skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need to disclaim this post with the comment that Andy and I really don't see eye to eye over many things on Wikipedia/Wikimedia/Commons :) (mainly to do with his tone; after discussion with me and the Wikimedia community).

But I really think this idea is at best a pipe dream and at worst a licensing disaster.

To highlight this lets look at Flickr. That lets you choose a free (Creative Commons) license for your material. So Commons regularly grabs useful images from there to host. And; we still get people complaining that they didn't understand this meant you could take their image and upload it somewhere else.

And this is from a site where the whole point is to upload images.

Now lets imagine Ebay implemented this; the idea that most of that sites users would comprehend the extent of a little tick box is, I feel, minimal.

I obviously am 100% behind freely licensing content - and do a lot of the sort of work he mentions in getting image/content releases by email. But I also dislike the idea of essentially misleading people and then telling them they have no way to go back on the license (yes, this happens).

I might be an outlier here in my criticism. But Commons, in my experience, tends to treat non-Commons people (especially image copyright owners) like crap. That is what needs to be fixed first, before any pressure is applied to companies like Ebay...
"As soon as the funding closed Facebook was suddenly facing a viable threat in mobile vs. just another resource-starved startup hanging onto dear life."

You are stating that like it's a fait accompli that the threat is real and a done deal as opposed to a mountain that they have to continue to climb and achieve with all sorts of things that could cause the dream (after $500m funding) to not even happen.

Perhaps it's the same bias on the part of Facebook that caused them to make this acquisition and overreact (possibly - and of course we'll never know the answer) to Instagram's funding.

And what about the fact that they waited until they were funded as opposed to having a system in place to identify the threat from "just another resource-starved startup hanging onto dear life" and getting involved before that?
I use and like Alfred but I think most of the people here are comfortable with terminal and uses it a lot. The touch command is way more easier, fast and "portable".
I am also a victim of this guy. He harassed me off and on for years. He turned on me after I told him "no" when he asked me to do a favor for him I didn't feel comfortable doing. That was all it took to find myself on his shitlist. While we were "friends" I got to listen to him brag about all the horrible things he'd done to people, mostly women he dated, after they decided to tell him "no" or kick him out of their lives once they realized how crazy he is. He would show me how he was getting so-and-so fired from their job by spoofing emails with child pornography in them to the all@ email aliases of their employers from libraries and hacked DNS servers. He showed me how he made money selling pirated ebooks and sheet music on ebay. And he'd brag about using sockpuppets to build up fake credibility because it's all hearsay on the Internet where the credibility of consensus is only second to hard evidence.

Don't fall for this guy's sockpuppet spam. This is exactly the kind of thing he was doing on Kickstarter, and has done on Reddit, Hackernews, here, Rachel's various blogs, and yes, all the way back to the days of Livejournal being the amazing mecca of social networking.

His name is Jason Christopher Hughes AKA Michael Nath AKA Thylacine AKA antisense is over 40 years old. He's been at this game for a long, long time and has made social engineering an art form.

Most of the posts in here that look like layers of confirmation of "facts" about Rachel are all the same person posting through TOR or I2P. If Slashdot admins were to verify the IPs of most of the other posts attacking Rachel, they'll see a wall of TOR and I2P exit nodes, just as any of us who have checked out the logs of his behavior in the past have been able to see. You let this guy brainwash you into believing all his propaganda against Rachel, and you've just weaponized yourself in his favor. Please do not. Keep an open mind. Use your critical thinking skills. Do not allow the emotional shock value of the propaganda to interfere with your thinking. I know it's hard. It's especially hard because Rachel is a very reactionary individual. She has that rockstar vibe to her, and she doesn't take crap from anyone. That makes her an easy target, clearly, because anytime the "moral high ground" seems a little shaky, it's a vulnerability in her defense against her cyberstalker.

He's been stalking several of us for years. Most of us don't ever talk about him using our typical logins because he'll shit up the administration and our posts until we get banned. He's phenomenally good at turning people against his victims.

Unfortunately it's hard to collect evidence against him. He only attacks maybe 10 or so people at a time. He's never going to become a priority for the FBI or local police because they either have bigger fish to fry or don't understand how to handle him in a way that his behavior can be documented. Making all of this public is a big push for all of us who he's been harassing for over a decade. We're tired of it. We want it to end. We need help.

Not your personal army and all that, sure, but it would be nice if we weren't alone in trying to bring this guy down.
If it's really good and people like it they'll tell their colleagues and word will spread almost automatically once you drop the initial seeds.

