skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only works until enough people use an alternative. Then it will be interesting to start searching for bugs and security holes in the alternative. Just look at all the webserver exploits lately. Nothing is bugfree.
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>If it's inconceivable that there could be a positive result, it's not science

If it's "inconceivable" from the start then you're not following the scientific method, in which nothing is "inconceivable" until proven so (not even macro-world logical impossibilities, as quantum mechanics have a few).

There's nothing really inconceivable about time travel. Greatly impossible yes, but totally conceivable. Physicists have even come up with a few mechanisms. And that's for the past.

For travelling forward in time, all it takes is going faster (literally).
treasuries, precious metals/commodities, bonds, real estate
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Almost completely unrelated to TFA:

In the Apache Tomcat Systemd House of Horror story, we find this:

> And let us mention another horror in catalina.sh: the logging. The dæmon process has its standard output and standard error redirected to a log file. This is a known-bad way to go about logging. One cannot size-cap the log file; one cannot rotate the log file; one cannot shrink the log file. It grows, as one file, forever until the dæmon is shut down.

I was under the distinct impression that logrotate can handle cat-std*-to-file style logfiles: to rotate, copy the logfile, then truncate the original.

Indeed, from logrotate(8):

copytruncate
Truncate the original log file to zero size in place after cre‐
ating a copy, instead of moving the old log file and optionally
creating a new one. It can be used when some program cannot be
told to close its logfile and thus might continue writing
(appending) to the previous log file forever. Note that there
is a very small time slice between copying the file and truncat‐
ing it, so some logging data might be lost. When this option is
used, the create option will have no effect, as the old log file
stays in place.

Why has the author never read the logrotate man page? :(
(a) the plaintiffs in this lawsuit do not hold the copyright to the data dump on the mirror sites,

(b) the data dump is probably not even copyrightable under U.S. law,

because of (a) and (b) plaintiffs cannot avail themselves of the DMCA takedown process so the safe harbor provisions are irrelevant.
Convincing people to moderate their meat consumption is hard though. I've started drinking soylent+protein powder, but I don't know how I would go about convincing my wife to accept the idea of a meal with beans, lentils, or chickpeas instead of meat. A technical solution to a social problem might be the right approach here.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolog...
In fact, they gave an opportunity for future time travelers to contact them, requesting that the contact be made before the offer was extended. Since they obviously knew at the time that that hadn't happened, the only value was in proving that if time travelers do indeed exist, they don't wish to make themselves known. (A fact that may seem obvious, but I could see a legitimate time traveler having a difficult time proving their existence, given that people will ignore significant evidence in the face of the impossible.) So in that case they actually know the result will be negative, but there's still some value in doing it.
"At Hack the North, volunteers approached us after receiving a report from an attendee who felt unsafe after viewing the posts on Facebook." - from the update[0]

Unfortunately if someone feels unsafe then it's escalated past a joke in poor taste. Personally I think the students should still have been allowed to participate and be barred from placing, but I wouldn't call expulsion an overreaction.

[0] http://news.mlh.io/when-jokes-go-too-far-09-19-2015
> It is their event to run, and they have final say in the kind of discourse they accept from the attendees.

This is a non sequitur. Just because you're legally allowed to do something doesn't mean you should.

This in particular struck me from MLH's comment:

> If anything, this incident set Ahmed’s cause back by being insensitive to real issue at hand.

In Ahmed's case, "real issue at hand" is paranoids flinching at terrorism in every shadow, exactly like this. I generally think people ought to try to avoid offensive speech, and if this had even remotely resembled an actual threat I would have been heartily against it, but no reasonable person could have felt threatened here. This is exactly the same kind of thinking that says it's perfectly normal for someone to get cavity-searched for saying the word "bomb" in an airport.
Eternal September? The internet was still great from that regard (tons of people "not producing content for money"), no big central control, no FB/Google/Twitter/etc, until around the time we got Google.

There was AOL of course, but that was mostly mocked by people on the "real" internet.

>and while this would certainly be a regression for the society at large

Actually, it might be a huge improvement. Technofiles will never go for this, but after a point technology in a societal context can have not just diminishing returns but even spoil good things (like going to a concert in your 20s without being glued to a smartphone screen).
> That's what you need to do to be able to think clearly about big topics.

This isn't a big topic, I stated a fact, I'm sorry you're unable to cope with that.

> Not every matter of conversation - especially one so enormous as "what is the nature of law?" can be answered in an HN thread.

Fortunate then that we are not discussing the nature of law.

> It isn't and doesn't.

Yes it is and yes it does.

