skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nina Smith was showing gender differences. That's why she split the data up on genders. One of her conclusions was that the traditional family roles, in which the husband supports the wife, has been taken over by the welfare society so that the woman is now supported by the government.

There are many reasons for this difference. First of all, men still tend to seek more managerial positions and jobs in the private sector, making more money. Women have more part time jobs and jobs in the public sector. As Denmark taxes income on a progressive scale women end up paying less tax this way. Another reason is that women live longer and thus have more expensive retirements.
I personally don't get whole this tip tradition - just give me the check stating the exact amount I have to pay. And give the appropriate salary to the wait{er|ress}.
There are some big mistakes about Flash Stage3D which makes an article that pretends to be an informed overview very suspect.
Stage3D allows dynamic shaders even more than any other platform and does work very well on mobile via AIR.

WebGL as an API has serious problems that are not mentioned:

- High level language vs. bytecode at the API layer makes it very hard to implement consistently. The js API should take bytecode and a shader compiler (outermost loop) should be implemented in a safe script language via libraries.

- Very large API surface based on an 80s standard. This makes it much harder for browsers to support and test consistently.

- Extension mechanism makes it very hard to target consistently. A common problem in graphics is that every hw vendor wants you to optimize for the highest end in their line. Which gets you into the "make the best case better" optimization case when you really want to "make the worst case better".

- Serious interop/performance issues with js targets. Typed arrays are for example very important to a low level API like this.

- Low end support. Like Intel GPUs and mobile. WebGL is simply to big for testing and enforcing those constraints.

Sorry for ranting. :) Feel free to PM me for discussing 3D APIs for the web. I personally think the Flash Stage3D API is much better but I also realize the benefit of going plugin less.
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"Conspicuous consumption" refers to the practice of spending money purely to demonstrate your ability to spend money. Don't be obtuse.
something tells me they are going to call it skynet
Aaron Swartz - The Legacy
Ask HN: What's your motivational saying?
I don't know about you guys, but I need something stupid to say to myself to keep working on whatever late at night.

The phrase I've been repeating recently is "you are the backup". My main problem is always thinking about how someone smarter could solve an issue in a second or this would have been easier if I had done blah earlier in life.
History is just facts. Narratives are usually made up by someone investigating those facts. Narratives differ between historians depending on their sympathies.

I think innovative education should stay away from history. Most of it is history of politics. Only some percentage of it is actual knowledge and none of it is of any use to almost anyone.
Err, no they aren't, because they aren't all (or even mostly, AFAIK) engineers.
It's certainly not the case that engineering and other positions have the same interview process.
> And the impact of a well crafted moment in a show, I posit, is much more powerful sometimes than a page can deliver.

Depends on the writer. I've been haunted by single lines in novels for years.

> Surf Tumblr for a few hours and you'll understand how things are done these days. Kids don't just share quotes anymore, kids share GIF screen caps of their favorite moments in the movie or show they like.

In David Brin's uplift series, he posited that the "uplifted" sentient dolphins would mimic echolocation signals to beam images and short imagined movies directly into each other's heads. It's like we're becoming David Brin's dolphins. Someday, our tools will be so powerful and the interfaces so slick and efficient, we will just instantly produce little movies and beam them into each other's brains. We've already seen the effect of video on speech and syntax: "It was like..."
We went from talking about Aaron Swartz, suicide, Cyberlaw, startups and algorithms to a discussion about tips being left on the table.

This story has truly gone viral.
It's a strategy to dismantle the Web, which had the "disadvantage" of being simultaneously free and a level playing field, and replacing it with a loose network of fiefdoms, each a walled garden (a term often used to describe Apple in its entirety).

Most of these apps are advertising delivery mechanisms masquerading as utilities. Another role they have is to prevent copying of content or links from one fiefdom to another. In doing that, they represent a retreat from the ideal of a public forum.

I think this idea works best with relatively young people who don't clearly understand what they're giving up when they download a proprietary app in order to read what should be a public document.

The old Web has many problems, but freedom of expression remains in the plus column.
You have edited this post three or four times now. It is tough to know how it will read in a few hours. I thought it was odd that someone would criticize another's work as being the most irrelevant sentence and yet they would make a basic grammar error twice. You failed to include the indefinite article "a" after "in" and before "journalistic context" (adjective+noun).
I love this idea. Currently my search for, say, a new IRC client is likely to end up on Wikipedia of all places because they're the only people that have a comprehensive list of what's available. There has got to be a better way to do this.
Yes, compile times are my main concern. It is an implementation issue, just like the fact that humans die. It doesn't have to be that way, does it? :-)

The other concern is that you have to first find and then change code in two locations most of the time. On top of that, function signatures in the header are different than those in the implementation file, so you can't just copy them.

