skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interpreted it the other way around, it's easy to get mixed up when subjects are sensitive. He's not trying a deductive argument (which would be trivially defeated by pointing to, off the top of my head, Perelman, and many others one which you also tried), his approach is inductive. He's offering statements about reality as evidence which are consistent with the hypothesis that "black people are stupider on average". That hypothesis was also made and argued pre- and post-civil war in America, along with the prediction that subjecting the freed slaves to the economic slavery of the north was a worse fate because it was possible to work full-time and still not be able to afford adequate living, something we also see more clearly in east-Asian sweat shops today but also more subtly (i.e. the actual conditions are better but real choices and freedoms are nonexistent) all around America.

Another approach to having a useful discussion is "What would the world look like if 'black people are stupider on average' was true, and if it was false?"

Of course his post wasn't careful enough since you still misinterpreted it, it's even possible I misinterpreted as well, but even if I'm wrong I consider my reading more charitable and if you seek a discussion it's better to pick the more charitable one given alternatives.

Of course, you could just flame him as others are doing. Might be better to just downvote and ignore (as many are as well).
"Don't waste time on stupid shit."

I'm 46 now, and there are so many things I wanted to do with my life that I don't think I can start now. Some I have tried anyway; banjo, bass guitar; but some I think are going to be forever gone.
UK judge rules Apple must publicly admit Samsung did not copy iPad design
23 now. I'd tell my 15 year old self to just commit suicide already because it doesn't get any better.
I know it's not what you meant but http://www.calcresult.com/reference/development/CSS-syntax-t... :)
Why not type: ama <tab> = search amazon in chrome
Advice for startup pitches: Pitch the future while building for now
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-77.636042,166.41785&spn...

Is that a dead penguin on the table?
Nope. Every single photo had the description above it, including that one. "A more head-on view." Nor is the "head-on" photo random at all.

The "guy holding iPad awkwardly" photo only seems random if you don't recognize it, though. It was (apparently) the model for the "in use" diagram Apple put in their design patent. http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889
To be fair, you don't need to click around with Firefox's search bar. If you create a bookmark with a keyword, then typing the keyword on the main bar loads the website, and if you put an %s somewhere in that bookmark's url, you can then use it much like a bang, e.g.

newegg ATI HD4200

That said, I can perfectly understand why you don't want to waste the time to set them up if someone has already done it for you.
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EBay Inc. Reports Strong Second Quarter 2012 Results
Stop wasting your time in school and build a website for people to "poke" each other. Name it... Facebook.
Yes, it's easy to verify. Just look at the top slot of the front page.
Operation Plumbbob, troops in front of an exploding nuclear bomb (@2:50): http://youtu.be/7mV0Lt2PUjI?t=2m50s

Tactical nuclear artillery being fired (@0:50): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46GBjlUOROY&feature=relat...
I have a Sony Vaio Z-series. I really like it, but it's rather expensive.

Also, it comes with a weird dock thing that has an external graphics card. Ideally, you would plug this in and have better graphics processing when you're at home. I haven't been able to get this to work on Linux. However, I haven't been able to get it to work on Windows 8 either :/.

So for me, the whole dock thing is just an overpriced external dvd drive. I really like the idea of having an external graphics card like that, but the implementation just isn't great.

Out of all the laptops I've read about online, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon[1] really stands out. If I was looking for a new one, that's probably what I'd get. I'm not sure how well it supports Linux, but it just seems really awesome.

[1]: http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x...
Opinion: What signal is Marissa Mayer giving to Yahoo employees?
I've been using various ORMs for the last 6 years (Django ORM, SQLAlchemy and EntitySpaces are the ones at the top of my head) and only in very rare occasions I've had to write my own SQL code to cover a case the ORM wouldn't cover.

A big issue nobody is addressing here is that using "pure SQL" requires you to use crappy data structures (say, a dictionary, "associative array" or, most likely, a simple array in languages like C/C++) to access and push the data. So, instead of having something simple like:

user = User.objects.get(username='ecopoesis')
...
# 100 lines of business logic that uses the 'user' object.
# Methods like 'set_password' that calculates a hash of a
# password and stores it in the object make my life much easier
# by keeping the logic close to the data.
...
user.save()

I first have to go through a bunch of boilerplate to read the data, put it in some easy-to-use container where I can keep my logic tied to the data, and then construct an SQL statement by concatenating strings.
Save everything! I still cannot believe I don't have the full backup from my BBS and that I threw away my Entex Adventure Vision....
He didn't say that.

He was quoting a pogo comic:

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Pogo_-_Earth_D...

