skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You need to be careful going around labelling people like that just because they made an assumption.

1) Actually, I think you want to be a lot more careful about labelling people as "must be X" because of their gender than about labelling them as "made a sexist comment" because they maybe made a sexist comment. It is actually still worse to be a victim of sexism than to be called a sexist.

2) Having core sexist beliefs isn't a prerequisite for making a sexist comment. You can have a momentary sexist thought without consciously believing that women are inferior to men or anything like that - in fact, momentary sexist thoughts are almost inevitable if you're in a culture where sexism is pervasive, no matter who you are. Moreover, a comment can be sexist even if it is made with completely innocent intentions, if it predictably has the effect of (re)enforcing hierarchical gender roles. Sexism is not an ideology, it's a social structure.

You can do "s/sexism/racism/g" for all of the above as well.
Thanks for catching this nico-- looks like it's been removed from Google.
if modern UK life was a video game, "male" would be an easier difficulty level than "female".

Can you explain this in concrete terms? This meme is repeated often, but few people actually explain what it means.

Taking it literally, it would suggest that monsters receive +20% elemental resistance when women attack them with an ice-infused mace. But that's probably not what you mean.

There are statistically less problems for the "male" group.

If we are discussing statistical incidence of problems, why choose "male" and "female" as your reference classes? Why not simply choose incidence of problems as the variable to slice on?

This definition is harder for some people to accept...

It's not the definition that is hard to accept. If this was a definitional problem, we'd quickly find ourselves here:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/

Your "definition" contains implicit claims about the world which you haven't justified (i.e., it's a definition + assertions).
> We didn't exactly live in in a totalitarian regime

Ironically that is something that people allude to with regards to Chomsky (ironic because of his anarchist political beliefs); cf. the book the Linguistics Wars. The bottom line is that his theories were very dominant, not because of overwhelming empirical support, but because of his authority.
... and why is it not obvious? just curious..
It would've also had a discrete GPU which would add much more to the total cost than a bigger HDD.
Transferwise looks like a pretty cool startup.

Are you guys cheaper than Oanda? Do you plan to offer GBP->USD? (As a US citizen working in London, this is all I want.)
A great primal app coming up
The lure of exclusivity
<economics>

I'm echoing the feelings of a lot of others in this comment thread. Moaning about price of something but buying it anyway is a pointless exercise. By buying the product you're sending a clear signal that they can continue to charge the same price.

Part of me also wants the title to include the word 'please'—since this is a request, not a demand.

And, indeed, there are many products sold by companies where the per-item margin is huge compared to the materials cost. Perfume, designer clothing, fancy cars…and software. But we buy perfume anyway because we have lots of money but no perfume, and would rather have some perfume and a little less (but still lots of) money.

I'm reminded of an economics joke I once heard. An economist and his friend are walking past a concert hall. The friend turns to the economist and says "you know, I always wanted to learn how to play an instrument," to which the economist responds "clearly not."
Can we please stop with this post-Jobs "Apple isn't the same" nonsense. Jobs was ALIVE when almost all of these products were in the pipeline. He said so in his biography.

Also your quotes about the Mini just shows your complete lack of understanding of how the iOS ecosystem works. It is 1024x768 for a very specific reason. iPad apps work unchanged. And it is because Apple is very deliberate with resolutions that the iPad apps are far, far superior to the Android scaled up rubbish.
Probability - Server Monitoring - Cross Validated
It reminds me of this guy from Germany who told us that nomad workers are only abusing other people places...
> literally a car running on water.

No, your car would run on electricity.

But why would you want a car that takes electricity and charges up an internal hydrogen fuel tank, then uses that to fuel a combustion engine, when you might as well have an electric car where you fill up the battery, then use that to power an electric engine.

The fundamentals of a car don't change. You need to store energy in the car somehow, and you need to convert that energy into movement somehow.

The benefits of a regular car is that the "store energy in car" part is very easy. You just fill it up at the gas station. The benefits of an electric car is that "convert to movement" is very easy, because electrical engines are very simple.

I completely understand that if you have a fueled up hydrogen-powered vehice, it's awesome - it runs on water!!! - but what do you need to do to get there? And how much energy is lost in conversions along the way? It simply doesn't solve any problems in a better way.
Men of HN: please tell more people what you think is and isn't sexist. It's good, your input on the matter is valuable and important.
I don't see much use in a definition of "functional language" that includes nearly every computer language. We already have a term for that.
Combinators - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS/CSS3) - Part 25
The author glosses over the fact that encoding of special characters in the hash is broken in firefox. As an application there's no way to know if you're getting the data you want or url encoded data. Base64 encoding (with replacing chars like $ which most im and email clients fail to autodetect as being part of the url) seems to be the only bet at the moment. Putting the data in the get request and ignoring it on the server also seems to work well.
Microsoft Is Reportedly Testing Its Own Smartphone
http://paulgraham.com/articles.html

You are welcome, dude.
You don't think an image of Muhammad where he's wearing a bomb for a turban is derogatory?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptions_of_the_Jyllands-Po...
This reminds me of the URLs generated by Oracle's Application Express (which is my main source of income at the moment).

