skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Women aren't required to have kids..."

^^ Double edged sentence you have there ;-)

I am pretty sure they are; unless there are some serious medical advances and questionable ethical boundaries.
You seem to be missing the point entirely, in an effort to defend the honor of the police.

Hint: The point you are suppose to get here is not that the police are terrible.
I agree with some of your sentiment, but you shouldn't blame the academics. There are many academics who are no longer allowed to use things they invented them because the patent goes to the university.

As a well-known example, John Pople wrote a program called Gaussian while at Carnegie Mellon. Carnegie Mellon licensed the program to Gaussian Inc. When John Pople moved to Northwestern, he was banned from using the program he wrote, as was all of Northwestern University. Before the passage of Bayh-Dole, Gaussian was given out for free by Carnegie Mellon. Once Bayh-Dole gave them clear rights in the code, everything changed.
I wouldn't trust the Cato "Institute" with providing the result of 1 + 1, let alone a whole study.
Love this. Largely cause I started following him right when I joined twitter and thought I was going crazy. Have I been ignoring this guys' tweets all this time or did he really just go from zero to 100?
I have an 8" Windows 8.1 device running an Intel Atom CPU. I love it, it's probably my favourite PC to date.

I can be at the office editing a document on my keyboard/mouse laptop, save it to skydrive, and it's already there on my 8" for review later. Quick edits on the go are a breeze, since I have the identical MS Office software running in both machines.

I can review documentation in a git repository by actually installing git for Windows and cloning the repository. Now I'm not saying I'm going to actually code on an 8" Atom device, far from it. But the fact that I can participate, using the exact same tooling in the exact same manner, as is fitting for the device, is brilliant.

The only difference is I use 90% Metro Apps on the 8", and 90% desktop apps on the laptop. It's the plumbing that's one size fits all, and once in a while you cross the boundaries of the UI and it works well enough. You're not giving anything up. You have it all.

One size fits all is great, I'm a fan.
You are totally right and I couldn't agree more with you. The thing is that the record companies have created an environment where almost the only way to make a living is signing "voluntarily" with them.

Nowadays a musician is not so different from a software developer. They can work solo or in groups, they can distribute their songs freely or decide to charge for them. But the software developing world and the music world are two completely different worlds when you look at the business model. So yeah, you can voluntarily sell your software to a giant like Google or Microsoft, but I'm not sure that signing for Virgin or Warner is such a voluntary act.
Are you saying there are not plenty of jobs in the oil fields for people without highly specialized training? That was not my understanding but what I heard was just secondhand.

Anyway, it's just an example---there are still plenty of jobs out there for people who are willing to work hard, especially intelligent people, even if they don't have specialized training.
You guys no doubt think you're being funny, but the way it actually works is like iOS devices: after the download, the car asks you when you'd like to install it, with 2am the next morning being the default. The installation can only take place if the car is stationary, parked, and off.
You have to show up (or post) a vote, there is no requirements on your actual vote (it can be completely blank, or a picture of ponies... but you have to put your bit of paper in the ballet box (or postbox)).

Punishment for not voting is usually a fine. Though encouraging people not to vote or to post invalid votes (i.e. subversion), can carry jail terms of up to 12 months (from memory).
"Ok, so sum the individual contributions and divide by number of individuals." - why would you ever do that?
Anecdotally, but here they always seem to have money for some fancy building project or another, hell, over the ditch in Australia UTS is building a fucking Gehry! This all seems to happen despite staff cutting, increasing fees and declining research output.
The Windows 8 (especially post-8.1) pushback baffles me. If you put any effort at all into learning how to use it effectively, the acclimation period is definitely shorter than Win95 or WinXP was. I use it on a desktop machine with two 30" displays and only mouse/keyboard inputs (i.e. no touch). You certainly couldn't pay me $150 to go back to Win7 at this point.

I even find that I use Metro apps on my desktop fairly often. I have the live tiles for a few key apps like Mail, Calendar, Weather, Google Voice, and Twitter arranged as a dashboard of key notifications that I care about and flip over from the desktop more often than I thought I would.

It's also nice how Metro apps can raise notification toast on the desktop now in 8.1 (and desktop apps like Outlook can also tie into that same system, similar to Growl but built-in). Since I'm on the desktop 95% of the time, that definitely helps bridge the gap between Metro and desktop. I can get a lightweight notification when I get an @mention on Twitter, for example, without leaving TweetDeck running all the time.

On my laptop with touch and on my Surface, Win8.1 is far and away better than Win7 could have possibly been. The Metro side of things is great there - especially since both have HiDPI displays and Metro apps .

