skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He left 1 year into a 4 year agreement, so the implication is that he didn't walk out with as many millions as expected when he signed the agreement.
Brochure. Which, despite the tounge-in-cheek joke I was trying to make, actually tends to be a shorter and more example driven document about a product.
If you're in the UK and using Virgin you can opt out. Link on the error page, ISTR
Unfortunately, the headline is limited to 80 characters (not people, but graphemes like letters and digits, in case you're not familiar with computer terminology).
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Python squeezes out JavaScript, C as best starter programming language
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.” - Albert Einstein
No, bro is short for "brother", which is a male gendered person who has the same parent as you.

Brother and sister are the gendered names for children having the same parents.

"bro", in this case is short for "brother".
For arXiv.org links, please link to the abstract page rather than directly to the PDF: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0827

Also, it's often good practice not to link to a specific version (the "v1" in the original link here), since papers are often updated with corrections or additional references. (That's sometimes desired, of course, but it's not the usual case.)
How about an emergency alarm/buzzer that alerts incoming trains to anything on the tracks -- people or obstructions.

Low tech, but would offer a way to help people without risking your own life.

You'd need surveillance or something to prevent people from using it as a prank though.
>I would argue that intent is all that matters.

We are talking about whether the name is a good choice, right? How is intent even relevant? If I'm making something and trying to get other people to use it then all the matters is how a potential audience sees it?
Let me get this straight. The previous comment pointed out that naming this program in a gendered way that references the sexist concept of "brogramming" is unnecessary/stupid. You interpreted this as an attack on the right for men to take pride in their manhood? Really?
Take a break; Time for a HackNight
> "Finally, stop-assist is now doable via GPS signals and other lineside equipment, removing the need for signalling upgrades."

This is very cool. Thanks for the TIL!
It doesn't hurt to dream. Normally ;) BTW, this type of thing might be or become more widespread than I initially thought: http://www.cablewifi.com/
man is short for manual. bro can be short for brochure. Which kind of makes sense anyway.
I'm not sure where you got this idea that bro means "friend". To me it's more like what the urban dictionary says
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bro

1. Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties. When they aren’t making an ass of themselves they usually just stand around holding a red plastic cup waiting for something exciting to happen so they can scream something that demonstrates how much they enjoy partying.

2. An alpha male idiot. This is the derogatory sense of the word (common usage in the western US): white, 16-25 years old, inarticulate, belligerent, talks about nothing but chicks and beer, drives a jacked up truck that’s plastered with stickers, has rich dad that owns a dealership or construction business and constantly tells this to chicks at parties...
Went to bropages.com later to install this (instead of .org). The irony, it hurts.
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So much for just taking one quick look at HN, then getting to work. Next time, I'm going to stick to Quibb.
I've done this myself, and this is situation is one of those moments where, if you are really honest with yourself, you discover two opposing motivations within. One the one hand, I'm doing this because I really do enjoy helping anither person attain the superpower that is programming. On the other hand, this is also the most effective way to ensure that you don't actually end up giving up 12 months worth of Saturdays, because most people will drop the idea once they realize the scope of what they are asking.

On the third hand, finding a student who actually stuck with it through a year of Saturdays would be a wonderful experience.
I took a poll of the other person in our hackerspace right now: she thinks this is funny.

>Isn't it way more offensive to assume that women are such dainty delicate creatures that like, they won't get the joke?

I think so. Every female hacker I've ever talked to has expressed that their worst fear is people acting differently around them. They want to get treated like humans, not like outsiders.

Banishing any sort of word play because "the women" is pretty offensive to women.
By treating the person and their offer as genuine and serious.

It was for 50-50, not some bullshit. Start by asking how they envision their half of the remaining work. Listen to what they have to say. Probably they haven't really thought about it. In that case, they will have a more realistic understanding of the context and what the offer looks like to you. That doesn't mean they will like what they see, just that they will know what is rational.

On the other hand, your friend may have thought the idea through or be willing to do so and if so who knows where things could go. There's a chance that the magic is there.
Personality Differences between Mac and PC Users in a College Sample
I think it's more an Amazon naming thing. Their other big made-by-amazon show is called Alphas.
Neither strategy is sufficient. Putting armor on areas that had statistically more bullet holes based on examining planes that survived, is obviously not a good strategy as explained in the article. But neither is the strategy of armoring up all the areas that did not have bullet holes. May be not all of those areas are critical. You just don't know unless you examine the planes that did not survive.

