skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of good information on this site:

http://www.bullyonline.org/

It's poorly-organized, but it's worth digging around.

I gave a printout of the profile of a workplace bully (http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/serial.htm) to a woman I work with who was facing severe bullying from her boss, and she said she got so engrossed in it that she missed her stop on the train. I knew the bully as well and it was uncanny how well the description matched him. It was like he had a well-known disease and we were reading a textbook description of its symptoms.

That was workplace bullying, but the site also has information on bullying in schools.
Overall, I have a hard time disagreeing with you. It's worth pointing out, though, that early on, especially in elementary school, talking it out might work, especially among lightweight bullies with more talk than physical action.

This reminds me of an odd story. In middle school, there was this kid on my bus who I found amusing. I mean, something about him was just comical to me. I didn't dislike him, either. I'd point this out to him and others from time to time – I think the label I'd use was "doofy." It turns out I was being an asshole and I didn't even know it. What I viewed as innocent ribbing was hurting his feelings. From his perspective, I was a bully.

One of his teachers came with him and intercepted me on the way to a class. She confronted me on my behavior. All at once, I saw it from his perspective and felt terrible. I started sobbing in apology, knowing at once the pain of being in his position and feeling like a monster at having slid into this most loathsome role.

He accepted my apology and from then on, all was well. The teacher was, I think, entirely shocked. This was the last outcome she expected, but she handled it all with grace and we were friendly after that. I'm glad he spoke up and I'm glad his teacher was on his side. It was an important moment for me.

Once you start to get older, though, the physical elements become very real. Moreover, not everyone is well-meaning. If it's a choice between getting damaged or protecting yourself, I agree – demonstrate strength. If I had a kid, I'd rather deal with him getting suspended, attaching a price to being physically screwed with, than lose that child to suicide or death of personality thanks to unreasoning "human" beasts.
My personal sample of 5 people is not large enough to draw any conclusion from, either way.
Perhaps some people need to realise that using Facebook involves creating data, in the same sense that creating documents in MS Word or Excel creates files.

This might be an important step in educating people to think differently about what Facebook is and what the implications of using it might be - for instance, not many people like the idea of a stranger gaining access to the files on their local hard disk. In many ways, the privacy implications involved in using Facebook are similar.
I think the writer misuses the word 'Truth'. He really means something like Grice's maxims for language and communication.

A couple of programmers I know have been reading philosophy (in particular epistemology) and applying principles from it to their coding - I was hoping the article would talk about how code really can be improved by making it Truthful in a stricter sense.
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is Google Chrome OS based on x86 architecture ? does the iPad have the ability to run OS X for example? i thought it wouldn't.
Apple doesn't release old, bottom of the barrel, price compromised junk.

I don't know what you're replying to, but the hypothetical i7 xMac that people have been clamoring for is none of those things.
And even if Facebook never litigates, this still distracts entrepreneurs from solving useful problems. Every meeting or hour of research that foursquare or gowalla or some new startup has to give to this is time wasted.
Both your post and the original overgeneralize, treating bullies as a monolithic entity with a single motivation and a single response.

Bullies are not "wild animals" bullying for "no reason", they're people with unique intellects and desires and motivations that you, or they, may not understand. They may want others to see them as tough, or to feel powerful or in control, or for laughs, or because they have something to gain, or because everyone else does it and they think it's normal.

Effective responses have to be targeted based on the motivation. I'm not saying you need to send bullies to the psychiatrist and "talk it out" to understand their motivations, mind you, just that you can't expect the right response to bully A to be the right response to bully B.

Sometimes the right response to a bully is to be a credible physical threat to him. Other times it may be to get to know him and make him feel respected, improving his self esteem, or to involve adults who will hand down more severe punishment, or to laugh it off, or to make fun of him, or for someone else to tell him "that's not cool". The right response might even be multi-tiered, trying to change his underlying motivations, increasing the cost of bullying, and decreasing the perceived benefits all at the same time.

Don't leave tools out of your arsenal by mistakenly thinking you should only "love on them" or only "fuck them up".
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Recap of today's Facebook Announcements | The Facebook Blog
No, there is a problem.

But the problem is political, not economic.

A uranium fuel cycle makes it relatively easy to breed plutonium or explain why you're building enrichment plants which can be used to make weapons-grade HEU. Ergo, bombs. Ergo, proliferation-policing issues.

To move the planet onto nuclear power (as a zero-carbon solution) is therefore politically unpalatable to those who enforce the current nuclear weapons oligopoly.

