skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope they refer to that as the "Zoolander" policy at UPS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_EacLppMW0
Interesting design. I'm probably more interested in this for use in public spaces where it appears a 'self cleaning' mode may be possible with a bit more engineering. I hope something like that comes along.
Sure - SPF may very well only check the envelope sender, but isn't that usually plenty? If you can't spoof the Linkedin envelope sender, and the mail goes to SPAM, who cares if the From: address is spoofed? The user likely won't see it anyway.
Nice intro. Shaders definitely seem a lot more elusive than they really are.

Also gonna jump on the bandwagon with my own tutorials, using Java/LibGDX and mostly focusing on 2D applications.

https://github.com/mattdesl/lwjgl-basics/wiki/Shaders
Interesting bit relatively early in the video: the thief asks someone to watch her bag. I'm assuming the idea is that the person would then ask back, "and boom".
What about OCaml or SML/NJ? :(
I leave my charger behind to mark my seat, and food items, but never leave my laptop, phone, or bag behind. I might leave a jacket I don't care much about. Carrying my laptop into the toilet sucks, but it really isn't an option.

I feel really torn in places like airport lounges. There I will leave a bag containing a hidden laptop, but still not an exposed laptop. In a secure coworking space, the yc office, someone else's office, I might leave a laptop exposed, screenlocked, but not a phone or pile of cash.

I want my own office to be a place where $10k cash, $50k watches, etc can be comfortably left unattended, but that is pretty high as a bar.
I'm not trying to be a troll or argumentative, but personally I think it's all ugly and lifeless. Which is interesting because this article says that there's some biological link to people perceiving beauty.

I think all math is some little tool and all code is also some other little tool - some of it hairy, some of it less hairy. But I consider none of it "beautiful".

I think the entire notion is preposterous. I'm totally misanthropic to the whole notion.

Does that make me strange?
Sounds like G.H.Hardy

"Nothing I have ever done is of the slightest practical use"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy#Hardy.27s_aphorisms
If you want a structured, high-level intro to several languages, Bruce Tate's "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" is pretty good. (http://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-wee...)

I'd recommend Erlang for its concurrency model (especially comparing how languages like Erlang, Scala, Go and JavaScript/Node handle concurrency and parallelism differently).

Haskell is good for functional concepts - understanding FP will help with functional stuff that is migrating into more mainstream languages.

Learning a Lisp (Common Lisp or Clojure) is good too.

Python is great for the mature community that's developed around scientific projects like machine learning, NLP and such.
JVM knowledge.

I would encourage you to learn some Java (helps with understanding the ecosystem, and used in plenty of examples), and then focus on a JVM language. Scala and Clojure are obvious choices, because they come with their own ecosystems and contain new language paradigms.
I managed to get the blog link to load, and there are halfway decent face shots there: http://www.ahryunmoon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/la...

(Being a direct file link, hopefully people have better luck loading it under load than a dynamic page!)
Singaporeans have a solution for this: they understand a pack of tissues or a business card on a table to mean "reserved": http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fXrUY-3NMjc/Tspv4vvgSDI/AAAAAAAANv...

But what if they have no tissues at hand? Using a smartphone is also fine, because there is so little crime: http://www.mrbrown.com/.a/6a00d83451b52369e2019aff6d022f970b...
Thanks for that!

The SGI icons gave much better feedback with animations when you clicked on them, they had quaint drop shadows, let you know if they were open already and showed if they were links or not. They had so much going for them. Someone, e.g. at Canonical, should revisit this aspect of the SGI desktop and ask Susan Kare to apply her touch to something new yet derived from the SGI work. Just having her name to an Ubuntu desktop would win over design snobs who don't see whatever you get on Linux as 'design worthy'.

Do keep me updated as I still believe everything SGI was the best ever. Thanks!
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it's gotta be true just about everywhere. in the suburbs, people ask me to watch their laptop all the time (but only when I'm working on my own laptop). And I often see people pack up all their stuff, just to go to the bathroom.
Libgdx will go 1.0 next weekend
The article is great and pretty accurate.

