skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. I often just feel attacked in topics such as this, some people are not so careful to avoid demonising drinkers in general.

Anyway, I think my point distilled is that although alcohol may be very commonly involved in crime that doesn't mean that crime is actually very common.

And for what it's worth (not much, since this isn't my field of study ;), I'd say that alcohol probably never caused rape. You have to be pretty damn fucked up in the first place to rape somebody, normal people will never do it no matter how much alcohol you put in them.
FYI if you haven't seen this post, Cheers.
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Hashrocket is hiring a front end web developer. Familiarity with Rails is preferred. Really excellent benefits, and really awesome people to work with.

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How do I get smartphone to automatically react to app/data from other phones?
Normally in git you never pull on a dirty working dir, you either stash or commit your work and then pull. That's why this bug is unlikely to trigger normally.
*Decreases when I'm in a relationship. Less of a reason to socialize heavily.
I'm not sure if you can answer this, but I've been wondering since I seen the listing on the front page of parse.com several weeks ago. Any word on when the social integration is coming?
Oh those wacky Asians with their totally-unknown-in-the-West cultural practices like remembering petty grievances, having personality conflicts with bosses, and running Yahoo.

Seriously for a second: any time you feel the need to explain behavior by reference to culture, consider the compelling alternative that they're a real person just like you.
Actually, it did say. In line 1.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

Perhaps your browser and mine disagree on when that declaration is acceptable.

For reference, http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-encoding-d...
One could ask the same way "Do Books make you bored"?

It is all about the writer and the reader. If there is a high overlapping interest between both, the "boring" part should be no issue.

The only thing "truly" boring are writers who are writing boring stuff. And then it doesn't matter how long a piece actually is. What we need is better writing and structure.
Or a boat crashing into a rail bridge pier:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Big_Bayou_Canot_train_wrec...

(Honestly, I feel like this is one of those "cannot be avoided" situations.)
Greece is slipping into the abyss
THE AMERICAN JOBS DEPRESSION: We're In A Deep Hole And The Hole Is Deepening
If this is how you properly use Git then why do they allow the improper way to do so? This seems like broken UX if you allow people to do something that will 100% cause catastrophy -- unless there is virtually no way to design it otherwise (but it's obvious that this is not the case with Git).
Facebook sued over tracking users after logout
20 GB in 1980 vs 32 GB in 2011
I'm sure this comes up in every discussion about Aurora, but it's also a confusing name because of the pretty much homophonically named Arora browser.
The work week is mainly relevant to people in 9-to-5 jobs

You mean like a hiring manager | HR person | future coworker who might post here? I could see arguments going either way about weekend posting. At least it should be at the top of the ask HN list for a while since it is a bit lower churn for people not wanting it to disappear because of the weekend post. etc.
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The internet connectivity and storage changes are utterly radical changes in terms of what they enable. That iPhone gives you Wikipedia and Britannica and Project Gutenberg and the Kindle bookstore and Spotify and the iTunes music catalog and Netflix, all right in your pocket. Most people seem not to notice, but this is one of the most radical changes in history.
Bank of America Website Still Down – Cyber Attack?
Statistical results in psychology journals
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For anyone that's interested, the version of git that fixes this issue (1.7.7) has just been released:

Download: http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

Announcement: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Git-1-7-7-tc6849424...
You read those stats wrong. Those are lifetime odds. Not odds per event. Otherwise, over the course of a year, everyone who commuted would likely be dead.
this is pretty cool, but be aware that he is using marshal to send function objects to remote systems, so you are marrying yourself to its list of requirements as well: http://docs.python.org/library/marshal.html

it'll work great for simple use cases but since he also does nothing to handle dependency capturing, your map and reduce functions had better use standard python objects or python objects that you are sure will be installed on the remote systems ...
For some info about new user-facing features in the latest Aurora, see the Future Releases blog post:

http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/09/30/firefoxaur...
What this article talks about is only for trains that run on tracks used for freight...so that wouldn't apply to monorails/maglevs...
We All Have 24 Hours
PostgreSQL schemas are very similar to MySQL databases in functionality. In fact, in MySQL you can use SCHEMA in all places you can use the term database, ie. CREATE SCHEMA foo; instead of CREATE DATABASE foo;
> Before doing so, I want to merge in the recent changes from the remote master, so I do the familiar git pull. It complained about some files that would be overwritten by the merge, so I saved a backup of my changes, then reverted my changes in those specific files, and proceeded.

