skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a throwback to WML, not progress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol#C...

I thought that the convergence of mobile markup with desktop markup was a great idea, as long as one didn't overload pages with extraneous content.

Really, today's mobile devices are quite capable, and to limit these clients by relegating them to "card" based presentation seems like a step, or two, backwards.
Interesting. I don't focus on visuals at all when I say 'appear'. Well, certainly not more than with 'apparent' or other similar words.
Heroin brought euphoria reading Wikipedia has made me knowledgeable on many diverse subjects and those video games might have increased my focus and problem solving skills. Video games and to a lesser extent television are stimulating, while most drugs are not.
Yes many of us would-- in the case of the subject of the article, it would've only required $134 if done early enough (before it snowballed to $4,999).

An important part of the article is that the subject profiled had dementia and was thus may not have been able to understand what was going on and was basically taken advantage of, albeit legally.
Yes because tit is exactly like saying "nigger".
I used and loved rentacoder back then. The rule is to avoid Indians and Pakistanis as they were usually middlemen between really poor developers. I hired north american or european workers and it worked well and predictable.
There's been a movement away from flat files even (perhaps, especially) among the kinds of people who like old-school Unix CLI and console tools for mail. There hasn't been a lot of movement in tools that directly read a Maildir or mbox, partly because searching is painfully slow. Instead, people are now building on top of things like notmuch: http://notmuchmail.org/
Agreed. If google added a border with some CSS shadows to their results, they would be considered cards.
In other words, web content is moving away from a disjunctive relationship (this page, or that page, or...) to a conjunctive one (this card, and that card, and...).

One thing that worries me is that a conjunction is non-indexable (if you have an index then you turn it back into a disjunction).

Ultimately, this means that the address bar (i.e. the thing that lets us index into the web) will become even less useful, and there won't be a canonical way of sharing content; just a bunch of varieties of “share this” buttons.
As far as it getting publicized that's on Tech Crunch. We can all blame the perpetrators but I still fail to see how this is a tech thing. News stations get phony phone calls everyday and some of them get through. To some people they are funny, while others are offended. This whole TC mishap is turning out to be a cheap attempt at making the tech industry seem misogynistic. I'll reiterate, it happens in every industry.
You are right, there is nothing wrong with that. However, imho this app objectified girls and I highly doubt that anyone would use it. If you want to see boobs, you can go to a porn site, no need to have a separate app on your phone.

Again, I get the point that you are trying to make. I just don't think it's appropriate to present such an app or behave like that in front of a few thousand people.
I would like to know the names and a little background on the people involved in these practices. Why doesn't the article name names?

Who owns and works at Heartwood and Aeon Financial? Who are these people at the tax office facilitating the practices?
Marijuana can also cause vivid recollection of forgotten memories. In my experience it's closer to reliving a moment than remembering; overall a very interesting experience.
Yeah, I really don't see how an app that literally helps men objectify women in public is sexist at all.

> which is something you can acknowledge regardless of your gender

And age, apparently. Hence the 9-year old girl who I'm sure looked to her parental figure and said, "boy, ain't that the truth"
Couldn't you have come up with a better name ;-)
It's sad that in hacker culture, forgoing sleep is seen as "taking it seriously". From my experience at game jams, and from the people who run these game jams, skipping on sleep is an almost certain guarantee of failure.

Sorry for the off topic.
Sorry for the delay in responding there. Hadn't check this for a couple of days.

You are correct. In fact, I am allocating in both standard and partitioned Check() implementations, in the bits() func.

I can pre-allocate during New() and keep using the same slice without re-make.

Thanks for the suggestion! I will update and re-run.

I also need to go back and figure out the murmur3 implementation is not working.
Also the music video for Philadelphia Grand Jury - Save Our Town, where the video gradually degrades over the song (although this one uses analogue degradation).
It's true what they say about fighting with pigs. You both get dirty but they like it.

If you know your legal boundaries well, you could expose this person further. (I notice you haven't mentioned their name etc.)
When I picture a Hitchhiker's Guide to Mathematics, I don't picture a book that actually teaches you mathematics. I picture a book will, on demand, give you just enough information to get by in a particular area of mathematics without blowing off a leg or something. You know, like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy didn't actually make you an expert on a planet, just gave you some tips for having fun and just barely surviving should you find yourself stuck there.

So yeah, a big book of formulas, algorithms and mathematical structures with example applications complete with code snippets and exhaustive indexing. You wouldn't learn anything worthwhile (not Real Math and not really even applied mathematics) but it might get you out of a jam now and then.

