skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COTS has proven that under the right conditions, a properly incentivized contractor — even an all-American one — can develop extremely complex systems on rapid timelines and a fixed-price basis, significantly beating historical industry-standard costs.

If the "right conditions" include having Elon Musk as CEO, then "proven" is probably a reasonable word.
First of all, there's no infringement of privacy if someone takes a picture of you in a public place. If you didn't want anyone to know about it, you shouldn't have gone to a public fricken bar with your adulterous date. If you're that guy who gets caught, sucks to be you. Don't cheat on your wife next time - or if you do, do it in private. What if it was one of your wife's friends who spotted you? Would you sue her? Big fat chance.

Secondly, that's not a one in a million chance. Unless his wife is a god damn social media photo site addict, it's more like a zero chance. Why would she stumble on that picture, ever? Unless, perhaps, she goes to the same bar and looks through the hundreds of pictures taken there. But now you're not talking random chance, you're talking determined digging (or complete and utter stupidity on the part of the cheating husband).

Thirdly, I hardly know anyone who's been talking about color.com anyway. That's probably the biggest problem they have, rather than the rare occasion when someone may be caught out in the background of a photo.
Meet The Man Behind The Computers That Put The First American In Space
WebCore trunk is neither the complete code nor the exact version that Apple ships in iOS. For that, you have to go to their "release" pages like this:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/ios-43/
My "in three years" remark was meant to indicate when the web model's downsides will become irrelevant. But i think the web is winning right now. The desktop is going webbased faster and faster. It doesn't seem so if you look at games and media software, yet, but in the enterprise market you're laughed out of the room if you don't have a web app. Native apps lost that fight a while ago. They lost for a simple reason: the deployment model is superior, and the app quality of web apps was good enough.

Back to mobile, the app stores make it way easier to ship native apps, and the browsers make it harder to deploy web apps. The consequence is that on mobile native still wins. The app stores may turn out to be better than the web for shipping apps. The web won't win that fight by making it easier to build better apps, it will only do so by making it easier to ship.
Create Shutdown / Restart / Lock Icons in Windows 7 or Vista
Many people don’t like the new Windows Vista shutdown menu, because nobody wants to mess with that stupid popup menu. So we can create icons that will let us shutdown, restart or lock our computer.
Considering that I've never once seen something nice said about Color, overrated is hardly the word I'd use...unless we should all just start relentlessly hating on it.
I assume the error wasn't included to save Mr. Knuth from an avalanche of people "finding" the same error and demanding a check.
The article mentions Pinker, but doesn't say anything about his main argument in this question: evolutionary biology suggests that in most abilities there should be higher variance among men than among women (even if the average is equal).

Wages are bounded from below but not from above, the lower tail of the distribution (unemployed, homeless, people in prisons) is not included in the calculation (where men are overrepresented), but the higher end of the distribution (CEOs, professors, etc.) is included (where men are also overrepresented), which gives the disparity.

In school, grades are bounded from above (degree inflation), but on the lower end plenty of variation remains (with more men there), which again gives the mentioned results.

I'm sure this is not the whole story but it is quite an important argument to miss.
I'm guessing the parent was referring to FOSS, not free as in free beer.
How would I know the real measured numbers for enough sites to give examples?
The way you are using the term "blocking" is non-standard and not that useful. You are calling the syscall "blocking" just because it performs its work inline (in this case, copying a kernel buffer into a user-space buffer). By this definition, every syscall is blocking, even aio_read() because even aio_read() performs some work inline (namely enqueing a read request).

In common usage, an I/O operation is considered "blocking" if the system call does not return until data is available. If on the other hand you set O_NONBLOCK on a fd, you will get EAGAIN when no data is available, so clearly that is the accepted meaning of "nonblocking."
Sony considers offering reward to help catch hackers
Um... If Color is overrated, does that mean it deserves negative points?
"Furthermore, even assuming that women do in fact choose lower-paying jobs, to what extent is this tolerable? After all, whether the cause is societal pressure or neurobiology, either way women are influenced by something outside of their direct control."

What is inside someone's direct control if not their choices?

I'm not commenting on the content of the article or the issue of discrimination in general. But the above sentence is horrible reasoning.
Probably the fact that Mrs. James has to search to find the picture on Flickr but the data is given to her with Color. Mrs. James only needs to be at the bar using Color and the images come straight to her. I see it as a subtle, but pretty substantial difference.
It's not silly. I brought up that point out of fairness. I, personally, do not believe that a choice is unfair if it is influenced by our neurobiology. I am a materialist and determinist.
"My parents felt that it would not be a good idea to send me to campus at such a young age," Heard said. "I appreciate their decision, mainly because online studying has given me quite a bit of flexibility in my study schedule."