Yikes. git stash / git stash apply. Pulling into a dirty working tree is asking for trouble.

git losing data is Very Very Bad (and massive kudos to the author for tracking down the bug rather than just bitching about it), but if you're following a proper git workflow (pull to clean working trees, save often), you shouldn't ever be in a position to trigger this bug. That's not an excuse for git to break like that, but the reason that it was likely never seen in the 16k Linux commits is that it's not the "right" way to do things.
Nothing is a guarantee in life.
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Rockefeller Center NYC, onsite: #1 looking for #2

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I think another important thing to do is to choose a software development methodology for personal (or small group) projects. In my case, I like the agile software development for my personal projects, it makes the projects more enjoyable.
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Creativity is universal. Just because you're making something "mediocre", or the same thing as everyone else, doesn't mean that it's not worth making.

Maybe I would agree that mediocre stuff is getting too much coverage. If we could limit the stuff we make to just friends and family, instead of making it public to everyone, then we could all make mediocre stuff without flooding strangers with mediocre crap :)

ETA:

I think the tradeoffs are worth it though. It's much easier to identify talent now that the barriers to entry are so low. You don't have to judge them by some proxy like whether they have decent equipment, or if they're friends with someone famous.

Example: Hannah Hart made a stupid drunk video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq7G-Q9ZwC0 but people realized that she was pretty funny and had good editing skills. So they encouraged her to make more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLYxeJjxc8s and she got the attention of internet celebrities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oLsTc_kETY and she got to do a music video with a musician she likes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvOqHfia2s and that wouldn't have happened if that first stupid drunk video wasn't available to the entire internet.
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How to Build a Beautiful Company
Watched it last week. It's really good, especially Seth Godin's story of publishing the Ideavirus.
The purpose of government should be to ensure that the minimum expectations of its citizens are met. These minimum expectations are a changing set of things, and I think that better feedback between government agencies and those which are affected by the rulings would be one of the best ways to solve the country's problems.

I think that http://data.gov and http://recovery.gov are a step in the right direction. Experts should analyze the data and blog about it, and the government agencies should be keeping an ear out to what experts are saying. Also the interested public can do the same.

The word "minimum" that I use is not accidental. The problem is that government rarely solves just the minimum set of problems. Once an agency exists, among the new employees there are always those who want to make their mark, and increase the amount of regulation. This is how government grows and grows. It's free for them to regulate but not free for those who have to implement it, and thus they don't feel the right incentives at the time. We need to figure out a way to incentivize government to stick as much as possible to only enforcing minimum regulations. Maybe it can be done by requiring them to get the citizenry to clamor for something before they implement it.
Hmm that's one direction that we must try out! Thanks
Transition part never thought about but very important yeah!
The one issue this article doesn't address is what is being done about the FRA. Are there movements to change the regulations? Overhaul the FRA? Even something as small scale as what, if anything, the author is trying to do about it would have been nice to hear.
Creativity has increased because of the Internet. There's nothing to prove that "creativity will be destroyed". If anything we'll get more original and innovative ideas, instead of the boxed ones that are made from a template to make $300 million.
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If you want to get pedantic about it, the content is being served as text/html (as opposed to application/xhtml+xml) which means the XML declaration isn't valid.
PHP Forums, you and I can get away with those. Not my mum or my aunt who wants one for her blog readers. FaaS is for people who find WordPress too geeky.

Not sure about the later part, there is nothing special about Besperk.
NYC or Remote (Full-time and Intern)

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email as login plus emailing him for verification
captcha against automation for the spam

and if thats too annoying to implement use browserid.org
Flying Telescope Makes An Out-Of-This-World Find
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Back in 2008 when I bought my car the used Prius's were going for almost the price of a new one. This seemed like a short term fad of near zero depreciation and unwise to bet that it would stay that way. The Prius was really the only game in town at the time, gas prices were high, but it was clear that there would be plenty of new hybrids in the coming years.

