skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I missing something? When did "sexist" start to mean being attracted to a person and acting on that attraction by pursuing an intimate relationship?

"""What startled me the most was the fact that when he was a young, boyish looking professor at Cornell, Feynman used to pretend to be a student so he could ask undergraduate women out. I suspect that this kind of behavior on the part of a contemporary professor would almost certainly lead to harsh disciplinary action, as it should. The behavior was clearly, egregiously wrong and when I read about it my view of Feynman definitely went down a notch, and a large notch at that."""

Obviously these weren't his students (or they would have recognized him of course), so there is no power differential or conflict of interest. An individual may or may not consider lying/exaggerating about your occupation/age to ask someone out creepy (or even cute), but "clearly, egregiously wrong" seems a bit extreme. Worse lies have been told for the same purposes. Nonetheless lying in your personal life should not "certainly lead to harsh disciplinary action" unless it is affecting your work or colleagues.

Sexism should be narrowly defined: discriminating professionally against someone due to their gender.

The author himself admits: As far as we know, there is no evidence that Feynman discriminated against women in his career

Thus, based on available evidence, Richard Feynman, eccentric, heterosexual playboy that he may have been, was not a sexist. QED.
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'Dynamic titling' especially of NYT submissions is becoming more common. For various reasons, some are business and some are editorial/political. The 'paper of record' is no more.
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Well, it's not clear if the ride count includes metra. If it does, then you need to include the entire metro area. If it's CTA only, then it should be just the city.
Some people might be looking for a machine to play around with Cobol?
I suppose I don't find this all that radical because it seems in line with corporate personhood. Suppose I'm a US citizen but I become embroiled in some dispute with the government; I might also hold an Irish passport but that isn't going to let me blow the matter off. It seems to me that if you enjoy the benefits of US corporate citizenship -access to wealthy and highly liquid markets, access to the US courts, and so on - then you shouldn't be able to disclaim your US citizenship by paying the very small needed to set up a foreign subsidiary and pretending it's wholly independent from you (even though it it has the same name, brand, etc. and you own all the shares of this notional subsidiary.

Let's face it, it's 'technically' a separate legal entity but nobody disputes that it's ultimately the same company, a local clone of the original if you will. MS certainly has the right to make their legal argument about the differences for as long as the courts will entertain it, but it seems like a bit of a bullshit argument to me.

I say 'seems' because I'm guessing a bit - unhelpfully, the news article doesn't cite the case in question, so I haven't looked up any of the filings to see what the matter is or study the particular arguments. I probably should, but I'm feeling a bit lazy about it :/
I liked the idea of a free and open-source password manager. It seems that Mitro has been around for nearly a year.[1].

It does not seem anywhere near as mature as Lastpass though. There are no additional features such as a credit card or notes store. Also, it seems buggy since I was only able to login once through the Chrome extension.

I guess I will stick with Lastpass for now.
2nd paragraph: the data came from National Transit Database (NTD) and the American Community Survey (ACS). These data sets are USA-only.
This is true, teaching people how to do business through videos is a clear passive income device.
Why we should believe the dreamers – and not the experts
I've wondered this too & I've reached out to them several times to no avail so either it's dead, they stopped doing it, or something happened. I'm trying to see if I can get a hold of a cop friend or two to see what the options are to legally acquire said LIDAR guns for tests. It would be a really cool project, even in the short hand.
That's what I wonder about. Most people who "play around" with it usually strongly want to get rid of it and continue using it because they can't switch for some reason.
Former FCC chairman wrote a recent essay on privacy and pseudonymity, with responses from Schneier, Stallman, Pasquale, MacKinnon, Granick, Morozov & more:

http://bostonreview.net/forum/reed-hundt-saving-privacy
The ABCs of Organizational Improvement – Doug Engelbart
The food there is rather mediocre, TBH.
Yeah, but how many folk tales do you know of have our calendar measured after the life of one man? 2014 AD or more fully "Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi".

How many of those tales give you a single point of failure, that if you can explain away one point then internally the whole belief system collapses? (http://bit.ly/1uNpRwT with a modern explanation at http://www.reasonablefaith.org/the-resurrection-of-jesus)

Seems to me there might be more to the story than just a random dart throw at a wall of choices.
The best way to explain technical debt is by analogy: Technical debt is what happens to your entertainment center when you buy a new Playstation. To do things properly, you should buy another HDMI cable, run the cable through your cabinet around to the TV, on a dedicated input.

