skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my method too. You attack them with words, and it's often just as good as punching them in the face. Another thing that works is to be extremely unpredictable. If they believe you may flip out on them, often that's enough.

Laugh at them, turn them in to a joke whenever they attempt to do something to you, and eventually they'll realize that people are laughing at them, not what they are doing to you.

I did have to get physical a few times but it was only the odd extreme case where this didn't work.
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Yeah SF is probably the anomaly in the bay area due to lack of mountain cover.
Very similar to steep.it. I like the idea.
The good news is that at least it made a good first impression. As a technology it definitely looks cool and useful even if it doesn't do TeX quality layout at the moment.
random code comments on content_script.js:

The indentation is crazy (subjective). Use spaces not tabs, choose 2 or 4 spaces. I prefer two, but don't really care.

there's a lot of repetition:
All of the textboxes could be initialized with a function that took key/value pairs for attributes. They are all set to float right.

don't write stuff like document.getElementById("popOver") over and over, it's ugly. Do it once and assign it to a local variable. This is for style, not efficiency.

I didn't read the getTextSelection() function thoroughly, but in my experience, stuff that looks like that never works quite right. Attacking date inputs is tough, and will probably require a separate, tested library.
You could have also used "make -j", depending on your specific task.
Yep, sure will. I'm planning a follow up post when I get a chance
I really think you are just playing semantics here. The quote wouldn't be nearly as effective if it read:

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, hurt him just enough so that he leaves you alone - but don't kill him."
Of course. If you're referring to my second line of text, I was ~12 and the other guy was ~20.
The startup scene in Seattle is a lot smaller than in the Valley, but the quality is pretty high. Combine the TechStars list with the First Look Forum finalists from last month (which also include some non-tech startups) and it's an interesting picture of where the action is here.
I love the first comment in the story:

"players hilariously give birth to a baby John Stamos, and then raise him over time"

I have been waiting for this for a long time. I can't believe nobody has done this already.
Ask HN: What are some good examples of entrepreneurs being resourceful?
OK, don't use the "bad parts."

But it's a lot more than that. It's the "taste" of the language itself, and Javascript tastes much more like the kind of language I like using.

Lua always struck me as being so simple it crosses the line into Factor/Forth territory.
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I feel like reading stakhanovist USSR propaganda. Work more and the world will be better and you'll be a hero. Look, those french required to work 35 hours, they should be ashamed. Do like those couragous doctors, you tiny humanoid working daily at your java bigco, and even you doing this thrilling job for this missile company. Or even you changing the world for the benefit of this great sexy monopolist company. Let's rather be passionate and honest in what you do, "work" or not.
My money's on "moot point".
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This is not the only evidence that he cares.
Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891316
Along the same lines, non-reactiveness can also work and can even be fun. There is this one kid on campus who I've run into a few times. The kid apparently knows every brown kid--except me. The first time we met he asked me if I was a freshman(I'm a senior). I went along and said yes. He went on cracking a few jokes about me. I just sat there with a coy smile on my face, staring at him, without saying a word. It didn't take long before he was the one looking really stupid making fun of a non-reactive guy. He appeared as the unfunny clown.

The same thing happend last week when I run into the same guy late night. He was there with a dozen or so friends after a night out. I was there just to grab some pizza and get back to work. So he asks me if I knew anybody here. I just shook my head and said no. He asked me my name. I told him my name. He proceeds to yell out that I am here alone and don't know anyone. Then it came out that I knew several people in his group. He looked stupid and drunk. And I got a laugh at his expense. All by just playing dumb and being non-reactive.
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They had a paywall on the site originally years ago. Frankly, I never understood why they removed it. They're a publication, like the WSJ, covering a specific industry to something of a niche audience that will gladly pay for subs.

To me the more interesting story is that someone like Nikki Finke can come out of nowhere and one up them with free content.
I'm wondering how much can be attributed to how Quantcast measures traffic. Compete.com and Alexa, for example, both show a decline, but it's nowhere close to being as dramatic as the Quantcast one.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/variety.com/
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/variety.com
> I don't get how that is not a greedy thing.

Because most of Facebook's users didn't sign up for this. They didn't sign up to necessarily share contact info. They signed up to connect socially. Do you expect twitter to start handing out email addresses of the people that sign up on Twitter.com? No because you sign up on Twitter to share short 140 character messages, not email addresses like you do when you sign up to use Google Contacts.

