skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird that /r/MensRights made it to the front page this morning.
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> Dr. Ying-Hui Fu, a human geneticist and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, is part of a team that has found genetic mutations in short sleepers.

> Unfortunately, she says, if it's not in your genes, you're out of luck.

I'm going to have to trust the doctor on this one...
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>...men should, as the relatively privileged parties, not be whiny at either the shift toward balance or the small anti-male inequities that crop up temporarily along the road to equity.

Translated from feminist rhetoric: Men have no right to complain about discrimination against them.

shanelja and nawitus, I think abundance of people with similar views to wpietri highlights how real your points actually are.
I find it absolutely despicable to make light of violent abuse, including sexual abuse, in prison. We should be doing all we can to make our prisons safer for everyone.

The fact that many people think it is OK to make and laugh at prison rape jokes sickens me. What would you think if I made rape jokes about your 90 year old grandma? Or your ten year old son? Or your wife? If that is not ok, neither is prison rape of adult men.

I am appalled to realize many people think prison rape is part and parcel of the "prison experience". Should rape be used as a deterrent to unwanted behavior? Where do we stop? Will you be ok with teachers turning a blind eye on students raping other students in detention for not doing their homework or for misbehaving in the classroom? Answer me.
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Some good points made, but in this instance I think voice and perspective matter, and I'd greatly prefer to see a piece like this written by a woman. A man's voice just does nothing for me in this instance.

We could have the "words vs. words+voice" debate, but let's just skip it because voice matters.
It's sad, but in the winner-take-all era that has come about after the Reagan Era, self-promotion (even using extremely unfair advantages, such as a parent who knows VCs) wins out over restraint and even over decency. This has nothing to do with Nick; it's just the way times are changing.

I have no idea whether this is good or bad. It just seems to be how things are playing out. This is going to sound awfully cliche, but hate the game and not the player.

This may be wishful thinking, but we may be reaching a Singularity of Stupid, and perhaps there will be a Flight to Substance after the cool kids and VC darlings and celebrity investors get burned and their heads shrink a bit. I'd like to see the Flight to Substance and return to Real Technology soon. Curing cancer is a lot more important than another damn social media app.

Social media is the reality TV of startups. It's not common because it's good but because it's cheap, with "cheap" here defined in the truly scarce quantity: technical talent. Any idiot can do SM, which is why there's so much of it.
The "heritability of sleep duration" appears to be 30/40%, so there is a meaningful contribution from genetic variation.

For citations, google the quoted portion.
Red Language Presentation, DevCon 2013 [video]
Csscss: a CSS redundancy analyzer that analyzes redundancy
> Particularly because you are punishing people, men, who have never participated in the subjugation of women.

This is impossible, all men have and do participate in the subjugation of women so as systemic sexism exists.
Hi, in case you're still interested I've had a chance to try it a bit more. Performance is much, much better, especially on a retina display. And they've even fixed the dot command with autocomplete.

It's still not the greatest vim emulator, but it's much more usable now IMO.
The benefit would be being able to sleep at night.
Are... are you serious? Or is it just trolling? I'm not an obsessive HN reader but I see sexism stories show up at the top of the HN list all the time. To the point that I've taken it as one of the odd HN cultural quirks, that you all like to discuss it obsessively. Claiming they get "buried" is contrary to all evidence I've seen, though I guess if you have statistics I'm willing to be proven wrong.
I believe the test runs with 100 byte values, and the key is stored on the same page as the value. Therefore in order to perform a lookup the entire page must still be faulted in, and the key must still be compared, so the benchmark is not fake in that regard. Data is getting pulled off disk, just not in a way that requires multiple copies. Note the library's tiny code size (and zero copy design) has another benefit, in that it can greatly reduce cache pollution, which may again help account for the speed difference.

> Storing 500MB records in a database is a bad idea anyways, since you never know if you're going to trip over some logic in the database, your application, or the kernel, or some interaction between these, that's going to load or copy it all unnecessarily. Better to make the chunking explicit.

So basically you're saying there is no benefit because you aren't used to systems that support it.
Hardware gets more and more "exchangeable", abstracted and virtualized. It doesn't matter as much as in earlier years if your platform is a Intel x86 with AMD GPU or a AMD x86 with NVIDIA GPU, where you needed HW-near experience for development.

Modern OSes are a layer of abstractions, and each layer reduces the cost of implementation of software.
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I don't think the main goal is to help people. Lulu get personal datas from girls (mobile app, onlulu) and from guys (luludude) with this system and probably make money with it. Helping ladies and guys is a "secondary" activity.
Came here to say this. They did a knockout job with this. Some pieces that just aren't easy to make responsive are done really, really well. For an example, check the filtering mechanism here: http://www.rogerebert.com/great-movies.

