skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found a few interesting bits there. A reference to a Quiz about C# and object equality: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmstall/archive/2005/03/06/386064.as...

The last one makes me wonder a bit. Given local int variable x, what does this evaluate to?

(object) x.ToString() == (object) x.ToString()

When I run it, I get false, and the author says that it's false, because we're doing reference comparison of two independently created objects. But I thought strings were interned in .NET, so if you independently create 2 strings with the same contents, then they are actually the same object, which would make this true?
Also consider the converse of this theory - should you avoid hiring women if your customer base is primarily male?
This strikes me as a very neat analogy to Neo "taking the red pill" in the first Matrix movie.
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I am in this thread instead of working.

D:
Well you could physically measure the distance between the eyes, the curvature of the eye orbit, the width of the lips, curvature of the eye openings, length of nose, maybe a hundred such measurements, see how much each measurement varies between humans and then do the same test on raccoons. Wouldn't it be interesting if raccoons had similar variance in facial features but we just didn't know how to recognize them?

Of course facial recognition isn't the only way animals have of recognizing identity, but it's still an interesting question whether humans really have more distinct faces than other animals or whether we just think we do because we're really good at recognizing human faces.
I didn't say they should. You're raising a straw man. I merely said this is the traditional structure on which our society has been working and it is now broken and having all sorts of repercussions.

To your other point there absolutely are only a small number of academic jobs in relation to population size. You can't have society made up of academics. Or any jobs which require a pyramid of supporting jobs to find them and make them viable.
I used both Gowalla and Foursquare when they launched. The reason I stopped using Gowalla was that they were pushing game features that distracted from simply keeping a check-in record of places you visited. Being a Foursquare mayor is simple and makes intuitive sense (you are mayor because you like a place and go there a lot), but Gowalla was sending you on what were essentially scavenger hunts, pushing you to visit places in order to complete a map or theme that they had created.

"Game-ification" was/is a popular app strategy but not everyone wants to make everything they do into a scored game. Sometimes you just want to record and/or communicate.
Here are some similar existing spaces:

http://www.theofficeonline.com/tour.htm

http://www.paragraphny.com/

http://www.sandboxsuites.com/

http://www.onealfredplace.co.uk/

The idea is rather reminiscent of the Diogenes Club:

"There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion."

(from The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=DoyGree.... )
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For drivers, they need to ban make-up or nail polish, shaving, brushing teeth, changing the radio station, looking through console or briefcase, not having slept 4 or more hours the previous night, cleaning the windshield, adjusting seats or mirrors, plugging in electronic devices while moving, reading a map, entering in GPS info, using your hands while talking to a passenger, turning to address a passenger, fixing or brushing hair, opening packaging, lighting a cigarette, laughing, the sorting of papers, wearing heels or prohibitive boots, removing dust or sleep from eye, coughing or sneezing, stretching, talk radio, excessive emotion, excessive seat lean, not having two hands on the wheel, reaching that causes your torso to turn, adjusting clothing, clipping of nails, wearing an eye patch, picking your nose, eating, billboards, bumper stickers, dancing, scratching, swatting at bugs, sunglasses at dusk, and google glass

Or just use existing laws that cover these things such as reckless driving.
This is one of the barest forms of propaganda you'll read in a while.
Because Americans, by-and-large, are comfortable (or at least accustomed to) doing these things for themselves. Most of us wouldn't want a driver or maid or a cook. Some of this reluctance comes from our cultural self image (egalitarian, self-sufficient). Some of it comes from the structural and legal complexities of employment.

Finding somebody you would trust to have in your home is difficult. The paperwork involved for payroll and taxes can be complex and time consuming. Above all, domestic service just doesn't add enough value to make it worthwhile. I can drive my own car, cook my own meals and clean my own house, all without it seeming like an undue burden.

The situation is probably different for a family with two career-oriented parents and school-aged children. But it's unlikely that displaced factory workers have the skills and temperament necessary to take up work as an au pere.

Perhaps most importantly, it seems like a huge step backwards to re-establish a menial serving class.
He gets better data, and the ability to restrict how people vote. For example, HN polls allow you to upvote several options simultaneously.
That sounds like a terrible work environment you're in!
This is a dangerous line of thinking, useful as a counterpoint to consider, but a terrible basis for thinking about your life and career.

The problem is that the worst kind of engineer is the one who thinks he is a top 5% engineer, who proclaims his, and all other, organizations dysfunctional, who is convinced his managers and peers are out to get him because of their jealousy, who sees enemies everywhere, and who ends up getting along with no one, self-fulfilling the prophecy, and being a net negative.