>Women often take on the role of product manager, or P.M., which entails the so-called soft skills of managing people and bridging the business and engineering divide. Yet even though this is an essential job, it’s the purely technical people — not the businesspeople — who get the respect in the tech industry.

Well, I think PMs are universally reviled, male or female :)
Either: you are not a born mathematician or were not trained enough. Math is like music, but unlike music you need to grok quite a bit to get to the beautiful parts.
that's pretty nonsense, since just about anywhere that is busy it's silly to just leave some multi-thousand dollar device out amongst strangers. As many have said, I'll leave a drink or some food out, but even beyond trusting people, I think it's rude to ask anyone to watch over anything but your seat or a beer / sandwich. I don't want to be responsible for your shit.
I'm near DC. I'd guess >95% of the time, you're stuff would be fine while you head to the bathroom or get a refill on the coffee. But, that's still a significant risk, especially once you add hassle factor onto any dollar value.
In California:

1. A bicyclist does not need to stay to the right of the road when approaching a place where right turns are allowed (i.e. can leave the bike lane).

2. Vehicles are required to merge into the bike lane before making a right turn, otherwise it's consider making a turn without being in the rightmost lane.

Not to say I've ever seen a single car in the bay area correctly merge to the bike lane before turning. Any case where a bicyclist is hit by a car making a right turn should be considered "failure to complete a passing maneuver."
Shrek version was better.

http://www.thx.com/consumer/movies/8286492
right, the last time i dated or chose to work with anyone i definitely searched on the internet for their name and 'stolen laptop video'.

just watch your shit, and it won't get took.
That's clever. Whenever I get asked to watch another person's stuff in a cafe, I wonder to myself why they think I'm so worthy of their trust. Recent laptops which suspend quickly and lack delicate hard drives are easier than ever to move with you at all times, so the problem is easy to obviate.
Did you bother to look at a credible site such as the Cochrane Collaboration?
simple anti-theft for coffee shops - small program which upon laptop/phone movement starts sound like car's anti-theft. Need to go to bathroom or to just place the device on the table to reserve the spot - start the program and lock the screen. If laptop battery is detached - small USB stick look alike battery in USB slot.
She's wearing a prison uniform! Why would you trust someone who's already wearing a prison uniform? Maybe she left her sack with a dollar sign on it at home, but the uniform should have been enough of a giveaway.

http://www.ahryunmoon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/la...
I grew up in the SF Bay Area and feel the same way. I thought that this is how the whole world worked. You have to be constantly concerned about having your possessions stolen if you leave them briefly exposed in a public place.

Then, I lived in Tokyo for a few years. People leave belongings unattended in coffee shops and restaurants all the time. It's a common occurrence to see someone put down their belongings at a table, leave them there, then go order food or drinks where their belongings are out of sight.

Sure, there is still theft in Japan. But it was a really eye opening and nice experience to see that there are places where distrust of others in this context isn't the default state.
SEO-wise its neutral, per Amazon's and eBay's affiliate T+Cs it's not only black hat but they will suspend your payment and prosecute you for cookie stuffing. Of course the affiliate managers never do that because RetailMeNot is a juggernaut of mostly legitimate traffic, cheating only a little. Try utilizing these tactics as a small blog and you will be banned from their programs for life. Bullshit double standard.
> Every PoS app on Windows and OSX has its own update process, which mostly is just downloading and running the new setup binary.

Most OS X apps use either the Mac App Store, which signs everything, or Sparkle[0], which last time I used it made it really hard to use it without signing things. It's only stuff from big vendors like Adobe and Microsoft who do custom stuff you can't really trust.

