skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one of the strongest emotions of women, and one of their most common directions in hoping to get security from praise and approval from others, e.g., their community, is to have a career that "helps people", and biomedical careers seem to qualify.

I can't tolerate such a torrent of nonsense more. Your last couple of posts are utter bollocks, plain and simple. After all, "helping people" is probably one of the main incentive for plumbers -- though almost all of them males -- to crawl under other people's toilets, though this doesn't fit much with your silly black and white, childish world view.

You seem to imply that it's impossible for a women to be a "mommy" and an astronaut, a computer geek, or I suppose a boxer. For your information, my sister is altogether pretty, a good mommy, an aeronautic engineer, and has a couple of black belts in various martial arts she could use to kick your silly ass.

Life is complex, and people don't fit into nice little boxes for your (very) little brain convenience and comfort. It's way past time for you to actually leave your computer and meet living people instead.
Make it translate from german to german and press the 'listen' button. Here's the original 'Google Beatbox' topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356
A quick google yields a report by human rights group Bulgarian Helsinki on the conditions in Bulgarian Psychiatric Hospitals:

http://www.bghelsinki.org/campaign/abuses_dw.doc

and also a BBC article on the terrible conditions:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2579865.stm
When you get my resume.
I should also post this to stackoverflow, but I'm wondering if anyone knows if and how inline images are cached in web pages on iOS. I'm interested in particular how a UIWebView would behave with code like:

<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAOALMAAOazToeHh0tLSyH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAQAA4AAARe8L1Ekyky67QZ1hLnjM5UUde0ECwLJoExKcppV0aCcGCmTIHEIUEqjgaORCMxIC6e0CcguWw6aFjsVMkkIr7g77ZKPJjPZqIyd7sJAgVGoEGv2xsBxqNgYPjgAwXEQA7"
alt="embedded image">

Is this known to be cached somewhere else on the device?

EDIT: I suppose I could use find on the simulator's directories and look for a file with the right MD5 hash.
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Keep believing that.

If he truly has a mental problem, then let him move to a mental hospital in a country of his choosing.
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-Running A/C vents inside room

What does this mean?
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If you are finding some very elegant types of decals, they are typically known as bumper stickers. They are very bold, prestigious, graceful, creative and marvelous kinds of decal signs which can be wonderfully used for business identity development purpose widely.
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> Could that be because it is in fact an extreme brain activity that only a small percentage of people is capable of doing?

Nope. The ideas behind programming are extremely basic. The rules, so to speak, that dictate how programming works are simplistic. And the actual method of creating programs — essentially, breaking down a single task into lots of little pieces — is a method of problem-solving that's existed for a long, long time.

The problem is more that the people who teach programming go at it in a very unfriendly, non-intuitive way for the majority of the population. Programmers aren't user-friendly. This isn't inherent to the nature of the task. I've handed a lot of people who literally knew nothing about how to program things like Game Maker, RMXP, and _why the lucky stiff's TryRuby, and it's impressive how quickly they both learn how programming works and begin making things with what they've learned.

"Extreme brain activity"? Hardly. I mean, let's not kid ourselves, programming's simple enough that lots of programmers get started when they're eight years old.
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I remember a string of ads for minicomputer Fortran compilers, placed in Computerworld circa 1970. One manufacturer (might have been Data General) proudly stated that their compiler was "a pig", featuring long compile times but turning out compact object code. Another manufacturer posted its own ad: "Our tiger eats pigs".

A glass teletype ad was captioned "Tough TTY". Hee! Couldn't get away with that these days.
Truly sorry to hear about your loss. Actual pancreatic cancer is virtually incurable, and far too few resources are allocated to its research versus less deadly cancers.

For example, breast cancer affects around 207K people (yes, even men get it, albeit rarely) and ends up killing around 40K people a year. Pancreatic cancer affects 43K people, and ends up killing 37K every year. [1]

All cancer research is important, but we should really step up as a society when it comes to cancers that happens to be a dead sentence over the course of 5 years or so.

I personally donate to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and you can do the same here: http://www.pancan.org/

[1] http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/commoncancers
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Meta or Irony? I'm not quite sure how to describe this.
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Maybe he just needs to do a live show.
Boy do I love me some Octave.

I do all my DSP algorithm research in Octave, because the price of MATLAB is just too high. I think I'm looking at somewhere on the order of $4k for a single license to obtain the signal processing stuff that I need in addition to the core license.

