skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically what we are is a subscription service that delivers ingredients and a recipe to your door, saving you the hassle of picking out ingredients, waiting on line, etc..
Pace yourself. It's pretty hard to do, but it is possible. On a hot day, all bets are off though.
So if I started a charity called WhiteMenCode, do you think that it would be fair to all of the other races and genders? Would it be fair that one segment of the impoverished get special treatment? Surely it would be better to organise something like PoorPeopleCode, since that is the segment of society which, in fact, needs help - poor people. Who gives a crap about race or gender? It's bigger than that.
It's all about how it's framed and who is watching. If it is a local men's club dedicated to charitable acts in a county that is almost entirely white then the response would likely be very positive. I say this confidently because there are a huge number of such groups, they just aren't NAMED "club for white men only".
Actually, it took about half an hour from the point where I finished reading Jack's post to when I posted this up.

Swombat.com started partly as a place to aggregate my commentary on articles that I think worthy of extra attention and comments.

Worth noting that I didn't submit this to HN. Others did, and they upvoted it, so clearly some people are disagreeing with your view. If you don't like it, just read something else and don't upvote.

As for formulating it without mentioning Jack's article, sure, I could have done that, but that would have been dishonest and lame, since the article was indeed inspired by Jack's writings.
I'm not directly part of the Enyo team, but I know that members have been working on an improved and unified Sampler app, to give a feel for using all of the components within an actual deployed app. Filling out the documentation is also definitely underway.

You should also check out the developer forums (http://forums.enyojs.com/). Experienced developers and the Enyo team both love to help out.
Regarding getting the word out, I think Leanpub authors saying good things about us on HN and Twitter, as well as in great blog posts like yours, are the best ways. So, thanks very much for writing such a fantastic post! I'll add it to our buzz page later today...
Umm... yes, you should actually.

Those patterns of semicircles aren't random, of course. They correspond directly to the degree of compositeness of the chosen modulus. Compare for n = 60,61,62, for example.

The higher the totient value for n, the more circles you see, basically.
Indeed! The Higgs field provides rest mass to electrons and other fundamental particles. However, most of the mass of, say, a human body comes from the mass of protons and neutrons, and that mass is almost entirely from the kinetic energy of quarks and other nucleon constituents.
From the article:
"In the short video interview, Binney explained a bit more about the NSA spying on Americans:
"Domestically, they're pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you're doing. So the government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it's a very dangerous process.""

I imagine this is where Palantir is being used. About building the connections through large data sets on the science of ontology.
Vidyard's lack of captioning prevents it from being used in HigherEd schools fearful of accessibility lawsuits. Universities would enjoy it.
Does this ruling actually mean anything? Every time I see something like this I'm just waiting for an appeal to pop up. Or can this judgement not be appealed?
What an awesome hobby that must be! I'd be inclined to try it if I weren't sure I'd kill myself with chemistry.
> why are we discovering this just now? I was under the amateur impression that the entire surface of Mars was scanned and imaged by NASA at some point.

It's easy to forget just how large Mars is, as a comparison, if we scaled Mars up to the size of Earth, the hole would only end up being about 120 meters, or about %30 larger than an American football field. And when it's a feature that we pretty much need human eyes on to determine it's significance, it's easy to imagine how we've missed it. Just imagine trying to find a random football field sized thing in Google Earth, somewhere on the planet.

And to make the comparison even more valid, Mars isn't covered in water, and has a very comparable amount of land surface area as Earth does. in that case, it makes the hole only about 36 meters when scaled up to the surface are of Earth, which is likely what you'd be searching for in Google Earth.

Not to mention that I have no idea to what resolution Mars was scanned and imaged at, considering imagery I see of Earth often, the mentioned scans could easily have pixels larger then the entire size of that feature.

Hence it's easy to imagine that many more interesting features of similar size exist on the martian surface, sitting there in plain view, waiting to be discovered.
"Surely it would be better to organise something like PoorPeopleCode, since that is the segment of society which, in fact, needs help - poor people."

Women code less than men of the same socioeconomic background. Not everything is about money. Plenty of these girls would make decent livings for themselves in other fields, but thanks to this program, some will find that programming is their true calling. That is a worthwhile effort.
I was just about to call out the gender discrimination myself. You're not alone.
I disagree. Everyone can be a minority if they decide to, depending on how you cut the population.

To claim "white males" are a majority is just an arbitrary distinction you're making. Everyone is a majority or minority depending on your criteria.

