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I try to keep an open mind, but I am finding it difficult to get past your tone. I find people as confident and dismissive as you appear to be, are the crackpots who are not worth my time. You don't have anything in your HN profile either. But you also went to the trouble to provide references, so I am confused and want to learn more.

Are you seriously suggesting its a Sisyphean task to teach women maths or business on the basis that - on average - these have historically been male dominated careers? If not, can you please explain further. Are you aware that 50 years ago women faced massive discrimination and that this may still be having a lag effect today? Have you heard of stereotype threat enough to convince someone who believes in it?

You are being condescending and rude and seem to expect your audience to share your conviction in a fringe view of genetic determinism. Nobody is disputing men and women are genetically different. That this change extends to neurological changes should hardly be surprising. Different machinery require different control structures. The scientific debate is on exactly how significant these differences are compared to other factors that have significant influence including the culture. I don't think the parent was even suggesting it was 100% cultural effect either. Whereas you seem to suggest its 100% genetic, which would preclude the possibility of any woman having better spatial abilities than any man - which I hope sounds as ridiculous to you as it does me.
How could wasted hardware be part of a valuation?
What you say at (1) is not gonna be true anymore: with all the open courses and other high quality learning resource available online for free, at least in the IT/CS/Math and even physics are, we'll have a huge number of mostly self educated professionals, and in areas like software where a nice portfolio of projects trumps any fancy diploma they will be very valued and employable! And they will also be put in a position of selling themselves short by comparing themselves with western Europe or US schooled people (the guy with a diploma from a fancy US uni will have the guts to ask for far more than someone with a diploma from an Indian uni, even if he is less competent! ...and this is the best case scenario: if, let's say, a Harvard schooled guy is stupid enough to ask for less than he's worth, anyone else will have to make do with even less than he does!) and they will accept worse deals. And that's the danger I'm talking of: this will make all employers expect more for less, from everyone!

About (4), indeed, having a family to take care of greatly restricts your mobility (and I bet this is what the guys doing US immigration policy bet on!) - but you can avoid the issue before it happens: take a better look at other options besides US as most EU countries have more flexible VISAs and such (yeah, having to speak German - Berlin area seems to be shaping up as Europe's SV nowadays - and French and maybe Spanish or something else fluently on top of English is hard, especially for techies with not so good language and social skills, but it opens up a lot of doors and gives you more bargaining power for yourself).
Try it a couple of times and it will eventually work. Really fascinating analysis.
He was talking constructively, up until the point where the admin go pissy in a way that made it impossible to be constructive.
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The attitude and culture go back at least a decade. Well before the recent round of criticisms.

It started somewhere near the top, and the culture's settled in. I've written off the project a long time back.
That's wasteful too. Does not excuse bitcoin.
CPI closely matches every other inflation index, like the Billion Price Index. In my experience people who claim The Man is lying about inflation usually are just saying "zomg oil" or another small handfuls of commodities, and don't really have any evidence beyond "everyone knows the government is a bunch of lying liars".

Oil may be rising faster than inflation, or not, and energy costs could even be rising faster than inflation. That would probably have profound implications for the economy, but it don't make it inflation.
Unless you want to see rotten flesh and exposed bones
Oh, the side is blocked in Russia
Why are people surprised when founders close down a product in a way that maximises their revenue? To play on a quote, "cheap, features and stability - pick any two".
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The image is 100% real in the thing that matters, that that the photographer captured this scene.

The photographer has played with levels, dodge & burn et al, so the aesthetic output is "fake", but those are actual people, holding their actually dead children.

The editing might mean he is not worth the prize.

But that's it -- nothing more to discuss. Not "where is the blood?", "why aren't they curled", "they're holding their eyes closed", etc. I do hope those are just the opinions of one disturbed individual.

Try reading some World News, from world sources (European, African, Arab, etc), outside the US media, and you would see tons of similar photos. Including tons of similar unedited photos from Gaza.

People would have defended more and have shown MORE respect for the moon landing photos.
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To be fair, they should both have taken your advice.

Felipe made is point in hist first post, refuting the arguments that needed to be. The following posts (by both Olav and Felipe) are just noise. The whole thread turns into a silly "I want the last word" dispute.
I've heard similar points made before and while I can concede that they are at least somewhat coherent - or "not impossible" - they are almost always riddled with bad grammar and every other sentence is an affront to any sense of compassion.

