skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hofstatder's paper doesn't just add linguistic specifiers for race, it also removes their significance for sexual differentiation. Hofstatder demonstrates the insidious effect of forcing the use of sex specific terms in cases where sex is not relevant.

In Hoftstadter's scenario, assume that that PJ had been misidentified as the "author" of the piece. Would it be a good impulse to correct the mistake and point out that she is actually an "authoroon"? I take Hofstadter to be arguing that rather than being more precise with our he's and she's, we need to move beyond them.
the emails are not the problem - andy posted 2 bad reviews
Why Apple Will Deliver BOTH an HDTV and a Set-top Box
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I think you meant to reply to parent.
Certainly. As I said, I like Clojure, but I'd be happy to be able to program in Scheme as well. I guess the history of LISP should have told me that not all people who like one LISP necessarily don't mind using another.
That's where I've seen it! Thanks.
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I've seen "tagged in picture by friend" lead to "massive avalanche of rage from christian conservative relatives".

The recipient of said avalanche is far from technically inept, albeit not technical for a living - although I deleted my facebook account some time ago so I can't tell you if there was/is a way to limit things so that wouldn't've spread across the graph.
So now I really don't understand how this is any different from using Thunderbird and EnigMail/PGP to encrypt your mail - and if I've understood correctly then it actually isn't any different, you are just providing a glossier interface.

I think it's a worthwhile project, but beyond the tech community, I'm not entirely sure how much traction usage will get... Thunderbird/Enigmail is a PITA to setup and use for sure. A step in the right direction, but all m00t unless everyone is using encryption and it becomes the defacto when communication via email.
85 kWh of potential energy sitting under the car...

A 40 litre petrol tank holds about 380 kWh though.
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My experience of those interviews that ask CS or “puzzle” questions is that they are sincerely trying to determine that you are capable of dealing with inherently novel/theoretic problems or problems you've never seen before. Unfortunately this notion is misguided because the problems aren't real problems, and the context in which the problems are solved is entirely different to what it would be in the actual workplace. As someone who cripples under observation (sort of like how hearing a siren takes up 50% of your brain power, the pressure of being observed does similar to me), I am simply incapable of performing in those types of interviews, despite being competent for the job. I once crumbled so badly that I couldn't do simple arithmetic, and the interviewers tried to “break things down” for me and continue despite my obvious state of stress. I resent those interviews sorely, and will avoid interviews in the future if I find out ahead of time that they involve approaches like this.
Sorry, you're right. I was nodding and agreeing with your comment when I wrote it. Oops.
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Musk, Bezos fight to win lease of iconic NASA launchpad
It might also be "interesting" to you the number of monolingual people born and raised in the US who have "non-Anglo-American" origins.

It always puzzles me to see statements like this... Maybe I'm biased by the fact that I am American but don't have a western european surname and a good number of Americans I interact with do not either. In what part of the country does it seem remarkable for someone to have a "non-Anglo-American" name?
The Red Dot design museum in Essen, Germany, is also worth a visit, if you are ever in central Europe.
Promising good things is not equal to "good things". Doing a few good things is really easy when you have shitloads of other peoples' money to work with - but even then, they fail over and over to deliver what they actually promise.

Detroit's city managers promised and did a whole lot of good things, didn't they? They were a regular Santa Claus with the handouts.
How big is it, in terms of file size?
Amazon: Fast, Cheap, and Good: Pick all three.

They've really delivered. I've tried to not like Amazon, but they keep impressing with their fast service, availability, low price.
Instagram tells third party apps to cease using 'insta' and 'gram' in their name
This seems more appropriate for Infowars or Godlike productions, especially your use of such acronyms as 'MIC' - a shorthand for 'men in charge' rather than any actual organization. Standardizing the terminology of conspiracy theories is a substitute for testing and validation.

I dispute your CIA conspiracy theory and suggest such extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which you have failed to provide and which is not supported by the historical record. Also, I'm not American and didn't grow up here, so please don't fall back on the usual counterargument that I'm too conditioned to see what you have convinced yourself to be obvious.
> Google's recruiting seems like it must be at least partially the responsibility of short-tenure contractors. Every time I've dealt with people from their recruiting department, even the very nice ones seemed forgetful, inattentive and poor at communication.

