skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've given about as much evidence for your hypothesis as I have mine. We're just bullshitting on the internet here. Anyways, for what it's worth, I buy your hypothesis (men are just violent people who kill each other more than women do) as well as mine (people are more likely to lend a helping hand to women in desperate straits).

I have no idea what you mean by this. "You guys stop discriminating against us in the workplace and we'll let you down easier when you proposition us on the street?" Something like that?

Not quite so flippant, but more or less. Women have a lot of leverage, they're half the population after all. A more unabashedly self-interested agenda would be a breath of fresh air (and possibly more effective).
> I have no clue what Eric looks like

Here you go: http://www.google.com/search?q=eric+ries&tbm=isch
Exactly! I think a flood of new iPhones owners will be hitting this fall. I know plenty of iPhone 3GS owners waiting to pick up the rumored iPhone 5. By that point, I may even be ready to replace my iPhone 4 with the 5...
Without going into the rest, I would note that even if you're right, you haven't refuted onemoreact. If it is ”known” that men are at a disadvantage in custody battles, you might expect men to only contest if they had significant other advantages.

P(male wins | male is richer) != P(male wins)
All respect for persistence, but that's not a solution, because the OP wanted to echo just "-n". I put the foo in to better show what was happening.

For similar reasons,

echo "" -n

does not work, etc.
Plague Monkey :-)

You make a good point, but in operations there are two states 'degraded mode' and 'healthy', and basically the further into degraded mode you go, the more likely the next failure can take you completely off the air. So if I were deploying something like their automated 'treat unhealthy' it would be simply:

While (1) {

if (unit-unhealthy AND state == healthy) {

remove-unhealthy, state <- degraded.

}

}

Thus constraining the automated repairs from taking you further into a degraded state but opportunistically fixing things when you were nominally healthy. By managing the hysteriesis gap between fully healthy and degraded as a percentage of overprovisioning you can supported automated repairs with minimal risk of them being the source of future downtime.
Can you explain what you mean by use of gotos for memory management?
William Shatner kicked off Google+ for 'saying hello' too much
New tech incubator AngelCube looks to take flight
If your not attached to the USA you can just move you and your business to a territorial based corporate income tax country (singapore, etc). Income not repatriated into the country and not generated from the country is tax free. If your an american citizen you'll still have to pay personal federal income tax to the USA, even if you don't live in the USA, and to your country of residence but you can work with that much better with the ~$100k not living in the USA tax deduction that the US gives you.
Citi went farther. They did things like declare a particular desk in a skyscraper in NY to be legally in the Cayman Islands.

The IRS was not amused.
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Although every cycle is different, there will always be people who call a top too early, and others who predict further expansion on the eve of a crash.

There are similarities to 1998: enough of a boom that's unlike safe historical value-anchors to make the skeptical scared, but also enough novelty to suggest continuing upside as the opportunities are explored.

The recent memory of the dot-com boom, and the general malaise in the rest of economy, changes the expression quite a bit. Are we hiding the exuberance that would otherwise signal excess, and thus don't realize how late in the cycle it already is? Or are we proceeding at a measured pace, keeping perceptions closer to sustainable valuations, meaning we're still early in a now longer, slower cycle? I wish I knew for certain.
I don't like the way this article, and many others like it, disregard peoples ability to be malicious. They portray all humans as good-natured, kind and helpful, and while this is true for the overwhelming majority, the small percentage to who this does not apply do exist.

I personally would love to read some good advice on how to deal with people who actively try to harm you, as most advice available focusses on how to make friends and acquaintances.
The Nook runs Android. I wonder if it counts towards 'activations'. Last quarter B&N sold ~3M Nooks, which would be ~33k activations per day. Not that huge, but the difference between 465k and 500k activations. The Nook and other tablets and devices might actually end up combining to an appreciable amount (100k/day??).
Anybody knows how much of this fee is pure profit for them? Sounds like an arbitrary number far from their actual costs
Why Chrome is my principle browser now
That's certainly a coherent position, but I feel you're talking past me. To wit:

So now that I'm a member of an "unprivileged" viewpoint, I'm granted the privilege of determining what constitutes ignorance and privilege in other people--you granted it directly by asking me.

You misunderstand. I don't want you to make a determination because you are a member of the oppressed class; I know the answer, and if you had agreed with the hypothetical man's opinion I would have said that you are wrong as well. Discrimination can be documented objectively.

I was trying to illustrate that members of the oppressed class are always more acutely aware of their oppression than oppressors are, it's just natural. Likewise, with my farcical "shot in the dark"— of course it wasn't a shot in the dark, I was playing the odds. If we suppose that women are oppressed, then someone who doesn't believe women are oppressed is likely not a woman.