If a third party application wants your email addresses, you can go give it to them yourself. Otherwise what's the point of Facebook making it dead simple for people to give third party apps your email address? The only reason I can think is that greedy third party apps want to siphon Facebook's built up social graph by using spammy viral emailing techniques as opposed to getting individual users to sign up or add the Facebook application.

Also correct me if I'm wrong, but Facebook does let you compare email hashes. So this allows 3rd party apps/sites to link two users up if they are friends on Facebook.

So in the end yes it is convenient for Facebook to take this stance of not making it easy to export your friends' email addresses but it truly does have a legitimate negative aspect to it. And in the end Facebook still provides the requisite methods to make it easy for people to leave Facebook.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1765749
It's because they are both institutions founded on compulsory incarceration where rules and regulations reign supreme over common sense and human decency.

At least, I think that might have something to do with it.
I definitely agree that 50/50 is nowhere near a hard and fast rule. The split depends on how long the company has been around, how much progress has already been made, etc.

The larger point I was trying to get across is the discrepancy between the amount of value many businessy types ascribe to technical skills and the actual value (at least from my perspective).

If the only progress you've made on your company is the initial idea, I really do believe that the you'll up your chances of success significantly if the split is close to 50/50. The odds that you're even going to end up succeeding with the same idea is pretty low. At that stage, you really want to build a team of equals, not get employees.
It's intended to be a mass market product so I'd expect most of them. Any way around blocking is going to be used by at most a small minority of users.
Unlike probably most people here on HN, I have done real violence to someone else. Over and over, in fact. I had the cops called on me and I've had to live with the consequences. And I don't mean legal consequences.

Beating up on other people kills you inside, slowly, because it shows you exactly what kind of person you are.

It doesn't matter if you're "standing up" to some other kid. Violence is violence.

I'm not saying violence is never required, but if you're resorting to violence when a smile and a chuckle will do, you're weak -- you don't have enough willpower to control yourself, or brains to think up an alternative.
I don't disagree with you necessairily, but just ot say:

Typically [citation needed] pedophilia is a symptom of having been sexually abused as a child.

This is an urban myth. It is not known (but much debated) what causes pedophilia, but I believe current thinking is generally in favour of physical/mental causes. Although there are links to people with low self-esteem and other similar problems there is no actual link to childhood abuse.
Just to clarify, I have no idea what Microsoft's Xbox software or user experience is like, and I have no interest in duplicating that specifically. I hope that people come up with entirely new ideas and apps.

Also, I should make clear that I'm doing this personally; the fact that I work for Google has nothing to do with it. If anything, I think Microsoft deserves props for bringing such cool technology to market. I hope Microsoft does really well with the Kinect and sells tons of them.
Michael Lewis had a line in "Liars Poker" about dealing with asshole traders: lift weights and take karate.
How do those languages you mentioned as knowing (the human ones) fit into the 3 categories described in the original post?
"But really, an IL that doesn't support integers? An IL where a member field access may involve looking up a string in a hash table instead of being a single machine instruction? Propose that as an IL to a compiler guy and they'll laugh at you."

Yup, JS arrays look crazy when you are used to C and pointers (I was shocked when I first found out).

That's why WebGL folks had to come up with typed arrays:

https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webg...

http://weblog.bocoup.com/javascript-typed-arrays
if (document.layers) still haunts me.
SPOILER ALERT -
Hey guys after a while of searching i couldn't find any site that could crack the hash for me my result is
9e0a70f64a9b39a9f216417e70664529
here i could find a Result:
http://www.cmd5.org/
Result: w1113
but when i submit that i get this message

ZXZhbHVhdGUgdGhlIGZvbGxvd2luZzogIGFsZXJ0KCdUaGUgc2VjcmV0IGNvZGUgaXM6ICcrYStkKyhjKyJfIikrKGIqMikpOwo== (This isn't the solution...)

which obviously tells me i got it wrong, not trying to apply for the position, just liked the puzzle, and i was curious about what other techniques are they, that don't require the GPU attack, or JtR which is priced at $180
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Wow. Lot of feedback, really helpful! I will definitely try what I can and see how it goes. Thanks much.
excellent point. i have a generic password i use for low-security sites where i don't particularly care about people getting access to my account.
Most tech journalism (online and off) is terrible. Often nothing more than rehashing press releases spattered with some superficial observations. If it still gets views and ad dollars why work harder?
> Beating up on other people kills you inside, slowly, because it shows you exactly what kind of person you are.

I disagree. What kills you inside slowly, is all the authority figures telling you what a horrible person you are for defending yourself.

