skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for anybody else but for me, it's a conscious choice.

I don't see it as a big deal. Words like "over-the-top" and "epidemic" seem a bit hyperbolic, don't they? For whatever it's worth, I certainly don't think we're going to solve gender disparity merely by flipping a few pronouns. But what's the harm?

I also added it for comic reasons. Imagine incorrectly assuming that the female programmer doesn't have chops or isn't "serious" about programming - and then you see her writing code like she's flying a fighter jet. At least to me, that was a funny case of confounded expectations.
THey're already debt-free, I'm not sure that bankruptcy can help?
Maybe more of a case could be made for the 5C. But we already know it doesn't have the best hardware, because the 5S beats it. :)
Problems involving projectile motion involve quadratics,
s = vt + 0.5g*t^2

The average person may not be called on to solve it analytically, but should have a general understanding of function, solution, and so on. Having worked through some example polynomials may make retaining the general concepts easier.
So I just saw this video (earlier today, on slashdot?) -- this title is kind of a misnomer... the video is about Louis C.K. and why he doesn't let his kids have cell phones.

He talks about more than that, and it's a pretty interesting video... but I guess as a Louis C.K. fan, I don't like seeing something he's in misnamed (he's not just a guy that hates everything or is depressed all the time)
Why Are There So Many Pythons?
I've watched and engaged here where I live. Reaction depends on whom you are engaging with. Crazy guy hopped up on something and not sure how he is going to react is a lot different then the guy trying to get by/improve himself and not wanting to be a burden on society.

For the most part, the able bodied young "travelers" that seem to infest this town from time to time are generally met with scorn. The mother with two kids living out of an RV and wanting to avoid the crazy / disturbed street people - met with compassion and care.
I don't think that really describes this situation (competitors in one product market are often supply chain partners in another). However, I can really relate to your comment. As someone who considers myself to be more on the producer side of the consumer electronics equation, I'm often perplexed at how many consumers make these brands part of their identity, the way people were really passionate about what kind of shoes to wear back in the 80's! This sort of consumer excitement probably does benefit the producers.
What to Anticipate When Signing an Office Lease
Leassons Learned as a CCIM
A visual explanation of Simpson’s Paradox
I always did this, it's just how I code. Trick is to keep them short and fixed duration under a day, preferably under half. a) that's where all the value is (longer and you're just going down the rabbit hole), and b) gives you time to quickly write production code based on the spike/prototype.
A long time ago i said RIM is the new Nortel. I think I can continue to stand by that statement.
USA is absolutely insane on war on drugs. Same person can openly admit in his youth he was using marijuana and cocaine and advocate decades-long mandatory sentences on people who are found in possession of the same now. I tried to understand what's going on in the heads of those people but I've given up. It looks like when it comes to certain subjects, people are just switching off their brains and think with some other organs, I dare not guess which ones.
While I can't blame them at all, it is too bad Mr. House settled. I wonder what would have been the outcome.
Fun idea!

A: altdevblogaday.com

B: bbs.archlinux.org

C: clarin.com // Argentinian news

D: distrowatch.com

E: edx.org

F: forums.gentoo.org

G: github.com // was expecting grooveshark

H: humblebundle.com // This is weird, I don't go there much

I: imgur.com

J: jblive.tv // Great shows, LAS, TechSNAP, etc.

K: khanacademy.org

L: lkml.org

M: mercadolibre.com.ar // Argentinian eBay

N: news.ycombinator.com

O: opengl-tutorial.org // Weird too

P: pcgamingwiki.com

Q: nothing

R: reddit.com // Totally unexpected!

S: store.steampowered.com

T: translate.google.com // My English is a bit rusty

U: usesthis.com // Also weird, not visited much.

V: vimeo.com // Really? I don't recall going here too much.

W: wolframalpha.com // Life saver

X: xkcd.com

Y: youtube.com

Z: zonaforo.meristation.com // Forum I used/use to visit
Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.”
Myths debunked: Sadly, Theodore Roosevelt never rode a moose
Each function has its own this binding - the conceptual model for this is that its an implicit argument to every function call. There is no scope chain lookup for "this". Although, there is no way to observe any difference between your understanding of the semantics or the bind semantics (which is a valid desugarding AFAIK) so the distinction is mostly moot...
Samsung has fanboys ?
There is useful coloring - "Beginners, start by clicking the html box and the next lessons you should learn will get highlighted."
That's not the point of the comics, IMNSHO. The point is "the attacker will go for the weakest link in a system; secure enough crypto is no longer the weakest link, people using it become one."

So...while using direct force against a prominent politician is unlikely, there are other tried-and-true methods for compromising a human element, methods which have already been perfected a long time before modern cryptography was even born: bribery, blackmail, etc.
Klout Quietly Launches Cinch, a Companion Q&A App
But it's a fundamentally uneven relationship.

