skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't follow at all; and is phrased in a completely insensitive way. If you want to have a civilized conversation, stop that.

Demanding that certain ideas be phrased in a politically correct way only serves the purpose of making it more difficult to express those ideas. If your goal is to suppress dissent that is valuable, but not if your goal is to find the truth. What is your goal?

If men are prone to stereotype threat in some area, then they too are inferior in that area. For example, if a "white men can't jump" stereotype prevents men from performing well in basketball, then men are indeed likely to be inferior basketball players. Similarly, in the non-scientific experiment you described, the brown-eyed children did appear to perform more poorly.

Obviously the inferiority only holds in a cultural context and in certain areas - mine referred to the modern American context, where apparently even marking [X] Female lowers women's performance on scientific topics. I probably should have expressed this more clearly in my original comment.

An interesting fact to realize is that the stereotype-threat based inferiority might be unavoidable. Suppose hypothetically that white men are shorter or worse jumpers (on average) than black men. In this case, the "white men can't jump" stereotype is true - but then knowledge of this true fact might cause them to also perform worse than their height would otherwise suggest due to stereotype threat. Human psychology might actually amplify innate differences in abilities.
While I love HN, I can't help but picture all the comments in this as "circlejerk circlejerk circlejerk". Really guys?
Disney also does the same with tens of millions of online kids with Club Penguin
Some Australian University libraries are open access (Sydney Uni if I remember correctly), but others have card-only access points out the wazoo.

(I can't get into UTS' library anymore; my old student card must apparently be blocked now.)
Each database worth its salt will use as much memory as you allow it to use in order to avoid physical IO.

Your point is valid of course. I just wanted to point it out for people that think each action in a RDBMS results in a costly IO operation.
You just mean to make a function return the value of its last expression, right? That seems like an extremely small feature. Do you just prefer it as a matter of taste, or are there larger consequences of implicit returns that I'm not thinking of?
It looks delicious, I have been hanging on to my core2quad for nearly 4 years. Can't wait to switch over to an ARM box.
"on spec" would be a more apt phrase.
I would take this much more seriously if it had been from patio11.

At present it mostly looks like a nice info graphic designed to get backlinks.
After seeing the California initiative system up close for the last few years I would disagree that this improves matters.
Which is kind of ironic, given that 18 seems to be the world-wide consensus for being of legal age [1] and drinking age [2]. But your point stands, of course: No overruling of that fact by a parent or - god forbid - the 18 year old that should be protected.

No attack against you or your values (if you even share those represented by the laws), but - yeah - I wanted to rub in the fact that this is kind of anti-liberal. And - maybe the basis that supports laws like that is to blame for COPPA as well?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_age#Countries_and_subdiv...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_age
Your Python template doesn't work for my Java application
Upvoting has never been so tempting.
Yeah this is a misuse of the term "long tail" or at least the assumption that it only applies to "using long tail keywords to grey hat SEO my site". Offering genuine long tail content is not going anywhere, maybe spammy sites will tho, which benefits everyone.
Brad Feld Discusses How To Become A TechStar
(Yes, this is a little cynical, but) The distinction between Google making money from you vs. Google having you as a client seems to explain some of what happened. But did they simply not see this sort of problem arising after their family ads? That's astonishingly short-sighted.

Is this kind of problem widespread with google products? That is, could it be explained by a small number of bad calls from somewhere inside Google's innards?
making a contract is fine but how can you enforce effectivly against someone who breaches the contract, imho a effective system would be able to produce initial drafts of litigation documents based on the contractual clauses breached, otherwise people will just break the contracts willy-nilly and you'll be forced to enter litigation yourself, or take your computer generated documents to a lawyer
This reminds me very much of a previous story posted here a couple of months ago:

"Give this company a child's drawing and they'll make it into a stuffed toy"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3148574

Both fantastic ideas and well implemented.
In general I find the techniques easier to understand and remember when I've got a good understanding of what they should be used for, alas my teachers tend to gloss over the why and focus on the how.

Several authors I can recommend who write good expository books on mathematics to explain the why are

Ian Stewart

John Stillwell

Keith Devlin

William Dunham

Timothy Gowers has a book about mathematics in the Very Short Introduction series

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Short-Introduction-Timothy...

that should be helpful to you.

On the particular subject you are studying right now, see if Hubbard and Hubbard's book Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach

http://matrixeditions.com/UnifiedApproach4th.html

helps your understanding.
The thread support depends on the compiler backend. It works on 32 bit FreeBSD, Linux and Windows. The thread support in the C backend is broken, but it nearly fixed and will be in place for the next release, bringing the thread support to OS X and 64 bit Linux / FreeBSD.
TS also something similar. All TechStars companies can get $100k.