Surprisingly, I still haven't installed Outlook on the laptop because the 8.1 update to the Metro Mail app makes it good enough for my relatively light email use while mobile. Since all of the settings sync across machines automatically, the Mail app was already configured with the six accounts I use regularly as soon as I logged into it, so it was a no-brainer compared to installing Outlook or opening six web apps all the time.
omg, boobs!!!!

God you people are fucking creepy. Yes, it's a woman, who probably has breasts and a vagina, and she writes code. Why is this even a story?
>for the most part 8.1 is 7 with a fullscreen start menu.

And missing the non-full screen start menu. I hate going back to metro interface to launch an app, now I have to create shortcuts on the desktop. I used to simply type an app name in windows 7's launcher.
Since you might be reading this, why does rust do this channel/port thing instead of just channels? Is that written down somewhere? Does it have to do with the type system or the ownership sematics?
Plenty of pasty-faced Asian geeks out there as well.
Thanks for the candid feedback. I agree it is not that great. I have used it a fair amount myself on my tablet where the full screen experience works better. The browser experience for me is a little painful on the tablet and I find the app gives me a better experience. The offline mode I find most useful, especially when flying, since I can save a bunch of articles quickly and read them at my leisure on the flight. Sure, I could probaby achieve the same through another mechanism but on a windows 8 tablet I find things not built for touch a little difficult to work with. Have to agree that the UI is not the nicest by far - I struggled with the winjs stylesheets but maybe I will find time to improve it. Honestly, I built it mainly for myself to try out winjs. I find it useful and thought I might as well put it out there.
This is an abuse of probability. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
There are a lot of excellent resources online such as blog posts or open source projects on github, but the way I learnt was by reading a couple books people had recommended me. I also took patterns commonly found on the server side of things and implemented in a way relevant to my client side code.

Let me know if you need some recommendations!
Also note that the cops are in much more danger of life and limb than the rest of us. That is, the cops get to confront the creeps so that most of us don't have to most of the time. Some of those creeps are armed, violent, and not inclined to cooperate with the cops. This leads to cops often being in situations where, if they're a half-second late in shooting, they're dead. If they're a half-second early, they're villified, suspended and charged with manslaughter.

We're asking them to do the impossible, and they're coming close to doing it. I get the bit about trying to recalibrate the public's perception of risk, but don't make them freak out about the cops to make your point.
There's an interesting discontinuity here:

- he's got a full workload (not a universal amongst adjuncts) and so the guy's skills are clearly in demand

- he's taking home peanuts

- students are paying a lot more in tuition than they ever did

In this, as in so many areas of business, the consumer (the student in this case) might wonder where all the money is going.
I woudn't, pf is good and the learning curve is easier but Iptables is more advanced and powerful ( many modules that don't exist in pf )
Without some notion of absolute numbers, the comparison is pointless.

Last I heard, both of those causes of death are almost negligible compared to things like heart disease, cancer, and car accidents. So I have some doubt about this statement by the author

> The point of the quote is to focus people on sources of mortality society-wide, because this focus can guide public policy efforts at reducing death.

With that said, yes, people are irrationally afraid of death by terrorism. But comparing that to their chance of death by cop is not illustrative. Comparing to their chance of death by traffic accident would be more relevant.
Keep doing something new. After 32 years, I still love it.
I've used all of the above. pf is much, much over-rated. iptables is just about as capable. Plus, in a speed test I did a while ago, a Linux firewall vastly outperformed an OpenBSD firewall on the same hardware, in terms of amounts of traffic it could handle before keeling over and dying.

OpenBSD is neat, but creating a cult around it doesn't help with anything.
"People are afraid of change, simple as that."

There's one good thing about Windows 8: anyone who uses this phrase is now known to have absolutely no argument worthy of discussion.

People rejected an interface which offered them nothing new on their existing hardware and was going to force them to relearn their current daily tasks.

People will gladly accept change if there's a clear benefit. They'll often accept change even if the only benefit is aesthetic. However, there's no clear benefit to Windows 8 apparent to most end users and the aesthetic changes were not enough.

It's a failure of Microsoft in the marketplace, not a moral or intellectual failing of Microsoft's users.
So you agree, it's racial and derogatory in it's nature.
> I used to simply type an app name in windows 7's launcher

Why don't you still do that? That global search has only gotten smarter, it's definitely not been removed. You press the windows key, type 3 letters, hit enter and your app is running before your eyes even register the start screen having briefly appeared and gone. I couldn't imagine going back to desktop shortcuts -- I haven't had to move my hands off the keyboard to launch a program in 7 years.
despite the ranting I agree with you. I had my first kid while at university and immediately switched to a program where I could have a job and career, and graduate quickly. It wasn't my passion, but it provides for my family, and I don't winge about it to anyone else. I pursue my interests on the side as a hobby - which I hope to turn into a business or career if/when possible. It can be very hard to find the time for hobbies when you have a young family and a marriage to maintain. It's not about elites vs. non-elites though. Its about the fact that no-one has a right to be entitled to anything. You have to face the realities of life make sacrifices and be accountable for where you have ended up.
Funny how I am modded down yet the vulgar posts about boobs remain unscathed. Let me add that I do not wish to take anything away from this particular girl's achievements (let them stand on their own): but there is nothing wrong with neutralizing the antagonistic angle imposed upon the story.
And the counterpoint is that they may not actually be the bigger danger, unless you are involved in the commission of a crime. Well. It depends on what you mean by "danger to life and limb". Do you mean, "For the average person?" Or do you mean, "For a particular person?"