After hunting around for less than the price as a Prius (used or new) I got a barely used 6 speed manual G35 with all of the bells and whistles (15K miles, very clean engine, good find). The fact that it only gets ~22MPG in the peek of expensive gas might have been part of the reason I got it for so cheap. There is no debate that a G35 beats the pants of of a Civic or Corolla any day. Doing the math of $500 savings in gas a year I still have a few more years before it would have been cheaper to buy a Prius based upon the price difference.

I have had no garage work on my G35 other than the standard oil change etc. To make things simple I will assume that the Prius would have been just as good. (How often do you have to change the battery?)

I just looked up on kbb A brand new 2008 Prius would only be worth ~$400 more than my used G35 if I sold it today. So the math no matter how I look at it worked out for me and I got a nicer car to drive the past few years.

But the real lesson I have seen over and over which is that any time someone runs the math they have different variables. If I were to buy a car today the used Prius's have actually dropped in price so that estimate is completely different that a few years ago, gas is now cheaper, I probably couldn't find that G35 again, and now there are other hybrids to compare against.
On the other hand, job-seekers who have been here for longer than a few months probably remember the hiring threads always happen on the 1st.

I think that's easier to remember than "1st of the month, unless that falls on a weekend, then it's the 1st business day following the 1st of the month"; which tends to get further conflated to include holidays.
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I'm actually a little busy right now, but I just started doing this full-time, so I'd like to get my name out there.

I'm an iOS dev looking to transition to UI design. Check out my portfolio/blog: http://www.stuartjmoore.com and on Forrst: http://forrst.com/people/stuartjmoore/posts

I'm in DC, and mostly work for people in CA, so I'm quite used to remote work.
I suspect that certain types of people (including myself, at times), actually want continuous backups being taken on the state of their working copy prior to actually performing a commit. Bugs or not, Git doesn't do very well with unversioned changes: an accidental 'git reset --hard' can easily blow out lots of work (happened to me), even if that was exactly what the command was supposed to do. The correct thing to do is commit early and commit often (git commit -am "Wibble"; git reset HEAD~ works well for me) but from a user experience standpoint this ought to be automatic.
mozilla websecurity leadis also chairman of owasp. nuff said:-)
I cook a lot and I was tired of running out and paying $5 for a jar of about 10 broken leaves. So I got a bag of organic turkish bay leaves from amazon for only $18. There must be at least 1000 leaves in the bag, which I'll leave to my children in my will one day. I'll drop the thread at this point, because I'm sure no one wants to hear more about my bay leaf glut.
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In addition to what Vibhav said, Maginatics also hires/sponsors H1Bs.

We are also trying to get a great team together. You can check us out on LinkedIn or find most of us at http://twitter.com/#!/maginatics/team/members. Drop us a note or come meet us for coffee!
Ture and agree, but this is true of any organization. The essence of any organization is to serve its own interests. It can be charitable or ideological or profit-driven, but if it does not serve its interests, it is no longer an organization.

We shouldn’t be surprised that gov’t agencies are similar. The difference is that its funding is decoupled from its benefit to constituents.
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See profile info for contact, looking to fill ASAP!
'slow' was a little too direct, however whiny comments like yours should be downvoted to ruin too. show us the code or blog post you wrote, else stop being a little bitch. Also quote marks are for quoting ffs.
Of course it's not cool. It's a bug, and it was fixed. But the relevancy is to the title and summary. When you say "git destroyed my data" it sounds like you're saying that git lost commited data in the repo.

What actually happened here is that the working tree got clobbered. That is a vastly less problematic situation. Working trees get clobbered all the time: rogue "make clean" changes, system crashes, someone-stole-my-laptop, errant rm -rf, forgetting which tree your changes are in... I've lost working data to every one of these, and I never felt the need to blame my tools in a blog post.

So yeah. It's a bug (and a pretty embarassing one). It was fixed. Is there anything more to say? Move along.
wrong thread - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060222 for freelance gigs.
Maybe I see things in simple terms. But I think of artists as people who use their creative talent to entertain others (by exciting/relaxing/engaging/uplifting/etc them) in exchange for payment. And I see all these non-artists 'excited' about the 'potential' to 'express' and 'communicate ideas to the whole world' without the 'shackles' of commercial enterprise as basically being people, who care more about the spare change in their pocket than they do about artists, masquerading as new millennium hippies.