skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"more than half of the executives are women" === over-correction

Would it be okay for a company to only hire women as executives since women are a minority of the executives in this industry? Technically that isn't over-correction using your definition.

"The study you linked describes current faculty expressing
a desire to bring it towards a balance."

So if you've got XY chromosomes and you're finishing your post-graduate degree who is a solid candidate for a position in academia and that is where you want to work, then you're getting screwed right now through absolutely no fault of your own just because you happen to have XY chromosomes. That candidate is paying for the failures of past generations. Do you think that is fair?
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Basically, because you're sleeping, and even a good mask seal will leak a fair bit, and there is also a lot of intentional leakage around the valves because you don't want stale air hanging around, or condensation building up, and you have to make sure that the person can breathe sort-of normally if the power fails or something like that.
You laugh, but (and I don't remember who's the original author of this quote) "I'd die for the simplicity that is on the other side of complexity"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9885478

Looks like you hit an infinite loop. Better luck next time.
If universal is not total, then we've always had universal healthcare. Oh, and you might want to inform all dictionaries they have the incorrect definition of universal.

The legislation signed by Obama is not universal healthcare in any sense. Maybe universal health insurance, but certainly not healthcare. Insurance does not make healthcare affordable.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "it's easier to get laid on Craigslist.org"
Wow. A clear violation of Betteridge's Law.

Yes, most people have an irrational fear of radiation. I've run into the Fukushima thing myself. People think of it as a horrible disaster, and when I point out that the death toll is actually zero, they don't believe me.
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It's theoretically possible, it'd just require a lot of fuel to slow the craft down enough to survive a landing.

source: I've played Kerbal Space Program. If you speak maths (I don't), you could probably do them; the calculations are relatively simple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v.
it's been 5 years or so that I constantly hear ppl saying "flash is dead", OK maybe, maybe not.

Apparently it's not dead enough, HTML5 didn't grow enough in those last 5 years to kill it, so what ppl are asking now ? "oh please Adobe kill it yourself"

and why ?

oh because this remote code execution flaw is unacceptable, humm OK, so following this logic we should kill any technology that get the same flaw right ?

How about killing Firefox ? Chrome ? Windows ? etc.

I mean that's what we are talking about here right, preserve ppl from security flaw by killing bad technology that constantly have flaw, well ... why stop at Flash only ?

ouh it took Adobe 48h to fix a security flaw, if your platform take more than 48h to fix the same kind of security risk it should be killed too, and there we look into the details and oh surprise, how long does it take Mozilla to fix a remote code execution ?

at least few weeks, well that's it we should all ask Mozilla to kill Firefox too.

Let's review the others now, Google with Chrome, Microsoft with Windows, etc.
I mean really we have the great opportunity here to ask every single big software vendors who ever had some security flaw in their software to just kill them because duh it's just keep happening and it is unacceptable.

No, no worries, don't even bother to fix them, just kill them.

Because everyone knows that only good secure software never have bugs or security flaws right, so let's do this logic thing let's kill all software that have flaws and only keep using those with no flaws.

Hahaha it is ridiculous, every single software out there have bugs, flaws, etc.
and among all that yeah sure you have big security exploits waiting to be discovered, but the important thing to understand is that it does concern everyone.

If you say or think it is only Adobe with Flash you are lying to yourself big time.

But fair is fair, if you want to lash out on Flash, yeah be my guest but then do the same for every other tech out there because they are all guilty of the same problems.

Software can not be bug free, it's like that, accept it and live with it.

You will always have a bunch of people trying to find those bugs and exploit them,
and as well you always have another bunch of people trying to fix those bugs.

But if your logic is just about "oh this piece of crap of software is ridden with bugs we should just kill it", then be ready to kill the next one, and the next one, and the next one, till there is no software anymore out there.

go here
http://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-vendors.php
and starts to ask all those companies to kill their products
It will store everything on the device until the Internet is back up, then it will resume the stream. If it never comes back up, it will keep storing on the device until battery/storage runs out. It is designed to never lose data unless it has to
Support is kind of spotty even in current-generation browsers. Some limit what you can copy (e.g. URLs only).
I don't have a man drawer so I just kick stuff under the bed when I don't like it (lol).

after reading your comment now I feel anxious and have moved it to another unused room's closet.
> but it's hard for me to think of a use case where having a local version on the device would would do any harm.

Hostile environments. It becomes incriminating evidence against you (think recording police brutality or excessive uses of force).
Flash was never "blocked" on Apple devices. Rather, Safari on iOS simply doesn't support plugins. You can't install Java, Silverlight, or Unity 3D plugins either.
I have an old, 1970's era mechanical watch that I've been trying to repair recently.

