skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you complain about annoying people by making their gender the primary basis of identification, you are most definitely making a sweeping generalization.

You are part of the problem.

You are correct that there's no reason for other people to apologize for him, because he needs to do that himself, if he can be convinced that his sexism is a problem. There is also no need for other people to be defending his sexism.

Here's a hint: a complaint about "annoying people" should aim to be more specific than 50% of the population.
And thus the "editorial" status!
The point is that copyright dedications are not licenses. Therefore, if you want to submarine someone... do a copyright dedication (but don't grant patent rights). Wait till your "public domain" work is broadly adopted, then sue. Or, conversely, if you want to get sued... use works in the public domain where the person doing the dedication hasn't also granted patent license.

At least if you use a standard MIT license there may be an "equitable estoppel through acquiescence" in which the copyright holder might not be able to sue you for patent infringement since the MIT license said you could use the work.
Twitter  and d messages - who can see what?
Well, the only Presidential candidate in the US who isn't down with the Patriot Act and its provisions, and doesn't believe the US should be engaged in worldwide wars (aka "police actions"), is routinely dismissed as "crazy" by both major parties. Tells you a lot about the USA.

While I agree with your general sentiment, I want to add that Ron Paul is not the only such candidate for President in the US. If one expands their worldview to include "3rd Party" candidates, there are a few guys pursuing, for example, the Libertarian Party nomination, who hold views very similar to Ron Paul. Gary Johnson and Thomas Hill come to mind.

Of course it's easy to convince oneself that "3rd party" candidates don't matter and to exclude them from the conversation, but that just feeds into a self-fulfilling prophecy, IMO.
I think in your scenario everyone lives through the evil dictator, including the dictator, and all the people who believed in the word of the dictator as a god. You wouldn't really need to recognize any signs, because the evil dictator would still be there. Dictating.

Or is this a world where only nice people get to live forever?
While I don't generally buy the notion that this is carefully-calculated hardball on the part of Mozilla, I agree that immediate revocation isn't the only reasonable outcome here. What disappoints me the most is that the response leaves the unaccountable system of for-profit subsidiary CAs untouched.
Show HN: My week project - FundingList.us - find out any startup's funding.
Why? Because one eventually realizes that your conclusion here is incorrect. You have constructed "meaning" as a very particular thing here. There are other ways to see meaning in the world.

And also because it's true. The best science we have tells us that everything decays in the end. If you're going to start ignoring facts just because you don't like them, where do you stop?
The same people who want copyright protection reduced to 5 years max probably haven't thought through the GPL implications!

Many have, including RMS himself:

I could support a law that would make GPL-covered software's source code available in the public domain after 5 years, provided it has the same effect on proprietary software's source code. After all, copyleft is a means to an end (users' freedom), not an end in itself. And I'd rather not be an advocate for a stronger copyright.

So I proposed that the Pirate Party platform require proprietary software's source code to be put in escrow when the binaries are released. The escrowed source code would then be released in the public domain after 5 years. Rather than making free software an official exception to the 5-year copyright rule, this would eliminate proprietary software's unofficial exception. Either way, the result is fair.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
There are lots of applications that use HTTPS under the covers that will break if certificate validation fails, so not having the root cert installed does "break" those devices.

(There are unfortunately even more apps that use HTTPS under the covers that appear not to care whether certs validate).
If totally open only means the software, aren't some x86 boxes there already, assuming you can replace the BIOS with coreboot?

If you can replace BIOS and firmware with free software, than you got a computer that runs only free software. "Totally open" is a vague term with no boundaries on its interpretation. I just specified what the post meant, not provided a definition for "open".

Maybe that's just me

Not just you. It would be awesome.
Can we discuss the deteriorating situation in the US like adults and not sputter out epithets like "fascist regime"?

Discussing US politics "as adults" means being willing to accept and confront difficult truths... such as the fact that our system is drifting precariously close to what can be best described as "fascist." Placing our hands over our eyes, sticking our fingers in our ears, and pretending that we don't see and hear what is actually happening is to abdicate our responsibility to behave as adults.
How about allowing me to type each item separated by comas?
> see the new AirPort Utility

Minor nit for those who don't know: The AirPort utility was not supposed to be dumbed down, this is simply a complete rewrite and they haven't ported all the functionality yet. Apple created a new version of the previous client (5.6) that will run along-side the current version until they can port the remaining functionality.
It's an interesting, but trivial test. The Rails numbers are incorrect and irrelevant now though because it's using an outdated Ruby version, 1.9.3 is now the gold standard, and outdated Rails version.
This reminds me of Percy Bridgman, whose work with high pressure got him a Nobel Prize in physics, and which led to the creation of synthetic diamonds at GE.

