skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to that mechanism you describe, which is essentially a cycle of (psychic) violence. It is a cycle initiated by very real otherness on one side, and the other side's instinct discomfort with otherness. So, essentially this problem would be solved of more people sought out and learned to enjoy diversity in personality. (e.g. http://ncase.me/polygons/ but applied to personality, not race.)
That's a whole lot of words without actually saying anything.

What credibility is the author losing? Credibility as a programmer? Credibility as someone who can speak to you personally?

How are phrases like "manned up" or "pussied out" harmful to "our industry"? I guess I'm living under a rock, because I had no idea that we were destroying the future of programming by using words that aren't on your approved list.

Your post has absolutely nothing to do with the content, the author, or the author's intentions. It has everything to do with your own insecurities. I sincerely hope that your post was actually sarcastic and I've simply jumped to conclusions here.

I truly hate this zero-tolerance generation (my own generation), and I have never met a man I respected that didn't curse.
The first half of that set of questions could be useful.

Some of the wording needs tweaking (example from OA)...

"2. Do you become unpleasantly aroused when a lot is going on around you?"

...aroused being used in the psychology sense by questioners no doubt but could be misunderstood. Perhaps pop an 'opposite' question in later on, something like...

"Do you feel happier when there is a lot happening in a place, lots of people, lots of noise?"
Well, yes, for a single download. Not for crawling - a repeated pattern of download, inspect for links, download some more etc.
Well said. We should more often drop the labels and categories entirely and simply treat each other as fellow humans.
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Also know as triple tap or 3 point check. I am now so used to it that I feel uncomfortable if I intentionally leave one behind.
Now I just need a "how to get a friend" feature added then I'll be able to use the app.
I've noticed that every time I walk through an exterior door (in either direction) I unconsciously tap my pockets to confirm the presence of the things that are always supposed to be in them.
New graduates make more than that at FB/Google/MS. How do you expect to get a world class architect at that salary!
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It's really cool to get compensation for work on your own project. And $700/week is a lot in the country I'm living in, it's enough for hiring 2-4 good software developers (I know a few groups of people who do work for YC companies).

But I would feel very uncomfortable knowing that the person who pays me doesn't get something valuable back and doesn't really need what I'm working on (but rather "provides more value to the universe"). That is probably just me, though.
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How it is even possible they are not in jail already?

They burned to death all the wildlife on 130 acres FIFTEEN years ago and they were allowed to VOLUNTARILY report to prison?

There are teenagers in NYC who have been in prison for 2-3 years waiting for trial without being charged.
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Is there anything that a kid could install on a school owned Chromebook, that would protect their privacy? Tor?
If this was possible, I would get a friend of mine in USA to pay for my account. People complain about piracy in India and do not understand that torrents and streaming sites are currently my only source for good TV series. I am readily willing to pay even $40 a month for such a service.
Why were the constraints of the game so loose? It even gave unprivileged SSH access to the real machine, outside docker!

Is docker considered as strong as a chroot nowadays? Are uid0 programs unable to escape? Is it safe to run the `try ruby`s of this world on docker?

The website[0] mentions that "even if an intruder manages to escalate to root within a container, it will be much harder to do serious damage, or to escalate to the host." Has anyone succeeded in doing so with a recent version of docker?

[0]: https://docs.docker.com/engine/articles/security/
I like the idea behind this, pretty cool. I'm wondering about this though.

> friends will automatically figure out which "Grace" and "George" you're referring to, even if you're friends with lots of different Graces and Georges.

How does this work? For example, if I have two equally good friends named "Grace", how can "friends" guess which one I'm talking about?
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After feeling like having wasted precious time reading the OP, I'm glad I read your comment!
Great questions!

I'm not totally sure what you mean by "profiles," but you can see all of the activities you've done with a friend like this: `friends list activities --with 'Grace Hopper'` and you can see a graph of your relationship over time with: `friends graph 'Grace Hopper'`

I suspect by "profile" you really mean what the second question is getting at around storing more information. I haven't committed to anything in particular in that vein and I like how this program is currently very lightweight UX-wise. (I want it to encourage users/me to be social and maintain relationships offline.) That being said, I've been thinking a lot about lightweight ways to intelligently incorporate location data as well, so that (for example) if I'm visiting a city for a weekend I could query for friends in that city to do things with.

Do you have other ideas? I'm very very open to suggestions!
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The judicial branch's abuse of "standing" to refuse to hear cases is one of the great injustices in USA.