Would I prefer to have more graphing options, and some assurance that researchers' MATLAB code will work out of the box? Of course!

That said, Octave gets me really close for a fraction of the price. Also, I can peek inside the Octave source and get an idea of how the underlying routines work.
Does it have something like simulink?
If rockstar programmer equals top performer, then I must say the term is both blurry and misleading.

Well, I think I'll have to translate it on the fly whenever it appears, and I will not use it until it hopefully wears off as time goes by - I hate unaccuracy :)
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I am deaf, use hearing aids, and know only enough ASL to get in trouble. For socializing in groups I can't help much (I'm still trying to figure that one out), but for taking questions at conferences or presentations, you should consider CART. For phone calls, if you want to avoid the coldness of Relay, consider the VCO variation.

Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is what I used sporadically throughout college to understand those professors with a particularly heavy accent, and consists of a person in the audience typing out the audience questions on a laptop or transcribing machine. You hold a pager-like device which the typing is transmitted to. There's a slight delay while they type, but I found CART transcribers on a whole to be quite a bit better than Relay transcribers, in terms of speed. The downside is that it is expensive, $100-$200/hr here in the States, so it's only viable for important presentations. I was lucky in that my university had an accessibility program and covered this expense for me.

For phone calls (not so much busy conference calls, too slow), IF you are confident in your speaking voice and want to be able to convey the emotions behind your words, see if you have Voice Carry Over (VCO) available to you. This variation on relay is a 3-way call between you and the person you want to talk to, with the relay operator on the line as a non-speaking party. They will type the speech of the other party out for you, and you can speak for yourself.
You were pretty forward and quick in your intro emails. Not being a TC author but understanding that they get a ton of emails, I think you hit the nail on the head with how to get their attention.
As opposed to, for example, God of War mentioned above?

I'm sure that will first sell to teenage boys, then by word of mouth to their sisters, and from there to their mothers and grandmothers.

Not even all boys like noisy games that require fast reactions and a zillion different key combinations (which I guess applies to GoW)
I don't have any data on this but I'd wager that piracy increases exposure even for a top 100 app; it would just pale in comparison to the existing exposure of being a top 100 app.

People using an app are people using an app no matter how they acquired it.
I'm sorry, but you misunderstand healthcare in EU memberstates, it's not like you can just move around from one country to another to get healthcare at the level you want it, the default is that citizens go to clinics in their respective member states unless a particular expertise is not available or you happen to be visiting a memberstate when you get ill.

When you're a resident for instance or holidaying you get some choice in the matter because of your location but if I were to get ill tomorrow I could not 'move to a hospital in a country of my choosing' and the same goes for mental hospitals.
One thing to keep in mind about the white pavement - it will take longer for snow and ice to melt off of them, which means more equipment/salt/chemicals to clear them. Granted, in warmer climates it probably isn't as much of a concern, but after the mess we've had in Atlanta for the last week it is still a factor.
What happens when it's cold and the extra heat is lost? Requiring extra heating and therefore more energy.
Okay.

# rm -rf /
That article is from 9 years ago, I'd hope that in the meantime the situation has improved a bit, but it would not surprise me if it had not since Bulgaria is still very poor compared to other EU member states.
Yes, Apple stock prices are determined by whether Steve Jobs is getting a colonoscopy or whatever other procedures that might be coming to him. I think that there are some serious limits to the "CEO of a publicly traded company" line that nosey people keep spewing.
In fact he reeks so perfectly of the lazy, stereotypical geek by his complete misunderstanding of women that you wonder if he actually ever met one, out of his own mother.
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I can think of mistakes that I've made that I still get a bit of an internal "sting" from. I think for me, the mistakes last for just about as long as it takes for a success to come replace it. And it's rather topic specific. If it's a business mistake, it's not until that mistake is followed by a business success at which point I've completely forgiven myself for the mistake. So for me, the time cycle is never more than a few months or so. However, in my view, that's too long. I think, reviewing it, learning from it, grieving for about 24 to 48 hours if necessary and then getting back in the game with the same or heightened enthusiasm, but yet poised is what I'm gunning for as my habit for dealing with mistakes, failures and losses.
Yeah, good point. Probably smartphones too, I'm not a big enough user of apps to say for certain though.
I work in finance, and Matlab is used a lot here. I work mostly with Python/NumPy/SciPy/SimPy stack so I do not have a lot of first-hand experience. But from what I am hearing from my peers, their problems with Octave boil down to mostly two things:
1. Small incompatibilities, that make your life more complicated when you exchange Matlab code and/or maintain other people's code.
2. Lack of alternatives to specialized toolboxes, like Simulink, statistical or financial packages etc.
> ignore the fact that our emotional patterns are not tied
> directly to our genders

It's a fact? Source?

