skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hegemony is very distinct from the white supremacist movement. While white supremacists probably promote hegemonic practices, this does not mean that some engineer who didn't take the time to think about people in circumstances very different from his/her own is a white supremacist. Sadly, dominant members of a hegemonic culture (read: pretty much every culture) participate subconsciously to reinforce the hegemony simply by not being aware of it.

I understand that you don't like the Real Name requirement, but pulling out the Big Gun Labels like this is akin to calling Larry Page the New Hitler. It's not accurate, and all you're going to do is make people angry.
I watched the video lectures.
Originally discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2845485
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"It's not supposed to be something you learn from, but something you reference."

Is this a garden path sentence? I hope so because the beginning almost completely contradicts the ending.
>I wouldn't be surprised if Google paid $1M each for the 1,000 IBM patents they bought.

A billion dollar transaction does not happen quietly, and IBM would have no reason to keep it quiet. This was strategic for IBM (which is actually a bizarrely responsible corporation): They have a strategic interest in seeing Google empowered.
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...to make sure Google didn’t get them

I haven't been following this closely, but isn't this phrase contradicted by having been invited to be in the band of Rockstars?
I'm not saying there isn't a market, I'm saying that the value of something is not solely determined by what someone else is willing to pay. That determines the price, but not the value.

But if someone purchases something without the intent to sell, that doesn't negate that it's worth/value can not be calculated.
Studies where conducted (at Apple I think), experts made more mistakes about vi current edit state than beginners who where constantly checking it visually. Other studies checked experts on GUI stuff, and they where making more mistake with shortcuts and took longer to correct them than by using the mouse all the way.
But there was a big problem: when asked they never recognized it and had to be shown the actual numbers to undertand it.
Looks like a confirmation bias all the way down.
buy a book. write code.

If you're serious about it, I recommend The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth. You should start with volume 1.
Assume you mean DPRK?
Pork gyro with spätzle. Both are sold in every supermarket here in Germany and taste good enough even without additional spices -- easy to make in a skillet, and enough to last you for several meals (and the pork ain't even that fat, about 8%).

Don't know whether that gets me going, but at least it doesn't hinder me too much, as I can just warm it up whenever I'm hungry, and just eat it with a fork at the desk. Good for those days when I don't want to be too distracted but want something warm and meaty. If that isn't necessary, I'm going with rolls and cold cuts -- or cherries and bananas. (I'm weaning myself of cookies a bit. Not good hacker food, as it's too easy to finish a package…)
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HelloFax.com (YC startup) has a free plan with 5 faxes/month.

I've had great luck with them as a paying customer. Very responsive to user feedback.
That is basically what happens, at least some of the time. The bots are mostly volunteer-run rather than something official or consistent (framework code and an API are open), but I've definitely had bots come by and improve my citations, usually doing things like converting a bare nytimes.com or jstor.com URL into a proper citation.

An interesting project for HN folks might be to write bots to take care of stuff that isn't currently being automated. Of course, perhaps instead we want the Wikimedia Foundation doing more of this. They're moving in that direction to some extent, though I don't much like that. In the past I've argued against that direction, because I think one of Wikipedia's strengths is its open, volunteer-run nature, rather than being a professionalized/bureaucratized NGO type organization with paid staff and centralized organization--- I'd rather WMF just ran the servers.
Not at all. Microsoft and Apple simply want to make sure that Google has nothing to counter their patent attacks with. They don't want Google to have them. Now Google sharing them with its two biggest antagonist...even footing a part of the bill...no surprise that they don't mind that.
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That's a misleading dichotomy. All artists develop and mature over time, even at the start. You don't need to be fully developed to nevertheless have meaningful work and artistic talent that others would appreciate. Look at xkcd, for example, imagine if randall munroe had said "maybe I should wait until I have something more meaningful to say, and until I have better drawing skills".

Sure, maybe you don't quit your day job if you're still incubating a nascent talent, but you don't have to hide it away from the public. Indeed, one of the best ways to improve artistic skills is to merely exercise them a lot, and to get your work out in front of thoughtful critics and fans. Don't force artistic development into a waterfall process, it can be iterative and agile.
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A typical skyscraper ad can cost the end user 6 times it worth in utility.
I forwarded to the interesting point - you will need to rewind to the beginning to get the methodology and back story.
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Great point. Bookmarked.

To see how to do trade schools without the stigma, look at Germany. They do it Right.
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That depends on the social mores that arise.

