skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say what you want about modern art, as long it can make people show interest in a trash bag, it's powerful. Porn just exploits (and fools) your basic circuits, like drugs of addiction.
All mathematics consists of rigorous models. But choosing and tweaking a model is more of an art. Most data scientists apply existing models to new data, they do not develop new ones.

I am sure it takes much less than "years" for any smart PhD in applied mathematics to learn most of data analysis tricks. It is not theoretical physics after all.
One reason corporations are so diligent about avoiding taxes is scale. If you can save, say $1 million, byt paying lawyers & accountants $500,000, the decision is a no-brainer. I'm sure this is exactly how Apple's outside counsel sells it.

I think the best approach is just to eliminate corporate taxes. If instead you just tax the dividends, that same $1,000,000 in liability will be distributed among thousands of shareholders, who will not have nearly as strong an incentive to hire $400/hour lawyers.
You are making many faulty assumptions, attacking a culture you clearly do not understand in the least. To call something braindamaged in hacker culture is well understood as a personal value judgement with certain connotations. It has absolutely nothing to do with bullying, "darkness", or negativity.

If anything, it is you who is being a bully, barging in and telling us how we should behave without even grasping who we are and how we are behaving now.
Does 'steep learning curve' not mean the rate of learning (X: time and Y:knowledge) is high, thus a little effort outputs lots of knowledge?
My current preferred DE is GNOME 3.

It gets a lot of hate right now, but its a really stress-free environment for me. Taking a look at the GNOME 3 cheat-sheet will fix most of the power-user complaints.

I think when GNOME 3 get more features and applications it will quickly regain user share because of its superior design philosophy. Like what happened to GNOME 2 - it got flamed hard in the reviews, Linus blasted it; but its developers kept making it better without changing their design decisions and it was adopted by major distributions and most users stuck with it.
You can always go to a porn website and search for words that convey degradation (rape, rough, bad words men call women,..). Nowadays they are quite explicit about it, not even bothering with visual metaphors.
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It's a start at least!
This is one of the downsides to the karma game - people tend to be reluctant to do anything which will hurt their score. Stories are dead after about 12 hours, and almost nobody checks their comments unless they're in a flame war.
And you didn't provide an answer either.
Isn't that handled by a different setting? I don't have a laptop to test with.
The cheap services do indeed include a road system, which tends to be paid for by property taxes in a given locality. Apple pays for CA roads in proportion to the land they own in CA. Their works also pay for roads via gas taxes, and charge Apple commensurately.

Why should Apple be taxed on profits earned in Ireland to pay for CA roads?

As for protection from enemies, we should simply stop defending Ireland. Then Ireland will be forced to defend itself (from Iraq, I suppose) and charge corporations commensurately.
> we are breeding new generations who have no concept that anything worth doing requires hard work and commitment, and whose total career aspirations are to climb the middle management ladder as fast as possible

Bull. It's a common problem for older generations to besmirch younger generations for exactly the same stunts they pulled.

There are still soldiers, Olympians, prodigies, single parents, and many more examples of young people doing things that require a ton of dedication. Every week, Undercover Boss manages to find young people working their tails off to pay for school, medical bills, and work towards their dreams. Last night's episode featured a young man who wanted to be a choreographer but knew he needed schooling to make it; thus he was hauling huge carts of pretzels all over Philly every day to pay for classes.

And yes, there are people who hope to get to middle management as soon as possible. They have tons of motivations but they're no different than the last generation's ton of people who wanted to get stable union jobs. Most of them want to make a decent living to provide a roof and food for their children. The path to doing that has changed generation over generation, but it's still the same idea.

Certainly we can do things to help lift them up and help them innovate, but we're not going to make any progress by calling the next generations lazy.
Hmm, I suppose I'm wiggling a bit here, but I'm tryin to pin down why, after quitting a job on Wall Street and checking out Silcon Valley I left with a feeling that the missions are largely superfluous (I'm less interested in delighting people than profoundly changing their realities).

Maybe tangible is the wrong word; perhaps innovating on the commanding heights of the economy is more apt. By this measure Google does qualify as a fundamental innovation as it retraces the market for information. The others, energy, materials, transportation, military, etc. are seeing incremental innovation but not yet breakthroughs. Exceptions may be held as graphene and carbon fibre, self-driving cars, automated weapons systems, etc.

