skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "no true Scotsman" fallacy is about moving goalposts -- about changing the definition in the middle of the argument. You have to agree on a definition, and then you can argue about whether something fits.

That is a completely different issue from arguing about definitions themselves. We can indeed hold opinions on what constitutes a true Scotsman, and even argue about which of those opinions is correct -- so long as it's the subject of the conversation.

You can't change definitions in the middle of a discussion. But you can certainly hold, support, and defend the consistent opinion that something is not a REAL education. It's not the word "real" that makes something problem. It's changing your mind.
The current default is that a company can own its name under all important TLDs. That is feasible because there are only so many generic ones (.com,.net,.org, maybe .info and .name) and a few of countries you want to do business with. So you could cultivate the expectation that you need and once will have your brand name (in its variations) under all of these.

That will no longer be possible. Also, it will not possible to just assume that the TLD is the new domain name, with every middle-sized company snatching up their brand name as TLD.

So when that expectation is no longer there, there will be no problems at all. Some of these TLDs will work similar to the existing generic TLDs, with the possibility for third parties to buy regular domains. Others will operate more like private tropical islands, used as some kind of status symbol.

The whole thing has one likely positive consequence, though. It might weaken the idea that you could somehow own a name or word. Some arbitrary slightly deep-pocketed entity grabs a name that most legitimately interested people cannot afford. That happens often enough, and nobody gives much about that name plaque any longer. Plus, old-fashioned brand operators will have a tough time buying up all "their" domains under the newly formed TLDs until they eventually give up and realize they cannot control "their" name in every conceivable abstract namespace. Everyone wins.
The raw numbers may say that the numbers of business majors and the number hired is high, but the ratios might be abysmal in comparison to other fields.
But you are competing with Craigslist. Not to mention the App store has no shortage of classified apps.

Posting to classified sites really isn't that difficult. For some people, sure, but enough to justify a company? The proof is in the marketplace with the lack of traction for Eggdrop, Antengo, and the numerous other apps that claim to make posting items for sale easier.

I would stick to the community aspect. I don't know if there is anything there, but at least it is different then what already exists in the market.
Can you show us your photos?
In order to accumulate resources, one must use the resources available wisely, consuming just a portion and investing the rest to produce more resources.

Individuals and societies that don't do this grow poorer.
Rural schools can have one advantage - everyone goes to them. In big cities, schools are a lot more stratified - no-one goes to a poor (black / latino) school unless they are poor.

You could look at the richer kids, do what they did (read books, learn stuff), and succeed. In a ghetto school, the only rich kids are drug dealers.
Sometimes someone says something true.
When that happens, it has to be veiled in the appearance of a satire because no one wants to admit the world really works that way.
Worked fine for me on Chrome. Possibly some ad network being evil?
Based on your story it seems you were lucky enough to have a stable family who gave you what support they could to pursue independent study/tinkering outside of school.

I am in the UK so it may be somewhat different here but I certainly know people with similar stories to yours over here.

However there are plenty of families over here who live in poverty where either both parents are unemployed , or dad is a drug dealer and mum is a prostitute. In many of these cases the children are simply not encouraged to learn anything, never provided with books (the parents might not even be able to read themselves).

There is often a bias in these communities against anybody who is seen to be working hard to learn anything educational and this is carried into school.
Typo in title.

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The explanation you gave still requires paying money, again, as a purely defensive move. Fine, you don't care about Google since it has so much "pocket money" laying around. How about startups that can't afford to throw 2K around every time ICANN decides to add TLDs?
Thanks! Filepicker was a joy to use and really made this
"The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to preach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what every one, at bottom, had always known to be right. Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As Dr Johnson said, ‘People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.’ The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk."

-- C.S Lewis "Mere Christianity"
No fears, my bad.
The site is called Krista's Coding Corner.

You are not the target audience. Unless you're 15, British, and ... luv ponies?

That said, if she can reach her demographic with light treatments of compression algorithms, then she's doing more for the world than either you or I.
That's me! (the biz major)
The stellar thing about manual controls on digital cameras is that you can get a "feel" for the compromises and advantages of various combinations of settings very quickly. What took a big chunk of every project during semester with a K1000, limited exposures, and darkroom time (where you had yet another chance to make a dog's breakfast of your photo) can now be "taught" in a day and internalized in a week or two of appropriate exercises with fast feedback loops.

