jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No. Abusers are responsible for their abuse. This is non-negotiable. The people on the Internet chose to be abusive. That's their fault. That is never anyone else's fault, period.

> the opposite would have gotten you a nice balance of polite and rude

You are transferring some or all of the responsibility of "choose not to be rude to strangers on the Internet" onto the recipient, who received rudeness only once others had already made that choice. How dare you say that we can blame the recipient of abuse for the choices of others to be abusive. You have no right.

If you choose to be rude to someone else on the Internet, you alone are fully responsible, without regard for any extenuating circumstances whatsoever. If you are having a medical event, seek in-reality medical attention and prepare an apology when your medical treatment has progressed far enough. If you didn't mean to be abusive, apologize, and then demonstrate over time that you're becoming less accidentally abusive. If you thought that the shield of anonymity on Twitter would protect you from being caught, you're no different than someone who throws bricks into people's windshields on the highway. No circumstance whatsoever sets aside your personal responsibility for the words you produced on the Internet.

It doesn't matter what they did, what their employer did, what their software did. It doesn't matter if they could be perceived as being abusive to you. None of that matters at all. There is absolutely no room for blame-sharing or blame-transfer here. There are no excuses for choosing to be abusive in this way. You simply cannot transfer one iota of responsibility here. That decision terminates at you, and you alone.

ps. I don't know if you're abusive or not, and I honestly don't care. This isn't about you, whoever you are. This is about your attempt to transfer the responsibility for abuse in part or in full from the abusers to the recipient of their abuse. That attempt, and my detailed refutal, is the sole focus of my comment. The English word "generic individual target within a plural set" is, unhappily, "you". Some confusion may occur, and I don't have the English skills to mitigate that at this time. No doubt someone will chime in with a better way to phrase this. I endorse whatever corrections are necessary to resolve the tense difficulty here.
Google can do better here but .... gees I hate this way of trying to frame everything in the worst possible way.

Google had the option to filler out people who it didn't have data on. That's it. Then the person who wrote the article spins it as negative as possible .

Google has a very large number of nonbinary employees. Bringing up the issue I'm sure some work will work into fixing it, adding more options, but it didn't need to be so confrontational.

I'm also sure it's not as trivial to fix as it sounds. Let's say you want to market tampons. It's not unreasonable to only want to target "people who's body a tampon was designed for" (regardless of if there is some small segment of people what want to use tampons for other purposes). What should the filter for "people who's body a tampon was designed for" be? The shortcut for a century or so as been "female" in the "I have vagina" category, not the "I'm attracted to men" category.

Even if it's not body related, if your market research tells you that 98% of your market is women (say lipstick), it's not unreasonable to not want to waste money marking to everyone for that last 2% and as a result, wasting the time of the large male percentage of the population that has no interest in lipstick. There's nothing nefarious here.

Tangentially. This type of exclude/include issue comes up all over. On OkCupid for example, I can choose to match "atheists" but I can't not choose to match non-Christians. In other words I can select people in Set A but I can not select people Not in Set B. The problem is, at least where I live, the majority of people do not select a religion so if I check "Atheists" + "Agnostic" it filters out literally 99% of everyone. Where as, what I want to be able to do is filter out people who specifically choose certain religions since those people signaled they weren't a match for me.

Instead my only option is to check nothing and then have to manually go through the profiles and scroll down to see if they marked some religion. Since ~30-50% do that's a huge waste of time for me.

Similarly there are certain question answers I want to filter out. They might not have chosen a religion but they might have answered the question "How important is religion/God in your life?" as either "Extremely Important" or "Somewhat Important" which is basically tells me we aren't compatible. But, there's no way to filter out, only filter in, so if I add the filter in criteria then everyone who didn't answer the question is gone.

This is even more tedious to check than the previous since religion is surfaced on the main profile but these answers you have to dig through.
'Rome fawaf emoR' met the requirements, but was 'already in use'.
> Said software developers did not appear out of thin air, they were raised and educated by society and have inherited technology unprecedented in scale and influence. And this is only a development of the last 80 years or so

I’m not really sure how this fits with the discussion. Literally everything builds on something that came before, software isn’t particularly unique that regard. This also doesn’t change the fact that one person can provide far more value than another.
If you elide a bounds check from a function but still spend a billion cycles in a loop, you've made your code run ever so slightly faster but gained nothing in the big picture.
> When I was around 16 I was able to get a "Check card", which behaved like a debit card in that I couldn't spend more money within was in the account

Not relevant to the conversation at hand, and perhaps this is US only, but using a debit card you can absolutely spend more than you have. Sometimes banks won’t remove the funds until the actual transaction posts. Most shops won’t post the transactions until evening. So in some cases you can double, triple, quadruple spend. Doing so of course is fraud.
Optional, different blocks. Every single British Internet service provider gives you an unfiltered Internet connection if you elect not to turn on (or choose to turn off) the offered content filtering.

