skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No sarcasm or humor. And your reaction is totally understandable - I think most guys have this reaction.

It's true that not ALL men treat women poorly, absolutely. The clincher is that many guys treat women poorly without realizing it. In their minds, in fact, they're liberal types who are pro-choice, pro-equality, etc.

The political comment was just my attempt at some humor. Living in the Bay Area I feel there's often a perception that "liberal guys" are automatically in the clear. So maybe that was a bit sarcastic.

Chattels - yes, here in the US and parts of Western Europe, women are not enslaved. But the "voluntary and bi-directional" bit is one of the biggest falsehoods that we believe in collectively. Sure, it's voluntary - both people said "I do", right?

Well, perhaps and perhaps not. You'd be surprised at the number of women (yes, even here in CA) who feel that their best bet for social mobility is marrying a guy who brings in money. In metro areas this is perhaps less true, but still very much a reality in many parts of this country. Whether women tell guys or not is another matter - in part because men just don't want to hear it.

Do I believe that women were treated better in the past than they are now? Of course not. Women have gotten more rights and freedoms which is a good thing.

The issue is that many guys assume (falsely) that just because women have these rights, they can continue to hold the same attitudes towards them in the past and things will continue on their merry way.

I think gender/sex/family views are the most entrenched views that people hold and the most resistant to change. People are incredibly freaked out by any kind of "deviation" from what is considered the norm.

So, that's why when I read these articles that talk about all kinds "socio-economic indicators" it sounds like complete BS to me. Not all of it, certainly, but if we're going to be candid I feel that it's the bottom line.

Men need to learn how to treat women better.

[UPDATE: interesting - getting downvoted]
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I'm looking for a shared work space where I can connect with other developers or creative individuals, exchange ideas, collaborate, etc.. Anyone know of any spaces like this in Portland?
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Unless Kubrick detailed how the tablet worked and its general layout at the software level, I doubt it.
It almost did. I was only 12 hours away from an empty post when I wrote this.

I try to write useful content, but often need a little encouragement. This helps me. It's not for everyone.

Thanks for the complements about my work. And you're right, I should create a favicon.
Nice to see Google+ encouraging Facebook to take users privacy more seriously, also the addition of more features is cool too.
First though was «they ported Fabric (http://fabfile.org) to node.js?! noway». And they didn't.
> Maybe Apple does not even believe they invented the tablet.

Of course they don't, tablets predate the iPad by years (just as Apple did not invent the cell phone). This is a design patent dispute. Apple's claim are that Samsung's output looks just a little bit too much like Apple's (supposedly originally designed) products.

> But they have to act as if they do, because it feeds their cult following

Ah, I see you come from /r/tech. Sorry about having interjected.
How old are your cousins? Americorps seems to recruit (only recruits?) twenty-something, recent college grads. The people I know who've gone to work for them were certainly in that age group. Other teachers I know (15+ years of teaching) seem to have a fair amount of freedom in their lesson plans and materials so I wonder if this is an issue with Americorps, younger teachers, or perhaps I've just known some fortunate teachers.
Only because the show didn't go into sufficient detail about how the replicator worked.
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Nice article. I didn't realize GAE had that ability.

Are you using it on your Listry site? I ask because your site doesn't have that many images on it.
The problem with merely shortening the lifespan of patents is hinted at by the logic in the argument for doing it. When we grant a monopoly to a party in return for a patent, what we are in essence saying is "If you hadn't filed here then we would not know of this invention until later."

This argument made sense when the system was first conceived because the norm for that time was to keep inventions as family secrets and innovators themselves were rare. But these days the norm is for some openness and there are so many innovators that there can be very little margin between first to invent and second to invent. Software patents in particular are problematic because it is far more open by its very nature -- the existence of a solution highlights the search space. The problem with merely shortening patents in this light is that it just adjusts the cost/benefit calculation on the basis of this being a sudden jump when this development is the result of a trend that has no signs of stopping.

Fortunately, the revision seems straightforward: revamp patents to make the calculation explicit. By the time software patents are completely useless, they will have a 0 year life (and be dead). Meanwhile if other fields end up as amendable to optimization as software is, we can gracefully scale down the patents there without having the same conversation all over again.
I write Python scripts, write HTML and jQuery. I do not have anything concrete yet.
As somebody already mentioned below, the case in question is based on a design patent. A design patent only protects the ornamental design of something not how something works.

