skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow... if you actually click the link to Meng To's "From Design To iOS7 Prototype" design post, you'll see that at least 1/2 the images are of men. You perniciously decided to cherry pick one example that happens to have a woman, and assert that he's sexualizing women.

Also, it's clear that you are projecting your own homophobic prejudices onto women when you write: "I can’t stand this video. Watching toned men parade around with their junk sticking out makes me feel very uncomfortable."

You assume that, because you feel uncomfortable looking at the skin of same sex individuals, all women must therefore share your prejudice. I think this article reflects more about your own assumptions and prejudices than it does about the difficulties women really face. You are contributing to the problem, good job.
> People have been attempting to create WORA technologies since the beginning of time and they have all failed.

Nice straw-man. Unity 3D does WORA very, very well. It's been used successfully for cross-platform development by many shipped products. To my initial astonishment, all built on Mono/C#.

This doesn't absolve the developer from QA for the targeted platforms, and this is where fragmentation is the killer IMO. That said, Unity provides a huge amount of leverage and tooling in support of seamless cross-platform deployment.
I wouldn't say he is wrong, it's just that the analyses is not based on good data.
I doubt it's much, since from what I've read, virtually nobody is paying the ransoms in bitcoins. Makes sense - if you have some already, you aren't likely to be the type of person who gets infected by that. If you don't, well, the deadline for payment is like 3 days. I've bought bitcoins already multiple times, and I don't think I could buy some in 3 days reliably. Somebody who doesn't know much about bitcoin already doesn't have much chance of making a purchase before the deadline.
There are plenty of worthwhile subjects in Math which have no concrete application to the real world. One needs to be able to understand these abstract ideas for what they are, not merely formality surrounding a simple real life phenomenon.
Objectively, it avoids jargon and florid prose (apart from some rather repetitive language). It means a child could read it, and perhaps that makes it boring to read.

Perhaps you found the actual experiments he did boring, or tedious. I think they're pretty cool, and I've now done my fair share of them, and taught other people how to do them. The axiom systems, graph automata, constraint satisfaction, causal graph stuff, and entropy stuff is all cool. And the notes are a goldmine reference.

Also, this is probably the least important of the 8 specific claims of Shalizi's that I rebut. But hey.

edit: because we seem to be using edits to converse. For 25 years, Wolfram has been the company brand, and people roughly know what it is -- how can we NOT prefix our products with the word Wolfram? Also, did you just call a marketing-type pre-announcement hyperbolic? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BETSuT2RNLs
Looks like this struck a chord with you.

I definitely do agree with you on many points. It is largely very much location dependent as you've pointed out.

For example, a $90/hr rate in Canada (where I am) is a decent rate, and goes far, considering the low overhead.
> In most languages there’s a sharp distinction between programs, and data, and the output of programs. Not so in the Wolfram Language. It’s all completely fluid. Data becomes algorithmic. Algorithms become data. There’s no distinction needed between code and data. And everything becomes both intrinsically scriptable, and intrinsically interactive. And there’s both a new level of interoperability, and a new level of modularity.

Sounds like Lisp :p
Dude,

I've never used BART/Caltrain so I can't say if it's that horrible, but most of the stuff you talk about sounds like totally normal train riding issues you'll find everywhere.

How to get there, what's their take on fares, how are the lines organized, how bad will the ticket machine suck, how to not miss my destination, how does entry/exit/transfer work, that's it. Nothing special or challenging for anyone who uses public transit on a semi regular basis.

I usually research the workings of the local public transport before i go somewhere. That's 20 minutes (on the plane/train) well spent, because all cities have a slightly different approach to the same problem. Someone should really make a website for this that boils all the facts of the world's transit systems down to a cheat sheet.
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Also the greatest trove of child porn.
I suppose I fall into the 'young, eager, and has free time' category, but I _hate_ this kind of mentality/requirements. I love to code, but I love to do a lot of other things too (big surprise!). Is it wrong for me to program professionally but use my free time for other pursuits? After working at the computer for 8+ hours straight going home and coding for the rest of the night is downright unappealing.
Default cases are your friend.

Personally, my most wanted feature for enums in general is a way to distinguish between "final" enums - that are intended for enums that cannot change, and a modifiable enums, where they can change and a lack of default case throws a syntax error.

Unfortunately, there is no way to enforce someone not changing a "final" enum.
Snaphax, simple PHP class that connects and uses the Snapchat API - https://github.com/tlack/snaphax

Would assume snpcht.com uses it.
I thought the same, piling up on the removal of typestate which was the weirdest/most interesting thing in rust.
This is an interesting counter to ChromeOS/Chromebooks. Basically Amazon has a 'what your are familiar with, except in the cloud' as opposed to 'this new thing but it's cloud based.' The demerits for both are that you lose the cloud and you're down, someone gains access and you are compromised. So many baked in assumptions in IT about how the local workstation is local.

