skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One point nobody seems to have touched on: men should be just as pissed off about the "booth babe" thing as women. A company using this tactic is basically telling the straight men at a conference to think with their dicks, not their brains.

It's taking a product that could only exist through cultivating the higher functions of the human mind, and selling it by appealing to our basest lizard-brain instincts. It'd be like marketing a product by having two gladiators fighting to death in front of the booth. Impressive, but a step backwards for the species.

And yes, it's totally degrading to women as well. Even if the models involved were willing/wanted to participate.
As someone who works in sales, I can't recommend this answer enough. The fact is that most people spend too much time talking and not enough time listening. You need to listen to what your customer (the potential employer) wants and respond with how your product (you!) can help solve their problem.
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This method makes getting the shell off easy as well.

Edit: It's stated in the article that this method makes getting the shell off really easy. Just to be clear, I chose this method primarily for that reason, but it also requires a minimum amount of babysitting and mental RAM.
As a Swedish hacker I would like to add yes we do have a balanced government budget. But no we have not reinvented capitalism in a way that is fully coherent with system engineering principles and sustainable for the future without boom/bust cycles.

As it is now, we have fractional reserve banking, were money is created by private banks, in Swedens case Handelsbanken is using 6sek(1 USD) in capital to create 100sek(16 USD) in loans. If that bank fails, it will be bailed out by the Swedish state. The only difference the last time Sweden bailed out it's national banks in the 90s was that the state demanded ownership so which at least is smarter than demanding nothing back.

We need to reinvent capitalism to a system which is not driven by exponential debt creation by private bank entities backed up by the government.

PIMCO debt supernova
http://www.pimco.com/EN/Insights/Pages/Credit-Supernova.aspx...

The debt bubble graph by Professor Steve Keen
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/0...

The 75 year stock trend line, sure looks like an exponential curve.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-30/75-year-trendline-h...

The limited productivity of debt, the most important chart of the century
http://economicedge.blogspot.se/2010/03/most-important-chart...

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2012/01/28/economics-in-t...
http://cdn.debtdeflation.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2012/0...
Asbestos is dangerous when it goes in, and when it comes out. The pipes in my house are insulated with Asbestos, but as long as I don't go break the insulation apart, I'll be fine.

In many cases, Graphene or nanotubes will be used in a fixed form - they (hopefully) won't be used in aerosols. In something like an electronic component, the fullerenes would be locked in a plastic cage.

You've probably inhaled graphene, nanotubes, and bucky balls if you have been around a bonfire.
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It looks like for programming jobs it really doesn't matter where your degree is from. So this maybe a valid idea (in fact any university will do as long as you can speak the language they use to teach).

But for other occupations (doctors?) - I'm not so sure. Probably a Canadian medical school graduate will be able to get a residency position in the US, but a graduate from India?
As an engineer at Originate, I'd like to jump in and say I appreciate the extremely flexible working environment (location, times, and vacation are all quite flexible).

If you have any questions about what it's like to work here as an engineer, let me know.
def f[T](a:Map[String,T],b:Map[String,T]) = {
val res= (a.keys++b.keys).toList.sorted.mkString(",")
if (res.length == 0) None else Some(res)
}

https://gist.github.com/4694911
> I don't know if I can speak for all men, but personally, having someone to want you to do something for them is where self-worth is derived. Whether someone wants to have sex, or a business wants to hire you for you services, it feels good to be wanted. That seems like the exact opposite of a problem, from my unique perspective. And maybe it is foolish to have those feelings, but it largely outside of my control. Assuming you represent the prevailing views of most women, and the gender divide on this is real, it is clear to see how we got here.

The difference is whether you are treated as valueable or as a commodity. In both cases, you can be made to feel "wanted" but completely different ways.
(serious not snarky)

Do you think the people who talk up how they're "changing the world" includes the 1 out of 99 (or fewer) who actually does?