"Bridgman committed suicide by gunshot [at age 79] after living with metastatic cancer for some time. His suicide note read in part, "It isn't decent for society to make a man do this thing himself. Probably this is the last day I will be able to do it myself." Bridgman's words have been quoted by many on both sides of the assisted suicide debate."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Williams_Bridgman#Death

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond#GE_diamond_pr...

EDIT: I forgot to end with: Mr. SENS, FTW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey
Why should you rewrite working code?
TypeStacks: Curated typeface combinations for web & print
It's better to use the Apache 2.0 license which includes a patent grant, though.
I don't doubt that many of them exist, or at least don't know they don't exist.

After tossing out four jurors (the ones who had the most experience with file-sharing friends)... - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/jury-selecte...

Judge Gertner repeatedly sided with the plaintiffs, who objected to the presence on the jury of those who essentially admitted to the same activity of which Tenenbaum, a 25-year-old Boston University graduate student, stands accused. - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/tenenbaum-tr...
Hi, I'm the author of the post. The examples you mention are server side solutions requiring some form of server side detection. You're talking about serving ads to separate mobile and desktop sites.

The goal with responsive design is to serve the same site—the same mark-up, the same assets—to all devices. Which means that any conditional serving of ads has to happen client-side.
America once sent extraordinary renditions to Syria. Now it cries torture
Bullshit; it's not a medical failure any more than my car eventually breaking down and needing to be replaced is an engineering failure, or my house rotting away due to erosion. The second law of thermodynamics is a fundamental constraint on the universe, not a failure on our part to circumvent it.
Can you please explain or give a link what the problem really is (that is, why do you have "bit twiddling" at all) and how you imagine that const arrays of complex can be write once and still efficient?

What's the problem to have arrays of doubles and complexes as "basic" types even in the dynamic language? I believe this could give you a C footprint and C performance with array operations?
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission
TFA has the title wrong as well - changing the title on HN won't really change much.
Hackathons aren't always about just making good software. For me, if you're at a hackathon and not pushing your limits, then you're not really getting into the spirit of the entire affair. I have good memories of one in particular where I submitted the awful, horrendous results of me trying to learn computer graphics in just twelve hours. I could have just sat down and made yet another CRUD app, but instead I learned about Three.js, and now that I got over the initial hurdle of just sitting down and tinkering with it, I've been more inclined to just play with the framework.

It's like the proverbial journey that begins with a single step. Sometimes all you need is that first step to force you to go try something out, immediately.
Ramps aren't actually accessible to everyone - especially for older folks, short steps and flat sections are easier to navigate than a continuous gradient.

/pedant (sorry)
Dear Elsevier Employees, With Love, From FakeElsevier.
Fairly ironic given the content of the article!
Trying to select Helsinki as departure airport: "Sorry, locations outside the US are currently not supported."

Ah well.
>It is really sad to see normally intelligent people go batshit crazy and start spewing nonsense.

And nothing seems to make that happen faster than nationalism/patriotism.
> the implication of creating a soul

There are no implications to flights of fantasy, there is no soul, the body is a complex biological machine and there's no reason we can't either learn to prevent the machine from breaking or learn to grow another for spare parts.
The Hobson's Choice blog argues that America is heading towards what he calls a "Falangist" state. This is the kind of government often seen in Latin America or Africa in the 20th Century. Falangism does not regiment society like fascism. It's a loose coalition of business, religious, and government elites, all of them corrupt and often working at cross-purposes.

Falangist regimes usually have grandiose rhetoric, but
unlike fascist states their main enemy is their own breathtaking mediocrity.

--http://www.jamesrmaclean.com/archives/archive_fascism_falang...

Simon Johnson, formerly of the IMF, argues the USA has problems similar to an emerging market in crisis, because the government is unable or unwilling to get tough on its elites, particularly finance.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quie...

However, we've never seen a state like this that has the wealth, power, and technology of the USA. Americans are inventive people and I have no doubt we will be adding another -ist word to our vocabulary after all of this is done.
Shows who is more interested in intellectually stimulative journalism (honestly, I found that tidbit a honeypot -- other parts of the article are far more interesting)
I've found the notify-send command to be really useful for some of my random scripts.

I used it to notify me when a particular web page changed, but I think it could also be very useful for letting me know when a long-running script finished.

Some of the other tricks shown here also seem useful.
>I think in your scenario everyone lives through the evil dictator, including the dictator

No, I'm talking about the elimination of aging and natural death. People would still be able to kill themselves and others.
Thats why I didnt want to mention that or answer to loup. I didnt not wanted to end up with religion debate on whether there is God and Soul, and if Soul can be transferred etc. This was pure speculation on how to live forever. That is, if you could live happily ever after knowing you tricked your twin-brother/sister and gave him falling apart body with a 5 years life-expectancy.

