skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK (I don't have the source right now), Apple originally considered using X11 for the display server on OS X (in fact, early versions shipped with a version of xf86 that ran natively as it does on other *nixes), but after deciding on all the compositing and prettiness features that they wanted, they would have torn so much out of X11 that it wouldn't be remotely compatible anymore, so they wrote Quartz 2D.

Later, of course, things like Compiz came along, but they've always seemed like weak hacks compared to things like Quartz. Hopefully wayland will change everything.
It used to cost $150? to get unlimited free pay-per-view. I know; I had a hacked card (we paid for DTV, but I liked being able to record The Simpsons from every local network carried on DTV, back when The Simpsons was actually decent).

What does it cost now?
What I don't get is why they care. It's not gonna be popular on other platforms unless the other platforms build in interface support for the Kinect capacities. Having drivers is interesting for hackers and researchers, but sales to those guys are never going to be a drop in the bucket of normal sales.
at least she's been named explicitly too. only fair. neither should be named in public, before/outside a legal venue. but if she's going to name him, then she needs to be named too.
Microsoft doesn't have to and won't rely on its own internal engineers if it decides to care enough about Kinect to stop this kind of thing.
>> This line of reasoning is typically used to let people off the hook for sexual assault.

That is exactly what I was taking great care not to have my comments construed as. I don't think I could have any more emphatically stated that the fault lies entirely with the assaulter.

I was hoping that it was possible to separate the issue of the assailant's responsibility from taking care of one's own personal safety. It seems to me that these discussions are never able to do that.

I don't see any logical reason why talking about taking care of your own safety should be considered in any way logically equivalent to taking the blame off the assailant and putting it on the victim. The two concepts should be wholly separate. It is my opinion that it is emotion instead of logic that tends to make the two become confused in these discussions.

As for your comment about it being in poor taste to counsel someone who has just been a victim of assault, that is why the post in question is a comment on the HackerNews post (which was NOT posted by her) and not a response to her tweet, or comment on her blog, or a private email, etc.
Is there any other career path where women are LESS likely to be assaulted?
My girlfriend got out of the rave scene not too long ago, and I guarantee you she would have bought it for the "Pew Pew" alone.
to be fair, he said this before the open source revolution, right?
I think you're missing her point. I don't think she is saying she is not responsible for taking reasonable measures to protect her own safety. I think she is saying she doesn't need to blame herself for getting assaulted. Which is true.
there seem to be a lot of interop issues with C#

http://www.ctocorner.com/fsharp/book/ch17.aspx
well this looks interesting!

I'm wondering.. Can I set up a server with Brochure, give SFTP access to a visuals-only designer with Dreamweaver, and let him/her run with it from there?
> What the dogma gave them is just some codified rules, no one else needs to join the religion to reap the benefits of discipline, but to the practitioners, their faith is the end all be all and they have evidence to prove "it works".

I wouldn't make such a sweeping statement about everybody who became religious, even if you're only talking about criminals. You have no way of knowing this.
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for example, bank robbers
This is exactly why I got in trouble... It's a stupid policy but there it is not worth fighting the bureaucracy. Also I was using it in a test environment.
This is similar to a story which involves one of my (then) friends. Schoolies is what can be compared to as Spring Break in the US. It's a place where kids finishing high school go to celebrate for a week. There's plenty of drinking and socialising, your usual parties. We made friends with a group of girls who were staying in the apartment next to us. They were all friendly (or so we thought), offered to make us breakfast, we drank and partied with them a few times.

After one long day of partying, we were all just relaxing and drinking and watching some late night television. My friend is lead into the room by one of the girls and that's the last we see of him for the night. Now I can't say for sure what happened in that room, but all we know is that the next morning we find out this girl has a boyfriend, who now also knows of what had happened the previous night. Hours pass, doors are banging, my friend is now being threatened by the boyfriend. Then the police show up. The girl who had lead my friend into the room has gone to the police station and accused him of rape.

At this stage, that girl has left with her boyfriend, while the other girls still remain in the room next to us. We chat across the veranda and the other girls still seem normal and friendly (you wouldn't expect this from friends of a girl who had just accused one of the guys of rape). The issue of the pending allegation of rape arises and one of the girls notifies us that she believes our friend is telling the truth and will give a statement to say that the last thing she saw was her leading him into the room. And that after speaking to her in the morning she seemed normal and didn't confide in them about any problems that night.

