skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are good points and I'm glad you explained them further. It's the expectation that you talk about that we should be careful about. It's too easy to answer, "What did you expect?" as a dismissal, rather than talking about the real issue: bigotry.

So, given that there are sexist assholes out there willing to harass women, what are some options beyond tolerance and turning-the-other-stupid-cheek? I'm not advocating violence, I'm thinking more like sexist asshole outreach, or something. I dunno.

Beyond commenting on these stories as they come up, what can we do as a community? Education (starting with "sexism exists and happens near you"), open dialogue with less fear of reprisal, etc? Like, "I may be a sexist and I'd like to talk to other people willing to understand what I'm trying to sort out"?

These stories are like toxic waste on all sides: sexism and racism are touchy stuff that I think most people don't even want to talk about and, if they do, are afraid that they're saying it wrong.
there should be a variable option where you can trade users for storage. i.e. i want 10 users sharing 500gb, or 20 users sharing 250 gb.
Dropbox for teams never attracted me not because of the storage size, rather it was the high price to add users.
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Very interesting, it's the same mechanism behind email/Twitter addiction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/28/email.addic...
this seems vaguely like the kind of thing that hofstadter was working on with copycat etc (particularly if you think of hofstadter's version as being more complex because he didn't have the computing power to run many things in parallel and so needed higher level control to allocate resources).
I think the difficulty most people have is that Stallman is, or at least comes across as, an uncompromising idealist. Whilst there's nothing wrong with that (we need some people to stick to their guns), most of us are pragmatists who have to compromise regularly in order to get things done, so someone who appears to refuse to change his position and shoots down anyone who disagrees with him can be very annoying.

Compare Stallman with Torvalds, who seems to be much more pragmatic and willing to listen to people who may have different views, and seems to be much more popular as a result.
Hell yes, please just just include a full posting in rss, When I'm on my phone I'm not going to click over to your website.
He seemed to be implying that because his death was such big news he was someone to admire. I was making the point that how famous your death is has nothing to do with how good of a person you are. Though the point is moot, since it seems he was being sarcastic.

> Jobs was a loss

The whole point here is that to RMS it was not a loss at all -- it was a gain that a large entity that opposes his movement has now been hopefully (hopefully to rms) weakened. Of course the loss of human life is a loss and all that stuff, but this isn't about Steve Jobs the person, it's about the influence he had on the world.
Not to mention, that if you _really_ need to, you can spin cloud instances at Softlayer as well. We are running on dedicated hardware most of the time, but if we anticipate a temporary and significant influx of the traffic, we run a few additional pre-built Cloud Computing Units (as they call it) and are ready in 20 minutes.
> The moment a popular site like Reddit switches to the cloud, is the moment it becomes barely usable during certain times of the day.

That's completely false. The moment reddit blogged about moving to the cloud, it was * perceived* as being slower.

The cloud move happened 7 months before the blog post came out.
> cluster in the configuration space

10 bits of evidence that you read LessWrong. (Sorry, couldn't help it.)
I have yet to see a new /accessory/ use NFC (really, the only thing I've seen use it is Wallet-like applications and check-in type applications).

The desktop dock is still sold by HTC, but the car dock doesn't appear to be. Regardless, they're just a device that holds the phone and charges it. There are plenty of generic docks that still /do/ that (and probably a few third party ones that do it as well).
You wouldn't be asking for examples if he was a woman!
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HP has clearly shown they are not good caretakers of WebOS. They best thing they could do is sell it off to someone who could make better use of it. Amazon? Although with the launch of the Fire, they're pretty much stuck on Android now...
At least with Facebook, social networks and groups are relatively closed.

I'm no Facebook expert, but I believe that Facebook also has the three ingredients necessary to do this: 1) the ability to make public posts, 2) the concept of sharing posts, and 3) attribution of who the post came from when you share it.

It's not like this Google+ visualization is about private posts. The following page clearly says it is limited to those that are public.

http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
If your company is going to consume large volumes of mapcalls you will definitely need the tiered pricing which they do offer per client basis.

It's possible to get 50% discounts of the $4 price (if you do more that 100,000,000 per year)
Unlikely. Besides the fact that almost no one actually has any faith in it as a platform due to the way HP dropped it, even if they did do a 180, people would still have shaken confidence.

Not to mention that there are currently no currently officially selling WebOS devices (except for a few straggling phones in the discount bin), nor plans for new ones.

And, when your competitors are Android, WP7, and iOS, getting over the vicious cycle of "no developers making apps which means no people are buying apps which means that no developers are making apps..." is just too much. Even Android was struggling with that and still is on the tablet side even with the Google juggernaut behind it.

