skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's a two-edged sword because if they can get more objects in a scene if they cull better, then the artists could've made even better and richer environments. It's all about striking a balance between not spending too much time to optimize in order to give the artists more freedom and giving the artists freedom but not enough time for them to use it.
> Can someone explain to me why 90% women graduating in healthcare is not considered a gender gap but 90% men graduating in compsci is?

Someone mentions this every single time these threads appear. There are programmes to get men into nursing and education and other employment. There are programmes to get women into construction and etc.
And that happened in a released product. Not sure if Chrome engineers bother to test the product thoroughly now that they have such a quick unobtrusive update system. Updates are bad. They are the reason for the demise of Windows. They ease mistakes for sloppy people.
I successfully got the Functor example to work like this:

protocol Functor {
typealias T
typealias FunctorResult
func map<P>(mappingFunction: T -> P) -> FunctorResult
}

extension Dictionary : Functor {
func map<P>(mappingFunction: ValueType -> P) -> Dictionary<KeyType, P> {
var newDict:Dictionary<KeyType, P> = [:]
for (key, value) in self {
newDict[key] = mappingFunction(value)
}
return newDict
}
}
What is gender-specific about "affordable home computers"?
people don't make choices in vacuums.
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Obviously you are not a Chrome user. It's possible to avoid this dialog. However it is quite annoying over a long usage period. And that's where you don't feel the pain ;)
>There's no evidence the anonymous operators of GHash exercised any of those abilities.

Which means it didn't happen. It would be blatantly obvious to watch whenever GHash was mining on the 'wrong' chain to try to make it win. Even if GHash had 80% of the mining power, about one in 25 blocks would see non-GHash miners win twice in a row and unarguably expose this behavior as GHash ignored them.
(Incidentally that's what defines a "parsec" -- a unit of distance of about 3 light years. If you see a parallax of one arcsecond ("par-sec"), from opposite sides of the earth's orbit around the sun (2 AU apart), that something is 1 parsec away. If it's 10 parsecs away, the parallax will be 0.1 arcsec -- the more distant the object, the less it appears to shift. This works to about 0.001 arcsec of precision (distance limit of ~1,000 parsecs), and soon down to 20 microarcseconds (~50,000 parsecs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28spacecraft%29

This is the lowest rung of the "cosmic distance ladder":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/the-cosmic-distanc...
That's basically what drove the design of clang. No doubt the approach with swift will be similar.
Your first paragraph raises some reasonable questions. It's worth asking those.

Your second paragraph leaps to a negative conclusion. It's far from clear what the results would be - good or bad - for people already in the industry (men and women, btw, not just men). There are reasonable reasons to think it could be good or bad, and no justification to assume the worst.
A much more informative look at the trend in CS:

http://m.blogs.computerworld.com/it-careers/21993/women-comp...

Just looking at the percentage is rather misleading. Popularity of CS has undergone booms and busts. The recent drop in female percentage is actually an increase in the raw number of women choosing CS but men have been choosing the major at an even faster-growing rate.
Distributed trust systems ought to work because we love the idea, but there is always the chance we shall find that anonymity is not such a good thing for trust.

I see no particular reason why bitcoin addresses should remain anonymous in the future, making the impact of this power less, but still a fix to the protocol or a lot more miners will be preferable.

I would love to know if this is because the GHash pool has grown (through presumably investing 2012/13-bitcoin profits into hardware) or if it's because others stopped hashing.
Please could you clarify? On Ios I had a single full screen thing that I had to cancel but I get the full PDF after that.
I think I agree it's not misleading, just not informative nor helpful. A bit like saying that my car weights as much as 10 average elephants' bones combined. Is it a lot or not so much ? who knows.
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Airbnb disrupted the old-school mentality that only certain, privileged people should be allowed to provide lodging services and the rest of us ought to be content with being passive consumers.

Ride sharing services disrupted the old-school mentality that only certain, privileged people should be allowed to provide driving services and the rest of us ought to be content with being passive consumers.

Open-source software disrupted the old-school mentality that only certain, privileged people should be allowed publish software and the rest of us ought to be content with being passive consumers.

3D printers disrupted the old-school mentality that only certain, privileged people should be allowed to produce physical goods and the rest of us ought to be content with being passive consumers.

Peer-to-peer lending disrupted the old-school mentality that only certain, privileged people should be allowed provide loans and the rest of us ought to be content with being passive consumers.