[0] http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org
What area would that be? Color me skeptical.
This is one reason I use a $200 Thinkpad (with Linux). I don't worry much when I leave it on the table to go to the bathroom - it looks like a banged up piece of plastic, but it's very functional.
> evidence-free chatter

Dryden deleted the tweet not long after posting, but see http://archive.is/GhW8N for substantiation. In all fairness, I must note that Dryden herself didn't introduce the word "blacklist"; one of her followers did that, in the course of picking up the ball and running with it. Another follower had this to say on the subject:

> I'm going through the saved list [of those who starred the "C-plus-Equality" joke Github repo] to find the Swedish and UK citizens. Already found 2. They can expect the police shortly. :3

It's the smiley, I think, that really sells it. And a little while later, this in response from yet another follower:

> Wished we were protected with hatespeech laws here in the US. uggghhh #firstammendment #isajoke

I don't claim Dryden has produced nothing of value, but I doubt I'm alone in finding it difficult to distinguish between the Dryden who's worth listening to and the Dryden whose friends and correspondents respond to satire by attempting to destroy the livelihoods of those who find it amusing.
There was this thing on TV where a black male actor was cutting a bike chain with a saw or something like that. Many people confronted him. He said "The bike has been here for a long time." And they told him: "It's not your bike. You can't just take it."

Then they showed a white female actress doing the same exact thing. A couple people asked her what she was doing. She said to one person "I'm stealing the bike." They offered to help her.
I happen to live in SF, but I don't care if you're in SF, London, Podunk or Peoria, the protocol for going to the bathroom in a coffee shop or other public space is to pack up your stuff and take it with you. You may lose your seat but it's much better to keep your stuff.

Asking someone to watch it - if it's not someone you know well and trust then what good does that do? What if this woman had asked the one in the striped shirt to watch her stuff?
Yeah, that's why I'd probably ask someone to keep an eye on it, rather than take it with me - I often do that with possessions, although not a laptop, in public situations (cafe, bar, train, etc.) I'd rather live in a society in which we trust each other to keep an eye on our stuff, than one in which we have to take everything with us for a quick pop to the bathroom. Of course, I'd rather one in which the threat of something being stolen didn't exist at all ...
So, what's that facebook trick that people use to get the name from a photo?

Also, wait til Reddit sees that she didn't leave a tip.
It seems to me that musicians play more complicated things the easier the instrument is, so it does even out at the end. Drummers do some insane things, even though they only have five drums to hit (whereas a piano has 60ish keys).
I've been exposed to PHP, Java, Perl, C++, VB Python and C# and it's definitely the case so far that PHP seems to be the most haphazardly designed. Although personally, I've never had much of a problem with PHP's ugliness. It's not my least favorite language (that would probably be VB.)
Internal Server Error (Memory issues it seems like)
> parallel to USB

Last time I looked at the spec for those, it supported send-byte-to-printer-with-IEEE-1284-handshaking as a primitive (the USB interface saw data bytes, not instructions to set, clear, and read control lines). The parallel ports that attached to ISA (or inside PCI multi-I/O chips) connect each pin to a bit of an I/O address in compatibility mode[], which connect-a-chip-to-parallel-port hacks tend to use.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_port#Pinouts
In college a thief used the tactic you describe, establishing trust by asking to watch his stuff, to a girl in finals week at Starbucks. I think she flunked that semester.
according to an analysis of patents

Ergo that chart is bullshit. I stopped reading there.
More info for anyone who could possibly help:

"The theft happened at a coffee shop close to Taylor and Post St. in downtown San Francisco. The girl in the stripes who stole the laptop and phone stole came from the west side (Tender Nob area) and left with the stolen goods towards the east.﻿"
I'm not a mathematician or anything close and even I can find it quite beautiful... that is, the parts I can grok. :)