I have someone in my circles with over 200 people connected. Using a name that would not pass the Google+ name challenge. Yet not one would ever challenge that account because that pseudonym is the right name that that account should be using.
Are you trying to turn them away from programming? That book is a little heavy for a designer to learn.

If you're already a web-designer I'd suggest learning HTML and CSS which are used to turn your designs into marked up and styled pages. Then a easy transition is learning JavaScript which is a programming language and will nail down the basics of programming and how they apply to what you are already familiar with.

Then you move on to Knuth books when you want to branch out from JavaScript.
Apple and Microsoft not suing Google. They are suing Android manufacturers and they are suing them back. If you say those manufacturers are google then google suing them back.
After her efforts to substantively alter the bill (to defang it or at least add oversight) were rejected, Rep. Zoe Lofgren proposed to rename the act to, "Keep Every American's Digital Data for Submission to the Federal Government Without a Warrant Act of 2011."

See Amendment 36 at: http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/mark_07272011.html
Right that was my point... that the top 0.1% would probably have more. How did you arrive at the ~1k number you did? By extrapolating from general population incidence of sociopaths? That only works with even distribution.
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If I were interested in Pokemon, I would assume that would be an interesting piece of information.
> Where did they argue that it was for offensive reasons?

And since when a weapon directed at someone who's attacking you is offensive?
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Something to learn from, to me, means tutorial-like material. Something that gives an overview, examples, general theory, more examples, exercises, cross-correlations, and other things intended to help you to learn.

Something you reference means, to me, something in which you go and check facts. Hence the contrast with the idea of learning from it.

Some people can learn from reference works. In my experience they are in a minority. Most people need extensive examples, context, relationships, and exercises.

I believe WikiPedia is intended to be a reference work, something to be referred to in order to check facts. I believe WikiPedia is intended not to have tutorial material or other aspects designed to aid learning.

I hope that makes my beliefs clear, as well as my understanding of the specific terms used.

And I'm confused by your use of the term "Garden Path Sentence." The sentence you quote doesn't seem to offer any opportunity to re-interpret it partway through, nor to have an alternative interpretation (which suddenly becomes impossible to continue) up to some point. So I guess all you mean is that you don't understand, because you think the sentence is oxymoronic or, more simply, self-contradictory. If that's the case, I hope I've clarified it sufficiently.
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Sure it is. On the kit that Company X owns, it gets to set whatever policies it likes.

I think the word "social" is confusing people. These are not public utilities like electricity or water.
A billion dollar transaction does not happen quietly

It wasn't very quiet (that it happened). People think Nokia may have gotten $630M from Apple as licensing fees showed up in the quarterly report. Of course there isn't a line item that says, "From Apple". My point is that people just knew a transaction took place, but didn't know the price. This is the same thing with IBM. Maybe IBM sold for less, but they're not stupid. They could empower Google and get a lot of money at the same time. As you say, IBM is responsible, and responsible companies don't leave money on the table.

Terms of these sorts of private negotations and settlements are usually kept quiet. Often part of the agreement itself.
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I don't see how anyone can even build on a proprietary platform without knowing the costs upfront. Google was different in that google allowed you to use existing frameworks such as spring and jpa, and if you encapsulated the code properly , migrating was easy.
PHP is also a fairly easy leap from HTML/CSS.

With JS or PHP, learn what they're actually for, and then come up with something useful you can create with it. Doing is learning. Reading alone is useless.
Enter the Cyber-dragon
"But if there's no conflict, how is that a bad thing?"

sarcasm alert wikipedia appear to operate under the principle that hard drive space is expensive
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Looks cool but I'm having some trouble reading the font for some reason.
I realize that names of companies or services don't have to be descriptive but surely it's a good idea for them not to describe perfectly something completely different...
That wasn't at all what I was expecting from the title. This could have easily been "How to be a good business co-founder". You did what you was supposed to do as a business co-founder, and Chris did what he was supposed to do. I wish all business co-founders understood what their jobs are.
The reason notability criteria is there...

They're guidelines. Why is that such a hard concept for wikipedia admins and editors to understand?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

"This page is an article notability guideline."
I don't think they mean to do that. If so, where would be apps developed? iPads? Sure not.

We need Macs as much as they do.
The so-called economic recovery described in a single graph.
So is your argument that the system does not promote cultural hegemony, or that it is not intended to promote cultural hegemony? Because the latter, while it may be true, is largely irrelevant. I think it's entirely possible that you can get forces that promote hegemony as an unintended consequence of seemingly innocuous design decisions, or else as an emergent phenomenon of complex systems.

