skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the interest of fairness it should probably be pointed out that Dworkin rejected that interpretation of her work.

Which is fair enough. At the same time, she did write things like:

Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women

Or:

A human being has a body that is inviolate; and when it is violated, it is abused. A woman has a body that is penetrated in intercourse: permeable, its corporeal solidness a lie. The discourse of male truth--literature, science, philosophy, pornography--calls that penetration violation. This it does with some consistency and some confidence. Violation is a synonym for intercourse. At the same time, the penetration is taken to be a use, not an abuse; a normal use; it is appropriate to enter her, to push into ("violate") the boundaries of her body.

Personally I think she was backpeddling, but please have a read of what she wrote:

http://feastofhateandfear.com/archives/dworkin.html
The claims of it being so significant are odd given that I've never heard of them (or have forgotten or it was during a time I was not involved). Some reference to when might help as there have probably been 5 different servers with the same name.

Some of the background information is not current. For example, iRO does not require a subscription to play (even on the the VIP server). I would also disagree with the characterization of iRO's servers as not having inter-guild competition, but I don't think HN is a place for debating the history of Loki, Chaos, Iris and Sakray.
Too little to show for 5 years.
Unicahome Hits Southern Alberta
Google page speed
Google page speed service, another great service provided by google that can be really useful.
Hi all,

I am original poster of "Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech".

Now I get to brag around the office that Steve Yegge rage-posted because of me ^_^

I am really sorry if I caused some trouble, but I was just interpreting things as i heard them, he really did say "... quitting that JOB..."

I would like to say that I totally agree with Steve. But unlike him I can't afford to quit my "job", but what I can afford is to setup my PS3 and my desktop machines to work on folding@home and World Community Grid whenever they are idle.

Best,
Dragan.
> "Job stability? Reasonable hours? Promotion prospects, without working like a maniac?"

There are plenty of corporate programming jobs with those attributes.
Until you move and have to switch ISPs...
So admittedly I've only ever dealt with Paypal as a third party taking payment (as opposed to a few other systems where my server talked directly to the payment gateway).

One thing I noticed that the OP did not mention was whether or not the website's own 'transaction ID' was part of the transaction details being sent and / or whether or not the third party site returns a transaction ID themselves. At least with Paypal, the client makes the payment then they are returned to the original site with a 'receipt' transaction ID and it is then up to the original site to take that receipt number and do their own look up, back to Paypal, to ensure that the amount paid was actually the amount it wanted to be paid...

If that is happening with the OP's site, then I don't think there's anything stupid going on (or, at least, it's relatively simple to resolve).
Definitely agree- usually whenever I start looking at the source of an open source project it's difficult to figure out where things are. A top-down view of the project's architecture, besides just the source tree, would be extremely useful in situations like that.
How is any article about public schooling not going to be about politics? The public school system is inherently political by definition.
So for languages like Clojure,Scala does this offer any new feature for them?
Web Typography that people will read.
When the people who "designed" PHP did so, why did they think no existing language would do the trick? What was the problem with all the existing languages?

What problem were they trying to fix?
Nielsen Ranks Apple Top US Smartphone Maker
Summary: Security tester is paid to scan a bank, finds a vulnerable asset, reports back to the customer. Customer tells him he doesn't charge enough.

Here's my take: if he is charging $7, $10, $40, whatever, he's running automated scans. If the customer is suggesting they'd be willing to pay $10k, they are most likely under the impression this is a real, full-fledged pen-test. That is a massively dangerous assumption. A real pen-test is not just some process you kick off and walk away. It involves real investigation, testing, and analysis. Charging $7, $40, would bankrupt a tester.
Cool. Where does the electricity come from?
Typical tech "journalism":

> The problem is HTML5 is not scheduled for official approval by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) until 2014.

Does anybody care about this, anywhere? It's relevant inasmuch as not all features of the spec(s) have been implemented, but it's been well established that XHTML2 killed the waterfall model for web-dev. The whole reason HTML5 is thriving is due to ongoing incremental improvements, not a hardcoded release date.

> If you’re not looking to monetize your app then, absolutely, you should go for HTML5. If you’re looking to monetize it. then native coding for the App Store is still the way to go.

This completely ignores the fact that you can build native apps using HTML5, not to mention all the successful freemium/subscription based web apps (the model works far better for Basecamp than Angry Birds, but it's still working well for many).
Leo Laporte is Wrong: Geeks WILL Make or Break Google+
I was at a tech meetup a couple of weeks back and I walked in to see a lot of women. It was really refreshing.

Fast-forward a little bit and you can hear guys snickering when the women went up.

I don't understand it but I fucking hate it. My sister is great at her job (IT project management) and my daughter loves programming. I can't wait for her to show some guy how to do the job.

Some of the women made the best presentations, maybe because they're women but probably because they're just smart.

