skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't entirely buy this. Everyone can improve themselves by mingling with their peers and listening to the pros, so if women were so easily dissuaded by negativity on the internet, you'd expect them to do worse at everything, which is clearly not true. I think a missing nuance is that everyone is mean on the internet, but people are much more likely to take meanness in stride when it comes from members of their own gender.

The visual arts are very close to having gender parity (47.4% female in the US, according to [1]). A quick look around a site like Deviantart reinforces this. If you've spent any time around such communities, you'll know that young female artists are just as mean and obsessed with petty drama as young male computer geeks are with trying to look smarter than everyone else. Yet, the amount of professional female artists that emerge from those conditions is roughly equal to the amount of males that do.

This suggests that "guys being jerks to girls" is only a symptom of a different problem; for cultural, historical, or perhaps, as the article suggests but doesn't really back up, biological reasons, girls just aren't as interested in computers as guys are. If we had gender parity in tech, little Susan would probably be calling Anna a bitch for copying her code, and they'd both get by somehow.

As an aside, I've noticed that artists are much better about giving and receiving criticism than supposedly objective and "meritocratic" programmers are.

[1] http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/96.pdf
I am glad it's about a computer scientist (hacker) that performed an action that wasn't subjective and not some 'game designer ux product idea ui designer visual artist ux' snake oil who wants their game idea implemented.

Fixing broken game ideas is easy.
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A little review of Parmy Olsen's awesome tale of famous hackers, and vulnerable world online.
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It's been a couple of years since I tried to find a good alternative to iTunes on OS X. Does it exist yet? Is there a Winamp for mac yet?
I wouldn't say "verging on." It's an outright lie.
Interesting. Having never looked into the history of alchemy, I would never have associated philosophers with alchemy. Sorcerer just makes more sense (to me).
Many years after he'd left, I went to the same "high school" as Fred Sanger. Our biology/science building was named after him. He visited the school every so often and was a very modest and entertaining man. You can get a tiny sense of him from this short video:
https://www.bryanston.co.uk/podium/default.aspx?t=52562&a=47...
$ export TROUSSEAU_PASSWORD=mysupperdupperpassword

nope.
The difference is that software is always in an environemnt where any small deviation from the "common sense" approach can lead to disastrous consequences (intentional or not).
I have a lot of hardware that's SOL if Shoutcast goes down. I hope they have a transition plan if that's the case.
Will you also indemnify AOL against all third party claims should someone use the software, it messes up their Windows 9.3 filesystem, and they end up suing... however meritless the case may be? Will you accept responsibility for acting as the DMCA contact and updating the site within the time limits provided in the Safe Harbor provisions should a skin, plugin, or visualization infringe someone else's copyright? Will you also update the apps for free to keep current with mobile and desktop OS changes?

I'm guessing AOL has looked at all this and sees $$$ for both the business risk as well as maintaining software which they have deemed does nothing for their company goals. As a result, they are better off focusing their limited resources towards efforts which do further their goals.
>According to the article, IBM and Microsoft are notable for their portfolio size and lobbying budgets

This is what tech companies spent in Q3 2013, maybe someone else can post IBM's stats but Microsoft's spending doesn't look all that high to me.

Google 3.4M

Microsoft 2.2M

Facebook 1.7M

Apple 0.97M

Amazon 0.78M

I think the real story is how cheap the lobbying costs are.

What I completely fail to understand with all the Snowden revelations and stories like this is that Silicon Valley tech folks have enormous salaries and high disposable income.

If they would actually contribute some of that to a PAC or to the EFF, it would be way more productive than sitting in Starbucks sipping a $5 latte and posting "Not going to get the Xbox from M$. Getting a PS4 for $400 + games for $60 each instead! That's going to teach them! And Bill Gates sucks despite helping the poorest people in Africa and India!" from their latest MacBook or iPad Air on HN articles such as these(you can see those posts below).

I guess gathering HN karma feels better and is cheaper than actually trying to make a real difference on issues that people seem to write emotional posts about.

Having seen a lot of such issues and discussions from my Slashdot days, my prediction is that nothing will come out of it except a lot of hot air discussion.
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I guess the Llama's ass now gets a break.
So just ignore the "emission- free" quote on their home page.
People laugh at me for still using winamp but I love it. It's fast, low memory, never crashes and the ui hasn't significantly changed for well over a decade.

More than that, it's one of the few pieces of software I still use every day that can provide an anchor all the way back to my mid-teens when I was first getting seriously involved with computers.

