skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have your requirements analysis all mixed up here.

Legal logic isn't the same as mathematical logic. The goal isn't to "prove" a fact here, it's to "settle" the fact so that people can go on with their lives. The courts pick boolean logic as their basis. So yes, legally, it is proven that Samsung did not copy Apple, no matter how many fancy-pants math terms you throw at them.
There are 3 ways to respond to the critics of BlackGirlsCode:
1) The weakest response is to grow upset and say nothing
2) The average response will post a comment in defense of good sense
3) The best response is to take action. So hit this link up and give Black Girls Code a boost of support and morale http://www.blackgirlscode.com/help-us-grow.html

Finally, when PoorPeopleCode, WhiteBoysCode or Latina Hackathon call upon the Hacker News community for support, for the sake of whatever you believe in, GIVE BACK so that others can do what you do. It is NEVER about exclusion. The _meme_ is about recognizing "I'm blessed with talent, skill and experience so I help to pay it forward".

I just took the highest level of action by sending my gift of support of $100.

Don't just sit there shaking your head; do something!
Stop underestimating yourself.
If you really want to take the red pill, ask yourself why it took 40 years to gain acceptance, and then wonder if this process might be happening anywhere else.
Even if that other project is better?

I don't think Android's developers should feel super duper sad that they killed Meego's chances of rising from obscurity.
I've heard of instances where companies selling land require that property be developed within x-amount of years. I completely understand and respect different use cases for domains, but more often than not, it seems that most domain squatters aren't using their portfolio of domains for email, DNS, etc.
I don't really understand how come no-one was able to see it before... I don't know how it works, but since telescopes are looking for stars and stuff much more distant that mars, I was confident that they scanned the whole surface of neighbors planets decades ago... Some explanation?
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Well, that's one way of putting it.
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> A kick-starter that funds a group to guide writing of real actual best practise in software engineering - broken down into silos like realtime or web or os.

There are enough reasonable guides to writing better code (security and otherwise). How would this effort be different? And more importantly, why would Random J. Programmer go there if he didn't go to any of the previous ones?

A good answer for that will cause me to chip in (even though I'm not a fan of the "kickstart everything" craze)
There are two big evils in American lifestyles: hyper consumption of sugar, and lack of exercise.

Americans walk a fraction as much as their grandparents every day, and consume several times more sugar. Worse, we consume insane quantities of high fructose corn syrup and its variants.

In the 1970s the US Government massively subsidized corn crops, which led to the creation of high fructose corn syrup. It's no coincidence our obesity epidemic really exploded from roughly then forward.
Don't be complacent, either in work or in pleasure.
If I could talk to my younger self I would say: "All of the things that you care about are completely meaningless. The school assignments, girls, money for the weekend...none of it matters, not even a little bit. Gather knowledge on how to make things that help people. Start now and never stop."

This question leads to another...why don't people tell these things to their kids?

"You don't have to wait to grow up to do great things. Do something now."

"Embrace the mistakes. They eventually pay off."

"What makes you "different" makes you AMAZING!"

Parents NEVER say these things. Parents say "do your homework", "practice the piano", "be nice to your sister". If, god forbid, I ever have a child I will have a very difficult time resisting the urge to tell him or her what life is really about. If I knew then what I know now... how could I keep that same valuable knowledge from someone I care about?
Lots of people "cheer for Samsung" because of the abject horror of watching a company try to shut down competition like this based on near-nonsense intellectual properties. We look at Apple's behavior and picture our products in the firing line.

Frankly I don't care much at all about Samsung. But I'm glad as hell they won.
> Just because somebody is a white male does not devalue their point.

The people least affected by racism, both personally and systemically, absolutely have almost no value to their comments. How can they? In the US, white-ness is the norm. If you aren't white, you get treated differently automatically and people don't hesitate to call you racist when you try to do something to help people just like yourself.

> Moreover, you should really never judge an argument based on the person making it.

This is true, but when someone claims to have knowledge about a thing they cannot by definition experience, they should absolutely be called out on it. Also, talking over actual people of color to give a white opinion is erasing and serves to make those people, already hard to find in tech circles, even more invisible.
Great idea! It's about time someone tackles this properly... Love the design. Best of luck.
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I'm not saying Oracle would have done so, but up until very recently, CentOS refused to accept cash donations. Now they're re-evaluating the policy.
I run Fedora on a fairly new Toshiba laptop and the battery life is pretty good. I used it on a flight the other day, watching video for about an hour and twenty minutes, and the battery meter showed more than 50% remaining when I shut it down.

