skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short of the extreme edge cases where a person is attempting to hide from someone because they fear for their life, the main argument against using real names always seems to boil down to someone waiting to share something radical and controversial but not having it tied to their physical persona.

May I point out that those extreme edge cases, while rare, are also extremely important? That person fleeing an abusive relationship is probably far more in need of a swift effective communications medium to get social support, practical advice and even to just plain tell their story than most people are.

And you are forgetting other cases that are just a touch less extreme but still relevant. The young adult struggling with their orientation may be desperate to avoid having certain people discover this fact while equally desperate to find others in a similar situation for that support and advice.

I am the first to say that Google and Facebook are private businesses and how they handle their business is up to them, but if we are going to have a real discussion of the reprecussions of their decisions then we need to remember that these edge cases are real and they are important.
Microsoft’s Support for Veterans Entering the Workforce
This seems to be different. In your link posted, the lights serve as simple positioning beacons. It seems analogous to the bandwidth we've come to expect from things like infrared remote controls.

In this case, and indeed the whole point of the talk, is they're transmitting HD video.
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If you know the perfect solution, I'm sure we'd all love to hear it. All you're doing it tearing me down. You're not offering any suggestions to fix these apparently obvious glaring problems in my idea or the current system.
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Let me tell you I am so happy I found this cool company Type At Home.com. I was desperate to find a way to earn extra cash to help with the ever increasing cost of living these days. I began to search on the Internet for some kind of home employment. Most of what I found seemed to be merely scams until I stumbled upon Type At Home.com.
My own id is quite high, however... About a year ago I wrote a script to scrape Facebook users and their friendship information. I wanted to get the social graph of my university (Warwick), so I seeded it with me and a few random friends from the same school, and coded it expand nodes already well-connected to the network. It turns out that university students form a fairly tight international network, so my script starting scraping people from other universities, including some colleges in the US. Anyway, when I only had a few thousand users in the database, I noticed there was one with FBID 7 - Mark Zuckerberg's old roommate. Pretty cool how few hops were needed to get to him (and shows how FB managed to grow so quickly amongst the uni market).
In the end, isn't user's choice a compelling factor in deciding such matters? We know what you're trying to do, but you can't force people to be social, at least not without some awkwardness and discontent.

Let us speak clearly: They tell us why it's good for us that we use our real names, and they may be right. But they don't tell us why it's bad for them that we don't. If it's not bad for them, then why restrict user's choice? People socialize in different ways, in my opinion, a good social network would be flexible enough to allow different people socialize in a way that is most comfortable to them.

EDIT: My legal name is not "Ben Beltran". Nonetheless, almost everybody in real life and online knows me this way, few know my actual long name and most think I'm called benjamin. I believe this name attaches my statements to my person more than my legal name does. I consider this my "Real Name"
Also I'm looking at you, rails.
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Amazon yes. And that's 80+% of the market, so that's where we started.

Lulu accepts .doc files, so most people would probably go for that.

iPad, Nook, etc... working on it.

Truth be told though, readers of HN are not our market. Anyone here can figure out the HTML/XML/CSS requirements without too much trouble. Granted, LW is probably still faster, but for some people, the learning curve is just too steep and they'd prefer to get some help.
Problem is with users who don't have a paypal account, when they are taken to paypal payment page- they see this big login box and small button under all that for 'other payment options.'
They are most likely referring to the rumored Android emulator on QNX.
H-indices and "impact factors" are easy to game, e.g., cite your own work and those in your department (or in tête-à-tête arrangements with outside colleagues) repeatedly in work you publish.
If computer science is all you want to study, then an engineering school might not be the best place for you. You're probably better off at a small liberal arts school. At Schools like MIT and Berkeley, computer science is an optional specialization in the EECS program. If you look at the MIT course maps for the three main degree paths (EE, EE+CS, and CS) you'll see that 6.01 and 6.02, the replacements for 6.001 (the SICP course) are foundational for all 3 specializations.

http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/ug_6-1.html

http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/ug_6-2.html

http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/ug_6-3.html
For a free service? What kind of shaping are you going to demand?
Exactly. But since it seems pretty much impossible to retain impermanence in the digital sphere (real-life impermanence relying, of course, on the fact that the information is never recorded to a reliable medium) anonymity is a necessary crutch.