I had a Google recruiter contact me once when I was actively looking for a job. Her initial email was just the basic, "we saw your CV and thought your skills in XYZ would be a good fit. Would you be interested in setting up an interview?"

I replied within about 15 minutes to tell her I was interested. My next contact with her was almost five months later, and incredibly, she just said, "Sorry for the delay, I've been really busy. Are you free on Thursday?" At that point I kindly told her I had already accepted an offer somewhere else. I wanted to tell her the new company had treated me well over the ensuing years, that I had worked hard and advanced to a respectable middle management position, retired, and was currently traveling the world with my grandkids, but I thought that might have been a bit precious.
The OP has answered but there are shitty $250k jobs too.
afaik iTunes Connect remained up and provisioning was still possible through Xcode.
Is the delivered js minimized / compiled or delivered in human readable form?
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You're calling it a conspiracy theory simply because you have not followed what has actually happened.

Every thing I wrote there is actual history.
The government presumes that tipped workers get a certain amount in tips, and taxes as if they got it.
Chrome for iOS has/had it.
Clown Computing
Am I the only one that remembers SWF load-progress indicators and how retarded they were?
The index and score from Mattermark are great for consumer facing companies and mobile app companies but are pretty useless for most other industries. I checked some companies that are making making millions in revenue and they had a double/triple digit mattermark score. I am pretty sure that isn't a good representation.

Also, a note for those signing up for the trial, there is neither an option to cancel your subscription directly nor information about billing inside the application. You have to email them to cancel the account and i got a response after 5 days(3 working days) when i sent an email asking them to cancel my trial account. While it is totally acceptable for an early stage startup to not have those features and i am sure they have it in their backlog, just make sure you don't send that cancelation email the day before your trial ends.
That, and you'll still be required to pay property tax.
I think you forgot brand ambassadors, people who actually wear your shirt because they love your service, want to promote it, and proudly do so. These ones are the best, because when asked what the company is or does, they'll know what to say and enthusiastically do so. I know bands who wear our shirts and absolutely tell people what Earbits is when asked, which you don't get from someone who says - I don't know, I just got this free shirt at a conference.
We need to fix a lot more than just "issuing blanket warrants".

Thing is, "issuing blanket warrants" is flatly illegal. In particular, "no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." A warrant to the effect of "drift-net fishing expedition" is not acceptable.
I noticed YouTube had started using this (or at least the same idea), very subtle and sleek.
It's very well done.
You might enjoy reading up on how Tor works[1], it's along similar lines.

[1]: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en
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Does insurance cover that, or does it come under "act of God"?
Exactly. Want to hide that tag? You have to register as a user.

And, some of your friends hit OK and lets the FB app upload their address book with your contact info in it.
I presume that's how they managed to mine my unlisted cell phone number and suggested it ti me.
Of course, Chomsky has many books on the subject.
I personally have a background unrelated to finance but have a pretty decent tech/math background.
Do you have any suggestions on good entry points into the finance sector, or any advice regarding enrolling in the CFA program/preparing for the examinations?
I identified what the other green board is... It is a controller board for a lcd....HDMI VGA power connectors on left side... Why destroy something that doesn't hold any data...
"The intelligence men stood over Johnson and Blishen as they went to work on the hard drives and memory chips with angle grinders and drills, pointing out the critical points on circuit boards to attack. "
These GCHQ officials must have had no clue how a computer works... were really really freaking stupid... or there is something hidden in all lcds and video cards we don't know and the GCHQ does know...
You were saying that ours is a government that gives up its powers for the privacy (sake) of its citizenry.

I pointed out that the statement is incorrect over the long view.

Then you call me "boy". Is that supposed to be racist or just demeaning?

And you throw out some red herrings about voting rights.
I'm pretty sure that the recruiters are all contractors, and are all fairly independent. I think that's the only think that explains stories like this, as well as some experiences I've had with them.
>>> The sad part is I now even have difficulty with the term "legal".

That's because you have been taught that legal is roughly equivalent to right which is roughly equivalent to moral. US culture is very legalistic. All warning signs say "Don't do this - it's the LAW!" - because once it's the law, it is absolute, that's where it ends.

