skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The backlash is less surprising if you remember Tropes vs. Women In Video Games as the Kickstarter campaign that incensed some gamers so much that they targeted Sarkeesian with extreme online harassment, much of which is chronicled by Helen Lewis at The New Statesman. (Warning: It’s pretty vile.) To cite a few examples: there were malicious edits on her Wikipedia page, violent and sexist comments made about her on YouTube (and just about everywhere else online), rape and death threats sent her way, and someone even made a game on Newgrounds in which you could punch her in the face until she was bruised and bloody."

Stuff like this makes me think that we're probably not much better than the people in the middle east/south asia who have these kinds of attitudes towards women. One wonders what it is about our society that at least keeps these sorts of attitudes from boiling over into the physical violence you see over there. Maybe we can build on that.
it was put together at the techcrunch hackathon last year
"that is of absolutely zero functional value when you can"

So what's the functional value of entertainment then? It makes you feel good. A diamond makes a woman feel good. It's that simple. Doesn't matter why. It's for her. Not up to a man to judge the value anymore then you want a woman deciding the value of why you might spend you money on whatever makes you feel good.
I read this as a thinly veiled "eat whole foods" argument. Same criticism applies to such arguments as was voiced in previous articles about soylent. Just as a simple counter example, I don't like tomatoes and therefore don't eat them, so far I'm doing just fine, so clearly whatever "phytonutrients" exist in tomatoes, the human body clearly doesn't "need" them.

I'm still far more interested in whatever the results of the Soylent guys experiment turn out to be than whatever the results of this guys fad diet turn out to be because at the end of the day, what's being done with Soylent is at least marginally scientific in nature.
Context on me: I started a startup that is well thought of that "failed" to become profitable in time to be sustained (because of unwillingness to change regulations in VA) given our extremely limited funding (<$20k) and all the shit we'd been through (http://tommy.authpad.com/the-one-year-anniversary-of-sleepin...) and so I got a coding job.

I have a lot of domain expertise organizing large people-based systems, built a profitable event planning business in High School, and am technical.
In Germany the term "Feminazis" or similar is used as a (offensive) title for extreme feminists (which we unfortunately have a lot of!).

Nothing against feminism, but it has more and more turned into a war on men.
You can't change Providers while running under the SecurityManager he specifies you must use in the rules.

SecurityManager.checkSecurityAccess(java.lang.String) is called if you try and mess with the Providers.
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Sorry, WW1. I get those two mixed up all the time. And yeah, actually, it may be apocryphal, but here's why I believe it to be true.

[1]http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/625/who-decided-wom...

"The gist of the article is that U.S. women were browbeaten into shaving underarm hair by a sustained marketing assault that began in 1915. (Leg hair came later.) The aim of what Hope calls the Great Underarm Campaign was to inform American womanhood of a problem that till then it didn't know it had, namely unsightly underarm hair."

[2]http://history.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/kirste...

"In July of 1915, the first Gillette razor for women came on the market. But where Gillette had responded to a clear void in the men’s hair removal market, he now faced the dilemma of promoting to a market that did not yet exist. Hence Gillette was responsible for introducing to American women the revolutionary concept of shaving."

[3]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1542-734X.1982....
But for a user that legitimately wants to turn off images or javascript (why?), they won't want to see that message on every page. If the message only shows once then the problem the message was trying to avoid returns. If the message shows on every page legitimate users of the option are inconvenienced. Of course you could create yet another setting saying "Warn when I have obscure settings enabled"...

If the developers/designers of Firefox don't have a reasonably answer as to why a large enough amount of users would disable these settings, then they should be removed (or to avoid upsetting existing power user moved to about:config).
Neat! Thank you. I've always wanted to ask a geologist this question so I'm glad I finally could.
Is Amazon PIOPS Really Better than Standard EBS
Women make up 48% of the game buyers demographic according to the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Female_ga... (note that there aren't any sources cited there, so to be taken with a grain of salt). The solution to the women / video games is quite simple from there. Women should stop buying video games that don't portray women in a good way / reinforce stereotypes / try to typecast characters.

Video game companies are capitalist companies by nature, they understand the concept of offer and demand.
I honestly though Dell sold only cheap crap to gullible consumers. "Dude, you're getting a Dell!"

Is there some specific "line" of computers that Dell makes that are for serious users?
What is your cutoff for "boiling over"? Rape and violence against women is not exactly unheard of in America.
I'll improve the note on the repo as well, but basically the proof of concept was to have something read PHP classes and parse out functions and parameters, then output it to a database that could be manipulated through a UI. A very rough class parser and UI were put together to show what else could be built out, but it's by no means functional or feature complete, just a proof of concept. Also, the code is quite dirty, there were 2 other contributors who jumped on the project and contributed as part of the 24 hour TechCrunch NY hackathon 2012.
Perhaps someone will find elements of this useful or perhaps it's utter garbage :)
You have to find the right woman.

