skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pornography implies objectification

That's a very modern application of those words. The very act of creating a statue is (true) objectification, whether it was carried out due to respect or solely to titillate. I'm not convinced that both cannot be true of the same statue.

And the modern concept of pornography means very little when framed in a pre-Judeo-Christian world. I doubt any of our loin-clothed ancestors shared the shame-based perspective 21st century humans have on the human body. No doubt some statues/drawings of vulvae were made because vulvae were fun things to interact with, and some were made because they were meant to be revered; I'd argue that it's possible for some percentage of those works of art to be motivated by both respect and eroticism, and further that the two motivations need not be considered so inherently at odds.
Intel seems to be applying the ^TM to Iris, so I'd think it's intended to be a product name rather than a code name. Intel is so obsessive with trademarks that it seems likely that they acquired the trademark from the ruins of Silicon Graphics' line of graphics workstations.

Intel usually chooses seemingly-random geographic features for their code names. Coordinating the two deals (Apple and the Iris trademark) for the secret pleasure of having a subtle code name seems uncharacteristically subtle.
You expected more theists or atheists?
Same here. Just paid my bill yesterday, and was told today I have 2 weeks to pack up and move elsewhere. I wish I would've gotten more notice.

On a related note, any suggestions for DBaaS?
Court Dismisses Craigslist Suit Against Competitors
So...Lean Startup for...programmers? Hasn't this already been done before?
i am planning for a DIY mostly because of i want to be able to produce something fast (not waiting on delivery), and because i like the engineering part.
This is just the growing pains of two extremes that will ultimately best function in some form of compromise.

All too often the argument is framed as "replace professors" etc, but it doesn't have to be so binary.
Or http://europa.eu/index_en.htm which has a massive amount of informations. From a government, we expect transparency rather than design.
It's not an instruction manual.
Stargazing
Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4
Certainly, the world's economy would have collapsed when cars came and the horse and buggy creators lost their jobs, the printing press forced manual copiers out of business, automatic telephone switches made operators lose their job, etc.

(Funny story: I have a professor that was in the Center of Mass group for NASA, where they painstakingly calculated the center of mass of each object and part of the shuttle, then computed the center of mass for the whole shuttle. Of course, a computer can do that instantly now.)

I honestly do feel bad for the people that lose their job when new tech comes around, but why should I be forced to subsidize an outdated way of life? Plus, it isn't like new tech kills jobs overnight; the writing is on the wall, and in the case of driverless cars and MOOCs, the transition will probably take at least a decade.

History has shown that improvements in technology increase the standard of living across the board for all classes. A minimum basic income will hurt us in this instance because people will not have an incentive to have jobs that actually produce value to others.
You shouldn't make predictions based on an extreme minority opinion. Even RMS knows how to separate morality from probability.
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Won't read the article because I got the big popup slammed into my face while I was in the middle of reading the first paragraph.
The issue is that GCC was once upon a time only "Gnu C Compiler", whereas Visual C++ was always named like that.
I don't consider it a "ludicrous" amount of money. It's about the same amount one spends on a mattress and boxspring. And we spend about the same amount of time each day in both.

(I just use the chairs at my office, and I don't like the logistics of lugging my own chair to the office. But if I was in a situation where I was buying a chair for myself, I would consider something like this.)
Friends of mine are solving this exact problem by supplying a platform where 3D printer owners can earn some money by letting others use their printer. Check them out at 3D Hubs [1].

[1]: http://www.3dhubs.com/
I'm surprised how popular compatibilism is. It seems like a complete cop-out to me.
I have had a handful of great discussions with professors, but if I had to choose between that and the awesome discussions I have had on MOOC forums, I would choose the MOOC route any day. Of course, that is simply my personal experience.
If the frame can support prescription lenses (I wear glasses anyway), and if the price is around 300, I might get one.

I want to start to program for it early (The thing is that I really don't like android developing experience).
The last 3 cable connections i ordered in germany where set up in under a week, one even on the same day!
For DSL ist different yeah, but its not a general thing in germany.
Vittana is a great organization, we have a lot of admiration for them. The primary difference is the level of education that we focus on. Unlike Vittana we are helping students in primary school vs secondary or higher education.
Adobe to bring Lightroom-style photo editing to tablets
I've got a beta of a recipe search engine I've been working on that does exactly that. I can link you if you're interested.
This is a really cool hack. It's exciting for me to see the amount of activity surrounding Glass. I wonder what the sensitivity is to recognize a gesture as a wink rather than a blink... I guess a dive into the source might answer that.
> This thing actually lives up to the Ion Torrent promise.

