skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a joke that I don't get?
Life would be so much easier if that were always true.

But sometimes, the first real move in a relationship is a kiss, which comes fairly much out of the blue.

Context is everything.
Erbix launched the first server-side JavaScript Marketplace (https://secure.erbix.com/marketplace). The apps and libraries within the first apps developed by Erbix team are GPLed. They also use many other open source libraries (check out the source code and app descriptions).

There's virtually no proprietary library in Erbix. The backend Single-Sign-On module will be launched openly soon.

Virtually any open sourced app on Erbix Marketplace will run on RingoJS as well.
I don't think most bacteria can even live outside of their "controlled environment". Like those in your gut or skin etc. So not sure what that means.
New official domain: http://wikileaks.ch/

Source: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10621623082156033
So....girl writes a blog that is half blog, half glamour photo shoot, and is obviously trading on her appearance. Fine, it's a free country, work an advantage if you've got it. She openly admits in the "about" section of her blog that she has all of one year of experience. Then girl is shocked, just shocked, when business professionals don't take her seriously and are only interested in one thing. A superficial girl (with little experience, to boot) running into a bunch of superficial men.

Hmmm....
By definition, after hours parties are not professional. That's why they're after hours and parties.

If women can't flirt in those environs, we're doomed as a species. Unless you want to go trolling at dance clubs?
This was posted a long time ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644218
They would NEVER tear it down. Its value is in its close proximity to so many other networks. I would guess single digit milleseconds to Wall Street (certain trading firms care), along with interconnections to many mobile operators networks, VOIP providers, etc.

They will want the current tenants to stay, so that Google will have top-shelf speed to all their customers' networks at a low cost.
An interesting question would be if those men which did the wrong thing were regulars to these conferences or new to the scene? From similar things I have been to I just couldn't imagine a community in which the core regulars would have anyone doing these kinds of things.
Upvote for catching this, and I'm editing my post to be clearer, but: there's a world of difference between harmless flirting and attending a conference where the company hires strippers.
And check out the abstract of the linked work:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1573308

shin_lao's certainly wrong that the author 'seems to forget'. That topic is the entire focus of his research, that the euro hasn't reduced barriers to trade, they had already been reduced before.
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Heh.. beat me too it. To say JavaScript isn't used in gaming is crazy. Probably 2nd most popular scripting language, after LUA.
It is the "best of <year>" time again. I found this list disappointing. Is this really the best of the best for 2010? Maybe this list is evidence that not only do people no longer read much, but significant thinkers don't write much any more. Depressing, IMHO.
Plenty of people make every effort to understand what they mean - but it doesn't work so well when the woman is saying one thing and lacing it with tons of subtext that say something else.
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People who hold cash != savers.

Plenty of people with significant equity in their home still have negative cash positions for most of their lives regardless of the amount of money they save. On the other hand people that short stock can have significant cash holdings without saving anything.
WSJ obit gives the impression that he really, really wanted to see it used.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870399490457564...
I object to the TDD fundamental precept that you code to the tests. That narrows the 'testing' until its a self-fulfilling prophecy that you will have 'fewer bugs', since you defined the bugs as 'what we're looking for'.

Reminds me of the old joke "A: I'm looking for my wallet. B: where did you lose it? A: over there. B: then why look here? A: the light's better"
It's actually a whole range of addresses 213.251.145.96 - 213.251.145.111

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/12/03/wikileaks-moves...
A party isn't a "sexualized environment". An orgy is. Let's be perfectly clear that there's a huge difference between the two. People go to parties for all sorts of reasons.

Look guys, women flirt to signal interest. You can never assume anything more than that is intended. It's not fair to them and you'll look foolish (or worse) if you go too fast.
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RingoJS is not slow. We use it in the Erbix backend, running a separate Rhino/RingoJS engine for each account. It's really stable, fast, multi-threaded.

We use it in conjunction with PostgreSQL JDBC driver, serving large source code files, rendering templates written in JavaScript, static files upload/download, etc.

http://www.erbix.com is an Erbix app running on a standard Erbix account.
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I think your Summary: should be replaced with Conclusion Drawn:
>Why are people always writing these types of posts? .NET/VS.NET is one of the best programming environments ever engineered, no need to bash Microsoft on that.

People write these kinds of posts all the time. You see more of them on sites like this because people who tend to dislike and put down Microsoft and feel good about their choice constantly upvote this kind of posts.