> What about a situation in which two different entities both claim to be the legitimate government? Or a society in which large numbers of people regard a government as illegitimate? Or who regard particular laws as beyond a purview which they recognize for government?

None of those questions are relevant to the point I made and serve only as an attempt to move the goal post because you're unwilling or unable to restrict yourself to the point I'm making; I reject this attempt.

There is no discussion to be had here, I stated facts, not opinions to be debated; it is a fact that laws need not be logical to be passed, you're being a child to deny that; we're done. Whatever your higher point about law is, I don't care.
That's a ketogenic diet, right? I tried that about 6 months ago, but not to lose weight, in fact I really don't have any extra weight to lose. I just wanted to reduce my blood sugar and see if it improved mental clarity as some people have claimed. I ended up losing 5 kilos in two weeks, which is a lot since I wasn't overweight at all. I couldn't keep the weight on without the carbs. The bummer was I got the flu right around that time and was so sick I just didn't feel like eating. And since I had lost so much weight I had no reserves and just looked and felt like hell. I'm ok now, no worries, but I find it hard to eat enough fats and protein to maintain my weight without any carbs.
Google engineers are SUPERHUMAN

When ur SUPERHUMAN who needs to TEST?

U just have FAITH in ur own awesomeness!
The article answers the question with a no... I presume you didn't read it.
It was dumb joke but I think Swift overreacted.
I would be quite enough to tell them to remove their comments and apologize.
Uh huh...http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jul/21/funding-ref...
This has been known since 2009. This US Army Human Terrain Team report is interesting reading, if you find strange & violent forms of misogyny and pederasty morbidly fascinating https://info.publicintelligence.net/HTT-PashtunSexuality.pdf

"""
Another example of cultural misinterpretations of Islamic tenants, bent to support homosexuality over heterosexuality, comes from a U.S. Army medic completing a year-long tour in a rural area of Kandahar province.8 She and her male colleagues were approached by a local gentleman seeking advice on how his wife could become pregnant. When it was explained to him what was necessary, he reacted with disgust and asked “How could one feel desire to be with a woman, who God has made unclean, when one could be with a man, who is clean? Surely this must be wrong.”
"""
Summary: Author made comments on a message board in the context of the Texas clock-bomb thing:

X => "Anyone building a clock for their hack?"
Author => "We're building a bomb actually looks just like a clock though"
Y => "yeah my clock is the bomb come check it out"

And got thrown out of the event for violating code of conduct.

Relevant South Park IMO: http://www.cc.com/full-episodes/h4o269/south-park-stunning-a...
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I got a very high GPA in university, not so much in high school. No scholarships for me :(
From said code of conduct: "If what you’re doing is making someone feel uncomfortable, that counts as harassment and is enough reason to stop doing it."

This is a mechanism by which anyone could be expelled for saying anything someone else doesn't like. It's a clear policy, which either you support (by attending their events and avoiding saying anything anyone else might find offensive) or not (by staying home and doing what you like).

(I must disclose I have a juvenile and often offensive sense of humor. At events with codes of conduct - and MLH's is based upon a popular one, O'Reilly's contains similar language - I only act myself with people I know who are comfortable with it, and play my filtered persona otherwise. Putting stuff on an event's Facebook group is like being on stage, you gotta be careful of being yourself - keep jokes to people you know.)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248459
Hackathons are so boring and overHYPED
Young boys brought to police outposts were quite common - it was a disgusting practice, though in the parade of despicable acts by all sides you became numb. Most of my memories are hazy at best, but at times something I see, hear, or smell finds it's way through the fog and I become lost reliving moments.

Thanks for posting, it's good to reflect from time to time.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic.
"Unfortunately if someone feels unsafe then it's escalated past a joke in poor taste."

What if I said that your being comfortable with people getting expelled from events over anodyne jokes made me "feel unsafe"? Is it okay for you to get thrown off HN due to my complaint? If not, why not?
It is not their event. MLH stands for major league hacking, and they are just a separate group that helps out colleges with hackathons.

The problem is that they kicked someone out even though they had no authority to do so. The real people in charge have objected to what happened.
The third guy got thrown out too. Anyone's guess why they didn't can the first guy as well, just to cover all the bases.
> if someone feels unsafe

That is a pretty arbitrary way to measure things though.
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Disclaimer : I am not a lawyer, I am only a developer, computer scientist and computers lovers :P

First of all, warn your users what you will store and for what purpose. Example : on your registration page

"Email are stored to identify you and to send notifications if you want to (configuration in your profile page). Password will be stored salted and encrypted, but don't forget to pick different ones for different sites. All personal informations that we store will only be used to our purpose and not selled anytime, ie not now neither ever."

