skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government is not going to shut down all of Yahoo just because they publish the value of a 16 bit integer.
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This was not part of the AP curriculum, but it was billed (by the school) as a pre-req for AP Computer Science.

It also wasn't really a CS class. It was more like a clumsy introduction to computer programming. The class never intended to cover data structures or algorithms.
Oh.

Just curious, where's the line on this? Like, what things is she allowed to attempt to draw public attention to, and what things should she just counsel her daughter to learn to live with, and accept as a part of life?

How should a person know what sorts of circumstances belong on which side of that line? Are these written in a book somewhere that I missed?
I'm liking OCRA lately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A_font

apt-get install fonts-ocr-a
No I am saying that trivia is trivia. What happened is at worst micro-bullying.

Actually I suspect the daughter did not want to do the course, was pressured into it by her mother and pickup on on this minor incident as an excuse to stop the course.
Try mother/daughter.
Just like government setup Standard Oil?

Government is involved in regulating Comcast, for sure. But as far as I can tell the issues that make telecommunications hard for new entrants has more to do with the sheer cost of building-out a suitable network than any amount of government regulation.
I think you're missing the point of the parent comment. All teachers have to go through a degree/certificate program that would train them on how to deal with high school kids and what to do about harassment, etc. The guy teaching this class is probably just an IT guy at the school whom they recruited into 'teaching' this class.

That's how it was at my high school. It was the network/IT guy that taught the class. He was really cool and a pretty damn good teacher, but I don't know if he'd be able to spot harassment like this or do anything about it. We didn't have any girls in our class anyway, so I guess my anecdote can't add anything to that.

Edit: Actually reading the other comments by the parent shows me that you interpreted it correctly. Still I think what I said has some merit to it.
I think this is a case where not listening to your customers would be the smarter choice, especially if you're as big as Microsoft.
Poe's law in action. I have legitimately no idea whether this is mean-spirited satire or earnest bullshit.

If you are NOT being sarcastic: there are productive ways to talk about these (important) issues, be it gender, race, whatever--but this sort of "privilege" circlejerk is a huge waste of time as well as hugely condescending.

If you have a point to make then make it. Sitting around in a Privilege Circle saying "oh, no, I'm worse, you're white but I'm straight" is slacktivist bullshit at its worst.
> Average 18 Diapers a day

Wait, what?

Our twins, at their peak, never exceeded 26 diapers a day combined.
Not only is it easier to get neat results in JS but it has a very low barrier to entry. Everyone uses the internet and is just a shortcut away from executing javascript code in console of their favorite browser on a live page. That and the language itself is very "loose" when it comes to rules and strictness. It just gets the work done. Nothing like cpp for example. Now it can be both good thing because the results are easy and instantaneous and a bad thing because this gives a false notion to newcomers of how programing is done (but then again js is pretty ubiquitous on any modern computer, so it is as "real world" as it gets.)
> Not to be a dick

Not to be a dick, but doesn't saying Not to be a dick mean you're being a dick but saying it's okay?
>It was just scared boys searching for some semblance of masculinity they may never find.

Is this kind of shit any better?
What a nauseating comment. How hypocritical of Rogaway to take a moral stand on any issue, it implies, living as he does on land stolen from Aboriginal Americans.
OpenGL ES 2: How does it draw?
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Personally I think the developer site needs to be somewhat professional for me to even consider it. I'm by no means a great programmer but if I were to stumble upon the Haskell website, I would immediately shy away for the the extremely low-res background image
Thank you. It is beautiful, and part of the reason I'm out here! I do love the vibe a good city can give off, though - getting lost in the mix and such. It's nice to be able to do that on occasion.
You say backers would be opted-out "ads or sponsored posts if we ever have to resort to that". How would you implement ads in a decentralised, open standard?
Seriously? You should be thanking the large, smart man for teaching you the correctness of a wise set of rules designed to maximize the number of people who can use the limited number of seats in a popular fast food joint. Unless you called ahead and made a booking, you had no right to reserve those seats and inconvenience all the other people (including said gentleman and his family) looking for a seat.
sure, i assumed wrong..stand corrected, but benign sexism...i'm just going to respectfully disagree.
Apple could have made a huge impact in the games market. Their knack for polishing their products to the finest detail is exactly what games need these days.
I guess that means watching a lot of ALF reruns.
My high school programming course, in 1977---IBM 1130 FORTRAN 'IV'---was taught by a coach. Who, without referring to notes, nor was it in the book, one day taught us 2s compliment representation on the blackboard (and boy was it useful to get a peek under the hood!).

I suspect, like in the real world, programming ability still sometimes counts more than credentials. Pity that unlike my teacher he wasn't so good at the teaching part of it.
>Which real world are you advocating this high school programming class introduce to a 16-year-old girl?

