skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should add a warning for users without flash. I'm just looking at a large, black browser window.
First, since it wasn't clear, my use of "you" in that last bit was rhetorical. Wasn't intending to address anyone in particular, sorry about that.

But since you mention yourself, sure, let's talk that— What would you make of a heterosexual, cisgendered man saying that he doesn't really think people with non-standard gender identities are discriminated against?

Again, that's not a taboo thing to say. He's not speaking from bigotry, just ignorance. He has no reason to know or care whether discrimination is going on or not. That's privilege.

That's the hallmark of privilege. It's taken for granted. We're just "them". The wealthy, the white, the straight, the cisgendered, the male— we don't need identity, not in this country, not today. We don't need marches or flags or bumper stickers. Every day is our day.

And so of course we feel worried by a phrase like "Girl Power" or "Gay Pride" because, not knowing real discrimination, we think that's what it looks like. So I just stopped by to say, you know... No.
I dont know if she was in the same situation, but I went to a Math/Science Magnet High School and we were required to conduct a research project at the local university with a professor as an advisor. My school had relationships with many professors that were willing to mentor us.

Basically, each day we would leave school a couple hours early and head to the university lab where we would work. The projects were often a part of or a very small version of projects that the lab was already involved in. So at the end of our research we got to talk about the super amazing project we had worked on and generally looked like amazing geniuses, when in fact we were more or less tagging along and doing some semi-advanced lab tech work.
At WWDC, it came out that half of all iPhone owners have never plugged their device back in to their computers after initial set up. In fact, after I got my iPhone, my entire family fallowed suit, and none of them (literally 0 out of 5 people) sync their device, update it, anything. It just not something that they know to care about. Too much of a nuisance, not enough gain.

Wireless updates (announced for iOS 5) should definitely help though.
Bah meant to update you and thank you but I was distracted and went back to work. I am sorry.
> Doesn't your sensor also require skin contact?
Yup, but it doesn't need to be strapped tightly to the user's chest. A near impossibility if you are sharing with nerds ;)

Your suspicion of our audience is correct. We don't want to compete with the overly saturated excersize-pulse-rate gizmo market. We see every year our students at Parsons Design + Technology department curious about using heart rate data in a project. We hope this will appeal to entry level and seasoned hackers who want an affordable way to play with biofeedback. The answer to 'what kind of applications' is to look out the window and wonder.

The data that you get from the sensor is variable voltage based on (relative) oxygen level of blood. In the video on kickstarter site, at about 1:20, the waveform you see on the computer screen is raw analog data from the sensor. It is passed directly from an arduino into a processing sketch, which serves as a visualizer.
Just thought of an application: Use the fluctuating waveform from the sensor to modulate a tone, say, or make beats.
Very elegant, though in some cases 0x0 is addressable, in which case, the abort never happens.
There must be a reason why the US government wants to harass/bully/imprison Aaron.
My thought is that it makes a good jumping-off point to build a personal programming-focused system, as long as it doesn't include Open Office or any of the other junk that comes on a standard Ubuntu desktop install.
This is not the first time he has done something like this if memory serves me. In late 2008 Mr. Swartz and Carl Malamud went to select libraries, ones with free PACER access, and proceeded to download ~700 GB of information that was behind a paywall. After which they made all of it available on Mr. Malamud's website.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/case-against...
Patronism and monetizing the social web
Posted in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2782752

This is not the first time he has done something like this if memory serves me. In late 2008 Mr. Swartz and Carl Malamud went to select libraries, ones with free PACER access, and proceeded to download ~700 GB of information that was behind a paywall. After which they made all of it available on Mr. Malamud's website.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/case-against...
I'm pretty sure the big one from a developer's perspective was background tasks.
Did your family have parasites, or consume a bunch of chemicals not commonly found in the vicinity of said farm?
I'm expecting iOS4 to win out simply because that's the lowest iOS available for the iPod Touch 2nd gen! There's a lot of the devices out, and they're cheap but still useable. Especially significant for kid apps.
Yeah the way I do it I have two todo lists- one for Today, and one for This Week. Each night I move stuff from my This Week list into my Today list to be done the next day. That's how I will use this.
A stranger would probably be allowed to enter the property unless you had posted No Trespassing signs. They'd be required to leave upon request but I'm not sure that simply entering your house via an open door would constitute a crime or tort. An open door could likely be construed as implied consent.
Looking forward to that. Not sure I can call it (long distance from Toronto!) but I'd love to be able to play with it on the web. :)
Kickstarter Hits 10,000 Successful Projects - $75 Million Raised
He went to europe while they were in the middle of crunch time, then promptly took a week of sick time upon his return. They fired him shortly thereafter. Steve talks about it here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d2njs/til_the...

