skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot relative to where I'm living in Europe where I've heard of zero such cases.

There are similar cases over here (in Europe), you just don't hear about them (for reasons I've never got to the bottom of). 7 cases may seem a lot, and you are right it should be 0. But relative to the number of successful child abusers caught it's a pretty good statistic.

No, most people behave this way because they've been horribly and dangerously brain washed into behaving this way. So how do you "fix" them?

Agreed; this didn't seem to be what you were saying before. But now I see you were less suggesting they were sex offenders but that they should face the consequences too & this would limit their desire for prosecutions.

I disagree with this being the right approach. Where this process failed was the first officer who thought the images were fine but still escalated it; that officer should be someone experienced, qualified and serious enough to have said "no, this is not a concern" - perhaps after quickly talking to the parents.

Now back to our clerk. This person looked at some normal family photos and reacted by ruining someone's life. I think this person finding themselves the subject of such an investigation would be appropriate and effective at teaching people that this kind of bizarre behavior is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.

This is a completely different point to one you were originally making - at least how it reads anyway. And I agree; there should be consequences if you deliberately ruin someones life. But if the clerk is acting in good faith (in a way that doesn't sync with the examples you highlighted) so I'd argue a serious word/caution is sufficient to show him/her that they made a mistake and to take more care in the future.

Would you seriously pick the author in that situation? Then I have some bad news for you...

I'd pick neither. end of.

But if we changed your example to me just seeing someone being strangled then I would call the police. Because I saw something extreme happening. I would not call the police if I saw two people hugging. See the difference?

Yes. Sadly it is not a comparable example - because two people hugging is not associated with anything sexual or inappropriate. I was trying to highlight the idea that you might see something that others found sexually enticing but that simply concerned you - in such a case you are not a sexually excited by the event, just concerned. This is the mentality of the clerk; and you are right it is a result of a messed up society.

What should have happened (assuming the clerk is still concerned enough in this perfect situation to have called the police) is the police man should have called the parents, chatted informally to assure himself that it was as he suspected and then left it at that.

The failure here appears to be societies attitude to child nudity followed quickly by maddening bureaucracy.
And as the late Terence McKenna put it:

Culture is your Operating System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8an2XZ3MU

Stuff to ponder about! :O
There are some good, annotated photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/yoz/sets/72057594073886267/.
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on so early?

-- best line ever
Father Ted = 5 x Black Books = 1000000 x IT Crowd
I've never done it personally, buy did you ever consider outsourcing this task? Odesk etc? Not only would you avoid the hassle of doing this task yourself, you would probably save a fortune because of the cost saving of outsourcing over buying an expensive piece of software. You could get one or two videos converted, see if it were to your taste, and then ask the person to continue once the output was satisfactory. You might have to mail the videos though. Sounds like a massive amount of data. I'd stil guess this would be cheaper.
I'm glad to hear this happens to someone else, haha.
For me the biggest challenge was not to release the product though, but to keep working on it when no one is using it yet. Anyway, I think it's basically the same question of motivation.

I was thinking about writing a short post on this. I suspect this whole agile culture with releasing crappy version 1 and iterating may be misleading for some people. For example, I've never heard of authors iterating their fiction book - they write it and sell it. If they don't sell right away, they may sell it later, so it's not an immediate failure. I think maybe this, at least partially, may be applied to the software world. Games and iPhone apps pretty much fall into this model. But maybe webapps could somehow do the same. The point is, I see nothing really wrong with this attitude of working hard for some time, but not wanting to continue to invest your time and energy into the product after its release. It maybe be good for some products, but bad for other. The real problem is the current trend towards iterations and continuous development, which may fool some people and make them unhappy.
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From http://putthison.com/post/833571254/were-apple-we-dont-wear-...:

“We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.”
— Steve Jobs (or a representative thereof, the citation is a little unclear), incredibly rich establishment capitalist businessman, on fighting in 2010 the anti-establishment battles of 1965. Because you know what the problem is? Suits.
I'm aware that HN is mostly US focused. But I'm one of those iPhone users that doesn't have any relationship with ATT and I can emphatically say that this phone is not the problem. I'm assuming I have the same baseband and radio as the US version, but dropped calls isn't a problem. And I've had tethering from the day I bought it (no hacks).
Yes, but different is some ways. There are valuable discussions that happens here and that are improving my experience. This is why I log here and spend around 2-3 hours a day.