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/...
Yeah, at least at Latrobe an rmit there doesn't seem to be any reason why you can't, apart from probably having to bring your own connectivity. I don't see them actively encouraging it but not policing it either.
Wall Street transparency: home page of the most active trader on the NYSE
This is pure speculation, but its possible that the runtime does some tricks for performance (possibly in the method dispatch routine) that the NaCl sandbox doesn't allow.
This old chestnut of an argument gets rolled out every time a situation like this occurs - "Well they are the rules, you should have read them, it's your fault. Suck it up".

In most situations I've read, the people don't so much object the rules, they object to the unfairness of them. Two factors often come into play - were the rules clearly stated and is the penalty in proportion to the 'crime'.

'Rules clearly stated' doesn't mean 'here is a 10 page 8pt font terms and conditions document we assume you read' because you clicked through a EULA apge. If your rule is going to have an impact where they will likely lose their service, that had better be upfront and unmistakable. The dad claims he didn't see such a warning and in all the Google accounts I've signed up for, I don't recall reading such a condition either (I'm sure it's there, I just don't recall ever having seen it).

Punishment fitting the crime - it's a bit like those banks which charge you a $5 fee for falling below the $4 minimum amount you have to keep in your account, and then charging you an overdraft fee, then charging you for accessing an overdraft you hadn't previously arranged, then charging you for ... etc. Or perhaps laws where 'if you aren't doing anything criminal, you should have nothing to fear about constant unwarranted surveillance, searches or whatever'. Just because a rule is broken doesn't mean it's fair game for any penalty to be applied.

In the case of this kid, losing access to all that data seems to be unfair. I get the sense that if the dad could at least retrieve the data, most of his unhappiness would be gone and he would move on.

Arguing with a 'the rules have been broken, lynch them' position, really doesn't take into account basic human behaviours - people make mistakes, you have to help them not make them (clear rules) and guiding them to the correct behaviour when they deviate (appropriate in proportion punishments).

Of course, a business doesn't have to take into account basic human behaviour - that's their right - but they rightly deserve the scorn at their lack of respect for their customers when they get called out.
Just like the generation that smoked but didn't inhale changed everything about that, right?

It brings to mind the saying, "People become conservative as soon as they have something to conserve."
"Releasing a product as Open Source isn’t always an admission of failure; see exhibits Linux or, more recently, WebKit."

WebKit in particular is a derivative of KHTML and KJS, KDE's HTML and JavaScript engines. Given their LGPL licensing, Apple had no choice but to make WebKit open source as well. Now, The article doesn't preclude this, but since the above follows a rant about "corpospeak" and is thus chiefly concerned with the behavior of corporate/commercial entities around open source releases, it seems prudent to point out that the WebKit codebase wasn't originally the product of such an entity -- and the same of course applies to Linux, too, making both rather poor examples for the author's purpose.

Cringe-cringe at the iTunes analogy, too, with the "more or less legally" not applying to what's in RHEL. This is also indicative of sub-par writing: A simple explanation using clear language ("customers pay for services, not the code") is eschewed in favor of trying to make a comparison that doesn't really fit, but has brand recognition.

Summarizing Firefox in terms of Mozilla Corp.'s financial situation is also doing poorly by it. Mozilla's possible financial dependence on Google is an interesting topic in and of itself, but anyone who's measuring Firefox by its success as a "3. Profit!" scheme doesn't understand its history or its makers - nor its true success/impact in web history.

Gassée can range from entertaining to insightful, but this one's just too lazily executed and seemingly unaware of a lot of context. Well, it was a Sunday I suppose.
There is a stereotype that white people are less athletic than black people.

All else held equal, this would indeed make white men inferior athletes to black men, as I acknowledge in my response to danifong.

I didn't declare women as having "universally inferior psyches", I declared women as being potentially inferior in job-related tasks on the assumption that stereotype threat applies to those tasks in addition to GRE exams.
"I was listening to 杨宗纬[here] with my amazing..."
A parallel: a local hockey pro shop charges a "fitting fee" ($25, I think) for trying on ice skates there. If you end up buying skates, they put the fee towards your purchase.

I find the practice repellant, but that's just me.
I would add coffeescript-style instance variable setting to ruby method definitions like so:

def initialize(foo, bar, baz)

@foo=foo

@bar=bar

@baz=baz

end

Would now be:

def initialize(@foo, @bar, @baz)

end

This would save hundreds of lines of code in large programs-- lines which could no longer be a source of typos or errors.

Oh, also I'd make binding_of_caller work.
Thoughts On Google+: Great Features, Lack Of Publicly Shared Vision
This the list from NYSE: http://www.nyse.com/pdfs/PT10411.pdf
It may feel like the Googles and the Facebooks are self-sustaining juggernauts, but customer happiness and retention is exactly the incentive machinery you are missing.

Except we're not their customers.
At the very least, keep a backup, which is much simpler.