In Aaron's words: "Yeah. I was unhappy working in an office and didn’t hide it. So I’d come in late and set up lots of off-site meetings and stuff. And my boss wasn’t really thrilled about that. Also, I think he was upset about me disappearing for so long on vacation. One of the places I went to in Europe was the Chaos Computer Conference. And while I was there I hung out with my friend Quinn Norton, who was reporting on the event for Wired. She took my photo for one of her articles and it was featured on wired.com’s front page. “Heh,” I joked. “I bet the first time my boss finds out where I am is when he sees my photo on the front page of his own website.”"

So yeah, he earned his firing and the emnity of his coworkers the old-fashioned way.

Edit: Also, there's some speculation on the thread I linked to that Aaron was a cofounder who received a payout in the CN deal. He wrote web.py, sure, but if he walked away with $1MM+ without showing up to work, that could explain why they still hate his guts.
> Duchamp didn't just pick things up and put them on display.

The very act of "picking up" is art. As a matter of fact, everything associated with an artist is art. When an artist farts, it could be considered art if the artist intended so. Please, don't tell me that those "modifications" were somehow more important than the very act of recognizing/curating. Important -- yes perhaps -- but more important than "picking up"? No.

> Dare I ask you to back this one up?

I spent roughly five years studying contemporary art and it is a very general conclusion, a piece of "wisdom" so to speak, that I came to through my experience with contemporary art. I doubt that any single example I bring up will satisfy you (you will then claim that it's anecdotal evidence). Perhaps this piece of "wisdom" has been mentioned somewhere by some art critic, but I don't have any literature at my hand right now, and scouring Google could be too selective (you can usually confirm anything by performing a Google search).

Basically, you have to take what I said at face value (or consider how many years you spent studying art and whether to go along with what I said or come up with your own piece of wisdom).
If you do have a company blog (or personal), or feel like writing a reply here. I'd be curious to know what the difficulty level of setting up a gaming company in Costa Rica was?
Science as a Self-Correcting Process
I live outside the US and hosting is done in various other countries according to law. I spent about $15k and 5% of the company's equity in legal fees to insure that everything that would transpire here would be fully legal -- that part was a lot harder than coding it, if you want to know the truth, and some day I'll write a book on it or something, but... yeah. The reason no one's done this is because it's an extremely daunting legal and political landscape, so to take it on, just make sure you've kind of gamed out what happens under each scenario. On the other hand, if you don't care it's pretty easy to launch a poker script for bitcoin...just get outta the US before you do it, I'm sure you'll make some bank ;)
Contra top-down style? My least favourite of levels! Haha.

I remember my days in high school Java class, trying to learn to create pong. That was a fun experience.. :P
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I can't use it to post a message to a specific person (can only select circles). This means I can't use Agent G to post to FB / twitter. Will stick with the mobile app for now.
Lovely graphic and sweet little game there, Mate. I will give it a spin. Have you done all the promo stuff yet? Try to get the games blogs to review your app and post your app to as many app review sites as possible. We developed an app and we waited until the app was released before we started pitching it to the media for coverage. We learned that it is best to start the process before your app launches.

But it is never too late, you will have to spend much time over the next weeks working hard to get people to download your app. Being covered by one of the tech blogs or game blogs will be awesome for your game.
Ask HN: best sovereign territory to host your grey market app?
In reference to the bitcoin casino thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2782349). Bitcoin, or something like it, could spawn a whole industry of these types of semi-illegal sites. Where would you go to host a gambling site? Gibraltar? Canadian Native Reserves? Cayman Islands?
How robust can you make a system that seems to require constant energy input? That is to say, what if nobody shits in it for a while?
> "I'm not sure where you get your "great developers" and "developers who love history" link, either."

I provided credentials above. I've been managing hundreds of developers over the past decade and working as an independent developer for a decade before that. (And as a hobbyist developer the decade before that.)

> "Liking history has nothing to do with coding."

My experience hiring and managing hundreds of devs indicates the exact opposite. You may have found differently, but I will continue to focus on hiring people who find learning a rich tapestry of interconnected context fascinating, and preferring to hire those with history (or linguistics or other complex humanities) degrees with formal CS electives over those with pure CS degrees.
I am not a lawyer. However, if law is rational (and I hope to God it is!), it will be codified/applied in a vaguely similar way.

In your mind at least, you can equate owning a camera to "paying"/commissioning a work. Many different entities (stock photography websites) take away your copyright in exchange for cash. You can consider the act of giving a non-legal entity a camera as an act of "enabling" (commisioning) photos to be taken on it.
really studying style

I want to do this.
How did you go about it?
How is that reasonable? Sounds like Mr. Swartz was willing to host them for free! And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling police.