I mean, by all means if you live in a place where the cops will actually do something if someone hurts, just call the cops. But you have to remember that the world doesn't consist entirely of north america.
When lots of people (especially in a particular field) work long hours, it creates an expectation which negatively affects those who cannot or will not work long hours.

Compensation (both monetary and in the form of benefits) does not increase linearly with number of hours worked. If someone can only handle working 35 hours a week in the U.S., they won't be earning 87.5% of what they would if they worked 40 hours a week. This forces a lot of people into working more hours than they otherwise would.

If work is capped at 35 hours a week, then people don't have to work insane hours (I would classify 70+ hours a week as insane) to maximize their compensation per hour. They can maximize it at 35, which for most people, is a much more sustainable (in terms of mental and physical health) number of hours.

If the goal is to maximize the benefit to society produced by workers, then I think a far better method is directing people into work which actually benefits society. McDonald's, for example, employs 400k people worldwide, and as far as I'm concerned, they're working for a net loss in social benefit. Assuming the average McDonald's employee works only 25 hours per week, that's over 500 million worker-hours wasted each year. To put it another way, every year McDonald's wastes almost 6 millenia of labor.

If all workers were doing work that truly benefited society, I think 20 hours a week would probably be more than enough. Technology has made us, as a species, incredibly efficient. We can sustain ourselves with almost no effort. Most of the effort that is being expended is going to produce garbage food, garbage media and the garbage infrastructure necessary to consume the two.

Consider again the tale of the fisherman and the tourist (http://tiki.oneworld.net/sustain/tourist.html or if you read German, the original: http://www.uni-flensburg.de/asta/pol_kultur_anekdote.htm). We can all be the fisherman. We have the resources. I think the whole notion of limiting working hours in a week ultimately stems from this idea. I think it's a way of saying, "We don't need more stuff. Take a break and enjoy what you have."

But ultimately, I think it's designed to benefit those who would like to work 87.5% of the time for 87.5% of the pay, not those who have a bad work/life balance by choice. If I'm right, it might be better to make the law that employers must offer a part-time option (as long as it's not completely impractical to do so) with at least 95% total compensation parity (per hour worked) with full-time workers in the same position. It would also make sense to limit additional compensation for overtime workers to perhaps 105% of full-time compensation (per hour worked). This way workers could chose for themselves how to set their work/life balance. When part-time workers get 60% or 70% per hour (total compensation) of what full-time workers get, then the choice is largely out of their hands.
I will never buy another Samsung device again. This is a personal antidote but here it goes.

I had the Samsung Galaxy S from T-Mobile and it was -the- worst phone I've ever owned. Horrible interface, felt like plastic, and to top it off GPS did not work. When I say not work, it would hard lock the phone whenever you tried getting any sort of location and silent crash it. This isn't an isolated issue either, several people posted on forums describing the same issues. Just think if Apple released a product with a bad GPS...

It got so bad I contacted T-Mobile and after getting to a specialist they replaced my phone no questions asked with a G2 and I couldn't be happier.

This phone looks like it has the same horrible plastic back panel and likely the horrible product and support the Galaxy has.
It's a bit nonstandard sounding to me, but understandable.
You don't end a fight by starting a fight. It works in theory, but it just causes a culture of violence.

People who are bullied are bullied because of they way they are perceived by others. You notice how there are a lot of neutral people who nobody bullies?

There are the bullies on one extreme, then there are a lot of neutrals, then there are the bullied on the other extreme. Asking a person who is bullied to hit someone is not solving the problem at all, it is actually contributing to the 'weirdness' factor that made that person bullied in the first place. The people who are bullied are not bullied just because they look physically weak, but because they are giving off the wrong social vibe. Doing something like hitting someone is not addressing the real issue.

To stop a child from being bullied, you need to address the short term problem, and you need to adress the long term problem. The short term problem is that the people need to stop, and the long term problem is that he needs to gain a lot of confidence and properly learn how to integrate himself in a social situation. He needs to learn to assert himself, and not be weak.

The short term solution can be solved without violence. If a person is bullying you, and you just say nothing, just scowl and lean towards the person with your arms swinging free, look straight into the eyes of the people without blinking, speak in a low cold voice, then walk away without looking back you can almost always stop further aggravation. Most bullied people make the mistake of smiling and trying to laugh off the problem, then going into a body posture that says they are defensive, and hopping from foot to foot or fiddling with clothes, and looking down. This encourages the bullies, because you are displaying beta-male behaviour.

The long term solution involves forcing the child into a lot of social activities, so that he learns how to establish and build social hierachies. Also, a lot of physical activity, particular where he can get to dominate, and also team sports where he is working with people less competent than him will also help teach him to assert himself.

