skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that it's on the rise. I haven't studied hard data on the issue enough to really make a statement like this, but personally I suspect that other changes in society have left kids less able to deal with bullying, and that's why it's prominence in the media is on the rise. There are so many diagnoses of mental and emotional illnesses, medications to fix them, etc... I think the prominence of things like this just teaches kids that it's not their problem, it's just a "syndrome" they suffer from. While some of it may be true, we've lost a sense of how to "deal with it". I think that spills over into how people deal with bullying. They can't handle the fact that they're being bullied, and that ends up pushing them in the direction of suicide, which I think is horrible. (I mean no disrespect to the families of those who have recently been through this). I don't think bullying has gone up, but I think children are now being raised in an environment where they haven't learned to deal with their problems head on.

I was bullied a ton as a kid, and I was always told to "tell and adult", or just ignore it, but this guy is right - there are some bullies who want to hurt you, and you ignoring it or telling and adult just makes them want to hurt you even more. I learned to change the way I did some things so as not to attract the attention of bullies, etc... and solve some problems non-violently, but there absolutely was a time when I had to have enough of a back-bone to make a solid decision about when enough was enough. That fixed the remaining problems - but I still look back at that as an experience I could have solved much sooner if I had just been smarter about it. The bullies shouldn't have done what they did, but it was my problem and I needed to deal with it.
When are we going to stop grouping a million tools under the "NoSQL" moniker? By this standard, BerkeleyDB is NoSQL, it's a meaningless term. Redis is nothing like MongoDB, for example, yet they're lumped together.

PostgreSQL has a lot more in common with MySQL than redis and Couch...
This is wrong.

But son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you, they’ve crossed a line. Fuck them up. It’s the only thing these vicious freaks understand. They’re wild animals. They make violence on you, you need to show them that you’re the stronger, bigger animal. When someone attacks you maliciously for no reason, you need to impose your will on them.

All unwelcome contact is considered to be enemy contact, and nuclear retaliation is offered as the solution.

And yet not all contact is roughhousing, not all roughhousing is bullying, and not all bullying justifies maximum retaliation. Of course, implicit in this advice is the ability to distinguish how offensive or aggressive an unwanted contact actually is, and to measure one's response appropriately...exactly the sort of thing kids (usually) learn by experience, but (frequently) miss when receiving knowledge transmissions from a trusted moral authority.

This is not an argument for pacifism or passivity: I am well aware that not all aggressive people secretly want to be loved or are just having difficulty making polite conversation. I was a small child and remain a fairly small adult; I've been bullied (in school) and attacked by various street criminals (as an adult) - more than most people, I'd guess. I dislike fights and haven't started one since age 8 or so, but I will finish one if it is forced upon me, and also enjoy non-competitive martial arts (ie fighting with other students for enjoyment of skill rather than pursuit of belts).

Going all-out in response to attack is a poor strategy, rooted in fear rather than confidence. It may not be appropriate in the first place; indeed, bullies and criminals frequently exhibit a victim mentality and complain that the target of their aggression 'made them do it.' Overlooking this factor assures that sooner or later a person will end up wondering how s/he ended up being the bad gal/guy - if not for physical fighting, then in an employment or domestic context. Secondly, it may not be necessary: the aim of self-defense is to end the confrontation and deter future attacks, and most attacks are experimental or opportunistic. Such opponents will quickly fold in face of equivalent resistance, and often when confronted with far less (eg a push in response to a punch). Violently revenging your hurt feelings, rather than merely defending your hurt person, forces your attacker into defending themselves with an least an equivalent degree of fervor. You win by holding your ground and seeing your opponent quit; to withholding this option is to rob yourself of your own victory. No outcome that takes place under duress yields certainty to the immediate beneficiary. Thirdly, if your attacker is serious and dangerous, then going all-out can be quite dangerous. Such moves are more apparent and less calculated, and an experienced opponent can easily exploit this to use your own strength against you.

Having been on both ends of this equation, I feel comfortable in saying that the person who loses their temper will lose any resulting fight too. Conflicts are mental problems, to which the physical aspects are often only a footnote.
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

- Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz)

http://startupquote.com/post/1547316039
It presumably makes sense for Bing to buy ads on any keyword that leads to a profitable customer acquisition opportunity.
Not sure what you mean by Objective-J being too far out. Objective-J is much closer and "interoperable" with JS than CoffeeScript because it is a strict superset of JavaScript (in other words, all JavaScript is also Objective-J). Practically what this means is that any existing JS works alongside Objective-J with no changes whatsoever, the syntaxes do not "collide". The difference between ObjJ and JS are comparable to ECMAScript 2 and 5 (additions of new features and keywords)
Realistically, I don't think the point is to make the bully stop bullying, or even to win a fight. The point is to convince him to find an easier target.
When was the last time you went to Turkey and where? I'm interested.

