skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the most important lesson that I learned in Grad. School. Taking a few courses in abstract mathematics quickly strips away any illusion that a scale of "smartness" is anything but flawed. The best you can get beyond a certain level of intelligence is improvements based on either subject level experience (intuition in the mathematical fields) or conscious changes that you do on a day to day basis. Unfortunately, this kind of requires that one is open to not being so dickish about the validity and absolute cleverness of one's solutions and be open to learning new stuff. Sad to say this but I agree with your assertion that both engineers and companies that hire them suffer under the delusion that intelligence is correlated with trivia know how. I have no problem with companies believing this (groups don't generally have to be as smart as individuals) but individuals who are under the impression that they are "rockstars" can be rather trying to work with.
I don't know that I would want an implant, but I'd like to try a haptic compass. You strap it on and it gives you a physical sensation of where north is, as if you were a bird with magnetoception.

Wire article on haptic compasses: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html
I actually know Avand personally, and his humor is often awkward, as is common in many geeks.

I can see where he was trying to go with the joke (exactly where he said he was trying to go in his equally awkward apology), but once you trip up on a sensitive topic, people immediately arrange themselves to be maximally offended. Once this happens, anything short of a blood sacrifice is insufficient, and woe be to anyone who fails to make a 100% flawless apology!

So for the socially awkward, the result of a failed joke is a bad situation that it's impossible to get out of, because nobody is willing to accept that there exist people who are less than perfect when it comes to the social dance.
> What exactly was sexist about what they did?

I came here looking for the standard, oblivious, "Hey, what's so sexist about being completely sexist?" comment.

As usual, HN did not disappoint.

So let me explain:

"Women" are not a perk. Women are humans with as much value to contribute to software development as men. To list them as a "perk" and to relegate them to a service role minimizes women in two ways beyond the obvious, gross objectification:

First, by saying "hey, all women are good for at this event is serving beer."

Second, and much more toxic, listing women as a perk reveals the unspoken understanding that heterosexual males are the intended audience for the event and that anyone else is secondary.

> I think if anything it offends programmers.

But yeah, by all means, muster up some indignation for all the poor, privileged, over-represented men who should be offended by this.
You do make a really good point, and I definitely do agree with you. I just feel like people overreacted, almost like they jumped on the holier-than-thou bandwagon. When you consider events like CES and that one Yahoo Hack Day which employed strippers, this isn't nearly as offensive.

Again, I definitely do see what you mean by it contributing to the culture of sexist, and that simply isn't acceptable. However, I feel like the sponsors, etc should have given Sqoot a chance to fix things before they resorted to the moves they did.
Generic drugs? Not so early.
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You may be describing the perceived effect of inconsistent spelling, but it must be noted that it is _not_ a "rock and roll umlaut". Ö is a letter separate from o; it is unlike German in which they are mere diacritics, or modifiers.
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Ignoring impossible feats of physics, the video is fake. There is a comment on the first Wired article which points out incontrovertible evidence of poorly done compositing around the 20 second mark with the guy on the left running "through" the wingtip without bumping it.

Uncut, raw video from the side of complete take-off and landing (since there is supposedly someone taking video from the side) would be enough to prove its real. Too bad this isn't real.
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Hey brah, so, like, lemme break it down for ya.

These bros planned a hella sick party out in Boston. There was going to be hot chicks, they were gonna do Rails and kegstands--it was gonna be the hottest thing since Southby.

(Even the Zuck was checking it out.)

But, like, the ad they payed some hipster to write, like, wasn't bronificial to the party. They didn't underline the amount of dubstep and wubwub, and, like, without the proper flag raised a bunch of those pansy Valley coders got all butthurt.

Like, really, who doesn't want to rep while they REPL? Who doesn't like drinks served by the hottest bitches; what're they, some kind of queerlicopter?

This author, brahly, seems to think, like, maybe they pitched to the wrong audience, you know. Like when we tried to pitch that NattyIce/Pets.com mashup, and the VCs were all like "Are you sure that your target demographic of bros who like light beer and dogs actually exist?" and we were like "Pshhhhaw yeah" and they were like "You'll hear from us--don't call."
People need to fucking lighten up. I would not have said what they said on the site, but it really was a stupid joke.

Everyone jumps to conclusions that we're all a bunch of misogynistic assholes. The problem is, you can't understand someone over the internet. You can't understand someone's apology or who they are or any of that. Worse, the majority of these people calling this issue out online would NEVER confront squoot in real life and raise these points. I make rude/crude/evil jokes to people all the time. Especially women friends of mine. But it's all in the spirit of being cocky/funny, and they love it.