That night ends and a new day begins, my friend is clearly shocked and frightened. His phone rings, it's an unknown number. He picks it up and the person on the other end introduces himself as the father of the girl. (One of the other girls had given his number to the father). The father goes on to say that this has happened before multiple times. This girl has falsely accused men of sexual assault multiple times (wtf?). He goes on to say that he believes his story and apologizes for what he has been going through. Charges were eventually dropped, other girls made similar statements, things were supposed to go back to normal. I noticed a bit of a change in my friend from this experience, he was not the same person he was before the accusation.

I'm not saying women are liars or anything close to that about this story. I certainly do not advocate the naming and shaming this blog post is doing, it is unprofessional and frankly, ridiculous. Women say men exert power over them, yet they forget just how easily they can destroy a mans life and career.
Did you notice that the book has an issue tracker? How many other books have one of those?

Also, Wikipedia may be awesome, but what percentage of Wikipedia clones are awesome?
what is the line between these red guys?

http://drktd.com/38HX
I had plenty of female friends in college who knew it was perfectly OK to go anywhere and chat with me about anything even when I was gasp drunk. Give me a break.
I agree that it doesn't pay to go and lynch someone. I believe in due process as much as anyone else.

But sexual assault is frighteningly common and under-reported. So just considering the odds, I'm willing to believe a woman who comes forward about this. Sexual assault happens far too often, and far too frequently, people don't believe the woman. A woman risks a great deal by coming forward. Women have to fight powerful emotions to publicly discuss something like this. They don't think people will believe them or they fear retaliation. Women notice when somebody comes forward and nobody believes them.

Furthermore, while you may be enlightened enough not to judge a woman's character on the basis of an accusation like this, we all know that plenty of men don't come even close to that level of maturity, rationality, or sensitivity. The vitriol directed towards women on the Internet should be evidence enough, really.
Nobody's going to notice this comment now, but Martin Edme has posted a formal apology.

Zed, it seems, will not apologize, based on recent twitter updates:

Hilarious hypocrisy how I'm called a "dick", "asshole", "d-bag", and "cock" because I said someone should have some "class".

33 minutes ago via web [1]

[1] http://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/774156132024320
You seem to not understand why people would call this violence, nor why serious harm could come from it. It might behoove you to take time to learn about why others might hold a different position. Not to sound sarcastic, but given that a sixth of women have experienced sexual assault in their lifetimes, it shouldn't be difficult to find someone who has been a victim of this who is willing to share their thoughts with you, especially if you approach them with a sincere desire to understand another viewpoint.

Edit: incorrect statistic.
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Generally, getting emotions involved is not the way to decide upon proper punishment for a crime.

This is textbook assault, though.
"I was hoping that it was possible to separate the issue of the assailant's responsibility from taking care of one's own personal safety. It seems to me that these discussions are never able to do that."

This distinction may exist in theory, but in practice, it requires some ability to judge the victims actions in retrospect. Aside from being practically impossible, it's presumptuous to think that you or someone else would have exercised better judgement. Actually, it's patronizing. Everyone's a little bit (racist|sexist), so for my part I would not call this some deep character flaw on your part. But it's an antipattern that men fall into pretty easily and women are quite sensitive to.

"As for your comment about it being in poor taste to counsel someone who has just been a victim of assault, that is why the post in question is a comment on the HackerNews post (which was NOT posted by her) and not a response to her tweet, or comment on her blog, or a private email, etc."

I get that, but you--- as a man, I presume--- help set the tone of any discussion about this. Other men will read what you write. Some of them are smart, and they'll get you. A lot of other people won't.

I don't know HN's audience, but I presume there are women here that read what you wrote. What you say colors and informs their perception, too.

Think for a moment about how what you write affects the discussion. You have the power to influence it as much as everyone else. I wouldn't presume to advise you not to write your thoughts or anything like that. Rather, this is one of those "with great [freedom] comes great responsibility" areas. What feeling would you expect a victim of sexual assault to come away with after reading that? What would you want them to think, both about you and about men's attitude towards assault in general?
tigtog put it better than I could:

http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/faq-what%...
I'd like to put this into the perspective of a foreigner. I believe the sexual assault problem has been blown out of proportions in American culture - there are things that are just too much, like the sex offenders registration/web site for example. Sex offending is a bad crime, but so is killing someone with a car while driving drunk, how come there is no web site for offenders like that? You can very easily ruin someone's life forever with a blog post like this and while I do not defend him, I believe this is too much and too mean to do at this point, especially without hard evidence of what really happened. This blog post will come #1 for his name forever on all Google searches, she has effectively ruined his personal and professional life forever now.

This sex offender thing results in curious effects in American society that I have not seen anywhere else. For example, in a typical American bar/night-club, the women would typically be the active part in initiating conversations and even talk directly about sex/one-night stands. This has happened to me multiple times. Men are very cautious to even initiate a conversation, let alone suggest something more, because it is very easy to label this sex offense. This is at least my observation with my American friends (Silicon Valley, educated, geek) - this may be different somewhere else.