This was a huge deal in the USA PATRIOT domestic spying cases, where courts refused to hear lawsuits about spying, because plaintiffs couldn't prove they were being spied on before they won the right to collect evidence, because it was illegal for libraries/banks/IT companies disclose the spying!
jacobolus is exactly right.
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While I agree with some comments here that "Fuck you, I had to MAINTAIN your bullshit Taco Bell system", for any project that needs to be run likely no more than once (prototypes, single-run analysis, etc) or is never going to be checked into source control, the power of the shell cannot be underestimated.

I had an intern a couple years ago. Nice guy, but he didn't listen when we said "Keep this simple". We had all the data from an A/B test he ran, and we needed to do the analysis. He broke out MapReduce on EMR and all sorts of other complexity. It was a few MB of data!

After his analysis went pretty poorly, I wrote up a shell script in a few hours (sed, awk, xargs, woo) and got us the data we needed. I'd never ask someone to maintain that madness, but I was able to break it down into simple functions, piped into each other, in a single file.
Graham leaves out one crucial thing:

A more equal society is a better society. Always. This was borne out in the work of Wilkinson and Pickett for their book The Spirit Level.

You may have less technology. You may have less innovation. Tough. Creating more of what Earl Dunovant called "cute and useful monkey tricks with energy and matter" at the expense of your fellow man and the planet does not put you ahead, and societies should not seek to optimize for monkey tricks over the betterment of their fellow man.

Inequality (along with the environment) may be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, and once recognition of inequality and its consequences goes mainstream, laissez-faire capitalism will join royalism in the dustbin of discredited political philosophies.
What is "anything that happens"? Has something happened?
Ostensibly, this market fragmentation was forced by legislative fragmentation. However, excuses are wearing thin: the EU market, for example, is now unique, if distributors actually wanted it to be. But they don't. Because distributors are the fat middlemen without a real future in the digital economy, so they'll try to squeeze every last drop of cash before they're forced out, exploiting every monopoly and every loophole they can. It's up to productions and audiences to bypass them as much as they can.
I've just started reading "The Organised Mind" by Daniel Levitin and it seems that there will be answers in that book.

"...memory retrieval requires our brains to sift through multiple competing instances to pick out just the ones we are trying to recollect. (...) This is why it's difficult to remember where we left our glasses or car keys - we've set them down in so many different places over so many years that all those memories run together and our brains have a difficult time finding the relevant one."
This is a great discussion on the single most important issue of our day. I like Paul Graham's perspective on this but I would like him to elaborate on how he would curb corruption. In the past, he said that "transparency" was key but they are doing this in the open and they direct the media to put a spin on it which the non-critical thinking masses can't detect. Politics/economics is an imperfect entity. I think the "pragmatic" solution may lie somewhere between Graham's Libertarian view and Sander's Democratic/Socialist view.
Be careful with doing that in crowded public places. It's a helpful behavior to you, but its also a helpful behavior to pickpockets.
Interesting suit. Seeing as Apple don't currently allow you to downgrade to an older version of iOS, I wonder what the outcome will be? Perhaps this is a jailbreakers delight in disguise.
Reduce stress in your life if possible, it can negatively impact memory:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_stress_on_memory

Get more meaningful (and the right amount of) sleep, lack of sleep or too much sleep will negatively impact memory as well:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/little-sleep-much-affect-...

You are exercising regularly, right? If not, you may be missing out on a subtle way to improve your memory as well:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/regular-exercise-changes-...

What are you eating in your diet? Reduce the amount of foods - like steak - that increase LDL and change your drinking habits to increase or decrease your alchohol consumption to one drink a day:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/boost-your-memor...
Looking at the top series, they're all semi-obscure or obscure, early seasons of very new shows. This means they follow some key trends: obscure things typically have higher ratings in general than the mainstream, because you're unlikely to hear about them / watch them if you're not already in some narrow niche. Compare that to something like The Big Bang Theory, where people watch it just because it's on.

Ratings also tend to go down as a show matures, both as the quality and novelty drop off (even The Wire has its critics of the last season) and as the show is exposed to a wider audience.

Taking this into account, I don't think user ratings are the best measure of a show's appeal.
Date: 2006

Program appears to be Windows only: http://www.osmosian.com/
When things have a home, you know where they live and can go find them. My ATM card lives in my wallet. Whenever I take it out for something, it always goes back when it's done.

My wallet is usually in one of three places, although when it's not it's visually easy to find.

I used to sometimes leave my house without my keys and would lock myself out; or would be afraid I lost my wallet accidentally while I was out. So I bought a chain wallet, and attached my keys to the other end. So now I know if i've got my wallet I've got my keys, and vice-versa.

In short, having some systems, reducing or limiting (or simply defining) the homes of things, can go a long way.
If you want to de-index yourself from Chinese spammers, just put "tank man" on your pages.
Here the wikipedia link to the famous text "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" by George Akerlof:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

And here the text:

> https://www.iei.liu.se/nek/730g83/artiklar/1.328833/AkerlofM...
> If there was anyone who made Snowden inevitable, it was whoever was doing sysops.