We are getting really into science fiction now. Perhaps if you could somehow monitor and capture every single signal sent from human brain to its body from the moment brain formed itself (I know there is a flaw here...), then if you could record that transmission for 25 years, perhaps (Im really in year 2350 now, I think) you could program a computer that would re-play that transmission into a growing body (to mimic brain) and as a result at age 25 had a healthy body without human brain. This, I think, would cut-off all skeptics that believe Soul is attached to mind, not body itself.
You might think "It has improved", which is correct, but people seem to think it has doubled. The numbers show that in reality old age is about as long.
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Big content needs an API
Lol, I'll fix it ... sorry about that :)
Keeping track of your time makes you more efficient.

This is especially useful for freelancers who go by the hour.

If you guys like this, the next step I'll be adding would be sign ups so people can save worklogs.
Yes, I don't think the author has thought much about these kinds of issues.

Two particular nitpicks that come to my mind are reverse scrolling and automatic termination. Reverse scrolling -- drag down to scroll up -- may be natural on a touchscreen, but why bring it to the PC and switch away from the way you had done it before (and everyone else does it)? Automatic termination -- shutting down apps in the background without asking you -- also makes sense on a mobile device, but is just a bad idea for computers.

By themselves, these kinds of things don't mean much, but these sorts of decisions and some coming mntn lion "feautures" seem to show a pretty clear trend of bringing mobile-inspired features to OS X, regardless of whether they make sense in that context.
the evil dictator would still be there. Dictating.

Neither Hitler nor McCarthy were still 'dictating' when they died. Lack of death doesn't mean that everything would remain the same forever.
Luerl - Lua on the Erlang VM
That might have been his point - that we were able to find out the reasons why because of it's open source.
Evolution has no desire to make sense, it's a blind natural process with no intent or point of view. From a human point of view, what he said makes perfect sense.
Yeah, leave it to the Guardian to equivocate about torture as long as the US isn't involved.

Sort of like the programs on Al Jazeera ("Empire" in particular) that focus on whether America's lost its democracy, without ever once mentioning Qatar's government or the lack of democracy in any Middle Eastern country (other than Israel).

Anyway, you can't really have it both ways; Al Jazeera and the Guardian screamed for American intervention in Libya, then screamed about "occupation" as soon as NATO/US intervened. They castigate America for not stepping in to stop Assad, and they would attack us if we did for being "imperialists". So screw them. I think most Americans at this point are happy to let Europe deal with it, or else let the middle east either work out its own problems, or blow itself to hell.
If by reproduces you mean 99.8% of individual words in the novel could be found independently in tweets - the Oxford English Dictionary could reproduce most of Orwell's novel too if all you need is each word to have been used somewhere.

This could be much more interesting if it was considered a look at words falling out of common use, or to compare the literacy levels of different sites etc.
That's just it his complaint isn't about 50% of the population. He even gave the criteria for determining what type of person it is.

While I don't know exactly what Mark Jaquith's response was to, there is a small but seemingly vocal segment of women who do act as if them being women means that they deserve to be given special treatment because they are women. I know in my experience very few women are like this. I also know that there are men who are the same about themselves.

There was a reddit thread somewhat recently about this kind of thing too. [1]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/ot8et/does_your_...

EDIT:
I'd like to clarify that what I believe this whole thing is about is women who are overbearing to an extreme because they are women. A cliched phrase that I think would fit would be a woman saying something along the lines of "I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it" without trying to be funny, ironic, or some other non-serious message to it.
Edited the HN submission, the permalink tricked me too for a sec
>Because one eventually realizes that your conclusion here is incorrect. You have constructed "meaning" as a very particular thing here. There are other ways to see meaning in the world.

But what you're describing sees no meaning in anything ever. Simply because you can say that eventually the sun will burn out and we'll all die anyway doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make things as good as we can while we are here.

>If you're going to start ignoring facts just because you don't like them, where do you stop?

No, I'm ignoring facts that have no relevance or no useful action to take. If everything is going to end in a trillion years, what should I do about that exactly? Does that mean I should try to cure aging now?

Do you have a job? Why, the universe will end in some billions of years. Oh, you want to have as nice a life as you can while you are here? So do I.
I personally don't expect to die of old age.

Something said, I suspect, by every young person since the time of Hammurabi. I suppose that expecting to live forever in this world is no more irrational than expecting eternal life in another world.