Do I believe men and women were created equally? Yes. Do I believe a woman should be able to do whatever the fuck she wants in this world, be it fighting fires or curing AIDS? Yes. Do I feel bad that my sister is hurt by dickwad ex boyfriends out there who lower her self esteem. Yes. Do I have 3 little sisters and hope they all grow up to be strong and independent individuals? Yes. But there ARE certain gender roles in this world, influenced not just by our society but by many, many things. Testosterone? Yeah, I have a lot more than most women. Why? I have a penis. We're different. We joke differently, we think differently. We need to appreciate each other for who we are. Part of that is realizing each others faults as well. If a bunch of girls started a hackathon and listed one of the items as "$1 to the community bucket for whoever doesn't put the seat down", I think I'd laugh at that (maybe a bad example).

For the most part men and women are aware of their stereotypical flaws. Search for "Shit girls say" on youtube and admire the view count. I don't know a single girl who didn't completely piss her pants watching that. Sure, there are things that people should not say/do regarding women. For example, I'd beat the shit out of ANY guy I ever met who ever made even the slightest joke about rape.

But then there are other things, like the stuff Sqoot said on their event page. Psh, just a harmless JOKE. Pick your battles people.

Ugh. I'm ranting. This whole thing is just stupid though. Everyone needs to relax.
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yet another way to log jam the justice system

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/go-to-trial...
Well, no. They suggest that the camera shake wasn't added in after the fact with postprocessing of an existing image -- or at least that the image was fairly high-res and blur was also added after the fact. He doesn't rule out that the whole video wasn't computer-generated, nor that the dude was running into a greenscreen, nor for that matter a green cable that was digitally altered out, or anything like that. Some of these would venture into "faked" as opposed to CGI -- a cable which did not need to be shopped out might be an example, although whether you could have a nice construction crane nearby to operate it would be a worthwhile question, since the video doesn't give it much place to hide and the larger it is the more dangerous it would be to hang someone off of it and then move it from point A to point B.
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This has no impact on their closed drivers. This is patches being released for their open source driver.
So it means their open source driver for the 7000 series will stop sucking as hard as it did before ('sucking' meaning that it was non-existent).
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I have one too! I'm kind of surprised that there are not one, but two other people on HN with magnet implants.

And I too am really surprised when people ask "why?" Is it not obvious?
Good luck. I had a similar experience but with nothing as important as a startup. I simply slowed the rhythm of everything. I still am dealing with this situation but so far it ain't bad. Of course my case was not-time dependent so that was not a problem. I think it was a mistake (cost option wise). We'll see.
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Well-done interface and great promo for their core product, which I am going to take a deeper look at, because maybe we can use it. Back to the converter: what I need to convert most often is between UTC and local time. Suggest also making displayed timezones configurable, several other minor nits...
I like the idea, could save me couple of hours a week. good bye hn.
I'm going to copy and paste a comment of mine from a previous thread. Not 100% applicable due to the difference in the story, but the general idea of the comment is still true.

I think the real headline should actually say "It's time to stop submitting articles from Extreme Tech."

Their headlines never say the true intent of their article, and their article never comes to the conclusion that has been set up through the arguments. There is extreme bias and non sequiturs riddling the entire site.

It's a difficult read because of the logic errors, and everytime an article is posted from Extreme Tech, it seems everyone comes away with a different opinion of what was really meant. This isn't creative literature class. This is not a good way to run a website.
A QA engineer (someone who writes tests, and works hand-in-hand with release engineering and programmers to develop a testable system) should definitely know how to program, and, in my opinion should have experience programming in a professional capacity.

A QA analyst (someone who runs manual tests, fills out bug reports, and annoys programmers) does not need to be a programmer. It would be a waste of salary and it is more important that these people are persistent and meticulous than they know the internals of the system they are working with.
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Right! It could use some input checking / normalization too. It expects the title parameter to be lower case now.
I've had pretty good experiences with their open source driver running on a HD 3870. No tearing, KMS support, good stability. I don't have a need for much 3D performance, nor do I use OpenCL. I just want something that runs well without crashing, and supports the new Linux 3D architecture (DRI2, KMS, DRM etc.) so it can run Wayland.
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Yeah, I was being more general and answering the "find submissions just like on HN" question (you can't get any closer to that than with other links on HN that you missed). A lot of the feedback I get from subscribers is how they enjoy the newsletter b/c even though they're on HN, they miss a lot of the articles I link to.
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I hope technology such as this can help make the world of body modification a little more palatable to average folk.