I still think some of the Cantor and Gödel work is the most beautiful I've come across that was not from a prolific Swiss polymath.
Yes having lived in both places petty crime is 10x worse in London vs SF.
You're welcome. And I'm excited because it's the first time since I learned about it 10 years ago that I got to use that tidbit of knowledge.
She also had to ask where the restroom was, suggesting she's never been there before. So she probably won't go there again.
I always get a mental jolt when I see a UPS truck turn left because of this "rumor" or perception or whatever it is. I certainly see it, and remember it when it happens because of the idea that they never do turn left.
Yes, this definitely makes sense. I'm just surprised that this is consistent across all those dimensions when almost nothing else is.
Although I have never used it, you should check out: http://www.shakelaw.com/
How much of that is dollar value of the device and how much is the frustration of having to restore from backup and hoping the crypto is good enough that the thief just formats and reinstalls?
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I'm curious how thieves profit off the theft of these devices. The phone will be tracked and can be remotely bricked. If the victim knows the laptop's serial number or uses iCloud, it also has a decent chance of recovery. Even if the thief wipes the machine, I'm guessing Apple will notice the serial number if it's ever brought in for repair.

The only thing I can think of is trying to flip it on Craigslist. That would require an odd arrangement where the buyer didn't meet the thief at their home. I'd be very suspicious if a seller only wanted to meet at a coffee shop and, once meeting there, didn't show me an ID or Apple receipt (or show me the serial number in their iCloud account, etc).

With so many incentives against stealing these things, and such a tiny reward, I'm honestly confused why people do it.
Is it inappropriate somehow that I feel incredibly happy that it's not some 20-something dude of African American descent who lifted the goods? At least innocent folks walking along the street won't get harassed by the cops...

I had my laptop and backpack stolen from our office in the Mission 2 years ago, it was broken into on a Saturday while I went out for dinner with the team before coming back to grab my backpack. That time, against my hopes, it really was a pair of African Americans. I was pretty mad because they'd taken my passport with it, which I had brought into the office to take copies of. The stuff was never tracked down and I don't think those guys were caught either. I just hope innocent people weren't harassed by the cops in the process =/
The pants don't look like a prison uniform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbrzOLh8Eb4
>Xerox PARC may have invented the future, but the failure of their parent company to bring that future to market shows that even with that knowledge at hand, you have quite a bit of way ahead of you.

does it really matter that Xerox PARC "invented the future"? If not they, then somebody else couple years later. 10-20 years down the road it just wouldn't change a bit.
Relative to most, I've done a lot of math. I have an entire bookshelf dedicated to it, subscribed to journals for a number of years. I worked in cryptography for a while.

The only things I ever think are "why is this presented in such a convoluted manner" or "Why is this so poorly written".

The idea of "beautiful" is so remarkably far removed from the situation --- it would be as if people said they found it sexually arousing.

To me, there is no possible connection.
Sure, Japan's culture is great when it comes to personal safety. But many would say that that same culture is responsible for its economic malaise of the last 25 years.
I figure chances that a random person who you ask is going to be much less likely to have bad intentions than a person who offers to you to watch your stuff.
'“Depression is not an emotional disorder at all! Every bad feeling you have is the result of your negative thinking.” In this paper, I intend to give this conclusion some good natured trouble.'

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy...
> Whenever I get asked to watch another person's stuff in a cafe, I wonder to myself why they think I'm so worthy of their trust.

Because by asking you, they are trusting you. By not asking anyone, they have to trust every single person around.
I'm sorry for my ignorance, but there's something about type providers I just can't wrap my head around.

It seems like the primary purpose of using a typed provider is so that the types (classes) can dynamically change during runtime (for example, you get different table objects for the different connection strings you pass in). But how do you program a client against an API that can change at will? Is your client code just basically doing runtime reflection on the data the type provider returns?
I know that I'm the weird one, because everybody I know never lets me forget it, particularly on this issue. But I've always thought the opposite: I always thought it was weird that everybody thought somebody would steal their stuff. What are the odds of that? I've always left everything unlocked and left my stuff wherever if I needed to walk away. In all my 35 years, I've only ever had one item stolen: a cheap bicycle. Granted, it wouldn't have been stolen if I'd locked it up :)
>I'd be very suspicious if a seller only wanted to meet at a coffee shop and, once meeting there, didn't show me an ID or Apple receipt (or show me the serial number in their iCloud account, etc).