I called around a couple of stores in the area (Boston) and many of the clock/watch shops have backlogs anywhere from 8 weeks to 8 months. They were all basically family-run (old husband/wife couples) and most said they were struggling to keep up with demand and that there were simply no young men entering the business.

The one guy who had an apprentice later clarified that his apprentice had been working for him for 20 years!

I wonder how/if tech might be applied to these craft-heavy markets to make things more efficient.
Most likely not. It's actually fairly difficult to enforce a non compete clause in California, to the point that most don't even bother trying. And besides anything useful in this case, would be way too broad to stand up in court anyway. It couldn't be anything preventing her from working at another internet, or media company and even, a clause about refraining from using the AMA format might not stand up either.
IMHO, a couple of months is plenty of time to survey a codebase and a company's political landscape.
Ok, we'll s/ancient/old/.
In this particular case, Ghostery would be suitable over uBlock.

(I run both)
No, you have this backwards. Ohanian was Pao's boss.

That's why it's so weird he took an operational role in the company.
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Are the effects really indistinguishable? Ok maybe you have a slightly smaller chance of getting a job at Reddit. At least you can take comfort in the knowledge that in almost any conceivable institution or situation you're doing doing pretty well.

I'm assuming your a white man (like myself) but please correct me if I'm wrong. Point is: we've had a good run. If a few extra women get hired at Reddit, we're still doing pretty good in the balance.
Most large companies do/have done exactly that. Arguably 9/11 was the big catalyst for DR planning.

There were Wall St firms that literally had to get the military to escort them into Lower Manhattan in the days after to rescue servers, tapes, etc and cobble something together in a satellite office.

No one wants a repeat of that, and you'll notice subsequent disasters like Sandy have barely been a blip for most as a result of policy changes.

At this point basically any major company will/should have procedures in place for "perfect" DR, the ability for everyone to work from home indefinitely (and alternate offices/infrastructure waiting for the few people who need something special, like the special needs of a trading desk), as well as obviously having back up data centers with full replication.
You're right, they should have added a caveat:

"Anonymous strangers on the internet will tell you that what you're doing isn't "real" functional programming, but hey - at least you'll actually be programming rather than whining on message boards"
How is "wouldn't have happened without him being in office" the same as "A did X"?
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Wikipedia says the data rate from Pluto is effectively about 1 KBit/second. That's why it takes so long to get the photos....

I'd like to find more detailed information about the hardware and software on this thing. It's amazing that it was launched back in 2006. My 2006 Mac Pro is basically useless now....
Fyi... Chris Lattner (LLVM, Apple Inc) wrote some companion articles on the same topic and refers to these John Regehr posts.

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
Thanks so much for the encouraging words, it's nice to see there are positive people :)

1) Excellent point I can see about making it easier on small screens.
2) Yes I am still trying to see how best to get the skills area to be most impacting. Helping the employer see immediately why the applicant is valuable is the one thing I am trying to solve best so I will keep you in the loop, please feel free to sign up for a free version.
3) The price is something that will be flexible. Ideally I wish I did not have to charge at all so thinking about ways that could happen. I had a good suggestion where after 3 months if you don't get a job you get your money back, so lot's of ideas out there.

Thank you again for your awesome feedback, it was very encouraging and much appreciated.

You have helped make my day better!

- Titus
Same! Reminds me of the old adage: "Americans need to learn a hundred years is not a long time just like Europeans need to learn a hundred miles is not a long distance."
When Victoria was fired, the _perception_ was (possibly incorrect, as we know now) that it was Pao's decision.
Not unreasonably, since most personnel decisions below the CEO are made by the CEO.
So the original premise still stands.
I watched the Nat Geo special on this the other day. Apart from the fact that Nat Geo is a piece of cp, I was amazed about the challenges and engineering behind this project. Even more amazing is the fact it captured images of Pluto. The show explained there was a chance the cameras could have faced the wrong direction.

And the note about the probe also carrying the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh was touching.
nah! The troll is getting hungry.
I just watched this documentary "Point and Shoot" [1], the guy filmed all over Africa, including Libya, and at one point was taken prisoner where he said his footage could have been used to identify other members of the Libyan resistance. It isn't hard for me to imagine a situation where you don't want to give the authorities visual evidence of who was at an event or who you were standing with.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_and_Shoot_(film)
Because modern smartphones, unlike your Nokia, work batteries very hard. They discharge more, get charged more often, have more capacity, have less room in the case for cooling, run hot in general, etc.

