skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The line is not imaginary. See this very thread for examples of people bullied for choosing the "wrong" toys. If you build a toy that more girls than boys like, that's one thing. If your marketing says (either implicitly or explicitly) "this toy is for Girls", kids will pick up on that, and they will enforce it too.

The results last lifetimes. It results in adults unable to even see the exclusion as anything more than "grouping by appeal to typical girlish sensibilities". Which views they in turn pass on to their children, continuing the cycle.

Think about the world you want your daughter to live in. Do you want her to be told that "hacking is for boys" because tech appeals to more "typically boyish sensibilities"? No? Then look for the fundamental gender discriminations bullshit like that rests upon.
> What if the #4 priority suddenly catches fire?

Then it may (or may not) become your #1 priority!

> If you change your focus to #4, isn't that just multitasking?

No, because you have to question which should be the new #1 priority: the old #4 or the old #1? You can still only do one thing at a time; we only have one body and one brain[1].

[1] As of 2012, that is!
Yes and no. If you were playing the kind of games we used to have in the Core 2 Duo days, then, yes, this kind of game would be GPU-limited. (Note, I don't mean get a 10 year old game and try playing it, I mean those games updated to run on today's graphics engines).

But today's games involve a completely different paradigm. Almost all the games today have such a huge focus on open worlds and modeling the interaction between hundreds of thousands of objects in real time. Even the most GPU-intensive such games can still realize bigger FPS gains with a CPU upgrade than a GPU upgrade.
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It's certainly harder to get funding but by no means impossible. The likes of Stefan Glaeznar in London is a good example of someone with the capital, experience and willingness to invest in early stage start-ups.
Functional programming doesn't shun mutable state. It shuns global state, which is not the same thing. Mutability is well-supported even in very stringently functional languages such as Haskell.
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We were YC S10, and yes, we copied YC's site design significantly (we acknowledge this on our FAQ: https://www.hackerschool.com/faq).
Why does it seem like most comments on this site are from the the guy in the new microsoft commercial.

To answer your 1st question, I'm upset most black media don't talk tech or have tech sections.

I have 5 websites, you can't have 5 paypal accounts, So yes it goes to my main paypal account.
I've made payments for plenty of items where the paypal account didn't match the site name.

At one point I had it as gamerholic/freetawn/citizen50/dreamybids but that was a bit much.

The bad spelling sure, That's one me.

Of course the example search is staged, that's why it's an EXAMPLE SEARCH.

The part to monitor homeless donations is on the WHATS NEXT tab. As in in the FUTURE.

Yes, off course, I made it so obvious, I paid to incorporate ehustla llc just so I can to hustle you out of $10.
Then paid for ehustla.com and put a my picture and a video up so no one will ever know who ehustla is.

As far as the value of the sticker, I'm 100% positive any law enforcement officer who is race profiling
will be deterred from profiling that specific driver since they know their count will be tallied.

Feedback is not just hate and random insecurities. There is value in the service. Just knowing there is a service available to track race profiling is enough to bring down the incidents of race profiling.
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I think the real question is, why a limit at all?

I can understand a limit of 1: it means the software was not designed to handle more than one account. State gets conflated, the software goes awry, and all hell breaks loose.

But as soon as you support more than one, I can't see any reason to cap that at 5 - or any other number, for that matter.
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Kudos to you for building this.

I actually had a netflix free trial about 6 months ago, but searching for content on offer was awful. I actually didn't take a subscription because I didn't think the collection of movies/tv shows was of high enough quality or large enough, but perhaps I just couldn't find what I was looking for!
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Wow, I like Google, I worked there for a while, sadly this is not a shining example of "Googliness".

Let's count the challenges shall we?

1) If you happen to click the link for Version 2.0 in the Chrome browser running on an iPad it gives you a blank screen.

2) If you happen to click on the link in the Safari browser it gives you the download page but the App store says "This App is no longer available"

3) If you read the announcement all you see are iPhone screen shots, which makes me wonder if "iPad support" consists of a "2X" in the corner of the screen like it does on the Google Voice app. Gee, That lets me use 16 pixels on my retina display to show one pixel in your App, I'm so thrilled.

Ok that last bit was a pretty snarky, the snark comes from my massive disappointment at how unbelievably bad Google has been at dealing with the existence of tablets. Have you tried to use Google Docs on a tablet? Gmail? Reader? Every product they own has the "mobile" version which assumes you can hit every button with your thumb, or the "desktop" version which assumes you've got a keyboard and 5 button mouse under your fingers. Hello, its been years.

