skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue is that "female" can refer to any species, whereas "woman" refers only to humans. So when someone obliquely refers to women and someone responds "oh, you're talking about females!", the subtext is that they have now realized that we're talking about women, but haven't quite realized that women are people too.

It would be the same as calling someone a "human" rather than a "person". Like aliens do in the movies. Maybe you don't feel that's dehumanizing, but I think a lot of people would.

(Classicist pet peeve: A word's etymology has nothing to do with its modern denotation and connotation.)
This looks really great! Nice to see impulse being used to make awesome things.
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For that I think we have to study Elon's brain when he is free from his ventures. His trajectory looks like of a perfect brain/mind that never fails to delivery even in extreme pressures. By the way he also has photographic memory so that helps.
That's a great read! Were the warts he pointed out ever addressed?
Usually the key is being able to find people who share your vision and are able to execute it without you needing to micromanage or devote a huge chunk of your time to that one venture. I'd argue that if that's how he's done it then that's his greatest success, even more so than SpaceX or Tesla. Because it can be very difficult to find those people.
Not Apple's fault per se, just the Silicon Valley equivalent of a "Friday Night News Dump" that's common in industry and government.[1] It happened to be Apple this time, but it could have just as easily been a Google acquisition, some new Amazon product, basically anything guaranteed to get most of the attention and press.

[1] - http://www.rff.org/Publications/Pages/PublicationDetails.asp...
Well that's not cool. I don't support that either. In my experience (limited to places I've lived), Critical Mass is more about bicycles in the street with the autos than about bicycles in the sidewalk or crosswalk with pedestrians.
Think sewers etc
> (I still hate hangouts, putting SMS and web chat at the same place is very confusing for the average user

Apple and WinPhone do this fine and it's an excellent idea in a world where SMS is overpriced that the app should automatically look for free ways to get the message to the target seamlessly.

I look at Hangouts the same as I look at Plus - great idea to integrate the myriad things into one place and consolidate a zillion balkanized Google products... but Google just isn't good at doing that.
"it’s free to call numbers in the U.S. and Canada"

It's great that expensive international calls are a thing of the past by now but is this really the right way to go? I'm in the UK - do I have to pay international rates to call UK numbers or will I just not be able to call from the UK 'yet'?
I agree that the documentation still need a lot of work.
However, it doesn't say nor suggest to setup any crontab as root. As the only requirement is to have a stored procedure called regularly, you can use local postgres crontab for example, or any other place else. I will clarify this point on documentation as soon as possible.
If Time Warner is selling more bandwidth than they are able to provide, the correct solution is that they upgrade their infrastructure, not 'here's a 50Mbit connection, you'll pay more than the 20Mbit plan, but you get to use 3Mbit, have a nice day.'

> there's a fixed amount of bandwidth

This is being used as a bullshit excuse, and people buy it because they can visualize a set of physical tubes with a fixed width. However, isn't it funny that when Netflix paid off Comcast, they suddenly found enough bandwidth to stop throttling Netflix traffic back. I guess they got right out there and dug another trench for another tube.
Of course they do. That's abusing peoples misunderstanding of how this all works under the hood. The whole notion of 'air time' makes 0 sense with a cell phone, the phone is off the air more than 90% of the time even while a conversation is in progress.
> What's wrong with Google Docs?

The Google part.
I have no idea. The gchat/gmail/hangout integration has been confusing me for many months. To this day I'm never really sure where I'm signed in to any of them or just some of them or none of them.
This is perhaps the major argument for monarchies, or republics that are less attuned to "the mob", i.e. the masses. If you want long term thinking, don't attach political power to a vote by "everyone" every 2-6 years.
>Ideas are pretty much worthless.

I've found this sentiment is very prominent among engineers (myself included) and not-so-prominent among anyone else. It seems the general populous believes 90% of the work is "thinking up a great idea". The reality is that almost any annoyance or inconvenience in your life could be turned into a profitable company. There is an unlimited supply of ideas that could, hypothetically, be developed into a profitable company. That's one of the reasons new profitable companies can keep getting started, even though there are 6 billion other people on earth who could've beat you to the punch.

I just wonder why that knowledge is so rare. I understand engineers understand it intimately since they spend years making these things come to life, but you'd think it'd be at least a little more visible to non-engineers.
The Old School PR Model is broke & busted. Nobody cares about your press release.