The problem with "the average person" is that such a thing does not really exist. So the answer to the question may not be informative. I think most people, when reading this headline, probably think that it is claiming they are more likely to die from the police than terrorism. Unless you are a criminal, that may not be true (depending on P(criminal|killed by cop)), and it's not possible to estimate that based on data in the article, if it's the same article I've seen before.
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> but I wonder if his opinion would change if he learned about core.typed.

As a user of Clojure and Haskell, no, not at all.

core.typed is unpleasant to use and not very sophisticated at all compared to Haskell.

Also doesn't do anything to separate pure and impure functions.
I very recently had to help someone who was using a new Win8 laptop, and it's amazing how much the little things matter - like the title bar's text being centred. I had several notepads open and it was difficult to see which one was which file, because with the text at the edge I would usually leave that edge of the window sticking out beneath the others, but with the title centred I can't see the filename from either side. That seriously annoyed me.
He's had a dormant account since 2007 but picked it up Jan 1 this year: http://i.imgur.com/LejqDQ5.png
I started reading, then looked at your username and had a recursive hero-worship moment :p
> People are afraid of change, simple as that.

Some yeah. But it's a bit too easy to say that just because most people don't like the OS you like.

It's pretty known that you have to skip a version of Windows every other version and it seems like Microsoft is not changing the pattern right now. I love windows 7 but 8 is just unusable on desktop for me, I love windows 8 for phones though.
It seams to me that Rust is still good at CSP, one can still start up many threads (logical) but they are not as cheap.

This might just mean that it is more senceable to span a smaller number and communicate with them via port.

Its still CSP, its still usful, but its not exactly like go. My guess is that if you start to do more computation in each thread the benchmarks are gone change.

The Go style is only cheap if the stack does not grow.
You just made me realize that github needs better search. I like the presentation on github but, without git grep, I just pull it local and read from there.
From memory XP wasn't well received at first. It just hung around so long that people got really comfortable with it and didn't want to change.
You could, ya know, just write code that's easy to understand.
Defending Against "Packet in Packet" Attacks
Which can also be spoofed.
A lot of engineers I've known, tend to speak in plain, objective, sometimes even offensive terms.

Most of the women I've met seem to react negatively to this style of communication.

Further, social groups often try to be exclusive to those like them; I see this even at the company I work at. Different = bad

Then there's the whispered complaining, from the fellas in the room, that they have to censor themselves when a woman is present.

Engineering culture has a lot of growing to do before it can be seen as a welcoming group, whether to women or any other descriptor of people
Is Twitter one of the best run companies ever?

I accept I'm probably wrong, but my feeling is that Twitter is on the wrong course. Not that they won't be successful in the direction that they're heading, just that they won't be nearly as successful as they could have been. It feels to me like they've lost track of their central appeal.

Yeah, I know that's vague and not much to hang onto. I should probably try to figure out what I really mean by it.
There are unskilled jobs - night watchman, etc. But they don't pay any better than working retail in an oil town (working at Tim Horton's in Fort Mac pays $18/hr). Cost of living is high in these places (because there is such demand for labour and property). A person working unskilled labour in an oil town isn't living any better than someone doing the same in NYC or SF.

The jobs that do pay much better in the O&G industry than elsewhere are skilled jobs - heavy equipment operator, millwright, pipefitter, etc. You'll generally need a Red Seal or equivalent certification for these.
I laughed at this, out loud, for about a minute straight.
Not coincidentally, that's exactly what I was referring to with "unless you spend serious money".
Show HN: compress your Twitter timeline into Top 5
Every time...

Theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795

Potential examples:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6885123 - Homeless coder starts app
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6365495 - Africans genetically more corrupt?
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6448409 - Rick Ross's history
4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6857739 - Nelson Mandela dies
5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6035263 - (Most obvious)Resume with black vs white name
6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6902563 - Cover up racist+sexist mindset in Harvard
7. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6907915 - Homeless coder finishes app
8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6975732 - BlackGirlsCode event
9. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040437 - BlackGirlsCode event mentioned in list of female-focused events in tech.

