skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately it's not just that simple. Women are also societally expected to be less aggressive and not haggle, and are often punished for breaking this expectation in a way that men aren't.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07...
Thanks, interesting - all I found in my searches where the user name bans, which are standard.

This is different from what Apple is doing, as it seems to be file-name based, to avoid phishing. I still think it's completely misguided.
I get what both are saying but from a pragamtic, unemotional side I think Atwood is right. Atwood's simple premise is that if you are going to be an activist, you better realize that those in power are going to throw everything at you so you better be ready to accept the consequences. In even simpler terms, 'don't do the crime if you can't do the time'.

I know this is a bad example, but I watch 'Whale Wars'. Those folks know exactly what they are doing and walking a very, very fine line where they could be guilty of many offenses in multiple countries. But they don't care and a few have served time for what they have done. They don't seem to whine about it because they feel it's worth it.

What Atwood says appears cold and insensitive. But I think he's getting a little tired (like a lot of us) of the constant 'Swartz did nothing wrong'/'prosecution for no reason'/'visionary bullied into suicide' meme (nothing else to call it). He absolutely broke the law in a couple ways. Was the prosecution overzealous? Maybe. We don't know what the outcome would've been so we can't say whether it would've been fair.
That first one reduces your privacy even further: not only does Group A track you, but now everyone knows that Group A is tracking you, allowing Group B to ask Group A for data on you.
I understand that no two people will design any system identically, but for many situations there are 'obvious' solutions.

Regardless of that, well engineered code is far easier, more flexible and waaaay faster to maintain in the long run when compared to a mess of quick dirty hacks to get passable results. It takes no time at all for the hacks to impede your ability to make changes to the system.

Early in a project it's often difficult to get the design perfect. Requirements are refined and unforeseen engineering challenges crop up. When this happens your existing design pattern may no longer be a perfect fit. This is how I approach it:

I think about what the new 'ideal' or obvious solution is considering the new challenge.

If that solution is not practical to implement. I may try to engineer around the problem in a way that is consistent with the design of the rest of the system. While it may not be the 'optimal' solution the next developer who needs to get in there and change something will readily understand what's going on if they are familiar with other parts of the system. I like to call this 'fractal' design.

I rarely encounter a situation that I cannot solve via the ideal or fractal approach. But only after I have ruled out both do I allow myself to resort to hacks.
"I can kind of picture the fourier transform meaning that there's only one representation but it's a bit of a leap for me.Can the converter itself not create the signal incorrectly?"

Well. the converter add always small amounts of noise into the signal that could accumulate to 1 less significant bit or more.

With some special signals, mostly those made by man, like radar or sonar you could add more error(as signal accumulates so much in selected frequencies with exact multiples that have a strong bias) but most natural audio signals don't have much trouble.

"Isn't there also an argument that frequencies above 19khz can be heard by some people so need to be accurately represented?"

No, most kids could hear above 19khz, most adults can't, no argument about that, it is something you could test with a speaker and an electronic workbench using your kids or family members.

Nyquist proved that if you have a SAMPLED signal, with the FT you could reconstruct EXACTLY the same sampled signal, provided that you don't add quantization errors and so, that are small, you could even reconstruct square signals(with signal in all frequencies).

In the case you see those differences you will hear those transformation errors if they were significant(they are not), or you will have to turn on the volume and will hear a "sssssshhhhhhhhhh" sound.
The standard of proof required to press charges is lower than that to actually convict someone in a trial.

Fine. The prosecutor's stated intent was to avoid a trial and imprison Swartz using only this laughably low degree of proof. "Reasonable?" "Not targeted?"

Here's the thing: you're saying the prosecution's assumption would be reasonable in the context of pressing charges and going to trial. Maybe. But the prosecutor wasn't operating in that context. Shouldn't a higher standard of evidence be used before sending a person to prison? Of course, you've supplied the answer yourself, by pointing out that higher standards are expected at trials. But trials aren't the only way people end up in prison anymore.

Swartz was not charged with copyright infringement.

Yes, I know. I think it's clear that issues of copyright and control over the making of copies are really the motive behind the prosecutor's behavior, don't you? I mean, that's actually what the prosecutor's saying now, right? "Swartz had this manifesto against copyright, therefore we charged him with the far more serious crime of fraud. Perfectly reasonable. Totally not targeting anyone."

The actions he was observed doing are as much a part of the charge as the intent that was alleged.

I really don't see how. He was legally entitled to make the copies that he made; the alleged intent is the sole basis for even supposing any crime existed.

If it were a thought crime, he would have been charged in 2008...

The scenario you describe also strikes me as prosecution for a thought crime. I don't see how that imaginary scenario exempts this real one from being prosecution for a thought crime, though.
Apple does actually know how to run web services.