The vast majority of people go only as far as some piercings and maybe a tattoo. We need to get away from the absurdity of contemporary body mod culture: tooth sharpening, scarification, branding, horn implants, sclera tattoos, gauging, suspension, tongue bifurcation, lip discs, genital modifications…it’s too much.

That kind of modification is a dead-end because it doesn’t fulfill its nominally transhumanist goals. But regular people could warm up to things like magnets and RFID tags, or, say, internal sensors to let you know of impending health problems. That sort of body modification provides actual value in the form of information that would otherwise be unavailable or inconvenient to obtain. I think that’s where we’re headed in the next couple of decades.
I like to give the team that produced that video a virtual high five (iFive? oh, previously coined...) as I watched without sound and seem to have been no less informed for it.
I never heard of this before, but I want one so bad right now. However, the MRI thing is a real deal-break for me... oh well :(
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and after trying all answers,

- some masturbation sessions for real exhaustion.
To all the straight men here who can't see what the original problem with including "Women who bring you beer" as perk, let me give you a little thought experiment.

Imagine instead all the gendered terms were swapped in the original post, and it read something like this:

Perks:

* Men. Need another beer? Let one of our friendly (male) event staff get that for you.

You hardly ever see that, and if you're used to the programmer culture, when you read that you might mentally stumble and feel weird. Would you like to go to an event like that? If you went, how do you think people would treat you. This is what the subtle sexism feels like.
I have a magnet implant and looked into this. I found a study about MRIs and cochlear implants and not once did the study mention any dangers. Instead their concerns were based on demagnetizing the implant, and they found that the risk of demagnetization could be mitigated by aligning the patient in a certain way.

I know that cochlear implants are very different from finger magnets (cochlear implants are attached to bone) but it does challenge some of my basic assumptions.

It should also be noted that it would take less than five minutes to remove the implant with a scalpel.
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You can use an ajax terminal, I think, to accomplish what you're doing. There are a lot of them out there. This was the first Google result:

http://anyterm.org/

I know Linode uses an ajax shell, but I can't think of the name of it right now.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get meaningful movement measurements from the combination of these two? i.e. get an initial fix via GPS, then measure movement from that point?

I'm imagining that it isn't (because no-one has done it yet) but would love to be surprised.
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I for one appreciate that you provided the advice. Anything that helps others get along without being divisive is a very good thing, so please don't absorb any of the criticism from comments here.
I have some good ones in my bookmarks :

https://www.dropbox.com/about

http://arc90.com/people/

http://www.2cs.com/Meet-The-Team/

http://www.teehanlax.com/company/

http://www.etsy.com/about

http://www.etsy.com/about/team/

http://www.glueisobar.com/en/people/#!/1
this has come up here before. see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174101 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067423
A lot of people don't realize that there are motors on his backpack that power the wings. The movement of the arms guides the brushless motors using components seen in the Wii controller and only marginally assist the power sent to the wings.
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"picking up women"

This is what's wrong with this. I mean, I do know it's a pretty good day for a chauvinistic dude, but that's objectification of women as pleasure devices.

"overly-P.C buzzkill"
Aw. Someone ruined making fun of women for you.
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I don't even read that subreddit, but I feel compelled to continue defending it from outright attacks.

suddenly experiencing massive discrimination

Nobody's claiming that. But, really, certain areas of the law (child custody, child support payment) are so unfair that they can easily ruin a man's life.

"child custody law", I give you "access to contraceptives"

Bullshit, women can buy Plan B and other contraceptives over the counter.

"evidence during rape trials"

Bullshit, you can't convict a man of rape just because a woman says so. That is too prone to abuse.

The rest of your examples are not applicable, because they don't concern legal rights, but simply societal norms.

On average, men are still in a much more privileged position than women.

Again, that's beside the point, and nobody's arguing that.
This guy titles his blog post "Stop Brogramming" then spends the whole article defending brogramming and sexism.

Definitely not front page material.
Thanks, that was an inspiring video. I've already come to appreciate the power of community (love, according to Clay :), in communities like dd-wrt and cyanogenmod where the quality of collectively contributed firmware beats by miles that provided by the parent hardware vendors. And what's even better is that those enjoying these benefits are willing to give back - best example was when cyanogenmod called for contributions to buy new servers recently. The response was overwhelming and they received more than they needed in no time at all.

