skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your example is invalid because the power dynamic is reversed. If someone doesn't like the way you give them an engagement ring, they can ditch you and get another fiance. But in the case of mailing your Congressperson, it's you that can ditch the current Congressperson by electing a new one.
The naked and the TED
Much of the reaction to Apple can be attributed to the culture of contempt Apple fosters among its customers and communicated through its corporate actions. People respond negatively to being held in contempt. Film at 11.

From, "They have no taste" embodied in "I'm a Mac" to lawsuits against...well name a competitor they haven't sued...Apple has encouraged the disparagement of users of competing products. "Blue Screen" is most frequently used by Apple customers on the internet.

(hyperbole)

People get angry over Apple for the same reasons they get angry at Fox News - intellectual dishonesty for the sake of ideology. Only Gruber could attribute the rise of flat design aesthetics to some app few people own while ignoring Metro. PG accuses Microsoft of malfeasance in his essays on the Good.

It's never enough to love Apple. That love requires someone else be put down.

(/hyperbole)
No, cegep has either 2 or 3 year programs. Year 1 is equivalent to US high-school 12th grade. Year 2 of 2-year programs is equivalent to 1st year university for B.A. or B.Sc. 3-year programs tend to be terminal degree of a more "technical" nature.
He is an primarily an Apple user after all and bound to read more Apple oriented news.
I don't think he would read much news about the new blackberry or even get a look at the comments.
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> It isn't about sticking it to anyone

I disagree. Whenever I have suicidal fantasies, the sense of hopelessness is always accompanied by some twisted form of "that'll show them". "Them" is usually either my employer or a girl I adore. I'm deeply ashamed that that's the case, but it's the truth.
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I think it is the fact that they are "new" at this. For me, if they put "First App" instead of "I am 14" in the title, it would be the same thing. The point is to help encourage new, and usually young, people with programming and technology. The kid is probably just seeking more attention and praise by including the "I am 14 years old" in the header, but underneath, they are still looking for valid critique.

I do not think a 14 year old should be given special privilege over a 40 year old. But, posting "I am 14 years old" is not a bad thing, but a sign of putting one's self out there.
If you paid attention to the Murdoch issue you'd actually realize each of your facts parallel a facet of the phone hacking scandal:

A) Your purported argument about scale really suggests that YC may have more investments than they can reasonably manage, but that doesn't absolve them from blame. This is EXACTLY the same argument Rupert Murdoch made (We have so many newspapers that we couldn't possibly be aware of hacking at one paper)

B) Your sixth fact is

6. ...even though they aren't in YC for IM, YC has no real influence or control over IM or even the team.

There are actually two parts here, and I'd like to hone into the first for a moment: "even though they aren't in YC for IM". It seems VERY odd that PG would allow companies to pivot without first having an office hour or discussion with partners on the matter, and if what you are saying is true then there are deep procedural issues. Murdoch tried to make the same argument regarding autonomy of the individual units under News Corp.

C) Your second and third fact focus on partners and alumni. They have additional senior staff, so how was this allowed to happen? If the partners and alumni did share the same mores as PG purports to hold now, and if at least one partner or alumnus dealt with IM, then there's an internal inconsistency (akin to blaming rebekah brooks for what is really a cultural issue)

D) Your fourth fact tries to argue that this is a single bad apple. It's the first instance being reported. Of course it's an isolated incident insofar as no other company attempted the same effort, which is exactly what James Murdoch claimed regarding News of the World.

E) " Immediately after it being brought to his attention, PG followed up with the owners and they made some changes as a result..."

The problem is that the underlying problem wasn't resolved. PG decided to point to the TOS, which doesn't address the nature of the business model. This is akin to James pointing to ATT's terms of service and security model.

I'm pretty sure that for whatever "fact" you wish to throw there's an analogue, and until there's some sort of real "accountability" I don't see how you could have such unwavering support.

My expectation is simple: if YC wants to invest in those types of firms, that's their prerogative and they should own their decision. Don't try to pull some cognitive dissonance. Just say that you are comfortable with investing in the malware model, and this entire discussion would be moot. The only reason my reply makes sense is because PG and YC claim to aspire to something higher. If we all drop that assumption, then the original issue is really irrelevant.

And with regards to your last comment: " YC explicitly looks for people doing things that might seem questionable at first.", I think you misunderstand what 'questionable' means there. Questionable there means "i doubt it could succeed", not "shady business practices".
"(If you have a theory that the split ought not to be even, well....)"

Well...what? My theory is that the demographics of speakers at a conference should be equal to the demographics of the field itself. If the field is 95% men and 5% women, just how many women should we expect to see on a panel of ten speakers?