Feel free to die then

Do you honestly think that was my point? That I'm looking forward to dying?
That's a lot like arguing that since my C++ code hasn't segfaulted or leaked memory in 10 years that garbage collection in Java is essentially pointless. I also don't see much need for classes in that new-fangled C++ thing since my assembler code has a "solid" feel to it and has worked reliably for years. Being too lazy to initialize registers correctly is not a reason to add more features.
Can 600k page views really make a writers career? Is that how they measure success in online writing?
The collective knowledge of Newton, Einstein, Lagrange, Maxwell, Bohr, and hundreds of other physicists are written down and more or less distilled into the brains of thousands of physics students within a decade. We already have a never ending cascade of innovation and progress. Getting new perspectives and fresh minds on the problem are more valuable than wringing another year of work out of the aging geniuses of yesterday, which is why many of the greatest physicists like Hawking and Feynman were so focused on teaching and popularizing the field. Yeah, it would be great to still have Newton around, but it turned out to be even more useful to have Lagrange around instead.

Besides, if you look at the actual lives of these people, most of them stopped producing useful output eventually. Newton spent more of his life arguing about theology than inventing calculus and physics.
I agree. High-traffic websites are running on many of these frameworks. As long as several companies have scaled the frameworks in question, it's better to just choose the one that makes you more productive.

When building a company it's also good to choose something your team-members know and you can recruit for.
We as a worldwide society MAY MAY have enough resources, that's assuming it's even a solvable problem.

Also "web startups" as a class don't exist to solve anything other than maybe the question "why don't I have more money".
Private libraries exist today. The Mechanics' Institute is an example. My impression is they have a diverse collection, though I don't know for sure. http://www.milibrary.org/
Except hatred of the US.
I actually had thought of that too, but wanted to keep the instructions as short as possible. Maybe commas separting choices w/ enter submitting the form would work better though? I will play around w/ that if I do any updates.
If you think of hackathons as "making software", then yes, they are nonsense. However, the point of a hackaton is not to build a solid space shuttle control system. It is to quickly churn out a rough sketch of an idea to see if it floats.

If you think of hackatons as idea generation + prototyping events, then all of a sudden they begin to make sense. To stick with the "marketing guys" metaphor, it is Don Draper sparring with Peggy; throwing slogans against the wall and seeing if it sticks and sketching out a plan.

Marketing also has the equivalent of the artful "software making" that the author refers to. It's the labour-heavy generation of artwork, copy, campaigns and so on. But it all starts with the idea.
Thanks a lot! I wish I had something like this for basic C++, my students would love it!
That's even worse. No rational person would risk their life in warfare if they otherwise stood to live forever. The only people who would even try to kill someone else, chancing death themselves, would be fanatics and psychotics.

The legions of true believers would be able to dictate terms to enlightened society with the mere threat of violence.

I really don't think you've thought this through.
The making of a prodigy
thanks! that's a known bug in my todo list
Fascism is characterised by promoting the state over individual interests, the forcible suppression of the opposition, all generally accompanied by a suspension of the rule of law. Some of this is happening here, but it's a long way down the slippery slope.

Calling the US fascist as hyperbole for emotional impact is fine. But it sounds like a lot of people believe the US is actually fascist. My grandparents fled across the Austro-Swiss border from a fascist regime. The US isn't fascist.
>Or somebody watching their third hour in a row of reality TV?

Don't throw out the Einsteins because of people like this. People who throw their lives away will end up killing themselves anyway (e.g. through horrible eating habits, smoking, etc.), and even if they don't, they'll be in their living room out of our way.

I find it highly amusing (if sad) that people who argue pro-death always like to point at people they don't think deserve to live...
To reiterate your point, Ryan Bates of RailsCasts.com could be considered a Rails "Julia Child."
Design isn't too good, lots of typos, nice idea though.
I'm american myself. Please go read what pg has to say about ID.
Quick example of calling a method that doesn't take any arguments and returns an object:

id foo = [self bar];

is the same as:

id foo = self.bar;

which is also the same as:

id foo = [self performSelector:@selector(bar)];

or:

IMP barImp = [self methodForSelector:@selector(bar)];
id foo = barImp(self, @selector(bar); [1]

and finally:

id foo = ((id)(id, SEL)objc_msgSend)(self, @selector(bar)); [2, 3, 4]

1. Because we're calling the IMP, or implementation, directly, we don't need a cast (like we do below, with objc_msgSend).

2. Casting the function is optional, but, helps to prevent things like endian differences and your return value getting mangled when using the same code on PPC and Intel. Not too big of a deal anymore.

3. There are actually two other varieties of objc_msgSend, depending on your return type — specifically, floating point calls should use objc_msgSend_fpret and calls that return a struct should use objc_msgSend_stret.

4. I hope I got this cast right, I didn't try to compile it.