I'm going to just keep on collecting these links and post the list on every instance I see.
This will be added as the 10th. (Though I will make special note that this instance is probably made worse by the recent spotlight the tech-scene is under in regards to gender inequality).
If you go by deaths (admittedly, a terrible metric since cops wear body armor and typically can get on the radio for an ambulance pretty quickly), then cops are not in more danger of life and limb than the rest of us. There are plenty of jobs that you are more likely to be killed, even murdered, in.

Regardless, you are missing the point of the comparison. The comparison should not be taken to imply "You should fear the police". That would be an irrational takeaway from a comparison between police and terrorists. What you are suppose to take away from the comparison is "Gee, my fear of terrorists is pretty damn irrational, since plenty of other things are more likely to kill me, but I don't particularly fear any of them."

The fact that so many people get hung up on this comparison demonstrates the comparison's relative uselessness in practice. The comparison has too much emotional baggage to be properly digested without careful spoon-feeding.
I am not saying anything. What I did is try to get some numbers together and was astounded by a result. I am not sure how I am making a point that cops are bad.
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Because it didn't offer much that Windows 2000 didn't provide?
And this as well:
"I begged Steve that we donate the first Apple I to a woman who took computers into elementary schools but he made my buy it and donate it myself."
'basic' version is working, 'premium' isn't out yet - collecting feedback and feature requests. Thanks everyone.
Ask HN: Hacker News Homepage down?
Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/

The homepage won't load. I thought HN had been down for days...
If swipe gestures even work with the mouse in Windows 8, I didn't know it and it never occurred to me to even try, though now I'm curious to see what happens when I get back on my laptop. I never even considered trying. You don't do swipes if you have a keyboard and mouse in Windows 8, you use your buttons, menus, clicks, and mouse-wheel just as you suggest. Where did you get the idea that the Win8 interface required gestures?
Different markets.

Demand for the jobs is high, and supply is low. This keeps pay low.

Compare to tuition. Demand has been increasing over the last decade, and supply has remained relatively fixed or grown slowly. As more students seek to acquire trash art history degrees, price has risen to match the demand.
That's a terribly fun and interesting video for a couple of reasons, but what I note is that Gell-mann after explaining how eventually he felt Feynman spent too much effort creating anecdotes about Feynman then launched into several anecdotes about Feynman that were really wonderful.
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> I am not sure how I am making a point that cops are bad.

You certainly are not making that point. Far from it.
One might say that passing raw pointers around is against the point of CSP. As I understand it go does exactly what the Singularity OS does, pass over ownership instead of copy or raw pointer.

This seams more idimotic, and more CSPish to me.

(Passing around pointer/references to immutables is of course ok)
Yes, I do not wish to finance someone else's dream. I could have told this guy 20 years ago that his life plan was awful and going to lead to financial hardship.
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coalescing?
I hear you, and I think you make a very good point. But from my own experience failing to do so, I can say that teaching high school well is spectacularly difficult. And if you are not good at the underlying classroom management and people skills, your subject-matter expertise will go largely wasted.
nftables sounds like a great example of why you should learn compilers: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food... You can write reams of code that work, but still have limits, and overcoming those limits would require further endless reams of code (iptables). Or you can write something simpler that breaks the problem down into primitives which a compiler will let you put together arbitrary ways, and despite being more flexible, is still less code (nftables).
To anybody else who first skimmed over this quote: the first half is funny, 'classic Feynman.' The last half is not.
Not quite.

Imagine that I found a startup. But I'm 42, with a wife and a kid. I'm running into debt because my startup isn't taking off.

Would you say something similar to me? Would you tell me that society would be better off with more startups? (A true statement, BTW.) Would you say that I should pursue my dreams without strict pragmatism about my career path? (Another true statement.)

Or would you say that, having taken the responsibility of getting married and having a child, I should think at least somewhat pragmatically about the odds of a payoff before I condemn them to a life of debt so that I can chase my improbable dream? Startups working are a 10-to-1 longshot, you know. That gives me a 9-out-of-10 chance of it not paying off, leaving my family in a large financial hole.

Your response is as black-and-white as the one you are responding to. The odds are against an English PhD getting tenure. (I don't know that they're 10-to-1 against - anyone got real numbers?) Chasing your dream is fine, doing what you love is fine, but leaving your family in financial danger while you go against the odds is a bit less benign than you paint it.
I don't know this for a fact, but I think very few people were coming from Win2k to XP. Win2k was relatively niche, even in business, from what I can remember of my experience back then. It was essentially only the people who were running NT 4.0 Workstation before who used Win2k in the interim between that and XP.
Win + S brings up a small search panel to the right of the screen. It's not full screen and it allows you to do exactly what you describe.