skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concern here is not that the poster comes off looking like a bad person, because clearly he* doesn’t, but that unintentionally sexist language persists.

If I had corrected the poster’s lack of a final slash in his s/// syntax, I wouldn’t have been implicitly accusing him of being an incompetent programmer, because it’s a common and small mistake that I make too. But perhaps it’s worth pointing out every tenth time one sees it, as a mater of politeness, demonstrating the assumption that the poster cares.

So my purpose was not to say “you monster” but “psst, you missed a spot”, and that’s how he seems to have taken it.

To me, “man” meaning “human” isn’t colloquial at all (except in the slangy sense of don’t have a cow, man) – in fact, it’s stilted at best.

* I checked his profile.
Breeding another, non-poisonous variety of snake to compete in the same environmental niche with the cobras would have likely been more effective. That's what my family does in Virginia to combat the rattlesnakes.
There is both a "casual" and a "hardcore" game market (or market segment, if you like). The existence and size of one doesn't negate the existence and size of the other. Both are multi-billion dollar industries.
> They should've reduced the reward over time.

Wouldn't this result in locals just breeding more and more and more cobras to cope with the decreasing reward?
great answer, and great advice! I think this advice is great for _anyone_, not just people in high school. at least, I hope it is, because I feel moved to "just do it already", and I just graduated college!
[didn't find a reply link to your more recent comment so I'll reply here]

I think an interesting way to apply identicon to certs is to map each cert attributes to an 'attribute' of identicon, visualizing attributes.
As does Vimeo.
What Silicon Valley was like after the bubble burst in the early 2000s
Wozniak: Machines will run the world, humans will become idle 'pets'
Jesus.

Educating students works. Film at 11.

If schools had the resources to give everybody a tailored gifted program, then yeah, America might not suck. Unfortunately, we have other priorities.
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> we won’t share your content with others, including law enforcement, for any purpose unless you direct us to.

So, they're somehow immune to subpoenas? How can this possibly work?

Or are they saying that since your data is encrypted, they couldn't provide the plaintext to the authorities even if they wanted to?
This _is_ getting a bit offtopic, but - looking at that video I was stunned to see roundabout (No, didn't count them..) a dozen 'Good to see you. How are you?' during his entrance.

Now - I'm not trying to mock this, it's just sooo disconnected from all I know: Why do you ask questions, if you expect no answers? I see this here (moved to Israel) as well - strangers say hi and ask what's up - but don't care. At home, in Germany, I'd consider this not sincere. Yet, it seems to be quite the norm.
Giving the RIAA the Middle Finger
_Introspection to the level of getting almost nothing done._
I'll remember that. Good to know I'm not the only one out there. I agree with you, finishing things and getting things done should start eternally and inside you first. key is to be consistent in anything you do.
Is CentOS 6 Out Yet?
The real point is that now the mobile worker doesn't have to carry a phone + a large microscope. The mobile phone is continuing to replace more and more objects. Radio, tv, camerea, video, internet browser, and now microscope. Many more devices will be adapted to take advantage of the phones computation capability as well as things like GPS, internet etc. BTW, if that mobile health worker has to make a choice between purchasing a microscope and purchasing a phone, they are probably going to purchase the phone.
Impact of ext4′s discard option on my SSD
I always wondered why do we need all this legal bullshit... and I never liked the order of the words in these sentences...

If google has a button, that I press and my content becomes available to the whole world... it is me pressing the button.

It should be the other way around... or at least say: you as a user have the option to make your content available, modify your content, distribute or bla, bla, bla using our services... and you give no license to the provider.

ps: still... I don't care about these terms much, as they really appear everywhere. Although, I'd feel much better if using an online service, in legal terms would be closer to buying a tool in the hardware store. :)
Bunch of reasons, ie: I don't have a trading background, accessing and executing trade data has a high barrier to entry regarding legal + financial, etc. It would be best executed by a company already in the game, like Sharebuilder.

TradeKing.com has something like an open portfolio. eToro.com is also doing this for ForEx as well.
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Ironically the congress 'takes one for the team', while the companies that supply the army gain profit over the backs of everyone's tax money.

If everyone truly took one for the team, wars wouldn't have to be as expensive, because everyone would be fighting for their survival.

While its important to win a war, should it be won at any cost and who should pay the price?
How People Shop on Etsy (analytics data)
Hopefully this sort of technology is expanded upon, with two directions possible. The first is creating more self-diagnosis tools for smartphones (more relevant to those who are likely to own one). The second is creating tools for those 99.999% not likely to have an Android phone around (and perhaps to help doctors/nurses/other aides).
> He lives in a modest home in Omaha and will probably give more money to charity than anyone in history when all is said and done. Do you really think his political views are driven by his own personal gain?

