skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What this article doesn't mention is how much effort the colleges at the top put into gaming the rankings. For example, Harvard spends millions of dollars every year sending direct mail to graduating seniors who they know have no chance of getting in, encouraging them to apply. Why? To increase their rejection rate.

Similarly, Stanford was considered a relatively mediocre school until one year when they rejected every single valedictorian across the country as a marketing stunt, and suddenly jumped in the rankings after guidance counselors started encouraging the kids with the highest grades to apply there.

Similarly, the admissions departments get an update twice a day telling them their projected US News rank based on the grades and SAT scores of the kids who they are admitting. Thus your chances of getting in can vary wildly based on whether your application is read in the morning or afternoon. If the projected rank drops too low then they stop even reading the essays and just admit solely based on grades and SATs until the rankings are back up.
Yes, in fact F# has that built in as |> , which I've taken to using in Haskell as well. Though it's a bit more intuitive to me when it has the lowest precedence like so:

(|>) :: a -> (a->b) -> b
(|>) x f = f x
infixl 0 |>

There infixl 0 means infix operator with left associativity and 0 precedence.

Then you can use all sorts of expressions inbetween:

(5 + 3 |> show) ++ " times" |> putStrLn

Also, tying this back to one of the article's ideas, this piping-like syntax for doing things really manages to take away the emphasis from the function and put it back on the data. It isn't all about functions after all!
No uselessness, much usefulness. Much uselessness, no usefulness.

In the context of that sentence, they are interchangeable.
What strikes me as interesting regarding Google's automated approach to community regulation is the effect of focusing on action rather than intent

What's interesting about that? We're all guilty of putting action over intent. Look at A-B testing, the metrics we use have nothing to do with our user's intents. Fuck their intents, I'm optimizing to get as many as possible to give me money.

Its the same exact thing, just wearing a different color jacket. This time you just happen to be the subject rather than the administrator.
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Oh, please.

There's no shortage of troglodytes advocating women stay at home, in the kitchen, bare footed, and pregnant.

There's even laments about women suffrage (enfranchisement, right to vote).

You don't have to look very hard to find whack jobs of any stripe to use as justification for own reactionary / oppositional views.
IIRC RPI is nowhere near NYC.
It's definitely not targeted advertising like AdWords. It's kinda like the billboard on the highway. Everyone sees it and some people will find it useful.

I have a suspicion that if you told 10,000 people (completely randomly) about your product/service, 1-2 might want to learn more. No? Or, am I completely off base here?
You ever worn a skirt? They are freaking comfortable. Especially if you're just sitting at a desk all day. Lightweight, breezy, totally stylish.

I don't expect you to agree with me, of course, but just try one on for work one day. You'll be amazed.
That number is just plain weird.

1. It attempts to draw a comparison but only offers one number. If mothers who actively seek custody obtain either primary or joint physical custody over 95% of the time, there's still bias at work.

2. It lumps primary custody in with joint custody. There's a lot of room for disparity between those two numbers.

3. It doesn't show how men who fervently seek custody stack up against women who don't particularly go out of their way to get custody. If women have to do less to be awarded custody, that would weigh against their conclusion.

I'm not claiming any of these are the case (really, I have no clue), but this paper doesn't really show its work, which makes it hard to evaluate.
Heck — we're already having enough pain as Typed Arrays expose system endianness to the web platform. Most scripts using Typed Arrays are already broken on big endian systems, and it's practically inevitable that Typed Arrays are going to have to convert endianness dynamically to appear little endian.
The only thing is.... this year's MBA uses Magsafe 2, but its the same thickness as last year's model with OG Magsafe.
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I agree, this entire article is a waste of time. How can you draw any kind of blanket conclusions from such a contrived experiment? At the very least talk to some actual businesses and see what their opinions are.
Being able to filter out all those irritating meme/joke/"inspiring thought" things would be brilliant, too.
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Sierra Nevada will receive $212.5 million

Didn't realize beer was such an integral part of space exploration.
I'm lucky to live in Canada which has pretty decent health care, but I looked into supplemental health insurance (for dental coverage, etc) when I started contracting, and the premiums for the services you got were just ridiculous.

The annual premiums were way more than I would ever spend, and I would have to be paid in for three years before I would even get any dental benefits.

I ended up going without supplemental health insurance until I got married, upon which I got coverage under my wife's plan.
The solution is healther, more balanced workweeks for everyone.