Here is hoping that when they actually put Gmail 2.0 back into the App store it is useful on iPads. I've got $10 - $20 for the right email client for the iPad, anyone want that money?
Sidenote: Recycling aluminum really makes sense when you consider the energy you need to make it in the first place:

"Large, modern cells operate with a specific energy consumption of 5.9 to 6.4 kWh/lb of aluminum. The energy required to produce aluminum from scrap metal is approximately 5% of that required for primary production"

- http://www.eia.gov/emeu/mecs/iab/aluminum/page2e.html

The differential there is fascinating I think.
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They probably targeting non-geek users I guess. People only needing email access, news/internet browsing. As stated above geek users use their connection more actively.
> assuming that first world design students have better ideas than millions of third world people who actually know what resources are available and what features are desirable.

I agree with you that this assumption, especially with overzealous design students, can often be false. But (going a little off-topic) I sometimes see this extended here on HN towards the attitude that we don't have any responsibility towards the third world, and the best thing we could do to help them is to stay away. With that I disagree. First worlders have advanced maths and superior computing power which, in many cases, allows for strictly better design given the same materials. Take antennas for an example - there is a whole branch of science built around it that amounts to discovering even more imaginative ways of bending metal rods[0]. I do strongly agree with anonymfus below [1] that we shouldn't hook the third world up to our industry and sell them things they can't hope to produce or maintain, but we do have an enormous amount of knowledge about pretty much everything; knowledge they could use to vastly improve their lives. So I'm all for co-operation between people from both worlds.

[0] - by the way, I find this to be an amazing example of the power of human thought - we're basically bending pieces of scrap metal, turning stuff that was worthless few hundred years ago into something very useful, and quite often expensive.

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4871692
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Which relates to a question I had about this bike when I first read about it. The article admits it has a shorter lifespan than a traditional bike, but why? How do you know it's no good any longer? Does it just get hard to pedal after n days? Or does it fail catastrophically after an average of n days of use? If the latter, that's a show stopper.
Look at the authors of the paper. A portion of them created the Parallel Extensions for dotnet. I would assume true over false on this
why would i use this when i can just use meetup.
I agree, but I think it's still interesting from the point of view of food. As it takes months to get there, and months to get back, you probably want astronauts to be staying there for at least a few months.

Resupply from Earth is slow and expensive - especially when Mars is at the far end of its orbit. And as far as I know, we can't synthesise food artificially. Even if we could make some simple sugars, that will hardly keep the astronauts healthy. So I think growing plants would start to look quite inviting.

But I think the bigger challenge is getting anyone there in the first place. They'd need life support for months. I suspect you'd have to assemble something about the size of the ISS in Earth orbit, then send it across to Mars, and deploy landers to reach the surface.
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The scene: a board room, the meeting is about to start.

Steve: Hey Jim, what's that?

Jim: This is a surface tablet.

Steve: Where's your laptop? We need to go over and edit our serious business documents, which we use for serious business. Tablets are toys. We don't want you playing angry birds in our serious business meeting!

Jim: I don't need it. This thing runs full Microsoft office.

Steve: Whaaaaaaaa...

I think everything will be fine. I see mine as less of a consumer tablet and more of a business one. I am looking forward to the full release of office 2013 (it comes with the preview release).

I hope eventually I will be able to compile small custom .net apps for it without going through the store.
Congrats on the win, and cool publicity... but how can I get in there at 12k$ a year, plus a rent and food and other expenses. How much will it pay off, versus my education at the University of Ottawa?

Given that I learn much more by myself, reading reference books, taking online courses with coursera, doing projects by myself. Is there any return on investment that I could expect from an education there, instead of my current university?
I disagree with one point: don't start with writing out the talk. Otherwise the talk will feel unnatural, stilted... Instead, practice speaking your way through it - and write down nice turns of phrase that you come up with while talking. This will resolve most of the flow issues you'd get with starting with writing, most of the awkward sentences, keep the whole thing flowing naturally, and generally result in a better talk.

Preparing a talk by writing it out may work to some extent, but it's as unnatural as preparing an essay by speaking it out. The two are very different formats, and you should approach them differently.
After reading the article, who assumes the universe is a computer? The only times I heard it is people suggesting the possibility, not believing in it. I'm sure there are some people who actually think the universe is a computer, but this is not a widespread problem, or anything really.
It's a bummer that they don't do the interviews/final answers until after the first couple weeks of January.

I'd love to take a semester off and do this, but since there's no guarantee I'd get into Hacker School, I would want to have my usual classes to fall back on, and the payment for that is due the first week of January. If I did get into Hacker School, I'd rather not drop the university classes I'll already have paid for.