A tablet shown in a movie is a perfectly fine and perfectly usable example of a publication of an ornamental design.
I would like to be in NY/NJ area. A recent family tragedy makes me want to stay close.
They really should deal with spamming/phishing blogspot blogs first.
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Hi everyone,

I have a relatively simple web application idea that I would like to have developed. It would involve facebook/twitter integration, simple listings that people could buy, PayPal integration to purchase the listings, and then email notifications to let the seller and buyer know that the item had been purchased. For the sellers, they would be able to login again to post more listings. I would take a 15% cut of each listing sold. While I know it's not a lot, I only have a budget of $500. Anyone interested feel free to contact me at selfey.sw@gmail.com. Thanks!
What would be more impressive; Facebook having had these changes in the works before anyone thought they were a good idea or that they pivoted and did a major revamp to their #1 feature (user data) in a month?
The parent had a specific question about Apple's profits outside of hardware sales. Third party advertisements do not make money for Apple.
http://treesaverjs.com might be close to what you're suggesting:

"Treesaver® is a JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style
layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS."
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I was - sad. I'm a WebOS fanboy, watched live streams of the HP revelations in the beginning of the year? What? 'Available in Summer?'

The price reduction was amazing, but the servers didn't hold out. And - and this is where I'm really unhappy - lots of people I heard about used this as a business chance. 'Hey, let's order six of these devices and sell them for profit on eBay'..

Bah. I own a Palm Pre Plus, really looked forward to buy Pre 3 & Touchpad. After waiting and waiting and waiting I gave in and upgraded my phone with an Android device. The price reduction would've been a nice chance to grab at least one current WebOS device (and look into tablet use cases), but 'entrepeneurs' like those above ruined it. Really, I spent all in all ~10~ hours of manual refreshing and checking if I can get one. Meh.
Absolutely agree - this is proof-positive that some hard competition drives quick improvements across an entire industry. We'll end up with two excellent social services, rather than just one large, mediocre one.
You don't agree that it is existential for HP to be in tablet business, even if it generates negative or close to zero margin (much like their PC, printer etc. office equipment businesses do now)?

How long do you think will they be able to sell their printer ink (has to be their highest margin business) if they don't compete in tablet space?

edit: so yeah, turns out they're actually spinning off tablets together with PC division as low margin businesses. Doesn't mean that whoever ends up with it (Samsung?) will have to do both.
> The problem is that this is completely divorced from anything that any sane person learning programming would want to do.

It sounds to me a lot like a typical game-programming kind of design question. Games are pretty popular. Can you think of a more generally popular problem domain?

Certainly, one can imagine very similar examples (car / vehicle / truck etc.) which would bear directly on very popular game analogies.

> So, for a tutorial aimed at teaching someone their 12th programming language, use birds/ducks.

I think your point here is well-taken. If the student knows about conventional programming, introducing OO coding is a different task than otherwise. But the whole 'print "quack"' point is pretty silly -- of course you'll initially teach about inheritance using trivial functionality that doesn't distract from the teaching point. I've seen OO tutorials that talk about point, square, and circle classes that never actually draw a point, square, or circle. Is printing "width = 100" more profound than "quack"?

In the end, you teach a topic by focusing on that topic, not adding a bunch of distracting detail. The distracting detail may be useful for motivation, but you need to get it out of the way to actually explain the point.

I might finally add that teaching a specific person you're talking to is a different task than writing a book. When you're teaching a specific person you can find out what they're interested in and use that as both motivation and example. But, if you're writing a book you want to find analogies that are are universally accessible and appealing as possible.
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The best thing for everyone at this point is for individuals (and especially for small start-ups) not to file for patents at all.

This is not the best thing to do for the individual, especially if he wants to be acquired. The best thing to do in that case is to file as many broad and unspecific patents as possible to boost your perceived value. Good for you if you get acquired (or go bust and fire-sale everything), bad for everyone else who now has to live with even more bogus patents that are likely on their way to troll-land.

Its a case of "see, this is why we can't have nice things". It is conceivable for the patent system to work if there weren't so many bad actors maximizing their own gain at the multiplied expense of everyone else. Even those with good intentions feel that they have to do this a little just to get by.

"That said, it's the world we live in. So, like every other Silicon Valley entrepreneur, I file patents." Everyone feels that they have to graze their sheep to survive, but its making the common grounds into desert.
I find that use of goto quite confusing, and would prefer a comment in such a case:

switch( machineState ){
case ALPHA:
...
break;
case BETA:
...
/* fallthrough */
case GAMMA:
...
}
Interestingly, diamonds are a recent mass-market phenomenon, mainly post WW2. Diamonds for marriage were invented by De Beers in (possibly) one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
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The theory of multi-armed bandits arises from the study of Markov decision processes (MDP). This field is also closely studied in and related to Stochastic Control and Dynamic Programming. A good book on MDP's is "Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming by Martin Puterman". It's fairly mathematical and is for grad-level learning. An alternative is another superb book "Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control" by Dimitri Bersekas.