In the absence of data on the planes that did not survive, you just have to follow sound structural/mechanical/electrical/mathematical (flight trajectory) principles to determine which of the exposed surface areas of the plane are likely to be hit under various trajectory fly overs over anti-aircraft gun batteries, and among those areas , which are critical (engine, pilot cockpit, weapon storage, fuel etc), and armor those areas up.
Not sure if you read the links, but I think they were posted here to (accurately) point out that overgard's comment contains two really common tropes that people use to dismiss men talking about feminism. Each post is like two paragraphs long and not particularly controversial, so a comparison to the Bible is pretty far off.
Analysis of the OpenSSL random API
Very well made tutorial.
For simplicity, let’s assume that you value all human equally. Then the question if not if he could have saved a life. The question is if (under similar circumstances) the probability of dying was less than the probability of saving the other person. I think it’s not reasonable to attempt a rescue with a 90% dying chance, knowing that there is only a 10% chance of success. On the other hand I think it’s reasonable to attempt a rescue with a 10% dying chance, knowing that there is a 90% chance of success. It’s very difficult to estimate the chances in this case, because we don’t know all the circumstances, the available information and the point of view. And it’s impossible to be sure how I would have reacted in the very short time that was available.

And if you want a more complex model and don’t mind using made up numbers, I’d prefer to weight myself and my family members with 2 points, and give my daughter at least 5 points.

Condolences to both families.
An ad hominem is an attack on the messenger. The poster merely gave reasons why the credibility of said link shouldn't be taken at face value.
The point of a startup is to make a successful business. If things are actually shifting towards a meaningful number of people founding startups for the purpose of getting bought out by some huge company later on, we are doomed.
Ad hominem? Hardly. It's funny if you link to articles about "silencing tactics" and then falsely invoke an ad hominem fallacy.

Pointing out bad and illegitimate sources is not an ad hominem.

In any event, your first article isn't even relevant to the original poster.

The second doesn't even address any argument, it just moves the goalposts into an issue of patriarchal values and how all women are (ostensibly) inherently oppressed from conception.
Back in school, my sports coaches would sometimes refer to all male groups as "ladies". However, I suspect this is not what you're talking about ;)

As much as anything, I've heard many women refer to mixed gender groups as "guys" or "dudes". A lot of this "definition creep" is actually due to women themselves. Probably this is because the male identity is viewed as a source of power, and women seek this out and aim to identify with it.

In other words, I don't think the use of "guys" generically is being driven by sexist men. I think it's being driven by blurring of gender roles and definitions, and adoption of these generic terms by women.
"Geek Feminism is a highly politicized source [because they're feminist]...Perhaps you can find a more neutral source to cite as evidence [that somehow covers feminist issues without being "politicized"]"

Furthermore, those explicit two pages I linked basically describe his argument and then rebut them. We can have a discussion about why the pages don't in fact describe his argument or about why you disagree with the rebuttal. I can even verbatim paste what it says if you want.

I don't really want to debate on how skewed or biased the wiki is, because I don't really read it. But those two pages seemed relevant to me.
Protect the King : a clever crossover between Chess and Zombie games
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Technically speaking, in classical GR if you begin at any point inside the event horizon of a black hole, your entire future light cone is also contained within the event horizon. That means that a black hole event horizon truly is "uncrossable" (as you phrase it), not just "inescapable". (The Newtonian analogy of escape velocities doesn't really capture the details of GR in this case.)
Pam is also often short for Pamela, which, if we're going to stick to no-gendered-anything-ever, is a gendered name.
In Illustrator you don't have to do step 1 or 3.
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Because that's worked out so well for our veterans...
This doesn't mean dewitt point is invalid. From the point of view of someone outside of USofA bro is portrayed in the movies and the internet exactly as dewitt and urban dictionary says.

A loud and obnoxious fraternity guy with partying, acting stupid and engaging in despicable behavior as their life style.
I believe it is in this universe :) Easily landing a cushy job after a start-up failure is in fact life in the alternate universe.

Besides you don't have eternity to keep trying to start companies, after one or two bursts you are pretty much done if you aren't already wealthy.
you're doing something wrong if this is an issue for you.

I personally would like to apologize to everyone for dissing CoffeeScript in the past, here (thus my low karma) and elsewhere.

I'm working with a new customer now, three weeks already. and they're using CoffeeScript. and I had to get over myself and start using it. and it's amazing. I've been so stubbornly blind to be against it without actually trying it out yet cursing and flaming against it. it's so much faster to work with it, it reduces the boilerplate code, it simplifies everything.

and, yes, I still think you need to be able to know and use JavaScript very good before taking on CoffeeScript -- otherwise topics like the one we're discussing here arise.
There is also a difference between doing nothing and doing things in a way which might be less effective than maximum effort but which would be safer for yourself.

e.g. if I'm alone and unarmed, and I see someone stopped involuntarily by the side of the road and relatively safe, in a bad area, in a normal-to-sketchy car, etc., I will probably call the police to report it, rather than stopping myself. If I see an elderly person in a rich area in a non-threatening car with a flat tire, I'll possibly stop and offer to help, or at least put better flares or whatever behind his car and make sure he's ok for water/health while waiting. If I see an actual accident in realtime, or the aftermath of an obvious accident, with likely trauma to passengers, I'll almost always stop (unless police/paramedics are already there).