They run the world's largest media store and one of the world's busiest online stores in addition to iCloud. Just because MobileMe was a piece of junk doesn't mean they are completely clueless.
Agree with you there on "profile first." But knowing jgrahamc, he did -- and I'd love to know the results.
Spending cuts loom. How will the sequester hit oil, gas, solar?
Haha, the Dictator Apple is going to mess with your mails...
Awesome, you get what you pay for, i guess :P
Meditation on the gif
US Internet providers start spy program to stop file-sharing
> "How would this affect the usage of self-driving cars? "

It wouldn't. Puzzlingly, this law seeks to ban aerial drone surveillance while explicitly allowing any surveillance, by person or drone, conducted by a device or person supported by the ground.

So an aerial paparazzi drone would be illegal. But a veritable army of paparazzi ground drones, even ringing a property and photographing every inch of the same people and/or structures, would be legal.
As you stated, it's because XP has almost 40% Windows market share so IE8 will persist for quite some time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...

It doesn't mean that most consumers won't take the IE10 upgrade. IE10 will be double-digit by this time next year.
What kind of a software engineer do you want to be known as?
Apple's cloud is based on Amazon and Azure... Apple doesn't have an "own" cloud.
The Impact of Responsive Designs
If you ever see someone waiting for the walk signal in NYC, it's a good bet that they're a tourist.

Or they are crossing an avenue above 14th street.
Details from Cyanogen's g+ page found here:
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On the other hand, the only organizations in history to have developed, stockpiled, and used nuclear weapons are governments.
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"I say this not as a person who wishes to judge Aaron Swartz. I say it as a fellow gamer who has also considered playing the same move quite recently. To the point that I – like Aaron himself, I am sure – was actively researching it."

Atwood is saying that he's considered suicide - recently, and that he doesn't want to judge Aaron. Most importantly, he's grieving, and different people grieve in different ways.

I think you're being overly harsh in your post. Especially since you have two messages for Jeff: stick to code; alter your message. Which would you prefer? Either way, you're judging his grieving process, which I think is unfair.

I think you should express your own grief (and outrage) in your own way. Pointing fingers at others who are grieving isn't nearly as constructive, I think.
Optimized for what? For which circumstances? What software fits all?
uhm....

making drone - probable talk with FAA

making anti-drone rocket - probable vigorous discussion with FAA, SWAT, ATF, DoD, and FBI with vacation in Caribbean
You can be in the top 1% for one vertical, or the top 25% for two and top 33% of three (google Scott Adams on this)

Basically learn to code, yes, but the degree in economics is going to give you some edge somewhere - probably behaviour economics - so if I were you I would look at means to develop behavioural exercises into web services - it's like Growth Hacking, horrible term.

Essentially, can you use behaviour economics to allow scalable experimentation on consumer behaviour. An example might be prospect theory and pricing, or use of prospect theory in bids for government contracts?

Don't drop the economics is my advice - it's two arrows in the quiver. Go looking for your niche
That is the wrong way to run a mail server. I know how common it is at big providers, but it's still wrong.

You should REJECT a message if you won't deliver it. If it was a legit message inappropriately REJECTed, then the server that's relaying it can generate a bounce back to the sender, and something can be figured out.

Dropping a message on the floor like that, after you have promised to deliver it is almost always the Wrong Way.
Yeah, so sort of a moot point on whether or not Google has their own retail stores - it shouldn't affected peoples abilities to see and feel real devices before they buy.
Mark,

Yep, should have used switch. But in the article I say that code is horrible and served a single purpose rsrsrsrs.

I will post the source on github or something similar.
The ideation process of Placety - or - how a startup idea grew over five years
FOSS and Patents - Peer Collaboration as a Key to Countering Patent Risk
Heh, that's pretty funny. In this regard I think Notch made the perfect compromise in using painfully simple models when making Minecraft.
Didn't see that, sorry!
Thanks, I'm checking it out.
It depends what email account he sent it to. It seems like at least Apple and Google are both using F-Secure.

So it could be a bug in their definitions files.
Thank you.

I think one of the problems here is that the 'decades in prison' thing is actually used at all, especially by the prosecutors.

If there is no chance of 'decades in prison' then it shouldn't be used in the first place. Such bluffing and posturing leads to all kinds of trouble and I can't see anything good coming from it.

The other part - the civil / felonies - bit I think is slightly more nuanced. Big time commercial piracy versus most others kinds, where the felonies should obviously be handed out to big time commercial pirates. This may be hard to put together in a way that holds water legally, but that opens the door to overreach.

What I've gleaned from the Aaron Swartz case so far is that the actual thing Aaron tried to do (the downloading) turned out to be non-punishable because of the JSTOR reversal, so instead, a lot of hay is being made over something that is actually peripheral to the whole case.

