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>I've seen some sites overriding context menus to provide their own copy/paste commands (for unknown reasons, probably to change the look). In doing so, they remove all the options browser puts in there.

Of course, and you've probably seen much worse than that. Incompetent web designers are plentiful, but the capabilities of a web site are not limited to "broken sites made by incompetent designers".

>If HN wanted to use context menus for some app-specific reason, all of those options would be wiped out (at least for affected elements) because the app would be in direct conflict with the browser.

If HN wanted to do something incredibly stupid, they could do something incredibly stupid. Right. I'm not sure what the issue is there. If they wanted to not do something incredibly stupid, that is also an option. Why judge only on the worst possible scenario and assume every website is designed to be as broken and shitty as possible?

>Touch events are often another casualty -- sometimes they are commands to the OS (swipe to change active desktop), sometimes to the browser (pinch to zoom), sometimes to the app (drag to drag around a map, or maybe pinch to zoom?).

This applies equally to apps vs web, and isn't even specific to phones.

>Additional layers always introduce problems and cause things at the end of the chain to have worse UX or adapt by using lowest common denominator

That statement is false, and not relevant. The browser is no more an "additional layer" than an app is. The same number of layers in both cases.
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Ironically the opposite would happen.

People hear CIA and thoughts of horrible conspiracy theories overwhelm. But it is in abstract principle the more appropriate organization to have gotten involved.
Did the fact that all of the models are, in fact, the apparently objectified and degraded women pass everyone up?

Look, I am totally against misogyny and sexism as much as the next guy, but I have a hard time taking these posts seriously on a few counts:

1- A large portion of the marketing industry is based around the "objectifying of women." Women should go out in droves and write long screeds against marketers (pigs?) instead of flooding the marketing companies with their resumes.

2- Stop buying clothes from the long list of fashion companies that are clearly objectifying women to an unrealistic standard of beauty. Oh, right, fashion schools aren't male dominated either.

I love women and I have a lot of female (and male) friends, and I am just as bent out of shape about the way marketing is done as many other marketers (which I am), but you have to call out double-standards when you see them if you are ever going to have an intelligent debate about it. It's very easy to point out a male-dominated industry and call it all sexism, but please look at the very culture you not only built with your sisters-in-arms, but the culture you implicitly support with your dollars.

As for the picture in question. Yeah, I don't see how it sells hard-drives either.
I don't think BBX had that in 1996.
It's not Google's job to protect the rights of other companies. Plus, the way you phrase it, you're say that you wish Google would have held out to make it easier for future competitors to upset them.

Sure the outcome sucks, but your comment is actually defending a point opposite to the one you intend.
I think he meant that what you said is not true. I.e. he is stating the inverse: "Having women involved in the creation of something does not have significant impact on whether it is sexist." Although I don't get how that needs to be clarified.
> (sidenote: does anyone with a VEEEERY WIIIIDE monitor maximize windows?)

Yes. I don't know why though.
Given most brokers transaction fee model, I don't think you'd want to algo trade with much less than that.

Though iirc Collective2 lets you test strategies for free:

http://collective2.com/
I clicked through after seeing original headline. It made sense. This means nothing to me at all. Aren't editors meant to make things more readable?
Thanks for the clear feedback.

We will be taking it into account as we revamp the landing page - which is naturally on the short-term roadmap.
With all that beer and bacon who wouldn't be happy? :)
While it's easy to automate level flight with four rotors, it's difficult to prevent horizontal drift.
This is the first time I hear someone saying this about G+ groups. I've felt this way ever since people wanted to move to G+ just for its own sake.
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"I want control of my data."

One might even argue the idea of individual control is somewhat at odds with the logical structure of FOSS, particularly in it's GNUist form - i.e. for a Lisper (and Stallman was/is one), there's no semantic distinction between code and data. Your position requires distinguishing bits from bits.

Solutions which distinguish bits from bits are political, not computational.
Is that the only character you tried? Try writing "論" and see what happens..
I can scarcely believe that I too did exactly this.

Although I guess Textmate has benefitted from this kind of thing over the years.
It's not true because men and women are both brought up in the same power structures. There are plenty of women who believe that women's rightful place is in the home, that buy into the notion of modern beauty, and that don't care about women's rights (aka abortion, rape, etc).

