skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... reads as though you just don't want it to be your problem.

Actually, as a matter of fact, it isn't my problem. Women have rights, freedom, and 60% of the money in society. All they need to do is stop whining, stop listening to negative voices from inside and outside their own community, and choose another approach.

> Can men just stop being dicks to women?

Ah, yes, the default feminist agenda -- it's all the fault of men. That's why I suggest setting up a cooperative economic and technological system, or network if you will, and solve the man problem that way.

Imagine that you're an African-American slave in the U.S. about the time of the Civil War. The problem is obviously slave owners, who will rationalize their behavior as they continue to oppress you, while explaining that it's for your own good.

What are your options? You can complain about the master some more, hope he will eventually change his behavior, or you can enter the underground railroad and change your environment and your prospects.

What's your choice? Complain about your mistreatment at the hands of a congenital racist, risk worse treatment as the biggest change in U.S. history unfolds around you, or move on?

> That seems way simpler than starting schools and companies for teaching women how to overcome all the men who are being dicks to them.

Yes -- the problem is men, so women don't have to do anything except complain and pose as victims.

> It's so obvious, I'm astonished you haven't thought of it.

The problem here isn't what I haven't thought of, it's what you haven't thought of.

During my around-the-world solo sail (http://arachnoid.com/sailbook) I had many adventures. One of the most memorable with respect to the present topic was in a small Egyptian village, where as evening came on, people would gather around the community TV set and watch American TV, which is very popular there.

One of the shows included scenes in which a woman would speak up for her rights -- she might shout at a man who was mistreating her, or simply leave. Normal and justified behavior in the West, but not part of the lives of Egyptian women. I remember how those scenes were received by the village women, and how they did what they could to keep from cheering when they saw a woman speak up for herself.

But you know what? In that society, those women are far from being able to exercise what we might regard as basic human rights. But women in this society don't have that excuse -- women possess, and can exercise, political and economic power, and they can vote with their feet. Or they can try to blame all their problems on men.

The problem is not that women don't have power and rights. The problem is that women won't exercise them. It's much easier to say, "if only men would be nicer," and carry on posing as victims.

Sorry -- no sale.
Let alone know where you'll be able to get a street view or not. The blue overlay is great in the old maps, now I spend 10 minutes randomly clicking around on roads to see what has one or not.
Fiverr maybe?

http://fiverr.com

Edit: 2 r's not 3.
I love this. Make it an app please! I've downloaded multiple apps thinking they'd include this feature and none have. Very useful.
Whilst this is a much better solution that the existing slow tools Amazon provided, I don't understand why this is being reported as if command-line tools for AWS are a new thing.

Command-line tools used to be your only option for managing AWS and Amazon always create their API and shell tools before the Console.
Win-X gives a menu with the control panel and a lot of other options. Once you get used to it and look up the keyboard shortcuts online, it really is better than 7. Unfortunately it isn't discoverable.
Whats up with Microsoft buying Nokia?
Shadertoy: jsFiddle for webgl shaders
I recently played through Journey as well (my first time), but only learned that there was a multiplayer component after watching the making of/commentary video.

It was a pretty game and I enjoyed it, but I struggled to find the impactful experience that others had had after it was over. I suppose my experience would have been different if it had been with another player.
There have been CLI tools for some parts of AWS since the beginning. This release replaces a set of disparate tools (each with their own installation instructions and configuration issues) with a unified set.

> In fact, your startup should really start off as command line accessible...

I would argue that startups should always start at the API level and work upwards. At least that's what we did with AWS.
The fact that providing energy needs under a renewables basis is going to be really hard doesn't make nonrenewables any better -- they're only going to work until they don't and we fall off a cliff.

What's your suggestion.

My suggestion is to pick our energy sources carefully. Solar panels mean a dependence on China, which is hardly a departure from our current foreign dependence. Maybe there is no energy source that doesn't put us completely at the mercy of another nation, but who knows if that's the case? No one, because renewables are marketed as inherently endless. I'm not a civil engineer, so I don't know all the details and I can't tell you what the best system is. I defer to the actual experts on that. But I can tell you that the endlessness of renewables may be technically true, but often not at all in practice. That's all I'm getting at.
The insight being is that Google is now discarding the professional crowd who bought into their Apps for ADD teenagers. Time to look for alternatives.
Dude/crank here. Read section IV-e of the opinion (starting p. 17) for the discussion on the lying.
I would venture that the majority of computers that run Windows XP are either people who don't use their computers a lot so that it wouldn't matter or companies. Seeing as Windows XP SP 3 is still supported through 2014 [1], businesses have no real reason to upgrade since it would be an added cost.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx
It became less painful when I finally located the control panel and created a shortcut on the desktop. That along with a shortcut to my user folder (Documents, Pictures etc...).

