skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's only fame and prosecutorial discretion that stands between him and a prison sentence.

That a complete misrepresentation of how this law works. If Louis C.K. created a digital communication which contravened Principle 9 ('do not incite others to commit suicide') [1] then the victim might complain to the Approved Agency, which is presently Netsafe NZ [2], who mediates between Louis C.K. and the complainant.

If mediation is unsuccessful and Netsafe believes it is warranted Louis C.K. could be referred to the District Court, who hears submissions and makes orders as it deems necessary per s 11 [3] including referring the complaint back to Netsafe for further mediation. If the Court makes an order (e.g., 'remove the communication') and Louis C.K. refuses to comply he may be fined, or at the extreme end be sentenced to six months imprisonment [4] which in New Zealand would be served as home detention.

The New Zealand justice system is typically fairly lenient and lacks most of the mandatory sentencing requirements of the U.S. justice system. The District Court would not impose any significant fine or home detention unless the offending was at the extreme end of the scale, e.g. Louis C.K. incited a specific vulnerable individual to commit suicide in front of a large audience and they subsequently attempted to do so.

There is a lot more than 'prosecutorial discretion' between Louis C.K. and a prison sentence. This law is far from perfect, and maybe it'd be better if it didn't exist at all, but it's not imposing the insane wholesale restrictions on free speech that is being suggested throughout this thread.

1. http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2015/0063/latest/w...
2. http://www.netsafe.org.nz/
3. http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2015/0063/latest/w...
4. http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2015/0063/latest/w...
Meet the Micro:bit, the BBC's tiny programmable computer for kids
Nice idea. How does this compare to someline like Cloud 9?

Minor interface note: I think the Run Line / Run Script buttons look a little out of place and too big.
Using ARM is nice as a nod to the Micro's Acorn heritage. Although of course the original Micros used the 6502.
"X considered harmful" is my personal pet peeve
It seems to me very defensible that "how I became an artist" cannot be taught by someone who has only a few years behind.

"Becoming an artist", for real artists, is a life-long achievement, it takes a lot of struggles, travels (inside and outside), it requires knowing a lot, reading a lot, et cetera.

"How I became an artist" from a 20-so is a absurd, risible, as "how to learn Python in 20 mn"

confer: http://norvig.com/21-days.html

(Also, you truncated my post, "How to write blog posts" would be perfectly ok from a 20-so, for that matter.)
Hands-free Tinder uses your heart rate to decide 'hot or not'
The React Native people looked at this and stuck with Flexbox. https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/561941079038390273
Burt Shavitz, Scruffy Face of Burt’s Bees, Dies at 80
So something useless and positive wins over something useful but negative?

You'd kept slaves in slavery with this powerful reasoning.
Not-quite-so-broken TLS
If OP's explanation of this difference is correct then you would expect (at least some) other mental traits to also have a higher variance in men. It wouldn't be just IQ.
Experience is just data. So one day when you go to Everest hiring a sherpa might not be needed. Why? Because a simulator can be created, based on his knowledge and all the other knowledge about Everest.

Regarding your other questions:
Humans will build the machines that build the machines. In fact they do it now. Then we will build machines that can build machines based only on a design. That's the future.

The thing with the machines is a little bit different, but essentially it is much better to work from an office 2-4 hours a day, controlling a mining machine compared to actually mining.

Once a person can read there is almost no need for anyone else to teach him anything. I never listened in class, didn't have a notebook and got A's when I wanted to. I was reading the books that we were supposed to, but I prefered to explore them my way and I usually read them before it was needed. I know other people like me. I also know that people are curious in general and like to explore if given the opportunity.

And here comes my last answer - these people will do that because they want to see the result. Because they will enjoy doing it. And when they no longer find it interesting they will move on to something else. Because not doing anything is depressing. Doing it against your will - even more.
While I sympathize with the authors desire to obtain a neat dataset, the externalized cost of obtaining it seems high and (frankly) perhaps just a little inconsiderate.

Imagine someone asked you to spend a few days (minimum) looking through storage to find the boxes with the data in some warehouse.
Only if you can show a strong causation (or even just correlation) between very high intelligence and holding a high status position
Thanks. DataJoy is aimed at a totally different market from Cloud 9. We want to make it easy for scientists and people doing data analysis, statistics, etc rather that developing software packages. The difference is that this requires a much more interactive environment where the code you're running is constantly evolving and being iterated on (if you've ever generated a plot, you'll know how many times it takes to get perfect). So we're aiming to work well for that use case.
http://gridstylesheets.org/ is built on Cassowary
As long as it has very little users who are all super tech savvy.
Hacking Team spyware company gets hacked
"Or you really, really like the novel you wrote, despite well-articulated and uniformly scathing takedowns from editors, English professors, literary critics, etc."

This description != a worthless piece of art.