Make clear your site is a side project, a beta, an alpha; that bugs may occur; that is possible to create apocalypse and kill kittens (cf disclaimer of VLC beta on Android).

More, if you keep private informations only to identify users, you can tell that all informations will be deleted (and you will) when your project will be full. (beta to production deletion).
US needs to look into how India does their drugs.

Its a disgrace that this is allowed in a country that claims to be first world.
JS is a lot more fragile than HTML.

It won't be difficult to extract useful information from a static HTML document 25 years from now, even if it doesn't render correctly. Actually, we do that already with static HTML documents written 20-25 years ago. But there's no guarantee that a script with lots of moving parts written today will run without errors on a future browser, especially if it stopped being maintained sometime in the middle.

Why do we need so many moving parts to display a goddamn blog post? It's a mostly static document, after all. There's no reason it shouldn't be readable with NoScript on, or even in a terminal-based browser like lynx, with a very small number of HTTP requests.

The reality is that only some parts of the modern web depends on JS. Hiring five people to change a lightbulb is not "moving forward", it's just wasteful.
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Aren't the ashley madison execs guilty of vast fraud crimes?
Pot kettle black...
I think 20% is a pessimistic number, I've seen cases of over 50%. A friends computer (quite decent, i5 8gb) was slow to the point of not being usable at all, opening word would take like 30 sec of disk thrashing. He was on the verge of throwing it out when I took a look at it and uninstalled his antivirus, it became like brand new again.
The things people want to us WP for are totally unrelated to the things Meteor is good at.
FYI, seniority isn't some form of union corruption or malice. It's a fundamental strategy employed to reduce workplace competition which is what gives unions the leverage they need against the employer.

Without seniority, you get three problems:

1. The employer can again directly influence employee decisions by promoting those that side with them instead of with the union. So then in case of a strike, he'd say beforehand that he'll only consider a promotion for those who don't participate in the strike.

2. Junior union members do not really have a guarantee that it is worth the effort to join the union if they might end up still in entry level positions after X years. Seniority will affect them negatively in the first few years but then they will be guaranteed the same promotions.

3. Senior members would probably cause lots of issues within the union if they didn't get promoted before the young guys even if it was fair to promote the more skillful young. After all they participated in the union for longer at a significant cost and it's only due to their participation that the skillful young enjoy the workplace benefits they have. This might tear apart the union.

Now if you look at this through the "I'm better than anyone else around me" sort of tinted glasses you'll never really get any of this and it's probably not for you. Unions are for people who want to minimize employment risk because they have lots of responsibilities and cannot afford to be highly motivated corporate career climbers.
Gay child abuse happens outside of Catholicism?
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> The real people in charge have objected to what happened.

Have they objected publicly, and made it clear that MLH's actions were unacceptable?
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By your definition the schools treatment of Ahmed's bomb hoax was justified. I'm going to let you think over it one more time.
If Wired makes this practice standard for articles on their website, I will seriously consider dropping my subscription. I understand that the two are not directly linked, but this new tactic seems toxic and I do not want to support it in any way.
This is actually a good reason to use the native iOS push notification, instead of such thin content to grab eyeballs. The former is well targeted and less spammy IMO.
> Unfortunately if someone feels unsafe then it's escalated past a joke in poor taste.

I'm happy to describe myself as a Social Justice Warrior, capital letters and all, but there has to be a limit somewhere, or anyone can screw anyone else by claiming to be offended by the color of their T-shirt. No reasonable person could have taken this as an actual threat. I could see saying "Hey, please don't make jokes like that," but going straight to kicking people out is not reasonable.
If I were the author, I wouldn't write about what transpired. There is nothing to gain by taking it publicly and now there is an easy to locate record of your mistake for future event organisers and employers. Should just let it rest.

I disagree. I don't think he should take it any further but publishing a record (especially one as well written as this) is wise. Gaslighting is common in communities like this, and by having his story out in the open, it makes it harder for any false versions of the story to stick (assuming his account is accurate, of course).

Further, social standards may (nay, will) change and what he did may be seen in a different light a few years down the road, and having his written account will be useful so that his actions can instead be judged via the ethics of the future.
MLH had no authority to kick out the students. The hackathon is run by a separate group of Waterloo students, whereas MLH is a for-profit hackathon organization that just helps colleges with sponsorships.
I was looking for the original Jon Krakauer article, "Into Thin Air" [0] instead I found this article of which I had no prior knowledge. Compare the submitted article to Krakauers' latest article "Death & Anger on Everest" [1] and you'll get an idea of how much easier Everest is too summit.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/038...

