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Pretend I know nothing about these groups because I don't, but you do apparently, so please go into more detail beyond naming groups and calling them racist.

I'll give you some reading suggestions. Start with the books mentioned as the best books in a wikipedia user page with bibliography on these subjects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropol...

Begin with the books in the section "Best literature on 'race.'" That will expose you to history, biology, and sociology related to the subject of "race," and help you understand the context of race-advocacy groups. Then read the book The funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund by William Tucker (mentioned in a listing of better monographs on the subjects covered by the bibliography page). I learned a lot of interesting facts I had never known before when I read Tucker's book, including interesting facts about where some advocacy groups get their money, which was long a mystery to me.
I wouldn't know about Apple corporate, but as for Apple Retail (I was a Genius), the interview process was very clean and straightforward.
This betrays a bit of a self-confidence issue on the part of the author, as does http://blog.carolynworks.com/?p=537 (more revealingly). It also plays like a specific issue trying to be painted into a gender issue, which it really isn't.

> “Who knows what lexical analysis is? No one? What, don’t you guys do this constantly in your spare time? All right, I’ll show you …”

If I may, I believe that the professor was connecting lexical analysis with what humans do on a second-by-second basis -- that is, parsing and interpreting speech from other human beings. Your brain is lexing all of the time, and I believe that's what the professor might have meant -- that was the first thing I thought, anyway. I'd drop a class like a bad habit if the professor quipped about me knowing something before he taught me (I'm not paying for self-study, pal).
OK, I read HN a lot, comment and post a bit more than 'some'.

But lately I was thinking about this quote.

Information is not knowledge. ~Einstein
It's a rich vein of recyclable karma that can be mined, every few months, for a nice top up at reddit/r/programming or here at HN.
This makes no sense @ all.

The entire virtual currency market worldwide is 5B.

So Zynga is valued at 1.4 times the global annual sale for virtual currency. One company! That's insane, and makes me question who's still pumping up Zynga on second market.
Take the example of Waterloo,

There is enough passion and help for startups like Communitech (http://communitech.ca) and Velocity (http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca), there just isn't enough people willing to take the financial risk that an early stage startup needs to expand. Inevitably, once a certain maturity is reached, startups move to the Valley.
So they will ship in 2025 with the hottest in 2010 design as their look then, if he's the lead?
I agree, it's not a roadblock specifically for women. I did software engineering (not cs) but the 4 year course is basically strictly engineering (with a large overlap with doing cs as science). There's no scope for electives. You want that particular degree, that's the road you have to travel.

There are other options, like CS could be done as an arts degree which would give you more scope to choose other electives, and presumably socialise with people who do likewise.

The year I did eng, there were a lot of women in the class. Other years, not so much.
Fully agree with this valuation. They are similar to Groupon in that they actually have REVENUE! When you talk about the "bubble" it is really referring to the astronomical valuations of companies that have no current revenue and no long term model of making money other than "advertising."
Ask HN: Rails 3 book recommendations?
I've been poking around on StackOverflow looking for quality Rails 3 book recommendations but I've come up empty handed. I'm looking for something more along the beginner side of things, but more advanced book recommendations are welcome to.

I've read Simply Rails 2 from SitePoint and absolutely loved it, but now I'm looking for something more Rails 3-specific.
Yes, the value you add. But there are semantics for this addition. Consider yourself contributing to an Open Source software. There are semantics and rules used by the contributors, this makes reading old code easier and possible.

The same is for HN, the community has rules for posting, even though they are not mentioned in the guide lines. It would be better to follow them. Just an example, in some communities, bad words are considered to be normal. Would you be happy if someone throw a word like that at you? After all it's his culture, no? But this is not the HN culture.

We value difference and we want to know your point of view, but there are simple rules for communication. That's it.
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Wow. Why on Earth is HN not already being served gzipped? The performance difference is drastic.
This is something I do manually at performances.. With audible errors :-S
true, but i'm sure that NY Post has more subscribers than NY Times, so if his goal was to reach the largest possible audience, perhaps NY Post was an appropriate venue
They didn't manage to keep their existing URLs working. E.g., http://docs.heroku.com/background-jobs used to exist (it was cached as a search result by Google), but it now redirects to http://devcenter.heroku.com/background-jobs, which merely says "Page Not Found" (which should be a 404 error but isn't) and only suggests "Loading..." because the author failed to handle progressive enhancement (the menu on the left is non-functioning, for the same reason). I know these guys aren't claiming web development as a competency they sell, but I wouldn't release in a state like that.
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Thanks for the reply, Sam.

