skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not we should worry about it hinges on a lot of uncertainties, including:

- Whether some women really do enjoy it. Granted, it's unlikely that most do. Given that some people really do enjoy extreme BDSM, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that some - even many - women enjoy deepthroating. People can consent to whatever sexual activity they want.

- Whether children do really form an image of what people 'should' do from porn. Staged sex acts are fantasy fulfilment. Most people are capable, even as young teenagers, of keeping fantasy and reality separate. Just as most teenagers don't act out fantasy situations they find in other media, they don't expect to act out porn fantasies. Everyone has intrusive thoughts, and the vast majority don't act on them. It's arguable that those who do would do so without the media stimulation.
> I don't think it's a valid argument at all.

Why not?
I don't know if I'd agree this is a freedom of speech issue compared to that article (which I've also read, it's great), there's very little the app is trying to say (other than "hey this is me staring at boobs") which is pushing the freedom of speech argument a little far.
You don't know too many gamers, do you?
There's not much new that can be said, and the threads are always full of people with weird, vile, opinions bickering about what is or isn't acceptable behaviour, coming up with bizarre scenarios for why it's actually fine to call a woman a stupid cunt in the workplace.
Exactly. They choose to increase prices rather than decrease profits even a fraction.
Even the stories on Disrupt were very quickly flagged off the front page. Then, when the BI story broke I saw multiple comments asking "What was the Disrupt story?"

The lesson is that flagging this stuff off the page works tremendously well.
The tech industry has a real problem. What happens in other industries doesn't change that.
So while the Business Insider story was just in tech circles I can image everyone's favourite brogrammer Pax Dickinson may have been able to casually sidestep into another sector.

With it hitting NPR, I suspect this has irreversibly damaged his professional reputation.
An old (2.x) version of WordPress I worked on included an eval() statement that amounted to basically just doing variable assignment. I am sure there was some reason for this (probably not a good one), but it turned me off to the WordPress core. The fact that every WP release is quickly followed up with a patch for some critical remote code execution vulnerability tells me that there is something systematically wrong with its handling of user input and security.

Because of that, I moved off WordPress for personal blogging and onto Pelican [1]. You can't compromise static content.

[1] http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.2/
Welcome to Bank of NoLife. As a new employee and co-owner, here is your complimentary 1 share of BoN. You now own 0.00000000000001% of the company.
From the FAQ:

"Can Social Fixer hide the Sponsored ads?

Yes, just click on the "X" in the upper right of the box, and all boxes with the same title will be hidden every time you load a page."

There is a lesson here somewhere...
Keep in mind that generally teenagers lack legal agency, and so consent is irrelevant because they cannot exercise consent. Their parents can exercise or choose not to exercise the consent for them and a lot of these cases are parents punishing their children's partner. It's not generally the state going off on some ridiculous spree of hunting down horny teenagers just for shits and giggles.
I nearly stopped reading after not meeting any of their stupid 'criteria' but glad I didn't. There does seem a general disenchantment with the future prospects of Gen Y (in the Western world) and this seems to have put into words the fuzzy ideas I was having myself.

It's essentially the Rags-to-Riches in 3 generations philosophy[0].

It's unfair to blame parents alone for raising this level of expectation however. Media has a very big part to play in this too. Zuckerberg, Rappers, Sports stars and Movie stars earn massively disproportionate amounts of money compared to their equivalent baby-boomer influences. This has been fuelled further by constant media exposure of these rich young people living the high life. You could argue these guys have talent and have worked hard to achieve there success.

But then we have TV Talent shows that promote the idea of average working-Joe/Jane making it big overnight just because people realise how amazing he/she is. This is completely different to the American Dream of old, whereby people achieve incredible wealth and success through hard-work. In this warped reality, other people recognise how 'special' people are and reward them with incredible life-styles, no hard work involved. The fact that this literally plays out on seemingly normal people on a daily basis further re-enforces the idea that everyone can make it big, they just need the right opportunity to come and find them.

[0] http://www.englishclub.com/ref/esl/Sayings/Quizzes/Mixed_2/R...
BeOS had is_computer_on() and is_computer_on_fire() APIs:

int32 is_computer_on(void)

Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned
by this function is undefined.

double is_computer_on_fire(void)

Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on
fire. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value.

http://www.tycomsystems.com/beos/bebook/the%20kernel%20kit/s...
In 1782, William Watts disrupted the shot ball industry by creating an unconvential simple solution that produced a cheaper, better output at a faster rate than the established method.