Not "We have met the enemy and he is U.S."
While I'm not in any standing to argue with you here, I'm wondering if the heart disease rise is with the same people that actually reduced fat intake. It's one thing to say SOME reduced fat intake, and SOME increased heart disease rates, but it's quite another to say those 2 sets of "SOME" are the same, or even overlapping.

Have these studies actually shown that those that DO decrease fat intake show no improvement in heart disease? (The answer may be "yes"; but I haven't heart that stated here; only averages.)
Something about this number is just mind boggling if correct. I mean AWS S3 as of April was announcing 905 Billion, but 4 TRILLION?
Not solved by any means, but there is typically only one GC-related paper per top-tier PL conference such as PLDI or ICFP these days. Many more GC results, particularly for more actively developed systems where the changes tend to be incremental, are published at either ISMM (International Symposium on Memory Management) or MSPC (Memory Systems Performance and Correctness).
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The site looks great Josh. The only comment I have is the graphic styles of the 3 images of the carousel are quite different from one another. The first image, with different types of devices and a transparent background works best methinks (also, on the free samples image, some of the text is distorted, which makes me a sad panda!)
Exactly and a boat only 'floats' because it holds out the water and thus establishes a pressure differential. If you could put one of these things in a vacuum chamber, then put a seal around the outside of it, and then take it out, it would float. Except what it would really do is compress. And from the article it looks like it would compress to a size which put it into the 3 - 5 mg/cc range if not higher.

That said, in Neal Stephenson's diamond age they used vacuum balloons as a floatation device. something that I hope we can build at some point.
I think you're both right?

Legally, 'not guilty' is not equivalent to 'innocent'.

That being said, the sales injunctions that Samsung occured were a clear case of damages as result of a case for which Samsung was not found guilty; thus, its fair for Samsung to receive compensation.
> Beyond that if it sparked discussion that either spurred the uncovering of real data or identified the requirement of further considerations, it's still of value.

Which it didn't. We're not going to get better data until Google releases it, and Google is clearly not going to be doing so.

It most certainly did spark discussion – I'd point out, somewhat ironically that you've been involved in one of them yourself – but there were a number of other replies. Some of which (mine included) addressed the data issue head-on.

> But, more fully, anecdotes aren't speculation.
This claim would be okay if the anecdote was offered in a neutral environment.

There is no such thing as a neutral environment, so your premise fails from the start.

And, no, hits to a web page or unique visitor counts are not tantamount to real usage figures for a social media site. So the analogy to a TIOBE survey breaks down as well.

I disagree that they are useful here.

Well...

I said, explicitly that I was addressing the larger point of the other poster asking "Why is there the need to respond to data with anecdotes?" I started directly by pointing out the failing of "data" in this case – I find it to be an over-played trope to always say "anecdote BAD!" and yet people fall all over themselves if someone puts a shitty graph or table up, not stoping to consider what the "data" means and what possible failings it might have.

And that led me directly to the value of anecdotes in general terms – something you now say you agree with, so we'll call that point made.

Given that we agree about the general value, I think it's clear that in the face of crappy, blindly accepted data, a mere (and admittedly weak) piece of anecdotal observation does, in fact, point out that the emperor has no clothes – the data pointed to here is very, very lacking. The anecdote was weak, but sufficient for what should have been an obvious task of poking holes in questionable data.

Instead, you prove my point by digging in your heels even more because someone tossed out an anecdote.
I'm glad to see people talking about this. I get that it's somewhat scary to depend on a third-party site for authentication to yours, but it seems like that tradeoff is more than worth it given how difficult it is to implement secure login. I've always thought that it's most important to spend time building features core to your product that differentiate it from others, and login is rarely one of those.

Also, we put a lot of effort into not just login security (keeping bad guys out) but also account recovery (letting good guys in), which is even more often overlooked. (I work on the team that builds login at Facebook).
As the saying goes (roughly): "correlation doesn't equal causation, but it's a good place to start looking".

Are cancer incidence rates higher among those around nuclear explosions? Yes. http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/health-effects/rad-ex...

Is there a plausible mechanism by which radiation exposure leads to cancer? yes. http://hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ohre/roadmap/achre/intro_...

These two facts greatly increase the probability of linkage.
That's not what steal means.
He said freedoms, not views.
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For a security conscious user, probably. For the regular user, I'd say it's way, way more probable that their PC is infested with email stealing malware than their mobile provider selling the SMS or someone using GSM sniffing equipment.
"...its just that modern political correctness has taught you that it's ok to discriminate based on race as long as it isn't favoring whites."

That's because white men have less barriers to... well everything.
You don't need to be a billionaire or a boddhisattva, just live a simple life and be of service to others. A man is paid in proportion to the value he creates for society. The best way to help humanity's precarious situation is working on yourself first and doing work that inspires others to do the same. No lasting change can happen unless it starts within, no lasting happiness is possible unless it starts within. Fulfillment comes from within, not from external things.