To provide some small examples, I often use Perl, and it gives me some syntax that saves me typing, such as:

* `my @other_list = @a_list[3, 1, 4]` to return just those items from a list (item 3, item 1, and item 4)

* `$str =~ s/$foo/BAR/g` to do string replacements (in string $str, replace all ocurrences of contents of variable $foo with "BAR")

* `my $thing = $colored_objects{red}->[2]` to get item 2 in the list of red-colored objects ($colored_objects is a mapping of color names to lists of items of that color)

* `my $error_msg = "Sorry, but $thing1 doesn't work with $thing2."` to interpolate the values of those 2 variables into the string

* `for (reverse(1 .. 10)) { say "Counting down: $_"; }` (counts down from 10 to 1)

I suppose I've always just guessed that operations like those in a Lisp language would require multiple lines and procedure calls, which would become tedious to write after a while. Is that the case?
All anyone needs to do about this is find reliable sources to improve the articles that are being nominated for deletion. Really. If some wikipedian who knows about published, reliable sources about each of the languages simply adds some source citations to the articles, all will be well.
I'll preface this with a mention that I haven't taken the time to check out Quora yet. The only interaction I've had is to read the occasional answer someone links on twitter.

> Following questions and topics makes perfect sense to me.

But he didn't mention questions as a source of confusion. Those would be almost understandable (new message for new answer). As to topics, is it new questions, new answers? What type of events trigger a notification in my Quora stream? As to following users its the same question, what events trigger a notification?

For things like twitter its fairly straight forward to the point that normal people look at you funny. "Why would I want to know what someone had for breakfast?" is a perfect example of great UI (though, perhaps a deficit in marketing). The reason its great is that the entire system is easily and directly communicable to non-techies. The "What are you doing right now?" (which I just noticed is now "What's happening?") is such a simple thing that most people don't realize that its an example of genius UI.

I have just formulated a theory that technical folks are at a disadvantage for identifying and creating a great UI experience. A stereo type of technical folks is that they like to solve puzzles. So a UI that presents tiny puzzles in the form of "What do you suppose this does?" are like tiny injections of happy directly into the blood stream. So if the annoyances are unnoticeable they can be a good thing.

The fact that you switched from "confusing" to "innovative" means that while they may have a good idea hidden in that particular UI device, it is not good UI because it requires the user to figure it out. Good UI is not something you figure out. Good UI is "I know what this is and what it will do without ever having seen or used it before."
And now that she's done, we should throw her by the wayside and abandon her, leaving her to slowly fade away instead of putting people in the situation to properly guide her to a new useful place in the world. I mean so what that she provided something huge that could have a pretty important impact beyond her salary. There is not a better way to go about it at all right?

Further we should just go ahead and let douchenozzles like yummyfajitas talk as if she was a waste of air since she only provided useful research in the past and not currently.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but something seriously needs to be done about the requirements Wikipedia has in place. Especially when applied to open source software, the notability requirement, combined with the definition of reliable sources, make invalid assumptions about the common media for discourse.
While I can certainly understand why someone in her position would be upset, it was her grandfather's choice to leave his will and fortune to whomever he wants and rightfully so. Rather than try to fight to take whatever she can from her grandfather's success, she should figure out ways to make it on her own. To blame this on others and blatantly rely on her grandfather's image as an answer to her problems is utter bullshit.
I like that the respondents would rather receive sex toys over lingerie. It would be interesting to see if this was biased because of male respondents or if these figures are true for women alone.

I never understood lingerie as a gift as it'd be for my (male) enjoyment. Why would my wife be happy to get lingerie when I know she wouldn't be happy if I bought her a reciprocating saw, they're both equally selfish gifts. A sex toy will at least derive sexual gratification for the recipient so it's not as selfish a gift and depending on the gift could be far more selfless than selfish.
First of all, i'd say designing a _good_ protocol is pretty much the hardest and smartest work to do. Of course everyone can design a protocol to send a messange from A to B. But you really think it is something _that_ easy to design a complete protocol for messaging between a wide variety of clients and servers? Take as much as possible usecases and edge cases into account and make it really good? If it would that easy SMTP wouldn't have a big pile of extension RFCs.