Its death sort of marks an end of an era for me :'(
Try this:

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-thunk-leak/

and particularly this:

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/05/an-insufficiently-lazy-map/

One point I'd like to mention: just because it seems complex and intimidating for beginners/outsiders does not mean it is intractable for experienced programmers.
You aren't using priors or reasoning. You are, IMO, making sweeping statements that are mildly bigoted. Besides, life just isn't that simple.
Tomahawk. http://www.tomahawk-player.org/

Foobar2k. http://www.foobar2000.org/
Apparently your friends are nerdier than mine. I'm 34 and that post would be a spoiler alert to all of my friends. Somehow Ender's did reach a huge swatch of my generation.
And that doesn't happen now in the US? Your boss does all of these things. Sure, you can quit, but there goes your health insurance and good luck finding another job unless you're in the Hacker News demographic.
raise the heavy rifle in my hands... an exact replica of an M16

An M16 is far from being a "heavy rifle." What other bits of this "reality" are unrealistic?
The article linked tells the exact same story, as far as I can tell. "Many" people could not connect, and were vocal about it. There were no numbers in the article, and 7 people quoted as having issues.

Lets assume that there were 100x that many failures, that would be 700 who failed, and 139,300 who could hear, which matches Mixlr's description fairly accurately. They had a large event that went well overall, but the problems that did occur caused a bit of a stir.

Frankly, I have never heard of these guys before, but they earned my respect via their post because they did accept their own accountability for the issues. They are not passing the buck, they acknowledged that there were problems, and they intend to do better next time. That is absolutely the correct attitude.
If you're thinking in terms of the _spirit_ of bokeh, and understand 'semantic downsampling', you've got my vote. As someone whose tried to use D3, I like this a lot. I'll be experimenting with Bokeh now soon.
Part of the 0.4 release is to incorporate the concept of abstract rendering - which means you render on the server, and then send the necessary information over to the client on demand. For example, if someone tries to scatter a billion points, instead of just drawing a useless point cloud, you would figure out where all the points fit inside your 512x512 canvas (or whatever size you have), figure out how all the points stack up, compute an alpha that is meaningful for that number of points, and then send the heatmap to the client.

You can easily imagine as similar approach for line plots which does selectively downsampling of datapoints in order to preserve interesting features in the plot.

And then we'll build interactors on top of that, so you can actually treat it like a scatter plot, even though it's a heatmap that's being sent to your browser.

So the answer is - large datasets, means, as large as our abstract rendering algorithm can handle on your hardware, so those data sets should be pretty big.
> Ender's Game is 30 years old.

Not everybody has read the book (or heard of it), but may have been exposed to marketing for the movie and be interested in watching it (or reading the book first). I think it's fair to show a spoiler warning for a movie that came out just this month.
Yeah. Ridiculous story.
The scandal here is that they're still releasing "flagships" with 16 GB of storage, for the same price as it was 3 years ago, even though next year they should be able to offer even 64 GB of storage for the same price.

Component prices drop by about 30 percent per year, or in half every 2 years, and flash storage prices have followed that trend exactly (you can Google the iPad or iPhone build of materials from over the years, and see I'm right).
A couple of points on Apple (which I’m most familiar with). First, you are only looking at the 16-32GB upgrade. They charge the same fixed increment on 32-64 and 64-128.This should give a clue for what is going on here.

Apple has a couple of goals. For the consumer they want it to be easy to make purchase decisions. By not varying the price for upgrading to each category, the decision becomes easier for most customers. What can you afford for the convenience of more storage space.

The second thing is probably more important to a successful business–profit margins. Apple is looking at profit margins across the whole product line not for each tier. Clearly anyone buying a 16GB or 128GB iPad is getting the best deal and those buying a 32GB are getting the worst of it. I’m betting that the 32GB iPad is the most popular and so it has the most influence on the profit margin for the platform. In essence, buyers of the 32GB iPad are subsidizing the 16GB version.

As long as customers find the 32GB iPad desirable at the list price, this will continue.
I had even created a few skins back then. The CDs that came with computer magazines were a great source of new skins.
Tomahawk is the only cross-platform media player I've seen that looks really good on OS X, too. I don't have much need for a desktop media player anymore with a phone always in my pocket, but I really enjoyed using it when I did.
So why Scandanavia is doing so well, both economically and socially? Happier population, more innovation, more equality (race and gender).
With what looks like a collection of interesting new-technology and innovation it's kind of sad to see them marketing it as

It's electric. Greeeeeeeeeeeen.
If there was ever an example of how to acquire a technology you don't know what to do with and then sit on it till it's dead, the Winamp story is it (and I guess Sonique as well).