"The selection process was gender-blind"

Sure, but so what? She went out of her way to convince women to apply and did not do so for men. Masking that sort of discrimination with a gender-blind selection process is just as dishonest as masking the bias towards white upper-class men in university admissions by pointing to a blind review process.
I think the problem is not that there is an "elite" brand and "the other one"; the problem is that when you are basically dealing with a two-party competition, especially in politics, people become incredibly entrenched, be it Windows vs. Mac, PlayStation vs. Xbox, Republicans vs. Democrats, and so on and so forth.

It encourages a narrative of a hero and a villain, a protagonist and antagonist, right and wrong, good and bad.
Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming
>>I am overwhelmed by the fact that if he didn't escape when he did, I would be in one of the prison camps doing hard labor and sorting through animal feces for undigested corn.

I wish more people had this perspective. Most Westerners I met take what they have for granted, completely oblivious to what goes on in other parts of the world.
By the time this happens, ARM chips will be as powerful as Cores are today.
I made a pad for HN to code together on: http://replpad.com/#hihackernews
Thanks to the blocking, no more projects being OutSourced to China, at-least the ones hosted on Github now!
I did not create a nexus of justification between the dumb move and the crime. Nowhere did I say something like that. Nowhere.

And nowhere did I bring-up horrible crimes such as rape. Other's made that up. Not me.

I focused on this issue of young one's taking compromising videos or photos of themselves and then crying foul when, through twists and turns, they end-up posted online to cause them grief. Let's not go one millimeter past that. I did not say anything whatsoever that has anything to do with rape or any other crime.

That's it.

Every situation is different. I know nothing about the details of the case. For all I know the boyfriend took pictures while she was sleeping. How could she be blamed for that? If that were the case though, he would have to be charged criminally as well.

I think what I said was that one has to assume that anything you say or do today might be seen by a million people. So long as you are comfortable with that outcome, then, by all means, do as you please. If you are not, then don't.

With regards to this serving no purpose. Well, if only one kid reads this and thinks twice before posting a dumb picture on Facebook or something of that nature the outcome is good.
I understand the premise, but this isn't performant enough to be used for anything but the smallest of projects. It isn't just "an extra second of overhead", it increased a 15 second test run to 15 minutes for me (on a fast fiber connection).

Locally I already have Postgres installed for development, and Travis does as well. I guess this might be useful for Jenkins on EC2 in the same AZ as Heroku Postgres, but the latency is still going to be painful.
Its important to note that Apple, being a hardware+software, solution receives hate from 2 sides.

Some people don't like OS X

Some people don't like paying 2x for the same hardware

I suspect that this alone contributes to a 2x increase in vitriol.
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Now that we have someone looking at adding an s-expression syntax as an alternative to OpenDylan, it has been interesting reading through my copy of the original Apple Dylan book from 1992 (originally owned by P Tucker Withington given the signature inside the cover). A lot did change for the better between 1992 and 1996. I think sealing is a big example of that. I think the 'block' construct is a bit nicer than the prefix-Dylan equivalent as well.

It is also interesting to see how some elements of the current Dylan syntax make more sense when you see the roots of it all in the prefix-Dylan syntax.
First thing I did was go into the Chrome inspector and change the font.
It'd be great if that site actually gave some tips to improving contrast.
In this (and other similar) case(s), we can conclude that there's no difference between male and female speakers, since the gender ratio resulting from blind judging matches the submission pool. In other words, there's no essential gender difference in technology, there's just a demographic artifact of sexism.

So if the larger demographic continues to mirror that artifact, that's not an argument for reproducing that artificial split in the conference. Indeed, taking care to mix the submissions pool to reflect the larger gender split does nothing but perpetuate an artificial and historical and culturally driven imbalance, when we can clearly see that no essential difference between the sexes exists. It's not discriminatory to balance out a contingent happenstance that doesn't accurately reflect essential differences.

A bit shorter: There's nothing discriminatory about the removal of undeserved advantage.
I guess the frustrating part is that we can't stop it without risking the entire population of Seoul. It just has to change on its own, hopefully over time.
Email delivery over SMTP works on a store-and-forward model: when you send an email, it first goes to your outgoing mail server, which then connects to a mail server at the destination domain and sends the message to it. The mail server at the destination then has the responsibility of sending the mail on to the receiving user (perhaps it gets routed through a spam filter, then to a storage server to wait until the receiving user opens their mail client).

Because the source mail server forwards the message on, it loses control of it -- the most it could do is send a "please delete this message I sent you and forget I sent it" message to the mail server at the destination domain. The destination mail server wouldn't be obliged to act on it -- it could have forgotten where it forwarded the original mail on to, or it could instead decide to send a 'Hey! Look what somebody doesn't what you to read!' message in big flashing letters to the original recipient.