I wonder what it does to business internet prices too.
Rose colored glasses? Yeah, it's not hyper-realistic, but saying the graphics are bad is harsh.

http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/shadowrun%20return...

http://rpgsquare.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/final-fantasy-i...

That is the best I could come up with without taking 10 years of searching.
I'm a fan of PHP, it was the first scripting language I've learned and I still feel pretty comfortable using it.

When developing web applications I still stick to a LAMP stack:

Language: PHP on server-side, JS on client-side

Server: Apache

Database: MySQL

Frameworks: Basically any MVC framework

Hosting: Completely up to you

If you want to built a good web application you have to deal with:

Object-orientation, Dependency Injection, MVC, Design patterns, etc.

If you follow the most common coding principles, DRY, Separation of concerns, etc. you'll produce clean, maintainable code.
If only the delineation was so clear, yet often I've be asked to implement a technical solution to a political or social problem, where a technical solution was not even needed.
Older siblings and parents are right out, huh?
"I sent out a few celebratory tweets but mainly kept the news to myself."

How does that work? Are there private tweets? Like the ones that Anthony Weiner sent out?
ha, so true. much like "judgement" is the best technical skill you can hire for - far too many tech wizards spend 6 wks for +5% perf gain :(
Well, so much for "how did this went undetected" and "where is the storage". Everyone just has looked on the motherboard components IIRC, but there's a lot more of equipment in a computer than just a mobo and a CPU.

Caused quite a stir (460-something points) three months ago, but now with the badBIOS stuff popping up everywhere, I've seen no one who mentions this here...
You're missing a third category here. "Cold contact" implies that the startup contacts them. I imagine the really-smart VCs are going out, doing research/watching the market, and cold-contacting the startups, with nobody having reached out to them first.
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There is no way Snapchat is worth $3 billion. I don't think the idea is even worth $100 million. The funding round alone was insane. I don't know what is going on in the valley and San Francisco these days, but I guess these startups have to be funded somehow and these VCs want their return so everyone will be rooting for transactions like these to happen.

If I had stumbled onto Snapchat and Facebook offered me $3 billion, I would've grabbed the money before I could blink. I'd probably even throw them a party to thank them for being so nice.

There will be too many imitators, and this privacy problem will be solved in other ways. It will all cause Snapchat to die off. It will never realize these lofty valuations.
The curriculum for Math 101 looks like something that would be taught in the ninth grade in a reasonable school district.
http://bulletin.unl.edu/undergraduate/courses/MATH/101

It is alarming (for our country) that this needs to be offered at the university level, and even more alarming that most students are (according to the OP) failing it.
If only they had followed Amazon's business model (screw the margins, and scale up as fast as possible) it might actually have taken off...
Is this the continuation of the beginning of the end of low-latency client computing? It's bad enough already that my company is on Google Apps and I'm forced to use Gmail and Docs instead of Outlook/Exchange and Word/Excel.
Ah, so it actually is Lisp. I immediately though Wolfram had a Lisp epiphany when he said "the idea of symbolic programming, and the idea of representing everything as a symbolic expression". This is basically the idea McCarthy had 50 years ago. However, I always had in mind that Mathematica features a more Python like language and did not know that there is a Lisp inside.
I am from Australia and where I'm from everybody leaves their mail in an unlocked box outside.
This is cool. I'm going to tune in.
Winter is coming.

(... at least in the Northern Hemisphere)
no, it's a ponzi scheme that feeds on general ignorance.
This is one of the worst articles I've read on the subject, and that's a pretty strong statement.

> “Let’s say you’re searching for Renaissance Painters”…. Really? Who searches for that?"

It's an example that happens to be easy to demonstrate. It's pretty easy to think of other cross-dataset queries that you might be more interested in.
> Chinese workers, denial of concrete evidence is a good way to show you lost the argument. Also, that you are desperately short of common humanity.

No, it's a good way to throw out irrelevant red herrings from someone who doesn't know how to even make an argument. Let it sink in to that tiny little brain of yours, how Chinese workers are treated by others has no bearing at all on whether Bill did something wrong in his past. Lacking any real argument, you're just flailing around foolishly looking for something to grab onto.
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So is Wolfram Language: http://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-language/
> In effect, this gives Google remote code execution rights from their domains on anybody running Chromium.