I don't. The people I know who are really out there changing the world focus on small effects first, because they know that's the only way to create real and lasting change. They don't try to do it all in one bite and they don't crow about it either.

Also, my whole point wasn't that we should shut down people who talk about changing the world, but that those people are creating a situation ripe for depression in themselves. Yeah, it annoys me, but the results -- that its prevalence makes more and more vulnerable people believe this is the way they have to be, and that results potentially in ever more tragedy -- are what drives me to talk about it instead of just ignoring the annoying buggers.

To my mind the only cure is A) explaining the facts and costs of grandiosity, and B) introducing a little reality to the equation. You only seem to be objecting to B, but the thing is, it wasn't advice for you… or that 1 in 1,000 who is probably not here in the first place, who wouldn't identify & identify with A, which is the only reason someone would consider me credible enough to listen to.
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I'm sorry to mention some RG projects are still "potentially" dangerous: https://gemnasium.com/rubygems
We'll do our best to help determining if these projects really need to be updated asap!
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If you're not on a Microsoft shop, then I think OCaml or Haskell might be a better option.

Queries and type providers are nice features of F# 3.0, but not sure how much it would matter as feature.
You guys are providing a service I'm interested in. I checked out your website and, as an interested (American) patient, I could be further convinced if a couple of questions were answered:

1. Which doctors and insurance plans does PatientsKnowBest work with?

2. Where is my data stored? What happens if I decide to stop using PKB?

I should add that I didn't want to spend the time to watch the 20 second videos, but perhaps I'm not the kind of customer you're trying to capture at the moment
I don't think that changes the situation, though.

(Incidentally, I'm apparently not the only one who got that detail wrong, since the original post on Reddit was titled "My mistake sir...")
Doesn't seem to be available through my Apple TV app.
The beginnings of starting a church with Richard Dawkins
He was speaking about light aircraft. Such planes like probably more often have nonretractable landing gear?
There was a confidential paper a few years ago called "Red Flags of Market Manipulation Causing a Collapse of the U.S. Economy" that stated the possibilities of the 2008 being a product of financial terrorism, and there is also a public paper requested by the congress.
Only if the institution is accredited wherever you want to work. I'm not at all saying that India does not have world class institutions, more that you really need to do your research with this stuff as I know here in NZ we have a very specific list of which institutions we'll acknowledge qualifications from and which we won't.
Minor quibble: having to port to multiple devices may be 'boring', but writing native apps can be truly wonderful if you love the platform, framework, etc. My personal experience is largely with audiovisual apps -- and for that, I'm a big fan of iOS. Core Audio in particular may be a tough framework to approach, but what you can achieve with it is very exciting.
The 11 minutes number assumes that you don't consider the formation (and constantly changing formations) before the actual play is run to be interesting.

Although the Super Bowl isn't known for attracting "true" fans, I would hope that "true" football fans would appreciate the intricacies that take place before and after the plays are run.

Edit: And honestly you think 1,400 people are going to be trying to sniff the WiFi from within the Super Dome?
I expect some aspects of EU working law apply, which gives you a lot more protection than a simple contracting relationship.
I think the most important part is finding employers who are willing to provide H1B.

You can access to the employeers who offers H1B package. their previous H1B applications and H1B salaries from this website. http://www.myvisajobs.com/

You have to pay some fee to access this records but definitely a good point to start.
The GC was not that great, but the new S-Gen is quite comparable to the CLR one.
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I've been saying for years that Netflix ought to have a tiered product, where I can choose to pay 3 or 4 times as much a month and have a commensurate increase in selection. I could easily see paying cable TV prices for a service with a universal catalog, that lets me stream the movie or TV show of my choice instantly.
> If this show ends up being the next big thing, will that really convince people who haven't subscribed to Netflix to finally join in?

I think the original content serves more to retain customers than to acquire them.

Netflix's licensing agreements gets them access to libraries of old content, and usually streaming rights to those studios' movie and TV releases only some months after they've come out on disc, so as not to cannibalize the retail disc sale revenue.