You can try to force a viral marketing campaign, but if you have an inferior product eventually people will see through whatever marketing B.S. you've built.
Oh thank you SO much for recognizing that. Yes, that is one of her stalker's more popular bits of copypasta.
What does that mean? I've never seen any company do that.
"twentysize"?
That's not a career though. It's community-subsidized time for you to find yourself and/or your calling.
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Can anyone explain what BOF stands for?
Agreed. The branching model used by the git project itself is quite effective. Introducing an additional tool isn't always needed.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/...

If there existed a git-next tool to document that workflow then it might be more widely known, I guess. There probably is no tool because it's all just normal git stuff.

The document mentions:

- The tip of 'master' is meant to be more stable than any
tagged releases, and the users are encouraged to follow it.
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There is quite a lot implemented, they are trying to follow (as much as reousrces allow).

Btw. since February there is GNUstep repository on github: https://github.com/gnustep (base = Foundation, gui = AppKit)
My contention is Instagram already decided to sell to FB prior to the investement. However Mark, being the Zuckester he is, wanted to do the large majority of the deal using stocks only (that's gangster). Instagram raised money so the founders and team would have cash, and the investors get a chance to have more pre-IPO FB stock.

Note: Maybe this is what the post is about. I have not read t yet.
I'd suggest doing a little more than "just enough to get by". Partly because scraping through by the skin of your teeth is stressful and distracting, and partly because working the bare minimum for too long will hamper your professional development.

The second part gets a bit more complicated if you want to freelance or start your own company, but IMO you can still learn a lot early on "working for the man" that will help carry you forward in your own ventures.
See http://static.usenix.org/event/lisa11/bofs.html
The perfect example of "execution matters"
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A guy from my parents' church beat a speeding ticket by demonstrating that the motorcycle cop would have had to reach a speed of over 160 mph in order to clock him at the speed measured at location A and then catch him by location B.
One of my employees is about your age. He works four days a week and uses the spare day to catch up on other things, rest, whatever he wants. Obviously earns a bit less, but that's his choice.

If you want to do it, see if your employer would allow it. Don't regret not doing so ten years down the track.
... not only ObjectiveC is available for Linux and Windows as gcc's gobjc, but also GNUstep - kind of open-source Cocoa (former OpenStep): http://gnustep.org

See my comment above for GNUstep github repo.
She always has drama around her because she has some kind of rockstar vibe, she's hyper, and she has what seems like a limitless supply of enthusiasm and good will. I've seen plenty of people like that get shit all over just because they're happy when other people aren't. It doesn't mean she deserves a stalker. Just sayin'.

By comparison I'm a relative nobody, but this same person who stalks Rachel has also stalked me off and on for about a decade because I once told him "no" when he asked me to do something for him I didn't feel comfortable doing. All it takes to trigger stalker-dude is to make him feel slighted in some way.
But stronger ties could be more "sticky", i.e. it's harder to leave Facebook than Twitter because people (in general) have stronger ties to people they are connected in Facebook than in Twitter. Thus, life-time value of a stronger tie for the service provider is larger. This seems common sense, but I'm interested in if there's any kind of data what the ratio is. Inside a single service, of course, as values are not directly comparable over the services due to different business models)
So... how much memory does it eat?
Haha, nice way to beat the system. But I doubt the symmetry of those two graphs.

Surely, there is no (ordinary) retail car on the planet which can accelerate as fast as it decelerates?
I'm not to familiar with the Illumos world. Would this be the equivalent of a new Linux distribution?
Modern Storytelling: Enhanced or Spawned by Technology?
This is a great idea, but...

One of the big problem with many of the eBay auctions is that they don't use original material - for example, if you're selling a copy of a game or movie, often you won't bother to take a picture of your copy - you'll search online and find the best one you can, slap it in the auction and call it a day.

This happens all the time, and as auctions are very time limited, it often doesn't raise the ire of the original source of the media.

If they had some sort of dedupe/anti-"stock photo"/anti-"professional product shot" thing in there, this could probably work.
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I shouldn't trust a hashed username and password? How are server-based systems more secure?

How are you going to verify the password without a server? Passwords are a server-based system.

That's a non-issue if it's handled by ACLs on the server.

ACLs fine-grained enough to handle modern security scenarios are going to be just as complex as doing traditional validation. Any non-trivial sites are quickly going to get way more complex than just doing it the old-fashioned way. So why bother?

why should an application like Facebook care to verify whether you want to modify your own settings or send a friend request?

Because privacy is mission-critical for Facebook, and an exploit that allows me to send a friend request to myself as you is an unmitigated disaster for them. And trivial to do in a mostly-client world. Beyond trivial if I have access to the other client, which I am one browser bug or open wifi access point away from having.

It can be, provided that it's only in the form of new features

And those new features are going to be written in what? Since your MVP's framework doesn't support server-side logic, you're now splitting your code in three. Now you're either in maintenance or rewrite hell, just as you're taking off.