Disclaimer: I am not Malcolm Gladwell; I love being delighted and don't want to weigh down one type of innovation under another. But I do think there are different types of innovation and that we need a balance. The balance today seems to be skewed, probably due to regulatory factors that will even themselves out in inter-generational and inter-superpower timescales, but skewed nonetheless.
You can build the gut's of a basic phone using well under 1$ worth of electronics (speaker/microphone/processor/antenna/and a little storage) and a simple antenna. After that it's battery, case, display, charger, packaging and assembly which can go up and down the cost/quality map, don't have to cost much individually. It's the same reason you can have those key-chain games with more processing power than a Ti-86 calculator for 3$.
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The Protection of MacBook Housing
Nowadays, it's not so hard to buy a MacBook any more and people pay a lot of attention to it. For example, get rid of the garbage software, make it away from the water and keep it away from children. The software could be re installed, while, the housing has to be changed if scratched. So, how to maintain the housing?
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It worked out for Hugh Hefner.
Would you prefer if it said "Sex:" instead of "Gender:"?
I 'm not against porn or anything, but i do think porn and sex is overrated in culture (perhaps out of spite for the christian oppression of the past?). Porn is popular, but it's not like it earned it, we are wired to be addicted to it (there's quite a lot of research on the addictiveness of porn). The fact that it's popular and drives a lot of internet traffic does not mean a negative view of porn is wrong. Alcohol and gambling are popular and drive a lot of resources does it mean they are not negative?
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Well, humiliated.com has a girls section but not boys
Yeah it'd be pretty low for me too.

then again, there are several IQ tests, so that could contribute to the problem of having a generic conversion equation.
Yes, with all these millions of victims it must be creating, perhaps we should outlaw it like we did drugs. That's worked out great.
Porn = porn that men like

Erotica = porn that women like
Another one of these sites...still funny
You are very selective in what you watch, I guess.
You're thinking at country level. If you expand the thought to global level, the supposed immorality disappears - in this case, the taxes are just paid in another country, at a lower rate, but it still helps a part of society...
There's an increasing number of women watching porn - 1 in 3 porn viewers according to Nielsen - or making porn without receiving financial compensation (so, not because they need the money). Who are we to say that we know better than them what does or doesn't degrade them? That feels extremely patronizing.
This is essentially why I wrote the script. My reflection is that you used to be able to disagree with someone on HN and have a discussion. It was occasionally heated, but nobody really took it personally.

These days, anything mildly controversial or disagreeable gets downvoted to death, often without any response at all. In those cases, asking for some sort of cogent response only gets you more downvotes...
> Most people don't have this luxury.

Why not? Seriously. What's stopping anyone from doing this exact thing? Inertia...that's really all - when you get right down to it..
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Sorry but what a load of rubbish.

It has been clearly demonstrated time and time again that in periods of depression you DO NOT dramatically cut government spending. All it does is hamper growth which results in less tax income.

I have no idea why the US debt is being touted about as being the number one priority when surely increasing growth rates and reducing unemployment are key.
And FemaleDom.com only has women dominating men. So?
This app is a bit beyond basic screen sharing, Screenleap is more of a competitor to Join.me and this is more of a competitor to WebEx etc.
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You'll find that "ballbusting", "femdom" and similar queries also return plenty of results.
Notice the lack of reference to rockstars, ninjas, or brogramming.
Yeah, WP7's interface and apps look great, they just need better marketing and more hardware - the selection is just pathetic. Also, there are plenty of apps for iOS and Android that don't run on WP7...
I actually don't. I am not sure why you would assume I do. I am in a very healthy relationship. But I did research on it for a paper. I also discuss this matters with my girlfriend and several other people who have growing concerns over the escalating violence (or at least the showing of it) in the porn industry.
You were making sense until you abruptly declared that masturbation is a negative. Do you feel the same way about soft clothing and snack foods and puns?
As much as I hate to say it, Firefox is not that good on Windows either - I'm kind of tired of it using 1.5 GB of RAM and lagging most of the time. If not for the awesome Adblock and NoScript plugin and the AwesomeBar, I'd use Chrome all the time...
Thanks for linking to that report, I didn't actually know about that. I brought mine back and as soon as they saw it they replaced it. I think any company would have replaced it to prevent bad publicity, there were visible burn marks on it.
KDE 4 and GNOME 3 happened in the meantime. Which means there's been a lot of demand but a dearth of supply for a conservative but feature-rich desktop environment.

Since XFCE was probably the closest to meeting that demand, it's not surprising that it gained a lot of features. Meanwhile, it looks like LXDE is going to fill the niche that XFCE used to fill.
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Moving Django to GitHub: the postmortem
My language.

It's better than your language.

Ergo, you should use my language.

