skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think someone that doesn't have the guts to walk up to another and say "cut that out" would have the guts to walk up and hand them a card effectively saying the same thing in text?

Personally I find the "just say something to them" approach to be far _less_ confrontational, you can do it discretely and one on one or perhaps just the small local group hears it. Handing someone a bright red/yellow card in what is likely a crowded area creates a spectacle. Many others know what is occurring, lots of pointing and whispering occurs, etc. This puts the receiver in a much more confrontational mindset especially if the receiver feels they did nothing wrong, now they don't have to defend themselves to you alone but to anyone within vision of the hand off, how would the receiver do that without really causing a scene?
The last example was pretty weak. I fixed the example to show multiple asynchronous function calls running in parallel.
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If it is just flirty, no it is not creepy. I am flirty, assertive and generally "a type" in a lot of social settings. I get rejected plenty. I've never been labeled as a creeper for this. I have become platonic friends with the women who I met by flirting with them, but weren't interested in my advances.

The creepy label is not about "some guy who isn't attractive to me is flirting with me". It is about "some guy keeps flirting/making advances even though I am not interested". And before the standard replies start cropping up:

* I am not a particularly attractive male

* I am not a mind reader

* I am not some sort of atypical nerd with "great natural social skills too"

* I am not just ignorant of what is said behind my back.

Basically, if you want to flirt without risking creepy, keep a few things in mind:

* Learn to understand non-verbal communication, it is 90% of flirting.

* Never (at first anyway) be overly direct. This is a 2 person mutual decision/consent game. At no point should you make the other person feel they have no input into the direction of interaction. Always start flirting subtle, because it respects the other person's right to reciprocate or disengage without confrontation or needing to defend them-self.

* It is ok if they aren't interested. It doesn't make you a creep in their mind, you being a creep makes that happen. Just back off as soon as you are aware of disinterest (see first bullet), continued flirtation after disinterest is communicated is what gets people the creep label.

* There are appropriate times and places for flirtation. Outside of that, creep label is a high probability. Learn these :)

I guess all of this is to say: being creepy isn't about flirting when a woman isn't attracted, it's about not following the socially OK norms of flirting and not respecting the rejection)

Final note: some women do just label guys who flirt creeps, just as some men label all women outside of church as "whores". They are not the norm, and don't worry about it, some people are just different, or hurt, or whatever, but it doesn't make their reality your reality.
Compared to being a woman, it is not difficult to be a guy. I'm not sure how you can look at this article about how so many women get sexually assaulted or harassed at tech conventions and think, "It's so tough being a guy."

Not all women are looking for a hookup every time they leave their house. If you hit on a girl at a convention, and she thinks you're creepy, it's your fault. You shouldn't be hitting on her.

You might come back with, "But what about all those girls who say it's creepy for one guy to hit on them but it's attractive for another? How am I supposed to know if I'm the creepy guy or not?"

To which I would reply... How many times has that happened to you? How many times have you been called creepy by a gal at a bar only to have her run off with another, more attractive guy who gave her the same exact line? I'd guess that happens pretty rarely, right? Maybe never?
The two games that interest me from this bundle, Spacechem and Uplink, were already in previous bundles (though not for android) so I think I'll be passing on this one even though I've bought most of the previous ones.
I knew it! Roughly a year ago I was driving home from work at night. My registration was expired by a few days, and I drove past an officer in a parking lot. As I was passing him, I knew my plate was expired, so I was looking at his plate to see if I would be able to determine from that distance if the plates were expired. So I was scrutinizing his plates to see how much detail I could see. I have better than 20/20 eyesight, and I knew there was no way I could see that level of detail at the distance he was at. So imagine my surprise when he comes after me immediately and pulls me over.

More out of curiosity than anything I asked him how he knew my plate was expired, his response was "I have really good eyes". I've thought back on that experience over the last year, and I knew the technology for reading a license plate wasn't hard, but I didn't know how widespread the use was. After reading this piece and seeing the picture of those cameras, which are mounted in that area, I'd bet they are using it to give expired registration tickets too.
If those ops are register-register, how are they necessarily not-RISC?

Yes, division is inherently more complex than bitwise NAND, but it's not obvious to me where the line is that you find so clear.

FWIW, I've seen a very serious architecture proposal that used two instructions for memory-reads. (It had one instruction for memory writes.) Along those lines, register-value fetch can be moved into a separate instruction....
It's often a good idea to research how well hardware will work for your intended use before you pay money for it.
FlightFox allows you to specify frequent flyer miles and apparently some experts do take that into account.
Is this so they can say they did it, not us?
The submitted blog post from Google says, "Since 2005, we’ve collaborated with hundreds of transit authorities around the world to make a comprehensive resource for millions of riders to find out which bus, train, subway or tram can take them to their next destination." And I will note for the record that in the Twin Cities in Minnesota, where the transit provider is Metro Transit, Google Maps has been for at least two years a BETTER interface for looking up transit trips with easier usability than the Metro Transit website. I have discovered many interesting public transportation connections between unlikely places at unlikely hours of the day by searching Google Maps for my trips.

