skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europe is not Britain and vice versa.

As a non-European, based strictly on coverage I've seen as part of the photographic community, it seems that Britain's surveillance-happy tendencies are not nearly so strongly replicated through the rest of Europe.

The freedom situation in Britain has gotten so bad that I'm not sure that Brits have a leg to stand on when criticizing the US for its increasing lack of freedoms, the over-reaching arms of the law.

That being said, Americans have nothing to be proud of when it comes to these sorts of laws - they are a clear encroachment on your freedoms, and a clear example of the exact sort of power abuse that the Founding Fathers specifically forewarned of, and sought to prevent. It's so textbook as to be galling, yet the courts' support of them is just depressing.
/None/ of that is indicative of a genetic role. There is no indicator /anywhere/ in there that there is some genetic factor that makes pink stand out more vividly to girls than blue.

(edit: in fact, as anecdote - girls supposedly have more tastebuds, yet professional cooking is heavily male dominated. Though women cooks can put up with just as much if not more than men. Physical traits have no bearing on this particular cultural quirk.)

Conversely, all of that /can/ be explained as cultural artifacts, amplified by years of exposure, an encroaching western monoculture, and a feedback loop of expectations. When you stick "pink" and "blue" in front of a kid and ask them what seems more girly to them, you're already presenting a pre-existing baggage of cultural conditions, be it through subconscious impulses, or because the kid's been around long enough to know what his or her peers prefer.

Let's not lose sight that scientific experiments have to be interpreted, yeah? The process of science isn't nearly so clean that we can reliably say that any one experiment isn't tainted by subjective bias. Half of the fights over any one theory in any field at all is because of it.
Right, that shouldn't be the point of this article. I think the takeaway are the personal stories.

Has anyone ever talked to a homeless person before? I recommend doing so from time to time. It's easy to judge some of these "bums." You'll find out some of these people have serious psychological/psychiatric problems (with alcoholism/drug addiction being a result, not just a cause).
...and this is a very big reason. If I was coming out of college I would definitely apply to yc. just to be immersed in that scene I think would be invaluable.

Even now, I'm financially secure, I still find it appealing, but uprooting my family (wife+kids) for a few months is not something I am willing to do.
" Surely the goal is to have lots of innovative and successful startups, and the gender of who is founding them is irrelevant."

Yes and no. Just as Paul Graham often says that there could be more startups than there are, and that would be a good thing, I suspect there can be a lot more female-founded startups, and that would also be a good thing. The goal is to have more successful startups, and from the numbers, it looks like there's many women who might otherwise have created a successful company, but don't start one because of lack of awareness/society pressures/etc.

In other words, just like pg tries to get more people to try entrepreneurship with his essays, by raising awareness and showing it is possible, more concentrated efforts to raise awareness are needed for groups who are also likely to succeed, but who are harder to get to.
Why is it necessary to keep the users happy? So some will leave, but others will join. They are big enough that if they loose some, they'll be OK.

And actually I don't think they'll leave anyway.

They'll use adblock? So? What do they have to loose? You are worried that users will block ads, and the solution is not to run any?
Besides the name what makes this a commodore 64?
HDMI does not mean it's supposed to connect to a TV, or if it did all (recent) computers can connect to TVs.
It's not an issue I've run into in practice with Europeans, either, who mostly seem to use cognates of "Americans" in various languages. Greeks call Americans Αμερικανοί, the French call us américains, the Danes amerikanere, etc., and nobody seems to think twice about it. Even Québécois typically use américains as the demonym, so the fellow-North-Americans issue doesn't seem to be a big point of confusion. I've seen "USians" on the internet a lot (along with "UKians"), but never encountered it irl. I'm not sure how you'd even say something like that in Greek.

If anything, my experience is that the Europeans I've interacted with use it a bit more widely than even Americans do. While we universally use it to describe the people, many Europeans seem to use it as a name for the country, "America", in places where I personally find it weird. Outside contexts like national holidays and poetry, I usually say "the United States" or "U.S.", as in "I'm flying back to the U.S. next week", but many Europeans I know say things like, "this is my first trip to America" or "I have a brother in America".
The article is a bit too short in my point of view, I wish there were a bit more stories told in. It feels a bit cold in that form.

