skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what "network effects" means, though. Facebook and AirBnB presumably get better when more people join; their products are better with more users than with fewer users.

It's easy to see why having your entire company using the same service is useful. But it's hard to see why "having more users" makes Box a better experience for its other users. Is Box better at a 5000 person company than a 10 person company? Or when 1000 companies use it vs. 10 companies? If not, it's not benefiting from network effects.
You could also pattern-match over them with View Patterns[^1], i.e. export an alternate ADT that is the 'acceptable' view on the data and a function that takes the encapsulated implementation and turns it to the alternate representation—but I have literally never seen this done, save in the documents describing the motivations for View Patterns.

[^1]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ViewPatterns
That was actually for handsets alone :)
They did - from the article:

"Google was not a defendant in the case, but during the trial Samsung pointed out that some of the features Apple claims to own were actually invented by Google, and called a handful of executives from the Internet search giant to testify on its behalf."
Wow, that's unfortunate about the LG vs Samsung screens. How could you tell what screen you have? I'd like to spread awareness about this to my friends.
On a personal and emotional level, I agree with you: once I learn it's a misunderstanding and no harm was intended, I often stop feeling angry.

Even if I'm no longer angry per se some hard feelings may remain. I have dealt with men & women from very conservative backgrounds who honestly and with great love believe I should not do what I do for a living, because it involves public speaking and evaluation of some men, which they believe violates 1 Timothy 2:12. I disagree and I need to remain steeled against the unpleasantness this brings up, even if we are friendly -- it's in this sense that I mean "hard" feelings.

And then I do agree entirely that good intentions don't lessen impacts on victims. The folks who don't want me to teach have good intentions, measured one way, and that's not really relevant. The folks who tell girls not to take AP calc because it's too hard and they won't need it have ~good intentions, but that's irrelevant. The folks who think I'll naturally be nurturing and try to give me some cuddly job with young children have good intentions but they're scarring me and the kids for life. The folks who pass over a woman for a promotion because they think she should focus on her family have good intentions, but she's out the cash and the accrued interest and career advancement for the rest of her life.

You're thinking about how we deal emotionally with good intentions, while the above poster is thinking about the money that's gone, the job that disappeared, the promotion that didn't happen, the mortgage whose interest rate was 2 percentage points higher.
Definitely worth the $12 price.
Apple aren't trolling, because they invented and patented ideas that are being used in very real products. Apple is using the patent system exactly as intended; if you object to this, your beef is with the architecture of the patent system, not with Apple.

You won't help by creating a new class of "insignificant tech" patent. Who decides what qualifies a patent as insignificant?

I prefer the idea someone had of doing away with the time limits altogether, and replacing it with an annual renewal fee that rises exponentially. Let the patent holder decide when the fee exceeds its usefulness.

(A similar idea should apply to copyrights. Replace the current Sonny Bono time period with a much shorter length, say 25 years, plus a 25 year time extension when registered for free in a database of copyrighted works, and up to 150 years when registered for a fee.)
> Square's dongles and apps are much more difficult to use than a dedicated card terminal

Just FYI: https://squareup.com/stand
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Huh. You know, I heard somewhere else that the word "gender" and the word "sex" don't share a Merriam Webster definition. I think I heard that 9 years before I wrote my senior thesis on gender bias in intelligence testing.

Right, so, the context is another HN ask: "It's Different for Girls." You can find it, if you try.
Checking out the Warriors as of a few days ago:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmcFXWkCUAACxtJ.jpg:large

Although, he could've been checking out the Clippers now that Sterling is going to be forced to sell...
looks fun! being able to input specific dimensions would be nice, e.g. 5mm or .25" grid
It is a thinly disguised way to teach.
I have a relative that opened a natural "bath & body" store on the main street in his town. He started out with the Square hardware kit (stand, cash drawer, receipt printer, and a barcode scanner from Amazon). It was gone and replaced with real hardware within a month; not only was the POS software entirely inadequate, but checking people out was terribly inefficient and off-putting, costing them business. People don't like to hand over their card, they want to swipe it themselves. They want to be able to pay by debit. They want to see on the screen what's being charged before swiping. They don't want to sign a tablet with their finger or a squishy stylus. Nobody ever bothered to continue reading the screen after signing, so the cashier always had to spin it around, accept the signature, and skip the e-mail receipt screen. It's all terribly slow and strange compared to paying at any other store. The only thing the stand solves compared to the dongle is ease of getting a good swipe.
If someone, anyone, asked me to suck their dick or clit, yes, I would go for the nuclear option. You have to be a really well beaten down cubicle slave to think that someone trying to own your body outright like that isn't grounds for destroying their life.
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Test it on yourself
Unsurprisingly, this comes at a cost.

