skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been out of the print magazine biz for a long time, and was only an editorial content supplier at best, but the figures SkyMall was charging for quarter-page or full-page ads in their magazine were eye-watering. For a top 5 newsstand computer magazine in the US I'd have expected $10-15K/page; SkyMall were pushing an order of magnitude above that, presumably because of the size of the market but also the captive nature of the audience.

A secondary issue: most people don't look at the ads in magazines for entertainment unless there's no other entertainment option available. SkyMall had the privileged position of being the only eyeball candy to hand for millions of flyers who weren't allowed to use their laptops or tablets or phones at certain times, and who hadn't thought to buy an emergency magazine or paper book. (Full disclosure: I'm often one of them.) I suspect games or ebooks or emagazines will prove vastly more attractive than a SkyMall catalog, so what's going to drop is the number of eyeballs on pages, which will eventually bite into the first-time-buyer stats for the advertisers, with indirect knock-on effects on the SkyMall business as a whole.

The advertiser-relationship side of the business is indeed likely to stay viable, and Xhibit has bought a buttload of goodwill business, but the magazine is almost certainly going to become non-viable as soon as iPads are legal during take-off and landing and especially if a price war breaks out between airlines over in-flight wifi.
I'm curious how this divide even occurred. Why have we even decided to decide whether to like or hate this guy?
as it wasn't a discussion

It never got the chance to be a discussion, as the author responded to the opening volley with a shotgun blast.

That's his prerogative, of course, as it is his blog, and he can take his ball and go home if he wants to.

The cause of women in computer science (which as student of a CS department, I wholeheartedly support) is not helped by people derailing everything in the manner in which the commentator did.

It's not a derail. It is a topic which came up because of language the author used, and which is an ongoing problem in the community of software developers. While you are free to believe in a platonic ideal of "pure ideas and discussion," it doesn't exist in this messy world of relationships and human language and politics. If you are still a student, I suggest you take a gender/sexual/racial politics course and try befriending some people with very much opposite viewpoints to your own. You may be surprised at your shift in thinking.

But leaving that aside for the moment, let's say the author's main intent was to "nip that derailing in the bud." What do you think the most effective, least hurtful way to approach that would have been?

1) Ignore the comment,
2) assuming he is the administrator of the WordPress blog he writes on, delete/hide the comment, or
3) lash out in a juvenile, sexist, hateful fashion.

I'm going to go with 1 or 2 being better than option 3 any day of the week.
1%, 1 percent, 1 per cent, 1 per hundred. 1% = 1/100 :)
I used to think I wouldn't want my kids seeing things on the Internet. I'm beginning to think, let them see it all,
in all it's ugly glory. They just might rethink living
a moral life?
The amount doctors get paid isn't what drives medical costs in the US.
I think that would also be a useful approach. But, I've been involved in activist circles lately, and something I've learned in that is that calling behavior out when it happens can prevent resentments and problems from growing; and, having that culture of calling people on their shit can allow someone who may have walked away to feel empowered to speak up when they feel uncomfortable with something someone has said.

Again, I'm not sure I understand the nuances of why someone felt uncomfortable with this particular piece of language; but if I assume good intentions, all it costs me is a moment of my time to think about it and try to understand. And maybe, by taking that time and showing a little respect for that view, I'll help someone feel welcome into this community I've been a part of for so long. I think it's probably worth the trouble...and, in the end, I'm pretty sure I'm a better person than I was a couple years ago before I got involved in this kind of activism.

I don't know how to convince others to stop being reactionary, and instead simply think about what's being said. Anti-oppression training might be cool at tech conferences, but I suspect it'd be the least attended track.
The Gaga nitpicking wasn't completely off topic though. The selection of Gaga as the target was chosen with the express purpose of demonstrating a point; Gaga has classical training, yet still produces what most (at least the author) consider to be trash. This mirrors his comment on the poor design of modern languages versus the APL languages, and a commentator didn't get this link so he spelled it out for them.
On the other hand, the casual sexism call was completely off topic.
I really don't care either way, but I had to stop that video after a minute into the "rant". What a complete and utter waste of air.

I've seen Indiegame: The Movie and I will concede that out of the diverse characters displayed only McMillen came across as... psychologically stable. But I also thought every single one of them was intelligent, creative and I respect them for what they do. I cannot fathom what would prompt somebody with a megaphone like a recurring show on gametrailers to see a need to indulge in such a useless rant. All I saw in that video was somebody who tried very hard to force his own personality on others and then justify it by stooping to lower and lower levels of abuse. The term is overused, but: That's simply bullying in its plainest form. What a shame.