This is a very good article nonetheless. I think this is a good goal to be conscious of what is missing in one's life for feeling satisfied at the end. If you are aware of the trade-off you do and why, it's probably easier to be OK with it at the end.
same here. Facebook connect sucks. If it's your absolute best login option, then GG to you sir, you failed before you even started.
Not really, if you're a patron you'd give without expecting anything in return. In the ransom model the artist does not release his works until he's received sufficient payment from a large group of people, and those people don't lose their money until there are enough of them to cover the ransom sum.
Oh, I'm fully aware of where the name came from - and it's totally understandable at that. The problem is that the name "America" is hardly exclusive to the USA. It's as if a country called "The Grand Duchy of Europe" referred to its citizens as "Europeans", to the great dismay of everyone else in Europe. The term "American" is so often used that many Americans don't even know what other countries are on this fair continent - though as a Canadian I have to admit we are far less often mis-continentized than Mexico.

Personally, I use "American" in your intended way, mostly because it's been so damned long since you guys unilaterally took over the name that it hardly seems worthwhile fighting for it.

I'm frankly surprised that this it the first you've heard of it - I've seen the term "USian" used with no possible connotation of disrespect for years, often by Americans themselves. IMHO it's unbecoming that your first assumption upon seeing this word is to assume that he's hostile against your country.

The stereotype of the snobby European prick is about as tired as that of the ignorant American redneck.
Stories like this make me wish that it was easier for homeless people to be declared mentally ill and placed into mental health facilities. (Damn you, deinstitutionalization.)

There are some people who are homeless because they're poor, but in the vast majority of cases it seems that the primary problem has nothing to do with not having a home.
As far as I'm aware, from following the photographers versus police issue as a non-photographer, and critically, from far outside of London, the advice from the Chief Police Officers to their own staff has been that you can't arrest people JUST for taking pictures, except in very specific circumstances and that taking pictures by itself doesn't count as suspicious behaviour.

The problem is that the police on the ground have been whipped up into an anti-terror frenzy - and are largely thugs in any case - and there's a disturbing number of them just ignoring these instructions.

After the lack of prosecution over Ian Tomlinson's death, there's a strong feeling in the country that Something Needs To Be Done about the police. It's fine for them to club annoying hippies protesting about something or other, but the 'ordinary' people are starting to feel worried now and that won't end well.
these homes people seems awfully nice, but these are Canadians people we're talking about here. Let see how they do, say...San Francisco? Hey, SF Chron, are you listening?
I agree that the disparity is frightening, but I think that the timespan for this problem is way too short to judge. These cases are popping up frequently in the news, most likely because of the sudden ubiquity of digital cameras. The law needs some time to catch up to this sudden shift. Also, we're not hearing of all the times when people are allowed to film the police, but I have watched many videos of just the Seattle police in the past year with no legal repercussion to the videographers.

I think it's pretty clear that nearly everyone (except the police (except when being glorified on "Cops")) agree that citizens have the right to observe law enforcement. The law is just ambiguous about this filming right now because it wasn't a consideration in the past. Some police officers are abusing this situation, but as more and more of these cases pop up, the law will have to be clarified.
Try vim + Python/Ruby/Perl + wx (or whatever you like)

Or, probably better: vim + JavaScript + modern browser
The traditional definition of gossip I use is two people talking about a third person behind their back, particularly if it's a neighbor in their community. And particularly if this "spreads" throughout the neighborhood, from person to person, talking about third parties. That was gossip as I understand it. My mother, for example, engages in gossip. And some of her women friends as well. It may give them pleasure to do it, so they do. The males in my life to this date? Probably 99% have not liked to gossip. Now, merely talking about news, about world events, about events in the industry, talking about new techniques or technologies, or asking for advice about business -- these things are not gossip. If my friend Tom said, "Mike, did you hear about Bob? He did such-and-such with his wife. And then Steve did this and Dave did that but Mary didn't know that Tom did that so Steve said but -- oh but don't let anybody know I told you this, okay?" <--- Bingo. Gossip.

Tango's a good example -- yes there is obviously more male participation in that, especially at the professional level. But there has to be, IIRC, because the tradition is to have a male-female pair doing it. That old saying, "Takes two to tango!" I was talking more about among amateurs, among students, minors, etc. And other forms of dance. And in suburbs and rural areas, etc. From what I can tell in my life experience so far those subsectors of dance all mostly involve women. (Can't believe I need to even point this out. I can't even imagine a point anytime growing up where I ever saw a guy say, "Hey guys, let's go dancing tonight! giggle" whereas I had lots of exposure to incidents where women wanted to dance, or take dance classes, etc. That's what I'm talking about.) Also when I talked about males and dance I assumed straight males. A high percentage of males in professional dance seem to be gay -- just listen to them talk or walk sometime. And it's clear from studies that they have biological or neurological differences in their brain and hormones -- a point which further lends credence to the notion that men and women are different due to biological/structural/hormonal differences, and that this is probably a large factor involved in explaining statistical differences in interests, behavior and talents. Change a man's brain/body to make it more female and guess what both his body and his behavior become more feminine. And vice versa. Transsexual adjustment procedures depend on this fact. It's science, not wishful thinking.