I'm fine with people using Occams Razor even if the conclusion that brings about is uncomfortable for me. But I'm not OK if the argument made lacks basic human dignity.

> (where's the blood ? I hear even muslims have blood. And ahem, all muscles relax, which would color such an immaculate burial cloth yellow and brown for reasons I won't go into, again where are those discolorations ?)

Yes, they dirtied and wrapped a living child in a cloth to stage a dead child and forgot to simulate piss and shit stains necessary to pass your analysis. Huge slipup on their part. Not possible that a parent or relative would first take care to ensure the dignity of their child to remain intact before bringing them out to show their grief in front of their community.

> And frankly a corpse 3 days old smells to the point that no emotion will allow you to ignore that

You might be surprised.

There are stories around of mothers tending to their stillborn fetus for weeks. I think one even made a blog about it.

I suppose we can conclude that you are falling victim to the limits of your own experience and imagination. Otherwise known as ignorance.
World Press Photo Award-winning picture is found to be significantly retouched, "cleaning" dirt from faces of dead kids and adding light and shadows in Photoshop. Picture happens to be of Gaza men mourning dead children in their arms, likely as result of some Israeli military action.

I believe the main argument is entirely about photography: clearly composition was great on its own, but lighting was heavily edited; when is a picture still a picture, so to speak? It's an important question for photojournalists and their awards.

Whether this overlaps with the customary Israeli pushback on this sort of material, I honestly don't know.
I usually try priorityclub.com (Intercontinental Hotel Group) first, because I collect their points, have by far the highest loyalty status at PC/IHG and Staybridge Suites is my favourite hotel chain. If there is no acceptable hotel nearby, I search using roomkey.com which is a site that only searchs for hotels owned by larger hotel chains (IHG, Best Western, Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, Starwood...). I have stayed at so many bad indedependent hotels that I really try to avoid them know. It's just not worth the trouble. If roomkey.com does not help, I would probably use HRS or Expedia, but I did not have to since I started using Roomkey.
>This is particularly true of the guy on the left who looks artificially lit.

Ever heard of dodge and burn, in Photoshop?

Also try "staging" an angry group of people, protesting and lamenting their dead children and lost relatives after yet another raid.

Would anybody have the gal to say the same things for the Boston victims?
If you wonder why you're being downvoted: it's probably because there is consensus that either a system has been checked by security professionals (be it mathematicians or implementors) OR should not be considered secure.
Note that it is not an exclusive or!
Your reasoning only proves that a specific type of attack is unlikely to succeed, but does not say anything for any other attack.
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Heh. classic fun.
As of Jan. he was making 25K$ a month. That is the latest figure on the graph.
Because there can be no obligation to do that which cannot be done.

And because it "cannot be done," we are to close the doors on anyone who cares to try?
It's funny how many people here latch onto the "fake" argument so quickly. I read through the whole piece, and the only thing that sounded plausible was the three sources thing in Photoshop. All other arguments I cannot really follow.
I think you missed the point. jgc is not saying he believes the photograph has been staged, but that it looks like it has been. In other words, how did a photo that is so obviously fake win a photography contest?
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Between 2010 and 2012, applications doubled in volume. A large part of that increase was Tea Party groups. Seems like the review was pointed at the right target (when I owned a business, I inspected the work of the new guys more than the people who had been with me for a few years). The real issue should be that 300 groups were reviewed and none were rejected. The 501(c)(4) class is filled with "social welfare" groups that provide no social welfare. The only "social welfare" I see is lobbying and ads filled with half truths (this goes for liberal groups as well, though not as much). If you want to limit abortions or allow more access to guns (just examples, not a description of the groups involved), feel free to do so with donations that get taxed. Just don't tell me it's in the name if social welfare.
I spent quite a bit of money on corrective laser eye surgery (which turned out great). The surgery meant I no longer have to wear glasses, which I didn't enjoy at all. Sorry Google, put your tech into some other item of clothing and I might be interested.
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That makes no sense. Self interest is why it works.