Similarly, if someone was standing on the tracks with an approaching train, I'd verbally command him how to GTFO, and possibly belt/bag-as-rope, but particularly if it were an adult stranger who is potentially suicidal or otherwise unlikely to cooperate, I'd be instinctively reluctant to get in front of the train myself. Someone who accidentally fell would scare me less, but would also be more likely to be able to get out on his own or with assistance from the platform.

But the time to make all these decisions is well in advance of the incident; what level of comfort you have with different kinds of threats, skills in dealing with things, etc. I'd probably be more comfortable with water rescues (since I actually trained for this as a dive master) than most people, but less comfortable dealing with crazy/mentally unstable people, and more comfortable with end-a-hostile-threat vs. prevent-self-harm.
> "The cops said there was no need for that -- that they had me on video, and they had audio. ..."

So the cops were flat-out lying?
Hm. I always assumed Julia referred to Gaston Julia.

Funnily I was working at a place where the HR manager was named "Julia Lang" so we all had a laugh when I discovered (and pitched) the language - with its website "julialang.org".
Trains take miles to come to a complete stop. Unless the person is standing in the tracks for minutes these would be ineffective.
I have to agree, I will probably write 10k lines of coffeescript in the next year, much of it in reusable and open source libraries, and OPs problem does not seem to cause issues all the much in practice.

People have to distinguish between the simple issues that trip up beginners, and the fundamental issues that plague you for life.
> I use both javascript and coffeescript extensively and regularly, and I just don't understand how this ever causes real problems to anyone

If you have a team that is big enough and a project that lives long enough that someone has to do changes in some old code, this thing is bound to happen sooner or later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
>If you're feeling oppressed and excluded by a command name, your real problems lie elsewhere.

Similarly, why are you so offended by people thinking something is a bad name and expressing those sentiments?
The IPython debugger ipdb also makes a great replacement for the builtin pdb.
Realistically, 2.488 Gbps shared by 32-64 customers is pretty damn good; it's a bare minimum of 38 Mbps/customer. That's like having your own DOCSIS 1.0 channel.
I was surprised at how short this article was. I feel like a lot more than 240 words could be dedicated to "What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google".. most of which was just filler for "think carefully about the return on investment, including the effect on team culture, not just the bottom line" and no real insight or guidance.
It's random. We rarely add that for companies more than a year or so old.
Yeah, because US Congress lacks the balls to decently fund public service.
for a man to be offended by this FOR the sake of women, you must be one pussy whipped mofo.

let the down votes commence.
For code, just put a couple spaces before the line:

apt-cache search 'movie.*python|python.*movie'

In general, you can also stick a space after them * * *.
Welcome to the real world. How did that red pill tasted like?
One kind of interesting thing about Azure's compute pricing is that stopped VMs are free. You can pause a VM, deallocate it (which removes it from infrastructure like IP addresses / node allocation / etc. and puts it into cold storage), and not pay anything until you restart it. But when you restart it's in its previous configured state. AFAIK the only way to do that with other cloud or VPS providers is to dump a custom image and then boot off the new image. For some uses that's fine, but for other uses having an interface more like pausing/unpausing a VMWare instance, with persistent state rather than fresh provisioning via configuration management tools, is nicer.
I'm confused as to how any entrepreneur could face "40+ years" as a "cube rat". I had some early success in the '90s but zeroed myself out with the first VC-funded company I founded; I left San Francisco with no savings, a wife and two kids, for a job in Ann Arbor. 4 years later I founded the company I'm at now (which we sold last year.) I could have stayed at that job less than 4 years; I almost left 2.5 years in.

My point is:

* Even with significant obligations, a startup failure is unlikely to result in your opportunities being limited for very long. Yes, you'll probably end up needing a "real" job for awhile, but (a) not necessarily for very long and (b) if you crater a startup, a normal job is probably a good move anyways.