This last issue is a language issue and it is utterly ridiculous. There is no sane reason why you're not allowed to leave virtual, static or parameter default values in the code when you copy it into the implementation file.

[Edit] One more thing: If a language is designed in a way that makes it practically impossible to create a fast implementation, that is a language issue in my view. Doesn't mean that such a language has no place. It does and I'm using it.
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It would be worth mentioning that to develop nuclear weapons there would be a need to develop them, for something. If we could just step back for a moment and ask the simple question of "Why do we need nuclear weapons?" there is no good reason for anyone to have them.
I don't think the waitress is a hero. She violated a person's privacy. The waitress already received the automatic 18% tip. What is her beef? She didn't like one comment on a receipt? How many tables did she wait on that night? 6-10?
That's fine in an ideal world, but in the United States that's not how eating out is handled. A tip is the payment to the waitress for her services while occupying a chair in her or his section in the restaurant. If you find this unacceptable, there are McDonalds Restaurants down most streets.
Pastor's apology:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/tipping-pastor-apolog...

In a TSG interview, Alois Bell said that the online
firestorm created by the receipt has left her stunned.
“My heart is really broken,” said the 37-year-old Bell.
“I’ve brought embarrassment to my church and ministry.”
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We live in a different world. Currently the most important things are the ability to get, filter and process information and not the ability to store it.

Most of the courses I have taken by coursera and edx were a blast. But I have experience and good math background.

We as a society should refocus the primary education on "rapid obtainable literacy" in any given topic. The student must be able to obtain the critical mass of knowledge that will help him to navigate on its own in the MOOC, and then we will be able to leverage the new educational startups.
Other than paying for the 'infrastructure', which isn't much yet, I haven't had to spend any money on user acquisition.
Religious people that write things like that prefer rhetoric to reason. It's in the same class of statements as "no monkey in my family tree." Sounds like you've made a point but you have only made a sentence.
Well I know I'm not getting this YC tattoo removed anytime soon.
Interesting. I developed App Theme Store last summer at http://www.AppThemeStore.com. I currently have a couple of GitHub-related themes on it for purchase. I also have another "app" related domain since 2007. I'm sure I'm not the only one besides Amazon who believes the term "app store" is very generic.
It is a perfectly fine system but apparently in America, you have to leave a 20% tip under all circumstances. If the service is bad, who cares, leave the 20% or you are an asshole and we will post your information online.

God help you if you are caught not leaving a tip.
1) I edited it once, immediately after initially posting it - to add a new sentence at the end.

2) Do you honestly care about something that is technically slightly incorrect when really it's fine in an informal setting?

3) Not sure how it would be odd, even if my coment had been litered with speling mistakes. I was commenting on the content of that sentence, not how it was written. Feel free to be a pedant the next time you see my bitching about someone's spelling or grammar.
Nice idea in principle, but it's not obvious how we would prevent free WiFi networks from becoming clogged with mass media downloaders and spammers.

It would certainly change the cell phone industry. In fact, the possibility of free public WiFi, just the idea, should motivate cell phone companies to reevaluate their policies and acknowledge that what they offer is a digital data stream that happens to have a voice capability. Not that they'll accept this idea, or change their business plan, without a fight.
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> 15,000 people / 25,000 things

So. How many active users?

And how many have left after pushing just one thing (whatever it means)?

--

(edit) Re-read my comment and it comes across as dismissive. I didn't mean that. What you got in terms of raw numbers is impressive, but since 90% of your traffic came from Reddit, I'd show very cautious optimism. Reddit crowd is easily excitable and it tends to be supportive for the sake of being supportive. They are the do-gooders and this translates into overly positive skewed feedback. Try and not get carried away here. Having a lot of foot traffic is great. As you correctly pointed out, it created a positive feedback loop and helps self-propel the promotion. But it's really of little value if no ones sticks around. I don't know your active/return user counts, but judging by 25k/15k ratio it's probably not mind-blowing, in which case you should use your current momentum to try and fine-tune the details. In fact, you must. Engage the visitors better and make them stick. The launch splash is a one-time event and the level of attention you got so far will be very hard to replicate.
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A lot of those tablet apps suck, because the priorities driving them aren't the readers. This means that they'll either lose in the long run, or adapt to serve reader's needs.
It sucks she backed down so easily. She should have lawyered up.
Yes, its interesting to trace the routes of these words. The Persian word for Alexander is also Sikander and it was quite a popular name among sultans in medieval India.
And my favorite: Tsar was derived from Caesar :)
Thanks! Found it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5060631

Still surprised that this is not an officially supported workflow, though...
Thank you.