I spend a fair bit of time in Istanbul, and I can categorically tell you the hijab made a comeback some time ago. There are two main ways it's worn - one is a classical cultural style and the other is more of a political statement. It's the latter that's coming back in fashion, mainly due to the actions of the current political party in power.
> he'll guard his nuts next time he's got you in a headlock.

Which weakens the headlock and leaves something else vulnerable (unless he's got three arms).
Both of them were tremendous beneficiaries of the Marshall Aid plan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Aid_to_Asia

I know that US bashing is popular, but the US has in the past done tremendously generous things for the world.
I actually am pretty in-the-dark about the UX of the Kinect and how it works with the Xbox. I don't have a Kinect myself yet, for example. I have an Xbox but haven't turned it on in several months, mainly because it's so loud (like, helicopter loud. Are newer Xboxen quieter?). I'm not much of a gamer, other than Portal and Katamari a few years ago. I've yet to watch an episode of Oprah, either. :)

I do hope that the Kinect cost of materials is low enough that MSFT doesn't lose money on each Kinect they sell. But I have to think that the tinkerer/maker community is much smaller than the mass market for video gamers. My guess is that Kinect purchases for Linux will be a barely blip on MSFT's radar.
Build your own web server. :)

Bonus points if you hack the hardware together in the most power-efficient way. Or as small as possible. Or pretty. Or if it makes coffee too.
I know I've debated with another HNer on this. I like the smaller 3.5" lcd (nexus one, iphone) because I can use it to go workout, and let it fit in my jeans without poking out. I consider anything bigger to be more of a "purseable" phone.

I'm happy I bought a used nexus one instead this week. I'd only want this phone if they improved the camera optics and sold it with pentaband 3G. I'm in the niche "traveler without a point-and-shoot camera" market though.
- Make a clone of steve jobs
1. Draw some ideas out on paper, and work out the minimal viable feature set.
I try and convince all clients to do this, that way we can get something out
the door ASAP, and then take a breather before adding the remaining features.
It also gives them more time to think their ideas through; the amount of
features a client has decided against a few weeks later is pretty
unbelievable. Before I started following the MVP way with clients, I very,
very rarely got any requests for features to be *removed*. As a developer,
it's just as much my job to keep the client's applications lean and
bloat-free, as it is to actually write the code, I think.

2. Use Balsamiq mockups to neatly replicate what I've drawn and make
adjustments (this step could be skippable, but it only takes 10 minutes
generally, so it's nice to have. I would get Draft for iPad or something,
but I find it a little *too rough*, especially when working with clients.)

3. Create the design in Photoshop, rarely pixel perfect, I just use it as a
supped-up Balsamiq, to get a feel for the design.

4. Create a Rails or Sinatra base, depending on the complexity of the project.
For a Rails project, I git clone http://github.com/ashleyw/Slate

5. Write some Cucumber features, referring to any notes or drawings I made in
step #1

6. Design the model structure, write some unit tests for them, and then
implement each model until the tests pass

7. Once I have a model basis, I move on to the controllers and views (HAML),
going by the Cucumber features I wrote until they pass. Semantic markup is
important here, but styling is not.

8. Replicate the Photoshop design in CSS (or SASS)

9. Launch

10. Reiterate adding features which didn't fit into the initial version
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gfz3dS3...

For those wondering what the Economist site runs on, the error message is:

Pressflow

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What keyboard is that, by the way? I've heard there are some good options in that area, but I find Swype fantastic to type with.
Bizzy Launches Local Recommendation Engine
It could be argued that he is the exception that proves the rule. He did something great, but he did not start Linux, the company, and make billions. Also - Linux would be useless without the GNU project - which is arguably very American.
I think this is new-age-feel-good bologna. Children do not have a voice and control over the world, to pretend they do would be disingenuous and I'm not sure what value there is in pretend they do or giving them control. Most adults don't even have a voice and control over the world. I'm not a strong supporter of violence but I think it is unreasonable to think you can "Hey buddy, let's be friends" your way out of every situation.
that sounds bad. but the US is nowhere near 200% GDP public debt. and has the world's reserve currency which is a key thing Japan did not have.
Even the intro clearly shows it going much farther inland than the coast where Shanghai is located.
Maybe thats the most efficient amount without getting in each others way, the faster they complete this structure the faster they can move to the next. I'd assume over there they don't have many problems staffing a 24/7 worksite.
The book that I cited up there in my huge post actually lays out a pretty compelling argument that it even works within capitalism.