Maybe this summer the timing will work out better. I'm sure I could learn more in three months there than I ever would here :I
I'm with you on this. Marc Andreessen was the closing speaker at the Lean Startup conference yesterday. One of his key points was that the pendulum of SV culture has swung too far in favor of failure for failure's sake.

His quote, via Gigaom: "We joke around the office that the worst is the fetish for failure. You want to preserve the good of the idea when it comes to pivoting, but you don’t want people to be intentionally encouraged to fail. Maybe it’s time to add a bit more stigma."
And with programs for which Amdahl's Law isn't a huge concern, multiprocessing isn't necessarily even the most appropriate form of parallelism. Multiple cores is great for situations where the sequential fraction of a program is relatively high, because it helps minimize the cost of synchronization.

But it can also bring some problems that might limit performance, such as bottlenecks on shared resources such as memory and I/O. If the problem can divided into fairly large and independent chunks of work, on the other hand, then distributed computing becomes a lot more attractive.
If carpenters were building nice new houses and letting me move in with nothing more than a "thank you!", if I could walk into any restaurant or grocery store and just eat what I like, then MAN would I feel like a jerk for expecting to get paid for my software.
I specifically don't want a unified inbox. For that you can simply use the regular iOS mail app. What I use gmail for is accounts that I want to keep separate, for consulting business and not get that intertwined with my personal email. What you see as a shortcoming is for me a feature.

someone always complains, but really, this is a great app. Google had a bit of a shake start with their gmail app, but now the suite of google apps, Drive, Gmail, Search, Voice Search, Goggles, YouTube, Chrome etc are all world-class. When Google Maps comes out I am sure that will be too.
Gangnam Style Video Has Earned Psy Only $1.7 Million
"That figure was calculated based off the standard YouTube partner rate of a $2 CPM, meaning for every 1,000 views Psy receives $2 if he is running ads on his video, which he is."
> Eliminating state is usually possible, but it makes programming exceptionally hard.

In the words of a Wikipedian, "citation needed".

EDIT: To the downvoters, care to comment?
Wow, bbc is really hard up for news huh?

I really loved this quote:

'"... it's the typical height at which people ski in the Alps," Ian Johnston says (though many skiers also ski at lower altitudes).'

Really? I would never have guessed...
For the last year I've been aware of the impact of Waterloo in tech and have conducted some research into why this might be so. Two things I've discovered:

1. Academic staff own any IP resulting from their research, making it very attractive and easy to recruit top academics. Almost all other universities assume ownership of IP.

2. An intern program that requires students to take an internship every other semester, enabling students to gain valuable experience within top-tier tech companies.

It would be great to hear of any other reasons for their success.
I'm not complaining, I really wanted to know what I did wrong. I was a bit worried that the reason for downvote was the content; as it turns out it was the form, which is perfectly understandable and I have no complaints about it whatsoever.

If you look at my comments you'll see that I don't use this form very often - or maybe even at all. I had slightly worse day yesterday and that's the result and I'm sorry. Do you think I should delete this and the three more comments in this thread, which were made in similar manner?
> May your bare feet always find bricks.

That is the best kidsafe curse I have ever heard. Bravo!
Now with this and Chrome for iPad. I think I prefer an ipad over an Android Tablet ;)
Dear Google,

That's what you bought Sparrow for?
Why a limit as low as 200?
My kids took part in the First Lego League robotics competition for this first time this year and it was one of the greatest things ever. For those that do not know, it is a competition where teams build Lego robots to navigate around a board and solve different challenges. The teams also do a project (complete with a market survey, product design, testing, and then a product pitch) as part of the competition.

The Lego robots are easy to build and fun to play with. The default visual programming language is pretty limited, but it is very easy to get started with.
CPUmark single threaded performance:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

The new i7's float around a rating of 2,000.

A netburst vintage P4 at 1.8ghz rates 217 (original P4 2001). 358 if we move up to the 2.8ghz model (2003 model). So anywhere between almost 10x the performance to 5.5x depending on model, mhz, etc.

Note: pentium is a brand and later its the budget name of C2D's, but this comparision to P4's.

No idea what cpubench uses, but its not soley a video benchmark, its more of a mixed bag.
>This puzzles me.

It really shouldn't.

Seems to me you're grossly over-thinking what's important and/or understood by any majority of the tens of millions using WhatsApp.
FreedomPop user here and since the device and network are similar, I am going to say the coverage is actually pretty weak (will not comment on speed since I have not been able to use it much!)