The author's real point is that argument made by google and facebook ("there's nothing wrong with more-or-less eliminating anonymity online for the same reasons that we do just fine in meatspace without much anonymity") doesn't go through, because of the differing levels of permanence between digital and real-life interactions. Therefore, if you want to argue one side or the other, you have to do it with those differences in mind.
Uh, phone the entry in your phonebook called 'Me', or 'Home'? Answer the phone when someone calls?
I'm guessing that the study was conducted with readers of a left-to-right language. I wonder what the results of a study on right-to-left or top-to-bottom readers would be.
I'm 601804, also from Penn. Does 6xxxxx denote school?
I doubt it changes it much, unless they make it easily searchable via Google.
I find the Preview Panes to be fairly annoying because there are now MORE ads visible. I'm getting the standard banner ad at the bottom of the screen as well as two ads within my email. One ad at the bottom of the email and another at the right side of it.
The complicity isn't very analogous. There's nothing objectionable about obtaining a patent--it's all about how you use it.
This "confusion" isn't unique to Africa, just ask my parents. :)
I've been to Bletchley Park about 3 times now. It is staggeringly amazing what went on there, when you think of the effort those people went through and their contribution to the war. It must have been incredibly painful to let people die rather than run the risk of the Germans knowing that the codes were broken.

If you ever come to the UK from abroad, you can get a train from Euston Station (zone 1 on the underground) to Milton Keynes and from there head to Bletchley Park. It's well worth a day trip for the serious geek/hacker type.
What is "this"?: Javascript's most important and annoying parameter.
It would be interesting to know if this confusion happens in other -countries- and not just Africa,

Opps. I know it's not what you meant, but you should probably make a quick edit.
Thanks! That one's at https://github.com/mcandre/scriptedmain/blob/master/scripted... and https://github.com/mcandre/scriptedmain/blob/master/test.js
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Other benefit: if you aliased myownloc="myloc -i --complicated_option", you can run myownloc -x to selectively disable the -i switch.
> Will you prefer a long wait and then silently back on prompt or an indication of something happening?

This is what the -v, --verbose option is for. Without this flag, you should assume everything is operating as expected until you receive an error message or an exit status >0.
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Xbox Gamertag Data API
Farmeron - amazing web farm intelligence tool (Seedcamp London Finalist)
Well played, Facebook:

{"is_fb_employee":"maybe soon? https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=enginee...}
Saw this in the university research lab where it was developed about a year ago while touring new tech in Germany. Very cool to see that it's still moving forward.
{"is_fb_employee":"maybe soon? https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=enginee...}
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Small ISPs use "malicious" DNS servers to watch Web searches, earn cash
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Book Review: iPad in the Enterprise
It's obviously Google's right to set the rules. But it's also my right, and in my view, moral obligation to boycott a network which has such rule, even if I don't personally need or want it.
According to Facebook, I might be soon an employee.

{"is_fb_employee":"maybe soon? https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=engineering"}
It's unclear even to some (probably a lot of) Americans. I've known Americans who set it to "men and women" despite being straight. They changed it when it was pointed out what it meant. It's a really poorly-worded option.
I can report that my bud studying in Japan says that most of his Japanese colleagues list "interested in Men" due to this very confusion.
I haven't found one. At least with Rails 3 / ARel you can do queries like:

Posts.where("posted_on BETWEEN ? AND ?", Date.current - 2.months, Date.current)

But it still isn't the same.

You can create a Rails app without an ORM, but then you must do all your queries and migrations in your own code. This is one of the reasons people stick with the suboptimal SQL: it's faster to generate and lets you iterate more quickly.
You don't seem to have made an actual argument there. You say:

"the main argument against using real names always seems to boil down to someone waiting to share something radical and controversial but not having it tied to their physical persona."

But you seem to just take it as a given that the idea that someone may want that, or that it may be a social good to protect that, is so bizarre and far out that an argument need not even be made, it's sufficient just to state it.

Well, I disagree. People should be able to say controversial things without any fear, and I can give you two enormous use cases: Democracy, and childhood. Democracies need to be able to freely debate things that are, by definition, controversial, to function at all. Children need to be able to say stupid things without them being tagged by them for the next fifty years.

I'm pretty confident you haven't got an argument more powerful than those... and "reidmain gets annoyed when he sees things (s)he thinks are stupid on the Internet" certainly isn't it.
We make revenue as a branded affiliate marketer for the deal providers that provide affiliate commission fees. (It varies from 4-25% of purchase price depending on who our deal provder is)

Lets run through a quick example:

I have recruited 3 people (1st tier), who as a group have recruited 5 people (2nd tier) ,and these 2nd tier people as a group have recruited 2 people (3rd tier). So there's 10 total people in my rewards network.

