skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the tips. If you look in the README on the code, you'll see that two of those actually fall under stuff I'm currently working on. Also, I'll add that date format shortly.
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>It doesn't matter if you're "standing up" to some other kid. Violence is violence.

Self-defense and unprovoked violence are two entirely different things. The law recognizes this and so do most sentient beings.
Did this ever work? I can't see how it wouldn't be using the public Facebook API, which doesn't normally include contact's email (not even your own email).
How do you know that? Have any links?
"managers have been asked to begin to make the tough decisions on who stays and who goes" -- As a former Y!, my suggestion, get rid of the managers keep the doers.
Dvorak is not a good tech journalist. His "criticisms" are no better than the ravings of your cranky senile neighbor who hasn't been satisfied with anything in the world since WWI started (indeed, he may be that cranky senile neighbor depending on where you live).
Awesome. This is a great meetup in NYC. Would love to see the later ones I missed.
It is an easy trap to fall into. Nick and I have often caught ourselves going "Well it's going to be super awesome once everyone's on it."

There are tons of systems that would be super awesome if user acquisition wasn't a problem ;). It's not a coincidence that getting users is usually the hard part.
> I'd argue that btrfs is not a product, but part of their support for the Linux platform.

Which makes the whole thing even more likely: they can provide the same amount of support by porting ZFS to Linux.
Brian Chesky from AirBnB offers up a bunch of great examples in this talk from Startup School.

http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383
The "glorification of violence" is too intellectual a concern. It's an idea balancing precariously at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

It's unfortunate that violence is sometimes necessary in school, but it is because bullying isn't taken seriously by the administration. Bullies spend all their time making trouble, so they get good at doing psychological damage and flying under the radar of authority. But the damage they are doing is potentially severe. Bullies usually have severe problems at home, and I feel bad for them, but they mustn't be allowed to spread their self-loathing virally by means of systematic low-grade abuse to anyone who is an easy target (ie. the weird ones, the free thinkers, the people who don't conform, and thus are more likely to bring something new to the world when they grow up).

If administrators took this more seriously and started expelling these kids, then that would get the attention of their deadbeat parents, and violence would not be necessary. However in reality, school is like prison, and sometimes violence is the answer.
I always appreciate when companies do this. They build social capital ahead of major outages. This is something I try to keep in mind when helping other people or working on my projects - How can I take care of people so they don't need to worry about whether I am taking care of them or not.
It's sort of embarrassing this is the number one story on hacker news. Especially since it's 6 weeks old and was already posted before, and mostly seems fabricated. It reads like some fat kid ender's game revenge fantasy. I guess maybe this is what happens in white suburban schools? Cuz fights in the schools where I used to teach math would end up with kids in the hospital or dead. Or, I guess I don't really know, because both parties would both never come back to school.

I guess if Bobby Bully is putting beans in your pants you can try your karate kid routine on him. Maybe Eye of The Tiger will start playing and after you make him cry by ballet kicking him in the nose you and Elisabeth Shue can go share a milkshake at Pop's and then make out at the drive in. But in real life Jesus and Jose and their 20 cousins and homies just show up after school and steal all your clothes, your bike, your money and throw you into the dumpster.

I guess I don't ever really believe these stories, because whenever i've seen someone fight back it just turned into a drawn out war, not some fairytale DeGrassi afterschool special outcome where the bully "learned his place"
FWIW, when you're in the keyboard business like Logitech, a standard layout simplifies logistics, software development, and potentially reduces SKU's.

And who can predict all the ways people will use their HDTV's, DVR's, DVD's and PC's in the future.

BTW, capslock facilitates one handed typing while eating a BLT.
If you were to include all the books in a single email, you may potentially have kilometric emails. What I plan to do is implement an option to receive links to the archived newsletters (aka posts). I may also make the option of subscribing via feed more prominent (it's never going to be the focus of the site, but some people dislike the idea of a newsletter).
I assume you're talking about the US? I'm Canadian. The UK seems to have a lot more street violence and hooliganism than we have here.
It does crack me up that people think being nice to a bully will work. They realize that bullies act out of misery due to self esteem issues, but they think one high school kid, who the bully sees as a helpless victim, saying something like "I value you as a person" is going to turn around the bully's self esteem.

Humans don't work that way. Years of ingrained low self worth take years of effort to correct. Going Joe Pesci on one of them works in minutes.
Fuck this.

I'm not a violent person. I never have been and never will be. I do not consider it a valid way to solve problems. Reverting to our animal nature is rejecting the progress we have made in our brains overriding unproductive basic survival impulses in favour of smarter solutions.