Are you sure of this? The video makes it sound like this thing is a sort of automated SNP chip, which is great, but is far less than what Ion Torrent is promising. You're getting a list of SNPs at known sites--no data on rare or novel variants. No sequence data also means you are powerless to detect any sort of structural variation.
God no. The social implications of walking around with Glass alone prevents me from considering. Its an amazing piece of technology, but I think the negative social effects of wearing them, especially during conversations is a deal breaker.
Get Lasik, best thing I ever did.
Certainly that's the new value prop, but wasn't a lot of that previously handled by teaching assistants?

Personally, I think the Udacity "continuous Socratic method" approach is better than traditional lectures because it forces constant thought and engagement.
I think you have that backwards - in an agricultural society, food production is distributed - so you can't have control over the food supply unless you have an inordinate amount of power over the population.
If I ever have to get glasses, I might think about it. But I'm not going to start wearing glasses just to use another device.
Indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrONIb9gQ-k
Maybe you could point to studies that answer my valid, but yet ignorant and bigoted question of whether it's a genuine gender difference of preferences or sexism. "Opinion and philosophy and politics" barely counts as evidence in my book.

Relevant documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ2xrnyH2wQ
Weebly is hiring a DBA and other talented hackers
I don't plan on being able to afford one
On a side note 83% of UK consumers are not childishly naive ...
What if it didn't destroy the old one? Would there be any doubt at all?
It's all fun in games until the nvidia's binary blob locks up. This happens to me monthly on linux. In terms of stability, Intel's much better than nvidia based on what I've seen.
I don't plan to, but only because I don't plan on sparring $1500 and moving to US. If it were available in my country at moderate cost, I would definitely buy it.
I was hoping to see absolute or relative moral values, but couldn't find it on there.
I think my university recognized this and dealt with it depending on the size of the class as such:

Small class (less than 30-40 students): not much lecturing happening, maybe a little bit of PowerPoint but mostly interactive discussion with the professor on the readings

Large class (could be several hundred students): twice-weekly lecture by professor on high-level concepts with a little Q&A at the end, then separate twice-weekly small discussion section on the readings with a grad student TA.

The model of combining a mass lecture section with a small-group discussion section can scale to MOOCs, that's why they have discussion forums, and people are also forming small study groups on Facebook, Google+, and locally IRL to discuss the materials. It just requires a little more motivation on behalf of the students to form these small groups themselves instead of having them predefined for them.
I say we let the market decide. People like me who much prefer MOOCs to brick-and-mortar universities will gladly stop paying tuition, and people who value traditional universities can support them. Surely, the number of traditional universities will decrease, but it isn't inconceivable that they survive with a better learning model than the lecture-test model that has been around for centuries.
"I would argue that geeks and punks and other "minorities" often have a very up close and personal look at violent discrimination."

Being bullied doesn't mean that you can't also become the bully yourself. I'd be willing to believe that plenty of the internet/Reddit/anonymous commenter misogynists were treated poorly by others in their lives, and choose to reflect that in how they view women in general.
Softpedia.com added all my jquery-plugins from github
> Some people are jerks. That's true of all contexts of life. Jerks should be shunned not because they are sexist, but because they are jerks.

There are two responses to this.

The first one is that some people do not think they are jerks. They do not feel like jerks. Now they're in a situation where they don't hire a woman. They don't say "I'm a jerk, and that's why she didn't get the job". They say things like "culture fit"[1] or "skills" or any number of reasons. But would that same woman have got the job if she was male? This person will say "Of course not. Her sex had nothing to do with it". But cognitive biases are very strong, and they are deep and hard to fight against.

The other one is a bit glib, but: That's great, until you're the one who will not get employed because there are many jerks in charge of hiring; or you're the one getting beaten up by jerks because you're gay; or having crosses burnt on your lawn by jerks because you're black; or getting a high-school principal talking to your prospective college and having your scholarship funding pulled because you spoke out about a religious speaker attending a public school assembly.
This is the most recent update to our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application platforms and frameworks. In this round we've received several more community-contributed tests in Perl, PHP, Python, Java, and JavaScript. Go is a comeback champion thanks to changes made by Brad Fitzpatrick [1] and others in the Go community.

A new "Fortunes" test was also added (implemented in 17 of the frameworks) that exercises server-side templates and collections.

With 57 total frameworks being tested, we have implemented some filtering to allow you to narrow your view to only those you care about.