But that's not how it happens. When you bought the Playstation you also got a copy of Call of Battlfield Honor Brothers, and your friends aren't going to wait half an hour while you do that. So you steal the AV cords from the Wii, run them in front of the DVD player, and plug them into the XBox's TV port.

So now, the system still works, but it's not ideal. You have to move some cords if you want to play a DVD. You have to unplug the Playstation if you want to play Minecraft on XBox. And heaven help you if you want to play Wii Bowling.

Now imagine this happens many times over several years. You get a new XBox. And a Bluray player. And a new sound system. Each time you do what it takes to get things working, and no more. Pretty soon, just to watch Netflix you have to rewire a whole switchboard of cables.

At some point, you need to pay off your technical debt. In this case, by taking a whole Saturday to unplug everything, buy some new cables, and re-route all the connections in a clean, logical way. It's the last thing you want to do while your friends are playing Band of Duty-bound Heroes IV, but if you don't, you'll be rewiring Ethernet cables in order to watch Hulu until the end of time.
The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker
This is really impressive, I'm starting to try Racket coding with Emacs + Geiser Mode. And I really need some sort of Guides to rely on once in a while.

The following words also sounds convincing:

"If you are a programmer, you should try to automate thing as much as possible. One way of doing this is using a good editor that automates many menial and tedious tasks. For example, one of the thing that annoys me is using the command cd to change into a deep directory path like this:

[/path/to/a/very/long/long/long/long/long/long/..../directory/ ]"
Hacker news is very unix focused. This is convenient, but I'd love to see some more blog posts about what's made platforms like VMS or mainframe platforms awesome to work with. (where do these crowds hang out?)
A Vibrator That Hides In Plain Sight
> the propensity to lie on the beach and watch girls.

Wow. That's unexcusable.
> PHP developers specifically took into consideration RAII when designing the language.

No part of that phrase matches reality.

> Cycles don't really affect RAII in meaningful way.

Which is irrelevant because once again what PHP has is not RAII it's reference counting, same as CPython and Objective-C. And because it's refcounting it does have an impact: objects involved in or linked from a cycle are not immediately cleaned up once the cycle goes out of scope because all objects still have a refcount of at least 1.

Cycles which, by the way, PHP did not bother breaking until 5.3: http://php.net/manual/en/features.gc.collecting-cycles.php so these objects would live until process death.
Quartz does have some support for those color spaces and depths. Is there support in particular that you found lacking?

By the way, nice app!
Well, for PHP fopen() specifically fclose() would happen automatically as soon as the variable containing the result of fopen() goes out of scope. Unless you shared it with some other code, "properly" would happen automatically here.
> Once you eliminate the problem of patent trolls, you realize that the idea behind software patents is sound and actually promotes innovation, start ups and entrepreneurship.

Eliminating patent trolls would eliminate that problem for large corporations, although it would still cost them million of dollars to apply for patents solely to cancel out others' patents through cross-licensing. Start ups are even more screwed because all of the large incumbents still each have a huge arsenal of broad software patents and can bury any software start up in litigation who tries to compete with them. This also makes having a software patent essentially useless for a start up because any attempt to assert it against an incumbent would only result in counterclaims and ruinous litigation costs. The idea that a small practicing entity can realistically assert a software patent against a large tech corporation is beyond belief. And that's before you even consider the six-figure cost of paying lawyers to get a patent through the patent office, which then generally isn't even issued until the technology at issue is either obsolete and disused or so common and ingrained in the status quo that issuing an effectively retroactive patent on it without prior notice to those who have since adopted it is inherently unreasonable.

Software patents are fundamentally useless and should be abolished.
If your main value proposition is that you can save customers money, then it seems natural that you'll encounter this. Is your expensive database approach cheaper than hiring people to update spreadsheets? If so, then communicate this, perhaps through ROI calculations, case studies, etc. If not, then your value proposition is weak.

A better approach may be to not focus on cutting costs but gaining profit. What extra functionality does your database provide, that can make their businesses more profitable? What extra value can you deliver to them?

In general, convincing people to give you money so that they can theoretically lose less money is usually harder than selling them on benefits and solving their pain points.
That's a pretty good introduction. I've been using emacs for years, but this post reminds me that I've never gotten around to setting up a satisfactory project management system, so that I can grep and find files across the whole project.
Alternately, you could change your name to Prawo Jazdy.
Satya Nadella: Time to stop the criticism and do something about it
Having More Than One Set of DNA Carries Legacy of Risk
The only thing I learned from the article is that NY has a really popular subway. Duh.