That's not to say this approach doesn't work. For some people it works perfectly. But hitting back only works if you're stronger than them. Otherwise they'll just kick your ass and things will get worse. And even if it works, all you've done is validate the world view that might makes right.

The world is full of idiots who ruin the lives of others, both at the micro level of domestic abuse and the macro level of dictatorships, because of this principle. It's the law of the jungle, and you know what? We don't live in the fucking jungle any more. We live in a civilized society, where intelligence can triumph over brute strength.

Nobody should know that better than HN, a community of nerds who dream of changing the world one keystroke at a time. I'm disappointed to see how much support there is for this idea.

The smart solution to bullying is to make it socially unacceptable. Kids don't take dumps in the hallways because there's no payoff to doing so. But if you beat up the unpopular kid, you get some credibility. Rob them of that credibility, rob them of their motivation, and you end bullying, without swinging a fist.
No-one's saying 'too small is useless' and '7" is too small'.

The complaint is that 7" is in a no-mans-land between pocketable-and-good-enough and something that justifies being carried in a bag (better for more complex tasks and/or longer sessions).

Gizmodo is arguing that the Galaxy isn't better than a pocketable device, except for reading/browsing/video. But at the point that you're dealing with a secondary unpocketable device, the Galaxy has no advantage over the iPad except weight and Flash support that you wind up leaving disabled by default because it causes usability problems.

So unless flash-based browsing is a must and barely-better content consumption is enough to justify carrying a second device in a bag, it's very hard to make a case for the Galaxy.
Veterans Day - remembering 2 Medal of Honor recipients
Go to variety.com, view source, and search for quant. Notice anything? Compare with other "directly measured" sites like stackoverflow or mahalo.
Your editor should have a "soft tabs" option, which allows you to edit as normal, but two spaces are inserted instead of a tab ('\t').
It would be interesting to know if any of these were denied first by Y Combinator.
I agree with this as it pertains to kids in school. I wish I better knew how to defend myself as a gangly teenager. I fully plan on making sure my son know knows how to defend himself and when it is appropriate to do so.

However, the author goes on to describe attacking people trying to mug him - that's a bit foolhardy I think. Sure, it may work with some people who thought they had an easy mark, others might pull out a knife and gut you. I'm not saying you hug they guy and tell him how swell he is - but for the sake of yourself and anyone that might be with you - just give them your wallet or car or whatever it is. Now if you feel they are going to put you in a situation where you won't be able to defend yourself (they want to cuff you, tie you up, etc) - now you have an argument for going on the offensive.
Sure. But with an ad-driven model, each reader brings in fractions of a penny per visit. With a subscription model, each reader brings in much more (depending on price and visit count, probably several cents per visit).

It might just balance out, a small number of valuable readers versus a large number of low-revenue readers.
"stop watching so much Pure Pwnage"
Initial AngelPad Startups Get Their Wings
> The lapping frequency should be the weight of the cat species, raised to the power of minus one sixth, and multiplied by 4.6.

I wonder how mass^(-1/6) has the same unit as frequency.
It is working intermittently. Apparently this works with hotmail as well because Facebook has a tie up with Microsoft.

http://blog.acousticrenditions.com/2010/01/14/export-faceboo...
I agree with the author. In the meantime, the authorities should be doing something about the bullying themselves. Here's an interesting article about an unusual bullying-reduction program:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/fighting-bul...

And if it works, that's great, and I'm all for it. But while we're waiting, I agree with the author's post.
But you use a mouse on Reddit to select which story from a list to read, comment to expand, upvote etc which the Google remote has, and the Apple remote doesn't.
I firmly believe that earnest efforts to suppress any and all physical violence in schools has created an environment where bullies are able to operate without repercussion.

Good kids don't "fight". It's so ingrained into the head of the good kids that they are terrified of fighting even to defend themselves.

Thus, bullies get to bully with no fear. There's no consequence. Whereas when a weaker kid fights back, even if the bully is strong enough to "win" the battle, he still gets hit in the mouth and does not like it. Bullies much prefer low-hanging fruit that doesn't fight back.

My children, when school age (maybe not 1st grade, but certainly by junior high), will be sat down and have the following explained to them:

"You are allowed to defend yourself. You will avoid physical conflict whenever possible, but should you ever be physically threatened or subject to ongoing torment, you have the GREEN LIGHT to use physical force to protect yourself, OR to assist a friend who is unable to protect themselves."

"You may get in trouble with your school. THIS IS OK. Your well-being is more important than their rules. If you get suspended for three days, then I'll take three days off work and we'll keep up with your studies. I will be on your side. Do not let concern over the school rules stop you at all from defending yourself."