If you're running Chrome, you've already given them code execution rights – the only thing this does is make it slightly harder to detect.
"no", what?
Author here. Added a clarification that services can go down for reasons other than data center issues. Who knew?
It's actually bits and atoms, but spot on.
How abstractions encourage good thinking
Interesting. I already use an EC2 instance for exactly this (running Debian) and it has been a great way to work. My laptop only needs to be powerful enough to run an ssh client and X server and then the instance does all the heavy lifting of running applications (in this case, mostly compiling code). It is beyond cool being able to scale the hardware up/down depending on how nasty my current project's build is. Even better is that I can ssh in and do basic work from any computer than has an ssh client. Emergency one-line patch from my smartphone? Fuck yeah! Pricing of the new desktop instances looks a little high compared to reserved instances of similar power, but I imagine that is the MSFT tax at work.
Yeah, I agree, I wince when someone uses that phrase. The truth is that most technology choices, whether languages or databases, are designed to be general purpose. They are designed to fill as many needs as they can. Because no one wants their product to be a niche.
Thank you.

I've had very similar experience with Russian culture. It seems to have split into two really - 1) people obsessed with wealth and acquiring it, 2) people that are very suspicious of wealth and blame societal/economic problems on the first group.
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I may loose some karma here, but I could not decide if the post is pure genius or something written during the maniac phase of a bipolar disorder.
As with most things in life, the problem is one of lazy thinking. It goes something like this:

"We want to hire good coders. How do we do that?"

"Well, we can ask them to write code during the interview."

"Yes, but can't we filter people before they get to the in-person or over-the-phone interview stage?"

"Well, we could ask people to submit code portfolios."

"Yes, but that means that someone on the team will have to review the code. Isn't there some way we can evaluate their coding ability without spending any time or effort?"

"Well, some people have open source contributions that are shared with and evaluated by the community..."

"That's it! We'll only interview people with pre-existing open source contributions. Genius!"

"...that's not what I...oh, you're not listening anymore..."
Sounds like the announcement of wolfram|alpha and even if I enjoy using it, it wasn't that big of a revolution ...
Is $10 million, before taxes and expenses, really fuck-you money these days? Having maybe $ $6 or $7 million in the bank certainly wouldn't inspire me to turn down $3 billion for a flash-in-the-pan type of business.
There aren't a lot of good reasons to use `eval` and `with` in production JavaScript. Two wrongs don't make a right, even when you use them on the same line of code.
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And licenses?
I remember wolfram alpha being marketed pre-release as something that would make Google obsolete. The only reason I ever use this is for math when I do not have access to a native alternative such as matlab. Considering that I use less math than I used to, I wonder why it is still relevant.
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"we're not interested in anyone who wants to spend evenings and weekends with friends and family"?
--
I once interviewed as a 30-something with a company that generally only hired kids right out of college with no lives. The only reason I got the job was because the guy asked a C question and told me I had the wrong answer but I told him to look in K&R and it proved I was right.
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Congress now != congress in 2 years, remember.
Deflation. The volume of transactions has droppped and the price per unit has increased.
Yes, corporations are effectively "secret societies", so they need to evaluate you during the time you have a bit of freedom. They're causing their own problems, and expect it to be resolved by you giving up your free (as in freedom) time.
What groundbreaking things did they do? This post spoke about cut and dry success. I would've liked to hear more about the struggles they went through and how they got through them to reach where they're at. I think most people know that communication with the end user is key to winning them over long term. It seems to only reiterate what most other blogs say about "How we did x in y."
If anyone else is wondering why formula evaluation is not working in Chrome, it is because jsfiddle is violating Chrome's security policy by serving up the javascript from fiddle.jshell.net (not jsfiddle.net).

When this javascript code attempts to access the LocalStorage API, Chrome (rightfully) steps in and says: nope. This may be a new security feature, but is present in Chrome 30.0.1599.114 on Fedora.
sort of a tragedy of commons. The expenses to be born individually while rewards to be ripped by the society/community. Only incarnation of semantic web profitable individually that has been discovered so far is blossoming SEO.
You're wrong. The "cool in-crowd" of Nigeria can totally afford this phone(minus shipping costs that I don't know about). "Only" the poorest of the poor are left out. Like, people who can barely feed their families, which I guess is a lot in some areas of the world. But for anyone who has enough money in a 3rd world country to think about buying jeans, going to the movies, hanging out in an internet-cafe. A good amount of those folks can get a $200 phone. Might take a few months of saving up, but they can do it.
the human body can adapt to bad nutrition for a long time. Everything will be fine until its not.

What if Soylent increases the risk of some form of cancer or some long term damage to the liver of other organs ? You wont know until its too late.

You want people to prove that Soylent is bad, but instead the Soylent team needs to proof that Soylent is good! And a couple of dozen reviews from people using it for a month does not prove anything.
That's interesting, for my nexus 5 (granted it's only a few days old so perhaps there is some break-in) seems to go down to 80-85% in 10-15 minutes of morning web surfing/reading.