Everyone can write a website that let's people chat in groups, right? I mean.. really... THAT is easy. ;)
There is a huge difference. I have a pair of Grados with hard, open foam pads. They came with soft, closed foam. The closed foam covers the speaker and you get muffled sound. I am not an avid audiophile but I have mixed music for my church some years in the past.
I agree that our system is broken, and I don't do the patents myself. I was just pointing out that at some big companies you get paid real money for patents.
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I find myself completely unable to tell if the comments on this post are spam or not. Except for that one with the poorly thought out flame about Apple, which seems real enough.
In a way, 70,000 hours is a lot closer to the true number.

(365 days) * (24 hours) * (12 years) = ~105k hours, or 70k waking hours

It isn't until fifth or sixth grade that you can really start finding a passion.

I'd say I managed to spend 5k to 10k hours on learning about technology and programming. I had to completely ignore high school. I literally slept through it. Teachers gave up trying to get me to try; I was also a social outcast.
I am not sure on the details, but it has something to do with the server that they are running. Whatever the server is it doesn't do gzip or ssl, but the proxy does both :-)
Other than playing video games, it's the most useful thing you can do on your phone.

Playing games is useful? I really hope that was ironic.

While I do like having Shazam on my phone, I still find, y'know, making and receiving phonecalls, the most useful feature.
Here's the definition Fred was using, by Don Valentine of Sequoia: 'Along one axis, he put "easy to get along with" on one end and "hard to get along with" on the other end.'
I don't think Samsung cares about software. They are primarily a manufacturing concern, and their lineup of branded phones and devices is just a way to eke out more value from that existing capacity.

Could be that manufacturing capacity is slack, or they need a technology demonstration for design firms that otherwise aren't moving quickly enough ("Hey, we have all this stuff, let's make something cool out of it!").

That'd explain why they were one of the first Android tablets out there, especially with Android not really being tablet-ready. That kind of risk could break a firm that had to outsource manufacturing. But Samsung already had all the hardware pieces; they just had to drop in the software.
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I don't remember who said it, but I read something recently which I thought was amusing and not serious (paraphrasing):

> All that donation money, and they still can't afford enough hard drive space to avoid deletionism.

The guy allegedly doing the flagging has responded on his user page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Christopher_Monsanto

Edit: The quoted comment was in jest, and too many missed this, so I'll reinforce that by adding 'and not serious'.
He didn't demonize Malcolm X, he simply ignored your random introduction of him into the discussion, and he didn't demonize Steve Sailer, just accused him of having an agenda and as evidence made an observation that Sailer had different explanations for the lower performance of Europeans in Austria as opposed to ethnic minorities in the US.

You, however, accused him of being intentionally obtuse then compared him to a young earth creationist.
I calculated that each article might cost them a thousandth of a cent to store.

Let's assume it's Enterprise Grade Storage and quintuple the price. Now it costs them a breath-taking five one thousandths of a cent to store.
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Sorry, I wasn't making a distinction between studios and one bedroom apartments since I have searched for either when looking for an apartment for myself; but yes, there is a difference.

Also, for the record, from my search on craigslist I didn't see any one bedroom apartments in that price range (just studios), although as another post mentions it wouldn't be easy to raise children in a one bedroom apartment anyway.
Related to this: "(47%) of the world’s wealthy people are entrepreneurs.
... Another 23% of the world’s millionaires got rich through paid work"

http://www.economist.com/node/17929057
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Here's the main offender:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Christopher_Monsanto

One of his arguments is that these languages are often only mentioned in conference proceedings.

How you get to be a PhD student in computer science without realising that conference proceedings are the leading distribution mechanism for knowledge in the CS research world is a mystery.

I may only be a humble honours student, but the central importance of conferences over journals has been drummed into me over and over by my professors.
There's much more of this stuff over on ccnx.org, also check out the talk he gave at Google in 2006, both linked from https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Content-centr...

Every time I come across this concept I fall in love all over again, however as described, I don't think CCNx would be practical.

Firstly, it seems to require intermediary routers everywhere on the internet to keep track of all pending interests where they are between two endpoints. That's papered over a bit by aggregating like interests.

Secondly, while conceptually a beautifully unified scheme, the protocol described is actually pretty complex, with lots of optional bits, variable length addresses, strange routing schemes (describing routing policy in terms of a program running on an abstract VM!), baking security right into the core (which must be got right the first time around), etc.

Still. Perhaps in the future we might look forward to a simpler or more concrete system, similar in scope and design.
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I don't get it. Is this a demo of Chrome's capabilities?
Or something more than that?
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Those people who like Zynga aren't the same people who are to invest in it.