I don't think its controversial to say that 3 year old phones may start having problems. If this was the new Nexus 6, yes, then there would be a lot of concern, but telling me a budget phone from 2012 is having battery problems in 2015 really isn't saying much.

tldr; the Nexus 4 has a 1 year warranty for a reason.
I'm looking at the text I was talking about right now. You can find it, or take my word that I'm not making it up, but if you're going to debate this particular issue with me, I'm going to ask you to do your own homework. :)
The Census Bureau is rather vague about that:

> All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have joined the LED Partnership, although the LEHD program is not yet producing public-use statistics for Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

http://lehd.ces.census.gov/
> [..about Fukushima..] "Radiation exposure may have shortened the lives of some of those directly involved, but its effects are likely to be so small that we may never know for sure whether they are related to the accident or not."

I think this author has not realized (nor been informed) what an unmitigated disaster Fukushima really is. The media is downplaying its effects, and so is the author of this article.

How about listening to Helen Caldicott who is an MD and pediatrician, and deeply knowledgeable about the scientific and real-world effects of radiation exposure. Listen to her talk about the children of Fukushima and other places where people have been subjected to radiation. I think our fear of radiation may not be irrational at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qX-YU4nq-g
A formula? No, probably not; the thing with space exploration is that it depends on the one hand on money, i.e. government funding or commercial exploitation, and on the other on physics - getting something into space, let alone propel it far away, is a very costly process when it comes to fuel and whatnot required - which increases exponentially the more you want to achieve out there.

Although companies like Virgin Intergalactic and SpaceX are working hard on making it more affordable, thanks to some advancements. Still though, practically speaking, getting anything into orbit is hard enough.

We'll probably see a manned Mars mission in our lifetime, but for anything beyond that you'll probably have to read science fiction.
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This looks pretty rad - modulo the normal qualm of sharing all your location data with google, of course. I've been fiddling around with a lot of ideas for geolocated X on mobile (local chat, virtual graffiti, flashmob coordinators, etc) and the infrastructure to decide who is where is a bit heavy. Farming that to google at least for the MVP stage seems like a reasonable decision. Then, if we decide that google's tracking is a significant barrier to user adoption, we can roll our own once we're happy with how it's going.
Nice illustrations, and a worthwhile project. I'd like to know what has motivated the sequence of topics, as things I consider fundamental (e.g. structural recursion) don't seem to get a look in. This is judging just by the TOC.

(For all the innovation in the training delivery of programming training there seems to be little attention paid to the pedagogy. This is not really a slur on this book (I haven't looked in detail; hence the brackets) but too many of the online training providers just use the same old ineffective curriculum they were exposed to in undergrad.)
IRC is notorious for this type of garbage. Its pretty neat that the one you found disabled nmap (zenmap?). Did you ever find out what is was, or do you have a hash of the irc bot?
Pao's most vocal detractors "perceived" all sorts of crazy things, from malicious edits (ranging from comments about Pao's husband to moderation of stories about the Trans Pacific Partnership) to a holy crusade against just the kinds of hate speech Pao didn't like, so no, I don't think I'm required to accept the argument that in this case, perception is nearly as important as reality.

No, I do not believe you have established with evidence or reason that the original premise of this subthread still stands.
It is well-known that the New Horizons PI, Alan Stern, had a strong distaste for the "demotion" of Pluto. (An extreme example, this interview: http://www.space.com/12710-pluto-defender-alan-stern-dwarf-p..., which is rather ... over the top in terms of its arguments.)
Unfortunately not, after 1 hour, I can't edit it anymore. The facebook URL does not require login, tho :)
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I'm no expert on this topic, but browsing http://paulbourke.net/geometry/transformationprojection/ this seems a lot like an "equirectangular projection" (purely visually), which according to http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CylindricalEquidistantProjectio... can be inverted.

So if we navigate the plane with the projection of the sphere on it and apply the reverse transform to the snippet we're viewing (genuine question: what form and size would the snippet need to have?) it seems we would get the effect of being inside the sphere.
A Russian spam site called StopFastTrack?

The US use the term 'spam' and 'trolling' as code to mean foreign propaganda. I can get you more information about that as well.
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Statistically, worldwide 48% of humans will face cancer. 20% cancer will be their cause of death. Doing things like smoking cigarettes only increases risk of cancer from this baseline upwards. The health risks of exposure to radiation can be measured statistically as well, but there's still no way to tell whether you yourself "will get cancer" from radiation exposure.
isn't the link on their github to the packet format?

https://github.com/google/eddystone/blob/master/protocol-spe...