"However, you will never use force to do anything but protect yourself or your friend. If I find that YOU have been the aggressor, I will smite you."

I'll probably need to work on that speech a bit between now and then, but you get the idea. :)

I was lucky. I was never the small or weak one. Even still, I can think back to a couple of situations where fear of parental response prevented me from protecting myself as well as I should have. My children will have it made known to them that they will not be "assumed guilty" when a situation comes up where they physically defend themselves. No aggression towards others will be tolerated, but they will be trusted to properly use their discretion, and until they prove themselves guilty, they will be assumed innocent.
That just depends on whether or not the bully has friends. There were plenty of kids that bullied me in school that, looking back, didn't have some huge posse to back them up.

That said, all of the "I was about to beat up a mob boss in Hong Kong because I'm so cool like that" was over the top (i.e. probably fake).
Pipes: Rewire the web
I don't believe that graph. I'm sure their traffic went down dramatically, but that looks more like a problem with quantcast's tracking than anything else. How could they support the site if it was only getting less than 300 visitors a day?
> 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."

The second one no, but the second one is mostly an exaggeration for "don't be the one who starts fights, but be the one who ends them". Cemetery is probably a bad idea as it'll breed revenge, but going at it until they are physically unable to fight back is probably a good idea.
He predicted that Apple would switch to Itanium processors, they didn't, not even a little bit. This is as wrong as if he had predicted Apple would switch to ARM.

The fact that Apple would have to switch off of the Power architecture for its systems was pretty obvious at the time. The idea that they would switch to Intel processors was not guaranteed but pretty obvious (I predicted it), given Intel/AMD's production volumes and performance characteristics. The idea that they would switch to Itanium was based on false premises and never came to pass.
His response: http://www.27bslash6.com/reddit.html
Yeah, and being bullied kills you inside too, only quickly and with much more duration.

If I could go back and do it all again there'd be two or three more swung fists. Probably no more than that, either, because that's all it would take.

In fact I think this debate would be really different if defending yourself against being bullied actually required sustained violence, but instead rather we're in a world where I can ask "How many people have killed themselves that could have been saved by them instead swinging their fists once?" and get a number probably at least in the thousands.

This isn't just a philosophy debating match; children are dying over this, and a lot more are getting badly hurt.
Unfortunately this is the only one that was recorded. Someone was supposed to record this weeks, but I didn't notice if he actually was, and I haven't heard from him since. I'm going to attempt to record them from now on though.
I thought the same the first time I read it, but this is about a web server, not an http server, i.e. we're talking about the host, not the program receiving and sending data streams.
>The cat laps four times a second — too fast for the human eye to see but a blur

I'm pretty sure that's not true.

I mean, the 4 Hz thing is probably true, but my eyes have little trouble discerning 4 Hz.
So your kid gets beat up. Then your kid beats up the bully. Then the bully comes back with a knife the next day. Or a gun.

Bullying does escalate. Therefore, teaching your kid to escalate on their side as well just makes it happen faster. The solution to escalating warfare is to break the cycle.
I'll look into that, thanks.
> But, stand up and fight them, and they learn a lesson that bullying has some serious consequences.

No. They'll just learn that bullying you has serious consequences, and that they should find an other target.
> The boxing part is untrue.

You're right. Scheme implementations usually have unboxed fixnums and other types. However Scheme systems do not usually support user defined unboxed objects, like C#, C and ML do.

> Tail calls are overrated, maybe you're thinking about continuations? Those would have been truly terrible

I agree, I did mean tail calls. Tail calls may not be so good for programming with, but they are good for compiling to, because you can easily encode your control structures like while, for, until, state machines and more exotic forms of looping to them. You can also compile (parts of) code in continuation passing style without blowing the stack, which is hard to do efficiently if you don't have tail calls.

The reverse is not true, you cannot easily express tail calls on top of the usual control structures like while. This is why Scala and Clojure still don't have support for tail calls.

> Java blows in every way compared to JavaScript. If Netscape had put Java instead of JS into Navigator the web would be a very different place today, because no one would have used it [Java].

I'm not arguing that Java is better than Javascript for programming in. It's just a better target for compilers.

> In 1995? Give me a break, or a time machine.

Do you have any arguments to back up why ML would not be a better IL than JS?

It seems to me that you are arguing that these languages are not better than JS for programming in, but that is not what I claimed.
Hey You Drop the Corporate Speak on Social Media
Put her through martial arts lessons with a good teacher. It's good for self-defense anyway, and I'd never want my daughter to be unprepared to defend herself if she should need to.