Why do some even feel the need to have such a strong opinion on what "balance" means to different people and where they draw that line?

If you want more money and financial success, focus on your work. If you want more attention to your parenting and to devote more time to parental interaction, then focus more time on your family life.

The idea that we're going to decide as a society what a "balanced workweek" is and what that balance means between parents is alien to me. It's a topic that's so subjective and so based upon individual goals, situations, and preferences that to discuss it in the aggregate is meaningless. Worse, once people start talking about having a "balanced workweek" or a "living wage", the next step always seems to be, "Well now we need to legislate a lowest-common-denominator norm."
> Feminism is widely understood. Feminists, like most cultural leftists, simply assume that anyone who rejects their ideology doesn't "understand it."

I think that this is the most concise summary of what's wrong with feminism as an ideology that I've ever seen. One thing to note is that this doesn't just apply to outsiders; feminists do this to other feminists that disagree with them , which is probably one reason why the grassroots of the movement is consistently a lot more reasonable than the career activists.
Even given the best intentions, why assume their information is accurate? Aren't public companies incentivized to bias evidence to their utmost favor?

90% seems so high it fails the sniff test but I could easily see how it's a figure passed around internally. I'm just surprised you accept (and now promote) that number as fact.
Imagine if fb built a feature that shows the "Average number of likes of the liker who liked your business page". Then things will get interesting.
I agree with both you and ChuckMcM that occasional meetings, carefully targeted and run, can help. But he was describing having meetings every day, which I think is completely nuts. If you decide to have one meeting to figure out where communication needs to happen, that's fine, but regularly scheduled meetings without even having something specific to meet about are crazy.
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I'm impressed that there's $440M left in NASA (or over $1 Billion with Sierra Nevada and Boeing included) to fund a new space shuttle, somehow I was under the false impression that there wouldn't be any more of that type of thing.

Hats off, Elon Musk. Hats. Off.
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I know D: Now he can only afford 27 Boeing 747-8's with 10.5% sales tax. It's awful!
Yes, adding noise will be unavoidable, but not broadcasting an ssid means unsuspecting people won't try and connect to these pseudo AP's.

To cut down on the interference caused by the added radio noise one could either hardwire all the pseudo ap's to use the same channel, effectively blocking anyone from using it, or have each ap actively scan and switch to the least used channel at a set interval.
It's not really funding a new space shuttle. It's essentially NASA buying seats on the human-rated version of the existing Dragon capsule.
Post divorce, stretches of solo parenting is the norm.
They're building old, legit-looking profiles for when those accounts and actions are worth something.

Same thing happens here on HN - there's lots of young accounts that dutifully push a couple generic links from the usual tech sites every day.
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I feel that Mr. Chin's article does argue for a focus on men to the exclusion of women. The premise is that men don't have full autonomy or freedom due to the way society feels about men, parenting, and care giving. I very much disagree with this sentiment, as men as a gender do not suffer negative consequences as a parent despite being seen as less competent at being one.

The article implies a false equivalency between the harm done to men and women in regards to gender roles and stereotypes over parenting when this is simply not the case. I argue that this piece serves as a form of derailment that, in response to a discussion focused on women, seeks to move the discussion away from women and on to men. This kind of writing implicitly argues in favor of male point of view to the exclusion of female point of view.
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What I am guessing? Your comment does nothing to clarify any mistake I might have made, which I'll gladly admit to.

There are certainly differences between just setting the user agent and running Fetch as Googlebot. (The incoming IP address being an obvious one.)
A much needed change. With Requirements, libraries that you include in your projects can sandbox their monkeypatches to only affect their classes.

Likewise, if the purpose of a library is to monkeypatch a standard class, you can selectively include that monkeypatch only where needed in order to isolate any potential side effects.
Exactly. Brigham Young University (my university) is an absolute slave to the rankings. They intentionally limit the acceptance rates into certain programs even when there's open space for numbers' sake. If these rankings disappeared and universities operated only for the sake of its students, I think the overall quality of education would actually improve.
Speaking specifically of computer science programs, in eastern Canada (mostly Quebec and Ontario), there's a computer science contest called the CS Games. It's mostly just for fun and networking, but it's interesting to see where different universities ranked in different events. Relatively unknown universities like Carleton (my alma mater) placed excellently in extreme programming and algorithms, but not so well in debugging and shell scripting.

