skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phrased that way, it could be.

But if of Linux distros users 95% are men and 5% are women is it sexist to say that linux distros are _mostly of interest_ to men?

Now, those numbers are mostly a guesstimation, but it seems to coincide with the Wikipedia numbers, and also with what I see in all Linux forums, conferences and user groups I've seen. Anybody is free to correct those.

I believe in those statements:

1) Linux could be used as well by a man or a woman interested in it.
2) Linux is _not_ used equally (in aggregate) by men or women.
3) Due to cultural reasons not as much women compared to men are interested in Linux (or IT in general).
4) The reason for that is not just that it is a "boys club". Traditional office jobs (i.e non secretarial) used to be a "boys club" too at some point, but that haven't stopped women getting into them since the sixties or so. Are biology male geeks less sexist? Because women seem to flood into biology majors and not so in IT majors.
It's pretty ridiculous that people will go this far out of their way to delete an article that is obviously not spam or anything like that. Seriously, I got pretty emotional having to defend my father's notability to a stranger on the internet who is on a power-trip. At least the woman standing up for me (and my Dad) proves there are at least some good people on there...
AskHN: The consensus is that each parent speaks his languge so as not to confuse the child. When the parents are taking to each other in the presence of the child, does each one talk to his own language? Or in that case it doesn't matter?
"Would you trust wikipedia as much if it had a page for your neighbor's dog?"

Why wouldn't I?

Plus, as long as they maintain the "no original research" rule and the citation requirement, this isn't even a potential problem.
If you think adding a GUI editor to Wikipedia is a top priority, you should try to either do some community organizing to push for it, or try diving into the code to get some idea of how hard it would be to add.

More than most institutions, Wikipedia is quite open and democratic and it’s possible for regular contributors to have a big impact, if they’re willing to put the work in.

Making a change like this will be a huge amount of work for someone, which is why it hasn’t happened yet. But if you can gather a team of like-minded folks, with enough dedicated organizing/coding effort I’m sure you could make some good progress.
Compared to, let's say Slashdot? This place is pretty tame in comparison.
To add a bit more into your information the appearance of ads from the end user perspective is random (3) and (4) could not be done automatically, because you'd have to know the exact moment the relevant ad was to appear. Serving the ads is automated à la Google auction technique so unpredictable.

The only way to spoof that is to expand the targeted audience.

The automated ad clicks that I refer to is demonstrated by a gaping hole in the data consistency, which would not otherwise occur if the action was taking place outside of Facebook's own servers.
> I mean, Apple replaces the battery for $200, no questions asked. I don’t think they replace the whole Retina MacBook Pro every time they do that.

I'd like to point out that no one has had a RMBP serviced yet, so everything you've said is entirely speculation. As is the following:

They will replace the entire RMBP.

The only user customizable part is the data on the SSD. Why go to all the trouble of taking the laptop apart when Apple could just move the data and give you a new one? Much faster turn around time. (And fixes any other dings/dents. Yay Apple!) It will be interesting to see how they deal with unorthodox customization, such as stickers on the exterior of the case. Probably will separate those out and give them the special full service treatment.

After they ship you your new laptop, they will take apart the old one and unglue the battery - but only so the unit can be resold (as refurbished) as part of a student discount service.

They probably won't even take apart the laptop and swap the SSD - just dd the whole thing over their fast little thunderbolt port. In theory, they could offer battery replacements in the Apple Store - the sales rep just has to connect the two laptops, start the sync and wait 3.5 minutes. No skilled labor involved.

From a bottom line perspective, this makes too much sense not to happen. They'll be making money on every step of the process and the majority of customers will love it.
"Just finding developers capable of doing this would be a big challenge."

I'm pretty sure one of the very highest profile websites on the entire internet could find developers capable of handling it.

Actually, I'm 100% certain of it.
And this argument has been repeated endlessly.

I wont question if it's true or false. But the mere repetition makes what the grandparent says true: this is not a site full of smart people.

Or at least: this is not a site full of smart people _above_ repeating for the nth time the same tired internet flames.
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smartphones are not good devices for accurate typing

This is only because of the gigantic backwards step the entire industry has taken towards touch screens. Pro tip: if you can't send me an email without coming off like a gibbering idiot, the device should not be used in a professional context (I think this is possibly the original impetus for putting "Sent from my iPhone" at the bottom of every email - not for marketing purposes but so that everyone didn't immediately lose their jobs and/or clients as soon as they started using one).

