skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience says otherwise :). But we can agree to disagree.

Regarding your bicycle metaphor: just as a balloon releases gas into its surroundings, a bicycle - when we stop adding to its kinetic energy - transfers energy from itself to its surroundings until it stops. I think it's largely irrelevant whether we use the release of a physical substance or energy as a metaphor, but whatever works for you.

I also realize that I missed an important point in my previous post, which is gaining the ability to stop thinking when thinking isn't needed. This is basically the development of an awareness of thought activity. Since, as you correctly say, thoughts create emotions and vice verse, releasing emotional energy will not work if you keep creating new emotional energy through unconscious thinking. But this is really an integrated part of the release of emotions; the two things happen simultaneously. Indeed, some emotions cannot even be released/experienced until you become conscious of the previously unconscious thought patterns that held them back.

> The correct analogy is not of a balloon releasing gas, but a bicycle slowing down.

I guess part of my point was that just as the bicycle wheel doesn't stop immediately after we stop propelling it, emotions don't disappear immediately either even if thought activity subsides completely. There is an inertia left that can make us experience emotions related to an incident long after it has happened (even with no thought present). Very much like the remaining momentum of the bicycle wheel in the analogy.
Student Loans Weighing Down a Generation With Heavy Debt
What's wrong with the interface?
Iran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran
It is old news, and the technology revolves around extracting extra money from IP holders while disrupting a small number of transfers on selected files.

Consider skipping.
Sounds like we may be getting another name or acronym to add to the long list of failed technologies that have already tried to promote a similar idea.

We already have ONC RPC, DCE, Java's Remote Method Invocation, Jini, CORBA, SOAP, and .NET Remoting, among many others. Does this family of failure really need to grow any larger?
I don't understand that system either. I tip (more) when I get some extra service. Might be a beer over the mark, hint on what food to order, or even a smile. It's my choice to tip and it should be like that.
An IQ test which blacks are guaranteed to fail. Oh, the irony...
Good advice, less:

>"Imagine trying to explain to a hiring manager that you were fired because you planned to quit. Unfortunately, no one will believe you."

If you are a decent person who can solve problems in the real world, you don't have to worry about explaining yourself to anyone. Ever.
Consider immature littleboy behavior is everywhere. Its not More prevalent in programming, and this is not an issue, or any more of an issue than anywhere else.

Still, its good to recognize a problem in your own house, and this is as good a place (HN) as any to look into the dirty corners of our industry.
Quite. I know a lot of 15-18 year old students who study maths at this level. This is, unfortunately, very relevant.
WebGL around the net, 10 May 2012
Agreed. You can quit any job at any time, with little or no repercussion, if you do it politely and professionally. A catchall is "personal reasons prevent me from continuing at {wherever} at this time".
I think the op is making a joke about other things that happen when drunk...
What I mean to say is, if T is a type, then a pointer to T is certainly different from T, but a "pointer to T" isn't a new type. The C type system includes the single type "pointer."
> "I suspect it would make them a lot less approachable."

As a law abiding American, I can confirm that statement. There are a lot of scary looking characters that you can see while strolling through my city but none of them make me as nervous as police officers.
Not true. I'm not from the States either (Slovenia, to be exact) and I was working as a waiter/barman back in the student days. At the end of each month I earned more from tips than salary.

Why? Because I always went the extra mile to satisfy customers, entertaining them, telling them a joke, compliment, whatever. Telling jokes wasn't part of my job description but I did it anyway. And the only way for customers to let me know they enjoyed me serving them was by giving me tips. And it was an expensive lounge/club so they were charging enough for the beverages/service.

I guess the same goes with taxi drivers. They don't have to chat with customers. They drive them from A to B. But most of them do. To some customers, this means a lot - and they show their gratitude with tips.
I'm led to believe that societally they are repressing their anger and aggression in reaction to WWII. The lack of bar fights and the number of shootings are strangely low. I think this is the most compelling explanation. It is known that the atrocities committed by their people during WWII weighs heavily on their psyche.
Well, sure. This FTC-imposed delay is standard operating procedure for almost every large tech company acquisition in the United States.