Sure, almost all of the work will be boring, derivative, and pedestrian, but the teacher's job (and how they will be judged) then becomes one of improving the quality of the artwork.
This person is the originator of the ymacs project . https://github.com/mishoo
We have had article after article claiming it is obvious women are being oppressed in the tech industry. Every week there is one of these. Many make bigoted claims about male engineers, enforcing stereotypes of male geeks I have never actually seen in industry.

Where are the technical articles written by women? There are plenty of contributions complaining about oppression, while attacking men and claiming absurd stereotypes. Where are the technical contributions?
Apple don't want the app store to be anything but break even. They have it because it's a way to make money where it really matters which is the hardware.
It's not a prerequisite. There are people that can businesses ruthlessly and without moral regard for the choices they make. I think more often the morality of most businesses is misrepresented as absent for the convenience of those who want to evoke sympathy within the proletariat.

"Heavy weighs the head that wears the crown"; when you lead a large entity, there are always going to be people that are unhappy with your choices. I think by and large the great majority of businesspersons attempt to conduct business morally in general.
I don't know. Maybe Google is so good it's impossible (or at least limited to one tab). But I suspect it's still possible if I'm allowed to use commonly installed plugins. I think I could make a Java applet that consistently crashes.
Why bother running your code in space like this? All you get is access to the data generated by the on-board sensors, you don't get to control anything on the sat. They'd be better off just streaming the data to earth and giving people access to it here.

Furthermore, as far as I can tell none of the sensors they plan on using is rated for use in space, for example commercial GPS units stop working when they reach around 1000 km/h (to stop them being used in missiles)

Finally their supposed launch date is 2013, and I really don't see how they can make such a tight deadline when they're not even done designing the thing.

Don't waste your money on this kickstarter.
I love vim topics. I always read at least one thing I never knew was possible or would have even thought of doing.
ijkl sounds good, but it would break my habits for when I play nethack...
You did not cover it...What is the harm of having a .poetry TLD? Or what are the personal+societal costs of the private/exclusive registration of poetry.com?

But you are right we should deal with these things before there is a large user base. So let's sort it out now and come up with a solid framework for what alphanumeric strings are acceptable. What are the rules? Which alpha-numeric strings are too important to let a company own?

My name is Doug, can I register .doogie? Can I register .poetree? Is .oybt acceptable, even if it is rot13(blog)?
and there is DTN using IP over avian carriers: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1614234
The combination of sparklines and pie charts may just cause Tufte's head to explode.
Ford releasing an open API to your vehicle
Completely aside:...

As another successful woman in tech, yes, there is. A very simple thing. Whenever you hear your colleagues make a misogynist remark, call them out on it.

Yes, I realize many of them are meant as funny asides, but here's the problem: They still hurt. We get that they're usually not meant offensive, but it's simply not funny if you're on the receiving end of those "jokes". Every single one of them is a cut to the confidence and willingness of women in this field.

I know you want to focus on the positive, and I apologize for dragging in a negative instead.

To be clear, nobody requires you to be a knight in shining armor, riding to our rescue ;) But it'd sure be nice to occasionally hear an "You know what, dude? Not cool. Not cool at all" when those remarks come out.
Only if you choose your definitions to support your preconceived result by counting anyone with any programming ability whatsoever as "developer", no matter their primary field of work and expertise.
10 steps to the top paid 25 overall on App Store
I truly don't enjoy the personal attacks.

You win. Done.
Yes, it seems evolution 'encourages' homogenization. Natural selection acts as a filter reducing genetic variation in a given environmental setting.
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Regulation wasn't about putting people in jail: it was about requirements for stock listings and access to federal money. That's a far more significant deterrent when all the company cares about is cash.

Regulations worked: it was when we unravelled existing regulation that things went belly up in almost exactly the same way they had gone belly-up the time before, inspiring the regulation in the first place. Cause-and-effect are a bitch sometimes.
My 4.5yo has been using iOS since a bit before 2, has his own ipod touch and uses the family 1st gen iPad. He came home from kindy excited by using a PC. I couldn't understand it but now I do. Kids love to learn and he needs new challenges and this is another thing I can do with him. I have been waiting until he has better literacy to start on the cli, but perhaps the cli will help him learn letters and typing. Nice one.
This goes both ways. The fact that my Mac "just works" means I can use it to make things and solve new problems, rather than spending all my time reinventing the sovled problem of a working desktop.

I've played with desktop Linux. The hours that went into to fighting Xorg or chasing WiFi drivers were perhaps educational, but definitely not productive. In the time it took me to get internet connectivity in Ubuntu on an old Dell, much less learn to stumble around vim, I could have made something new and useful with Twilio, Django, and TextMate on my Mac.