E.L. James is probably the most obvious recent example of someone who is almost universally decried by the above professions, but still writes something that at the very least is enjoyed by a lot of people. However, there are dozens of - often very successful and much-beloved - writers who fit the same description.

Defining quality in art is a very, very difficult proposition.

On a side note, there are plenty of dreadfully-written, insecure, $register_globals - dependent PHP apps out there solving real problems for real people.
This is a sign that Firefox decision making is democratic and actually fair isn't it?
I once found a "casual encounters" ad on craigslist, in which a woman sought men to attend a certain type of party, which type I do not remember.

I looked it up at Urban Dictionary, the objective of that kind of party is to impregnate as many women as possible.

I contemplated attending but then concluded that I want to know who my children are, and that they would want to know who their father is. Even under the best of circumstances it is painful not to know one's father - look at Steve Jobs.

I was once invited to have unprotected sex with a complete stranger. She was quite lovely, definitely someone I would want to be with but we just happened to stumble across each other at Burning Man. I expected I would never see her again so I declined.
It was ok until I lost the function key strip :)
My Russian instructor at Caltech was the victim of Bride Abduction while vacationing in Soviet Georgia when she was fifteen years old. Her, uh, "fiance's" mother failed to understand why Valentina was unhappy about it.
If I'm not mistaken, the OP is postulating an avoidance mechanism for the front ("victim") car, not the rear car. Indeed the rear car is at a higher risk of injury than the front car in read-end accidents.
If it takes 10 engineers a year to build a blog then something is very wrong.
Of course it is. Where did they get the money for the loans? Who loses if they don't get paid?

We don't have a European taxation system, an empowered European parliament, figurehead or any such thing.

The way things work in this case is that "The Troika" is a mechanism. As I said it's all foggy. But insisting that this Troika is ultimately the decision make, is independent and so forth is disingenuous, I think. Behind this troika is EU member state government that funded the laons, decided on the rules and will be on the hook if loans are defaulted on. Chief among them is Germany. It is their public interest at stake (sharing with other members, etc.). Also it is their banks (not only their) that these loans will go to repay, so it is also their economic interest. It is also their political traditions, biases and ideologies that are being largely represented by the "Troika"

The media depiction of Germans and Greeks is not just a made up populist Greek media invention. It's in the German media as well. Angela Merkel herself (with finance ministers of other member states taking a sort of deputy role) is speaking and acting a way that assumes this role.

To me, saying "germany" in this case is no different tan saying "The US" in the Afganistan War. You could be legalistic and say "International Security Assistance Force" or "Coalition." You could say NATO, of which the US are the biggest member. You might even say the "Afghan Transitional Administration and their allies" if you are willing to push it. But, we say the "US invasion/mission/force" as shorthand and that is more honest than all the rest. All those terms are mechanisms or sometimes euphemisms given form.

In any case, in my original comment it was a shorthand given that I don't know the ins and outs of this (purposely?) obtuse collection of acronyms and it wasn't particularly important to the comment.

I said "it was the troika (Germany, mostly) put the fallout on the German (and EU) public's tab."

What exactly are you claiming anyway? That germany isn't the key decision maker? They aren't they key lender in these troika bailout loans? That it isn't mostly the German public that will be liable for these loans when they are defaulted on?

I agree that this "Germany vs Greece" media dynamic is unhelpful. The media has been playing to nationalism in both countries. That stil doesn't mean pretending that these acronyms are real independent bodies is more honest.
> "its Bluetooth chip to control a DVD player"
Are there actually Bluetooth DVD players?
Absolutely noting unfortunately. I assume they burned it all and hoped people had forgotten about it!
"you also need to test the same browser on different operating systems"

Doesn't this denote a defect on the browser's part?
In what way is my comment unsubstantive?
Compare with this other recent article about one of the only societies on Earth that have abolished play: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201207/al...
Definitely.

I've been a working artist for 20 years now (filmmaker). One of the biggest advantages I've had in sustaining that career is that I'm pretty damn good with a spreadsheet.

As others have said, it's a long game, and skills that will sustain you through that long game are critically important.
Actually, the amount of work required to, e.g. remove waste/provide drinking water & food and provide access to essential services & information is greater in the "less urban, less concrete, less centralized" environment. Someone still has to do this work.

Not to mention that by losing the convenience of highly urbanized environment you force the more productive members of society to waste considerably more time on the things they are un-productive in (e.g. driving 2 hours to a doctor instead of taking a 15-minute detour on the way from work).
Just FYI: many papers available onlines are actually preprints/drafts, because the researchers are much freer to distribute them, than the actual published papers bearing journal branding.
I'm surprised to see this ranking so high on HN. Sex-based difference is the biggest taboo of our time.

The current educational and political system is organized toward exclusively presenting the view that gender is a cultural construct and there are no differences between men and women other than plumbing.