Being really good at your job is a great way to succeed in life almost everywhere. If you frequently find yourself in political death struggles in organization after organization, it might be time for some self reflection.
i dislike these speed runs, if they are going to do one they should at least play through the game properly.
Corruption scares me even to this day.

My backup strategy is as follows: my most important files are in my Dropbox folder. So they're both on my computer and on Dropbox' servers.

But what if my drive goes bad and pushes corrupted files to Dropbox?

That's why I have another client with Dropbox that I only turn on every week or so. I hope that if something goes wrong (including Dropbox itself wiping all my files both remotely and locally), I can still get the older versions. That, and time machine backups (they include Dropbox folder).
Latest version got much better at handling streams if I remember correctly
that reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZo

in the full talk, the speaker goes on to mention that some monkeys who were receiving the good reward would refuse to accept it until their counterpart was also given the good reward
Presumably the mirrors also did not run an aggressive 'git gc' immediately after 'git remote update', so they would still have non-corrupt commits in the object store, in which case you could recover by "just" resetting any corrupt refs.
"Because of my experiences growing up, I have triggers. This means that I’m always scanning for danger; for situations that seem like something from the past that could hurt me. When I recognize something that matches, I can overreact and feel intense fear, anger or anxiety. "

Well that pretty much sums it all up, doesn't it? The young lady has issues.
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I never ever want to get married nor have kids. I plan to be an eternal boy even way into my 90s if I'm lucky. All I want to do my entire life is experiment, play, build, learn. Nothing less, nothing more. Sure, I still have female friends to fulfill carnal needs but I do not care for long term relationships. The world has 7 billion people already. It matters not if I have no kids. I'm 35 already so I think that this is my destiny for if I were to get married I probably would have done it in my 20's.

I have plenty of nephews and boy can they be a pain. Is nice to enjoy them for a couple of hours but more than that and it becomes like trying to herd cats. Don't get me wrong, I love them, but I just don't want to spend my entire time with them. Which makes me more sure that kids are not for me.

So regarding this post, to each their own.

p.s. For some strange coincidence, all of my friends from college, female and male alike, have not gotten married or had kids yet (except for one, and she just had a kid with her partner, she doesn't really want to get married). I wonder if this is a generation thing.

edit: Why the downvotes? Everybody is free to live how they choose.
This is all suggesting that developers have a say in product design. I assume developers at Etsy do...

In that case, I find developers and product managers (including myself) are sometimes way too bias to give valuable feedback to product decisions. On the other hand, the big advantage I could see would be if the developers are constantly having conversations with their friends about the usability and design of the site. In this case, I could see an advantage.
Loved this line: "Why Postgres?" "It is the emacs of databases"
Don't give the MJ Junior Cub Reporter any information at all.
A bit off-topic, but the site locks up Chrome on Snow Leopard and causes one my cores to peak, and I'm forced to eventually kill the tab. Firefox has no problems. Any ideas why that might be?

Otherwise, a fun read-through.
I was just thinking that it's interesting how at least 80% of developers are in the top 5%. It's one of the truly amazing things about our industry, we defy the laws of mathematics.
In other words, you decided against one click (the 'submit' button, since the 'nope' radio button was already selected) in favor of several clicks and a hundred keystrokes to tell the guy how uninterested you are? Huh.
Agreed, but I think the main reason for people using condoms is to reduce pregnancy. The STD prevention is just a value-add (or at least that's what the Neurosyphilis voices in my head are telling me)
Thanks for sharing. I can also recommend the CS229 Machine Learning course from Stanford, available on Coursera: https://class.coursera.org/ml/lecture/preview
This isn't about beating the game in 3 minutes. It's about exploiting a bug. Not just fiddling with code either, but actually doing it through the game itself. That's what makes it really interesting to see.
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Clearly, as the world population approaches 7 billion, people are indeed having kids. My comment was Silicon Valley specific. Do you know something I don't? Are 20 something tech employees in Silicon Valley all of the sudden having lots of kids? Because that would be interesting news, worthy of a news article. I don't appreciate the insinuation that I live in a bubble or have a narrow view of things, simply because I made a comment about Silicon Valley demographics.
Google+ didn't stick. It's more about choosing your own priorities to focus on, and while Apple was great at that, Google made a shit decision with G+ and are sticking with it obstinately.
What is your use case?

Have you looked at Numba? There are guarantees about memory that can be made with Fortran that can't be expressed with C. Numba is trying to bring the same type of optimizations to NumPy python code, because it does know some of the memory constraints.

Note: I work for Continuum Analytics.
A "men's rights" movement reminds me of some white supremacist making a comment about "white rights".