I really don't feel that productive when using Twitter and Facebook.
so all geeks look for in tv shows is vaguely IT related jokes?
How to break the internet (from the head of IT):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQUWUfmR_I

ps. I bet this must be a highly downloaded show ;-)
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Father Ted is one of the greatest comedies ever made.
Wait, what? You're calling someone out on anecdotal evidence compared to your, what? Bunch of blogs on the internet? The only hard data I've seen was from Apple and that had the problem at less than 1%. Were you being ironic on purpose?
The first series was fantastic. Shame Chris Morris left :( 2nd and 3rd series are still good fun though. It's not got the bite it had though IMHO.

(Chris Morris on IT Crowd) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-QjskHTSf4
If the guy discovers a love for programming and creating things then it'll all be worth it.

I fell into programming by accident and I'm so glad I did!
I subconsciously read UX as Unix.. (oh thank you HP-UX for past years with ye ;)
No.

There's lots of detail in this show. Firstly there are three characters: the incompetent head of IT, Moss who is very, very nerdy and Roy who seems like a classic IT person. You have three very distinct characters to start with that are easy to identify with.

Jen is attractive in a way that is likely to appeal to IT folk. She's slightly clumsy and inept, and not too pretty, so that makes her desirable. She's geeky without realizing it. I realize that may be horribly judgmental to say 'not too pretty' and I'm sure that actress would not want to hear that, but I'm sure part of her appeal is that she's not some plastic model type, but a real woman.

Then there are stories which revolve around life within a large office without the heavy, ponderous 'humour' of The Office. The show is lighthearted and the situations slightly ridiculous.

Finally, there's the IT aspects where the most outrageous things happen. People here have cited Jen 'breaking' the Internet by Googling Google. But there are many others and they lampoon both people's perception of how IT folk behave, and the same people's lack of IT knowledge.
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This can be done very cheaply if you know what your doing and do some sys admin yourself. The tools to complete this involve a PCI scan and SAQ wizard : http://www.pcicompliance.org.uk/

This site offers both for 198 GBP which is a bargin.

The next thing is you NEVER store the card details on your sever, instead your (merchant account) payment gateway provider will issue you a tokenID or sometimes you tell them the token ID that is used for recurring billing etc. and that way you only have to verify the card details once, typically a charge of £1 or something small then you get the token id store that in your DB and use it for all transactions, that way you never store card numbers and all is posted only once across ssl.

Depending upon the features you have on your site you may find it difficult to get a merchant account and payment gateway provider to accept you.

For example if you have any live chat features or webcams that would raise a flag and place you into a very high risk and potentially impossible place to get an account.

for more advice contact http://www.merchant-advise.co.uk/

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This argument comes up against haskell over and over again and I think it is because it has some merit. Type level hackery and monad wizardry are great but it just feels like a whole bunch of smart people showing off about how clever they can be with avoiding state and pushing it all into some high level categorical constructs.
Tumblr isn't necessarily quick blogging all the time. There is a poetry community for example. You friend the people that provide the content you want, just like on twitter.
"Micro venture capitalist Chris Sacca is one of Silicon Valley’s most thoughtful learners..." - huh? I've never heard of a "micro venture capitalist". What's the difference between a micro venture capitalist and an angel investor then?
Jobs stated that all phones lose signal when held in a certain way, he did not say "normally". Further, according to the only hard data I've ever seen (from Apple) it looks like less than 1% of users of the phone actually experience this issue. If what you say is true, how are the other 99.9% of users holding the phone exactly, if not normally?

>Now he says that all phones have the same problems that are caused by this unique antenna design.

That's a misrepresentation. He said they have a unique antenna, and he said that all smart phones have an issue when held a certain way. So you could interpret it that iPhone 4 has a superior antenna design, but it can be shorted by normal use so it ends up being equal.
FWIW I find IT Crowd funny, but it's not on my 'must have' list. - Office, Green wing, Alan Partridge, blackadder, brasseye, day today, extras, league of gentlemen, psychoville, police squad, 30 rock, etc would all be above it.

IT Crowd is great, but I wish it was a bit more cutting/daring rather than settling into a formulaic sitcom.
It is also available for instant streaming on Netflix
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This happens to me alot. Let me see how do I deal with this.

