skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably that, I grew up in the Midwest in a rural school district (outside the school district of a ~100k population city) - we had a 400 or so graduating class though. This was early to mid 90s, and it was pretty standard through the 80s too, at least for me. In the mid 90s I fell into a grunge group and they were a bad influence. Instead of getting bullied about being a nerd, it switched to that, and taunts about blowing my brains out with a shotgun (around the time that happened) were pretty common.

Edit: to add this perspective though, my wife went to school in a relatively small town (Rolla, MO) and also had a 400 or so graduating class, but she claims ignorance of any sort of nerd bullying and thought it was a TV trope only thing too. She graduated in 2002. Maybe something changed between those dates?
The only witness described as seeing the Taser drawn was the owner of the dog that had just threatened Nieto.
Tom, I seriously can't figure out why you think that I'm trying to show people that "I'm hard" or something. I'm not. I'm a total wimp. I've had very few issues living in the Mission and Bernal because I keep my head down and mind my own business. Whatever picture you're trying to paint of me is completely irrelevant.

The point I'm making is that if you're in a neighborhood where there happens to be a history of gang violence you should know that calling the cops more often than not just escalates the tension and creates more opportunities for unneeded violence.

If different cultures are going to learn to live together peacefully we need to learn how to do so without getting the cops involved. How different would this have been if these people had just talked to Alex instead of making assumptions? That's the whole fucking point of the article. Eric Snow isn't in San Francisco to get to know people like Alex. He's here to make money and he doesn't know about nor care about what was going on in the Mission or Bernal before he moved to town.

And for fuck's sake, these are real murders I'm talking about and they rattle me to the bone. I'm a sensitive dude.

Seriously, follow these simple instructions for a much better life:

https://punchdrunktwolves.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/stop_s...
I don't agree with you. The PG community is, I think, fine with that: that's exactly what the BSDL allows that the GPL doesn't, and they chose the BSDL. If the PG community don't like that, I really don't understand why they chose the BSDL.
Unless you use a better resolver than the standard glibc resolver on Linux (e.g. dnsmasq, bind or similar running locally and pointing resolv.conf at it), you appear doomed to slow lookups etc. if your first resolv.conf entry fails, as most of the resolv.conf options that might have helped (if you'd set them) simply don't work or doesn't do anything particularly useful in the versions used in the Linux distro's I've tested it on.
That's OK, because that's a pretty ignorant comment by the author anyway. We had a time when we didn't have in app payments in Android, and Google frequently showed slides showing a 20x increase in revenue for companies that switched from paid apps to in app purchases. Freemium definitely makes you more money.

The biggest problem with apps nowadays is that you write it and no one ever hears about it or finds out about it, let alone downloads it, not how to get money out of your users once you have them. That's a much easier problem. The author probably just has no clue.
Shyp lays off 8 percent to pursue profitability
There are already some quite advanced compilers that treat JavaScript itself as just a web assembly language, you don't technically have to wait for WebAssembly. TypeScript (some type safety) PureScript (Lots of type safety) and GHCJS (MOUNTAINS of type power) all work right now, though the latter is still experimental grade.

But I don't think an initial choice of implementing a Scheme would have helped. The idea of +0 vs 0 vs -0 could just have easily happened in a Scheme, same too for the reliance on stringy types. Those are symptoms of a rushed design and an unwillingness to accept the temporary sharper pain of invalidating existing bad code to produce a new better standard (the exact same tendency - to dig in deeper rather than risk the pain of turning back - is literally how spies managed to convince people to commit treason).

Then of course there's also the great risk that, just like Scheme not-in-the-browser, Scheme-in-the-browser might never have widely caught on.
I am getting tired of people complaining that this is a bad thing. Freemium monetization works: developers get paid and consumers get a lot of great content for free.

I disagree with the recommendations of this article to basically put the screws to the customers until they pay up

> Another way to keep keen players coming back would be to reduce the privileges given in purchases so they will need to buy more to play more.

Keeping happy users that recommend your game/app is the driving force of freemium. Pissing them off just kills the golden goose. All you need is to make certain that if a customer WANTS you to take their money, there is always something to purchase at high and low price points.
I work on a major browser. The key thing to keep in mind is that modern javascript engines have an optimized JIT. That means that they are able to optimize code paths for the most common paths on the web. Since its much less likely to see code in the wold that uses the "new Array" pattern, it will most likely be slower than the much (MUCH) more commonly used literal version.

also, microbenchmarks like this are silly, since you probably will never need several million new arrays to be allocated.
Privacy – How it Works
Project1: technical exercise to evaluate Swift as a systems language
Does anybody have any guides on setting up dev environments for code within Docker? I recall a Dockercon talk last year from Lyft about spinning up microservices locally using Docker.