Adam smith said it succinctly: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages."

http://www.classicreader.com/book/770/3/

As for "maximising the number of smiles" and "strive to feel better, not to have more", there is research that suggests that the way to do that is to become richer:

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/04/subjective-...
The problem is your that your ability to explore the data and the data volume are inversely correlated.You are far more likely to find interesting things exploring an in-memory dataset using something like ipython and pandas than throwing pig jobs at a few dozen TB of gunk.
Big data is great if you know exactly what you are looking for. If you get into a stage where you are trying to explore a huge DB looking for relationships your need to be very good at machine learning and statistical analysis (spurious correlations ahoy!) to come out significantly ahead.Its also an enormous time sink.
In summation the bigger the data the simpler the analysis you can throw at it efficiently.
I don't like to be kept dark and dry on this one
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The light isn't from sunlight reflecting off the wall. It's too... directional? It's also too bright, and the colour might be too warm. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it, but I've done enough photography to recognise that as an artificial light source.

But using an off-camera flash is not the same as Photoshopping three photos into one, and the OP not even mentioning a flash as a possibly explanation for the "inconsistent" lighting leaves me with significant doubts.
Free you it does. But at what cost? With Glass everything I do I'll do with compromise. Divided attention. When I play with my son I'm keeping an eye on Twitter. When I'm at a concert I'm making sure I watch the stage. When I'm visiting friends I'm wondering how they'll feel with a potentially always-on camera photographing and recording their kids.

Attention. Split. Down. The middle.
This seems to be the money maker: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edwardkim....
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Few of these use cases require actually wearing glasses to perform (namely only the ones that require taking a photo). Given that phones might in the future be shrunk down to wristwatch size,it seems a more comfortable alternative.
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So does a head- (or ear-) mounted camera stand.
Use Nominatim.

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Forward geocode: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/?format=json&q=1600%2...
Who says you read the button or intended to push it at all?
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This is an amazing project - like Kickstarter, but rather than placing a large bid for a one off project, this allows you to give small amounts to regular deliveries. This encourages artists to keep creating content, without having to run another campaign for each mini project.

The site's not restricted to which types of projects it funds. It could be musicians, artists, YouTubers, developers (e.g. if you want to release new levels for a game, or keep creating mini flash/mobile games), or anyone else.

*This site has been posted before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671267), but didn't get spotted as it was posted during a busy period, so never got the views to make it out of the new section.
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You can think about your second version as without side-effects too. It's just in IO monad. Actually, all IO is kinda pure, just (IO smth) values fly behind the scenes. All dirty unpure things happen in runtime.

And in the first snippet it is in STM monad, and you can do, for example

modifyTVar :: TVar a -> (a -> a) -> STM ()

You should understand monads more to grok it, it's quite beautiful.
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I'm in the same boat as you with regards not not having read anything else he's written (I glanced at a few of his political essays this morning but didn't read any thoroughly), so this comment is a general thought not specific to Greenspun.

Surely every article/essay has the potential to be read differently in the context of who wrote it. If it was on the subject of, for example, Israel/Palestine, would you not want to know that it was a Palestinian campaigner who wrote about their suffering, or a Zionist who wrote about their acts of terrorism? Whether you agree or disagree with one side or the other, context is often relevant.
Mostly off topic: is it just my filter bubble, or does this flavor of deep, hate-ridden flamewar only show up in OSS projects that touch end users?

I mean, on the server side, the worst kind of flamewar I've seen is TJ Holowaychuk disagreeing with Rails defaulting to CoffeeScript. It got us some drama and pictures of cats.

But end-user OSS? That's been a pit of hate and anger ever since Torvalds posted a kernel to some newsgroup.

In fact, it's one of the things that keep me from trying out stuff like Linux for real. If a question like 'which audio driver do i best install?' can only be answered by reading through a multi-year flamewar, why would I bother?

Now, since i've never really tried (or well, not in the past 14 years), the above might be entirely untrue. Still, to me, 'end-user FOSS' and 'hate and anger' are somehow symbolically linked.

Does this make sense? Do people recognise this? Or am I simply a closed-minded fool too fast in his judgment?
Yes, I didn't want to imply that Felipe is without fault here, but a ban is a real drastic measure, which should stay reserved for situations where there's no other way. And even then I stand by my assertion: Never ban in an emotionally charged situation. Taking a break and handling the situation later will almost always give better results.

(Just in case anyone wonders: I was - as far as I know - never on the receiving end of a ban hammer, but more than once on the giving end.)
Is there a site to compare the other entrants?

A bunch of photographs today "look faked" - sometimes that's great (and lucky) lighting, or gentle tweaking of levels, or outright fakery. And the fakey look is what makes it a remarkable photo. Those faces really pop out.