I just bought a Motorola Pro+ after 6 months of tyranny at the hands of a Samsung Galaxy SII and I'm so happy I could cry. It's like a Nokia e63 running Android. Sheer bliss ... apart from the fact that it randomy reboots :(

There's always something, though ...
Everyone's a deletionist about something.

Now, watch people 'delete' my comment by downvoting, without giving me any counterargument.

> Honestly, I cannot think of a good reason to delete any article at all, unless it's obviously fraudulent, marketing-oriented, illegal, or obscene according to a widely accepted definition of obscenity.

None of these are objective, though, meaning this argument will never end. In particular, there is no 'widely accepted definition of obscenity' even within any particular country, let alone the entire English-speaking world (assuming you only care about the English-language Wikipedia).

> The argument that it would be too difficult to maintain lots of extra articles is also weak, because not every article needs to be regularly edited, and more articles on niche topics might actually attract more editors.

There's the danger of the more out-of-the-way articles becoming spam-traps. The technical solutions would stifle article creation and modification, which seems directly counter to your goals.

> No, we won't end up with a page for every John Doe and his cat.

Why not? How is not having a page for every John Doe and his cat not simply deletionism?

> In fact, it's possible that people with certain psychological traits self-select for Wikipedia editorship.

Non sequitur based on psychological projection or other such nonsense. You have no real basis for this statement.
The pricing feels off to me if this is to penetrate the mass market.

While it might seem 'right' to us, who understand the effort this requires and appreciate the value it provides, especially over an ad funded service, $50/year just doesn't seem like it would appeal to the general public.

I suspect that even many of the savvy folks here would not lay out $50/yr for Twitter or Facebook if either were to switch to a directly funded model, and they have the advantage that they already have big networks.

I have no scientific basis to this, but I feel like for this to be a success, 99 cents a month, or $10/year, would be a price point to shoot for. I have no idea if it's plausible to run something like this at that price.

[I know, I sell a $10 iPhone app, so I perhaps am not the best person to make this comment...]
"No, we won't end up with a page for every John Doe and his cat."

And if we did? It think it would be rather cool for everyone, living or dead, to have his own Wikipedia page. In fact these might have special status as non-deletable.

If your family ran a web site about its family, would you deny any member a page, especially if some members already had pages?

Now consider our larger family, all us humans that have ever been and ever will be. Besides the many topics about our "family" covered by Wikipedia, some of us have pages specifically about us. Why shouldn't all of us have our own pages?

Well before Wikipedia came along, I've wished that each person on Earth could have some way of being recorded for posterity. Some peoples' record will of course be more interesting than others'. But we're all family, even the boring and embarrassing ones.
So its possible to remotely overwrite the Verifone software to capture PIN numbers. The local attacks aren't as terrifying, since it was already possible to replace them with modified devices to skim PINs. And what about all the HSM PIN-recovery attacks, on which the details are already available? And where are those <1mm thick ATM skimmers they warned us about?

Ultimately, stolen credit card numbers just aren't that monetizable (they're sold for pennies on the dollar, $2-$3 per) and not enough people use their pin numbers at POS terminals. It seems more fraudsters steal using Scareware/rogue AV (its less likely to be charged back, since the victim actively entered their details).

Well-funded organized crime seems more interested in targeting bank logins, or Medicare (losses in the billions, mixed with bonafide doctor-fraud), or maybe home loans and other forms of ID theft.
I think there's a big difference when Wall Street pays you to take on variance, and you pay Vegas for variance.
You're still 'paying for it the whole time' regardless of whether the phone is turned on or off, assuming you're on a plan.

The phone simply being turned on doesn't equate to more calls being made. Like the parent said, turn it on when you need it.
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Dear Mr. Glasner, Bagon, and Irani (authors of the super-resolution paper):

Please apply this technique to resolve a historically important question about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by identifying the license plate number of the car immediately behind the bus:

http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx183/twsxpress/Forum2/Ye...

http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx183/twsxpress/Forum2/mu...

Better resolution photos should be available since the ones I've seen printed in books are better than these. And there are plenty of photos of Texas license plates from 1963 with which to seed your algorithm.

The reason this is interesting is because Roger Craig, a Deputy Sheriff in Dallas, after he witnessed the assassination said that he saw Lee Harvey Oswald run from the Texas School Book Depository and get into Nash Rambler station wagon driven by a another man.

These photos show a Nash Rambler station wagon that was indeed passing the Depository just after the assassination. If motor vehicle records still exist for 1963, then its owner can be identified.

The key point is that the existence of a person picking up Oswald after the assassination would strongly indicate the possibility that he was not acting alone.

