jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This presupposes there's something wrong with sociopathy. Note that most sociopaths are living in society without causing harm to others, so who are we to say their state of being is inherently wrong or that we should be vested with authority to change them?

If they're voluntarily seeking help, then that's different, of course. How often does that happen? (Genuine question. I have no idea, and I'd love to find out.)
Cambridge and Oxford have their own police force.

That is true on a technicality, at least for Cambridge. Cambridge University has the University Constabulary[1], and for historical reasons its members really do have the powers of constables, though only within a few miles of the traditional centre of Cambridge.

In reality, they are primarily a ceremonial unit and occasionally useful for public order purposes at university events. If anything serious goes wrong, it's going to be regular police officers who come and arrest the guilty parties, and in any event, anyone charged with criminal behaviour in connection with the university will be tried in the same courts as everyone else and prosecuted by the same public authorities as anyone else.

Oxford and Cambridge both go back a long way, and it's true that there have have been some surprising and/or amusing laws relating to them as a result. However, like most widely reported antiquated laws in the UK, a lot of them are either myths or long-since repealed. For example, every summer, we get a few students doing silly things while under the influence and then learning to their cost that the old chestnut about police officers needing permission to enter the grounds of a university college isn't actually going to stop police officers coming in and arresting them.

Pro-tip: If you're ever visiting the Cambridge colleges, be nice to the porters. They are the traditional gatekeepers of the colleges, the role is widely respected for the support they give both students and staff, and for the most part they are very friendly and helpful. However, a surprising number of them are doing it as a change of direction following a distinguished career in the military or police services, and they can be much scarier than the University Constables if anyone makes trouble...

[1] http://www.proctors.cam.ac.uk/directory/constabulary
I can understand the thinking, to some extent; it was the motivation behind my unusual resume. I want to be a programmer, so I've been programming my resume: https://github.com/jarcane/resume.hsy
I like your humour. Have an upvote. Are you British as well?
I know this piece is mostly about what it's like to work at Netflix, but the more technical part leads to an obvious question: If FreeBSD is so great for performance analysis, and Netflix is already using it at scale, then why not also use it on the EC2 instances? Seems like they could gradually move toward FreeBSD-based instances. Or is Linux really that much better as an EC2 guest?
The "giant squid was considered a myth" thing is much like the "the earth was considered flat" thing; both are largely myths themselves. Nobody who has put any research or thought into the matter has doubted the existence of giant squids for a very long time. They have been scientifically studied for centuries, about as long as we've been scientifically studying anything. Before then, fishermen were finding specimens all the time.

The only thing that is actually doubted is nonsense like the existence of squid the size of ships, big enough to take on Naval vessels. Much like the round nature of the Earth was never in question, just the idea that it was small enough to make sailing right around it a sensible thing to do.
If I'm reading the "Beyond Logs" section right, he seems to think that's a feature, not a bug.
Cut off everything else and became full-time in May. Building a chat site. Contact @andrewbadr on Twitter or gmail in my profile.
Fair enough. I can totally agree with that.
This guy is a complete pro for being able to help her figure out how to close a browser tab.
As I started reading the article, I wondered how he would get such a car serviced. When I got to the bit about a faulty timing chain destroying the engine, I couldn't help but wonder if lack of routine maintenance was to blame (I understand timing belts/chains in interference engines to be one of the neglect-at-your-peril things, particularly with high-performance engines).
With facebook doing this the volume of questions and answers will be great. I guess it comes down to how effectively they can separate good and bad questions and answers.

Most of the public stuff you read on facebook such as in groups is very low quality writing, they would have to have a really good filtering method for this to be usable.
Flagged for an opening sentence that discusses an anti-knowledge scientific conspiracy.

Maybe there were some mathematical mistakes in early papers on black holes, but the body of knowledge has improved in the intervening years. An application of the anthropic principle even suggests that we find ourselves in this universe because a universe with physical constants optimized for black hole generation are similar to the constants needed for carbon based life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle#cite_note-6...
Nokia does not support Flash, it supports Flash Lite. Android on the other hand fully supports Flash.
So, here's what I did when I dumped a (well paid) full-time job in order to start my own company/freelance full-time:

* Took advice from people already doing it

* Looked really hard at my living costs, savings, etc, and figured out that, probably, I could survive for 6 months or more without an income

* Made sure I had some work (a bit of repeat work, and some other projects) lined up.

* Spoke to as many other people as I could (I'm lucky, I have a solicitor and accounts in the family, as well as someone who started a company which now employee >5 people)

Talking to my wife about finances and stuff was a big deal, as she had just decided to go part-time in order to study. But we did the sums, and realised it would have to go really badly, and really we had enough of a cusion that I could find a paid position if it didn't work out.