Yes, because he's human and every human's political views are driven by their personal gain.

Your mistake is in thinking that money is the only personal gain. It's not. It isn't even one of the most effective motivators.

And, in Buffet's case, there's the difference between "money made" and "money spent". At some point, the latter becomes uninteresting but that tells us nothing about the former.

And, interestingly enough, Buffet's "advice for the country" always seems to be aligned with his financial stake. (He never advocates increasing the taxes that he pays and he often advocates increasing taxes in ways that benefit him - the estate tax being a prime example.)
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You might want to look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2717503
The quote 'praise effort, not intelligence' isn't mine, though I probably should have used the word ability instead of intelligence. It's been born out of the numerous scientific studies done that continually show that by saying to a child 'I am very proud of the effort you put forth on X' as opposed to saying 'You're so smart! You studied hard and got a B instead of a C!' you are placing the emphasis on something the child has control over (their effort), over something which is innate (their natural ability).

I agree with you that learning to work hard is not a worthy goal on its own, but the praise effort vs ability debate isn't about encouraging a child to work hard but simply to praise them on what they have control over (their effort) vs their innate abilities.

Now, when it comes to child psychology and keeping a child engaged, maybe you're right and it's better to praise effort. But that should not come at the expense of praising intelligence; "intelligence" is the end product of many years of effort directed at the process of learning and thinking, not something that's doled out of a box at birth.

This idea of praising effort vs ability has been discussed previously here, so instead of repeating it I'll just link to it :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2237874

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2562632
I love seeing commercial hardware re-purposed for things like this. Sometimes we forget just how flexible these little devices we all carry around can be.

Second thought: Angry Birds in Sssspppaaaaaccceeee....
Unfortunately, just by glancing at article, you can see that they made comparisons by picking poor photographs on flickr and beautiful, colorful images for 500px. Bias much?
Wondering why this wasn't the case from the beginning?
The thief assumes, and interestingly controls, all risk.

The hidden assumption you make is that blame adds up neatly to 100%. Since the thief is in the wrong, he controls the risk. But you also control the risk in the situation described, where you choose to meet the thief and take your laptop back. You both had an opportunity to make other choices.

My instinct is that if someone does a self-motivated major immoral harm to you, are in a position to relieve or remove that harm and chooses not to then you're pretty much justified in carrying out any pre-warned harm against them.

So for instance, if a thief is running away from me carrying my laptop, may I tell them to "Stop or I'll shoot?"

This is one of those things where different cultures take different positions. I don't want people doing things like that in Toronto, and the fact that people do things like that in other places is one of the reasons I do not wish to raise a family there.
I had it drawn for the project at 99designs.
Anyone know what FiveMobile has worked on in the past? Looks like their a dev shop, with not much experience in games.
Creating a startup value statement that works
That was my favorite part. There are a few fun bits scattered around the webpage.
Google adds offline maps to Android
Rogue Amoeba Product Screenshots Hint at Sprint iPhone
Sounds like their "design specifications" included the phrase "Windows Phone 7" above all other specifications.

</sorry-yes-cynical>
Does anyone have any examples of Google lobbying against clearer legal documents? I would love to see this.
So is the question how do these loans appear on China's central bank's balance sheet?

I am confused by reading this article: if part of the issue in the US is that China holds vast amounts of US debt, and now China is also highly leveraged, then who is left holding their debt?!

What would be to problem with the Chinese central bank just writing off all the debt?

I can see that the spending pattern may be unsustainable, but if you have been lending the money to yourself there is no-one left to be upset when you default.
The title is not misleading. You missed the next sentence in the quote from John Carmack:

"So it looks like it’s parallel growth rather than one stealing from the other."

My interpretation is that there is a massive market for convenient casual games that has been neglected for a long time. That market is exploding and represents huge revenue opportunities, but because it targets an entirely different customer base, it is not hurting sales in the serious gaming market.
I looked into this and could only find mention of an app for The Score and Cineplex. Seems like nothing related to games to me, so the acquisition seems odd?

Toronto already has around half a dozen mobile game developers - I'm curious as to why they chose to acquire this particular shop.
I implemented the flydown on my little side projects blog in about an hour after reading your other comment about it, it's doing really well. Keep up the good work!
I sort of take issue with the idea that hard work does not correlate to pay. At least at the 'low-work' end of the spectrum - if I slack off, I can reasonably expect to be fired and to be earning less, i.e., none, and no one wants someone who doesn't contribute sitting around taking up resources.