The bicycle information is also unmatched, and very helpful in the number-one bicycling city in the United States.

http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/1-bike-city-m...

On 8 October 2010, I had a very gratifying reply from the Google Maps team after reporting a problem with many of the Google Maps bicycling directions in Minneapolis:

"Your Google Maps problem report has been reviewed, and you were right! We'll update the map soon and email you when you can see the change.

"Report history
"Problem ID: A12D-84A0-3A9F-A05E

"Your report: Many biking directions to locations on the West Bank campus of the University of Minnesota from suburban locations west of Minneapolis mistakenly go across the Mississippi River to the East Bank campus, even when the correct destination address is entered to select the bike route."

I was glad they fixed the problem, and especially glad about the friendly way their follow-up was communicated to me. It is this kind of response to a user error report that makes me eager to tell friends about Google Maps and leads me to tend to forget that there are still other companies in the geographical information business. Similarly, after I made a couple of suggestions to Google, it seems that Google has systematically improved its once APPALLING mapping of youth soccer fields in Minnesota, crucial for me as the parent of three "travel" soccer players.
If the UK really is threatening that, then that is more evidence that the Swedish charges are politically motivated rather than being from an actual crime.
Automotive airbags are inflated with an explosive which has Nitrogen gas as the majority byproduct, it's rare for actual compressed Nitrogen to be used.

As to why they chose Helium for this application, it's hard to say. It might mean that they are compressing the gas to very high pressures which would result in liquifaction of other gases, but that's just speculation.
What's wrong with the article, again?

A whole lot of emotive verbiage burying two salient facts:

1. The "buy" button was hidden. People who wanted to pay couldn't find it. People didn't even know there was anything to pay for.

2. The app has been out a week. Users haven't had time to play thru the free content and develop any desire for [unknown (see #1)] paid content.

Made near all users sound like Scroogeish tightwads. Unfair.
Your statement is more sensible and on the fence. She's implying men are the root of women's problems in tech. That there is a conspiracy to marginalize.

Women have broken into countless so-called "boys clubs". Doctors, lawyers, marketing, etc... How is tech an exceptionally hostile environment towards women?
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>And as an aside: I have to admit I had no clue what "doxxing" was either and had to look it up. I'll straight up admit that kind of jargon turned me off. Trying to communicate to the broader community using language specifci to your little enclave is just poor persuasion tactics.

Same here, but I'm thinking the "little enclave" is youtube. Several hundred videos have discussed doxing/doxxing in the past year, so it may be assumed to be common knowledge there among the more active vloggers. She makes youtube videos and she seems to be appealing solely to a youtube audience since it's a youtube specific issue (again, this is just a transcript).

I'm agreeing with you on most everything else. I don't particularly care for her legal approach here, but I don't think what she said should be ignored because of novel word usage either.
What does it take to tell the audience what the cost of using your site would be?
Ah, understood.

I would like to see some sort of experiment between using these cards and slapping someone— although, slapping is pretty rare. What happens most of the time is the woman feels incredibly unsafe and awkward while she tries to understand the reason all those people are just watching her get assaulted.

So really, if you see this behavior, please step in. Tell the asshole he needs to get out. Make it known his behavior isn't appropriate.
There are plenty of bars where, if that's how drunk people act, and the bar staff has any sense, then the drunk people get kicked out. The drunk people get kicked out because it's bad for business, i.e. if people are made to feel unsafe (and I think that's a far better term to use than "are offended") and their only option is to leave, the bar loses the business of many people opting out in favor of one or more drunk assholes. There are some obvious parallels here that, IMHO, only help the argument that bad behavior should be called out and corrected, not seen as a fact of life.
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Fair point. But having said data is only the first step. Routing and directions based on the data is another.

That list looks really short though.
Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative)
And the whole wiki (hit the homepage) is comparisons of things. Some are technologies, but it's more than just that.

Pretty slick.
Do you really exist in such a vacuum that you haven't seen the problems geek culture has with women? Nobody here's going to do your reading for you. Head over to Google, type in "the problem with geek culture", and get reading.

