skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a strange experience that when I signed in to HOPE9 at the "Department of Hopeland Security," this year.

Following the "homeland security" theme, a man and a woman made a couple of weak jokes about a "pat down," which I kinda laughed at, and then the woman came up to me and actually started patting me down. It was clearly a joke, but it was a violation of my personal space and it made me feel pretty uncomfortable. (At least at the airport they ask for your permission!) This was the first thing I experienced walking into an unfamiliar environment full of unfamiliar people. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything.

If this kind of thing happens to men (like me), I'm not surprised that Valerie and other women are hesitant to attend these conferences.
Here is a solution in Microsoft's Visual Basic .NET making a little use of some of .NET:

' ADD.VB --
'
' Created at 21:34:59 on Wednesday, August 1st, 2012.

' Note: There are some risks of fixed overflow
' depending on (1) the values of the components
' of arr() and (2) how the logic works for ending
' a For-Next loop in the case n is the largest
' value of Int32.

Sub add( _
arr() As Int32, _
val As Int32, _
n As Int32 )

Dim arr_upper_bound As Int32

Dim i As Int32

Dim n_changes As Int32

' http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.array.getupperbound%28v=vs.100%29.aspx#Y104

arr_upper_bound = arr.GetUpperBound( 0 )

' http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cy37t14y(VS.80).aspx

Select n

Case n = 0

For i = 0 To arr_upper_bound

If arr( i ) = val Then arr( i ) = arr( i ) + 1

Next i

Case n > 0

n_changes = 0

For i = 0 To arr_upper_bound

If arr( i ) = val Then

arr( i ) = arr( i ) + 1

n_changes = n_changes + 1

If n_changes = n Then Exit Select

End If

Next i

Case n < 0

n_changes = 0

For i = arr_upper_bound To 0 Step -1

If arr( i ) = val Then

arr( i ) = arr( i ) + 1

n_changes = n_changes + 1

If n_changes = -n Then Exit Select

End If

Next i

End Select

Return

End Sub
What is actually happening to the patent itself? Are the "trolls" just licensing the patent or do they have to have full ownership of it? If the later were true and they could actually loose the patent to the trial winner the situation would get more interesting.
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you say that as if you have a link to a mirror of the video, if not many.. ?
Ask HN: How can I learn to code in a practical environment?
University has so far taught me how to write algorithms, how to document code, and plenty of valuable abstract concepts. When I graduate, I'm estimated to be worth 80k.

But I don't know how to code. Sure, I can go into C++ and write a graph algorithm to do x or y, but as soon as I start trying to write a program that might be useful to someone, I find myself switching between Google and a blank screen for several hours, maybe writing a few lines here or there but eventually giving up entirely.

I want to learn, but I have no idea where to start. All of my experience is formal and all of my theoretical knowledge feels wasted because the only way I can implement it is to have someone else do it for me. I've tried internet tutorials but so far I've just felt stuck.

What are some steps I can take to reverse the situation?
Contrary to the impression media and movies have created, lawyers get paid VERY LOW salaries now, at least in NY. We have overproduced so many lawyer graduates who thought they would be making 100K+ at their first job, it's just insane.

Just start browsing craigslist or monster listings, it's very revealing.
I think this may be a good solution for feminist hackers who want to name and shame rapists or incidences of sexual assault.
Then why can't they simply respond?
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They'd probably kick you out of school for pulling a stunt like that these days...
Sure, I think we agree. I agree it's a mistake here and should be corrected, I wasn't advocating removing type coercion by any means, nor do I think that this one-off (?) incident is worthy of making broad statements about MySQL.
I took a look! But it seems the target market is teenage girls. Maybe I need to configure it, but why? Between reddit, imgur, pinterest... Really what's the difference? How many profitable image sharing apps can the world actually support?

I'll admit I didn't spend much time on the site (simply because all the images I saw were of cute boys) but I failed to see the differentiator or innovation. What's the original idea here?
Sorry, I did not wanted to offend you. I hope your understand that removing people with different opinions that yours will not help you solve any problems. Nevertheless, I still convinced that there is a problem, that the card solution to this problem is comically wrong, and that the "conference police" solution to this problem is the worst.
EDIT: BTW, If you were sexually molested at a conf. you can tell the regular police. There are very clear laws against that behaviour that also are valid inside conferences.
I agree that the cards are a pretty ineffective way of dealing with the problem at events. They're only effective for people who don't know they're doing something inappropriate, but do care when told. I think that's a very small percentage of offensive people.

Selfishly, I care more about getting the (admittedly very small number of) hacker females to attend and contribute to events more than unrestrained free speech by attendees. If kicking out a few obnoxious drunken guys, and convincing others to behave reasonably, is necessary, fine. That seems a lot more effective than cards handed out by attendees. Naming and shaming people who act like idiots would also be effective I suppose, but probably more potentially open to drama and consequences than quietly ejecting them for the rest of the event.
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Degree or equivalent experience - what's the conversion rate?
There seem to be a decent number of programmers on here without college degrees. Most job postings I see for programming positions require a degree or equivalent experience.