A Thorium economy might be manageable without making proliferation too easy, if the fuel is converted to U-233 and burned in situ. (Certainly U-233 isn't used in weapons at present as far as I know ...)
Yeah, this is definitely what I go through. No appetite and eating dinner is sometimes the first full meal of the day. Some days doing that doesn't affect me. Others, there's a serious hit.
Why local newspapers are worth saving
If it's any consolation, I understood what you meant.
With fixed time step for the same level of error you have to stay small, but not as small as you have to sometimes go with variable timestep.

In a large-but-simple n-body simulation like this, where every body is integrated at once, variable timestep has to keep the pace of the body that potentially has the most error. With variable timestep, as you add more bodies you end up running at a fairly steady but very slow pace, not only with the slightly slower timestep but also with the added overhead of the error prediction calculations.

The solution we used when I was studying this was to group nearby bodies together, and groups could be integrated independently and at different timesteps to each other. To bodies outside the group, the group appeared as a single point mass positioned at the centre of mass of the group.
Ahh. Weird.
It's possible that you previously synced that number. Can you email me directly with your Facebook profile ID or alias? I'd like to investigate: samodio@company.com

EDIT (1 hour later): I haven't received your email and we haven't been able to reproduce your bug. Can you email me (even if it's just user error) with a more detailed description? I want to make sure we follow up on this.
For an outlandish feature, try grabbing links out of one's follow stream, to create a separate stream. Like this: http://hackerbra.in/links
First of all - majority of users don't use extensions. If 0.1% of people see my content stolen somewhere - fine, take it, I don't care. If 99.9% of users suddenly could see my content on Google - hey, that's a BIG problem.

Second - thumbnails are small and unreadable - they are fine. Google adds READABLE content to their results. That's infringement. Especially since content is cropped around the subject user searches for.
shall i make a hacker news fan page?
For a second I thought I was visiting http://shopify.com. I think it's a little too close to your competitor look wise.
Earlier discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1764042
Defcon 18: Constricting the Web - Offensive Python for Web Hackers
Ding! I don't exercise. I've gone along with this myth that if you're thin, you don't need to as much. I'll be changing that up!
Then the solution in those situations is to leave that environment.

Loving the bullies is equivalent to doing nothing.
http://xpenser.com/ - Time and Expense tracking via voice/email/sms/IM/twitter/iPhone/Android/...

Made by a small team, doing well.
Most chairs don't adjust high enough to achieve a 90degree elbow bend with the average non-adjustable desk.
weight leads to more wait
“Oh I’ll Remember That.” No, actually, you won’t.
maybe ask every person to post their names here as well to verify? tiring task though, so maybe not.
Yep. The site was originally a copy of the code for Railscasts, which does the same thing. I'm a life-long Mac user, but I do own a Nexus One, because I absolutely refuse to do business with AT&T.

I don't think the dig was pointless. I'm not an EE kind of guy, but from my understanding, basically all modern cell phones can have their antennas interfered with through touching the bottom of your phone. But the way that the iPhone 4's case was designed increased the severity of the interference... my Nexus One does the same sort of thing. Just yesterday, I was talking on the phone, and when I tried to hold it with my shoulder rather than with my hands, I was told that I "sounded like I was underwater." This is almost 100% reproducible.
This seems pretty interesting - it's a good opportunity for sites like Flickr and the like to allow 'Facebook Zip' uploads and they'll automatically parse out your photos and store them in your account.
Any encryption scheme that is not worthless does not work that way. If you have the plaintext and the ciphertext (but did not get to choose the plaintext to be encrypted) then you are still no closer to getting the key.
In terms of the domain business, of course it's their ball and they can take it home if they choose, and you're probably right that it will end up being a non-issue. But I think it's possible to distinguish between 1) the practices of a perfectly valid moral system based on Islamic law, and 2) the actions of a totalitarian regime intent on building and keeping power for itself at the expense of other nations and its own people.
Depending on how this goes, this might actually make me use my Facebook account.
Hi Cperciva,
Thxn for the info!

Your website looks very nice! So you are saying pattern is more 85/15 than 80/20... interesting... How about segmentation? What about the acquisition costs for these most valuable 15%, was it higher than for other 85%? How about churn? I bet churn rate for backup service should be lower than for most of other SaaS applications....

Renat
waiting for that download button to appear.
I hate agreeing with people. It makes me feel redundant.
Part of the reason for no new refineries was a long period of extremely poor profitability. Companies were actually shutting down existing refineries through much of the 1980s and 90s, amidst worries of industry-wide "excess refining capacity".
This is an interesting way to see how groups scale with lots of people. Chat box is cramped.
I think you are living proof their PR department is on top of their game again.
Facebook Allows Users to Download All of Their Information
Any relationship you form needs to be based around the idea of 'good will'. Respect needs to be mutual, and the desire to find amicable solutions also needs to be mutually held.

