skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"/more programmers/", as long as the new set has a different and "better" distribution ratio among its members than exists presently. Just reinforces my point. As to "wider variety of thinking" this is immeasurable and is sufficiently vague so you can take it to mean anything you want it to mean.

Fwiw, I am not saying Martin is wrong - he is a smart guy and he is a probably right. I am just saying his argument uses subtle tricks of rhetoric to, essentially, circle back to his assumptions.
Here are the current search trends, you tell me which would benefit from posts from acquaintances.

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
"And what about when your camera floats around automatically getting every available shot, every available composition, framing, leaving you to just select the best?"

Haha yeah, I guess if you disregard the context of time, weather, effort, mobility, and all that non-idealized crap, you could probably systematically move around with your magic jetpack and a camera with infinite battery or whatever it is camera's have nowadays. Then you could simply brute-force every available composition like a computer would. Beep boop.

"There are only so many parameters that make up a recording of light. Sorry, but I do not see a massive amount of skill involved in it now that you can brute force most of it, or have it automatically done for you."

Fellow computer: sudo take a gorgeous photo of a snowy landscape, and fall back on the brute-force algorithm if necessary. Make it quick, I have to find my way back by noon and I don't trust my A* algorithm.
You can do so here: http://hngp.axxim.net/insert
Industrial quantities of fertilizer IS dangerous. The Oslo bombing wasn't even that long ago, have you forgotten?
Martin says that we are turning away qualified female candidates right now. That's not the case. Only one female candidate comes through my door for every 7 or 8 males. We are meritocrats like Martin and would be happy to hire females. But first they have to show up.
something that promotes the ability for one to be creative should not be suppressed solely for its potential abuse. the impress.js/prezi style of presentations are clever and provide a little something extra to the normally mundane world of slide decks. everyone could just throw things in lists and it would have roughly the same informative impact -- but presentations are more than that. the best presentations should invoke an emotional reaction -- which these style of presentations might make more possible.
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Interesting, I always saw the uprise of social games as quite confusing, since myself as a gamer saw no need for these games. It makes sense that these Farmville/Social City/Zynga games then be targeted towards this new, untapped group. I find the Zynga numbers to be interesting, but the correlation confuses me. Is it completely out of left field to follow the 81% gambling figure to correlate that that number of women are visiting casinos/e-casinos and gambling? That seems like a HUGE number.
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It also failed because, to within a small margin of error, nobody owned MIPS, PPC, Alpha, or Itanium systems. ARM systems, on the other hand, are selling tens or maybe even hundreds of millions a year right now.
Swiss bank chief Hildebrand's private emails revealed, fuelling scandal
In my mind, this article has one big flaw: Apple's never been about competing on volume. So, doesn't the closing line about Apple having to catch up defy history?
You apparently missed this:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hf5K14O6Fwc/Twufv9LK1PI/AAAAAAAAAL...
I think it's genius. WP site owners don't care about channel redundancy, they just want a push button method of putting their content into as many channels as possible. Catering to the "Look Ma, I made a mobile app!" crowd is a big market.
"Why do C++ folks make things so complicated?": http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/14/why-do-c-folks-make...
Hey nik, thanks for the comment. So you know, the number is that 81% of women prefer to play slots when they go to casinos. This doesn't mean that they are 81% of slot machine players (the actual ratio is closer to 52% male, 48% female).
This is a fantastic talk, thank you for the link!

It covers much more than even the Lockdown article and the questions from the audience at the end are both interesting and lead to even more interesting responses.
I've thought about this a bit. And my prediction is that a wedding photographer, for example, will set up several cameras around the room that will recored very high res video.

Later a computer will recreate the entire event and the photographer will fly around with a virtual camera and select the best shots.
NASA’s alternative space “station” rocks your smartphone
Supply and demand. As long as there is a demand for native apps then it doesn't really matter where we think things "should stay." I think this is a great step toward making Wordpress sites more accessible via mobile devices. Good work!
Just Dark any Facebook/Google Traffic going to Washington DC. Not enough to cause stock/revenue/world panic... just enough to cause localized panic where the target audience can feel it.
Rendering of web fonts on Windows XP is one big issue that there are solutions for but it really takes a lot of tweaking. First, it starts with a well designed and created font. Second, hinting can be applied that helps shift around the pixels on the screen to better map the outlines to the pixels on the screen, ClearType does help in some instances but mostly with small text, using tricks like sending WOFF/CFF to turn on GDI grayscale anti-aliasing is another that is employed when a font is a certain size - usually larger sizes.