It would take heroic effort and probably sell in the hundreds at best, it would be an immense challenge to keep the examples general enough while still being useful, but there's no a priori reason why it couldn't be done.
Now, witness the power of my fully operational Utah data center.
Kaiser is one example where incentives align, because they're an integrated HMO, running both the insurance and the care side of things. It's kind of like an opt-in single-payer organization. Their model is that they charge you X/month for care, and then everything is billed internally, with Kaiser clinics treating Kaiser plan members. So if they can bring costs down, that helps them; since nobody external is reimbursing for services, there is no advantage to billing expensive tests.
I'm sure they spy on just about everything. Someday the US will pay just about everything. Even mighty Rome got sacked in the end.
If you think the business would grow overtime, doesn't it make sense to sell it to someone rather than shut it down?
I'd love to hear what you think are the salient differences between getting up and presenting Titstare, and showing something fictitious like "N-watcher"

Evidently your reaction if someone got up to present the latter would not be "LOL guys loosen up!" -- even though you are not someone at whom the humor/offense is targeted. Why the difference in attitude?
A couple of things you could do.

Get an mp3 error checker and see if it has anything to say about the particular files.

You also might want to grab EncSpot Pro (free, for windows) to figure out exactly what codec you used. Chances are that if the codec was buggy, then it's been documented such a google search on the specific codec and version will probably turn up people talking about the known errors.
If something is actually good it rarely has to hide behind something like sexism. It's not like you read xkcd and think "I wish it had more dick jokes".
It's not required on Elance, either, thankfully.
Maybe color and images will vanish next and all text will be monospaced. The Typewriter Revolution! The ultimate in minimalism. It could happen...
First of all, not everything that's ok in an entertainment medium (TV, movies) is ok in a professional setting. I don't think presentations like these would have been appropriate at a conference of lawyers, doctors, artists, or biologists, either.

That said I think this also has to do with the extreme gender imbalance. Tech conferences are very male-dominated. I think the first photo here really gets this across, of the restroom line at another conference in SF:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/ridicu...

Imagine that you're a woman and you're walking to the restroom, past a line of 40 or 50 men. And now, imagine they've all just seen a "joke" presentation about staring at women's breasts. You might feel like a bit of a target, don't you think? It could be pretty uncomfortable.

Whereas, if we had a gender-balanced industry, and if we had, say, 47 men in the men's restroom line and 43 women in the women's restroom line, a presentation like the ones we're discussing would still be offensive and inappropriate, and still really not ok, but it might at least feel less personally threatening.
The government tried collecting the taxes, and the owners did not (perhaps because they could not) pay. So the government auctions off the house to make good on the debt.

What else could the government do, put the homeowner in debtor's prison?
This isn't a case study in Classic Mistakes - it's fiction. If it's from a real company, it doesn't make any sense. The trouble that Our Hero gets into is too cliche - not even Dilbert's Pointy-Haired boss would let executives double the effort and halve the schedule.

Since we all agree it's fiction, then we have to look at what this parable is supposed to teach us. And even here, the fiction falls down: I see nothing obvious. If we're too take away "for want of a nail...", then the old rhyme would be more succint. If we're to take away something more general, then the story just doesn't convey it.

Sorry, Steve.
we should make your unglitcher part of the standard, that way every jpeg across the whole Internet could be reduced in size by just throwing away certain parts of it. Then your unglitcher could get those parts back. oh, wait....
I'm not sure why you think this is about feelings, and specifically feelings of offence. It's about the social structure of hacker culture, or about standards for professional and semi-professional programming events. It's about how people involved in this field expect to be treated, or not.

One way to give expression to a particular opinion would be expressing offence. (Another would be applauding.) If you ask me if I think this sort of thing is offensive, I will say "yes" -- after all, you asked me! -- but it's just a way of putting a marker this. It isn't anywhere close to the core of what I think about this topic.
> I'm not saying that if you start out without being able to solve basic equations

Well, I'd argue this is a bad place to start out. The better questions are:

1. What do these equations represent?
2. Why do we care about what they represent?
3. What does "solving them" mean for the things they represent?

So, maybe a more important muscle to exercise is the one that lets us go up and down the ladder of abstraction. A huge part of mathematics is seeing a class of (relatively) concrete things, finding commonalities and drawing out abstractions, reasoning about the abstractions, and then drawing conclusions about the more concrete things.

You can do so much of this without the formalisms of classroom mathematics and, honestly, it's what "real" mathematicians do. The formalisms are just a high-bandwidth way of communicating these ideas between mathematicians. They're just a highly technical map of the terrain, not the terrain itself.

