skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's interesting how all toy decisions are judged as messing up children's perceptions of the world in terms of gender, yet the one toy flying off the shelf has no gender association to it, and is perhaps doing more damage to childhood development.

The idea of substituting toys with iPad games is going to have consequences on our children. There are kids going into kindergarden classes these days who don't have the dexterity in their hands to hold crayons, simply because their parents don't let them play with their hands enough; holding things, and manipulating objects.

There are a lot of technologies these days for children that are so focussed on the cognitive development of kids that they ignore the physical development. Your kid doesn't need to be in MENSA by age 4. Teach your kids the tactile skills they need!
API showcase - developer garden
Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 12.10 Server
Has anyone here used their API's?
Aren't you supposed to buy the tires for a Bugatti Vayron directly from Bugatti? If a country buys an F-16, they are also committing to buy all the weapons and ammunition from Lockheed.

And besides, as it stands now, you can buy from other stores, for example, Cydia. Of course, you have to jailbreak your phone, but that is legal in the US, so there is no argument any more.

If you want to keep your warranty, you have to use the App Store.
You are putting words into my mouth, and attacking me with an ad hominem (outrageous is totally unnecessary there). I never indicated we should all be the same, rather we should all be free to develop our identities without the social constructs that society puts in our way. If you want yo express your identity by farting, belching and touching your groin every five minutes, I'm fine with that. But if toy go round saying that women should do that, or its unladylike, or in any other way assert those behaviors as masculine to kids and teens who have no had a chance to fully form their identities, well then we have a problem.

As for source material, the bibliography of Delusions of Gender is a good place to start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
>Can anyone think of a clear, unambiguous rule that would allow things like Dropbox, Skydrive, Amazon, etc. to get around the 30% fee, but without allowing loopholes that would allow everyone to skirt it?

Simple: alternative stores should be enforced by law. Apple alone deciding what goes onto iDevices is wrong. (Ditto Microsoft with WP). Let the market decide.
> (a) It's easy to reproduce, if anyone had put any effort in at all.

That's not the impression I get from the bug! I'm sure I read "difficult to reproduce". Perhaps it would help with attention if you made this absolutely clear?
But the kinds of toys you play with do have a lot to do with masculinity and femininity. The central point in all of this is that sex and gender are separate (though they do have a strong correlation).

It's not gender realignment surgery but Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS). Your definitions of sex and gender appear to be very confused.

Sex is what sexual organs you possess. Gender is your identity/personality/psychology.
We can already create synthetic diamonds [0] and there is no market for them, at least not as gemstones. People seem to want 'the real thing'.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond
Sadly I think you have completely missed the point here. The notion that there is a way to act gay or straight is exactly what is being debated.
Node Summit: The Evolution of Javascript
That is what physics engines tend to aim for. Some even guarantee portably stable results.
Wait, why would you format the fs, do something with it, format the fs, do something with it, and so on? Isn't one pass enough?
>These are things I put together in a day and edited in windows movie maker. When youtube offered adding ads I ignored them thinking it would never amount to anything. At $8.7 ECPM I feel absurd having skipped the chance!

Presumably, you would not be able to show ads on those videos because they use IP you don't have the rights to. They're popular (again, presumably) because people search for footage of those copyright games and enjoy the first copyright music track. It's fairly easy to put something together "in a day" that becomes popular when you're not constricted by the rules of copyright and can piggyback on the popularity of existing content. I'm not criticizing - I have a viral video on youtube that's within spitting distance of a million views, but I would never be able to show ads on it because I don't have permission to use the footage or the music.

And yes, it seems that presently most video games companies generally turn a blind eye to people posting footage from their games. But you'd be foolhardy indeed to start to rely on advertising revenue that was built entirely on the goodwill of a diverse group of for-profit companies. There are a host of semi- and fully-professional video game personalities whose livelihood could be shut down overnight if a few companies decided to enforce their copyrights.
Remember we're getting one side of the story here leaked by Microsoft.
Skip this one and mail the other offer that you probably refused, tell the truth and be sorry for your mistake. Also tell them that you really want to work for them.

Telling the truth have always got me into stuff I wouldn't otherwise. That will differentiate you from the others and I truly believe that you will get a job.

Don't run after the recruiter again, he doesn't give a shit and probably hired someone else and probably don't know how it's the feeling of getting kicked out of a country. He's too busy with his own shit to care.
Ask HN: AWS & EC2 how to calculate for raising finance?
I'm looking for three things really, and I know it's a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question:

1) What is your experience of sizing and selecting and costing in advance of raising money (mainly AWS and EC2 - but any equivalent experience also welcome)

2) after having raised the funds how accurate was your prediction?