* If the only job you can secure after killing a company is as "cube rat", consider whether your prospects as an entrepreneur are really all that much better. People like to believe that entrepreneurship is something totally different than executing a conventional career, but that's mostly a myth.
I agree that the name sucks. For some reason, I think boy pages would have been just as funny without the same baggage.
No. And, no.
It could be a reference to newly-written software in "beta test".
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Caltrain tracks go through high stress areas in the Bay Area where more people are prone to suicide. It's a readily available mean nearby to get it done quickly. I've known a friend of a friend done it after years of depression. A number of students in Palo Alto high school have done it on the track. Palo Alto high school is very competitive and students are under enormous pressure from parents to do well.
To create the MacBook Air, Apple took out the spinning HD, the optical drive, and soldered in the battery.

To create the new Retina MacBook Pro, Apple took out the spinning HD, optical drive, and soldered in the battery. But they also put in a Retina display--as well as the more powerful GPU and larger battery it requires

The current MacBook Pro IS the Retina Air in everything but name only. It's the thinnest and lightest laptop that Apple can make with a retina display.

In summary: the hard part of a Retina Air is not the pixel density, the hard part is the power. Any blog post that does not address that question is not adding much to the conversation.
You got it all wrong, the name of a command has to be practical and be related the actual use of the command.

Naming your command based on an inside joke renders it pretty useless to those outside who don't get the joke and hard to find when you don't already know the name.

Less being named from more makes sense, both are common terms and less is more. But bro as a related thing to man when it is actually something totally different is too far fetched to make any sense.
I lay awake wondering if I'm napping properly.
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I took a poll of me, and I think it's bad and not funny. Now we're equal.
Nope. Ad hominem would be attacking that website's content and/or credibility by insulting the people that write it. The parent poster is critical of the wiki contents itself.
> Another offended man checking in.

And yet you typed out a racist, highly offensive word (far more offensive than "bro" I'm pretty sure) in your own 2nd paragraph.
I would be all over that!
Great idea. Never been a fan of the whole bro thing, but I say keep the name. If the women want a 'sister pages', let them make it.
I've heard stories of Detectives ignoring someone's pleas to check some evidence that would prove their innocence. What incentive would a detective have in NOT checking out the person's claim? Do they just assume the person is lying and that their intel on this person is solid? In a case like this, it seem plausible from the beginning that the CI could be lying, (at least as the story is told) perhaps there are just no consequences for these detectives when getting it wrong.

It just seems like it's worth checking this guy's Surveillance Camera Footage sooner rather than later.
Interesting.

The part that piqued my interest most is that weight is a huge factor in efficiency for the military (kind of surprised I didn't think of that before).

By replacing 25% of a brigade with robots, the army could substantially reduce weight without a commensurate decrease in battlefield effectiveness. This would lower fuel costs, increase combat readiness (fewer people to drill) and make time-to-battlefield far shorter.

I would think that in the tooth-to-tail equation, robots have a substantial place at both sides. As the saying goes, “Amateurs think about tactics, but professionals think about logistics.” (General Robert H. Barrow, USMC) and making the logistics chain more effective could translate into an overwhelming advantage.
Good lord. There's a huge range of options in between dead hero and "that guy who wouldn't do anything". You might, for example, bail out at some point after trying to help, and you should be allowed to make that decision without being equated to an idle bystander in any way.
I thought the name was stupid. "Bro" brings up a lot of negative stereotypes about guys.
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Agreed. I just watched the kickstarter vid and this is exactly what I've been hoping for. Can't wait til I get one in my pedal board!
In what way is this sexist? There is not a single word of disparagement on that site. Nobody in their right mind would say that the word "bro" is sexist unless they're explicitly looking to be offended. (IE: picking a fight)
How is "girls are bros too" or the term "bro" an off-color joke or insensitive. Maybe it's just the culture that I come from, but while "bro" certainly can be used to refer to douche-bag college guys it was more often used as "hanging out with my bros" (equivalent to "hanging out with my best friends"), which certainly could be (and for us, it was) gender agnostic.

I think equating "bro" to "nigger" is a huge effort to be offended. I opened the page after reading this comments and expected to see frat insignia, cleavage, etc.... Plain blue on white. Literally 200 comments on this page because they made a clever play on the term "manpages", something that any computer professional recognizes. Truly impressive work by those looking for something to be outraged about.
I don't have an objection. I'm not judgemental. I think that paper is very inspirational to think outside one's cultural conditioning.
Thank you for the hint. It seems that Google thinks if your circle members are turned into Islam that makes you a devoted muslim too who want to hear about Jihad and Hijab every other post. Let's hope none of us incidentally circle a pedophile or something.
I'm not offended by it. It just sounds stupid.
Huge HN thread not at all relating to original link...
There are loads of ethical systems that condemn wastefulness of money; the US has had at various points at least a plurality, if not a majority of people ascribe to moral systems derived from puritanism, so at least in the US, it is unsurprising to hear someone saying that wasting money is unethical.