You don't fix racism/sexist/etc with more racism/sexism/etc. You fix it by being inclusive, and judging people on their merits.
OK, just pop some bullet points here so we can all benefit from your perspective. I don't think anyone will criticise a rough draft.
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I believe they're playing Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Right now, they're at the Embrace stage.
> Hmm, that makes more sense. If it isn't already in the README or man page, it might be a worthy addition.

Good point, I'll add it to the README.

> Is there a way to have it construct the query string [...]

Not yet, but it's being already discussed here:

https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/issues/61
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerographite#Potential_applica... claims 1.25Wh/kg. I hope that isn't for the lightest variant; in Wh/m^3, that wouldn't be that good.
CSRF seems to be missing from the "basics" section.
You've done a wonderful job of expressing my sentiments on this issue. What annoys me even more is the degree to which projects like Gnome copy Apple's design decisions that make their tools less effective for "Power Users".

By the way, the "Power Users" term is used to marginalize people who are willing to learn to use their tools. The results of using this term in this way have IMHO slowed the growth of the computing industry.
That is why (for example in Python) there is PyLadies, and that is why there is every other general Python group, in which there is no group-wide disadvantage for white men. Most of these groups I have been to, have mostly been white men with lots of alpha-nerding going on. I can't say I have seen any overt instances of racism but I still totally appreciate that minorities could be uncomfortable and benefit greatly from a support system that could increase their comfort level in the community and make them feel more assured.

I don't see this as a zero-sum war against white people and I hope you don't either.
Hire someone part-time who's still enrolled in uni and use their subscription :P
Thank you, and is that the only comment you have on the topic? Say, what is your philosophical stand on this?
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I don't understand. How is collectivism not culture? Slavery was abolished because American culture began to frown upon it.
GIMP is nice for those of us without photoshop.

I also like a tool called Pixie for color picking.
Wasn't the original ruling basically saying, "It's not a copy of the iPad because it's not as cool"? You know if Apple really does have to put this notice on their website, they'll probably find a way to work that into the announcement.
I edited the comment to remove the gender reference before you replied, as several people have now brought it up.
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What do you get rid of here? Black culture?
I don't really think curl is much harder, e.g.

curl -X PUT -d @data/test.json httpbin.org/put

It also has the advantage that it supports all the options you might ever need, for example http authentication and proxies are often useful.
Yes but this channels a lot of what other people told me and some of them have spent over a decade there.
I don't understand how anyone can root for Samsung given Korean chaebol's long history of blatantly ripping off everything. Any research into the history of Samsung, Daewoo, LG will reveal a long line if copied products. Of course most if these products were only sold within Korea specifically because they knew what try we're doing would never pass muster on the international stage. Samsung is a dirty company. Do a little research before just blindly assuming Apple did something wrong. Looking at the side-by-side images here: http://atomicsupersky.com/post/26275796849/on-the-samsung-ga... should erase any doubt that Samsung blatantly ripped off Apple.
Their followups seem OK. https://twitter.com/ShellisPrepared/status/22566322487442636... and https://twitter.com/ShellisPrepared/status/22566298293018214...
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Ben, you're spot on. I shouldn't be responding like that.

As I explained to Nicole (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4262188), I saw the original comment as an offense on the quality of Scoutzie-listed designers and I take any such offense very personally. We spend a lot of time talking to the designers, getting to know them, looking to understand how they work and what they want to get out of their design careers. When I see a negative comment about the site or about our user base , I see it as a negative comment about each one of our users. It hurts me because I see these users as real people, not just user ids.

Now, I can see that 'mnicole' wasn't out to get us, and it was wrong of me to engage in a hostile manner myself.

Unfortunately, as one comments irritates your skin, it's really easy to quickly overreact with others. I will get better at this.

Lastly, thank you for giving the feedback.
You probably realize this but I just want to note that helmets and skulls have very different failure modes (by design in helmet's case) and just because your helmet split into pieces doesn't necessarily mean your skull would have as well.
Everyone can be a minority if they decide to, depending on how you cut the population.

In other news: down is up, black is white, and true is false, depending on your criteria.