I'm not trying to call Larry Page the new Hitler, rather I'm just pointing out that there is an existing word for what Danah Boyd and others are describing.
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> Sure it is. On the kit that Company X owns, it gets to set whatever policies it likes.

Not when Company X is bound by the edict "Don't be evil," as is the parent of the product in question, here.

You have a fundamental right to represent your identity in whatever way is necessary to protect yourself from harm or harassment. Any company that makes money from codifying your identity but doesn't recognize that right is run by assholes.
i'd point out that he mentions two examples, the average the guild episode clocking in at 10 minutes, the average never not funny episode clocking in at 1h 30m.
Ah, but it is all about perception. The same thing happened at reddit a few times.

The mob decided someone was guilty, we investigated, found absolutely no wrongdoing. Told the community, they didn't care. They would only be happy with swift, visible action.
That's not what it says though. Drummond said, "Google didn't get them", period. You either get them (which they could have) or you don't. Now you can add to that with additional constraints and rationale, which is what Google did in their update, but it's no longer the same statement. It's not a simple clarification, but a change of statement.

Google tried to give the impression that they were blocked from getting the patents at all. Now they reveal their true motivation, which wasn't a simple "get them", but rather a more nuanced "we wanted to get them, and also have them not get them, so that we could use them against them". I think this is a perfectly valid reason Google gives, but its not what they were trying to evoke in their first blog post. They were trying to tug at heart strings at first -- this update is just kind of like, "Oh, big companies doing what big companies do -- again."
My apologies for not clarifying. I assumed all web-designers or at least most of them already know HTML/CSS. I know HTML/CSS, Javascript, some PHP, some python, some C. I have very basic programming skills.

I'm wondering how I can leave the web designer/developer field and move in a programming community. What steps should I take to emerse myself in the programming world. Knowing to program is obvious but how do I find work being an entry level programmer? It seems like all the jobs out there want pros.
Your parent's point of view is the current extension of political correctness taken to it's extreme. That is to say, the world is steadily being encroached by the idea that not expressly considering a minority in a decision is the same as actively campaigning against them.
Can someone fix that title? The viruses aren't cured, they are killed.

Also, are we sure that killing "a broad range of viruses" in one's body is a good idea? Killing "a broad range of bacteria" certainly is not.
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Mayer shared that he found himself asking himself questions like “Is this a good blog? Is this a good tweet? Which used to be is this a good song title? Is this a good bridge?

As much as I disdain this guy's style sometimes, he makes some excellent points. I take issue with this particular quote though. Perhaps his true calling is to be both a musician and commentator. There's nothing inherently wrong with letting oneself evolve and change focus. It's not like music is a dying art form or something
That is awesome. I laughed so hard my eyes started watering!
Kindle edition

https://github.com/twcamper/sicp-kindle
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can someone shortlist topics within linear algebra, probability and statistics that are more important for this AI call ? (Strang's class has 34 lectures and numerous topics in khan academy too)
This practice is actually very common. If you can't tack your legislative piece on to some 'sure bet' bill you just name it something that no person would ever vote against.

Got a piece of legislation on drilling for oil in Alaska? Call it the 'Freedom from Terrorism act' and just like that. It's approved. No one reads the entire Bill, so the name is a HUGE part of the process.
A lot of people have pre-existing pseudonyms that _are_ their online identities. Should they not be allowed to use that identity in Google+?
I'd like to eat a ton and put on weight. Muscles preferably.
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ender7 (an ironic name) did not refute the idea that the system promotes hegemony. His issue appears to be with your conflation of hegemony and white supremacy.

Your argument is a classic logical fallacy- "white supremacists want hegemony. We have a hegemony. Ergo, the system is run by white supremacists"
Clang fixes this. Also fixes most of the the disgusting strack-traces caused by C++ templates.
Yes. The Economist often quotes the prices of insuring against default of a creditor (like Greece) as an indicator of how likely they are to go bust.
Facebook also has such as mechanism. They call it "This profile is pretending to be someone or is fake" under their reporting options.
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> I actually appreciate Google making people use their real names, it's a step forward to actually having the ability to make people responsible for their actions online.

I'm going to be honest: your comfort and enjoyment of the internet is orders of magnitude less valuable to me than the knowledge that good, decent folks who are endangered by harmful zealots can have a safe place to communicate with their compatriots. If the companies responsible for these platforms don't recognize the importance of this opportunity, they're squandering their unique position to make some good money while making the world a better place. And that's a shame.
Most people are naysayers, they believe in a pessimistic universe and make choices accordingly. They will follow the herd where ever it goes. For the most part all you can do is convince them that the herd is going that way. You will never radically change their opinion. Ignore them and don't worry about it, spend time finding people who are ready to embrace whatever you are doing.

