skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure you do understand. The point is rather, "yes, it is rude and aggressively forward. Added onto that, the fact that someone felt free to do it, is sexism. And, the global environment that it creates is also sexism."

It is a sexist request in the sense that it was constructed by, and constructs, sexism. It does not directly oppress anyone, that is true -- but that is irrelevant, because that isn't the only mechanism of sexism (and isn't even the dominant mechanism).
Foursquare lets you try out API calls that require authentication without leaving the documentation page. They use the correct permission for your user ID so you can see exactly what a logged in user will get back.
That's certainly true, but I'd say most seasoned users on reddit don't subscribe to much of what's on default front page. The default reddits (funny, pics, f7, atheism, politics, etc) are basically as you describe. Rehashed memes and populist statements.

Anyone who's been on reddit long enough has a front page of all the sub communities they follow, and probably only a couple of the defaults.

The pop-culture types get the pop stuff and the veterans get the small, focused culture, so everyone's mostly satisfied.

When one community starts becoming watered down, someone will usually start a new subreddit, rather than go to a new site altogether.

Altogether, I think these will give reddit better longevity than slashdot/digg.
Foursquare lets you try out API calls that require authentication with even leaving the documentation page. They use the correct permission for your user ID so you can see exactly what you will get back for a logged in user.
The prevailing moral judgement is that excluding people from a group because of inflexible factors (like gender) is a bad thing.

Because its a moral judgment, we can assume that even if monocultures are functionally superior with regards to performance we still will prefer a diverse culture for the intangible benefit of 'good ethics'.
As a long time Obj-C/iOS dev, web service interaction frameworks and/or best practices have been lacking for some time now. While RestKit works, it's learning curve is a tad steep and the sheer size of it can be a tad frightening in terms of 3rd party component reliance. If AFIncrementalStore is as great to work with as AFNetworking itself devs may have found themselves a new standard.
If you still start your car when it's cold, you've never lived anywhere that gets really cold.

(Starting your car at -55C is not a good idea, even when it has >300W of heaters keeping it warm.)
In the post-Jobs era I think we'll see more of this. Jobs was the face of Apple and he can't be replaced in that role. Going forward the best they can do is put other faces out there and let them be authentic and true to themselves in the process. Even when Jobs was being a huge jerk you could at least appreciate he was being authentic. People appreciate authenticity.
As the story goes, when John Shepherd-Barron[1] was working on the original ATM system, he originally planned 6 digits, but reduced it to 4 because his wife wasn't able to consistently recall a 6 digit random number.

If true (and it sounds at least plausible), then the sheer number of legacy devices that expect a 4 digit PIN (including hardware crypto modules, which cost an absolute fortune to design and verify)

And, of course, a numeric keypad is much smaller and easier to design around than a full qwerty (and probably internationalises better as well)

The Cambridge Uni security group have a nice paper on PIN security in more detail, if you're interested[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shepherd-Barron

[2] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jcb82/doc/BPA12-FC-banking_pin_secu...
http://theinternetwishlist.com/ sort of fits the bill...
Nice and beautiful site, but really for beginners. I wonder how difficult it would be to make this guide more interactive by allowing users to modify/play around with code. May be I am a little spoiled by CodeSchool.
The same happens to virtually anything that becomes wildly popular. Hell, here on HN there are fairly frequent complaints about newer users.

I'm not disputing that there are folks who treat a brand choice as a religious issue. Not one bit. I'm disputing that it's somehow unique to Apple fans.
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> If I copy an mp3, the record label and artist aren't deprived of anything.

Was the point I was disagreeing with. (Especially as we're being pedantic about the legal issues).
Guess I will be the first one to admit that I have no idea about Digg's development versions.

So the question is: What was the big deal with v4?
>I'll bite too: state that theorem as its inverse and dare to argue for it: Demographic uniformity is a good thing.

Ok, I'll dare: per the mythical man month, the biggest factor limiting the success of programming teams is communication. A demographicly uniform team can communicate more effectively with each other (due to having a larger shared vocabulary of common experiences) and this reduced communication overhead greatly increases their productivity.

>If there were something keeping women out of the community, you'd want to fix it. Right?

This metrics vs. data thing is precisely why hearing people go on about the lack of women in programming makes me nervous. It reminds me of my manager going on about how our unit test coverage is only 60% and why isn't it 70%; if you define low test coverage as the problem rather than the symptom, we could easily write some terrible tests that would increase the coverage but make our codebase worse.