IP is a pretty new concept. Things have worked really well for a long time without it.
Seattle TechStars co buys company created at Startup Weekend
well it would very much depend on 4 Hz of what. It's really easy to notice flickering white light at 4 Hz but it's alot harder to see something that moves a long distance back an forth at 4 Hz.
Can't wait to give it a shot.
How is that worse than if you'd had to pay for the whole app up-front? Your argument seems to be against paying at all, not against paying for additional features.
Parents can't be there for there kids 24/7. On top of that plenty of parents simply don't care. Their kid is a trouble maker and they've (sadly) grown to accept it. You might say that's a systemic problem that we need to fix, and my reply is "good luck".
Worse is Better doesn't quite fit here. WiB is about getting a "basically right" prototype out, and then improving it with real world feedback, rather than waiting forever to have a perfect 1.0.

With Javascript, unfortunately, it didn't work out so well - a bunch of early bugs (which could have been quickly fixed) were preserved when Microsoft made a bug-compatible clone for IE, and then became part of the ECMAScript standard in 1996. This derailed efforts to improve the language - there is a lot of work on sophisticated implementations now, but the spec itself is buggy.

People invoke "Worse is Better" as retroactive justification for all kinds of engineering blunders, but it's a bit more limited in scope. Here you go: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Adding context:

AOL's Techcrunch claims that AOL's competitor Yahoo is performing poorly and may lay off people.

(as an aside, TC's amazing ability at tanking Yahoo's stock price makes buying Techcrunch a really smart move by AOL)
(I know, twas just a joke... my first exposure to BASIC was on an apple IIe(?) in 7th grade.)
Ask HN: Semantic Web good intro
I'd presume that the 4.6 has some units attached to it that the reporter missed. (Which unfortunately is important since we're given no other indication what units of mass are to be used.)

1/6 sort of makes sense though. Mass is directly proportional to volume, and it's probably the length of the tip of the tongue which is important, so there's a cube root right there. Throw in a square root for good measure (those tend to show up in physics problems) and invert it since the frequency presumably decreases w/r/t mass and you're at mass^-1/6.
Matt poses the idea of using two or more Kinects at the same time to reconstruct a true 3D-view of the room. But when I watch the video and see how a Kinect determines depth -by projecting infrared light dots- I have my doubt wether this will work. I suspect the the two Kinects will interfere with eachother.
The site was 503'ing for me. Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R1K0HwG...
Ask HN: Thoughts on Sass
Anyone using Sass in production? Do you love it? Hate it? I'm thinking of implementing in a project but I don't want to end up making a bad decision. Thoughts on Sass?
Ironically, it's a marketing problem.
That's what we did. All customers got an email saying they automatically received credit...as opposed to an email where they needed to click a link to claim their credit.
Given current events, I'm surprised this wasn't about the TSA.
I like how they worked straight through the night. In fact, they work around the clock on many infrastructure projects, including roads. It shows that they want to get things done fast.

I wish they would do that in America more often. Wouldn't things get built faster and employ more people if they worked around the clock?
I'd like to hope that the Go performance improved, but I doubt it. My guess is that Go wastes most of its time in memory management and in goroutine scheduling, and I don't think either of those have improved significantly in the last year. I could be wrong, though.
Coming from a larger geek here. In many cases the threat stops immediately but it doesn't change the nature of the abuse. I had other kids hit me in the face and run away. If I pursued them I was the bully. So I was left with two options; pursue and be the monster, or get used to being hit unexpectedly.

With all the highlighting of bullying recently, it's reminds me that there could easily be a different dynamic here. Kids are smart and adapt to rules. If they can control someone with accusations of bullying, they will do so. Remember that being a bully isn't about size it's about abusive intent.
'Shanghai' was likely stated to make it more easily place-able in the mind of the reader.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1765682
Yahoo Query Language
I have always been pleased with Netflix as a customer. Adding instant watch at no additional charge was something I really admired as well when they first rolled it out.
That's not reality. It's actually more deceptive than the original phrasing, because it assumes that there are a roughly equal number of freemium and purely paid apps and that entry into the top-grossing list is a matter of probability based on the initial purchase price. These assumptions seem very likely to be false in a way that favors paid apps.

If you want to argue that the freemium business model offers worse odds, you need to measure the percentage of freemium apps that make it onto the list versus the percentage of paid apps (and if you want your argument to be really credible, there are other factors you'd need to take into account as well).
Should Mein Kampf be sold?
> It's pretty much Silicon Valley that is still
> keeping the US in the game.

While there may be some truth to it, I think that statement is a bit bold.
It doesn't take 30 minutes to prepare food. In less than 30 minutes I can do:

A stir fry with noodles

Kedgeree

Steak Frites

Blackened Chicken, cajun beans and rice

Moules Mariniere

An incredible range of salads the likes of which would convince you you're not eating something incredibly healthy

Almost any soup

A dry Indian Chicken Garam Masala-based curry

As an example, take cheese on toast. I use cheddar on mine, you might not have it as easily available. Get some cheddar, cut four small slices, toast either side of the bread lightly, stick the cheese on, turn the heat down and melt for five minutes. All good stuff but plain. On the other hand, put some cumin in, or coriander, or garlic salt, onion granules, rosemary and thyme. Completely different.