> I know plenty of <…>
> It does not do you well to make such generalized
> statements about complex subjects.

Indeed. You knowing someone is not exactly a science.

> Your argument only holds water if you think that "wanting to be a mommy" is a genetic
>trait,

Oh, it is not? That's interesting.

> that women are born either wanting kids or not wanting them. While there is a
> biological impulse towards maternity, the fact is that career aspirations are social
> traits, inherited more from society than from genetics

And I wonder, why nobody is fighting horrible inequality in numbers of women giving birth compared to those of males.
I've been thinking about this problem and I think it should be up to the relationship between the company and the investors. A company may not be as open with investors as others and it's up to the investors to take that into account when evaluating the company. All things being equal that company would trade at a discount.

In a way, I think this is similar to Google refusing to issue guidance (not sure if they still do that) and the shareholders just needing to deal with it.
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This illustrates perfectly why sharing software shouldn't be called "piracy" or "stealing." These terms are simply inappropriate for software, movies, music, and other works that can be copied for almost zero cost.

When real pirates steal real goods, their owner doesn't have them anymore, and can't benefit from them anymore. They don't double their sales, because there's fewer things left to sell. Software isn't like that: you just make another copy for the next paying user. This is true whether your software is proprietary or free.

Comparing people who share your software with others to pirates means you are criminalizing the folks who are doing your marketing for you.
Yes, they did. MMX predates the G4, and SSE came out the same year.
Congratulations on shipping! Some notes:

* The logo is very hard to see. If I'm not mistaken, it's suppsoed to be pressed text on a brown background with a glow around it. It doesn't stand out nearly as much as it should.

* "Keep your ideas on a personal dashboard" has a "Learn more" with an arrow. I tried to click the arrow unsuccessfully. It looks like you have to click the post-it-note. Make the arrow clickable too.

* The idea of texting a note to myself is very appealing but when I click the post-it-note it takes me to something that doesn't really talk about it. I expected to be taken to a blurb about how that works. What number do I text? How are they delivered to me? Etc.

* Essentially the same comment as above for the other post-it-note, Access from anywhere. Is there an app I need to download? Does it work on Android? Etc, etc.

* Don't make me click through to sign up. Instead of an image of your sign up form, put your sign up form on the front page.

Hope that helps. Keep plugging, it's looking good!
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I've been using it for exactly the same purpose. When I think about how much it would cost me to get the Matlab equivalents I feel like sending the developers some flowers.

Python/Numpy works pretty well for this sort of thing too though, and the graphing features seem a little more sophisticated.
Garret from HipChat here. The way we decided on AIR is close to what you guessed but we had one major requirement: the app can not suck. That means it can't feel like a wrapped up web app, it can't use unnecessary CPU and memory, and it must be pleasant to use.

It's true that lots of AIR apps are nasty, and that's why it gets a bad name. We agreed that we'd only use AIR if we could make the app beautiful and fast through our hard work, and we were able to do that (go try it and see). As a result we've saved a lot of time, only have to write features once, and have a consistent user experience between all users. Even Alex himself enjoyed it and provided some feedback: http://twitter.com/#!/al3x/status/25370589657042945. Note that the feedback is mostly minor improvements, not "wow this app is gross". Of course, if you want to hate something you'll find a way - http://bit.ly/eCRyMc.

"Settling for mediocrity" is not a great way to describe us, however. Mediocre is defined as "not very good" which is how we view the current state of group chat services. Deciding to use a self-hosted IRC or Jabber server is settling for mediocrity (feature comparison: http://www.hipchat.com/compare).

Bottom line: we're building a tool that is a joy to use and allows teams to get more work done.

And don't settle for mediocrity, just work smart.
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With 100,000 apps, the majority of apps aren't in the Top 100. This means this pro-piracy approach will probably increase sales for the majority of apps.
While not hour-by-hour in any sense, this is the only description I've ever heard of Jobs' day-to-day activities:

“I have one of the best jobs in the world. I get to hang out with some of the most talented, committed people around and together we get to play in this sandbox and build these cool products. Apple is an incredibly collaborative company. You know how many committees we have at Apple? Zero. We’re structured like a start-up. We’re the biggest start-up on the planet. And we all meet once a week to discuss our business… and there’s tremendous teamwork at the top and that filters down to the other employees… and so what I do all day is meet with teams of people and work on ideas and new problems to come up with new products.”

