skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From old memory (of Danny Hillis explaining it in a general seminar, etc.; if they'd had their hiring act together, I would have joined them), the key in the CM-1 is the connections.

It was a SIMD machine, a single instruction at a time was transmitted to all the CPUs (one of the reasons a company had to be formed, the top notch analog EEs he had to hire to make it work had salaries higher than an MIT professor's, which just isn't done), and depending on their state they'd do something, or perhaps ignore it.

How you laid out your data was key; what I remember of the example he gave, each street intersection was allocated to a CPU.

There's of course much better accounts out there, but this might give you a flavor. It's entirely unlike the usual MIMD machines which they and many others built later.
GP appears to misunderstand to what "corroboration" applies (evidence, not allegations), but he's not completely wrong, and at any rate an explanation is not hard to find:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corroboration_in_Scots_law
Do you realize how patronizing it is when white males get preemptively upset over something instead of letting women and minorities speak for themselves?
> It has been a casual term of friendship and acknowledgement between guys for even longer than it has been a douche-bag-frat-boy-sleazy-programmer reference, however.

In my entire life, I have only heard "bro" come from the mouths of bullying douche-bag frat-boy sleazes, usually while telling me the assault they just committed against me was "just a joke". It has never come from anyone I would willingly subject myself to.
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There's another tool pretty similar to this that I really like. Many of the entries actually have a pretty extensive "EXAMPLES" section (I remember the `tar` one actually being super thorough in its examples). Some of them don't, but they typically have a thorough explanation of what every flag for that specific command actually does (I'd rather...you know..learn how something works rather than just copy and paste a bunch of commands and flags). I can't remember what it's called.
From the Wikipedia link in your profile I see you invented Google's "Don't Be Evil' motto.

At least now I finally understand how they manage to still hold on to that.

As long as you redefine evil to exclude things you don't feel other people should be hurt by you're all clear!
I don't get why is this on front page.
IPython is awesome, enough said. If you are not using it, you are doing it wrong.
No it's not. sudo echo "bro $*" > http://bropages.org doesn't work and "gem install explain" neither.
http://www.lenovo.com/images/gallery/1060x596/lenovo-laptop-...

Oh god, you're right, they did!
That's horrible!
Come on, it's HN. If he had succeeded, the top comments would still have been critical in some way ;)

(And yes, I understand the irony of this comment!)
Yeah if they were talking during laugh track it would be so much better... (sarcasm..)
We should compile in a Wiki (or something similar) everything that might make someone uncomfortable.

That way, we can look up and make sure this thing never happens. Then, with any luck, a strawperson (not strawman) will never feel like that for something on the internet again.
Here's a BBC article but it has been discussed frequently in the Scottish press. Google is your friend.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-2573...
Unless you're trying to market a new product, in which case how people feel really does determine how your product is.
Eh, I dunno. I'm definitely not one of those people whose champion cause is gender issues, and to be totally honest I rarely even think about it much. My general philosophy is "be professional", not "lol check ur privilege." That being said, I think you're off here.

> If women tend to be intimidated by head-to-head competition (of any type) with a man, it doesn't mean it's wrong or immoral for a man to compete head-to-head with a woman.

Err, it sure is when men have an obvious advantage. This is why we don't allow men to play in the WNBA. When men don't have an obvious advantage (e.g. competing for grades in class), you're absolutely right. Men definitely have an advantage in tech right now. You can argue whether that's innate or cultural, but it's kinda hard to argue the premise.

> If women tend to be intimidated when a muscular male stranger is in their presence, it doesn't mean it's wrong or immoral to be a muscular man in the presence of a woman.

Your actions are immoral, your mere existence never is. It's about empathy. No one's ever going to say you're wrong for being a muscular man, but people will think you're either insensitive or super oblivious if you're a huge guy wearing a hoodie walking 6 inches behind a small 105 pound woman at night in an alley.

> Likewise, if women tend to be intimidated when men use language that expresses pride in their manhood, it doesn't mean it's wrong for boys or men to use language that expresses pride in their manhood.

Come on: first of all replace "man/men" with "white" and see why your statement sounds a little ridiculous.

Second of all, no one wants to hear that shit either way. If I have to listen to a group of women talk about how great it is to be a woman, I'm similarly going to either leave the conversation or say "what the fuck?". Wouldn't you?

That shit gets old real fast if you're on the outer circle.

> To all the boys and young men who are barraged daily with messages scolding them (or worse) for using language that implies they're male: Keep your chin up. These people want to break you down, not lift anyone else up.

Truthfully, nobody really gives a shit what anyone has to say. It's more about who you say it around. If you wanna jibber-jabber about 401Ks or real estate investment with your bros, then go nuts. Maybe keep that talk to a minimum when you're around the guy making $8.50 an hour though, you know?