For what it's worth, I do agree with the statement that "We're moving towards equality pretty well, overall"— so much so that I wouldn't have put down too much money on ricefield being a dude, because I do actually know quite a few women who don't believe that there is meaningful gender inequality anymore. They are universally in my age group or younger, in high school or college, from middle-class families, and white.

They do in fact live in an environment where sexism is mostly about silly things. Now, I think that's awesome. But they're wrong.

Anyway, to take this all back around: The privileged tend not to recognize that they are privileged. It doesn't make you a bad person, it's just not something people notice. (It's still unclear to me if this is something you disagree with?)

If you want an analogy which doubles as an example: In a relationship, when the man thinks he and his partner share housework roughly equally, the woman tends to think that she is doing much more housework than the men. Statistically speaking, the woman in this case is objectively right; the man is likely doing much less than his share of the housework. He just doesn't realize it. If you ask me, it behooves a man not to rely on his perception of how much housework he is doing, because he knows that that perception is likely to be skewed. (Note that I'm not saying couples should necessarily share housework equally; these are men who want to, and think they are, but are not.)

So, likewise, the only thing I'm trying to say here is that if you find yourself thinking, "Hmm, that previously oppressed group seems pretty equal now" that your next thought should be "but then on the other hand I wouldn't expect to notice latent discrimination if it does exist, so maybe I should look into it a little bit closer." Not because you don't get the right to say things are equal if they are; just because they probably aren't.
Auto Transport Berkeley, California
Well as an Elementary developer I'd like to clarify a few things here:
Pantheon is what we call our shell, in our view this includes our wingpanel, slingshot as launcher, plank as new dock made by some docky developers and our other apps(postler, Dexter ...)

Also because you mentioned not Bering as polished as apple, we simply don't have enough manpower to accomplished our vision at this time, but we get closer every day.
I think it's great that New York wants to step its game up in science and engineering, and should be applauded.

However, I think the idea that New York needs to be the capital of technology over Silicon Valley is like if New York tried to become number one in Chicago style pizza, it's just silly.

Technology is going to be a driving force in our economy because technology simply means producing useful things we don't yet have. To make it about some kind of dominance over another state within the same country is unnecessary, just grow your own legacy.
Trouble Writing Software at Home? Take the Train
Another project in the same vein: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/
"Dammit Jim, you're a celebrity, not a Wal-Mart greeter"
You never know when they might falter one quarter, with so much riding on so few products. If there's another Foxconn flaw in the hardware for the next iphone or ipad, for example, or what if Steve Jobs leaves, for example, who knows. Labor in China is getting more expensive, too, so Foxconn is looking to India and Vietnam, and they've already complained about how 'difficult' the iphone 5 is to build. Of course a bad quarter still won't seriously damage Apple since it has so much cash in reserve.
I think the gift part is necessary. Otherwise, why am I buying this for myself? I can go to Trader Joe's and get some hazelnuts, apricots, sweetened cranberries, and mix them together myself, and it doesn't even take any time.

What is your value add?
That's a good point. If you're lover of travel or foreign countries, then there are a number of different countries or economic zones that are similar tax havens. Singapore, Hong Kong and etc are tax havens that don't take foreign sourced income. You only pay tax on income earned from the country.

Also, singapore and hong kong have much lower tax rates. You'd be able to take a tax credit on foreign taxes paid in the US 1040 individual tax (this calculation is a little awkward though) or you could choose to exclude 90k+ of income entirely from you 1040 but you'd lose the foreign tax credit.

You need make the calculation to see which is the better tax savings. Obviously, if you're earning less than 90k then you should use that. But, to get the 90k exclusion you must remain without the US territories for the majority of the year.
and we were laughing at the mobster furious as his 4% percent in "The Firm"! Ultimately, he happens to be right as paying 4% instead of 2.4% seems to be a pretty valid reason to be furious...
Moroccan students use FaceBook to cheat on National exam
http://loopplus.tumblr.com/post/7821028858/moroccan-students-use-facebook-to-cheat-on-national
So is class string, so we're really talking about uses for the operator in C/C++.

I'd say the for version is better if you can declare the variable in the initialization section (tighter scope), but the while version has you repeat yourself less if the variable's already there.
locked doors are never a problem for MIT students.. (and apparently even some harvard students)
In both cases, to avoid duplicating code. If you malloc() something in your function and intend on free()ing it before returning, it's often considered best practices to write the return block (which includes the free()s) once, and use "goto returnblocklabel" if you need to return early.