But I can bet nobody taught you - unless you're some rare exception - why things are or should be legal and where the "legal" comes from. US is unique in this regard as it was founded by people who actually thought about this question a lot - unlike most of other countries - and made a set of documents available - including, obviously, the Constitution, but also other works - that explain what they thought and why. But it is only a set of texts, each person has to find for himself/herself where their basic principles are and why the law must be such and not other. If the law has no basis under it, then what you feel is inevitable - since the law can be taken from you and perverted and made to say whatever people in power want it to say - and if you don't know what is beyond the law you have nothing left. You may not even be able to explain why what they are doing is wrong - after all, they have the law on their side, aren't they?
I like the distinction made between sign-up-friction and onboarding, in that the former is essentially about the sign-up process (i.e. forms). However, it's too bad all of the bad practices listed at the end have to do with ugly, shitty forms.

Going back to how the OP defines onboarding, it's: "*the process of getting a new user to a must have experience and a set of best practices to get them active"

If one of the best practices is to make it easy to upload contacts, then I think it's worth mentioning in the "bad practices" section that uploading contacts unexpectedly, a la Path, can turn users off very quickly, despite your best intentions. Even when users agree to let apps access their phone book, they still don't perceive the kind and quantity of info they're giving out...and so to get an email from some obscure person on their contact list who tells them they don't give a fuck about how said person joined Path...well, that causes a freak out, as we remember well:

http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-...

Twitter is an interesting example of an onboarding quandary...I agree with the OP that the signup is well-done and slick, however, talking to people who have joined Twitter and then stopped using it...the problem is that new users (especially journalists who are used to thinking everyone is paying attention to them) get turned off by the lack of response when they first start tweeting. This is not the user experience they get on Facebook, when you generally have "friends" right away and are able to "Like" and communicate with them right off the bat.

I'm not sure what the answer to this Twitter problem is, just noting that there's huge room for improvement in that aspect of onboarding.
Most startups give out t-shirts. Most startups fail. If you want to succeed then you have to think differently.
the cycle, article about some thing -> post implementing it on HN is pretty damn awesome. I remember reading articles about this a few days back and here we have this. I remember reading articles about Await in JS and a link to a framework doing exactly that was posted a few days later.
I wear my stripe CTF shirt a lot because it's super comfortable, doesn't look absurdly terrible, and was a reward for doing something cool. So i'd recommend that.
Having more people on the government dole actually makes the problem worse. We need less government, as little as possible, and more self reliance. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient be rid of it.
It seems very unlikely to me, assuming a digital process is invented that can capture at least the information that film captures (and it is borderline preposterous to suppose that this will not happen), that someone won't work out a transfer function (I'm abusing this term, but you get the idea) that closely maps digital to film. Whether or not people will want that is another question entirely, but it would probably be used as a niche effect for getting an old-timey feel.
A game written in 4 Lisp dialects
I just asked a contact who works at ClickBank. He said it depends on if it is a fairly competitive niche or something less mainstream, and if it is is fairly competitive, it will get lost among all the other products in a big niche, as people only look at the first couple of pages of results when looking for products. The main takeaway is that there is "basically a zero chance it will just get found and picked up by affiliates without an affiliate recruitment strategy."

He also agrees that "someone asking for 50% is WAY too high" (his caps) and agrees that 10% is more like it, though many affiliate managers also look for a flat fee in case the product doesn't take off, so there is that risk to keep in mind - though it still doesn't seem right.

Here's some things to consider:

1) How long do they get 50% of sales? Forever? Do they keep recruiting forever too? Put a time-limit on this, or an income cap so you can build your business later.

2) Make sure that it's a percentage of sales AFTER commissions, not before. So, like 50% of the sale goes to affiliates, 10% to the affiliate manager, 40% to you, out of which you pay processing costs, etc. Perhaps negotiate it to be after costs as well.

Finding an affiliate manager is hard as they are in demand if they are any good. And what you described is the bare minimum job an affiliate manager does for 10%, though if you can't find anyone else, and they make the difference between success and failure, 50% of something is much better than 0% of nothing.

The short answer is you'll need some way of driving traffic and affiliate marketing is an incredible way to do get quality, warm leads delivered to your site in a hurry. However, good affiliates often/should want to know how well your site converts before sending traffic, so they don't waste an opportunity to sell something else to their list or otherwise don't waste their time, which means finding a way to test it first - like as you planned with adwords.

I could go on about the right way to go about things for hours, but hopefully this is somewhat helpful. If you want to find another affiliate manager, network at Internet marketing conferences.
Not the nexus 7 :@
No stack though, so you can't have arbitrary code running in several concurrently executing coroutines.