Its one big issue and one that all of us web font service providers are trying to help solve. If we all had the resources we would be sending down one specific version for each browser / OS and screen setting combination. But that is pretty prohibitive. We are starting to see better renders built into the browsers and some tweaks that the folks at Webkit, Mozilla and IE are making.
Even more stupid; expecting the legal system of different countries to fairly and efficiently protect your IP, especially if you don't already have large stacks of money to buy lawyers with.
How do you make attractive Android applications?
No, it's just saying that in the absence of any such evidence it's sensible to adopt the null hypothesis that there's no intrinsic difference and that you'd need very high level of confidence in such research before making policy based on it.
To be fair, if the gates of acceptance of HBD (human biodiversity) were thrown open, people fear there would be a lot more social friction. And I think you're right about the worldview bit, too - people not being seen as quite equal would be a major change. Gah, I wish HBDers would discuss the repercussions of acceptance of HBD instead of just sniping from the sidelines (not meaning you, now), as the mainstream won't accept it until they're comfortable with the consequences.
Sorry I should have said Chrome 15+ on Windows. I was thinking of another feature in the Canary build.

So today you can use the -webkit-font-settings to get some of the OpenType features into Chrome for Windows today
Yes, I realize that, but there is still something to be said about the direction animation-heavy websites are going. Because of the novelty of presentation styles like this, I would argue that they're a weaker form of presenting information. It certainly draws the audience away from what's actually on the slides.

For instance, the first time I went through this site, I read the first slide, then flicked through the pages and only upon a second visit to the site did I actually read what it had to say. This obviously isn't the case for everyone, I know.
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i agree, change is terrifying.
Ah, and now I have a compelling reason to try Google+. Well played, Google, you creepy SOB.
> I'm not entirely certain you cannot take an ARM core and enhance it if you pay the right fees

You can. There are at least two licenses, a core license and an architecture license. Qualcomm has an architecture license; the Scorpion (Snapdragon's ARM core) is an ARMv7 core somewhat similar to an A8, but is not actually an A8. Companies with core licenses have also modified them; the Samsung/Apple/Intrinsity Hummingbird/A4 used an A8 core modified by Intrinsity to work efficiently at 1GHz; TI later followed suit. Intrinsity's main business model, in fact, was optimization of other peoples' core designs.
That's great. I actually read the whole page.

I would add an additional bullet to the home page adapting a key statement from that page where they said "sit back and be happy you're not having to do all this yourself."

Why our engine never stops

-----------------------------

(Hey, why are we so fast, secure and scalable?)

Sit back and be happy that you're not having to do all this yourself

Linked to the "our-infrastructure page".
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Stop The Redefinition of Computer Terms
All that equipment and and gas are not the valuable part of this photo. You pay the guy for knowing where this spot is and how to get a decent photo of it.

By insisting that the photo is "expensive" because it required all of that easily duplicate-able tech actually cheapens it.
Lexical vs Dynamic scope in clojure
I feel like everyone with content on the Internet wants an app. My old co-founder wasted about 3 months worth of time talking with an Obj-C dev and drawing screens because he was obsessed with having an iPhone app. His proof that we needed it? Every time someone saw our icon on his iPhone (which just launched our site in Safari) they'd ask if we actually had an app. These people wouldn't even use our site in the first place, I'm not sure what made him think they'd use an iPhone app instead, yet he was dead set on getting one into the app store.
I can't see any reason why being genuinely good at math is more importnat to effective programming...

I would strongly suspect that just as math and CS ability are correlated, so would math and chemistry. Biology less so, since biology is mostly just memorizing (at least for the first 3-4 years of college).

Anyway, I cited math data mainly because it's so widely studied. I get so many downvotes when I discuss this topic with data that I'm not even going to attempt to write about stuff I have no readily available data on.

I see a different pattern that goes in mostly the reverse direction. [...] young nerds [...] are therefore undesirable to be around.

Um, that's not the reverse direction. That's the same direction as what I said: women avoid computing because they are intolerant of geeks.

Note that young nerds also often act "bizarrely" towards men and each other. I certainly did before I learned to pass. But the claim of the author of the studies I cited is that women are less tolerant of "bizarre" behavior.
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Samsung is mercenary. They’re happy to use anyone’s OS as long as it puts phones into boxes and boxes into shopping bags

I would argue that that is their problem, no passion for the product may be OK for the TV market but it is not working so well for the phone market, an their performance in the tablet market has been horrible at best. The simple fact that they cannot be bothered to upgrade their devices after it leaves the sales center is driving a lot of customers into other vendors arms after a single Samsung purchase. Just ask any early adopted of their tables who have not seen a single upgrade. The mercenary mentality may be good for common appliances but it is not a lasting strategy in the mobile market.

Add in some tablets, some washing machines, and some acceptable software and you have a real and vibrant ecosystem.