Some recent examples on the Google side:

AdMob - announced November 9th, 2009, FTC approval May 21st, 2010

ITA - announced July 1, 2010, FTC approval April 8th, 2011

AdMeld - announced June 13th, 2011, FTC approval December 2nd, 2011

(Each of those acquisitions were for less than Facebook's paying for Instagram, although the decision to investigate isn't just based on money.)

This is why large acquisitions usually include a breakup fee in case they don't go through.
>The benefits from economies of scale and mass-ordering still apply to much lower priced hardware.

If you break the uniformity of the order, to lower priced for some and higher priced for others (for which the lower priced won't do) then you break the economy of scale benefit.

Instead of buying 100 same machines, you then buy a 100 machines of A/B/C etc types. You still buy bulk (within every machine class), but not as "bulk" as before.

Sure, the savings from buying bulk the more expensive unit may not totally offset the savings of buying units with different price points, according to each deployment's specific needs. But uniformity has a lot more benefits, too.

>The IT staff wages will still have to be paid because hardware needs support regardless of the unit price.

Sure, and nobody argued that. What we said is that since the price of the hardware is a drop in the bucket (marginal) compared to the total cost (mainly the IT staff costs), then it doesn't matter. Paying 30,100,000 compared to 30,020,000 is not much of a difference (this one is 0.2%, but even if it was 5-10% it would not matter much).

Also there will be savings in the staff training (the have to only learn one unit), fixing costs, etc.

The most important reason though, is that we are very bad at anticipating future needs in internet infrastructure. Better get something that has a lot of headroom for future needs.
I've built a company a few years ago which competed with these guys in their previous market - bittorrent optimization for ISPs. We've built the product (sort of a bittorrent cache) and achieved some positive results on a few production installs but never hit the real mark. The optimization we provided for ISPs wasn't worth for them the cost of the service we were considering minimally acceptable. The 'long tail' was really longer than we anticipated and this long tail spoiled our cache.
But we've developed the 'carrier grade bittorrent client', i.e. hundreds of thousand connections, tens of thousand downloads, millions of files. Erlang + C. Hack value was something to be proud of.
The next attempt would be to convert it to this - spoil the downloads and charge the copyright owners. We discussed this many times within the company but finally decided to wind it down. I believe breaking the protocols is beyond the line and we're too old school to cross this line. I wouldn't have been hesitated to, like, chasing individual violators, given the proof of violation, or identifying child porn distributors or something along these lines, but not breaking the internets.
I talked to this guy once, btw. They were quite behind us in terms of technology and I don't think they progressed much. Well, I'd like to think :-)
On error report: I wrote some programs in C that heavily reply on huge macros to mimic template in C++. The gcc error report is completely useless as it points to the line with the entire function expanded to a single line. Clang is much more clever.
If I'm reading this correctly the software attacks ordinary peoples PCs to prevent them seeding a specific file (by spoofing other peoples IPs?). Anybody want to guess how many laws they could potentially be breaking in Europe and the US?
To me, software bugs are not inherently visible in a way that a bad photo is.

Unless tests, QA and the like were listed on the requirements list, I believe most fixes should be charged, too. Of course when tests are required and written according to the contract, and obvious bugs still fall through the cracks, that is an entirely different matter.

This is a difficult subject imho, because most employers are not willing to pay for testing and, unfortunately, not for fixing the consequences, either.
Silicon Valley Avoids 'B' Players Like the Plague
Well, noone who wants to be paid for their work can compete against piracy.
How do you tell if he's actually off duty or just dicking around?
> These prevention tactics tell me, the consumer, that this company believes it cannot compete on any level with the ease and availability of pirating content

of course they can't! Piracy has one major value to people that engage in piracy: it allows people to acquire content without abiding by the acquisition policy set out by the content distributors. It's "competition" in the same way that it's "competition" when 1 athlete in an Olympic running event is taking steroids and has jet boots on. You can't treat piracy as fair competition.

