skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I think brainwashing by some clever enough sect would be worse than regular trauma. In computer terms it would more akin to getting infected by a virus, while porn and torture are more in realm of a dos ?
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OP and creator here. Any feedback is welcome.
In other news, YahooLang trends upward on YahooTrends.
I used to think it an astonishing coincidence that Bernays was Freud's nephew. But then I learned that Bernays was involved in making Freud's reputation in the US (a reputation which was odd in the extreme if you think of, say, Dale Carnegie as a native species of American popular psychology). So the two variables weren't independent: Bernays helped make Freud Freud in the first place.
I used to do my laundry at that laundromat. All those people should walk up the street to Yuca's instead.
"In 2013, only 1 percent of the California high school students who took the Advanced Placement were Latino or African American."

How does that reconcile with:

"How can you have a culture that talks about its meritocracy [Silicon Valley], but when you press them, you see that they're 70 percent white,"

How is it Silicon Valley's fault when you can see these racial disparities as early as high school?

"We have to tell young people that here is this pathway where you can make $90,000 to $111,000 and the cops aren't going to come knocking on the door. You can keep the money. You don't have to win ‘America's Got Talent,'." Jones said. "And it's right there under the noses of people living in Northern California."

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Hi, personal experience is my source and the fact that I come across very very very few other technical women in my field, and when I do they benefit from small, gender-balanced or single-gender classes. I think what works best for girls depends on their age - and there are a lot of studies out there showing that boys also do better in puberty in single-gender classes.
One summer in my childhood, my parents decided to severely restrict my siblings and I's access to the internet for unspecified reasons. We were each allowed 30 minutes use of the family computer and its Internet connection, which was "locked down" by passwords on the BIOS and Windows 98 screensaver. The laptop I shared with my brother and sister was still connected to our home LAN (through one of those crazy Intel AnyPoint phoneline network adapters) so we could print out summer schoolwork and such at our leisure, but Internet access was completely firewalled off.

The collaboration between my brother and I to get around these restrictions is one of the earliest memories I have of fruitful "hacking." At the time we both played (and I was obsessed with) a particular MUD, and a half hour per day was not enough playing time, so we wrote a very crude proxy server in VB6 over a week (7 hours between us) that hid in the system tray with a very "system" sounding process name and icon. That way we could connect to the MUD in secret from the laptop, hidden away in our bedroom. I think we later wrote a terrible, barely functional HTTP proxy too. We pulled a few more tricks like reverse engineering the screensaver password (it was stored as a hex string in the registry or something), which turned out to be the same as the BIOS password, before my parents caught onto what we were doing and kind of gave up (maybe they even saw it as a positive learning experience, who knows).

That summer introduced me to the idea that a computer is totally malleable in the hands of a determined and motivated person equipped with the right tools. I haven't looked back since.
Despite the OP's title, the web site make it pretty clear that it's a word game site.

I'm amaze at how much work went into this. The interface interaction is very enjoyable, and makes you want to keep going.
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Agh he has. That's a shame, his comments seem to above average. I wonder how that happened.
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The ecological situation can be improved (damage slowed) by putting resources into it, or encouraging a shift in resource use through laws. Encouraging the onward march mindlessly is not helpful. There has to be some self-reflection and reevaluation of current strategies on how to get to the next technological age, if we are to get there without: nuclear holocaust; human-made plague; trashing our planet so badly we can no longer eat or drink; using up the resources needed for computers and therefore causing computer infrastructure to stagnate and decay just when we need it to run an AI; using up all our hydrocarbon energy reserves and running out of energy that we need to keep up the onward march...

There are many pitfalls that might cause this march into the future to end abruptly and miserably, even if the goal of a new technological era is physically and strategically possible given our current resource constraints. We would do well to avoid falling into a pit along the way, and a social dialogue about possible pitfalls is a necessary part of that.
unique data. love the presentation. very easy to understand.
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Well, I'm glad I didn't come to the wrong conclusion. It's too bad, though, because Minecraft modding got this kid really excited, and there are many (maybe millions) like him. It seems like it could be a really fruitful area for work.