That's not one of the good problems to have, it's one of the stupid problems you should have avoided by laying the right foundations at the start.
Personally, I've developed my own point of view wherein you typically have 8 hours of work and 8 hours of free time (roughly speaking). Some form of work is a necessity to feed, shelter and clothe yourself and to maintain sanity, and some form of relaxation is a necessity to again maintain sanity.

So, you can attack it on both fronts. Your job isn't everything you always dreamed of? Well, if that dream job is out of reach for now, you can start working on your personal life. Half your life is spent working, but half of it is not. Don't overlook the chance to live that second half of life just because of work.

Yes, try to aim for a job you enjoy. But if you can't secure that dreamy job where work feels like play every day, all hope is not lost.

(FWIW, this is conclusion is not the result of a defeatist attitude, but rather the realization that the satisfaction I derive from my personal life lags that which I derive from my professional life. Consequentially, I can reap the largest improvements in my personal life. I can't take shortcuts and fill that void with more work, because my physical & mental health deteriorates when the balance breaks down in either direction)
I'd love to see good, simple two-way sharing control. I should be able to decide who a post is visible to, and they should be able to decide what proportion/type of my posts they want to see. G+ is better at the former while FB is better at the latter; neither do the whole package very well.
I have so many tools at my disposal but have only a fraction of your talent and perseverance...Great job!
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Yeah, I wasn't crazy about the implication that str and int only do this via special built-in magic. In reality, you can overload __new__ to return whatever you want, including object interning.
It takes two to tango.

That is harsh, but it is a lesson I learned from my stalker.

No one deserves to be stalked, and the people that do the stalking and weird and disturbing and evil. But I caused a significant portion of the problem in my drama.

Recognising that is a critical step to making them go away.

Which is possible.
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Yes, to be fair it's an iOS development wart, part of the Obj-C ecosystem. The only reason I'd use Obj-C is to write iOS/Mac apps so it's part and parcel for me. I tend to expect tools that I pay $99/year for to work.

Yes, it's possible to work around all these issues but once you've worked around them you no longer have a very good development environment and are back to vim + make/xcodebuild. Lets not even get into the horrid bugs still present in clang (although arguably this is a defect in the compiler and not the language).

Blocks may be more concise than lambdas in C++ but they are even cleaner in C# and F#. I'd actually prefer a hybrid between the two where there was no return necessary for multistatement lambdas in C# and no fun keyword required in F#. Yes, I'm picky about what I like and dislike in languages.

The __block keyword is also fairly annoying.

The biggest warts for me are the impedance mismatches between various parts of the system.

Primitive types and NSObject mismatches

blocks, function pointers, and selectors (a selector should also be able to capture the object for which it is invoked), similar to how C# works out the differences between methods, delegates, and lambdas.

Also, the lack of generics, although I do appreciate essential lack of type system and ability to violate method signatures if one so chooses. At least in Obj-C the lack of generics conveys some ostensible benefit even if utilizing it is poor form.
Ballmer's peak has nothing to do with "the morning after." For me it's after 2-3 drinks but after 4 it's probably gone.
Lifehacker is a terrible offender. Any of their pages contains the source code of the relevant content enclosed in a javascript object. I could just eval() the contents of the right <script> tag, append the created object to the DOM and get a readable page.
The whole class was about an hour. However, I spent about 20 minutes or so playing a different game which would get the kids excited about robots. I showed them some robots that exist today from current research and I actually had a little robot I made, which started walking when you clap. This way I introduced them the concept of a "brain" or computer residing inside the robot so that it would do stuff if you gave it the right instructions.
> or maybe he was simply impressed by the sheer dedication Krioukov put into avoiding this ticket.

This seems more likely.

I beat a speeding ticket with GPS data once - except the judge didn't even ask to see the data. I just said I had it. (Yes, the officer was there in court too.) The judge said he'd take my word for it.
Agreed. I find even a beer or two throws me off. However, when I need to write emails or some more social, less technical thing, a couple beers makes me way more productive. I think because I tend to waffle on verbiage and think things like, "no, that sounds condescending and I don't mean it to be, backspace" I find a little alcohol brings the "fuck it, send" threshold close enough to be productive at something I'm kind of bad at sober.
Maar ik kan niet lezen Nederlands.
Your family, at least the elders, would more appreciate that you pick up the phone or send postal mail than use technology.

Most of the elders in my family - talking people 65+ - have computers, use Facebook, to keep in touch. Most of my mother's _friends_ are on Facebook for that matter. They do appreciate a phone call, but for grand-baby pictures and video, that's where the action is.

My mother is the exception. At the age of 70, she's never touched a computer. She likely never will.