As to debugging, I don't think setjmp/longjmp gets in the way of debuggers at all.
The voltage is not particularly the issue. Petrol cars have a high tension line for the spark plugs that goes to over 30,000 volts.
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Haha. Most starups have a website/CEO/attorney/coffee maker. Most startups fail. Don't have a website/CEO/attorney/coffee maker.
> Politics is how people agree between them (or are forced by others) to go about their lives.

I want to be clear about my definitions to avoid semantic arguments. Sure, in a casual context the word is used that way (e.g. "office politics"). I mean to use the more specific definition, which refers to the organization of government, so I don't refer to all social organization as "politics." For another usage similar to mine, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-politics.
39M USD loss is a token loss, too. Cost of building, staffing and operating a warehouse is going to be far in excess of that.
More on website loading bar: http://www.usabilitypost.com/2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-websi...
This isn't the first I've heard of extreme and unconventional background check requirements in Google hiring. Has anyone determined what does and does not get you blacklisted?
The US Constitution says we have the right to privacy

No it doesn't. There is no right to privacy in the original document nor any amendment to it. The closest we come to it is The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures As far as mail goes sealed mail is considered covered but only because of the relationship between the USPS and the government.
There seems to be a bug on "Deferred vs blocking API" slide:

d = async_read()
d.addCallbacks(on_result, on_failure)

on_failure() is not called if on_result() raises an exception but it might be called in the blocking code:

try:
result = blocking_read()
on_result(result)
except SomeError as e:
on_failure(e)

The blocking analog of the addCallbacks() call could be:

try:
result = blocking_read()
except SomeError as e:
on_failure(e)
else:
on_result(result) # on_failure() is not called
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback and the other commenter's. It didn't occur to me it would be interpreted as flippant or off-topic. Anyhow, IMO it was a serious and equivalent analogy, as I think pj's story shows. Anyhow, I was just curious, I don't actually care about downvotes.
I always love it when people make appeals to scale when they just don't apply. For it to work, there has to be some kind of non-linearity at play. In any circumstance where the total cost rises in proportion to the total size, it's just nonsensical.
"Success" would have been a dictatorship, just with a different guy in charge. I'm sorry, but the U.S. doesn't get a pass on that just because some democracies also suit their business interests. The coup in Iran was rotten by design.
To be more explicit, the mistake is on the part of the people with the wrong idea of what App.net is. At least that's how I took it.
I hit one of the buttons in the demo and sat waiting for a doc page to load. After 5 seconds or so I realized that I'm an idiot.

I suppose that says good things about the bars, though; they really do signal "loading"...
Cyber Pearl Harbor: Why hasn’t a mega attack happened?
Even the article describes the act as "symbolic": the whole decision on how to "comply" with GCHQ's instructions was made by the Guardian and their response is broadly analogous to paying a hotly-contested fine with sacks full of coins.
Yeah, except that Instacart's delivery area is a LOT (orders of magnitude) smaller than Amazon's.
looks really slick.. looking forward to build this as an AngularJS directive or such. :)
> I hope your observation that "peacetime makes us forget that the world is willing to attack us" is not implying this is a bad thing; on the contrary, it seems like the closest we'll get to rationality.

Not necessarily. It comes with good and bad.

People have already forgotten that it is the NSA's job to investigate the Nasdaq and Google Hacks of last year. Chinese hackers were spying on Americans... hacking into gmail accounts and so forth.

And yet you read through this thread, with Groklaw closing down and everything. You have to remember: you may feel that the NSA has violated your privacy, but they are also the organization responsible for protecting it from other nations.

But peacetime makes us quick to forget these events. The Google-hack event was only 2 years ago, the Nasdaq hack is currently ongoing, the RSA hack was in 2011. Someone hacked Verisign in 2012. All are being treated as international hacking events.

The balance of "privacy" and "security" is more complicated than "destroy that program" or "remove funding" from a certain agency. Overreactions happen both in peacetime and wartime. Now, more than ever, as other countries spy on Americans, is the time for agencies like the NSA to step up and help defend.

You see how easy it is to turn an argument into anything? There are no easy solutions in politics. A lot is going on in this country, and its far more complicated than "totalitarianism" vs "privacy concerns".