Stackoverflow is a example of a site which shows off that C#/.NET done in a proper way is a very platform.
Kudos! But this should have been done long ago.
'Doing social media' isn't necessarily bullshit. For example, it could be useful for a large company to know what's being said about them on Twitter -- maybe even to respond -- and it's not necessarily clear whose job that would be... except for the person who does social media?
Brought the passes on herself?

Yep, she did. But that is not a blame on the victim.

If you wander round flirting with people they are going to make passes at you. She admits this, and seems fine with it. There is nothing wrong with wandering round being flirty, there is nothing wrong with guys taking that as a signal to make a pass at her.

Feeling her up after being rejected definitely is wrong.
Very first sentence of AWS Service Terms:

1. Universal Service Terms (Applicable to All Services)
1.1. You may only use the Services to store, retrieve, query, serve, and execute Your Content that is owned, licensed or lawfully obtained by you.

http://aws.amazon.com/serviceterms/

I'm not a fan, but they made those terms for a reason. This is simply Amazon enforcing the rules that they set in place a long time ago. Wikileaks should have read the terms before they signed up.
WikiLeaks.org domain killed by US
Simple. Effective.
I won't agree that it looks dumpy, but it certainly doesn't look modern, or in any way similar to the Googleplex. Of course, that's nearly everything in New York. Many think that's a plus...
Issue 10562: Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'
I know it's highly subjective but I found Forza 3 to be really bad compared to GT5. It feels like your car is "on rails" with no sensation of speed. GT5 Prologue felt a bit like this too (and was rather flawed generally), but they seem to have fixed it in GT5 along with most physics issues. I note my bias though: I'm a massive GT fan and have owned every one ;-)

All that said, I'd actually support Legion's advice. For someone who doesn't really care much either way, a 360 is a better bet and Forza 3 is OK if you like a more arcadey experience (though I'd just get Project Gotham Racing 4 instead - it's far better if you like it arcadey, I got many hours out of it).
Poor wording on my part; I wasn't alluding to the burden of proof, just to the notion unrelated parties have of the Pentagon Papers as a legal precedent.
I love how the premise is to not click- but to get started you have to... click.
That feed doesn't update when the article is published. That's what i was trying to say. Anyway, its not that important to get real time. Oh, the signs of my urge to be informed under the influence of real-time web.
If you'd like something smack bang in between arcadey/fun but with just enough realism to make it interesting, Project Gotham Racing 4 is hard to beat IMHO (and it's super cheap now!)
Am I missing something? "... 300-500 ad impressions per day ..." but that's the new app sales per day not the total number of users. If only there was some way to find the area under the sales curve then we could find the total number of users.
And the strippers aren't even at the party for sex.
Why the First Amendment Won't Necessarily Protect WikiLeaks
I agree that it is very easy for this to lead to a bad situation for customers. But that subsidizing model still applies. You know how much it costs to connect a cable line to a house? That wiring costs 100s-1000s of dollars per house (why FioS went to apartment buildings first). Of course the end users are getting subsidies.
"The offering is being closely watched as a barometer of the Manhattan real estate market."

Does anyone know the Manhattan real estate market? is 1.9 B a steal?
And sometimes we aren't as intelligent as we think we are.

On the phone with my home DSL service provider tech support, I was sure that the modem had been fried in an electrical storm (and, in fact, it had been). But they made me go through the standard script of stuff to check first, starting with unplugging the modem from the phone-line jack and plugging it back in. I did so, killing the conversation with tech support, as the phone was plugged into the modem...
The lack of interdisciplinary collaboration is one of the major flaws of the US university system (I can't speak to other countries). The grad students I knew each had a specific toolkit that they had learned in their field but there was little or no sharing of those toolkits from domain to domain. That is unfortunate. Of particular importance in today's world are a toolkit of mathematical techniques (calculus, statistics, differential equations are probably the top three categories) and a category of basic programming skills (the ability to automate routine number crunching in particular, maybe "scripting" is a more appropriate word than "programming" - even recording and writing macros in Excel VB would go a long way).
I'm not sure. I was at 60 WPM at age 16 according to Mavis Beacon and steadily increased over the last decade. IRC was my training program. :)

I do not even type correctly and I have had no formal training. I only use three fingers on each hand (index, middle and ring) and my right pinky finger to press Shift. I actually press the spacebar with my right index finger and occasionally my left thumb.

Sorry that I can't accurately answer your question!
Strange Loop inteview: Brian Marick on Test Maintenance [video]
Another good article is over at CSS Tricks and has an accompanying screencast. Between the NetTuts and CSS Tricks articles, you should have a good starting base for screencasting.

http://css-tricks.com/screencasting-setup/
http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/63-on-screencasting/
"ship shit" I'm going to add this to my bucket of phrases like "don't worry be crappy" , "fail fast and often" etc.
Depends on what you mean by a "pass".