And you wind up using cookies anyhow to cross-check (ApEx does), because real applications tend to require authorisation as well as application state.

So, to recap:

1. Uglier URLs

2. Cookies anyway.
One more rule... While you type your PIN, cover your typing hand with your free hand to thwart card skimmer cameras. This won't prevent keypad overlays from recording the PIN, but those are more expensive and more rare.
Europe approves high-price gene therapy
I've traveled to more than a dozen countries over the past two years and I've NEVER seen an ATM that asks me what currency I want to be charged in...
I argued that if you only have associations with previous experiences, you won't be able to deal with novel input. Ergo, you need more than just associations (synthesis, imagination, counterfactual reasoning, etc.).

As to your second question, I don't see how it relates to my argument, but I'll answer anyway. If you're comparing a observation to a random number, you're looking at the observation qua value, in which case it has the same status. If, however, you look at the level of interpretation (what it means in your brain), the observation has a complex set of relations with the rest of your brain and gives rise to a perception, wheres the random number value is just noise that has to be tolerated by the brain.
The best definition I've seen for what constitutes a game is this: A game is an experience created by rules.

That captures what distinguishes a game (as an artform) from other media. You could throw in some qualifiers to perhaps narrow it down (is paying your taxes a a game?) but it's not really necessary.
For those that have studied physics in depth:

The article says: "5,000 times less dense than water, and six times lighter than air"… so what does it mean by lighter than air exactly? I presume in means that if it were in a vacuum that it would have less mass than whatever its outside edges of volume would be?

That seems misleading since if you break the material down to the smallest piece, then compared air volume to that piece it wouldn't actually be lighter right?

Am I thinking about this correctly?
What Hackers Never Learned About the Presidential Candidates
I work for a corporate, we work in cubicles. The buildings are all the same. The floors are all the same. You just feel like a number. Because you feel like a number it's impossible to innovate, to feel energised. Your working environment is so key to how you operate - people forget this. I for one wished I worked in a more engaging office..
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New article reviewed in Kanban Library: Kanban Evolution
Hi @mherdeg,

Thanks for your comment and nice words. We're constantly working on new currencies and USD definitely high on our priority list. If you drop us an email to support [at] transferwise [dot] com we'll let you know as soon as it goes live. ;)
Tell me how you help.

My project already has a purpose and mission.

I acknowledge you are different.

Now you have to bring substance to the table and save the rest for home.

Bottom line. Stay off my lawn.
> But it's my only option, so I am going to have to pay it now aren't I.

No it isn't your only option. Third party SSD have been available for a while now.
I'm sure it's already rendered to a static presentation-level (HTML/template language du jour) form at that point. That wouldn't work.
This is pure self-selecting pricing: it's neither new nor restricted to Apple.

The premise is simple: your market is divided into a very large spectrum of spending ability. So the most efficient way to charge each customer the best possible price is to simply let them select it themselves. For obvious reasons, you cannot sell the same product at each price, so some improvement is necessary at each upgrade. Quite often the upgrade is a token one, but sometimes people do need the extra features offered.

I see this all the time at restaurants, car dealerships, insurance companies and pretty much any other time someone is trying to sell me something.
It's very possible they would, but the brand has been built around premium, luxury products rather than smaller margins and it's doing well for them (see the cash pile that Smaug guards).
How is "4" not a completely arbitrary cutoff point?
I was told once by a prominent OpenBSD developer that, "threads are for idiots" in response to a bug report that I had made with regard to a threaded program crashing. This was many years ago. I got a laugh from it at the time. Now that I'm older, I sort of feel that he was right.
Well, these phones haven't had the hype machine of either of those two behind them, which can manipulate demand to some extent.

Either way it seems that there is significant demand here, even if it's not at the same level as the 4.x inch devices.
Yes, the island of Dr. Moreau. Wells was hardly a member of the great unwashed masses, yet he perceived the dangers of this particular line of research over a century ago. It might be worth a read - scientists are often not the best people to pass judgement on the ethics of their own activities.
How Georgia doxed a Russian hacker (and why it matters)
Proper continuous integration using Github
Artificial 'misting system' allows vanished toad to be reintroduced
In Kuala Lumpur Samsung had ads calling it a phablet.
I wish people/mods would add dates to PG's articles - I can never tell whether it's a new one or just something from the archives. Still interesting though.
Right, and this is my fundamental issue with the software industry. If we were paid 2 or 3 times as much, we'd be assigned to do higher-impact work. The reason 90% of software engineers are assigned to bullshit is that our compensation is so low that it can make economic sense to put us on the sort of low-impact stuff that companies never have the sense to drop in favor of more ambitious, more interesting projects.