Rinse and repeat with any choice of languages.
Does not distilled indulgence save time, which is a modern person's most heavily spent resource?
You're arguing against a strawman. I didn't say a negative view of porn is wrong. I said SpaceDragon was wrong because he views "anyone who indulges in porn" as uncompetitive, lacking self-control and settles for fantasy. And that's factually wrong.
Haha, ClearType did suck one some monitors - it looked horrible on some CRTs and earlier LCDs (I clearly remember the pain in my eyes :-)...
What bothers me most is that if I'm using multiple desktops in OS X, Firefox is in all of them. There's no defence of this as a UX decision.
> I think a number of people reading the article have the tacit impression that if the government taxed the money from Apple, that they would somehow benefit to a greater extent. But given that the US Government spends $11.5 billion more per day[1] than it receives in taxes, even seizing all of Apple's worldwide profits would just be a drop in the bucket.

What about the net effect of the government going after every company that does this?

> Exactly. And this extends down to the personal level. Elizabeth Warren, a millionaire Senatorial candidate who supports the Buffet Rule, nevertheless did not voluntary pay a higher tax rate:

I think it is entirely consistent and rational to support a rule for higher taxation while still striving to pay the minimum required amount.
sys.version already exists, at least in 2.7. I'm not sure how far back it goes.
Spending more time doing what you want is the opposite of instant gratification. You can't be instantly gratified all day long in a 24hour orgasm.
I disagree with SpaceDragon, but he hasn't said anything about outlawing it, so that's kind of flamebait.
I don't think your point and the point you quoted are actually at odds.
We were just talking about this in an IRC channel. I think the article is saying that we've cut everything down to the common denominator. I've also heard it called the 'fast food' generation. We want the quick hit, the down and dirty. We live in an incredibly fast paced society. But in that context, how can you not chop everything down to the kibbles and bits, in order to get people even interested? (or in other terms: tl;dr)
>This place is just fine the way it is!

Can we at least compromise on unicode vote arrows?
Which serves as exhibit A in the evidence against time travel being invented within a decade.
It's a computer in any sense of the word. The only difference between the Analytical Engine and what you call an "actual computer" is speed. It had selection, iteration and sequence, it had working memory and it could load data and instuctions from punched cards.
>Smalltalk was marginalized by its image-based nature.

Well there you have it: a non-economic reason it failed.
> New Zealand authorities didn’t investigate the US request, but Judge Potter said that the Attorney General is not required to evaluate the legitimacy of the US order.

So the NZ Govt will seize your stuff just because some other country tells them to do so, without even making sure that all the paperwork is in place? Is that the same standard of evidence they use to justify domestic searches and seizures?
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Most data scientists apply existing models to new data, they do not develop new ones.

I meant "develop" in the software sense. Data scientists use off-the-shelf libraries during initial research, but those libraries usually lack an important feature preventing them from going into production (typically, no support for concurrency).

I am sure it takes much less than "years" ... to learn most of data analysis tricks.

I used to be cynical about "data science," too. After four months of working on a data science team, though, I'm a believer.

A data scientist is really a "full-stack data developer." He or she needs the ability to work with advanced models, use them to analyze large amounts of data, and modify those models to work concurrently or in a distributed system if desired (and its often desired). It's more than just "analysis tricks."
I think it's mostly a matter of context. Porn is something you watch while you jerk off, and afterwards you throw it away. That's what it's designed for, and there's not much more to be seen if you watch it in any other context.

In fact, the OP is slightly off about the question of actual porn--porn is more or less the distilled version of erotica, not film, that takes away the art.

Now if you try to make porn, or make something that has the superficial appearance of porn, and then by accident or design end up creating something that's capable of greater intellectual or emotional depth, maybe that could be art. For instance, if the girl was holding the camera, it would be a subversive commentary on the male gaze. Creating art like that in the nominal form of pornography would in fact be deeply ironic simply because porn isn't art. (It wouldn't necessarily be erotica, because you've distilled the art away from the erotica to make the porn, and then added a different, ironic aspect of art on top of it.)
It's just my bass cannon...
It's really up to each of us to aim higher, solve a large problem. Peter Thiel does a much better job characterizing the problem than this author. Peter also offers solitons.

It's worthwhile to encourage everyone to aim higher. But this article comes off as a rant.
I'm noticing that a lot of the expectations / requirements are a lot lower. Most are "up to 2 years" experience.

Last time I was job hunting, everything was asking for 5+ years experience in one software stack and multiple frameworks. Sometimes 5+ years in multiple fields. What changed?
And also notice, with transparency, that your work will ultimately contribute to strategies and innovations in the field of power acquisition and, by proxy, literally the death of other humans.

Worth noting, also, minus the overt militaristic references, how similar these job descriptions are to a modern quantitative finance position.
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I'm not really convinced that private industry is any better at avoiding waste than government. I must admit I haven't worked in government, but when I worked at large companies, I was shocked and appalled by how incredibly inefficient and wasteful their internal affairs were.