A bit over 23 years ago I had a wedding which - including wedding bands - was under $200. I'm still married to her. We're both glad we didn't go into debt to get married...
"It is the mark of a sensible man that he cares what other people think about him."

Agree with you (and my daughter is much much older).

I would be totally wary of a man that decided in lieu of buying a ring for my daughter to make a donation to a charity. The ring is a gift for the woman. In the event of a divorce the woman typically gets to keep the ring it's an asset and does have value despite all the drivel of the OP and everyone else here is saying. Owning 100% of something that is only worth 50% of what someone else paid for it is still more than 0 (what you get with a charity donation at least monetarily).
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There is also an aspect of technical limitation.

Satisfactory modelling flowing hair on current hardware is still difficult.
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The state of Oregon at least has programs specifically targeted at you. Basically, you get unemployment money while devoting yourself full-time to building your business. You don't have to apply for outside jobs. It's the "Self Employment Assistance Program."

http://www.oregon.gov/EMPLOY/ES/SEEKER/pages/self_employment...

I've heard the guys at Urban Airship in Portland made use of the program. They just raised $25 million in funding this past February.

From a tax perspective, it's a pretty enlightened policy.
> Who's Mozilla to presume they know what users want?

The developer and designers of the product.

They might not always be right, but they need to be able to make decisions for users in order to move forward. Apps need a champion to lead them and guide them, and sometimes even to upset some users to improve the product for other users.
> Women should stop buying video games that don't portray women in a good way / reinforce stereotypes / try to typecast characters.

Women? Everyone should stop buying them.
Sweet! I love OpenVBX and wish Twilio would spend more time developing it. I think with the addition of Queue, SIP, and some other features OpenVBX could go toe-to-toe with any PBX on the market.
quite familiar with the term. That doesn't make these folks who are upset with the issue the same as those folks who you are referencing. IMO it is quite unfair to link them.

EDIT: there are extremes in every viewpoint, and there are probably some people who actually do dislike men. But does that really make it ok to bring it up in this context due to all evidence to the contrary in the tech fields?
The whole point is that it isn't like duck. The general evaluation rule with few special cases is broken, it is a whole bunch of special cases. Adding data-structures to a Lisp ruins it. It become a mess of a wired syntax, various comprehensions and unnecessary explicit conventions.

The beauty and elegance of a Lisp lies in that there is nothing to remove - a few selected ideas put together - and one common for code and data underlying list structure. This leads to a compact, readable code with relatively easily "maps to" machine code, because the memory is flat.

I don't care what Rich Hickey said. For me he is much better salesman, than engineer. He is very clever at selling, no doubt. But the whole Java scam is about clever selling of unnecessary complications from the very first days.

Moreover, those Lisp experts I have learned from didn't even mention Clojure.)
Good points, but I don't agree that slow database restores are "more than anything is probably why NoSQL is so popular with this (HN) crowd." The database has to be pretty big and your application has to be rather important before database restore time becomes a deciding factor. Companies with huge databases and mission-critical applications should have the resources to make their database highly available.

Every time this relational vs. NoSQL topic comes up it's clear that few, if any, of the developers experimenting with MongoDB et al. have mission-critical apps with huge databases. They didn't look at Oracle or even PostgreSQL and come to a reasoned decision to risk everything on MongoDB because it can restore from backup faster. They don't have the patience or inclination to master a relational database, they want something that appears to work right away, and they don't know the consequences down the road of abandoning ACID -- if they even know what ACID is or why they want it. And then there's the coolness factor -- no points in the cube farm for advocating some stuffy old technology.

I know there are exceptions, and I frequently use non-relational data management solutions too (though not MongoDB -- no beta testing with real data for me, thanks). But there's a difference between choosing an alternative tool because you've done the research and decided it's a reasonable solution, and choosing an alternative just to be alternative, or worse because you don't know what it's an alternative to.
Thanks for the answers. I think they are really good.
Oh. Nice job and congrats on the raise. I think that the recruiter's rate (margin) in that scenario should stay static.
What type of role are you looking for? There's only a few roles available at VC firms, and only the larger ones hire regularly. Be clear on what role you want (and make sure you meet the qualifications for that role).

How are you going to provide value to the VC firm? This is key - if you're going to reach out to a VC you need to be able to convince them why it would be worth hiring you in the first place.

