skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think that "A" is beyond dispute. Your married partner cheats on you, divorces you, marries the biological father of the child, and you are still on the hook for child support? I can't imagine someone NOT thinking with every moral fiber of their being that this is wrong.

Regardless, I think my point is already self-evident in the answers. Which is: we accept without second thought that (A) our society is sexist and women are oppressed and objectified. So A -> B -> C: when a woman claims sexism, we all have to focus on eradicating that sexism immediately (i.e. reign men in). No thought is given to the possibility that the pendulum has possibly already swung too much in the opposite direction, and it is actually the men who are treated unfairly in most cases whenever gender issues come up. Just see e.g. the topic on reddit's front page this morning "I called the cops on my GF after an argument we had got violent, the cops come and arrest ME".

I think any discussion that is about treating both genders equally and fairly that does not take into account current anti-male inequality misses the point. We need to question ALL social conditioning to reach a point where everyone is treated fairly.
That is how I did it. I actually don't understand what is meant by looking for shapes or closed loops.
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I generally pass over resumes where someone doesn't list at least one programming language that isn't very marketable, fashionable, or part of C's extended family. It's a quick way to winnow out folks for whom programming is likely to be more than just a paycheck.
I never took TWSS to be demeaning to women (i.e. sexist), rather that it's usually a generic boast about a guy's prowess.

Would it make a woman more acutely feel in the minority through juxtaposition? Sure. And obviously jokes to do with sex can make ANYONE feel uncomfortable and are probably inappropriate at work, but it depends on where you work.

Making the leap to sexism from that age-old schtick of a guy playing up his junk, though, is a stretch. It's more about the ego of the guy saying it than the hypothetical woman used as a foil.

I wonder if gay guys make TWHS jokes.
I just use XeTeX so I can get proper kerning and ligatures. Oddly enough, as a typography nerd LaTeX just doesn't cut it.
Oh definitely! It's a silly grade-school joke. Which is one of the reasons, I think, why this conversation is so difficult: nobody's thinking "Let me go out and reinforce the patriarchy", twirling their evil mustaches, they're just making a silly joke that incidentally revolves around treating women like objects, TOTALLY UNINTENTIONALLY. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have an effect on society.

Part of my undergraduate thesis, which I'm currently working on, revolves around this idea that when systems break, it's rarely due to anything malicious. It's because life is really weird and complicated and it's hard to design bug-free social structures. But that's why we have to be aware that such bugs exist, and develop ways to fix them when they pop up.
Bureaucracy is hurting India extremely bad. At most offices In India, government and private, you 'll see experience is given preference over performance.
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FiOS already does this, in a way.

I recently switched to Verizon FiOS for TV, which necessitated the installation of a FiOS branded Actiontec router, so that the cable boxes can access the Internet over MoCA. The router has QoS rules to prioritize VOD traffic over all other traffic (which is why I purchased an Ethernet to
MoCA bridge, so I can use my own router).
I agree with your view that for solid SEO foundation a company at times needs to invest its resources. However there is still a difference.
- Even post huge investment you are not sure that you will get a preferred ranking on SERP
- Also it takes time to reach the top. In case of PPC that time is less than a few minutes

I believe the reason PPC+SEO shines is because the first 2 things the user gets (Ad + 1st result of his search) both point in the same direction and this increases his confidence
Death of a Data Haven (the story of Sealand)
http://fuckyeahdisingenuousliberal.tumblr.com/post/180255328...

*Yes, people are so sick of "but I'm being ironic" there's Tumblr memes about it.
I hate that story. The reason pencils weren't used was because broken bits of graphite can cause havoc if it floats into electronic crevices.
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Funny enough how otherwise objective HN community tends to support bold statements like this, which usually come up in a brainwashing activities.

The only fact that gets tossed out is that Russia was never a peaceful country, and there were never times without a violent regime.

How about this: for every 1 who suffered in Soviet Union there were 10 who benefited. But how many do suffer now for every 1 oligarch to benefit?
I’m honestly curious, what are your reasons for writing this comment? It seems off-topic.
Amazing. Can you use this to run a LuaCocoa example? Like https://bitbucket.org/ewing/luacocoa/src/e939d422b62a/LuaCoc...

Can you load a framework with this?
I know hardly anything about Objective-C.
You realize most of Europe is America's pawn right? Only a few countries resist the temptations and pressures of their US/Global overlords. Anyways, Good luck with that additude. What happens in America echoes across the globe. Laugh while we fight our fight, who do you think is next??
Where have I seen the authors name before? Oh yeah...

$ man crontab
Look at what Agile is promising to fix. The development process not the management process. Semantics aside, I like everything you said, except to say that either the line manager is doing those things, or 'it' (scrum) is doing those things.
China has zero chance of competing for a high national standard of living. The math will never allow it.