Here's a good read on getting buzz from Tim Ferriss> http://fourhourworkweek.com/2013/09/17/how-to-get-national-p...
True, but that's a much higher barrier than "This application is from an unidentified developer. [OK]".
Citibank sometimes returns "what is your account number and debit card number" as security questions when you try to login from a computer it doesn't recognize. Just goes to show - asking harder questions is not security. KYC and 2FA ARE!
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There's no video core, so no HDMI or even VGA output. Edison is designed for things like robotics and home automation. It's not a general-purpose x86 computer.
This is such a dishonest meme that's of course popular because it plays on natural biases and there are way more people without ten years of experience. An equivalently dishonest statement would be "anyone who repeats the 10 is really 10*1 meme are just junior devs trying to compensate for their lack of skill and experience." Which of those broad generalizations is probable more true?
Family photo management just got a new look
You have the dependency graph wrong. Servo was not created to help test Rust. Rust was created to help build Servo.
Angular-data: data store and caching for Angular.js
How so? Worst case they snag it for some spam. However, the last one I used was client-side so they couldn't collect anything.
Why is the new U2 album in your iTunes library?
I believe you can opt out of it. I was annoyed for a while at having Hangouts foisted on me but now (in Gmail at least) I've gone back to the old interface which, while not jazzy, is perfectly functional.
But consider that GNU is also separated in a different repository, but it still comprises the GNU/Linux system as a whole.

Yes, and udev would compose an hypothetical "Udev/Linux system". But Linux itself doesn't need udev.

GNU / GCC is different because you literally can't compile Linux without it. But if and when LLVMLinux succeeds, I don't think you could say the same.
> Not technically literate enough to contact cloudflare support but using TOR

It's more likely than you think:

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

http://piratebrowser.com/

All someone needs is to have read something on some social media website, followed a link, and installed some software. Boom, they're accessing the Internet through TOR.
> I can understand not allowing me to post anonymously - but to go as far as refusing me read access? Really?

Read access still consumes resources - you may want to read up on what "denial of service" means and check your outrage. CloudFlare sits between you and the host server, and it's their responsibility to cut off DoS attacks before it can affect the host server. Their heuristics may not be perfect but it's not exactly a simple problem to solve.
How do I not get a voice plan? (tablet aside) Nearly all decent data plans (in the US at least) have a mandatory unlimited voice/SMS bundled.
Did you buy a connection to the Time Warner Network, or did you buy a connection to the Internet?

If they can't get external data fast enough for supplying your connection, TW has lied to you, and isn't delivering the service you paid for.

Also, interconnection is not in any way analogue to a pipe. It has no reasonable length they have to keep. It's just a matter of joining the 50Mb "pipe" they sold to you with the pipe the other party sold to the site you are accessing.
Hopefully the resulting labour crunch will encourage more automation.
He did it and learned. That is my guess.
> does not need labeled data

It needed training on 1TB of labeled images in the first place. Arguably it can be used to transfer that knowledge to other tasks with a much smaller amount of labeled samples but still requires supervision.
One of the best pieces I've ever read.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

Suggestion: use readability
I think that is a common trend with Windows software. I haven't used Windows close to a decade now but I remember the atrocious malwares shipped in form of toolbars on Windows very clearly. And probably that is what forced me to move to a better development platform that Linux is.
It's like running with positive wind force.

ps: For flat surfaces I hope they made a test using some kind of rollerskates / shoe hybrid.
“Not my Way” is not the same as “Wrong”
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This is not a thing of the past. Font rendering is still significantly different between java and non-java apps, and in my opinion appears distinctly wrong in java:

http://i.imgur.com/tpsl4BH.png

Java on left vs terminal and native editor.
The worst part about Critical Mass is that they can block people who are trying to save a life.

People who are on-call, like doctors and CRNAs and so on, don't get lights and sirens. They just drive normal cars, but if they don't get to the hospital within a certain short amount of time, someone is likely to die.

Critical Mass cyclists have no way of knowing who's on-call and coming in to a hospital. Even if they do make a path for all obvious emergency vehicles, that isn't enough.
Regarding which basic features they had to add after the first wave of beta feedbacks I don't believe them that they have been developing + using the language for years.
I have used an offshore developer to help with some specific projects on my startup that is entering our friends and family launch this week. My experience has been fantastic.

I learned to code last fall and consider myself to be a semi-technical founder (php - laravel, jquery). I live in a small town in Montana and I knew I could not complete my MVP entirely by myself. With nearly no developers in my town I knew I would be working with someone over the internet to complete some of the project features.

I talked with roughly 10 freelance developers (half in U.S, one in Denmark, one in Belgium and a few in India).

I chose one of the developers in India because he seemed like the most capable of the group and immediately understood the project. He has been fantastic to work with and taken "ownership" in the project. I wouldn't hesitate to hire him full time if the project gains steam and he was willing to move to the U.S.