Saying somethin like "punch the person" is not only not very clever, it's also practically undoable for most bullied people. Most bullied kids are small wimpy and non-assertive kids. They can't punch anyone. Don't give this pointless advice.
Another issue is that when you create a virtual machine you basically tie down your potential for optimization to what the opcodes can do, instead of optimizing for the language itself. This is a major problem with Java.

For example, Smalltalk has an advantage compared to Java in which designers of VMs can change the opcodes as needed to get better performance. That's not possible with Java because of the JVM.

The future of the language may be compromised by the decisions you make on the VM. For example, think of the problems Java has in fully supporting 64 bit software -- most of it based on the decisions that were made when 32bit processors where the norm.
Everybody respects a brave warrior, even enemies or especially the enemies.

Even captured warrior. In WW1 and WW2 many captured pilots were treated with dignity - one of such stories: http://www.campking.net/WORLDWAR.html

Or the notorious Douglas Bader escape: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader#Prisoner_of_War
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Why is this behavior (bullying) tolerated in school?

They're just children. They're not going to pay you. They're not going to vote. Their parents aren't actually the ones getting kicked (WOW would you see a different scenario in that case). It's easier to write it off as "childish" and do nothing. And if you actually sided with a child, there would be loss of status from affiliating with such a low-prestige person.

Same reason society tolerates rape in juvenile prisons. Same reason textbooks and teaching are so uniformly awful. Children have no power, and there's nothing to be gained politically or socially from siding with someone who can't side back.
Point noted.

Though I still stand by my personal observation that child abuse == stunted/warped/damaged development in the psyche; which can cause [unknown] problems as the child matures.
I'm the youngest of three boys. We all went to the same high school. When I arrive in Year 7, there were apparently quite a few kids "lining up" to have a go at me. My brothers were well respected academics as well as both celebrated for their Basketball and Athletics achievements, and I was the geek.

My group of geek friends and I took our share of hassling in the first week. It was probably day 4 when one of the bullies had a go at a friend of mine (over a paper aeroplane if I recall) so I stood up to him. I then got backed into a corner by 2 or 3 of them who started really hammering me.

Something snapped in me.

I started kicking, punching, kneeing, throwing windmills and swearing like a crazy person. I don't know how long it was before a teacher came out and broke it up. But I'm sure it wasn't long, and I'm dead certain that I barely made contact with anything. We all sat in the principals office and got a stern talking to. The older kids were suspended, I was let off...probably because my brothers were star pupils.

They thought I was bat-shit crazy. For the next 6 years I wasn't hassled again.
I don't understand the trend in colossal Android phones. I get that having a bigger screen is nice, but it seems to me that if the phone doesn't fit comfortably in your pocket, then you're doing it wrong.
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Simple reason: You're required to be there. In the rest of life, you can quit your job, move, and find a better crowd of people. It will always turn into lord of the flies if you throw a bunch of (truly) random people together who don't depend on each other and force them to deal with it day after day.
Man, internet justice is brutal. And fast. I think the only thing he could have done worse was call out Anonymous somehow.
You're probably right with respect to using a secondary device as the medium with which interactivity and TV content are brought together.

Your last point is a pale shadow of a greater problem that PVRs are trying to solve. People are ipso facto inundated with too much content from all angles, period. I sometimes find myself wondering if we as a society are addicted to this constant influx of content and stimuli.
Then how come I see teams that boast 20 years of C# experience? Huh?!?!
Do you think the bullies know how far is far enough?

Bullying escalates. If you don't trust your kid to make a judgment at some point, it's basically a matter of time before they get seriously injured themselves.

I'd rather teach my kid to stick up for himself and have the mistakes happen at the level of "knocked out tooth/broken finger" than letting things escalate in the first place.
1001 Things To Hack Before You Die
There's already 1001 (places to visit|books to read|movies to see|{insert other activities}) before you die. Why not 1001 to hack/make/develop/design/start/attempt before you die that's more HN friendly:
A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind
The chart shows the number of readers. It does not claim to show any change in revenue.

It's true that their decline in readership was about 200x. But is it possible that each of those paid readers makes up for what they've presumably lost from ad revenue? Maybe not, but we've got nowhere near enough information here to draw a conclusion.
In 9th grade I threw a bully down a set of stairs, then proceeded to beat him with every bit of energy I had (not much, I was a fat kid). After he got out of the hospital, in casts, he stayed far, far away from me. That was the last time anybody tried bullying me. "God" isn't going to stop the bullies, a good old fashioned ass kicking is.