3) if you were raising again, what would you recommend doing instead?

Lastly, please speak about your experience as in, the number of users and concurrency you needed, on average how much space they required for each user, what db you were using.

I hope this is not asking too much!
Are there really no popular Windows Twitter clients?
Amazon's re:Invent slides on Slideshare
And yet still a non-profit in actuality and intent.
Does this have collision events? So if A hits B is there a way of knowing?
> That logic doesn't work though because phone and PDA apps have been available to download from 3rd party websites since even before 3G. You could set up a download portal for Windows Mobile or whatever OS the "dumb phones" from Sony Erricson's K-series featured using free hosting if you really wanted to. Granted it wouldn't be a centralised repository like Linux distro's feature (which are also free), but it certainly wouldn't have cost you >50% of your budget.

Using a 3rd party website (or your own), you are unlikely to get the exposure of an app store or a telco portal.
I can't tell whether you're deliberately missing the point in an attempt at humour, or just missing the point.
Canadian ISP Prepares For “Unprecedented” BitTorrent Troll Assault
I doubt it. That would most definitely violate the DMCA.
Wilmott's book if you aren't that great at math: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470319585/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Neftci's book if you are: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0125153929/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

(Both require some calculus.)
"Minimizing the differences between the sexes destroys lives by emasculating men, leaving them depressed, unable to secure a mate and suicidal."

Do you have any support for that claim? I've seen much more support for male "suck it up" sterotypes causing suicides, by keeping people from getting help with PTSD and similar issues. Not that the two would be mutually exclusive.
>the plural of anecdote is data //

False data is still data isn't it. So literally despite the suggestion that anecdote is automatically false¹ a plurality of anecdotal information is still data. Indeed falsehoods still carry usable information.

This is a very popular opinion on r/AskScience and I can't really understand it. Many fields use self-reports as a central part of their data gathering.

The worth of particular data needs to be understood, for sure, but this chastising of people presenting anecdotal information needs to be reined in IMO.

- -

¹ A bloke down the pub told me his mother-in-law taught him never to listen to anecdotal data because it's all false. But don't worry, as I'm a scientist I took the same bloke to 10 pubs and he told me the same thing every time. I'm hoping to get a government grant to extend the study further ...
Because it's a test designed to reproduce a bug. We hit the bug all the time in libguestfs which spends much of its time formatting filesystems and immediately using them, but it doesn't happen 100% of the time. It's a race condition somewhere.
I hear boys often correcting others on rules of play or modes of operation of a toy though.

Aside: Your comment made me smirk inanely, thank you.
It's literally the last definition there: "having an insufficient amount of." "Shorting" refers to the process of getting to the position of having an insufficient amount, assuming you start neutral or long. He's saying you are "born short", not that you interact in any "shorting."
I was trying to do this but it seems like the implementation haves a little bug: https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/box2d-jquery/issues/1
I'd go for a motor trend review. Top gear has been caught sandbagging electric vehicles in the past. I love the show for it's entertainment value, but they aren't always a neutral party.
> Sadly I think you have completely missed the point here

What point did I miss? From the very beginning of this thread, you are advocating minimizing differences? And I am saying minimizing differences is bad. There are differences - gender differences, sexual preference difference, personality difference...Minimizing differences is not only misguided, it's wrong.
You can have the old interface back with a few clicks...
> I never indicated we should all be the same, rather we should all be free to develop our identities without the social constructs that society puts in our way.

Minimizing differences, which you have advocated again and again, imply we should all be same.
Because that's not the central thrust of the article. He has actually grown his fan base hugely by allowing copying, which is how he got to promote himself in ads, etc. outside of his music video.

Your headline implies that the copying is still bad for him, and without I he would have been even more successful, but in fact that's no the case. If he had cracked down on copyright violations, his video probably wouldn't have gone viral (i.e. celebs saw it on YouTube in copyright violation form, they tweeted it, it went viral).
An idea might be to work from home, if you need to focus. State why you're working from home before doing it, so people know not to disturb you via IM, phone or whatever.
True, it could be Microsoft spinning it to make Apple look bad, they might be trying to push against the rules, so if I turn out to be off the mark I'll mea culpa.
Taxes on that would probably be about 44,850,000.
I expect that even if the gyros stop while you're driving you wouldn't fall over because... well because that's how bikes work. It might change the way it handles though.

So I would only be worried about it falling over while stopped, which is not as bad I guess.