Also- the infinite scrolling is lightning fast. They're getting JSON and throwing it into a template(?) while loading images from Cloudfront. This is the way it should be done.

Big ups to the devs behind this. A migration is never easy and it looks like they handled it expertly.
So are those folks now out of a job ? I hope they got a good severance package.
In the short run, maybe. When it's crunch time at work or in school, sacrificing a few hours of sleep to work can pay off.

But over any appreciable length of time, the sleep debt and stress accumulate, the law of diminishing returns kicks in, you run out of steam, and you burn out.

It's like sprinting. You can't sprint a marathon, it isn't possible. Some people can run a marathon faster than others, but no one can run at their top speed for such a long distance. If you try, you will quickly run out of gas and need to rest.

If you're in a game that resembles a 100m dash (like a tech startup or a Wall Street finance or making partner at a white shoe firm) then yes, you can sprint in the hopes of crossing the finish line and getting rich before you burn out. But for most career paths you need to pace yourself.
Their company didn't go out of business. He even states so fairly clearly in the article.

He runs a marketing company. I'm fairly certain marketing can still operate successfully using "old" technologies like Email, Twitter and the Web.
Isn't this sort of like turning an entire rack into just a big blade server enclosure?
I don't believe you can "train" to require less sleep, the people for whom it is possible are probably neurophysiologically different. Your example would contradict it, but I think you made it up, some statements will sound strange to anyone familiar with the industry. You certainly wouldn't mind linking Mike's linkedin profile?
I wouldn't pay much attention to the rumor blogs at this time. I like mine, even with a shattered back.
Not getting upset at inequalities means accepting them. This is the road to not getting rid of them.
5 OS alternatives to Windows 8 and XP
Programming language names are not that important.

For example, Lisp, aka speech impediment. Or C, aka two steps away from A. Or LaTeX, aka condom. Or Java, aka you need a lot of coffee to read code as verbose as this. Or Brainfuck...well, that one might be named appropriately.
I'm very interested in using this together with emberjs, but honestly I'm having trouble understanding what Hoodie actually does. Why do I need Hoodie to go with my CouchDB? Is it only for the local storage?
And you get idiot airheads as your partner? My only thought allow for a others to check if someone uses Lulu or not.

That's a great filter, right there.
I think you and duaneb have misunderstood my comment. I do not mean that they will say that it is acceptable to them because of the patriarchy, they will say that it is acceptable to society because of the patriarchy. In other words, they will blame the existence and acceptance of this app on the patriarchy and not the individuals who created it and accept it.
1-855-836-3987, which is the number for returning a nexus device (for Canada at least), and it looks like they now allow you to fill out a form now instead if you wish.
Not to mention, female privilege lets them call men "creepers" or "perverts" without question. I've pressed female friends about this and they just answer with "I didnt like the look he gave me" or "we just didnt click."

So instead of understanding that most people are not compatible, we're now building a db to slander them based on purely emotional reasoning?

If women are using this then it says a lot about the woman. I imagine the women drawn to this are difficult anyway. This problem kind of solves itself. I doubt this app can help them and its a symptom of a very negative attitude toward dating and, frankly, socially acceptable misandry.
This being said, I would like to point out that I also made light of violent, sexual abuse in prison in the grandparent post - I deserve the downvotes too.
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here is a similar debate on Quora and Robert Scoble's answer
http://www.quora.com/Startups/Why-are-the-logins-to-so-many-...
They have the ability to remove a Facebook account from their system permanently. Email them asking to be removed and they will add you to the blocked list so that no one can rate/review you and you do not appear on the network in any way.
If you listen to your parents and waste four or five years at college you will be financially worse off and regret it. Your parents care about you and think they are giving you good advice but they are not.

The world is changing too fast to wait four years to start your life. You will have a four year head start over your peers that went to school if you stop now.

22 or 23 is too late to start life in the 21st century. College will waste your time. You are thirsty for knowledge and there is more to learn online than you can learn in the classroom.

I would recommend getting some consulting work and make your own money as soon as possible so your parents have less power over you.

In a couple years they will see the wisdom of your decision.

Edit:

> What do you think about dropping out? What if you had kids? Would you let them? Cheers!

I say drop out. My plan for my kids (if they are above average intelligence) is for them to get a GED at 16 and start their real adult life at that point. High school and college are relics in my opinion. Our current conception of school is very recent, and I believe we delay adulthood far too long.

Edit 2:

Learn macro economics on your own. Read, all the time. You can learn much faster than your peers in classrooms if you are a dedicated autodidact.
Really nice idea, I usually have to resort to some Javascript hackery to do this kind of thing (or BeautifulSoup). One click is awesome.