Here I am, 18 months later, still paying the bills, still with enough money to live comfortably, and still working freelance. There are times when I'm scared stiff about money (I don't think this will go away) and other times when I'm working 10+hours 7 days a week, for a month or two at a time. I had a death in the family this month, which knocked me off schedule, and had more of an impact that I'd like to admit on my productivity, but I communicated with clients that, unfortunately, their projects were going to be pushed back, and it's been ok. Even when my second project was 2 months late, nobody complained. The client was paying a fixed-cost, so they essentially got two months free.

If you're going to do work fixed cost, do not be afraid to hold your ground when you quote for it. I sometimes even quote a little high because I know I'm really rubbish at doing estimates, and it hasn't got better in time. You know other people are going to be late with key information and decisions, and there will be somethings that you miss when you first quote, but keep communicating with your clients and alert them early when things don't go to plan, and most people will be fine - and the rest you probably don't want to work with anyway.
I want to make fun of the word "resourced", but can't decide how. Something about lame corporate speak.

Now I'm off to resource the dog...
Looks like the website is shut down now!
Well, that is one possible outcome if the patent holder agrees to it. You can't guarantee that they will grant you a license though.
Here is another reason to write your passwords down:
At my workplace there was a programmer. One day he had a heart attack, and was put into a 3 week artifiscal coma.
When he woke again, he could not remember any passwords.
Everything was a pain. To this day, his website ends the day, he had the attack.
The only bad thing about your switch to the free plan, from my perspective, is that I no longer could justify paying for anything. Hey, it's great that you want to give me the service I want for free :) but I never really begrudged that $12 a month.
It doesn't help their case in my mind that they probably broke the law with the seizures they performed: I was using Megaupload to store backups and distribute files I legally owned, such a game maps or documents.

During their raids, they seized the funds used to provision the servers, failed to preserve the data, went so far as to prevent efforts on the part of Megaupload to return the data to me, and failed to allow for any sort of process for me to claim it before the servers were destroyed.

That data wasn't specifically targeted in a forfeiture action, nor was it specifically accused of being infringing. The US government simply destroyed my data as part of their raid against Megaupload without any concern for the fact I was engaged in legal business with them, and simply using them for remote storage.

Nevermind that they induced a foreign government to illegally spy on one of their residents as part of a copyright enforcement action. That's just hideously ugly.
It's user flagged, not mod flagged.
The K8s docs offer ways of running on-prems, you can do it with nginx ingress daemonset + DNS pointing to the IP (or CNAME) of your workers.

It's all covered quite well here: https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/deploy/baremetal/ and we use it in production.
In 1989 the term was "free software" (the term "open source" had not yet been applied to software). It was pretty unknown at that point so we had to explain it to people.

In more than once case I sat in a conference room and was told by some exec that I (or we) was a fucking idiot while he (always he back then) handed me a P.O. or signed contract for $1MM. Needless to say I didn't care what they called as as long as they continued to pay.

Having to invent a whole new business model going into a mature market is hard and we worked hard at it. Also I had to write the first blanket assignment, the GNU library license (dynamic linking was Gilmore's great idea though), the fork-and-steering committee model (google for my message about splitting of GCC into egcs -- forking was super super controversial back then and was assumed by most people to be doom)... yes, fun times.
I should have mentioned in the original post, my number was not disclosed in the breach.
anyone still using groovy or did clojure, scala, et al. eat their lunch?
Seemed like a lot to me, too, but a few patents can eat that up fast.
Various sorts of commercial fishermen use these to keep the buoys of their traps submerged until pickup time. This prevents both accidental loss from fouling boats and poaching.

You can get them in grades from 1 to 30 days, though temperature also gets to play a role.

http://www.neptunemarineproducts.com/galvanic-timed-releases...

Looks like you can also use them to prevent "ghost fishing" where a lost fish trap continues to trap fish for years or for timed bait release schemes.
Google's Project Zero has actually found quite a lot of vulnerabilities in commonly-used software. To date they've publicly disclosed 107 vulns, most of which include a PoC: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/li...
The real danger here isn't spam, it's false flag attacks.

If something offensive appears on your posterous under your name, will anyone believe you when you claim it's a hack?

On the other hand, maybe it provides a convenient excuse if you post something dumb and want to disown it . . .
"Would I have a chance? I haven't listed all that I've done on my GitHub, Linkedin, and such, keep in mind."

Maybe do this?
Clients could have easily done this before.

HEAD /2Mp91y HTTP/1.1
Host: bit.ly

...