Made a couple people rich (well deserved) at least.
Toys is a different film from Toy Story.
That's fine and all that but it takes time for the new inevitable forks to stabilise and some people will never switch.
XMMS - http://www.xmms.org/
Where does Slate find the hacks to write articles like this? Embarrassing, particularly for someone who is supposed to be an education columnist AND a professor. I had trouble following the actual story, as it was hard to separate from the writer's open disdain for MOOCs.
Look at the graph the article presents for US political violence. It's actually at or near an all time low, they just added a new "category" of terrorism to inflate recent numbers. The cycle may or may not actually exist, but if it does we're almost as far away from a spike as you can get.
Wasn't he the one saying porn users will need to have a frank discussion with their wife?
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Memories of napster/kazaa coming back from reading this. Best MP3 player. Fast, skinnable with ease, supported ID3 tags, one of the first with visualizations (cool feature but didn't use it much)

VLC is the same for me for video. Fast and plays almost all formats plus its open source. Winamp should have been open source to further its usage and development.
I like the ability to play archives of music files (zip,...) which are then uncompressed on-the-fly .
I just switched back to Winamp after getting fed up with the latest release of iTunes.

At least it's a real application that I can download and own for myself, and doesn't stop working just because it's no longer being supported.

This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud, or use browser-based apps for things that matter to me.

Hopefully they'll release the codebase to the world.
I would love to know more about this. Do you have any resources for me to look at? I haven't found anything good, just short mentions of JWARS and a very long video lecture of a terrible production quality
Devices and the new economy?
Nevermind. It was IE. Somehow 'Display all websites in Compatibility View' was turned on. Turning it off fixed it. Thanks.
Just give it a year and you might be able to...

Domain Name.......... winamp.com
Creation Date........ 1997-12-30
Registration Date.... 2009-10-03
Expiry Date.......... 2014-12-24
Not the same thing, but I'm the creator of EngineHere. We're a teaching platform for coding that connects groups of students with instructors in for real-time virtual classes.

We'll definitely offer C++ in the near future (plus Haskell, Erlang, and other esoteric languages).
Why is socialism a top-down technocratic solution? What is top-down about the abolition of private property and workers owning the means of production?

Also, what is “human thriving”? I find that capitalists use vague terms like this to mean “good”, and when you push them for a definition, they give you a contrived one which makes capitalism look good, but no satisfying justification or explanation for why this is should be what the structure of society should be optimised for.
Guess the 14.04 LTS release (a few weeks after release) would be a good point to switch.

edit: p.s. I'm using Linux since about 97 and as primary system since sometime from mid-2000's.
>> The PC version often ends up being much better than the console version.

Assuming there is a PC version of the game in question.

In the age since the first XBox, consoles have brought a lot of PC-style gaming to the masses (mainly FPS games), but there are also a ton of non-FPS gaming genres that don't have a very large presence on PC.

I used to be a big console guy and would love to move to a PC-centric gaming environment -- but because I don't do FPS or MMORGs, my gaming options are much more limited -- I'm into fighting and rhythm games.

Hopefully the emergence of things like the Steam Machines will change this situation and big named publishers start producing more PC-based ports of their console hits.
I don't see the "obvious classism". Author isn't talking about demonstrations or protests, author is talking about extremists blowing things up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_bo...

And more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing

I don't think calling bombings in public spaces "terrorism" is really straining the definition of the word. In fact it seems pretty on-the-nose.

And far from driving any sort of positive change, these bombings derived zero concessions from the government. Their only long-term effect was the further marginalization of the political left in the USA, as they became associated with violence. This is a legacy that is still here in the US today, where words like "socialist" are still being used as obvious pejoratives.

It's interesting that you bring up single payer health care in Canada. The first real implementation of public health care in Canada was in Saskatchewan, under premier Tommy Douglas, who was IIRC voted a few years ago as the Greatest Canada Who Ever Lived. Public health care was achieved in Saskatchewan not by hostage-taking, bombing, or shooting anyone, but by persistent demonstration and political participation. Not a shot was fired to win single payer health care in Canada.

Terrorism gave us nothing except fear, violence, and death. In every place it has shown up it has actively worked against the causes it purports to advance (see: OWS and rioting). It is in spite of violent extremists that these causes have succeeded, it should get zero credit.
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Explain Google.
But they've also added 128 GB at the high end (also for the iPad 4 but after launch.)