Sex, drugs and rock n' roll is all fun until you realize the emptiness inherent in all of it. Freedom, love, truth, and peace are more than just flowery overused words; they are all that matter in the end. Make these values the pillars of your life and all else will fall into place.

Never stop asking questions. Never. Challenge every institution and learn where you really stand, not where others would like for you stand. Shine your unique brilliance unto this world and take no ownership over what you accomplish, everything is a group effort.

Help out around the house a lot more, you are not a king.
Oh, Canada.
College Degrees, Designed by the Numbers: Data Mining Comes to Student Life
You wouldn't think there were many people that didn't know smoking is bad for you - but it doesn't stop the govt spending millions telling you!

It's still worth advertising that there is a fast/safe/easy cycle route between A-B.

The city here (N. America) does a good (well cheap) job of marking certain streets as preferred cycle routes. These are normally one block off the main traffic street and mean that all the cyclists are concentrated together into a sufficent mass that they dominate the road and drivers know to be more carefull.
/r/nofap
Macro-level features have been mapped for a while, but even from earth orbit (Hubble) it's not possible to resolve features at high resolution. I'm not sure what the precise limits are, but according to one photo (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_HST_Mollweide_ma...), Hubble's imaging of Mars is at a resolution of approximately 20 km/pixel, which is several orders of magnitude too low to resolve the "hole" here, which is <100m.

Since 2006, there's been a high-resolution camera platform orbiting Mars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiRISE), and it's doing this high-res imaging, at up to 30cm/pixel (!), for the first time. Though Wikipedia says that as of 2010, it's only mapped 1% of Mars's surface to that degree.
I think most parents don't tell that to their children because it's so demoralizing. How do you feel when someone tells you that everything you care about is meaningless? When I've heard that, it makes my life feel meaningless, like I should just give up now.

The rest is directly countered by teachers and classmates in public school. You're told you can't do things until you're older, and mistakes and differences are punished.
Fiction Meets Reality
Bonuses aren't just rewarded for making a profit.

Let's say a company like RIM is losing $500M/yr. If they hire a new CEO who comes in and reduces that to a lose of $10M/yr, should he get a bonus?
YouTube Introduces Face-Blurring Tool
Ask HN: Play Snake On YouTube?
I was watching a YouTube video and half way through the video, I had some lag. I just happened to hit my arrow button (I'm one of those that keeps clicking) and it unfolded into a snake. I kept pressing the arrows and it kept moving. Then, the little pellet appeared and I ate it.

How long has this been going on?

It's an awesome little easter egg.
I think that for a conventional GC it's mostly dependent on how much time you have and what properties you want, that's mostly an engineering problem. Remember that academia worked on GCs way before mainstream languages. From what I understand the "experimental" languages are playing with region-based allocation for now.
I appreciate the sentiment of OP's article, but I (slightly) disagree.

Many of my closest friends are not successful, in the conventional sense of the world. They coast through college and float through life. Smoking weed and drinking are their past times.

But you know what, they're my closest friends. They don't hang out with me because I can help them with business or earn them money. They ask me for life advice, not business advice. They don't give a shit about traffic to websites, they care about how many people they can get to laugh at a joke.

They're rooted in the real world, not the tech world. They understand people way more than they understand technology, and I think many of us here on HN could use a dose of that.

So while it is admirable and refreshing to surround yourself with smart and ambitious people, let's not lose sight of our roots and the beauty of loving people for no other reason than that they bring us happiness.
I used https. Encrypted secrets go over the wire. Easier than OAuth for the programmer, as long as you can spare the overhead for the SSL handshakes.
The disgusting stench of moochers, as you so delightfully put it, by which I am guessing you mean the unemployed, is largely the end result of the automation of production starting with the agricultural revolution, and not a creation of the welfare state, which is merely a societal bulwark against violence by people who think, probably correctly, that bored people are very dangerous when they get hungry, so you either lock em up, or make sure they get fed.

Personally I would pay everyone dole, unless they really don't want it. Call it a national dividend and make it a function of GDP per person. No chance then of a benefit trap, and an incentive to work on things that benefit the wealth of all.

Also, on paper, as far as I can tell, it would cost roughly the same as the current system anyway, seeing as, at least in the UK, the bureaucracy of organising the benefits system costs multiple times the amount actually paid out in benefits.

Plus, the UK benefits system actually underpays, on average, when you sum the figures of accidental underpayments vs accidental overpayments and outright fraud, so there are actually more people not receiving benefits they are legally entitled to than there are people involved in illegally obtaining them.

