skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have yet to hear a man tell me he was discouraged from entering some field (with the two possible exceptions of nursing and elementary education) by a woman, telling him 'boys aren't good at that'. (Fathers on the other hand are great for making sure their boys don't do too good at the sissy stuff).

On the other hand, I have directly witnessed math teachers and professors telling women that they needn't worry too much about understanding the class, "because you girls don't need it - you're graded on effort" (despite actually wanting to know). I've heard plenty of stories from women about being told "girls are bad at math, it's natural you don't understand". I've seen one little girl break down and cry because a man told her girls can't be engineers.

There is a big difference there.
Why not Wikimedia Commons?

Several major museums and libraries (including the US's National Archives) have donated major collections.
It's not like anyone said anything that got them burned. Maybe they both treated this exchange like it could become public correspondence. The point is not whether they thought it was private or not, the point is, it's a dick move to publish an email someone sends you to offer you a job.
The CoD servers I play on are dominated by active service personnel.
sure there is - RoboVM just came out recently.

In any case, JVM runs on more platforms than any others.
Is there a similar Chrome extension?
More realistically, when you're an early stage startup, is that 10x means going from 0.1% to 1% conversion. That kind of change can be achieved by changing pricing models, changing product descriptions, changing the purchase flow, etc. And you'll notice it -- 1% means getting one buyer about every other day on 50 uniques; 0.1% means getting a buyer every three weeks. You won't need statistical validation to tell you that things have changed.

But even "smaller" changes -- 10%, 20%, 30% -- are usually noticeable, even with a tiny stream of traffic. The point is, the kinds of winners that you need at an early stage are usually big enough to feel. Rarely do you get to the win in single-percentage increments.
I think his point is that the real world is concurrent states, not context switching. To loosely paraphrase Joe Armstrong, in the real world, data isnt shared, it's communicated. In this sense, the process as a fundamental abstraction more correctly models "the real world."
Lots of copyright doctrines are more restrictive than the US. Most notably, a lot of jurisdictions don't have a concept of fair use nearly as broad as the US concept.

Also, the US uses trade treaties to cajole other countries into adopting very restrictive copyright doctrines. It's more common than you'd think.
I'm using github for my personal site, not sure if it's good for something larger / higher traffic.
The post was satire, my rant was meant to be nonsense.

The linked article over-analyses a game and over-estimates the impact of games in general. If you did the same thing with Harvest Moon you could indeed classify it as pro-vegetarian propaganda and as having a very questionable message about human relationships.
Tech gossip drama bullshit. A recruiter email is not interesting.
How about rap artists rewarded with fame and riches by our society, regardless of lyrics which often are crude and misogynistic? It seems the folks at rapgenius are taking cues from that world.
I keep thinking the same thing. I'm not a rap connoisseur, but the lyrics never seemed to need much in the way of interpretation.
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It just hit me: people learning web development now are learning a completely different CSS than I learned.
I expect this will be used as another tool to obfuscate prices. Just like sales tax is effectively a semi-hidden last minute fee in America, I think we are going to start to see all sorts of purchasing method fees at the cash register.

It will start with credit cards but soon it will be for debit cards and there will eventually be a "cash handling" fee if you insist on paying with cash.

These will never be included in the listed prices and they will be just small enough that its not worth it for you to put the items back.
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Just to compare apples to apples—by which I mean credit card payment APIs—Stripe's Java API is superior. I'd not say it's a thing of beauty, but then, I don't want a credit card payment API to be anything but immediately approachable and obvious. And it is precisely that. Easy to understand.

https://stripe.com/docs/api/java

As for something I am happy with in recent memory, the Undertow builder model is appealing: http://undertow.io/

But you ask a tough question. I've not spent much time thinking about the best of the best. I suppose part of it is that a great API gets out of its own way and lets you get to work. So I suppose citing Stripe's first may have been the right thing.
The problem with CoD and friends are that they glorify war consistently and with no regrets, not even shying away from portraying torture or humiliation of victims as something good.
Well, the OP seemed to have something specific in mind and I just was wondering what it is.

Of your examples, the one with less money is just less money. I understand issues with a drop in salary, but the reference to "junior position" above seemed to imply more than salary.

On the first, I've been older than my managers for years now. Who cares? I don't want to be a manager, I enjoy programming. I care deeply whether that 23-year-old is a good or bad manager, but that has nothing to do with how old she is.
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- Freelancing At A High Rate or start a porn site.
Even an order of magnitude more is still insignificant.
Worth a tweet to @textfiles (Jason Scott) about preserving the disk.
- If its one place, I'll put it in startups.
- Mr. Matt, what were your two startups that failed? What was the idea?
Do we need academic copyright? Some historical perspective
Is UEFI boot support being required unusual? Caught my eye, I don't often see it listed explicitly as a requirement.
When you say outside the US, do you definitely not mean "outside affluent western society"? Or do you find it more common in London, Vienna, Sydney, etc?
It's just substitution macros for the C++ preprocessor that was probably churned out in no more than 20 minutes (by members of /g/).