...How could any of you not understand how this applies to Hacker News? This is hacking at its finest!!!
I personally haven't wanted dir() to do this, however I guess I could see the case for an extension to dir such as:

dir(inst, traverseclass=True)

Maybe the author should write a PEP?
Regardless, I stand by my statement: dumb fucking idea. Even if it was supposed to be a joke. That's when you make the "Hillary Clinton Quote Generator", "Virtual High 5 App", "I'm Pissed Button" or whatever. If you're trying to get laughs by going with sexual jokes, you're not funny.
Compare Contrast
How is "staring at boobs" bad?
That sounds extremely iffy to me. The "disturbance" may be short lived, and the space they take up may be a small portion of the island, but I find it hard to believe that the degree of disturbance caused by a rocket launch can be canceled out by its brevity.
The Internet is not to blame.

"One of the motivators for me making the film was that a friend of my daughter came round to talk to me about a boy she had her eye on and he said she could be his girlfriend if she gave him a blowjob."

How can any rational person believe this is different from 40 years ago? You don't think teenage guys were asking for blowjobs in the 70s?!

The sexual pseudo-revolution changed our society's norms forever, well before the internet, and modern ADULT culture keeps them alive in ways that affect young people. Really, adults should be looking at themselves as the reason for why kids act the way they do.

But what adult would possibly blame themselves for what they can blame on the internet?

"Most of the responsibility has to lie, however, she thinks, with the corporations."

And telephone companies should be held accountable if someone calls you bad words on the phone. Look, there is a certain amount of personal responsibility that parents and our society as a whole have to take on, because no amount of litigiousness will stop people from behaving badly. Social change requires social change.
(edit: this thread has, indeed, been voted off the front page once again.)

I expect this will be voted off too, it already seems to be lower-placed than it ought to be given the number of upvotes. I posted (what I though to be) a very interesting article on Popehat about free speech and the costs contained within a few days ago:

http://www.popehat.com/2013/09/10/speech-and-consequences/

Unfortunately it talked about the Business Insider issue, so was immediately flagged off the front page.
Why we're all unhappy.
"for what?" I don't think you are a measure of what is meaningful for other person and what's not. If I choose to work 12 hours it's my free choice, not affecting you, and I may have my own reasons.
If I don't want to do so I will find another job. If there are more capable people like me employers will have to change conditions to attract talent. But I won't modify my reasons to other peoples ideas about what is meaningful and what is not.
HN has a very thin veneer of professionalism and intelligence only kept in place by the severely limited range of topics we can comment on.

If you read any political, social, gender or non-STEM science based comments (prior to the story being killed) you get the same disgusting mix of sexism, racism, and general ignorance you'd find on reddit. Luckily for HN's image the flag feature quickly hides such ugliness.
http://paulgraham.com/gap.html
Absolutely and I am thankful for the chance my parents give me. However I wouldn't think of returning until I have truly exhausted every single opportunity in getting together cash to stay afloat.

>Don't go around saying you're motivated because you don't have one.

Not a chance, I recognize my gifts and it motivates me even more.
Exactly. See "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" for many examples of the early days of computing.
This used to be the case, but no longer is; Apple stopped using the TPM in Intel macs shortly after they launched[1] and have not brought it back since.

DSMOS.kext has another function, however; it is involved in Apple's binary protection scheme[2] for certain OSX binaries. Essentially, OSX ships with certain important binaries (such as loginwindow, SystemUIServer, Finder, and Dock) that have certain vm pages encrypted. Decrypting these pages for use requires DSMOS.kext.

[1]: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/tpm/
[2]: http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter7/binaryprotection/
Would it still be sexist if the event was branded as R rated or adults only ?
This sort of debate over word meanings is rarely enlightening. We both agree it's sexist and wrong.
This is like a Harvard student who drove down into the ghetto one time to buy pot. And now he won't shut up about what it was like comin' up in the 'hood.
It immediately reminded me of this http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/03/03/stop-press-pixie-dus...

It's cool on paper, as long as you don't think about the technical implications. I guess it's a good project marketing-wise.

EDIT: this page is more comprehensive: http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/break-the-laws-o-phy...
> How "open" is Wit?

Openness is one of our core values.
We're inspired by companies like GitHub.

- Regarding data, we encourage users to share their data, making “public” Wit instances free of charge (à la GitHub). We’re also working on standard formats for NLP/ML data (models, sets, etc).

- Regarding open-source, we plan to release our algorithms and infrastructure piecemeal (à la Prismatic). We’ll announce our open source plans in the near future.
A Far-Flung Possibility for the Origin of Life
Syria is currently allied with Iran and Russia. The USA would prefer if Syria was not allied with these countries. That is my take.
For the balls to form - the Earth isn't a perfect sphere and gravity in alaska is ever-so-slightly greater than further south. (Which means the tower needs to be taller, so the ball is in the air longer)
Is terminal velocity a factor in achieving a spherical shape? Is that part of the reason for the height of the tower, or is it just cooling time?
My question is, what kind of jerk would brand a whole field as sexist because of the sensationally bad behavior of two people?
If breasts and masturbation are icky speech, there is a bigger problem. Juvenile, silly, and unprofessional seem to be better adjectives than sexist or "icky."