It's like someone with driving with their lights off being charged with a whole slew of offenses because they can't be charged for breaking and entering. Going for the absolute maximum penalty that you can attach in every contrived way possible to driving with your lights off.

This comes across as quite surreal and unjust.
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Programming only does not help you think, there are several other disciplines that help you think. Philosophy/Logic/Sociology IMHO does it better. If industry needs more programmers, for economic growth, this does not mean kids should be brainwashed to learn to code. And even after learning to code, what do you do, an average programmers life goes just copy pasting stuff.

Google/SO customize copy and paste. Thats what I have been doing. I wonder if I actually think to solve problems while coding or just pile patterns of text, place proper settings and API keys.

Having said all above, Deep within I believe hackers are like painters(Read pg's great essay - http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html), for hacking is like painting, would you want every one to be a painter? If not why everyone a programmer? Why learn to code? Programming or Painting is not mathematics nor reading writing skills, i can live happily without learning how to paint and how to write codes. Coding is NOT an essential life skill, there are many who have been living without and will continue to live. I won't learn programming because i don't require it.

I feel sad, on such brainwashing. And starting with steve job's quote about programming, is like doing a ferrari promo by Michael Jordon. I would have been happier, had they got something from woz.

Michael Moore come up with a documentary please.
Success by association seems about as valid as guilt by association.
Any idea whether or not you were right to be scared?
And then there's people who understand how risk compunds over a large number of instances.

Yes, I wait for the green light. Because every single time I make a judgment call that it's safe despite the red light, I have a tiny increase in the likelihood that there might be an accident. (No, waiting for green alone is not good either. There's always a risk. Situational awareness is good. But walking on red carries a bit more risk than walking on green, all other things being equal)

And since I do cross many traffic lights every single day, that tiny risk compounds. And compounds. And compounds. And if only a single, tiny accident happens, the time I saved by "making a judgment call" for thousands of crossings is all gone.

But hey, if you think life passes me by, more power to you. Glad you get to feel like a rebellious risk taker, living at the edge, always aware.
do what you love
For most of its existence it was the only store compatible with the far and away market leader for audio players. The store did not win because of its technical chops. To boot their media store is still almost completely cut off from the web (they did try and juice some SEO and have landing pages, but iTunes likes to pop up most of the time). They sure love relying on iTunes...

iTools/.Mac/MobileMe and iCloud were all pieces of junk. As was Ping. As is GameCenter. And iMessage.

They have a lot of work to do.
But now I know group b is tracking me too. Basically we have lost our privacy and we need some way of knowing who has what on us. Total transparency is the only answer - otherwise people can track me and it will never come to light - so punitive data protection measures will not work cos there is no obligation to report.
> I'm not sure why press, media, futurists insist on pushing the idea that the future of user interaction is via replicating 3-dimensional physical interaction. There's a reason the keyboard, mouse and (small) touch screen are so successful as input devices. They each create an huge degree of meaning with a high level of precision, for relatively tiny physical movements.

While the advantages you mention of a keyboard/mouse/touchscreen are correct, I would not say that is the reason they are so successful. The reason they are so successful is because up until recently there was no competition to either of these. They are the default winners in the world of today, because they were the only ones racing yesterday.
Just hop on over to Berkeley and you get plenty of aware jaywalkers. Though it does seem way more aggressive in NYC.
Ask HN: What are MS Access's biggest competitors?
The search engines complicate the design choice of client-side vs. server-side MVC. While there are ways to hint search engines to retrieve searchable views of our application data, it adds an additional layer of complexity to your application. From my experiments, Google (or Bing) has yet to make a truly agnostic search engine when it comes to the design choice of client-side vs. server-side rendering. To do so, they would need to routinely emulate the full browser stack and javascript rendering on every page crawl. They do not yet do this. This is especially true when client-side anchor tags are used in URL's to represent client side navigation.
Hi Seth, since you're here, can you help explain how the Google+ OAuth relates to the GMail OAuth?

Are they just using different scopes and can you authenticate with both in one go or are they really separate APIs?
A comment I made almost two months ago is relevant here... how? And not refuted either, just pointed out? I quite support North Korea on the grounds of their anti-imperialism. That doesn't mean I support the regime (hyperbolised Western media reports notwithstanding).

Anyway:

* The USA has openly joined the war [1a, 1b]

* The FSA uses child soldiers [2]

* The FSA executes surrendered soldiers with child soldiers [3]

* The FSA bombed a university [4]

* The FSA abducts innocent foreigners [5]

[1a]: https://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1684058-western-efforts-...

[1b]: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/01/us-usa-syria-obama...

[2]: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/us-syria-un-idUSBRE...