What is equivalent experience defined as? Do contracting, Github projects, and personal projects count as equivalent experience? Is there a conversion rate (ie, 1 year formal education = 2 years work experience)? (That rate would seem a bit harsh to me).

Thanks for any responses.
It's heartening to hear that. I was a *nix security researcher and admin in the late-90s, and attended DEFCON 8 with a group of men. I never went back on my own.

An organizer's support for kdotcdot's cards makes me want to go to DEFCON next year.
In those cases people tolerate massive delivery fees because it's not just the access to the florists they have to worry about but also access to the recipient.
Same in Firefox. Page must be broken.
As he says, Hacker's essay had so many flaws it's hard to know where to start. On the other end of the spectrum, this (and the linked) essays raised so many good points that it's still hard to know where to start.
I'm not going to defend removing some of the math. What I will say is that improving understanding of statistics, generally, is something that most democratic countries desperately need.
No. There is already a solution to that problem, is called police. We don't need additional police.
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This is the way things should always have been. If you're going to falsely claim patent infringement only for it to be discovered you're not the patent holder or are merely using scare tactics to get money out of people you should be held liable for all costs associated with the legal threat.
Consider cars.

Everyone drives. Yet only a small minority truly panic when something bad happens on the road. Most of us turn into a skid, slow down in wet conditions.

Any road - absent something mind-bendingly drastic, I don't see more than a small minority of people carrying daily.
I've posted and deleted this a few times, since I keep rethinking it. This is a Lua version, and I'm pretty new to Lua (it's good practice). No reverses needed; just numeric for loops.

I'd rather keep n = 0 as a separate case since it doesn't need to consider a break point or a count variable. The test - Is n 0? - happens once and by including it, you can omit a lot of pointless tests - Am I at the breakpoint? - and increments - Add another one to count. Those tests and increments seem much worse than the single test - especially if the array (a table in Lua) will grow to very, very large sizes.

But I would be happy to hear if I'm looking at it wrong or missing a good trick in Lua.

function add1(t, val, n)
if n >= 0 then
start = 1; stop = #t; step = 1
else
start = #t; stop = 1; step = -1
end

if n == 0 then
for i = start, stop, step do
if t[i] == val then t[i] = t[i] + 1 end
end
else
break_point = math.abs(n)
count = 0
for i = start, stop, step do
if count == break_point then break end

if t[i] == val then
t[i] = t[i] + 1
count = count + 1
end
end
end

return t
end
I honestly think many people have lost the real idea of what a "platform" is these days. In my mind, in it's truest sense, a platform is something stable - a rock solid base on which to build. That's why you build on it - because you can trust it, even if you turn enemies with it, the key parts you rely on aren't going to change.

So to me, Facebook never was a "platform", nor was Twitter, nor iOS. All these things are just gambles, business bets on the future based on things you hope are true. They may be good ones, profitable ones, but you were never guaranteed anything and you should be prepared to lose it all the minute your interests and your landlord's no longer coincide.

What do I consider "true" platforms? The closest are Android, Windows (not counting future versions), OSX (up until ML), in some sense the JVM and the browser. I don't know if the new versions of OSX and Windows will qualify as true platforms ... it remains to be seen how the effect of tightening controls on them plays out.

tldr; I wish we could stop calling playing in somebody else's ever changing walled garden with no guarantee of anything a "platform".
Once a work system is good enough to provide 5 minute highly qualified answers to questions like "is this CT indicative of cancer?", people would be paid $3/hr for those answers.

Scarcity and demand, not ability determines wages.
To quote a wise man:

It's not porn. xxx does not always mean porn. Sometimes it means Vin Diesel.
I know most people here favor abolishing software patents.

My take is that they shouldn't be abolished. But they should be restricted. Say, 3 years. Maybe 5.

Software has short development cycles and version iterations. Three years gives a company a year to bring a product to market, and 2 years of patent protection after that.

This isn't perfect I'm sure and there are probably more optimal time frames than 3 years. But I like the idea that if I come up with a truly novel invention in code, I'll be granted a patent and a couple years at market before the clones emerge.
But why, in a free country, is that sensitive information?
> I really don't understand why cl doesn't just do it themselves. It's not hard.

It's not hard to do a mediocre job, but it is super hard to build something really great.

And it's super easy to build something so shitty, that it'll drive away the users that you have now.
These open letters to a CEO of a massive corporate conglomerate need to stop please. No CEO gives two fucks about your blog post. Cry me a river, J Tim...
Or that people are easily convinced that silly rituals are mandatory when they in fact are not.