So likewise, if you start thinking about "only 4% of open source developers are women" as a problem /in itself/, it's very easy to jump from there to doing something that increases the number of women in open source, while actually making things worse (e.g. "let's offer a load of bursaries for female CS undergrads to work on open source projects"; quick, easy, increases that percentage, but could quite possibly backfire by giving women in open source a reputation for low-quality code - and more to the point, does absolutely nothing to address whatever actual problem you're referring to)
Having a todo is a nice thing but you still feel the need of something which can regularly remind you about your pending tasks, I think evernotify provides a very simple and elegant solution to this issue.
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Am I the only one who thinks that even though it made for a nice source of anecdotes and mystique, this part of Jobs' influence on Apple was actually not particularly relevant to Apple's success? Not everything he did was perfect.

I know some may consider it blasphemy, but I'm hoping certain aspects of Apple will improve now Jobs is gone, especially in the realm of open and honest communication.
Yes, I agree, Wall St. is predatory and misleading. To think an investment does not have some associated risk is ignorant. But there are different levels of risk. I'm still going to argue that there are fairly secure ways to be involved in "Wall Street" investments, as long as one is diversified, attentive, and cautious. Giving your entire retirement savings over to Wall Street is definitely too much of a gamble for most people, but giving over some fraction of it is usually a good idea. We participate in this economy every day. Why not invest in it, as long as we are prudent and cautious? It grows over the long term, and has done so for the last several decades, or even centuries.

Now, that does not mean that the economy will continue to grow, and that is where the risk is involved. But I choose to believe that, over the long term, on average, the world economy will continue to increase in value. I also believe that personally owning very small portions of it will increase my own net worth.
Yeah, that site isn't too bad. I wish it was a bit more complex, however, with sorting or filtering features! Thanks for the link, though!
We also just had our first independent feature film uploaded today. Very exciting!
I am extremely uncomfortable going to a .xxx tld anywhere but at home. Don't other people assume that anything .xxx is NSWF?
http://ww.reddit.com/r/tldr
Ah yes, the remarkably secure realm of mobile devices. Surely one can trust them implicitly.
If you cannot make this decision yourself you shouldn't be in this business.
>Anywhere you choose to put your money where the outcome is uncertain is gambling.

That would be everywhere.
Subreddits like /r/wicked_edge are pretty cut off from reddit proper, it really feels like a different place.
Actually, it's not glued with epoxy resin or something like that. The iFixit teardown shows them removing it with a spudger. Hardly a difficult job for recyclers.

Online parts shops are already selling replacement batteries and can even replace it for you if you don't want to send it to Apple. That's the reality of the situation, if you care to do some research.

I've replaced the battery on an iPhone 3GS (also glued in) and it's not a big deal.
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Yes. Totally agree. This was a very smart move made by Google, and it will be interesting to see how it affects the adoption rate of both Chrome and the Chromebook.
I don't think that assumption was being made. It seems more likely to me that the culprits don't care if the victim minds having her shoulder licked -- most likely, didn't even think about it.
I wonder if Apple will start using certificate pinning[1] (like chrome does for google certs).

[1]: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html
Nathan Dintenfass' nominee for worst article ever written about the Internet.
What's really interesting are the few gymnastic steps that the Nao cannot yet do, e.g. leaving both feet to a prone position and back up to its feet. That gap shows how the steps are fine-grain preprogrammed joint articulations. I would like to see the motion planning developed to the point where the robot is given gross trajectory targets and uses a self-awareness and self-balance mechanism to automatically supply the fine-grain joint articulations.
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Apple products avoid plastic. They are not "made to be obsolete in 2-3 years".

>I doubt they even fixed the old one I gave to them

They do. It's sold as refurbished.
I love being subscribed to /r/circlejerk -- sometimes it's hard to tell what stories on the front page are real and what are cj
Appreciate the feedback. Will make some edits to the post :) And I'll ping you to meet up sometime soon!
I think businesses face significant hurdles (and are likely to die) when the founders lose interest in running them. Digg. Twitter (Dorsey left but came back and saved it). Yahoo. Flickr. MySpace. The list is endless.

Even Microsoft is not the same since Bill Gates handed the reigns to Ballmer. They're just too big (Office/Windows cash cows) to actually die from that.

Founder disinterest is lethal.
Reddit home page is like that, but I still like some of the subreddits.
If you read the biography and came to that conclusion, then it's incredibly unfortunate because the opposite was true. Jobs surrounded himself with the best engineers and often flipped positions based on their arguments. If you read or hear any of his interviews, he always talks about the team and how foolish it is to think one person could do everything.
Apple sell refurbished iPads, as well as Macs, online. They also use the broken units for reconditioned parts.

'Environmentally friendly' != 'easy to open'. There is a lot more to it than that.
Surely paying a pen tester $5k

Can you get a pen tester for $5k? I'd have thought they could command higher rates
Hey, it worked for AOL. I do think they'd have better luck giving away free USB sticks preloaded with Chrome, but maybe the costs are still prohibitive at this scale.