Apple succeeded because their software was more than acceptable and now the bar has been set. There is a lot I like about Android as an OS but as far as Samsung and Android the lifetime of the device support lasts only until the sale is made and it is not a winning strategy for even acceptable software. They have to address this huge issue if they want to maintain customers after their first Samsung device purchase.

they’ll be happy to plop down a few hundred for a TV that can evolve every year with the addition of an upgrade package that ups the processing power and adds features.

They will have to adopt a different strategy than their phone strategy if that is the case. So far Samsung has shown a reluctance to upgrade the OS due to fear that it will cannibalize new hardware sales.
WoW, thats awesome! Pics or it didn't happen :D
Thanks for the great photo!

Although I agree with you on most points, I think it is beneficial to have a middle road between the previous post and this one, e.g. if you had put up many more of your gorgeous photos and provided a way to make a small donation for each download (I would gladly would have paid a dollar).
The question of what should be done in cases of copyright infringement is the only one that can really be usefully discussed, which is probably why most people are addressing that instead. Should people copy photographs for commercial purposes? Of course not. End of discussion, not much more to say.

This seems to come up fairly often - an article making a moral argument that copying is wrong, followed by comments saying "Yeah, but it still happens, so you should do X", followed by replies saying "no, but you don't understand, it's wrong!"

Strangely enough, this seems to come up mostly in the context of music (or, in this case, photography). I haven't seen many software blogs making a purely moral argument as opposed to a practical discussion of what to do about it.
I was in a big box store and I saw a Samsung blu-ray player that allowed control from your smart phone.

I don't know how well this works but if it works better than my current htpc + android + remote apps (which don't well together), I'd be super impressed.

Samsung already has a lot of integration nailed. Their products work well together. When I pop in a blu-ray, the tv turns on along with the sound bar. The remotes work well together (I can't speak to how well this works for other manufacturers like Sony).

If you throw a smart phone into the mix, that actually works as a remote for the TV and Blu-ray, I would be very impressed.
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Awesome photo !
The tower shadow angle looks odd, though.
I thought someone would have mentioned this by now, but in other cultures (my sample: India, China, Ukraine), there /are/ more women programmers. At least, I've worked with proportionately more women from the above nations, than white American women. Meaning it's culture and not ability or /native/ inclination, at least.
Yeah, I found this incredibly confusing as well.
It will be a shame if this port garners comparable attention to the original impress.js. Looking at both source codes, the meat of the original project is in the smart css3 transformations and related js.

We all know what that powerful 'jQuery' keyword does for a JavaScript project. Maybe I'm being cynical.
I hope everyone understands, including the authors themselves, that each author in this back-and-forth is correct. The right to give and the right to charge are inherently personal decisions that only the owner of the photo can make.

This was the main frustration that I had with the "this photograph is not free" comments, as well as the tone the author of this article takes. It doesn't matter what the commentators claim the various photos are 'worth' -- it's not their right to speculate, and just because you released your material CCL, you don't have the right to feel more privileged than someone who chose to exercise their right to be compensated.
If not google.com, then maybe youtube.com, which would have very likely been shut down in its early days had SOPA existed then.
Sorry to be so brutally honest....but personally with women rejecting me everywhere in a downright rude manner as an undesirable nerd it is hard not to have a bias against them!

Agreed that perhaps not all women are like that...but for one that is nice there is at least a hundred shallow bitches around!
This is awesome, I know loads of people who will use this, including me if I ever have time! A couple of questions though:

How does payment/subscription work? Is there a limit to the number of apps you can publish under the monthly plan, or is there a cost per app and then a monthly fee for the analytics and push? Is there a nice user interface for push? Where can I see a demo of it all in operation (the management of an app that's out there)? :)
That was rather different, as Apple was entirely dependent on IBM and Motorola to produce new chip designs (and Motorola had effectively quit the desktop market). The G5 was actually reasonably competitive with the P4 at the time the move was made, and beat it on some SIMD work. The real trouble was that IBM had repeatedly slipped on its deadlines to produce a low-power laptop-appropriate G5, and the aging G4 architecture just wasn't good enough.

Today, the story is very different. Apple can produce its own SoC designs, as with the A5, or even produce its own ARM _core_ designs, like Qualcomm does, or it can buy from one of a number of healthy vendors who show no signs of quitting ARM anytime soon. If this Intel core had a genuine dramatic performance advantage over the A15 (which it will be competing with, given the timescales), at the same power usage, that would be one thing, but that's far from clear right now.
Your rewrite is completely valid. Were you expecting it to be absurd? It's not. The same interesting questions arise. I'm sure you can come up with reasons why men may choose not to make their living caring for children, even though they'd prefer to do so. Is this not a problem we should attempt to fix?
"So they called up Sanjay Jha, and figured out what it was going to take to get an exclusive contract."

