skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am genuinely curious how this qualifies as sexist. My understanding, based upon my own experience as well as some of the research I have read, is that there is something to the distinction Atwood brings up in this article. Whether or not such a distinction is fact though, I would like to think there is a way to discuss such possibilities without offending reasonable people.

Is the issue that he claims a distinction? The way he values the qualities he ascribes to either sex? Something else?

More importantly, is he wrong? Without a doubt utterly wrong, or is there room for debate? At the end of the day that is what strikes me as most important.
It is absolutely physically impossible to work through a flu, at least for me.

The flu is one of the most debilitating disease I've ever had. I literally can't move, much less drive myself to work.

You positive you had flu?
It could also be used to attack countries without a well developed air defense system. It might not even be a country in the west.
It scrapes Instagram and foursquare, giving you a map view of all the people. Then you can set special alerts.
Still no support for LaTeX... Nice for non-scientific classes tough.
The entire story in all its objective context will never be known, and those privy to the story, Horvath and those involved at Github carry more context than we will know. For Horvath, you have to give her credit to go public the way she did. That requires a lot of courage that could have negative ramifications on her career, which could indicate that she was strongly upset about the incidents she described. I don't know her or her motivations, but if she would be playing a pretty risky game if she were to lie. What I will say is that I'm tired of the continual denial or downplay of sexism in this industry. I've seen it first hand, some of drink ups I've attended were a disgrace, and the frat house culture that some tech organizations have cultivated not only make women uncomfortable, but men too including myself. This man-child culture is embarrassing and needs to stop and it's a very real problem.
Given energy input, you can manufacture gasoline from atmospheric CO2.
It makes me really happy to see someone saying this on HN.
Your pompous and aloof reply doesn't really apply here. I'm good friends with my ex, invited her to my wedding, and occasionally meet down the pub. What I'm sure my wife, nor my ex's significant other, would've been happy with was cosy pictures of the two of us which I've failed to prune from Facebook. Whatever floats your boat I suppose, each to our own.
Me either.

I also think design has lost something major by losing these people. Much of the cutting edge site design today feels throwback compares to Jodi
Free, good looking, fast (so far).. color me impressed. And I access my notes on iOS, Mac, Windows, Windows Phone and Android?

Maybe I'm being idealistic but I'd love to see Microsoft become a truly cross-platform "enterprise-quality" software house. There's tons of great software out there, but rather little that works seamlessly (or even well) across iOS, Android, Windows and the Mac.. and with its resources, inhouse expertise, and no truly successful mobile platform to evangelize, Microsoft seems well placed to take on such a role.
I can imagine it's tedious because it's just so trite. How about we do away with trivial affairs like the location of one's birthplace, and instead work on using technology to make the world a better place?
> A phone is just a phone, not the second coming of Christ. “What people are responding to is much bigger than the object. They are responding to something rare — a group of people who do more than simply make something work, they make the very best products they possibly can. It’s a demonstration against thoughtlessness and carelessness,”

> [...]when I ask whether he is flattered or frustrated when he sees his designs so widely referenced, reworked — ok, copied. “It’s theft,” he replies in a heartbeat, his eyes narrowing sharply.

Isn't that the real shame here? I admire Apple for their undisputed ability to strike these marvels of design and the way in which they are immitated does reinforce that they have condensed their solutions into something true, something fundamental. And - fluffiness aside, I do think they serve as demonstrations "against thoughtlessness and carelessness". I admire it in a similar way that I admire how wikipedia has become the encyclopedia. The difference is that in the latter, we have realized that it is a common good that needs to be shared, not an asset that a company posesses.

I understand the enormous amount of work that Ive and his team have put into these devices and they are justified in thinking that they deserve a lot of glory for them. But maybe they are looking for it in the wrong places?

Maybe the identity crisis that Apple has isn't so much their inability to find the next big thing, but their over-attachment to their past hits? Perhaps the key to new glory is letting go of the old glory and sharing it with the world, their ego removed from the equation?
This is one of those tiny off-topic feedbacks that might just be me, but the colour choice on the inactive tick boxes means that when I'm scanning through the text and the ticks are in my peripheral vision they 'strobe' in a really distracting mildly off-putting way, like a subtle version of the dots in this illusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion
Interesting to think about how beacons intersect with other interesting things. I see a flash mob app in the near future.
Nuclear power solves that problem.
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Just one quick note on "women are underrepresented in tech". You are absolutely right. What is the solution? You think that Julie's case is going to help that change? Or we should focus on the root of the problem, aka. education. How come in schools (elementary or secondary) nobody tells to young girls that they can become an engineer? Why is the society parents, teachers, media included trying to push those girls to more traditional professions? This is the right topic to bang on if you want to solve gender inequality in tech and not the frustrated and hatred feminist crap what people usually associate the problem with.
Er, if the ISI wanted a 777, there are much closer places to steal one from and repaint.