I'll readily grant that this isn't likely to settle the issue, but I think it still would be amazing if the super-resolution approach was able to generate new information about a topic that no one expects to ever see new information about.
Notwithstanding my other response advocating "pages for everyone!" this would make the random page function less interesting, and a notability filter would be good there. A tag filter (positive and negative) would be cool too.
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I'm FAR more frightened of being t-boned by a drunk driver than of big brother taking control of my car. Honestly can't tell if you are trolling or serious.
This is the case at least with apps from Mac App Store. Safari uses WebKit2 which is a private framework. If you want to ship your app on Mac App Store you have to use WebKit1 which does not support split-process model. Flags that enable GPU accelerated compositing are also private on Lion.
When given the option to choose who to trust, the vast majority of users will stay with the defaults, which are chosen by Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla. That's not fundamentally different from what's currently in place.

Tack is much more interesting. I'm too sleepy to fully understand the proposal, but what I've gathered so far looks promising.
Send them over. I’m sure the Wikimedia foundation would be glad to have them: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings

Edit: From the Wikimedia Foundation’s “2011–2012 Annual Plan”:

> 2011-12 Risks:

> 1) Editor decline is an intractable problem. Declining participation is by far the most serious problem facing the Wikimedia projects: the success of the projects
is entirely dependent upon a thriving, healthy editing community. We are responding with a multi-faceted approach that blends big obvious fixes (e.g., Visual Editor) with more experimental approaches (e.g., the -1 to 100 retention projects and editor recruitment initiatives in India and Brazil). The WMF is also putting resources towards expanding community awareness and understanding of the problem, and putting in place mechanisms for decentralized community innovation so that community initiatives can help to solve it. We will be tracking progress throughout the year, and if necessary will sacrifice other activities to increase resources dedicated to this. [...]

> 9) A shortage of Silicon Valley technical talent hurts our ability to
recruit and retain technical staff. The Bay Area is currently facing a major shortage of talented engineers, and tech companies are finding it
difficult to hire and retain good tech staff. This could impair our ability to grow our tech staff as planned from 28 to 50. Mitigation: Like the rest of the tech sector, there is not much we can do to mitigate this serious problem. However, we will dedicate more resources towards technical recruitment in 2011-12 compared with 2010-11, and we'll be very clear about our value proposition: The Wikimedia Foundation is not about monetizing eyeballs, our direction isn't set by VCs, and we're financially stable. We offer a fair, friendly, fun environment for talented engineers who want their individual contribution to result in making the world a better place for hundreds of millions of people. [...]

> THE 2011-12 PLAN [...]

> Key activities supporting Priority #2, Diversifying the Editor Community are:

> 1) Visual Editor: A new default editing environment for Wikimedia projects which does not require markup. [...]

> 2011-12 Plan Targets [...]

> 5) Develop Visual Editor. First opt-in user-facing production usage by December 2011, and first small wiki default deployment by June 2012. [...]

> The 2011-12 plan reflects our continued desire to grow the organization's programmatic capacity by growing its staff, with an emphasis on thoughtful recruitment and integration of new people. In 2011-12, we plan to grow staff 50% from 78 to 117.
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Because theres no way anyone spent more than 10 minutes fact checking and verifying the page on your neighbor's dog. And if it has your neighbor's dog it has other people's neighbor's dogs. So now every page you have to distinguish between actual curated, "trusted" content and some guy posting about his friend.

> Plus, as long as they maintain the "no original research" rule and the citation requirement, this isn't even a potential problem.

Thousands of articles are published everyday. Its not difficult to get in one. So and so got an honorable mention at the town's local pet show.
Reddit still decided to be judge and jury regarding certain subreddits in order to counter the negative publicity they were feeling from the general public. There are far more worse subreddits, in my opinion, that still are online / that weren't removed. It's fairly disingenuous to state their stance as is when in fact it's not that way at all.
That is a very good reason not to donate. I wonder if there is an organized campaign to fix the overzealous deletion problem (by changing the "notability" policy), to boycott as long as it remains and pledge to donate if it is changed to a more objective policy.
All OSs have problems. And if you add third party drivers, external services, peripherals, etc, exponentially more problems.

The reasons I use Mac (and lots of people too perhaps) is not because they don't have problems, but because:

1) It doesn't annoy me with 200 popups, update this, approve that, USB connected, etc.

2) It doesn't require me to run a performance hogging antivirus (I know the arguments: Macs can get a virus just as well as, etc. Until that _actually_ happens as often as it did in Windows circa 2000, instead of mere lame trojans that I have to work to install I won't bother. Do people run antiviruses on Linux?).