If a user creates an event around a deal that costs $100 and we're getting for $50. Lets say in this example we get 10% commission from say giltcity so $5 per deal purchased comes to Bettervite. We split our revenue 50% with the user so $2.50 (250 better bucks-betterbucks are redeemable at 500 betterbucks in the form of a cash gift card or paypal) will be allocated to that user.

If everybody that this user has recruited decides to attend (10 purchase deals) the event, they pay out structure would be:

total revenue = $5 * 10 people = $50

revenue to our users = $25 (always 50%)

as that event planner that user would receive (250 better bucks) $25 for convincing his or her friends to buy the deal and attend the event. You only get paid if someone you recruit to bettervite buys a deal.

As a branded affiliate marketer we don't interact with the business and leave that up to the deal providers.

We believe in total economic transparency. Bettervite is an affiliate consolidator so based on earn outs from the deal providers, consumers and Bettervite reap 50/50 share off the gross profit

As we gain Market share and user base earnings and payouts will be higher to better terms offered to our business by various deal providers.

We are currently 100% bootstrapped.
I have never ever considered that series of (very good) role playing games to be about scrolls in any way, nor was that ever the focal point of neither their marketing nor the public image.

I've played since Daggerfall, and I don't really even remember if scrolls were part of the games at all. Anyone remember?
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This is pretty ubiquitous to the industry, not only Rails.
I wonder if using security tokens (hardware, not software) would diminish most of these problems? Frankly I'm surprised that big banks do not make this type of stuff mandatory. Making it part of the credit card/debit card would make it very convenient since you always carry it with you. Still, you still need several other layers of protection since even tokens can be hacked.
> Why does it always have to be about sexual preference?

Because otherwise it's not a meaningful field. If you're just talking about interest in the sense of "I find people of this sex to be interesting", then 99.9% of people would select "both" and the other 0.1% would just be advertising their misogyny/misandry.
It depends on context. The simple phrase "Interested in" would not be translated to "Sexual Preference"
"I'd also wonder how often it is that one doesn't use one's real name when trying to network for business reasons."

Example at my company would be people who moderate and respond to customers using the various social networking sites on behalf of the company. On facebook they currently do this by setting up a secondary "company" facebook account separate from their personal account, and they use their first name only prefixed by the company name. This allows them an online identity, but not enough information for the customers to stalk them personally. Probably about 5% of my company's staff is forced to have a facebook profile along with various other online profiles for use within the company.

"If your boss is forcing you to get a G+ account with your real name, I think you've got bigger problems."

There's a lot of people in a company that are required to use their real identity and reputation for the company. I don't understand why this is a problem. It just depends on your job. Take for example, the PR people. They must give their real first and last name when they are interviewed.

"If this real names issue remains a big issue people just won't use Google's offering and Facebook/other will win. Let them decide it."

I guess it depends on what you mean by "big issue". I think the point of this whole campaign is that they are trying to raise awareness because for most people, your real name is fine, but for a small minority, it's very unfavorable.
Thats funny actually =)
The Elder Scrolls are ancient texts of prophecy in the TES universe. They foretell various major events in the game history (many of which are the player's doing, of course).

So they are important in an overarching plot sense. But that doesn't mean Bethesda has a case against anything with 'Scrolls' in the title.
Put on some sunglasses.
I don't think it's that awkward with a north american mindset. It's in the Basic Information category, next to Relationship Status. Furthermore, I think some basic questions are reasonable:

1. How many people are so harshly prejudice, that they're not even interested in one gender?

2. How many of these people would admit it?

3. Why would Facebook want to know?

4. What does it probably mean?
> - Makes it look like a medical emergency

A critical insulin overdose with the pump log full of remote access entries will look like murder.

Anyway, dropping poison in their drink while they're in the bathroom is easier, cheaper, more practical and gives the same "benefits".
I would like to do the same. Do you have any suggestions about which TLD to use and which registrar to use?
sorry; I got caught up formatting. check now ^
504731 - 4731st at Dartmouth. They opened it during exam week when everyone was in the library and nearly the entire school registered on one day.
hai How are you
Simple: You ask the wrong lesbian (or gay guy, if you're a straight woman) if she's interested in dating, she'll tell you off. At worst. Most of the time, it's not nearly that dramatic.

If I ask the wrong guy, I get into a fight. Most straight men are still offended at "being mistaken for a gay man." I can short circuit this by pre-checking something like Facebook.
The Problem With Virtual Goods
How does Hiten's working for KM affect his objectivity?
I see several explanations here already, none of which gets at the essence of the difference between a lambda expression and a closure.

A lambda expression (or juat "lambda" for short) is a syntactic construct: something you write in your program, like "(lambda (x) (+ x 1))" or "function (x) { return x + 1; }".