So rather than this:

void test()
{
int *x = malloc(1000);
int *y = malloc(1000);
for(int i = 0; i < 999; i++) {
if(badThing) {
free(x);
free(y);
return;
}
doStuff()
if(otherBadThing) {
free(x);
free(y);
return;
}
}
free(x);
free(y);
return;
}

You'd have:

void test()
{
int *x = malloc(1000);
int *y = malloc(1000);
for(int i = 0; i < 999; i++) {
if(badThing)
goto ret;
doStuff()
if(otherBadThing)
goto ret;
}
ret:
free(x);
free(y);
return;
}
Thanks, but I know what the indictment alleges. But the facts of the indictment may be false, and there may be many other highly relevant facts that are omitted.
Ya that and the security challenges were what impressed me when I saw this. Best of luck
Complete jQuery UI Library & Framework : EasyUI
FBI arrests 16 in Anonymous hacking investigation
Ask HN: Will Google+ cause Google to be banned in the workplace?
Just like Facebook? No more gmail at work?

What dost thou think? Any early reports from the workplace?
I believe that the storytelling after breaking and entering is an important part of it.

While I'm no MIT student, I have seen the tomb of the unknown tool. (Though, at the time, I was accompanying a bunch of MIT students).
Did you mean Wolfram Alpha?
There is no rule that subsequent quarter revenue should be higher than the prior quarter. [For e.g. the holiday quarter is generally the highest revenue yielding one for consumer electronics companies]. That said, Apple generally sets the expectations way low. The street knows that. They figure out a higher number (based on the past) and make that their expectation and price the stock as such. The interesting thing though is that Apple has been beating that higher expectation as well.
"The only functions I can see are web browsing, e-mail and pictures."

wow, way off there, it's Ubuntu based so you can run anything that you can run in Ubuntu, just install it via the app store. The "lightweight" refers to the default set of application you get and the theme, if you want more functionality just go into the app store and install it.
Luckily for us, HackerNews is not another medium for mindless whining.
50k is cheap as hell. UMass Boston had 125,000 JSTOR downloads last year. Let's assume we pay $50k (close enough), that's 40 cents an article. This is cheap as hell compared to other databases that charge more than that for a single search!
PowerSet.
What I suspect will happen is that the major proxies (e.g. WebSense) will block plus.google.com just like they block mail.google.com now. No reason to block all of google - likely, they just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Let's try another analogy.

What if someone hacked into Netflix and downloaded copies of all of the media that Netflix offered?
What would happen if you hacked into a library?
I wonder why modern day robber baron titans of industry don't found universities anymore. Maybe Bloomberg can invest in a Carnegie of his own?
I did not claim to have refuted onemoreact's claim. However I made it clear that that particular claim needs more support and isn't exactly obvious.

That said anyone quoting statistics should be able to back them up. I encountered the custody figure, along with a lot of other useful information about how the results of divorce are harder on women than men, in http://www.amazon.com/Price-Motherhood-Important-World-Value.... It is an interesting read, though not exactly the sort of thing you want your wife to encounter during her first pregnancy. (Which is how I learned about that book...)
FBI targets Anonymous hacking group in series of raids on homes
Amazon S3: More Than 449 Billion Objects
I suspect this is more about the temporary employment boost that having a major university in a city can bring than the long-term employment benefits that an economy based on scientific and technological prowess can bring.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. But the picture today implies that the technology sector doesn't tend to create a lot of jobs, even when it creates extremely useful inovations or novel avenues of entertainment.
Stream algorithms and The Britney Spears Problem
No, the main point is to show how simple client verification actually is. This implementation is one step up on the application stack into a comfort zone which seems to be more acceptable by devs.

I believe in design in depth, and by allowing the most basic of techniques (form submission + cli tool stack) to handle something that is generally perceived as difficult and letting people "get" the manual process, the automation might not seem as daunting.

I did not intend to create a standard, just to provoke more discussion. I would however by gladly surprised if I woke up tomorrow and twitter allowed me to sign in by solving a challenge instead of a password : ).
I like to hate as much as the next HNer, but that chart says that Facebook's customer satisfaction went up this year. With so much actual badness to choose from, we don't need spin.
That's exactly what an OS is.
Latest docs at http://code.google.com/apis/inapppayments/
It sounds like you are basically saying there is not really a problem as long as you wash your hands?

Have a look at some of the health problems that come up due to the fact that around 6-700 million people in india defecate openly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_...

"In India there are 700 million people who do not have access to safe and hygienic toilets. The waterborne diseases this causes kill 500,000 children every year, mostly from diarrhea,"

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20071102/toilet_summit_0711...

While yes the proposed solution does sound complex, it's better to try and make it work than just let the spread of disease continue
again -- we are NOT an illegal gambling site. We aren't taking players from countries where it's illegal, and we're complying with all laws in countries where it is.
Yes, when they say "Beta" they mean it.
I agree. Disappointed. Once again.

What's the best international recurring payment micro-payment solution out there?
What a horrible, horrible analogy. It doesn't even make sense.