I find the power imbalance in these situations to be very uncomfortable -- half the time in the back of my mind I'm thinking to myself this waitress has a big smile on her face because ultimately all she wants is a nice tip; the smiley front is unauthentic. Just please give the servers and waiters a proper salary and let me go on with my day.

The very idea of tipping to me is absurd and silly. What constitutes that a service be tipped anyway? Doesn't the guy who spends 30 minutes explaining to me how I should install my bathroom tiles at Home Depot deserve a tip? Or the cooks in the backhouse -- who, arguably, have much difficult work to do than servers/waiters? The immigrant dishwashers who never even get a chance to have their common dignity affirmed at any step of the way -- because they're not palatable enough in their looks and appearances to be seen by a customer? Or the Sears cashier clerk who does me the favour of looking in the back warehouse to see if the shoes I'm looking for are really not in stock -- and then calls other stores to see if they have them, when he didn't have to do any of that?

Just give them a nice salary. Don't try to guilt-trip me by bringing up how they're paid "below minimum wage".

And, to put a startup spin on my post: there should be a site that rates the ethical practices of stores/restaurants. Does the restaurant pay its dishwashers a respectable salary? If yes, I will be okay and willing to pay a little extra. If they don't: I'll happily never do business there again.
This is nothing new, through history there has been a large range of people who have self taught from books. However, and I agree with the basic point, many people have failed to self-educate through books, and it is not clear to me these people will suddenly do much better with MOOC.
At least for me. Waiting was the easiest job with the most reward for the least amount of work. Tax free in some cases because it was cash.

Our job was to essentially walk from one side of the restaurant to the other side of the restaurant and meet drunk hot chicks. And they give you typically 10-30 dollars cash for doing so.

Hard work is standing behind a hot grill for $5-8 a hour, 10 hours a day without the tips.
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I would be interested to know the advantages of this compared to working on a file in a shared git or svn depository?
how is the millitary going to protect civilians when its their superiors who ask them to slaughter? The armed forces are bound by millitary rules, and i m certain that doesn't include defending one's personal belief.
I get this question occasionally from people visiting VOW of NOW: http://vowofnow.com and even a vow taker who jumped right in then started asking questions, and this is probably the best and clearest directions I found on how to meditate.
Yes on a busy street.
His book Decoded is a very interesting read. He tells a lot of stories about how the songs came about, and then also takes a lot of songs and goes line by line and explains the meaning behind the lyrics.
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Yep. The whole tipping system makes prices seem smaller than they actually are. Sort of like the cheap airline tickets with additional fees.
If free will exists, how will it enter into the simulation (or emulation)?
> God help you if you are caught not leaving a tip.

True. In the old days, when a tip was a gratuity (the original meaning of the word), it was by definition optional. So it could be used to reward good service or punish bad. Some people objected that tipping was undemocratic -- it allowed wealthy people to get better service in an establishment with fixed menu prices.

Now that tipping is mandatory, the original meaning "gratuity" is lost, because it's not gratuitous (optional or unearned). Now the objection is that it's neither optional nor a signaling mechanism, but a way to raise prices across the board without actually saying to.

Both views are right -- when it was optional, it was undemocratic, and now that it's mandatory, it's an underhanded way to raise prices for everyone.
She didn't receive the tip. The meal was $34.93 and the tip of $6.29 was scratched out.
Applebees PR dept should watch reservoir dogs, the problem is that no matter how right you are, you look like an asshole.

Was it inexecusable? Certainly.

Does she make $3.50 an hour? Yes.

Does anyone find that an acceptable amount to be paid in the richest nation on earth? No.

Do most people regard those that don't tip as assholes? Yes.
The proper role of the government is to protect citizens from the initiation of force, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was certainly that.