(With the exception of the 'Cleanfeed' filtering which is supposed only to prevent access to verified child pornography and seventies rock album covers)
Considering the source is a sociopath engaging in equal opportunity hatred towards whatever is weakest in front of her for her own advancement through social manipulation rather than merit, I'm going to need some police reports rather than her words to believe this.
I have to admit I hated the term Eigenvector for two semesters of college and it nearly caused me to drop mathematics altogether. This explanation is very good and helps visualize some of the things I was missing. Apologies to the fantastic professors I had who were talking over my head for 16 weeks.
Perhaps it's partly because space is seen as higher-risk than social media? The valuation would then be lower because people lower their expectations based on the risk of failure.
Quote from Prof. Donald Sadoway

"The point of University professors is to take graduate students and create new professors."

Great barn storming Ted performance, highly recommend just taking 15 mins or so for it.

http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_sadoway_the_missing_link_to_...
It has been alleged that the US Air Force actively encouraged UFO conspiracy theories to draw attention away from secret weapons programs.

See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_Men
Well while this is being seen by many, I just want to take the opportunity to reiterate what is said in the README of the project:

> Without the preset lists of filters, this extension is nothing. So if ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which were made available to use by all for free.

Specifically, EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Fanboy Social, Malware domains, and a many more are the basis of many other blockers: Adblock Plus, AdBlock, AdGuard, BlueHell, and many others I am sure.

It seems such a tedious amount of work to maintain these lists, this needs to be acknowledged -- none of the above blockers would do very well without these lists.
Sky aren't known for high morals or anything are they? They're probably just following customer demand.
"There not as efficient as traditional solar panels - http://i.imgur.com/kv6dAEw.gif "
Hibernate doesn't require dependency injection. I'm not a big fan of DI either, but I'm not sure what it's got to do with type systems either.

The Java type system is quite old. It's doing some interesting new things anyway like the pluggable type systems via the Checker framework, but nobody is going to claim Java has a cooler type system than Haskell.

If you look at Kotlin, it makes some small but much needed upgrades to the Java type system, like real properties, traits, delegates, function types, integrated nullability and flow sensitive typing, better generics etc. It doesn't go as far as Haskell though.
If you increase FN and FP stays the same, you are more likely to make a bad hire. Do you understand this?
I am not sure. I just followed their docs[1] which are really good, IMO.

1. http://webpack.github.io/docs/
Yeah, no kidding. You can't write the C++ by-value swap (without pointers) in Java because Java is only pointers. It has no non-pointer objects.

The C++ version I posted shows you exactly what the Java object model is doing, except since you can't take in references to the variables (Java has no pass-by-reference), you can't do the pass-by-reference swap. The only swap you can do in Java is the pass-by-value swap.

The C++ pass-by-value swap (using pointers like Java requires) looks like this:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/73ccac277baee8841470

Note that this now prints "Fake pass-by-value swap" like the Java version.

There is no way to write a Java version that prints "Real pass-by-reference swap".
Of course they can. Whether they can build one that's scalable, maintainable, or extensible is another question.
Meh. It's my personal blog. I don't care enough about that. =)
I hadn't heard of OpenColourIO; it looks fascinating and quite powerful. Thanks for the tip!
This is something that is swappable if they're concerned about it. The brand, however, is not.
Prisons are part of the justice system. The people working there must be willing to abide by the Constitution, or they shouldn't be working there.

Sure I get your point, in the end the Constitution is only a piece of paper, it's not inviolable de facto but by law it is.
Where I come from, "It's fucking freezing!" colloquially means "under 10C". Because that's the lower edge of our "normal" climate here, so our houses are not insulated well for temps below that and central heating is rare because it's rarely needed. We also tend to not have a wardrobe with much that's suitable for temps down below 10C, unless you happen to have ski gear or winter motorcycling gear or whatever. (I've got one bike jacket which is too warm to wear at temps much above 10 or 15C - it gets very little use, in spite of me _really_ liking it...)
Then it is meaningless to communicate it to anyone else. But I don't think that's what you think; there's an internal contradiction there. I will leave it at that.
It applies much more so to the actions of unions and workers seeking to unionize. They have their own interests, and they are not aligned with the public's.

