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I complain about python all the time, but I'm in the minority.

Both - it's required for the garbage collector.

The difference is in what is being marketed and to whom. Perfume is all about presentation and is marketed towards women.

Geeklist is a social media startup marketed towards both genders.

I am not equally offended because I don't feel that the sexualization of men in advertisements is equally offensive. The reason is simple: the sexualization of women comes from a male-fantasy prospective. The sexualization of men also comes from a male-fantasy prospective.

What does offend me are advertisements with the bumbling-husband archetype or similar man-without-a-woman stereotypes.

Edit: I should point out that I do think male sexualization is bad as it can promote poor body image, etc.

It augments your sense of touch. I suppose this isn't obvious (however it seems obvious to me that many people would want to augment their senses).

Does it serve a practical purpose for me? No, I have it because it's "cool" but not at all in the same way that piercings are "cool." It's cool because I can feel motors, power transformers, etc.

It's also very useful for picking up dropped paperclips.

I have a magnet implant and looked into this. I found a study about MRIs and cochlear implants and not once did the study mention any dangers. Instead their concerns were based on demagnetizing the implant, and they found that the risk of demagnetization could be mitigated by aligning the patient in a certain way.

I know that cochlear implants are very different from finger magnets (cochlear implants are attached to bone) but it does challenge some of my basic assumptions.

It should also be noted that it would take less than five minutes to remove the implant with a scalpel.

I have one too! I'm kind of surprised that there are not one, but two other people on HN with magnet implants.

And I too am really surprised when people ask "why?" Is it not obvious?

"Exactly k" is not clear because the picture will still fall if you remove k+1 nails. I think it's harder to get clearer than the way it's stated in the paper: "the picture falls whenever any k out of the n nails get removed, and the picture remains hanging when fewer than k nails get removed."

It was shutdown based on a warrant that was issued based on an accusation (and probably at least some evidence), which makes all the difference.

I think track racers would disagree with your last point there but otherwise yes.

Of course, I just don't think they should be called "accidents." When a person is willfully negligent the damage they cause is no accident.

I'm not arguing against insuring negligence, I'm arguing against calling negligence an accident. It's a neat way of removing culpability. "It was just an accident!"

"An accident is an accident"

I don't like this mentality. Is a collision caused by drunk driving really an accident?

You're focusing too much on the wrong thing. The point is being able to take a (simple) problem and convert it to code. The problem doesn't matter, the method does.

Here is one for $3300: http://www.audubonstrings.com/oscommerce-2.2ms2-051113/catal...

Here's one for $1975: http://www.homerweb.com/vintage/GREAT-Old-Antique-BOURGUIGNO...

That said, it doesn't sound like either have been authenticated and have been identified only by the label.

Without knowing the actual details of the transaction, it's possible a more apt analogy would be buying a Picasso and receiving a Matisse - not what you ordered but you're not going to destroy a Matisse.

Violins often have fake labels but that doesn't make the violin fake (whatever that means). If the violin sold for $2500, then it was probably made by a relatively unknown maker whether the label was faked or not. As such, the violin should be judged by the quality/playability of the instrument.

Obviously we only have one side of the story, but either way it seems that Paypal didn't do its due diligence in determining the authenticity of the violin.

Edit: The label is visible in the photo and says it was made by Bourguignon Maurice. A quick search online reveals that his violins go for anywhere from $2500 - $1000 and he is certainly not unheard of. That said, there are plenty of violins by unknown makers that sell for the same amount so without any other details we really don't know whether the buyer was ripped off or not.

I lived comfortably in a two bedroom in Brooklyn (with a roommate) near a good elementary school on 42k/year. I had a 30 minute commute.

My problem with Stackoverflow has been that for the majority of the questions I've asked, I'm more of an expert in the subject matter than the people answering the question. Most of the answers I receive are to the wrong question, or are an answer that I specifically mentioned in the question as not being viable.

All the wholefoods in NYC (that I've been to anyway) have done this. You know the voice that tells you which register to go to? That guy used to work (maybe still does?) at the one on 7th and 24th, and his job was to direct people to check outs.

He was replaced with an LCD screen and a speaker.

They give you an incredible amount of control and balance at slow speeds, which is often useful for city riding. They are also really fun in a way that is hard to explain (at least without sounding really pretentious).

Plus they are required for track racing, which is also fun for completely different reasons.

Anti-noob is perhaps a bit harsh, but dwm is definitely elitist. It is designed to keep its user base small (see my reply to qjz).

dwm in particular mentions that it's elitist in order to prevent stupid questions from novices:

Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. There are some distributions that provide binary packages though.

Also anyone who has ever subscribed to the suckless mailing list can testify to the elitist sentiment among many of its users.

Another one of the core ideas of dwm is "no noobs" which might explain the lack of documentation.

The problem isn't with the fact that they turn down gay men. The problem is that they turn down gay men while accepting people who have regularly exposed themselves to HIV, as long as they haven't done that within the past 12 months.

It's not just about statistics. For blood donations, if I had unprotected sex with a different HIV infected partner every day for a year, then stopped doing this for a year and one day, I would be eligible to donate blood.

If, however, I had sex with a man once in the last 30 years I am not eligible.

Why is it more sensible to turn away gay people then it is to turn away people who have regularly exposed themselves to HIV?

It's actually a violation of the VISA merchant agreement to require ID for purchase unless the signature doesn't match.

NYU runs a start up incubator: http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators

Well there is more to an ebook reader than just reading. The more popular ones have stores for buying books, for example.

Of course the UI can be designed for hardware buttons but at a certain point you're going to have to strike a balance between device size and user friendliness. For example, you could either: not allow text input, have a hardware keyboard, have a software keyboard navigated with minimal hardware buttons, or have a software keyboard with a touch screen. Of those I prefer a touch screen - the device will be smaller and/or have a larger screen and still be user friendly.

My favorite block in NYC is a triangle, bounded on two sides by one street (Waverly Pl) and one side by two streets (Grove st and Stonewall Pl): http://maps.google.com/maps?q=West+4th+Street,+New+York,+NY&...

I highly recommend you check out oasis (http://oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org/). It's a meta build system which is quickly gaining traction in the OCaml community. It's still in early development but works extremely well for most projects.