Maybe it doesn't match a MBP, but if I can get 3 hours or more out of a charge, I'm pretty happy. There aren't many times that I'm going to be away from power longer than that. Now someone who's flying coast-to-coast on a routine basis and needs to get all the productivity they can out of 6+ hour flight, may need something different.
One of the two authors of the post (Robert Krulwich) is also a co-host on a fantastic podcast called Radiolab. Their most recent episode is about this topic and they tell the story of a Japanese man that was in the blast radius at Hiroshima, went home to Nagasaki, injured, and was caught in the second explosion as well!

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/jul/16/doub...
Race isn't the only issue. Poverty/classism is also an issue. In some contexts poor white people are more privileged than poor black people, and in some cases less privileged than a rich (white or black or …) person. But race is an issue, so we should tackle it. And poverty is an issue, so we should tackle it.

For an example of benefits of being white in USA, have a look at this: http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html#daily
don't take anyone seriously. we are all jerks.
Can someone more versed with the British legal system explain the logic behind this? Coming from the perspective of an American it is a bit peculiar, but then again our own legal system isn't always rational. Just curious if this is common for a defendent to have to publish notices of case outcomes. I know there are a number of other consumer protection laws in the UK.

That or pointing to something like popehat that has overall analysis would be nice too. Law stories tend to make me feel like I'm a fish out of water, especially when they are from other countries. Given that I know a contract lawyer and have finally gotten to a basic understanding of how some of that law works I have a bit more understanding of how common perception of the law differs from actual practice.
I'm glad they didn't try to see what would happen if he stopped eating eggs. At the age of 88, and given that he has done this solidly for so very long, they could accidentally kill him by putting him on a more average diet.

What would be extremely interesting is studying any genetic factors and whether they could have possibly even drove him to eat this amount of eggs just to keep his cholesterol levels high, and also, conversely, whether there is any biochemical adaptation, especially anything that is unusual for his genetic makeup, that helps him retain this level of cholesterol consumption without getting ill, that could have resulted from long term exposure to his diet or other environmental factors.
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I find the China Study and Dr. Esselstyn's work to be far more interesting in regards to the results of a diet rich in the consumption of animal cholesterol and animal protein.
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Nah, I just think you're a douchebag and felt like being snarky.
> Who gives a crap about race or gender?

Bigots, for one. And beyond that, we all harbor subconscious biases that collectively act to disadvantage certain populations of people.

> Surely it would be better to organise something like PoorPeopleCode

Oh SURELY it would be BETTER. Are you actually physically sitting in a belfry made of ivory right now? Maybe that would be better, if someone had the resources and know-how to make it happen.

But back here in banal reality, how about a black woman starts BlackGirlsCode, and a Latin@ person starts LatinKidsCode, and so on, with each of them using their particular strengths and personal networks, each biting off and fixing a tiny little portion of admittedly larger problems?
Nutritional science is indeed a nightmare to deal with, especially to discuss.

People still won't believe me when I tell them that they should at the very least try reducing their carb intake. It's surely possible that Good Calories Bad Calories, and the various Intermittent Fasting / Primal proponents are there are full of crap and don't know what they're talking about, but it has at the very least worked for me.

I went from 25+% fat a couple of years ago to about 8% now, shooting for 6-7% soon, and I'm barely at the gym a couple of days a week (I do lift heavy though). There's nothing quite like being really happy with one's shape after years of being really uncomfortable.
I was confused by this as well - we still use fltk on some of our robot control stations.
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One to grow on.
“copying (or stealing as Jobs would say) is an inherent part of the creation process.”

The original quote, to put in context what Jobs was referring to:

“One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.”
—Philip Massinger

http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borro...

NB: Jobs mistakenly attributed it to Picasso, who never said such a thing. Jobs probably read Richardson’s biography of Picasso, in which the text is misquoted and attributed to T.S. Eliot.
What has really worked for my co-founder and me is to talk to potential customers. Basically, once we start asking questions, our potential customers inevitably start saying things like, "Well, we tried this company...." or "Have you heard about this other company...."

I think this yields great up-to-date information. Sometimes directories can be horribly out of date and irrelevant.
You can set any arbitrary size on a page (click the gear in the topleft corner of a page) and almost all of the widgets are suited for any prototype, mobile, desktop or anything else.
It could have been.
I haven't used Youtube ads personally. But I've seen how and when companies typically use them.

Mid sized companies do
1. Retargeting
2. Demographic based ads(especially location based)

Big companies do branding.

