skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counter point to the football player thing, I lifted with a lot of the O-line guys in college. Most of them were comic nerds, and a handful played Warhammer 40k.

One of them straight up asked me: "I'm coming at your base with two rockvees and an ambo - you've got a Jarmen, two scorps, and a quad. What do you do?"
Fighting with other kids you're locked into primary school with is vastly different than doing so as an adult.

Fighting as an adult is pretty stupid and a good way to get a felony record.
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Actually I think that forcing users to change their passwords doesn't really improve security and it may well decrease it.

Good passwords are hard to memorize and if I'm forced to change it every few months then I can do two things: change it as little as possible (e.g add a number or a character at the end and cycle between them as allowed) or use a weak password (and maybe do the same with it).

Now if one has a lot of accounts and passwords and tries to be safe and use an app like passwordsafe then the ignorant service operators (e.g. my bank...) who force frequent password changes can turn life into a really bad experience forcing us to do password changes every few days on one system or the other (or just force the user to give up on secure passwords).

Now if someone wants to secure their system then they should use two factor authentication. Now that everybody has a mobile phone, basically everybody has a secure token. (I know that mobile phones are not that 'tamper resistant', still they are something that an attacker has to have their hands on. And you'll probably notice if you loose your phone sooner than you would notice your purse.)
Seems like Ender's Game 101. Thoroughly agree, and wish I'd had the balls to carry it through when I was bullied as a kid.

My dad gave me this very advice at the time, but I was too cowardly to follow it...
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Does this advice help at all with girls? Girls seemed to bully socially rather than physically when I was in school. What do you tell a young girl who's in a similar situation? "Punch her in the nose?"

I had a similar experience (and resolution) in middle school and I agree with the author's conclusion. But now I have an 8 month old daughter who may experience this type of bullshit one day, and I'm not sure what advice I'd give her just now.
I personally don't like such "drug-dealer" models.

Do you get to try the features out before paying for them? It would be disappointing if you liked the app, wanted a feature - then found that it didn't meet your expectations/requirements after purchase.
That's the right attitude. Unfortunately, that's not the norm at all.

Mostly, technical folks tend to behave as spoiled brats when dealing with non technical people as cofounders (which amazes me given that one of the best performing tech companies today is run by a non technical guy - Steve Jobs).

Update: no need for the technical guy to actually work on non technical issues... given the current scenario, respecting the non technical guy within his domain would suffice. It's not like non technical people try to tell programmers how to do their job.
I would just like to point out that IA64 wasn't really a significant step up. VLIW is a good idea for DSPs and GPUs and whatnot, but for the kind of dynamic, branchy code that we all know and love, IA-64 was quite probably the only somewhat modern CPU arch that was actually worse than x86.
We had a discussion on another blog post regarding this book a month ago or something.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1764236
You make a good point (and it takes guts to admit being a bully): the anti-bullying strategy is to make the bully pick a different target.

You don't have to be "un-bullyable", you just have to be less bullyable than the next guy.

However, I still believe it's possible to fight back in a non-physical manner. My experience has always been that wit is sharper than fists, so I plan to teach my kids to fight back with language, not punches.
Why is bullying tolerated in school?

If we accept that "loving the bullies" is a sign of weakness that encourages more bullying, allowing the school to intervene is a sign of extreme weakness that encourages even more bullying whenever kids are out of sight of authority figures.
I don't necessarily disagree with the original article or this sentiment. However, I have a hard time reconciling telling your child to stick up for him or herself when bullied vs "send him to the cemetary" or "As soon as he turns around, hit him in the back of the head as hard as you can. If you’re much smaller, pick up a hard object and do it."

These are children and their judgement is not always the best. Do you really want to risk that your child kills another child by accident while following your advice?

Will your child know how far is far enough? Is there a chance he or she might over-react to a situation that is not truly threatening?
So you start building it with nano-machines? or FPGA at least?
yeah - but I will never want all my payments requiring that I have/be logged into facebook.
I thought this would be about getting a job doing black hat programming...bummed when it wasn't
I've thought a lot about dropping my cable but the one thing that has prevented me from doing so is sports.

How do those of you that enjoy sports and have dropped cable handle that? I need to be able to see my local teams and watch many other NFL games but the problem within the U.S. is that because of deals the NFL has made with many of the content providers they don't provide any type of online service directly to the consumer.

Any advice on how to get your sports fix without cable/dish?
From the article:

> Some sources say Jack is back on new Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's request, and that Ev isn't thrilled about it.