Running your own shouldn't be that complicated, but it won't become easy until enough people start switching.
My kids use my account. Unless Google can somehow tell that it is a child writing and sending the email they would assume it is me. Making an email account specifically for my child (with his/her name, age, etc.) seems dangerous to me anyhow, and for good reason, since Google will lock the account.
If I could wave my putative magic wand (hazel with ebony trim) I would hope for a small box of these in an arrangement that allowed a flat cable to attach to an existing x86 box. This way I could rehabilitate older (if not wiser) hardware to perform up to new and higher standards.
The role-model issue is huge. When you look at the kinds of people doing certain things and realize none of them look anything like you, it's easy to cross it off your list of possibilities because we're reasonable beings who conclude, "well, if no one that's like me has followed that path, there must be a reason for it."

And honestly, it's true -- being a woman in tech still sucks a lot of the time. You have to fight harder to get respect because you don't look like other competent engineers that people have come across. You have to prove yourself every time you meet someone new. You face skepticism that you wouldn't if you were a man (particularly a white guy.)

And I know this because I'm guilty of this too.
Arelius, have you seen Amulet (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/www/papers/video...) and Garnet (http://garnetlisp.sourceforge.net/)?
The $150k Solution
Which other services like Yahoo seem to have no problem with.
The problem is that we gave women more options without actually dismantling patriarchy. We just gave them the option to join in men's crappy patriarchal bargain, which still kind of sucks. If feminism had succeeded as many men as women would want to stay at home in a D/s relationship and raise the children, though I think there would also be Doms who'd want to stay home and raise children. As long as we think of "Staying Home and Raising Children" as something women do, or something that is a separate and mutually exclusive choice with being in the public sphere, we have at best applied bandaids.
Unless I'm talking about Erlang, my answer is almost going to be "I really miss Erlang's pattern matching". (I know it's not exclusive to Erlang, but that's where I learned it).

My dream language right now would be something with the expressiveness of Ruby and the concurrency abilities and pattern matching from Erlang.

Hmm. I think I need to go look at where Reia (http://reia-lang.org/) has got to since I last looked at it.
What are the consequences of running this in production? What's the performance hit like, is it unsafe, etc.?
Many companies involved in the early internet have entire /8 subnets: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...
"I'll read reviews on books I'm interested in on Amazon and go to a local bookstore to buy it. I appreciate the book reviews but I'm impatient and want the book now."

Great point, I didn't even think about this while reading the article but your comment made me realize I do this a lot.
lack of meaningful friendships has been shown to contribute to poor quality of life.

It has?
If only it already existed in Java http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/...
The problem with constructors is that they are completely redundant and introduce unnecessary complexity. In javascript, it hardly ever makes sense to call a constructor (e.g. a Function, Array, etc.) without the 'new' keyword, likewise it makes almost zero sense to call a normal function with the 'new' keyword. So, instead of the requiring the programmers to know which function is a normal function and which is a constructor, we could simply call all the functions normally (without 'new'), and have the function return a new object (if necessary). Kinda like what python does.
I've been playing with a similar syntax: https://github.com/maplambda/py-htmlout/blob/master/htmlgen.... I need to provide better examples, tests and form handling. I'm finding it nice to work with.
Why do no other COPPA-compliant account providers require anyone to fax or mail anything?
Not quite favourite, and not a language change, but in C, C#, Java, I would change the IMO ridiculous idea to write CONSTANTS in uppercase.

I understand that preprocessor macros have to stand out because they have different semantics (arguments might be evaluated multiple times, use of ## to fabricate tokens, etc), but i do not think

- In C, macro names are by convention uppercase

- in C, one used to use macros to define constants

- hence, in each C-inspired language, constant names must, by convention be uppercase

is a valid syllogism.
Most of what the store is doing, apart from the human and atmosphere aspect can be replaced by an online curated browsing site. I think ultimately it's not enough to keep them operating on current form and would need to move towards something of a book club or reading space that only sells really niche things and things like coffee.

I think amazon could make physical spaces in certain locations as somewhat of a club or browsing experience an sell the books near the online price with same/ next day ordering in. Could be like an extended prime membership. Whether they would go down this probably low margin path though is another thing.
I don't think you understand what's going on. You are ignorant of what used to be standard arguments here that I wouldn't actually have to explain to you (PG has explained a lot of it, HN and Viaweb sure weren't written in C or a C variant). And which I don't really care to explain to you.
The "unlimited Twitter" thought resonates with me, because that's basically how I use G+ -- short-form blogging with hash tags. I generally hop over to G+ whenever I want to talk about something that's a little more complex than the sort of thing I'd post as a Facebook status or a Twitter post.
Here is someone talking sense. Who cares whether people starting startups are black, yellow, purple, men or women.

There doesn't need to be any equality. Everyone is already equal and can decide to start a startup whenever they wish.
"Another metric would be valuations — are companies becoming more valuable over time? — but we also don’t have good access to that."