Not to take away from the overall point of your comment, but isn't Google in the process of finalizing[1] their purchase of Motorola Mobility, so wouldn't Google have been deeply involved in the decision. In essence a phone to Jha, Rubin, and Page.

I think it's too early to tell weather Medfield is a hit or miss. Anandtech seems to be impressed with the Medfield Platform[2], so far based on what they have seen

"Intel finally did it. After almost five years of talking about getting into mobile phone form factors, Intel went out and built a reference platform that proved what they've been saying was possible all along. Furthermore, Intel also finally landed a couple of partners who are willing to show their support by incorporating Medfield into their product portfolio. The releases are still a few months away at the earliest (possibly even longer for Motorola) but it's much better news than Intel has ever reported before in this space.

The partnerships aren't out of pity either: Medfield is fast. I firmly believe had it been released a year ago it would have dominated the Android smartphone market from the very start. Even today it appears to deliver better CPU performance than anything on the market, despite only having a single core. GPU performance is still not as fast as what's in the A5 but it's competitive with much of the competition today, and I fully expect the dual-core version of Medfield to rectify this problem.

Based on the data Intel shared with us as well, the x86 power problem appears to be a myth - at least when it comes to Medfield. I'm still not fully convinced until we're able to test a Medfield based phone ourselves, but power efficiency at the chip level doesn't seem to be a problem.

Medfield and the Atom Z2460 are a solid starting point. Intel finally has a chip that they can deliver to the market and partners to carry it in. Intel also built a very impressive reference platform that could lead to some very interesting disruptions in the market.

While I'd like to say that Intel's Medfield team can now breathe a sigh of relief, their work is far from over - especially with more competitive ARM based SoCs showing up later this year. I'm really interested to see where this goes in the next 12 months..."

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/12/2630134/googles-acquisiti...
[2]http://www.anandtech.com/show/5365/intels-medfield-atom-z246...
I'm one of the team at PrimaryBlogger and we would be interested in using this :) Good work!
Good point, but that narrative feels a lot like a specific example of sloppy science and poor measurement.

I'm going to stand by the notion that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, even if that may create a small bias toward conventional thinking.
I agree with @greedoshotlast. But I am on the same boat as @throwaway826.

My major was in Philosophy. I've been attempting to go back to school but always ended up not finishing. I was shooting for a CS degree.

I took up courses in the community college with intention to transfer to the university (cost-effective). But, due to personal, job, and family commitments, I couldn't get past that community college level, hadn't completed even the associate degree.

So, I think I am going the teach-yourself-to-code route! My C#/.Net attempt at this was not successful either. This time I am teaching myself to code in Ruby/Rails!
Although the preconstructed aspects of this make the figure less impressive anyways, I am also deeply unimpressed with any large projects like this that China does fast or cheap, due to the low quality and safety standards typical there.
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They're certainly ahead on process. It remains to be seen if that will be enough.
Ask HN: Why do foriegn founders start Delaware based companies?
I've seen this mentioned a few times here in hacker news and among other blogs and forums as well. As I can see, People who want to run a US based company, but don't want to migrate to the US often do this. Where as people who want to migrate to US prefer Valley for obvious reasons.

What is the appeal Delaware has?
I already knew mostly everything in it (Time to switch to a new language!) but here's two that I didn't know:

1.

from __future__ import braces

Use {} to delimit scope!

2.

try:
import readline
except ImportError:
print "Unable to load readline module."
else:
import rlcompleter
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

Used to use [tab]-completion in terminal. One could correctly argue that using iPython would be smarter.. but sometime you are working remotely and don't want to get out of the terminal and install, etc.
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You have to pay ARM extra to be able to tweak their cores or design your own. Qualcomm does this with their Snapdragon processors, and the Samsung/Intrinsity collaboration that spawned Apple's line of SoCs and a few for Samsung is also based on modifying the ARM cores. Most everybody else goes for the cheaper ARM licenses.
Yep; I'd be particularly suspicious of this given that the two companies involved are Lenovo, which doesn't have a significant smartphone market anyway, and has a huge PC market, and Motorola, which is in reasonably dire financial straits. If HTC, or, for that matter, Apple, were a launch partner, that might be more promising.
It's fun to take apart the logic, rhetoric, and nitpick on every word of this post. We could argue the premise all day long -- and 5 years from now there will be fewer women, minorities, etc, than there are now.

Instead I prefer to take constructive action to change this, without worrying if (1) it is natural or unnatural or (2) it would be better. I accept that the current state is unnatural and a more balanced population would be better.

If you agree, please post replies here with what you think can/should be done (or what you are already doing). If you disagree, please reply to one of the other threads.