If Apple starts getting marketshare, Apple wins and Samsung wins.

If Android starts getting marketshare. Samsung wins and Apple loses.

I bet each production cycle Apple starts threatening it will manufacture its own chips and it starts to feed the rumor mill. Samsung gets nervous and gives them a very good deal.

Even if Samsung's profit margin drops significantly, it's still going to look much much better to the markets than if they lose their Apple contract.
The suggestion was that the relationship is mutually beneficial, not that it was bi-directional in terms of components traded.

Apple is like the USA to Samsung's China in this specific relationship in that the product (components in this case) pretty much goes one way, but both still rely on the relationship.

Samsung makes some of the components Apple needs, Apple buys those components. Apple needs Samsung for inexpensive chip fab, Samsung needs Apple for the revenue provided in return.
Hasn't tptacek posted "nothing to see here" regarding this issue on HN a half dozen times because "nobody uses it"? :)
How the LA Dodgers turned a parking lot into Boston’s hottest tech center
You can find reasons to not live anywhere. But you can also find reasons to live everywhere.

I'm generally a pessimistic person but I dislike these overly negative generalizations at states and/or groups of people. I personally have lived in four different states and liked them all. I think I could enjoy living in any state.

Well, except for California, forget that noise.
Or "Civilization IV", which had this narrated by Leonard Nimoy :)
Really, really good idea. Now browser makers (looking @ you Google and Mozilla) need make self-signed certs feasible by removing the scary warnings.
Title's a bit deceptive: he signed up as a user.
I like the "What's changed" bit too.

The other good thing is the James Bond analogy. My eyes glaze over on any presentation that doesn't tell me the punchline in 5 minutes, and VCs see a lot more of them than me.
wrong.

not racist.

it only affects people in government, and doesn't affect your household. If you work for the government, and don't like it move out.

it's a simple social contract. If you don't like what the government is doing, or what the citizens and government value more than your religious convictions, move somewhere else.

yes, i'm canadian
Good grief, that's awful. I am so sorry.
There are indeed plans to post-process the output of
rdrand.
Here's my take: this is very valuable on sites that dynamically load new pages without an actual browser navigation (read: pjax).

It is not useful (and indeed it is an anti-pattern) for static sites in which case you'd want to just use the browser loading mechanism, that the user (hopefully) understands and is used to.
I do as well, which is why that one bothers me. If it was some random slimeball spammer, I don't think I'd care.
First of all, you give no reason why "it just has to be this way"

dragonwriter said it better than me. I know just enough about law to know that it's a carefully studied problem and there are several established doctrines used in tort law. A lot of people seem to think law is made by idiots.
In Chrome, "chrome://predictors/" gives you some interesting related information.
I was about to make a snarky comment about how the site should include a box on browser compatibility but I refreshed the page and it was fixed!

It's a fun site, worth checking out :)
Poltergeist and Bootstrap Modals
Personally, I think that the fact that software patents started being granted so late in the history of programming (which was in full swing 30 years earlier in the 1950's) will cause all sorts of problems for the software industry.

He was very prescient with this concluding comment!
"best business-centric OS" and there it is.

same idiocy as MS.

it's either user-centric or it isn't. BB catered to "business", but that meant IT. the users, managers, switched privately to iPhones. then demanded them from IT. boom, headshot.

BYOD is what kills "business-centric".

BB realized that, tried to position BBM as a user centric thing. too late. and schizo, as the playbook slogan "amateur hour is over" showed.
...or you could just use Pixtulate (http://www.pixtulate.com)
City Kids Born on September 20th Have The Most Popular Birthday
I wonder how many people are foolish enough to download and run unverified code like this.
Meet the guy who bought the first iPhone 5 and his thoughts
Second take: whhhhhaaaaaaaat native color pickers!!? That is really neat, must have missed that addition.
So if this 60% majority decides to kill the 40% minority, would you still think it's okay to do so? If not, then how about 70%/30%? Or 90%/10%? Where are the lines for which actions and who decides on them?
> Perhaps because tort cases can wind up looking remarkably similar a lynch mob?

There's occasional highly-publicized cases (usually, one every few years or so, across all of tort law not just medical malpractice) where what superficially appears to the general public to be disproportionate awards are involved, that usually meet one or both of the following descriptions:

1) The actual facts on which the award is based are substantially different than the popular story that is circulated to use it to point to the disproportionality of the system, and/or

2) The award never has to be paid because it is suspended pending appeal and revised or reversed on appeal.

