skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's something one can certainly think about and be aware of, but then again it's just a theory. Personally I haven't experienced this. I grew up with my sisters and they had the same exposure to computers as I and my brother did and there was never any pressure from my parents or us that computers is just a boy thing, but my sisters never had the same natural interest in programming. I actually even tried to teach a few things to them, but it seemed to be too complex for them and their own curiosity didn't drive them to learn more on their own, as I did.

While I see and lived that parents have an influence on PC usage at a young age, I wouldn't say they are push children towards or away from it, but I guess there is always something going on. I agree that every boy and girl should have the same chances on learning computer stuff, but I don't see it necessary that one has to artificially push girls or boys towards a topic. If they don't have the interest at the topic, there's no reason to teach them all about it, just so we can "solve" an imbalance.

I know some believe that interest is purely influenced, I can't agree with that. Interests can be hugely influenced, yes, but there are studies showing that there exists natural interests for certain kind of toys of around one year old children.
There are some general GC libraries eg Boehm. however there is a lot of specific detail in a language and allocator that means you may be able to get better performance.
Drinking tea in the UK isn't about the fun of the kettle. It's a matter of necessity and the whole process is utilitarian. An efficient and predictable water boiler is what is needed, not a 'fun' tea making ceremony. The English largely drink the fannings of tea leaves (poorest quality) it's not about ceremony, fun, or quality, believe me.
Anecdotal, but I've had an one RCD installed and have only seen it trip once in about 15 years, incidentally when my old kettle broke (I could reproduce it instantly by turning the kettle on).

Newer installations will often have an the RCD integrated with the regular circuit breakers, so you get one for each branch (as well as one the covers the entire installation).
Only to be told that they have to open up their Windows 8 Store App installation model as well? I don't think so.

The no-freedom-to-install-whatever-you-want movement is deeply entrenched in the IT behemoths.
Yeah, I wouldn't say that Nicotine is not a toxic/dangerous substance, it certainly is :)
It's futile to prevent insurance companies from accessing the records - once information is out there, it's out there for ever. It would be better, IMO, to limit the amount of discrimination that private insurance companies can do - or, even better, eliminate all private insurance companies and provide complete health insurance to every citizen (in which case, data-mining research on health data can truly be useful).
Soviet Unterzoegersdorf is no joke!
Everyone in my household can be uniquely identified by that from someone holding date of birth and postcode data...

Like, say, any insurer...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Paul_Thomann

Henning's humor isn't THAT inaccessible...
> Nicotine is as close to harmless as any effective medication

Yes, the smoking is worse than the nicotine, but how many other over-the-counter medications have an LD50 potentially as low as 30mg/kg? That's insanely high toxicity.

Spilling nicotine on yourself causes death. That should be sobering.
I reviewed the literature on the effects of marijuana for a school project a few years ago. What is remarkable is that one joint is actually less harmful than one cigarette, and that vaporizers and methods that don't involve inhaling smoke are basically risk-free. There are studies out there that have actually shown THC / cannabidiol to have slight anticarcinogenic effects, though that's all highly experimental (I think in a lab setting).

The evidence for marijuana causing psychosis is extremely thin. Basically the strongest evidence out there are observational population studies (not controlled) that found there is a slight correlation between marijuana use and eventual development of psychosis.

The obvious problem is that correlation != causation. It seems pretty reasonable to postulate that people who are mentally unstable are also more likely to try and seek solace/release in drugs.
Is there evidence that's actually what's happening? I hear a lot of complaints on the internet about a quarterly results focus, but I've never heard of shareholders actually telling a company to change tack.
This is about human dignity, and it's just disgusting. I'd be ashamed to work at OfficeMax or any of those data collection firms.

"Retail giant Target reportedly knows how to use its data to identify pregnant customers, and it recently lost tens of millions of customers' credit and debit card information to hackers, among other data."

"Gatherers of consumer data also are reportedly selling off lists of rape victims and AIDS and HIV patients, a privacy group told Congress in December."

I shudder thinking about what kind of information about all of us is being collected and sold, without any recourse. And corporate interests are keeping better privacy laws from getting passed. So the can squeeze the maximum profit from consumer cattle.

All of us working in 'big data' should think real hard what we deem ethically acceptable.
See my other comment -- I don't believe in these "theories", in fact I'm rather against them, but I won't go into details.
Rent control is one of the tools, I've never said anything about it in relation to SF. I'd like to see anyone argue that rent control doesn't work as a price ceiling for the rent controlled units.
It's just me or describing in the tech world things that are rare but clearly do exist like 'unicorns' seems a little weird?

(I know is quite common way of talk, but still...)
I'm not sure if you read the article, but I'll assume you have and you missed the part where this was about the NHS in England.