The Internet disrupted the old-school mentality that only certain, privileged people should be allowed to publish all kinds of media and the rest of us ought to be content with being passive consumers.
and Tops10, Tops20 as well.
The comment

> Apple makes money from you buying their products, not from selling ads. They therefore want to respect your privacy, compared to, say, Google.

was poorly worded. More precisely, TazeTSchnitzel used “makes money from” instead of “exists thanks to” or some more appropriate phrase. The response

> Apple made $125 million from their ad network iAd in 2012.

replies to that wording error, ignoring the bigger argument. This could've been an honest mistake—the parent did use figure of speech instead of precise term, after all—or an intentional use of fallacy.

Then the thread spirals into discussing whether TazeTSchnitzel or JohnTHaller is correct (both are and both aren't), and now ends up with HN meta-discussion.
if this is because the GHash pool has grown (through presumably investing 2012/13-bitcoin profits into hardware)

It has grown, but not because of Bitcoin profits. cex.io is probably the easiest on-ramp to mining, and all miners are pointed at GHash.
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Why is it odd? Is there a historical precedent for some other language exposing higher kinded types this early in the lifecycle? (Prior to 1.0, that is?)

Ωmega, maybe? Is that what we're expecting of the new "normal" already?
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Here's a Google Drive version I found by searching for the title:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx96LuRBo4jASGNmVHNaUjZRU2VD...
Let's kill python and ruby too. Since they make OO programming accessible to non-Lisp hackers, we might end up with many buggy applications!
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wow, do you get paid for this drivel?

What airbnb "disrupted" is the idea that corporations should pay the taxes they are liable for, obey zoning laws, and respect their neighbors. There is relatively limited innovation once you get past tax dodging: vrbo, homeaway, et al, existed long before airbnb.

And in what sense is consuming ride-sharing any different than paying a taxi? Unless you help drive when you're in the backseat of an uber vehicle, you're just as passive as you would be in the back seat of a taxi.

Finally, plenty of people published stuff before the internet -- zines for starters, small newspapers, etc.
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I think all are reasonable questions to ask, I don't draw any conclusions.
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> If % of degrees awarded to women is increasing overall, it's worth thinking about what happens to the men if/when they get pushed out.

Those men can go find jobs in some other fields, and the average competence of CS students will increase.

I'm only being slightly facetious here: If we're going to blather on about being a meritocracy, we can't be afraid of competition, or worry about the poor men getting "pushed out".
I can offer anecdotal evidence in favor of Swift: I attempted to learn Obj-C in the past and gave up more than once, whereas this week I downloaded the XCode 6 beta and in an hour had my first app running.

The documentation on Cocoa is still sparse, and you have to use a lot of Obj-C interfaces, so it feels like you're a level up too high; it's backwards, but better than not learning it at all.

On the other hand, if you are looking into doing it professionally, it doesn't seem possible to build complex iOS/OSX apps right now without knowledge of Objective-C.
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The language is not "innovative" as they claim, so people are expecting at least some learning from mistakes of prior languages. They could've hired some smart people from more software-oriented companies or something.
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Not sure what Angular/Ember would have to do with it. There's just a lot of duplication in there that could be removed without adding the extra bloat of a framework.
Only by going through Google translate web page. This disables the popup to turn it on
You can't get the minimum-clicks achievement that way.
The question I suppose would be which fields? It seem reasonable to assume that women will begin to dominate most fields once the boomers begin to retire. The only fields that spring to mind would be those that are more manual/trade based and these can be increasingly automated.
Airbnb disrupted the old-school mentality that only certain, privileged people should be allowed to provide lodging service

Haha, what? In what world are people providing lodging services the 1%? I can picture it now - Wall Street bankers getting bored, so they buy up inner city hotels to feel alive in the cut and thrust, high margin business of providing lodging to tourists. Sounds like a dream.
And by coincidence WWDC just happened recently where many interesting things were announced.
What I dislike the most about Airbnb's whole controversial business model, is how the true innovation they did was bypassing laws.

As property listing sites go, Airbnb did not produce any true innovation. And although they clearly must have done some things really well to generate so many people using their service(a.k.a. probably taking them out of craigslist), the really true 'innovation' they did was getting away from abiding regulation.

Now that they are big, they are going to cooperate as much as possible to build regulatory walls so that another Airbnb wouldnt be able to show up and contest those rates.

I have the same feeling from Uber/Lyft. The traditional taxi service is terrible for drivers, and they present true benefits to them: but only because they found a way to bypass the law by paying with the apps instead of giving money to the driver. (If I made a site on my own, and picked up people from the street and the gave me money in hand, i would be breaking the law).

Now that they are big enough, they can also influence the rules enough to make it harder for future competition.

These strategies can only work when the companies get big enough to influence the law making, or when they have such a strong market dominance(or monopoly) that they can now afford to abide by the rules (or to make them).