A simple spoken script over the tutorial video by a voice actor would add significant credibility. There are a bunch of sites where voice over professionals will do a really good <60second clip for $100-200. Well worth it!
Nah, it just probably wouldn't have been funded.
Valve's Lessons Learned: Porting Source Engine to Linux
Do you do much ironing?
The fact that this wasn't about the latest Javascript light framework didn't tip you off?
Whoa, thanks! This must be some kind of copy-paste error. One problem with obfuscated code is obviously that it's way harder to spot those than in regular code. :)

I had to double-check that it's right in my profile on Stack overflow (which is where I copied it from for the above comment), but it is. That's even stranger.
Encapsulate What Varies
First of all, there is no such thing as feminists in the way you imply: it is category, not a strict set of beliefs. Some types of feminism endorse this sort of thing, because they are sex positive - they would be ok with any app that allows the ranking of people in sex terms, some would have a problem with this app because it doesn't include women rankings. Some would have a problem with a men ranking women app but not this one, because when you go down to the local bar (in most places) you can hear men loudly talking about what women are sluts and which are sweet girls, and if how to get them, but women having those conversations are loudly labeled snobby or bitches - so it evens out the labeling.

Basically I'm saying, you're trying to set fire to a strawman.
No, it does not. In most cases it's not as if they had to lay down new copper from a central office to the new building or would have to run copper throughout the building. If the thing was built on top of existing infrastructure then it "should" not be a big deal to hook the building into said infrastructure. Of course, I say this without knowing the quality of the infrastructure in question.
I think the problem here is not only about Google providing support or not. The problem is when they are not providing support, how they make it possible for users to solve problems themselves.

If you are gonna close a user's account, either by human or by a robot, you should notify the user before you do it, so that the user can fix the violation if there's any, or find/migrate to an alternative.

Mailing-lists might not be the worst. I mean if you have a backup list including every members email address, you can email them about switching to an alternative. But imagine your Google Apps free account is closed without any prior notification. You suddenly cannot use your email. You decide that you can't have your email address dead knowing that emails sent to it just sink, so you sign up another custom-domain email provider (or build your own on ec2), and tweak with the configurations, which takes an hour. Then you go to your DNS provider and update MX records. Oops, DNS updates can take several hours even one day to synchronize. That's up to a day that you are worrying about missing important emails.

And it did happen before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825445
One strange item from their Q&A:

Q: Will the Mac version support Retina display?
A: We have not yet determined if we have Retina display support.

You're two month from launch and you don't know the answer to this question?
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It's not inconceivable that Google would do something to or with it to solidify their focus on Google+.
Well curated article Thanks
It's perfectly possible to run this on e.g. Ideone (http://ideone.com).

Essentially, it's a loop that unpacks my name and prints it, letter by letter, from the constant 5128. Four bits is being used per letter, and I tried to compress the number by subtracting an offset from the ASCII codes of each letter (that's the 77).

It's been ~14 years or something since I first wrote this, and I'm pretty sure I was inspired by an Obfuscated C contest entry then, too. :)
Hopefully we still have a few good men on the inside.
That's all fine and good until you're using JADE:

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If you delete trailing spaces, you'll have no spaces between any word at the end of the line and the word in the next section.

Point being: trailing spaces can be significant.
A failed attempt.
Optimizely Raises $28 Million to Go Global
I noticed that there have been a lot of comments lately saying "Interesting, the US is nearly a 3rd world country in terms of measure X", where X is income distribution, incarceration rates, civil rights, certain diseases/causes of death, etc.
I think you would suddenly have a great many political problems.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but often in the US the choice is between laggy, unreliable local services or no service at all. Much too often the company that is supposed to service rural areas can't be bothered because it isn't economically viable. Although, it doesn't stop them from suing the locals because it's an unfair economic advantage if the locals decide to build their own.
The exact revenue split via Adsense is not disclosed and changes frequently. Even if the Adwords price went up, they could keep paying you the same.
There is no way in the world that North Korea developed the expertise to affect this kind of attack in-house, even if it is a relatively simple piece of malware.

My guess is that the Chinese have been supporting them in a limited way. China doesn't really have a motivation to encourage North Korea's ridiculous antics and belligerent behavior of late, but it does have a great deal of interest in testing out its own cyber-attack vectors on real-world targets. If they were to directly attack the computers of another nation themselves the world will go into an uproar and their trade will suffer. On the other hand, if North Korea does it we've gotten to the point, collectively, where we don't do much more than roll our eyes and shrug it off. It's a bit like when the Gemans decided to test tank warfare by getting involved in the Spanish Civil War.
How do they prevent men from creating fake female accounts and see what's told about them?

Do they take steps to anonymize the evaluators? Even if they do, timing the changes in the evaluations will allow to guess who said what, except for the most frantic womanizers.

I can foresee a Lulu user being busted, bad things happening to her, and Lulu being sued.