Note that HR never asks if you'd like to have an exit interview, and just ask you when you'd like to have it, as if it's already a foregone conclusion. This same trick works a lot more than you'd expect in real life. Stating something as a foregone conclusion and redirecting the line of questioning is a pretty sweet strategy for getting what you want.
I'm always hesitant to bring my fiancee to hacker conferences, but she wants to support me and understand "what I do," so she has been to DEFCON the past three years.

Yeah, she gets hit on. A lot. Mostly by drunk, smelly guys, and then proceeds to tell me how much it sucks. Her ass was grabbed several times at DEFCON events. My understand is that it's not an altogether pleasant experience for a non-totally-nerdy girl to spend any length of time at security conferences... and what with BSides and DEFCON, we were there a week.

But here's the thing: girls are going to get hit on at a drunken Black Hat party at PURE just as much as they'd get hit on at a drunken normal night party at PURE. Yes, it's hackers, and you'd maybe expect better behavior (unless you've been to a lot of these things), but is the behavior worse than any other night club? I'm not a lady, but based on what I've heard, not really. Las Vegas is a dirty, "sinful" place, and any moderately attractive woman going out to a bar or club there is going to get hit on.

Now, when we're talking about disgusting, incessant harassment, that's different. And that is the line I think we need to draw. Sure, it's difficult because many of these "hackers" are severely lacking in the "social skills" department, but walking up to a woman and grabbing her boobs is going to get you slapped and probably arrested. Anywhere. Personally, I didn't see a lot of that... just a bunch of nerdy, socially awkward guys trying (and failing) to pick up women.
How did this guy get a 160k base then?
Carmack showed that prototype to anyone who would wear it and from the two reviews I've read, everyone is blown away.

I'm assuming software companies don't want to get in the hardware game, but form what I've read, including the Oculus message boards a couple months ago, Carmack is very active in this and might be the mastermind behind everything Palmer is doing. He may not want all the headaches of hardware especially considering he's busy with iD and his space company.
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All signs are pointing to a dramatic shift in Apple, whether it's for the best or worse has yet to be determined. What goes up must come down and the departure of Jim Keller who is a engineering genius is a massive blow to Apple. Seems like whatever energy/sales secret weapons Steve Jobs had stored away in R&D labs is running dry and now we're starting to really see the effects of a post-Jobs led company.

I would keep an eye on the Apple share price over the next few weeks, I have an inkling that something is going to change regardless of how much money they have in the bank.
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The top tier firms still pay $160,000 as starting salary, same as since 2007, but they are hiring a lot fewer people. New law grad salaries have been more and more binodal over the last few decades, with the other local maximum at around $55,000, and an increasing share of the new grads getting stuck at the low end.
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From the article, I particularly liked the bit about math being useful to doctors so that they can learn to succeed in the face of a challenging subject... as if medicine isn't enough of a challenge in itself.

I would certainly like to see more statistics in high school math, since people are bombarded with bad stats every day through the media and just swallow it up without thinking. It's hard to agree that other aspects should be dropped though (although I am in favour of repurposing some math courses to better meet the needs of the students).
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If a girl asked you if she was fat (and she was) are you going to tell her that she is fat?

An old coworker of mine had some fun advice... He said if his wife asked if some outfit made her look fat, and it did, then he would say so. He would tell her what he didn't like. As a result, he doesn't have a fat wife with ugly clothing (and he retains a wife).

I value an honest relationship, not one covered in cute little "white" lies. People who deal with me come to understand that. For them, it must be refreshing to not have to question my motivations, to wonder if I really mean what I say. And if I care about them, I am surely doing them more good by answering honestly.

Never confuse honesty with poor delivery. "Heck yeah, you look like a fat, sweaty, slobbering pig." The right words depend on your relationship. You can be sensitive to that person's needs and answer the question they really asked.

So perhaps that was a poor analogy. With regards to the exit interview, I think there is something to be said for focusing on the positive and trying to keep the emotions in check while presenting more objective responses.
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Well, if it matters to you, I concur with drivebyacct2's desire, and I have a Y chromosome.

Societies require enforcement mechanisms, or it is just base nature, red in tooth and claw. If you think there are problems that must be corrected, you too surely believe that there are mechanisms for coercing behavior.

Exile is one such method that's been used in many civilizations over millenia.