If you want to find out about convincing people, learn about rhetoric and learn about posturing (body language). Ensure that your body language matches your rhetoric and you will convince most of those that can be convinced. Spend time listening to what they are saying and change your pitch to reflect what they are saying. Understand their problems and show them how your product can help them. When speaking to a single person do not worry whether your product can help 10,000 other people worry about solving THEIR problem.

If you can't convince people of the greatness of your idea perhaps it is time to consider whether the idea is great in the first place. Your idea should be good enough that you can get them to sign a letter of intent to purchase conditional upon the product doing what you said it would do for them.

If the iPhone was a great idea, the Newton should have been the greatest idea since the wheel, but it was a shitty idea because it was 15 years ahead of the infrastructure required to make it useful. (3G internet / Facebook / Twitter / etc)
>Google wanted the patents to fight back against Microsoft, since Microsoft is the one probably leveraging the greatest patent tax against Android devices. A joint ownership of the patents would be useless against Microsof. They could leverage them against Apple, or Oracle, or other parties that didn't own them, however, but even that could be to Microsoft's benefit.

Here's the problem: Even if Google won the Novell bid, they would not be able to use the patents as a defense against MS. MS is licensing the patents from Novell, and I think that if any other party bought the patent pool, they would continue to license them from whomever bought the pool. So Google couldn't use them in a defensive manner. They could make life annoying for MS by increasing the fees, but that's about it, especially because if they increased the fees too high, they'd doing the exact same thing that MS is.

Plus, I think that the DoJ's decision to put the patents under GPLv2 and the OIN patent license would have been made regardless of who actually bought the pool, considering that a lot of the patents apply to Linux. So even if Google had won, it's not clear if it would have actually helped them in the end.
Yes indeed; if you want cultural diversity, head on out to the ghettos!
I wouldn't say they're killing off the Mac but transforming it. It's been pretty clear that Apple views the future as being gesture-based. Apple is slowly rewiring our brains for touch.

Cult of Mac isn't usually a source for accurate rumors but it wouldn't surprise me that this is true.
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I know it's a fairly common practice, but this is like an overly hyperbolic and exaggerated example you would give when describing the practice. A bit like saying "PATRIOT Act? What's next, the 'Protect our Children from Pornography' Act?" Apparently!

The fact that they actually went this far... I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
The problem isn't whether or not it was "fabricated"...I strongly trust the NY not to publish something that was fabricated by a reporter.

And that's what factcheckers do...help protect reporters from their own mistakes and also, protect the magazine from bad reporters.

In terms of secret situations, they do this by checking with the source. What happens when the source says exactly what the reporter recorded him/her saying, but the source him/herself is mistaken and there's no other way to check for that?

For example. The New Yorker's story has this statement:

>“There was never any question of detaining or capturing him—it wasn’t a split-second decision. No one wanted detainees,” the special-operations officer told me. (The Administration maintains that had bin Laden immediately surrendered he could have been taken alive.)

How does one factcheck this? You can call the source who will verify to you that yes, the reporter has quoted him correctly. Then you can call the administration who can also say, Yes, we have stated that OBL could've surrendered.

So what's truth and what's falsehood? The "truth" is that both parties here stands by their statements. If you want to know the truth about what shooting orders the operators really had, you would either ask an operator himself, or his immediate commanding officer. But the fact-checker doesn't have access to these, so while some anonymous source says that the mission was all about shoot-to-kill...we don't know if this article really gets us closer to the truth of that, and no fact-checker can help here.
I think those proposing a "Real Name" policy seem to be confused that having such a policy confers trust. Similarly, being anonymous does not automatically mean trolls everywhere. The fact is that even for sites with no RealName(tm) policy today, most of them have a ratio where normal conversation greatly outweighs trolls. So for the most part, the current model works.

I think we need to disassociate name => trust as a start and really start exploring how to cultivate a culture of expression without trying to force the whole name thing as a solution.

As a small example, given the recent storm around Airbnb and "EJ", can anyone (including Randi Zuckerberg) really advocate that EJ absolutely had to be using a real name in order to gain credibility?
You have to look at the opportunity costs, though. Lots of things get invented for the military in (or in preparation for) war. But more things would probably get invented in peacetime, just not as concentrated on one sector.