But to draw a parallel to your comment, both Sherbrooke and Harvard attended. Sherbrooke being relatively unknown outside of computer science circles. Well that year, Sherbrooke absolutely dominated every competition placing 4th or better in every event, and 1st overall. Harvard however placed last nearly every event (except AI where they were in the middle of the pack).

Looking at the overall reputations of both of these universities, Harvard is by far the more well known and respected. Just like the article was saying, overall rankings aren't very useful, and that if you're serious about getting a good education, you'll have to dig deeper.
Hi, I am the author of the post. Your opinion might differ, but the Zune v2 had a number of features that the iPod lacked: Wireless Sync, built-in radio, and Social/sharing are three that immediately come to mind. From a services standpoint, the Zune pass was a great music discovery service, and the Zune web service, circa 2008, was a cool way to share music with your friends (and way better than Ping). The public perception might not have been the same, but I am speaking on the basis of pure technical merit.

The marketing team strongly believed that these features would push customers towards the technologically better product, and did not think that providing a financial incentive was necessary. We all know how that played out - they had to eat humble pie and drop the price before finally dropping the product.

Tablets are a niche product, but the category, as it stands today, has been entirely defined by the iPad. This is not very different from how the iPod defined the music player market. AFAIK, application developers continue to target iPad first, and Android next; developing for Windows devices is not even in the rear-view mirror of developers. Microsoft is hoping that developers will re-prioritize once the Surface launches, but what if the device is a dud?

My research into user behavior does not reveal a hesitation on the part of users to live a Mac/PC dual lifestyle. In fact, Windows users that own iPads do not believe the iPad to be a part of the Mac ecosystem. iPad apps stand on their own, and most of them do not have Windows or Mac counterparts. This said, please send analysis that indicates the duopoly is confusing my way.

I wrote a post last year about Microsoft releasing Office for the iPad. If it continues to overlook the iPad in an effort to drive sales of the Surface, it will be the biggest loser, IMO. Office is Microsoft's cash cow; sales of the suite exceeded Windows last year, and show no signs of abating. In my non-scientific interviews of iPad users, I am yet to meet a user - business users and college students in particular - who will think twice before paying between 5 and 10 dollars for a la carte Office apps. Other than Office, I cannot conjure up a long enough list of applications that are Windows only. Remember that the entry-level surface is Windows RT only, and will not run traditional x86 applications.
This speaks more to the colossal clusterfuck that was the overengineered, unreliable Space Shuttle program. Doing it 10x cheaper than the Russians would be a real accomplishment.
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Not to make this too political, but this is the big issue no one talks about when discussing healthcare. For many small businesses, providing health insurance is a major cost, and a major distraction from their core business.

Whenever I talk to my conservative friends I try and point this out. Many entrepeneurs with kids who might be out there 'creating jobs' can't because the healthcare industry owns our politicians.
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What example do you think would be good?
Most of the mathematical culture inherited by haskell can be learned somehow elsewhere. Disclaimer, I'm quite a noob, but I'm pretty sure sicp/little schemer are good complementary sources on the spirit of haskell.

About monads, seeing them outside of Haskell is a great way to see smaller steps. Articles like http://dorophone.blogspot.fr/2011/04/deep-emacs-part-1.html , or this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObR3qi4Guys

I hope it will help you
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I agree, I've got a retina MBP and far prefer the cable. The cable on my MacBook Air was too strong.
Well, a MacBook Air weights far less than a 2008 MacBook. If it is not weaker, it will fly if your cat runs around
And for a guy that just barely moved out of the single-bedroom apartment he lived in with his mattress on the floor, it's almost as if he probably won't stress too much about temporary not being as worth as much as a couple of saudi princes and oil billionaires.
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I wonder if he took it into an Apple store to have it looked at. Based on the amount of variability it seems like it should be covered by warranty.
"it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and unchanging and incapable. It’s patriarchy that says men have animalistic instincts and just can’t stop themselves from harassing and assaulting. It’s patriarchy that says men can only be attracted by certain qualities, can only have particular kinds of responses, can only experience the world in narrow ways. Feminism holds that men are capable of more - are more than that. Feminism says that men are better than that"

(The source, http://zeroatthebone.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/on-claiming-to..., isn't entirely relevent, although it's conculsion is)
The person who was called?
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Hi,
I'm a high schooler who wants to learn physics but our high school doesn't offer anything past a very beginner physics course. How do I start learning - Khan Academy? or something else? Tips from anyone who learned physics thoroughly? I'm looking for something free or pretty cheap (so not really print textbooks)?
True. It's not like they'll be launching a Hubble with Dragon.
"And most importantly, there is software that is entirely exclusive to Windows systems, not least of which is Office."