They have 600 million people living on less than $2 / day.

Unless you can figure out a way to increase global consumption by ten fold, and figure out where all the raw materials will come from, and where you're going to put all the factories, and how you'd power ten times as many factories, and how that wouldn't result in an extreme ecological disaster that would wipe out their standard of living gains.

So if you figure all of that out, you might get those bottom 600 million up to a standard of living on par with Estonia today.
There are already quite a few nails in that coffin, unfortunately.
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Making/enjoying sexual jokes in the right context and finding other sexual jokes sexist are not mutually exclusive.
Direct quote: "Process is, actually, just tax. If you need to follow a prescribed process in order to be in any way an effective coder then you are mediocre at best and so is your work and your project."

No.

Read some history; you'll see the same arguments back years ago about processes being stupid then (80's, 90's) too.

I'm willing to accept that perhaps Agile isn't a perfect process, and that agile projects don't always work out.

However, process just means that you have a repeatable set of steps for generating a repeatable outcome. It's an absolutely vital part of every industry, from manufacturing to farming to, yes, programming.

Everything is a process; TDD is process, writing a plan for your code is process, hell, even just sitting down and hacking away and keeping everything you need in your head is a process.

When you have a team that is larger than one person, organizing that team relies on having expectations from each group in the team, and from each person in the group. That's _formalized_ process, and that's what agile is.

Summary: Opinion piece, unsubstantiated, no background context. Bleh.
Why does Google think I'm a Skyrim addict?
In case this helps, probably related:

- https://github.com/antirez/redis-timeseries

- ZSET pull request https://github.com/antirez/redis-timeseries/pull/1

- and the resulting "dsl uptime" script I made out of it: https://github.com/thbar/dsl-uptime
Just to be clear, I meant the developers should drive the STORY, and not the PROJECT. Is is after all something advocated by scrum.
Bandwidth limits are fine. The problem is when they calculate bandwidth prices based on what you are using it for. It would be like the phone company saying "Want to talk to your family members? Well that costs 10c per minute but talking to your friends is only 5c per minute."

What the consumer pays for the bandwidth should be based on the actual cost the ISP incurs for that bandwidth and not on the value the customer is getting. That's none of the ISPs business.
Yeah it's a good read. Surprised it's not gaining more than a handful of up votes. It's made the home page of the verge and slashdot. Did I choose a poor title? Post at the wrong time? Oh well...
It's worth noting that he's mainly concerned with publishing existing python apps he's already written as simple web services, not writing a complete web site from scratch. If you just look at the slides it's easy to miss this. This doesn't invalidate anything he says as such, but it's worth keeping this in mind if you're planning on doing a more complete web site.
This sort of bikeshedding shows up all over HN and on all sorts of non-ism issues. For example, infinite scrolling vs pagination:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3759101
Given that there's a grace period until August 1, I suspect we're going to see a lot of barely-working applications and games released before then, just so they can get grandfathered in before they're made to function properly.
I'm sorry that my article offended you.
I had a colleague who was from the Ukraine, and I once referred to him as Ukrainian, and he stiffly responded, "I am Russian." From that, I assumed that some people consider it an ethnic group independent of the nation.
It was 10-12 years ago, and isn't really development related vs. a cautionary tale.

I will submit the 80 page version and see how people feel.
I thought that luatex was going to be the savior?
Maybe it's different here in Poland, where ISPs really have next to nothing to offer except for Internet access and maybe some VoIP services, but the whole discussion around net neutrality sounds panicky to me. Using your ISP's services is obviously technically easier and cheaper for them so why wouldn't/shouldn't it be reflected in prices?

Maybe we'll reach a point when consumer connections start to be billed like business ones are now (95th percentile, or whatever) but I don't think there's anything wrong with pricing that better reflects real usage. It may turn out to be a little more expensive for some of us, here on HN in particular, but if we want a better Internet infrastructure, we'll have to pay for it because AFAIR ISPs' ROIs aren't particularly impressive.
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Steve Jobs wasn't a fan of the Siri name
I can manipulate your amazon.com recommendations
Definitely- I was just thinking about whether and how this would be possible the other day- it's like gps on a micro scale.

For those of you who've read joshua foer's 'moonwalking with einstein' about memory competition and memory palaces, I thought this could be a great platform to create an app that builds and maps memory palaces out of your own physical spaces (like your house, friend's houses, office, etc) and uses the maps it creates to train your memory (so you too can memorize the order of two decks of cards in five minutes).
I have used Pylons, Tornado and Brubeck in my projects over last couple of years and I must say if you are an experienced developer in Python, brubeck is a very good candidate. It is built for scalability in mind from day one. It is very light weight from code perspective and has a very transparent design which is very easy to understand to dive deeper if you need to.
Far be it from me to impugn the credibility of researchers I don't know, but I have to think there's at least some confirmation bias at work when Google concludes that giving Google money for paid ads is a good thing.
Is it really the case that someone has to pay child support for a child that is proven to be not theirs?