Just my $0.02. I do not defend the guy, it is just so easy to drop names in blog posts lie that, but you have to be careful when you do that. Also read the comments on her blog. Some of the comments say that this is not the first time she has written blog posts about her being sexually offended (contrary to what she says it's the first time she talks about that). Do not kill the guy based on that. Even if he did what she claims, there are still 1,000 crimes that are much worse than that and we do not even discuss them so much here.
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This. If some guy cornered me at the bar and punched me in the face, damn straight I'd name him on my blog if I recognized who he was.

Somehow I doubt anyone would accuse me of starting a witch hunt, or tell me that I needed to take better precautions for my own safety, too.
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Too bad he wrote the UI for it.
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> It's your job to avoid being assaulted in a dark alley

Or maybe it's the job of the city in which you live to provide sufficient lighting and security for its citizens.

In this metaphor you, I and the tech community are the city.
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Interesting! I've never heard violence defined like that.

When I was a kid and first learning words like that, "violence" meant physical harm and attack. A punch. A gunshot. A bomb explosion. That was violence. I think this other definition you cited is a rather newer and more "lawyer-y" definition.

That said.

Even if that's the definition we're going to use, then, by that definition, this case still did not involve violence. The alleged evildoer in this case did not do anything against another's will "on pain of being hurt." Sounded like he was waaaaaaay too forward, I'd agree. :) But by her admission there was no threat, no pain and no use of "old-fashioned" violence (no attack or physical harm).

I'm going to go read up on the latest arbitrary definition du jour of "rape" and "sexual assault" tonight. What I expect to see is that especially the latter will be defined so loosely that if a guy merely touches a women's arm after she has drunk a glass of alcohol, then he could possibly be charged with the crime of sexual assault. That's how ridiculously overreaching this area of our laws seem to be.
quote of the day:
"we are definitely not saying that people should use such techniques to treat children with learning difficulties or anyone else..."
the OP is the third friend of mine this year who's been sexually assaulted at a technical conference. sadly, this is not as rare an event as we'd like to think :(

we had a post about the whole "talking about all the bad stuff will discourage women in tech" bit a while back at geekfeminism: http://geekfeminism.org/2010/06/10/dont-mention-the-war/
This doesn't make much sense....

From the website, here are some example "documents":

roger heavens trinity cricketers willie sugg early cambridge cricket giles phillips cambridge university cricket

roger hornetttom pridmore 020 7399 4270 collins stewartalan geeves 020 7523 8800 buchanan communicationscharles ryland /isabel podda 020 7466 5000

roger hubbold aig .1 force-field navigation

Now, what is the point in trying to generate any kind of "meaning" from those documents if they consist of completely meaningless gibberish?

As I was reading this challenge, I immediately thought of spam filtering / youtube comment classification ("smartness" classification) / etc as a potential useful application of this technology.

For example if each "document" is a youtube comment, then in theory you could write an algorithm to examine each comment and output a "smartness guess" for each. Then you (as in, you personally, by hand) would look at the results and specify your own "smartness rating" for a few comments. Then you'd run an algorithm to look at the difference between your specified "smartness rating" and the "smartness guess". Then, using that difference, it would tweak the settings in the original algorithm until it outputs a "smartness guess" that more closely fits your "smartness rating". If you repeat that process enough times, and your original algorithm has enough modifiers to tweak, then you might wind up with an algorithm that can make a pretty good guess about whether any given youtube comment is retarded or not.

And that's just one example of a practical application for this kind of thing.

That said, if the input "documents" are completely and utterly meaningless, then there does not seem to be any point in trying to build "meaning" from those inputs. (Garbage in, garbage out.)
Yep, Erlang was a DSL on SICStus Prolog.

Prolog's syntax is a lot cleaner, though - if you took your favorite language and added lots of new operators, so they were clearly the new language, how would it turn out? A lot of minor issues with Erlang (e.g. the whole ; vs , vs . thing) come from that.

Once you get past the surface details, though, Erlang kicks ass. Hold on!

(Prolog is awesome, too.)
The change in long term capital gains tax is a drop in the bucket relative to the fact that there is no Generation Skipping Transfer Tax (GST) and a low Gift Tax in 2010. I strongly suspect this is cash to pay for gift tax on gifts to his children and grand children. That would be several hundred million in tax savings.
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And the more loosely we define "sexual assault" the more common it becomes. Words are awesome that way. :)
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You do realize that you too are using Occam's Razor in your religious beliefs, since you implicitly believe in only a single "capital-G God". There might be numerous gods, but really, that's too complicated an explanation. One would be enough, hey?