Yes, and all of the 16 and 17 year olds who got into college with my freshman class got in way over their heads socially and emotionally. If I were to have a daughter who finished High School early, or found some way to dispense with it entirely, then I'd have her do some sort of research or work until she reached age-parity before going away from home.
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The privacy problem is not going to be what kills Color. Having a privacy problem to solve likely presupposes that they've been successful.
Microsoft? Why would you have (even in jest!) thought Microsoft might do anything of the sort? Someone else would have to do it successfully first, then they'd copy their business model.
"Anyway, running a country on eloquence alone hasn’t worked out disastrously – or at least not yet"

The largest empire the world has ever seen whittled down to its homeland, a naval base in the med, and some godforsaken islands in the south atlantic. I'd call that pretty disastrous.

It'll only get worse. In an increasingly technical world, the brits have the wrong culture of Snow's two cutures running the show.
I didn't know so many people would have a problem with that sentence. I thought it was clear that I was merely playing devil's advocate. It's not horrible reasoning. It's merely a question that I thought should be raised.
In new iterations of search, you will type the name of that restaurant and be provided with its address and map, a view of its menu, the option to reserve then and there via OpenTable, see its ranking on Yelp, CitySearch, Zagat—along with photos, tweets, what your friends have said about it in your private social networks, and a quick and simple way to compare it with other similar restaurants.

I guess he hasn't noticed that Google has these things today. Of course homepage, address, phone number, and star rating are there, but there's a lot more too. Map? Check. Hours? Check. Directions? Check. Reviews from Yelp, CitySearch, etc? Check. Tweets from your friends? Check. That's all right on the results page, and of course with instant search you don't even have to press enter to see it. Photos, related places, and links to reservations on OpenTable are one click away on the place page.
Usain Bolt isn't pushing any envelopes. He's just doing what has already been done for decades, but at a higher speed.
Yep. This rings true even of technical graduates. Makes them really hard to interview because they are so good at interviewing!

I think it's an under-rated skill outside oxbridge. I certainly think it's helped me and I only have the very edges of this skill that I picked up at Cambridge.
I went to Oxford. I studied Physics. Yes, I learned to "wing it". If you can maneuver your way through a "tutorial" (2 students, one tutor) where the person evaluating you is one of the smartest people in the world and an expert with 40 years more experience than you, and you're hungover and didn't really study the material properly, and still come out looking ok, you can deal with almost any situation where you need to "wing it" in the future. It's solid training.

That said, most of those students were very, very, very smart. To me, Oxford was the place where I went from finding it fairly easy to get whatever grades I wanted to struggling and working hard to get the minimum I found acceptable (a 2:1, or Upper Second, result in the overall degree). That was because the final grades were all relative, and there were a lot of very, very smart students I was competing against.

And, as far as the subject studied is concerned, don't forget that in the UK people rarely go on to work in the subject they studied. Sure, it's still better to do hard sciences, but apart from lawyers and doctors, most people end up doing something else after university.

Which is fine, imho - university is not and should not be training for a job, but, instead, training for life. And as far as life is concerned, in the world as it is today, winging it is certainly a more valuable skill than quantum mechanics.
yes, i assumed the person i was replying to was male, and i am sorry (not just sorry i look dumb, or because i am being downvoted, but sorry because it was stupid of me, might cause offence, and weakens my case, which i believe in).

but there clearly is a problem. you could take that article and substitute "woman" for "decent person" and "man" for "over-competitive arsehole" and it would make as much sense. the problem is that the system favours over-competitive arseholes and those are, predominantly, men. that's not ok. and just because it's "natural" and i don't have a solution does not mean it's not a problem.
I'm not sure why "encourage" is in quotes. If you mean, "inspire the next generation of city planners and architects to design places that people want to actually live" you're right. But I'm reading a more dismissive tone and I'm not sure why.

Jacobs' work directly contributed to the decline of the urban superblock (that mainstay of 1960s urbanism and blight on 21st century cities) and a rebirth of the mixed use development. The later is especially popular in inner suburbs going through phases of new growth looking for an antidote to their original strip-mall and subdevelopment plans (usually lack of plans).
The Sexual "Paradox" is the name of a book, one of my sources. Yes, to nitpick, it is not a true paradox. The "paradox" Susan Pinker refers to is the fact that women perform better than men in school, and yet end up in lower-paying careers. It's more a seeming contradiction than a true paradox, you are correct.
Hs position is that Color's value proposition kicks in when everyone's taking pictures all the time, blanketing every venue with visual documentation -- more photos, not better photos.