MS is porting Office to iOS (probably after first releasing it on WinRT.
My reality: Quora links are 100% useless to click.

I don't have an account there. I never intend to have an account there, because the only thing I've used it for is to get answers(or more context) to the occasional bizarre coding issue I've run into at work. I've never felt the need to post anything.

So no, it doesn't matter what new "feature" they added. They have effectively killed their entire product for me.
His profile says:
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Musk is the most interesting man in the valley. This is awesome! Congrats to SpaceX!
We're moving towards a post marketing economy. Any marketer will tell you that. The old ways of marketing don't work anymore, and they certainly don't work on the Internet. People of the television generation are capable of filtering out marketing at an unprecedented level - the only marketing that works any more is strategically targetted marketing (a la Google) or consumer education campaigns.

Sponsorship has seen a resurgence in recent years. I know that P&G really likes the sponsorship model, but there are only so many things out there to sponsor.
Babysitting is a term that means paying someone else (usually a young teenager) to look after your children while you go out. To say that a father looking after his child is "babysitting" is to imply that it's not normal and expected for a father to look after his child.
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MS just combined 2 different form factors into one. They are so unique at this point in time. People just have to realize the productivity differences and shell out the dough for an increase in computing quality.
"the Falcon 9-Dragon combination will be the safest spacecraft ever developed"

Oh I wish they hadn't said that, they said the same thing about the Titanic.
I'm a UK resident and I've never thought about any of those things, ever. I just take so much for granted.

I just do what I want and know I am covered for everything. We really do live in completely different worlds.
$440M is pocket change compared to what the first shuttle cost and it is a small fraction compared to what I imagine a new one might cost. If they can pull it off, though, huge kudos to them.
From the post: "If you cannot afford health insurance, you cannot afford to freelance."

I'd say that's true (in the US). Health insurance is just but one cost of working for yourself. Since freelancing, I've found that I've been bumping my deductible up over the years to keep up with the 15% YOY price increases, but it is what it is, "catastrophic" insurance. I'm definitely not covering acupuncture.

One thing I always wished there were was a pool for sole proprietors, which would allow you to negotiate better terms, just as if you were a large company.

It's starting to look like this might be part of ACA with the creation of state run exchanges, or at least I hope that's a possibility, so it will be interesting to see how that turns out.
there's no real reason why we should think that it's human nature rather than (say) a purely social phenomenon

No reasons except that we already know from separated twin studies that genetics plays a strong role in behavioral traits. Then also as you look at other places in the animal kingdom where learned behavior takes a greatly reduced role to wired/instinctive behavior we see many analogues. Birds provide many examples whereby the male must demonstrate his ability to provide an environment, sustenance, and protection for potential mates. Some male birds build their nests that the females examine before choosing a mate. Other birds demonstrate athletic abilities through dance.

Saying that it's just as likely that male/female behaviors are learnt as they are inborn is akin to saying that it's just as likely that having a womb to give birth with is just as likely learnt as inborn.
Kudos to that. The funny thing is that in the past Microsoft wanted phones and tablets to look like desktops, and it didn't work. Now they want desktops to look like phones and tablets. I predict it won't work.

Windows hasn't changed it's layout from 1995 for a reason, people know it and they don't want it to change. Many people still hate the Ribbon on Office just because it's different from what they were used to. Now they built Metro, which is radically different, and expect people to love it because it has Windows on the name. They just don't get it, the 90's are over and you can't do whatever you want without alienating your customers.
A social behavior that's been around in nearly all societies in the world? Human nature came first and shaped our society, not the other way around. Anything that goes against human nature usually ends up in failure and/or many deaths (Communism, extreme socialism, etc). We need to learn to embrace it and use it to our advantage.

There was a study done sometime back at a Swedish university (I can't find the link at the moment) where they had the same mindset as you. A family raised a son and totally removed all male-oriented things from his life. They even gave him dolls to play with. He ended up gravitating towards male-centric things and they stopped the study.
Tablets aren't a niche anymore; Apple sold 17 million iPads last quarter, greater than the number of computers that #2 PC vendor HP sold.
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