Actually, when I was looking through stuff for him, I found a project that implemented Minecraft bindings for JavaScript with the aim of creating a friendly environment for kids. The author was an HNer and had posted it here a year or two ago. But the project had languished since then, and it struck me (perhaps unfairly) that it probably wouldn't work out of the box in all configurations. The last thing one should put in front of a kid is something that immediately frustrates them by failing in strange ways. Tools like that need to be really, really well-hammered. Which is one of the advantages of Scratch.
If you don't see the problem with IP hoarding by non-artists you're either a shill or naive.
Ouch, I suppose the moral of the story is don't play poker for money using a wireless connection.
One option would be to modify a Minecraft clone e.g. https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft
I live on this street. For the last 2 years it was a restaurant called Gastronomico. They started as a food truck, which still is operating and tweeting here: https://mobile.twitter.com/thegastrobus . The couple who owned it are chill hippy type people and I'm sure they know what's behind this.
In my experience those who start bottom-up tend to have a lot more practical sense of how computers work, and thus write simpler, more efficient code than those who went in the other direction; the latter tend to overuse abstraction and create elaborate architectures that result in writing far more code and generating more complexity than is really needed.
Agree. It's bad design. The user wants to contact you, not play a game.
Another option to consider is the Georgia Tech online masters program, just introduced this past year. See: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/announcement/
Will Greenwald profit financially from Snowden data in his new venture? I have not heard many details.

BTW, at least in the US, journalists have never been allowed to operate extra-legally. Were they allowed to, every mobster would also be a journalist.
This! This is the first comment I've read in this thread that's dealt with the core issue.

We, the world, don't need millions of people who can write a good sorting algorithm. A few thousand will do. We need millions of people who can use the sorting algorithm that those thousand people wrote, to build things higher up the stack, and billions of people who can use the things those millions of people wrote to do their work.

As you go deeper in the stack, fewer people ever need to understand it, and they will be paid more and more. We don't need more computer scientists and sorting algorithms. One good solid sorting algorithm is fine. The whole idea of evolution is we build on the successful developments of previous generations. We don't need to know how a lightbulb works, we just use it to illuminate the desk while we write a paper on genetics.

I don't think we should train kids to be computer scientists — the really talented ones will do it anyway, and the number of people entering this field will continue to grow for the foreseeable future — I think we should train them to be lawyers and doctors who understand code. To a level where can throw together a solid working solution to a problem they have, without having to go to a programmer who may not have the deep subject knowledge that allows a novel solution. If the doctor can code, they can iterate on their idea in a way that just isn't possible if someone else is developing it for them.

Excel and macros etc are the beginnings of this, but it'll go further — at some point JavaScript or Python will hopefully be prevalent.
> This of course raises the question of what is to be done; the answer is: live within your means, be responsible, know your neighbors, and don't be a weird conspiracy theorist.

I personally think that collapse is coming. If I had to guess I would say 20-30 years out but to be honest, that's a guess. It could be ten years and it could be a hundred. I don't think the system can reform itself. The fundamental question is how we, our children, or our children's children can plan to survive when nemesis follows hubris.

The things you have mentioned are the beginning but I will give you a few more.

1. Collapse isn't the end of the world. As Joseph Tainter pointed out, nutrition for many Romans improved after the fall of Rome. I would add that already nutrition among the poor in Indonesia (at least from what I have seen living here) is better than it is among the poor in the US, so we have already crossed the threshold where collapse makes sense to a large part of the population.

2. Trade locally. Build up local economic ties.

3. Plan on retiring with your kids. Raise them with this in mind. Part of this is inviting your parents or parents-in-law to retire with you so your kids grow up seeing this as normal.
But the question is, what did he do in December that jump started his downloads? Or, if he didn't do anything, what happened that started the rise in downloads/reviews?
the wording of the letter sounds pretty natural if you read it in his voice, too
The maintainer of mdadm migrated two nfs-utils sysvinit scripts of 801 lines into 14 systemd unit files of 168 lines.[1] Complexity won't go away with migration.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/584175/ (Subscriber only)
I only challenged the idea that there's no (good) feminist research, or that there aren't "years of" it. When this stuff started is was much more contriversal than it is today (in most circles anyway). Progress is good :)

And in case you misunderstood my point of view: I'm not advocating reverting to single sex education across the board. I'm saying that when there is documented bias (on the side of the educators and/or the students) it can be beneficial to run some single sex groups. I know that it can be useful in sexual education to do both separate and common sessions, for example.

As for the example in the article, having a class available to a single group of students only; I do agree that it can end up a negative(or strange) inpact on individuals. However the tale of a single privileged male child (obviously has awesome mother!) isn't conclusive evidence that it didn't do more good than bad overall. It might well have. Or it could have on balance been a good thing if we agree that equal oppurtunity is a worthy goal (yes, negative discrimination might be part of the price we should pay to get there).
This is just for 2.10, I bet they broke the 1k mark for 3.0:

dfc@ronin:texmf-dist/doc/generic/pgf$ pdfinfo pgfmanual.pdf |grep Pages
Pages: 726
I don't think that desensitization is an inherently bad thing. There are any number of things that people become desensitized to as they grow up.