It's just about sensitivity. Bro.
> Bernanke never said this (http://imaginarymarkets.com/reddit-corrects-bitcoin-quotes-a...), and it's tacky to perpetuate this falsehood.

I don't understand this. He did say it....here is the paragraph in it's entirety from his address to the Senate:

Historically, virtual currencies have been viewed as a form of “electronic money” or area of payment system technology that has been evolving over the past 20 years. Over time, these types of innovations have received attention from Congress as well as U.S. regulators. For example, in 1995, the U.S. House of Representatives held hearings on “the future of money” at which early versions of virtual currencies and other innovations were discussed. Vice Chairman Alan Blinder’s testimony at that time made the key point that while these types of innovations may pose risks related to law enforcement and supervisory matters, there are also areas in which they may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.

He was using Vice Chairman Alan Blinder's testimony to prove the point that while those innovations may pose risks there are areas which they may hold long-term promise.

So not sure what you mean by he didn't say that.

Marc's original statement is indeed accurate, per the transcript of Bernanke's speech. [1]

[1] - http://qz.com/148399/ben-bernanke-bitcoin-may-hold-long-term...
I generally agree with that point. That's why I'm starting him off on QBasic. Actually if I can find a good graphics library for it, I might teach him Julia next.
Someone should coin an analogue to Godwin, where linking to the Geek Feminism Wiki is seen as an instant loss of credibility.

The wiki is hugely anecdotal beyond all reason, poorly written, often incoherent and their editorial guidelines clearly show that they have virtually no standard as long as the content fits under a vaguely feminist or social justice-oriented perspective.

(http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Meta:Editorial_guidelines)

Their "vision of intersectional feminism" is postmodernism gone wrong.
I tried reading the article but my ADHD started a fistfight with me. I did, however, look at this guy's kickstarter, and was pleasantly surprised to find someone execute on an idea that I've had in the past and have never been able to find. I don't really bother with pre-ordering things, but I will definitely get one when they are released.
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On https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7118142 they've changed the title and added YC W11. Maybe it's just a mistake.
This is a poor headline.

If you don't know that an "effects pedal" is a piece of musical equipment, the headline makes it sound like open source, programmable effects are riding bicycles for guitarists, musicians and hackers.

I guess it's conceivable that people would come up with a fundraising idea involving riding bikes to fund musicians, but referring to the bike riders as "open source, programmable effects" sounds downright bizarre.
Well it sounds like "the terrorists" have won the war in your mind. Fearing the state you turn your back on your neighbor.
It sounds like they want to shrink the size of a brigade and say they've replaced the soldiers by robot but actually they'll just be shrinking (Edit: It's not like I'd contest the decision to shrink brigade size. The main thing is the claim this will be replacing soldiers with robots, seems like just overly bold PR.).

Unless there were a whole lot of articles on robots working outside of rather specialized situations like defusing bombs (where I think a lot of the operation involve remote control activity, not autonomous activity).
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The etymology is inoffensive, but the term itself is still exclusionary by way of "man" also being a gendered term. We are (and should be) more cognisant of these issues these days.
...like BART-ification.
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Much as I dislike the word 'bro' (and jock and nerd ftm), there are two huge assumptions here - 1. the language we use has that kind of subliminal power, and 2. that unintended offence is something given rather than taken.

Stephen Fry has views on both topics: http://www.atheistrepublic.com/gallery/stephen-fry-taking-of...
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/05/religion.hayfestiv...
It's not about understanding. I'm sure he can understand it just fine. But he's also learning how to use an editor. Throwing in significant whitespace is just going to add frustration.
"The crime of obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, refers to the crime of interfering with the work of police, investigators, regulatory agencies, prosecutors, or other (usually government) officials. Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice."(1)

Fortunately (heh), we've carefully defined obstruction of justice in the USA so that it doesn't seem to apply to prosecutors who stare right at exculpatory evidence and then try to hide it to pervert justice anyway. I'm inclined to stop calling them "prosecutors" and take the advice of my spellcheck when I mistyped it and call them "persecutors".

(1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice
Good question. The theory of singularity requires "greater-than-human intelligence" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity). Anything even approaching any kind of intelligence would be mind-blowing at this time, however.
(1) is exactly the context of bropages though, which is the topic of this thread, so it definitely exists.
If you're lucky enough to have "FU" money, then yes, you should worry about whether the acquirer fits your culture, whether you'll have control over decision, etc.

But for anyone that doesn't yet have "FU" money, where the alternative is 40+ years as a cube rat if you fail?? Worrying about team culture seems like a luxury.
I'm not sure how murder compares with his personal experience. He should apologize.
Sort of. There are folks who have C compilers optimized for smaller processors, my personal favorite are the folks at ImageCraft. That isn't what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about people who take the community developed gcc (which they haven't "optimized" at all) and Eclipse config, and some of their own startup code crt0.a + linkerscript. And then put that together as their tool for $3,000. I'm sure its a wonderful business for them.

