skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your assumption that I said that says far more about you than it does me. People who shrug and claim pattern matching instead of being rational and overriding their immediate response are discriminating in a way I find offensive. I believe that is what you are saying in your second paragraph. Our humanity is the supposed to be the part of our brains that allows us to override animal instincts to fight, fuck, steal, and kill without hesitation.

So it's not so much to ask that if you're a white man and you think something crappy about a woman or minority, that you might stop and ask yourself to validate that, or find a better way to explain or phrase it.
Sorry, I hate to be this person, but do you know who the high-paid, "celebrity" hair stylists are? Men. If you look at all the communications careers-- teachers, psychologists, marketers. Men make the most money and have the most prestige in female-dominated professions. "Flipping" a scenario is rarely the best way of formulating an argument.
Yet another go-nowhere idea. Paul, et. al. apparently still haven't learned politics.

The 'startup visa' will happen when Paul, et. al. :

1. realizes that access != power

2. demonstrate power by having a group of people who have immigration reform as their top voting issue.

3. stop thinking that sending mass emails is effective. Congress has good spam filters too.

4. they need to put serious money behind it and even more serious time.

5. they must make allies with the broader range of groups working to deal with the immigration issues.

6. Lastly, they need to realize that the immigration issue gets solved for everyone or it doesn't get solved for anyone.

Before anyone argues with me: google "illegal immigration families broken up". Those people fighting to get their brother and sister, mother and father back. Those people have the power in the immigration fight.

Paul sitting around and arguing about 100 visas from an ROI perspective just demonstrates utter cluelessness about politics.

Hell, its not even a good pitch!

I predict the Startup Visa is DOA (again).
Reverse engineering file formats is covered by fair use due to this very reason.
>And, after having these verbal weapons leveled at him, and being in a subsequent fistfight, he was essentially told that "boys will be boys". This should tell you something about how the power structures in play deal with minorities.

The "boys will be boys" mentality has traditionally applied to all men involved in fistfights, not just minorities.
I agree. It takes time and the reading of other books. Eventually, when you're ready, it just sort of clicks and you're there.
Anyone know a good way to import notes from Evernote?
So in other words money gets to buy a shortcut in the immigration line.
It's magnitudes cheaper than hiring a team of developers for each mobile platform, like what most of the sheep following the herd companies seem to do.

Xamarin leaves details to do with views and presentation up to you. In a properly designed application using MVVM pattern you can use the appropriate native and best practices per platform.
Too late to edit, but for clarity "everyone has to vote at the same time" is meant to be emphasis on 'everyone', rather than 'same time', since voting is mandatory. Since all voters have to show up rather than just those who want to, it's harder to mislead more people.
Yeah, trg2 would need to put all the edge case rules towards the beginning. That, or just put the basic rules at the beginning and have separate conditionals at the end to handle the edge cases.
Yes, lets avoid the interesting discussion with irrelevant and uninteresting tangential points.
This sounds like they reinvented the transistor?
That's how Einstein defined our world. Actually it's common to see 4 (and more) spatial dimensions in some science fiction novels, including the very famous one called "Three Body Trilogy"("San Ti" in Chinese).
Would you mind trying to explain your strategy? I have little intuition for this one :p
Though I don't have any stats ready on how many heroin users end up as addicts that actually hurt their health, and how many recover later, you don't seem to have it either. Before we have some kind of numbers, I don't think discussing this can lead anywhere constructive.

I'm pretty sure that most users of nicotine (as smoked tobacco or in electronic cigarettes) get physiologically addicted pretty quickly, and in a pretty hard way. Though this is inconvenient to them, it usually does not bother people around, because nicotine is not a behavior-altering substance (unlike alcohol or cocaine). AFAIK, heroin is not a behavior-altering substance either. It's the lack of a dose what dangerously alters the behavior of a heroine addict (or an alcohol addict).

Since heroin is outlawed, users have far lower thresholds to pass to act unlawfully in other regards, since they feel like criminals already. A heavy nicotine addict may suffer immensely without a fix, but usually stays a lawful citizen despite it.

Take insulin: it's also intended to be used as a drug, and improper use can quickly kill you. Thats why it's a prescription-only substance, but a completely lawful one. Quite a few over-the-counter drugs can kill you, or at least severely cripple you, if used improperly. Do you think outlawing them is a good idea? (Hell, 3/4 pound of table salt, if ingested quickly, would kill you. I hope you exercise reason when adding salt to your food.)
I have a Sony Vaio for work, and was completely unable to get it to run Linux even with a live USB or CD. My research turned up the issue you've identified--their UEFI software doesn't work right.
Why should anyone bother with .net if Microsoft can't make a wholehearted commitment to have it run on all platforms?
Voracious Worm Evolves to Eat Biotech Corn Engineered to Kill It
Why not hard limit amount of time people's algorithms can spend?
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think of that...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407510