I wouldn't be that suspicious. It is not unreasonable that someone would want to do the trade in a public place, and not give out their personal address. And I typically don't think to ID people who are selling me something.
I don't trust those things on TV. They seem so easy to slant in a direction that suits the producers. That's not to say that a bias wouldn't exist in that scenario. However, it's not like you can conclude that most people would stop a black man from stealing a bike, but help a white woman do the same, from the sample set that they CHOSE to show.
It's incredibly easy now with services like the ecoATM:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/A-number-you-ne...
Pretty likely that a buyer exists for whom a price exists that would outweigh whatever their level of suspicion. We need theft-mitigation measures but we also need high-profile demonstrations of them so that they eventually become deterrents.
Did you bother to read the criticisms section found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy?

No double blind studies. "The patient is an active participant in correcting negative distorted thoughts, thus quite aware of the treatment group they are in."

"This study concluded that CBT is no better than non-specific control interventions", which I already guessed at in my previous comment.

"Taken together, trials using psychotherapy do not meet the qualifications of high quality evidence."
Plus, if their stuff goes missing, they can be pretty much certain who the culprit is, in terms of offering some kind of description to the police.
How many genetic ancestors do I have?
Good alternative to Haskell. Less strict in being functional, and therefore perhaps better suited for real world. Well I learned Miranda ages ago, so Haskell is closer to me.
Anybody that can run sendmail as root (or use an alternate program, or compile their own) can spoof the envelope sender.
The UK is just launching something to address this: https://twitter.com/MattChorley/status/451773213497118720/ I expect it would be more difficult to do something similar for the US given the wedding-cake of federal, state and local taxes.
Yep, the moment attackers have to provide evidence, everyone sees Ashe didn't say anything even resembling "advocating an overt hiring blacklist".

(BTW, what her Twitter "correspondents" say is about as illuminating as what our HN "correspondents" say.)
Although that sentence doesn't refer to it, something to keep in mind: there are the race and class variables lurking in there. IIRC if you're upper-middle class and white (and Asian, I'm guessing), the gender gap disappears.

That doesn't mean that we're not failing our young boys; we certainly are. But it's always useful to break it down by race and class, especially in the States.

A deeper question is why? If our culture is biased against boys, you might expect the gap to appear in all racial and economic classifications. My hypothesis is that we're in the midst of a giant pauperization: technology is eating most real jobs. In recent decades, however, there's still been a relative abundance of salaried jobs that require stability and organizational and interpersonal skills, which women, either by genes or socialization, are better at. So there's a real difference in investment payoff for a woman to go to college than a man, given their existing skill sets [1]. So more women go to college [2].

For now, at least. Give it a decade or two and I'm predicting an even lower proportion of men and women both going to college, particularly those in marginalized communities whose labor wouldn't be improved to the point that capital needs them to to make more real profits.

[1] One way to confirm that would be whether a man with a college degree makes less money than a woman with an equivalent degree. Which I think is the case but want to find a real cite for it.

[2] Another hypothesis: traditional male archetypes are falling by the wayside. Discarding those is a strategy people are using, consciously or no, to try to build up the interpersonal skills of men. I don't know how to test this, however.
In some cases, going to the bathroom with your stuff is almost like leaving your place vacant for any one else to take. In crowded cafés, this may not be optimal. I wonder if cafés provide customers with pamphlets to put on the table saying `Occupied` while they are gone to the bathroom with their stuff would be helpful.
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If the coffee shop isn't busy I sometimes take my laptop with me and leave all the other stuff. This is in a place kinda like Peoria though. If I was in SF I'd probably pack up everything.
Yes, but those two aspects of their culture are totally orthogonal. Why can't we build a society where we have the former and not the latter?
Amazon is making service backed devices. As opposed to selling them.