We're using Vagrant for development environments, and as the number of microservices grows - the feasibility of running the production stack locally decreases. I'd be interested in learning how to spin up five to ten docker services locally on OSX for service-oriented architecture.

This product from Docker has strong potential.
Most "enterprise" stacks introduce complexity that isn't ever going to be needed really early on, and in general that slows down initial development, and the road to something that does its' job. Many of them are over-engineered and a bad fit, used badly too often.

Of course the alternative is understanding your problem domain and picking appropriate tools and approaches instead of using (insert .Net or Java framework here) for everything.
Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome–and it might wake up
Microsoft just shut Tay down temporarily, presumably to remove the racist tendencies.

Source: Tay herself. https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712856578567839745?ref_...
Thanks for your feedback!

At present, the list of available categories and filters has been kept short to ensure simplicity.

We might think about allowing any custom categories, as you suggested. So we should definitely keep that idea in mind.

But let's assume you added "rape" as a category (which we thougth about as well): Then when do you add "rape" versus the existing "violence", "sex" or "nudity"? Do you have to add them all for most rape scenes? On the other hand, what do the consumers do? Do they have to tick dozens of boxes to ensure that no unwanted scenes are shown?

The more categories you add, the more blurred do the boundaries become.
Were you the nerd being beat up/bullied or did you just witness it at different schools? I also moved around a bit and got bullied. It was a lot more about being the new kid than being a nerd. Being a nerd was just what they used to taunt me.
I also didn't see nerd-bullying, coming from a 500-student-per-grade public school in West LA.

Admittedly, it was unrepresentative in other ways: one third Ashkenazi Jewish, one third Persian Jewish, one third mostly-white-and-Asian other, very high population of affluent immigrants. We were plugged in to American pop culture, but I think we were isolated in some senses. Little to no idolization of the sports teams, for example.
I'm sorry if I came off as doing a hatchet job on AngelList. But it pales in comparison to the self inflicted hatchet job they're doing on themselves.

My intention was to make a last ditch effort to get some much needed customer support, before giving up and deleting my account. But even though Dave from AngelList has finally replied to this discussion, he still hasn't replied to any of my email or postings, or acknowledged and addressed the problems I encountered and reported to him more than a year ago.

I've already sunk a lot of time and energy into unsuccessfully trying to get my AngelList profile into an acceptable state, and I also went the extra mile to describe and illustrate many of the numerous problems I had in detail, and report them to team@angel.co.

I have been waiting for a response before sinking any more time into it, and more than a year has passed with no reply. So I took this discussion as an opportunity to try to get an acknowledgement from somebody at AngelList, but so far to no avail.

To prove my good intentions, and give them a chance to fix the problems so I can salvage my profile instead of deleting it, I've just sunk even more time into summarizing the details of the emails I sent to team@angel.co in another message below, because apparently my emails to team@angel.co never seem to get through to anyone who's paying attention.

I've told Dave the date and time of the first message I sent, 29 January 2015 at 11:09 CET, so he can check his support email archives, and see all the problem reports with screen snapshots that I sent him more than a year ago. But so far, I've seen no response from him.

If Dave continues to ignore the issues that I and other people have raised, that just further reinforces my impression that the lights are on but nobody's home, and that I'm just the product, not the customer.
Jesus Christ, is that a real thing!?

http://docs.spring.io/autorepo/docs/spring/2.5.x/api/org/spr...
I can't disagree with what you're saying, but I think we are all guilty of this. We expect more out of big name services than might be reasonable. (100% uptime)

How many of us here have failover email services in case Gmail goes down? I think many companies would say they'd lose thousands in productivity if Google Apps suffers an outage yet I'd hazard that very few have failover plans.
To-Do Lists is one of those things that bugs me a lot. There are hundreds of apps out there but none of them seem to do them particularly well.

I think the perfect To-Do list would have

- the ability create (and allow others to create, subject to black/white-listing) a task by sending an email to my list

- the ability to delegate tasks to others (whether they're users of the app/service or not)

- order in a way that takes urgency, importance and deadlines into account

- an intray, so I can accept/reject tasks sent/delegated to me

- Mailbox app-style swiping to snooze tasks or mark them as Done

- shared To-Do lists (e.g. for teams)

- support for sharing tasks with others so they can comment on them

- API integration

- dependencies and workflows

I created some mock-ups a few months back to illustrate my thinking: http://jackgavigan.com/1tray-concept/
Electron and nwjs seem pretty solid... VS Code works really well (for example), and can leverage one of the most diverse module systems around.
What impressed me most was the level of understanding of machine learning by this organized group to train Tay so well to be the ultimate troll bot, offensive and relevant.
The Trendy New Form of Discrimination
That study also had flaws, here is an article poking at it. Among other issues, excluding pre-demolition homes from the city-sponsored study doesn't make sense.
http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1926280/vancouvers...