As always, we'd really like to hear your questions, suggestions, and criticisms. And we hope you enjoy this latest round of data.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=45c12efb46
Since this is a UK Government site, I think the Equality Act 2010 requires WCAG 2.0 AA compliance. As difficult as WCAG is, and I've yet to see a fully-passed implementation, the lack of no-JavaScript support probably means they haven't met the accessibility mark. All that aside, I actually like the design, seems they got their IA in order, with a good prioritisation of content.
I think 8h+ at work in front of 2 panels is enough for me, I plan to downgrade my mobile experience choosing dumbest nokia phone model 105, now I use Android mobile phone. Google Glass is gadget for teenagers with a lots of friends status updates and stuff that is not really matters.
I have a good phone and a great laptop. I can't really justify buying one. I have some friends that plan on buying them, so at least I have the chance to try them out.
A great example is www.miamidade.gov It's simple and designed to get things done.
Together we trudge on towards a future requiring a basic minimum income.

Or mass starvation / die-off of the surplus human population.
Since Shopify is filled for the summer - we're a recently funded start-up in Toronto in the Financial Tech space looking for an intern - small team and great experience - if you want to grab a coffee and chat, email me: blair (at) quantify-labs.com
Yes, each step is a transaction, but the whole is not consistent at any one moment. Availability was chosen over consistency all the way up.

We see this pattern all over the place. The primary example is any place that accepts checks as payment. Availability is immediate, but consistency is not necessarily there.

You see it with a business making a PO. Lots of places will still take credit cards which are only processed daily (ok, this is becoming rare where there is cell service.)
Then you should wait for google contacts. Just like glass, but display is embedded on contacts.
I see! That's pretty cool. I don't really use django, I basically just use app engine as a backend REST api for my backbone.js app. So, I check if the build directly exists when I'm first loading the app, and the template loads the minified version if it exists, and the unminified version if it doesn't exist. That way I can test the production version by running `grunt build` and refreshing the page. But I still get all the benefits of developing on the unminified version if I just delete the build directory and refresh the page.
does anyone have a start-up dedicated to solving this issue? something like an Initech for the 2038 bug? If not someone should.
Well, from my experience, the problem with most of philosophy is not being able to get to the core. Significant part of philosophy is just arguing what is the meaning of some word or what is the correct label for some idea (ie. it's about matching meanings with words). Another thing that bugs me is that many psychological and sociological problems are considered to be philosophical problems.
UK government responds to myths about the orphan works legislation.
I'd always wondered about the "send email and we'll let you know when it's ready" approach. I hope it's working for you.

Also the title made me think that this is about LESS, the CSS framework, but maybe that's not a common association.
Well they already managed to get an overview/full-text at /bgb/, so I am quite happy for now…
Apple Bond Issue? Steve Jobs Would’ve Bought Tesla
As the founder of an Open Source Startup, I absolutely support startups going the open source route. But, FWIW, I will add that this:

Releasing your software under an open source license will quickly expand your developer team.

is not necessarily true. Whether or not other developers jump in depends on a lot of factors, and it's entirely possible to release something as Open Source and get no pull requests or other contributions at all.

The reason I know this, is because I'm there. Our Enterprise Social Network - Quoddy[1] - is Open Source, licensed under a liberal license (ALv2) and is on GitHub, and has been for some time, and we've never gotten a pull request. Now to be fair, some guys did fork it and make some changes to support MySQL, in order to support some academic research they were doing. But we never got a pull request from them, so we'd have to go dig through their fork and sift through it to figure out what to bring over.

Now, our project might not have generated much interest from other hackers for a lot of reasons... it's a niche area (enterprise social networks), is written in Groovy (which is popular, but nowhere near as popular as some other languages), and we haven't really done that much to market the project. But that's kinda the point - going OSS can result in lots of outside developers jumping in to contribute, but it by no means guarantees that they will.

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy
I don't think that I would like to have one, when all your friends know that it could be in video recording mode. Privacy?
I could see this as being useful for students that are beginning to experiment with development in the cloud might have trouble setting up the environment. Although that too is all a part of the learning process. Still, nice work!
The Big One?
One of my future blog posts is going to deal with how what makes a problem area "sexy" often has to do with how much of computer science you touch along the way. I call it the Ingress Factor; how cool something is, is directly proportional to how likely it is to get you exposed to other seemingly unrelated things. For example, an inordinate number of people want to get into "data science"/machine learning right now. What makes ML attractive, I would argue, is how much it brings you into interaction with all sorts of CS stuff that the corporate world would otherwise block out as "too hard" for average developers.

