skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First of all, sexist jokes are a bad thing, but we need to keep in mind the meaning of the word "misogyny": hatred of women.

You are correct in that the definition of misogyny is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. Misogyny can be manifested in the denigration or sexual objectification of women and in entrenched prejudice against women. From Wikipedia (first item in the definition) "Misogyny .... is a central part of sexist prejudice and ideology and, as such, is an important basis for the oppression of females in male-dominated societies. Misogyny is manifested in many different ways, from jokes to pornography..." (Allan G. Johnson).

The attitude expressed in the linked article is that pornography is an appropriate (and amusing) subject to link to something to be used in academic and professional contexts. Further, that it's amusing that pornography is linked to a prominent woman simply by virtue of her surname. In doing so, those who named the programming language and those who find it amusing are denigrating both Linda Boreman and Ada Lovelace and expressing and normalising the attitude that this is amusing and appropriate. I find this a clear case of misogyny.

> I really don't think overreactions like these help anyone.

I don't think it's an overreaction, and I would think that the appropriate reaction is to condemn these instances of misogyny. In doing so, hopefully we can create an environment and industry less hostile to women and girls. I'd say that would help quite a few people.
Ditto for Chrome.
Presto... :(
Fix the old bad monoculture with a new shiny monoculture.
You would when you'd have any conflict with any branch of the government for any reason. It'd be too late by then.

Given that the Congress creates over 50 new federal crimes each year, and where you live, your local government probably also doesn't sit on its hands, are you completely sure you'd never want the government not to know absolutely everything about you? Really sure?

>>> Snowden is a traitor and a coward

I'd give you a traitor - he certainly violated the conditions of his employment and clearance, even if for an arguably good reason, but coward? I'd think it takes guts to take on the US government alone, knowing he'd probably spend rest of his life either hiding or in jail, or maybe eventually both. Would you dare to do the same? If you knew something is wrong and you know it - would you dare to do this, knowing your life will never be the same? It definitely not a behavior of a coward.

>>> while running off to hide instead of facing the demons he accuses so arrogantly

Getting away from an overwhelming force that has every reason to crush you and every possibility is not cowardice, it is a natural act of every human who values his life and liberty.
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lol. This was a joy to read, especially the voldemort reference.
Andy Warhol never did narcotics. There are a few stories describing situations where he may have done coke, which he denied. The only drug he was known to have taken regularly was a precursor to adderal. He was a very prolific commercial artist and had produced thousands of illustrations, posters and ads before he started employing others to do his gallery work.
In the US at least, the strongest anti-immigration sentiment usually comes from the right, for the usual boring list of xenophobic reasons.
Very interesting! Couple of things. We're actively working on SMS to live chat, which might take care of editing tree in live time.

We've thought about the thesaurus and are thinking of going in that direction in the future, but right now it texts back the possible options. Does this seem good for the moment?

I'm not 1000% clear on your third bullet. Are you interested in nodes that you can access from any point in the tree, or are you interested in nodes that transfer you to another tree?
Err, Draco sounded pretty formidable to me. He came close to overcome his education, and even did overcome it to some extent. Crabbe and Goyle are very apt bruisers, formidable broomstick riders, and once showed a rather sophisticated education (being able to change the level of politeness at will without sounding fake is quite a feat at that age --"Da boss want to speak with ya" vs "Mr Malfoy requests an audience with you").

Your suggestions do sound good, though.
If you're learning PHP I'd give it a shot, I thought it was a pretty nice IDE for someone writing PHP for the first time
Wondering how you manage you database server. Care to share you approach?
Hypothetical scenario as an existence proof (not related to the situation currently at trial):

Suppose you're an investigative reporter. You regularly investigate a person or company that you feel gets away with too much, whose public actions always skate right on the line, and figure they must be doing something wrong. You feel vindictive about it because you haven't managed to find anything about them in the past. You fully intend to find something to report on that will cause their business harm; it's less about the story at this point, and more about you versus them. You find your story, you report on it (truthfully), and the result is serious enough that their business takes a major hit.

You had malicious intent to cause harm, and managed to cause the intended harm, and yet you've still done absolutely nothing wrong. (Remember that truth is an absolute defense against slander/libel accusations.)