Flickr's value proposition is interestingness, not total coverage. Further, Flickr has three privacy layers, resulting in most night-on-the-town scenarios being Friends-only.

He made this point with his odds argument. Odds on Flickr might be one in a million, but Color wants users to take a million photos, making the odds one in one.
Noam Chomsky's Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Assassination
"We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic."
Why is this a link on c.moreover.com and not ft.com? All the sharing links at the bottom of the page use an ft.com URL.
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Odd that he mentions Margaret Thatcher without mentioning she was once a research chemist and had a chemistry degree.

Doesn't fit with his content free story I guess.

p.s. the link is bad, it's not moreover.com it's from the ft.com.
Personally, I would be more interested in understanding the code inside Tornado, a column of air. :-)
So, if they are doing what has been done before for a lower price, then they are pushing the price/performance envelope?

The second two clauses contradict the first..
JavaScript Creator Discusses the Language's Future
This phenomenon isn't limited to England. The one thing all Harvard undergrads learn (probably as much from one another as from the professors) is how to defend themselves in conversation. Some are smart, and some aren't, but by the time they graduate they all know how to sound smart.
The Education System Is Failing Us
That article is a bizarre caricature, chock-full of misleading half-truths. "You probably did school exams in just three subjects. At university, you only study one" -- that's glaringly inaccurate. The underlying feature of the British education system is that from age 16 if they're going to university students tackle 3-4 subjects at "A" level, rather than a whole slew of them. However, the depth of study for an "A" level qualification is supposed to be (or was, in my day) roughly equivalent to finishing the first year of a degree in that subject. The "at university you only study one" reflects the nature of the British university system: rather than a hodge-podge of courses culminating in a major, British students focus on a particular area from the start -- other subjects are studied, but they don't rate separate examinations or qualifications. It's a system based on specialization: narrow but deep rather than broad but shallow.

Finally, anyone who went to Oxbridge having read that article and taking "nor is workaholic study encouraged" at face value is going to be in for a very nasty surprise ...
I mean...there are biological explanations for RACISM. Does that mean racism is tolerable? Of course not. I think I brought up a fair point -- Yes, it may be the case that women are influenced by their neurobiology to choose lower-paying careers. Does that mean we should stop talking about the issue? I don't think so.
I don't have studies at hand to cite, but there seem to be a growing number of them indicating or demonstrating that a significant portion of humans' cognitive ability goes into making (instantaneous, sub-conscious) comparisons.

Contentment seems to be more a matter of "keeping up" and "as good as" than some sort of absolute measure.

From an evolutionary perspective, this might -- speculation -- involve the individual ensuring they are still valued by and a member of community. If you aren't doing well within the community, you are at risk.
Entirely true. Not sure of the relevance.

Seriously though, SpaceX isn't Usain Bolt, it's... Fabio Cerruti (of Italy, fifth-place getter in the first heat of the men's 100m at the 2008 Olympics). He ran 100m in 10.49 seconds, which is very impressive, but nothing that hasn't been done before.

OK, enough athletics analogies.
Let clear something up. I'm sorry but I reread yours 2 comments and you seemed to speak for the whole community (I quote: "..to a community...who are also adamantly opposed to the idea of selling snippets of code."). I talked to a lot of ruby dev and no one told me they were oppposed to my idea. What I'm saying here is that you do not represent the ruby community, you only speak for yourself and perhaps your dev friends.

However, there is perhaps a misunderstanding. I don't want to build the mirror of a paid version of rubygems.com. I simply use the gem workflow mechanism (which is robust and easy to use) in order to sell modules BUT in the context of a project (open source or not).

Besides, in php, there already are open source projects successfully working this way, I'm thinking about prestashop for instance. I also learned that some companies sells redhat and debian packages. Why not in ruby ?

One last thing, I'm not defensive but your first post was not constructive enough. You talked about a similar experience you had before (I quote: "... as experience has taught me that buying plugins for an open-source codebase is not an ideal solution for my customers"). Could you tell more about that ?
That's the kind of answer I was expecting here.
Thanks anyway :-)
They don't. Well, they might, but not an iOS binary. There's Makefiles for Android and (I believe) the desktop, but nothing setup for use with the iPhone SDK.
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The moreover link helps avoid the FT paywall.
Knuth Diamond Signs CJ1
So it's a fake check?
Where I am, I can choose between nine different ADSL providers, one cable provider, and about six different mobile broadband providers. All of them want me to switch to them, and they differ slightly in pricing, bundling, triple-play, customer service, speed, etc.
About  thesis
All students who are doing some type of doctoral degree will have to write a thesis. This is document which the student will have to do on his or her own which presents the investigations and conclusions on a particular topic. The thesis is vital to the attainment of the degree.
If the risk hinges on millions of pictures flooding in, then James isn't really at any elevated risk since he's in a handful of said millions of pictures.

