skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason I don't see SO as having degraded as much as some of the other SE properties.
I know someone with an Asperger's son she couldn't figure out, and she was told to watch Sheldon for a few episodes. She came back and said, "okay, I understand what's going on in my son's head a lot better now."

I'm sure that would make some people fly into a rage, but the depiction helped her figure things out from his perspective.
>It's absurdly common amongst people of our kind to assume TBBT is written for us, when in reality it's written as a caricature of us, for the general public.

Anecdotally, every recommendation I've encountered for the show has come from self-described nerds who feel the show does speak to / for them.

I think you might be underestimating the number of people who will relate to and even try to emulate a popular caricature of themselves.
I actually like Arrested Development, so yes, I have. But I am sort of weary about American television programmes anyway. Call me odd, but I actually watch The West Wing on repeat non-stop.
The percentage of women is lower, but the total number is higher.
That was another thing he mentioned - his kid watches all the minecraft youtube videos too. I'm sure if you get bored of doing your own thing you can take a look at what other people are making and come away with a whole new perspective on how to play the game.
"I miss the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers." -- Linus Torvalds

Enough of that. Because Windows 8 uses the same kernel as Windows 7 (and Vista) with a minor .x upgrade, you should just use the 7 drivers, as they'll most likely work.

Anyway, I don't understand why you would want to "upgrade" to W8 anyway. It's not good at all unless you have a touchscreen, and the performance gains are very minimal. Just stick with 7, trust me, you'll be happier.
It's because things are so reliable now, that, when they don't work for five minutes, everybody flocks to see "the time you couldn't download Google Chrome".
To quote Schneier: »When something is in the news, it is, by definition, something that almost never happens.« – which seems to fit here.
Looks like android needs to fix it's permissions system.
The woman who is working on it is based out of USC, and in Los Angeles I think this would be extremely feasible - many buildings don't even have heat or air conditioning and generally only get hot based on the position of the sun, since there's no humidity to trap heat.

Definitely not a great idea in Florida for sure, but for Southern California I think its pretty compelling
Just an angry dude trying to recruit more anger to justify his lack of pleasure in life. First-First world problems at best.
So nerds only like shows that cater to their superiority complex and idolize every aspect of their existence?

That sure sounds a lot like the superficial, narcissistic plebeians from whom nerds constantly strive to differentiate themselves. Not to worry, though, I'm sure they're all smart enough to detect the overwhelming irony.
> Subtlety.

Thanks for the correction. Post edited :)

> To me, given how the show is written, that feels more like pandering. "Oh look, LEGO Millennium Falcon, this show _GETS_ _ME_"

That would be the pessimistic view of things, but personally I can't see the issue with that. I'd sooner see facets like that celebrated on popular shows rather than hidden away on niche programmes.
Actual link, not blog spam. http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/us--thin-fil...
Minecraft isn't WoW (that's a good thing). WoW is pretty much aggressively targeted to make large amounts of money, which is why they're valued so high. Mojang seem to want to make things that are cool and fun, more than they want to set up large subscription bases, add on packs and so on. Could Mojang become a billion dollar company? Sure, maybe. Anything can happen. Is it a good comparison between them and Blizzard? I'd say no, they seem to have distinctly different goals.

You know what's cool, being a company that is happy making things rather than being a billion dollar company and dealing with the headaches of stock price related soothsaying.
Agreed! It saves a trip to the man page.

Something else I figured out recently is that if you put the pipe at the end of a line, you don't need a backslash:

echo thing |
grep thing
Neat idea, and seems to work well.

On the other hand, having to include two classes seems sloppy. Why not just roll the core styles into the position classes, or include a default position in the 'hint' class?

Double dashes in class names are also annoying.
This is another great reason to "keep config files out of web root." WordPress supports this, although it's not by default, and poorly documented, and even suggested it's not beneficial.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Configure_D...
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#Securing_wp-c...
Other players, like blekko, may be more willing to open their API. Ask them directly.
Time to update some of my scripts.
I support this idea, but i'm guessing any company that makes eighty bucks per house per month for internet access may disagree. i am looking forward to hearing the proferred arguments against free internet for anyone who wants it as it would have to be a rather clever argument to succeed at contravening common sense.
It's worth keeping in mind because people might assume that men are worth avoiding, or let their guard down among women.
I too have been using this practice for years now, unfortunately most coworkers don't seem to appreciate the genius of it.
even if it is true that they are "laughing at us".

For lots of geeks that brings back really painful memories. I can easily see myself, at another point in my life, hating TBBT.