AOL and corporate mail systems can implement this because they control the destination mail servers, as well as the sending mail server. On the wider Internet, you'd need to replace SMTP with a protocol whereby the message is stored near to the sender, rather than near the recipient, until the destination user reads it. There are some good arguments in favor of a system like this (it could make spammers bear more of the cost of sending their spam, for instance), but uprooting a fundamental protocol and replacing it with something else isn't an easy task to do on a network as big as the Internet.
I recently attended 2 birthday parties for young kids, one on a weekday and one on a Saturday afternoon. The first, was mostly mothers, immediate family and their kids. For the second, the couple went out of their way to make sure that men could come to the birthday party. They send out adult invites encouraging alcohol beverages to be brought, and called all their women friends and asked them firmly to bring their boyfriends. I brought mine, who was begrudgingly included because of his perception it would be full of kids and women but he ended up having a wonderful time talking to other men (as well as hanging out with kids and their toys and of course some classic kids party food). Is this discrimination on the couple's part to try and reach past a culture of birthday parties full of just mothers and their kids?
..and if the field itself has a diversity problem, then what do you do? This is not a conference-level problem; it is a problem that starts much earlier in life and which will only be fixed by solving it earlier in life. Go to middle schools and figure out why girls who were doing well in math and science in elementary school suddenly lost interest in those subjects, and once you have worked your way from there to having more diversity in technical professions, we can talk about whatever diversity problems are left at conferences.
We really should, at least in the US, we generally make our kids choose an education path without having any experience, and before they even know what they want to do with their life. Many end up regretting their college decisions (and left with a huge debt) because they didn't have any idea what they were getting into, and didn't even really like the work in the first place. A little apprenticeship during these years would do wonders.
You can think of Eshell as a Unix shell that is 100% customizable, and those customizations are done in a very high level language like Elisp, not in C. Sometimes it's great to use macros in a shell script.

Yes, it can be used for running scripts:
https://github.com/emk/eshell/blob/master/em-script.el
How is disproportionate representation fair?
And the fact that American people tend to reward the most aggressive prosecutor with the most scalps on the belt via elections.

Bobba Fett would have been president if he ran.
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When I said almost, I meant a few months. The new Intel chips are already available now, they just haven't made their way into retail products yet.
Too little too late. Bitcoin already won (and for those naysayers that think Bitcoin will never win, theres at least three popular Paypal clones out there too)
Hey all, so I'm one of the authors of postgression. The website isn't totally clear as to all the reasons why this may be useful. I've written a blog post about it, which you may also find helpful if you're interested:

http://rdegges.com/postgression-a-postgresql-database-for-ev...
Front-End Retrofitting and the Decline of Enterprise CMS Solutions
ASP.NET MVC Compared to Django
With only 18 applications and with her specifically encouraging people that she knew to apply it must be very likely that she knew who the individual was when going through the applications. So even though she claims that it was gender blind, it wasn't really.
The Imnam Dam on the Bukhan River is North Korea's "I win" button. It's holding back roughly 3 BILLION gallons of water and wired with explosives that can be remotely detonated from Pyongyang. If it were to fail or be destroyed Seoul would look like New Orleans within the hour.

The south spent $500 million dollars building the Peace Dam downstream in an attempt to defend against flooding, but it is still a very credible threat.

General consensus of American boots on the ground in South Korea is that the North Koreans will be in Seoul (or what is left of it) within 48 hours. Everyone drills for rapid evac. The picture we like to paint is that they are inept starving fools, but they have been planning and drilling non-stop longer than some other countries have even existed.
That one of them is the norm and the other one isn't.
My experience with modern statically typed languages have been primarily with ML and OCaml.

While they have a lot of advantages over neanderthal languages like C, and it's great that once you've gotten your program to compile, whole classes of bugs will be virtually impossible, I much prefer programming in Scheme.

With ML and OCaml, I really hated spending hours wrestling with the compiler and puzzling over obscure error messages that seem to require taking college level courses in type theory in order to understand.

In comparison, programming in Scheme (and even Common Lisp) is incredibly quick and easy, and a real joy.

True, when I need maximal robustness, I do wind up spending a lot more time writing unit tests in Scheme than I would in ML or OCaml. But for rapid prototyping and programming as I think, Scheme is very hard to beat.
Creating stereotypes of users is not a valid excuse to hate a company and its products. One could find any number of asswipes under any banner to justify this type of silly tribalism.
This would also communicate you are being interrupted and it's not nothing. I would expect it to at least filter the stuff that can wait.
And we've come full circle :)

"Going to bars, joining clubs/teams, etc etc, is suuuuch a horrible time-consuming meat market."