I wish I could punch all of those insecure, sexist guys in the mouth.
If people don't want to be harmed by association, then they should take an actively anti-sexist stance, and push for that within the industry.

You're saying I have to become an outspoken feminist for people to not call me sexist. Not only is that unfair (saying I have to become a part of your movement just so i'm not falsely accused myself, tantamount to blackmail) it's unrealistic. People don't generally win fighting for causes they do not represent. When people want rights or to be treated fairly they have to stand up and demand it because nobody is going to just hand it to them.

If there really is rampant sexism in the IT industry, women need to organize and force the system to change. Blog posts will not do anything.
Oh really? The current gasoline price in Germany is around 1.588 Euro per liter which is 6.01 Euro per gallon (stupid imperial unit) or glorious 8,57 Dollar.

Still no electric cars.
That's not how it worked at my university. I had some choice as far as what order I could take classes in, but everything still worked at the same pace no matter what.
On a Win98 machine I'm currently keeping alive (don't ask). It's the most modern browser you can get on that platform.
How did this article hit the front page? What is insightful or interesting about it?

"This attitude is a natural outgrowth of our decision to operate education as a monopoly."

This is blatantly not true, in the US we do not operate education as a monopoly. There are plenty of private schools.
No, this has changed. With the start of Lion Apple is no longer the gatekeeper and as was previously reported they are working with Oracle to create new releases of OpenJDK which is why people like myself are wondering where the release is since Apple was stepping away from being the gatekeeper.
You're right - I'll make an edit with time frame. The project started about three years ago, and went through 3 versions. I'll make sure to mention all the details in future posts.

Send me an email, and I'll forward you some more definitive proof if you like. You could visit our forums, but I've archived old version discussions in preparation for v4, which may not launch (plus there might be too much trolling for this community to enjoy!). But yeah, I don't want to debate RO specifics here - that wasn't the point. I just wanted to share the experience.
"Hacking" term has been overused. But this here is top-notch social engineering
A "budget" price point phone would be better understood in terms of market segmentation rather than market share; i.e. getting money from people who have a lower maximum price, now that they've gotten money from those who are willing to pay more.

If they wanted market share, they would have just led with the "budget" phone.
Your reference seems to miss the point. The question is - what was wrong with existing languages? Why was JavaScript developed instead of using an existing language?

What problem was it trying to fix?
Even on traditional BIOS systems, you can do tricky things like use isohybrid to generate an iso that can be either burned to optical media, or directly dd'd to a thumb drive and booted (using syslinux).

Another approach (my personal one) is to use a combination of grub/memdisk on a thumb drive to provide a list of bootable isos.
I don't know precisely how it works in Scotland, but presumably they had evidence sufficient to obtain a warrant for the arrest. Are you really saying the police should have to prove guilt before arresting suspects?
Mixcloud ( http://www.mixcloud.com ), which I am suprised is not on the list.

After that, youtube and a bit of grooveshark.

And I have not used spotify since their removal of "spotify free" accounts.
Under the Hood - Lymbix - Sentiment Analysis/Intelligence is hard
Is speaking up when people say or do sexist things really so difficult or odious?
Find Google rank in 160 countries - RankOG.com
For dynamic JVM languages, the new invokedynamic bytecode is a huge performance boost.
"So, if you had quite a few good teachers, and only a few bad ones, doesn't that entirely invalidate your first 2 paragraphs?"

Not at all. I would have to assume he is describing the current state of education as he sees it and not his direct experience with education from whenever he was previously in school. It is perfectly fine for him to say that, in his opinion, there are fewer good teachers today than there were yesterday.
At the college level, private schools certainly do cater to the individual. I was fast in math, regular speed in everything else. They put me into grad level math and physics classes, while my writing/history/etc classes were still at the normal pace.

I don't see much reason why the incentives would be different below the college level.

Whenever you want to ask "what would a privatized primary education system do", you can often ask instead "what does the privatized secondary education system currently do?"
Yes, invokedynamic[1]

1. http://blog.headius.com/2008/09/first-taste-of-invokedynamic...
Because the President of the United States is a preposterously entitled individual, and Nixon is one of the few that got caught while probing the limits of that entitlement.

Arguing that something is plausible is not the same as arguing that something happened.
Does this mean that by going with Google, you'll also mitigate the risk of DDoS's? Because I know that was one of Cloudfare's advantages, too.
Android Now Controls 39% Of The U.S. Smartphone Market
total sarcasm
It's not perfectly fine without evidence, it's just unsupported rambling about how things are going to hell, in direct contradiction of what little anecdotal evidence he has, in order to prop up an ideologically favored argument.
Apple has aggressively patented a lot of key features in iOS
and it seems that many Android handsets are infringing.