Seriously, no. Don't do this. Don't do "being attractive to men unsurprising comes at the cost of sexual assault." Don't do "not having sex when you want to is as bad as being forced to have sex when you don't want to." Don't do "attractive young women are the only women worth having sex with." Don't go for the mathematical impossibility that women get to have more sex than men. Don't go for "reporting sexual assault is a sympathetic experience with no negative consequences," when women are still basically put on trial for it.

In all sincerity, if you don't get why you are shamed and belittled when you complain about unfairness with respect to women, here's the key to make sense of it: you live in a caste system, and you are the higher caste. Women were literally second-class citizens under the law until very recently (assuming they no longer are in your country), and a society doesn't shake that off overnight. Men have real problems, but you can't talk sensibly about them until you get how stacked the deck is to start with. (And, honestly, a thread about a woman who was trying to cut a quarter-million dollar deal when the man on the other side put her hand in his pants? That's a thread that doesn't need to be about men's problems.)
Paper mills are pretty good at providing large amounts of instantaneous interruptible load. I'm sure there are others, but you're probably right, soaking up ALL the excess baseload in a baseload only grid i would be a challenge.

Energy storage, using electric car batteries as grid smoothing utilities is an interesting approach. Grid sized flow batteries[1] are another interesting option.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
I still buy preprinted grid paper and staff paper. It is extraordinarily difficult to force a printer to use the exact same width on each line. There are just too many layers of abstraction between the browser/document and the hardware.
mixing up machines order and what is in bold for sensationalism much?

The 2014 drives were faster than the 2013 in many of the test cases, specially 2nd page.
It's risk-aversion. Think of it this way: if drive-models are assigned to Macs in a round-robin fashion, then if there are three drive manufacturers and one has shipped a buggy drive, at most 1/3 of customers would be sending their laptops back for repairs. On the other hand, if their only supplier gave them buggy drives, then everyone would be sending their laptops back.

It also lets them have a stronger negotiating position to drop a crap supplier. They can only maintain that negotiating position, though, if they buy drives from all of them; if they only used drives from whoever was the at-the-time "best" supplier, then if that supplier started to suck, all the others would demand a king's ransom for the "privilege" of switching to them.
Maybe it's just that the article was written by a woman. (As I could easily see my significant other behaving in this manner when she was "out with her girlfriends".) But, does anybody on HN actually relate to this paragraph below?

>I might open a conversation, for instance, by saying how nice it is to meet someone—when I’m really not at all happy about it. I might go on to say that I grew up in Boston—a lie, technically, since I really grew up in a small town about forty minutes outside the city. I could say that the person’s work sounds fascinating, when it’s no such thing, or compliment him on his (drab) tie or his (awful) shirt. And if the person mentions loving a certain downtown restaurant where I’ve had a terrible experience? I’m likely to just smile and nod and say, Yes, great place.

I am proud to say that I relate to none of those examples.

I would usually say "it was nice to meet you" when somebody I just met was parting ways just as a pleasantry that has to be said, not that I meant it. And not that the other person would assume that I actually genuinely meant that either. Ending a meeting with "It was nice to meet you" seems just as natural and called for as starting out with "Hello, my name is sirdogealot". Who goes home thrilled or even remembering the fact that somebody they met that day said "Nice to meet you"?

I always am truthful about where I am from. If the person has never heard of my small home town, I would explain it's location to them.

I wouldn't lie and say somebody's work sounds fascinating if it wasn't. If you haul boxes or flip burgers, I don't really care to hear about your job or your problems at work. In fact I find I don't congregate with people who hold boring jobs. It just gets too tedious hearing that you are unhappy and yet not bright enough to realize it and quit.

I would never compliment somebody on their clothing if they actually looked like shit unless they I was trying to cheer them up, hit on them or get a job or something.

If somebody suggests a terrible restaurant, I'll let them know why it's a bad choice. Like the restaurant that served me ants in my stir fry, or the place that gave me food poisoning on Christmas eve one year? No, I'm not eating at those places again. I don't care if I'm trying to win over my girlfriend's parents. If a place is shit I'll call it shit.

Does the author think that her checkout clerk is lying to her when they systematically grunt out "have a nice day" as they pass her her grocery bags?

Do you think the kid at the McDonald's counter is mocking you when he smiles at you?