I think it's usually quite easy to tell whether a client is going to be bad news; e.g. if a prospective client is looking for the cheapest solution above all other requirements, or they're very vague about deliverables it's probably worth giving them a wide berth.
http://anynewbooks.com is made by me and it's already bringing in some revenue. Not serious money yet (hundreds not thousands of dollars), mind you, but it has been profitable from day one and growing relatively fast.
I thought about building a system for charity/thrift stores that let them scan in the ISBN of every book donated. I'd run a central database so you could search for a book and see where it's in stock in your city. Likewise could set alerts for when a given book is donated - and helps store to price books appropriately.

I decided it was unlikely that people would find the books they wanted in their city so it's pointless. Didn't see this angle though - catching the odd winner that goes unnoticed.
If I ever have kids, they get martial arts training. From someone who emphasizes self-awareness and a productive discipline, but who does not skimp on the full range of effective techniques and the physical training to achieve them.

They may like it more or less. Regardless, it will be a part of their schooling.

Bullying ends when you end it. There may be more than one way to accomplish this, but when you're outnumbered and out of reach of any help, you need to be able to manage the physical situation. (This does not necessarily mean the ability to defeat an arbitrary number of opponents; it also means being able to reason ways to extricate oneself, etc.)

And, sooner or later, you'll be there. This is true throughout society and throughout its various situations; cooperation is limited, and you're going to end up facing difficult situations on your own. "Civility" is a luxury that is not always available.

Being persistently without control can become a self-fulfilling situation. Those neural pathways get burned in -- just as they do with everything else we learn particularly through repeated experience.

I don't want my kids to be placed psychologically in that corner. I also don't want them to place other in that corner, which is why the physical aspects are not sufficient.

P.S. I've also learned that some physical injuries can be irreversible. It doesn't do you much good to know that a bully will eventually "go away" or "one day learn", if in the meantime you have permanent scars and worse to deal with.
I made http://nicetranslator.com in Nov. 2008.

Probably 2 weeks of work all said but by far my biggest success in terms of sheer numbers.

It makes money to help pay bills now via AdSense and is totally hands off.

Actually, given our analytics, I think that it's really underperforming monetarily. My partner and I have largely moved onto other things, but if anyone out there loves to do that kind of stuff, maybe we can work something out?
I've only been freelancing for 6 mo. but I have about 10 years of experience as a software developer in the same market. Right now I'm totally saturated with work and it's come entirely through contacts -- I haven't talked to one recruiter or answered a single ad. So far it's been a blast, but not quite as lucrative (yet) as working full-time for a salary.

In my opinion, the two major reasons I've had success finding good work are:

1. I'm specializing in a popular niche and, backed by my experience, I can claim I'm an expert. This also means I can charge high rates.

2. I've always been a nice person to the people I've worked with and have remained friendly with previous bosses and co-workers. I've developed a reputation as a capable programmer who's easy to get along/work with. (Conan O'Brien, last spring, attributed his success to being passionate about what he does and being a nice guy. I think this is really true.)

I'm still struggling with a couple of things. I basically always get my time estimates way wrong. I have trouble focusing and switching contexts from wheeler-dealer (finding jobs and managing contacts) to h-core coder to my personal life. To that end, I tend to work from my clients' offices quite a bit and I'm considering renting a cube somewhere. Finally, being a nice guy has it's downsides--I almost never get paid promptly and clients often times don't provide as much support as quickly as I need (like when I need to work w/ a client API and I need documentation/time with their engineers to move my work forward).
This is potentially a huge deal. Curious to know what format the data comes to you in. Obviously pictures and movies come in standard formats. But what about message threads? How about information about other users, can you download that as well? What kinds of applications, if any, does this enable?
Need to be Reassured That Your Smartphone OS Doesn't Suck
sourc3, Try www.efactor.com. It is a social network for entrepreneurs, and there are already 800,000+ users. You can connect with the businesses you are trying to target.

Disclaimer: I just got hired there
If their PR department influences their engineers to implement features that I want, good for them. I'm not inclined to care which part of the organization made the proposal.
I've made a few good sales from library finds, usually on more timeless or slow-changing technology books. A COBOL book holds value a lot longer than a Java or .NET book.

I've tried without success to convince my local Friends of the Library to sell the more profitable incoming books online themselves.
An SSD can read the filesystem allocation bitmap, but that's a "rampant layering violation".