"Crass and hurtful behavior is not acceptable, in my opinion. Calling it "opinions" is denial." -Jonathan Blow https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/361349255404863488
The biggest hurdle to women in the world of work, tech and everything is other women. The shrieking vocal minority of gynosaurs make life much harder for the majority who work hard and would like to be recognised for their contributions and achievements.

The feminist dogma has always been about telling others (especially women) what they shouldn't or couldn't do, rather than any kind of empowerment, well apart from the ego trip of a few of the most hardcore and ardent campaigners when they managed to get a law passed or some organisation to change how they operate based on their narrow view of the world.
> APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
`rotate` does not handle wrap-around correctly.
So you checked the headline with a few people who are not in your target audience?
Their healthcare overall costs less than US health care, though.

So, not free, but it does, in fact, cost less.
Great idea. One minor quibble though: it's 180 webpages or webapps for me at least. I'd say that websites require full infrastructure etc.
There's one thing I don't understand well about docker: I saw people making Graphite containers and the like, but won't all data be erased when you close the container? It seems to me that any sort of persistent data storage on docker is very inconvenient.
~1% of a large sample. I think that when N = 100 million you can make fairly strong claims, assuming non-systematic sample bias.
So are children and stepmothers. Your point ?

> High taxes are an obstacle to personal liberties, too.

No. Taxes are spread out among the population. Financial debt is burdening only one individual.

In Europe, in France and Belgium, we like to think solidarity is a good thing.
Your notorious twitter feed appears to be leaking, sir!
1% of the indexed web, which might be less than 10% of the web at large (see for example here: http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-the-web-does-Google-...)
How is

> Apply() is the right way for grown-assed men do things.

sexist?

Am I not reading enough into it or something? As far as I can tell somebody was making a fuss about some non issue and was shot down for it.
"eau de zetalisp" => "water of zetalisp"
That's a terrible video; it's unprofessional at the least.

The comments are http://polytroncorporation.com/fez-ii-cancelled just make me sad.

Stuff like this is one the reason that the internet makes me sad. Instead of emotions being private, they spread like a virus; fortunately (I hope), phil has a lot of money to weather this.
The good thing about Bootstrap is that it is stamped on pretty much every page of a site. Our sample index was mainly front pages so it was easy to spot. Total size of the web is a very hard number to pin down. Verisign quote 252 million base domains worldwide across all TLD but we have some base domains in our index with over 1m sub domains.
Why abuse the language? Almost every thing that is free is paid by some one else. Free means free to the person receiving the good/service. I appreciate English may not be your first language, but if you want to point out the costs, there are better ways then redefining the word free.
As far as I can tell there no longer is a "downgrade" option.

Edit: I just checked. If you've created a Google Apps account recently then there no longer is the option to down grade. If you had an existing free Google Apps account it will remain free.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/changes-to-g...
Exactly, exactly. If you see this-- I'm replying late-- lend me an ear:

This analysis itself and the curious overwhelmingly positive response by HN and especially Reddit, as measured by vote tally and the mere inclination of the author to go to the trouble of creating a website solely dedicated to the idea, are, I believe, symptoms of how American schools teach literature.

Before describing my personal experiences, I want to note first that you should forget everything you've heard Americans prop up as excuses for our education system, if not entirely, then at least for this particular discussion. Science and history teachers may need to "teach to the (easiest) test (in the world)", but English teachers can and do assign whatever books they want - the graduation test is basic essay writing.

Anyway, American English teachers are extremely fond, for whatever reason, of "themed" curricula. For example, in my 9th grade English class, we read "Native Son" by Richard Wright (black American), "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe (black Nigerian), "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton (black South African), "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad (the only white person on this list, and, inarguably, the only High Literature as well), and something or other by Maya Angelou (black American).

So, if you can't guess, the message that year was black people got it rough. If, in your literary analysis for any section of any of these books (even Conrad's, which isn't even about black people), you concluded that the message the author meant to convey with any even remotely logical elements X, Y, and Z, was that, indeed, black people have it rough, then guess what? You're right. X, Y, and Z mean black people got it rough. A+.

Yes, I mean it. Pick three random paragraphs out of 1984. "Orwell's opinion is that totalitarianism is bad, since, here, the authorities are torturing Winston." A+, you literary genius. Get something wrong for once! Please, just for the sake of variety! "In Fahrenheit 451, the firefighters' helmets are red because communism, which is also red." Oh my God, I never thought of it that way! Somebody get this 16-year-old a Nobel.