Perhaps I have a bad device or something?
>There are plenty of existing general-purpose computer languages. But their vision is very different—and in a sense much more modest—than the Wolfram Language.

Indeed.
LivingSocial has been down for 22 hours, and counting
You're right, but I didn't notice that as I was on my crappy browser (long story - don't ask). Sorry.
Amazed at what I learned from a 45 min video.
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The article says there are 5 things and then lists 4 things.
So....I wonder...what's your idea of what should be a proper language to have in the browser?

Note: This isn't criticism of your view nor am I taking sides. I am wondering --since you have a strong opinion on this front-- what you think the solution might look like.

I mean, are you looking at the idea of having something like python natively available at the browser?
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If only he had followed it up with the recipe..
> What is it now that is the equivalent of writing our own screen handling routines?

Centering something using CSS. :(
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"Woohoo, great news, been accepted into an awesome incubator". Or perhaps something more vague.
What are you even arguing about?
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> If you still can't, get rid of them and hire smart people you can trust.

It's hard to believe, but IT is typically not in charge of hiring and firing the rest of the company.
This is where you say "my total compensation is around $x". To me, "total compensation" includes pay, benefits, bonuses, the dollar value I put on how short my commute is, rough cost of free food in the office, how nice my chair is, etc. etc.

I also don't think they'll be able to do an equifax/transunion lookup without your permission. And it's perfectly reasonable to say no to that, as credit checks are bad for your credit.
It's a little beyond that, in some ways. In the LISPs, you can view programs as data, but macros are different from, say, 'if'. The Read and Evaluate parts of the REPL are distinct phases.

Whereas in Wolfram Language, If is just an ordinary symbol that has attribute HoldRest to ensure that it can prevent evaluation of its two clauses until it knows which one to evaluate.

In other words, code is just data (expression) that happens to have specific rules that will cause it to evaluate in some way, yielding a new expression (which could be more code, or partially evaluated code, or data, or whatever).

But you can also have rules attached to several symbols together. So for example, when you see a Foo containing a Bar, replace it with a Baz:

Foo[___, Bar, ___] := Baz;

It's a little like multiple dispatch, but it is slightly more general than even that. And totally pattern based (the pattern language is ridiculously rich).

There's one more twist, which is that everything is not just serializable, but in some sense it is its serialization (called FullForm). It's hard to explain what this means without playing around with stuff.

Also, the language has actual m-expressions, thank god, unlike most LISPs.
I have no inside information on whether this is real or not, but I always take these type of stories with a massive grain of salt. These posts play well to the interests of the startup and lots of false rumors get circulated. There's little accountability as both companies will say "no comment".
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I have to generally agree here, although my experience has mostly been with Wolfram Alpha. I'm continually amazed at how easily it lets me grapple with optimization problems or solving for different variables (when I barely remember how to do them myself).

However, Mathematica has always felt a bit niche to me. I wish it was more of an open source project like Octave, because I think the approach is awesome but too often I feel constrained by Wolfram's way of looking at things. If I could combine Matlab, Go, Python, Mathematica, Excel and (yikes) php for it's hands-on-get-@#!$-done-facility, that would be my ideal language.
it was, essentially. look at the author's "credentials" at the bottom of the article.
I've always wondered this: What is availability like for this stuff in foreign countries? I can go to the store now (NE US) and find the original plus another 4-5 knockoffs. Even cheap places like Save-A-Lot has bottles sometimes for $3 or so.
I am going to post an epic comment. Stay tuned.
> All this change is meant to ensure is that all HTTP/2.0 traffic is encrypted, not that it is all authenticated.

This is a perfect example of <strikethrough>"good enough is the enemy of good"</strikethrough> "not completely broken in every possible way is the enemy of barely good enough" that is so prevalent in web security. If we don't use this chance we have now to secure internet traffic we will continue to be completely vulnerable to rogue WiFi AP like http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/04/the-beginners-guide-to-break... and to companies as well as countries snooping their employers/citizens traffic via huge proxies for years to come.
interesting search: "[US propose".
Does anybody know what's going on? What could cause a big site like this to go down for more than a day?

Pure speculation: Maybe a bug that did harmful data changes, but wasn't noticed for some time? Database crashed, and the backup couldn't be restored?
You could always play with the federation cruiser and defeat the boss with only the artillery beam.
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Yea, this is really a bunch of pseudo-speak. I want to see a paper, a formula and access to (my) raw data on the device or this is going to be a glorified bodyfat tester for me.
Cool! NSA's industrial espionage is so much easier for them to perform when you store your company data directly on American servers.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
http://www.dw.de/germany-fears-nsa-stole-industrial-secrets/...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-busted-conducting-industria...
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