Edit: It's worth pointing out that your assumption that drivebyacct22 is a girl simply because he/she disagrees with you is really weird.
Employers are different. Some prefer formal education. Some only care about your ability to do work.
But...wait. Why is this in any way better than email?
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Amazon already has "Amazon lockers" scattered across Manhattan where you can go pick up your packages from a kiosk inside a grocery store / drug store. You enter a pick-up code on the touchscreen, and a specified locker opens up with your goods inside it. It's easy to see how similar tech could be adapted for use inside a robovan.
Overly complex C++11: http://ideone.com/yHzej

The output assembly is actually pretty good (std::vector specialization):

; prologue
L19:
add	eax, esi
cmp	ebx, eax
je	L4
L8:
mov	ecx, DWORD PTR [eax]
cmp	ecx, DWORD PTR [edi]
.p2align 4,,3
jne	L10
add	ecx, 1
sub	edx, 1
mov	DWORD PTR [eax], ecx
L10:
test	edx, edx
jg	L19
L4:
; epilogue
this is exactly why big companies need to invest way more time in risky, it-would-be-cool-if, projects

most studios would have avoided even trying to work on a linux port to their games often citing that there arent enough users to justify the engineering time. yet the unintended consequence of this [allegedly bad business decision] was that they found sizable optimizations to even their flagship Windows version as a by-product of linux optimizations. this in turn brings the system requirements down for the game on Windows, more people can play it, and more profits. all because of the effort used to port to Linux.

cool stuff valve.
Just start browsing craigslist or monster listings, it's very revealing.

Craigslist and Monster give a very accurate impression of the legal employment market for clients who are so catastrophically incompetent that they would source legal representation from Craigslist or Monster. Similar to programming.

I don't really have a dog in the fight of "Production of legal talent adequately meeting market demands for legal talent: yay or nay", but it is an observable fact that a particular type of student has a very achievable career trajectory into being a BigLaw associate at a six figure salary in their first job. You can plot out that career trajectory, to the month, the day you receive an offer of admission to one of several undergraduate institutions.
Yes, quite.

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This sounds great! It's exactly how I'd like to enter this sort of data – once a day, using a template, with automatic tracking.

I've signed up and I'm beginning to build my template.

One question, though: will I be able to export my data?

This is crucial not just to prevent lock-in and ensure I control my own data, but especially so that I can play around with my tracking history in e.g. Excel.
Oh it can definitely be blocked. All CL has to do is change the HTML, and the parser will break. They can make it so complex and dynamic that parsing will become unrealistically hard.
At conferences and other private events, it basically goes like this:

Someone behaves inappropriately. Event organizers and/or their security designees and/or venue security request that the offender leave for whatever reason. Depending on venue, level of intoxication, threat, etc., the person may be escorted off the premises (how much force can be used depends on legal situation, too). If someone is unwilling to leave, police may be called and offender charged with trespassing. Attempting to re-enter would be trespassing, and police may be called. Attempting to assault security or event staff leads to police and ambulance being called.

It's pretty normal for conference venues to have their own security (for fire safety as well as physical security), and for conference organizers to have security (mainly for crowd control and access control, but also for responding to things like fires caused by cellphones...).

Having a conference-affiliated security person request that you leave an event is less damaging to you than having casino security formally ban you from the premises forever, and either is better than having police come and criminal trespassing charges filed.
"but is the behavior worse than any other night club"

So what? Other nightclubs aren't representing the hacker community. This sort of behaviour ought to be attacked anywhere anyone has the power to attack it.
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Shorter, easy to remember, identity. No need to build social integration into email because it's already there?
Flagged as political.
This is more broken than email.

1. This solution eliminates the decentralized nature of email.
2. No solution for corporate customers who would want to keep their emails private.
3. How would new contacts form?
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> Her ass was grabbed several times at DEFCON events.

> but walking up to a woman and grabbing her boobs is going to get you slapped and probably arrested. Anywhere. Personally, I didn't see a lot of that... just a bunch of nerdy, socially awkward guys trying (and failing) to pick up women.

...what?
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And then Twitter goes down. Or starts doing nasty things as it runs out of money.

The sort-of-federated email network we have now is a lot more resilient than a Twitter will likely ever be.
This essay is still buying into the idea that algebra is "higher level," or that only people who identify as mathematicians would be affected by this. There are 1.5 million engineers in the US and 3.1 million programmers, and without algebra they would be as helpless as lawyers who couldn't read.

This essay says "Hacker is probably right that very few people use high-level math directly in their work." If algebra is counted as high-level, then no, Hacker is dead wrong. His position does not deserve even the modicum of respect which this essay gives it.
Essentially,

"The big value in Nokia is its patents portfolio. Before Elop took over, Nokia's patents portfolio was the strongest in the industry. Motorola was sold to Google mostly for its patents, and the smaller Motorola patents collection yielded a price of 11 Billion dollars for Google to pay. Nokia's bigger portfolio is arguably more valuable, even if we discounted all other Nokia units to zero. And by current market capitalization, Nokia is worth less than what Google paid for Motorola's patents. Remember, just Apple alone pays Nokia in the tune of between 1 and 2 Billion dollars per year in intellectual property fees."
no. just no. protocols "continue to remain to be the future". not individual "players".