skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your "societal factors" explanation is just kicking the can down the road, for societal factors derive from the aggregate of the individuals making up a society. Humans didn't arrive on earth with the social structures you perceive as "sexist" already in place. Humans created these social structures in the civilizations they built, many times over and in isolation from each other. That you can observe that and not notice the common factor - our humanness, our biology - is no different than a religious fanatic able to conclude the earth must indeed be 5,000 years old in light of all evidence to the contrary.

Your assertion that Western society has concluded we want "equality between the sexes" is bizarre. If western society has indeed concluded that, who are all these mysterious sexists I keep hearing about? What you mean is an ignorant and detached elite (of whom Ms Sandberg is undoubtedly a member) have decided there and vision of the good is universal and any resistance (bigots, sexists, etc.) must be destroyed.
China GDP: 8.3T (2012)

Brazil GDP: 2.5T (2012)
Russia GDP: 2.1T (2012)

India GDP: 1.9T (2012)

India isn't even in the same league as China. India has to compete with Russia/Brazil. BRIC is an old grouping from years ago.

Having a huge population and being democratic doesn't automatically give you a bigger economy. Look at South Korea (1.3T) or Japan (6T) comparatively.
Why not just use the real thing, and code in Perl? Besides if you're doing anything "sane" someone probably already did it and uploaded it to CPAN. For example, if you're writing your very own XML parser you're probably doin it wrong, just select one from CPAN and be done with it. I've done innumerable jobs which appear complicated but boil down to "use" two (or more) weird apparently unrelated things from CPAN and set one equal to another, rolled up in some initialization and error handling code.
Don't want to be the prototypical middle brow dismissal but this sounds like a bad idea to me. Or it would need to be 100% implemented in the guts of the language. Why? Because strings need to be pickled, memcached, passed to other machines using other languages ding other work, etc.

There was a template language called ptl in python using things like htmltext and it is actually a crazy dog biting everything's and everyone touching it.
I think it is slightly unfortunate that the topic of the photo triggering this debate is a controversial political topic with many contradictory truths, claims and counterclaims of distortion and deceit. In this case there seems to be legitimate journalistic photography of the event that should be the focus of any debate about the event itself.

The real issue with this photograph are whether the digital processing applied exceeded that which is appropriate for a photography competition. Specifically there seems to be a suggestion that it may be composite of different photos from the same event although that seemed far from proven to me.

What do people feel are acceptable digital edits to be applied?

1) Global filters/brightness/contrast/sharpening

2) Similar filters applied to local areas to to ensure all wanted areas are properly lit and visible

3) Actually touching up/smudging or otherwise directly manipulating particular pixels.

4) Actually combining different photos (e.g. you have ten photos but someone (different) has their eyes shut in each one so you grab one face and merge it back onto the correct body).

Personally I don't see a single clear line where you should stop so I think that it should probably be spelled out in the competition rules.
Oh! No Nexus for me then.
Not wanting to be harsh in any way, but being pragmatic:

The Visual Studio Tools for Git extension automatically saves the files when I commit.

This website really doesn't sell me on the benefits over VSTG. Having something tell me that I've made lots and changes and that it might be a good idea to commit them sounds like a crutch for someone not planning their changes.
Fancier string manipulation is still just string manipulation. The more correct way to handle it would be to use something like an xml-builder to construct your html, which could then automatically escape all of the given text-node data appropriately.
A harbinger:

"Steve wanted a complete systems compoany," says one high-level executive who left the company. "He always wanted to re-create Apple."
Sensory deprivation tank?
> FWIW, I totally agree that just a "No." is bad, entirely understand what it resulted in. However, going after a developer in a bugreport is not tolerable behaviour as well.

So why did you go after him?

(I realize that by "a developer" you meant yourself, not Felipe. I still consider this a fair question.)
Someone is going to be famous as being the first person to die as a result of being distracted by the intrusive UI of their Google Glass. It will make the news. They will be thought of as a pathetic fashion victim. Winner of a Darwin Award.
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Can't wait to try it out!!
I realize that the US is bizarro world when it comes to the political spectrum, but in most places we definitely hear alarm bells going off when an author cannot help but trot out the dead horse of 'Socialism!' in response to something as mild as the suggestion that the US could improve upon its depressingly shitty standards for mat leave.

I'm no fan of Sandberg, but this review is so overburdened by the author's ideological baggage that it is nearly unreadable.
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One of the aspects of this that is completely unreported is the fact that in 2008, Congress gave the IRS sweeping new investigative powers. http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2013...

This allows them to do thing like pull all your emails and social activity simply on suspicion of doing anything wrong -- if you are flagged for any reason (as in this article) These processes are being automated.