The other nice story carried on HN was how Linux Torvalds was remembered by the Red Hat folks with a nice payback in shares as a thank you for everything he did.

The internet really helps too, allowing a dollar here and a dollar there to really add up when genuinely appreciative people make voluntary donations. Bram Cohen is a good example here, who receives well deserved donations from all the folks who love bittorrent.

I believe this model of giving (and the return karma) augurs well for society. There is room for a lot of hope and optimism.
If you'd like a lower effort version: I glued a tiny, but powerful, magnet to my fingernail and then coated it with a few layers of nail polish.

It looked more than a little flashy, and it provided less sensation than it would've implanted, but it worked surprisingly well.
I tend to treat message passing data as immutable, I think in my time developing applications (almost 20 years now) I have hit a pattern maybe twice where I have needed something to modify the message before other listeners in the sequence receive it, but when they arise they can be a nasty pattern to deal with. It brings order of events to a pattern which for the most part is designed to be unordered. I have developed two patterns to deal with modifying messages when the need arises and I am still not sure which I like better.

The first is I clone the message and pass a mutable and immutable copy of the data, this seems to work ok but you still have to ensure order of events, so if the message passing pattern guarantees first in first out, I just make sure the registration sequence of modifying listeners are registered first. It is not bullet proof but it has worked for my needs.

The second pattern I have used is a concept of a preprocessor routine, kind of a method that does all the modification before the message event is fired, so I wire the data to the preprocessor and then the preprocessor fires off the message event after it has made it's modification.
I really like the visualization aspect. It's a nice design.

I do have some nits to pick. When opening the page the only time displayed is my local time, which is the only time I don't need since I already know it. Clicking somewhere shows me times, but try as I might I can't seem to get it to show me the current time in other time zones. This is the most common (and default) thing I would want to see, and I can't seem to get it at all.
Previous night's discussion with something more than just "I can tell from some of the pixels."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3732385

It may be fake, but it isn't impossible.
Bubble, bubble, trouble, trouble!

I love Apple, but is a company that makes cell phones and fancy laptops going to really have a market cap of 10% of the (current value) of the DOW? I don't think so.

At this point, investing in a hot stock like AAPL is just gambling. It's a very real possibility that in the next 3 years, the influx of tablets and smart phones completely stalls iOS's growth. Plus with the newest wave of Ultrabooks, Apple is not as far ahead of the competition as they were two years ago. I mean, I don't think that Apple is going to go anywhere soon, and they will continue to grow, but I think that a lot of their near term future success is already built into the price of the stock.
Am I the only one that thought their comment was in good humor? Maybe my sense of humor is twisted, but having attended many hackathons, I got a good chuckle as it was obvious that many of them turn out to be sausage fests. I felt this comment poked fun at this.
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Amazing app. Images + magic = Flixels.
Linux apps already do work with android.

Just be rooted and get this: http://android.galoula.com/en/LinuxInstall/
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> The easiest way to open yourself up to accepting criticism is to realize you are not the smartest person in the room

I think that's irrelevant. Every human being is stupid. Saying you're the smartest person on the room, in absolute terms, is analogous to saying you're the smartest termite in the planet.

Even if you're much smarter than others, that's irrelevant. Suppose the smartest person on earth is right twice as often as other people. That might sound like you're brilliant relative to others. But looking at the bigger picture that just might mean that you're wrong ~80% of the time, and they're wrong 90% of the time. From this angle, even the smartest person on earth is stupid.

And I don't think the real numbers are too far from that. Human beings are imperfect, our perception is incomplete, our sensors fail and our brain has more bugs than windows vista. You cannot trust yourself. You're stupid, and it would be even more stupid to not admit that.

We're all stupid. But the smarter of us understand that, and often correct themselves. While the less smart, are the ones who think they're smart. And insist on their mistakes.
> It might be a rather bigger concern for the owner of the MRI though...

Not to mention all the other patients who need the MRI machine your "sixth sense" just shot a hole through.
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I've never really understood why you'd want to burn around 100W if you don't have much need for 3D performance and all you want is good desktop performance. Surely there are cheap alternatives at less than half the total board power?
So. Has anyone of us actually tried this?

Additionally, the site could look a lot more trustworthy.
Wow. There's not even an attempt to hide the blatant "borrowing" of pinterest's under-header call to action. Hey, it works for the site though.
Why don't you bless us with your obviously superior grasp of the laws of nature?

If it's so obvious, the math justifying your position should comfortably fit in an HN post.