(The sole exception to this is Shakespeare, whose meaning behind any one play even the most idiotic English teachers are unwilling to reduce to a single sentence. And, wouldn't you know it, 80% of the students in class will inevitably complain about his insistence on using Victorian English, the big jerk. Literally, I shit you not, the majority of the time American students read Shakespeare, they're reading it in a book wherein the Shakespearean version is printed on left pages and the "modern translation" is printed on the right.)
For your last question, re: a degree equivalent, check out http://degreed.com/ and https://www.accredible.com/
Bad code is bad code. This is not a gender issue.
>By the way thanks for giving us the next goal post: build quality and overall coherence

"Us"? Let me get this right: I'm a "fanboi" (sic) for talking general business observations, but you are not while identifying directly with Samsung?

As for reaching that "next goal post", good luck.

For a consumer it's the only one that matters, and if you were satisfied before it was reached, why start being more demanding now?
> I'm not talking about lobbying or raising attention to the issue, but the technical challenges of designing a network that is immune to all forms of surveillance. Let's treat this as an issue of computer science, not politics.

Absolutely not! That's precisely why technologists and scientists have always been easily manipulated. Any technology, any technology, can always be turned on its head and abused. If technologists really have the power they've come to believe they possess, it must be used politically. Politics cannot be avoided. Trying to eschew politics is merely following a policy of not caring, and yielding power to those who openly espouse politics.

> Facebook should be a protocol, not a service. Twitter should be a protocol, not a service. And so forth. This of course completely upends the business model these technologies are based on, and would need to be approached by people with a completely different perspective.

Yes! But this could only be done by raising political awareness.

The biggest problem with the internet is not government control. You can see how government control, when exposed (and it will always be exposed as it always has been), creates an uproar. When people are aware and upset, things will be kept in check.

The biggest problem is that articles such as this claim that "US cloud services cannot be trusted" only when government surveillance is in play. But services couldn't have been trusted beforehand. People give up information — and information is power — to private corporations. Those corporations are under far less scrutiny and oversight than the government, but that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is that people surrender information voluntarily; possibly because they don't care, and possibly because the corporations have been able, through far more effective propaganda than any government could ever hope to produce, convinced the people that the corporations have their best interest in mind.

The worst form of exploitation happen when people voluntarily surrender power. People actively support the abuse, then they don't mind, and then it may be too late.

The solution must be politics and laws. Just like antitrust laws try to prevent corporations from amassing too much power, so too new information laws must prevent them from doing the same.
"and try befriending some people with very much opposite viewpoints to your own."
Thank you for your judgements on my friendship circles; those I have relationships with are of very diverse opinions on gender/sexual/racial/wider politicial issues.

His reaction may have been juvenile and extreme, but I certainly don't think it was sexist. What makes you say that?
The most common "perform operation on bulk data simultaneously" language in wide use today is SQL.

Joe Celko coined a phrase for this: think in sets. Not in loops, not in linear instructions -- but in sets, being transformed into other sets. It's a very powerful way of thinking. Most of the time, you don't need ordered evaluation and so loops are imposing unnecessary guarantees on you.

On the more general problem of our collective historical ignorance ... yes. That is us.

Well not entirely. That decades of the relevant literature is locked up in Fort ACM and IEEE Castle has a lot to do with it.
There is no shortage of excellent work being done today, too. With the large systems that are being created today I would take Python over APL or J any day, can you imagine building a company like Google or Facebook on top of APL, even assuming you would manage to find a team of good APL programmers? It is not a language fit for cooperation nor for large systems, it is a problem-solving language, back from the day where people used computers for relatively small tasks.

Plenty of the good things in APL are now available in other forms anyway. NumPy with it's powerful set of linear algebra primitives and the huge set of implemented algorithms is just as great at data crunching. Want mmapped files? No problem:

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.me...

That's not to say APL is not worth studying, it is built on powerful ideas. But to study the masters is to criticize the masters, not only blindly admire them. And history is not all romantic.
True. but 10 specific websites sample is still too small.

Regardless I think that the type of the website also matters to statistics. I guess that none of the top 100 in alexa uses bootstrap but I guess that more than 20% of the startups sites from the past year are using bootstrap.
Lettuce beef air... Even FCJ has to unite with me against a common enemy – i.e. HN re: naive, uneducated, opinions on fitness.
> Don't just moan about it online

I think the problem is that not enough people moan/know about it. With this, putting my money where my mouth is may be a very terrible investment.

