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You seem to try to debunk some [imaginary] point about women being somehow 'inferior'. I never said such thing. Women and men are different, that's all I said. I even started by stating that girls outperform boys in school to a very large extent. Boys appear to have their advantage among the tiny narrow peak only, that affects a tiny minority of people.

I've lived in societies that took radically different approaches on this. Whenever I talk about this I'm called 'fascist' or 'marxist' depending where I am. I think that's hilarious to say the least.

Mmm... I don't want to sound arrogant, but have you red the source you linked beyond the abstract? If you follow the links, one of them will take you here:
http://pps.sagepub.com/content/6/2/134.full

and that clearly states that opinions like mine cannot be disregarded, it even acknowledges that such possibilities are less studied.

But there's one important thing to note. If you're a biologist and write a paper where you go through an hypothesis similar to my views, you can still expect an avalanche of cheap offenses.

The link of this thread is called "STFU about what women want". Why is the author so pissed of? Why resourcing to such heavy language right on the title?
Sorry, but if you have a clear solid opinion you don't reply an inoffensive opinion with 'STFU'. If you do so it's because of some other reason. I'd say taboo, or at least she has no strong valid point so she resources to a violent response.
Protip: Only build offices, no condos. I got to 5 stars without once optimizing the elevators.
I developed a site called StageGrade (http://www.stagegrade.com) that aggregates theatre reviews.

We hope to at least get around the problem of having to overly rely on one or a few professional critics' reviews by aggregating them all and also by allowing users to leave their own reviews which are given equal visibility to the critic reviews.
That comment looks a LOT like spam. Hellbanning is necessary, because if a spammer realizes they've been banned overtly, they'll just create a new account and keep on spamming. You do have a lot of legitimately good comments in that list, though.
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"Jobs originally hated the concept and within a few minutes decided it was the right one to choose."

Your summary is mostly good, but this one statement is totally incorrect as a summary of what the article said.

According to the article, Jobs thought the concept was great but was hesitant to run it because he was afraid it would invite too much backlash due to him already being seen as an egotist.

There's a huge difference between that and saying he hated it.
37signals is a good example of this.
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I saw this implemented at (I think) Times Square Tower a few years back. It had you enter your floor at a podium in the main lobby on the way to the elevators, and it worked beautifully. 49 floors and not once did I have to wait more than ten or 15 seconds for an elevator.

Then they retrofitted a similar system back at my corp HQ. It had you enter your floor on a screen on the wall right in the middle of the elevator lobby and it was (and is) kind of a pain in the ass...because when there's a crush of people waiting for the elevators, you can't get to the screen to enter your floor. When it was just the "up" and "down" buttons in the same location, the odds were pretty good that someone in the crush had already pushed the button you need, but...
I think people are content with Windows, not happy, and more importantly, not excited.
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I'm not sure why there's a down-vote here, because that was exactly the question I had. There has been a system of professors referring their top students to their colleagues for years, and on a small scale I don't see much issue. However, with these large online classes, these professors can stand to be gatekeepers to an incredibly massive - and valuable - source of leads. It doesn't help when there is no true transparency to the process, and a desire for the school to recoup costs - we assume the professor would just send the top 1000 over regardless of source, but what's to stop them from only referring the names of students who, say, enroll for credit and pay the university? Or those who pay some sort of a separate "consideration fee"?
I can't put my finger on why, but I'm a little unnerved by this...
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Especially considering how many of those questions ask you to guess. These people either already knew the material, cheated or were really effing lucky.

The work you did strikes me as a far better measure of character and subject understanding.
Isn't this pretty much Oink?
My gut feeling is that they weighted specific questions.
In the 90's, yes, people talked about ads. The internet was too slow for anything other than light information and DVRs were an early adopter dream. People watched them and talked about them.
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No http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/13/four-letter-words/
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Here's your bank software, if you haven't already heard of it: https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions/wiki
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Palantir did not say they had "nothing to do with" HB Gary.

Palantir said they should not have been portrayed as a part of the controversial Wikileaks-related offensive-actions proposal – because Palantir did not, and would not, approve of such tactics. Palantir also said, after that proposal, that they were breaking all contacts with HB Gary – which admits there were other ties.

The fact that HB Gary licensed some Palantir software or even had other project-related aliases with Palantir is wholly consistent with Palantir's explanation.