They get lots of new content when they sign a new agreement, but they rarely sign new agreements, as they're for hundreds of millions of dollars and last multiple years. In between, the Netflix site looks stagnant to long-time subscribers: few new movies or TV shows in the "new releases" list, with the occasional "new season" tag added to an existing series.

Producing their own content may be the cheapest way to keep the catalog feeling fresh for existing subscribers, since it's unlikely any network is going to license current season TV to them any time soon.
Lighter how? A VM and a process look almost the same from the running software's point of view. A process is basically the same as it was in DOS - one big memory space, except some memory regions are off limits, and some regions contain kernel trampolines (assembly is still fair game). QEMU/KVM just hooks basic things like MMU/page lookups, and interrupts (using CPU extensions, iff available), so hardware interfaces (ex, PCI) can be simulated, but otherwise the VM runs as a normal process using the kernel's scheduler. Xen just re-implements some of the scheduler stuff on the theory that not everyone needs the full kernel. Unless CPUs start incorporating scheduling (preemption of processes/VMs) and memory-space isolation and kernel interfaces (like fork, and k/exec), I'm not entirely sure what an "OS-less VM" might look like. (It would be great if half the kernel - ex, the Xen part - could be BIOS/CoreBoot-level firmware though, as it'd be nice to just use kernel drivers and common scripts to boot, etc, rather than Grub-specific or iPXE-specific ones, etc...)
Not only that - they are under your bed, right now, oh yes. Larry and Sergey waiting, waiting, remorselessly, silent.
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What's the difference between philanthropy and humanitarianism? Just donating wealth vs developing it? Is that really a significant thing to distinguish?
Very cool on the web, but who uses WEB anymore? Get me one I can use on my iPhone. THEN I'll be excited. Now it's just a cool idea and a demo.
This is how you would crash: you would hit the main gear so hard that the rear would bounce back creating a negative angle of attack, making you do it again until you break the airplane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez64Ba98Fto

Now, if someone instructs you to ignore what you see and hear a GPWS I'm 100% sure you would be just fine.

The first time I landed a larger airplane I hit the ground so hard it I ended up going to the hospital because of a herniated disc (had it before the event) at that time I had 950 hours of flight.
Well, it depends on the light aircraft. A small, 2-person airplane, the kind flown by fat old private pilots? If you can get it coming down toward the ground at a slow enough rate and get the nose up as you're just about to touch down (flaring), you're in pretty good shape. They're light, they can handle a rough landing, and you're just trying to get down without dying.
Really? I was born and grew up in a suburb of Chicago, but have since then lived in Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, and a few other places, and have rarely felt that my born-in-Chicagoness was at all an important or a distinguishing factor. There are Americans I don't have a lot in common with, but it doesn't have much to do with where we were born. For example, I don't tend to get along with people who have anti-intellectual views, but you find those (and their opposite) anywhere. I think of myself as "American", but I would be hard-pressed to think of anything particularly "Chicagoan" about me. It'd be something trivial like hot-dog or pizza preference, probably.

As far as geography goes, I see more differences within than between regions. I don't have a lot in common with people who live in very rural areas, for example. But e.g. a coffee shop in Midtown Atlanta doesn't feel that much different from a coffee shop in Brooklyn or Westwood. And the Atlanta suburbs don't feel that different from the Chicago suburbs.
Here's Steve's (the Delta pilot from the 2+2) post on FlyerTalk.com where he answers questions, too. Fascinating.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta-skymiles/1035853-ask-de...
I thought this was the great return of why the lucky stiff :/
Wow. I simply cannot navigate this site. In Firefox, the content isn't loading. In Chrome, every time Is scroll down the page bounces all over the place. Why in the world would anyone make a site whose focus is articles and content, but make it so difficult to access any of it? So I turned off JavaScript and got this:

>"Your browser doesn't support Javascript or has it disabled. QZ.com works best with Javascript enabled."