Lambda expressions, like any other evaluable expressions, have values. Just as the expression "2 + 2" has the value 4 which is represented in the machine as binary 100, so a lambda expression has a value, which is a function, and that value has a representation in the machine.

What is that representation? It turns out that the most general representation of a functional value is a closure, which is simply a code pointer with some associated data (or a pointer thereto). A function pointer in C is just a code pointer; this is an impoverished representation that requires the programmer, in order to write general higher-order functions (functions that take functions as arguments), to explicitly pass around a data pointer along with each function pointer, and pass the data pointer when calling through the function pointer:

void foo(int (*f)(void* data, int x), void* data) {
... (*f)(data, n) ...
}

You've surely seen this idiom if you've worked with function pointers much. A closure, again, packages up the two pieces together so you don't have to deal with them separately.

You can see the similarity between instances and closures. An instance has a vtable (in C++ parlance), which is an indexed collection of code pointers, along with its data. A closure, instead of having a vtable, has a single code pointer. Instances and closures are duals: an instance provides a collection of operations, while a closure provides only one. Other than that, they're identical.

So, to summarize: a lambda expression, like a `new' expression, is a syntactic construct you find in your code. Lambda expressions evaluate to closures just as `new' expressions evaluate to instances; closures and instances are implementation constructs, like binary integers, inside the machine.

Finally, note that the only difference between a function defined in the traditional way and one defined by a lambda expression is that the latter has no name. It's fine to call these "anonymous function expressions" if your language doesn't use the word "lambda".
I agree. Unfortunately, I don't have any faith in the diaspora project. I'd be curious to hear what other solutions are out there that people are working on.
1) Would you use it equally deliberately if your name was something like "Mustafa Al Zawahiri" in 2002?

2) Do you have any documented cases where using your real name had any advantage over using "reidmain"?

3) Social networks are not really a choice, trend-setters usually herd everyone else.

4) What's your name?
I think that it's useful to distinguish between code that one has an intimate knowledge of / intuitive sense of and code where one does not fully understand.

For example, I find printf-like debugging and using stack traces from Valgrind to be very useful for debugging my own code; however, at work, when I have no idea where the problem is, something like gdb or the debugger of Visual Studio really comes in handy.
In the US, it seems like you can't get one on Amazon for less than $200. Not bad for a color laser, but B&W lasers are $100.
A battery life of 16 hours!! I WANT HIS PHONE TOO
There was a quest in Oblivion to steal one of the Elder Scrolls. I believe there was some quest with them in Morrowind as well.
In the proprietary, NIH world of embedded software, vendor often ship development tools whose quality ranges from flaky to totally broken. With tight deadlines to ship devices that will be obsolete within months, investing time and people to support robust dev tools across multiple platforms is deemed a low priority. printf() debugging is often the only reliable (and portable) option. :(
I would agree that a computer reaction time is better, but it's prior to the loss of traction that is the difference. I drive a lot in the snow - I spent something like 12,000 miles last year chasing snowstorms to ski in. There are some times it is obvious traction is going to get a lot worse with changing conditions, maybe you are about to drive over a roll over into shade on a borderline freezing day, or the wind has pilied up snow in a section of the road ahead. I can recognize these situations and slow down ahead of time. I find it hard to believe that the computer vision we have today is capable of this based on my experience making autonomous vehicles. Surely they will just set it to go about 5mph the whole way for safety, but that just ignores what modern snow tires & 4 wheel drive are capable of.
Actually, I think the line in my post is correct, I was specifically referring to this happening in Africa and I am not aware if it happens in other countries.
"GUIs also have the advantage when it comes to presenting and editing information that is by nature graphical. This includes photo manipulation and watching movies (I have always wanted a program that shows a movie in my terminal by converting it to ASCII art in real-time, that would be sweet)."

This is an interesting discussion - what is the CLI, exactly? My personal PDF viewer is Zathura[1], which is controlled like VIM. On the other hand, programs like Kismet run on a terminal, but have mouse controlled menus.

Personally, I feel that Zathura is a CLI application, even though it depends on X, because the interaction is done in a keyboard driven way with no graphical widgets.

[1]: http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/
It's not a translation issue in terms of translating to another language -- many Africans are fluent in English (some speak in natively). It's an issue of cultural translation, which is a lot subtler.
Believe it or not, a ton of people outside the US use the en-US localization.
Some prefixes from my friends lists:

100k = Columbia
200k = Stanford
300k = Yale
500k = Dartmouth
600k = Penn
1000k = Brown