My healthcare when I turn up to hospital in the UK isn't being paid for by an insurance company, it is - basically - funded through taxes and administered through central government.

Hope that clears it up for you.
We typically have a ring circuit each for upstairs plugs, downstairs plugs, upstairs lights, downstairs lights, and then perhaps some special purpose ones - oven, smoke alarms. There's a main breaker for the house, then RCDs for each circuit. Each appliance has a fuse in the plug, and it's not uncommon for the appliance itself to have a fuse in its body.
Temperature controlled kettle...?? Isn't the point of a kettle to boil water?
No, Chrome was.
I think the only place where you'll find actual case law in Europe is the UK. The other countries don't let judges make law (except in some cases, at their supreme court equivalent).
This nonsense been going on for decades.

Back in the eighties, I came across a computer letter addressed to "Mr. Intl B. MacHines". Very simple. Upper-case garbage in, mixed-case garbage out! Printed using a mylar ribbon, so it looked like it was typed on an eighties executive office typewriter. (At the time, computer output was usually upper case and of lesser print quality, thus the mylar ribbon deception.)
> legally expressed in many other countries

citation?

I'm only asking because that's not the case in most of Europe.
Useful point of reference: the VW golf (Europe's most popular car) sells around 500k/yr, so the Leaf's sales are about 7% of that. Seems significant.
Sipsmith: a successful homecoming
"Disturbed individuals"? Did you read the articles? The people being describes are the leaders of the "movement", like Elam. The "movement" obviously encourages the behavior being described -- meanwhile, groups like CAIR work hard to address the popular image of the terrorist Muslim. Where is the CAIR of "men's rights" I wonder
What were the things you did well that brought you the $500 MRR?
In theory that is true. But in practise a broader tax base, on income consumption and companies has some advantages. If we moved all taxes to income then the incentives for avoidance and evasion would become much higher. Companies can also not pay out for long periods eg Apple so there is a time aspect, and taxing shareholders when profits were made might not be popular.

Historically taxes were mostly about ease of collection. Putting everything on income would raise the big question of whether wealth not income taxes are fairer.

Right now the big win is massive simplification not changes in tax base.
Ask HN: Can I sell software that uses Android Debug Bridge?
I want to sell a product that wraps the existing android debug bridge (adb) with a nice UI and sell it.

I've noticed from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11565689/android-adb-redistribution that I shouldn't include the software in the final executable.

I intend to have my software call the adb instance that the user has already installed separately. It wouldn't be considered redistributing adb as far as I know.

Does anyone know of any issues with this system?
Read others code and practise. Lots of practise.
A lot of people on the Bitcointalk forums have made educated guesses, the fact is he still works on his business and charges for subscription to his blog, I doubt he has amassed the largest stash of Bitcoins in the world.
Wait - you're still using magnetic strip cards in the US?

The recent mentions of EMV had me thinking there was some new type of security that improved on Chip and Pin but no - you haven't even had that yet.

What was the hold-up? This was launched in the UK ten years ago.
Do people regularly claim on insurance for NHS doctor's appointments? I know I never have. Regarding the smoking etc, I'm pretty sure that health insurance companies ask if you smoke (and yes, double the cost if you say yes), and giving a lying counts as insurance fraud. Due to that, I'm not too sure how relevant the NHS records would be, other than in cases where someone has lied, in which case I'm not too inclined to feel sorry for them.
Both books present qualitative and quantitative research, not "theory", but alright
OK but shrink the government first. Then you can cut taxes. And cut them for everyone not just companies who can afford a Dutch sandwich.
Learning to program humans
> Girls simply don't find stupidity that funny

This is gold. Almost as "girls cannot code".
Before the dotcom era and the mainstreaming of geek chic, programming used to be considered pretty uncool. Men and women who went into it were seen as nerds. For women, more so than men, finding a mate has been seen as part of being able to survive comfortably. So women stayed away from the stigma of programming, lest it lessen their attractiveness. Now, after things reversed and geek chic became mainsteam, the profession's seen as cool. Other professions seen as less cool (trades for example) don't seem to be the targets of the diversity lobby.
You've got a typo in your URL there - missing 'n' in 'rooting'
>Not trying to sound like a feminist (I am far from one) but I believe what women are being robbed of is 'equality'.

Does not compute.
I've long since grown tired of these sensationalist, populist, polemical, self-flaggellating, attention-seeking, pseudo-confessionals by ex-bankers (usually failed ones, although they'll rarely admit that, preferring to portray themselves as having quit for moral reasons, rather than having been unceremoniously fired), getting all angsty about their previous life as an evil, greedy, detached-from-reality monster. Geraint Anderson, Polly Courtney, Tetsuya Ishikawa, John Rolfe and Peter Troob - they're all just pale imitations of Michael Lewis's "Liar's Poker" (Frank Partnoy's "FIASCO" is a notably less-pale imitation), feeding the media's seemingly-endless appetite for new scandalous revelations about the behaviour of people who get paid lots of money.