We had a word for this in the 90s, and it was called political correctness. These are things, if you discuss or participate in, ruin your ability to hold elected office.

Social media rewards controversy. If you want to make a name for yourself, get new twitter followers, or more links to your blog, there is no other way that is easier and delivers more volume. Techcrunch has benefited from creating their own controversies for years.

I'm disturbed that kids are growing up believing jokes about boobs or masturbation are wrong. That is not a future society that will think the First Amendment is one worth keeping.
> Have you ever met a teenager? They're fucking idiotic.

I've met plenty of idiotic adults, and I've met plenty of non-idiotic teenagers.

If "idiocy" is the appropriate criterion for determining how people should be disparately treated by the law, then let's develop a precise definition of "idiotic", so we can directly determine whether someone is an idiot or not, and stop using other, inconsistently correlated variables a proxy.
Wow, $8.41/year including tax for a SSL cert? No excuses, if you can afford a domain name and hosting you can also afford this! :-)
Freedom of speech isn't relevant in this situation. The government isn't saying that you can't make a "stare at boobs" apps. The issue is about what behaviors we want to encourage and endorse in a private (EDIT: private as in not part of the government) and professional environment.
The pricing model doesn't scale realistically and would require a subscription service for users. An app with 1M+ installs could do 1M+ calls per day making this service $24k / month.
i think flexibility is one of the most important things to look for in a leader or when deciding to team up with someone.
My wife is a bourbon/whiskey snob. She mocks me when I make a jack and coke.
It is also against Facebook TOS to create or use browser extensions to alter the Facebook experience. This has been the rule for many years. The fact that this page and extension did not get banned sooner is the real story.
C'mon... Not every single teenager is idiotic.

Most are clueless, and lacks experience to deal with basic stuff as adults, for sure. But no way all teenagers are idiotic.

Also, everyone makes mistakes. The problem is that one idiotic action can be now recorded and distributed FOREVER.
> The truth is, Vim gives you lovely model editing and full use of the mouse, it isn't either or, you get both! ":set mouse=a" and you can use it like you probably expect, select stuff, move around the file, use your scroll-wheel, etc.

Thereby allowing vim to become almost as efficient as a modern editor, specifically by disabling those traits that make vim vim.

> Once you get used to modes based editing, it is an amazing addition to any editor or GUI ...

That would be why why modern editor designers make sure to include a modes mode, to appeal to time travelers visiting from earlier times. Yes, I'm kidding -- no one wants an interface that requires any more than the absolute minimum of either keystrokes or arcana unique to one editor.

> ... the reason emacs and vim live on is because of fitness for the task at hand, editing text.

As to the thread's topic, this is false. Vi and vim aren't as efficient as a modern editor, which is why most current computer programming activity uses tools designed with a modern computer -- and a modern computer user -- in mind.

I could easily write an editor much more efficient than vi/vim -- I know this because I did, and it became very popular -- and its advantages would become obvious to all but True Believers.

As soon as someone invented the control key and its purpose, and well before Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse, the retirement clock started ticking for vi and vim. It's still ticking, but it seems not everyone can hear it.
I'm in year 14 of my corporate job after three startups in the 90s (yes, we had them back then.) I can't believe how great my current job is but I'm still thinking about going back to startups once the job security is less important (e.g. once my kids are rich enough to support me!)
The article described a life where interns basically stayed up for no reason.

And if an entrepreneur is regularly pulling all-nighters for no good reason, he is probably doing it wrong. Sleep is worth its weight in gold, and you don't give it up for anything less.
My biggest problem with reeder is that in order to navigate articles you need to swipe down or up. This is ok if you have short articles but if they are long you have to scroll all the way through the article to get onto the next one.

I know there are up and down buttons but these are hard to hit and break the fluidity of scrolling through feeds.

Byline navigates through feeds left to right, which if find a lot easier, the only problem with byline is it's got a bit buggy and is very pre ios7 themed.
I had a gig once where the manager pulled us into a meeting and with a straight face told that in order to finish this project on time (really a week early) we were expected to work 12 hour days and be on call. If we got a call and had to respond we were still expected to come in and work the 12 hour shift. I politely raised my hand and with a straight face asked if the company health benefits would include meth-amphetamines.
Funny you mention GPS, because lots of parents do exactly that. https://wbillpay.verizonwireless.com/vzw/nos/safeguards/Safe...

As far as the phone, I guess houses with one central telephone aren't really what I'm talking about, so much as Bye Bye Birdie "The Telephone Hour"-type situations. Teenage girls in the 50s and 60s were able to talk about boys, criticize authority figures, and generally be themselves and develop as their own people using technology without supervision or censorship. You probably didn't have that experience, but my parents did, and it would have been creepy and invasive then for their parents to demand to be part of those conversations, just like it's creepy and invasive now.