This isn't about component pricing. It is about profit margins for the whole product line not each individual tier. Apple is using the drop in cost for one component to offset the increased cost of others to maintain their profit margin.
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As an excercise - pick a random company out of fortune500, assume you have solid industry expertise (say - you've got a team of a couple of top guys who worked in that industry) in their area and also a couple million dollars, and think how likely you are to create a company that can compete with them. I'd say, that for a big fraction of fortune 500 (which is itself a large fraction of global economy), you need even more than the experise and a couple millions, which makes them fairly safe in their current positions.
MediaMonkey [1] is awesome to find something. It's mainly a music organizer that just happens to be able to play music but it works great even with scattered single mp3 files. Autoplaylists [2], scriptable and extensive search options. Been using it for over 6 years now and never looked back :)

[1] http://www.mediamonkey.com

[2] Autoplaylists are only available for the Gold version.
My understanding is that this is still generally true of all war games. Deemed bad for morale otherwise.
> I did... the point with people learning to code is precisely not that they're going to get hired to write code (that's what we professionals do).

So then I don't understand the point of your comment, because it's not a response to anything said in the original article. You are responding to Uncle Bob on an issue he does not bring up.

Unless you are referring to the part about code academies, where he says:

"These programs are attracting people to them, and employers, desperate to add developers, are hiring them."

Which flies in the face of what you say in this comment.

So, I don't understand. What are you responding to? Maybe you misunderstood the premise?
As most rc hobbyists know today, you can make just about anything fly by festooning it with little propellors. Flying well on the other hand...
Ok... so what is unjust about a drug dealing prosecution?

Decriminalizing drug use is smart, but everywhere it is decriminalized, but the sale is considered illegal, prosecution for dealing is quite harsh.

Again, comparing an outlet to an economic problem with ideological repression or downright made up charges is very strange to me. No one is denying that there is an economic problem that is driving people to commit crimes. That needs to be addressed, and brutality is not the answer. But please, don't make this into a Stalin comparison.
http://gmusicbrowser.org/ is the most similar open source music player, in my experience.
Nice observation :)
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Holy shit, Winamp is still around!?
It would have been interesting if they adapted Ender's Game to a more modern-day setting. Sort of like "The Wizard" meets "Spec Ops: The Line".
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Does anyone know what "ruritannical" means? I Googled it but everything seems to point back to this quote.
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More to the point, is your neighbor going to be happy? Is the new immigrant going to be happy? Are your children going to be happy?

Many people might think they can say yes to that question as their personal opinion, but I think it's easier to understand how it's hard for people to answer "yes" in general. For one thing, everybody always thinks they deserve more. It matters very little how much they already have.
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There have been quite a few developments in battery and ultracap technology that seem pretty promising in the last few years, but it is one thing to have something up and running in the lab and quite another to bet on a particular technology and then industrialise the production process for global mass production. Luckily there is now money being waved around by the car industry that should see at least some of the developments enter the marketplace, which is what more specialist companies like this one are banking on, as they don't have enough money themselves to wave around.
Do you mean the code examples in articles or the projects that you can download? Because I haven't looked at their downloadable samples in quite some time, but their docs always seem alright to me.
I don't really agree with the 'green' hype, and banking on battery improvements etc. However, I think designs like this will become useful along with other forms of drone technology. This helicopter actually looks fairly cheap to manufacture and maintain, and a 10 minute flight can easily be, for example, a hop across a river or over dense traffic as part of a daily commute, and it can stand and charge at each end.
That's their budget on paper. Donors don't have to disclose all their donations:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29/dark-money-2012-ele...

... nonprofits like Crossroads GPS and trade associations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are allowed to keep their donors secret. As a result, there is a great flood of campaign spending this election cycle for which there is no official paper trail.

I don't think the proper response of rich Valley people is to ramp up their donations to PACs unless it's the Wolf-PAC which is organizing to pass a Constitutional amendment to reform campaign finance and lobbying:

http://www.wolf-pac.com/
Not sure which is a bigger fail. That instagram is just now coming to Windows Phone, or that it lacks it's own primary feature
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Coming next to Windows Phone: Snapchat with photos that stick around forever.
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The laws were on the book, but the due process, as understood in the western societies, includes the presumption of innocence and proof of the crime.

For most victims of the GULAG, the charges were false, confessions obtained with force, and witness testimony made up. Essentially, if I don't like somebody, I just make an anonymous report to NKVD, and 99% chance is that they'll disappear. That doesn't sound like the due process we all know in the US...
Why winamp? my understanding is that it's long been surpassed by other apps, i.e. foobar, even VLC
Clementine is a great multi-platform open-source clone of Amarok 1.4.x. A little different from the old Winamp/XMMS "tape deck" feel, but very responsive and light with many modern features.