People always tell me that I'm like that kid on "Real Genius" and don't I love that movie? Well, no, I don't, I hate it, and the end of OP's essay goes into it: because it doesn't show the pain of being the geek, and it shows that it's easy for the geek to get the girl without moving out of his safety zone.

I enjoy TBBT, but I'm sure some of that comes from the fact that I watch it with my geek wife. If I was 15 years younger I might think it's just another boulder that society has nonchalantly placed on my shoulders.
> The FDA is an ugly, flawed, but arguably vital workaround for that bug. If you want to get rid of it, you need to offer another fix for the bug.

Here is an idea of a work around.

First, FDA "recommendations" shouldn't be mandatory. Even things the FDA claims to be safe can be more harmful than some of the things that it warns are unsafe.

Second, There should be competing private agencies other than just the FDA. Their reputations would rely on how safe their "approved" medication and procedures turn out to be.

Third, A patient looking for a treatment should be able to look up the ratings of doctors, medications, procedures. If they find a potential scam artists, they will see the negative reviews and reports of patients who died under their care. They will have valuable information to make their medical decisions that they don't have today. The ratings and information would be maintained by private agencies and the FDA. Kind of like a credit score for doctors, medications, and medical procedures.

This obviously doesn't solve every single problem, but I think its a pretty good start.
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Agile - the best way we ever worked
I have seen this working, but didn't understand why... thanks!
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No. Use standard POSIX flags to invoke standard POSIX functionality, so your scripts don't break when run on a different system.
sigh clearly we as a community have a long long long way to go if we still have people of even contemplate such a reponse
I get the same red "hotspot" from moving my mouse around, or scrolling with my cursor in one place. Is there a way to tell the difference with this?
I agree.

> As a nerd and a geek, the thing I find most offensive is the way other geeks and nerds react to The Big Bang Theory. It's almost embarrassing to be associated with people who behave like such spoiled children.

I know what you mean, but I actually often laugh about this about as much as I laugh at the actual show. Knowing how many of the real geeks around the world would collapse into a Sheldonesque tizzy fit about a scene is half the fun of the scene.
heh.. I have never thought of that. I basically script exactly how I construct commands in the cmd line, but the author is correct looking at my past bash scripts it would be better to use long options, good stuff.
I hope you know Chrome for iOS has that exact feature. It makes the iPad a lot more useful for me.
> If you don't explain Heisenberg, what's the point? There's nothing left but empty feelings of superiority.

That empty feeling of superiority is exactly what is being ridiculled most of the time in this show. Maybe you've choosen wrong 60 seconds to judge the show.

That show laughs as much at the smart-but-socialy-stupid people (mostly Sheldon), as at the ignorant masses. Actually - even more at the geeks. And it's ok - geeks often ARE condescending and pretentious. It's ok to laught about that.

Also it was very funny to me to see some of my early attempts at male-female communication almost perfectly presented in that show :).

Not every fiction about geeks has to be education vehicle. This show is "a portrait of geeks-non geeks interactions".
I'm not sure that's true, but even if it were, the change is not achieved by mere fiat.
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iPhone user here ducks Didn't I see a Google IO keynote 2-3 years back where Sergey demoed addresses, directions, links, etc. pushing from the sync machine to the phone? Did this never come to be? Or did it lack in functionality?
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C-x C-e opens an editor for the command-line, so after you've tab completed it it's easy to save.
If I'm sounding like I'm some introvert coder person it's because I am. Introversion doesn't have to mean that you wear headphones and refuse to engage with anybody, it can just mean that direct human interaction takes up more of your concentration. I'm not sure what I wrote that made you think I thought there was a "right" answer? It seems obvious from both our comments that neither of us think this so I guess something in my tone/wording rubbed you up the wrong way, so for that I apologise. I was attempting to communicate that any high-handed company wide commands are unlikely to fit with everyone's personal foibles. At the end of the day I think a relaxed culture of mutual consideration of our colleagues working practices is the way to go.
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Fair enough. Can you turn off the gc/explicitly free everything? If not, then e.g. Go provides the same kind of memory management, i.e. controlling the layout of objects in memory.

It would probably be helpful to define what I mean by memory management: controlling allocs and frees. If Rust provides this, great. (Sorry, I don't know Rust very well.) Then your plug is certainly warranted.
Which is entirely dependent on how the shell is configured (not all shells have tab-completion for option flags, let alone path or command completion). I'm sure Vim or Emacs could do tab-completion for script flags, but you'd be in the same boat in the beginning: Someone has to script it first.
Wow, that is the first time I've ever heard anyone talk about a RISC processor in about 8 years.