That's about as close as it gets.
The "this" value in functions is not lexically scoped. It is determined during function invocation, not during function declaration.
I don't really think this is what is at play here. There is no doubt that delivering a complete web page (when possible) is often preferable. The question here is, if your page is going to take x milliseconds to load, will it seem faster with a progress bar? The research says it does.
I'd put it under both "lack of technology innovation" and "lost touch with the consumer".

Around 2007 with the release of the iPhone, the smartphone market shifted massively. Within a relatively short time, people wanted phones with (relatively speaking, for the time) gigantic screens, no hardware keyboards, fluid touch-based UIs, and abundant third-party apps. Apple delivered on this, and Google followed fairly closely behind.

BB was caught flat-footed and took years to catch up on the UI and form factor, by which time they were too late to catch up on the apps, which is probably what ultimately killed them. BB's success was in a time where the phone maker and the carrier were expected to provide nearly all of the useful functionality on a phone, whereas with iPhone and Android, while they're still expected to be useful out of the box, it's also expected that the user will heavily customize them with third-party apps.
As noted, compound interest is exponential, not polynomial. Which brings me to one of my favorite pet peeves - I don't think schools still have any basics of financial literacy - like understanding how compound interests work, what present value and net present value is, how to estimate value a cash flow, etc. And those are things which you can encounter every day - taking a loan, negotiating a raise, figuring out if you can afford a new car, etc. Much more useful than knowing how exactly crystals which 99.999% would never see in their life are built.
If you read the essay, it's clear he's not anti-startup, much less specifically anti-Y Combinator. He is pro- other things instead, and saying the "traditional" (lol) startup culture is overshadowing all other choices.

That's very different than "anti-YC."
If you can keep something secret, why would you bother patenting it?

I think that the most important secondary effect is that it puts all inventions on a more of less level playing field.

Inventions that can't be kept secret due to practical limitations(like the cotton gin, or the steam engine) are just as valuable as inventions that can be hidden (computer programs, chemical processes, etc.)
Sent you an email. Thanks. I actually kind of like using the native Go libraries, because they're so simple I feel like I can actually trust them. But, you're right, they're really slow and strict in what they parse. I'll probably need to do something different in the future, so your code would certainly be interesting to check out.
You're also looking at a bunch of them all on one page along with other animations. We haven't had any issue with real-world usages.
Re: Computationally enormity:

Well, I agree the computational enormity is a big problem, but certainly some biochemical pathways will be more amenable to this type of approach than others, and so it should be possible to make incremental progress by solving one puzzle at a time.

Re: Using on any disease

I agree having this sort of technology is not an immediate solution to each arbitrary disease. However, being able to accurately predict how different cells in a specific person's body behave to different drug cocktails would give doctors "super powers" that are almost unimaginable today. A doctor with a patient that has cholesterol plaques might say "If we give him these ten drugs in this dosage his T lymphocytes will aggressively attack the plaques in the LAD artery only, and the LAD arterial cells will increase division to reduce risk of subsequent aneurysm from autoimmune side-effects".

If the accuracy of the computational model is good enough, it might be just as effective as the old "nanobots in the bloodstream" concept, but much easier to implement. In effect, the patient's own cells could function as the "nanobots" by reprogramming them
I work with a fair number of (awesome!) Korean engineers, and I can say that yes, Samsung has a lot of fanboys. It's sort of like the Apple of Korea. It's also been gaining a lot of admiration from A/V enthusiasts in the States, having easily supplanted Sony as the high-end consumer electronics maker of choice for TVs and such.

Samsung is a very impressive company. It doesn't use the Nike-esque marketing playbook Apple does, and as such, it doesn't inspire the hero worship or the fanaticism in the States. But it's been quietly building up a massive empire.

[Full disclosure: I say this as an Apple fanboy, and as the resident iOS 7 apologist at my office (everyone here's firmly on Team Android). I own plenty of Apple and Samsung devices, and I don't feel the need to declare absolute brand loyalty to any one provider.]
Yeah, Conduit is very nasty. I had it remaining on a laptop for years because of the firefox infection method.
Yup. This is more or less exactly how the company I work for does it.
50 Insane Facts About Ireland (Infographic)
Ireland sometimes gets an image of being all shamrocks. Leprechauns and guiness.

But the emerald isle is much more than that and it boats a rich heritage, culture and cuisine.

To see that point of view, read the 50 facts about Ireland
That's fair. If language developers were willing to deprecate more aggressively, it wouldn't be such a problem...but every hacked-up, shoehorned feature represents a major investment that must be tended to for years.
It looks good, HTML source is pretty clean as well.
Point to any recent cases where that's been used to actually prevent an election. Every state has stupid laws on the books, seldom enforced.

And yet Texas is one of a dozen states out of 50 that still have a law banning atheists from office; sure it's not enforced, but it sends a message: atheists aren't welcome here.