(http://d8.allthingsd.com/20100601/steve-jobs-session/)
This reminds me of ``A Beautiful Mind'' as well.
The TC spike doesn't matter. The important thing is that TC is The source for other blogs around the world. I can't submit my site to a Japanese blog for example (I don't write this language), but a Japanese blogger read the TC post and reposted it. Multiply that for 100 and you can see where do the 70K Google results come from.

I don't change the design to appear there. But 60% of the users at that moment ( my girlfriend and TC) didn't like the font and to be sincere I wasn't sure anyway.
Honestly I don't think that the font change made the site techcrunch worthy, I think the HN frontpage was most important.

We are always bending to others, everyone fixes the limit of tolerance according our goals and means.
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I don't know Python so I can't speak directly to that.

As for JavaScript and jQuery I would say start by trying to implement something that scratches a personal itch. If you are a todo list person then write a simple todo list web app. It's more than simple enough that you'll make headway at an encouraging rate while learning. The jQuery docs are a decent place to start for that lib and as for JavaScript, give this StackOverflow question a look:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11246/best-resources-to-l...

Best wishes in your endeavour!
The biggest struggles Apple would have with a new leader is establishing that leadership in the minds of the executive team and major/influential shareholders.

A lot of CEOs pretend to be a Jack Welch or Steve Jobs but are often just glorified bus drivers for their corporations. Often they are more concerned with keeping the board happy than analyzing the company product line.

Jobs is unusual in appearing to be absolutely in charge of his company, many other CEOs don't have that luxury or confidence.
With Apple's DRM and control of the App Store they could probably create a 'refund within 7 days' thing.
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I read some posts of how to get covered. Guy Kawasaki's, Jason Labaptiste's and TC guidelines.
So they weren't interested because they didn't like your font? Your site is awesome, honestly. Did anyone else's wtf-meter go off reading that?
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They are probably considering allowing Androids and iPhones to be hooked up to a BlackBerry Enterprise Server via some special software on the phone. Knowing RIM, this won't be released for another 2 years and barley work then.
The itch you're trying to scratch is an itchy one for me as well. I'd really like an online service that could merge my note taking habits on my computer seamlessly with my note taking habits on my phone.

However, for an app that's purported to work well on a phone, I had a terrible time trying to read the website on mine. I'd suggest looking at the site from a couple mobile browsers. Aside from that, congrats on learning to code. It's definitely empowering.
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>To be more fair to Apple's decision, at the time it was made, RISC was the New Hotness[tm] that was suppose to run much faster than CISC.

And everybody, including Intel, believed that CISC was doomed. That's why Intel developed the i860, i960, and Itanium, and MS ported NT to Alpha and PowerPC. Against that background, it would've been really strange if Apple had migrated to x86.
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Lots of people don't have the discipline for math, news at 11.
"Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy" - Tim O'Reilly.
Does pip install required Windows binaries like easy_install?
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I actually think hardware stability, predictability and closeness is central for this to work.

Once a platform is new, nobody really knows what it can do and how it can best be exploited. Like on the Commodre 64, you had a limit of 8 hardware sprites, each one either 32x32 pixels mono-coloured or 16x32 pixels tri-coloured (iirc). This didn't really allow you to do much fancy games or graphics.

But once people discovered that you could reuse those same sprites multiple times during a single screen-refresh by timing your sprite-programming to whatever scan-line the machine was outputting, the genuine was out of the box: The Commodore 64 and its games would never be the same again.

With changing hardware or a hardware abstraction layer, this would probably never have been possible to do reliably or at all. I'm willing to guess that having hardware stability, predictability and closeness can be listed as a requirement for allowing developers and games over time to discover just how far something can be stretched.

For phones and a million other different mobile appliances I think this will be much harder, although not impossible. I doubt will see the same sort of mad capability leaps over time on these devices. But hey, you never know ;)
Scicos is the usually referenced free-software alternative to Simulink: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scicos/

It's not part of Octave, but a version of it is integrated with Scilab, another sort-of Matlab alternative: http://www.scilab.org/