Here in Paris I see a lot of those motor tricycles that don't require motorbike license, so I think there's definitely a market for a not-so dangerous and simpler motorbike in congested urban areas.

By the way I hate it when the hostess introduces gyros like "space age technology". Yeah, my bike has bits of steel soldered together, you know, like the International Space Station!
A quick and dirty one that only affects h1, divs and imgs (based off the example on the github page):

javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='https://raw.github.com/gist/4257861/bf99710923dc4512338a9f19...;

The code can be found here: https://gist.github.com/4257861
Perhaps Microsoft should start charging Apple 30% for every song sold on iTunes for Windows.
A good rule of thumb is that if only the user "knows" something, it can be cracked & hacked. I'm sure that if a similarly-protected app (no server-side checks) is there on Android, one would be able to crack it with some work. Sure, one may argue that it's harder on Android - but that's besides the point (and the trade off between power and locked-down-ness)

I haven't done mobile dev - are there any built-in DRM features that developers can use?
I sought permission from Tim O'Reilly, he co-wrote this back when he was an author, to re-enter the text of the book as troff source, the original being lost. He kindly gave it and volunteers from the groff@gnu.org mailing list split the chapters amongst themselves; it was quite fun. http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/ is the result.
From the video:

"Imagine a touchscreen embedded in the steering-wheel"

Yes, imagine all the crashes it's going to cause.
As a motorcyclist, I'd like the tech to be put into more traditional motorcycle bodies. The idea of not being able to be knocked off, or fall over on an icy road, appeals - but the look of this really doesn't. It reminds me of the similarly named BMW C1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_C1).
There's something similar for Google search — http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/
The book has been re-typed, as troff, just like the original. See my comment elsewhere on this post.
Ban helium balloons this Christmas, academic warns
You totally miss the point. The point is to speed up the development for Metro.
I don’t care about crowded markets
Agreed. But multimedia is computationally intensive program.
I guess it depends on the audience and the intent of the tutorial. Other posts on his blog include things like "let's have a look into the Objective-C runtime" and "let's unwind the stack on multiple threads to get a nice crash report", so I assume he's writing for people that understand enough to know that a final implementation needs to be robust and reliable.
I didn't mean to downplay that, and I do agree to some degree. But when you're having trouble providing basics for your family (as many people around these parts do), spending on flashy electronics is irresponsible.
> It sounds like it's going to be a real challenge, then.

Yes

> In addition, there are no database APIs, for example. So it's really a crap shoot about how much difficulty a given project will take to port.

We will do the database APIs, in fact :)
A cool-looking vehicle, but wonder how much more weight it has compared to the regular motorcycles? I think embedding a cell phone at the center of steering wheel is a sure-fire way to distract driver attention and cause accidents.
Thanks. What you think is the best way to find a good idea? It seems to me that behind every good startup there is a personal story from a real life and I think I have to expose myself to the real world as much as such a story happens in my life. Or maybe I'm wrong.
The true meaning of "Social Ecommerce"
Funny, and it's a no brainer really.. There was a thread about SSD's about 2 years back, regarding good ways to use them. My conclusion was pretty much the same when it came to DB's, yet nobody agreed with me back then and I received 3 downvotes. Odd!!

Good article!
groff does it with the help of its preconv(1), also invoked with groff's -k option.

$ printf 'Hello ①②③\n' | preconv
.lf 1 -
Hello \[u2460]\[u2461]\[u2462]
$ printf 'Hello ①②③\n' | groff -k -Tutf8 | grep .
Hello ①②③
$
> Imagine the outcry if Chevy could force you to only buy tires or gas for your Malibu from their store. Or if Mattel could force you to only buy outfits for your kid's Barbie doll from their store. Or if Dell could force you to only buy software for your laptop from their store.

Or if Apple could "force" you to only upgrade/fix your laptop at their store? Or if they could "force" you to develop iPhone apps on a Mac? Or if Tesla could "force" you to only buy a replacement battery from them?

I can't imagine any of these companies "forcing" these things, however, unless they're colluding with the government to make alternatives illegal, and then regulations aren't going to help anyway. They can make things inconvenient, which is quite different, and the market has a history of customers going to the competition when the inconvenience factor is high enough. Why invoke legislation at all, especially when the market under consideration is already competitive, which it is with smartphones? (If competition is stagnant and it's a difficult market to enter, then perhaps you have an argument to use government power to remove barriers to entry (often caused by the government) or to level the playing field or to provide incentives to make the market easier to enter.)
True almost every security layer is crackable.