http://www.piac.com.pk/
What about disposing of the batteries? and the rest of the car?
Expensive but, motorized GeekDesk?
So you use existing bugs in one given implementation to defend your point of view?
Love to see this out there, but it seems to suffer from the same visual clutter that I believe Evernote does. I love the OCR technology of Evernote, but I have the hardest time with it as a writing environment. Does anyone know of a nice, clean note taking environment for Mac that still supports links between notes and the occasional image?
The submission title immediately reminded me of the gevulot from Hannu Rajaniemi's "The Quantum Thief."
Another link on this topic: http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/reason_as_memetic_immune_disorde...

Essentially, the hypothesis goes that the smarter you are, the less you trust your intuition--even when it's right.
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> They [women] aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks. They are bad at behaving like self-promoting narcissists, anti-social obsessives, or pompous blowhards, even a little bit, even temporarily, even when it would be in their best interests to do so. Whatever bad things you can say about those behaviors, you can’t say they are underrepresented among people who have changed the world.

Why not, instead of selectively adopting this behavior when convenient, instead work to create systemic disincentives for it, if not across the business world, then at least in one's own little corner of it?
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Totally. Perhaps we have so many choices, (claim to) understand so much we are in tune with the banal futility of most of it. It's paradox of choice, extreme existential edition. Make the best of it and find something most interesting, also survivable and occasionally fix broken stuff other people accept by walking past.
Definitely interested in this as well, are you using any specific applications to track all the data?
I used to be fairly similar.. usually chewing through a book a weekend, and working on learning something new every other week. It gets old after a while. I actually make myself take lunches away from my desk most days. I try to live about 20-40 minutes from work so I can wind-up/down well. I tend to veg most evenings, but do a fair amount of reading still.

I actually took my first real vacation in about 7 years this past year. I left my laptop/tablet behind and my phone had no cell service most of the trip, it was actually in airplane mode most of the time. As an aside, it's amazing how long a cell phone will last with the antennas off.

I'm turning 40 at the end of the year, and still love programming. I'm still learning, and working with newer technologies, and now have the experience to see a lot of issues I may have glossed over, or ambitiously tried to circumvent when I was younger. My life is far more pragmatic now, and I assign value into down time. You should too.

My brain is still working through problems to be solved, and solutions to be worked through when I am at lunch, and in my off hours. The difference is that now I am much better prepared to deal with them during the on time.
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Simple fix: at least place your iTunes description:

"Cloak scrapes Instagram and Foursquare to let you know where all your friends, "friends," and nonfriends are at all times so you never have to run into that special someone. Think of it as the antisocial network."
When people say that you are moving the emissions from the car to the power plant, they forget one fact: To refine one gallon of gas it takes approximately 7.5 kwh of electricity. My Volt can drive around 32 miles on that amount of electric power.

With ICE engines, you are producing CO2 out the tailpipe, in the refining process, the transport, etc.
We need a version with tiny sharks being jumped.
"The only way we'll get to understand that is by finding the black box which of course would explain the whole thing anyway."

I appreciate that there are technical challenges and costs associated with the following idea, but it would be quite an interesting project to create a system that would transmit Flight Data Recorder (FDR) information to a ground location.

Off the top of my head, it would need to be flexible, perhaps recording more detailed telemetry in cases where cellular networks were available, to being able to provide critical, but perhaps less-detailed telemetry, in cases where only satellite communications were available. In addition, data monitoring systems could be programmed with the intelligence to transmit more detailed telemetry in the event of an anomaly (e.g., the "left turn" with regard to MH370). This would be an attempt to find the right balance of data fidelity, with regard to available transmission capabilities and associated costs.

Sadly, as it is now, we are left with relying on essentially locating the proverbial "needle in a haystack" with regard to locating the FDR. Another example is the case with AF447 [1]. Although the FDR was recovered, it was not until nearly 2 years after the incident.