Nope. Your site worked much better without JavaScript actually. Ugg.
Thanks Ittai! One step at a time. We are also working on a mobile solution! :)
Good point. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130115111551.ht...
Yes! I work three times as hard from home, and love it. I'm much more productive, to the point of doing projects that would take 2-3 people alone myself. I'm currently looking for a remote full-time position (email in profile).
What do you use for screen sharing? Most of the products I have utilized feel laggy..
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Not only is the US heterogenous, but that division is constantly being driven through the slave culture of the deep south that really never died.

So you have a large part of the country (13%) who are native-born, but are seen as the "other" but another large part of the country, and an institutional culture to keep this divide in place.
It really does take a certain amount of ego and guts just to try to get into the indie game dev (or software period) industry. You have to be a decent coder and you have to have an incredibly thick skin because you don't have 5 layers of marketing and PR like EA where you could basically ignore the fact that you game sucked if your bonus didn't depend on the Metacritic scores. I read all this stuff all the time about how Phil Fish or Blow or whoever is such an asshole, and I just don't get what drives people to saying that stuff. There's a lot of people out there who I admire whose personality is sometimes grating or who is blinded by ego but that's in all walks of life. I don't need to be in love with someone to love their work. Plus I simply think it's too judgmental to call someone you don't know an asshole. You can say someone is being an asshole, but I don't think you can judge them personally by their persona online. It's the same with Linus, people think he's a jerk, and maybe he is sometimes but if he was really, I mean REALLY a huge jerk then the Linux kernel would never exist. He'd be programming weapons systems somewhere or something. It takes a certain kind.

Although I don't stalk Notch online except when he dips into Twitter, I mostly see that guy giving a ton of credit to other people at Mojang or at least often enough where it's my general impression of him.
XNA is officially dead
Indian degrees get very little respect here in the U.S. even relative to random "directional state schools." There is a reason Indian students almost always do some sort of graduate education here in the U.S.

If you're an American and smart and capable, the way to go is to load up on community college credits in HS, do a year of CC, then transfer to a state school with reasonable tuition for the least year and change.

If you've got some programming skill, it should be even easier. I earned enough during my summers in college programming to pay most of my in-state tuition and cost of living at my state school, and it wasn't even a particularly cheap one.
Just because 100% of the audience is capable of using wifi doesn't mean that 100% of them will be using it simultaneously.

Tickets cost a minimum of $2,000 on stubhub.com for nosebleed seats.

This event only happens once a year.

People really want to see this thing live.

With a drink in one hand, popcorn in the other, and a smile on their face, I would be surprised if more than 10% of the audience was glued to their phone at any one given time.
Good idea with the price column! I don't want to persist that in the database but I'll see if I can figure out a good way to handle that.
Autoconnecting to an open wireless network and then to a VPN afterwards would circumvent that problem. It'd be nice and convenient.
Oh, and what do you think about the top wines being displayed as the root page? What would you like to see on the landing page?
Whether it's justified or not, the Indian higher education system in general has a pretty horrible reputation in North America and Europe. This is especially true when it comes to computing-related fields of study.

This bad reputation is likely due to the many extremely negative (and usually very few, if any, positive) experiences that many in the field have had with software development projects that were outsourced to India, and bungled by Indian-trained staff.

Getting such a degree may not be a bad thing to do, if it's the experience that one is interested in. But I'm not convinced that it'd get you a practical degree that'd be respected much, if at all, by employers or other institutions in western nations.
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What...so this is not a server infrastructure tool? Good name for one.
I think the difference between EM reconstruction and ... "stellar reconstruction", as it were, is the relative amounts of parallax. When we take EM images of sub-microscopic objects, we can take them from appreciably different angles. When we take cell phone camera images of a star, we can't.
Measuring time spent in a store would be pretty useful, and that gives you a bounce rate too.
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