There are actual facts in the world and you don't get to change them to suit your side of the argument.
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Wow, they had to write their own code to do localization safely with regard to XSS. I'm surprised that's not already available off the shelf.
1080p screen on a 13" lcd and you got me. god. i'm a programmer and i like my fonts crisp.
Actually, no. The kinetic energy is a property of the particles (thermal energy, actually), but it does not supply their rest mass. 99% of the rest mass of baryons is due to the strong nuclear force.
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you're right i'm angry. i'm sorry if it offends you. but still, i don't see what you're argument is. are you saying that because i am angry and "rhetorical" it's ok to switch to oracle?

is noticing that i am angry somehow going to make everything
work out? when centos folds and oracle decide to "raise margins" me being angry will make centos come back?

because if not, i would suggest worrying a little less about my emotional state and a little more about the future of your operating system.
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I don't even think there's anything wrong with using templates as a means to display your work in the given context, but there's just no way of knowing on the current interface if the app actually shipped or is just eyecandy, and that's why I assumed the latter on a lot of the entries.

Additionally, there's a drop-down to say you have experience with responsive, but there's no follow-up to that. Does that mean you have experience building the hi-fidelity mockups or are you actually building the media queries? Those are the questions I would have as a scout or how I'd want to distinguish myself as a designer, since a lot of employers either expect both skillsets or make them two entirely separate roles.

Sorry if I came off as harsh in the initial response, I understand the need for a service like this, but couldn't really tell how it couldn't be superseded by the current go-to for finding designers until there was a little more focus/drilling-down of projects/skillsets that the "competitor" doesn't give you the room to include.
I love it! It solves a very real problem I have all the time. Honestly, I think a better idea is to do it weekly, so I can say "give me ingredients for 3 nights worth." There are several reasons for this.

* I can't cook every night but it's convenient to have it there so I don't have to plan from the morning to cook if I end up staying at home. I think most people would do the same.

* 5x / 7x less shipping fees for everyone.

* If you have stuff for 7 nights worth of food already set, I can pick my favourite 3. This is very powerful because I get a lot of choice and thus, satisfaction. The main problem people have with CSA farm shares for example, is that they can't control what they get. Also, this way you don't have to come up with recipes and mass-source ingredients every single day (which is very hard). Instead, you get to do that over the course of a week.

I think you can learn a lot from the methodologies of http://www.bostonorganics.com/.

Also, if you really are considerate of the vegans and vegetarians, you will get rave reviews and the support of a vocal and big customer base who love to cook and blog.

Nice photos go a long way, especially in food. It's hard, but it makes the difference between whether I will cook a recipe or not (i.e. a good photo will make me do a $20 purchase and commit 1 hour)

Finally, I think you should encourage customers to "hack" your recipes with their own ingredients, and maybe even offer a few variations with every recipe.

Hope this helps, and good luck! :)
One line here stuck out for bad statistics:

"According to research gathered by BlackGirlsCode, African American women make up 4.8 percent of graduate enrollment in computer science programs, while only 0.03 percent of female Hispanic freshmen intended to major in computer science in 2006."

To start with, the line implies that these two statistic are related, but they are about different ethnicities, at different education levels comparing completely separate metrics!

Secondly, the 4.8 percent statistic seems to imply that this is under-representation, but being that African Americans make up ~12.6% of the population and women are very roughly half of that, 4.8 percent seems really close to demographic representation.
Dell's commitment to Ubuntu seems to extend only to the extent that it offers them a bargaining chip with Microsoft.
maybe, though I do wonder how it compares with belly-button fluff in terms of lightness and strength. joke aside how durable is it as by definition it will be extreemly brittle andthe video does seem to indicate that with bits breaking off. If they made round ablls then structurely it would be a little bit more robust.

I do wonder what use it could actualy be though. Not very strong, ok it's light but it's not much stronger than air going by that video. I do wonder if you could make a static drawn bellows with this to move air, but thats me being geek.

Anybody know what uses this could have beyond coffins for ants sent via beemail! Anybody know a use?
We europeans were aware of this since our childhood. :) Where had they thought Der Maus lives?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ROKq_WXFA8

(Die Abendteuer der Maus auf dem Mars - The adventures of the mouse on the Mars)
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If people started every one of these, and actively pursued it, that would be a fantastic problem to have.

You seem to be saying "don't make any of them because it is unfair." I am saying "make any or all of them so that more smart and motivated people can get a hand up and make cool things so the future is great."

If I would get paid and have adequate organizational support I would be all about targeting education at Native Americans on the reservation. Can't you see how petty it would be to say that nobody should try to help Native Americans because it seems somehow "racist" to white males?
This is HN. It's grown massively over the past few years and it's increasingly getting targeted with more linkbait content. To your point, I spend a lot less time on here now.
You need to read this article. http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secr...
To be clear, I wouldn't rule out a meteorite, I'm just saying that in order for it to be a meteorite some things need to be understood. The sinkhole hypothesis fits the picture precisely, but requires that someone explain how the top of the cavern got opened in the first place.

