skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem is not the controller itself but the expectation that people that use this will be able to compete at all with those using a keyboard & mouse. The only reason FPS games currently work on consoles is because everyone is essentially equally handicapped. Even a casual player using a mouse dominates versus game pads.
The problem will be in multiplayer. Going online and being repeatedly destroyed by mouse players won't be much fun.

Also I guess difficulty in singleplayer games would have to take the control scheme into account.
Footnote, Prof. Kerr literally wrote the book on Computer Crime Law:
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Crime-Law-American-Casebook/d...

Not that you should accept his argument without scrutiny, but he's read a few of the cases here.
"Support each other" is the defining characteristic of the Jewish community. I am part of a different highly-educated minority, but its people seem to always be envious/jealous of each other and highly competitive, and so usually refuse to work with one another.
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It is only proper that I refuse to read the article.
Er, maybe not in Devanagari, but you sure as hell do in Nastaliq.
Any others like this in Europe? It makes soooo much more sense that way
So does this mean we should be leary of doing a show HN. Offline asking can only get you so far.
Not exactly a screencaster, but definitely this is cool...
Why would "Philippine" be hard-coded in as a stop word?
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Furthermore, she states that she floated the idea of resigning months earlier, and then tendered her resignation because she decided on her own that this guy flaking in a very unprofessional manner somehow invalidated her leardership. It sounds like her co-founders were angry and upset at the candidate, not her.

I think there could be a lot of truth to what Sheryl Sandberg says about men's self-confidence and sense of entitlement (often to a fault) being a huge factor in the disparity in male/female leadership in tech.
If you think that is a low-value comment, you have obviously not read the other discussions about sexism in tech.
Thanks! I had your suggestion in mind for weekends, but I also wanted a routine for weekdays like attending classes for a few hours. I enjoy routines, and if given the complete freedom to be everyday on my own - I am little afraid on handling it well!
Full electron shells?
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I've read that because they often learn both Hebrew and English as young children, and therefore learn to read and write both left-to-right and right-to-left, this has an effect on the number of neural connections across both sides of the brain which results in an increase in creativity. Unfortunately, I can't find a link which even references this.

If this is the case, we may see a similar increase in Muslims in the coming generations as more of them are raised in English speaking cultures (assuming it will take a generation or two for us to have a large enough sample size).
Didn't manage to remove it.

I created a news reader for Philippine news (http://www.readborg.com/) using TextTeaser. The word Philippine appears most of the time and I decided to make it as a stop word. Forgot to remove it in the stop words.
In most news articles the first paragraph is already a summary.
Were his explanations bad? I don't remember anything wrong with them.
There is a new first paragraph on the article now:

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Update: This post is now 10 hours old and in that time I have been told by at least 20 different people on 5 different websites that I am wrong in how I interpreted this contract. I think they are probably correct. If you are finding this post for the first time then I suggest that you don’t read it.
there are oter communities supporting each other. Hungarians are well knwn in that regard too. But again I would be very careful not to attribute this to higher intelligence or something.
It is simply speculation and was stated as such. However, the IQ question has been studied and you can find discussion of it elsewhere in this thread.

The relatively hard data says that Jewish people are about 100 times more likely to win a Nobel prize than an average person. 100x is a big factor. Obviously, there must be some fairly powerful factor or factors involved, and it is interesting to speculate.
She could have reached out to this person and told them she was writing this and if they had anything they'd want her to include. Regardless of how they rationalized it, as sexism or not, in any case this would have provided an important epilogue to include in her story.

In other words, if this person had even the slightest possibility of seeing it her way and coming out and apologizing for their actions and learning of their mistake, they certainly won't now. If anything the reaction will be to try to save face by telling everyone that she overreacted and is seeing sexism where there was none, regardless of the truth.
Why didn't he hint that during negotiations then?

My guess is that he just didn't feel comfortable reporting to a younger woman. Maybe he couldn't really figure it out, but he wasn't put into his comfort zone and backed off.

Dealing with a male, even a younger one, was probably easier. A bump in the title probably helped, too.
Maybe for the same reason there are so many FOSS apologists.
I think you're confused about the function of the sleep button on the iPhone. When an iPhone is ringing, pressing the sleep button one time silences the ringing and vibration, but does not "hang up" the call. Pressing again, however, will "hang up" the call.
Yep, pretty well known!

Anyway, thanks for open sourcing - really cool.
The only take away from this is that Obama is secretly a jew.
It's not a vendetta but publishing a story about how a specific person is a sexist who can be easily identified isn't exactly a very fair thing to do to that person when there is clearly a non-trivial likelihood this was not actual sexism.
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I think you are missing the point. The analysis just says that you can't get an exception from the subpoena power by just claiming "but the whole point of my business is providing protection from it!".