Alternatively, to move a given tile you have to flap a bird through a number of pipes equal to its value (or maybe a little more sanely, its logarithm.)
Oh yes, Apple is a serial offender too - my iPhone is stuck in a world where the iTunes store account and iCloud account are on separate apple IDs, and I've got no idea how they relate to the email addresses I can be reached on facetime through. Neither of them are associated with my apple developer account, either. I'm sure this identity stuff shouldn't be so hard.
You didn't do a lot of mashing keys right. This version really takes some thought.
Video audio keep play when pressing Next during video play. Windows/Chrome.
Ah, sorry, I wasn't clear. I've only heard that concern from political professionals on the left, not that the concern itself was associated with one side of the aisle or another.

And correct, I've never thought about the ethical concerns, so I'd be interested in your explanation. Most of the investors I've worked with in this space have already committed to invest in the startups dealing with immigration problems, and so their interest is to salvage their investment and stop it from being destroyed by the immigration system rather than negotiating the investment in the first place.

In my defense, "certified VC/angel" sponsorship is a hypothetical proposal that has very, very little traction in Congress, and that I've opposed in favor of broad capital requirements (e.g. the Moran amendment, which I supported: http://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?Fil... and some efforts by the US Chamber of Commerce that never made it into legislative language)

Thanks!
> Suggesting that it's ok to accept that automatically thinking a woman at a trade show is not an engineer is simply irrational.

Agreed, mostly. What if it was a women who was dressed provocatively, i.e. a booth babe? Would that change the circumstance.

In the case of the main article, the woman at the trade show WASNT and engineer.

But that's beside the point.

Slight semantics here--I think it's okay to make assumptions. I don't think it's okay to make assumptions and then act upon them as if they're fact. Like, asking a women if she's in HR.

For example: if you saw two guys at a company booth, one guy who was slightly overweight, had a unkept beard, and wore a t-shirt that had the Perl deCSS code, and standing next to him, was someone in dockers, a button up shirt, and had a blackberry, you might make some snap assumptions.

> Anger is a valid and rational response to continued discrimination.

How so? Does it end the discrimination? Does it further your point?

I think being angry is a valid and healthy emotional response, but not a rational one.
Why not let the market decide?

why not just charge $10k or 10% additional tax and just let all the people that want to work come in. Then when the startup fails they can leave.
Right, my concern is that they'll shut down the tools for non-MS platforms.
This reads like it has an assumption that people's programming ability is some hidden constant that gets compared. In reality it depends a lot on the task, motivation, current physical health, and mental exhaustion.
Srsly? Someone's gotta write a program to autopost the stats about men in nursing and men in elementary school teaching, and particularly the way they get promoted faster with less experience. (One source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/05/21/a-new-o...)

And srsly? The continuing trope that it's "men who are sexist pigs" who are the problem rather than "people who persist in employing infantile pattern-matching in the face of conflicting evidence"? Who said anything about only men making this mistake, anyway? Sensitive much?

And complaining about getting hit on in work situations -- been covered enough on the internet, but I just want to say I need to be paid a f(*&load more to add that to my job description. It is not in my job description.
You're not sexist, but you have less problems breaking the ice with men than women...
Yes, but the smallest interesting 5d one is 2x2x2x2x2, i.e. 32 squares, which is much more flexible than the 16 squares of the original (and of this one).
Even better, restrict algorithms to certain amount of CPU time. If you want to do more advanced stuff you can buy more computational time per cycle.
> You only take a job in business operations if you aren’t smart enough to be an engineer (or designer, or product manager, or…)

The article claims that this is false. But in fact, it's pretty obvious that the average non-engineer is less intelligent than the average engineer. See for instance this table of IQ by college major: http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estimates-by-intended-colle...

(And, yes, IQ tests do quite accurately capture what is meant by "intelligence".)
I totally absolve myself from captchas. If its required, I don't go there. Its demeaning, I hate it. I'm not going to struggle with some frickin game to help your website do whatever those are supposed to do, so get over it, web designers.
Yeah, very litle mashing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7419731
> Need I preface everything I say with "between consenting adults?"

No, because it wouldn't help your argument anyway: The point (which I think you've tacitly acknowledged) is that sometimes the government SHOULD protect non-competent humans from making bad decisions... the only question is which shade of grey you think society should draw the line on.

> No it doesn't because taxation isn't a la carte; it's a fictional scenario.

Please read it again. I'm describing the system we DO have, and explaining how it is already preventing the society from making quote-unquote-"wrong" choices with their money.
But software does change a physical product, irrespective of transistor states. If I create an algorithm that allows a robot to balance on two legs, that algorithm is directly affecting the real world. This is no different than if I constructed a difference engine that through purely mechanical means had the same result.