[On second thought, there are some more issues to consider. In order for them to be useful rather than landfill, they'd have to be writable, but that would be a security nightmare. Imagine someone grabbing one, putting malware on it, and tossing it back in the basket. If they're non-writable, then the question becomes whether they can be manufactured as efficiently as CDs, and with a lesser long-term environmental impact.]
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Not my encrypted messages.
OTOH when we keep hearing about the hacks, it's always something stupid. They are making amateur mistakes, so it's no suprise that they keep getting hacked.
Uh... picture subreddits are 75% of reddit's frontpage traffic and my little startup thinks that there are better ways of browsing pictures than a long list of thumbnails where the title is even larger than the thumbnail preview.
Good conversion metrics info especially related to AngelList. I liked the idea of spacing articles over the course of the round in credible news organizations and industry blogs. I am a little skeptical about "Top tier investors are less focused on social proof". May be that had something to do with the stellar reputation of YC.
If the money were funding a payday loan shop, that's the kind of interest rate they charge to their customers.

ie, take in money via Bitcoin, loan out dollars to poor people as payday loans at very high rapidly compounding interest rate, pay somewhat smaller interest rate to Bitcoin funders.
I have never understood why buying tampons or pads was considered embarrassing, for either men or women. It's like being embarrassed because you're buying toilet paper, or kleenex, or condoms, or bandaids.

Maybe it's awkward when you're a teenager, but once you're an adult?
It is quite sexist to think that women write software as women, is it not?. Talk about counterproductivity ...
Again, no.

If "no-one understands" a typical SRS'er, why do they have I-don't-even-know-how-many-now subreddits with healthy numbers?

If it exists solely for the purpose of venting (not a downvote brigade, wink wink, don't touch the poop!) and not for accomplishing anything else, then why do SRS'ers so often seem to be charging into other parts of reddit and getting into such dramatic arguments?

Finally, if you really just want a place to make fun of stupid crap? Try /r/worstof or /r/subredditdrama, both of which actually do that.
"But there's actually something that we can do: public shaming."

That's the key with Apple. Bad press is the ONLY time they respond. Anyone know Walt Mossberg?
I can buy that his convictions informed how and when Apple communicated with both customers and suppliers. His insistence on quality as he defined it certainly showed up in Apple's products and services. But I don't think it's the full story of how Apple achieved greatness, and his Indomitable Will hasn't always helped.

Apple plays business hardball as hard as anyone ever has, but that trait can be found in any b-school. Steve's twist on that is that he truly, personally despised the bozos and he'd freely break decorum to let them know it. His only interest was in Apple and, arguably, Apple's customers. Every other entity lower on the totem pole could expect rock pelting or the silent treatment at any time and for any reason. Antennagate was an example of this: no apologia was ever offered, customer concerns were treated with patronizing kid gloves, and internally the design team for iPhone 4 got their clocks cleaned over the issue.

"Fuck you" is costly, and I'm not sad to see less of it from Apple.
Yeah, someday maybe closer in the future than many think, the headline will be "driverless police car pulls over ..." - probably in a war zone.
The good thing about the AppStore password timing out after 15 minutes is that you can hand your child the ipad/iphone/etc. and not get a surprise $5,000 itunes bill.
This is a dangerous example of cargo culting. What is right for Apple is not always right for every startup on the planet.
Derivatives as in options/futures/swaps/even more exotic?

That is quite possibly the scariest financial product ever devised, assuming there was nobody putting together complex products based on Zimbabwean currency during their period of massive inflation.
<meta charset="utf-8" />

I’m gonna kill you for that. DO NOT MIX XHTML AND HTML5. (the former is a piece of shit.)
Hm, I tend to think Apple (or any company, really) is clever enough to foresee the obvious consequences of policy changes.

This is one of those. Apple knew that certain government agencies are required to purchase only EPEAT certified hardware. They knew they would lose that business. And they nevertheless decided for the change, knowing that consequence.

That leads me to think that Apple changed direction because of other consequences they did not expect and (apparently) could not predict, in this case the public outrage.
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They didn't make you do anything. You could have gone to a third party repair shop and bought a new screen (glass) for about $40 (first hit i found). If they had welded it together so there was no way to take it apart without destroying it, I'd agree with you. But that's not the case.
I do both iOS and Android and get a lot of interest from companies and recruiters. Except for one company, everyone is more interested in iOS skills. They'd love to have both but iOS is in bigger demand and higher shortage.
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Everything old is new again. But, this actually shows you how aggressive that Google wants to market this stuff. Google is Microsoft but is open source friendly. I will ride this wave for as long as it takes me :)
Only problem I have with AppStore is that it requires my password for free downloads. Paid download? Hell yes, require my password if I haven't typed it in for 15 minutes.
Are you saying that, for practical reasons, fraud cannot be effectively punished without more regulation than most libertarians would support? This is a coherent claim that may or may not be valid, but I would be interested to hear support of it rather than simple assertion.