Seriously. Enough already!

Disclaimer: I was an evil, greedy, detached-from-reality monster in a previous life.
That depends on how you account for it reaching someone's pocket. With the current rules someone on a salary will pay tax the moment they earn the money. Someone that owns a company will instead pay himself a small salary and keep the cash inside the company earning interest before tax. But if you were really willing to reform the way corporate/personal taxes are done you could potentially fix that too.
I'm excited to see where this goes. You are right about the competition. There is tons of information out there, but not many are wiki and none have the responsiveness or a clean modern design yours does.

Kudos on the "free and open" promise! I hate logins.

Critique:
- I second the suggestion to encourage contributing to OSM. Most popular hikes will be in OSM already and adding them to hike.io could be as easy as selecting the route on the OSM layer.
- can you use a USGS layer for US locations? see mapper.acme.com
- Adding an entry should be easier. I selected the coords, but was still required to enter the state, country. I would like to simply add a few points on a map and have the elevation/gain calculated for me
- driving directions? why a block of text? why not a link to google driving directions?
The folly of convergance
Those were all designed for posting, putting, and deleting discrete hypertext resources - which I am calling 'documents'.
Really? I would imagine it's exactly the opposite - it's one of the rare professions that can earn you a livable salary without working overtime/two jobs. Though, maybe if one extrapolates about the entire profession from the few famous startups (and movies about them), you're quite correct.
> *Suppose that [...] Wall St. had used the same tactics to sell crop futures. [...] Instead of the housing crash there would have been a famine.

Allegedly, Wall Street did use similar tactics to sell crop futures, and there was a famine. See http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman... (note: annoying registration prompt, but registration is free or you can use your browser's webdev tools to remove the overlay) and http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari...

(Disclaimer: I haven't checked any of the claims in these articles.)

[EDITED to add: of course maybe AnthonyMouse's "Suppose that ..." was a rhetorical trick and his whole point is that it really did happen.]
It's unclear why they didn't get the UK Data Service to handle this, who have extensive experience in anonymization and data control (they handle the processing of census data and HMRC tax information by external researchers among other things).
It's more general than that. You can buy and sell stock risks like any other commodity. An investor who's confident in a company, or who knows they're investing for the long term, can take on more risk, and get a higher rate of return (on average). A pension fund that's coming up to redemption time can stabilize its value, accepting a lower growth rate in return for reduced risk. It's not just the businesses themselves, it's anyone for whom the stock price matters.
Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each
Thanks primitivesuave. I plan to make this work on a tablet to ease the workflow you just commented.
The natural advantage for west coast teams in NFL
What do you mean by that? OP was describing what they saw in real life.
List of Medium collections by category/number of followers
I did.

"replacing each bus with twenty cars"

You assume that either is this solution or no solution, which isn't necessarily true. In fact I would argue that this proprietary solution makes other solutions less viable. Both from a political and economic standpoint, with less pressure on the government and less usage for any public solution.
It's great how much data has been made open by the Dutch government. I was planning to mess around with some of their open data sets in the near future.

Http://data.overheid.nl
Like what many people are saying here, at many companies wearing a suit might actually be a negative indicator, especially for startups and some top tech companies.
Yes I did read it, several times even, because I really want to understand it if there is a difference. This is why I could remark what I did - because I've actively looked into explanations of the difference, several times, over the last year or so, and walked away with the same conclusions every time.

My point is that the more I try to understand other people's explanation, the more I think it's just semantics. To put it in your terminology as used in your post, it seems that you are redefining what is commonly and in a broad sense known as 'classes' as 'metaobjects' as a generalization of different ways to implement classes. Which is fine, when you look at the details, but to me the difference doesn't warrant overloading a well-known term like 'class'. (Although I'm still not clear what you'd call a C++ class, if it's not a meta-object as your reply suggests.)

To stay with your C/Pascal vs Smalltalk example - I'd be perfectly fine calling a C struct a 'class' when doing object-oriented C, for example as done in GObject (from GLib, one of the Gnome base libraries), and calling a Smalltalk class also 'class'. 'class' is a malleable OO concept, and its exact implementation isn't all that important or interesting conceptually, and is certainly not tied to one specific implementation of the concept. I still don't see how the Javascript 'implementation' (I put this in quotes because most things in Javascript are just accidents derived from design decisions that put a high premium on ease of implementation, which BTW is usually how I like it, I'm not knocking on JS for that here) of classes is so different that it warrants its own name ('prototype'), suggesting it's completely different from 'classes' (and not only that suggestion, but also people claiming that they're 'very' or 'fundamentally' different - not saying your claim is that strong, I can't really tell from the post, just that some people do).
Is there any point in taxing companies at all - they provide jobs for tax payers.
He's talking about tea _leaves_ though. With some kinds of tea you should actually throw away the first brew.
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| Also | supercool | to draw tables |
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| id | yeah yeah | this all day |
| stuff | and so on | long :) |
| time | i could do| |
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Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service
They also last 2-3 years at most ime. There was a time my old office had the kettle break every 3-4 months.
Your not trolling but you have a fixation that religious organizations are bad and therefor anything they do must be discounted.