I love this release Google needed to take a direction there are so many use cases for this sort of micro proximity I cannot wait to see what folks can do without freaking people out over privacy..
The political elite seriously see absolutely no difference. There are a number of directions we could go to expand on that.
> (Massachusetts has not submitted data to the Census Bureau as of this date)

Presumably not some legal restriction, then. They simply haven't provided the data.

http://lehd.ces.census.gov/research/
Why give away your work for free?
No, and I object to the argument that I said anything of the sort. If you want to debate things with me, please don't start by imposing inflammatory and stupid positions on me.
You're both right. There's two separate (but related issues) here.
Ok, URL changed from http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1034868, which is a copy of this.
Do modern web browsers still render standard compliant web content from 10 years correctly today? (Yes they do)
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Browser vendors / web standards continue to expand the set of functionality that a browser provides. Each time they do so, they increase the attack surface.
I love that they leave that up. It shows what was completely solid reasoning that lead to the wrong answer. In hindsight we can see that Forrester and others missed the fact that Steve and Apple saw people who wanted a pocket computer, not a pocket phone, and that was powerfully attractive to the new legion of "private" phone buyers. Its important to remember that prior to the Iphone, smart phones like the Blackberry were for Enterprises and this was no Enterprise phone, so the analysts didn't have any visibility into the same people who were buying iPods that Apple did.

My take on the history is that Apple made the iPod and made it "easy" to populate with music, phone makers started providing MP3 capabilities as competition, and Apple looked past a merged iPod + Candybar phone to a media rich pocket device, which happened to make phone calls.
Right now, companies like Facebook and Google are working on bringing the internet to countries that don't have good access to it yet; if it wasn't for the lag (and cost), I'm sure they would've invested heavily into a sattelite internet network.

I see a small / niche market in space tourism; Virgin Intergalactic is probably going to get on there. But it'll be limited to those that can shell out 100K for it.

There was some talk about a company a few years back that wanted to mine asteroids; I personally think that's science fiction and won't be a profitable endeavour, but, if I'm wrong, it'll unleash a new kind of corporate space race.

I think it can go very fast if there's enough money to be made. As it stands though, besides satellites, there is nothing to be had.
Yeah adsense is amongst the most restrictive products out there, and the one without any support etc. Wouldn't recommend it.

Talking of which, where are the startups challenging adsense's dominance?
Perhaps he uses cryptography or has visited China.

That's all it takes.
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Misogyny and a belief that women are favored aren't incompatible. If anything, they're compatible beliefs.

Antisemitism, for instance, doesn't often hold that Jews are worthless, poor, and incompetent. It tends to hold that Jews are rich and powerful and can do whatever they want thanks to their worldwide conspiracy. The antisemite usually thinks that the world disproportionately favors Jews.
I started when I was 24, that was 3 years ago. Since then I've shipped 3 million total downloads on the iOS app store as an indie developer. I've learned enough programming to make almost anything I can think of. I haven't actually ever looked for a job because I like my freedom so much, and I make enough to survive.

Figure out what you want to learn/build, and just start. When you hit seemingly insurmountable roadblocks, just take 20mins away from the computer and come back. Stick with it, have a long run view rather than a short run view.
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Via the web - the same input box that would error out on "D. <any-word>"
Commoditization certainly will force incomes down. This has already happened in the arts, where most work is inherently project-based. The more accessible technology has become, the more people have been asked to work for free, because there's a perception that computers have made it all so easy, and more to the point, the ubiquity of computers means that specialist skills no longer seem exotic because they don't require the same sort of specialist equipment that they used to.

The freedom and flexibility is nice, but gigging as a lifestyle can often feel like even more of a rat race because there's no concept of job security, and also because there's a flattening effect so that you have a small number of managers, a larger number of technicians, and a lot of workers. That means promotion and career advancement become heavily tiered. So if you drive for a ride-sharing service and want to get ahead in life, your choices are to drive every waking hour to get money or study programming or management in hopes of getting an entry level job in the company that operates the ride-sharing platform, where your time and dedication as a drive will be considered worthless, if not an active barrier to hiring. I predict that that while we will see flatter hierarchies than in the stereotypical 20th century organization, there'll be a re-emergence of Victorian-style class divisions, because management will be in no hurry to admit the most skilled servants to their ranks.
Did you read the article past the first paragraph? I explicitly state I am not pointing fingers at anyone in the article in paragraph 6: "I have no information linking Wikileaks, Asssange, Hammond, Monsegur, the FBI or anyone else directly with these malicious files. That very well may change quickly as research progresses, but at no point should this post be considered finger pointing. The purpose of this post is not to assign responsibility but to ensure that the journalists and activists downloading these files or who have already downloaded these files understand the consequences and take proper precautions."