The real world where HR thought police aren't sitting in every room of every company. The real world where even HR people try to "make jokes" and be funny. The real world where HR people generally judge the severity of a harassment complaint by favoritism, which reality a blunt HR person (not employed at my current employer) just relayed to me recently. The real world where real humans, not perfectly politically correct robo-trons, must work, play, and engage.

I don't endorse teasing that harms a person's feelings. But I also think we shouldn't be so thin-skinned that we shrivel up and quit the first time a trite, cliched joke is thrown our way, because that happens all the time to everybody (your peers _will_ find a difference to comment upon no matter how mainstream you think you are), and if you can't handle it, you'll have a lot of difficulty handling more serious emotional situations, like getting passed up for a promotion.

It'd be great if the programming teacher first, was made aware of this problem, and the article never claims he was, and second, was able to stop the problem, but there's no guarantee he could've effectively done so even if he tried (and he may have), just as corporate HR departments can't stop all incidents of "harassment" even though they "try".

I believe the author probably wrote the piece primarily as a hypothetical, but I also believe it was bad taste to do so since this supposedly is traceable back to a real person who may not deserve that type of criticism, and I don't believe her fundamental complaint ("someone said something that made my daughter sad, so you all should feel bad :( ") is very worthy of the community's attention.
https fail http://i.imgur.com/dqvfdOH.png
He was directly exposing some powerful people. Much like Michael Hastings.
Although I am from NYC I have very little idea on how their certification works. What I do know is all my CS teachers back in HS are "qualified" (however you want to put it). They either have a degree in CS (one of them does), or have taken classes and passed some exams to demonstrate their ability prior to taking the job. I was really surprised to see our math teacher did a CS undergraduate.
Sadly for me, I struggle with sexual objectification of women. If there was one aspect of my life I wish I cold change instantly, that would be it. I work on it daily.

However, when I deal with a garbageman, I treat him with respect because I know he's a human being doing his work. I don't see him as just a garbageman, though I interact with him with that primary purpose. But I can honestly never say I've ever considered my garbageman as only "someone who makes my garbage go away". This would allow me to be an arsehole to him while he is doing his job.

Lets say you see the garbageman fall over and break his leg. I'll bet you'd call an ambulance. Congratulations if this is the case, he is no longer just someone who takes away your garbage - you have not objectified him.

I never interact with clothes models, but then I don't look at the clothes model when I look at a catalog (not consciously anyway), mostly at the clothes. If I was to interact with them, then I would hope not to treat them as just an object.

When I watch a good movie, I interact with the character the actor plays - I don't objectify the actor in this case. I knowmthenactor is acting, and appreciate them for their personality and performance.

As for strippers and porn: I've never been to a stripshow in my life, and will never do so. I've had plenty of opportunities, but have always declined. Why? I don't want to objectify the strippers. And I don't want them objectifying me as the punter.

For porn: that's something I try to avoid at all costs. Not easy.
I don't think the provision of public goods are a moral choice, if anything it is an economic choice, where its subsidy is justified by two things: the benefit of the public good outweigh its costs, the general public will not sufficiently fund public goods out of their free will. The degree of benefit for the future is sometimes not measurable, however if the past is any indication than it has definitely provided major contributions to innovation.
Relevant:

Crime: Whale Sushi. Sentence: ELEVENTY MILLION YEARS.
http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence...
Was there ever any doubt that the problem lies with men? Not for the last 80 years.
This seems to be a vast overreaction. The only actual "harassment" is about making a sandwich, which is pretty low on the scale of insults.

In fact, the teacher was probably right to not intervene. For two reasons:
1) Regardless of your gender, being the person who caused adult intervention isn't likely to win you respect in high school. If he had intervened, she would likely have been further ostracized.
2) Growing up is about learning to interact with people. A big part of this is categorizing what matters and what does. If I made a fuss every time someone made a slightly off-color joke about my religion (I'm Jewish) I'd have both no friends and no job.
I had a similar high school teacher, minus the brother-in-law, teaching a high school
Pascal class 1-2 years out of college, being barely a chapter ahead. She would often state things like "you should always/never xxx". I happened to have been very comfortable with pascal at the time, and raised points with exceptions to the rule, and was told its "always/never". This lasted till next week when she would read the next chapter.

She also demanded that every line be commented, however would only take a small percentage away (I think 5 or so), if one or all comments were missing. As I couldn't bring myself to comment everything, I would just use inline asm, which pascal supported at the time, with absolutely no comments. Since the rest of the grade relied on the program functioning, I did well. I thought it was cool at the time. Now I realize I didn't make her life easy, and probably should have.
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When I took my first programming class in Junior High they chose the teacher because she was the typing instructor, and you know, how different can a computer be from a typewriter? After all, they both have keyboards.