I don't know what was wrong with your computers, but I've owned 4 HP notebooks, and all have performed spectacularly. They're built solidly and have (for the most part) good hardware-software integration. As with any OEM, there are going to be products at the high and low ends of the line, and similarly there are going to be several failing models.

With HP, I think it really is hit-or-miss. You either get a good computer, or you get a bad one. While my HPs have been good, my friend's G71 hard disk failed.

I've been wary of what I purchase from them, and how it's assembled, but it seems to have worked. Computers are computers, and the #1 thing to fail in them is the user. The #2 thing to fail is the software, and the #3 thing to fail is the hard disk. It's very rare that new PCs come out of any factory with a fried mobo or CPU.

It's just a matter of sifting through all of the junk to find the few hidden gems. HP has a problem with QC, but if you look enough, you'll find great products at even better prices.
Posted a link to discuss launch strategies. New to posting on HN although signed up a while ago, would appreciate if people could post any older threads that are relevant. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5164583
I recently found myself going back and changing a script I had done to use the long form flags because I had forgotten what the short ones meant.
Describing one's self as a nerd has been a growing trend lately ever since geek became chic.

I personally know multiple people who after watching BBT now identify as a nerd despite not having any sort of hobbies or technical experience.
Take a look at CUDA's pinned memory.
One critical element that the story did not mention was the imposition of capital controls to enable effective structural reform. This is something that has not been done (at least not collectively) since the post-war period often known as the Golden Age of Capitalism (1945-1971).

Ironically, in the same year the people of Iceland democratically elected to default on sovereign obligations, the IMF released a paper entitled, "Default in Today's Advanced Economies: Unnecessary, Undesirable, and Unlikely" ...
I don't know why, but it is a good example of how small states are still capable of acting in the interest of it's people, while large states are captured by corrupt interests of one sort or another.
That would say something about the state of American education rather than the state of Iceland, if so.
> In the case of Bitcoin, such a bounce-back is not as likely to happen, because it would be so tempting for people to just start an entirely new blockchain.

In such a situation, people could be categorised into two: those who previously held Bitcoin, and those who previously didn't. The ones who did would favour continuing with the old block chain, since they'd have more value there. Surely this alone would be enough?
I agree with your assessment that active users is the only count that really matters. I haven't actually got the numbers myself but I watch the split between users and things pushed and it is growing wider every day. This is my proxy right now.

I haven't messed with weekly active users, for example, because my sample space of time is so small I couldn't really make any statements.

The other thing I take as a good sign is that the number of registered devices has officially overtaken the number of registered users, meaning people have taken the time to register more than one device more often than not even registering one.
The reality of what will happen in the U.S. is the exact opposite. If anyone watched the recent Davos Economic Summitt - U.S. companies can no longer easily grow using debt instruments, which just leaves productivity and competitiveness.

Translation: Employees will be working more hours for easily the next 5 years.
Also see this list of links from 2004, arguing about whether Postel's Law applies to syndication formats: http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg04697.html . Sadly, Mark Pilgrim's famous rant is no longer online.
I accept --silent, but almost everybody knows what -E to grep means. Normally I would just use egrep rather than grep -E however.
I am not a legal expert but I do believe that "theft of service" can apply to the likes of, say, "stealing" cable service, even if it doesn't reduce the capacity of others to enjoy their cable service. FWIW.
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The author obviously feels humiliated by the show. What annoyed me about this post is how much time the author spends on pointing out how "cruel" TBBT is treating him and his fellow nerds.
At one point I even got angry how sensitive he is. People make fun of geeks, get over it.
I am under the impression that he wrote himself in some kind of rage and lost track of realism after a while.

TBBT is not supposed to defend geeks / nerds it's supposed to make the majority of people laugh and it succeeds.

His points are valid but his sentiment is over the top.
Which Flask apps in production?
I am interested to know which Flask Application are running in production
Which is funny to mention

The Dutch royal family moved from Amsterdam to The Hague, still, their old palace is still a big tourist attraction.
Do some research into who the author is.
Even less of a cut when you consider that, unlike the B, the A's USB port can apparently go into slave mode: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=1... (from last year, things may have changed since then)
Artistic action sports gear, support american manufacturing.
Decentralization and The Common Good
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It’s (Still) Foolish to Ignore Startups
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How Google helped make Windows a ghetto
Using 445M to compare against an i7 is ridiculous (Even if the i7 is 3 generations old).
Glad you like the app! And the Chrome extension will pre-fill for the page you're on, but not for tabs you had open before you installed the extension :)
I would love to see how this would work here in Phoenix in the summer. While it is aimed at temperate climates, if it is able to reduce the AC consumption here it might be worth it. First Solar in Tempe designed some shade screens into their building that open/close with the sun's movement. A skin like this might be a more practical solution.
What do you mean by "calving scale"? "calving scale" gives about one thousand matches on Google and they don't seem related.