My question is: Why is SF's public transit so popular? It can't be because of the quality. LA is a much bigger city, why isn't public transit more popular there?
"Do you honestly think that it even possible that examiners spend years examining cases?"

It would be if they hadn't already broken the system by letting so many frivolous patents through.

The original view of patent eligibility from those who encoded the system into the US Constitution was VERY different than that of today.

See, for example:

http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/mcphersonletter.html

If Jefferson had any idea of what the current patent system would look like and how little it had to do with bringing to bear really novel inventions with high social value (compared to being mostly a rent seeking mechanism used to make a quick buck via iffy, vague claims on all sorts of obvious ideas), I'm absolutely certain he would never have allowed for the creation of the system on his watch.
Stipulating everything you say about the experiences of pilots, it doesn't address the experience of fish at all. Imagine yourself, exposed to the atmosphere. If you're in a powerful current, you'll notice instantly, as you're covered in sensors embedded in your skin. Pilots can't actually feel the exterior of their plane... but fish can certainly feel their skin. And pilots make up for not physically being their plane precisely by paying attention to sensors that let them know they're being pushed. When they are being pushed... they notice. Planes don't just set out for LA and land in Vancouver because of unexpected wind from the south.
Russia wants Apple, SAP to cooperate against foreign spying
If your project supports x why wouldn't you tell people?
My user name is catalyst. Thanks.

I don't have a Facebook account, and register one detected as spam.
Fully threaded probably would never happen with PHP engine, and unlikely with PHP language at all, since semantics of the language would not allow to do things right without a lot of changes. But limited "shared-nothing" threads are in principle possible, though may not be very useful (I could think of couple of use cases, but many of these cases can be solved by different means too).

As for cursors - Zend Engine actually supports both internal and external cursors for arrays, but there's no user-level access to that. Extensions though use it all the time. So given threading would be implemented on C level, it could potentially use external cursors. Though, as I mentioned, there would be problems well beyond cursors to deal with in that case. E.g., since arrays are mutable, one would be first required to ensure both threads actually somehow accessing the same object and it hasn't disappeared or mutated unrecognizably from under them. That would require much more effort than a couple of cursors.
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Pacabel thank you for your note. My comment was meant in all seriousness. With so many institutions depending heavily on their students financing by student loans, I was making a call on which institutions I thought would survive and why and which institutions would likely fail.

So why the downvote? And why not add something substantial to the conversation.
How does the sharing access work? Does it sign in with the password locally and share the resulting cookies to the recipient?
Community Fiber in Washington DC, Seattle, and San Francisco: Lessons Learned
> At least some of the expensive filters have activated charcoal

Activated carbon is effective just to remove odors and nothing more. It's not expensive either, it's like $ 10/kg retail.

A high-end filter is more likely to work with ionization. [1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Sharp-FPA80UW-Plasmacluster-Purifier-F...
About the same time tumblr started getting popular. The author uses reasoning that in reverse would be labelled slut shaming.
Flustered about getting downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8117924
Feynman's story here was that at dances/social events, when he said he was a professor, and that he had worked on the Manhatten Project, he was assumed to be lying. So he switched to avoiding saying those things, and implying he was a mature student instead (plausible since the war had delayed the education of many people).
I thought the same thing. Besides, many elite institutions actively discourage working while at school, and I speak from personal experience here. So there's no way to actually make that type of money away from school. Besides, it puts the responsibility of those outrageous fees on the student again - why don't you just work to get the money? And that's not the point. Competing options are.
6 Mind-Bending Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
This looks like an excellent resource for those new to emacs, and a good reference for those already using it.

All written in org-mode as well.

Thank you
I think it's telling that they list the cost of a static IP on their home page. My local provider doesn't even list it as a service; and if you find a rep who can sell it to you it's a "business-only" service AND costs you around 60 USD per month.
Does instagram discriminate?
Why Facebook Went Bankrupt 5 Years Ago (2025)
This is the usual journalist bunch of bolocks. Even the example they use is bad. Bell was an expert on what he did, Wester Union on the other hand in a company that delivers message. Even if a company can be considered an "expert", try are experts in delivering messages, not it the technology that composes a telephone.
Well, suppose the master is damaged, and you need to go back to the original footage and reconstruct the scene using the same post-production methods that were available then? alternatively, suppose business conditions or personal conflict led to a truncated version of the original film being released, but the source materials allow the reconstruction of the director/ screenwriter/ producer's original vision?