Furthermore, many of us [of course, you may disagree] would like for the government to provide more services, and that money has to come from somewhere. Even if it's ultimately private companies administering these services, they would need to at least be subsidized by the government to be accessible to the people who need them most.
Probably the availability of people with 5+ years of programming experience. It was 1959! :)
I am not sure if you are serious or not, but the post is from 1959. Experience in what they wanted was probably a lot more rare back then.
This seems like you have an idealized vision of private industry. From what I've seen, politics and being friends with the right people is the determining factor in both fields.
Java.sun.com is down again - breaking bad apps across the land
This is a notice to fellow HN readers.

This morning around 8:00 UTC Nagios alerted me, that the thread count on a number of Apache Tomcat servers I support for a client started to rise dramatically. I've discovered that a library that is part of the application was trying to fetch DTDs like http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd from java.sun.com. The servers are unreachable so each request thread was taking 30+ seconds to time out. I've worked around the problem by putting an iptables rule for 192.9.162.55 port 80, that would reject the request immediately and informed to client to look for a permanent solution.

In case the library can't be fixed (I don't know who developed it), I'm planning on putting the relevant DTD files on a local HTTP server and redirect all requests for java.sun.com to that virtual host (eg. through relevant entries in the hosts file).

Check your application servers and the software you use if it processes XML documents. One way to check:

$ netstat -ant | grep -E '192.9.162.55:80[[:space:]]+SYN_SENT' | wc -l
184
$

SYN_SENT is because the 192.9.162.55 (java.sun.com) is not responding ATM. If it becomes reachable again, just s/[[:space::]]+SYN_SENT// .

Relevant URLs for more information:

http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic/

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html

And a previous discussion here about the same problem:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3094075
Books require focus and self-control. Non-fiction are obviously not fantasy, but even much of fiction is soundly rooted in reality or science (fiction).

As for TV and movies, mostly true.
Here's why Windows possibly has a shot at regaining a meaningful presence in the mobile space.

1) the untapped market potential is still huge (I myself don't own an Android or an iPhone - although I'll be buying an Android phone soon)

2) The customers gained by Android and iOS are not as loyal or as committed to each platform as the early adopters of the home PC were. When you bought your first PC, you usually spent a lot of money on it, invested in software...etc. By contrast, most smartphone buyers just need a phone with an internet connection, decent browser and a Facebook app. Other apps and games are just a short-term bonus that quickly become a bore. Also phones are cheap or free with a contract (in North America at least) so switching after your 2-3 year prison sentence with one of the carriers is not a huge leap of faith.

Having said all this I personally hope Apple and Microsoft lose badly and Android wins. Purely based on principle and to a lesser degree my own mild case of fanboyism.
> I remember reading about a study that showed looking at boobs raised men's self esteem.

Real ones or just pictures and videos? Big difference.
I think it's similar to the over-education problem. Oh, everyone has a bachelor's (2 years experience) now we need everyone to have Master's degrees (5-8 years experience).

I'm actually curious if one day there won't be a reversal of the trend...I would think it would be at the point where supply no longer meets demand. But really, who knows.
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I charge my iPhone at night using the genuine Apple charger. As far as I'm aware it is grounded (UK) and I have one of those RCD type things for the whole house, as well as a fuse box.

Should I be worried and stop charging it overnight? It has become part of my going to bed routine and works well as the iPhone will sync wirelessly overnight but I'd rather not wake up on fire.
Yes, meetup.com is good. Etsy also has "Code as Craft" nights, those are fun. There are co-working spaces like General Assembly, New Work City and Projective Space which are, naturally, techie-dense. Startup Digest is a mailing list for the week's events: http://startupdigest.com/
I don't know. Essentially every place I've contacted I've asked about that clause. Not one actually expected to find it, but they all listed it.

5+ years seems to me to be a strange expectation. That would mean you've had either multiple failing jobs and might be an undesirable, or you've been somewhere for 5+ years. If you've been there for 5+ years, what's motivating you to leave? Where do people expect to find these vast pools of highly-skilled jobless people who have experience with <software stack X> in <field which employs a couple thousand people nationally> within <narrow time window>? That they never find any seems to underscore how irrational the 'requirement' is in the first place, but I see it everywhere.
Xfce is still my primary work environment, mostly because it generally works in the way I expect after years of Unix desktop usage. I certainly hope this latest version fixes some of the remaining polish type issues that would make me consider GNOME 3 or even the new Unity in Ubuntu 12.04.
Direct link : http://arxiv.org/pdf/math.ST/0606441.pdf