And the answer to your question (IMO) - it's unlikely that you'll find many job postings at VCs. They will almost all have strong networks to tap for their hires, rather than spending time on public job postings. I don't think you need to attend B-school or have a successful exit (though these things certainly build credibility for you). I do think you need to find a way to enter their network (like any resourceful entrepreneur would do to pitch them). Figure out how you can add value, then reach out and try to get a meeting. If they don't have a position now, they may in 6 months. Get on their radar.
Is this by headcount?

Considering jokes about Farmville and Dr. Mario, women may be more inclined to play the same games repeatedly.

Which would mean less money spent, and thus less votes by money.
Show HN: One-upping Yacc for Clojure
The BigInteger is really big.

An i7 does about 109 gigaFLOPS, or 109 operations per nanosecond. [1]

Suppose we can do 1 guess per operation.
There are 2^10,000 possible roots. [2]

2^10,000 / 109 nanoseconds is 5.804×10^2991 years. [3]

The stars will burn out before you brute force it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS

[2] http://bit.ly/ZIWkkt (parens in the original link)

[3] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E10%2C000+%2F+109+na...
On a previous Priceonomics blog post[1] in the HN discussion 'startupfounder' suggested that we needed a "Warby Parker for Diamonds"[2] which I disagreed with[3] my disagreement is also relevant with this Priceonomics post because:

"Diamonds are bought, not because of what they are but what they represent.

The whole point of diamonds is to capitalise on what they're representing rather than their actual worth.

Their value is created through the likes of "diamonds are a girl's best friend" which is why the price is high for them. Hence the advertisements have been developed around the whole perceived value of diamonds ala. "diamond's are a girls best friend" because when you present a woman with a diamond you're presenting her with a promise - a promise that you will look after & take care of her. Which is something that most women want."

[1] http://priceonomics.com/mattresses/#industry

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4522922

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523062
No, you're not. I spent the past week helping someone with statistics. As she clicked back-and-forth between her e-book and online homework, I flipped back-and-forth through her hardcopy book, refreshing my memory and guiding her through her homework.
This is a fork of OpenVBX? Great idea, just try making the description, well, more descriptive.
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I'm proud to be in a community this transparent. Best of luck with the next one.
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"but I myself would care more about the character of my daughter's husband "

Parent commenter is interested in someone who thinks the way he does. There is nothing wrong with that and there are probably more parents from my experience who wants someone who hold their views then are willing to accept someone with different views.
The tweet is an endorsement of the product before you have had a chance to try it. This is why it is bullshit.
s/female/human/g

Considering the readership of this site will be predominantly male anyways..

(And for the love of pascal would you please stop bandying about the "sexism" label? It is literally nothing more than a personal attack that adds nothing to any conversation)
Interesting post, which sums up as so: "Nearly every American marriage begins with a diamond because a bunch of rich white men in the 1940s convinced everyone that its size determines your self worth." - I get the correlation with rich and men, but is the race baiting language really necessary?
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Having used static analysis security tools for other languages, no. Ignoring the fact that it is open source, it blows away every single other tool I have used in terms of speed, accuracy, and actionability.

I would _LOVE_ to be proven wrong on this one.
Here let me help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_movement -- "sex-positive" is a term describing a movement meant to embrace rather than repress sexuality. The play on words of "sex-negative" refers to the opposite of sex-positive, ie., sexual repression.

OP is saying that you are sexually repressed because sex jokes make you uncomfortable. This is a good point, because dongle jokes are actually not "sexist", they are simply sexual. Men hold no exclusive territory over dick jokes, or sex jokes in general. Women can tell dick jokes too. They can also joke about vaginas (Sarah Silverman much?) and both genders can appreciate the humour EQUALLY (yay equality!). Those who don't find it funny are NOT victims of sexism-- they are victims of a shitty sense of humour.
There's a much simpler way. Use the health code.

Include a useless, but harmless, insecticide in the paper of international editions to "fight bookworms". Then lobby to get insecticide books banned domestically due to "potential health risks".
What do you mean? I think that Thunderf00t very elegantly shows that she picked one poor example for her video. Then, that her conclusions from her examples are non sequitur because you could draw completely opposite conclusions by the same reasoning.

But for me most powerful blow is him showing that she contradicts her own masters thesis. Her masters thesis was all about criticizing something that she gave as positive counterexample in the video.

That said I enjoy videos by feministfrequency (especially the one about Lego) as well as girlwriteswhat that present completely opposite point of view.