Are you glossing this for the sake of narrative simplicity, or do you categorically disagree?

edit: speeling gud
With Google+ (And A Tweak For Analytics), The Social Sharing War Is Fully On
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"I have since found that many, many people I respect likewise worry they’re faking it. Anybody in my audience got the same issue?"

It’s funny, when I started out in the professional programming world I had a ton of confidence. I felt unstoppable. Back then, I didn’t know shit about programming but hey, how hard could it be. Then I started learning and slowly my confidence starting dwindling away. The more I learned, the less confident I became. I was humbled by the smart people I learned from. I realized how little I actually know. Now I’m noticing how big of an issue confidence has has become.

"I have found that actually showing confidence issues, on the other hand, does not do great things for one’s business"

I’ve found that showing lack of confidence hurts in most areas of life. The less confidence I speak with, the less people take me seriously though. It’s ridiculous. Now, whenever I speak with certainty & confidence, it feels like I'm faking it. It’s a huge internal struggle and it’s interesting to hear others perspectives on this.
60% of all NBA players end up poor
It could if the reward wasn't reduced fast enough. At some point, the reward should go to zero. And everyone should know in advance that it's going to go to zero at some point.
An easy way to flip the images left and right would be great. I love the first set of robots, but I wouldn't use them in my website as they'd be placed on the far left of the browser window, looking away from the page.
How is this news? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
Within a year I’ve cycled through GitHub Pages, my VPS on Rackspace and Tumblr. I guess GitHub Pages and Rackspace were one-and-the-same since I used Jekyll for both.
This reminds me of that Simpson's episode "Bart the Mother". The town gets overrun with Bolivian tree lizards:

Skinner: Well, I was wrong; the lizards are a godsend.

Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?

Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?

Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!

Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
Hmm. Your point is valid, but does not contradict Dweck's version of "praise effort, not intelligence".

Dweck's main point is to avoid praising in such a way that it makes kids believe that they're naturally good at something. For example, don't say "You got 100% on that test? You're so good at math!" because that causes kids to believe that they're intrinsically good at math, and that they don't need to continue working at it. The result is that these kids shy away from learning new math, because whenever they encounter math they don't "intrinsically" understand, it violates their "I'm good at math" worldview and makes them feel stupid.

Instead, she suggests praising good results with phrases like "See? You worked hard to solve the problem, and you did it!" - because this encourages the obvious desired behavior that kids see themselves as able to solve problems if they work at them. These kids relish challenges because challenges give them opportunities to validate their worldview - that they're good at figuring out how to solve problems - by solving them.

The aspect of "Learning to work hard is not a worthy goal on its own if you don't learn to work better at the same time" is clearly there, because it's the good results that are praised in both cases. It's just a question of how you praise those good results: don't make the kid think that intelligence is intrinsic - but instead make them think that it can and must be worked at.

(And Dweck doesn't suggest praising poor results, as you suggest with your example "Great job, even though you did poorly on that math test you studied really hard!")

Hope this helps clear things up.
> more email clients had encryption built in

I believe every single relatively popular client supports S/MIME out of box, and a lot of them support PGP/GPG.

Most casual users just don't know/care enough about their privacy up to the moment it is severely violated..
If the other species is indigenous to the area that might work -- though in that case it clearly can't out-compete the undesirable species naturally.

Otherwise our species track record with introducing foreign species to control a perceived pest has not been particular stellar and usually causes more problems than it solves.
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It's not silly for people who are actually using this. I'd rather pay for the service than living with the uncertainty of getting a banner because you can't pay your CDN bills. That's really the only thing that prohibits me from using this service in anything useful anyway. It looks very nice so that clearly would be a waste.
I've recommended Dropbox to a number of personal friends throughout the past couple of years. When the first security incident (Dropbox employees being able to read files when they said they couldn't) came up a couple of months ago, one of my friends emailed me to ask what the deal was with this company. He doesn't know them from HN. He only knows them from me. In my circle, I'm the one responsible for Dropbox.

When the password incident came up a couple of weeks ago, I was on guard and emailed my friends proactively before they found out about it via news sites.

I don't bash on Dropbox because:

- they have a great product
- security is hard
- startups are hard
- they are a yc company

But I think it's fair to say that:

- they made mistakes
- they handled the initial mistakes poorly
- they are now working to address any issues, but...
- ...every subsequent action is therefore under more scrutiny

In summary, there is no thought manipulation by the media. There are a lot of lessons that can be learned from this, but being dismissive of it is the exact wrong thing.
I think the main issue is that it's the only field that's required to be public. That makes it seem out-of-place.