The README was collaboratively written by /pol/ viewers.

Actually funny? I thought this was hilarious. Perhaps not if you're unfamiliar with extreme SJW rhetoric, or if you sympathize with it. Either way, it did cause a stir all over the web (especially Reddit), but not here.
If its a meta comment, just say so directly. It is a bit difficult to decode these comments sometimes, especially when defending OOP.
Didn't HP consider making blade like units with up to 20 servers per unit?
I saw that they canceled that due to some deal with Intel.
> when an OS update comes out.

Er, maybe not when an update comes out, but about iOS in general? I've sure heard and read plenty of discussions about the app store. The iTunes / App stores is specifically the reason I do not want an iPhone (again).

In this case, I get that its linux, but its Valve's branded linux. Complaints about Steam, the impetus behind the distro, are completely relevant.
The size of your surplus will depend on the size of your country.

Let's say that a country can afford 0.01% of GDP (number pulled out of nether regions) for Presidential luxuries. That would mean that the US can spend about $1.5 billion/year on Presidential motorcades and airplanes and housing and so forth, while Uruguay could spend about $4.9 million. It's a vast difference.

While scale doesn't really matter for stuff like schools, firemen, and health care, it does matter here, because the President doesn't scale. It's one guy no matter how big and rich the country is, and if it's bigger and richer, then there's more to spend on that one guy.
As the late great George Carlin said: It all depends on how you construct the joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2a5-RrwWZ8

You're not funny enough to joke about rape is all. The problem is, neither are these rapgenius guys. Don't get me wrong, I'm also grossly offended - not as a feminist, or a decent human being, just as a comedian. :)
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This is a naive viewpoint, and exactly the signs of someone would would be a bad talent evaluator. I will give a synopsis of my own anecdote.

I was once a PhD student, ABD at a top 15 university in math, with undergrad degrees in math and physics. I had very competitive all around scores on standardized exams, all 90th percentile and up. Upon leaving grad school, I became homeless & destitute, even depressed at times, but I still had the will to put on a good face and still had the intelligence & drive to learn & excel. After finally landing a junior dev position 3 years after grad school (after teaching myself programming), I quickly developed and took on a senior dev position in under a year.

By your stated viewpoint, you would have missed a bargain stellar talent who was open to any opportunity offered to him. Ability & willingness to learn/execute a skill isn't inextricably linked to employment periods - that is a terrible fallacy.
Do they keep you from creating a second account for purchasing and gifting what you buy?
I know it's not real, but really, "finances 2013.xls"? You want to put all that data on a post-it note?!
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Note that the submitter is not the author.

The source of the submission is this tweet: https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/411662053686784000 (which gives the impression that the response was for retribution, not publicity)
I'd be interested in talking more with you about your experiences. My email is in my profile. Shoot me a message sometime.
Dude, you're 20 years old. In 30 years, there's a good chance that you won't be using any of the technology that you're using today. Spend the next 20 years doing the same technology in a big company and you might find yourself with a big problem. There are other ways to screw yourself too.

The good news is that you'll be making $750,000 a year as a developer. Just hang onto that job...
A homeless shelter is "meaningless"? Wow. I could understand downplaying its significance (e.g. the leader of a country could do more good with policy that improves his country's economy) but giving people shelter is not "meaningless" no matter how you slice it.
Contact me. We are building our MVP and would to get your thoughts (assuming you are bombarded by other requests).
"A revolution is when you change your thinking."
Seems like a scare story conflating metadata (which they collect) with data (which they do not). While certainly the serriptitous and opaque tracking of meta-data is unwanted by many, the idea that they might, maybe, want to track 'actual data' is latent premise. That they don't, is the reality. But there is no neutralizing this fear, here. Because in fact, they can.

So, in eseence the tL;DR = FUD.

The Facebook rep I spoke with agreed that the company isn’t collecting the text of self-censored posts. But it’s certainly technologically possible, and it’s clear that Facebook is interested in the content of your self-censored posts. Das and Kramer’s article closes with the following: "we have arrived at a better understanding of how and where self-censorship manifests on social media; next, we will need to better understand what and why."
You know, I've made a point in my life of avoiding people that are actively looking to be "offended", because they always find a way to do so.