They used "Snowden" as a catchall for whistleblower about state surveillance. It doesn't matter how he got the data (sysops), the point is that the public was notified about state snooping.
Ok I went back and tried another game just to see if my first impressions were entirely wrong. This time there were a lot of noob maps and some less skilled players to play against.

I joined a 4v4 map, and while I still didn't do great, I had other players to back me up. I also didn't feel like I was the worst player in the game.

However just as the game was getting interesting (and I was probably about to get crushed), everyone paused the game and kicked me. Possibly because they blamed more for their lag, possibly because I wasn't that good of a player. They didn't say. It was very discouraging.

But it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be, and I might try playing again some time.
For Google's parent company Alphabet it has been changed to "Do the right thing", which is totally subjective. The right thing for whom? For Alphabet's profits?

Eric Schmidt thought Google's "Don't be evil" slogan was "the stupidest rule ever" [1]

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/13/4326424/eric-schmidt-once-...
You're living under a HUGE rock. Both phrases are disliked by anyone who also wants to increase the diversity of the people working in the field of "computers". The phase "manned up" and "pussied out" are harmful and off-putting and I winced when I read them as well. They're harmful to the author's credibility in the same way that people saying things are "gay" would be to, well, anyone. They show that the person uttering the phase has, in fact, zero tolerance for diversity, the exact opposite of your claim, if they're willing to use such language.

EDIT:

To even further help remove that big rock. Using those phrases shows a lack of tolerance for diversity, because they're willing to use phrases that other people, ala diversity (not you), find offensive.
I'd hope the doctors all had surgical masks so you couldn't see their faces.
too much stress and/or reefers will reduce your cognition
UserOnboard review of Asana: https://www.useronboard.com/how-asana-onboards-new-users/
Your personal security is unrelated to the security in that argument. The idea is that the nation can't protect itself if there are secrets it lacks access to.

They want to spy on (potential) foreign forces within the country. To do so, the privacy of your home would be sacrificed in the name of the security of your country.
Not sure I understand your point. Wget does recursive crawling, and supports timestamp comparison. Perhaps you are noting that it wouldn't prioritize new pages over changed pages? Or that it doesn't support something like "don't check for changes at all unless the download is more than X days old?".

Generally, yes, there is some point at which wget would fall short of a purpose built tool. I think that point, though, is farther out than you're suggesting.
There's been 8 years between Java 1.0 and Java 5. It was probably too many release for the enterprise world. It took TEN years from Java 5 to Java 8. It was probably due to the gap of Java 7 when Oracle bought Sun. Companies are also much more used to auto-upgradable software now, and the Moore law is over for desktops, hence everyone was awaiting for the Java 8 upgrade.
_The Godfather_ movie has a major plot turn on a character's careless open honesty in a business meeting, which other characters exploited ruthlessly.
Do you have sleep anea? It's proven to cause memory issues.
That's a very interesting interpretation.

>if I had only manned up and broken out sed, but I pussied out and wrote some Python

Sounds to me like the author was speaking about being tough vs being weak. It doesn't sound like he was referring to women at all. I wonder if we asked the author if he would say he was talking about how weak women are? Cause I seriously doubt that.
I lock the door when I leave the house, requiring me to have my keys by the time the door is locked.
This is a real threat in today's BYOD world, fortunately it can be easily defeated on the most basic of network switches. Cisco SG300s (fairly common distribution switches) have classic port locking and would be the simplest solution. 802.1x would be significantly more complicated, but provides other benefits. Something like PacketFence would be the ultimate solution.

Remember, not all of your enemies are outside your firewall!
> Sorry to sound like an old fart, but computers have been doing this for years

With the CPU, yes, but not on the GPU. The point is that we've generally been limited to doing this serially, which ties into this:

> and no, caching rendered glyphs does not eat huge amounts of memory

It does the moment your user starts to zoom rapidly in and out like in this demo and you want smooth zooming without rendering artefacts, potentially with multiple fonts, and potentially dealing with large font sizes and multi-colour fonts.

I'm an old enough fart myself to know that at least the earliest ARMs with RiscOS (as well as the Amiga's) had little enough memory/cpu bandwidth to make fast, smooth zooming of lots of text a challenge even with pre-cached font-bitmaps. And it took a long time before most systems would have enough memory to be able to treat this that casually.

> Of course, the font renderers have gotten smarter, and of course, screen resolutions have increased, but the difficulties inherent in font renderering are all at the small scale, where you want text to remain crisp even when using only a few pixels.