Status: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved
Location: http://news.ycombinator.com/

If the goal was minimizing requests, Twitter could've saved the endpoint on its end and passed the data through the API. A new shortener was unnecessary, though it's easy to see why it is desirable for them.
Erm. What if you need to get off 3 stations down the line?
I'm getting kind of sick about hearing about how browser X outperforms browser Y in Z JavaScript performance test. It's good to know that the browser developers are continuing to push JS performance--it's important that it gets better and better--but essentially every browser except maybe IE (haven't used it in years, can't speak to it) has comparable real-world JS performance.

I choose to use Safari because it's the browser that feels the most Mac-like, has ClickToFlash and 1Password, has great H.264 video performance, has a great interface, continues to support the newest web standards, never crashes, and is already familiar to me. As long as it isn't horrendously slower than other browsers, JS performance just isn't a concern to me--it has little real effect on my day to day browsing compared to everything I just listed.
The problem I always had (as a WP editor with around 800 main space edits) was that people the vast majority of editors applied those policies when it suited them.

I recall several occasions where edit wars erupted because I cut a 150 word, non-notable, unsourced piece from, say, a Star Wars article.
>third screen-hinge combo
yeah, but in all fairness I haven't found a modern laptop that does that right outside of convertible tablets that are notoriously beefed up in that regard.

even Lenovo hinges suck now.
>Let her die.

lost 3 members of family during last 10 years to cancer. In one case it was caught at early stage and resulted in 9 years of life with last year being pretty hard. Earlier surgery and treatments were definitely worth it (i mean "worth" in general not in financial sense). In 2 other cases, late detection, despite pretty aggressive surgery and treatments - 2 years and 0.5 year with things going downhill pretty fast at the speed that one can't just stop and rethink the whole thing. In the last case i was directly responsible for the aggressiveness of approach and given the chance i hope i'd not do it this way again (though at the start it was "promised" more like 3-5 years instead of actual 0.5 years - in addition to cancer there are also very grave/deadly complications possible, including the ones from treatments and overall stress on the body by the illness, that one need to watch for very carefully). In the former case the first year wasn't that bad so i'd say it was worth it, problem is that it is very hard to stop at the right time where more treatments would only decrease quality of life.
That is a deeply personal choice, and as a Brit one that I believe equally deeply should not have the threat of bankruptcy or the lack of funds as a factor in the decision.

Your advice, won through sorrow, may be very good advice. I remmeber when my own mother found out her cancer had returned after a remission, and I know I would fight any move to a society that made "Can we afford it?" a question at that time.

I am sorry for your loss and the OPs pending loss. This is not for you, but for everyone else reading in the US - for fucks sake sort your shit out guys.
Retirement was 40 years away, and I was confident that I'd start making some serious money with one of my ideas. Actually I'm still optimistic about that.

In startup terms I thought it would give me more runway.
I think part of the problem is an upvoted reply post doesn't filter to the top of the page, it's tied to the rank of its parent. A +10 reply post, replying to a -3 top-level post, will be seen by no one, despite being highly valued by the 10 people who did see it. A -5 reply post to a +6 top-level post will still be in reasonable scrolling range.

Top-level posts have a major visibility advantage over reply posts, and thus have a karma advantage.

I wonder if weighting a top-level post's score by the score of its children would help alleviate this. On one hand, there could be more rewards for trolling, since a troll that attracts popular refutations will be visible. On the other hand, a civil post that is both upvoted itself, and invites interesting upvoted discussion, will outrank the troll post.
And how much is Time Warner Cable going for? Somewhere around $2K/subscriber? WhatsApp, with 30X the userbase, costs ~1/2 as much.
My sentiments exactly. For them to have a piece of code that returns OK/notOK, in SSL of all things, and not have tests for both branches is inexcusable.
Not only is this code untested, obviously, but the calling code (which should have two branches based on the result of this call) must be untested too. Bleagh!
All of the irresponsible actors involved in the 2008 financial crisis were left intact. They have no incentive not to try this again.

The fall of mtgox shows that in the bitcoin world, failure will lead to death.
Bazel is about as far from redo as you can get: they aim to solve very different problems. If you have a huge monorepo, and thus need distributed caching and distributed builds, and cross-language dependency tracking and incremental rebuilds, Bazel is for you. It has the advantage of being built _after_ Google understood all the places where lack of rigor or accidentally-too-capable build language features cause trouble.
I also think the problem lies in the question. It assumes "married" and "unmarried" are mutual exclusive and span the entire space of possibilities. This does not appear to line up with reality in ways I find compelling. Nations may recognize people as married, but due to laws about common law marriage, differing requirements for marriage (very few people who consider themselves married in America filled out the proper paperwork for Tajikistan, a foolish and impossibly rare oversight, the test seems to assume), and many other X factors, it is completely reasonable to assume that people can be neither married nor unmarried, or that George is not married but both married and unmarried, or many other things.