The former has been the case with Fritz Lang's film Metropolis, with the complete version available today being a built (IIRC) from a mix of different masters and some raw footage, and the latter has been the case for another silent classic, Erich von Stroheim's Greed, which is a historical masterpiece but was heavily cut at release for both content and runtime. More recently, the version of The Good The Bad and The Ugly you get on DVDs now restores 19 minutes that were cut from the original...and I could cite a bunch of other important films (at least, if you're a film nerd) that only exist in their current form because someone knew the release version was compromised and went looking for the original production footage.
President Sanchez Cuts Ribbon on Space Elevator
> It is much faster and cheaper for Big Company to acquire that company, its patents, its team and its products than spending years in court suing them.

Which is why software patents are so useless! Big Company needs a team and code, and it gets the product to market faster to buy the team who has already written and tested the code than to pay a new team the same money to write it again. Meanwhile the patent is useless because the cost of ligating a patent claim is an inconvenience for Big Company but a mortal danger for the startup.
I may be missing something but is the suggestion that local municipalities dig their last mile and run their own fiber?

That's ... Not likely to succeed surely? I assume the actual dig out is a specialised job, with no private hire market, the back haul ... To where and to whom? Do most towns know where their nearest telehouse/interconnect is? The support tasks are difficult - and scale pretty well, but not if you have no scale.

Ultimately this sounds like "hey let's build a public ally owned nationwide fiber network!" Why not start at that point?
There's a whole book of solutions that people have thought up over the years:

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb
> even an "extremely low" absolute number (like one in a thousand) is unacceptable.

Like herd immunity in epidemology?

The really large corporations are mostly immune, because they have the resources to fight the disease from the carriers. Everyone else is subject to ill effects. With luck the carriers die off before they can infect the non-immune population.

When you get more carriers, the spread of the disease increases exponentially.

In case of patents we see two things playing out at the same time: the race to get more bad patents issued, and more actors trying to abuse the existing ones.

The herd immunity is long gone, and everyone suffers.
However comparing internationally shows how far behind the US is on this front, and how much they need to improve.

No point giving pats on the back all round when nobody is even attempting to change the "legal, cultural and social" environment.
Please don't submit it, it may just go through! ;-)
Rultor + Travis
El senado fránces toma medidas contra el wifi y el teléfono móvil para niños
Turns out it's simply a direct copy of a print article, which of course doesn't have links.
This looks almost exactly like Rapportive:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rapporto/lobacefbn...
> Sexism should be narrowly defined: discriminating professionally against someone due to their gender.

I'm not exactly supportive of the antidiscrimination movement, but that definition is a little narrow by any conventional standard. It seems fair to say that "women have no place in management" is a sexist viewpoint even if you personally are a freelance painter employing no one, and "as a girl, I want my roommate to be a girl" is just as sexist as "as a white, I want my roommate to be white" is racist, n'est-ce pas?
Furniture is very illiquid because of the transportation hassles. I bought three desks that had retailed for $500 each, for $33 each. That person would have been happy to get 50%.
I'm going to invoke Poe's law here: are you serious?
This sort of radical feminism is getting more and more cancerous every day. Worse, it's beginning to infect popular culture.

I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing a larger push by these people against natural human male behaviors in the near future.
6 New Trends in Customer Service for 2015
NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
... or some others:

7: The universe is larger than our visible light cone. "They" may be "hiding" outside of our visible universe.

8: (even more mind-bending) "They" are hiding in the dark matter, i.e., they ARE dark matter :P

A serious question to some scientist: assuming there exsits an alien civilization that is, say, a million years old, 500 000 ly away, and that they communicate in the spectrum we can detect. Wouldn't their EM radiation be overwhelmed ("erased") by star and other activity on its way to earth?
Here's a possibility:

- - - - @outlook.com is a relatively new email domain (< 2 years)

- - - - Most people buying online are over age 18

- - - - Most people do not change their email address

- - - - Most people over the age of 18 have had their email address longer than two years

So, by that logic, if someone has a @outlook.com email address, there are a few possibilities:

- - - - They had an old email address, but switched/forwarded it to @outlook.com sometime in the last 2 years (unlikely - generally people don't suddenly change their email)

- - - - They made an @outlook.com address for ecommerce signups (unlikely - why not use your current provider e.g. Gmail?)

- - - - This is their first email account (unlikely)

- - - - They registered it to commit fraud (hmmmm)

Obviously this is all speculation and there are exceptions to all those assumptions, but it seems logical that the last option is more likely than the others, especially shen weighted by the fact that fraudsters almost always create more than one email account.