Thunderf00t has my utmost respect for confronting religions (Islam included) and for his "Why do people laugh at creationists?" series and for being actual scientist.
any row-level locking?)
I can reproduce it reliably by first following a has_many relationship, then adding a scope to that. Adding a where clause (directly or inside of a class method like in Github's example: it's the same thing) is okay. Also the scope must filter on the same column as the foreign key. So this wouldn't cause a problem: `scope :recent, lambda { where("created_at > ?", Time.now.utc - 1.week) }`.
Squidoo 2.0

Not that it's a good or bad thing. Just noting the similarities of two ideas pushed through by two strong personalities--love you, mean it, dmor--that approached the editorial process with a means of monetization.

I believe the trick, as Mahalo learned early, is that you need a lot of traffic to draw from for this kind of model to ramp up and then work out a win for everyone with their fingers in the pie.

For my own startup junkie datapoint would any Amazon engineer please dish about lessons learned while productizing of, and the lack thereof, Amazon wishlists or tangentially Amazon Vine?

With a massive database of products, reviews, actions, tastes, recommendations, and traffic, that's a great nexus to apply a referral model to.
I created my company to buy office supplies.
"Automate that and spend the rest of your time reviewing for things that can't be trivially automated" - pretty much the mantra behind any successful security program. A false-positive/negative is usually fixed faster than any feature. <3
Sure it did. There's been inflation over the last ten years. That amount of money has less buying power than it did.
Also books and movies about princesses and princes.
Actual "get your money out" quote around 2:02.

Note: I know "world news" is usually not threshold, but the Cypriot bailout seems like a fresh rubicon for the EU (albeit one of several recently).
How on earth do you convince people that they need to hire a consultant? Serious question.
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A modern mail server should have features to prevent too many users from being present in the To: field. This will also prevent a lot of the Reply All problems we see regularly. This can be implemented as part of a Quota management system.
First one: dropped out of undergrad, if things had totally failed going back (with financial aid) would've been an option.

Current one: ~1 year personal runway saved.
These programs also exist and are active in Delaware, Maine, New Jersey and New York.
People choose to drive, they choose to live in places like Silicon Valley where driving is part of the culture, they choose to live in suburbs, etc.

Not in the USA.

Building anything other than car-dependent sprawl is illegal in the USA. The few areas grandfathered in before New Deal laws and regulations in the 1930s are expensive for their scarcity. It's a major driver of NY and SF real estate prices that you're not allowed to build anything like them anywhere in the USA.

And if you do move to NY or SF, you're not doing the environment any good. You just displaced someone else out of the city into car-dependent sprawl. The only way to use quality and efficient urbanism to improve the environment is to build more of it and no demand or price increase will do that because, as I mentioned, it's illegal.

I recommend "The High Cost of Free Parking" by Dr. Shoup, and "The Geography of Nowhere" by Kunstler if you want to understand more.
I must dryly point out that this does not invalidate the correctness of the algorithm.
You can override the .equals() for your subtype but look at the check:

if (n.divide(root).equals(root)) {

It never calls root.equals(). It calls .equals() on the result of the .divide(), which is a standard java.math.BigInteger.
Isn't this exactly what rtm did in 1988? The only difference is that this worm took pains to behave more nicely.

Funny to see that the proportion of relatively unsecure devices on the internet has not gone down since that time.
It's important to talk about it because it shows, once again, that feminists are batshit insane. Some people apparently still don't get it.
You've gone a bit too far with the scope. This is about legitimately produced physical manifestations of works protected under copyright. Your average toaster is likely not protected by copyright, but if the toaster company engraves a poem onto the side, suddenly it may be.

It's also only about the exhaustion of the distribution right of the specific item that was purchased. It has nothing to do with a right to copy or circumvent access/copy protection etc.

Therefore, region free players have nothing to do with this whatsoever, unless, perhaps, they have a copyrighted work painted on them or something.

As for DVDs: Theoretically, if you managed to find a legitimately produced DVD in China (made with the rights holder's permission) you could bring it back to the US and sell it.

Whether or not you can legally play that DVD in the US on any particular player is an entirely different and more involved question involving a bunch of DMCA caselaw.
Great article. Great argument to save me a fortune.
If retailers only buy back diamonds at wholesale prices why isn't there a secondary market for diamonds? Wouldn't peer to peer trading of diamonds balance the market.
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My advice? Don't be stupid. On unemployment you get access to quality services and healthcare.
The modern understanding of corporate personhood (that "equal protection of the laws" applies to non-natural persons) is generally dated to Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company in 1888.

I don't know where "94% of the lifetime of the law itself" and "inspired by British practices" come from, so I can't really dispute those.