Take some tinned tuna, stick it in a bowl. Add paprika, cayenne pepper, a squeeze of tomato puree, a couple of teaspoons of mayonnaise, a teaspoon of mustard, basil (I think it's cilantro in US English) and dried coriander. Mix it all up. You can eat it straight like that, you can boil up a bit of rice and mix it in, you can pour it onto toast, you can stick it in the oven with lightly crushed plain potato chips and cheese on top for 15 minutes, you can boil up some pasta and mix it in, you can mix it in a salad, you can put it in a sandwich or you can make 4 times as much, stick it in an air tight tub and put it in the fridge, then you have enough for a week.

Here's another one that's cheap and has hardly any washing up. Get two round cobs of bread, slice the top off and hollow them out, tear up the bread you pulled from inside into small pieces, wet the underside of the cob slightly with water and put the cobs in a warm oven for 2-5 minutes.

Get some soup, any soup but nice soup is better, spring onion or vegetable soup better still and warm it up. Pour it into the cob once warm. Have the soup using the top slice as a spoon and hollowed out bread bits as dipping chunks, then eat the cob when you're finished if you're still hungry. Don't forget to fill the pan you heated the soup with up with water when it's empty, it's the only thing you have to wash. I do this as an entree with a leek and stilton soup, it takes about two or three times to perfect but it's definitely a great starter when you're inviting someone over for dinner.
Yes, Mozilla's security does have a font fuzzer (along with the JavaScript fuzzer and DOM fuzzer that have been instrumental in finding security holes before the bad guys do):

http://www.squarefree.com/2010/07/14/fuzzing-talk-at-the-moz...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/Downloadable_Fonts_Secur...
I wonder how many people don't redeem the credit. Those who didn't have an issue might feel guilty doing it but happy to know that Netflix cares enough to inform it's entire base.
- Create an editor.

- Create an os in the language you designed above.
You'd have to pose them to be non-overlapping. You could probably have a bash at trying to unravelling overlapping projections but I doubt you'd have much luck. Although with two of them you could maybe do a first pass active stereo - but I don't think you can get access to the low level IR camera output anyway.
I would have assumed the list would be numbered in binary ;-)
I really think that while what you say is true in certain circumstances, in my "suburban school" when bullies finally have to defend themselves, they often stop after bullying that fight. Some people respond differently to violence, but I think if I ever have kids I'd prefer not to live somewhere that I have to worry continuously about "Jesus and Jose and their 20 cousins and homies" pilfering, assault or worse to a future child over a few bruises.
Zhuge is indeed a weird Chinese surname. So he'd have two surnames? At the same time Zhuge Liang was a great military strategist, which I'm sure you'd make clear to him.
How to use hand written notes to connect with users & recruit advisors
I was actually wondering about that - thank you for the specificity of which approach to take instead.
OK, don't use the "bad parts."

That's what I try to do, which turns it into a crippled Ruby. And there's no getting around it silently doing the wrong thing if I ever forget a "var" or "===".
#OldSkoolMarketingFTW
dvorak is a troll
GNU is very anti-capitalism.

RMS talks about valuing "community and freedom" over "features". That's pretty much what the "communism" ideal is all about, right?

Not saying GNU is communist, that's very taboo, but the ideals and motivation are definitely not "very American".
That's really the case in all of South-East Asia. I lived in Singapore for two years where you'd see a full crew on all major construction projects throughout the night. The only time that was really "off" was Sunday night, and even then there were skeleton crews working on this and that. Same was true most everywhere I traveled: Malaysia, Indo, HK, etc.
Click through to YouTube for the explanation in the notes - they don't work through the night:

"to explain the video in detail: 48 hours of construction time is the accrued time of construction. workers rest after 10pm everyday. As you may see on the left corner the clicker registers 46 hours﻿ as time to finish the main structural components, and another 90 hours to finish the building enclosure. For a building of this size a conventional approach would take anywhere from 3 months to anything goes."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0DSihggio&feature=playe...
Concurrently uninstalling all ruby gems in a tweet
I will agree the author sounds like he is living in fantasy land, but, fighting back can and does work. I was a picked on band nerd in middle school, and finally snapped on two kids who pushed me around after school. I knocked one out with my clarinet case to his head and got in a tumble with the other. I wasn't bothered after that, even though I was still the same annoying easy to pick on personality. There was no outright war either, which I doubt happens except in the most undisciplined urban settings...
They might as well have said 'China.'
Property damage can serve one purpose: getting the school administrators to care about the situation. The school administrators I've met have never given a damn about bullying, but they care quite a lot about not being inconvenienced. Property damage is inconvenient.

I'm not sure how getting the administration involved would help the situation, but I suppose it might.