Live tiles were something that makes absolutely no sense on a non-touch device, but that's the default. I still click on the desktop tile as soon as it loads.
Ungh, our "corporate" desktop ie version just barely got moved to IE 2 months ago. It is an improvement (we literally had XP and ie6 6 months ago) but that isn't saying its that great.

I run portable chrome to make things tolerable.
The TSA did not give me "bad service" -- they violated my rights. Government employees absolutely should be on notice that the public can and will inspect their behavior while on taxpayer time, and that they will be held responsible for abuse of the power lent to them by the people.
Facebook does that for the language button. Drives me crazy when I'm stuck in pirate talk or upside down english...
Ah, wasn't aware of that meme. I'd still go "Strunk & White" and keep it concrete rather than clever when writing for a business.
> Apologies as HN's quoting is line-wrapping and I can't seem to fix it. I'll pastebin this.

Try indenting by four spaces. Like this:

Apologies as HN's quoting is line-wrapping and I can't seem to fix it. I'll pastebin this.
Is Netaplications an actual reliable source? They're results are so far skewed from that of all of the other web usage analytics groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
> yet you present it as if a difference of couple kilobytes (which can be reduced to nearly zero by proper design) makes a life-or-death difference in website performance.

That's quite the stretch, given what I wrote. I only said it was inefficient.

There's also something to be said for the fact that rendering templates on the server will make any meaningful client-side caching almost impossible. And mobile is the new dial-up; while some are fortunate to have mobile broadband, it's certainly not ubiquitous, and multi-core phones certainly aren't the norm either unless you only want to consider the HN readership for your sample.
When I open the form in Safari and the window is shorter than the length of the form, the portion of the form below the bottom of the window isn't always rendering when I scroll or expand the window. This may be hiding the rest of the questions for you. To fix, just expand the window and hit refresh.
The parent was an extremely direct explanation of limitations that should be shown.
It's deletion greatly reduced this discussion.
Declaratory relief was demanded on all counts and the judge was repeatedly reminded of it, but refused to address it.
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Some stats count unique visitor totals of each Browser.

Other stats count page hit totals of each Browser.

Then you have ones that mess around with not including all of the particular Browser's versions.

And there is no telling who's getting a world-wide sample, who's taking out some coutries, who's samples over-represent a country because their traffic collection base is there, etc.
Citi offers a similar feature on their credit cards. Not all the control that you mention, but it's good for making purchases on shady looking sites.
Only from Canada
Google have taken quite a few missteps with their UI changes to Gmail and Youtube especially. I'm not a designer, but as a web developer know a thing or two about easy-to-use and decent interfaces. The new Gmail compose popup to me signifies the once predominately engineer led company is turning into a design led one.

While being a design-led company isn't necessarily a completely bad thing, you need those engineers and developers guiding the designers and keeping things in check. Unrestrained creativity can be a dangerous thing.

I feel the same way about the new compose popup. It's intrusive and distracting and I even emailed them about it sometime ago. I got some cookie cutter response about how Google are continually refining their products, blah blah.

I would use a third party email client, but email is crucial for me and if the chances of something going wrong between the connection of the client and Google's servers are higher than that of losing an email composed within the Gmail interface itself.
If by "hyperbolically exaggerated" you're conceding that it's still true, ok then.
That's certainly what I did. Firefox has improved immeasurably (at least for me) since about version 14, while Chrome has crept up in size. As a point of reference, if I open one tab in Chrome with Google Music and I let my computer idle for a minute, the various Chrome processes will sum up to between 800-1024MB of memory. You know how much Firefox with 8 tabs takes? 420MB.

Apparently people don't like this comment, but unlike some I do not possess scads and scads of RAM.
> will inspect their behavior while on taxpayer time

Government employees are taxpayers too, man.
I can perhaps understand buggy and intrusive, but how has Chrome gotten more bloated? I can think of very few features that have been added since it was first released.
The opinion actually does seem to suggest that it was okay to lie about the existence of the records - it's near the end, here's the relevant section:

> Finally, Plaintiff maintains that Broward violated the FPRA by falsely denying the existence of surveillance footage from the security checkpoint.