Firstly, it maybe my personality- Resource Investigator then
secondary Plant. Both type of of personalities are creative but get bored of things pretty quickly. Working along side a Sharper generally solves this problem. For more about belbin have a read: http://www.teambuilding.co.uk/belbin-team-role.html

If I'm by myself. I generally make the time scale large. Like right now, I'm trying to read a 373 page book. I could read it in a day. But instead, I am going to do it over 4 days. So generally, I expand my expected time for success. I talk about it in this post: http://chegra.posterous.com/consistently-underperforming

Also, when I'm finished a small task, I announce it on my twitter and facebook. The likes and the comments generally boost motivations. So, maybe like every two days I have some kind of news to report on what I'm doing.
Like, I finish my low fidelity mockup design. I try as much as possible not to mention the future, it decreases your motivation for getting stuff done. Apparently, the brain rewards you for just saying you are going to do it and your friends too, hence no incentives to complete the task. So, do it afterwards and obtain the rewards from there.
Yes. That made me cry with laughter. I worked at Interwoven where the CEO, Martin Brauns, was a big biker (and Iron Man participant). We sponsored Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France.
No, the jokes are a lot deeper than that.

More to the point the actors are excellent comedy actors - their comic timing is very good.

So; vaguely IT related jokes done very well :)
does anyone else not find the it crowd funny at all?

i have had it recommended to me over and over, but i simply do not find it funny at all. yes, it has geeky jokes, but as a comedy and an overall tv show is utterly appalling imo.

compared to something like black books, which is just brilliant
I think he typed google into google (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1531590)
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I find it fairly funny. But I watched some of 'black books' and just didn't get that at all.

Different strokes for different folks...
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Welcome to Child Protective Services, where folks with sociology degrees, sometimes poor cognitivie abilities, and questionable work ethics who want to be on a mission to save the world are given powers that would make the local police chief blush.

I hated to write that. Snarky it was. Of course most of the cases these folks work are really sad -- I have family that work there.

But it's a blunt instrument, and politicians have decided that anything to do with kids gets "special" treatment. I know of about a dozen good people who have had run-ins with these guys. None of them were guilty of anything bad, yet all of them went through hell. (this list includes me) I also know (from my family members who work there) of really bad people who keep their kids through atrocity after atrocity. Very sad.

EDIT: Just guessing, but it's almost like the closer to upper-middle class you are, the more likely you are to be a victim of CPS-gone-wild. The really poor crackheads don't give a shit, so CPS charges them and shuffles them through the system. Nobody has resources for these kids, so they go back to mom and/or dad. The really rich have a platoon of lawyers descend on CPS (and they have political connections). It's the poor schmucks who have the energy and wherewithal to screw around with CPS (probably in a useless attempt to save their reputation) that get dragged through the dirt.
Same.

For all irked by this, try the root site: http://uxmyths.com/

The offending party is UXBooth, which adds nothing of value. Can someone edit the link to point to uxmyths.com instead?
Its not a bad phone. I have an iPhone 4, and I am really impressed with it, actually I can't put it down. It has really great screen resolution, is much faster than other phones I have seen and combined with iOS4, multi-tasking, etc it makes a really good phone. The antenna issue only shows up in certain areas of reception.

I for one, am not sending my phone back...
yes, totally. it's no spaced.
Well, I dislike the spirit of the GPL for similar reasons.

But I find that clause even worse; because it is the same spirit as the GPL masquerading as something different :)

One of the joys, I find, with BSD/MIT licensing is that you can watch the code do amazing things with no restriction.
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jared <tri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am curious; for the people with Haskell experience why did you decide to use Clojure? I am asking this because Haskell and Clojure seem to solve similar types of problems. When would you want to use Haskell instead of Clojure and visa-versa?

[Mark Engelberg replies]

I think stateful things are too hard to do in Haskell, and they are an important part of most real-world programs. Clojure's blend of persistent data structures with a variety of reference-type objects that can contain them feels much more pragmatic to me. Also, I'm just
happier working in a dynamically-typed language.