Seriously? Did you consider spending maybe a few minutes looking at the patents Apple is asserting in these lawsuits before forming your opinion?

To take the current example that drives me nuts, the 2 (of 10) patents Apple asserted against HTC that were "upheld" (air-quotes specifically intended) as part of the initial determination at the ITC are from the 90s (94 and 96, IIRC) years before anything innovative meaningfully related to iOS was a gleam in anyone's eye.

Even better, as asserted by Apple, Hacker News is infringing on one of those "upheld" patents when it turns this text into a clickable link: http://www.google.com

Apple's lawsuits have only an accidental (at best) relationship to any IP that is part of iOS and nothing to do with any key features of iOS whose related IP Android handsets might allegedly be infringing. Instead, Apple rummaged around in their archives to find everything halfway-plausible that they could throw at their Android competitors. It may be understandable business and legal strategy, but it is also deplorable and the patent system needs to be fixed so that it is not exploitable in this way (as well as many others, of course).
Does this really solve the whole problem? I've seen BIOSes (even on reasonably recent machines) which were unable to boot from an USB key, but I'm not sure that they would all have been able to boot from an USB optical drive either.
From what I heard gerrymandering means ~2/3 of general elections are fairly uninteresting. But, you still see fairly wide swings in public sentiment leading to a fair amount of churn in public office. Also, in extreme cases people can treat the primary as if it was the general election.
Yes, Clojure will profit from Fork/Join:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurr...

For example see here, pvec:
http://clojure.org/other_libraries

Of course, improvements like the GC1, improvements in HotSpot etc, they all will make Clojure apps run even faster.
It is even better when using anecdotal evidence to support an unbased board generalization. It was designed to be a sarcastic humourous post.
Yes [1]. Invokedynamic (JSR-262). Quote from an older article [2]:

"... enable[s] implementers of compilers for dynamically typed languages, that is, the people who develop compilers for languages such as JRuby and Jython, to generate bytecode that runs extremely fast in the JVM."

[1] http://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/jsr_292_launched_in_java

[2] http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/DynTypeLang/...
It might be helpful to know what ISP this guy used.
I'm saddened (but not surprised) at the negative reaction to the google boob picture. The fact is, there's nothing bad about that picture at all, and Tom is not a misogynist for posting it.

Take a close look. There are 3 people in that photo. All three are smiling. All three are having fun. What exactly is wrong with that photo?

Is it bad because it portrays the woman as a sex object? Why is that bad? Does it means that all women are sex objects? Obviously not. Does it mean that the woman in the photo is ONLY good for sex? Obviously not.

So what's wrong with the photo? Is it because it encourages men to think of all women that way? Has any such sort of causal link been found? How many men at your office slap you on the ass on a daily basis? How many of them take you right there, on the office desk, just like in a pornographic magazine's depiction? What percentage of men behave like creeps? 1%? Do you honestly think that the only thing keeping the other 99% from going on a rape orgy is that they haven't been fed enough sexist propaganda? Do you think that the 1% would magically stop if you could just remove all material you find objectionable from the world?

Who is to blame for the inappropriate behavior of these creeps? Licentious media? Just like violent video games turn our children into vicious killers? Just like marijuana turns people into psychopaths? If someone stabs someone with a kitchen knife, do you blame Henkel? If someone steals a car, do you blame Grand Theft Auto? If someone rapes a woman, do you blame pornography?

Blaming someone else for a person's bad behavior is naive, childish, and dangerous. The person to correct is the person who committed the act.

So what's wrong with that photo? Is it because its sexual nature offended some people? Some people are offended by a picture of two guys kissing. Should we condemn that too?

Do you believe in the possibility of some women actually ENJOYING being treated like a sex object? If not, your objection becomes very understandable. It's fairly common to wrongly assume that everyone else thinks the same way as you do. If the thought of being treated that way disgusts you, then you'd probably assume that nobody in their right mind would enjoy it. You'd probably go through a laundry list of reasons why someone would participate:

* She was coerced into it

* She's not in her right mind

* She was drugged or drunk

The problem is that this line of thinking leads to the misogynistic view that women are somehow incapable of making their own decisions (we see this already in legislation that excuses the woman for having sex while drunk, but not the man). Suddenly, woman is a poor, defenseless creature who must be protected from everybody, especially herself.

So what's wrong with that photo? All three members are consenting and enjoying themselves. Who are you to criticize their choice?
North face discount
You have ignored the 18 years leading up to the university.

Infants: Pink clothes (ok, no biggie)

Toddler: dolls, playing mommy and dressup

Preschool: more of toddler, perhaps getting into TV now. Oh look, none of the women on TV are into science or tech. Maybe I shouldn't be either.

School: Come on Carly, let's play with dolls. But I wanna play on the computer. LOSER.

Teenager: What kind of a nerd plays with electronics and gadgets, lets go shopping!