So, in terms of Airbnb , the only innovative thing they did was finding a law loophole. Woohoo.
Reducing the amount of UI code mostly.
Yea, I went back and forth on making sort of "effectiveness" into its own category. I think it makes more sense to think of overall effectiveness as the combination of the other three categories rather than its own independent thing.
You're not getting down voted for not following groupthink. You're getting doe voted because you're making a bunch of assertions of your opinion as though it's fact, without actually trying to justify those opinions.

On the substantive point, a couple of years ago I wrote a graphics framework. It used JavaScript core and directfb. I could have just told the app developers to use WebKit, but the performance just wasn't there. I'm pretty sure that's also the reason that apple, Google and Microsoft write native GUI sdks, and not to lock in developers.
Thanks for that. I had this strong feeling that this was very much basically the same as something (classic) that I had read before.
It's true. The model for startups these days is to get millions of dollars of funding and spend it all on lawyers who can negotiate your ability to work around laws and regulations. While many of those laws and regulations have no place existing, it still feels sad to me.
I am an AirBnB Host. In Phoenix. I run close to a full time furnished Apartment Rental business.

I like AirBnB for that.

However, I have seen in SF places that are closer to hostel's and are far from safe or sanitary. Short Term Furnished Rental Properties feel like they should be legal, but 12 people squeezed in to a two bedroom apartment shouldn't be.

There may be need for some disruption, but that should be balanced with public health and safety.
I'm glad there's beginning to be some discussion on AirBnB's impact on the housing stock in SF.

I really like AirBnB when I'm traveling or when I want a nice getaway, but it's been incredible to see how how many units around me here in SF are full-time AirBnB rentals. Walking down my block alone, I'd estimate that 30% of the units here are full-time on AirBnB. Each afternoon, I begin to see the tourists and travelers roll in with suitcases, and I've noticed an increasing number of coded lock-boxes outside of many of the houses near me

Whether or not you support rent control is an entirely different issue, but I feel like AirBnB, as it presently operates, is incompatible with the system. In the days of yore, friends of mine would have rooms open up in their apartments and would rent them out to fellow tenants (or subtenants). Now, many folks I know are converting their open rooms (against SF law) to AirBnBs, as the tenants can make a killing off of them.

There's always been bad actors in the SF rental market -- many people would sublease rooms directly to tenants for far above the rate they were paying to the landlord. I think AirBnB just makes it a bit more appealing.
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Like, are you questioning why Manning waited until now to publish an op-ed? I'd wager it's because Manning was going through the whole trial -> prison -> acclimating to prison thing.
maybe remove the requirement to be registered before seeing the chats? I just clicked in to see the France/Honduras chat, but I can't see any activity. I'm much more likely to sign up and participate if I think I'm signing up for something that's more active.
I would suggest going with Swift, but learning enough about Objective-C concepts to use the Cocoa APIs. There is a guide to interoperability between the two languages on the developer site.

For example, some sample code to call a method (here, one named 'upCommand') whenever the user swipes in the 'up' direction looks like this:

let upSwipe = UISwipeGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: Selector("upCommand"))
upSwipe.numberOfTouchesRequired = 1
upSwipe.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirection.Up
self.addGestureRecognizer(upSwipe)

A more idiomatic way in Swift to create a gesture recognizer might be to assign a closure to execute whenever the swipe is recognized.

However, because of the way Objective-C and Cocoa works, you need to define the target of the action as a string literal describing the method name, encapsulated in a 'Selector' object. This is a fundamental Objective-C feature that shows up as a common idiom in the Cocoa APIs. If you didn't know what a selector was, you might have trouble translating this API into working Swift code, since Swift has no real equivalent construct (except the 'Selector()' class described above, there only for backwards compatibility).
Small bed & breakfast operations have been around for hundreds of years. Airbnb merely facilitates an expansion of those suppliers. It's similar to Uber in that way.

Both, however, are running up against existing legislation, put in place for a variety of good and bad reasons, depending on the locality.
Yes migration to IPv6 is essential, but virtual hosting for websites and NAT for ISP subscribers provides a way to indefinitely postpone IPmageddon. This never seems to be mentioned. Also once a block is assigned the actual usage is unpredictable and not reported on that I'm aware of - I know several folks who have blocks assigned by their DC and they're only using a fraction.
Oh, for the love of...

There are two sides to AirBnB. On the one hand, you have people who have a spare room and want to make a bit of money out of it. AirBnB is great for them: that's its raison d'être. The site disrupts the horrible process in the past of going through Craigslist or something similar, having no guarantees about who might be turning up on your doorstep, handling payment, etc. Who could object to AirBnB being used for this? Not that many people.

On the other hand, you have people who buy an entire house or block of apartments with the sole purpose being to rent the entire place out via AirBnB. This is a terrible idea for a number of reasons.