Clojure has this same aura, I think. What's great about it is how much of computer science is accessible at the REPL. It's not about firing up some IDE and not knowing how any of the magic works. Whatever it is, the community makes sure that there's a way to dive in and explore it quickly, and that's really admirable.
gov.uk feels like hostname ad site.
Would you wear a contact lens version of Glass if it was available or does the same apply?
This is tough without voidnull leaving some sort of clue, or the involvement of SDF ( access logs and mail) and the post office , and/or an very detailed tor exit node analysis. Or of course finding an exploit in SDF's system.

Text/source matching is a no go, if you search for specific words used in the text maybe he has posted elsewhere on the subject of SSH/TOR/SDF, I came up with 2 names (last name withheld since this is a wild guess) Doug and Patrick.

Snooping around SDF shows very little, no gopher setup or usage by username voidnull.

Finger:

Login:voidnull

Name: Void Null

Directory: /udd/v/voidnull

Shell: /usr/pkg/bin/bash

New Mail received: May 1 19:21 2013

Unread mail Since: Apr 22 08:17 2013

The mail might elude to the fact that he set this account up a week + ago and tested this out before he posted it. So the best bet would be to figure out what was mailed to SDF during the week of April 22nd.

Best bet:

1. Find a security hole in SDF

2. Stake out an pay off someone at Post Office Box 17355
Seattle, WA 98127
Of course you can get business ADSL, SDSL or a leased line in Germany. It's just a lot more expensive (on the other hand you often get a much better service).
We can separate the debate in a few distinct classes:

1. Superstar class - Excellent researcher and excellent teacher - A good MOOC is not a threat but an opportunity for you to bring even more understanding to your students. Or the superstar hosts his own MOOC.

2. I'd rather do research class - Excellent researcher, but not excellent teacher - A good MOOC is not a threat but an opportunity for you to spend less time teaching, while you can still focus on teaching about your own research as a plus. Or only teach MS and PhD-level courses, where the market in courses would be too specialised for MOOCs.

3. I'd rather teach class - Not excellent researcher, but excellent teacher - A good MOOC is not a threat but an opportunity for you to get extra and world-class material to your students, while leveraging your teaching skills for that personal touch.

4. I'd rather just do nothing - Not an excellent researcher, but not an excellent teacher either - A good MOOC is a big threat to your business model. You won't cut it research-wise, so your in the C-league of universities, but the MOOC will make your failings as a teacher a lot more obvious. A good class is just a few mouse clicks away for students, and why pay if you can get it for free?

Of course there is a signalling effect at work as well. But I find it hard to imagine you would get much signalling from a school filled with class-4 teachers. Both you and your future employers know what universities and colleges are class-4.

The future that Peter J. Hadreas deplores is the one where class-4 disappears and "cheap" education is met by class-3 educators. It's a background fight IMHO. And one where students are the winners. The best students still get to go to the best universities. But all the other students at least get lectured by the best teachers, and get taught by enthusiastic teachers instead of bored B-level researchers.
I'm happy to be open about it: So far 31 people have signed up to be notified and given a price, which is working out as a mean of $20.

Yeah I thought about that too, but the audience I'm going after didn't make that association so readily.

Edit: I opened the page for registration at 4pm EST yesterday (1st May).
Tweet limits, scrollbar options, multi-element load now in timelines and widgets
I've been sitting on a $16 exercise ball (55cm) for the last few months while slowly recovering from a herniated disc in my back. As a former sloucher (and Aeron chair sitter), I can't speak highly enough about the new setup.
I bank with Nationwide who are supposed to be a building society. In my experience they're in every way just like a bank.
At the risk of setting up false dichotomies, I wonder:

Will a MOOC instructor answer my emails, take a phone call, or meet with me in person?

Will a MOOC instructor help me network with potential employers and internship sponsors?

Will a MOOC instructor be my mentor and help me navigate an increasingly difficult job market?

Will a MOOC instructor connect me to other like-minded students and professors?

Will a MOOC instructor act as an advisor for any interest groups or clubs at my school?

Will a MOOC instructor know who I am?
It feels like the Manchester one is a bit too 'old school' (i.e. maybe started in print) designer lead.

For example, rollover states are either missing, inverting to hard to read colors, or... weird. Who designs buttons without designing and testing rollover states?
As of Java 7 openjdk is the basis for the official Oracle release of Java, and constitutes the reference implementation of Java SE. So if you've used any recent JDK release then you've used openjdk.
The fonts are similar, but you can see the numeral "3" is different. They're not the same font.

Right-click the text and choose "Inspect element". In the right-hand column, make sure "Computed" is selected at the top, then look to see what font-family is being rendered. (If you click "Rules" at the top, you can see which rules are active.)
>pornography implies objectification

what exactly do you mean by this?
So what? You're describing a bug, not an optimization.
For those wanting the link straight to the benchmarks its here:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r4