Really though, you're railing at the scientific establishment because the idea of many universes is too strange for you. If you have a better theory that fits the data, advance it and you'll have an audience. Belief in a deity may be a personal substitute for you, but it won't advance the state of knowledge any further; it's instead giving up, choosing to believe that an answer is out of anyone's grasp.

Historically many people gave up on interesting problems. Many now have neat answers based on our better understanding of the world around us.
>"But the fact of the matter is this is a situation that we can change and do something about."

What can we do something about? Aren't loud, drunken, dark, crowded venues the kind of places that sexual assault happens? Is the hypothesis that if we shame people more that we can eliminate sexual assault?

I am not sure that insufficient shame is the problem. I doubt the males that do this think it is a fine thing to do when sober.

Our society thinks frat parties, dance clubs, and drunken after parties are a swell way to have fun and a huge percentage of our women are sexually assaulted at some point in their lives. These two facts are related. It's dumb to think we can pack people together and dull their inhibitions with alcohol and nothing bad will happen. It's not harmless fun.

Maybe the Mormons have the right idea about alcoholic partying. We're playing with fire and we're lying to ourselves if we think we'll ever make it safe.
> that deserves some serious attention by those putting on the conferences.

It's not just up to those putting on the conference. It's up to all of us.

And it's not just about about incidents as "blatant" (although not to everyone, apparently) as this but also other cases:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents

If people don't make a stand, things don't change.
It would be pretty remarkable. But no, I wouldn't be as upset. Men don't have a history of being sexually assaulted by women, and then experiencing skepticism and anger when they tell the community about it.

Hell, let's be honest: a non-trivial percentage of men would love if it a woman hit on them by sticking her hand in his pants. Not all of them, surely. I won't even say most. But plenty.
> When people have alcohol, they often lose inhibitions and do or say things they otherwise would not.

But that doesn't make criminal acts any more acceptable. If you do illegal things when you drink, don't drink.
I haven't hacked my own, but this guy has: http://www.bwired.nl/

He's the most extreme example that I've come across and he even describes how he did it/what tech he uses. If you are looking for inspiration on what to hack, you can't go far wrong using his house as a start!
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Seman­ti­cally related != meaningful.

Also, they do note that, "'Seman­ti­cally related' is pur­pose­fully left vague."
we had a conversation on the geekfeminism blog a while back about the issue of not talking about the bad stuff in tech - you might find it insightful, in terms of how some women who are in tech, and have deal with this shit, think about it: http://geekfeminism.org/2010/06/10/dont-mention-the-war/
Why this is significant: Think outer space. In orbit, on the Moon or near Mars, a JTEC's sun facing side has a huge temperature differential than the shadow side.

And on a lighter note, think of all the unlimited energon. And maybe the inventor can also figure out how to the send the now limitless supply of energon cubes down to earth. And also figure out how to hide from Megatron.
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That is interesting. Apparently he uses vi, not emacs.
I hacked my lights and some power outlets. I can turn them on by flipping a simple switch. I also hacked a lock onto my door and hacked some layers of paint on the ceiling. Then I paid some people to install a temperature control hack so that air conditioning can be controlled based on a heat sensor. And some other people came in and hacked some wires to different ports near the floor. They put a box in the alcove where you can turn off power to entire sections of the house. These people were all Mexicans, so I guess they must have some leet hacking schools where they come from.
I think the more fair comparison would be to show THE SAME random subset for each entry. I.e. same X words for all result sets.

Otherwise, it might happen that a superior result would just show words that don't even have good results, while an inferior subset would get better covered words.
I'm hoping to see a fortune cookie that says that, someday.

("Learn an ML dialect and be happy in bed"?)
They'll still publish special issues, so I presume their educational rankings are the only thing still making money.

I wonder if this is the prick that will pop the bubble so many have been discussing? Besides the underlying question of competence, the brand will be on newsstands only 8 times a year instead of 33; a 75% drop in penetration seems certain to weaken its influence. This is as good a disruptive opportunity as a competitor could wish for.
> I would just like to make sure we are not dissuading women from coming to tech conferences by gaining some sort of reputation here.

Tech conferences already have a reputation for this kind of incident:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents
From the way it was described she didn't really 'go' anywhere with him except maybe a different section of the crowded bar. It's not like she got in a car with him, or went alone back to his hotel room.
Neat idea. Not sure if you're already doing this but you could OCR the document first and have the MT worker just fix the mistakes. This may reduce your costs + provide a faster turn around.
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