I did some superficial googling and found the case of one man who has to pay child support even though a DNA test proved he is not the father, because he missed all the deadlines for challenging the ruling. That seems like an unfortunate edge case to me, not some general pattern one has to be worried about.

I think you might be mistaken about the legal situation, but I’m more than happy to be proven wrong.
I realize this is 10-12 years ago, but the analysis here is quite interesting in applicability to other cases -- Megaupload, jurisdictional issues in general, etc.

The summary of this over at Ars Technica is great too. (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/sealand-and-...)
I wasn't suggesting the story doesn't matter since it's in Germany, but rather that on an international website, the national context helps and should be in the title - even if the nation is the USA.
I think the more crucial difference is that despite how long and bloody WWII was and how it began with a Japanese surprise attack, the US conspicuously failed to kill large numbers of Japanese people after winning - in contrast with the Mongol's [1] practice of slaughtering the inhabitants of cities that refused to open their doors when asked.

[1] The Mongol's, and many, many other armies at various points in time including many historical European forces.
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I believe that one reason why things can get overcomplicated is because often this has proven to be profitable. Why did it cost millions of dollars to create a pen in space when a pencil would do? Obviously, someone benefited greatly financially from the government contracts that were given to them for the purpose of creating a pen that would work in space- even when it wasn't truly necessary. Many believe the old saying that "money makes the world go round." Could this be the reason why else we have legally allowed for financial instruments such as derivatives which are so complex that the majority of the public does not even understand them? Is it profitable for someone to have something such as this be so complicated that the general public will fail to see their inherent danger? While overthink is dangerous for productivity, someone has also figured out that it is profitable- at least for them.
I'm actually outside of America ATM, so I havent noticed.
Despite Jones' use of standardized metrics, in real world use of three of these frameworks I found that his scores indicated little about how effectively each performed.
I understand why you would see the particular law you are describing as "anti-male" - however most laws related to children are the way they are because they are not about the welfare of the adults at all.

The law is thinking something along the lines of: children need to be taken care of; the government doesn't have the money; whoever happens to be sitting on the musical chairs the first several years of the child's life, pays. The buck has to stop somewhere.

(On the flip side of the same law, a non-biological father would be awarded custody if they have formed a parental bond with the child).

Some more things to consider before you call the law "anti-male". One, if it were not the custodial parents, it would have to be the even more random taxpayers. Two, non-biological mothers pay too. Three, these laws are flawed for historical reasons, and these same reasons have impoverished women far longer than men.

There are bona fide inequalities, of course. For example, men tend to pay significantly more child support than women. However, given how men make more in general, even that still leaves men better off on average. For example, average income for non-custodial mothers is $15k/year, average income for non-custodial fathers is $40k/year.
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One potential reason the guys in the channel get irritated with it, apart from them being actually sexist and therefore uncomfortable/guilty, is that your starting assumption that they WERE sexist was wrong.

To have a preachy bot post nominally inspirational quotes from women, with the ostensible goal of demonstrating with child-like simplicity that women are people too, would get on my nerves for two immediate reasons:

1) I get it, I get it! How many cliches do I have to scroll past before we reach mission accomplished?

2) Someone really thinks I'm stupid.

It's propaganda, but worse than that, it's propaganda with an assumed audience of evildoers to thwart -- and I'm included.

I get the frustration with the male-centric dev culture and I'd fight back on that for sure, but this kind of holier-than-thou brute force attack levels a possibly undeserved accusation at everyone forced to read it, and it also flouts some of the most basic aspects of psychology in its strategy.
We use agile at my company w/ about 15 employees. We introduced it about two years ago to help focus our development process. Although I know there are some issues with agile, we've fully embraced agile by modifying our process along the way to suit our style. It has worked really well and I wouldn't change it for anything else right now. Does it produce high quality software? I agree that depends on the engineers, but it does produce a predictable process that we all are on board with. That's huge in my eyes.
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Enacting network neutrality rules now sounds a lot like premature optimization. Is anyone really putting up any barriers? There's some haggling over prices, some inefficient routes due to ISP tendency to keep traffic within their network, sure, but that doesn't sound like a convincing argument for government intervention with its own (serious) inefficiencies and heavy handedness.
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[Sigh] Pencils aren't used because some graphite would rub off into the air and muck up the filter.
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I can't recommend Tim Harford's 'The Undercover Economist' enough. There's a great chapter on Cameroon and exactly why it's the way it is.
Game of Thrones on Xbox not counting towards data cap -> government failure -> chaos, crisis, and collapse of the present world order
I work in information security, and I can give you a rough breakdown on botnet sites we've run into over the last year. (rough numbers)

25% have been Chinese (or linked to Chinese hackers, but using distributed hosting of hijacked servers around the world)

5% have been US-based.