You can tell a lot about someone's ancestry from their name as well, but it would be pretty weird if Randall's profile looked like this:

Name: Randall Munroe
Ancestry: Scottish[1]

And that was it. Even though it's kind of obvious, it's encouraging people to think about it, and calling attention to any stereotypes people might have about Scottish people. This is probably not so bad for Scots, but there are a number of ethnicities that carry serious social baggage, and they may prefer not to be called to attention.

Of course, I don't need to know Mr. Munroe's ancestry to refer to him using pronouns in most languages. Getting that information from a name is also much less reliable. It's obviously not quite the same. I think it does highlight the issue pretty well, though.

[1] Which I am inferring from his last name; I have no idea about his actual ancestry.
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The plan back fired because the people optimized for the reward, instead of the long term goal of reducing the number of deaths, like the development of anti-venom mentioned previously.

I read the article about Lean Software Development and one of the concept the stuck me is banning local optimization (http://drdobbs.com/184414744).
This study doesn't tell us anything we didn't know. Yes, when you give kids the best instructors and best resources, they do better.

The "success" in this study is that regular kids in a regular class end with 10% of kids testing for gifted, and regular kids in a "gifted" class show 15-20%. That simply is not that impressive or surprising.

The problem is that good instructors and resources are limited. And while those things would help anyone, you maximize their value by giving them to the kids on the gifted track. We, as a country, would be worse off if we didn't do this because we would be letting the truly talented go to waste in the name of "fairness."
Or the death penalty for murderers. This is hypocritical (and unconstitutional).
Maybe it can be modified to look for other diseases with distinct blood patterns.
Does anyone else see a possible corollary with Anti-Virus industry and virus writers?
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It's not bad to give all kids the "gifted" classroom. It's just impossible. There's not enough "gifted" resources to go around. It's a zero sum game at some level - to give "gifted" education to someone you have to take it away from someone else.
Bitcoin from a security point of view - genius and stupidity
Not all $10k pieces are bling, in case that's what you're inferring.
This is brilliant.

We have a stress testing tool that uses little images of various robots in its UI to represent different test patterns ... now I can automate them!
The Html source has a random robot as part of the author signature. This is neat!
Not to mention this can always be an ad hoc tool for aid workers and doctors.
Wow, this looks indeed way better than identicons. I'll email you to enquire about the code.
Perhaps, but at present offline functionality is extremely limited. Getting stuck somewhere with no reception often transformed my Chromebook into an elegant paperweight.
Crystal Brakke, for example, is a teacher who in her first year teaching eighth grade in Henderson, North Carolina, took her students from almost 70% failing the state literacy assessment to over 80 percent passing it.

A good teacher can certainly work wonders with students. But it's never as simple as making one change in a vacuum; when I read the anecdote that you've presented, it's pretty clear to me that we're dealing with a good teacher. Even if she's young, she's clearly attentive to the students, and she's smart enough to tailor her approach to best fit what she sees from them.

That's a pretty good sign that she's an exceptional teacher overall - it's a level of attention that you don't often see in schools (it's also one that fades with age, but that's another matter). I'm skeptical that the one technique she happens to credit this particular success to is a silver bullet that would help all students, especially those whose teachers are nowhere near as bright or caring.

Further, having spent some time in the trenches, I'd say a large part of this student's achievement gains are simply due to the fact that he was put in a room with better students, so he was uncomfortable and he fell in line with the way they behaved and acted in the class. That's easy to do for one student, but it's not a trick that scales.

Show me that a simple change in expectations can get an overpacked classroom of 35 disinterested, loud, and sometimes violent C-level students to step up their game and care about Romeo and Juliet (esp. when a sizable percentage of the class can't read at all), and I'll be impressed...
Words sometimes don't mean what they look like they should mean. In the US, "how are you?" or "what's up?" mean about the same thing as "nice to see you". It's not really a question, just a greeting. Confusing to learn, but a protocol that works fine once people on both ends understand it.
Overall market share penetration for Apple is, of course, an important business challenge Apple will have to address.

However, for those that build sites and web-based apps, it boils down to user base. Where I recently started working, our #1 browser is Safari (followed by IE, FF and Chrome, in that order) and we have millions of uniques a month. So whatever happens to Safari matters to us.
also the robots in the source code!
I do plan to automate looking up the DOM ID. Just wanted to share it early.
I often wonder why dev blogs rarely include a link to the main site. As often as not, I have to type in the name or search on it because the blog masthead doesn't provide any background information or navigational aids to the new visitor.
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