Interesting.
Half of the prize money is set aside for people who make it easier to work with the Kinect, e.g. working on a Linux library. Mainly I want to get people excited about doing neat things with very cool device.
You don't need to hit a bully to break his power.

The trick is to emasculate them. Show them you don't care. When they insult you or hurt you, laugh at them. You just have to mean it.

I was bullied for years until I realized one day why they bullied me - I smelled of fear, and I didn't react, I just stood there and looked at them. Suddenly it all made sense, they were like braindead sharks to blood.

So I started smiling and laughing at them.

Took the wind right out of their sails, and they weren't able to force me to come down to their level.

I won.

Play their game and they still win on some level, because hurting another person hurts yourself.
How many is that?

And it will only stop them until some workaround is made - which will properly not take that long.
I remembered that post when I saw this headline. I think from a philosophical viewpoint it's a good idea - though I've no idea what the implementation difficulties might be (could google have created V8 if we had a bytecode system?). But from a practical stance, what's the benefit? What would it achieve?
What an awesome little hack!
Believe me, that will make most bullies even more angry. They'll feel more insecure because now they're inferior to the "shrimp" in a way. It's just adding fuel to the fire.
I agree with you, Matt - I wouldn't want to just pick the first technical cofounder that could dazzle me with jargon I haven't heard.

I'm a business type, and I absolutely believe that business types with great ideas and hypotheses they want to test can hire a team to get their minimum viable product off the ground, for a very reasonable price. And, if skilled at product development, they can get quite far on this track.

Yes, of course you want to partner with a great technical co-founder, but how do you expect to attract such a hero without having proven your worth, the viability of your idea, etc.

What's a bit frustrating about this post is that it's going to paralyze a lot of perfectly good business folks with the ingenuity to get it going on their own first. I'm not saying that hiring a team is a long term strategy, but in the short term? HELL YES! YOU CAN DO IT!
It's a really fine line. This type of response can just as easily backfire on you. One punch back can escalate things well beyond the original infraction, the next thing you know, you are in the hospital. Embarrassing someone who fancies themselves the leader of a pack is never a good idea. Even if you escape unscathed one day, the very next day you may be met with an even larger pack of people.

It is this very mindset that perpetuates violence, it doesn't end it. For Sebastian, the line is clear "as soon as someone puts their hands on you," but everyone has a different line. Taunting someone every day for months can push someone beyond their line, and when they push you away out of desperation they have "put their hands on you."

Being strong and standing up for yourself does not require physical violence. Understanding the reason someone is picking on you is perhaps the best way to actually stop it, and perhaps even address the root cause, making the road better for the next person in line. When complaining about the bully in my elementary school, my parents explained to me the social situation that he was brought up in, and how we were so lucky in comparison. I didn't "love" them, but I understood them much better, and learned how to avoid getting in their way. Hitting back wouldn't have solved anything.
I was with this guy until he started talking about mouthing off to a mafia guy in Japan.

Kid stuff is kid stuff, adult stuff is different. That 9th grader had almost certainly never tortured someone with a car battery. Same with the muggers - who's to say that they're sane in the least? What if they're really strung-out and have knives, now you're going to the hospital.
As someone who was bullied and ignored it, all I can say is it didn't really help. I did eventually stand up for myself against one bollox who used to be friendly to me at school and voila, all of the bullies stopped.

This is after being bullied from the age of 9 to 14, and boy did I hate school. College was a different matter.
Why don't parents do something? I'd have no problem, as an adult, confronting a kid and telling them that if they touched my son again I'd personally deliver them to juvy where I can make accomodations for buddies they don't appreciate.

And unless they're already hardened gang members, this should work pretty well, and probably breaks no laws. And if they do do it again, live up to your promise, to the extent possible.

If they are hardened gang members, you should probably get your child out of the situation, because fighting back is a losing proposition.
Is this the full impact? Presumably, they wouldn't leave it on if subscription revenue didn't outweigh that lost from advertising.
Is this evidence that we can see the future?
I understand your point and don't disagree with you there. The problem is that people are changing, the times are changing, and broadcast companies aren't. I personally want more control over what I watch and when I watch it. My cable tv subscription was about as useful to me as burning $60 / month. I watch very little TV in general, and when I can get any TV show I want from Netflix for $15 a month, or the shows that are on too late for me to watch are showing up online, by the broadcast companies, for free, it's hard to say that cable is still worth anything.

I'm also not a big sports guy, that seems to be the one niche that's really keeping cable tv alive, but even that is moving more and more to be online available via subscriptions and what not, for better and more choices, TONS more choices.