The math is the algorithms effect on purely mathematical objects. The patent is the algorithm plus a mapping between the mathematical objects and real-world entities. This is how it should be. The problem we currently get wrong is the "non-obvious" term.
he is going to piss more people off.

I think it was Tim Bray who said that lots of folks don't get along with Dave Winer.

I don't find Dave's stuff useful, including here on HN.
"you don't get to whine about this stuff, when you're the party in power" ROFLOL
You must think of yourself as some sort of vigilante, right?
I'll ask the obvious question: are you a human? :)
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How does this give special privileges to the recipients of those visas?
WARNING: Looks like a fishing(fake?) page!

if works even if i enter bogus account details!
Nice try, fake name. I'm none of those things. I said none of these things. But your toxic, anonymous rage and sweeping generalizations? Well, that's pretty much the definition of sociopathy. Way to keep Hacker News productive and constructive!
The normal transponder system is not designed to be on all the time. In light aircraft it's just a box on the dashboard like http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIRCRAFT-B727-ATC-TRANSPONDER-P-N-...

that you can turn on if you are flying into controlled airspace.

What I think they should have is a new system that pings the location and other data to satellites that can't be turned off and will work anywhere unlike radar transponders.
Shit Bitcoin Fanatics Say, Part 1
Have a look at apigee.com. The following link demos how you can browse the Google Latitude API:
https://apigee.com/console/google-latitude

You can browse a lot of other APIs by clicking on "Providers" in the top menu
Then what is the point of buying Xamarin? To shrink the group of potential Windows Phone developers even smaller than it is now?
Thought-terminating clichés don't belong on HN (or anywhere, really).
Go to hospital emergency room with unbearable migraine headache b/c no over-the-counter pain killers work anymore... Get $4000 in medical bills in mail a couple of weeks later.
What does $4000 get you there? An saline i.v. and a spoonful of morphine. Probably cost $2 in Afghanistan.
Initially I had no problems with them. But these latest ones are something else - I can't even work out how they are helping ReCAPTCHA actually convert text-images to text either. They're not [English] prose of any sort.

If I have to reload because there's no way I can work out if that character is "in" or "rn" or "m" or "hi" or whatever then I'm not going to be coming back.
Continuously build up a specific square^, so this one I just kept moving things from the bottom right 2x2 up-and-left into the top-left 2x2. I avoided pressing S or D as much as possible (i.e. only when it was literally the only move I had, and then I'd press D (or S) once and continue as before).

This means that the sum of the top-left square is strictly increasing, and so "eventually" you'll win (assuming you don't fill up the rest of the board before that).

^In this case a "square" seems like it can just be one of the 2x2 ones, but in the original 2D case, this strategy has focus on building up just a single tile (one of the corners), or it doesn't work.
What I'm confused about. I'll likely just have to play around with this feature at some point. I knew about APIC, but not completely sandboxing cores.

Is if you have bare metal operations do you still have access to kernel functionality ala stdio and libc libraries? Normally when you hit bare metal your on your own. I'm just wondering because the idea of writing my own threading, and memory management libraries excites me to no end </sarcasm>.

Also if you can call these functions like your in userland then do they block until execution has completed on the other 'kernel' cores? Also if you creating P-Threads elsewhere but not managing their execution on the 'non-kernel' core what happens?

>userspace but you get all the performance benefits of implementing everything like it was running in Ring 0

Can you give any literature on this? these terms are contradictory.
I don't think that's the same thing. If Microsoft came out with a newer version of silverlight, you'd expect it to keep reading the old files.

The fact they canceled silverlight and won't make a new version, doesn't have much to do with backwards compatibility.
Yep. Esp. Considering they cost north of quarter Billion dollars a pop. I am surprised more aren't stolen!
Has a Google Chrome update broken the geoPosition JS API for desktop?
Maybe my updating Chrome is a coincidence but it seems now I can't use geoPosition JS API's on the desktop version without hardware GPS.

To test, browse to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/

Click 'Give it a try!' and then click the "Where am I?" button. Does it work for you?

"Oops! An error occurred while trying to determine your position."

I've tried it on multiple computers and networks and am having this error, the JS console outputs: "PositionError {message: "Network location provider at 'https://www.googleapis.com/' : Returned error code 404.", code: 2, PERMISSION_DENIED: 1, POSITION_UNAVAILABLE: 2, TIMEOUT: 3}"

Cheers
I was lolling my head off. I never understood why a way more complicated explanation is more appealing to people.
These claims don't pass a 3 min google test. Baltimore Sun:

The governor's testimony before the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee came after at least 1,500 gun-rights advocates rallied outside the State House in opposition to the legislation...

Meanwhile, advocates on either side of the issue packed the hearing room and an overflow room downstairs. Hundreds more stood in a line that extended down a stairway to the floor below.