"We'll fix this with technology!" [insert inspirational music]

[fast forward a few years]

"Online dating is suuuuuch a horrible time-consuming meat market."

"Let's get people to gather together to do something easy whose primary intent is actually providing an open environment for interaction!"

Maybe offline dating wasn't as bad as we made it out to be ;)

FWIW, OKCupid is doing just that in NYC - i.e. gender ratio-controlled IRL group events for singles.
Actually, the different between fuzzy logic and probability is more than just notational. There is a nice table at the end of Section 8.2 (in the 3rd edition) of Russell and Norvig's Artificial Intelligence book talking about the epistemological (what an intelligent agent believe about facts) versus ontological commitments (what exists in the world) of various "languages" (e.g., propositional logic, first-order logic, probability theory and fuzzy logic).

Taken straight from that table, here is the comparison:

Language | Ontological Commitment | Epistemological commitment

Probability | facts | Degree of belief \in range from 0 to 1

Fuzzy Logic | facts with degree of truth | known interval value
That may be true, but humility is not one of the virtues typically associated with adolescence. When they tell you they're a teenager, they're asking you to go easy on them, and there's nothing wrong with that. That doesn't mean they can't also be proud of what they did.
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10 Updated Internet-Drafts Related To IPv6 Security
Most things - eg: practically every "destructive" explosion in a movie is BS - "real" explosions lack flames and tend to make objects (like cars) cease to exist.
How could the selection process be gender blind when she knew some of the applicants? Surely she would be able to tell who each individual was when she was going through the applications.
As this case and others (c.f., GoGaRuCo, which uses the same method) shows, the natural gender split is 50/50. When the submissions pool is 50/50, and they do a blind judging of the submissions, they end up with a 50/50 split in speakers. In other words, they keep demonstrating that there is no essential difference in technology based on gender. When they hide from themselves the gender of the speaker, they end up choosing equally from men and women.
Nothing serious :) Getting knocked out at the first selection likely has more to do with the photo than the answers - visceral filters occur first.
What is your product? Have you considered using interest based targeting on Facebook ads to test your landing page?
Yeah, it was a stretch, your analogy is far better.
Is there a reason "Is" and "Not" are capitalized but "faster" and "than" aren't, because it's just been bugging all day whenever I refresh the front page and look over the list for anything interesting.
My number one preference: longer blog entries. That's part of a more general preference, for analyzing information. When I'm reading, I know what kind of thing I expect in a blog post, and I know what I expect to return…

…This is my preference. I believe that it's right, but I also believe that reasonable people can disagree. Just because you don't think the same way that I do doesn't mean that you're an idiot. It's entirely possible for someone to know as much as I do about discourse and have a different opinion. We're talking about preferences.
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I've tried to kill myself twice when I was a teenage.
It was really silly.
The first time I was in my bed, trying to sleep, when I tought : "Why don't I kill myself?"
I don't remember what kind of problems I had at the time. I was 15 and that was the best year of my life up to that point (ages 10 to 14 really sucked and I would understand if it had happened at that time).
I didn't do anything special, just covered my head with my pillow cover. After a few seconds I realised that wouldn't work, dropped it and went on to sleep.
I don't remember when or how the second time happened, all I remember is that I tried a second time that same year. Many times I caught myself thinking about using gas to end it all, but I would not do anything that would cause trouble to my family (even though I had no reason to like them at the time).

A few years later, I got really depressed after a party and, on my way home, I stopped in a bridge, looking to the river and thinking. I knew I would never have the courage to jump, but I stood there. Then, from the other side of the bridge, came an old crazy friend, he was really drunk and hugged me real hard, leaving me with the stench of cachaça (brazilian rum). He kept going and I went home.

I never had any suicidal thought after that. On contrary, sometimes I feel that I now am "immune" to that kind of thing. Even if I feel depressed, it all goes away after a good night sleep. And I even became a person that is really good at talking to people with suicidal thoughts. I'm 24 now and, in the last five years, I've had a few friends come to me saying they were thinking about killing themselves and I somehow made them feel better.

I think that the most important thing when talking to people about this is: never say "don't to it". I usually say: "it's up to you, but.. have you considered this and that?" If you just tell them no to do it, they will ignore you, because they will think you don't understand their problems. And they are probably right about that.
What Is The Appropriate Time Horizon Of A Financial Model for VC’s?
Twitter is very shy in posting status updates: http://status.twitter.com/

while heroku floods their status page with automated updates almost daily: https://status.heroku.com/