skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're not just discussing the problems that women face, though. When the author of that Kotaku piece used male privilege as a starting point to base his argument on, he made an implied statement about men's problems with gender too; he implied that they were irrelevant. It's not just a case of ignoring them or putting them to one side - his argument was an argument that they couldn't exist, at least not in any way that mattered.

This is a common pattern when someone "disrupts" a discussion of women's issues. Sometimes it's a discussion of women being raped as the only kind of rape. Maybe someone's arguing that domestic violence is something that happens to women because they're women - of course, then all the many male victims couldn't exist.

In fact, almost every time I've seen someone tell a man that they're disrupting a discussion of women's problems by talking about men, they were making a statement about what men experience in the first place and using it to shut out contradictory evidence.
I think it's a particularly interesting idea for citizen initiatives to have to be in the black, but a lot of times when it comes to policy/program issues, there's disagreement over whether or not budget figures are realistic.

Think about how hard it often is for developers to estimate the time and effort involved in a project. Programs that involve putting together networks of people, hard assets, and information systems are going to be just as hard to estimate properly if not harder.
Internet Explorer does that. Use Ctrl + Shift + P for opening an InPrivate windows. Every window runs in its own process.
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Not sure I follow. A group of people you select sends me random physical objects every month?
You mean like when I debug a script as

ipython>import foo as t
ipython>t.test(10,20)
ipython>reload t

Roughly 2/3rds of this guy's rant is off base. Maybe if he had flushed out his arguments with citations, but seriously. It is all opinion.

Reasoning with opinion is dumb.
CloudFlare engineer here. Just wanted to say thanks for the positive assessment :) having so many awesome users keeps us feeling really positive about the stuff we do.
> There is really no such thing as too big to fail.

Yes, actually there is. Too big to fail means that when an institution fails, its default will cause a cascade failure of other institutions relying on it -- and still other institutions relying on those -- including otherwise healthy ones whose only mistake was being integrated with the world economy.

This can ripple through the whole economy and work in tandem with the Paradox of Deleveraging to effectively cause a GDP death spiral. (See also: Great Depression.)
Turn it around: why did he choose them to invest in? Because he predicted their growth.

You could say he put his money where his mouth is.
Why would it need to benefit the consumer? None of these companies operate to directly benefit the consumer.

Note: I agree with your sentiment
Your obligation to your employer is commensurate with their obligation to you. If you feel like they've been flexible and accommodating (or would be, should the need arise), then I think it's reasonable (and very nice of you) to do what you can to protect their interests. Having said that, I do routinely see people bend over backward for employers who would shaft them in a heartbeat if it added a nickel to the bottom line.
It should've been unchecked by default, because that's what a majority of new sign-ups would expect/want. Instead you could ask for a promotional tweet on users' behalf once they become established users (by some reasonable metric).
The population density argument is bunk. Why does ATT provide utter crap for cell service in NYC and SF?
Health insurance options, as well as what companies to choose from, vary greatly by state. Unless there is one overarching insurer that almost everybody in your state uses, find an insurance broker. They may also come up with ideas you would never have thought of. Also know going in what level of coverage you are looking for. In my opinion, most people can get away with a high deductible plan. You didn't mention if you were married or single or had children but those are all factors.
And I take issue with "If you're going to work in the CS field." You're assuming that all programming/coding/software engineering/whatever jobs are in the CS field. There's a lot more out there.
They use completely different technologies with incompatible handsets and cell towers, so a Sprint/T-Mo merger is likely to be worth considerably less together than separate.
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Hi, I'm one of the engineers working on the Apture replacement (Highlight). Care to be more specific about the biggest gripes you had with Apture's original implementation? As far as the general UI and UX is concerned, I'm not sure what we would really change, but generally I'd be happy to do what I can to ensure that bad practices aren't carried over (especially those related to user privacy).
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I am with you, it seems like a knee jerk reaction to call all exec or eval code bad. Complexity has been pushed into a library, and the amount of clarity that namedtuple adds is more than it has "hurt" by its use of exec.
> I could take a day long course in marketing and speak like a marketing exec..so what?

Because if your job entails speaking to marketing execs, now you'll be more qualified to do so.

Likewise, if a crash course in coding gives you a better ability to talk to the programmers you work with, that seems like time well spent to me.
I only saw "wife came back when he became famous (and presumably rich)"
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A quick search reveals news that indicates that one is required to enter into a two-year contract to receive this discounted rate.
You follow exactly! The added detail is that these people are by and large thought leaders and you are getting a curated group of objects, presumably related to their area of expertise.
I very much doubt it's the case. Can anyone confirm this for sure because it makes a HUGE principal difference? It's one thing needing to talk other app developers to integrate with your app, and another - to get the integration for free and with very little effort.
"Latest Kiwis"?