Not so that she can beat up the other girls, mind you, but having that sort of discipline, capability, and independence can really provide a good boost to your confidence. You know you're capable, and the taunts of others don't bother you as much.

It's not going to prevent it from bothering her, but it will certainly help her withstand it if it should come to that. If she's not bothered by their initial insults or taunts, they won't enjoy it enough to come back and harass her again.
I guess they believed this too? Or maybe not until too late?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre
Take a look at Coffee Script.
I wonder if this will take next year's Ig Nobel prizes in both veterinary medicine and physics...
11 - Install LAMP
Yes, CV harvesting is still going strong. I think your suspicions are well-founded, even if you're fortunate enough to never have been exploited that way.
Ask HN: Dealing with kids desire for virtual goods
My niece is very much into Webkinz and these days she is having fits about how much she wants to buy a 7$ (real money) wardrobe for her virtual pet cat. She even says she'll pay with her own pocket money.

Of course her parents aren't too trilled about it, they have went out of their way to explain her how its just a way of exploiting her but it doesn't goes through, maybe she is too young to really understand yet. Since it didn't work and I am “the internet knowledgeable person”, they turned to me for advice and I am not sure at all about the best way to deal with the situation and other kids in the family were never in such a situation because these online “communities” only appeared when they were older. Of course the ultimate goal is to be satisfied with the buying choices she make not be a victim of her impulses. There is of course fear that just saying “no way” will make her worse once she is old enough to be free to do what she wants.

I'd say let her buy the thing and she'll realize how much it isn't worth it but I am not sure it will work as she has little other use for the money. Maybe show her how to build her own stuff but I doubt she'll see it as being as cool. Maybe suggest a different online gaming platform that isn’t so much about exploiting the children’s vulnerability. Maybe just cut down the time she spends online so that she develops other interests and get a relative sense of the value.

What do you think? Any suggestions?
> The smart solution to bullying is to make it socially unacceptable.

Sure, the bullied kid — which generally has low sociability, either from the start or following the ostracization coming along with the bullying, and few if any friends — is going to make bullying "socially unacceptable".

That's a very nice feel-good declaration, but it's about as helpful as "smack yourself in the mouth to help them so the beating is shorter"
Nothing's worse than getting to an interview and finding out that you know COBOL from the hiring manager reading it off your resume.

This is true, especially since I do know COBOL...
Often times when data like this appears it is merely exposing a fundamental flaw in the data collection. In this case the random number generator that selects the words would need be be included.

We've seen in the past how even online casinos have problems implementing truly random shuffles: http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph...
"The smart solution to bullying is to make it socially unacceptable."

And until then?
14 - Get a patch accepted to an open source project.

15 - Version your dotfiles and put them up online for others to learn from.

16 - Write and open source a plugin for your favorite text editor.
Where in the MIT license does it say you can't bar redistribution in your proprietary fork? That's obviously what everybody does when they use MIT code in their proprietary products? That's the whole point.
When they stated otherwise, a staff member posted evidence to the contrary - perhaps not the most wise course of action but amusing nonetheless.

amusing nonetheless? How is breaking someones privacy even remotely amusing?
> Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. If they GPL ZFS, they end up risking a major reason people choose Solaris.

Or FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/filesystems-zfs.html
Well. It's not built. Ark Hotel Shell built in 6 days.

But still - WOW!
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I think his technical involvement with Apple started and ended in the 70's, when he helped assemble the Apple I boards that Woz designed. I don't know if he's ever coded. I found a video once of him demonstrating NextSTEP, but it stops right before he's about to demonstrate the programming environment, so I don't know if he even demoed that part or got someone who could code to do it.

What he has done personally is some of the design; he's listed on the design patents for the glass staircase at one of the main Apple stores, and personally designed one of the glass cubes.
Probably has more to do with the parents. Kids that end up as bullies don't come from extremely loving and/or close-knit households (for the most part). The parents will likely put up a huge, "You're picking on my kid; don't tell me how to raise my kid" type argument.

> Sidenote: Why is this behavior (bullying)
> tolerated in school? What other part of our
> culture accepts bullying as "part of growing
> up" or "just the way it is?"

There is a huge, "I went through it and survived and so will you"/"I had to endure it and so do you"/"it builds character"/etc attitude that extends beyond bullying (or even the education system).
While I appreciate that there are some people upset by these minor delivery issues, I can assure you that the plan was not to steal 116 people's $22.95 and live like a king.

Some people were upset about "minor" delivery issues, but now more people are upset about staff posting personal information online.
17- Get some sleep