Thankfully I had already taught myself one programming language so I was able to pick up another without much difficulty.
Just remember there's sometimes a high cost of switching.

At some point the costs become so high that it's possible the costs become comparable to the costs to switch to an entirely different government, too.
The is no definition of "match" beyond just what the compiler produces. No spec dictates what the output of a compiler should be.
>Moreover, people track how well past research does (based on citations as well as impact more generally) to evaluate any individual researcher.

Do you not see how this could be bad? You're implicitly subsidizing a select few - then who gets to be the gatekeeper that decides what is or isn't bad? Surely not, people who are selected because of their high training, where "high training" winds up also being indirectly judged as "people who were trained by the closed society of individuals who just happen to be the selectees"?

I mean, really, that's what we're doing. As the system becomes more closed and self-interested, and dependent on extracting funds from the government, the more the danger of becoming detached from reasonableness - and then you DO have to worry about people tickling their intellectual jollies.

Now, if we had the very same system, except it were funded as, say a private non-profit entity, it will for sure have the same problems. But - it's less morally suspect, because, at least the people donating their money into it should have known that risk beforehand - and can choose to directly defund their part in the rotten enterprise when they figure out what's going on.

> Punishing risk-taking just because you're worried about somebody tickling their "intellectual jollies" is rather short-sighted.

You're absolutely right. But that choice is not one that government should be making, because of its conflict of interest (accountability). Incidentally, there are problems with transparency in government funding reviews (NSF and NIH panels are conducted in secret with 'anonymous reviewers'), too, but those are implementation details, not fundamental problems.

I'm not suggesting that the risk-taking involved in judging basic science should not be done. I am suggesting that it should not be done by government.
Was first introduced to this article in CS 458/658 at Waterloo.

My favourite part was "This is a deep concept. It is as close to a 'learning' program as I have seen" since getting a compiler to recognize when, where, and how to inject (self-propagating) backdoor code seemed practically impossible.

It also expressed the idea of "self-referencing" more succinctly than the backdoor trick.
Very true: "Be skeptical."
Also very true: "Another issue is dealing with drift over time, as errors in estimation build up and if you're scanning the same area your model will start to drift."

Apple Developer Videos on Sensor Fusion specifically mention NOT to do this even though their tech uses the Gyroscope which is orders of magnitude more precise than the accelerometer.

I believe it's "Understanding Core Motion." (Developer account required)

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/
The guy is going out of his way in his free time to lend you an ear. I think it's unfair to continue to air your grievances.
Nvm, just saw it on the course leaderboard
I think this has bugger all to do with women in IT and everything to do with abhorrent high schoolers and a lack of discipline. This kind of harassment should be strictly punished and for some reason the article only discusses the culture and not why it wasn't dealt with.

At university my computer science classes are about 1/4 females and I've never seen anything close to disrespect over gender. This is just a bunch of high school guys picking on the only girl.
You're absolutely right about the water rights; I don't _think_ I'll end up getting animals, but purchasing another 30 acres would be a good investment if I did want to homestead in that fashion and use water for other reasons.

The weather extremes are actually a good thing! Plenty of sunshine for solar-powered anything. That, combined with the 30 degree temperature difference in day and night helps ease the load on fridges running off solar; during the winter you just pull in cold air :)
Maybe she wants to run linux on it? They have nice hardware...
I was thinking if the WoT every becomes as easy/popular as social networks, it will be inherently untrustworthy. Has the author forgotten about how common impersonation is on Facebook? And how many people access social networks from public machines or rootkitted/trojaned devices?
I wouldn't really want to get into speculating the teacher. But we do have to be conservative on this topic. There are two cases:

1. the daughter had hidden her saddness really really well when she was in her classroom (she still get A, ask why? she probably did all her homework and got 100s on her tests)
2. the daughter did show her sad face but the teacher did not catch it.

OP doesn't even address all these problems. She didn't talk to the teacher. So maybe we should just say both have problem. If #1 was true, then the mother is the real blame here. She takes the full blame.
Exactly. Plus you can change the ground rules. In this case it can apparently even be done without changing the law :

Student loans are not excluded from discharge if excluding the debt would "impose an undue hardship on the debtor and the debtor's dependents".