Most people confuse trim with garbage collection, which proactively cleans out invalid data (creating more pre-erased blocks to speed future writes) and potentially defragments data (to speed future sequential reads).
A comparison of nl-project with the semantic web's OWL
Several of our company laptops have been migrated to SSDs and for the most part, people have been pleased with the switch. Also, some file-servers in our datacenter are using SSDs + Disk in a hybrid setup.
Lessons learned porting from jQuery to Closure
So all those donations to the Diaspora project seem to have paid off, but not in the way we expected. Instead of it spawning an alternative to Facebook, it put sufficient pressure on Facebook to compel them to allow users to easily download and port their data any time they want to. The internet works in mysterious ways, doesn't it?
Sounds great. Not sure if people will want their status updates, but people will definitely want to download their pictures.
Yeah, the style you mentioned (domain.com/user/images) makes sense to me, and it is built into Rails to do it that way.
your blog url please. (you are blogging this code-epistemology odyssey, right?)
It's also rarely worthwhile to investigate anything that looks truly old or anything that doesn't have a barcode (which usually means it's old). It's certain that I've passed by very valuable old books. I do carry a smartphone along with the PDA so I can search online for curious pieces from the pre-ISBN era. But that research hardly ever pays off. My work is crowded by artifacts of thought and expression which the culture hasn't wanted to conserve.

It sounds like he has, but his own experience has taught him it's not worth the opportunity cost.
I think it's simple, facebook needed a good strategy because of all the shit that hit the fan in the recent past, so they put a fresh new face on it and spread the love of openness where they can afford it.

I'm fine with it, download or not it doesn't change my view of them. Any company that has that kind of information at its disposal is to be treated with caution.
But Verizon doesn't have simultaneous voice/data, so how will this work out? One of the main selling points (in the iPhone commercials) is that you can check your email/use Safari while making a call.
I've bought a Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB for my new 15" MBP i7 (2010). It worked fine but broke after <5 weeks — all data lost (TimeMachine+Dropbox saved my back). The drive wasn't recognized anymore :-(

I've bought another one until my dealer does RMA in the hope that it's not a "generic" problem.

TL;DR

SSD break out of the sudden and usually everything is lost. Don't use a SSD without having backups on a daily basis!
I agree with this. Good code isn't always pretty. It's code that allows you to get the best idea of what it's doing.
architects also have every line and inch of their work inspected by people who get paid to find flaws.

engineers would get sued into infinity if they built unsound structures.

it's a real slippery slope into pretentiousness, when as a profession there's no actual minimum code or governing authority.
I'm glad Facebook did this. I've wished for a long time that Google had this feature since I care about my Google Mail and Google Docs a lot more than my Facebook Status updates. This is a step in the right direction for people like me that backs up my twitter updates because Twitter is sometimes does not give you access to your entire history. More services should implement similar features, I'm sure that companies like will create import tools for this data.

Now, if only Facebook simplified it's process to delete an account...
If lying requires intentionality then yes you are correct.
I must say that Lybian law != sharia.

I know the article jumped from one to the other but it is not so simple.
If Android is a huge seller, isn't Verizon one of the top carriers selling Android phones?

So if Verizon has been losing out on potential iPhone sales for the past few months, aren't they also making up for it with increased Android sales?
Hey, I love your website!

How's the business going for you guys in Vancouver? Do you have any problems finding customers in and outside Canada? Is being in Vancouver a problem for getting US customers? Sometime I saw postings where they are looking for a local web-developer for contract.

Would love to hear more advise from a fellow Vancouverites!
Go find a laptop that compares, feature to feature, with a MacBook Pro. Once you're totally frustrated at being unable to find IPS displays, firewire 800, optical digital out, and the same weight target, I can guarantee that the comparable models will be about the same price points.

MBPs are TN film, not IPS. Their color gamut is pretty pedestrian, certainly pales in comparison to my ThinkPad T510. Their panels are low-DPI too, which makes text much harder to read (you should see Linux/Freetype on 15" Full HD - blows my mind every day).

MBPs don't have a trackpoint in the middle of the keyboard, hence are not typist-friendly, they are not nearly as rugged (flaky lids), their screens also don't even open at 180 degree angle and MBPs don't have mouse buttons under your thumbs. They also run twice as hot (and loud) than Thinkpads. Shall I keep going? I can: the keyboard is crippled and not waterproof, hard drive is not easily swappable and Apple uses cheap fans that get quite noisy after a couple of years.

The bottom line: fanboyism is silly.
Nice. Will be curious too see what secondary benefits this adds to HN and FaceBook...
Internet Eyes: Spying on people for fun and profit
haha sorry jason... i just joined too!
http://appshopper.com - I contracted out the design, some of the backend code. I coded the rest and tied it together. Since then, have hired a programmer to handle maintenance, new features. pays his salary + makes a profit.