> Like FOIA, the FPRA provides that Florida citizens have a broad right to inspect the records of public bodies absent a clear and specific exemption from disclosure.

> TSA regulations, meanwhile, provide that airport operators must “(1) Restrict the distribution, disclosure, and availability of sensitive security information (SSI), as defined in part 1520 of this chapter, to persons with a need to know; and (2) Refer all requests for SSI by other persons to TSA.” 49 CFR § 1542.101(c); see also id. §1520.9(a)(3) (providing that airport operators must “[r]efer requests by other persons for SSI to TSA”).

> Here, Broward acted pursuant to federal regulations and the OTA when it consulted the TSA regarding Plaintiff’s records request, and it acted at the direction of the TSA in denying the existence of surveillance footage. The Court therefore has difficulty in concluding that Broward’s actions could be unlawful under the FPRA.
I join the chorus of people who use Windows 8 by choice. On a non-touch laptop. Admittedly I hardly ever use any of the metro apps because I haven't found any I think are worth using.
> the link downloads immediately and there is no way to get the de-obfuscated link

If you go to your downloads list you can right click and do "copy link address" (at least on chrome and firefox)
Tablets are only right for made for mobile games, they lack good control and horsepower to cross over into real PC like gaming.

Until tablet specs match consoles or PCs along with upgraded controllers, they will always be a one off market.

Most apps downloaded are played a few times and never touched again.

Sales and real play time are different metrics. Pulling down money vs actual amazing gameplay are worlds apart.
I wrote my own library in Java recently for something similar. It was inspired by LINQ and SQL grammar.

Select statement = table1.select()
.join(table2,[join condition])
.where(table1.col1.gt(10))
.groupBy(table1.col1)
.selection(col1, Fn.avg(table1.col2))

Select s = new Select()
.from(table1)
.join(table2, table2.t1_col1.eq(table1.col1))
.where(table1.col1.gt(10))
.groupBy(table1.col1)
.selection(col1, Fn.avg(table1.col2));
Windows XP is kept in the ranks, by and large, by the Chinese http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/080713-china-has-a-mas...

It's unlikely to change any time soon since if it ain't broke[1]...

[1] Your definition of "ain't broke" may vary.
This is the reason I learned Assembly in high school. I wanted to write my own OS and well it seemed at the time (around 2000) that I would need to know ASM to a bunch of the low level stuff. I didn't really have anyone to tell me I could write a whole OS in C or C++.

I got a floppy to boot into my os and print hello world and I learned a ton about how to program a processor. It was fun. Oh the crazy things you do as a teenager...
School Days May See Semantic Tech Help With Online Learning Assessments
Granted, this mingles both the federal FOIA and the state FPRA, but I believe the opinion is saying that neither was violated by the denial of the existence of the information.
I use it by choice.

My desktop has both Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8, and I love both operating systems. My work computer is loaded with OS X, which I also love. Perhaps I'm a techie, but I think that a lot of the hate we see with Windows 8 is just growing pains.

So for people who perhaps want a look at some of the pros and cons of Windows 8, here is a list I can come up with after using it for a while. Please note that these are mostly subjective.

Pros:

- Sand boxed applications. The implications here are fantastic, and it means less tech savvy users can be safer using Windows.
- Full screen apps, and snapped apps actually work fairly well.
- These full screen apps are per screen for setups with multiple screens. This is coming to OS X Mavericks which I'm really excited about!
- Hot keys allow for fast work! (I can't say what is and isn't new in Windows 8, because I didn't try to optimize my work flow in 7 with hot keys)
- The start menu UI is awesome once you are used to it, and much better than the old menu.
- HTML5 native applications. From what I have seen it is not as easy as building a website though, which is too bad.
- Hooking up to a large screen TV is AWESOME. With their design paradigm nothing is ever too small, and it feels so natural on a TV.
- This is an area where both Linux and OS X have failed to me.
- Far better task manager (subtle, but awesome!)

Cons:

- Failure on Microsoft's part to help users differentiate between a Windows 8 targetted app, and a "Desktop" app.
- A proposed solution here would be to allow Windows 8 store apps to act as a desktop app, while remaining sand boxed.
- Desktop apps aren't sand boxed (see above).
- Windows store sucks.
- Full screen shouldn't be forced. They made some good UI moves, but this is one that I wish they hadn't done.
- Command line (I mean, I just love bash way more, and no git bash isn't a fantastic replacement).
- Microsoft tries hard to force the use of GUIs. Seriously I love using a shell to do most things.
- Start screen can be hard to manage for an average PC user.