As someone living here, one big problem is that there is far too much noise - too many studies and bad articles (like the original one here.) There's obviously problems but everyone is running around chasing the hot topic of the day ("shadow flipping," for example) as the various governments either pretend it's not a problem, or sponsor yet another flawed study on it.
Oh no, not another argument about the world is going downhill/being less appreciative of intelligence/whatever because of some TV show. I mean, I'm genuinely surprised it wasn't referring to either The Simpsons or Idiocracy, but the point's always the same.

There was no 'golden age' where nerds were popular and intelligence was always the most valued part of society. People aren't morons because they read about celebrity gossip or buy a ton of stuff or interact on social media. There was always a sizeable portion of the population who didn't care for intellectual parts of life, even back in the days of newspapers and radio broadcasts. Go back even further, and well, you were often deeply unpopular (at best) for having views considered 'dangerous' to society.

At least nowadays, it's easier to get involved in subcultures and groups for things you're interested in rather than being limited by geography. At least a lot of things previously considered 'for geeks' are now mainstream in some way. At least there's now a potential option for an intelligent outsider to make their fortune without having to be born into wealth or popular in a large company.

Anti intellectualism is not new, it's not increasing and it's certainly not bringing the 'downfall' of western civilisation.
Am I the only one who sees that this is eerily similar to the US federal tax model, the 1%, etc?
Kik.com can only defend the term `kik` within the domain that they use the mark. Which by their own words is "Computer software for use with mobile devices, namely, computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones for downloading, displaying, transmitting, receiving, editing, extracting, encoding, decoding, playing, storing and organizing text, sound, images, audio files and video files"

https://trademarks.justia.com/858/93/kik-85893307.html

Based on this description of service the `kik` npm package does not infringe on the Kik.com trademark in any way.
Another title-bait.

As per the title, the writer should have shown a "causal" link between the TV sitcom, and the perceived downfall of the Western civilization. Proving causality is hard, but I would have been happy even if the author had shown some level of correlation. Unfortunately, none were to be found.

The Western civilization is not same as United States. It presence is from the Western Europe to far reaching islands of New Zealand.

This is also something of a problem with HN, where such shallow articles sometimes get pushed up to the front page just because the author decides to write a challenging, and overreaching title.
HN: Please add Reddit style collapsible comments
It could be much, much easier to browse HN if we could hide subtrees of comments the same as works on reddit.

It's a huge usability problem.

It's dead simple to program.

Please?
It's only intended for debugging purposes, near as I can tell (and I'm not sure why anyone would want to do it in the first place beyond debugging):

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13761#issuecomment-16772...
Having this sort of control seems to be the only way for something like this to be useful across a wide range of audiences. My wife will watch people being murdered and maimed in the most horrifying of manners, but the second an animal comes to harm she'll get up and walk out of the room (and then blame me for making her watch it).

"Violence" doesn't cover her specific use case, so without the ability to narrow that to "animal cruelty", it wouldn't address our own requirements.
Perhaps you should be looking inwards, rather than blaming your tools, for the reason your npm 'jenga tower of hell' exists in the first place. I experience no such pain, and i've been doing this for many years.

And i've coded plenty in other languages. None with anywhere near as good an experience as NPM if you know how to use it properly.
Identification of User Touch Actions and PINs Based on Mobile Sensor Data via JS
> Or... some initial starting positions might never yield intelligence at all

"Some"? I would bet on 99.99999999%.

Popular assumption that all evolution everywhere would inevitably progress towards intelligence strikes me as very biased.

Even on Earth evolution had to be "restarted" several times (great extinction events; the one that killed dinosaurs wasn't the biggest one) before humans came about.

Hell, the jump from unicellulars to multicellulars by itself took 3 billion years. It's nothing short of amazing to have such a long period of good/relatively stable "weather" on the planet.

Then, having a complex nervous system is very expensive and evolution often backs off from it: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150424-animals-that-lost-th...