Asking a woman if you can kiss her may feel hard, but looking back on my single teenage years, that's a whole lot easier than "going for a kiss".
It's a lame mix of actual techniques, design opinion and random trends.It's a shame how How-to's are more popular than design theory and psychology on design blogs."Offer personalization options" has nothing to do with "User Interface" it is "UX" not "UI".
In a weird sneaker-net way we have implemented a human DNS
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In that case, the author of the article is also wrong. There are no public sex acts, so open source conferences are similarly not sexualized environments.
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This is a great sign of growth for tech in NYC. It's a beautiful building and I hope it gives Google a chance to expand their operations in the city. Here's the website for the building if anyone is interested: http://www.111eighth.com
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> The concept of click-less browsing is interesting and might have some potential.

I sure hope not. Anyone who builds click-less based sites had better be prepared to lose all mobile users, or develop two entirely separate front-ends.

Clicks are important. They're not going anywhere.
He also promised to take a principled stand against torture and to close Guantanomo, and restore due process; before being elected.
Since being elected, none of those things have happened, and he has come out in favour of assassinating US Citizens living abroad without any judicial process whatsoever (The Al-Awliki case).

So the failure of Obama to publicly condemn Lieberman's petty campaign of censorship and crude threats against Amazon is not at all surprising.
Excellent concept. Great execution.
I agree. I've just met the RingoJS developers at the RingoJS meetup in Vienna. Very impressed!

The RingoJS/Helma team should make it more clear about how committed they are to the development of future RingoJS libraries. RingoJS will benefit from more contributors but it's doing just fine already.

Use the discussions group to find out more: http://groups.google.com/group/ringojs.
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To clarify, if you're flirting with someone, yes they may flirt back and perhaps "make a pass" at you. In this case however, she was not flirting with this guy. Just because someone is flirting with other people, does not make them open to flirting with you. If they wanted to be flirting with you, they would be already.

Someone being flirtatious with others is not a green light for you to make a pass. Not if they're not flirting with you. Even then, there's still plenty of nuance and context which would determine whether that's acceptable.
Therapy will always seem extreme even as clinical anxiety disorders affect 40 million Americans. That's why less than 2 million of those will get adequate treatment.

Guys, be good friends and ask for advice. Talk about dating and your difficulties. Your friends in relationships can really help. Just avoid the guys who speak badly of women. They're also a big part of the problem.
WikiLeaks as a Preview of All-Out Cyberwar
The fact you personally didn't receive any unwanted advances is not proof that they never happen.
Excellent Khrushchev quote in the article:

> Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev called the neutron bomb the
> ultimate capitalist weapon, built “to kill a man in such a way that his
> suit will not be stained with blood, in order to appropriate the suit.”

Khrushchev is an extremely interesting figure in Soviet history; the Wikipedia article on him makes for some great reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
Ireland faces a situation of genuine societal collapse. The unemployment, lack of social services, etc. affect everyone regardless of who is a saver or not. I'm advocating that in a dire situation the best course of action be taken. In Ireland's case that would be devaluing the currency. There is too much public debt and raising taxes, lowering pay are not viable solutions.
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There's a lot of talk about this in the hacker world. The reality is that some kinds of "different" are seen as just fine, and others have major social consequences.

If you're a guy, try wearing hot pink jeans and shoes, a lavender femme-looking unisex top, and nail polish to a tech conference and see how the other guys react. It's eye-opening.
I think this is a misconception. AFAIK, the neutron bombs that were built (by the USA, at least), still had yields similar to that of the Hiroshima bomb, or 10-20 kilotons. As the article points out, Cohen's idea was to have a smaller explosive yield, but we never accomplished that. So in reality, the infrastructure still would have been significantly damaged.

I think Cohen may have had the right idea in mind, though. Lots of people seem to think the idea of the neutron bomb is "we can kill all of them and then move into their houses!", but what was the last war the USA fought with the serious goal of attaining land? The Spanish-American war? I think Cohen honestly believed that in a war it would be better to just quickly kill all the people who would inevitably die anyway, hopefully quickly ending the war. Then the survivors could get on with rebuilding, and if their infrastructure required less rebuilding, well, even better. Obviously not waging a nuclear war at all was the best option, but who in the 1960's really thought we'd make it to 2010 without a nuclear exchange?