Case in point: Vox writers, who eventually unionized, spent years publishing articles arguing for laws limiting the gig economy, like this one:

"The gig economy has grown big, fast — and that’s a problem for workers" [1]

Three years after the above article was published, its agenda succeeded, and a new anti-gig-economy law was passed in California. That law in turn forced Vox to let go of hundreds of gig economy freelancers, thus reducing competition to the full-time journalists who used their media platform to lobby for the law:

"Vox Media to cut hundreds of freelance jobs ahead of changes in California gig economy laws" [2]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2016/10/26/13349498/gig-economy-profits-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/vox-media-to-cut-hundreds-of...
All of these diseases are far overrepresented in the modern world. I don't intend to say these issues don't exist regardless, just that when you setup a society of people who drive everywhere, work 55 hours a week, spend more time watching tv than they do their children, and consume large amounts of red meat and sugar you get easily explained results.
Too easy for someone to use it to cook the books? Maybe it looks better in an audit if they can point to an external source for their accounting software.
Amphetamine stimulants are SNRI too just like some antidepressants such as Wellbutrin.
What I do not understand is: they have the same mechanism of action (or at least the same consequence) but the effect is different, one mostly focus on fixing ADHD symptoms and one mostly focus on depression. What explain such a difference in behavior?

BTW unrelated but simultaneously taking SSRIs with stimulants show great results (but there are few studies) (of course don't overdose if you don't want serotonine syndrome)
We had a brief mention of http://gri.pe on The View a little while ago and we saw an impressive spike (short capture at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsfuBeSLUCM). This particular show is on at least three times: once in the eastern time zone, once in mountain or central time and once on the pacific.

During the east-coast showing, our traffic spiked. The req/s graph had a 90˚ bend:

http://yfrog.com/755dmmp

We saw a spike about half as big for the west-coast showing and the central showings were half as big again. The traffic from these spikes took a long time to decay: something on the order of days. Our base level of traffic has stayed much higher that it was before.

FWIW, our app is built on Appengine and it scaled us flawlessly. Once the traffic started, AppEngine automatically spun up instances. We peaked at 22 instances, which were automatically started and expired by AppEngine to keep us running:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_CqFM7LbtCbY/TNrJSS4B5qI/A...

Another interesting factoid: we paid around US$0.55 to handle the traffic from that spike.
"First off, I think it's very interesting that the blogger characterized the assumption of promotion to be a very Indian/Asian thing, because it's absolutely something that, in America, is considered a very American thing!"

I've worked in the United States :-) (I am the blogger). Believe you me India takes Office politics to a whole new level that Americans can only dream of :-).

Partly this comes from the fact that the Indian managers of "offshore dev centres" don't have any real power to make decisions(as compared to their American counterparts). Besides, society is far more hierarchical than in America, which reflects in the work place. Etc etc but office politics is really bad in India. As an example one of my (Indian) friends recently moved back from Google Bangalore to Mountain View because he couldn't stand the level of politicking here.
Indeed. The blog post seems to assume no reverse-engineering occurred. That means they assume that reverse-engineering some highly complex thirty year old technology in a top-secret military context would somehow cost significantly less than that number.
Oh but I wasn't really sorry, and I do agree with your comment. "Sorry - buts" are almost always a way of being able to say "ohh but I didn't mean to get on your nerves", and of course, that's what I meant to do! :) Cheers.
It depends who mentions it. Oprah gave a shout out to Groupon and that brought enough traffic to take the site down.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/19/oprah-ups-groupons-...
It’s not a perfect indicator, but it is what the economists would call “a revealed preference”. I understand that people can have all sorts of reasons for remaining in an unhappy marriage, but I would expect that all other factors being equal, a large-scale social trend that makes the average marriage less happy would also lead to more people becoming unhappy enough to bail out.
Use "I" when you want to convey something personal; use "we" when you want to convey unity, mutual empathy or some other connection with your team and audience. If it's a close call, a good rule of thumb is to think hard and be honest -- are you referring to yourself or to your team?

Examples:

1) I'd say "I deeply apologize" rather than "we deeply apologize" when I want to be clear about owning responsibility for a corporate failure without hiding behind our corporate outfit.

2) I'd say "We're excited to launch..." to convey a team's hard work, dedication and excitement.

3) I'd say "We all hate having to do foo. That's why we created bar!" to show mutual empathy with our audience and convey that we are trying to solve a problem that "we" all have.

These tips mostly come from a public speaking class that I took, but they've served me very well for writing copy.
Dell with Ubuntu. Not exciting and sexy and whatnot, but powerful (configure it how you want) and gets the job done.
ICANN is already preparing for secondary markets to appear where people can auction off unused IP space. It's inevitable and they know this. Eventually everyone will migrate to IPv6 simply because the addresses will be free.

There will never be a day when you cannot get a new IPv4 address. But there will come a day when you don't feel like paying for one.
> antisocial people urinating in train cars,

What? I live in second-world country, and even there the most gross thing you could stumble upon in a tram are hobos that stink.