A more accessible book is "Approximate Dynamic Programming" by Warren Powell.

I'm not sure if you know what a Markov chain is? Very roughly, any kind of data which changes its value (sometimes referred to as "state") and jumps to a new value is a Markov chain. The value that the chain jumps to is determined probabilistically using some distribution over all the states. When there are several Markov chains in parallel and each of them contribute to a certain reward and we are faced with the problem of which Markov chain to "control" or influence.. then it becomes a multi-armed bandit problem. They are not very easy to solve, except when certain simplifying assumptions are made. You can get a good start by looking at some MATLAB code from Prof. Kevin Murphy at UBC :
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Software/MDP/mdp.html
It actually seems like a clever and constructive idea. Do you mean the achievements would be cheapened, or the offers?
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Hacked blogs can be used to upload malware as well as shells and tools that can be used for spamming/phishing, so all the same thing. Decent first step.

This is also a big reason why we started Webpub.com (startup), it keeps all your WordPress insallations auto-updated without you having to do anything. And soon plugins/themes and other scripts like Drupal, Magento etc. Spent the last year building a framework on the bottom for secure FTP/Web interaction, an XML-API for the middle, and the frontend just launched about 50 days ago.
This is what I'm complaining about.

I know the reasons, but the price reduction lead to a lot of people just buying those in batches.

I'd have prefered a price cut to 50% so that not everyone and his mother buys 12 'just in case' to have a real chance to be part of the deal. Bad luck :(
No, I'm not. The difference is that 1st world countries have a much larger middle class, where in the 3rd world you're either privileged or so poor that you have to worry about being able to eat. It's also relatively easier to move up the economic ladder in the US. Consequently in places like the US, there are a lot more places that are relatively safe and people who are wealthy can easily blend and walk amongst the general population if they wish. If you're well off in a 3rd world country, you can't do simple stuff like that (without say bodyguards) or you're asking for trouble. You can't even drive a nice car without being targeted It's not normal when the fear of someone you love getting kidnapped or hurt is a real semi-daily possibility. It's not normal to have an endless sea of orphan child beggars. It's not normal to live in a freaking fortress just to be safe. I can go on and on.

There are many subtle things that people in 1st world countries take for granted.
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It would be funnier if Samsung cited Barry Lyndon.
22 & 24, I think.
Purely anecdotal, but here in downtown DC, cell networks were fine during and immediately after the quake, but were completely overwhelmed 5-10 minutes later by everyone pulling out their phone at once.
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Thanks Ben. I'll give it a shot.
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Just for clarification, when I said "moving to gold" I meant in your portfolio and not as a currency. I'm certainly not in favor of moving back to the gold standard...I think that ship has sailed. As I understand it, an increase in dollar supply can take 1-2 years to cause inflation. A 300% increase has to cause inflation, and they're still printing (paying banks to keep excess cash).

The bubbles in real estate, personal debt, and stocks are just the beginning. The government debt and dollar bubbles are coming next. That's why I'm buying precious metals and foreign currencies...I don't see how the recovery will happen before a massive correction occurs.
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It seems like you've posted this same appeal several times in the past. Have you had success finding people to work for you? If so, why are they not doing the further work? If not, why continue with the same appeal at the same price?
It's just a serialized and retrieved transport. The key, as with the transporter, is in the Heisenberg compensators -- I have a feeling they may well be patentable under any system that allows patents.
It appears to have a control panel with buttons along the bottom of the screen tilted at an angle. Does the iPad? No-one touches its screen that I noticed, but I'm not sufficiently motivated to sit through 2001 to find out for sure.