That being said, I'd buy an argument that said women are more likely to be aware of these issues. Or even that women are less likely to be sexist. I suppose I took issue with your assertion that women are MUCH less likely to be sexist. I guess it's an argument of degrees.
>No details of the deal were immediately available.

I would wait for the details.

Edit: Here they are: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-creates-60m-di...
I've never been called a "rogue woman" before. That's awesome. It's funny how women having an opinion is so offensive to some people.
Both meanings would be equally unproductive. If your post deserves up or downvotes, let it stand on it's merit. Anything else is an attempt to game the system and adds nothing to the discussion.
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The nordic countries have been capitalist for a long time. In 1960 the taxes in Denmark were lower than in the US. In the 1960s and 1970s the welfare state really started expanding.

The system as it is now in Denmark is unsustainable. Most people don't work. The government is running a deficit. And the outlook is very low growth and Denmark is going to be the poorest northern European country.

It used to be in the top 5 of the richest countries in the world.

Besides the government deficit and debt, the population also has high private debt. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230444460457733...

One of the good things in Denmark that you don't have in most southern European countries is that you can fire people easily.

BTW Denmark has had the school voucher system for decades.

edit: According to this site Denmark is more economically free than the US: http://www.heritage.org/index/
I read that article when it came out. It's a little hand-wavy on the details.

It's good idea to use arxiv because they enforce submission standards. For-profit journals can't do that and society presses try but are not always successful. What happens if arxiv decides it needs to charge for submissions to defray operational costs? It's too early to tell.

They also do not prohibit individual journals from charging for publishing a paper. Not different from today's open access policies.

Bottom line -- for me its not different. It's just someone saying, "I think I can do it cheaper this way."
> If you get behind the wheel of a car drunk but get home safely, what crime did you commit?

A more accurate analogy would be that the FBI has been supplying you with lots of drink though a 3rd party informant that they pay, in cash or reduced sentencing time or both. That informant is always talking about drinking and telling you how you should drink, and then they supply you with all the liquor you could handle. Then the informant mentions you really ought to head home, why not drive? The minute you get into the car and start to drive, the authorities show up and arrest you, as they have been watching you covertly for several months while the informant does his work. Oh, and they likely selected you based on your skin color and/or religious affiliation.

> Whether the bomb or not was real doesn't change the fact that he has the mens rea to blow up a building, and considering he thought the bomb was real and took positive steps to set it up, the reus actus as well.

While this is true, some of the cases to date the FBI has prosecuted are really likely to have never occurred if informants weren't being paid to intentionally push someone towards an illegal act. Even if someone were to go through with it even without a paid informant involved, it is incredibly unethical for a policing organization to pay people to mislead people into breaking the law.
Why are you so sure that is the reason?
I mostly agree with Amy's take. And since when did "changing" imply "for the better"? It seems far too many people in our tech world have confused "affecting" with "improving". Yet when I glance around at what we have created -- me absolutely included -- for every world-changing improvement, I see far more products, services, apps with a model that puts the start-up's interests (or their investors, etc.) in direct conflict with "the World's" interests.
Yeah, I am no longer in the "changing the world" camp, unless "change" means a NET improvement. The current example that strikes me the most is the gamification platform vendors that feature success stories including weight loss and health compliance, alongside success case-studies of the same platform used to increase sales of high-fructose corn syrup drinks and beer. And they celebrate the fact that they are not just helping company A take market share from company B, but that through software/data-enabled behavior manipulation techniques, they increased the "units" a given customer would buy. Huge win for companies. World-changing?
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I don't deny that there is sexism in tech, but I can't figure out how this is an example of it just because the product being advertised is in tech. Is there sexism in the razor-blade industry because of how razor-blades are advertised? I can't imagine the people advertising razor-blades and the people manufacturing razor-blades have very much in common.
> If I have a big enough cluster of computers, I can then generate enough proof of work in a cheap manner. Is that true?

Yes and no. Yes, you can get money doing this, but many people are. Because of this, the difficulty has increased to a point where it's fairly hard to make money (you've got to consider the electricity costs, for example). GPUs are the minimum you need, many people use FPGAs. Recently released are the first custom ASIC chips designed solely to mine bitcoins, which will drive up the difficulty extremely sharply and push GPUs and FPGAs out of the market.
BofA online banking been down all morning for me. Sounds like they're having major issues -- there are reports of some physical branches being closed and phone support being unavailable [1].