I'm not advocating anarchism.
First of all, thank you for taking the time and reading my text. Maybe I should've mentioned that I have a Turkish background, therefore I understand peolovictor's point of considering the experiences of others. The point I wanted to make is that, at least based on my own experience, people are getting less sensitive on the educational choice of others and have less empathy. But as always, these views are highly subjective and dependent on the context, so I can understand any criticism.
Well would your argument stand if I said i have my browser filling 5% of my screen? responsive design is useful, but designing for majority screen resolutions is just good business sense. How far do you take responsiveness? 100px wide?
They should have done this with Stargate Universe. Easily would have got 500k subscribers.
Fully disagree.

I've had terrible service & I've had great service. While I've never completely stiffed a waiter, I have left a tip on the low-end (10-15%). And I've left killer tips (>50%) on some really killer service.

By and large, the system seems to work pretty well. And once you know to accodate it, it's not really that hard to do the math & account for it.
Well, it was a few years ago, and I'm not at home anymore. As well, like I said, it's a safe neighbourhood in general. Yeah, I can see how a martial art will help. I bet it develops mental focus in that type of situation, as well as muscle memory as to what to do.
"The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us." - Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer.

This is the kind of disruption that we actually need for traditional media companies.
This story is not about the waitress. This story is about a pastor caught red-handed being an self-absorbed asshat, followed by the inept flailing of an incompetent bureaucracy.

Against this kind of backdrop, the waitress would have to kick puppies in order to look unsympathetic.
It's relatively rare activity for adults. Especially when compared to online discussion.

Are you sure future adults would benefit from being able to have in person discussion with group of people if there is almost no chance of them having such in their adult lives?
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> @josteink you have any stats that back up your assertion that iOS is headed "soon into sub 10% marketshare"?

Basic extrapolation. You can take the platforms' relative market-share and see if you spot the trend.

Apple's worldwide market-share has plunged from 50% to 14% in just a couple of years [1]. Android's intake on the market has been so aggressive even Apple is having a hard time keeping up.

Now, to be fair, these numbers are for smart-phones only and not for tablets, so the numbers dont represent the full truth. Right now Apple is definitely leading in tablet-space. But that was also the story for iPhone vs Android-phones a few years back. Android-phones were considered sub-par and iPhones the best of breed.

Where are we now though? Apple is considered the laggard and have to keep up with the constant stream of new and better equipped Android phones.

I suspect we we will see the same in tablet-space: After Apple has had the lead for a few years, it will see it's market getting eaten by Android and Apple will have to start playing the game of catch-up once again. Like they've already done with the iPad Mini.

It looks like history is repeating itself. And from these trends, estimating a future sub-10% market-share doesn't seem all that crazy.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/02/idc-android-market-share-re...
Actually, monopolies come from the government explicitly banning or regulating away competition.

Yes, it's true that you can't get the nice properties of a free market without some conditions being met. Specifically, you need the government to be the arbiter of physical force between people. Otherwise, you have gang warfare (anarchism).
I guess you could think of it as implicitly outsourcing the performance evaluations and bonus assignment to the customer, who, after all, in the best position to make that decision. That's the theory, I guess. In reality though people aren't particularly objective, and also the social norm is to apply some percentage to the bill; so effectively, the waitrons get paid partly based on how expensive the food is that they served (which just highlights part of the absurdity).
Joel Spolsky had an interesting article on this idea [1], he said "smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements."

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
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Even if collection types, such as vectors, are immutable in your language (which BTW I think is a great idea), you can still allow element-wise assignment:

a = [1, 2, 3]
a[1] = 4

This works if it has a different semantics from what you might expect: instead of updating a potentially shared object, it is considered equivalent to

a = [a[0], 4, a[2]]

That is, it doesn't modify the object 'a' refers to; rather, it updates the binding of 'a' itself. So, for example:

a = [1, 2, 3]
b = a
a[1] = 4
b[1] --> 2

I've used a language with this property for some years, and it's quite pleasant; you don't have to worry about copying a collection before returning from an interface, for example, to protect it from being modified by the client.
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The problems with Pascal's wager are good to keep in mind when trying to reason about hypothetical deities. Mostly, the lesson here is that when you're considering what types of gods may exist, there are a lot of possibilities. Any time you try to break the set of all possible gods down into simple categories, be careful and double-check your assumptions, because you could easily have forgotten something major.

For example, Pascal's Wager doesn't really consider the set of hypothetical gods who are violently offended by blind faith, but these gods are no less possible than the ones it does consider.
Are you sure? If she paid with a credit card and there is the automatic 18%, what processes deducts the automatic tip? It wouldn't have mattered that she crossed out that printed 6.29.