This is my last post in this thread. Talking about gender in society on the Internet is right up there with religion and politics. Rarely leads anywhere. :)
You make a good point; it does spend a lot of time on the front-end. As pointed out elsewhere, Muchnick is more thorough on back-end topics, which it appears we both agree are far more interesting. I've definitely heard of those other books before, and in particular, Appel's _Compiling with Continuations_ will be especially interesting when I look into compiling functional languages.

Actually, I don't have any personal experience with the Stanford course. I am reading the book for fun really. (For all its faults, it is quite engrossing!) I just thought it would be relevant to investigate under what context this book is generally used.
Write something useful that people will pay you money for, and you can do it from anywhere. People have been successful since before America was America. This will continue.

In fact, your costs are much lower outside the developed world, reducing your risk and how much money you have to find to start your business (if anything). Your customers can be anywhere. Spend low, earn high. And I'm willing to bet that the competition is much lower because The Valley isn't even aware you exist, or that your town or city exist. You could be super-successful and still be under their radar.

Turn what you consider your weakness, into your strength.
This comment highlights the difference between expressed preferences and revealed preferences. An expressed preference is when a well connected editor at Le Monde publishes a scathing critique of the Yankee barbarity du jour. A revealed preference is when an anonymous tsunami victim hopes an American carrier group distills some more water for him using their nuclear reactors.

Hurricane Katrina demonstrates white hatred of blacks, if you define black as "a particular failed subculture wallowing in professional victimhood who lacks even a turtle's sense to get to high ground when a storm comes" and white as "took decades of civil defense warnings and days of emergency warnings to heart". You want to talk black Americans and hurricanes, let's talk about the rural blacks in the Mississippi delta, who somehow mysteriously seem to take care of themselves, like real adult humans or something.

The NHS guaranteed hospital bed is great! Until you find yourself laying in it without the strength to feed yourself, only to discover that Hospital at Night out-polled nursing in focus groups.
I had to look that up, too. Wikipedia says, "LCBO stores are generally the only stores allowed to sell hard liquor in Ontario".

About 30% gets spent there, the majority of it on a card reported stolen.
The America I would like to identify with would quite frankly prefer your hatred to your pity.

Every country has its faults and its priorities, and every country has its own circumstances to deal with. For instance, it's easy to avoid racial issues when you have a racially homogenous population. Britain was over 90% white in 2001 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdo... US was about 75% in 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States...). It's easier to maintain infrastructure when you have one and 1/4 small, densely populated islands, rather than a vast, sparsely-populated continent with clusters up and down either coast.

Yes, we have a high prison population. And for many reasons that's not justified. But it's also largely because our circumstances are different from yours, and there's no evidence yet that, given the chance, Britain would handle those circumstances any better than the US.

You want to talk about civil liberties, when Americans still hold inviolate some of the old English civil liberties that old England has now deemed obsolete? You want to talk about race relations when members of the BNP--of which there is no American equivalent with any comparable level of support--represent your country in the European Parliament? Trust me--as much as you may worry about or pity the Americans, the feeling is quite mutual.
Why the seed investment bubble is exactly that
And isn't it a bit of a sign of discrimination to merely assume off-hand that another culture's definition of "science and engineering" isn't as "rigorous" as ours, even if we seem to be gearing up for a clash with them? Instead of pooh-poohing their efforts, it seems more appropriate to be astonished by their capabilities in as hostile a cultural paradigm as they live in.

First it was "Technical", which is a confusing term. Second 56% in "natural sciences" is on par with USA. Nat. Sci. include Bio,Chem. Men in developing countries prefer Engineering.

Finally as someone who grew up in India, I am familiar with eastern cultures/ educational systems, and can assure you 70% in "Technical [Science and Engineering]" is near impossible, unless significant men are enrolled in some technical military program and are not counted.
> (Damn you, deinstitutionalization.)

Read up on what actually happened in those places. Read up on 999 Queen St. (for a Canadian example) or watch "Mental: A History of the Madhouse" (a BBC Documentary for a British example).

I would agree with you if those places didn't end up being worse than prisons... ("No one will believe the crazy girl when she says that I raped her!", etc)

[edit] In general, Canada seems to have better support for mental health issues than the US does.
List exact list of things you need, clothing articles, personal hygene... all minimal, and keep what is minimal. If you want something find , something you can or want to get rid of. This will keep balanced list of items in your life - without weight dragging you down.
I have been reading up a lot of Neuropsychology books and articles recently (not to be confused with pop-psych), and I have noticed that I have gained a lot of understanding, tolerance and acceptance of other people (and my own) and their mental quips. Once you start to understand how the brain works (not superficially, but _really_ have a good grasp), you start seeing yourself and world around you in a different way.