The NSA is (ostensibly) only looking for terrorist plots. Your parents are looking for criticism, attitude, impure thoughts, differing political beliefs, ingratitude, and a whole bunch of other things that are part of being a young human being. There is no question in my mind that given the choice, I'd take the NSA.

You know what else is a dangerous place filled with strangers? School. Sidewalks. Libraries. Not just strangers, but dangerous ideas. College. Especially college. At some point kids have to learn to navigate those things independently, lest they self-destruct the moment the leash is removed. Not as 5-year-olds, sure, but definitely by 16/17 (depending on maturity, of course).
Yeah, we somehow had a ton of it at Hive76 in Philadelphia. It might still be there, if someone needs some. Nobody drinks it.
It wasn't "up to". It was those amounts stated in the docs, using only the number of founders (from one to three) as the proxy.
Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers
It appears there's a bartending robot in the works:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/partyrobotics/bartendro-...

Now you just need an R2 to deliver them. ;)
The TPM was used briefly at the beginning of the Intel mac days, but hasn't been used since. The decryption is now done through dsmos.kext in software.

http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/tpm/
All the snobbish reasons I won't go Android
I think a falling ball of lead would have a very high terminal velocity, as it is quite dense and in a rounded shape. I doubt it has much of an effect at the height needed to make these shots.
It's not a freedom of speech issue - it's just about avoiding doing things that detract from other people's experience of the event/the industry/etc.

If someone had come to the conference and broadcast music that was far, far too loud and which obviously impeded people's experience of the conference, nobody would be defending them. What these guys are doing isn't a lot different.

The kids angle is fairly important - I got a lot of value from hanging out at os2 and linux user groups when I was young. Professional orgs and conferences can be an escape from the heavily stratified world kids are stuck in for most of their lives, and help people develop interests early.
You misunderstand what freedom of speech means.

http://www.popehat.com/2013/09/10/speech-and-consequences/
The only solution is complete and utter transparency.
They make Sprite Zero now, I'd do that instead.
Sure, but they wouldn't have to sell it as an operating system just to remove the artificial restrictions. They could still support only their machines, and just not encrypt the binaries and all that nonsense.

But I'm not saying they should, as I said, I don't really care. I'm just saying that just because they don't want to support other machines, that doesn't mean they have to purposely block them.

I mean, Asus doesn't support Linux on their motherboards either, but they don't have BIOS checks verifying that the OS is supported and refusing to boot if it isn't; they just tell you "you're on your own".
I think part of the complaint is not that people have different goals and motivations for doing things; it's that they often engage in behaviour that is actively counter-productive to achieving their stated aims.
It sounds like cooling time, from the article: "Shot towers were replaced by the "wind tower" method by the end of the 19th century, which used a blast of cold air to dramatically shorten the drop necessary."

Neat!
I think perhaps the problem here is a poorly defined concept of "confront the problem".

What exactly does it mean to confront the problem? I am not planning on giving a sexist presentation so... problem confronted? Am I suppose to do something to prevent others from giving sexist presentations too? I am not in a position to do that, and very few people are (how many people on HN actually run conferences?).

I don't see any actionable call to arms.
It sounded like a bad description of drag soldering which involves dragging a ball of solder over the pins with the iron and relying on the solder mask and surface tension to make a good connection on each pin.
The religious right encourages abstinence-only education, discourages contraception, and absolutely does not want teenagers in dating relationships or having sex for pleasure. They want them to move from supervised, limited, nonsexual courtships to child-producing marriages as quickly as possible.

Also the less extreme religious right that I see recognizes the need not to be pregnant in college, and wants the whole process moved into early 20s rather than teens.
>Since Chromium doesn't support flash (that is one of the closed source bits added to Chrome)

The Chrome PPAPI Flash Player works perfectly on Chromium and the binary can be shipped separately.
Its because they don't think women in general have the fortitude nor the willingness to not shower for days and be content with not going outside while living off cold pizza. [...] instead of women decrying these prevailing attitudes in tech they should embrace these traits.

You really don't see the inherent contradiction there? The first half says the problem is assumptions by men about what women will or will not do. The 'solution' buys into this assumption without examining whether it is in any way true.

Who says women do not have the fortitude to not shower for days and live off cold pizza?
I think its sad when anyone is treated like this, and pretending that some people are different with "best and brightest" bullshit just makes things all the worse.
And the second guy still presented after the first got that reaction? Wow.
Show HN: Multiple-Item Search for Amazon
A little bit off topic, but I'm glad Qt didn't end up at Microsoft.
Fucking sue me :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6366912
Scraping the listing pages seems allowed though.
One must read for project managers is the Mythical Man month [1]. Great read.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Would have loved this in high school!