Plus, even in printers and lower end devices and phones like that, WebOS is overkill. Samsung's Bada and Android are crowding that market too tightly, not to mention Symbian.

Maybe we'll see WebOS as an "instant boot" option on a few HP PC models for which it was already in development but that doesn't really count.

There's no future for WebOS. It's dead. When your competitors are Microsoft, Google, and Apple, and they already have entrenched hardware and software products in the same market that are innovative and being actively developed, and are directly competing against yours, and are having far more money pumped into them, and have thriving ecosystems, and haven't been officially been killed off, you may just be best off going home.
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That totally works! Awesome, thanks! :)
Happily implementing the intermittent rewards pattern in my games too.
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> Sadly, RSS is like many other platforms without a default client.

While that may be true, I'll bet that almost everyone has a decent client.

For example, IE7-9 all have RSS readers. Yes, they manage and create subscriptions. The RSS icon turns orange and becomes active when there's a feed available on the current page.

I'll bet that the other major browsers do as well or better.
There is tiered pricing. Per client basis... with large discounts for large volumes.
open source is a direct threat to market research - the kind of "market research" that lets you play a few rounds of Bikini Golf with 20-something sales staff in the Bahamas, you mean.
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Canadian banks all managed to lose billions on US subprime. Conservative they were not.

It is true that a handful of regulations kept Canadian banks out of truly severe trouble in spite of themselves - mortgage insurance, capital requirements, federal gov't guarantees through CMHC - but none of these regulations have anything whatsoever to do with the number of Canadian banks or the amount of competition in the Canadian banking industry.

When I moved to the United States I was astounded by the lower fees and better service here - and banks down here aren't particularly known for their low fees or good service. The Canadian public's "at least we're not America" nationalism is being used to rip you off.
Flipboard, Paper.li, Editions, News.me, Zite, right? Or are you talking about something else?
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I wouldn't go quite that far. Their icon is what introduced me to the technology. And I'm still using it daily.
This is absolutely fantastic news. Data visualization is one of the great promises of our unfolding information revolutions.

I have also been fascinated by what choices Mr. Page was going to bring, when he described Google's future with fewer arrows, but more wood behind them. Add to this, that they are now aware of their 'platform' deficiency, it's going to be incredibly enlightening to watch how Google allocates that wood to increase the power of their individual arrows.

It appears that Ripples is a great start on both the promise of better information, and the promise of a higher caliber platform.
My biggest gripe with Stallman is his "I know what's best for you" mentality.

My biggest gripe with Jobs was his "I know what's best for you" mentality.

Your criticisms of Stallman can equally be applied to Jobs. The user has to 'adjust their tastes' - to take on part of the Apple ecosystem means you have to take on all of it. Like gaming? Not on Apple. The user has to 'adjust their tastes' and play a limited subset of available games. Oppressive and disrespecting? Apple tried to make it illegal to jailbreak your own phone!
It could, but it can also be solved reliably by buying your own hardware tailored to the needs of your specific application.

Single point of failure issues aren't solved by the cloud. Their solved by eliminating single points of failure. 1 VM is just as much of a single point of failure as one real machine.

Even if it were true about buying the beefiest VM you're betting your company on an implementation detail that you have no control over.
There isn't really much of a tension there. For the most part liberty increases security; it is only in very narrow situations, such as war-making, that it does not. Several libertarians, conservatives, and even Bruce Schneier have been pointing that out repeatedly, especially in anti-PATRIOT Act articles, over the last decade.

The problem is that many restrictions on freedom can give the illusion of security, and too many people are willing to sacrifice their own and others freedom for those warm fuzzies.
You did pick an awfully strange group of people to come up in the industry with, Limor. :)
This article feels like someone with a vested interest in the status quo trying very hard to ignore something that makes economic sense.
The problem I refer to is the invocation of 'free speech' to dismiss complaints about all undesirable speech, inclusive of that which may qualify as criminal.

Who has done this? I'd be curious to see which posts you believe do this.

I suspect all you will find is a set of posts which assume MikeeUSA committed no criminal acts. This is the assumption I'm working under, based mainly on the fact that no one has even accused him of doing so.

Perhaps the real problem you have is that the rest of us are assigning a lower probability of guilt (of crimes he has not been accused of) than you are?
Personally, this fiasco seemed to me to mirror Netflix's recent missteps, just with far less press.
I started using google reader when I came from a completely non-tech understanding of the web. Heck, I still just paste in the website of a blog I want to follow into google reader, and it pulls up the RSS, should it have one. One huge plus of RSS is that I follow lots of artsy things, so I get the actual pictures, not unlike tumblr (which also is, IMO, a far better mechanism than twitter or FB for following blogs/sites).
I think what Felicia (a girl BTW) is saying is that it's really easy to "subscribe" to someone's Twitter or Facebook feed, but not so easy to "subscribe" to a RSS feed, therefore websites are removing the RSS feed.