Really curious what happened. Clearly not everything is down -- www.bankofamerica.com is up, lets me type in my userid before redirecting to notice.bankofamerica.com which says "site is temporarily unavailable".

[1] http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130201083431AA...
Wow, can you at least pay attention to the context here? We're talking about a group of mostly women who are complaining about treatment of women.

1. It's not "being born" but identifying with a group. Gender, race, sports team, etc. You're more likely to act favorably toward people in your group.

2. Clearly not everyone has the same opinion of what's sexist.

3. If women were not "sensitive" to this, then they wouldn't be complaining so much. They are complaining, therefore I conclude that they are sensitive to it.

4. Women can be mean to other women, but why would they be sexist against women on purpose?

5. Women being sexist to men is not relevant to this context. We're talking about treatment of women.
Broke HN: Can someone justify the order of these posts?
Below is number 10 and 11 on Ask HN as I see it right now. Is HN broken again?

10. I want to start a space company. Now what?
47 points by gusgordon 12 days ago | flag | 41 comments

11. Offer HN: Free Domains
51 points by noinput 2 hours ago | flag | 41 comments
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This doesn't affect your argument at all, but academics are sometimes paid a small amount to edit journals; not enough though (AFAIK) to affect their decisionmaking.
Totally agree. But the article seems to say that you should always acknowledge and support, even if you disagree. And I think that could come off as dishonest in some cases.
Yeah, I'm not sure if user-generated groups were the way to go with that one. I have no idea which of the ten with the same name are worth joining, so I don't join any at all.
Re: your point 2. There is a huuuuuuge difference between women dressed in the clothes being marketed sending the message, "You could look like this," to other women, and women placed on pedestals like the product being marketed sending the message, "Buying this hard drive is like buying hot sexy naked me," to a group mainly comprised of men. Huuuuge difference.

Maybe the former is not completely kosher, but the degree is so different that it makes zero sense to accuse someone of not calling out double standards when they mention the one and not the other. Also, it is really silly to tell activists that they aren't allowed to bother you until they have sufficiently bothered everyone else to your satisfaction. Basically all you've done is ask them to go away. It is morally equivalent to saying that people are not allowed to worry about healthcare or the homeless in their own country until the Africa problem is fixed. It's dumb.

Also, plenty of feminists are complaining about the representation of women in fashion. So on top of being bad rhetoric, your objection is wrong on the facts.

> I love women and I have a lot of female (and male) friends

If there was a website called "x-ist-tropes.com", "I have X friends, my mom is an X" would be the #1 trope for almost any value of X. Just don't say it.
Study Confirms Drop in College Endowment Returns
Hahahah. The first line is gold. Took the words right out of my mouth.
The Opportunity Gap
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"yet" summarizes the parenthetical remark.

I apologize if I have taken you out of context.
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As opposed to these types of comments that attempt to preempt and invalidate the viewpoints of straight, white, upper middle class males because every single one of them obviously can't think objectively.
That's it. Was confirmed by Antonio from unplu.gg.
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You can walk through what the .css function call is doing here:

http://sherlockcode.com/demos/jquery/#!/src/css.js:102

Ctrl+Click on the jQuery.access call on the next line to jump to its definition.
I tried 四 and it didn't work. I guess Hiragana and Katakana work, but not Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja.
This is absolutely awesome!

I really love the idea of crowdsourced meteorological data. I can envision a world where every smartphone has a lower power barometer and ambient temperature and humidity sensors. Combine this with lower power GPS and you could have the majority of the world's citizens constantly transmitting basic atmospheric data 24/7. As sensors become more advanced and cheaper, one can even envision a time when smartphones also include things like air quality sensors and so forth.

I can't imagine how accurate our weather forecasting would become if we had constant access to this incredible amount of real-time data.
Here Here! Our team used to play age of empires from time to time ... it really helps make for a good experience when you are friends with your co-workers. I know that's not always realistic, but I can say it's preferred.
The original title could also be in a "title" element on the A tag so that hovering over it would show the original. (Not necessarily a better idea but involves no interface changes which the YC folks seem not to like doing.)
Unless the metrics used for the ratings are based upon things like per capita salary x-many years after graduation (broken out into specific fields of study and private/public sectors), then it all comes down to either a popularity contest, or a measure of how well a school's policies reflect the latest "progressive" education practices.

