, and the military, RP-style changes in these sectors would create a lot of tumult. But this would be temporary until people readjust. The end result would be a richer society because more people would be employed privately and resources would be better distributed. Society would also be more free, which is a quality worth having even if there were no economic benefits.
Chrome Frame is great, but there needs to be an official, Microsoft-blessed "IE6 frame" to deal with this. From what I understand, the compatibility mode in IE8 isn't good enough. People need to move onto the new browser and use a modern rendering engine by default instead of retrofitting the old browser.
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I assume that we'll somehow solve this one with a 'force' field of some sort in the future. Think about it. The Earth isn't surrounded by lead, but we are still protected from the radiation. I imagine that if we can harness a black hole for propulsion we can somehow use it for power too??? Then we just use some of the power to create a magnetic field that blocks/reflects/deflects the radiation.
Are you also a fan of Pascal's Wager?

I personally do not find persuasive the idea that decisions involving high stakes should warrant an approach which embraces risk management over skepticism. All things in proper order.

It all depends on the probabilities you assign things. If Traditional Christianity has a 50% chance of being true, then of course the risk mitigation of heaven and hell dominate decision making. But I should like a better assessment of the odds before entering risk management mode. If the odds are near zero, I shall ignore the claim--however horrid the hell or enticing the heaven.

So with AGW. Perhaps the doomsday is quite terrible (though even this does not seem obvious to me). I should like to see sound evidence that results in--at a minimum--clear odds before I am willing to worry about it.

After all, as with Pascal, I may have other doomsdays to worry about. Perhaps the real doomsday event is a killer asteroid, and nothing matters except a relentless pursuit of technology aimed at a robust presence in space. If that were the case, retarding industry out of a concern for your bogeyman might actually be the cause of doom.

One cannot worry about every street preacher who claims the end is near.
Twilight, because it's god-awful.

Oh, you meant _programming_ books. Never mind!
Huh? Sorry, but to quote the advisory:

A short time ago a "local root" exploit was posted to the full-disclosure mailing list;

You don't know what you're talking about. This exploit appears to give local users root privileges, making it a local root exploit exactly as the security advisory states.

The phrase "localhost vulnerability" remains meaningless techno-babble. Localhost refers to a network address and this exploit appears to have nothing to do with that.
How do you place the crew 'behind' the black hole? Space is 360 degrees.
Most of the older LED spotlights are highly directional. Like, very highly. I suspect your bulbs did an excellent job of lighting one little spot on the floor beneath (or wall opposite) the light, and almost nothing to illuminate the whole room.

Anyway, they've come a long way since then. Probably not long enough to buy them next time you change your bulbs, but they're a lot better than they used to be.
complex problems more often require complex solutions

When you apply that sort of thinking to code, the result is an explosion of special cases, and you get buggy, slow, and unmaintainable software.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the best societal innovations have been as simple and neat as the best code hacks. "All men are created equal," rather than, "Some men are created with more rights than others -- there's a complex hierarchy to be followed. We have rules for this!"

Edit: Yes, the analogy to code was not to be taken too seriously, though I don't think it should be completely dismissed either. Do the complex problems that a large organization faces require a ton of complex rules? Netflix doesn't think so. As for my implied argument that "simpler rules make for a better society," if you don't like the Jefferson example, there are plenty of other historical examples you can find. The Constitution is an extremely short document considering the magnitude of what it set out to accomplish. It structured an entire federal government in only a tiny fraction of the words found in the currently proposed healthcare bill.
I'm not surprised.

I've been an Asterisk user, Admin and Coder since 2003 Asterisk's internals has some issues to be truly concerned about. The MOST concerning part is the attitude of the community-- it's not longer a fun loving open source community but more of a "How can I make more money from this?" At least that's my opinion and experience while trying to hammer out some changes to chan_sip this last month.
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