Since the 1960s, we've been approaching (but waveringly, with backward motion from 1973 to 2008) what some call the "Singularity", but it's actually a more prosaic shift: a movement from the late industrial era (3-6%/year economic growth) to a technological one where 10%/year (or better) growth is not out of the question. The first sign of it is what I call the convexity switch. The input-output curve of a worker used to be concave, with the A-players producing 120, your B's producing 110, your C's at 100, your D's at 60 and your F's (slackers) at 0. Intimidation-based management and closed allocation (which are performance-middling, bringing down the best and up the worst) made sense in a time where one slacker cancelled out 2-5 A players (relative to the C standard). But we're moving into a different era where that curve is convex: your A's produce 1000, B's produce 250, C's produce 50, and the D's and F's produce virtually nothing. The traditional, mediocrity-oriented management model used by MBA programs, McKinsey, and typical software management doesn't work anymore, and no one (except, perhaps, the leaders of Valve and Github) has any clue what to do.

The issue for us is the expectancy-variance trade-off. The effect of "lean" management post-1975 was to make individual managers (and workers) more accountable for local performance, the result being that no one was paying attention to global, company-wide concerns. Everyone started becoming a lot more careerist, job tenures decreased, et cetera. People optimized for local performance and especially for low variance, because underperformance is punished more severely (firing) than high performance is rewarded (usually, small bonuses, if the high performance is noticed at all). Bosses no longer worked for "the company" or were rewarded for abstract contributions that make the whole firm a better place, but instead were measured by their bosses, and on a tight timeframe. It became more about "individual accountability" and less about actual value creation. The results favor low-variance work. In a concave world, this actually works very well, because low variance is observed at the top of the output curve. This means the work is reliable and meets expectations, and the interchangeable parts fit together well with no surprises. But in a convex world, the top of the output curve is more highly variable, so the result of low-variance management strategies is abysmally low bulk output. It doesn't look abysmally low-- software engineers are still contributing $200-400k per year of business value-- but it's terrible in comparison to what would be possible if the allowance for variance were higher.
Sand Hill Road wants cheaper, imported labor:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/u-immigration-po...
(Today's news, less than one week before the election, with mass unemployment. "We can't find workers with right skills". WTF? U.S. multi-billionaires can't do "on the job training" ???? )

Americans have been underbid and now Americans must pay.
Shouldn't mass be increasing as light slows down?
I first ran into the Note when it was only in South Korea. Everybody who owned one was significantly active: a construction site manager, an architect with a kid (who used it extensively for site sketches), a mother of 2, a couple college kids, a salesman with extensive travel requirements...not to mention that the best way of getting around in Seoul is pretty much on foot and public transport.

I will say that most of them also carried around a pre-charged second battery since finding charge points can be a problem when out and about in a big city (without holing up at a coffee shop (if you can find a plug) for an hour).

They all loved it, and one of their friends with an S3 was planning on "upgrading" to it. It was a little big for small pockets, but was perfectly fine holding and using it if you can get over the requirement of only using one hand to operate a phone (I haven't used one hand ever, even with my old flipphones back in the day).

It did look a little funky being used as a phone, but when lots of people have one it tends to look more normal.
From their own blog:

FogBugz, Kiln and Copilot continue to run on backup power,
Trello moving to Amazon AWS

http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/fogbugz-kiln-and-copilot-...
True, it really isn't. It is just different and a little weird with commands like 'a a'. After the first time you know all the letters and what partitions to lay down.
Would be interested to hear some product insight on how you guys think the 11kclub product compares with "Lily Cole's Impossible".
A Case for Email: Why I Just Started an Email Newsletter
Yeah, that jarred me too. The author's dad is a farmer, and her go-to example of a job that requires stamina is...porn star? The fuck?
It wouldn't be Apple if they didn't overcharge.
"low status" Men who value other's opinions of them over voicing their real feelings.

How many comments in this thread asked the OP "what projects have you worked on", "what have you contributed as a woman?".

Why? Because the larger issue isn't woman. It's "Nice guy" syndrome. Deferring to woman, being "pc", repressing opinions. The book No More Mr. Nice Guy (http://www.amazon.com/No-More-Mr-Nice-Guy/dp/0762415339) is a great read on this.