But seriously, $12/article is ludicrous. That must be way above cost recovery or they're not doing a very efficient job of running JSTOR. Perhaps the co-founder of Reddit would do a better job...
Hipmunk vs fly.com, revisited (Part I)
musl's abort() is quite elegant:
http://git.etalabs.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=musl;a=blob;f=sr...
We are always working really hard on quality of service for video. For example, note the button we have added to report video problems.

The biggest problem here is measuring quality - none of the obvious metrics really correlate.

That said, sorry you had a bad experience and we will strive to make sure in the future you have a good one.
Cop Shot During Child Porn Bust At 'Harry Potter' Premiere (VIDEO)
Right, because the standard penalty for trespass onto campus property is a federal indictment. Good thing no MIT student has ever snuck into a restricted area before.
Reminds me of a Radiolab podcast about parasites and the improvement of productivity in the deep south as a result of the introduction of outhouses.

http://www.radiolab.org/2009/sep/07/

(it's the part about farmers, not sure about a specific seek to point, sorry it's been a while)
This path followed to its logical conclusion leads to turing's tarpit.
PM of India uses Hotmail to issue a statement condemning the terrorist attacks.
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Voter turnout can be increased with a simple word change
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How to win in the service industry
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>i don't think 'generate password' is more vulnerable

No offense, but I listed reasons why it is more vulnerable.

>Also to make 'the link' more secure we need to verify the user identity.

What? No. That's completely wrong. You're inherently trusting the user's email address. Maybe make them answer a security question before sending the link, but otherwise, there's nothing else to secure.

If the user can't login, how do you plan to verify the user identity? And I have no idea what "need to store the user identity in the application" is supposed to mean...
You don't need to be a jerk. In fact, if you're a real jerk, it's probably not going to be half the product you want it to be.

Here's the trick. You've hired smart people, right? These folks aren't just grunts (not that anybody is); they're creative individuals who happens to be highly skilled in areas that you value. And you're paying them. So given that, if you don't listen to them, or if you make them feel like they aren't valued members of the team, simply put, you're wasting money.

Listening to them, however, is not the same as acting on what they say. Widening the gene pool of ideas is smart; losing focus is not. You know what you want to see, and you know what the end goal is, and your role as a manager is to motivate your team to aim for that. You need to guide them towards the finish line, while simultaneously keeping control over the end product and giving them a sense of ownership. After all, if someone feels like the product is (in part) their baby, and if they have a sense of shared responsibility with the rest of the team, they're going to work harder, be more free to come up with potentially groundbreaking ideas, and be more likely to come up with something that makes people sit up and take notice.
I think you completely missed the point.

The article is talking about developing countries with poor sanitation. Banupur, for instance, has a population of 58,000 per square mile.

What the the population density on your grandfather's farm? Do you think doing your business behind a house scales to 58,000 per square mile?
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> microwave plasma gasification may be energy self-sufficient, provided that [...] high throughput of human waste matter can be obtained.

EPIC way to say "for god's sake keep shitting"
Why humans can't draw
7 Things Facebook Should Do To Increase Security
No. Oh god no. You have to get things done a certain way, and that might mean cutting out X, Y, and Z that one or another developer likes working on, and rallying people to work long hours, and several tedious i-dotting and t-crossing iterations at the end, but there's no need to be a jerk in the course of it. Only jerks will tell you otherwise.
The link specifically asks that question -- there are some good guesses in the comments.
Um, I don't know, maybe because he wrote a manifesto to that effect and has circulated various methods for doing so? He was sponsoring a google group for article requests for awhile. Seems to be gone now.
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Not contra-style. Remember the Battle Tank game on NES? http://ui13.gamespot.com/1100/battlecity1a_2.png That kinda stuff. I played it in co-operative mode (2-player) with my dad during nights when I was a kid. Loved it :)

I'm actually doing these just to get a good feel of gamedev before plunging into anything even a bit complex.
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As an interesting corollary, it's actually a longitudinally studied and extensively documented fact that winning the lottery does not provide long-term happiness.

More often than not, it actually causes more problems than it solves. I forget the statistic off the top of my head, but some astounding percentage of lottery winners -- let's say 75% -- end up worse off within 5 years of winning than they were before they won. (Granted, a lot of that has to do with the fact that the type of person most likely to be playing the lottery is also the type of person who has no real concept of the value of how to manage a $XXX million fortune, let alone a $XXX million fortune acquired literally overnight).
Thats what time machine with a relatively slow external firewire HDD is for. It would only lag by an hour at most.
It is a very good question indeed. And the answer is - yes, I do think so (actually I did 1 year ago, because now the 3.x market share is close to nil). Many 3G owners do wonders to downgrade back to 3.x for performance reasons. And they do spend money.