Perhaps any association whatsoever with HB Gary was a mistake. If so, doesn't Palantir get any credit for (belatedly) "sever[ing] any and all contacts with HB Gary"?

Also, as a government contractor, you don't necessarily have full control over every other contractor on related projects.
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While I may even agree with you, the unfortunate fact is that it is not in fact spam and violates no rules or guidelines and suffers only from being overly enthusiastic in a positive and friendly manner. In truth, it is not even "empty" in that it provides an important link to the voting page.

At best this is an example of incompetence in the form of a poorly written spam detection algorithm, at worst it represents an admin's lazy disregard for the effects of "hellbanning" on a sincere community.
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It's my right as a person with an opinion. I'm not going to sit here and pretend that it was a valuable choice or a reasonable decision for them to make. I don't lie to my friends, and I don't paper things over.

Quite a judgmental statement, to tell someone who's been through it four times what his reaction should be. Maybe it's something I've thought through and been through a few times, and decided that blunt force rather than kid-gloves is the only way to get through to people who want to take their own life.
You say the banks "corrupted" politicians, like those politicians were clean and just hung around with the 'bad banking' crowd one afternoon.
Ask HN: What's with the giant & clunky web designs?
Today Freshbooks began testing, with its paying customers, an "updated" look:
http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2011/12/14/new-redesigned-header-emails-and-login-screen/

The feedback has been mostly negative (189 comments as of now).

The most visible difference is the new header area (logo, primary nav, secondary nav), which, among other changes, has been stretched vertically, occupying more pixels and pushing down the important stuff (you know, the actual content).

I've seen this over and over again with recent web designs: enormous fonts, images, excessive white space, etc.

My theory is that the folks designing this stuff have massive hi-res Apple Cinema displays, which make the designs look reasonable to them (I've seen this firsthand a few times).

Any ideas what's going on here?

Is there a practical basis for these (what I perceive as giant and clunky) designs?
Hacker News lacks a feature that would 'close entire thread,' and so the top troll comment is disproportionately rewarded with attention.

You could fix this with a simple feature.
FreshBooks blog post and discussion RE: new design:
http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2011/12/14/new-redesigned-hea...
I just started messing with Blender a few days ago. It looks like they've cleaned up the UI a bit since the last time I looked at Blender. Here's a very nice set of getting started tutorials on Youtube. Very simple and straightforward.

http://www.youtube.com/user/cgboorman
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I think this is probably their biggest problem too. I'm a pretty technical guy, maybe not up on the latest and greatest in the land of cell phones, but I get by.

That said, I'm still not even sure if I can go buy a Windows Phone device yet. I've seen some reviews of the Lumia, and it looks nice, but I honestly couldn't tell you if it's out or not, and who would even have the thing if it is. Or, for that matter, if ANY of the US carriers have ANY Windows Phone devices yet. I've read about upgrades to the OS, so I suspect there are handsets to be had, but I just don't know.

Yes, I could look up information about Windows Phone and available devices, but why should I? Nobody I know has one and the one person I knew that wanted one more than anything else ended up buying and Android phone because he couldn't wait any more. My point, which was OP's point, is that Microsoft should be doing their part to make sure I know this information passively, like all the other phone manufacturers have done. I've seen the interface, it looks slick, but that's where my knowledge of their platform stops.

In contrast, I see a new Android billboard (typically some flavor of Motorola's Droid) go up every month. I can't be bothered to keep up with all the variations, but I know they are available, and where to go get one.
I recently went to the office in Los Angeles that issues permits for filming. It's located inside a studio lot, so you sign in up front, have your ID scanned, get a printed badge to wear and walk to another building that has the permit office.

In that building, you go to the security desk and tell them where you're going. They call the elevator for you. You get on the elevator. It has no buttons inside. The desk sends you up to the permit office.

When you leave the permit office, you press a button next to the elevator and it shows up and takes you to the lobby. There are no other options for you.

Studios got paranoid about security post 9/11. Which I guess makes some sense.

But why the film permit office is inside one of them, I'll never know.
About the second story: Is it real? Is there any confirmed source of this "telepathic" communication? Another point of view: http://www.skepdic.com/monkey.html
About 5-10% of back and forth threads are useful to read. As you point out, these are usually civil debates about the merits of particular approaches.

I think the point is: as soon as it gets personal, get back to work.
I'm in love with the FAR Manager (http://www.farmanager.com/).