Retargeting:
If a user visits your website, you could ask google to add a tracking cookie to that visitor. You add additional information about that user like which stage of the funnel the user was in(eg., visited a product detail page, visited pricing page, went into checkout and dropped out, etc.). Based on this you could target a specific version of ad to that user, wherever he goes.

Most ads I see on Youtube are from companies that are in growth phase doing retargeting. Eg., Legalzoom, Zappos(and a few other e-com companies)

Demographic targeted ads:
I saw that the set of ads I'm being shown have been changing drastically based on my location. And the ads I see also are different for me vs my friends who are slightly older. They mostly get insurance ads while I get beer ads.

To re-iterate, all this is empirical observation, and I don't have a first hand experience about this. But hope this helped
The fact that you cite the Dunning–Kruger effect while providing no evidence, citations, or logical arguments in your OP is quite amazing.
‘You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.’ Jim Rohn

I see it backwardsly - the 5 people you spend time with are the ones most like my average. I'm not who I am because of my friends; they're my friends because of who I am. If I were willing to replace one of these 5 with another, I would still be me, but I would have a less-close friendship with that person.

This article seems to suggest we should all dump our current "go nowhere" friends and try to become PG's best friend (or friends with similarly accomplished humans). I counter with the Nash Equilibrium, that PG would exclude most of us, and we'd be stuck back at square one, having to be friends with plain-old each other.

The author himself whittled down his life to 2 other people. What a selfish and lonely life!
Someday Apple stock is going to be less than $5 a share. Buy lots of it and hold on to it until you have the ability to talk to your younger self. :)
More specific organizations targeting subsets of white people are common, though. For example, there are scholarship programs for Americans of Greek ancestry.

Lots this non-Anglos weren't considered white back in the day. JFK was asked if his being Catholic would hinder him.
This is a web forum not a dissertation. Do your own research.
Dell Inspiron here, was running Ubuntu 10.04 for two years and recently installed 12.04. It's the first time in the last 5-6 years I've been running Linux on various laptops that suspend actually works (out of the box at least).
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I live in Rochester NY, home of Eastman Kodak which is going through a bankruptcy, and looks like it may be coming out of it (probably will go back in it or get sold in my opinion).

I an not suggesting that Kodak's downfalls was due to management looting the company but we do see evidence of upper management grabbing all they can get. Just recently upper management asked for millions of dollars of bonuses (earmarked for upper management only) if Kodak successfully pays off its creditors. Bonuses use to be rewarded for turning a profit, apparently now you get rewarded for just paying your bills.
The broader approach matters if you already have got the basics covered, but sadly it seems that most people don't have the basics covered at all. Most of the hacks I read about are impressive not because of their ingenuity, but because of how depressingly mundane they are. SQL injection hacks are still commonplace.

So, no, let's keep raising awareness of the basics until finally everyone gets it. Then, once the OWASP top ten is filled with MITM, timing and social engineering attacks, that's when we can move on to the broader approach.
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Everyone can be a minority if they decide to, depending on how you cut the population.

Correct. But not all minorities have the same amount of power/wealth/prestigate/social stigma/advantages. "Minority" was originally a term to refer to some people. Don't take it too literally. It's not "minorities" per se that's bad, it's when one "minority" has much less power and advantages than the people who aren't in that minority.
If only keyboard manufacturers - especially laptop manufacturers - agreed on where to put modifier keys other than Shift. A small difference in locations can thwart your muscle memory.
I think your comment, why would J Random go there if he did not go to the others is the killer comment - ultimately programming either has a professional body to enforce this, or everyone learns to program a few years after they learn to read.
Then you wouldn't be required to withhold income tax for them because it isn't done in the united states and isnt effectively connected with the united states.

The 1042 and 1042s are withholding forms, but you'd still be required to file them. For informational purposes.
"Nah, I just think you're a douchebag and felt like being snarky."

I see you're an arrogant prick in addition to the mental midgetry. Don't forget to keep those defenses up in the future. Don't argue intelligently. Seek to marginalize your opponent. That'll make you feel better. :)
> Why can't I just get any computer with no operating system installed whatsoever.

This is illegal in many countries, as a computer isn't bootable in that situation.
I believe the reasoning was the same as the one that led to the mandatory seatbelt in cars.
This is not an either/or, black/white situation. It's not just A or B. There are lots of options here. Don't pretend there are only 2 options.
In VC mathematics, you always divide by the entire lifetime of the fund to calculate your rate of return, because there's no recycling allowed. You also got to factor in compound interest and management fees, so in Socialcam's case, this works out to about 3-4% return. Dan Shapiro explained it well here:

http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/08/vc-insanity-economics...

edit: calculating Socialcam's ROI
> Why can't I just get any computer with no operating system installed whatsoever.