WTF is wrong with BART?
From a cursory review of the article, "no."
This thread isn't going to be productive, so in HN spirit, I would like to propose a side project for anyone interested:

- Develop a tool that monitor front page of HN

- Train a classifier that detect immigration topic

- Automatically post a well explained comment for your side of the debate

- Make it open source so the other side can have one.
I couldn't speak for Tokyo, but it is in Nagoya and many of the smaller townships. There was a massive "smokin' clean" campaign a few years ago, accompanied by sales of portable ashtrays.
Not in exactly the same way, but every unixy system has some way of finding the parent pid and looking up its command line.
Yeah, I was just trying to communicate the parent's argument. I appreciate your introduction of actual numbers.
Disagree. Do attempt to save the world; it's not going to happen on its own and is enormously worth pursuing.
> > Property tax rates rise WHEN YOU HAVE MADE MONEY ON THE HOUSE. It's as simple as that.

> That’s not how property taxes work. You pay them whether you make money on the house or not.

> You only make money on a house when you sell it.

You are correct in that you do not (yet) have cash in hand from the value increase of the property. So if one defines "make money" as "have cash in hand", no money is made until one sells the property.

But, what one does have in this situation is an unrealized capital gain. And if one defines "make money" to include unrealized capital gains, then the homeowner has "made money" -- they just do not yet have cash in hand.
The 2 O-1 visas and upcoming greencard have been pretty solid outcomes. As has the roughly $250k in infoproduct sales, a consulting business, and now SFBA dayjobs.

All directly and indirectly thanks to my writing.
If your goals are different, you have different options.

I don't think totally planned or totally laissez faire are optimal for most settings, but if there's plenty of land and the goal is suburbanized clusters then you'll probably lean more laissez faire.

If the goal is to keep things as they are, you have lots of options... most western cities are good at this.

This conversation (I'm contending) is context dependent. I think the/a current issue and the topic of this article (besides Berkely) is extremely high demand cities and their problems growing. It's a similar set of issues in Munich, London, NY, SF, etc. Housing availability is terrible. There are overcrowding & transport related problems. Looking at them, it seems like they're mice grown to elephant sized. The body plan doesn't suite the scale.

It gets philosophical, and you can definitely lean too far into creative destruction as well... I tend to favour evolution. Things will change. They need to.

Besides that, I think there is plenty of choice. Especially in the US, different locals are different. If you can and want to move, choice exists. I don't think that's the friction. The friction is from people who stay put and aren't comfortable with change. Those two things also go together. We all have a more conservative disposition about the things we've known the longest.
And if you think that then you’re demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I think your guess would be wrong, but I also don't think overbooking is a problem.

As a child who had lots of free time due to living in a place with a lack of structured activities for kids, I really envy kids who can take advantage of such resources enough to have a packed daily schedule.
With Altitude meaning feet above sea level, this could have been pretty close to the ground. (Arizona is largely around 4000' elevation it seems.)
Over time, this will incentivize local players to also degrade their quality. The best answer is probably somewhere in between the extremes.
Just wrote an article on how to validate your ideas in 30 days for free. I have used this strategy to help many founders (some of which are Stanford MBA's) validate their ideas to build their MVP insightfully.
Oh. I got it now. Ancient technology and ancient engineering problems :)
So what is this gentleman doing these days, I'm genuinely interested to see how he's fared.
I've been a customer of theirs for most of the last ten years. They used to be quite good. However, my recent experiences with them have convinced me that I will need to find a new provider when my certificates expire. With Thawte, you'll pay a premium price and receive poor customer service.
I'm looking into this, and I'm not sure I see an advantage over existing Virtual PBX services like Ring Central, etc., other than the free version being free.

Can anyone give me some insight into other advantages?
This is great, but living in vehicles is not a new idea, I'm sure there are thousands of people in the US living in buses/trucks/etc. Hank did a great job on the design though. It reminds me of the interior of a canal boat - they often have the same layout techniques.

Here's a UK couple that converted a double-decker bus:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-18651140
What happens to the sculpture, now he has completed it? Does it go on permanent exhibition somewhere? Curious to know its fate. I would like to visit San Fran some time, and I would pay to go and see that sculpture if I did.
I think that's what the parent was getting at. George Lucas pretty obviously got trapped in his own asshole sometime between Howard the Duck and Willow, and it shows in the prequels. Peter Jackson engaged the wider community and got heaps of conflicting ideas and advice to draw from.
I was impressed, but then I learned there are a dozen paths through. Now I'm baffled.
I tried to use all the edge sass and compass, but gradients css code seems to be rendered without "old webkit" (with color-stops) gradient syntax. Although changelog says it stays.

What is the decision on the subject? Am I facing a bug or is it really deprecated?