Why not just say "JS is the common language of the web" without the horrible analogy.
While I too would like to see Mr Bloomberg give some of his (hard-earned) billions away to a good cause, it's too hard to establish a great university over night. He's going the route of inviting top existing research universities to establish a satellite campus of sorts. This is a much smarter approach for attracting talented students and researchers.
Are you confused? As was quite clear from my wording, I was speaking about Bitcoin, only. My point, once again, was that "Bitcoin" can't get in trouble from this, because there is no central Bitcoin entity to go after. It's obvious that the site operator could possibly get in trouble, though. However, you don't know with certainty that this site is "illegal" in any way, so I don't see why you are opining about that.
Its important to note that if a person doesn't owe taxes directly, the probably do contribute through payroll tax. [1]

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/14/pf/taxes/who_pays_income_tax...
For NIH-funded studies, PubMed Central is actually doing a pretty good job. It would be great if PMC actually had a mandate to collect papers for all US federal grant-funded research, though.
More private repos with the paid plans would definitely keep me paying and might convince others to pay.
Is the behaviour defined in this case? If so, what does it do?
Don’t use IDs in CSS selectors?
My point being, i have no idea what service they provide, didn't read the fine article. But if they have an all-you-can-eat plan for like $300 a month per seat. Then the charges should have been "joe doe hacks MIT network and steals $300 worth of replaceable goods".

In the same lines that if someone break into a car-wash and use 5min of their water, he will hardly be convicted of organized crime and causing damages over $300 (because that's what they charge for the premium wash)... why it's so messed up when you put a computer in the middle?
DCPS Teacher on Atlanta Cheating Scandal
It is interesting to note that the first Sony retail store wholly owned and operated by Sony opened in 1982 [1], way before the first Apple store in 2001 [2]. Although Sony had retail stores almost 20 years before Apple, their stores are not as popular, likely because of the lack of demand for their products.

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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Canada#Sony_Style

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Store
Erich Martel fought and lost a battle with Michelle Rhee last year to stay at his preferred school.
Go to YouTube and play a video. Right click and hit "Show Video Info." Right click again and do "Copy Debug Info."

The top left of the video and your clipboard should give you a pretty good idea of the metrics you should be tracking.
Scroll up and read the FAQ entry right above that one.

They're only partially translated, and unfortunately the quality of those translations has been spotty from what I've heard others here in Beijing say.
Bitcoin! I used it to pay a Canadian and a bunch of people in the western Hampshire to do content work or translations for my site.

Not exactly the easiest thing to understand, but it is so easy to send money across the border and have it arrived in less than a few hours at most.
I'd be rather wary of using any small time online casino. Apart from people simply skimming the numbers, there's tonnes of issues behind reliable random number generation and shuffling. Real casinos & lotteries screw this up all the time (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1) with people who (in theory) should be good at this.
> "Your personal anecdotes are not sufficient to establish any meaningful connection between these two."

“Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here ...”

By your definition, most science is "personal anecdotes" if building knowledge through systematic observation and study of hundreds of test cases is merely "personal anecdotes". (See "empirical research"[1].)

By contrast, you wrote "Liking history has nothing to do with coding" but you supplied nothing whatsoever to substantiate that statement, just as you supplied no basis for the statement that working closely with hundreds of developers is not sufficient to establish a connection. Ok, I've managed hundreds, and we've collaborated with thousands. How many developers would be enough to establish any meaningful connection?

You challenged "I'm not sure where you get your link" and I provided the basis for that link: observation of several hundred developers I have hired and employed. That's a reasonable number considering many studies use pools of just a couple dozen test subjects.

Throughout this thread, you have countered remarks I've based on experience, with your own unsubstantiated assertions, sometimes insulting in nature. For example, you wrote "In the 'old days', you must have been writing small programs" when the opposite was true.

Just because you "can't see the value" in a printed code review back in the 80's, or haven't noticed a link between coders with an appreciation for history and an exceptional ability to architect software systems, that doesn't obviate the need to provide at least as much foundation for your arguments as I've provided, particularly if you're trying to call me out for lack of basis.

You said this is "entirely tangential and has nothing to do with what we're discussing", yet this concept of holding the complex in mind is precisely what I opened with, and the theme I've stayed with.

In my experience – which I've scoped so readers can decide for themselves if it's relevant – reading well, taking time to contemplate and be thoughtful, remembering and understanding complexly woven tapestries of information (whether multi-volume literature or world history or computer code), and being able to read long code (or threads) and form a structure of it in one's mind, are all skills signaling good developers.

In my experience, a love of reading, stories, and history in particular, signals a desire for learning, a sense of proportion and place, and a respect for 'the shoulders of giants' likely to help a good developer become great.

“... of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.”

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_research
The comma operator is pretty useful in macros:

#define something(...) (printf(... some debug message ...),real_something_expression)
foo = something(...)

This way you can create macros returning values and printing debug messages at the same time.
Those numbers vary wildy, even barring the ones measured by revenue.
San Jose grand jury indicts members of hacker group Anonymous