RG said something publicly that's probably been uttered a million times between friends bantering. I've heard things that are a thousand times worse. It's unfortunate that they chose the wrong channel for that sort of utterance, but frankly the only people "hurt" by what they said were the people that chose to be "hurt" by it. Let's be clear, being "offended" is always a choice. There's 7 billion people on the planet, you'll never be able to avoid things you dislike, but you have a choice in how you deal with it. I choose to respect other people's freedom of expression, and interact with people I think add value. I don't have to throw a public temper tantrum if someone has wildly different values. (I view posting private correspondence publicly to try to shame someone as being equivalent to a temper tantrum)

I hear people say a lot of things I think are /stupid/, but I never feel a need to tell them that they're "offensive", I just don't deal with those people when I realize our values don't align. So I find the idea that RG broke some obvious "code" that "everyone" agrees to is laughable. Clearly, not "everyone" agrees with your very sensitive sense of humor.

The way I see it: they pissed off a bunch of people actively looking to be pissed off. My level of caring about that is pretty much zero.
The second approach sounds almost doable with the NFC technology. I wonder how small/thin a NFC tag can be built today.
It happens but you need to recognise the true cost. You always pay interest on the other side at some point. At the same time you weaken boundaries and introduce instability.
Annotating human creative works on a massive scale undoubtedly has many interesting technical aspects.
"Starting a business that fails makes the comic better."
Ask HN: How do you startup? 
So, you got a team together, have your idea ready. What now? Do you incorporate or not (I know the YC prefers that you not incorporate, but what are the advantages/disadvantages?). And if you don't incorporate, how do you split the equity between co-founders? Do you sign contracts or do you just trust each other? And if you do, what sort of contract? What about building your product, do you set up an extensive design document? Do you just wing it? Something in between? What other issues need to be taken care of before you can focus on building your product?
What you find funny depends a lot on your view of the subject matter. I am not a feminist (in that I don't consider women to be people), and so I found the site quite humorous. Similarly, I don't find feminist web-comics to be funny.
Why do we care what Scott Adams says about any topic other than creating a successful and amusing comic strip?
You don't give hiring managers much credit there. You don't think most hiring managers (or their in-house recruiters) will at least google what "FooBar Associates" is, whether it's an on-going concern, whether the registered address is your home address, whether the filing date is during a time of your unemployment, etc? It takes minutes on Google to do it if you're at all suspicious. If it's from 10 years ago, I don't care. If it's your current "gig", you can be certain I'll look into it before the interview and be prepared to ask you about it in person.

Nothing wrong with consulting, and IMO nothing wrong with trying and failing to go it yourself, but if I think you're being intentionally deceitful on your CV, you'll be dropped like a rock as soon as I'm reasonably sure of that point.

I realize you only need to fool one firm to get a job, but it's not a trivial couple hour exercise to implement.
TOTALLY off topic and I truly apologize but I believe this is where I'll get the answer the quickest:

If, in a Redis sorted set, two values have the same score, retrieving a range of values that includes those two values will present them in the alphabetical order right? So in this way one of those two values with score can be cut out of the retrieval by limiting the range appropriately. This leads me to believe that each value in a sorted set should have a unique score even though the uniqueness is not forced or encouraged in any way at the point of value/score assignment. What would be a real-world use case scenario for such a structure then when?
This is wonderful. 17th/18th/19th century images notwithstanding, some of these are quite beautiful.

It's good that they put it up on the internet, apart from just the exposure (someone sitting half a world away seeing them), but also they could be used by someone now.
>Miles were never free. They just used to be paid for equally by everyone--including people not using credit cards! In effect, it was a sales tax imposed by Visa and Mastercard on everyone.

Well, no. Interchange fees come out of retailer profits. That's why retailers care about them.
And you can choose to be ignorant of that fact, but you are definitely wrong.

I could go on about this, but instead I'll give you a good example. Check out this verse by Lupe Fiasco: http://rapgenius.com/2097850
I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to about tracking the license across several projects. There's an unlimited option if that helps. About the binary restriction, can you explain the use-case that this obviates? I'm not opposed to changing troubling parts of the license if I can understand the issue.
oops...should not be forced.
Ah, I think I understand your position on this, thank you for explaining. Even if the arguments sound the same, they are valid (or not), for very different reasons, because the situations are very different.
I think what you're missing here is that this article isn't about the tech industry, even though it's been cross-posted here.

If you're an HR manager or a compliance officer with 20 years of industry-specific experience, there simply aren't any freelance gigs you can pick up, no matter how low-paid. And the experience you have isn't general experience at all. It's often not even industry experience. It's often experience specific to a single enterprise's internal functions.

And having a non-executive position on your resume in that world is worse than LTU.
Yeah, I haven't been following the NFC stuff - ubiquitous NFC tags have been "just around the corner" for a few years now.