And it is just as pathetic.
They have a huge incentive to sell their political power; it's their 'product'. I really don't have much hope for reforming the current system. It's too entrenched and has too much momentum.
Agreed, I inserted my own bias from correlative studies and imposed anecdotal observations from my friends and family. I have read some convincing rat studies, but it's absolutely too soon to say that these are facts. My apologies.
The article fails to mention that though the US came off the (fixed) gold standard, convertability of the US$ to gold was retained as part of the Bretton-Woods system all the way through WWII, through the post-war "Golden Age of Capitalism" period uptil 15 August 1971 when Nixon unilaterally turned the US dollar into a fiat currency.
Perhaps you would like Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal?

http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
it just causes lawyers!
It depends on your definition of "properly," since SMW coincidentally also has a massive shortcut (the Star Road) that lets you beat the game very quickly without bending the Matrix. A TAS of such a playthrough is only 10 minutes.

There's also a TAS of 100% completion playthrough of SMW's 96 exits, which takes considerably longer. (about 1.5 hours)

There's a TAS style for every person. :)
I think that's a red herring. First, slavery is not death and removing someone from slavery is not saving their life. Second, if it could be proven (though I doubt anyone has the means) that confiscation of gold sped economic recovery significantly, being responsible for many millions of lives saved in the past seventy years, would you accept it was the right thing to do?

I suspect your answer is "no", and if so I wonder if you have any idea why.
That doesn't even make sense. "It could happen" is not a good reason--it's the absence of a reason. The list of things that could possibly be implemented is far too long to assume that all will be. You just aped my post without thinking about what you're saying.

Consider: a) Smartphones exist. b) Smartphones are technically capable of detecting that you're driving using GPS. c) Smartphones do not prevent you from texting while driving.
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That's a great point. I think I will start using that method for defining routes, myself.
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It's amusing how nearly all of the most interesting and popular questions I see on StackOverflow are closed by moderators for not being good or constructive.
Cool!

> There’s even an Android app to make connecting easy and show useful status info plus an iPhone webapp you can save to your homescreen.

What does the Android app do to show useful status information? Can we expect an iPhone version in the future too?
You can watch the session here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wwRmmd0P3k
Condoms are the norm in US produced gay porn. Durability can't be the issue.
Also, you would need customers brave enough to charge that tiny device they are holding in their hands at 1000W. A mobile has about the surface area of a 100W incandescent, so if charging is 90% efficient, your mobile would have to radiate about as much heat as such an incandescent would do in about 3 seconds. It won't get as hot as that lamp, because your phone has a larger heat capacity, but I doubt it would stay cool, either. Given the effect of heat on current batteries, I guess designers would want that phone to irradiate waste heat rapidly.

And that's when everything goes well. You would also need companies brave enough to risk the potential lawsuits if something goes wrong (user wears a pacemaker? Has some metal in his hand, e.g. in a tattoo? Charging accident releases heat that lights clothing?)
Supportive parents, significant others, and friends? The first wave of militant[1] feminists repeatedly reinforced that women were the equivalent of men in many ways and better in some[2]. Women today (under 40 or 50 years old) have had the benefit of hearing the same "you can do anything" message that parents have told their sons. Girls and women are supported socially when their MBA (which was the first professional non-library sciences, teaching, etc. that took off), JD, and MD. Mothers and Fathers are as proud of their daughters being excellent as they are of their sons.

Sure, there are religious, geographical, and socio-economic holdouts, but I think that this is one of the three big factors.

The second is that men tend to drop out to get jobs. If you can make $150k out of school with a BS EECS, why go to law or med school? Again, using my wife and her circle of female attorneys as examples, women seem to be more interested in personal satisfaction and are willing to pay a price for it, whether it's working in a rough environment (Kabul, Kosovo, Department of Homeland Security) or postponing that satisfaction by spending more time in school.

The third is that med and law school are great careers with a lot of opportunities for women who want to have children. Sure, there's partner track that will not necessarily be an option, but again, they don't always have the same "must be alpha" drive that men do. They can take a year off, maybe start back in a step behind, maybe work part time, but know that they can do the job they like, with variety in cases, until they decide to retire.

Of course, there are a bunch of contributory factors that I didn't cover and don't know how universal they are, but on the "sexist" side, it's still more acceptable for a woman to take time off and be supported by her husband than the other way around. You have exceptions, like ESR, so I don't think it's as influential.

Finally, they still put up with a lot of sexism, but they know it's wrong and that it is not a reflection on them, but on the morons trying to put them down. Not that it doesn't hurt, but sometimes hurt is a good motivator to succeed in spite of others.