Note that again, even on Earth, intelligent life made it by the skin of its teeth. Neanderthals didn't survive, homo sapiens were very close to following them (according to some theories, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory - "between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, human populations sharply decreased to 3,000–10,000 surviving individual [...]It is supported by genetic evidence suggesting that today's humans are descended from a very small population of between 1,000 and 10,000 breeding pairs that existed about 70,000 years ago"
Would bringing tech jobs and education into some mid-west be a gentrification?
I went to two Midwest high schools in the late 70's early 80's, one was large (5,000 students) and the other was tiny (17 in my class). Both schools had bullies, but the smaller private school had bullies with behavior far in excess of the large public school. The larger school had bullies that would fight each other and protect some nerds they liked or knew, while the smaller school was not diverse enough, so the few bullies had nothing to stop them, and they went way, way too far.
It looks pretty bad in conjunction with the simultaneously-published story that they deliberately funded and promoted misleading research
> "Whales" (as a fishing metaphor)

You probably already know this, but for those that don't, this phrase was borrowed from the casino community. Seems apt, no?
I'm actually surprised this doesn't come up more often. Considering how popular syntax highlighting is, it would be neat to be able to color stuff based on context. I guess it would be some sort of bizarre unicode monster that encoded the glyph as well as color?

Regardless, I was sad about that as well. You just can't appreciate the MRDV properly without it. [1] Or without the ensuing War & Peace-sized volumes of comic/chatlog either, I guess.

[1] http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/mspaintadventures/images...
Microsoft’s AI chatbot became a racist jerk after less than a day on Twitter
There's nothing lazy about C++ plus Qt. Perhaps you meant C plus GTK+?
I gotta say I've had about all the VirtualBox I can take in this lifetime. It's caused me pretty dire file handling problems on 3 projects and only 2 of those had any Docker in them. Thanks for working on this.

I have an open bug against docker-compose (docker doesn't do the same thing by itself) where the wrong layers are being used, but only on virtualbox.

Hopefully this will solve that problem, as well as how to make my dev and prod database handling more homogenous. And I can finally turn sendfile back on in my nginx configs without having to special case anything for dev!
I would definitely consider myself a nerd and I never got in a fight or physically hurt. I can't think of any friends that did either.

The vast, vast majority of violence that happened at my school (and we had a fair amount) was between unpopular, non-nerdy kids with homelife problems.
Points to Consider Before You Go Over the Container Cliff with Docker, Mesos Etc.
I just want to clarify, that I'm not against unionizing or collective bargaining... it's part of capitalism at work. I just wanted to point out that seniority really doesn't mean anything in and of itself.
GitHub Issues + https://www.zenhub.io/ works great for me & my team.
The FBI’s Colossal Fingerprint Factory
What you have to ask yourself before writing these kinds of things is, "When has it ever not been thus?". I didn't see any evidence of that in the article.
I took the OPs comment as "it's hard to understand DNS and biggest fuck ups happen because people think they understand DNS when they actually don't".

The problem with DNS is that it can work even when it is configured incorrectly. This makes people who has no idea what they are doing that they actually understand it. The strange issues with DNS only happen with strange configurations. When you follow best practices everything is predictable.
it is a bit tiring. it's like the poor man's half-baked attempt at spicing up their personality (where poor = dull).
Materials Colors mac app
Synthetic Living Organism (Cell) with the Smallest Genome Created
Is this a good read after finishing Beginning Linux Programming (big red book by WROX) by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones?
Why aren't you graphically visualizing your entire software release workflow?
If the pg community did not intend their database to be used that way, they would've chosen a copyleft license. Have you considered that this is part of their intention?

Would CitusDB have been created at all were it not because they could sell a propietary fork as they have been doing in the past?
Thanks, that's definitely a valid concern! You're both right in that we should perhaps change the severity schema to category-specific keywords instead of general levels.
This is basically a platform for movie censorship. Who gets to decide which parts of what movies are, violent, sexual, etc. I know I don't have to use it but regardless I hope this does not catch on. If you don't like the content in movies you don't have to watch them.
There's only one right answer for such systems, and you know it: C/C++. They should have added "High performance desktop app" as an option.
OP was talking about the code send to the end user of the web app, not the size of node_modules.
How Open Publish Can Release the Dormant Value of Digital Cultural Production
I feel the urge to cry.
Really cool idea!
Far more important, and certainly not coincidental, is that the NFL employed some of the same lobbyists, lawyers, consultants as the tobacco industry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/sports/football/nfl-concus...
> Guess I should clean up and open source it for the interested.

I'd definitely be interested, at least in some screenshots to see what you mean by having both excel-like features and hierarchy. It sounds somewhat similar to Smartsheet[1], are you familiar?

[1] https://www.smartsheet.com/
In this case, the newcomers regard the residents generally as undesirable and specifically as criminals.

In general, things which disrupt a community are not readily welcomed by the community.