Men and women, on average, differ significantly on career choice, likes, dislikes, and motivation. And, it has nothing to do with whether they were giving dolls or cars as toddlers. The differences are there as early as one day after birth [ http://www.math.kth.se/matstat/gru/godis/sex.pdf ]. Primate studies show the same differences with our relatives.

Everyone should be able to pursue any career they want to, but there should be no surprise when you see gender disparities across different occupations.
A counter-argument would be that you don't need to have good handwriting to be an effective writer, and you don't need to have good draftsmanship to be an effective artist. "If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing".

See the highly popular /u/Shitty_Watercolour on Reddit or "Get Your War On" comics by Rees, David.

Practicing technique can be nice, but it can also hinder spontaneity and creativity.

The magical inspiration in art is something beyond technique. The way you practice that is to just live your life.

Lots of people hold themselves back from drawing, dancing, and singing because they are afraid of being judged for not having enough technical skill.
By the People, for the People
The last answer could be even better if it included an actual list of things that have been checked against:

What testing methodology did you use, what form of vulnerability or classes of errors does it prevent (valgrind, ...). Has the code been formally verified ?

What are the attack scenarios that you have considered. What are those you don't prevent (physical access, system compromise, user compromise).

What are the knows and known unknowns.
> Wouldn't it be better if the address was the hash of the public key?

It IS the hash of the public key...

-----[snipsnip]-----

This is a public key hash:

aaaac6rxjmmenb7m5txgpe3nmmrrh4z4ohcr7sxqkrvbk4csbrrorpw7.key

Snow lets you use it like an address...

-----[snipsnip]-----
Last year, I have developed a JS library SM.js (https://github.com/slaypni/SM-15) which is based on the algorithm used in the latest SuperMemo.

I have also developed a web service (http://slaypni.github.io/flashward/) for memorizing Foreign words using the library. Through the experience of using it by myself, I felt that spaced repetition helped me to remember many words for learning English.

I am feeling that most (free) SRS are using relatively simple algorithms (for example, Anki is based on SM-2 which is developed in the late1980s). Although I am not sure SM-15 is better enough, there could be some room to improve it. It is nice if the library was helpful for some developers who create new SRS.
I'm in desperate need of something like this from C# to SQL that isn't LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework (they're very centered on MS SQL Server and I don't like their ancillary workflow).
I made a pull request for a plugin I used frequently. They didn't like my changes so I deleted my pull request. For that I was accused of not being open source, so I deleted my GitHub account. Then they mocked me further. I almost killed myself! I still haven't created another GitHub account.
Hmm. How many animated favicons have you noticed? I can't think of any...
I'm still not settled on whether I think it's a good outcome, but my understanding is that we'd have to pay more to get people to do these jobs and I'm not sure that's altogether a bad thing.

If you've got a tedious job that you need doing, at the moment there are four options:

* Pay enough that someone wants to do it.

* Make the job sufficiently interesting that someone wants to do it.

* Do without.

* Rely on someone needing the money enough that they'll do it anyway.

Basic income removes the last option, adding extra incentive to the others. I've never been in a position where I've been forced to take a job doing something I hate for too little money just to get food on the table, and I'd very much prefer never to be put in that position. I don't want to put other people in that position either.
Custom SaaS accounting application development
Here is an implementation for Qt/QML that we use at Ableton:

https://github.com/AbletonAG/aqt-cassowary

Edit: Anyone interested in modern implementations and participating in the community of library implementers and users can check this website: http://overconstrained.io/ :-)
The PS3 at least functions as a DVD player and its remote control is bluetooth. I don't know how feasible that would be to reverse engineer, but theoretically possible...
I thought this too, perhaps they're not popular because IE and Safari don't support them?
Of course as with everything in this area, there is no consensus; studies have contradictory results and some dispute whether stereotype threat even exists.
http://rayharper.co.uk/acorn/bbc_images/fn_key_strips.pdf
Graph Drawing: Algorithms for the Visualization of Graphs by Tollis, Di Battista, Eades and Tamassia (http://www.amazon.com/Graph-Drawing-Algorithms-Visualization...). The book is from 1998 but is a good basis for reading future papers and algorithms in this area.
Well that's not true at all.
> if I defraud someone into having sex with me (e.g. by saying I'm some famous actor or that I'm not having sex with anyone else), the state will not intervene unless maybe there's some STD involved

While I can't speak for the U.S., in New Zealand consent is vitiated by mistaken identity [1]. I suspect there is also common law precedent.

> If someone agrees to be filmed/photographed and leaves the material with the other person, I don't see why the state should intervene.

Firstly, because from a policy perspective, having an intimate recording publicly and permanently released without consent massively harms the victim to the extent they may be driven to suicide, and there is no reasonable case to be made that the perpetrator should have the right to release such a recording, considering their intention is to inflict pain and trauma upon their victim.