I might go as far as proposing that studying psychology is as humbling experience as studying cosmology and astronomy.
Ok. I will implement that then. Today
You've got real problems with brackets. Major problems that are going to cause significant difficulties down the line. I'll bet the square brackets are necessary, and you need more brackets for the numerator.

Your number 1 above you quote as:

x/(x+1)(x-4)

I'll bet you don't mean that. When you have multiplication and division at the same level, you evaluate left-to-right. The above is the same as:

[ x / (x+1) ] (x-4)

which is the same as:

x (x-4) / (x+1)

which I'll bet is not what you intended.

The second - as you quote it - is:

3x+1/x^2-6x+8

Division binds more closely than addition and subtraction, while addition and substraction are then read from left-to-right. What you quote is therefore the same as:

3x + 1/x^2 - 6x + 8

which is

3x + (1/x^2) - 6x + 8

which simplifies to

(1/x^2) - 3x + 8

I'll bet that's not what you meant.

Now let's turn to the first of the ones you originally asked about:

3x-1/[(x+2)(1-x+x^2)]

I'll bet you mean:

(3x-1) / [(x+2)(1-x+x^2)]

and I'll bet the square brackets are necessary. And you are right that all you need to do is solve for A and B after writing it as A/(x+2) + B/(1-x+x^2).

So remembering that a/b + c/d = (ad+bc)/bd, what does

A/(x+2) + B/(1-x+x^2)

equal?
So how do we get them interested?
Windows applications making GRUB2 unbootable
Same goes for many criminals. The brain is a complex bunch of grey goo. So many ways the wiring can go wrong. We have a long way to go before we can fully understand psychiatric/psychological conditions, much less treat them.
> Buddhism isn't really a religion like Christianity is.

...

> I think you should read up on it a bit before lumping it with traditional religions.

I didn't really say that or implied that or say anything that's specific to buddhism or any religion.
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As mentioned you've underestimated woz.
Although to cut you some slack - when Apple first started Woz was doing stuff at the .001% level. (And Steve probably wasn't). These days woz seems like he's basically kicking back and enjoying himself. But now Jobs is at the top of his game.
(IANAL, but my business law professor was...) Contract law says that if you say you'll take X paid "shortly" instead of the full amount Y in a situation like the OP describes, it does not prohibit you from collecting the remaining amount later. Even if you sign a contract that agrees to settle the debt, that contract isn't valid because the employer is not providing any consideration in that instance.

Having said that, I was in a similar situation and basically just gave up ever seeing the money for the same reasons others have already given.
If I remember that correctly, the 'one page' style of python documentation came only in rather recently (last couple of years, >2.3), and the previous style was split one many pages: http://docs.python.org/release/2.3.5/lib/module-string.html

Back then I always hoped for the single page, because I was beginning with the language and jumping up and down the toc table of the docu page to figure stuff out. For a beginner, having this possibility to switch from birds to frog perspective inside one page is really great. They could do a better job on integrating the page-internal toc navigation though.
I would argue that the idea that people differ on conveniently observable traits is flawed.

Artificially injecting a demographic into an area in which they are underrepresented doesn't guarantee you anything. You can't assume that because of a person's race, gender or background that they think in a particularly different and/or novel way. Superficial differences should not result in mandatory quotas to be filled.

Part of my problem with this line of thinking is that there is this implicit idea that being in "tech" (whatever that means) is A Good Thing. Being a programmer is NO better and NO worse than being a carpenter, or a interior decorator or the President. But yet, when was the last time someone wrote an article about how there were not enough female garbage collectors?
Firstly, Facebook really do "move fast and break stuff," and dealing with their APIs is both slow and aggravating. The app I'm working on has a lot of social functionality, which is why I'm bothering. (You may have similar plans). I've never implemented Google account login, but if I didn't care about the social stuff I'd be leaning towards that.

Are you doing a "hard launch" with lots of PR, etc? If so, I would be thinking very hard about the risks in being FB-only. A lot of people will never visit your site again.

If not, then you have more freedom to experiment. I'd be inclined to go with my gut, but: metrics, metrics, metrics. From day one you should know how many people are being pushed to authorize your application to know about their Facebook identity, and how many of them are coming back after clicking the "Authorize" button. Facebook has a dashboard which I haven't investigated, but it may be good enough for you to avoid implementing your own metrics.