If I were a mechanic, I'd rather spend time fixing cars than fixing my tools.
I was born in 84 and have a lot of fond memories with Windows 3.1, solitaire and the progression of computer games as I grew up.

I sincerely hope this father kids his kids out of the house and into the backyard to make friends, built forts, break things, and all the other awesomeness I experienced as a kid growing up. If my dad started putting me in front of a terminal when I was 2 or 3, I'm nervous how I would have ended up.

Because I received my first programming book (HTML in 24 hours) when I was 13, I had plenty of years to learn to code, but didn't sit inside while all the other kids were playing for 13 years. Now I'm coding everyday, having a blast at my startup, and my best friends today are the kids from my neighborhood that I was building forts and setting off fireworks with 20 years ago.
$18k/yr in NYC or SFBA with a mortgage and a family is untenable.

$18k/yr in most major US cities probably implies:

* Subsistence diet

* Dependence on small selection of rental properties

* Extremely poor access to health care

* Dependence on informal "gratis" child care

* Near perfect job attendance

I call these out not to make the boring "gnash our teeth about the lives of the poor" case, but rather the suggest that your ability to care for a family on 18k/yr in a US metro is counterfeit: you can do it until you:

* Are ever hospitalized

* Lose your free child care

* &c ...

... at which point bang you're bankrupt. I think a lot of people who think they are getting by with low incomes are actually playing a kind of sick inverted Martingale betting strategy against life.
And so we get a lognormal distribution where small positive differences (arguably ultimately due to luck; genes, environment, continent, family network etc) combine to give enourmous advantages.

That said, regardless of your starting point it pays to try to position yourself to gain as many positive points as you can - with luck you can ride that same multiplicative unfairness to achieve better than linear progress.
Correct, I probably should have pointed out more context here.

The reason that random testing in this fashion would be a problem is only if the actual distribution of requirements does not well match the central limit theorem -- if for example user demand is very correlated. Because the central limit theorem is usually off, it is not acceptable to assume that testing independent random variables will reproduce adequately the risky situations testing should test.
That's going to suck when you get lockjaw playing blackjack in Reykjavik. But other than that, you seem pretty safe.
I'd love to see this expand outside Toronto. If I can offer any help/contacts in SoCal, feel free to ping me.
Because I want a continually functioning economy more than I want to punish Citi? Systematic risk is real, and should be managed on a system-wide level.

In my ideal fantasy world, it is managed with some version of chaos monkey that randomly kills companies to see if the economy crashes ;-)
Christ, enough with the pedantry.
The sun is setting on MVC frameworks
New, Alternative Mobile UI for Facebook
Not really going to help you for 20h...
I run a reddit clone (conceptually; I wrote my own codebase after struggling with reddit OSS for about a year) and I have decided not to astroturf. It is deceptive, and while the deception may not harm every participant, it can harm some of them. As the saying goes, "there is no such thing as a point of view from nowhere"; even if your fake accounts attempt to take on different arguments, they are always tainted by your experience and the value of the contribution suffers. If a person makes a decision based on the consensus among 20 contributors, but they are actually 2 contributors, I believe that an immoral deception has occurred, especially if that decision is major or important.

I suppose if all your comments were things like, "Cool story, I'm glad you posted it", there's not much of a problem, but that doesn't seem like it would really drive engagement.

I have been a member of sites that grow organically with [almost] no activity. You just have to find a group of people that don't necessarily mind a slower pace; it really only takes a relatively small base of active users to get a snowball going. I don't think resorting to astroturfing is a necessity and I do think there is a permanent taint on sites that gain success by dubious methodology like this instead of slower, truer organic growth.
I'd imagine they are read as if they are written by men and don't get added to the woman category.

The internet still seems rather men oriented I know if I don't know the gender of a person and can't make a guess by their username I default to using male pronouns and most other men seem to do this as well. (I wonder if the women of the internet do this or if they default to she or something else entirely.)
Here's opinion from the horse's mouth:

<start quote>
Back in 1999, the mag asked Joy what inspired him to write vi:

What happened is that Ken Thompson came to Berkeley and brought this broken Pascal system, and we got this summer job to fix it. While we were fixing it, we got frustrated with the editor we were using which was named ed. ed is certainly frustrating.