When I read things like this, I think "geez, I'm glad I'm not having children" and "geez, I hope I'll be dead before this actually affects me"

(keep in mind, these lines of reasoning are exactly why this will be a problem; so far, nothing has been done to make everyone really angry).
What's interesting to me is that Dijkstra (and Wirth for that matter) didn't particulary like Lisp or were very late to appreciate it.
PLAYBOY: Ever take LSD?
GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago.
PLAYBOY: What does that mean?
GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended up not doing subsequently.
PLAYBOY: One LSD story involved you staring at a table and thinking the corner was going to plunge into your eye.
GATES: [Smiles]
PLAYBOY: Ah, a glimmer of recognition.
GATES: That was on the other side of that boundary. The young mind can deal with certain kinds of gooping around that I don't think at this age I could. I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

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LSD was a big deal for Steve Jobs. How big? Evidently, Jobs believed that experimenting with LSD in the 1960s was "one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life." What's more, he felt that there were parts of him that the people he knew and worked with could not understand, simply because they hadn't had a go at psychedelics.

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When Kevin Herbert has a particularly intractable programming problem, or finds himself pondering a big career decision, he deploys a powerful mind expanding tool -- LSD-25.

"It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used, " said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead -- who were among the many artists inspired by LSD.

"When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems.
I wonder how adding a link to who "sponsored" the content your viewing (if available) would change things. It's interesting how a tweets are now currency.
"having that culture of calling people on their shit can allow someone who may have walked away to feel empowered to speak up when they feel uncomfortable with something someone has said."
I certainly appreciate that perspective on it; it is empowering to the victims. However, as in this case, it can also alienate those they are calling if it was not genuine sexism. There are cases where similar language is used in a sexist fashion, and it would be a bit of a stretch to call this one of them, so in this case it only caused an adverse reaction. I guess there is a careful balancing act to empowerment.

"I don't know how to convince others to stop being reactionary"
If it helps, your views have helped me consider my reaction to this. I understand and empathise with why he reacted how he did, but my reaction to his post was probably a step further into inappropriate. Thank you.
It's kind of amazing that people who fear the US government becoming oppressive are willing to listen to the propaganda arm of what's developing into a truly oppressive strong-arm government. Not to say it's not a valid concern, but RT's rise as a source people listen to is equal parts fascinating and disturbing. The USSR, or the USA during the cold war for that matter, would have killed to have this kind of influence on people in their opposing spheres.
Just to add to what you're saying, I know of specialist who make vastly more than 400k per year. 6 total hip joint replacements in a normal day netting 6k each approximately as an operating fee makes a fair salary. And this is unusual.
Kind of a cheap shot: This website created in compliance with a law designed to increase insurance industry control over medicine is overpriced, therefore we should remove one of the last remaining restrictions on that control.
You can find an acidic Dijkstra quote for every language of his time.

Dijkstra, I think, viewed mere languages as an unhappy by-product of computer science and hankered to do it all with mathematics, actual utility be damned.
"Worst of all, PIH is probably not trying to make the world a better place through technology. He's basically exploiting a narrow arbitrage opportunity and is probably either unethical or lazy."

Really, really? Regrettable

This looks like the kind of dreamy SG that only wants to do "good"(by his definition) and doesn't have an attainable goal.

Or the startup guys that want to use the latest and "greatest" so he writes version 1 with whatever.js and when he's about to launch he decided to rewrite everything in drunk_pangolin.js "because of integrity" (except that drunk_pangolin.js is still in version 0.1, has 1 part time developer and no docs)
An archaic British spelling of jail, nevertheless.
Stellar.js: parallax effects
I'm using it on the desktop PC (13.04 Ubuntu from netinstall with gnome packages and GDM). Seems to work fine, and of course does not have any menu accelerator key issues as the menu presentation is standard.

I actually prefer the Unity launcher and its permanent visibility, but, as I spend a small proportion of my time using the desktop features and most in a Web browser and Office package, I'm 'on the bench' until the menus get sorted in LO.

I have not tried either Shell or Unity on a tablet device, and I have reservations about the extent to which one UI can handle the 'dynamic range' of displays from pocket sized to wall sized.
But if you are putting something like a database in a Docker container, wouldn't you point the storage of the data files at something a little more permanent?

And for everything else that is just data processing in the stack, ephemeral storage isn't a bad thing (stops developers writing things to disk when they shouldn't).
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