For what its worth, not supporting is not always the same as opposing. Religious charities have stepped in in many cases well before any government agency has and they usually offer their help without "clauses" and "rules" that come with other forms of assistance.
FYI. If your insurance company requires you to disclose pre-existing conditions and you fail to do so, it will give legitimate grounds for the insurance company to cancel your insurance if you ever make a claim in the future.
I think the most important part is that WiseCash helps my users increase their rates (earn more / work less, because they know exactly their "time-wealth", how much time their business can remain alive given their expenses/income), have a better family life, or work on a product in a sustainable fashion.

So it brings important changes to their lives in a very concrete way (and I must improve the home page to do a better job at telling this). In that way, I believe the value can be demonstrated and measured.

I avoided freemium, focused on B2B, too, and it definitely helped.

As well, taking Amy Hoy's course was a great idea (even if I didn't apply all her advices properly, otherwise this blog post wouldn't be up online).
> As far as I can tell these same people don't complain that teachers and nurses jobs are mainly occupied by women.

THIS COMES UP EVERY SINGLE TIME THIS TYPE OF THING COMES UP. PEOPLE DO HARD AT GETTING MEN INTO WOMEN-DOMINATED PROFESSIONS SUCH AS TEACHING AND NURSING. I'M WRITING THIS IN CAPITAL LETTERS IN THE HOPE THAT PEOPLE WILL STOP BLOODY SAYING THIS EVERY BLOODY TIME!

Bah.
"Given one or two insurance claims for doctor's appointments"

You don't make any kind of insurance claim for visiting a GP (or indeed any other NHS service that I know of). You do make an insurance claim if you have private health insurance in addition to NHS cover but that's optional and entirely separate and that's for visiting a private hospital (although the same senior doctors often work at both NHS and private hospitals).
Why should every entrepreneur have a company to fill that blank? I don't think they should. That promotes an unhealthy, overly cynical view of the landscape. Cynicism does not a good entrepreneur make.

There are a million ways to justify why Snapchat is a dumb company, and a million ways to justify why Snapchat is a great company. One of the great things about markets is that there is an easy way to tell who is right and wrong, given time. Some investors have invested a lot of money into Snapchat. The fact is that many of those investors have a great track record of picking successful companies and actually betting on them (better than you or I). Time will tell who is foolish here.
Not necessarily. Different teas brew best at different temperatures. A quick and easy solution of course is to boil the water and let it sit for a while until the temperature drops.
> Don't become entrepreneurs. All the money, fame, and the joy of owning your own company is just ~terrible~.

I think that a generally good advice, not just for "the Ladies" you refer to. Most businesses fail, many entrepreneurs burn out, and attributing money and fame to startup owners is caused by the survivorship bias.
Naturally I'd assume in that case that dividends would be taxed at the same rate as earned income

What you want is an "integrated" tax system like Canada has, where individuals receive "dividend tax credits" which are approximately equal to the taxes paid by the corporation.

All of a company's wealth is ultimately destined for somebody's pocket. Why can't we just tax it when it gets there, and abolish corporate taxes?

Compounding investment returns. If I loan you $1000 at 5% interest, I have to report $50/year of interest income on my tax return. Since I pay approximately 40% income tax (federal + provincial), I have an after-tax return of 3% compounding annually. If you abolish corporate income taxes, then I could have my company loan you the $1000 and receive the interest; it would then compound at 5% per year, and I would only pay income tax when the money is paid out to me as a dividend. In effect, you would be turning corporations into tax shelters.

Now, this isn't absolutely insurmountable; in fact, Canada already has different tax rates for "active business income" vs. investment income, and theoretically you could have a 0% rate on "active business income" and a 40% corporate tax rate on investment income (which would then create non-taxable dividends when finally paid out to individuals). But you'd still have the complication that "retain profits" produces a different taxation result than "pay out profits as dividends, then raise more funding a few years later".
Okay. In honor of the late Paul Harvey, what's the rest of the story?
Your first and second paragraph seem contradictory to me. Javascript, through what is called 'prototypes', has "a family of objects with the same structure and behaviour, and a way to create them", and varies only in implementation and semantic details from other languages. So I agree with your second paragraph and would say that JS does have classes, but then I'm not sure what your first paragraph means.