Secondly, intimate recordings are implicitly provided in confidence. It is a social norm that if you receive a sext you do not immediately post it to Facebook. I see no problem in establishing this implicit confidential relationship in statute considering the outcomes of revenge porn.

1. Crimes Act s 128A(6) http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/D...
Hacking Team asks customers to stop operations and don't use its malware
> Australia

Please reread the title and apologise
"This tool is in no way shape or form to be used for downloading copywritten music, it is design and built as a proof-of-concept."

I'm not sure how to respond to that.
Thanks - about 25 years too late. Plus I didn't have the Internet then! :)
I had good experiences with this one too: https://github.com/Nocte-/rhea
Terry's TempleOS and folks interacting with him and his OS always reminds me XCom game - as if that's some kind of empathy pinnacle. deeply touching
I guess I've always wondered where the line is. To me saying "FYAD" seems like essentially harmless flames. Whereas saying "I'm going to rape/kill you" seems like a threat. I guess it's just related to how I "grew up" online?

I don't consider being mean to people on the internet default worthy of any law or punishment. Telling someone "You're an idiot and I hope you die in a fire" is my internet given right, assuming the context of the comment is right (it's within the social norms for that board/forum/site/reddit/whatever). But this law makes no allowances for such things.

Twitter is weird, because there are no norms, no mods, no masters. In essence that's a large part of the problem. No filters. No choice of engagement.
Keep in mind Psychology Today is about as reliable as the National Enquirer or the Daily Mail.
Nice essay. Love the premise of how working around a problem can lead to a direct solution instead of working directly on a solution. It's a very important point.

But there is an exception to his argument that he should have acknowledged for the essay to really take hold: there is one area where we can work towards clear objectives that actually help solve problems we don't understand. That area is making existing solutions more efficient.

Moore's Law has carried a huge load in the advancement of IT. Ideas that were simply speculations become easy-to-accomplish when technology gets commoditized. Things that used to take months can happen in seconds. That opens up all kinds of new possibilities.

IT is full of folks making stuff more efficient. That stuff can be hardware, software, or just "things people do", like hail a taxi. The more efficient we make everything, the easier it is to create and combine stepping stones. That takes a good idea and makes it even better.
As a huge fan of Snabb Switch, I'd love to hear more about what inspired you in OF .. !
This is very insightful and a great bit of innovation. I believe that the biggest impact of this would be in internal projects and collaborative groups; managing the dialogs and controlling noise - building consensus and shoring up what is known to be true (or false). It's very difficult to build a pyramid of knowledge in a corporate today.
It's more a sign that a lot of people have an opinion about it but none of those are sufficiently annoyed by the issue to actually fix the problem. There's way more work to go around than time available.
>strong correlation exists between a country's measures of gender inequity and the size of the math gender gap both at the mean and the right tail of the distribution

1. How does that correlation disprove it? It's entirely consistent with one common cause for all inequalities.

2. "Mean gender gap" is for people who did school-related tests, mainly PISA, not the general population. If the greater variability is true there will be much more severely mentally retarded males unable to even read. Depending on the size of the effect, the different mean could in fact confirm the hypothesis (that the mean is the same but std is greater).

3. No analysis whether the distribution of countries' result is consistent with greater variability for the whole human population. Especially jarring when they mention Iceland, a country so small that there are many individual schools elsewhere with more students than they have.

>These findings challenge the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis, which, if valid, should hold for all representative populations, regardless of ethnicity or nationality.

4. That's an entirely unwarranted assumption (in addition to 3). Are Asian-Americans in particular really representative of a general Asian population (with an American culture)? What about brain drain? The more recent the immigration, the harder it's to get in; simplifying for the sake of an example, if you only allow those with a X234 mutation in a B5 DNA location, don't be surprised when there's zero variability in a B5 location.

Even without a filter, why should the standard deviation in math skills be identical between genetically different populations? The identical variability should be true for the X-chromosome in general, not math-skills in particular.
That bug only has 60 comments. Here's one with 600+ comments and 400+ people in CC. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414
Unfortunately, that article perpetuates the same (false) dichotomy between emotion and reason. It also suggests that emotions and higher-order functions are 'competing' for control.

The reality is that if the brain regions known to be involved in processing emotion are damaged/destroyed, then there are very negative consequences for your ability to make rational and well-reasoned choices. In other words, emotion (and emotional processing) is critical for logical thought to prevail. In that sense, I really like that the movie had emotions at the 'control panel' (I've yet to see it).
Here is why Mark Zuckerberg wears the same thing every day
I've never been to SF - but where I live Taxi drivers are usually the most ruthless drivers. Not the stupid "I have no idea what I'm doing" ones, but the ones who'll do everything to be quick, no matter the casualties.