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/death-and-anger-on-e...
And yet I've never had a client say they like it, or find it easy to use. Neither did they find Drupal any better, but they have found other options easier to use.
hah, another chrome-only thing
Ask HN: How do you find domain specific knowledge?
Hey guys!

Let's say you're doing your job and you realise you need some sort of domain specific knowledge to proceed (or to do your job better). I'm talking about domain specific knowledge, perhaps the kind of knowledge someone else in your company has needed before. How do you go about to finding it?

I've found this to be one of the main challenges at the startup I currently work for. As someone in charge of making a change, I wanted to gather some external use-cases before jumping into a solution.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Cheers!
1. Start with the basic syntax/cheat-sheet of the language.

2. Read instructions as 'that's what they are' and try to come-up with examples for yourself as why they are like that. (This is a bit creative and examples are only for yourself so that you can remember it)

3. once step-2 is done, its going to make it easier to remember things via your own-made-examples and things will flow smoothly when you see things.

say: http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/maple/view.aspx?path=s...

1. take 'concatenation'. a || b

2. remember it like you are gluing two things with || thingy. and || thingy can be remembered as a chewing-gum or anything you like

3. next time you see || you remember the object (chewing-gum) and it always leads you to concatenation.

Try it out, it might sound funny. But works..
First, you might very well be an outlier. In which case, what you did or did not doesn't matter at all with regards to WP. FWIW, tons of WP plugins and themes (professional and popular free ones) use jQuery.

Second, WP used jQuery itself in the management interface, which is actually what he was on about.
I'm going to say it's a matter of their CMS and cite Hanlon's razor - in this case replace "stupidity" with "very modest time and budget"
By the way, I've also created a survey monkey for this. In case you find that more convenient, please go ahead ;)

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SBRR9YD

Thanks in advance!
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Yes.

Here is a link to the response of one of the Hack the North Directors:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/3ln4cz/two_hacke...

From the link:
"For the record:
MLH kicked him out. HTN did not.
I feel like I definitely need to make it clear that none of the directors of Hack the North were involved in this decision.
As for me, personally: I am extremely unhappy about the decision."
If you think someone may be saying something ridiculous, please reread carefully in a charitable manner (charity was not even required here).
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Tell HN: My own version of the American dream
I have spent the last year, thinking about how I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

I started to work as a software developer in government in my country, but found that entrepreneurship is really my thing. So I quit my job and began my own startup. I learned a lot about how to start a company, but the reality hit me like a truck. Colombia is a really tough environment to be a tech entrepreneur. (Very low purchasing power, internal conflicts, the government doesn't help, etc.)

So although I have felt frustrated, I'm a big dreamer. And I'm willing to leave it all to achieve my dreams.

I wish to make it big in one of the best places in the world to be in tech: SF. (I'm in love with this city). So I studied a lot of english the past months, saved some money, and sold some things, to travel to SF and pursue my dream.

My goal in this trip is to find an opportunity to join a good startup. It would be awesome to get a internship as a developer, some short-term job (I can stay up to 6 months in U.S.), or even a remote job.

I'm have Ruby on Rails and AngularJS skills. Not an expert yet, but I have code some projects.

Just wanted to share this with you guys, because this is the board of the best entrepreneurs community in the world. If you know about some opportunity, some startup to write at, some place to visit, or some advice for me, It would be hugely appreciated.

best,

Stephen
Lombok does rewrite bytecode at compile time only. Your dependencies will not have to depend on Lombok.
I saw a lecture from Stanford years back (2008) that talked through this, really interesting lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8SkcUSdbU

Also, if anyone wonders, DAWG means: Directed Acyclic Word Graph
> In Ahmed's case, "real issue at hand" is paranoids flinching at terrorism in every shadow, exactly like this. I generally think people ought to try to avoid offensive speech, and if this had even remotely resembled an actual threat I would have been heartily against it, but no reasonable person could have felt threatened here. This is exactly the same kind of thinking that says it's perfectly normal for someone to get cavity-searched for saying the word "bomb" in an airport.

Well said.

In this particular instance I feel it's more likely that whoever reported this incident did so out of malice (due to either a personal grudge or some psychopathic tendency) than a fear for safety, precisely because I can't imagine anyone reading the comment in that context genuinely taking it as a bomb threat.

And it saddens me that whoever it was clearly got the result they wanted.
They don't get a choice usually, partly due to protections set in law and partly because there isn't enough labour competition for them to only pick non-unionized workers.

Also in countries with well established unions like Germany, the employers expect the union to be equally responsible for some [productivity guarantees in return. It's less of a one sided deal. I believe in the recent recession, many union workers there agreed to a lesser pay in return for the employer to retain the whole of them employed.
Is this the model for disrupting education?