3) It doesn't come with horrible, horrible, horrible, OEM software.

4) It doesn't look like it was designed by a 17 year old Star Trek fan geek with no design sense (Metro is better of course).

5) It doesn't have 20 year old widgets that still haunt users today. If you ever run some apps with statically linked (I guess) Windows 98 looking "save file" dialogs and such, you know what I mean.

6) It has a UNIX underneath, and I'm a CS (and Linux user for work).

7) It can run professional, top of the line, multimedia apps (which I uses professionally and as a hobby) whereas Linux can't: Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, Logic, Cubase, Waves, Komplete, et al.

8) 95% of the stuff "just works" without fiddling. Never happened to me on Windows or on Linux (starting from RedHat Linux 5 --circa 1998-- to Ubuntu 12.04).
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Wait, what? No stoplights and ice on the road - that's like 1/3 of the year here in Finland. All you have to do is adjust to the environment and you are able to get from a place to another.
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>I am considering it entirely rationally. I believe that we should be investing more money into research that could save 30,000 lives every year.

With like $10,000,000 dollars for drugs and some infrastructure we could save FAR MORE than 30,000 people every year in impoverished countries.

And with not doing stuff like the BS Iraq embargo, we could save around 500,000 lives.

Just a quick comparison...
I'd like a reference on that because it seems completely implausible, and would make recycling almost anything impossible because glue is used everywhere, on tape bits to hold cables in place etc.

And if the batteries has to be glue free, then practically all laptop and cell phone batteries can't be recycled because the plastic battery case is glued together.
Some printer drivers install Helvetica, usually badly hinted (I'm looking at you, HP).
Reading this story, its interesting how similar Texas and some places in middle east can be. Dust, deserts, oil, lots of guns, and... fanatics (to avoid calling them fundamentalists).
Then you'll love the MS AutoCar 2020.

It has a top of the line electronic routing OS, designed by Visual Basic veterans.
There are some nice examples at:

http://neatline.org/neatline-in-action/

The open source software relies on another framework called Omeka http://omeka.org and neatline is a set of plugins for Omeka. It seems quite nice and I'm curious of what people will do with this space/time representation. It looks like a SIMILE timeline Widgets[1] on steroids.

[1] http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
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The quotes might seem like a good idea but they're actually just obtrusive.
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Some years ago I cleaned up some random biology article vandalized with lots of not-even-subtle profanity. It was immediately reverted by some editor and I had to insist that he reads my modification to get it approved.

It was the last time I tried to edit anything in WP, as I always had this kind of problem.

I read it a lot like anyone else and donate small money every year but each time I read about the behind the scene, I'm appalled.
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https://bitbucket.org/pypy/lang-scheme I think it predates the JIT days though, so a bit of work would be required to make it fast (not too much)
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You can call 911 even if you don't pay for cell service. We gave my grandmother an old, deactivated cell phone just for that purpose.

"The FCC's basic 911 rules require wireless service providers to transmit all 911 calls to a PSAP, regardless of whether the caller subscribes to the provider’s service or not." http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-911-services/

Doesn't cover calling a tow truck, AAA, or a friend or relative to come pick you up. But if you only use the phone for real life-threatening emergencies, you don't have to pay.
>"All eligible products" is a key, the new iPad with its glued in battery is not among them.

True, but OTOH, then can't go back in time and change it's design now that they decided to go back with EPEAT, can they?

>It's like bragging you made your automobile frame out of solid titanium with a carbon fiber shell, but ignoring the fact that you built the engine without any way to change the oil, so you're going to be throwing it out or sending it in for major costly service after a short time

Yes, if we ignore the fact that for the analogy to work:

1) Most people would not ever have the oil in their cars changed.

2) The car runs fine without an oil change for as many --or even more-- years as others cars that do permit oil change.

Buying a MBP Retina now, with Apple warranty repairs and/or Apple Care, you get as many years as you would use any Dell or IBM or other laptop.

Maybe some people would like to update RAM and HD and use them for 1-2 more years, but how many are those people? Judging from the giant success of Apple retail stores and the relative obscurity of iFixit and such sites/services, not that many.
Remember that most of the world hasnt even adopted automatic transmission because people like to have full control over their cars and that technology is decades old.
If streets will prove themselves much safer with self-driving cars, speed limits could be safely increased.
It is like he is avoid saying this is going to be a twitter clone but keeps advertisers out by charging a small fee for access.

If he could reproduce the twitter API so it would be easy to switch any current twitter client, I say go for it.
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Well, there is another option: Have an open software and hardware phone that you know what it does and how it does it when you want it.

Eventually it will happen.