I think if we got code for this, if it used numbers of booleans, or really any system we are familiar with on computers, we wouldn't make this error -- not due to differences in how we think but differences in the object level discussion we would be having.
Kitware have a lot to apologise for.
If we are talking about the same piece of software, the MindReader that I know lets a user to describe him/herself by choosing a bunch of words. It then synthesizes a report describing your personality traits. In that sense, it does not really read your mind, instead of putting together the words you chosen to describe you. Juji on the other hand automatically derives your traits based on your word use in your own informal communication content. For example, in MindReader, you have to tell it you are "ambitious" by choosing the word, while Juji infers whether you are ambitious or not by various word use patterns even if you have never mentioned the word "ambitious" or its synonyms.
Hey Rick, Thanks for checking us out, and we added in the public login to drive a social gaming environment. We will rarely hold money for as long as three months, it is in case we have an account be of concern based on our security protocol. We will be publishing this security protocol in a white paper as well as adding in standard login. Skilled gaming is also allowed by PayPal and Coinbase, while gambling is not. Feel free to email me at sagar@koalah.co if you have any questions.
It's understood that a tech company releases a small minority of shares at IPO and follows up with a secondary in a year or so. Someone else observed that they raised only a year's worth of money and from what I've read, they don't know when they'll be profitable, so it's quite obvious that they're going to do a secondary and that will be when they really raise some capital.
Go learn assembly language if you really want to "think" like a computer ;)
When Color laserjet copiers first started being manufactured to the present quality that they are now I understand that the Treasury Dept requested manufacturers to include serial numbers in printed copy to track forgers of currencies. Microscopic serial numbers can be found within images interspersed throughout the image.
Because our resources (time) is already pretty thin wrt maintenance as well as our next generation version. PostgreSQL has several unsupported, and a commercial option for replication. Unfortunately you need a support contract to even talk about getting the commercial/supported version, and there's ongoing development towards bringing it in the box. I already expended enough time trying to get up to speed and have something reasonable working, and it was less time to look elsewhere for the features I needed in another database that had redundancy/scale features in the box.

If I was hiring a full time DBA, I would have put POSTGRESQL DBA as the job title, and made plv8 a feature requirement that I needed/wanted. As it is, there's no budget for that.
A good line, but still doesn't justify the level of certainty which many of these people have in future events turning out the way they think they will.

Back in the 90s, as a callow teenager, I happened to be lurking on a mailing list for transhumanists. One day someone on the list, well known to many of the others, died. "Fortunately", as the announcement to the list said, "his body was cryogenically frozen, so we'll all see him again after the singularity!" This was followed by a bunch of posts expressing confidence that this would indeed happen.

It was roughly at this point that I decided that these people may be somewhat disconnected from reality, and living in a fantasyland of what they'd like to be true -- while I admit it's possible that this guy will one day be revived, there's no goddamn reason to have any confidence in it happening.
On China, Martin Hart-Landsberg had a couple informative articles on Monthly Review. (I didn't know Lenovo came from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.)

http://monthlyreview.org/100201hart-landsberg.php

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2005/mhlpb300705.html

I agree that China "makes capitalists giddy", even though it developed with intense government planning. The Communist Party controls the unions, which the Washington Post said that Wal-Mart loves, in contrast to its hatred of more democratic US unions. (I'm sure that more corporations than just Wal-Mart are so giddy.) Workers capture very little of the GDP, compared to China's wealthy elite, and have lost much of their social support. And GDP is itself an ideological measure for many reasons; for example, it doesn't track systematic costs (so people getting cancer from pollution raises GDP).
The Sci-Fi miniseries is decent, if and only if you understand it as "a pretty decent theatrical adaptation recorded on film" rather than "a movie". For instance, the Baron's theatrical monologues should be understood as exactly that: theatrical monologues. The use of color in lighting is also very theatrical.
Another?... Don't get me wrong, it looks somewhat better than the other frameworks I guess, but really?
Project Chanology wasn't a failure if you look at it on a "how many people know what Scientology really is" level. The "raids" were widely reported, at least at first, and really pushed some of the info into the minds of the general populace.
It makes sense in terms of physics. Start at 0, red, the beginning of the visible spectrum, and the number increases along with the wavelength, all the way through violet, the other end of the visible spectrum.
See it makes perfect sense to me if I spend large amounts of my own money and time to do something on my own equipment and time that I should be given the right to my own inventions and ideas.
Me too, I was thinking about how I was looking for an upgrade to the Linux UT 2003 a while back and couldn't find it on the official site. I decided downloading it from some random place was risky, and here was almost my reinforcing, validating catharsis - but alas, it's just about some IRC client that nobody uses.