I'm surprised it won if they didn't get to see the RAW image. But maybe I misread the article.
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We have plenty of Bloomberg Terminals at work that are standard computers that just have the Bloomberg terminal software installed on them. In fact I believe we don't have any of the old leased terminal types anymore.

We also utilize Bloomberg Anywhere that let's you login remotely from anywhere with a fingerprint scanner.
That's absolutely incredible that your university refunded everything, and I'm glad to hear.

Maybe you should consider pursuing fellowships or work at companies that would pay for you to get a higher degree and also provide a reasonable living stipend. Seems to me like someone with the drive you have, clearly hoping to pursue it but financially unable to, is the perfect candidate for one of those positions.
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I don't get what you mean with "The fact the world runs on so much open source software really is remarkable". Could you clarify?

I also think that big part of the problem with developer communication comes from the fact that many/most of us taught ourselves how to code when young. That gives you a very high self-pride, as you were doing complicated stuff while your friends were watching DBZ. If you are lucky enough then you find out that you don't know a shit about programming, but that's not always the case.
Gaza looks like it follows GMT by about 3 hours, which would make this photo taken at about 11:40am solar time. I think that at least roughly fits with the angle.
That is a nice feature, but not possible on mobile.
Perhaps, but can't you just organize your objects by having a table for each type and adding a column as needed? it doesn't sound like such a big deal
I'm not doubting his intelligence. But I think he is not the first intelligent person to engage in a sort of long-form trolling of his profession (consider what Derrida did to philosophy). His intelligence serves to make the trolling more subtle and difficult to catch. He makes pronouncements like "The fundamental problem with software is that it is still based on the outdated notion of a signal travelling down a wire", and then proceeds to draw comparisons with evolution, where small changes in DNA only make small changes to an organism, whereas in software flipping a single bit might cause a crash.

Except no, it doesn't work like that. Small changes in DNA can cause disastrous effects in evolution; we only got here because of the small changes that didn't. Each of us has billions of unsung relatives that died in the womb/egg or just outside it, as evolution tried to figure out a way to make us.

And then he proceeds to make up a word -- "phenotropics" -- and state that this is a better way to do software. Of course he doesn't get into what phenotropics actually means specifically because it doesn't mean anything specific. The point is that we in software should stop whatever we're doing and invent it. Because Jaron Lanier said so. It's a half-finished idea, like Louis Savain's Project COSA.

And there's just something subtly wrong like this about a lot of what he says. Even if you can't put your finger on it right away -- you feel it. A collection of Jaron Lanier essays might make a good middle chapter for "The Book" (from Anathem).
Would be nice to watch movies in cinemas when you're abroad too.
I bought one of Apple's first webservers, which used A/UX. It wasn't a really great Unix compared to some others available at the time.
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Haha this is great. Funny stuff, well done.
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plan and plan again. Do not buy anything before you put all the objects, furniture and accessories on paper. Especially rooms for kids can be easily overdone to look cluttered.
Nobody said that anyway. I doubt there's such a thing as non-side-effecting languages :)
>>>For a usual total of an hour or two, when you put errands and lunch together with walking to and from work!

But it's the randomness that creates growth. You can't expect the unexpected.
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ooh, i smell a conspiracy theory. Could you clarify?
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A couple of languages have been suggested to me already. I just don't know what one is best for my purposes. I was told to start with HTML5 and CSS3. Someone told me to stay away from Django, but to learn Python.

Does all code get the same results? Is it just a matter of preference? Or can some code do things that other code can't , thus making certain goals only possible with certain language?
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Cancelling my data as soon as contract is up :).
Even if the data isn't big, there can be a benefit from the Hadoop infrastructure. Say you have just 86,400 rows of data but each row takes 1 second. That adds up to 24 hours of elapsed time, and waiting for that run can be painful, especially if you are trying to experiment, iterate. With HDFS/MapReduce you can distribute that work across N machines and divide the elapsed time by N, speeding up the pace of iteration. I've worked on a project that had exactly this challenge, before Hadoop was available, and so we had to invent our own crappy ways of distributing the data to the N machines, monitoring them, collecting the results. Hadoop HDFS and Map/Reduce, with Job Tracker, etc, would have been much better than what we came up with.
That was so deliciously brutal.
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SQLite is also an excellent option for a datastore on OSX.Its not nearly as full featured as postgres but no application is required and as you have a OS independent file per db which is extremely portable.SQLite Professional is a relatively decent free gui you can use also.