In this modern society, there are many adults who have never so much as seen a dead body (having never even gone to wakes). In previous generations, and in different societies, seeing dead bodies is common place and does not have the same power to disturb. Does it harm a child to desensitize them to the sight of a dead human body? I don't think so. Does it help? Probably. It opens them up to being able to experience a wider range things, even if it is just going to somebodies wake, being able to watch that optional-attendance autopsy video in highschool, or consider becoming a doctor.

Further, in particularly prudish societies people may not be desensitized to exposed human flesh. Is an Amish child going to be damaged by the sight of a bare ankle? Is an American child going to be damaged by the sight of a finnish sauna? I sincerely doubt it. On the other hand, which is going to have a more difficult time wearing speedos when they join the swim team?

Many humans in industrialized societies are unaccustomed to the sight of an animal being slaughtered and butchered. Are children that grow up in farming communities where they are desensitized to this somehow at a disadvantage when compared to children who grow up in urban communities and only know meat as "that stuff that comes from the store"?
When I was a teenager (which was not long ago), coding or being technical in general was entirely uncool, but widely acknowledged as powerful. People would come to me asking if I could "hack" various things ranging from friends Facebook accounts to banks. Teachers would ask you for help if things broke. At one point, the principal called me into his office to ask if I could help him trace a threat posted on the Internet (after notifying proper authorities and presumably trying every other lead to do his job well and protect his students).

I'd say the problem is less that being technologically adept is low-status, and more that the problem is that being technologically adept/geeky/mathematical/mechanical is considered unfeminine.
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You wouldn't have to pay ~2x if nobody could drive cars. You would dream of paying only ~2x.
I briefly used Netflix several years ago, and was astonished at how good the recommendations were. However, I aggressively rated many movies in their catalogue to get better recommendations, movies I'd seen before not necessarily just movies I'd watched on Netflix. When I talked to others who had it, and didn't like their recommendations, it seemed to be because they weren't rating the movies at all.

Maybe they couldn't be bothered, maybe they assumed it would know based on what they watched, or maybe because these were couples I often talked to it was awkward to bring up rating the movie when there were potentially two different opinions on it, and one or both parties unwilling to debate the issue...
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> The ecological situation can be improved (damage slowed) by putting resources into it, or encouraging a shift in resource use through laws.

But this itself has a long-term cost in terms of both consumption and complexity. Put another way, you can't solve the environmental problems, really, if you demand that consumption continues to rise exponentially over time.

What I think we are actually being sold with the green energy agenda is a way to continue to grow consumption because this is important to macroeconomists. The problem though is that this leads to permamently debt-ridden, destitute workers robbed of social context in order to make the wealthy even more rich.

The environmental damage could be contained by taxes to reduce consumption but that has very significant implications for our way of life. Reducing consumption though is the only way out.
After a building project at Rice University was completed some time ago, they waited more than a year to complete the sidewalks. Prior experience had taught them that the students would walk the most efficient routes, beating a path where the sidewalks actually belonged.
You don't need everything to be in walking distance, as long as both ends are walking distance from transport.

... and that would be the problem, in much of the USA.
From my observations, the effect of disturbing content seems to depend on the person. Some people see it, are disgusted by it and are largely unaffected. Some people (like myself), see it are disgusted by it and then are bothered by it for a long time.

I've noticed that my son is the same way, so I tend to be very careful about what he sees. He's definitely more sheltered that some of his peers, but that's based on how he reacts. It's important to know your kids and know how much they can handle.
Actually, SV hackathons tend to have a lot of Asian, Mexican, Indian, female, and even some high school and grade school participation. SF hackathons seem more like the white young Caucasian guy stereotype the article complains about. I guess because it cheaper to live in the south bay so there are more immigrants starting out there and more people moving out there from the city to start families/buy houses/be closer to jobs.

Moving east from Palo Alto to East Palo Alto to Mountain View to Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to San Jose is pretty much a cost of living drop each step. I know I rented cheap in East Palo Alto down there working on a startup once for quite a few months and the neighborhood was predominantly mexican culture. Got lots of fresh burritos each morning for cheap and coded a lot.

I guess it's popular to just claim SV is everything wrong, though.
they so far have only been giving away the coffee... so there isn't a commercial aspect yet.
Oddly enough, just last week I finally got around to watching the Adam Curtis documentary about him: http://vimeo.com/67977038
>It is quite obvious on the 23rd day that fetuses are swimming around and exploring their environment purposefully. They are at least as alive and coherent at that time

Um well it isn't a fetus at 23 days its an embryo...
Suburbs as anything other than streetcar suburbs are basically only a thing due to the subsidization of the automobile infrastructure.
Yeah, but AI is taking most of my free cycles at the moment. Still learning, but not much formal computer science. Thank you for responding.
I'll believe that this is a parody, but one of Reddit-style legal analyses rather than Starbucks.
So can a company just call itself 'crapple' and sell hackintosh computers, and claim they are 'making fun of apple'?