Personally I would pass on Zynga because I know they're in a precarious position. They're purposely addictive, which means legislation against it is always a potential. They're hugely dependent on Facebook to supply its users and Facebook will want more of that cash flowing right past them to someone else, meaning FB could cut them off anywhere or at least take a chunk out of their profits by forcing them to accept giving out a cut - which again if it ever happened would set a dangerous precedent across the board for Zynga.

Then, I just flat-out dislike Zynga. They're a parasite, they steal other peoples ideas and simply dump more cash into a game than the original creator can and market massively within their own games to out compete the people they're ripping off. They're like the mother of all leeches, they only win because they can suck the cash out of everyone faster than anyone else and that lets them grow and suck even more cash out of the next target they get.
"I think you can certainly reach certain levels of wealth only be selling a company you own"

Only - "Alone in kind or class"

Sure sounds like he said it was impossible to me.
I'd never seen that site before. Too bad it wasn't around back in the Web 1.0 days---could've saved some headaches!
Wikipedia already rightfully boasts that space isn't an issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not...

The problem is, without a notability policy that's decidable, the policy is useless and contradicts the above link.
If samsung is building out their own os using it for only mobile phones seems myopic... Think about all the markets they play in
Very interesting. Could either be very cool or very aggravating, depending on your perspective. :P
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Hey,

I am currently learning nginx, has anyone come across a way to pull vhosts stored in a database?

I have seen scripts for lighty to do this but is there a legit way for nginx?

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However, we are still teaching and emphasizing arithmetic and memorization in high school — even in the advanced classes. That's the problem, really.
Self-confidence issue? Yeah, that's the point of the article. She's saying, "I doubt myself in this area, but I am confident about these other things, and it's not just me, so I think I'll be okay."
Some people do waste their time in grad school. I had a friend who took out loans to go to Columbia's J-school, went 60k in debt and two years later found himself back in the job he left. He passed up the one offer he managed to cultivate in order to be closer to a woman he dumped a few months down the road.

Years later he's in a job that he could have worked his way into by now, except a large chunk of his (disappointing) salary goes toward his loans.
From what I've seen in company valuations is that they (very) generally hit 10x revenue, at least for well established companies.

Last I saw Zynga was posting $600 million revenue, which lands Zynga at around $6 billion from the last figures I saw.
Neat idea just some implementation niggles.

I not sure I trust my Mother to understand the extremely non standard tag return form. I know the form is very simple but it looks like an image and the internet illiterate probably will get confused by it.

Use a simpler interface, like Google or Facebook do. They use standard looking forms because they're familiar to users.
Read HN, or more appropriately just read about what your doing / getting into. But most importantly do. Failure and Success are a result of continuing to try.
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I guess the only thing of interest here is that even a program like tar can have major bugs like these cropping up from time to time.

At the time of this post, one of the two referenced bugs had already been fixed, and the other was fixed the next day. A stable release including the fixes was made a week later, so it's likely that nobody other than testers and gentoo users were affected.
From the changelog for tar 1.25:

Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect
Fix extraction of device nodes
Meh, hard to get excited over vaporware.
You said :

What is "pleasure" and "pain"? Ultimately, they're just electrical signals triggering the release of certain chemicals in the brain, with subsequent alterations to how the brain processes other stimuli.

My argument then is that if all pain is to you is a set of electrical signals than why should one avoid causing it. We don't usually have moral qualms about generating electrical signals.

I can't show that a silicon life-form lacks subjective experience anymore than I can prove that a human possesses it. What I know is that I have subjective experiences and that there are certain things, like pain and death that I really like to avoid. Since other human beings are very similar to me and also exhibit behaviors in the presence of painful stimuli similar to my own, I assume that they also possess such experiences. I refrain from causing them unpleasant experiences because doing so would tend to create a world in which such experiences are more likely in general and thus make it more likely that I would in turn undergo such experiences.

Consider this thought experiment.

Suppose that in the relatively near future we create a machine of equal or greater intelligence than humans. Suppose also, for sake of argument, that, for whatever reason, these machines do not have subjective experiences, but behave as though they do to facilitate human interaction. Would such a machine consider killing a human to be wrong ? Why should it ? The human claims that it fears death and wishes to avoid it. The machine also claims to fear death but in reality feels no such fear. If the machine has been told by humans that there is no difference between it and them because both can be reduced to sets of electrical signals then it could only assume that a human, despite it's behavior, experiences no actual fear of death and therefore that killing a human is not wrong. So it seems to me that there is a real danger in making the assumption that any sufficiently intelligent machine is sentient.