As for the OP. I don't care about your gender or race. I want to know what you code. I want you to be great. But will not enable my fellow men nor you to be weak prima donnas.

We have a destiny. We owe it to our children not to show such weakness.
Same here - I can only recall one point at which I was asked.
Why won’t Roche release its data on flu drug Tamiflu?
This article seemed very familiar, and I found the original article where a lot of the quotes/text came from, 'The Making of Goldeneye' from may 2011 [1]

[1]: http://www.nowgamer.com/features/921602/the_making_of_golden...
>do AWS Provisioned IOPS guarantee this?

no.

closest thing to a citation from AWS here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=370381#...
As I understand it, PIOPS lets you specify the maximum throughput you are willing to pay for. It has no bearing on the latency/throughput you will see below the amount of IOPS that have been provisioned - you will still see latency spikes.

To answer the question added in the edit - no, PIOPS will not improve your database performance, as far as I can tell from the available information and my own benchmarks.
I think the license is worded rather poorly and that's unfortunate. I think it would be better worded as this: if you create a port/version/mod of Shen, it must be able to execute spec-compliant Shen code. That's it. You can do all the changes, experimentation, etc. so long as it is somehow capable of executing stock Shen code, it's allowed. I think that means that you can even have a flag that toggles between "standard-compliant" and "everything-works-different" because anyone with Shen code can set the flag to "standard-compliant" and run their code. So that situation would be fully compliant with that license.
Quick question: why does he do this?

int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
(void)argc;
(void)argv;

I've programmed C while in school, but I don't remember ever seeing this and I'm not sure how to google it.
I'm not sure this is even Turing complete considering the limitation he mentions:

>The main limitation is that you need to know the size of the return value.
The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market & State
Cover article: http://railslove.com/blog/2012/11/02/introducing-listen-l8r-...
Email is one of those mediums that people are always predicting the death of, but it seems to carry on and rather than die a slow death, instead grow and grow. Some people will never realise it, but email is far and away the best way to connect with ordinary humans rather than geeks.
... Take your racism somewhere else.

Or provide some empirical data that proves that your not just an ignorant racist.

EDIT (in light of response): My apologies if this is indeed sarcasm. No need to take that somewhere else, instead I can take my 'complete lack of understanding sarcasm' somewhere else. :)
It stops the compiler from complaining about unused variables:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8052091/void-cast-of-argc...
Yeah, multiplayer without a unified sense of "time" doesn't seem to work very well...
My point was more that they may be charging less than the market will pay. If lower margins on the better models result in a sufficient increase in upgrade participation, they capture more of the economic surplus.

It's likely that the $100 bumps are just fine, but I don't see that $50 bumps would do much to dilute their brand (especially given the total lack of visible differentiation between the models).
If you ask for local currency, then the bank has nothing to do but ask your bank to pay the amount you wished + hidden fee for the operation. The exchange rate used to debit your account will be of your bank for this moment.

In countries like India or Russia this fee could be up to 20% from the amount requested for foreign cards.

If you're asking for a currency exchange, you will be charged for this operation separately. The exchange rate will be what this particular ATM is programmed with.

Any bank charge extra for each operation.)
GuerillaPatch: Monkey patch objects using Ruby 2.0 refinements, if available.
Nobody gets to decide, but I don't think determining that an iPad is a luxury item takes a heroic feat of line drawing.
Just finished the game, it perfectly simulates contractions and time dillation on a 2D surface, check it out.
Tail-call elimination is a feature of the language environment, not of the language itself.
Philippe-Starck-Designed Yacht for Steve Jobs is Completed
Thank you olalonde for posting this. It comes at a perfect time for me as I am in the process of evaluating my own career and this article hits the nail on the head in so many ways. I work for a non-technical CEO at a small startup and perhaps I am not a great hacker (as Paul says, 'I don't know'), but I do know that the non-tech CEO - hacker relationship is one fraught with peril regardless of how good "friends" the two people are outside of work.
I think that the point the guy is trying to make is that there is nothing sexist about this. If I saw a new guy at work with a beard, jumbo sized cup of coffee, glasses sitting in front of a dual monitor setup, I would assume that he is a programmer. Does that make me sexist against men? Or prejudiced against people with beards or coffee drinkers?

There's an old saying which appears to have been lost somewhere along the way:

"Offense can only be taken"

Live by it and you will never be offended. It is not the job of everybody around you to constantly walk on eggshells just to keep you happy. You are not at the center of the universe, after all.
I hadn't heard of this story. Just looking at it now and will get back to you. At a first glance it seems we place more emphasis on bartering and exclusivity but looks like she's done a great thing. Thanks for sharing this - look forward to reading up on her project.