For users seeking mobile hotspots, FreedomPop is clearly the better deal. I do not see how Karma can compete there...

http://www.freedompop.com/
Intel and AMD want to continue making processors that cost more than $150. If feature size continues to shrink, what else are they going to do with the extra room on the chip? (other than slash their own prices using ever-more-expensive fab equipment)

In single threaded code, the unused cores can be powered off.
The Death of Local Storage is near? Really?

I would rather consolidate my data using personal cloud solutions like Tonido rather than spreading my personal data across multiple cloud storage services.
Keep it local, keep it real
How are these Google's problems? These are all Apple screwing up the update. The direct link provided in many of the comments still works

https://itunes.apple.com/app/gmail/id422689480?mt=8

click this and don't worry, the iPad app isn't an iPhone app with 2X.
Looks to me like they give you 1GB free when you purchase the device. Sneaky...
Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" should be mentioned. Far more germaine than "Consilience."
An editorial from a few days ago that implores security researchers to not contribute zero days to governments that use them to invade our privacy has nothing to do with "Speaking out against government malware"?

Maybe the part of the puzzle that you're missing is that 90% of the zero day market is nation states buying.
The article is conflating "the universe is a computer" with "the universe can be described as a computational process, generating later states from earlier ones." I could certainly see this assumption creeping in unnoticed in various places, though I have no clue as to whether that's the case or what the ramifications are. If it's a correct assumption, of course, then it doesn't matter that it's been assumed all over.
But still, why would you use it? The standard mail client along with Google Sync (Exchange) does the job quite good.

I still can't find a way to have at the same time both push support and the ability to star/flag messages on the phone and have them starred in the browser.

Now they have support for multiple accounts, I'll be giving the Gmail app an in-depth try.

Edit: that said, if anyone does know how to set up starring and push support at the same time, I'm all ears!
Two of your three problems are related to Apple's infrastructure and are not under Google's control.
Not always.

For example, if the dozens of papers are all disjointed, or on completely different topics, you can simply bolt them all together and call it a PhD thesis.

Like all good stories, there has to be a solid start, middle and end. This generally also means that one fantastic paper is also not enough, content wise, to warrant the award of a PhD.
Have you used parallel extensions? They aren't always faster, and can often over-commit resources.

It's just like the GPU, you need massive amounts of data to overcome the communications overhead.

That F# can outperform C on numeric code should tell you that the optimizations available to functional code far exceed those available to languages that poke bits.

This is just one more micro-optimization to overcome what a bad idea it is to poke beads on an abacus rather than use mathematical rigor available in calculus.
I thought so too when I first heard about Eric Reis' Lean Startup, and even went and implemented a bunch of his stuff.

I ended up eliminating his practices, because they didn't fit. I think the resemblance is superficial, but it could just be me who did it wrong. I do know that when I dropped his approach, my process improved a lot.

If I had to guess, I'd say that his approach is too reliant on past-looking data (e.g, the results of an A/B test), and not reliant enough on the ability to project an outcome into the future and actually hit the outcome with any kind of confidence.

I work far better, and have far better success, when I bring the outcome I want into reality, vs. testing a bunch of hypothesis and trying to divine which worked, without any understanding of why, other than the A/B test indicated people liked this shade of blue.

Also, orienting my company so that it could "pivot" based on the analysis essentially crippled productivity, because so much energy is spent on being able to pivot (e.g. huge unit test suites, continuous deployment, etc.) that very little business value is being created for the end user. The whole thing was actually a huge waste, the opposite of what "lean" is supposed to be about, ironically.

Since we use everything we create in house, it's very obvious when actual value isn't being created, and pivoting, A/B tests, and the like gave essentially useless results, or at best, trivial results, and produced no value.

That's why we dropped it.

I didn't understand why it didn't work for us until I read Thiel's axis of startups, and discovered that Reis' approach isn't targeted at companies or people like me.

I think his goals are fine (really, does anyone disagree with them?), but his practices only apply to specific kinds of people/companies, in my experience. You can keep the goals, change the practices, and it'll remain relevant for people like me and the companies we run.
"There's still some great content on there"

I imagine, but sifting through the content farm-quality junk articles to find those takes away any possible life productivity benefit they would have.
They just "acquired" Sparrow because it was an app that used their infra-structure, but bypassed Google Ads completely (showing their own ads in the free version instead).
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so is hn it seems. these days hn is becoming a day-delayed digg list.
Peer-reviewed publications (journals or conferences) are verifiable proof of quality. The higher impact the venues of publication are, the more qualified the papers.
Here is the app in question. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lyrebirdst...