As for the school and medical boards, while there are some mistakes that get made, coverage like this makes it more likely, not less, that things will get fixed.

"cultural problem in the whole state" is painting in really, really broad strokes, and inaccurate ones at that.

So you get some school boards that mess up every once in a while in every state; medical boards too. You don't see it happening, though, again and again, as in Texas. Oh, and I completely forgot about things like the death penalty and shutting down of Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics. Need I go on?

I'm sure there are plenty of nice people who live in Texas; I'm just not too keen on joining them until they sort some things out.
Your causation is completely backwards. By your logic, since sports = great academics, University of Alabama is a vastly superior school to Harvard.

You act as if the root of these schools success is sports, as if the sports did ANYTHING to make these schools more successful.

They didn't.
As someone that knows next to nothing about internet security, this article was definitely eye-opening. Can anyone suggest further reading on the topic?
> Under a true free market doctors as a group wouldn't be able to use political connections to cover themselves.

That is not the question I asked.

GP asserted:

> if it was easier to people fire him when he was still a student for example, without fear of being sued

I do not see how a free-er market would preclude lawsuits.
I've been thinking about RIM lately and I think they basically had chances to turn themselves around, but took neither.

The first was in '08/'09 - shortly after the iPhone. Some companies (Google, Samsung) saw where the industry was going, made the appropriate decisions and are now profiting handsomely. In hindsight, that was the right time for RIM to acquire QNX and start on BB10, which might have done very well had it come out in 2011. With decent hardware, a solid OS, their own style and riding on BBM (big at that time), they might have staked a sustainable 10-15% chunk of the market.

The second chance was '10/'11, around the time of Nokia's Burning Platform Memo. This is when RIM started on BB10, but as we see now, it was already too late. Had they bet heavily on Android and on their strengths (security, gov & enterprise sales), they might be doing pretty-well today.

I hope the Waterloo area survives this well.
Hi, I have gone trough this process last week. I'm new to freeBSD and wanted to install it in my notebook. For me it was painful. I couldn't tweak it to work as I wanted.

- Wifi worked out of the box.

- The people from #freebsd chan on irc were very helpful

- The handbook is very useful

The problems that I couldn't fix:

- Somehow I can't go back to terminal if I start x environment, afaik this is a problem of Intel HD Graphic cards (onboard on my notebook).

- No acpi support to adjust the brightness level, I have to rely on an app but it isn't the same.

- Touchpad support.. In ubuntu it works out of the box, two-finger scrolling and all, in freebsd I have to struggle a little with xorg and the end result is a little worse than ubuntu.

- I can't suspend my computer. It never wakes up :(

I still have to configure a lot of things (keyboard shortcuts, install better fonts, network manager).

It's not that I jumped from ubuntu to freeBSD, I've used archlinux for a few years before I got tired of it breaking my apps with the updates :P

I regret installing it on my notebook before trying it on my desktop or on a virtual machine.
Strawberries are not berries, yet avocados and watermelon are
Aw c'mon, it's the internet! You don't need to "earn the right to be a community site". You just swagger on in, set up comments, filter the spam, and see if enough others show up to make a flamewar. :) Sink or swim, just like a startup!

(That said, I totally understand getting content rolling before adding comments)
You're assuming the head of the chips department gives a fuck about what is happening to the mobile department. If the CEO where to step in and try to force the chips the people to screw with one of their best customer out of spite I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go down to well.
Wow, he already got over 50k followers and is getting like 40 per second.
Companies as big as Apple and Samsung have gotten over their egos in favor of profits. Just because one company is suing the other, in no way prevents them from entering other mutually beneficial agreements.
Exactly. Innovation in the field of spreadsheet programs would have completely stagnated by keeping it limited to a company that was clearly done innovating. Their lack of further innovation would only have been greater with a monopoly.
Scala no doubt for its expressiveness power. Extractor, case class/object, pattern matching, first class function, curry function, partially applied functions, implicit, trait and more are so powerful. Use them with caution or you will hate Scala. Rofl!
Explore the Unknowables
His answers are post-hoc justifications. The real reason they picked it was because they wanted to make money on sweet, sweet government contracts, and the easiest way to do that is to just do everything NIST says to the letter.
The point is not about wether it is better or worse than iOS from 6 years ago, that parent probably believes it is better than that, but the problem is that the choice today is about BB10 or iOS 7. It's competing against todays phones, so how much better or worse it is than the iPhone was at launch is mostly irrelevant to the current market of smartphone buyers.
Researchers make flexible, transparent e-paper from silicon
I don't understand your logic.

Can you edit/modify/respond to my post in a way that shows that choosing to limit what certain people who work in the government wear is not racist?

I don't want to start a flame war, but want to understand your opinion, which I honestly don't understand. The only way to have meaningful political dialogue is to understand each other.