I personally don't want to "subscribe" to a blog via Twitter or Facebook. I agree with Felicia that RSS is the way to go, but how long will it last if it's so difficult to set up for the end user?
How would encouraging people in their personal and business pursuits ever be condescending? It doesn't imply inferiority.

> I'm just pointing this out to you so that I can help you work past it

This implies inferiority or defectiveness and could be considered condescending.
You didn't abandon "the cloud", you just switched providers.

You're still paying someone else for servers that you don't own (unless softlayer ships you those machines after 3 years).

This is why I hate the term "the cloud" -- because it is too nebulous and non-descriptive.
This sounds like a job for Larry David, social assassin.
Down-vote and run?
And Facebook's wall
Incidentally, when did soldiers become 'warfighters'?
Duly noted! Although, I was not praising Jobs nor Apple in post. I was drawing a comparison (showing similarity) between the ideals of RMS and the ideals he was against. He is hypocritically fighting oppression in one field with oppression in another, and frankly I believe a person has more of a right to what goes on in their mind than what goes on in a computer.

Steve Jobs is not quite topical to what I said.
"I see a gap in your resume. Why were you out of the work force for 10 months?"

I'm sure you have some nerdy comeback to this too. Feel free to the last word.
I haven't tried aiming any of these things at Twitter feeds. Perhaps I should! Thanks for the tip.
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My opinion is probably tainted by my own working experiences. I've run into various mediocre IT pros who have been at it for a while and possibly are trying to appear smart for purposes of job security.

I've only had the pleasure of working with a handful of what I considered truly great programmers. I don't think a single one of them considered themselves to be "great" even though I thought they were.
> an uncompromising idealist

That's what I respect most about him. His message has never changed. He's truly a man of his convictions. Like him or not.
Soldiers are a subset of warfighters.
Because nobody planned to reinvent RSS. We can't even be perfectly sure that Twitter planned to invent Twitter! ;)
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It'll be interesting to see how foreign laws (specifically, EU laws regarding privacy) affect taxes. Will future facebooks decide to not incorporate in the EU in order to avoid their (more) stringent privacy protection laws? If so, that could bring more revenue in to the U.S. treasury.
The web has no default client.

Email has no default client.

TV has no default client.

The telephone network, after a lengthy battle involving AT&T, has no default client.

SMS has no default client.

Somehow, people find a way to use these things. It took many years from when the first web browser was written in 1990 to get to ubiquity. We got RSS in 1999 and it is in widespread use among web publishers; I can't think of a major news site that does not use it. Where we are lacking is in user uptake. Give it time. Open standards always take longer, but one will eventually get us there.
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Would love to see a book that talks about various startups in their first 90 days (before getting into YC, 500 startups, Techstars, etc.). What were their strategies to win over advocates and kickstart their dreams.
> you wouldn't say 'improve'

Improve over 4.0, which was completely and utterly unusable. I still have my 3G, so I can see what it is daily. A 4.2.1 3G is generally slow and laggy, but for the most part it works (as far as I'm concerned anyway: all tapbot applications run acceptably, Instapaper, Wikipanion and Terminology work and so do most — though not all — of my games).

Not saying it's great, or even good (compared to 3.1), but that I can use my phone is a net improvement over 4.0, which had essentially killed the bloody thing.

> In particular, the new Facebook app appears to be unusable on the 3G nowadays.

I wouldn't know about that. I have no use for facebook's application.
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I think this article is ridiculous.

"The biggest thing that unequivocally separates social gaming from gambling is that the players have no ability to tangibly recoup the money put into the game."

Oh you mean like the video games I used to play in arcades? Like Gauntlet, which was one of the first quarter suckers? How many days did I go without a lunch so that I could play Spyhunter, Elevator Action, or Gauntlet? But I had fun. That's the whole point of gaming, isn't it?

When you buy a video game like Doom, Call of Duty, etc, aren't those same elements present? The only difference is that there is a front-loaded payment as opposed to something like Farmville where there are micropayments, which, by the way, you don't even have to pay if you don't want to!!

The comparison to gambling is a complete stretch. Sure they may use similar tactics, but so what? There's no gambling element in the sense that there there is risk vs reward. That's like saying that in Plants Vs. Zombies, when I buy a "mystery plant" for my zen garden, it's some form of gambling. It's not!