The idea is to make buying an app more convenient than the effort and time involved in cracking.

Not sure Windows8 apps are there yet, reading this. Will undoubtably be addressed in future updates, but a little scary how easy the hacks were.
I sometimes don't understand how American Porn Tubes can survive with 18 USC § 2257: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2257
Google Accidentally Transmits Self-Destruct Code to Army of Chrome Browsers
> they aren't always a neutral party.

They are sometimes a neutral party? I always thought Top Gear was a car-themed sitcom...
I don't think they're going for the biker market. After all, it has a steering wheel, not bike handles. That alone hints that it probably drives somewhat like a car.
Why is medical software so bad?
I've noticed the same trend, and have similar concerns. It's not that a clarification or correction isn't necessarily a high-content comment, but it's far from guaranteed to be the highest.

I think the "minor gripe" is actually HN's version of the meme reply: easily digestible, doesn't take much effort, and easy to agree with. Just as reddit's frontpage is dominated by imgur links, so too are the comments on HN dominated by easy criticisms.
reminds me of this http://jalopnik.com/5390061/amazon-users-hack-steering-wheel...
In most sites those three are enough to crash the tab/browser.
See also Solitaire, a cipher designed by Bruce Schneier to be applied by hand.

http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html
"As we face a real threat of a ban on the distribution of strong cryptography, in the United States"

When I first read this I said "Really? The cryptowars ended a long time ago." and then I saw the last modified date on the home page: 2002. This was when the cryptowars were finally coming to an end...
I'd like to see how this behaves with the typical things that cause a bike to crash, for instance, the front end washing out on ice, or a locked front wheel, or loss of traction on an accelerating rear wheel.

Highsiding this could still happen I guess.
The FAQ is here: http://litmotors.com/faq/

Notably, C-1 is a code name, not the final product name.

I'm curious how the gyros interact with turning. Presumably they have a limited ability to change orientation (necessary for say hills at the very least). It sounds like the steering wheel is hooked to the front wheel mechanically (from the FAQ: ”… with mechanical backups to allow the driver to steer and stop the car even in a catastrophic failure of all systems”). Does that mean you have to countersteer like in a motorcycle? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering)

I could imagine the steering wheel manipulating the gyroscopes to initiate leans rather than turning the front wheel. I'm unsure how effective that would be, especially at low speeds.

EDIT: I looked at some of the videos on their website. It seems like the steering wheel does turn the front wheel, and the gyros are free to tilt to accommodate hills. The video shows them tilting toward each other on a lean — I think that means they rotate in opposite directions? Not my area of expertise.
Hawking and CERN Teams Win Prizes From Russian Billionaire
it's on the todo list, it will work with custom DOM event events.
Mobile economy report: a free and easy to digest ebook
At 100m you will have a good tax advisor who sets up a network of companies and foundations across Europe and gets your tax rate down to less than half of that rate. If not, get a different tax guy.
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I mentioned this in another comment, but "C-1" is a code name. See the FAQ: http://litmotors.com/faq/ (there's no anchor; search for "BMW").
£20 Million pound website paid for by UK Tax hacked within 3 weeks
Monster INC - What a Joke (security?)
These are the notes from Computational Finance course at Imperial College. They are particularly useful if your a CS major.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4jib6zc0q3su870/381%20Computationa...
You are not your user. So get drunk.
That Alien Message [2008]
Awesomely designed and presented: mobile economy trends, stats, predictions
Do you pay taxes after the whole income or just (income -expenses)?
cool, here is on for the HN frontpage with a little bit more action (selects every <a> element)

javascript:(function(){var%20s=document.createElement('script');s.setAttribute('src','//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js');document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(s);s=document.createElement('script');s.setAttribute('src','https://raw.github.com/franzenzenhofer/box2d-jquery/master/js/lib/jquery.box2d.min.js');document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(s);window.setTimeout(function(){$("a").box2d({'y-velocity':5});},500);})();
Microsoft has only 20% of total computer market, says Goldman Sachs
No. P/poly is uncountable (contains every unary language) and NP, NEXP, R etc. are countable.
Tools for programming using blocks
It depends, corporations pay on just profits, so income - expenses. The original poster was talking as if the 100m was pure profit, though. Also, I'm not German, but this is how the tax system works in Greece, the UK and many other countries.
Part 2 of Windows 8 Game Development with XNA
Never Version Your API: Lesson Learned from Web Services and REST
How to make a Splash Screen in C#
Windows 8 Development At The Speed Of COBOL