In fact, if I was teaching someone and they invented their own bizarro syntax for "solving" equations I'd be ecstatic. Whatever it was that happened in their head that made them

> but the effort to get there will be a power of that needed by a "math-inclined" person.

This is fine and true, perhaps, but if so it's true of all things, not just mathematics. You can replace "math" with "writing" or "running" or "playing a kazoo."

What do you think makes mathematics special?
Maybe.

There's still the thorny problems of politics and economics in the real world. Who's going to control the machine farms? Who's going to guard them?

Also I don't think scarcity is the only source of conflict among humans. We'll probably find a way to prevent cyber-utopias where everyone is a god.
Bid-rigging seems to be the main chicanery in the article. The value of a lien on a property with high-100k equity should be some percentage of that.
Yea DICOM is for imaging though (CT scan, MRI, etc ...) but I think you know that already. Even though DICOM is a standard, there are still stupid things that go on (e.g. radiologists have to hand type radiation doses that the patient received because apps do not talk to each other).

HL-7 is the standard for other medical apps. Even though these standards exist, the problems are still there and solutions are sometimes too pricey for hospitals.

Thanks for the encouraging words ... it's been a long road.
> The sexism is in knowing that it will make most women somewhat uncomfortable, and some women very uncomfortable, and not caring.

I'd go so far as to say that how is an app that is all about exploiting women NOT sexist?

It is more than just making them uncomfortable. Some pics are taken of women that are drug addicted or white slaves or both. For most that do it on their own initiative, it is a decision they will regret later, but unlike a one night stand, it isn't just for one night. Those images stay around forever.
- I respect your opinion and thought but I love how TC brings together startups from different places. Most things, people and organizations will always have imperfections/mistakes. Still, there are many startups (that I've seen on TCs website) that have changed my way of thinking. I guess we just gotta take the good with the bad.
Whoops, how did I end up on this stage? I've never even seen this presentation before! Must have been an accident!

(of _course_ they were done intentionally.)
Yea, I have to look into this, but even if it does do HL7, you need to write software to extract what you want and present it in a meaningful way to the other application.
Making this to more than a kinda childish joke is more of a problem than the act itself. By elevating this to a "Look how troubled our industry is" kinda thing, its just gonna get more of an issue.

The only way this will change is if it doesn't become the naughty thing it is right now. And this seems to be quite a US-centric issue, stemming from the paradoxical opinion about women in US.

Anywhere else, this would just have been a funny joke, and everyone would have laughed and thought the people were silly and unproffesional.

Anyone who gets offended by this, has more severe issues than the guys who did this.
Your reply would be entire spot on if the word "tit" and the n-word were equivalent. One is a body part that both men and women share. The other is a racially charged word that has more than a century of really bad history behind it. And, see how both you and I couldn't say the n-word? That's a tip off that it's not the same. I have tits. Yes, they are man-tits but they are tits nonetheless. The n-word, however, isn't something I'll be caught saying except in very specific company (explaining the history to my 12 yr old, for example).

I can't say I agree with the GP post, since I didn't see the presentations being discussed, but I know your comment is off base.
"If a female made an app that included men's butts, would people have the same reaction?"

All things being equal, yes. However, men don't have women catcalling at them in the street, don't have to put up with women ogling them in public, get away with more pay for doing exactly the same work, are more likely to rise to positions of power, are favoured by many systems of monarchy, don't have to put up with other people acting as if they own their bodies and have a right to tell them what to do with them, etc, etc, et-bloody-cetera. I like the way that you think only women can possibly be offended by this kind of behaviour. - a man
- Nice. Thank you for this jseliger. They need to change some dates tho. I was confused while reading it. Still, thank you for sharing once again.
The examples in that blog post are discriminatory, and if I were her, I'd be very pissed off. However, the coworkers' comments were directed at her specifically.

In this case, it's some men saying they like to stare at boobs. It's not saying women are bad programmers, and it certainly doesn't seem like they're trying to say "men are better than women." If anything, it's saying, "We're dumb males. We like to look at boobs. We made a stupid app to look at more boobs."