There's also a great bunch of geek feminist blogs, which work to educate on problems in the community. Two particularly fantastic ones are Captain Awkward (http://captainawkward.com/) and Pervocracy (http://pervocracy.blogspot.ca/). You say you don't just want a fight, well here's your homework.
It's no more aftermarket than InnoDB support is.
Go is a web language in the sense that its a great "networking" language. Its not gonna replace JS in the browser any time soon, but it does handle concurrency and everything large scale server side really (and I do mean really) well. Personally, from my limited (only been using / testing for couple months or so) experimentation with it, I think its a great lang for networking, building distributed services, and its concurrency primitives are clean and just fun.
The series of tweets from https://twitter.com/abcnews (Australian Broadcasting Corp):

- #Breaking Wikileaks founder Julian Assange granted asylum in Ecuador

- #BREAKING: British Government won't guarantee Julian Assange safe passage to airport to leave for Ecuador #assange

- Clarification - Ecuador wants to give Assange asylum, but Britain is refusing to grant safe passage #breaking #wikileaks

- Ecuador Foreign Minister says they received a letter from British govt threatening to enter embassy & arrest Assange if he's not handed over
Saw a demo of this where the dummy fell off the front of a bike and the dummy fell right on its face. The helmet doesn't seem to protect the dummy's forehead, not getting all the way in front of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Oud3iGXWY&feature=playe...
My initial impression was that this wouldn't be commercially viable in the US due to prohibitive bicycle helmet laws. Well to my surprise, bike helmet laws in the US are actually pretty lax, with only 21 states requiring them (and usually only for younger riders): http://www.iihs.org/laws/HelmetUseCurrent.aspx
It appears under UK law the Prime Minister could denounce the embassy as no longer Ecuadorian territory.

The UK government has 'reminded' Ecuador of this fact in an attempt to influence their decision.
I worked on a team that created embedded flight data recorders for U.S. Army helicopters that used JSON as a configuration format.
The comic introducing this initiative: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_museum
I don't know about the situation in the Midwest, but where I live, all the public transit providers offer excellent apps (and they're free!).
Absolute disgrace.
The demise of gcc has begun. Not because I don't particularly like C++ but because the folks actually have an interest to gradually start moving a C codebase into C++ as if they didn't have better things to do. Sure, some syntactic things will look cleaner (let's just exclude those that will look uglier for the sake of fairness)--in five years or whenever their transition could be considered complete.
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Medium, the New Thing From the Twitter Guys, Is... Wait, What, Exactly?
So you replace a bike helmet with something you wear around your neck instead. That seems less comfortable and more annoying that just wearing a normal helmet. Plus you could get a very comfortable helmet for much less than $600.
Marketing - by far the most difficult phase to tackle if you don't have experience with it. Breaking through the noise is a major factor to success.
It's somewhat unprecedented, but has happened in the past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission

It's important to know that as the article points out Embassies do not enjoy full extraterritorial status, and contrary to popular belief are not sovereign.

The practice of the host country entering only with permission is based in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and a violation of this would likely have no real material effect. That convention also requires the host country to protect the embassy and other rules. It is unlikely that the UK's allies would object, and even more unlikely that the country in question here would mount any serious diplomatic or military response.

As always power benefits the powerful.
It'll be interesting to see how this industry will adapt as cars become more automated.
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One-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy 'an inspiration'
An interesting idea. I wonderf if this means Go is destined for "greatness".
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From the article:

"The law which Britain is threatening to invoke in the Assange case is the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987.

It allows the UK to revoke the diplomatic immunity of an embassy on UK soil, which would potentially allow police to enter the building to arrest Mr Assange."

If they do that it wouldn't be an act of war, it would be legal. It definitely sets a terrible precedent though and even if it's legal Ecuador might interpret it as an act of war.
"I suppose they do technically succeed - in getting women with low self esteem to sleep with them through manipulation and "pickup artist" techniques."

"How successful do you think they are with bright, intelligent, worthwhile women who have their act together."

This trope is bullshit. People who respond to methods that you disapprove of are somehow less worthy people? Where's your evidence for this? This sort of insult shouldn't be any more welcome than the behavior this thread is supposed to be about.
It's great that the new async feature is made official now.

Off topic:
Is that team in the picture behind VS and .NET? That seems extremely a small number of developers out there. I was expecting at least a few hundreds of people.
This is not an API. An API would be a service that takes these feeds in, parses it, and makes it easily query able by different factors.
I am astonished that they shipped VS 2010 knowing that it took over 20 seconds after launch to start editing VB code.

Kudos for the improvement, though.
"In Germany privacy issues tend to get blown out of proportion."

Gosh, I wonder why? I mean, what is it about German history - in particular - that would trigger such powerful negative reactions to the technical foundations of a surveillance state?

Hummm....