So society is completely geared towards beating it out of them. As the father of a pre-teen who has probably solved more software bugs than most her age and is deeply into robotics, it is a constant, constant battle even though she loves the field.

Let's not forget all the aunties, grandmas and neighbours who don't encourage tech curiosity for girls. "Hey, here's another shitty fashion toy for your birthday" meanwhile, the girl is thinking "I really wanted a gizmo... oh well." Even though dad specifically sent around suggestions for the next robot she wants to build.

Your universities can want females all they want, but society... I want to punch it sometimes.

Edit: I should mention that TV is getting a little better with this. There are a couple of female leads in shows that are technically oriented.
Eureka: A New Era for Scientists and Engineers
That's a great point. The HN community's a great microcosm. There are a few sexist jerks, and a number of guys who routinely defend sexist jerks. Of course there are also plenty of guys who speak out about sexism, and then there's what seems like the the vast majority: guys who would rather not talk about it. The net result, my women friends tell me, is that the overall feel is hostile to women.
Different culture. Different daily life transportation realities.
Steve Jobs unveils new Apple campus that literally looks like a mothership
Well, I'd allow students the option to take the final exam once per semester at any time. Those that pass at 90% would be transferred to a mixed-grade same-subject classroom for that period where they could study at their own pace.

I'd start with Khan Academy math, since they've got pretty good tools for supervising students learning at different rates, and the math track is pretty thorough for someone in K-12.

Since the students are self-selected, I wouldn't expect significant discipline problems, and since each mixed-grade classroom focuses on a specific subject there exists the possibility for easier collaboration.

I think this model would stand a greater chance of success in middle- or high schools where students have a class schedule. I don't think it would be practical in very small schools; however, I would expect that very small schools already have their own ways of handling students learning at different rates for budgeting reasons.
True, plenty of private schools, but it depends on your definition of monopoly. Microsoft had competition but that didn't stop the lawsuits from the Feds.

Government education may not be a monopoly in appearance but in many cases it sure does behave as one. Look up the examples of local government education bureaucracies doing much to attempt to eliminate those private schools as competition.

Washingto D.C. is an excellent example of this.

In many areas I would define government education as a monopoly simply because they do everything they can to prevent you from not entering your child into their system. And they use government force to do so.
Worst case Coal which costs far less than Oil. The really good news is the US has a lot of Coal and Coal has a drasticly lower carbon footprint because of reduced extration, refining, and transportation costs per BTU.
When I was in college I do recall there being a stigma associated with "studying too much" among Black students. It wasn't that they didn't study, but too much time talking about academics was frowned upon -- and it was very non-competitive. With my Asian friends it was quite the opposite. Not only was it common to spend a lot of time in study groups, there was a fair bit of grade competition. It was friendly competition (at least from the exterior), but there was definitely a level of grade competition that I didn't see among Blacks (or Whites for that matter).

I think its great to point out these studies. Make them part of the HS curricula to learn about them. But at the end of the day I think each of us needs to make our own decision about our path forward.

Myself, I was a pretty good student. And I partied some, but looking back a little more partying probably wouldn't have killed me.
If one wants to avoid Google, they also need to make sure anyone they e-mail isn't using GAFYD. How many anti-Google folks do that?
That's ridiculous when applied to college education in general. Do you really think that history, mechanical engineering or business majors graduate only to find that their education is rendered uselessly out of date?
* > A boss will assume they have no real talent, for some reason. While a guy who shows any ability will often be seen as a genius. People just don't assume that girls are hardcore hackers, while they assume that any guy who talks the talk (and wears are really bad t-shirt) is.*

IMHO, promotion is rarely done based on merit. Welcome to corporate life.

(Also, you have to actually show your boss you are a hardcore hacker. My boss will assume I have no talent too unless I demonstrate it)
As much as I'd like to see us move away from oil, everything I've seen has pointed to corn ethanol not being very good for the task.
I made the first real-time, online, turn-based games for the iPhone/iPod Touch before the App Store existed. They used Javascript and AJAX and worked well, but couldn't compete with Apps in the App Store when it was later released. HTML5 does not change that.

The App Store killed the Web App by offering native device functions to developers. These functions could theoretically be built-in to Safari with some custom Javascript hooks, but I don't see much motivation for Apple to do that. I imagine it's more likely for Android to do.

While were on the subject, native hooks through Javascript would be freaking awesome, and make mobile apps much easier for existing websites to create.
I spent some time with a 6 year old, who was my girlfriend's nephew. I noticed that he spoke well and was very sharp, but wasn't able to read. I suggested that we should read some things and he should learn to read, but no - his mother said that he was going to learn to read in 1st grade, with the other kids. Starting him earlier than that, she said, would stunt his social performance because he would be so far ahead of his peers.