A couple of things to note: I would have much rather had an in house developer, but that just wasn't an option in my rural location. Also, my project is a marketplace of sorts, so it isn't a very complicated project from a coding standpoint. Going into this project with no sense of what I was after or how it would get done would have been a horrible idea, regardless of where the developer was located.

I had the offshore developer work on very specific modules that were organized through a shared trello board. Before I talked with him, I knew exactly what I wanted him to work on and the timeline for each project. He works some odd hours, so our usual schedule of talking was around 10am - noon and 9pm - 11pm.

He spent about 110 hours total on the project.
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Several carriers offer them and the ones that do will win price-sensitive customers.

T-Mobile: http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/mobile-internet.htm...

U.S. Cellular: http://m.uscellular.com/uscellular/plans/data-only-plan.html

http://www.popsugar.com/tech/Data-Only-Plans-26912644

Also, T-mobile offers free international data in many, many countries. This may offer a cheaper option than international voice calls for callers with traditional plans.
How does the iPhone 6 have widgets? I must have missed that part.
If there's a piece of this that you think'd be especially useful, like the merging of data, then it'd be nice to pull that out and open source just this piece.

But if you don't have the time or want to expend the effort, I agree with what some others have posted here. Open source it with some decent documentation and screenshots. It could serve you well down the road.
There are plenty of boards for that kind of application already (PC Engines APU[1], for example). That's not really what Edison is intended for.

[1]: http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm
"Existing MP3 players offered a pretty rough user experience; the iPod was a pleasure to use in comparison."

You clearly didn't own one of the first gen of iPod. Amazing as it was, crashes, reformatting and general bugginess were daily occurrences.

What the iPod brought to the table was a (buggy) new interface and click wheel which allowed you to browse your massive collection of pirated MP3's and ripped CD's much easier than other methods. Also form factor/hardware design was more pleasing to the eye to many.
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I can't tell if you're trolling. Steve Jobs was CEO of two companies at once: Pixar and Apple.
I liked the book. A person who is so hurt by mankind's treatment of our world, that he attempts to destroy mankind while engineering a replacement (with more overt built in dependancies on the rest of the natural world) to repair the damage done but is ultimately foiled by mankind/nature's resilience. All narrated by the kind of ennui suffering character that makes up a large proportion of the first world. Written with the depth, biblical parallels, cyberpunk elements, etc that Atwood does so well. What's not to like?
The Apple Watch Is Aimed Squarely at Women
Reminds of this email I got a couple of months ago from this offshoring company in India. They were claiming they could develop an Android app, no matter how big, for a flat fee of $1000. Sure.
This is really interesting to me. The modal war (say emacs/vi) has always felt weird to me. It's just how you split and dispatch the input a system can receive. How fine grained this distinction is will decide how parallel things can be afterwards. I never searched too much about it because I lacked the terminology, but I wish I knew some studies, theories and reference about ergonomy, information and UI.
"Sand" Francisco... Freudian slip?
This topic is heavily flagged but here is the original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8295102

Which should really be on the front page (141 points / 10 hours), just like #25 (45 points / 11 hours)
Popup blockers typically don't block pop-overs (in-page HTML elements).
I wasn't aware there were so many wifi enabled socs coming out recently.
Compared to an Arduino, how difficult is it to program them?
The Apple Watch has widgets, but I didn't see where the phone had it.
IMO voice over data still has plenty of caveats and issues - not to mention spotty coverage means that there are plenty of areas where you'll have a <3G data connection but still have crystal clear voice reception.
And would be harder to get a job with, presumably. I would venture that it would be much more difficult, but I'm simply speculating.
I know Google is working on this, and they are very smart, but this modular phone idea seems so daft to me.

It seems to me the way forward is more efficient and integrated SOCs with as many functions as possible integrated on a single chip, to minimize cost and energy needs. The mass of complicated interconnects and all these interchangeable components seems like a path to inefficiency and waste to me.

PCs are composed of interconnected components, yet when I build a new PC every five years I don't recycle the parts from the old PC into the new one. I usually get all new parts.

There are advantages to having a modular system, but I think those advantages are less important in a mobile device where battery life is of paramount importance.
Google do as well - they block logins that they determine to be suspicious, and a separate country seems to be a big factor in that decision.
Five years ago my wife and I shared an Ubuntu desktop. It was awesome, and we were even able to play 3D games together.

If I remember correctly, I had to bump the computer up to 6GB of RAM. She was running off the motherboard's built-in video card and I had two monitors on a separate card.