One thing Cohen probably didn't consider in his "moral weapon" argument, although in hindsight it's another bonus, is that a nuclear war waged through low-yield weapons would cause less dust to be kicked up and smaller fires, ultimately preventing the "nuclear winter" that others predict from a full-scale nuclear war. So if the USA and USSR blew themselves up, nations elsewhere (esp. southern hemisphere nations) would experience significantly less environmental damage.
Hammered? Hell, I'd be barfing halfway through.
Yet, it is still true that DB holds a lot of Greek and Irish debt. If Ireland and Greece fail to pay this back then there will be severe problems for Germany even though they are small countries.
With sound money management, this whole thing could have been avoided..
No dude, this is not the basics. NOT AT ALL!This is a very misleading article. It hardly has anything to do with UI. I am sure if you read articles on http://uxmatters.com/ you will find it more "sensible".This "decoration" is really hopeless.
Well, it is the Economist.
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I fail to see how "when we’re at a business networking event, and we exchange cards? Yeah, that’s not me ‘giving you my number’." is not clear. Got the business card, don't call her for a date. It's not rocket science...

>> why can she just not say "no thanks"

You don't rant when some business contact you just met asks you if you'd like to go hit a gay pub later. You do it after it has happened for the hundredth time this month.
> This philosophy now has a name

I worked with someone who went into what he called "samurai coder" mode. He'd get his digital sword out and start chopping up the enemy (bad code). We were in an environment where everything could be undone, reset, restarted, or otherwise restored, so his swordplay worked.
I agree, though I think, perhaps, the author has a point about something. It's one thing to be asked to write code on the whiteboard for a practical problem. During the interview process for my current employer, I was asked to sketch out a database design for a given application, including actually writing out some of the SQL to generate the tables, constraints, etc. I was then asked to write queries to pull reports against my schema. I was also asked to show some code to pull said queries from the database, in the language of my choice.

Those sorts of questions seems appropriate for the position in question. Asking me to implement a linked list or binary tree? Not so applicable. Might I use these sorts of things? Yeah, but the senior engineers assume I know how to use Google.
Oh I agree.

In this case he was in the wrong all the way; but you could put down everything up to the kiss as misguided, or confused or as simply idiotic behaviour. Guys get funny around flirty girls and make stupid choices.

But action after the clear rebuff is a different matter (and this was sorta the point I was trying to make but it got a bit bogged down).

(on re-reading, in this case, I'd only excuse the bit up to the kiss in this case, he seems to have forced the kiss instead of just going for it [if that follows]).
He hasn't tweeted since then...

The Conference Anti-Harassment policy is one of the results of the incident.
> They pay a truck load of money to reach 300-500 paying readers per day?

> But they won’t pay as much to reach an avalanche of non paying readers?

It seems to me that advertisers might prefer a small number of people willing to pay money for something, rather than an avalanche of free loaders. Not all eyeballs are created equally. Isn't this a motivation for improving the targeting of advertising?

Most Wired content is available for free on the website, right? So, I wonder how many more people would buy the app if it were free.

Edited to clarify a few phrases
Yes, disappointing to see this behavior from the government, and also from corporations like Amazon.

Perhaps most disappointing though is that much of the MSM coverage is focused on Wikileaks itself and not on the actual content of the cables. The NYT and other media outlets are doing their best to push the substantive issues, but that's not what is being discussed by our so-called leaders and politicians.

The cable leaks have highlighted - as if we didn't know it already - how reckless and out of touch many of our foreign officials and diplomats are. To name a few random acts: bargaining with Slovenia to take Guantanamo prisoners in exchange for a visit with President Obama; threatening Germany against investigating the unwarranted kidnapping (is any kidnapping warranted?) of one of its citizens by the CIA; collusion with British officials to illegally stock cluster bombs in the UK.

Perhaps if the mainstream media was focused on these issues, we may have a serious public debate about the quality and purpose of our state department and our foreign diplomats ... and maybe even improve them. Now that would be progress.

But no, that's just too difficult for the Senator Liebermans of the world to take on. Much easier for these politicians to beat their chests in disgust at Assange's actions. While that may be good for Lieberman in the short term - he gets his bully pulpit - we're all still left with the same crappy state department, and the same foreign officials in the same embassies still making the same out-of-touch recommendations that end up making the world a less safe place for all of us.

Where is the leadership? Where is the "change" that was promised two years ago? I want to see a commitment from Obama that he's going to look seriously at the issues raised by the cables, and fix our state department. Not holding my breath though.