My heart goes out to those that lost loved ones. Not having closure is an extremely painful and difficult process to endure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
Thanks for the tip! I have tried one briefly, but it felt a little weird for me, but that's probably because it was new to me. But the Penclic is working really well for me - the key thing for me is that I don't have to turn the hand so the palm is down (at least not as much as with a regular mouse).
I like the idea of automatically recognizing a quorum based on sensors. Will make auctions and voting interesting.
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Interesting. Replicability is the hardest part of docker for me--not tying to the environment.
I don't know that it's underestimation so much as Occam's razor
Hmm. I must say I'm amazed you could generalise in that fashion - I can't speak for your personal experience, but we certainly don't treat English people as 'the enemy', and to claim that that is a consideration for an English person choosing to work in Scotland is rather laughable.
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Seriously, please put at least these two sentences on your website.
OP's comment may have been harsh, but it's accurate, and you should take it as constructive - you may have a really cool and useful product here, but no one knows about it at first glance. Make your landing page a bit more transparent as to the app's purpose and functionality, and you'll get more positive interest. Don't be sad!
I understood your original comment. It raised two polarizing political hypotheticals based on childish cyber attacks, that even the attacked cannot speculate on. It's just a website.
It's not really that bad? I think you're missing the target audience a bit. It's maybe terrible for you, not for everyone. Your main complaint seems to be 'it doesn't sync live' (well of course not, it's actual paper) and 'you don't have the digital form immediately' (that's pretty much the same complaint). But such a thing is not that important for everyone. I mean, once you wrote down the note, you already have it. So if your main requirement is merely 'having it', well then your settled as you have all access to it. And then you can have it digitized whenever you feel like.
It is a very interesting theory and plausible (more plausible than a cockpit fire IMHO).
"Ricardo's Difficult Idea"[1] (comparative advantage is available to all countries with free trade) is an example of an idea that sounds stupid on its face that must (on reflection and examination of the evidence) be true. Only a minority even of educated people believe in comparative advantage, but it is indeed an idea that can be the basis of expanded social trust.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ricardo.htm
Agreed, OneNote was my favorite Office app, and was my go-to note-taking app until I switched to a macbook. It made keeping notes in meeting much easier with recording and syncing.
Same here. Sorry guys, a site needs to have some kind of content.
I had the same problem, but it took 4.2 seconds for me to close the window. I'll read about it here.
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The plane itself costs more than $200 million
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I don't know if the governments of the world can do anything about this, but they're going to want to try. If they don't know how much money I have, then they can't know how much I should pay in taxes.
Yes, but I think what Herbig is saying is that the increased sophistication of assumptions means decreased likelihood that this was a deliberate hijacking. We get further away from Occam's razor in order to satisfy that.

As of yet we haven't seen any group take responsibility, no claims of hostages or anything remotely indicative of this. So if it was taken by a terrorist group, where is the terrorism they plan to conduct with it?
iPhone logger that I wrote myself which I'll be releasing the source code + app to.
A more modern work in the same vein: http://tane.us/
Sorry about that! It uses the nascent Web Speech API which seems to rely on external audio processing (i.e. how Siri works). Google has such capabilities so that's why it currently works with Chrome (although I think it works in Safari, as well).
Weird how the higher order (imo wrong) interpolation on the graphs immediately gives the whole article a suspicious flair.
Fucken niggers.
> It's more good business sense than rumour ...

Yes, very true. This is something most people don't understand about hacking -- it's just a business, much like any other. What was once an entertainment for a bright, bored youngster is now a trade, with tools and goals.

> People might even be ready to start hijacking automatic updates.

It's my hope that Microsoft will think of a way to prevent automatic updates from being taken over by just anyone after they close down the "real thing".
OneNote is now free for all platforms.
Yeah, I use a height adjustable standing desk too, and can recommend them to anyone that has to work all day long at a desk. Some studies suggest that one should sit 50%, stand 25% and walk 25% of the day when working in an office environment.

After looking at Anthro, Biomorph, Steelcase, Geekdesk, NextDesk, Kangaroo and others, I decided to go with Conset. To be precise the Conset 501-27 because it can go below 60 centimeter (23"). [1][2]

[1] desk in action (not me): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPlGbbmDBzI
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
The car and batteries are very recyclable.
ah right... I'm sorry for that. It should be fixed.
Well, I will say this as an advocate of nuclear power - the more important thing that it does is just get the cars to charge from the grid, which means the car user does not have to worry about where the grid gets its power.
I hadn't seen this yet. It looks really cool and I'll have to devote some time to learning what they're doing.
Just like the good ol office space quote, to me this is about incentive. I have PTSD from my combat time in the Corps, and when I got out I determined to never work so hard for so little ever again. I have since been a part of 3 startups (current employer included), and I continually see the issue where C levels like to do C level things and offer little to no incentive for actual productive employee's to continue to be so. I think there is a miscommunication in the American social business contract that is more exaggerated these days and that is where these problems start.