The only way Color makes things worse for James is if his wife knew he was at said bar on a previous night (i.e. she can't just show up in person) and sifts through those images. Or if Color employs amazing facial recognition and data aggregation to provide his wife a constant stream of James pictures.

I thought this was going to be about Hot Young Things inadvertently sharing nip slips with nearby Creepy Old Guys.
At least in the obesity case, the larger problem is sugar not animal fat.
The best book I've read on this topic is "Why Men Earn More", written by a former director of the National Organization of Women. The book is essentially a guide showing women how to earn more money, offering a huge example of interesting statistics. For example, people working 45 hours a week earn about 44% more than those working 40 hours per week, and women tend to work many fewer hours than men, while preferring jobs that end mentally at the end of the shift. I'd recommend the book to anyone interested in a more nuanced view.

Long story short, the pay gap can be explained almost entirely by the male tendency to work more hours, at harder and more dangerous jobs, while being more flexible (e.g. Willing to move, travel nonstop, Work in uncomfortable conditions, etc.). Further, men do this largely to acquire and provide for women and families, so women tend to benefit from this. In a lifetime, men tend to spend at least an order of magnitude more on finding a mate than women.
Are you guys developing any kind of software?

I am a web developer, so I don't know much about C, but I am sure a lot of people here can help if you put a repository.
This is really dangerous stuff. Zuck already has a stalker who showed up on his doorstep. Invading his privacy like this actually inspires the crazy folks to invade a little more.

The state of tech journalism is just sad.

Wasting journalism resources that could go to covering innovation and struggling founders given to gawking at manicured lawns.

kill yourself.
For the stated example of an adulterous husband on a business trip, you're right. The odds are low of Mrs. James finding it. But since pictures are grouped by physical location instead of residing in some stranger's flickr account, people are very likely to see people they know in cases when long-distance travel is not involved.

Is this a privacy issue? Strictly speaking, I don't think it is any less legal than flickr (but IANAL). But it definitely pushes the boundaries when it comes to thinking about your own personal privacy.
Some of this resonates, but this does not:

Oxbridge’s teaching methods reward good talk

In my experience, Cambridge University Engineering Department rewards those who can at age 19 show on paper a sound grasp of all branches of engineering, from vector calculus, to materials science, to the physics of a transistor, to thermo dynamics.

Those who can do both that, and also speak well, are often 'poached' into consulting and banking, whereas those who can only do the former tend to pursue more technical fields. But to blame that on Oxbridge seems unfair.

On an unrelated note: I've worked with many Oxbridge graduates of Humanities, Classics (Greek, Latin) and English Literature - all of whom (by selection of my firm's hiring process) are very numerate. I.e. the two are not mutually exclusive.
In 2009, David Kent Jones proposed “shadow shaping” / “shadow farming” technology, in which robots would alter the moon’s surface in such a way that shadows from sunlight on the moon would form company logo’s and advertising messages.

This method, however, was clearly banned by 2005 legislature on “obtrusive space advertising” (see: 49 U.S.C. 70109a) and potentially violates the “Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies” (that prohibits “disruption of the existing balance of its environment”).

The Moon Treaty of 1979 specifically bans “altering the environment of celestial bodies”

To advertise on the Moon, its environment would have to remain unharmed.
In 2009 the Department of Labor sponsored a study [1] as to the nature of the wage gap. They determined that much of the wage gap can be explained by other factors. There may still be discrimination, of course, but it seems to mostly not be the wage-discrimination that people talk about so much. I suspect that what discrimination there is is more subtle, and of the more social kind that leads women to choose different occupations.

This sort of discrimination is hard to detect, especially in
areas where blinding is difficult. Look at the widespread discrimination that occurred in orchestras around the world [2].

[1]: http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...

[2]: http://mldc.whs.mil/download/documents/Readings/Orchestratin...
If there is gender discrimination in pay, then this is the kind of thing that the market will eventually figure out, provided that not everybody actually believes that the labour of one sex is worth more than the labour of the other.

If Alice is underpaid relative to Bob at company X (or for that matter, if Bob is underpaid relative to Alice, or if Bob is underpaid relative to Charlie) then some smart employer from company Y will figure this out and offer Alice a job for slightly more money. Nature abhors arbitrage, and employers won't go round hiring men for more money if they can get the same quality work out of women for less money.