A legal analysis like this is not too concerned with the specifics of a case because otherwise you couldn't have broad judicial principles at play.

That is to say, even if you think the government request was outrageous, Kerr's analysis simply says that yes, there's a long history of the right of the 'people' (here represented by the grand jury) to ask for information even if in the process the dignity or business of the person/institution the government is requesting the information from is damaged.

Lavabit needs to make a good case within those legal boundaries (which Kerr says is difficult) or try to change those boundaries.
The poor guy's just so insecure that he thinks every phone call is an attack that he's too weak to defend against.
Mouse over the text "Returned the wrong result" at the bottom to see the test results. Move mouse right to view other test results. The background colour of the text indicates fail/pass, murky brown/green vs solid green. (Perhaps red would be better a better indicator for fail.)

For yours, there are 5 tests, and your code passes one (test number 3).
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Maybe he didn't want to work for someone who would go cry under a bridge next to broken beer bottles every time she has a setback.
Iq relates very poorly to success in life. There are several publications on this subject so before saying /thats why/ you should look for other reasons that may explain their successes.
When you're leading, it doesn't necessarily matter who is at fault. Hiring someone who screws up reflects on the leader. Likewise, being unable to pull in the talent was a problem.
They can't just allow anything new because that would render the driver (the sportsman) obsolete.

The only way out is to make F-1 GPL'ed.

Any technical improvement has to be shared when deployed/announced.
I had the same thing happen! The expected action of a down arrow on a text-oriented site is scrolling, not "next." Betrayal of expectations is not a good UX.
A lesson of all of this is that encryption without control of the encryption key is, in this brave new world, useless.
I think I could come up with at least a dozen equally plausible reasons why he wouldn't 'hint it during the negotiations' that have nothing to do with sexism.
Anyway if you want to contact me my websites are:

http://www.blastar.org/

http://blastar.in/

I am working with others to do some projects, not sure how well it will go. Got a husband and wife in China helping me named Dell and Sye, very smart. Dell is from India and went to Canada and then went to China. I am trying to recruit more people.
Perhaps not intentional sexism, but I'd say this is very real. Though I think she might want a new coach who isn't going to jump to conclusions.
That explains the many tests I just did with random copy and pasted articles. I just typed gibberish into the title. I mean, not all texts need to have a title.
I interpreted it (aurora), as the next gen instarepl. A tool that helps you introspect running code and intermediate results, but more ambitious than just textual substitution of variable values. It would fit right in as a component of light table.

I really liked how some of the inspiration came from how non programmers code. Think excel macros (gasp).
1. It's not genetic.
2. "Why isn't it genetic? Spend a day with an Isralie who
just arrived in the U.S..
3. If I say anything else, I'll never hear the end of it.
The least they could do is bring in someone who speaks fluent German and try to figure out what's going on. Treat the man with respect and explain to him that he needed a visa to do what he's doing. This is no excuse for how terribly he was treated。
I'm just countering the claim that people won't sit on ass forever; not everyone is as motivated as angersock.
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I don't actually know what's worse, this story or the Javascript fanboys in the comments pulling ad hominem arguments out of nowhere about drugs and Belize.
I'm not sure where you're disagreeing with me here.
Why you used scala to build when python could have been an good alternative ?
There's sexist and there's sexist. Even the nicest person can be biased, and the bias can be basically invisible to everyone involved. Sexism isn't just about male chauvanists.
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It's often quite easy to attach beliefs to events in the past.
As another commenter noted, the smaller the group, the higher the variance. Extreme cases due to variance actually are quite meaningless.

I am not claiming that this particular statistic is meaningless. Just that it isn't necessarily meaningful, either.
Pretty sure the loopholes predate Google by a long time. All it is is transfer pricing, something that multinationals have been doing since there have been multinationals.
To be fair, I don't think any Internet detective would care enough.

What really rubs me the wrong way about this article is the way it comes off as her crying wolf. It's bad for the women that actually experience proper sexism that truly limits their potential. The way I read this article is that she had a bad read on how eager her candidate was to accept the position, low-balled him on the offer and he decided he would take a better offer somewhere else. Nothing about that is sexism and yet calling it sexism is hurting the cause.
Why, your friend John Doe searched for [jock itch] just last week! And he bought Gold Bond(tm)!

The TOS says "Actions you take on Google". Heh.
That was a million dollar laugh.

Yes, a million dollars.

We have testimony in this very thread from tedivm who had to rewrite JSMin because of this laugh. That has to have been a multi-thousand-dollar project right there.