So it only requires a small attitude change of judges for the bank's assumption that non-repayment is impossible to blow up. Given the attitude changes towards student debt that are occurring in the papers, can this really be that far behind ?
You should upsell customers on things like cards, clothing, etc.
Cool, glad my perspective was helpful. Sometimes stepping away from an argument, while it gets you away from being locked into either attachment to the argument or aversion to the argument, can turn into the third poison of disinterest in the argument. Detached engagement is the antidote here. If it's somebody I care about that I'm close to, or if it's myself, often I will ask about and validate associated feelings with the hope but not the expectation that it loosens whatever strongly held stance a little bit. People are a lot less rigid in their thinking when they know that they've been heard both intellectually and emotionally. Most of the time this approach won't actually change anything, but once in a while you'll get to witness a miracle.
Indeed, this fits my use case to an absolute tee right now. I'm trying to pick up Rails, and doing anything related under a Windows environment is downright painful, and I'd rather not dualboot just to get into "work mode".

A free VM I can access with any browser? Awesome.
PhpMyAdmin has been great. It's really one of the only reasons I was able to learn PHP + MySQL in high school. It's quick, simple, and convenient on Windows.
If you're in a community where driving is common/necessary, and most family incomes are high enough for teen drivers to have a car – that is to say, lots of US middle-class suburbia – then yes, it's common.

There are some indications that denser-development, economics, safety-concerns, and the rise of alternative attention-demanding status-objects like mobile phones are now shifting the norms. See for example:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/08/young-pe...
1) Wrong. They do know the numbers for other companies, as ranges, which are plenty sufficient for comparison: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US...

2) Wrong again. We know ranges (see link above) and we don't need to know the exact numbers. All we need to know is that the house is on fire, and we already know that.

> they know nothing about Google

Sigh. See above.

The exact number issue is a red herring. Again, this is simply a PR ploy.
...and I was all like, http://i.imgur.com/fPcPbev.png
Nothing new to see here, we've seen those experiments countless times before.

If one of them falls sick, they'll be glad for 2013 medical practices and technology.
As the father of daughters, one of which has an engineer's mind like her Daddy, this kills me inside. I really want my daughter to be able to express her meticulous deconstructing brilliant mind through software. I pray that her first experience with computer programming outside the home isn't like this.
Yes. Those classmates didn't invent that sandwich stereotypes on their own, they got it from the environment.

I think the problem is not with men or women in particular, but society in general, as it has a concept that genders are socially different while they're [mostly] not. I strongly suspect, neither men, nor women are prerogative carriers of such stereotypes - although, naturally, as those stereotypes are discriminating to women, they're primarily opposed by them, not men.
Yes, and they can even distinguish between the years 1886 and 1986.
Worried about cost lock in. Can you comment please?
Haha I had the hardest time guessing what 外来語 「アレー」 came from. I thought it was the French "allez" at first, but it turns out it's "alley"? That's usually written 「アレイ」.

And speaking of outdated technology in Japan: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/world/asia/in-japan-the-fa...
I highly doubt it's a new thing, unless it has evolved simultaneously in young and old people. Look at the constant debate on these forums on whether or not it's productive to treat coworkers like shit. I think the root cause is the same: people projecting their anger from their own mistreatment onto others and people looking to establish someone else as the runt of the pack in order to prevent themselves from being the weakest link.
I've always wondered this. I understand the theory of evolution, but I also believe that there's much we don't understand. Sometimes things almost seem too perfect at times and too balanced.
MPU papers are useful for training purposes. They let students and junior researchers participate on the scientific conversation. It is important to have minor roles to be played in the larger scientific community.
Real SSH, all symlink.
> the takeaway is that high schoolers are dicks.

High schoolers grow up. When they grow up, do they remain dicks, or do they change? I finally watched 42 the other day. There's this scene where a white dad is screaming at Robinson to get off the field, that they don't want him there, calling him all sorts of names. His son is hesitant at first, but starts following suit. The implication was clear. What you see as acceptable when young can stick with you for a long time until you have a shocking wake-up call. And seriously, who in society has really seen these wake-up calls happen more often than not? Especially given the amount of evidence we see of it not happening.
>the general public will not sufficiently fund public goods out of their free will.

May I remind you:

>I'm going to anticipate your answer: because they're too selfish. But is there any reason to believe that our elected officials are any less selfish? Look at the narcissistic idiots we elect - and ask, are these the people whom you really want holding the purse strings?

>The degree of benefit for the future is sometimes not measurable, however if the past is any indication than it has definitely provided major contributions to innovation.

It's not like privately funded applied and basic science is chopped liver here. Applied: Salk and Sabin developed the polio vaccines without a public dime (pun intended) and didn't patent it either. Basic: Peter Mitchell proposed and validated the chemiosmotic effect (1970s) and even won a nobel prize on the discovery, without public help. Obviously, if you go far back enough to where the state was essentially uninvolved in science, most of the discoveries were made with private funding. Yes, of course, publically funded science has made discoveries, but what you are arguing is the broken window fallacy.