How about the 4 million domestic and the 1 million expat people who are New Zealanders and who already call ourselves Kiwis?

To us this is like saying "latest Aussies" or "Latest Texans" or "latest Russians". It sounds stupid and is borderline offensive.

Please call yourself something else.
Who is mocking? I use Twitter regularly. But I'm not the one claiming that it's the greatest source of wisdom and knowledge on the planet. It's an interesting and useful form of media, but it's not even clear whether there's a viable business model in there.
What if Google bought T-Mobile (or Sprint)? They are certainly interested in the telecom space -- look at their investments in fiber-to-the-home and products like Google Voice. Together with their purchase of Motorola, they would be vertically-integrated too, which would allow them to do all sorts of borderline-creepy things with ads.

Of course this might spook the government, or turn Verizon or AT&T away from Android in retaliation, but its an interesting idea I think.
That's what they used to say about IE vs the open source community. But somehow, programmers' nature finds a way...
2 hours and no responses. Interesting.
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The more accurate term would be Too Big To LET Fail * , but the acronym starts getting unwieldy.

* [Or The #### Will Really Hit The Fan]
Personally I hate the whole implementation. I've never found anything in those annoying boxes of any use at all. I just don't want a box popping up when I mouse over links. Its just a bad idea. Could you implement a 'permanently disable this feature' option ?
Looks like you just have to register the right file types: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3981199/adding-open-in-op...
I like the way I got down voted on this one. I'm going to make a post about stupid down votes. This one by far is the best.
Also: don't eval() user-supplied strings.
Money Where My Mouth Is
You did the same thing. What's so bad about reasoning with opinion?
Clojure's core.match is implemented as a macro with almost exactly the technique you mention. It spits out a decision tree built out of conds.
All of the frequencies that cellphones operate (well at least 3G and 4G, I'm not 100% sure on GSM/CDMA frequencies) on are regulated (unlike the bands that WiFi networks work on which are unregulated). Phones need to be able to deal with these frequencies. They need to have antennas that can pick up those frequencies, as well as chips that can handle them.

This is the reason that you can use a AT&T GSM phone on T-Mobile's network, but not be able to access the 3G or 4G portions of the network (basically only ever be able to use Edge). Those phones aren't built to be able to receive/transmit in the bands that T-Mobile's towers are using for 3G and/or 4G.

Talking about quad-band and penta-band phones are talking about newer generation phones that can operate on more bands than just the ones used be a specific carrier's network. Note that the bands used can vary between countries, etc. Just because a country is using GSM for all of their cell networks doesn't mean that their 3G or 4G bands are the same as the one that your phone knows how to deal with.

Someone else can probably follow up with some Wikipedia links. Specifically there is a table in Wikipedia listing carriers from a huge list of countries and the bands that they are using.
That's a good idea. It's difficult to communicate the purpose of a "permanently opt out of this feature" button from the little widget that pops up, but it's definitely something we could integrate into the main window that expands. Would that be a satisfactory experience for you?

Feel welcome to suggest alternative UI ideas for adding a feature like that, if you have any.
More on that saudi investment in Twitter
accounting and finance are not the same subject matter, finance is more about valuation, accounting is the input that helps determine it. The author is clearly wrong in his/her approach.

See http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
Buy that guys book, read it, and you will be much better off.
According to the ninety-ninety rule, about 20 more hours. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
CSS is actually Turing complete: Eli Fox-Epstein used CSS to encode Rule 110, which was proven by Matthew Cook to be Turing complete.
I think healthy Indians will be both wealthier and more empowered.
I like the idea, and I built something a bit similar for my own needs via Dropbox.

However, I had to smile at the repeated stressing of "instantly". Nothing happens instantly over wifi, and certainly not over 3G
Finished ai-class at age 81
Without knowing anything about Apture's implementation, I'm reasonably certain you could block it with NoScript. For highlight, just wait until it comes up then block "highlight.cloudflare.com" (or whatever). While I don't like NoScript's default behavior, it's a godsend if you allow all globally and just blacklist domains you dislike.
It's pretty much the equivalent of having your App in the "Open with.." section of the right-click context menu on a desktop OS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands#UMTS-FDD
(scroll up slightly from there to see the five "major" UMTS bands identified.

NOTE: GSM/EDGE band support is different from UMTS band support. Except where explicitly stated, the rest of this is about UMTS bands.

Band IV is T-Mobile USA's high speed data band.

Bands II and V are AT&T's high speed data bands.