Think about the time IBM alone spent on this issue. Developers, managers, lawyers. Five grand? Easily. Maybe more.

Play out this scenario a few hundred times across the globe, and there's your million dollars.

The problem is, when you have a laugh at somebody's expense, it isn't free. It comes at somebody's expense.

And ultimately the laugh wasn't worth a penny, because the license was finally changed to a true open source (public domain) license.
There is clearly insufficient evidence in this story to know either way. If you can "say this is very real" then I don't think you read the same article I did. There are plenty of other explanations for what happened to her, given what she told us, other than that the person did not want to work with her because she was a woman.
The Delta Wing is nothing special. Especially compared with contemporary prototypes at Le Mans and WEC. Sure it looks like a prototype but its a prototype that they were able to pick and choose which parts of the rule book they wanted to follow.
Why use Python instead of Scala?
I'm seeing good things about Python and NLTK. But back when I develop the core algo of TextTeaser (few months ago), I still don't know Python.

Right now, the TextTeaser website is coded using Python and Flask.
In all seriousness, it sounds a lot like he was just trying to get some leverage in negotiations. Claim you've got a better option and pretend to bail, then they come begging you (partially since you led them on so far that bailing so late would put them in a tough place) and you can get a higher salary and better position.
Because optimizing taxation isn't the only aspect to running Google efficiently? I thought that would be obvious.
No, he agrees with you. He thinks pretending like it rang and rang without you noticing it could be considered a considerate gesture under certain circumstances.
Cross platform?
It shouldn't matter what language the OP decided to use, as long as it allows him/her to do whatever he/she set out to do in the first place.
If you guys want to try out TextTeaser, you can check out the website (http://www.textteaser.com/). Or try the API via Mashape (https://www.mashape.com/mojojolo/textteaser).
I'd say the emphasis is more on professionalism. It's been a long time since Jews were primarily agricultural for many reasons (http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2003/0...). That combined with the fact that Christianity (for a long time) didn't allow loans with interest, so Jews filled in that role (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loans_and_interest_in_Judaism).

I don't know why this is on HN at all, however. When I was surprised at the supreme court ruling on gay marriage not well covered on HN (I thought the liberty angle made it appropriate), people seemed to think otherwise (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5949827).
Have there been any laws introduced or even rumored to be introduced to change transfer pricing of assets among international corporations? From my research, there hasn't been so what exactly would they be lobbying for?
You should probably cite some sources for your theory of how the legal system is supposed to work.
I think this is the first article I've read on sexism in tech where the "glass ceiling" has been explained in terms of how it would/does/might actually manifest itself in real life, instead of in generalities like "society is sexist." Whether or not this story actually reflects sexism, at least the author is giving us a real story with actual information that causes us to evaluate our experiences from a new perspective. It's much appreciated.
Progress in equality benefits everybody, no matter how much people try to claim otherwise. Diversity is an amazingly good thing.
Thanks. I had submitted that link to the "Black Nobel Laureates" earlier and let it sit for 30 minutes after no upvotes, then deleted it. Made it appear as if this thread was pride-based upvoting that de-evolved into "Jews have super human intelligence" with no discussion on socioeconomics.
on many android phones, you can also simply flip the phone over to face down and it will stop ringing.
Yes of course and the fuzzy nature of identifying where this kind of latent bias exists is why articles about it are best done in a manner that can not identify individuals specifically and potentially ruin their lives.
XML has its time and place. I'm currently doing medical data processing and I'm really glad it's XML instead of JSON.
The self-absorbed.

That was just a wordy introspection by someone marveling at her discovery of a new way to be inconsiderate to others.
Even more so...
Wow. Whoever put the list of Muslim Nobel Laureates in the article is a bit of a prick. Let's pit one group of people vs. the other.
Maybe in the future I can improve it without requiring the title. It may produce good results to other type of texts, but right now, TextTeaser is meant to be used for news articles.
No. "plain English summary for your convenience" does not mean "instead". Also, TFA is a blog post; the actual Terms are here: http://www.google.com/policies/terms/update/
Why use Python when Scala is a good alternative?
I was going to take issue with your unfair characterization of silicon valley and then I followed the link to that interview.
I actually spoke briefly with Stefan at the very beginning of LT about how Julia could fit really nicely. It's something I'd like to see myself when the plugin stuff is released :)
I'm saying that the fact that, from his perspective (and somewhat from hers, self-deprecation has awful effects), she had lower standing than he did, probably helped fuel this. Even if it wasn't her gender that caused it, but her youth.

It's hard to not be ageist, but in this case I think there was some of that "she's half my age so why is she higher ranking than me" involved.