The thing is, if you're going to require an internet connection to make the little tabs work at all, you may as well just do it all online in a pure cloud service in the first place…
It would be interesting if the internet was born fully formed. If there was not an embedded base of people "thinking it was like it used to be". My guess is it may have never got off the ground. But now that there is sufficient momentum behind a paradigm that makes people predictable (ie, the "old way"), the confidence has been built up to perfectly suit people taking advantage of this very predictability. For the most part, this revolves around "free", "anonymous", "open", etc. The powers that be do not want these things to exist...for the very reason that money is to be made by selling the picks and shovels to those who dream they may one day achieve these things. Heaven forbid you provide this to them, they would then be outside the system of tribute to those who just happen to be in charge.
Yep, particularly since touching the disk meant a 5-1/4" floppy diskette.

But no, the programs weren't toys. They were an order of magnitude more complex than most of today's smart phone apps. And in fact, PCs were the smart phones of their day -- a fun size version of what had been considered "real" computing, initially not taken seriously, but destined to evolve quickly.

Also you had direct access to the hardware -- there weren't ten layers of virtualization, protection, and APIs in between. You could do near-realtime things, very low latency. I think that's part of what contributed to the subjective experience being quite fast... provided you didn't need to hit the floppy disk!
The few instances those things have happened they've issued refunds....
That, again, is not the point. It's not what you want, it's what the "busy person" wants, the one who's being asked to do a favor (or more).
My mistake, I assumed the recipient == submitter.
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this is almost as bad as phonebloks
Hackernews OP here: I am so glad I shared this on hacker news. I think this is great because you guys put time into listing things you use and provide food feedback, way better than some of the review feedback one would find in an addon.
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Yea I've been on the request list on this site for a few months as well. Would really love it to happen.
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Incidentally, I think the following sentence from the Wikipedia introduction is misleading / untrue.

China uses GNU/Linux with its Loongson processor family
to achieve technology independence.

It reads to me like a statement that Linux is widely used throughout China, whereas my understanding is that use of non-Microsoft OSs is basically negligible in China[1]. Perhaps someone who knows more than me about this area would like to remove it.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-CN-monthly-201211-201311
This is a great recruiting email. The guys at rap genius seem to know how to keep it real. Great post!
If that offends you, then you should never, never, never listen to rap music.
I think Garry may be the nicest guy I have ever met. He is incredibly helpful. I have nothing but good things to say about him.
We need more leaders like this in the US. This man understood the debilitating condition of poverty, and despite all the odds, succeeded with no help from anybody.
Worse yet, CoD wasn't always this way. The original WW2 based games went to great lengths for authenticity, and consulted many veterans in their development.

The difference is that WW2 veterans nearly universally view the war with horror, not the hop-rah of many modern veterans. This tone was reflected in the early CoD games.

Case in point: the anti-war quotations that flash on screen each time you die. This has been kept in recent installments also, except now it looks disturbingly out of place. One second the game is gleefully cheering your slaughter of nameless foreigners, the next minute they're quoting Oppenheimer.

The CoD games have always had a heavy dose of American machismo, but the latest games are comical caricatures. MW1 had at least a solid Tom Clancy-esque tale of international intrigue, the latter games not even that.
I'm having a hard time believing you since nowhere you tell us the name of the game.
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This guy was cool. I pitched my idea to him for this winter batch of YC and didn't make it, but he was one of the ones in the room that I felt was most interested about the idea. I'd like to cross paths with him again some day.
The security should scale in some relation to the threat.

The more resources a country has, the higher the profile a target that head of state will be. Would a politically motivated group want to make a name for themselves or make a statement, they're more likely to attack a first world leader than a third world leader.

Domestic threats also likely scale at least linearly, and possibly more quickly, with population.

I think we overdo it with our post-9/11 security theater, seemingly more interested in full employment than meaningful improvements in the life of Americans, but I'm quite sure that large, rich nations' heads of state face greater threats than smaller, less wealthy nations.
I'm sure it's in their Terms of Service. The question that needs answered though is who is liable for non working software? It seems remarkably anti-consumer that every software purchase should be a risk.

If I meet the minimum requirements, if I can show bench marks, "prove" system stability, and run every other game in my library with the exception of this specific game, who is liable? Is it my fault that their game doesn't run on my system? That's an honest question, cause I don't know. I know that as a developer, if something I've written doesn't run on a computer that I consider it a fault in my software. Or, can at least recognize that an external force (i.e. a Bit Locker or something) will prevent that software from ever running due to permission issues, at which point a refund would be in order. I just can't wrap my head around not being viable for a broken product.
This is why I issue chargebacks.