What bothers me is that, as I read some of these comments, I don't see outraged women but rather a bunch of white knights. This is not a big deal; in this particular case, "lighten up."
Yea, it's an messy area to start a company in. I'm trying to learn how to cover my bases as I go along but if I'm paralyzed by fear forever I'm not going to move forward.
I don't know what to say here. I'm still running Ubuntu but the phone-tablet-desktop eat it all strategy got me seriously concerned. Come on, Microsoft can't do that with its deep pocket, neither does Google, you just don't eat more than you can chew, not to mention you have no market share in any of them yet.
Focusing on ubuntu server LTS, charging service fees, focusing on cloud platforms, while maintaining a free desktop to keep a wide user base, seems more reasonable to me.
I do believe that memories can be repressed and later recovered, but I also think that using recovered memories as evidence in a court of law is highly problematic. If a memory provides information that leads to actual forensic evidence -- the locations of buried bodies being a particularly dramatic example -- that can certainly be the basis for a conviction. But if it can't be corroborated at all, I would encourage a court to tread very lightly.
Well, aren't we edgy.
Read that article just makes me angry. Who the hell makes a living doing this, and still sleep at night? They must be sociopaths
Sexist. Next question?
Sounds like a good idea, but i'm not sure how this relates to conversation.
I think you may have misread ScottBurson's post. I interpreted as, "Some people might claim it's not sexist. <new line> But it is, because..."
Thanks for this buddy.
The owner had dementia, so may not have been able to make reasonable decisions.
Distilled into management of expectations.

When you go to an event like this, or say a TED talk or some type of technology conference (VMworld, PyCon, etc), I assume a G/PG rating, unless told otherwise. Sure they were jokes, just told in the wrong setting. Some people like to push the boundaries, and if you give them a soap box, they will speak. This should be news to no one, but when you show PG-13, or R content to someone expecting a PG show, joke or otherwise, then eyebrows will raise.

As an example, lets say you went to see Louis CK [1], is anyone going to be outraged if he did a bit about either of these things, maybe, but that's what they signed up for, both were jokes right, what is the difference, people expect and want a PG-13/R rated show when they signed up to see Louis CK.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_CK
Fair enough. I've definitely run into many of those issues too. It sounds like the features you're missing are:

- an ability to switch some blocks of input text to an alternative parser for another language or more free-form mode

- a better model of CFGs that reduces or eliminates unnecessary errors from the tool not understanding your particular normalization of the grammar

- better tools for working with the resulting ASTs

It sounds to me like the real issue is with the tools we have, not necessarily with parser generators as a concept. Maybe a more accurate title would have been "why today's parser generators don't work for me", because at the end of the day, unless your really good at cranking out sensible parsing code on your own, going the ad-hoc route seems to have a huge drawback when it comes to reinventing the wheel and maintenance of the resulting parsing code. The other major advantage of using a parser generator in my mind is that the resulting language is likely to be way more consistent and portable than something that's parsed ad-hoc. But maybe for simple languages, this isn't a big deal.
At least Jizabel and Gawker now have something to write about for the next fortnight.
That's a rather cynical view. You don't think hospitals have any incentive to improve care, implement new products or cut costs?
Thus the evergreen adage, "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
It's happening to elderly / vulnerable because anyone else, faced with losing their house over a $50 tax bill, would pay the tax bill. This isn't something that happens in a single day, or in the middle of the night.

I'm only familiar with the tax sale rules in one Connecticut town, but the include a provision for the (delinquent) taxpayer to pay their bill in full within 30 days of the auction to cancel the sale / lien.
I have an extract from the 57 startup lessons blog post ( http://www.defmacro.org/2013/07/23/startup-lessons.html ) on my wall: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0wl0f67y8rsq3af/StartupLessons.pdf
It auctions the lien, not the house. The new lien holder then foreclosures on the house and takes all the remaining equity.
In the UK you don't have property tax, and this gives rise to the concept of leasehold land. Instead of paying rent to the government you end up with people paying rent to a private company. Instead of getting better local infrastructure as a result of your rent, you enrich the family that purchased your land over 200 years ago.
As a male, i love tits. As a European from a super-conservative catholic (still men-driven) country (Italy) i found the TitStare presentation a weird mix of funny and childish. Still could be enjoyable and with a bit of sense of humor i think that even a woman would have made a laugh.

The jerking-guy presentation on contrary was just stupid, sense-less, unnecessary and idiotic.
This is a terrific idea -- a math book that avoids the pitfalls of most math books aimed at nonmathematicians.

Such a book could cover many important mathematical ideas without necessarily lapsing into equations and overly technical explanations. For example, it should be possible to describe how compound interest works without falling into an obscure technical explanation, and understanding compound interest is very important in modern life.

Another example might explain why the stopping distance of s car is proportional to the square of the speed -- this is not well-known, and it's important for drivers to know, young ones especially.

Yet another example would explain why each member of the running sum of odd numbers is a perfect square. Expressed in words, it's not obvious that it's true or why it's true, but a picture conveys the reason immediately and intuitively: http://arachnoid.com/example/index.html#Math_Example

Just a few examples. I'm sure one could fill such a book with useful examples that would convey useful information, and make math sound like fun, or both, without being preachy or too technical.