[1] For want of a better word.
[2] Just as I am better at feats of strength than my wife, who works out 1-2x/daily, but she is better at doing the type of research necessary to be one of the best litigators most attorneys have seen.
Thanks. I was actually under the impression that CF would do HTML as well, but I searched and you seem to be right: https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/22036831-How-do-I-cac... So I'll try that out and see if it helps performance/bandwidth.
I've been programming for nearly 30 years. I can use PHP to easily teach 7-10 year-olds simple concepts such as variables, loops, etc. in a very easy to understand and easy to implement way.

I can spark an interest in programming that can lead to further learning opportunities. PHP is a perfect tool for that in my mind. There. That's my justification.

Once someone learns one language...ANY language, including Basic which you hate as well, but which I learned first on the Commodore 64 and was not irreparably damaged from...one can easily pick up another. I picked up python in a day, ruby in a day. Let's be serious.

I don't need to have an interactive graphic session to get immediate instant feedback for 7 year old children. I don't need a text terminal to get useful results and feedback for seven year old children. I don't need to discuss object-oriented principles for 7 year old children.

I need pretty pictures, possibly comic in nature, and an easy programming language. I choose PHP.

I'm not trying to churn out 7-year old computer scientists and I don't think you understand that.

You don't like PHP...yippity do. As I said before, if you don't like it, shut up and write your own childrens book using whatever language you want.

Nothing you say will stop me from writing this book. So keep talking if you like, but I'm done interacting with you.
"Forced to penetrate" LMAO. Ludicrous.
Maybe the charger could also have a super capacitor in it, and would charge it up over time. Then when you hook up your device, you would be getting capacitor to capacitor charging. After all, if these things can charge up fast, then they can also discharge fast.
jQuery if you'd like to support older browsers, Zepto if not and you are targeting mobile.

By the way, dartlang.org includes this tongue-in-cheek statement: One area where the DOM has a bunch of baggage is finding elements. Today’s DOM has a pile of methods for finding stuff. All of this piled up before jQuery appeared on a mountaintop to give us the revelation that Thou Shalt Find Nodes By Using CSS Selectors. With the One True Way in hand, we’ve stripped it down to just two (!) methods: query() and queryAll().
Android is a lot more than look & feel. In fact Android was pretty homely looking at first. But it was always beautiful on the inside.

Android is apps that share UI, using intent filters that launch Activity objects. Android is a Java VM, including a unique bytecode, and jit and gc, and that's good at multiprocessing, and that's appropriate for battery powered devices.

A lookalike launcher that launches apps written in C++ that can't do what Android apps do is not going to make any headway in the market. In fact it is kind of silly to emulate Android's launcher style. There is nothing, apart from familiarity, that makes it especially good.

Android's app runtime technology has become the de facto client Java technology. Anything that is going to credibly compete has to have something at least as compelling going for it.
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This actually has happened to me before and I dismissed the same reasoning because it was not verifiable. I've convinced myself that it's just selective memory and coincidence. I am really not sure what to make of all this since I stumbled upon your post.
Right now, the Android app shows the current uptime and system load on the Raspberry Pi in the title bar. It does this by polling a URL which is handled by the PiUi Supervisor (separate python app from your main app). As you can see on github, the supervisor can also list and stop/start apps - I have feature enhancements to use all this planned for Android and yes, I'm keen to expose on iOS in future too.
Yeah, using a condom that's too small for the girth of the dildo (which looks more rigid than a penis) seems very dishonest.
Here's one idea, enough for at least $100k?

Condoms treated with silver nanoparticles could ‘completely inactivate’ HIV, other STDs: researchers

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/03/condoms-treated-with...
Can you learn how to start a company in university?
It looks like the traffic killed my website (I apoligize, it looks like my backend cache may have been misconfigured).

The Google cache is here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:minimax...
Apparently NetBSD has an effort to port to the Nokia N900; see e.g., http://www.bsdcan.org/2013/schedule/events/381.en.html
so maybe I'll go that route.
People haven't aspired to become software engineers for generations. Only the past few years. In 1990, no one told their daughters that they could be software engineers. They told their daughters they could be lawyers and doctors, or maybe Senators, or business executives. Software engineering? Who wanted to do that?
There are glamorous TV shows about law and medicine. None I am aware of for programming.
I've worked for less than $10 an hour doing housecleaning when i was first starting out. I topped out at $15 an hour. That's higher than minimum wage and you're going to get plenty of interest as long as you're advertising. Most poor people aren't as choosy as you seem to think they are.
Thanks for the links! That was exactly what I was looking for. :)
“We [Lucky] Few” (re: Silicon Valley)
Surprised to not see Erlang there.
>Do lawyers get to disrupt? I think they don't.

I could go on ad nauseam, but compare Jim Crow Laws and Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education.

A more modern example is the fine disruptive work being done at the EFF.
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