I've written terminal emulator code, and I've written GUI toolkit code several times, and text rendering speed on CPUs is still something that needs a lot of optimization to avoid it being a bottleneck. At small sizes you obviously can easily afford to cache, but then you end up having many more small blits - the overhead is still painful but for different reasons. E.g. intelligently blitting the existing window content to minimize re-rendering tends to be a major speedup vs. re-rendering every glyph even with fixed width bitmap fonts.
While I think it's pretty f*ing obvious that traditional TV channels are going to be in a lot of trouble in the years to come, I couldn't verify his statement that "Netflix now produces 3 of the top 5 rated video series according to Rotten Tomatoes". I did find the exact list he posted under "Top TV Comedies"

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/tv-list-2/#

Also, on their "Top 10 TV Shows 2015", I only see two Netflix shows in places 8 and 9 on the list.

Netflix do produce some top quality shows, but the aren't currently killing it as much as the author claims.
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That problem was solved in the JDK five years ago. If you're required to support a ten-year-old, EOL-ed platform because people don't upgrade, that's still not the JVM's fault...
According to this article, a creative person experiences heightened sensitivity to stimuli and exhibits paradoxical behavior. Then he/she chooses a medium for expression to channel the chaotic sensory and emotional experiences into one that is controlled more so by themselves, else how can we deem someone as creative until they create. Seems like we need to understand creativity a bit more, because as many users are commenting, some descriptions and questions from this article are vague and highly applicable the basic human experience (we're all creative! :))

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I looked for some resources by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (MC) who was referenced for studying creativity.

Here is what appears to be chapters 2 and 5 of his book Creativity (hosted by CS7601: Computational Creativity, host by Georgia Tech):

1. Ch. 2. - "Where Is Creativity?": http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/papers...

2. Ch. 5 - "The Flow of Creativity": http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/papers...

3. Class Website: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/

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Csikszentmihalyi also wrote Flow, which is about the psychology of optimal experience.

1. TED talk by MC: https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?la...

2. Flow - coined by MC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
Back in the day, investing at least as much effort in the copy-protection as in the game it protected was not unheard of.

Programmers expected to get paid for their hard work.
I'll add VCMI to your list as it's project I work on.
It's open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III. We're always happy to see any C++ programmers who wish to join us!

http://vcmi.eu/

https://github.com/vcmi/vcmi
I carry 3 thigns: keys, phone, wallet. Each in a different pocket. I tap both front pockets using both hands at the same time, then repeat for back pockets.

So essentially I've told a pickpocket: I keep things in my pockets. Not sure what new information I've armed him with.
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The chromebooks are completely locked down, even 100% of internet traffic is forced to go through a MitM server of the school’s choice.

You have nothing but a webbrowser, which Google and the school control.
I'm curious. Since I don't have an Instagram account. How does Instagram "success" impact life in general?
How many friend do you have?
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Great question. Since the friends.md only stores friend names and activities, we have to be a bit creative in how we figure this out.

Currently, it looks at all of the past activities and in particular how often groups of friends appear together. For instance, if my activity is:

"Grabbed burgers and fries with Grace and George."

It will pick the "Grace" and "George" that appear most often together. In the case of a tie, or when there is only one name to match, it picks the ones who are closer friends (which for our purposes means they've been in more activities).

This works even for large groups, and it will brute-force every combination of all of the names with multiple friend matches to find the set with the highest score (based on pairs of friends, so a group of 10 friends will be matched correctly even if no activity has yet had exactly those 10 friends together). The brute force algorithm hasn't been slow enough to warrant any sort of constraint satisfaction optimization.

I've found this algorithm to work almost every time, because I find I usually refer to people (verbally and mentally) in groups ("Mark, Jane, and Stacy from work," "Jack and Jill's wedding," etc.), or use last names when I have more than one friend with a given first name and the one I'm referring to isn't the one I'm closest with (e.g. "Grace" would refer to my close friend Grace Hopper, while I might say "Grace Kelly" to refer to my acquaintance to clarify that it's not Grace Hopper).

I'm interested in ways to make this smarter still though, and/or better UX to allow the user to correct mistakes. Very interested in suggestions here if you have any!
The problem is a lot of the age machines (Apple II in particular) had a lot of direct control over the disk hardware. So they could move the head in "half track" increments (reading from positions that potentially interfere with standard disk positions) and it is uncertain what on the physical disk is the intended image without somewhat knowing how the drive head is scheduled to move. Obviously something more sophisticated than a drive of the time could image the whole floppy (and one could simulate a drive over that)- but using a drive of the time isn't enough to make usable images in all cases. I think the software that tried to do so were called "nibblers" or "nibble editors", but it has been a long time.