That is the real test, and we've published those numbers:

http://ycombinator.com/nums.html

(The number I quoted in June is now out of date. The combined value of the top 21 companies we've funded is now slightly over $7 billion, and the average value of all the companies we funded up to summer 2010 is thus about $33 million.)
> The fact that women (and children) are getting screwed by our societal norms/policies does not prove men really have it much better.

But economics does.

And yes, how many men would be happier if society didn't try to tie so much of their self-worth into career advancement (just as it tries to tie so much of women's self-worth into wife/motherhood) and gave them the respect they deserve if they decide to focus on their families?
I would be very interested in joining and bouncing ideas around. To echo what the user below me said... is there a specific industry or experience you are looking for? Feel free to contact me off-line. Look forward to chatting.
This isn't true in VB.NET (it implicitly checks for null for you). But a common way to resolve this in C# is to initialize your event with delegate {}. So that way at least that no-op is always subscribed.
Would it be possible to use gdb or something similar to inject this into a running process?
Yeah, but if we leave, then the advertisers(their "real customers") will too, so it works out the same.
Nice story... but it doesn't scale :)
If you look it up, you'll find that "kerb" is the alternate, UK spelling of "curb". As Jean-Louis Gassee is French, it's not unreasonable to expect he learned UK English rather than American English.

Perhaps before we criticize the efforts of others, we should consider that not all English variants have the same spellings.
I know that personally I would be happier (as a relative term) being charged in a criminal suit such as having a joint than to be tried civilly as a file sharer. Having to pay a $250,000 fine would do just as much damage to my future as trying to get a job as a convicted felon. I'd be paying the price for the rest of my life anyway.
My perspective is one of a PC/console game background who works on iOS stuff on the side. The transition from VisualStudio/C++ to Xcode/Obj-C is eye stabbingly awful.

Obj-C can absolutely accomplish most anything that C++ can, but I don't think the language makes of it easier. Once you've learned that GDB even exists and figured out many of the strange syntax nuances it's passable, but in my opinion not easier.

By comparison going from C++ to C#, Lua, or Python (my personal experiences) is astonishingly easy. Not just easy at first but continuously surprising at how many wonderful things you can do and how easy it is. As I said in my root post not once have I ever said "holy shit Obj-C sure made this task easy!"
Rats display human-like empathy and will help rodents in distress
Adopting Ruby-style code formatting as a common idiom for Scala and Java, where I'd eliminate the usage of curly braces and instead use indentation for code blocks.
Not a great test either but better then the above:

Geekbench 2 on iPhone 4S: 617
Geekbench 2 32bit on iMac i7 @ 2.80GHz: 8557
But economics does.

Last I heard, when a man dies, it often plunges the wife into poverty. But when a woman dies, it often leads to the death of the husband within a year. And in spite of being over-represented among the "poor" and "chronically poor", women live on average several years longer.

Me thinks you have a rather one dimensional view of quality of life which I don't happen to share. Which strikes me as a bit odd coming from someone trying to advocate for stay-at-home dads.

Peace.

(Will add I did appreciate your remarks here and did upvote it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3341367)
I know it took me a long time to understand that copyright was something you have implicitly compared to something you had to prove and earn.
My client decided to move to a VPS, but http://wpengine.com/ looked promising.
You're missing my point, completely. Louis CK deserves his place today precisely because he spent 15 years struggling. In my comment above, I took issue with a plethora of entertainers out there today who _didn't_ have to struggle, who leveraged sex, image and brand names to get to where they were. It is this harsh reality that makes so many artists give up while they're not quite as good, so I applaud Louis CK for being one of the few who weathered the storm and eventually found their place. They deserve their success more than most who have it.
When Mark Pincus met Mark Zuckerberg and How Five Year Deal Happened
Time to Get Rejected
But is CentOS called "Red Hat"? No, it's called CentOS. With the comment I made, I was saying you wouldn't be able to release WebOS without HP's permission. Just like you can't release Red Hat without Red Hat's permission, so you fork it and use your own trademark.
Axe Cop is similar to this. It's a comic written by a child and illustrated by a grown-up.

http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_1/
How so? You don't own any copyright over that information. In fact, being completely factual in nature, copyright doesn't apply.
That would be python style surely.
Could work. The price of a pint or a glass of wine at the bar is actually one of my current "what's that worth" metrics. I know that my wife does the same thing, "That's nothing, just a glass of wine I could do without," etc. In reality, of course we still end up buying that drink.

When I was in my late teens, everything was judged in terms of CDs - $100 was three and a bit CDs, for example; in Australia, a new CD at the time was about $30. The first paying job I had on the web, I remember instantly thinking "Wow, x CDs per week; this is going to be great!"

Now it's either drinks while out or international flights.
The Art of Color Coordination