Do you think I'm lying to you when you ask "How are you doing?" and I only ever respond with "Oh, pretty good! How are you doing?" I might say that if I just woke up in the morning or if I had just been in a car crash but I'm not lying. I know that most people don't care to hear about your problems. So I don't bother them with them.

Society is weird. There are a lot of odd things we do in society but I wouldn't misconstrue them all as lying.
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I've built map applications while based in Beijing. Google is definitely skewed here, by decree of the Chinese government. The interesting thing is that the skew is different for various regions in China, but it hasn't changed for years. If you correct for the offset in Beijing, everything will be fine as it is the same across the whole city. You can create a map of offsets for the major cities and be done with it.

They claim that the offset is for security purposes but this simple fix shows that the excuse is bullshit. In reality the Chinese put all kinds of barriers to entry for foreign companies to make it difficult to penetrate the market. Another example is that you have to dual home your servers to both china unicom and china Telecom, as the traffic between the two networks is degraded on purpose. You thus have to purchase a special DNS service that differentiates between requests on the two networks.

In the same vein, the purpose of the great firewall is more economic than political, being a highly successful form of protectionism.
This shows Clojure outpacing Haskell since 2012:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=clojure%2C+haskell&l=&rela...
Yes, most of the production JS is running on spidermonkey. The original binding is hand built using JSAPI, but the newer code we have abstracts the JS engine away behind an interface, making a single way to easily bind C++ classes to JS, allowing us to swap in spidermonkey or v8 without the bound code being aware. This is kind of what you want to do, only you want to emulate the v8 API to avoid having to retool the Node guts. Two different approaches but they achieve the same result. IBM guys working on the POWER node port asked if we can open-source the abstraction and adapters -- it's on my todo list to look into, but can't promise anything yet.
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I've tried searching but didn't find anything. Maybe I missed it. But does anyone know if there is a Chrome extension that allows you to follow threads and get a notification of some form that indicates there are new comments on the thread?

I can save threads to read later but manually checking threads that I like to save to see what others say seems to be incredibly tedious.
"Apple got a complete victory on patent number 5,946,647, as the jury found that all ten Samsung devices at issue infringed (...). That patent's for a technology that enables links clicked in one application to open other applications (like an address in an email opening up in a maps app)."

Uh-oh. So I guess my terminal infringes as well (I can click links in text, and have it open in a browser)...
Not really, they just want to avoid a fight. Under sexist rules, a man accompanying a woman is her "protector". If someone makes rude sexual remarks to her, it's also insulting to him because it implies that he's too weak to do anything about it. That's a provocation to respond with violence to affirm his manhood.

It's the same logic behind insulting a man by calling his mother a whore. Why should he be insulted by an insult to his mother? Because a real man is supposed to defend the honor of the women in his family.
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> or processing fees dramatically change in the market (not likely at all)

Square started off tacking 1% on top of what most stores paid for most transactions. Then processing fees dramatically changed in the market, in 2010, when the "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" and the "Durbin Amendment" to said act were passed. This capped interchange rates, and interchange on most debit cards when swiped as credit (the way Square works) dropped to 0.05% + $0.21 per transaction.

The free debit/check card you get from your bank is the daily spender card for millions, making Square's fee on a large portion of transactions almost 100% markup at this point. Even among the "dongles for phones with apps" offerings, they're the most expensive. Intuit's dongle is 1% cheaper -- 1.75% -- if you pay $12.95 a month. EMS, which doesn't have name recognition with hackers but has been around for decades, offers a dongle with 2.25% flat rate.
> The reason women complain about being 'discriminated' is because it works so well for them

Probably the most bullshit thing I will have read this month.
I'm old now, but when I was a younger man, I was something to look at. I got sexual come-ons and innuendos by female and gay male coworkers all the time. It's not a "girl thing", it's an "I'm attractive thing". It goes away.

Guys also like to make dick jokes. Because dick jokes are funny. See Louis CK net worth. And guys build rapport by being funny. I showed a guy at work my Chromecast. "It's smaller than I thought". "That's what she said", I replied. Laughs by all genders.

Accept dick jokes. Punish actual harrassment. Don't think it only happens to women.
Without commenting on the first two paragraphs, your last paragraph makes it sounds more malicious than reality probably is. It's entirely possible that attractive women got BOTH privilege and harassment.
An individual states a strong position in a forum unrelated to their employment and the offended party considers it then reasonable to paint the whole company that person works for as friendly to "hostile brogrammers".

Quote from original story:

"that more people know that there are still unfair and harsh consequences for having the audacity to be a woman on the internet, who has opinions, and says them in no uncertain terms."

So, apparently it is OK to have strong opinions and state them in no uncertain terms if you are a woman, apparently not if you are a man.