This means that it is possible, but currently unlikely, that whoever flagged these groups could have then automatically pulled down all the email and social networking chatter of the organizers behind the groups. This would have effectively given the government a "God's Eye View" of everything critics were saying and planning.

This has been a year full of stories about the loss of freedom, but as far as the U.S. goes, this has the potential to be the biggest story yet.
KeePass will be fine.

It encrypts the entire file each time using AES-256-CBC the changes themselves cannot be observed.

If the file was encrypted using (for example) ECB changes would be observable.

However when you have made changes can. (Obviously)
Explaining the Hidden Costs in Tech Event Videos
Great that you're coming — it might seem obvious, but this will fly or die purely on how much people get involved. So I appreciate you giving up your evening 3 weeks in advance!
Nothing like waiting with baited breath until a keynote to find out what is going to be announced, all that anticipation and then "disappointment" in the popular tech press at how underwhelming the products discussed where.

But then this is Google we're talking about, that takes so much of their marketing advice from Microsoft, and not Apple that actually not only knows how to put on a show, but the put "butts in seats" for it.

On a side note, seems like Glass will be a niche product in the first revision, then expand into the mass market as fashion-focused partners come on board and problems like this one (http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/latency-the-sine-qua-n...) are solved.
>Whether you agree or disagree with one side or the other, context is often relevant.

Is it really, in this case? If Greenspun was a Neo-Nazi who was serving time for killing 12 people, would it really have changed the content of this review?

I understand it would probably colour your perception of him, and certainly that's what the OP was going for, but I still think that this review stands on its own.
Or "Stealing Cycles from Productivity Software"
Horribly misleading headline. What's actually happening is that the Model S is outselling what they've decided is the roughly equivalent models from these companies, not that Tesla is selling more cars of all kinds. Still very good, which makes me wonder why they needed to exaggerate....
Not really a fair comparison though. Although they may be in a similar price range as the Tesla, the BMW 7 series and the Audi A8 are not the flagship models for either BMW or Audi. Yet because Tesla only has one model, the S, the comparison is still made.

That being said, if I were in the market for a luxury car in that price range, I'd likely to choose the Tesla today over the other manufacturers.
I can sympathize. Just don't burn out... let yourself code for fun every now and then. :)
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http://www.ef.com/epi/

Phillipines
Malaysia
Singapore
Argentina
Lots of eastern european countries

They all have way better infrastructure than India
Not at all, and I didn't even remotely suggest as such. Supporting having user's feedback is an idea. Acting self-centered is the way you act, your attitude. One has nothing to do with the other.
Or as one might also misunderstand: Mercedes, BMW and Audi combined.
The SGI Indy one is worth looking at if only for the O'Reilly media ad on the second page. Some things change, some stay the same.
great work..!!
How is popularity being measured here? Sheer number of devices running Android? Is that really a good measure of popularity?
Life is transient, and many times that's what makes it great.
I also like this:
http://askabt.com/andthen
I think its kinda forum, who's running this?
I haven't actually read this review, it's not something that interested me, but I do find that (for better or for worse) I judge content on its author. Yes, if he was a Neo-Nazi who had killed 12 people, it would make me lose respect for his opinions.
You've rather answered your own question: horribly intentional headlines are the bread and butter of pageview based businesses.
It's your carrier that is blocking that, not the Nexus 7.
The dead children just make it worse ethically. There are thousands ways to make a political point, the ones using dead bodies or suffering kids should be out of question. It is despicable.
i can see it just fine, move that dime out of the way so i can see the rest.
Its chat blended in forum and you can embed it any where :)
Chinese Leaders Warn of ‘Dangerous’ Western Values
"Now, you might be thinking "why are there two conversions on two dates"? This is what you typically see when a picture is spliced from two sources."

"The January 4th date is interesting because the deadline for submissions to the World Photo Awards was 17 January 2013. So although the base photo was taken in November 2012, it wasn't edited until about two weeks before the contest deadline."

This whole theory pretty much fails as it was published in "Dagens Nyheter" in November 2012. The lower image is what it looked like:

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/gunthert/8485283411/sizes/o/
The past few times I've been to the movies it's been to Cinemark theaters since they added the cupholder-based captioning devices to almost all of their theaters a few years ago. They work well, but as the article noted, they're a pain because they're out of the line of sight and often don't want to sit still in the cupholder. When my fiancee and I went to see Les Miserables I spent pretty much the entire movie holding onto the captioning device with one hand to keep it positioned where I want it.

We have a couple of Regal theaters near us, so I'm definitely looking forward to trying this system out as well.