Eventually Ubuntu changed things so that it wouldn't work anymore, but I believe that it's possible to do now. If you have kids this would be a cheap way to give them all a decent amount of computing power.
Following that line of thought, it is actually a major argument for dictatorships. After all, they can command a whole country to operate towards some single unified goal.

If fewer voters is better than 0 voters is optimal!

A nice illustration is that most open source projects that are based on democracy are always torn apart by inner power plays but those that have a 'benevolent dictator' seem to flourish.
If you can't make money on it then open source it if you have time
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Boy, people who buy stuff from Apple must be really stupid and conformist. I never would have considered that if I hadn't seen this image, so, thanks a lot.
"in about fifty years Germanys population will fall by about twenty percent"

Wow, in 50 years robots will do most of the work. They will drive our cars and clean our houses. They are starting doing it.

In fact 50 years is so much time we could had done great breakthroughs like the discovery of nuclear fusion, or the manipulation of DNA so we remain young forever(and most people will not die from age).

I am more worried about what will happen THIS YEAR if Germany continues supporting USA invasion of Ukraine and Russia closes the gas key.
Or even the old fashioned "never buy a car built on Monday or Friday" thing.
dude could make way more money sending fake emails from the account as satoshi, creating a scandal and profiting.
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Interesting service. Spreadsheet merging isn't the easiest thing ever. :-)

I am a firm proponent of libre software and encourage you to open source it under a strong copyleft license. If it is really useful, it will be picked up someday and looked at. If not useful, then it's not a great loss to you.
But, as I've said repeatedly, the comment wasn't about what I'm currently doing.

Oh, and by the way -- still write a ton of code.
And before that, Pixar and NeXT.
Right now Germany hugely profits from immigration out of other European and overseas countries, bringing in more than 400.000 (net) immigrants in 2013 alone. The figure for 2014 will likely be even higher. If they can keep up this trend it will be able to compensate (to a large degree) the decline of the population caused by low birth rates. In fact, the 2008 demography report of the government (which brought the demographic issue to a large public awareness for the first time) (http://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Verfassung/Dem...) calculated with a net immigration rate of 300.000 people in the most optimistic case, so bringing in 400.000 people per year is really better than anyone could hope. Of course some people will again complain that foreigner will "steal their jobs", but the truth is that they might actually do great service to the country, even if their rate of unemployment should be higher than that of native Germans.
But I got down voted too, though.

It's a serious question -- what does this sort of talk actually mean? What would "subscribing to The Cult of Apple" mean in this situation? Using Apple Pay? Believing it will succeed? What?
Your rights end at the point where you're causing harm to others. All freedoms, including freedom of speech, need to have limits or the strong and privileged will run roughshod over the weak or incapable.

If you're arguing that we should protect the freedom of speech of people who went ridiculously far out of their way to continue to share illegally obtained, private pictures, and then blame the victims for everything that's happened to them, I can't agree.
Is there a barometer and a slow mo cam on the nexus?

I have a Galaxy 3
Can't you make "widgets" in notification center now?
Lets be honest.. the multi-cultural society brought on by leftists and feminists and foreigners leads people to give up on the future of their culture. These people don't want families with non-Germans and they don't want Germany to be non-German, but they are occupied by foreign cultures and they can't do anything to change it.

edit: Every German will upvote this comment
> trajectory looks like [...] perfect

Those are the important words. Never underestimate how much luck and chance factor into success, being in the right place at the right time and so on. Musk has done well, but studies show that corporate success only very loosely correlated with CEO skills (30%) and mostly luck.

So, no, he's not a super-man with a perfect brain, although I expect you'd still have a hard time persuading him to part with it for 'study' ;)
Facebook appears to be leaking again.
Hah, yeah, let's port everything for no obvious reason.
Saw this on facebook earlier today... I can't believe this has found its way into HN. Selling devices with the best specs has never been the mission at Apple. Mixing good specs with beautiful design, great useability and the integration with OS X and iOS is what Apple excels at.
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I'm convinced GoDaddy has honestly changed their stance. At this point should we still be holding a grudge?
I've just read the paper; it's academically very cool yet practically useless (at least for now).
It uses 24GHz for RX, 60GHz for TX so retransmission is just a fantasy of the "journalist". It requires +45dBm output power (32watts!) at the Basestation to power it at 50cm range, so less practical than regular RFID for now really (and absolutely no chance of ever working as a mesh).
All compilers that produce native code are capable of producing static executables and libraries.

This is only a selling point to developers that mix language with implementation, or never used a native code compiler.
As others have pointed out, similar lag times were seen with the original iPhone and iPad launches. Despite this, the small lag time for each iteration since has other people complaining: http://bgr.com/2014/09/10/apple-watch-release-date-analysis/...:
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