The Galaxy Nexus has bands I, II, IV, V, VIII
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-GALAXY-Nexus_id5595

iPhones (the GSM versions, not the Verizon versions) omit band IV, so they won't work on T-Mobile USA's UMTS data network.

T-mobile phones typically (and varyingly) omit bands II, V, and/or VIII.

I suggest searching phonearena for a handful of modern phones and comparing the supported GSM (& EDGE) bands (where most/all smartphones are quad-band) and UMTS bands (where supported bands are much more varying).
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To the extent that power over the internet is in the hands of a controlling few, we engineers haven't done a good enough job of engineering.

Sure, educating congress is a good idea. But there is a lot of room for improvement on the engineering too. The more decentralized our creations, the less opportunity for congress to get their grubby hands on them.
Foursquare is slowly evolving to the point where it serves users as a recommendation app (exploring places to go near to your locations), tips for what to do/eat/drink when you're there, and some good deals/offers to seal the deal.

The game mechanics and checking in will soon be just a minor aspect of their business. (So privacy aspects just won't affect the income-generating side of their business.)
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Wow, DISGUSTING behavior from Amazon. Probably violates trademark law as well.
My point here is that T-mobile, as it currently is, just isn't competition for AT&T and Verizon anyway.

1. The only thin I can find at all on Google related to T-mobile building is this post, suggesting they need a partner to start working on LTE in — get this — 2015: http://www.slashgear.com/t-mobile-lte-plans-suggest-spectrum...

2. It's certainly helpful; I don't believe this alone would doom a carrier, but without other benefits (Metro PCS, your example, has very cheap pre-paid plans and is really a different service than AT&T, Verizon, or T-mobile) this does hurt them. Just look at the millions of customers that switched to AT&T from 2007 to 2010 before Verizon got the iPhone.

3. I didn't say and, in fact, do not believe that "consolidation" will necessarily benefit customers. My only belief here is that that the government did here — keep a independent — is not useful because T-mobile is simply not competition. If T-mobile isn't actually competition in the future for AT&T or Verizon, how does it help for it to exist or be broken up among other companies?

(I do, however, believe it is possible (definitely not guaranteed, but possible!) that this move, in fact, could help consumers: AT&T currently has the generally accepted worst coverage, and so if they improved that by acquiring T-mobile, Verizon now would have both a slower network and a worse telephone network, and would need to improve to compete with AT&T's faster speeds and now-better coverage.)
I'm a former Apture developer/current Google employee (but I don't necessarily speak for either one). It's worth noting that Apture won't actually be shuttered until likely sometime in January (probably around the 10th). We had originally planned on Dec 20th, but we weren't confident that we had gotten the word out to everyone who uses our product (most notably people who use our plugin).
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Agreed, the article was mostly fluff.
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Off-contract phones are really the only thing keeping T-Mobile alive now, I think. Those will just turn into smartphones vs. featurephones. Plus the whole non-USA market.

In 2012+, I could see $100-300 true smartphones, bought outright, or heavily subsidized by a non-telco (e.g. you get a BoA sponsored phone with an account with direct debit, or more realistically some more profitable, faster growing business like walmart).

Combine that with MVNO service through the sponsor, month to month. Or, free service if you make a minimum spend on another service -- e.g. free cellphone with $100/mo comcast, or if you spend >$1k/mo at Amazon.

Pretty similar to the Kindle now -- buy the device once (subsidized), make no or minimal ($79/yr) recurring payments, and then shift most of your discretionary and non-discretionary spending to that vendor.
What's a non-market force?
I think it is a bit too early days for that. But maybe somebody could compile a list of good CoffeeScript they've seen out there.
> make you trustworthy

Only for those that believe marketing, ie the gullible.
> One problem is that the 55+ demographic is able to vote in the civic centers they grew up with.

You didn't go to high school or the library growing up?
Sigh, emotionally this sort of crap from Apple just really irritates me. Sure software patents are stupid, but does it strike anyone else that this Android Jihad by Apple is doing more damage to their corporate brand than help?

I should have realized during the 'look and feel' wars that its part of their DNA.
At the risk that hairbrained is another one of your plays on words, there may be a typo in there ;)
Making the box appear in a static location might make it less irritating.
Sometimes, I feel like we're characters in a book of satire, mocking what a world would look like if it acted like ours.
Interestingly, the few times I've used the android market web site from my web browser, I installed stuff on my phone. I should still be able to do that from a kindle should it be allowed.
According to the 2011 Census, India has 1.2 Billion people, so that rules out any mathematical impossibility.

$1 a day may seem extreme but in reality it's not quite as ridiculous as you suggest. In 2005, the World Bank estimated that 42% of India's population lived on $1.25 or less per day. In the interim years, the urban poor saw a 3.6% increase in income inequality and the rural 1.3%.