The advent of things like Google TV should be a massive wake-up call to the broadcast industry. The fact that the first thing major networks do is block the device, even though it's no different to someone on a computer shows that they're scared. They need to not follow the RIAA and fight to the death to keep the old ways, they need to adapt to the times, figure out how to build a new monetization strategy around internet content availability, and finally move into the 21st century.
//download skype 4.5 2010 for free voip calling
>First, what kind of user experience is it to "click" on an ad on your mobile device? I go out of my way not to read actual webpages on the 4" screen, and thus I am certainly not going to try and conduct a learning exercise about your product nor am I going to suffer through typing my payment details to buy something.

I fully agree with this - yet at the same time - there is a lot to be said about the model that PINGER users (http://pinger.com) where they use ads as incentive to actually get something of value to you; free cell service.

While I think this is a great twist on the the mobile ad market, at the same time I am afraid what it does to the audience over time. Kids (who are a great target market for pinger) over a decade of use of such a service will have much much lower expectation/higher tolerance for the invasive nature of ad based/supported services in their life.

The potential of thought pollution in the future is very high. free diapers, so long as they display "amazon.com" on them at all times.

Everyone/everything will look like the moving billboards that are currently nascar and lance armstrong.
This is way too much work just to get a web server set up.
Can Bing steal Google's traffic by using Adwords?
I moved around a lot as a kid, so I was the convenient target, too. My 10 yr old is in martial arts and has a green-brown belt. He absolutely loves it. I've told him to only use it as a last resort, but to use it.

I recall being bullied by a rather dull kid when in elementary school. I remember him relentlessly telling me he would kick my ass. I told my Dad and he recommended that if it push came to shove, to just punch him in the face. So, one day the kid came at me and I hit him (don't even remember where). I was never bothered again at that school.

Bullies reign when no one stands up to them.
They're not doing it for your protection.
Ask HN:  Is Rosetta Stone Language Learning just good marketing?
Does anyone actually know anyone who has literally learned a new language from using this software? Or have they simply put on an incredible hoax shielded by an awesome marketing budget?
Do you get a sense of accomplishment when you're not happy? I remember in my productive periods I had focus and a sense of accomplishment and was happy. In an unproductive slump I had neither, but was still accomplishing tasks at a slowed pace.
Same here. I was bullied (verbally and physically) all the way through grade school and high school. My mom was a peaceful hippie from the 70s, taught me that violence wasn't the answer and if there is trouble the best thing to do is tell. 10+ years of telling didn't help. Taking the abuse day after day, missing months worth of school because I was 'sick'. Hell, I even got suspended in 5th grade for getting my ass kicked by a bully.

Nothing changed until I started fighting back in 10th grade. A few fights later, along with a suspension I actually earned this time, and I never had anymore problems.
This article is the seventh result on Google for "make violence on" (quotes included). Can a native speaker comment on this use?

It sounds odd/interesting to me and given that the rest of the article is well written, this puzzles me quite a bit. I normally associate such uses of 'make' with native speakers of Arabic, which obviously doesn't apply.
I have seen more than one schoolgirl fist fight.

I don't have kids - but id probably tell her the same. Its more about teaching a lesson and giving encouragement and about standing for one self. She probably wont go gorilla on her peers. Girls tend to do it in more subtle form.

What I think is the most important thing to do is to give training by example - live the way of a warrior and kids will pick it up themselves. Be polite, kind, sincere but closely follow the rules of engagement - when someone sets tries to turn tables on you, be sure to let him know that you know the game too.
You know what the parent is trying to say is "from scratch like code your own."
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Fancy programming against IE 4

DHTML was born with IE4 and Netscape 4, and IE4 was fancier of the two.
You're not 14 years old. As adults, we use facebook much differently than people with no/little self control.

If I was 14 again, I would probably superdelete as well. Nothing would stay on for more than 2 days. This is not for friends, but in case parents were watching over my shoulder.

I'd also probably have a private board with psuedononymous names for all of my friends so we could say what we really thought.
I was also bullied in middle school. One day, walking off the school bus, I slammed his head against the window as I walked off. The bus driver, who had witnessed his bullying me for months prior was awe-struck and kept the bus running for about a minute before driving on past my block (no clue what she was thinking or saying, but it was really awkward as I walked from the bus down my block to my house). I spent the weekend thinking I would be suspended when I got back to school on Monday, but when I got on the bus on Monday, she didn't say anything, and nothing ever happened. Apparently the bus driver appreciated the fact he had it coming. And he never bothered me again...
Note, I said "substantial prebuilt". If you're using eggs and butter, sure. If you're using a Lisp compiler and a standard library, sure.