RMS was railing that clang wasn't embodying the spirit of "free software" because it parts could be proprietary, but he doesn't rail against those people like IAR who keep their parts proprietary but are riding on the shoulders of the community doing the heavy lifting.

I find that notable because I like what the folks are trying to achieve with clang and do not like what IAR has done with gcc. Granted it is entirely my own personal pain point.
In the silly discussion, I do have a couple questions.
Can this be used in a machine that's not always connected to the internet?
Considering the ranking method is decided via votes, won't (theoretically) results change from one day to the other?
"1. The product is only as good as the plan for the product."

Right up there with Steven Covey's "Begin with the end in mind". I've witnessed it again and again - when agile developers/hackers/programmers grow up they end up doing design up front. Fail fast and often has it's place, but that place is finite.
There are also much more sane theories that involve no collapse at all (many-worlds).
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> I'm not feeling oppressed. The problem isn't me feeling oppressed, it's other people feeling oppressed.... You aren't the one who gets to decide when other people feel uncomfortable.

But.. you.. are?
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People make mistakes, and "in the heat of the moment" is exactly the time when people don't have time to rather all the facts and rationally evaluate them for likely outcomes.

I've accepted what I thought at the time was a relatively low risk to myself to extricate someone, and it later turned out to have been vastly more dangerous than I'd thought originally. I made a quick assessment of the risks and my capabilities, was wrong, and got lucky. (I generally weight my own survival disproportionately highly vs. that of others, too, so I don't think I'm really reckless.)

I judge people much more harshly for situations where they have a long time to reflect and choose not to.

In this case, he probably either thought the train was slowing/stopping, and thus he'd have more time, or that he could extricate the person more quickly than he did. It might be the case that what he did had a high expected chance of success and he was just unlucky, or he had wrong information in the instants before, or overestimated his abilities, or underestimated the difficulty, or just had bad judgement; we probably won't know.
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I thought that was the point of a startup in most cases. Developing a product, then getting bought out by one of the larger companies and getting out with your millions.
I agree that you need to be trained ... classes that teach life-guarding skills are essential around water, basic and advanced first aid, mountaineering, wilderness survival. You also need to be physically fit enough to do what you're contemplating (and more importantly ... know your own limits). I'm not going into details (it's not the point of my original comment) but learning these skills has been worthwhile.
Another offended man checking in. Why is it so hard to accept that sexist language and actions are offensive to men?

I suspect that most people would agree that white people can be offended by the use of terms like "nigger", or jokes about slavery. So then why can't men be offended by misogynistic language or jokes that are likely to create a hostile environment for women?

I clicked, I saw the name and was a little turned off but thought maybe it was just a clever shortening of a reasonable word I hadn't thought of (the way "man" is short for "manual").

Then I saw the "girls are bros too" thing and I realized that nope, the authors are just insensitive at best, jackasses at worst. They saw the complaints coming, but they thought it was more important to make some sort of off-color joke than to have their product taken seriously as the useful tool it could be.
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English is not my mother tongue so maybe that's why I don't get the humor here, what wordplay are you talking about ?

man is short for manual following a unix tradition, bro is a word associated with despicable attitude and stupid behavior holding those as life goals which has absolutely no link with its actual use.

There is no way I'm sharing my library of command examples I built for myself over the years with this ill-named initiative.
For this comment I'm going to assume that you are a man. I apologize if this isn't the case.

Let's say you wanted to be a teacher, a field that is largely female-dominated, and all of the teachers you've ever worked with spent a large amount of their time "expressing pride in their womanhood". Let's say it's pretty hard to find another male (maybe there are one or two in the school where you work out of say 30 teachers). Would you feel comfortable with the fact that you were exposed to things that were exclusionary to men? If teaching materials were named "sis-guides" as some sort of weird pun on something? If day-to-day, you were being constantly and actively reminded that being a woman in this profession is the norm and that you are not normal?

Maybe you can look at this and say that you'd be fine with such an environment. I think most people would be uncomfortable. It's not about suppressing expression of masculinity (although what does masculinity mean anymore), it's about keeping that expression from being the only expression that gets to occur in the entire industry. Maybe we can be "proud of our manhood", but maybe tone it down a little to include women?
Google's motivations are long-range, but simple - more ad dollars. Faster DNS means more people using the web (rather than give up in disgust - and if don't believe that happens, let me introduce you to comcasts's DNS servers...); more people using the web means more page view which means more ad revenue.