I think that the only ulterior motives deniers have is to refuse to face a simple fact: 8 billion people and all the cattle needed to feed them is probably something that earth cannot widthstand for very long. So either we all start eating insects (they are way more environmentally friendly than cattle) or we start limiting birthrate.

I know that it is estimated that total world population shall go down by 2100 or so but I'm not sure we can wait that long.

One kid per couple. Boom. Problem solved.

But who wants to hear that?
It's my impression that the fact that a fairly limited range of frequencies are allocated for mobile phone use is a barrier to entry.

I don't think that's the main difference between the US and say... Germany though. I'm pretty sure German carriers are required to sell each other access to their networks under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, making it fairly easy to become a carrier without building a bunch of cell towers. The phones are all GSM and almost all unlocked, so it really is as easy to switch as getting a SIM from a new carrier.

This actually appears to be a case of more regulation, applied to just the right spot resulting in more competition. Politically, I'm not usually in favor of a lot of regulation, but it looks like it works in this case.
Can anyone with expertise provide details? From the description, it's a timing attack based on the content of the stream. But my understanding (and presumably that of the protocol designers) was that TLS post-key-negotiation was mostly deterministic and not subject to this kind of thing. What am I missing?
New "Lucky Thirteen" SSL Vulnerabilities: CloudFlare Users Protected
Except many geniuses do laugh at some of the dumbed down analogies given by Greene and other household names. Granted they respect those physicists for raising awareness of the respective theories and raising the profile of science in general, but the jokes are still made about the analogies. (in fact you only have to look closer to home to see how often people like us quibble over comparisons made where we're simplifying IT principles).

The reason Sheldon's comments were more derogatory is a reflection of Sheldon's character as he sees those people as beneath him. However there's plenty of times he makes extremely complimentary remarks about other physicists - albeit ones not usually known for making the sciences more accessible.
Excellent summary - can pick and choose to fit specific case.

Also, design is nice for the eyes.
Again, this is easier explained by the MSM not being interested in enlightening its readers, watchers, and listeners versus advertorials, PR puff pieces, and infotainment. Does this make it easier to spout and circulate propaganda points? Certainly. Is the shallow, provincial coverage sign of a greater conspiracy? Not in context of the rest of the coverage being terrible, no. I wouldn't say you're "wrong", but the rest of their coverage is as incomplete and fact free as how they approach things that may not reflect their ideological bent :)
Why playground no load for me :(
http://scottcheng.github.com/d3js-101/playground/
This Portlandia Nerd PSA makes a similar point to the one that the Community is good/Big Bang is bad people are trying to make. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Or, there should be an automated tool that takes scripts with short flags and displays them with automatically replaced equivalent long flags for readability.

Not everything has to be static text, one format does not fit all situations.
I think, like most things, this would depend on who your audience is. For internal use only where you're running under a consistent environment at all times and aren't worried about portability, it probably makes sense to go with the more explicit long options.

For something you're planning to deploy to customers, it probably makes sense to play it pretty strict with POSIX.

Likewise, I usually script straight sh for portability if it's going to a customer unless there's a compelling reason to use bash. I'll mix in bash in stuff I write for myself where it makes my life simpler.
Honest question: how would you set the market value of a digital good? I have a very limited understanding of economics, but it seems to be that balancing the supply/demand equations when supply is infinite (for, say, a song, movie, music video, etc.) becomes rather difficult.
I think the difference between white-knighting and not is whether it's about the woman or the person who's behaving badly.

"You shouldn't hit a girl!" <-- white knighting "You are being violent; if you do not stop we will ban you from this space." <-- insisting on basic, reasonable standards of behavior.

It's not about women needing special protection, it is about the community not welcoming people who act like assholes. Of course women can defend themselves, but no one should have to defend themselves against that kind of behavior. And the only reason I believe it is important to talk about gender in this context is because women are being targeted because of their gender and using cultural weapons specific to their gender. Again, it is about the people behaving badly, not their targets.
As a part-time scripter (is there any other kind?) I'm ashamed to say that I often use shortcut flags because I looked up the functionality I needed and copy pasted without taking the time to even understand what all of the flags mean.

This advice is good not only for others but setting a standard for yourself where you take a moment to learn what exactly is going on.
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is it alright to dislike TBBT just because it's really unfunny and lazy comedy?
Besides, the simplest answer is that "the media" is selfish, desperate, and cheap. Original coverage, coverage that requires remote HQs, deep coverage is not a priority and those departments were probably axed ten years ago.