But Hunchentoot is a friggin web server.
I was bullied quite a bit when I started 1st grade at a new school. Luckily I had two older brothers at the school. A couple times I pointed out the dudes responsible and they would go have a word with them and that'd take care of it.

I guess you get bullied when the other party things they have little to lose and lots(of pleasure) to gain. Soon as you signal they might have something to lose and they believe you they move on to the next victim.

A few times I remember just cursing out the bullies OUT LOUD. I was considered so weak that they never thought I'd do that. Once I did, the bullying stopped.
The situation gets better every year. For the past couple of years NBC has been streaming Sunday Night Football. You can also go to a local sports bar, which may or may not be more expensive than just having cable during football season.

If you're a soccer fan, things are much better. Soccer from the Barclays Premier League, Serie A, and UEFA Champions League is available on foxsoccer.tv for $15/mo. The World Cup was streamed for free in the UK and Canada, and monthly proxy server subscriptions are cheap.
Good advice generally. Although there are rare very serious cases when even this does not help. There was a mentally ill guy in our primary school who was strong, wild and agressive like an animal. (He has done weight training every day being 11 years old!) He had no respect of his own life, so if someone fought back he would fight until really dangerous levels. The older the guys are the more dangerous this whole thing can get. In an extreme situation the best thing someone can do is to tell everything their parents. The serious bully in our school was first 'met' by the father of a bullied girl and later were fired from the school.
I'm not so sure about that. Modern IA64 compilers and systems are actually pretty damned decent. Though the fact that they are still only comparable to a monstrous, teetering pile of hacks and kludges (x86) is not much of a recommendation.
Right on! I would love it if someone could plug in a Kinect and starting doing cool things in Python in five minutes or so.
That's quite the depressing chart. From their site:

"Want more? Register now for FREE!

We offer our readers two articles, columns, photos or videos per month, but you can get three more by completing our free registration."

It's not even a complete paywall - they're giving a couple pages away for free and with free registration, three more. What a rough industry to be in.
Yeah, I don't know if fighting people who have deadly weapons (or at least access to deadly weapons) is a good idea. Even if you win a first encounter, what's to prevent them from finding you later and shooting/stabbing you?

I guess that can also apply to bullies in some American schools nowadays. What if the bully wants to prove how badass he is by taking it to a level that involves guns and knives?

Thank goodness I graduated before that kind of stuff started.
In my findings, this method is not near as effective as having something you said get taken way out of context.

I got bullied a little in middle school. However, in a completely unrelated event, I said something with one feeling and someone nearby thought I said it in anger I guess.

Next thing I know, SWAT and local police are at my high school and somehow everyone knows who they're looking for.

Apparently "Really? OMG Im gonna kill her! lol" directly translates to "I'm going to bring a gun to school and murder her".

I was never messed with again and no one asked.
This question ate me in elementary school. I knew that the teachers & staff KNEW who the bullies were and who were the bullied. But they did nothing, and all of their punishments would give equal blame to both parties.

If there was actually unequal punishment then you'll get a lot more "he started it!" kind of arguments, kids will lie to get whatever they want.

And at the same time, I realize looking back on school is that the teachers & admins in public school aren't that bright. As a group they're the poorest-performing college students.

When I'm a father, maybe I would rather have equal & consistent punishment for both parties, rather than some crappy teachers trying to decide who did what.
I took a whack at this 9 years ago. My code's at http://wry.me/~darius/software/idel and there were other, probably worthier, attempts around the same time and before, like Michael Franz's work with Oberon. Basically: make a low-level VM more or less like LLVM without the machine-dependent semantics and with a compact, easy-to-verify wire format. Apparently PNaCl is working on fixing those infelicities now, or at least the machine dependence.

(I had some fun but decided the obstacles to addoption were too great and we'd end up with x86 in the browser someday. So the NaCl announcement years later amused and gratified me.)
What's all this talk about "their level"?

"Hurting someone hurts yourself", bullshit. Revenge is sweet. Defending yourself is not a weakness or immoral, it's rather noble.

If you go with the "laugh at them" technique, they will still go around bullying other kids.

But, stand up and fight them, and they learn a lesson that bullying has some serious consequences. You also set an example to other bullies and other kids being bullied.
Presumably they were having revenue trouble before, switched to a paywall in hopes it would increase revenue and have been furiously hoping that some tweak or fix of the system will get revenue up to a sustainable level.

But it's quite possible that they are screwed with or without the paywall, and they think this is the only hope. Though it's only been on for a few months, maybe they think it needs more time to prove itself.