Malicious intent to cause harm is frequently a necessary condition for a crime (leaving aside things like negligence), but never a sufficient one. You still have to do something inherently wrong.

In legal terms, see "mens rea" versus "actus reus".

Breaking into a computer system without permission by exploiting a security hole: generally a crime.

Accessing data made accessible to the general public: not wrong in the slightest, regardless of intent.

Changing your user-agent isn't exploiting a security hole (modulo changing it to ');drop table students;-- ), nor is automated access to a website (modulo DoSing). And embarrassing a company by showing that they made private user data publicly accessible definitely shouldn't be criminal.
More ads, less freedom!
"...currency whose value is determined by cryptographic algorithms"

Not at all. The value is determined by the people who are using/trading bitcoin in addition to its scarcity. Which leads to...

"Anyone can create a Bitcoin..."

Anyone can mine a bitcoin, but its supply is capped. Perhaps this is just a bad use of the word create but I feel it's necessary to clarify that they can't be infinitely created since this is such a common misunderstanding. For now, until the cap of bitcoins is reached, they can only be mined by anyone.
You aren't missing anything. I got mine months ago. It is the most disappointing thing I have supported on kickstarter. I would literally send you mine but one of the buttons fell off the first (and only) day I wore it.
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Martin and Mitchell defection
Change that name.
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/

I've used the real NewsNow for ages.
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In a situation where the worker was capturing all of the productivity improvements then it would be in the workers interest for the workers to invest in new technology to improve productivity.

I think we are quite far from a situation where a worker has enough negotiating power to capture everything. What we have is a situation where the share of the worker as a % of total is declining. A situation where that % doesn't buy financial security can look ugly quick.
"While the reps fight for more money or something..." ?

really?

"or something?" that's your argument here?

We have a constitutional right to strike in the united states. Getting mad at people who get paid less than you for exercising that right--only because it disrupts your pampered existence-- is the height of selfishness.

Let me set you straight: Unions vote on striking. It is not the leadership who decides. So the workers who are indeed taking a pay cut for what they believe is right, made this decision. They had been without pay raises for 5 years.

Assumptions that "anyone" can do the job are not based in reality, but a sense of arrogance that the people who do the jobs are somewhat beneath the gods of programming.

Really, sometimes the ignorance displayed on hacker news is embarrassing to me as person proud to work in an industry that usually prizes intelligence.
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Interesting. The one core OS feature that FreeBSD seems to be missing is a server-class virtualization technology, like KVM on Linux. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.

Of course, Illumos has zones, ZFS, KVM, and DTrace. But it's much less widely used than even FreeBSD.
Did you order a black Pebble or another colour? The black Pebbles have been shipping in large quantities for ages (I got mine some time ago) but the colour ones are taking a little more time to get right.

Assuming you opted for a colour other than black, you should still get it before the general public does.
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Actual anarchists are socialist/communist, and quite often use anti-borders slogans. Not to mention standby organizations like No One Is Illegal..

Furthermore, one of the fundamental tenets of communism is a stateless society, so there's that. And many communists thought it was one of the more important initial goals, hence 'one world communism.'
I'm extremely disappointed by how Pebble have handled their entire operation.

I originally backed an Artic White Pebble on Kickstarter, they had issues, I switched to Black. And they sent me a watch without a Kickstarter stamp. As an apology I'm supposedly getting a sweat band - what?

Their entire operation has been mistake after mistake. And to be honest, that's no excuse for a company who has prior experience.
This is only true because classical economics are predicated on scarcity, much of which is artificial and shared inequally and inequitably.
Some background: NewsNow is a realtime news dashboard we made to cover large social events without filtering from large media outlets. We built it in just a couple days.

Everything is pulled from social updates, but is organized and presented similar to a newspaper with hierarchy and structure.

Also, try it on mobile/tablet -- everything should flow and look pretty :)
That's interesting. I actually didn't know that you could do that for a criminal crime except in the case of a plea bargain.
It looks like Best Buy are selling the black watches, which were all shipped to backers quite a while ago now (I've had mine for a few months).