The issue of minimum wage in India is complicated, not all wage-earners get the either the national or state-level minimum wage (and women are disproportionally excluded). This article covers it in detail:

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---pro...
That's fair enough. The normal on-contract rate is subsidizing the $300+ discount on your phone. If there's no phone to subsidize, it's logical that the subsidy gets bounced back to you.
Obviously I didn't like the the poor implementation that sent any and all of my selections off to their servers.

I really dislike what it does to mouse input.

If I select something, it's mostly because I want to copy and paste it. I am very good about crediting where I collect my copy and paste segments from, I didn't need apture to put in references to the original article in every single one of my cut and paste buffers.

Sometimes I select so I can search. I want to conduct the search with my favored search engine. I don't want Apture conducting the search (poorly) with the intent of keeping me at the original site.

And sometimes I click or even select in a window just to leave a visual indicator of where I am so that when I scroll or drag a window around, I can find my place easier. I don't want apture windows popping up whenever I click or select anything. To quote the Simpson's the Internets do not work that way.

And there was no way to opt out of it short of using noscript or adblock or other technologies to strip it away.

So: don't invade my privacy, don't insert text into my cut and paste buffers, don't steal my search abilities, don't steal my mouse clicks, don't pop up windows, don't break my browser.

Apart from that, it was a real winner service for the websites, and not for their visitors
And you can learn to build a house in a day... because you managed to figure out a tent (with skilled help).
That's definitely an option we can consider giving our users. It wouldn't be the first time we've supported a feature like that. Thanks for the idea!
Wrote a brief response here: http://enriqueallen.tumblr.com/post/14480645124/design-both-...
Here's a couple excerpts:
“Focus on value creation. Design enhances value, it does not create it.” This statement represents the core contradiction and flaw in his argument which barely makes this discussion worth having. Let’s look at the word “creation” which is a fascinating word generally associated with “the action or process of bringing something into existence.” So if you re-write the sentence with this definition, it becomes, “focus on the action or process of bringing value into existence.” But what comes before an action or process whether conscious or subconscious in your DNA? Design. Borrowing from a Google definition, design means, “purpose, planning, or intention that exists or is thought to exist behind an action, fact, or material object.” Therefore to create value one must design how to do it, thus making the rest his post null.

If you agree with the flawed logic of Jon then you must substitute the word “Design” with any discipline concerning the action or behavior of creating value. Thus making a series of useless posts like “Engineering is Horseshit” and so on. You don’t see the design community getting mad at engineers who spend weeks designing an optimal database sharding strategy for building things like a daily-deal aggregator which has 0 users and a growth rate of “Divide by Zero Error” and no viable user acquisition strategy. Of course entrepreneurs should focus on value creation and finding product market fit before spending an inappropriate amount of energy on other activities whether that be visual design or backend infrastructure. Any entrepreneur I invest in should know that elementary lesson from experience or reading the Lean Startup etc.
Agreed, I usually .gitignore the generated JavaScript. Though sometimes it is useful to also provide JS in the repository, so people checking out the repo can immediately have running examples.

That is what we do for example in Hallo Editor: https://github.com/bergie/hallo
I do like redthroway's suggestion of putting it on it's own subdomain. That makes it easy for noscript or adblock to get rid of that and only that and leave actually useful scripts and content served.
Wrote a brief response here: http://enriqueallen.tumblr.com/post/14480645124/design-both-... Here's a couple excerpts: “Focus on value creation. Design enhances value, it does not create it.” This statement represents the core contradiction and flaw in his argument which barely makes this discussion worth having. Let’s look at the word “creation” which is a fascinating word generally associated with “the action or process of bringing something into existence.” So if you re-write the sentence with this definition, it becomes, “focus on the action or process of bringing value into existence.” But what comes before an action or process whether conscious or subconscious in your DNA? Design. Borrowing from a Google definition, design means, “purpose, planning, or intention that exists or is thought to exist behind an action, fact, or material object.” Therefore to create value one must design how to do it, thus making the rest his post null.

If you agree with the flawed logic of Jon then you must substitute the word “Design” with any discipline concerning the action or behavior of creating value. Thus making a series of useless posts like “Engineering is Horseshit” and so on. You don’t see the design community getting mad at engineers who spend weeks designing an optimal database sharding strategy for building things like a daily-deal aggregator which has 0 users and a growth rate of “Divide by Zero Error” and no viable user acquisition strategy. Of course entrepreneurs should focus on value creation and finding product market fit before spending an inappropriate amount of energy on other activities whether that be visual design or backend infrastructure. Any entrepreneur I invest in should know that elementary lesson from experience or reading the Lean Startup etc.