Finally, for those who talk about DDoSing the site: it's smarter and funnier to build a Lulu whistleblowing bot, which makes stuff more public than intended.
Microsoft continues to shrink with the progress of smartphones and tablets
Because Goldman Sachs has its interns close deals, right?
> you seem to be speaking only of developers in the San Francisco and valley area.

Nope. Our app team is distributed across the USA and we've been paying $80k from the start and several of those folks have earned raises that have brought them up to $100k+ in under two years. Every tech startup I've spoken to has similar patterns.

> Also, it's not normal to get 60% raises your first and second year in the workforce.

The tech industry is not a 'normal' sector.

> More likely the student will be earning $42.5K the third year if they stay at the same job.

Nope. I've interviewed many non-valley based startups and they've verified they will pay $40k for an entry-level, young developer.
You're completely ignoring the context of our conversation:

"Choke on a fucking taint, Google. Choke. On. A. Taint."

It is not okay to say that about your former employer. In any context.

If you think it is okay to say that about your former employer, there's something wrong with you. I certainly would never want to work with you.
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7 Keys to Good Team and Customer Vibes In a Startup
Secretes Of Profiling Java
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer#Characterist...
Wow - Blair Warner was doing this 25 years ago!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toeIzZZxEkw

The more things change....
"Lulu’s Term of Service disingenuously shifts the responsibility of notifying men of their unwitting participation to Lulu's users, which I’m inclined to believe has never happened."

WHAT?! You mean the Lulu app users might not be strictly adhering to the site's Terms of Service?! Well, notify the FBI about that! There's a law created in 1984 https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa for JUST such criminals as these, and it makes the users guilty of committing a felony offense (a perfectly reasonable use of the law in this case)! Never mind the EFF's Week-Of-Action for reforming the CFAA this week https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/help-us-remember-aaron... . Lulu's users are clearly a threat to society and deserve felony convictions for their awful behavior here.
MIT and Harvard engineers create graphene electronics with DNA-based lithography
Customer service, from the telecom standpoint, isn't so much about troubleshooting as it is with customer relations and dealings.

- Setting up billing and payments

- Altering billing payments

- Adjusting for outages

- Scheduling repair vans

- Scheduling installation

- Answering clueless customer questions

Now I completely understand how Google may just defer much of those types of issues to a central website but I know plenty of people that refuse to use a service because of lacking telephone support. Google might be happy going that way but I wouldn't pretend it is good CS.
Why do rental car companies give you two sets of keys?
Too much vitriol.

Playing to the base instincts of the hoi polloi is rarely a bad business strategy.

But it is self-debasing.

She should grow up. So should you.

Interesting: "hoi polloi" autocorrects to "hot pollo". And now I'm hungry.
In some ways I personally think the Valley is a harder place to start a company these days. The competition for talent and sky high real estate prices translate to expensive salaries which entrepreneurs have to pay somehow, and employee loyalty is probably harder to achieve in a place where employees have so many job opportunities vying for their attention. Those factors make it harder to get a company off the ground, and harder to keep it going for the long term, somewhat offsetting the benefit of easier access to capital.
Mendeley's sale to Elsevier reminds me of this video: http://cs702.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/you-have-to-monetize-y... -- one slide shown in the background, in particular, makes me cringe and laugh at the same time: "Only sell your users to whoever has the deepest pockets."

PS. More seriously, I've come to feel that only a non-profit organization can solve the "walled garden" problem in academic publishing. We need something like a "Mozilla Foundation for Science" -- an organization dedicated, not to maximize profits for shareholders, but to keep power over scientific research in people’s hands.
I'd assume they're just contributing folk to work with Mozilla's group, though. Whether Samsung is "good" or "bad" at software won't really enter into it.
There are two real problems with Google support.

1) For many products (like Groups), there is no paid tier, and thus no way to get support at all.

2) For paid products like Google Apps, it can still be very difficult to get support, even though you're paying (see other responses in this thread).
How to free HTML5 from the browser with packaged apps
I think mainly there's not the demand for it - you'd need a fast SSD to saturate 1GbE, and nothing remotely consumer-level can saturate 10GbE yet.
I currently sleep at 12 PM(Sometimes 1AM) and wake-up at 5AM, and as long as I get my morning breakfast I don't feel any fatigue; thou, on the weekends I need about 12 Hours of sleep, i'ts not that I'm tired but more that I enjoy sleeping ^_^.
But... but... but... <anecdote>!
Optimizely is a fantastic product; no doubt it creates a lot of value for its customers. That said, it's very difficult for tool vendors (Visual Website Optimizer, Optimizely, Unbounce, etc.) to capture a lot of that value. This deal makes sense in so far as Google, Adobe, etc. will need to buy up all the players in this space so as to beef up their advertising or web tool offerings.
That's the reason we have Sublime Text 3.
If the interns have worked extensively on a deal, I believe they report to their managing director and jointly work to close it.