So no, definitely not altruistic.
You've nailed it here. Sexism and racism, etc. are serious issues but some people, for whatever reason, have lost all sense of perspective.
or 'pal' as in exampal (sic)
For lots more great stories about Sun, check out Nancy Householder Hauge's blog: http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/

She did HR at Sun for years. Look for the entries titled "Life in the Boy's Dorm" on the right sidebar. When I found these I couldn't stop reading them.
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I don't know of a pam command in *nix, but there are a ton of modules related to the "Pluggable Authentication Module" with pam in the name. When I say "pam" at work, everyone thinks "PAM".
Well now you're making an ad hominem fallacy. Can you please read the actual pages I linked and tell me why you disagree with their arguments or why the arguments they are debunking don't apply to what you wrote?
Maybe they got a traffic spike somewhere, cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-Bxi9p...

vaguely related NAMM news: Korg synth kit http://gizmodo.com/build-your-own-korg-ms-20-synth-with-this...
A very nice idea and I hope it will gain a lot more examples (at least I will try to add further examples)!

And I love the name and it's play on the manpages. But a lot here seems to recommend changing it - can anybody explain to a non-native-speaker what the problem is with the current name?
> where the alternative is 40+ years as a cube rat if you fail??

In what universe is that a likely outcome? For any reasonably talented person, the worst case is getting a 6 figure job at someone else's startup for a few years before you try again.
I'm not a woman and I had an instant instinctive rejection reaction to the title of this post. I made a conscious effort to click anyway to see what this was about, and now that I have I still have a rejection reaction to the name.
My jaw just did a Tex-Avery style drop.

"Perkins goes on to describe recent attacks on the wealthy in the San Francisco Bay Area, like the Google and Apple bus protests. He also writes that the public's turn against the rich represents a "dangerous rift" in America and compares such progressive radicalism to the German Kristallnacht."

There goes my jaw again.

I hope SFGate seriously misquoted him because this is so incredibly ignorant and offensive.

update: huh, story got killed. That's pretty interesting

update 2: nope, he really is that offensive: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230454950...
> You aren't the one who gets to decide when other people feel uncomfortable.

> it's other people feeling oppressed

Seems a bit hypocritical doesn't it? You are sort of correct.
The only person who gets to decide if "he/she" (notice the political correctness?) is offended is "himself/herself." Just as you cannot tell someone he/she is offended, you cannot tell anyone he/she is being offensive. The only person who can label someone as offensive is the person who is offended by the words.

Stop getting offended over pointless shit. Nothing can be offensive without offensive intent. 99% of the time, the problem lies with the person getting offended, not the person doing the offending. Nobody has an obligation to feel like they are walking on glass when he/she opens his/her mouth.
From what little I saw, Sheryl Handler indeed had no business skills.

My experience was trying to be the 1st or 2nd person to fill a particular job. I had a great interview process (except for Danny, a friend, initially giving me a hard time for not being in school ($$$)) ... and then nothing. So long, that it was more than a month later, when I'd accepted and started another job, that they contacted me to proceed.

As I understand it (I knew practically everyone who could do this job), it took them three tries to fill it.

The worse story, though, which was well sourced, was that they once contacted an applicant's current workplace to get recommendation info....

In part, I suspect they're another example of "Death by Lethal Reputation" in hiring: http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/halethalrep.htm
I'm sure it's in the plans.
Learn by example is powerful. Installed. Great work.

I am also concerned about the gender situation. I solved it with these commands:

ln -s /Users/tobinharris/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/bro /Users/tobinharris/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/sister

ln -s /Users/tobinharris/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/bro /Users/tobinharris/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/lady

ln -s /Users/tobinharris/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/bro /Users/tobinharris/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/lass

ln -s /Users/tobinharris/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/bro /Users/tobinharris/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/sko
It is the `get-help <command> -examples` equalivent in Powershell, right?
It frustrates me more than it should when these high profile articles make mistakes about basic Mac hardware facts. >.<

> Recall that Apple made the discrete GPU-less 13.3” Retina MacBook Pro thinner last year, but not the 15.4” model. These facts would match up nicely with a three-tier laptop segmentation strategy. Eventually, Apple would sell only three Retina MacBooks ranging from thinnest to thickest, stratified by price and screen size: 11.9”, 13.3”, and 15.4”.

The latest 13" rMBP was made thinner than the 13" rMBP before it, but it only _caught up_ to the thinness of the original 15" rMBP. The first 13" rMBP was actually thicker than 15" rMBP (something I found quite odd when it first happened).

(Mid 2012, Early 2013, Late 2013) 15" rMBP - 0.71 in high

(Late 2012, Early 2013) 13" rMBP - 0.75 in high

(Late 2013) 13" rMBP - 0.71 in high

So that entire paragraph is making an argument based on an incorrect statement.