Also on my work windows 7 machine: cygwin, sysinternals (RamMap has been my favourite since I'm working on some relatively I/O data building system, and checking out and then flushing the file cache with it is nice way to verify how your app acts on the system)

Also DEJA Insight for profiling (markers, like PIX).

NirSoft is awesome, SciTE for editing, but lately more and more emacs.

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It's still true that had the banks not bribeed them, they wouldn't have made this specifc decison that caused this specific mess.
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Of the 100k+ readership of HN, very few are actual employees of any single company. Does that mean we can't discuss any companies here?
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Ask HN:Self Education:I am totally confused
I am interested in being truly good at both computer science and programming,but i cannot seem to come up with a solid model of education.In Mathematics,i know that i should read Spivak,Rudin,William Feller and all the other masters.In physics,it is the Feynman Lectures starting with Mechanics,Electromagnetism and onto Quantum Mechanics.The logical coherence breaks with CS and programming.Here is what i have learned:
A.Begin with python and then feel free to read anything else
B.The Joel Spolsky Approach:C.O.D.E,K&R,SICP and then anything else
C:Matt's "What every CS major should know
D:Learn the current fad:HTML5,Ruby,NodeJS etc
Is it possible to get the kind of coherence present in Math and physics?
False dichotomy. Access to running water is not a luxury. I think that word is too loaded to use technically here.

In the context of a country where running water is ubiquitous, it is a horror that people have no infrastructure providing running water. It's not a "right" in the platonic sense, but I think I can say fairly objectively that it comes close to that status. That's really all that matters.

What can you really do with the information that water should be a "luxury" in the technical sense? Leave everyone t their own devices?
Well, I agree we do not walk enough, but when you live in large buildings with more than 15 floors you cannot expect people to take the stairs up and down from top to bottom. Elevators are enablers of high people density in cities.
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I spent two years working on this problem as my masters thesis. It's possible, not trivial.
For kicks, request a new password on the site. Funny stuff.
> What I was referring to was the Israeli Law of Return that gives citizenship to any Jew that applies.

So the country established by all the western powers as a home for Judaism shouldn't permit Jews citizenship based on religion? You're an idiot and you can't comprehend it and are publicly flaunting it.

Seriously read a book with a viewpoint not espoused by a neo-nazi group and you might actually learn something about the Israel-Palestine issue.

Israel isn't the only country that's actively discriminating against Arabs, they're just the easy one to point to. Let's forget that the Caucasus are in the middle of a religious war led by Arab religious sects attempting a religious coup in many parts of Russia. Let's forget that the Jews have been persecuted for thousands of years and Israel is surrounded by people trying to kill them simply because their Jews. Hey no shit, those ancestors of the jews who survived all their families being killed and robbed don't like that shit. Who knew!

You're complaining because Israel isn't being considerate to the poverty stricken Palestine that elected a terrorist organization as its leaders and that fire mortars into Israeli cities and use UN outposts so Israel can't return fire. Hey here's news to Palestine not spending money on things that destroy themselves could get you out of poverty.

Sorry I give Israel kudos because if any country was launching mortar strikes on US cities it would have been carpet bombed to rubble inside a week and with or without a religious or racial motives, no one would be complaining.
The people suffering elected the people who made the bad decisions.
I wonder if being uberly social about things will eventually lead to the anti-social revolution. Who's in for creating the next big wave, "deface book"?

Actually, that's not a bad idea, Defacebook will let you create mustaches on your friend's profile pictures. ;-)
I think the preference stems primarily from two factors:

1. There are hundreds of YC companies now, each with multiple founders, almost all of whom are HN readers. Each person here votes on topics, articles and companies they find interesting. I follow a lot of YC-related news because it's fun and helpful to be informed about YC and the alumni. Therefore, I'm more familiar with YC companies and founders, so I will tend to vote on their news slightly more often. With hundreds of founders from YC, it only takes a small bias like this to create a slight lean toward YC news getting better results here than other similar news.

2. This same bias isn't exclusive to YC alumni. Most people on HN familiar with YC like it, respect PG, and are interested in YC companies and the progress of the portfolio. So, in addition to a small bias on the part of the alumni, I have also seen that YC news gets more votes and comments from the rest of the community.