10% have been Indian.

10% have been "other", including Canada/Mexico/Latin America, Africa, and Western Europe (like the German(?) Conficker worm)

A full 50% have been linked to the Russian Federation (and other former Soviet countries).

Why is this? Everyone has their theories, but mine is the combination of

1. Russia (and Eastern Europe) is a huge area.

2. Russian mafia really ramped up their cybercrime efforts after 1991 when the Soviet Union was retired.

3. Enforcement of cybercrime laws in Russia is lacking in comparison to Western nations, for various reasons.

Many other countries, including the US, have their own hackers and cybercrime groups. China and Russia are much, much more effective, though, and it's fashionable to hate on "commies" in the Western media.
>It would be like the phone company saying 'Want to talk to your family members? Well that costs 10c per minute but talking to your friends is only 5c per minute.'

You mean like wireless carriers making in-network calls free? Or Skype making in-network calls free?

>What the consumer pays for the bandwidth should be based on the actual cost the ISP incurs for that bandwidth and not on the value the customer is getting

This is based on the costs the carrier incurs - it costs more to transport traffic through a NAP and across another carrier's network than it does through one's own [1].

Preferring cost-based-pricing, i.e. fixed margin, versus value-based-pricing says carriers are a utility. The wording used implies cost-plus pricing (which has it's own boat of troubles - witness NASA contractor costs versus SpaceX [2]) is inherently superior to market pricing.

[1] http://blog.teracomtraining.com/how-isps-connect-to-the-inte...

[2] http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/05/31/nasa-analysis-falcon-...
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Ha, yeah, I bet you're right. It blows my mind though - it just doesn't seem like a great business strategy.
No, it's not over. Not yet.
I think only a small percentage of developers make $50k / year per game/app.

And Stage3 is way ahead of what one day hopefully WebGL will offer. There's no way (at the moment) of producing the same quality application in HTML5/js with the same effort you need for Flash.

Mozilla released their cute browserQuest game yesterday, something "Realm of the Mad God" did 2+ years ago in Flash.

HTML5 is very likely to be the future but there's no way they can compete with Flash at least in the areas of Games (and Audio) at the moment..
It sucks living in the slow zone.
This is getting ridiculous... nice job all the same!
Never work with anyone in India, especially the big names, without taking atleast a 50% advance, and holding the source (or some other leverage) before the other 50%. You will be surprised how fast things move when they want them to.
I just now submitted that link, as a matter of fact, before I saw this one. I wondered if you'd have any comment on it.
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I use xelatex in my work and it's still embarassingly fragmented and outdated. We need to start over on a new TeX-like project (also so that it can be ported to mobile).
We're actively working on an OSM render path. Coming soon!!
Not so enthusiastically from what I hear. Wasn't "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" a pretty common joke under Brezhnev?
If you're planning a project to take thousands of programming hours to complete, you are an idiot, and nothing can help you.
> And in the end there will be no jokes.

Not at all. This like saying "If we can't say anything hurtful, what is there left to say?"

You can be funny without being an asshole. And in a professional context, you shouldn't be an asshole at all.
First, thanks for sharing! Then a comment on this:

"I've done implementations of the above using SQL databases (MySQL) and it wasn't fun at all. The storage mechanism is awkward - put all your values in a single table and have them keyed according to stats name and period. That makes querying for the data weird too. That is not a showstopper though - I could do it. The real problem is hitting your main DB a couple of times in a web request, and that is definitely a no-no."

This is not a SQL vs NOSQL issue: decoupling the reporting system from your main (production/transaction) system is a widely advised practice in "business intelligence".

Use a different instance, with a schema designed for reporting.

You can use Redis for that (and I use it actually!) but you can also use MySQL or any other RDBMS.

It's fairly easy to implement: one line for each fact, then foreign keys to a date dimension and hour dimension (see [1]), then you can sum on date ranges, hour ranges, drill down etc, on many different metrics.

[1] https://github.com/activewarehouse/activewarehouse-etl-sampl...
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Steve Jobs didn't care for the name Siri
It's not completely new functionality. Adobe Alchemy, for example, has been free since 2008 and is used by a number of popular Flash apps and games. Of course they can charge for it if they want, but they're now competing with Unity, NaCL, UDK, and HTML5, so it is going to be a hard sell.