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Glad to know there are recordings of this. I registered, but I've been missing the lectures because of timezone differences.

Also really interesting: http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/

There was another person doing SICP in Clojure too, but it's been frozen in chapter 2 for a couple of years now. https://github.com/ecmendenhall/sicpclojure

Hope this one gets to cover the whole book.

The purpose of this male tears joke is not to create a debate, it is about feminist women knowing there are other feminist women out there. Men don't need that, they already know.

However, I do agree that in the context of a honest debate this really doesn't help, and I wouldn't use it there. But I know many people would, because in both sides so many people think debate is about winning, not conveying ideas.

Just to be clear, I don't think radical feminists shouldn't be taken seriously, just the extremely radical shouldn't. There's room for radical feminism, not for hate.

"Male tears" isn't a radical feminist thing, many non-radical feminists use it. Actually, it's quite the opposite, it's men who have always said feminist women (radical or not) are anti-men, so they decided to play along and made a joke about it.

While I think "male tears" isn't anti-men, I do think it could be against hegemonic masculinity, which is when men are told they have to be strong, non-emotional, etc; e.g. the past few days people have been talking about some research that implies that male gamers who harass women (i.e. they comply with hegemonic masculinty) are "losers", and some people have talked about it using #maletears. There's some anti-hegemonic masculinity Schadenfreude going on there. Some people think #maletears create a stigma around men who do cry, but it's also the opposite, it's joking about men who think they can't cry, they should be allowed to cry if they want to.

About the #killallmen, I think it didn't get traction where I live, in Brazil, I hadn't heard about it. I'm not sure what is it about, but I can see how some feminist women would argue that men do assault and kill women every day, systematically, so it could be sarcastic. Also, as something that would instantly backfire, it could be an attempt to destroy feminism from within, but you see, any feminist with a basic understanding of gender theory would immediately see thru that: men are not all equal, just as women are not all equal. So, let's say, if we're killing all men, what do we do to trans women? See, it doesn't work in a feminist framework.

Feminism isn't a monolith, there are lots of flavors in feminism. Only the most radical feminists are "against" men, but they are far from being a majority.

Many feminists actually do talk about "sorority" in that sense of women helping each other, however, many other feminists don't agree with that. First reason is that this would block criticism within feminism, such as the one made in the post.

Second reason is that women aren't all equal, women don't all have the same problems, so if feminism embraces the sorority concept, it would lead to minorities' issues just getting ignored, i.e. no one would care about autistic women. So, it's not that feminism isn't for women, but women do have their differences and they need to deal with that.

Lastly, feminism isn't about being against men. Sure, some radical feminists are against men, but I don't think they're taken seriously. Actually, there is a debate among feminists about whether men should or not be allowed to engage in feminism, and there are plenty who think they should. How can you expect men to help in feminism if feminism is against them? You can't, so that's not the case.

[Edit: removed a line I thought it wasn't polite 10 minutes after posting.]

I see @stkim1 is also the author of the blog. Performance-wise, how does this RPi cluster compare to a more standard platform? Did you make it only as a development platform or do you intend to have production code running in it?

I like Smola's ML book, and it's great to see a full-depth ML course online, I'll certainly watch some videos. Other than that, the audio quality could be better.

Is is over?

Suggestion: put a link to your book - as long as there's a free readable version to read online - on http://hackershelf.com.

I know little music theory, but I've been playing instruments "by ear" for a long time and it made many things easier to me when I learned that if you're using diatonic scale, it's very unlikely that you'll use notes outside of the scale; e.g. if you're playing a song in C Major, most of the time you'll play C and D, not C# or Db, so if you need that note, it's easier to switch than having an almost unused line in the sheet.

I liked the idea, but not the execution. There's a huge amount of aliasing which is distracting and deteriorates the images. Also, I felt like there's too much information on the screen, it's hard to focus on one thing. I liked how they changed the background color.

I've listened to this Planet Money podcast - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/06/404701816/episo... - a couple of days ago about luddites. In it they describe the luddites as highly skilled workers - it is easy to forget that those spinning frames weren't actually easy to operate - and they were well paid and even gave themselves the privilege of not working on mondays. Sounds a lot like these tech workers today.

That's very creep. Would adblocker stop that kind of script injection?

I haven't found a way to figure out what features have a OpenCL implementation, that I could use with the Transparent API. For example, in the features2d folder only FAST, ORB and BFMatcher have files in the opencl folder, so can't other features be used with OpenCL? Is there a list of features that have OpenCL implementation?

Search for shojin ryori, it's the food made at Buddhist temples (or temples of related religions), and probably it isn't the cheapest food. There are some well evaluated shojin ryori books on Amazon. Some temples will do vegan food, others will have eggs and milk, but I think you'll rarely find any kind of meat in it.

On the other hand, I'd love if they didn't put fish stock in everything, including ramen, I really like ramen. I found a ramen house where I live (Sao Paulo, there's a huge Japanese/Asian neighbourhood in here, and it's a great place to find vegetarian ingredients such as mushrooms) which offers one dish without fish stock, but they closed and reopened, and now I'm not sure they still have it on the menu.

And what has been said about vegetarianism in Japanese culture is true. They probably think fishes come from trees. I actually had an uncle (I'm from a Japanese family) who said he was vegetarian but ate fish.

Is this an answer to The Next Web? They dropped this a couple of days ago: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/05/17/adblockers-are-immo...

Doesn't work, I wrote "Meticulously hand crafted by PixelAmbacht" and all of it got through!

Interesting, but maybe I'm missing something here. If I just want automatic deallocation, why would I use bdwgc instead of using "vanilla" smart pointers from standard C++?

> [...] most of them think that objects live elsewhere and should be referenced. So they usually do the horrible Class* ptr = new Class(); pattern by default [...]

> The point is that they don’t understand C++ object model. Objects live on the stack except explicitly stated.

So, why did managed language designers decide to use heap allocation for reference type objects?

About that vector2d class: it took me some time to get it, but now I can't unsee that memory leak going on there.

Is this open source hardware as in RPi? Like, you can actually use the GPU, but shaders and everything else are closed source?

Would there be a F# equivalent to that Scala/Spark thing?

I know it doesn't say much, but having never coded in ML and having tried F# briefly (I code mostly C#, and it'd be easy to have mixed F#/C#), I think Scala has much clearer syntax, or perhaps it's just more familiar for someone who's coming from imperative languages like C++ or C#.

Oh, missed the comment by BFay. It was also what I expected: https://dogescript.com/

Disappointed because any language based on doge should have these keywords: wow, so, such, very, much, many.

Is there something new about it? The course has been in edx for quite some time.

Just changing "es" for "gb" in the URL works.

If the whole thing is about disability, wouldn't the best solution be in stem cells research?

PS: At least in Shadowrun you only get 6 units of Essence.

Is the C# code built with Mono?

> Finished the article. It is a blatant advertisement for Scala

I like Scala, but the features I like in it, eg pattern matching or tail recursion, these things don't even exist in this article.

So I'm not sure it's advertisement, it feels more like it's an anti-ad, actually. If the argument for me to use a language is that it is statically typed, man, that language must not be good at all! Static or dynamic typing is part of language philosophy, it makes sense to have dynamic typing in Python, as it makes sense not having it in Java. Python philosophy is pretty coherent, productive and fun, and dynamic typing is a part of that. It just doesn't feel like a reasonable argument.

Yes, in fact, just 20 days ago this came up in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222873