It goes like this:

C-Guy: I work 80 hours a week, and have for X years.. (implying worker A should too)

Worker A: I get paid salary, and no matter how hard I work I don't get anything other than state-mandated overtime pay.

C-Guy: Well if you worked harder and produced more value to company you might get a bonus or incentive Y.

(This is where the misunderstanding comes into play)

Worker A: I'm not going to kill myself on verbal half-assed promises of maybe bonuses. Honestly I'm getting underpaid as it is (startup culture ftl) and my time is worth more than you are paying me.

The problem is the idea of vague half promised incentives that aren't on paper and aren't easily legally enforceable. Hence, and entire section of the work force who might be able to do great things doesn't.

I forgot the other jab the C-level gives:

C-Level: We are working to benefit humanity and doing great work! Isn't that incentive enough?
I think you may be conflating a sports event (basketball brackets) with mental health ... not necessarily unrelated, but...
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When I switched to a Mac, I had to switch from OneNote to Evernote. I missed the various levels of structure OneNote provides, and also found Evernote occasionally glitchy. So it's nice to see Microsoft finally come out with this.
I hear you. This is the burnout that I was hoping to read about. Not some guy that gave up all his free time to become a corporate zombie. I want a solution to our burnout not OP.
For a PA system? I'm pretty sure all of that is using transistors now.

For a guitar amp, I hear you (though I also think the quality of things like guitar rig in the last few years have started to sound pretty believable)
Your question is lacking quite a bit of context. You haven't for example mentioned how much experience you have with the language, how much programming experience you have in general and other useful things such as what you are using Java for.

Now for recommendations there are a lot of directions that you can go:

* for one the language has a lot of features that all the fancy frameworks use, you should know these so you don't end up using some blown up solution when all you needed was a simple servlet. This would include things like: collections, generics, annotations, enums, concurrency, IO & NIO, JAXP, sockets, servlets, JSP.

This part is pretty heavily covered in Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Java". Not the easiest read, but definitely a very complete language reference. Servlets & JSP are pretty well covered in "Head First Servlets & JSP".

* another point to consider are general practices that transcend language such as coding practices, design patterns and testing.

You already mentioned "Effective Java", which would be the first one I would recommend in this category.

A very good book about coding practices based in the Java world would be "Clean Code" by Robert Martin. "Head First Design patterns" are very easy to digest, while the "Design pattern" book by the GoF is heavier reading. For testing I would definitely recommend you have a look at "Growing object oriented software guided by tests".

* depending on your field of work you might or might not be interested in Java memory stuff. This includes things like how and where objects are kept in memory, gc algorithms etc.

Have a look at this presentation from JVM tuning at Twitter and see if this is your thing:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/JVM-Performance-Tuning-tw...

* finally, and in my opinion the lowest return of investment you could get, is by going for some framework. Not that this is bad, but generally frameworks tend to have shorter lifespans than the language itself and they usually change between projects so all your new Spring chops might not help you on your following project that uses EJB.

I'm not going to recommend anything here, since this is a very fuzzy topic and it depends on the problems you are tackling.

Let me know if you need other ideas.
That's not the intended behavior. I developed it on Chrome for Mac, so it should just listen continuously. If you have a second, could you let me know what OS and browser versions you're on?

Also, I agree that it could be a cool service, but my wrapper is relatively light compared to the work being done by Google, so I'm guessing you'll start to see a lot of competition in this area.
Extension methods aren't so great. Odersky resisted putting them into Scala and they went for implicits instead.
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Well, if it were me, my first solution would be a raised 6" (or whatever) platform for a cheap stool just to see if I really want to pursue this solution. Then, if I did, I may consider shelling out some money for a cleaner solution.
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I'm a Scot, and lived in London for a few years. I had the exact same experience in reverse - if you're not from England and decide to live in the South East of England, prepare to get slagged. I now live in Glasgow, the city which has such a bad and undeserving reputation, and despite my posh-scottish accent, I've not had one issue with anyone I've worked with.

From a business opportunity perspective, I can say quite confidently that the Scottish startup scene is growing very nicely, and there are a lot of really cool companies coming out of Edinburgh in particular.
Apple needs to step their game up. The Mac Pro is arguably the most interesting they have produced in the last few years. Macbooks, while still elegant, haven't had a major design update since 2009. iPhone and iPad updates were evolutionary. iOS 7 is a travesty of aesthetic shortcomings, elementary design errors and bugs. Apple can't afford to be smug any more.
> Yes, pilots have access to oxygen masks but this is a no no with fire.

Anyone know why?
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And? Finish the thought.