It could be that one or the other (or both) persons in this story makes for an awful potential employee that no one would want or should have to work with. Gender does not make you immune from being such a person.

Puppetlabs' response seems to be reasonable and measured.
How exactly is this "news"? What does it have to do with "hacking"?
maybe they don't want to show you how to make nitric acid because you could use it to make bombs... I don't know about the other chemicals.
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Counterpoint: I'm sure consumers will totally notice that Samsung is $100M lower in profits next quarter.

It's not like they're going to stop making Android phones over this. Not saying I like what happened, but "won't someone think of the consumers" doesn't really work here.
Cool as fuck! Will definitely use.

Some issues I noticed:

* When you are signing up and type your email address into the box, it gives you an error if you press enter (but it works if you click the button)

* Typo here: http://i.imgur.com/w6rxsqx.png

* Doesn't seem to work on Windows 8. The package installs fine (via pip) but breaks when I try to use it... http://i.imgur.com/Llokwl9.png

CBF sending this as an email
Would it help to think of it as a (kernel) RNG daemon that you're trying to connect to, that doesn't finish starting up until it's seeded? That's basically what the blocking means, in the OpenBSD case.
Don't forget the other virus of beginning every statement with "you know what?"

No, actually, I don't know "what". That's what I'm waiting for you to tell me, jack-ass.
You have a point - a woman can always choose to be relatively unattractive by cutting her hair short, not wearing makeup, wear unattractive clothes, etc... They choose to present themselves as attractive because there are more social advantages of doing so.
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To infringe a patent, you have to make, use, sell, or offer to sell, or import an infringing product or process. [0] Google writes software that could be used to make such a device but it actually produces very few such devices itself. Apple just might be able to sue over the Nexus line, though I think LG and HTC actually make those, because Google sells them on the Play Store. The damages would be pretty small, though, because the volume is small.

Google's export of software is not making, selling, or importing a product [1] and no Android manufacturers make phones in the USA.

Samsung actually makes the devices and imports them in vast numbers.

Note also that since using the device can be infringement, Apple could sue every user of Android devices in the USA individually also.

[0] 35 USC §271
[1] Microsoft v. AT&T, 550 U.S. 437 (2007)
For years he's been trying desperately to buy an NBA team and bring it back to Seattle to revive the stolen Sonics. So far each time he has tried, (the Sacremento Kings, Minnesota T-wolves, among others) a local billionaire or the hometown has stepped in to deflect his offers.

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/steve-ballmer-nba/
Not useless, however.

Give the contents of wikipedia to our own civilization a century ago and watch the outstanding progress. A lot of theories wouldn't need to be tested, once the accuracy of wikipedia was determined. Things like penicilin wouldn't have to be discovered by accident. Several chemical reactions, which are named after their inventors, wouldn't need discovering.

Several open questions would be answered in an instant. Heck, give wikipedia to us a decade ago, we hadn't even discovered exoplanets. That would tell us that they are out there, and the outlines of basic techniques to find them.

Even things like the best reentry shape for a spaceship. Or chemical elements previously undiscovered.

WRT that particular entry, it is in fact, very abstract. But give it to a university, no matter the tech level, they will figure it out, given time. There's a lot of missing information indeed, but people are very good at filling in the blanks.

I'll give you another example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser . It is cryptic too, but remember that the laser, once conceived theoretically, didn't have a practical use. Now, we can't live without them. That entry lists the practical uses right there.

There are many, many more examples. My argument is that, while you cannot give wikipedia to someone and expect that a civilization will come out on the other end, the knowledge that is there is priceless. That would require work, but I bet any reasonable government would provide the necessary financing.

Oh, almost forgot, weaponry. It has several outlines for weapons. Heck, even the type of antenna best used for radar would be enough information to completely change the events of the World Wars.

Another thing I just remembered: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter . Helicopters were attempted for decades with no success, it says right there in the history section. But someone came up with the idea of flexible rotors. There, my last phrase is enough to point a team to the solution, even if the details about materials, manufacturing methods and the calculations are missing. But I bet people can figure it out.
I actually like the typing part... if I had my druthers there'd be more typing. I can process what's going on in that time.
Like asking, "Why do we need software engineering when we've had computer science for a century." They're not different things, in any meaningful sense. Data scientists use statistics, combined with the power of computers, to make computations that would have been difficult to do a century ago. But they aren't different disciplines like this guy seems to think.
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You might be interested in this book, by a woman, about privileges women enjoy, that men are generally unaware of:

http://dontmarry.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/the_manipulated...