Legislative aides said they had never seen such an outpouring of people seeking to testify on a bill. By an overwhelming number, they were signing up in opposition to the governor's proposal.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-02-06/news/bs-md-omall...
Two white guys (or two non-white guys) getting into a bit of a fight isn't going to make the local newspaper, let alone even the student newspaper. A racially motivated assault (which this most definitely was) just might.

Also consider that racially motivated slurs mostly have their power when used against minorities, rarely the other way around.
I don't understand what you're implying here, I'm afraid.
The pattern matching itself isn't the problem, indeed. It's the apparent lack of some men, usually white men to override it and take a more charitable view of their fellow human beings.

For some reason those same men cry out for "rational discussion" unless it's about their own behavior, of course. They can somehow override most of their animal instincts to steal, fight, or fuck indiscriminately, but can't somehow find a way to overcome thinking a woman at a trade show booth can't possibly be an engineer.

So we're saying, either the person can overcome that thinking or they can't.

If they can, but choose not to, they're deliberately discriminatory.

If they can't overcome that thinking, we might want to have them institutionalized for anti social behavior, because what other animal instincts are they not able to overcome?
The idea that having focus on long-range, broad-scope problems is intimately tied to authority is a typical assumption of traditional heirarchies, but there's no reason it has to be true in holacracies.
>Racism (sexism/classism/etc) is not about race

The popular, and dictionary, definition of "racism" is "hatred or intolerance of another race or other races".
thanks for the downvote! I wear it as a badge of honor.
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There's a distinct category of "plant patents" which are more limited in scope to the typical "utility" patents. The CAFC has ruled that the availability of plant patents does not exclude plants from utility patent protection, which has made plant patents obsolescent. I'm not too familiar with that area of law, but as I understand it some of the bad behavior from Monsanto et al. wouldn't have been possible under the plant patent system.

In an ideal world I'd like a distinct patenting regime for software - shorter patent lifespans, compulsory licensing on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, a broader experimental use right encompassing most non-commercial users - but if the CAFC is just going to fold it into the maximalism of utility patents, why bother?
A story about a girl and her love for string beans.
Yeah I agree, but the benefit from bringing attention to female programmers/developers outweighs the negatives of the slightly misleading title, imo. Reading through the list, there's some very impressive bios of many of these women.
Initial announcement (three quarters of an hour earlier) from Brian Anderson, project leader: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-March/00908...
Any idea if you'll have this functionality up before the bracket deadline ends? I'd love to be able to build out some functions and test them on previous years before the contest officially starts.
Spot on, why would a terrorist guy hijack a plane, fly under the radar following another planes just to hide itself? They could just hijack the plane and fly straight to the target and crash into it 911 style...
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-ends-wildfire-2014-...

http://wildfireapp.blogspot.com/2014/03/accelerating-our-wil...
Nothing wrong with that as long as the women agree.
I've used Zulip. It's a cool idea, though it turned out to be still too beta to replace HipChat at my company.

The key feature is having multiple threads of conversation in one room. When you find yourself saying "Wait, was that in response to me or to Alice?" "Neither, I was talking to Bob", or just waiting for a conversation to finish so you're not interrupting and causing confusion, it's the kind of thing you wish for.

It was also pretty good at letting coders talk about code, with Markdown and syntax highlighting, and without mangling whitespace or turning all the (8)s into ridiculous smileys with a left parenthesis.

I'd love to be able to use Zulip when it's more fleshed out, so here's hoping Dropbox does something cool with it, and doesn't just quietly absorb the talent.
Informal at the places I've worked meant wearing silly shirts on Friday and harsh language was used if you screwed up. If a woman quit does that mean it was a sexist workplace? If a guy quit after being berated is that different? I don't think so.

Also, you linked to a feminist site to provide the definition of a word. Is that normally how people cite the standard/objective meaning of a word or is this story a chance to talk about something you feel very strongly about whether it fits or not?

Edit: just read the definition. Women can't be sexist? Hilarious. Let me guess, African Americans & Asians can't be racist either? Warped view of the world.
What they are supposed to do is help prevent a website that accepts and presents user-supplied content from being overwhelmed with automated spam.
From that link:
"It is important to push for the understanding that racism is 'prejudice plus power' and therefore people of color cannot be racist against whites in the United States. People of color can be prejudiced against whites but clearly do not have the power as a group to enforce that prejudice."

That's pretty much exactly the case! Thanks for the great quote.
Licensing of the IBM patent portfolio is routinely reported as being in excess of $1 billion annually. If Software Patents get thrown out then so will a chunk of that billion.

The sad reality about software patents is while they are a terrible thing, there is too much power and money involved for a right leaning Supreme Court to throw them out, and while in the short term you might see some meaningful patent reform proposed, once the lobbyists get their way it certainly won't be in favor of the the little guy.
the url sounds like this but not the content

http://0100101110101101.org