While that might mean that YC news gets more exposure and other news less, more people seem to be interested in it than not, so it seems the forum still works as it should.
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Should be interesting to see what people build. :)
The US education system benefited for a long period where many incredibly smart women had career options basically limited to teaching and nursing. As equality improved, some of the brightest prospective teachers instead became doctors, scientists, and engineers. This decrease in teacher quality is resulting in a more "assembly line" style of education, where each step is fully structured. I have seen anecdotal evidence of highly qualified teachers exiting the workforce because the structure of the work has become unfulfilling.

I suspect there are also incentives for top performers to move out of education and into administration.
While I agree with your general sentiment, note that at least in ML-class, you can resubmit quizzes as many times as you want for full credit. Thus over the course of an hour you can retake the quiz enough times to brute force a perfect score without breaking the letter (and arguably the spirit) of the honor code.

Another interesting aspect of this "online ethics" is that there's no technical measures preventing you from pulling up past quiz results, and even if there was, you could still keep previous sessions open in a browser and even if there were countermeasures against that (javascript erasing), JS could be disabled, etc.

The Programming Projects that ML class had were slightly better metric of performance as there's more work that would have to be plagiarized, and if you're just going to go through life outsourcing all of your work then I guess that's your prerogative. However, I think that if you wanted to be very serious about actually testing for knowledge of material then the addition of some sort of interview component (phone/skype session), while time-consuming, could help.
Not just you. It's quite difficult to read.
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As seen on HN 8 months ago, although this looks like a nice redesign: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614
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i learned plenty making this. varnish, httpcore, and the dropbox apis are all very cool.

though clearly i need to learn how to make an effective landing page, because no one who is visiting actually trying this service.
What's the advantage over the Dropbox "Public" folder?
Which part? Data visualization or data visualization to crush wikileaks through defamation and ddos?

Can you elaborate? I'm just having a really time seeing how "Palantir was going to destroy wikileaks" which is what everyone says, but if you read the documents that were exposed, this doesn't really seem to be implied.

Additionally, the type of software Palantir makes couldn't really be used to destroy wikileaks in the ways claimed.

Yes, Palantir is a government contractor, but that doesn't mean they do evil things. You don't call google evil because HBGary uses google search. In the same way, I don't see how you can call Palantir evil for making a data visualization platform.
Should look close to this:

+++Computer Science I: Programming Methodology (http://academicearth.org/courses/programming-methodology)

+++Computer Science II: Programming Abstractions (http://academicearth.org/courses/programming-abstractions)

+++Computer Science III: Programming Paradigms (http://academicearth.org/courses/programming-paradigms)

Of course you can throw in there:

+++Introduction to Algorithms (http://academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-algorithms)

+++Data Structures (http://academicearth.org/courses/data-structures)
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I suppose in the sense that they are both celebrating greatness, they are similar, but Nike's ads were generally about celebrating great athletes and they filmed them performing while they were still in their prime for the express purpose of making an advertisement and paid them tons of money to do so. The Think Different campaign used historical figures and archival footage. As far as the style and format, montage is as old as Eisenstein, so in that sense, practically everything after him is "quite derivative."
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I've often wondered how well an adaptive learning system using cameras at each floor would work. The cameras would record how many people are waiting for the elevator and tweak the algorithms accordingly. Historical data could be collected based on time of day, day of week, etc. Could be combined with the building's existing security cameras for cost savings.
Never said ranking algorithm. I said, there's a bunch of links (like job postings and YC company PR posts) that get privileged front page status with their own decay algorithms, yet they aren't flagged as "promoted". They're just mixed in as if it's actually relevant news a bunch of people upvoted to the front page. Or how about all that crap that was on scribd back when nobody knew what scribd was? If you think this isn't a manipulated news source then you're high on a metric ton of horseshit.
Additionally, this comment shouldn't be downvoted. I realize that people like to hate on Palantir, but I'm asking a legitimate question. And up to this point, nobody has given me a good answer.

Those of us that have been on HN for awhile know that you don't downvote things just because you disagree with them. This comment is really constructive and I'm disappointed that people are instinctively downvoting it because it can be construed as supporting a company they're biased against.
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Most tapings for Comedy Central standup specials are free to encourage a full house, so he would have made a lot less.
Only if gravity moves at the same speed as light, right? It sounds like we've been observing energy emissions (light) rather than directly observing it's gravitational impact on us.
I wonder if they took time dilation into account when calculating the arrival date.
I'm watching Sintel now at 1080p. The quality is something I'd expect to see in a movie theater! Previously I've seen Big Buck Bunny, which my daughter loves. :) But Sintel blows it away.
Is there anything like this for Mac OS X?