Nope, no idea.
It's actually quite the opposite. Scouring the internet is what you have to do to find Windows software. With UNIX-like systems the software is more organised and more often than not packaged for you in respositories.

There is no need for Flash. There never was. With a UNIX-like system you can download any video and play it at your leisure. No slow starts, hiccups, timeouts, or whatever annoyances people tolerate with Flash.

The video is a file. You get the file and play it. Simple.

I would guess there are some video formats that Windows Media Player, not to mention other Windows video players, will still choke on. This does not happen with Mplayer (which is also available for Windows, but is truly a UNIX-style program).

And of course audio can be extracted from any video. Youtube is like a giant Napster. But the mp3's are hidden in flv/mp4/3gp/webm/etc, and Youtube has better lawyers.

My youtube downloader is 30 lines of sed and can use any tcp client (wget, curl, whatever -- there are so many). It takes me about 15 minutes to write and could probably be smaller. But there are plenty of more complex solutions, e.g., there's a nice one done in Lua called quvi.

It is trivial to set up a server that takes the youtube watch?v= url and returns the download url for the video file.

Obviously this probably makes some people uncomfortable. But this is how the web works. Anything that is uploaded can be downloaded. IMO, it's more respectable to try to be honest than lying to people that video can be "protected" from download by using some convoluted Flash scheme.

Flash is fading into obsolescence. Youtube is getting stronger every day. And the lesson from that is clear, at least to me.

And as for all thos people who love the concept of "streaming", youtube still uses progressive _download_.

If I want "streaming" I download to a file on a ramdisk and let Mplayer read from that file as the download progresses. With a fast connection, using ffmpeg to do the download will allow you to do transcoding on the fly if you need it. Mplayer gives flawless playback, every time.

Can we say the same for Windows?
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>> Not sure what you mean by your ELB/HTTPS comment. ELB can be used as an HTTPS terminator. It will then proxy traffic to your backend as HTTP.

That's what I mean. In that mode it's sending traffic that should be HTTPS over HTTP.
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Opening you up for injection attacks? Only if you're using a language that doesn't support parametrized queries/prepared statements. Add ORMs to that, and you are using an API to talk to your database.
Not sure how registration works where you are, in Calif (and other states) the yearly registration sticker is color coded by year. So, while they may have sought to read the "month" sticker, they might have just looked for the color of the tag as an indicator.
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Maybe the container which holds the gas has to be small so helium would require a smaller storage container which is able to fill the volume of the device.
On a stretch of highway near where I live, they have installed 'average speed' cameras. These are cameras roughly 20 miles apart, and they read your plate as you drive through, then read it again when you leave. If your time between the two cameras is too short, you get a speeding ticket in the mail.

The worst part about it is that, in order to make it effective, they closed several highway exits so that people couldn't short-cut the system by taking an exit before the second camera.

While I don't like excessive speeding, I think this is just revenue farming rather than a public safety initiative, and all the assurances about the data being safe just don't wash with me.
This one has a GPS like device made of only CSS: http://geeksigner.com/clients/egl/
I'd think the real question is whether you'd be allowed to market it as a a "bike helmet". Will it pass ANSI certifications for helmets, like my "real" helmet did?
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Well said! Thanks for reading and glad you could relate to the post.
"Do you really think someone that doesn't have the guts to walk up to another and say "cut that out" would have the guts to walk up and hand them a card effectively saying the same thing in text?"

Of course. An agreed structure around confrontation reduces the barriers and makes the whole thing easier. That's true of most interactions, not just confrontation.
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Interesting lesson on SEO
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>The market has settled at $ZERO.

You're wrong. There are plenty of paid applications sold on the App Store that make decent money. One of my paid applications is bringing in enough to live on, with little maintenance, and without being on any of the App Store charts.

Aside from blind Apple hate, what exactly are basing your argument that the App Store is filled with hopeless developers and un-sustainable business? Do you have any evidence that the ratio of unsuccessful business ventures is any higher on the App Store than in any other walk of life?
Whoa whoa whoa hold it. 'Hitting on' is not groping or sexual assault. I'm sure you didn't strawman that on purpose but it's still a strawman.
Neat, but it's fixing a problem that doesn't really exist.

Bike Helmets are reliable and inexpensive. This thing isn't. How about putting it on the bike itself, or on other parts of the wearer's body, so that it works in coordination with the helmet.
Hostile I am, but constructively so. They should not feel so entitled to have everyone fall for them, simply because they "deserve" to be loved.

They (being anyone who thinks "women love jerks" is an acceptable thing to say undigested) need to step way back and think about why they find themselves in this position without blaming women for not wanting them as they are.
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Ok, I'll just put this out here.

https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas
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