But you're definitely right that there's not much evidence here. I can still make assumptions no matter how much of an ass they make me.
> am i reading this on hn? what are your sources?

This type of incredulous response is one of the most annoying thing about HN. It's pretty obvious that you've never put any serious thought into the issue; yet, instead of investigating for yourself, you make up some just-so story that puts you at ease.

A simple Google Scholar search would provide you will all types of answers, but since I doubt you'll be bothered to actually read an academic paper, just listen to Steven Pinker on the subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GexZF5VIMU
I really don't see why they would want to add motion input. In most situations I've seen it used, it has been little more than a gimmick.
Some people take the primitive view that anything that helps women must hurt men. It makes me sad.
Because it's true. Older men don't like to report to younger people in general, but are more okay with younger men than younger women.
Unless they can control for all other factors or at least most of them, any explanation is going to look pretty silly.
If you routinely sign contracts that you do not believe will stand up in court, you are asking for trouble. If you trust the other party in a contract to adjudicate on your behalf, you are asking for trouble. If you don't trust the other side to adjudicate, you will need an independent third party who can back up its rulings on your behalf. Conveniently, you've already paid for one with your taxes.

The courts are the arbiter of contracts, period.

Edit: your analogy struck me as off, but I couldn't put my finger on why. The parties to the contract don't directly consume the contract, they use the fact that the legal system can do so. So: you and I don't consume the bytecode of our respective Web browsers, but we do use the fact that the CPUs in your respective devices can, so that we can debate this online. The applications are written for the CPUs; the contracts are written for the courts.
It strikes me that the thing that doesn't get discussed in many of these discussions is that it isn't about creativity. He's attaching the view of 'creativity will disappear because the creatives can't get paid'. But creativity isn't a market. They are two distinct things, and the problem with trying to sell your creativity now is that it is easy for anybody to do it. The supply side has changed significantly while demand hasn't. A record store only had so much space to put so many artists, and therefore a label could pick-up an artist, promote that artist and that artist would get bought buy lots of people because that was the album that was available.

The new reality is that the scarcity of prime real estate on the shelf, where all the money was made, is now gone.

In fact, the internet isn't sucking the creativity out of the world, quite the opposite. It is allowing anybody to share their creativity, and as a result, those who used to make a very large income from the scarcity of distribution are no longer able to command the market as they did before.

I'm not going to argue if current music is better or worse than the music during the old ecosystem, that is all personal taste.

If we look back at the age of the big record labels making huge dollars, the artists complained then as well. They complained that the labels took all their money, that the labels weren't letting them express their creativity and forced them to make the same music again and again. It's why many top artists formed their own record labels as soon as they were big enough to get away from the big 4.

Now, maybe artists have been taken advantage of by Spotify, just like they had been by labels previously, but this is the business agreement they've entered. If David Byrne doesn't want to share his creative efforts in this manner, nobody is forcing him to, but I'm sure there are 100 lesser known artists who will take his place. It's simple supply and demand, he's on the wrong side of the equation these days.
That's correct! We're not just doing window.eval(yourCode)
Here is the new (November 11) TOS. Reads like plain English to me.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/update/
Can you provide a bit more details about your approach? Are you using machine learning or just simple scoring based on some heuristics? From the look of the source code it seems to be the latter to me.
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I would be very skeptical since the same would apply to Chinese Americans too among others.
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This technique provides an alternative to tools such as https://github.com/facebook/phpsh and https://github.com/d11wtq/boris. It is as close to "bare-metal" PHP as you can get.
There's still plenty of room for anger and protests. Maybe not in this particular situation, because it's basically an elite situation where you're trying to effect a cultural change, but in other situations rage is necessary.
Each achieves the goal of keeping their intended contraband out, why make a big deal out of it? The angry boneheads at the TSA are not responsible enough to teach behavior modification.
I'm not sure I agree, in the case of the latter story, that the other company was unethical. You contacted them, correct? In order to place them under an obligation of confidentiality, you needed to offer them some consideration in exchange for that obligation. It's not clear from what you relate here that you did that. I think you just flat screwed up, and your engineers' anger would have been more appropriately directed at you than at the other company.

Perhaps a fuller account would change the picture, but that's how it looks to me from what you've said here.
They differ in specificity.
I hope not as I still managed to escape all the pre-selected checkboxes to tie my account with g+
How does that square with the fact that some of the fastest growing years in the past 100 years were years when the top corporate tax rate was 50% and the personal tax rate exceeded 70%?
Yeah, Richard Dawkins got in trouble for tweeting something very similar a couple months ago:

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/365473573768400896