Samsung's theft of Apple's very specific decorative designs (witness their remote that looked EXACTLY like an iPhone 4) is so egregious that if it were, say, a nameless Chinese entrepreneur selling knockoff purses in Chinatown no-one would be especially surprised if their stock were seized and a few people imprisoned over it. This isn't, say, Ferrari suing Maserati for creating a coupe with four wheels, it's Ferrari suing Hyundai for creating a coupe that looks EXACTLY like the current model Ferrari. No offense to Hyundai -- they pay actual designers to design their ugly-ass cars.
I've used it a few times and it didn't work all that well. Most recently I searched for a tweet but couldn't find it. That was disappointing.
I distinctly remember a Bill Gates lecture from the '80s, with accompanying video, where he presents a future-concept tablet device, with touch screen, thin, narrow margine, etc. It had an AI-based personal assistant that accepted voice commands, and a built-in camera, with Facetime-style chat.
And buy an iPad.
I don't expect anyone to give up the average consumer. I'm talking about earning money in venues in which there's a higher than typical concentration of geeks (e.g. online streaming of science fiction, P2P downloads). Sure, 5000 * .05 * x > 101 * .75 * 2 * x, but focusing on the first only gets (in this example) 62% of the available revenues. Why not capture some of that other 38% for significantly less effort than the 62%?

However, I do believe that manipulative advertising is a net detriment to society, regardless of how effective it is at reaching the average consumer.
I've been traveling and trying to start a few web projects for 5 months in Southeast Asia, and I'm not considering starting a real startup in a far-away, 3rd world country because:

- it is very lonely. How do you find like-minded people? How do you find good co-founders or team members? These things are theoretically possible, but it's already hard enough in your own country - imagine in a far-flung country where you don't know anybody.

- marketing to your own country is tough (because of the distance), marketing to your country of adoption is tougher. I was thinking of marketing to the US market because it's simply the biggest and wealthiest, but now I've decided to target my national market, as I have easier access to people here. Being able to meet your potential customers is important.

None of these things is impossible, it must be a hell of an experience, and developers are cheaper, but building a startup is already extremely hard, building a startup overseas makes it even harder.
In terms of publicizing it, I used to see adds for the Air Force Cyber Command on Hulu. It showed pictures of guys in fatigues doing simple things on Windows in cubicles. It didn't look terribly exciting, though they did have red rotating alarm lights in the ceiling at their office.

I think they are putting some effort into it, and they did know what audience to advertise to. You can find a few commercials on YouTube, but I couldn't find the one I saw.
They rather hoped that tagging would be handled by the social understanding, which it has for the most part.

These products are something that are out for the first time. No one can predict and expect all, right in the beginning. For a new product, even the entry barrier has to be lower. One has to learn from the feedback. They did.
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I'm guessing: for as long as people are still buying printer ink.
Getting service providers is the easy part, they'll always be open to new ways to make money. The hard part is getting users signed up to buy the services, so I'd recommend that you focus on that side.
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That's particular to situations that can be solved by fallthrough. What about

switch ( machineState ) {
case ALPHA:
... alpha prep ...
goto gamma
case BETA:
... beta prep ...
goto gamma
case GAMMA:
gamma:
...
}

? (EDIT: Not to say that you shouldn't still comment, of course.)
Copyrighting return might have a good ROI as well!
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Because they are full of Finns.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2010/12/pisa_scores_sho...
Probably the only way to really make ad-supported gameplay a reality would be to flip the model up-side down: Design the game around the ad itself.

We've seen a few of these (the Burger King Xbox games come to mind). Some of them are actually fun to play.

Unfortunately, this sort of work doesn't come cheap.
I imagine it's a bug in GoDaddy's system rather than anything malicious, just call them and find out.
I remember watching a video about how vibrations can have a negative impact on hard drive latency (Video is at the bottom.):

http://blogs.oracle.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency
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God tech bloggers are an insufferable bunch.
I saw that much, but I'd love to see a write-up on their implementation. We primarily use Munin with a couple of custom plugins. It's fine for the sysadmin side, but we were thinking of pushing some app data stats to a customer facing interface. Tools like GeckoBoard look much better than Munin graphs.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I treat the class macro as pure shorthand. I understand implicitly that "properties" in a "class" are being assigned one at a time on the constrictor's prototype, and frequently use that knowledge for metaprogramming. You call it laziness; I call it nicer syntax.

I understand that puts me in a small boat. In my opinion, people shouldn't use the class macro without knowing what it really does. Actually I'd extend that to say people shouldn't use CoffeeScript at all without an understanding of the JavaScript it compiles to, just as you shouldn't use C without an understanding of the assembly it compiles to... But that's probably wishful thinking. It wouldn't be an improvement for those people to write assembly (or raw JS) instead.
What are the two dimensions of which you speak here? The 'row' and 'column' dimensions of a matrix? If so, that's exactly what tensors do: A matrix is a 2-tensor (better, a (1, 1)-tensor, but let's not get into that). If you want an m-dimensional generalisation, just use an m-tensor.