[3]: This would be a link to a graphic video, google it if you want

[4]: This would also be a link to a graphic video

[5]: http://rt.com/news/russians-kidnapped-syria-embassy-250/
Certainly true that New Yorkers tend to cross more quickly than SFers, but can't most of them still be lumped into the OP's second group, as people who just follow?

If 30 people are crossing when the cars have passed but the signal hasn't changed, surely some of them are crossing because the group is, not "on their own terms," as the OP would put it.
That's a good point. Barely legal is still legal, and why is Apple even blocking emails that contain those words?

It might have to do with spam filtering. Trying sending an email that talks about Cialis.
I could explain the holes in this presentation, but I'm banned... so... go fuckyourselves.

just keep in mind there is a difference b/t the sampling theorem and its implementation in actual hardware.
How is that "the other hand", exactly?
ISTR (and I've never had much knowledge of Perl), the magic globals were lifted directly from Perl and were intended to support Perl->Ruby transition.
Its hard to know what to be more amazed about: the fact that with one boneheaded filter Apple now seems creepier than Google in terms of respecting your privacy (one of the few things they could boast about), or the fact that it still seems to be amateur hour over at iCloud. Think about it for a second: they are literally pushing code into production that amounts to if (contents.indexOf(bad_phrase) != -1) delete_email();. How is the takeaway not anything other than "Of course Siri and Maps are a disaster, they can't even filter email in a more complex fashion than 1993."
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Define the difference between an anti-drone rocket and a drone that oh whoops, sorry lost control there, is that your drone I crashed into ?
A Redesigned PostSecret Website
How about accessibility? Is there any story, or any plan for that?
Wide IDE framework
Wide is a set of modules that can help in building VS 2012 like applications quickly. Like every modular PRISM application, modules can participate in building the IDE along with adding new functionality to the application.
oops! VERY unfortunate typo. sorry for that.
i think sigmund freud would have its own thoughts on it :-)

i really like your approach, i have very similar setups (backup-master && remote execution via ssh) and put a lot of thought into this topic the last couple of weeks.
i think there is way to less love and tools who properly handle backups. everyone runs his own scripts and tools, or buys some extremly expensive and proprietary "stuff".

the whole point behind this thread was to get insight on other peoples system, look at the pros and cons and write a library that fits 90%+ of the use cases.

as you can see by the amount of people, participating in this threat (by now), no one gives a shit. which brings us back to snafu.

thanks for the insights and "snebu" thou!
Many many years ago I worked at this large corporate place where they had a coffee machine on each floor. I only had access to my floor and one day the coffee machine on my floor ran out of milk. So, for a week or so I took my coffee without milk. For some reason the machine was filled up again and the next week it also ran out of sugar forcing me to take my coffee black.

Ever since I have been drinking my coffee black and today I can't imagine having milk or sugar in my coffee since it will ruin the glorious taste of it.
My girlfriend's iPhone has been complaining about iCloud storage being full with some cryptic lockscreen message and she has no idea what it's complaining about or how to fix it. The "just works" narrative is a lie.
Slightly OT: How does python2 and python3 usage numbers compare?
Doh! That site is blocked by the msft corp firewall. And here I was going to test it for you.
Censorship is always stupid.
Censorship based on nothing than words or phrases is simply embarrassing.
If this wasn't a troll, please rest assured that most software is not optimized out of the box (especially when half the optimizing that affects the application is in the kernel)
http://perldoc.perl.org/English.html perl has it too. So, you can still write ruby like perl
Ask HN: How do you translate your web application?
In my startup we want to translate our app to Spanish and Portuguese. We are not large enough to hire our own translators and we don't have enough manpower to crowdsource them.

Also we deploy daily and would like our tranlsations to be updated daily. Not in real time maybe, but within couple of hours after deployment is good enough.

I wonder whether such service already exists. What do people here use for web app translations?
Greylisting, for one.

You could also reasonably configure a filter to not land emails over a spam threshold.

Given the amount and type of spam in my Gmail Spam label, I'm quite sure there's a hard filter in place there too.
Finance applications. Try to predict future prices of stocks or currency in advance based on past performance or recognize patterns to trigger specific trade strategies.

Handwriting or speech recognition.
I'd look into local user groups with monthly meetings. Conferences and hack-a-thons are really great places to learn things and write some code, respectively.
No, it's a puzzle for two reasons:

1. It's not a normal operation for a linked list. A normal linked list will expose operations to deal with items, not nodes.

2. There was an expected answer, and that answer was something other than the normal linked list delete operation of "traverse the list to find the node containing the item, while also keeping a trailing pointer to the previous item so that you can remove that item's node."

Even if you are exposing nodes, and you do implement the given operation, then TheCoelacanth is absolutely correct that that operation just invalidated all references to the node after the one you thought you had just deleted, but not any references to the node you thought you had deleted. (Though those references are now pointing to a different data instance.)