Anyway - my point is that my family is not exceptional, nor especially early-adopting. We're pretty typical Americans, I think.
I've been working on a UI control with some similarities to these, but built specifically for skimming long lists. The general idea is that the faster you scroll, the more "zoomed out" the view becomes. As the scrolling speed slows, the zoom returns to normal. So if you're scrolling quickly through a very long list, it's like flying at a higher altitude. The list includes big "landmarks" (e.g. letters of the alphabet) to provide a sense of position. The control is tuned so that the apparent velocity of a given item through the control's "viewport" remains within the same narrow range. Instead of getting an illegible blur of items zooming past, you instead see an increasingly zoomed out view as scrolling speed increases. In an environment that provides momentum scrolling, the overall effect is like taking big, high leaps along the list in low gravity.
where did you find that 20 points to qualify?
I can't see anyone objecting to a fish or something. As for cats and dogs... my guess is probably not, either because other people would object, they would be bothersome, or the lease would not allow for it. So it's possible, but unlikely.
Birds of a Feather. They're informal, ad-hoc meetings centered on a specific topic. Like if the topic of "unit testing" (for example) comes up a lot, someone might propose a BOF on unit testing and anyone interested can show up and ask questions, run a demo, etc.
This is happening to some degree in audiobook form with Podiobooks.com - many authors release episodes weekly, as they write and record them. This is likely happening in text form too, but I find that I listen to rather than read books these days. Also, Amazon bought the dominant digital audiobook distribution platform in Audible.com for what that's worth.
It's a known fact, but nevertheless annoying that Twitter URL LENGTHENS, and annoying that Twitter thinks it's ok to rebrand publisher shorteners like nyti.ms or tcrn.ch which help users recognize where the redirect will take them.
Another interesting thing I've found is that packagers really prefer tarballs. They can checksum them. They don't need to download your full history, etc.

The tarballs automatically produced by github have names that are annoying and makes things harder for packagers, so I find myself creating "make dist" targets and uploading the result to github. Is there an API for file uploads? (that would be sweet!)

I do wish there was a way to provide a format string that would tell github the basename to use for tarballs.

If you are jquery and your project is jquery your tarballs look like jquery-jquery-v1.2.3-g654321.tar.gz and the directory basename is the same.

If they added the ability to configure it per-repo and used "{{ user }}-{{ repo }}-{{ tag }}-{{ sha1 }}" as the default then they could keep backwards compat and let folks configure it to their liking. It's one of my very few github peeves.
How would this compare to say the BitNami RubyStack, I've been using this to keep multiple Rails version (2.x and 3.x) running on Lion:

http://bitnami.org
I don't get it, I went to every Microsoft Professional Developers Conference from 1995-2005 and I never saw any partying (well, there was that one visit to Universal Studios that was pretty cool). I missed out!
I'm intrigued now. Did you give the stand up comic thing a fair shake?
What makes you think there wasn't a complete background check?, I don't know how you can rate his coding skills (much less say that he lacks others) but having worked with him I realized that he is really committed to the players (trying to give everyone a great playing experience), has an excellent work ethic and was overall a really nice person to work with.

I also remember the times where Guinsoo and Eul where in charge of development (not fondly) and in my opinion it's thanks to IceFrog that the game achieved it's current popularity, even while developing DotA2 he still delivers new versions with new content regularly to the community.

Disclosure: ex-Forum Moderator dota-allstars.com,playdota.com ex-Beta Tester
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Given a series of increasingly sophisticated verbs and language processing, there should be no practical reason why machines could not use and write APIs to talk among themselves and build their own interactive services. Too sci-fi for now?
No, I'm fairly certain I was in open mode the entire time I was implementing the system. It wasn't a single epiphany followed by many hours of implementing the ideas generated in that epiphany; it was a continuous stream of idea after idea, with little "what if" explorations. I was experiencing flow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29

I wasn't stressed, thinking about deadlines, or worrying about whether my system would work or not. I was simply playing, with no goals in mind other than improve the "beauty" of the system. It was very similar to what I experience when I'm painting or composing music.

There was another system I developed a few months back - again, exclusively on my own time. I would only work on it while in open mode. Only once I felt my "art" was complete did I present it to my manager and a few execs. They loved it! My system has now replaced the old system and is now part of a real product. Had I instead tried to develop the system at work, because my boss said I had to, I highly doubt it would have turned out as good as it did.
Trying to replicate some these on iOS with core animation.
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Nice! I'll just leave some links in case anyone wants to see what its like:

http://www.wifiproducts.com.au/wifi-mikrotik-webstore/ALIX_C...

http://www.wifiproducts.com.au/wifi-mikrotik-webstore/ALIX_2...
This could be very useful for populating load-on-scroll lists. I think Flip and Tilt are the least distracting.