Because it's a very small market. Not very many people want to buy something that they can't use out of the box.
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"The cake is a lie."

I'm not quite sure I would want to tell my younger self anything that may inevitably change the outcome of the future. We all knows what happens when people travel back in time, the future gets all screwed up. But if there was one thing, perhaps to not look for validation in what you're doing from other people who don't do what you do.
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Yep, there are lots of issues still, but I think
that Tel Aviv is actually a decent place to bike
(try not to get killed on the roads..) and
constantly improving.

Yes, if everyone you know also lives in the city (Tel Aviv only houses ~400k out of the >3m residents of Greater Tel Aviv, and anecdotaly most of the people I know there moved out to the suburbs by the time they turned ~30).

So I think it depends a lot on the kind of company you keep - in Vienna I only meet other people that are around my age/situation (20s-30s, mostly non-married with no kids) where as in Tel Aviv I'd have a lot of family living in nearby suburbia (almost all of my relatives live in greater Tel Aviv and they are all married with kids, which means they all drive).

I assume that would be exactly the opposite for you, assuming you are native to the German city you'd live in.

If I was living as an expat with no kids in Tel Aviv probably most of everyone I'd keep in touch with would also live in the city[1] & biking would be a lot more practical.

[1] And I didn't really mention that Israelis generally marry younger than (non-mediterranean) Europeans & much more likely to have kids & live in suburbia at/around my age (29).
A very unique fan tribute! I love that show. For some reason, my wife doesn't. I've wondered if Breaking Bad is a "guy" show ...
Likewise, never stop learning.
Two-factor auth is like installing an electronic lock on your front door that uses voice recognition and a chipped key. It's only a good idea if the door itself isn't made out of cardboard.
Love the name!

I'm curious, how do you differentiate yourself from Academia.edu ?
If you are distracted by the phone in a car at 70mph you have covered 32metres if you do the same on a bike like that women's - you have covered about 2 bike lengths!

ps Don't answer your phone in the pelaton at the start of a Tour de France stage!
When did being labeled an old linux guy become a pejorative? Asks the linux guy since 0.99pre...
This is the differentiation of OEMs at play here, they will just apply the same crapware they have been installing on Windows, on Linux as well.

If the OS and hardware are not from the same vendor, this is always bound to happen.
yeah that was the first thing I thought of as well.
The weather here's been in the 90's (fahrenheit) for the past month or two. It's hard not to sweat.
That's why you make it optional for your users.
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I guess the next question is, how do you find "potential customers"? :)
Great concept. This is something I would want in NYC. Lugging groceries on the train is a big hassle especially during rush hours and no seats. Driving to the city to get the freshest groceries is almost impossible. What's great about this is that you guys provide a recipe with the order! As a food lover, I'm always down to try new recipes and add it to dishes i would love to cook for family or friends
I'm pretty sure he stated, not implied, that "blacks" are untermenschen
The government (at least in the US) prefers RHEL more for consistency and accountability than anything. RHEL also has Red Hat standing behind it, which, for security, is important (as a read through the entire CentOS codebase would be cost-prohibitive).
Excluding people based on ethnicity is wrong, no matter what the ethnic group is.

I disagree. In an ideal world, yes you're right. But that's not reality. In this world, it's OK. It's good and moral to try to eliminate the inherent disadvantages that some groups have. It's better in the long term. This is the right thing to do.

it's ok to discriminate based on race as long as it isn't favoring whites.

Pretty much yes. Non-whites have much less power, ergo they need it.
You don't have to impress anyone. You don't have to 'be' anyone. Be a Cynic, a Hedonist in the Epicurean sense.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/search/label/cholester... reviews some relevant literature in some posts, though mostly those go into dietary fat instead of dietary cholesterol. My tldr: dietary cholesterol is not a problem.
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thats moreso a reflection that aside from PLDI, none of those conferences really touch GC. its also a tricky domain to analyze wrt theory, and requires huge engineering effort to evaluate in practice. But theres also lots of real opportunities for innovation in the theory & practice of GCs.

:)
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Could still be worth it if lots of people who didn't cycle suddenly see this and give it a try.

It's still better value than most government adverts telling you to do something!
That may be Dell's strategy, but Microsoft doesn't care. Everything about their strategy indicates that they're taking some lessons from Apple with regard to beautiful hardware and vertical integration. Microsoft likely believes that the PC (at least as an upgradable device) is an anachronism that will be wholly replaced by digital appliances like Xbox and Surface.

Dell doesn't fit into that worldview.