With games like Farmville, you are paying to play, like old school arcades. To compare "social" gaming to gambling is just wrong. (Even the term "social" gaming to Farmville is misplaced, there's nothing social about it except the ability to visit other people's farms. Nothing about the game is enhanced via the social aspect.)
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Do you have evidence that this has been done? I am reminded of the secret identifying marks that printers leave on their documents.

https://www.eff.org/wp/investigating-machine-identification-...
Just leave, find another job, working 90 hours a week is ridiculous unless you stand to make a large amount of money based on the performance of the company.
> Adding 64-bit wide paths adds a lot of silicon for
something that would currently not get used at all,
and in the future won't get used much for quite some
time.

I can't find the quote, but John Mashey said that adding 64 bit support to MIPS processors cost something like 5% area. Datapaths and architectural registers really aren't that expensive in area or power.

It does takes more power to move 64 bits across the pins and 64 bit addresses take more space. I suspect that those factors are far more important wrt battery and cell phone cost than the processor costs.
I think we agree about these things; you're quite right that 'risk-free' is an inherently complacent evaluation, and that even the FDIC is only as good as the resolve of a majority of politicians to stand behind the government's promises (something that's increasingly questionable these days).

I don't fully agree with you about CAPM. Not about it being the smart strategy, but about everyone needing to practice it. I enjoy economics as a hobby but actually doing CAPM evaluations makes my head hurt. It's not realistic or even productive to expect everyone to be an economist. I'm studying law, and while I think life would be an awful simpler if everyone else knew more law and thought like a lawyer, the fact is that most people don't find it all that interesting and it's more rational for them to outsource their legal problems to a legal nerd in most cases. I'm probably interpreting 'people' in a much broader sense than you meant it; it just strikes me that our aggregate productivity is to some extent dependent on the trustworthiness and prudence of our institutions, and it's not irrational to want an institutional framework that rewards fiscal prudence so as to make time available for other activities.
I'll be attending, I'm really excited about it. Adam Lowry's session is one that I've got bookmarked, as is the geoloqi mapattack walk through.

I'll look forward to meeting you all there.
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I knew who wrote this comment before I read the name.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. I added it to the post.
I can't argue about it not getting much love in the updates department and its instability under many configurations (though sometimes you can get lucky ;-)), but..

and can do things that RMagick does not, like actual drawings

RMagick has a SVG-related drawing system called RVG:

http://studio.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/rvgtut.html

As well as a smorgasbord of drawing primitives:

http://studio.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/draw.html
This is also the type of psychology that keeps me coming back to hacker news. I keep returning on the off chance that someone will post a good article even though the chance that the reward is present is random.
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Stallman should invest some of his time and passion into yelling at OSS developers for consistently failing to build products as usable and trouble-free as Apple's software. Almost no normal person cares about open vs closed. They care about works vs. doesn't work. Most of what Stallman advocates would not work for normal people so his work is just a waste of time until there is a credible OSS alternative to the things and people he hates.
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Cool latte drinking bikers go to Starbucks, only losers go to bars :) How did Starbucks do it?
What's the rationale for it?
Great article, and very relevant to what I'm going through right now!

I'm a sophomore undergraduate currently looking to transfer, and I need two letter of recommendations. However, I feel uncomfortable approaching my professors since I don't have strong relationships with any of them. I find it hard since I only have a year under my belt, not allowing me much chance to get to know a professor. And since I have strong grades I haven't had the need to see professors during after-hours, limiting my interaction with them further.

Do you have any suggestions? Will professors understand my situation, and be willing to write a strong letter of recommendation based on my grades, class participation, and strong resume?

Again, thanks for writing this post! Wonderful blog :)
Do you really think the parrot thing wasn't superfluous? Did he have to mention that? The whole thing with the tea was totally unnecessary. Just say "hey, if you want me come speak I'll need x, y, and z amenities". Do I care why he needs it? Very doubtful. Did he have to infuse his politics in the rider? Not really. That's just being a diva. He really thinks highly of himself.

If youre an RMS fan, that's cool but how can you honestly defend that thing. Make a list. Not everything on it needs an explanation. I wish I could put it another way but my whole argument boils down to this: "C'mon. Really? Just c'mon"
Why? Last I heard Twitter and Facebook weren't banned on the campus. Each network has it's audience and undoubtedly Twitter is huge.
You couldn't have picked a worse example.

Go read the article "The Mismeasure of Science", by Jason Lewis et al. It's a fairly detailed analysis which shows that Stephen J. Gould was simply wrong about skull measurements (which were accurate).

From the abstract:

...We investigated these questions by remeasuring Morton's skulls and reexamining both Morton's and Gould's analyses. Our results resolve this historical controversy, demonstrating that Morton did not manipulate data to support his preconceptions, contra Gould. In fact, the Morton case provides an example of how the scientific method can shield results from cultural biases.

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo...
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