1. We, as society, have decided for better of for worse that we won't let people set up certain types of businesses in their homes without getting permits first. Bars, hotels, shops...society has decided that we want the ability to zone and keep some areas clear of commercial properties.

2. More importantly, to me at least, is that these buildings are frequently not up to fire code. Hotels need to comply with far stricter standards than residential homes, typically including mandatory sprinklers, clear signage, multiple egresses, etc.

I'm more than happy to hear libertarian arguments around how zoning laws and the like serve no purpose. I can't think of any sane argument against fire and safety regulations for hotels: and that is what these properties on AirBnB are, hotels. Before modern fire codes, hotel fires were often devastating and horrific.

These types of properties on AirBnB - and there are a fair few of them, both in SF and NY - are both a) unquestionably illegal, and b) in many cases unsafe. Say what you will about UberX, but at least you know that your driver is licensed and the car is being maintained and serviced (both being requirements for legally driving and joining Uber as a driver). You can't say the same about 'pseudo-hotels' on AirBnB.
I've thought about scaled-down solar system models before but never encountered the coincidence between AUs in a lightyear and inches in a mile. That's effin' beautiful! Thank you!
Do apartment/condo buildings in SF not have some kind of tenants' or owners' association or management, with whom you agreed in a contract to some rules on how you can use your unit? I don't think you could get away with doing it that openly in Copenhagen even if there were no laws involved. If you're running your unit as basically a hotel, odds are that it's going to annoy at least one neighbor, who'll point out that your lease (if rented) or condo-purchase agreement (if owned) doesn't allow you to do that.
this website does approximately zero to explain anything about the service they are offering.
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Awesome! I home this project will grow to cover the whole ship and that it will gain some interactivity. I can see a potential for a great starship simulator game here!

One thing bugs me though. How did I get to the battle bridge from the main bridge? :o. I might be misremembering something from TNG, but I was pretty sure the battle bridge was in the middle of the engine section of the Enterprise, not a door away from the main bridge...
I don't think Airbnb merely found a loophole in the law, they found a way to connect small operators to large markets. The small B&B market has been around for a long time, but individual hosts, especially if they are providing only 1 or 2 rooms, previously rarely had the ability to market their services in the way they can with Airbnb.
Objective-C is far from being shitty.
Your comment, on the other hand, is.
"securely" is spelled wrong.

Out of curiosity, what does this service do? It lets me share my computer's list of known wifi hotspots with another computer?
A large number of listings are full time hotels. One host who has twenty rooms on AirBnB is clearly going to have more listings than one host rented out their spare bedroom.

And if you can't see why this is a problem, maybe you should go take a look at the Wikipedia list of hotel fires in the US[1], and pay particular attention to just how many of those fires were caused by either failing to follow the fire codes or could have been prevented had decent fire code regulations been in place at the time.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hotel_fires_in_the_U...
After surfing for a minute, I'm not really sure what at all this service will offer to me as your customer.

I think in the header it would've been cuter if they had done randomly generated strings for the "fake password" (Q0NDB11LQ), since that's basically what default ISP router passwords are anyways. And it is annoying when people don't change them and tell me to go read it off a sticky note on their refrigerator.
I know you asked a closed question, but would you consider Xamarin? This way you would earn more transferable skills (C#, multi-platform toolkit, etc.) and not lock yourself in one platform. You could also develop in raw C++ and have only a thin ObjC wrapper over it.
SF is a bit different than other communities in that most apartment buildings are really just these large, zany old victorians. Few have tenant associations or real management. My apartment, for instance, is a 4-address building, with each address subdivided into 4-5 sub-units. The building is owned and managed by someone who grew up in the building. I've lived in SF for 7 years, and never lived anywhere that's like a conventional apartment complex.
It's a cool concept - but unless you integrate it at the router level, bad things start happening. Mainly, guests and homeowners will be able to talk to each other (on the connection) and that's not good.

I could see more viability if it was built into the router with separate VLAN's.
"The traditional taxi service is terrible for drivers"

The traditional taxi service, if bad for drivers, is simply because there are enough drivers that will work and be treated like that to make it terrible for the group as a whole.

This happens in any employment situation where supply exceeds demand.

Because there is a low barrier to entry to be a driver as well as lack of other opportunities for drivers the people in charge get leverage.

Likewise "superstar" developers are treated like royalty and well paid in this industry. If all the sudden there were 4 times the superstar developers vying for jobs (assuming demand stays fixed and a superstar is a superstar) all that would go out the window and wages and benefits would almost certainly drop.

I'm a pretty good photographer but decided many years ago that since photography had a low barrier to entry, and only a few made it to the top, wages were decreased by competition to make it a non attractive career.
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