In other words, unless it shows what the student "gets" out of the experience when done, they are selling dreams.
Of course COPPA doesn't seem unreasonable, and that's why it continues to exist. However, it is a lesson in unintended consequences: Rather than protecting children, COPPA has the effect of banning them from the internet. The subsequent effect of teaching children to lie and exploit the system is just icing on the proverbial cake.

Laws must not be judged on their intentions, but on their practical consequences. The only difference between the current world and a world without COPPA is that in this world, honest kids are prevented from having the same fun that their lying friends are having.
Thats a bit sad :(
I'm also new and until now I didn't actually encounter the angry, hateful sexism on HN that is rampant on Reddit & Co.
However with comments like "There is a very thin line between being a feminist and being an asshole." I guess I just didn't look hard enough.
Patents are publications. You have to detail the whole of your method for the patent to be valid.

In return you are protected for a limited period.

The alternative is keeping things secret, like the recipe for coke!
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Proof, Chef is a toy Puppet- what a Cluster F*** Eh.
Genetic algorithms become programmers themselves
I don't have root on my TV and it serves me just fine for what I need from it. There might be good arguments to keep platforms open, but this ain't one of them.
MIT is far more likely to come up with an exonerating report rather than an excoriating one.
"Bill Gates, the world’s most generous and influential philanthropist."
Good thing this writer is unbiased.
I would add that Minecraft is incredibly accessible for all ages. No matter how old you are there is something for you to do - be it building red stone circuits or making a wooden hut. There is something for everyone.
Satisfaction is not black-and-white. I think it is perfectly valid that someone is satisfied with the existing work environment (hey, there is just so much you can expect from an employer), yet, they want to create their own. It might be that they just want to show the world that they are capable of creating the same (or better) on their own.

John: have a good luck pursuing your dream!
I think we can at least partly blame the subtitle, which explicitly (and incorrectly) states that Nokia won a 1.35 billion grant.
Weird. They've changed the rules. What you quoted seemed very weird to me since I'd sorta internalized the guidelines and it seems they got edited over the past year. See http://web.archive.org/web/20120222184108/http://ycombinator... for what they were a year ago.

You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.

It seems that part has been thrown out the window and rewrites are no longer welcome. A shame.
Can anyone share how does it compare to knockout.js? Coming from a .net winforms background, the knockout.js seems more 'home' for me (similar to the databinding in winforms), whereas there is a lot of 'new' concepts in Angular.js and I'm kind of lost in their tutorial...
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It appears the guidelines page got changed in the past year and the "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it" clause has been removed :-(
What definition of "institutional funding" did you use in the report? The wording implies that you didn't count angel investments as institutional funding. So how do you treat angel-sized investments by VCs? Does "institutional investment" mean only series A rounds and later, or would that also include a $100k investment by a VC firm in a seed round?

Also, what is your definition of an institutional investor? Do you count super-angels like Jeff Clavier and Aydin Senkut?
You can check my WIP language for an example. The following is the repository where every component (lexer, parser, compiler, running-time library) is in its own module.

https://github.com/castel/libcastel

According to my experience on this language, I would recommand you ragel and lemon over flex and bison. They are very, very easy to bundle into a C++ application, without messing too much with the global symbol namespace.

A nice example is the Castel lexer, which is actually a preprocessed C++ source file : https://github.com/castel/libcastel/blob/master/parse/source...
I don't think it does much good to try and differentiate between the industry making a product or service and the advertising industry that supports them. They don't exist without each other.

For example, if Apple put out a sexist ad, you can bet people would talk about sexism in BOTH the tech industry and in the ad industry.
Microsoft Rumored Consider Buying Appcelerator
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5152415
9. He made some pretty sweet amateur techno back in the day under the name Markus Alexei on (remember this one?) mp3.com. Some of the more treasured stuff in my mp3 collection.
The "Hello World" sample algorithm on Quantopian gets a 4000% return if it operates on AAPL for a year. It makes trades each minute using a "3 day volume-weighted-average-price." I find it hard to believe this algorithm would perform so well in the real world.

How much of an impact would factors like latency in a real world environment have on this algorithm?

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/the-hello-world-algorithm-m...
CIA Adviser Warns of ‘Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction’
There are plenty of people who hate Mojang. I think it's just standard gamer-entitlement, though. Plus, neither Notch nor Mojang are perfect (obviously) but that seems to be a requirement for some people to not hate something.