As for the comments on Glass -- yes, a real-time captioning device using Glass would be a killer app for me, and if it worked at all well it would be a "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" sort of thing. There would be some challenges to deal with (noisy environments, better speech recognition still -- Youtube's automatic captions still aren't there) but if they can surmount those, I'd be extremely interested.
looks like responding by email to a chat is no longer possible
How to deal with Table Layout in Android
Here's the point of the last sentence, which I had to read a few times as well:

When she was 27 years old, a man hired her to be Chief of Staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury. What, if women were in charge, she'd have not been biased against and gotten that job when she was 17 instead?
This is an excellent tip and makes one wonder why it isn't more commonly seen in the wild.
His reviews would've been a lot funnier if Arsdigita didn't crash and burn years ago.

On the other hand, it's famously uncertain as to whether that's his fault: http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/ . I haven't seen a compelling rebuttal of this narrative.
In GNOME:

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.gnome.Nautilus \
/org/gnome/Nautilus \
org.gnome.Nautilus.FileOperations.EmptyTrash
I'll say it. It isn't and wasn't and if anything is biased against men. Details here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8tToFv-bA

http://owningyourshit.blogspot.co.uk/
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It was terrible. Slow, crashy, difficult to port to.
A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good
I use The GIMP for these sorts of things, the boundary is not realtime in the same way. As you select using the foreground or bg paint, the boundary doesn't change immediately. Instead it waits until you've finished painting, un-click and then it processes - it's a minor but significant difference in UX.
Do you mean from 4.1 to 4.2? I think that's the upgrade that caused some problems for most people.
> The concept image shows a large blob straight in the middle of the "screen" that would certainly obstruct proper road view.

Seeing that the Glass doesn't obstruct the view, I don't see this being an issue. It's merely the center image in a mock up.

Complaining about the location would be like complaining about the location of a GPS device giving directions. slightly off to the side, but still "in front of you."
Except for not having direct camera and sensor access, the API isn't that limited. It just requires a little bit more thought in terms of how you lay out the UI and design how your user will interact.

I've seen some pretty impressive stuff with Glass thus far, and Glass has only been shipping for about 3 weeks. Even now only a small fraction of the 2000 developers from I/O have actually gotten their devices yet.
Now the link title and site don't give you any useful information about the topic it is fair but the photo is not a graphic one of the children. I fear that if you sanitise your life to the extent of avoiding such photos you risk a severe shock at some point and possibly in real life.

The graphic part is the visible emotions of those in the crowd.

Looking at your posting history you submitted a before and after [edit: Google Earth satellite] photo of the earthquake in Japan 2011. To me that is far more shocking as I can't help but imagine briefly at the impact on those there, hundreds of children lost and others orphaned.
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I like its integration with Gtalk.
Intense self selection for neophiles means they'd probably disregard it on the basis that anything more than 1 year old is obsolete and useless and nothing can be learned from it. They'll energetically invent yesterday, tomorrow.

I'd disagree with old interpretations like RAW and to some extent ESR in that the neophiles tend to now be regarded more as some kind of court jester figure for those (businessmen?) who exploit their vulnerability WRT linear history vs circular history rather than being regarded as heretics and all that other RAW language.
Decoding the "Two Weeks" estimate
And Apple's gray-on-silver labels on the back of my Mac Pro are pretty hard to read, too. Not enough dim-eyed gray beards like me at these companies, I guess.
Show HN: Let your website visitors view images in fullscreen/lightbox
So the photo someone took was later edited in order to look better? Shocking.
The sales figures are compared against similarly priced cars by Mercedes, BMW, and Audi. If you looked at total sales of those three companies, they would crush Tesla. I'd imagine Audi is the lowest of the three and they probably sell as many A4's in one or two months as Tesla sells Model S's in a year.

But therein lies the huge growth potential for Tesla. I really doubted Tesla prior to the Model S and through the large investment they took during the bailout periods, but their strategy has proven solid and their execution near-flawless. By creating a high-end sedan, while focusing a lot of effort on making it an amazing car that happens to be electric, vs. appealing solely on its electric drivetrain, they've been able to focus on a market fully willing to take a risk on an unproven product.

Tesla's next challenge will be introducing electric cars to markets more adverse to risk and more sensitive to prices. The Chevy Volt is priced (before tax credits) closer to where the A4, Series 3, and C-class are, but I don't think anyone would compare the driving experience of a Volt to one of those European sedans.
Materialized Views
This page is a headache waiting to happen.
No. NoSQL lets you say nothing about the schema, and so it becomes a problem for the application layer, above the DB, to handle. In fact, this is much what happens with most "solutions" NoSQL presents to SQL database problems: Let's not implement it, then it's not a problem.

What happens when you push problems up the stack? Do they get solved automatically? No? Will they get solved? Perhaps, if really needed. And, for the cherry on top: Will the solutions be similar to the ones SQL databases use? They will.

You see, when you are implementing atomic transactions, for example, you may get ahead if you have some information about the problem domain. However, for most cases, you are solving the same problem SQL databases solved decades ago. And you'll find the same solution. Just not as well implemented nor as well tested.
Awesome... I think this will help me deal with all the nested event handlers when I work on complex UI using jquery........