While I can understand your frustration whether they sell black Pebbles to Best Buy or not makes little difference to when coloured ones ship since they go through a different molding process.
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You ever go away from work for a few weeks, and when you come back people say "huh, you're back already", but it's been a month?

When everything is the same week-in week-out, we don't seem to record it the same. From a sanity point of view this may be a good thing...
I haven't seen any disaggregated statistics, but I find this analysis quite detailed: http://www.epi.org/publication/ib330-productivity-vs-compens....

Also, real wages keeping pace with productivity improvements does not imply that the workers have captured all (or even most!) of the increased value yielding from productivity improvements. Say a worker produces $100 of value per day in 1970 and $150 per day (both inflation adjusted) in 2010. Productivity is up 50%. If his wages rise from $20 per day in 1970 to $30 per day in 2010, his wages will also be up 50%. But he will have captured only 20% of the increased value his labor generates ($10 out of $50 per day). The remainder is profit to his employer. However, he will have maintained his share of his total production at 20% (20 / 100 == 30 / 150), which is consistent with his maintaining negotiating power against his employer.

But, what happens if his wage only rises from $20/day to $25/day? He will have captured only 10% of the increase in value from 1970 to 2010, but more importantly, his share of his total production will have fallen from 20% to 17%. That is consistent with a declining negotiating position.
Ed Snowden, NSA, and fairy tales a child could see through
Ed Snowden used to work for the CIA.

The CIA wants to punch a hole in the NSA

“In April, as part of its 2014 budget request, the Pentagon [which rules the NSA] asked Congress for $4.7 billion for increased ‘cyberspace operations,’ nearly $1 billion more than the 2013 allocation. At the same time, budgets for the CIA and other intelligence agencies were cut by almost the same amount, $4.4 billion. A portion of the money going to…[NSA] will be used to create 13 cyberattack teams.”

That means spying money. Far more for NSA, far less for CIA.

you can read more about it here:

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/ed-snowden-nsa-and-fairy-tales-a-child-could-see-through/
"Ignition! is a great book"

You could just stop right there.

It was pretty effective at convincing me to go into chemistry for my first year at university. I understand this experience is not all that unusual. Max Gergel's memoirs are also a pretty hair raising recruitment tool.

I got out when I figured out that anecdotes about leading an o-chem org in the 40s/50s make leading an o-chem org in the 40s/50s sound like The Best Place To Be, then I figured out I'm not likely to be a o-chem org leader and the 40s/50s are not likely coming back around again anytime soon. Kind of like reading a dotcom story about the late 90s and deciding to become a web designer in 2013, you're in for a bit of a surprise...
> The people here are not day laborers looking for an odd job from a passing contractor. They load the trucks and stock the shelves for some of the U.S.’s largest ­companies—Walmart, Nike, PepsiCo’s Frito-­Lay division

> This system insulates companies from workers’-­compensation claims, unemployment taxes, union drives and the duty to ensure that their workers are legal immigrants. Meanwhile, the temps suffer high injury rates, and ­many of them endure hours of unpaid waiting and face fees that depress their pay below the minimum wage. Many get by renting rooms in run-down houses, eating dinners of beans and potatoes and surviving on food banks and taxpayer-funded health care.

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The willful ignorance for the social implications of this kind of corporate behavior leave me speechless. This is quite literally sucking everything around you dry, poisoning the river and then making a fuss when somebody threatens regulations.

The same corporations who complain (mostly through sock puppets) about "the nanny state" getting in their way, who lobby for laws that leave them with fewer and fewer restrictions, who set everything in motion to pay less and less taxes - they are the entities actually taxing the social systems the hardest.

What they have found is a way to convert the good will of the social system into profit. All while pushing the agenda of austerity and tough love for the people in our society who need our help the most. They give their workers the bare minimum and let the government fill the increasing amount of gaps. Meanwhile, governments see their costs of the social system rise while their tax revenue goes down.

This is profiteering from collateral damage.