In a traditional research setting the next thing we would be doing is coming up with ideas that would rule out a hypothesis in order to give us higher confidence in the ones that remain. To that end, you've added data which doesn't help us rule out either of our hypotheses so it doesn't advance us toward our goal of understanding.

Finding a circular meteor crater on the moon with a cavern underneath it would be useful.

Another useful thing is to look at the sides of the hole. If the material was removed by pushing outwards, the sides will have one shape, if it was removed by 'draining' into the hole in the center they will have another shape. A good experiment you could run on earth to think about that would be a put some sand over a hole and drain it, take that shape. And then to take the same setup, cover the hole lightly, and blow on it with a directed stream of air until you punch through the thin covering on the hole and then take that shape.

If we can figure out the probable way in which the material was removed, that too can inform our hypothesis. I encourage you to keep coming up with ways to figure this out.
The Enyo team was hired by Google, right?
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I suspect that the development of the --reverse switch would significantly increase the credibility of your offer. CERN is around for the long haul and Princeton isn't about to disappear, so there will always be a backout vehicle for refusniks.
The BIOS. Specifically, the installation of Microsoft's signing key in UEFI secure boot - which requires the other parts (drivers, specifically) of the UEFI BIOS are signed with Microsoft's key as well.

Windows 8 is "theoretically" only bootable when secure boot is turned on.
So I take it that any attempt to help Native Americans on the reservation is racist because it is not helping poor whites?
I love this judge - putting everyone back to their place. Samsung, stop trying to act cool, and Apple, STFU.
No speculation needed. Steve Jobs himself mentioned it in an interview at D8, two years ago:

“I actually started on a tablet first,” Mr. Jobs said. He explained that nearly 10 years ago, he had the idea of a keyboard-less computer where users typed on a multitouch glass display.

He asked his user interface designers to build a prototype. When he saw the results a few months later, Mr. Jobs was particularly struck by one of the features in the prototype: the ability to scroll up and down at the swipe of a fingertip.

“I thought, ‘My god, we can build a phone with this,’ and we put the tablet aside, and we went to work on the phone,” he said.

Mr. Jobs said the tablet got back on track only after Apple had established itself as a major player in the smartphone business.

“Once we got our wind back,” Mr. Jobs said, “we pulled the tablet off the shelf.”

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It depends on what you mean by "significantly diverge." If you mean "innovate", then yes -- absolutely. We already have tons of evidence of differentiated innovation in illumos[1][2][3] -- none of which can be brought back into Solaris.[4]

[1] http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2012/07/11/performance-of-zfs-d...

[2] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2012/06/07/dtrace-in-the-zone/

[3] http://dtrace.org/blogs/rm/2012/07/16/per-thread-caching-in-...

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=43m55s
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Depends. Some people define racism (& sexism etc) as "descrimination against a disadvantaged group by a privilieged group based on what separates them".

This would mean a black person in USA would not in general be able to be racist against a white person.
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This was a warning of a hazard to navigation, when a more diligent effort to remove the hazard is called for.
A lot of hacker groups are already effectively "whites code" or even "white men code". So "black girls code" is just actually just as specific as some existing groups.
Some comments were indeed uncalled for and I apologize for that. Please see below those comments for the followups.

As per the 99designs, we are not badmouthing them at all. There are designers who are willing to do design at a chance they will not get paid and let's face it, most designers on 99designs don't get paid because only the winner takes the money. This is terrible for designers who put in the hours of work and then don't get reimbursed of it. This isn't always good for clients either. Given that each designer can only spend limited time (knowing they might (most likely won't) get paid). As a result, most designers end up with no $ in the pockets and clients end up with work that could be improved upon.

All said, there are clients who use 99designs and there are designers who work on these projects. 99Designs as a company is doing well and we are happy for them. But, we don't have to support them because we prefer to encourage great design and to encourage great designers to be paid for their work.
The goal of this program isn't to fix racism or sexism. It's to encourage a group of people to explore programming who do so at lower a rate than many other groups. If the talents and desires needed to program are evenly distributed among the population, this is a targeted way to improve the lives of people who wouldn't discover programming on their own. A program that wasn't narrowly targeted would have a lower return on investment.
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