EDIT Sorry for the formatting, I'm not really sure how to make the lists look pretty!
> The syntax looks quite the same, but Amazon's awscli Python installer has loads of dependencies. I'll have to see if it's worth switching.

Why are the dependencies a problem? By combining a handful of smaller, focused modules that each do something well, you can end up with something better than if you were to re-invent the wheel for every need.

AWS and the Python dev team are doing a heck of a job on botocore, and have cranked up the pace of improvement in the last 6 months. This CLI reaching "official" status will guarantee (at least until further notice) that it will see updates and fixes. It's likely to see early or earlier support for new AWS services.
It wasn't very long ago that magazines like National Geographic refused to accept digital photographs, insisting on film submissions from their staff and contract photographers.

How quickly things change.
Right, in this case it actually makes sense because you will already be technically proficient if you are using something like AWS. But in other cases, the GUI can be the main interface, but a CLI to back it up is pretty awesome and I had happily pay some provider extra bucks for it.
I don't understand, why can't they just have the 'show all options and full screen' mode as well? They had it optional for a while now, what does it cost to maintain the old composer?
"Declaratory relief refers to a judgment of a court which determines the rights of parties without ordering anything be done or awarding damages. By seeking a declaratory judgment, the party making the request is seeking for an official declaration of the status of a matter in controversy." [1]

So, what was the matter in controversy here? And why were you willing to settle for no action being ordered or damages awarded even if you won?

Apparently both you and the TSA agree that Broward's initial letter was deliberately inaccurate, so that can't have been the matter under controversy.

[1] http://definitions.uslegal.com/d/declaratory-relief/
This. The game would at least be reasonably fun with wireframe options, or some way to kill the fog effects. But certain combos, like green with green fog, just become a big haze of green. Also, an option to show you where your hitbox is in relation to the gate alignment would do wonders. When you're going down stairs, trying to figure out where the heck you are, and then hit a complete reset, this game loses its fun. Also, holding shift results in what looks like me selecting the entire <canvas> window, as everything gains a blue highlight in Firefox 23.0.1
It would be interesting if politicians had to argue for the drug war using the actual effects as the reasons.

"Proposition 843 will raise the price of cocaine and heroine and make possession illegal so as to create a massive demand for it among a newly expanded criminal class. We'd like to ensure that the price is so high that the enforcement agencies are outspent and outsmarted at every turn by extremely well-funded drug cartels. We will pay the additional enforcement costs through increased taxes and seizure of private property and assets. Additionally, we plan to make selling these drugs so lucrative that it becomes one of very few attractive career options for our nation's poor."
I'm not the parent, but I do run Win 8.1 on my main laptop. I don't use Metro apps (Netflix and a couple games excepted), because there are better apps to do the same thing on the desktop (and before 8.1 not being able to run Metro apps on more than one monitor was a pain). For the specific case of Skype, I use the desktop client (my laptop doesn't have Windows 8 drivers for its webcam, and the Windows default puts the video upside-down), and it works fine.

My basic experience with Windows 8 (and especially 8.1) is that it's an improvement over 7, so long as you just use desktop apps - it boots quicker, and there's a number of useful UI tweaks (Windows Explorer and the Task Manager are notable here). Also, I like the Start screen - being able to comfortably arrange a couple dozen apps for easy access means I almost never have to go digging in the menu.
Assuming you are on a desktop or laptop computer, hit the "Desktop" tile and proceed to use Windows 8 exactly the same way you always used Windows 7. For all practical purposes, on a desktop the "tile" menu just replaces the start menu.
...and so they also get a vote.
I think it's more than fair to ask someone to come in for a couple of hours and see how they work. How is it any different from companies that sit you down and give you tests that can go on for hours unpaid anyway? Think of it as an interview, two hours is not unreasonable unless you're afraid you won't be good enough.

Once again some people on HN take things to heart way too easily. You can't voice an opinion on something without someone taking it the wrong way or personally.
When people describe themselves as experts, it's a good sign they aren't.
How about using a local mail client rather than a webmail one?
Wow, this is meta. The idea that "hyperbolically exaggerated" is a euphemism for "true" is itself a pretty hyperbolic exaggeration.
"IE 2" == IE 7, right?
No, it is not- read the parent comments. The message we are sending is that 50 year olds have had ample opportunity to do something impressive whereas we expect far less of 16 year olds.