And if you do threaten to regulate, they will just move to another country like the vultures that they are.
Are you predicting that in 5 years only developers will have laptops? (I presume that your definition of a desktop includes laptops given the browser application we are talking about)
I just got an email about this from Ubisoft, with a link to change my password. Yet another incident to prove that unique passwords and utilities such as RoboForm / Dashlane / Lastpass are a necessity.
Haha. Wow, didn't see that. We'll get the name changed pronto.

Thanks for the heads-up :)
The 'small' instance he's testing is the worst deal Amazon offers. If you buy certain instances you get can a better connection to EBS, and then you can allegedly buy better I/O for $. A fair analysis is going to involve pages and pages of graphs and charts...

It is hard to beat AMZN's flexibility and easy provisioning. For instance, even my sister-in-law can walk up to AWS, spin up an instance with Windows, log in with RDP and then enjoy everything you can enjoy on Windows other than high-end gaming. (For you mac-ers in the audience, this is a clean and economical way to make sure that your landing page works for "the rest of us")

But you don't have to choose because you can work with Linux. On top of that, AMZN layers services such as Elastic Map-Reduce which are compatible with industry standards but eliminate so much time you could waste sysadmining.
My favorite use is when i'm driving or it's hooked up to Jambox and I either want to change the current song or answer/end a call. It's also nice seeing stats whilst running.
> Presumably a shorter fact-checking interim is required in such cases.

This isn't talking about news reporting about a current event, this is talking about a major scoop of highly secret government programs.

In the event both Guardian and WaPo had to backtrack to various degrees on what they claimed of PRISM, so obviously there was more "fact-checking" yet to do.
Your argument isn't logical. The workers are striking because they want more money. They are exercising a constitutional right. That has nothing to do with the legislature.
You should really take a look Steven Pinker's presentation on "The Science of Gender and Science":

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/pinker.slides.html
CEO pay is generally an insignificant fraction of labor costs. Suppose we split the pay of Walmart's CEO (about $20M) between Walmart's 2M employees. That's $10/year per employee.
one of the points in this is:

women perform better under an alias than as their real name.

however, i believe there is a flaw in this assumption/point/theory with the related data. how can you compare 2 sets of women without a baseline of their mathematical skills? it seems that they are assuming that both sets of women (true name and alias name) have are at the same mathematical skillset. i do not believe that is a fair assumption, especially when the testing set were all undergrads even more so with a testing set of 110 women.

i would be curious as to see this same test being performed with some sort of standard or minimum requirement for mathematical knowledge in order to create that variable as constant as possible.
Yes, we use dates such as 3 Jul 13 in the Armed Forces, but never 3/7/13.
Once you've saturated the local businesses market, you can also sell this to narcissists.
This is also one of the first articles I've seen on hn in a while that had a decent number of comments, all of which were fairly positive and/or insightful.
But this "immutable infrastructure" idea doesn't mean that the infrastructure is perfectly replicated across machines. It aims for perfect replication through time. That's something quite different.
Good catch! How much do you think we need to worry about vertical monitors?
Dear OP: how many more times will you create pseudo URLs (?hn=x) to bypass duplicity checking and spam HN? I guess you didn't learn from the first time [1].

I like PenToType, but really disgusted by your spam tactics. I know it's hard to get traffic for your startup, but spamming HN is not a solution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5893115
Symmetric random walks, including those with step sizes drawn from a Gaussian process with mean zero, have expectation 0 at any time t. Since there's no drift term, either walk won't be expected to slowly deviate from zero.
Websites like "Tom's Hardware" really piss me off.
I've had and worn one for a few months, and while I can't say its radically changed my life it has been pretty neat.

One of the things I particularly like is that it allows me to have the sound turned off on my phone all the time, and still notice when its going off because my watch vibrates. The Runkeeper integration has been nice as well, previously when running I wore my phone on a truly ridiculous arm band, while now I can throw it in my bag and not have it getting in the way.

I'm not sure I would have paid full price for one, but at the reduced Kickstarter price it was definitely worth it for me.
What's the recommendation for hosting Postgres on a VPS these days? DigitalOcean doesn't seem to offer NAS drives, and I believe Linode is in the same boat.
My biggest use is reading & answering SMS messages (with pre-canned responses) while on my bicycle. I use Pebble Glance for that.