Could they still use Apple logos, and trademark names? e.g Crapple Macbook, Crapple iPhone, etc. ?
>>Parents are warned to keep kids off the computer

>This point cannot be overstated. I'd never have been a hacker without vast quantities of unsupervised, unfiltered internet time around age 9-12.

Sure. What about ages 3 to 7? I had access to a computer for those years, but no bbs or internet access (partly it hardly existed, partly we didn't have a modem). You definetively need to parent (all) media access these days - but I generally think if you can't trust your 10 year old to mostly do the right thing you already have a problem... Then again I also think that if you aren't involved with what your (young-ish) children are doing -you're not being a very good parent..

[edit: my point is that today this is a decision that needs to be made up there with bed times, comming in at night/evening times, watchingb(which) movies.. and for non-technical parents that's a decision they'll need help makimg]
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Then what is "Scroogled"?
We must be talking past one another. I thought I was speaking in the electrical-engineering sense of clipping (my undergrad studies were in EE).

In any case, to make sure we're talking about the same things, I'll be more formal. Let y(t) by a time varying signal. Now define a maximum amplitude V > 0. Let us say that clipping occurs at time t if |y(t)| > |V|. Define the clipped version of y to be w(t) = max(–V, min(V, y(t))).

Now:

Claim 1: |w(t)| <= |y(t)| for all t. That is, the clipped version of the signal is contained within the unclipped version. Proof: Follows from the definition of min, max, and V.

Claim 2: The clipped version carries less energy than the unclipped. Proof: Follows from Claim 1 and integration.

Now, here's where you lose me. The claim you made that sparked this conversation was this: "the resulting clipped waveform carries a lot more energy than an unclipped one." But this claim seems to contradict my Claim 2.

Can you show me how to reconcile these seemingly contradictory claims?

Edited to add: I'm not claiming that these claims can't be reconciled. Rather, I'm hopeful that thinking about the exercise will help us to see how we're talking past one another.
check this out: https://cryptx.io might be similar
>Since it is impossible to autonomously do payments on the internet before age 18, my parents' willingness to let me use their credit card

Bitcoin (:
Someone had a go at that exact idea
https://github.com/pwarren/rtl-entropy
> It's a shame that albums like "It takes a Nation of Millions..." or "Paul's Boutique" couldn't be made today

While I completely agree with your sentiment, I also think it's important to point out that some truly incredible sample-heavy albums have been made "today" (read: post- Golden Age of Hip Hop):

- Since I Left You by The Avalanches [0] (said to contain over 3500 samples)
- Endtroducing... by DJ Shadow [1]
- Songs of a Dead Dreamer [3], Person Pitch [2], the entire discography of Girl Talk [4], the entire discography of The Books [5], most hip-hop mixtapes posted online...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Since_I_Left_You#Production
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endtroducing.....#Production
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_Pitch#Track_listing
[3] http://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-of-a-dead-dreamer-mw0000...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Talk_(musician)
[5] http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php?i=963
Unfortunately all of those video links are blocked for countries outside the USA.
Hitbox is off on this one too.
> Edit: also, the indentation in the first example is obviously just a means of illustrating that whitespace is non-significant with this project. I don't think they're suggesting code ought to be written without correct indentation.

Does anyone anywhere have a realistic example of Python's indentation system being a hindrance? To me, the complaint always comes across as "I should hypothetically be able to do things that I would never actually do or endorse doing"

And it's not like there's no flexibility for weird corner cases. I mean, all of these things are already legal Python 3:

for i in range(10): print(i)

# although you wouldn't actually do this
a = 3; b = 5; # a,b = 3,5

# and you REALLY wouldn't do this but I couldn't help coopting their example

if foo == "bar": _=(
print("indenation"),
print("doesn't"),
print("matter!")
)
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Right on their front page, guy.
>There are plenty of feminist research that shows there exist an gender imbalance in STEM, and most studies gives one or other kind of theory around the why. The theories are however rarely if ever tested. The "years of feminist research" has not gotten to that part yet, and won't until we demand more from researchers than summery of latest census data.

Could you give specific examples? Please limit yourself to peer-reviewed journals in psychology and sociology.

There's a long tradition of feminist research in psychology relevant in this problem space; it's incorrect as a matter of simple fact to claim that it doesn't exist.