Consider European markets where costs to upgrade iPhone 3G to 3GS/4G are much more than $200.
It's relatively easy, but the phrase "skating on thin ice" comes to mind. The laws in this space are so fluid that it's a full-time job keeping up with them. Put another way, if you want a hack job you can get it done for a relative pittance. If you want some ineffable peace-of-mind, it doesn't happen through normal channels. There or anywhere else. And I'm still relatively new to this, but someone's gotta push the industry forward because it's dead-stagnant and everybody knows it. I should probably back this up by saying, this isn't my full-time job, and if anything I see the software licensing being much more lucrative than the casino itself, which is ephemeral to the ideal of building the best games ever™
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Bug in Java Object.hashCode documentation
It's in our nature that achievement makes us happy. I think it has something to do with Dopamine being released into our brains.

What I've found to be the secret for myself is that I only appreciate something as much as the effort it took to get it. It doesn't really matter what it is I'm trying to get, how much I enjoy the result seems to depend entirely on how much effort it took to achieve. If I work my ass off for $100, then it might feel like the best $100 I ever made. If someone hands me $1,000,000, I won't turn it down, but I won't care about it nearly as much as that hard-earned $100.

So setting realistic but challenging goals keeps us happy. If the bar's too low we don't appreciate the gains. Too high and we can lose our motivation.

Money can be part of those goals but it doesn't have to be.

It really starts to blow your mind when you start applying this principle to everything in life (I'm not running a cult or anything, ymmv).
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Emmanuel Carabott chats with Securityskeptic about vulnerabilities, patch management and what small and medium businesses should do
look, you said this:

"Most areas where men are at a broad disadvantage are caused by male tendencies acting against themselves, not by other groups discriminating against men (e.g. the violent crime issue, which is not caused by discrimination but by male violent tendencies). Fundamentally, I don't care as much when people are hoist on their own petard as when they hoist others on the same."

Tell me then, how is it an innocent man's fault when society assumes he is a pedophile when he is simply playing with his kids at the park? Or why is criminal sentencing so much more severe for men than for women who have committed an equivalent crime?
I would argue that while discrimination is still significant in the US. IMO, the magnitude of net discrimination is fairly small. It’s not hard to find cases where men have an advantage. However, being a Man is a horrible disadvantage in child custody battles. In the eyes of the law when two drunken people have sex it’s often assumed that the man took advantage of the situation etc. Men receive less support in cases of domestic abuse and are more often killed. Infract only 10 year old boys are less likely than their female counterparts to die in any given year etc.

Biologically you can look at say men’s increased chance of baldness vs. PMS and think men have an advantage. But socially the cost / benefit analysis is harder to balance and harder to suggest that one side has a clear advantage because it comes down to how you weigh different parts of the equation.
Is there actually a legitimate use for 0x0 iFrames that can't be easily replicated some other way? Why do we allow them?
First of all, there isn't enough evidence to say whether that's because of privilege or because women are naturally more intelligent than men.

Second, we can sure talk about specific environments. Talk to any white kid who grew up in a black neighborhood, they sure don't feel like they're better off for being white. And, yeah, that's bad. We should be doing something to help that kid. But his bad experience doesn't change the reality that when he leaves his neighborhood, when he goes to a job interview or to court or really just about, he is better off for being white.

So, sure. Girls are doing better than boys in school. The last entering freshmen class at my school was almost 2:1 female. Am I worried? Not really. Men still run the world.

We should be talking about how to help boys do better in school. We should also make sure we don't forget that women are an oppressed class, and that any solutions we try aren't contributing to the overall oppression of women.

Which probably means we should get women to do it.
djb's allocator alloc() does this. He preallocates a 4 KB static buffer before hitting system malloc(). Avoiding the overhead of malloc() is pretty important for the performance of systems like qmail that fork many small processes.
I think the target market is people disillusioned with Ubuntu. I was a long time user of the Elementary GTK theme which probably facilitated this transition. Basically, I don't agree with Ubuntu's new default personality and how it basically forces it down your throat. I feel like with ElementaryOS, you install the packages you need as opposed to having to remove the ones you don't. It's really Ubuntu with a different philosophy
You don't understand. The article mentions Koons' case only because it is so unusual. Anyone who understands art typically agrees that Koons should have won. In fact, this case could be used as a way to gauge someone's grasp of what contemporary art is.
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Anybody with a library card to a major public library can get this stuff for free over the web.
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