Will be really handy...
Of course it was digitally edited. Since the advent of the digital photography, the very act of taking a photograph (i.e. digitalised version of it) is editing of sorts.
Why no, the point of the article is that this is not one photo, it is a collage.
Why Zuckerberg’s Lobby Is Collapsing Outside Of DC
I wasn't responding to you, I was responding to the parent comment above me that says "His shock was in regards to the fact that the offer no sample chapter (which they probably should)."
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I'm not sure how many SaaS companies are at the intersection of as many critical business flows as Bloomberg is. And then, amongst those that are, how many of them are tied to full blown news operations.

While I think the green dot/red dot controversy is overblown, the paranoia is driven by the ubiquitous aspect of the terminals combined with the massive number of workflows that are centralized on Bloomberg terminals. Here's a sampling:

* Proprietary email and IM systems integral to interactions with customers and counterparties
* Trading systems in virtually every asset class. TOMS, the fixed income system, is the defacto standard for bonds.
* One of the top financial news gathering organizations
* Best-in-class financial data and analytics

So when you think of what someone could do with access to the system, it almost boggles the mind. Ability to know who is looking at what. Who is saying what to whom. And in certain asset classes, the best possible data on who is buying what. A rogue support person, for example, could do incredible damage to the company. Hopefully they have good mechanisms to control that - the fact that we haven't heard about it thus far is a good sign.

Given the overlap of workflows available on the terminals, plus the relatively low-cost of extra features once you're already paying for the terminal, makes me view Bloomberg as an anti-trust case waiting to happen. I wonder if they think so too - and to feed more paranoia, I've wondered whether that explains why Mayor Bloomberg is in politics. (Either that and/or to promote BGOV - growth in the government sector as wall street retrenches).
I'm guessing its just not a common thing to have a large definition of single line if statements, I'm not sure about other programmers but I don't think I could find much of this in my code.
The thing that really bugs me about ELA is that while there is validity to the technique, and it can identify certain images as clear fakes, any asshole can plug any image into it, point at the bright points near some edges in the image (which will be there regardless of authenticity), and smugly act like they know what they're talking about.
The PostgreSQL team just keeps on giving. There is nothing that can stop these guys.
Very true. Wouldn't the typical approach to this involve probabilistic methods like taking large-ish (but not "Big") samples from your multi TB data and doing your EDA with those?
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This is the most horrible chart I've ever seen. What scale are those bars at? Why is 4750 more than twice the height of 3077, which is about 4 times the height of 1462? Horribly, horribly misleading. A true graph would show them as a slight increase over the others, but still significantly better.
Ask HN: Which web analytics service do you use for your projects / business?
It could be a bug introduced with the most recent Jelly Bean update.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40961
No, that's not what the article says. It says the image was probably based on more than one picture merged together, but it doesn't claim the specific things you say it does.
There seems to be a large number of new users (a few of which were created within 5 minutes of this submission) who've only commented on this, and very vacuously.
I worked in UTC for almost 3 years because it was company policy to have just one timezone for operations. Granted I was in Europe so the impact was minimal on my life, but not having DST and always working in UTC saved a great deal of problems when dealing with clients around the world on a real-time basis. The only organisation I ever had a problem with was the BBC because some of their people would regularly struggle to know which way was up.
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I've been building a web based comic book reader on and off for some time now. I am integrating it into a chrome packaged app and am struggling with reading zip and rar files via javascript.

Right now I am using bitjs (http://bitjs.googlecode.com/), but it is very slow and often results in corrupt images. I am thinking of using NaCL to use a native unzip / unrar in chrome application, but have no experience with NaCl or C++. Has anyone done anything similar?

https://github.com/balaclark/chrome-comic-reader
https://github.com/balaclark/HTML5-Comic-Book-Reader
> You will never be a Sheryl Sandberg if you've dealt with a true workplace bully, and at least 90% of people get hit at least once in the first 10 years. Your reputation and career history are too damaged, and you really can't "start over" because every achievement is age-graded.

So do you really believe that workplace bullies are so universally powerful that it is quite nearly impossible to prevent them from ruining one's career?

I recognize your posts immediately and appreciate your iconoclasm, but this assertion seems quite at odds with what I've seen. I've worked with, for and around a few bullies/assholes (though certainly not at every job). I've seen literally one or two people get caught in the maelstrom and be unable to escape, but most people either work around the jerks. Sometimes if it gets bad enough people change jobs (probably getting a raise to boot)
also for pump-n-dump schemes.
I doubt that I would be able to buy a D-Wave for 2000$ (or whatever the price of the "high-end desktop computer" they used in the comparison is).
This entire comparison seems just a joke to me.