As a side note, years ago, I wanted to write something in Haskell that worked like Clojure's memoize (which is implemented in a half-dozen or so lines of code in Clojure's core), and asked about it on the Haskell mailing list. I was pointed to a PhD dissertation on the topic of how to write memoize in Haskell. All I could think was,

"Do I really want to be using a language where memoize is a PhD-level topic?" "
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Well, I'm not necessarily saying it's bad, but this kind of show isn't really my cup of tea. If anything, it seems to be perpetuating a crude stereotype of technologists, which doesn't really relate to my own experience.
minor semantics, but I believe Karp decided it was best to focus on growth over revenue.
Yeah I forgot about things like spaced. I just like my comedy a bit more cutting witty obscene bizarre etc rather than "This is a funny situation isn't it". The IT crowd has been a mixed bag for me, moments of genius mixed with whole episodes of 'this is a sitcom for really old/slow people who need their jokes explained over an entire episode'.
You not really advising me to break the law, are you?
The question is, will a restaurant owner who was being sold a crappy Flash site know that it is important or at least desirable to be on the mobile web?
You could come up with some cool inventory logistics algorithms.

Eh, Thinking about it again, I'd rather work at Apple
That's a good point. Perhaps the decline of work ethics reset every time hard times roll around. If there is less to go around, people have to work harder just to maintain. Therefore any generations growing up during wartime or depression/recession may return to a previous level of motivation, and as a result of themselves going without, spoil their children in return, starting another cycle of complaints about spoiled children.
I was not able to reproduce the results 100%. I'm not talking about the actual numbers, of course, but the relative order. I did not observe the difference between perl and python implementations to the extent Mr.Li reports; however python was still significantly slower than perl.

As for hailing RE2 as the ultimate "winner", I'd like to point out that all recursive backtracking implementations are generally slower than DFAs or Thomson NFAs. So, in essence, he merely makes a comparison of the two kinds of algorithms.

As for gawk, it'd be very interesting to have some insight on why does it suck so much. :-)
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Does the DCFS investigate only parents, or can you e.g. accuse a kindergarten? Maybe one could ask DFCS to investigate DCFS?
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So stereotypical characters, clichéd dialogue, and plot lines on an intellectual level with soap operas?

You may not agree, but I, for one, find it to be unoriginal drivel that swindles a profit from internet subculture.
> If you would leave out the prologue of the story, and make it into a story where the accusations actually were true. Then noone would have blinked about what happened.

If that's true, then we have a huge problem.

Basically I'm hearing this in that comment: If someone is innocent, they are innocent until proved guilty. If someone is guilty, they are guilty until proved innocent.

The problem with that idea is supremely obvious.
It may that Haskell will never be a mainstream language, but concepts from Haskell will find their way in to other languages, and that's good enough.

Not every language has to be a mainstream web-centric enterprise level application oriented (buzzwords enough like that ?) success in order to be successful by some other measure. Haskell has always been research oriented (avoid success at all cost), and if that's the goal then that's fine.
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> This argument comes up against haskell over and over again and I think it is because it has some merit.

Yes and no. As with many other things, there's a tradeoff between Haskell's purity and referential transparency and side-effecting constructs such as storing stuff in a local cache, which is what memoization does. You can't litter printfs or cache calls throughout your pure functions either, "for some reason". It makes sense that's it's a pain to do in a (non-IO/state) haskell function, because those are very much about mixing side-effects into the code.

A better solution would probably be to integrate memoization at the runtime level, with some compiler hints maybe. That way it becomes an implementation detail not an imperative side-effect, and the world is pure again.

Anyway yeah, if you can't bear with Haskell's constraints you can just use something else, such as MLs (in order not to give up static type safety). Whoop the fucking do.
It's TV. I have low expectations.
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<insert non-IT person> doesnt know <insert IT thing>, lololol

it seems to be this joke over and over and over, i just dont understand ;[
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Interesting idea ... unfortunately their FB page is in Czech and I can't read their critiques of other designs.
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I drove stick shift for 2 years in US (right hand) and I drive stick shift in India (left hand). I did not notice any major benefits in either style.
I don't think there is anything in "parse" that implies relation to a specific type-N grammar, why do you think so? (the oxford american heritage dictionary seem to agree, but I'm not a native speaker)
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Pascal and C were the subject of protracted language wars, with all the usual accouterments involved with those.

Pascal was very common back then; UCSD Pascal and pCode and Terak boxes were all over the place back in college.

Apple was (then) built on Pascal, and this was markedly different from C on SunOS, ULTRIX VAX and RISC/MIPS, AT&T S3 and SVID,and the early (buggy) VAX C on the odd VMS boxes.

(Java still reminds me of that Pascal and pCode implementation.)