We got this code from a guy named George Coulouris at University College in London* called em - Editor for Mortals - since only immortals could use ed to do anything. By the way, before that summer, we could only type in uppercase. That summer we got lowercase ROMs for our terminals. It was really exciting to finally use lowercase.

So we modified em and created en. I don't know if there was an eo or an ep but finally there was ex. [laughter] I remember en but I don't know how it got to ex. So I had a terminal at home and a 300 baud modem so the cursor could move around and I just stayed up all night for a few months and wrote vi.

Linux Mag then asked: "So you didn't really write vi in one weekend like everybody says?"

No. It took a long time. It was really hard to do because you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade. 1200 baud now is pretty slow.

9600 baud is faster than you can read. 1200 baud is way slower. So the editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore.
<end quote>

This is from Bill Joy, who wrote vi. The last line is very much on point and mirrors my point of view: "Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore."

Also: "I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem."

If one was given the task to write a text editor today, even one without a GUI, I would be surprised if anyone reached for some of the things Bill had to do in the context of 300 baud modems and a terminal (not window, but physical).

In the context of large projects vi/vim don't offer any real measurable gains. The fact that programmers who take the time to learn these tools feel good about them does not constitute proof of anything other than that fact.

Let's just agree to disagree and move on.
"Peity (sounds like deity)"

As someone who pronounces deity day-a-tee, I'm guessing you actually mean pee-a-tee and not pay-a-tee.
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I'm curious what your parents taught you about personal responsibility. My theory is it's less about whether you grow up in poverty as it is about growing up being taught you're a victim, that everything bad in your life is the result of other people hating you or taking what should be yours, etc. If you feel everything that you have or don't have is the result of things other people are giving you or taking from you, you learn that you are not in control of your destiny.

However the reality is that almost nobody in the world or evn your town even knows you exist, much less is actively working to keep you down. If you grow up being told that life is (largely) what you make it, you will tend to do what it takes to achieve what you want, rather than remaining mired in self-pity and victimhood.
You have done extremely well, but you're forgetting that most successful rich people, those born to the right parents and in the right neighborhoods, are boring as %!#&, and many of them are not only unmotivated to learn, but quite stupid as well. So it's only the poor who have to really want it. The rich are simply born with it. So economic success is still very much hereditary (though you don't inherit it with your genes).
wooga chose to focus on iOS because of the less fragmentation.

I work on Pocket Island, at wooga.
The idea of a question/answer site as a meritocracy is not monopolized by Stack Overflow. We forget that there is more than one way to solve this problem, and this is a particular solution with particular tradeoffs. I myself find Stack Overflow a bit unpleasant to contribute on; I always feel like it's a race, and it's very hard to separate one's desire to be helpful from one's desire to win points by playing the game faster or harder. It's easier and possibly more rewarding overall (just in terms of points) to focus on answering broadly, frequently and with speed than with quality.

As a man, and a not particularly competitive one, I don't know if what chafes me about it is also what chafes women, but I think there is definitely room for other interpretations of social question answering. Either deep changes or simply different reward schedules, combined with a different initial community, ought to produce a site with a completely different "feel." Whatever it is that women are reacting to about Stack Overflow, there is bound to be a different solution they would like better, and the competition between sites could be beneficial.
Here's what I really, really, want:

$('textarea').vim()
Power law (Pareto distribution), not lognormal.

But you're partly right. Simulate random exchanges at random prices and the wealth distribution will come out Pareto.

However, we cannot conclude that because [a] random exchanges lead to a power-law dist and [b] we observe a power-law in reality, that [c] the real wealth distribution is tantamount to random.
"intrinsic motivation"

Well, I came from a fairly modest background in rural Scotland (mind you, not what anyone would call "poor") and one thing that has always been very obvious to me is that my motivation was not intrinsic - my parents, siblings (all of who have done pretty well), teachers and school friends were very positive and encouraging.

Looking back on it I find it remarkable at how positive my school friends were towards me having an obvious route out of the community through academic success - they had hard lives of working in deep-sea fishing, offshore oil or farming to look forward to. I never encountered any resentment or bitterness - people seemed genuinely pleased that I was going to go to university.

However, it was relatively late in life (30s) that I actually realised that this kind of supportive background is not the norm and many people, especially from modest backgrounds, face actual hostility and discouragement from when they try to "get out of their box". As my wife, who although she is now a succesful lawyer, came from a background where academic success was not encouraged has commented to me - success was easy for me because it was expected of me from an early age.

Sadly, for many people nobody expects them to succeed and so therefore they don't. For me this is one of the real tragedies of our society.