On the other hand, if you are asserting that most libertarians oppose a court system in which people can (at least in principle) be tried and convicted when they commit fraud, then I think you are incorrect in your assessment of the position of most libertarians. Even anarcho-capitalists (per the wikipedia article) seem to view fraud as something that can be responded to with force - they just don't want it to be a "government" that does so.
Missing BMWs
A nasty vulnerability in new BMWs is enabling hackers to steal cars.
Most companies have "damage control" (PR) departments that move very quickly to respond to and contain any criticism before a story explodes.
Essentially for men - for lowest risk of heart disease your waistline should be less than .55 x your height.
"How is this possibly true? Nothing Apple makes can be easily opened, upgraded, or have their batteries replaced. "

It can be true if ease of opening and component swapping aren't the sole factors in determining the environmental impact of the devices.

"When my iPad screen cracked, they made me buy a new one (at discount) instead of fixing it. I doubt they even fixed the old one I gave to them - just discarded it. "

It was probably refurbished. Someone else is likely using it now. Though neither of us know for sure. At any rate, Apple's policy is to refurbish and resell damaged devices when possible, and they sell refurbished products directly in their online store.

"I own almost everything Apple makes. But they need to better explain how built-in obsolescence and impossible-to-fix devices equates to environmentally friendly."

Here is data from their website on your iPad, for example:

http://images.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/iPad2_Produ...

More here:

http://www.apple.com/environment/reports/

As far as them needing to explain how the factors you mentioned equate to being environmentally friendly, I think that that need rests on your assumption that those two factors are the most important ones. The fact that Apple is probably the biggest reseller of refurbished devices speaks to that point, but again, that question is so complex. An economist could probably write an award winning dissertation just trying to answer it.
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Windows 8 Mail leaves users pining for the desktop—or even their phones
The e-mail client in Windows 8 is the shell of a potentially good application—but Microsoft hasn't given it the proper care it deserves. With less than a month before Windows 8 hits RTM, Mail is a mess that doesn't support IMAP, can't connect to servers with self-signed certificates, and lacks basic features like flagging messages for followup. Metro Mail is feature-deficient compared not just to other desktop and tablet apps—it's behind Microsoft's own phone platform. Whether used on a tablet or desktop, this in-depth look concludes that Metro Mail in its current form will have users pining for a real desktop application.
The AVL tree is used for sorting when there is a custom comparison function because we cannot guarantee that the user-provided comparison function conforms to the requirements of the underlying standard library sort functions. Websites have a habit of providing nonsense comparison functions (e.g., using function() { return 0.5 - Math.random(); } to "shuffle" via sorting) and we need to ensure that these sorts will give terminate.

EDIT: Sparse mode is when JSC::JSArray switches from storing the array data as a vector to storing it in a map. You can see from the code at http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/JavaScriptCore/r... that a vector will be used for sufficiently small arrays (< 10,000 elements) and for larger arrays that are at least 12.5% full.
Does anyone know of any libraries or discussions about using these patterns with Django?
D's garbage collection is global, and either off or on (and a lot of D libraries leak memory like crazy if it is off, so in practice it has to be on most of the time)

Rust's per task GC seems like it should allow more flexibility, and I'm hoping it would be usable in the High Frequency Trading arena, for example.
I think realizing that .xxx domains are now available was one of the more useful results of me reading this article.
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My dad loves physical software -- downloading is confusing for him. This is a smart (and inexpensive) move for Google, one that I welcome with open arms, as any effort to get people to stop using anything below IE9 makes my life a whole lot easier
VEVO threatens to leave YouTube: Can they survive alone?
They should start mailing it out too. It reminds of this other company that mailed out CDs...
The problem is, a lot of smart people are on SO. I ant them to answer my non-objectively answerable, flamy question. I don't want a 16-year old script wiz to talk about differences between PowerShell and Unix Shell. And I want other visitors to be able to vote what they think is the better answer.

The only other forum I know that kinda matches this criteria is HN, which is far from ideal (it doesn't show you the votes, it usually doesn't show up in search, the discussions are active for less than 2 days and if you come here late, you won't be able to participate).

Looks like I want the same thing as StackOverlow, with a few minor differences... So, why not create another StackExchange forum (they already have 600 or so) JUST for these kinds of questions?

P.S: programmers.sta... is almost as bad as SO, regarding these kinds of questions.
This makes a heap of sense. BMI would consider a 200+ lb body builder obese, as much as an equally heavy 30+% body fat untrained man. This measure is much more accurate because it focuses on what really matters: how big your gut is in relation to your overall body structure.
You're saying this in a thread that was started by pg citing Google as an example of what is right.

Furthermore, YC is specifically looking for "the next Steve Jobs". I did not choose Apple as an example of what is right; they did. I merely pointed out that the advice re: design conflicted with what they claim to be looking for.
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