Now cheer up and learn to mooch a little. You are obviously working far too hard, on stuff you don't enjoy that is making you angry as hell, and in this day and age, you don't really need to. Sorry for suggesting you should stay indoors, go live on a beach and make kites for a summer while drunk or something like that instead. You owe it to yourself.
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They haven't really had that many CEOs, and Mayer is young enough to weather anything that might happen. I can't imagine she isn't going into this without an upper hand, It's not like she was looking to jump ship (maybe she was) and Yahoo was the only company who would hire her.
I don't think you're actually reading the words that you're responding to. Saying that "[s]tatistically, white men have a higher chance at being well...everything," does not, in any way, assume "that white people cannot possibly be poor and that black women cannot possibly be rich"

Saying that white men have a better chance of being rich does not imply that white men are never poor.

>That's the problem with statistics - they work on large masses and derive means, medians and modes.

Great lesson, but if what you're saying is that poor people are disadvantaged, the statistics back that up, too. Both of these statements are true:

1) Black people are disadvantaged

2) Poor people are disadvantaged

These are separate problems. A black individual making $60,000 a year still has fewer privileges than a white person making the same.

Maybe you don't think it's as dire a problem as the poor/non-poor problem, but so what? They are still doing something positive. Maybe I think their resources would be better applied to some other problem, but unless I'm going to volunteer to fix it myself, I'll leave them to their work.
The opportunity cost of wages not earned is not the proper tool with which to measure the amount of benefit your time provides to yourself and other humans.
You could email and ask. I'm guessing they got it through a FOIA request. http://archive.org/ hosts a lot of public domain gov't videos too.
Metro does feel half-baked. Features I expect to be able to use are just not there.

It is the kind of frustration I feel trying to use Android for anything serious.

A bit like having one hand tied behind my back.
For the HTTP/2.0 discussion there was here earlier:

A way to continue an interrupted file upload.

Because POST variable are sent in order, if you put the file first and the other variables after, the server never sees them if the file was interrupted. So when I code a form I always put the hidden ones first so at least I can give a useful error message (since I know what the user was trying to do).

It would be better to decouple them and upload the files and the rest of the variables separately.
Your browser probably shrunk the image he linked so that it fit. Try clicking for full size.
Having been this low myself, I can tell you that it can always get better, but fundamentally you have to want it to.
Ah, OK, I see what you're saying.
yes, but on your contact lenses.
Teach logic by writing your own Fighting Fantasy in HTML5 based editor
I'd like to see Braun try to form a cohesive argument as to how the iMac was damaging the sales of their boxy speaker on a stand.
> Legally, 'not guilty' is not equivalent to 'innocent'.

hmmm... if "innocent until proven guilty" holds true, then you remain innocent until you have been found guilty. If at the end of trial you have been found "not guilty" then you have not been found guilty, therefore are innocent.
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It's looking like the iPad was prototyped out as a full-screen touchscreen ~4 years before the iPhone ever came out.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/earliest-known-ph...

So it is slightly possible that both companies came to the same conclusion independently. It has happened before.
Actually it looks to me like it's only for iPhone design.
Again, it's all perspective. iPads just work, closed game consoles just work. Linux can just work (until the next update) but a lot of the time it doesn't.

And that's just the way I like it, because in the end (for me), its the only OS I can configure to such a degree that it lets me "just work".
Recyclers disagree on impact of glued-in Retina MacBook Pro batteries
The argument is intentionally silly to point out how it's a silly argument in the other direction as well.

Nothing gets designed in a vacuum. If you google around a bit you can find flatscreen tv's from 2002 that look like big ipads, well before apple started designing their tablets. Watt didn't invent the steam engine, he just had a really good idea how someone else's steam engine could be improved while repairing it. Bosch didn't invent electric ignition for cars, he just transplanted the idea from Volta's glass pistol, whose spark in turn was delivered by Volta's "pile" (battery), the idea of which was inspired by Volta's friend who noticed that when he dissected frogs sometimes the frog's legs would jump right off the plate by the generated currents from the scalpel interacting with the metal base. The iphone and ipad are brilliantly executed, but to pretend that they were invented in a vacuum does a disservice to designers and inventors everywhere.

But just as Apple are being silly by pretending they design in a vacuum, Samsung are silly for pretending they didn't rip off the iphone. I think they would have sold more phones if they hadn't actually (I know for me it was a reason not to get a samsung phone, even though I eventually did.) I think the silliness on both sides is why the courts are starting to hand down these silly rulings.
This sounds like one of Peter Thiel's big secrets.

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/22866240816/peter-thiels...
Exactly, the women in my life like it, but it makes me very anxious. I certainly appreciate it but I can only watch in small doses as it's just super tense.
Dropbox has an API that will (theoretically) let you do this, but there hasn't been a ton of people jumping up and implementing it yet. It'll be cool when it shows up.
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