Most people don't pirate out of a "It's too difficult for me to buy this song via itunes", they pirate because they don't want to spend money. Content distributors can't compete with that, even with services like Netflix and Hulu people still pirate because they don't like adverts. If they are unwilling to pay and unwilling to view adverts what other options are there besides just giving away content for free? People that pirate (in general) want content without compromising on the way they want it, while piracy exists these people will continue to pirate.
Yeah, never ever ever get in a Livery cab though without pre-negotiating a price. I made that mistake once.
Interesting. I don't recall the King experiment.

I would think that after achieving a great amount of wealth/success that these people would actually lust after the idea of breaking all requirements from the traditional publishers and work directly with their fans. Obviously need would be helpful, but I don't think need is necessary for success. Want seems to trump need in these cases - which might explain why it doesn't work quite as well for no-name bands/artists.
Kickstarting an iOS App, Part 1: Digital Rewards
If he's pulls over and asks you where you're going, then he's not actually off-duty. If he refuses to take you (either because you don't answer or because he doesn't like your answer) then you should report him.
I'd hardly describe temperance as ever having been the majority view across the UK. Indeed, even when districts were allowed to vote to be "dry" (under the Temperance (Scotland) Act 1913) relatively few did so.

Interestingly enough, one of the villages that did, Findochty, was close to where I grew up - and they only stopped being dry relatively recently.

So I would personally regard "temperance" as being the view of a small, but highly active, minority. We don't have a temperance culture but a drinking culture.
In Russia they're breaking the laws too.
> The first cop you see entering a British airport concourse will probably be carrying an MP5.

Last week, a friend told me that when he flew into Amsterdam some years ago, there were people with automatic weapons standing around, and he was told it was routine.

Can I ask what the hell Europe is expecting that the US isn't? Because aside from some deployments in the immediate wake of 9/11 (which I vaguely recall were such a joke that the rifles weren't even loaded), we don't do that here.
An upvote wasn't quite enough here:

This is a lovely way of explaining the difference, and it'll be what I link people to in future when explaining why I opt for BSD-style licensing. Thank you.
You're clearly arguing with a libertarian. There's no point continuing.
For one, they too benefit from Apple's work on Clang (and other projects).

Seconds, there is no "stealing". They provide a license that explicitly allows such a use.
Charities achieve the same effect with their donation tiers -- people very often donate the minimum for a particular tier. Looking at the FreeBSD Foundation donors page, they've received $148,968 so far this year, and adding up the "minimum donation to be listed in this tier" numbers gets you up to about $144,000.

For that matter, I did the same thing -- Tarsnap was towards the top of the 1000-4999 $ range from its December 2011 donation (which due to accounting and postal delays counted as a 2012 donation) and yesterday I said "screw this, let's hit the magic number" and wrote them a check for the remaining amount I needed to be in the $5k+ tier instead.

I've seen multiple charitable organizations engage in lengthy debates about whether they should add an $X tier and hope that people below that level will bump up their donations or whether they'd lose too much from people who were currently donating more than $X instead reducing their donation down to $X.
Wow. This sounds exactly like me and my situation. Exactly a year ago at the beginning of May I began working on my first startup, after doing freelance web development for several years.

The startup was founded by 2 non-tech guys, I am employee #1 (tech guy, engineer), developing everything from the ground up. The product vision is not focused enough and is causing us to go into 100 different directions. 1 of the co-founders is a doctor and the other is a business guy with some very good connections (very similar to you).

The problem is that based on consumer feedback we're constantly changing, but we're trying to encompass EVERYTHING that EVERY tester has asked for. My personal feel is that although it's nice to know exactly everything that everyone wants, attempting to do everything is an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA. The saying "Jack of all trades, master of none" comes to mind. We can't be good at everything, so let's focus on 2 or 3 things that will have the MOST IMPACT and that we can be REALLY GOOD at to get CONSUMERS HAPPY about our product. Consumers WON'T BE HAPPY with 100 features that work HALF ASSED. This has been what I've been trying to explain for a long time now.

Over the course of the year, we've had a graphic designer who was with us for several months but couldn't handle it anymore so he left. Prior to me they had 2 other people; a programmer and a designer, and both of them have since left. The reason is clearly the lack of focus on what really matters.

The problem is that I am being paid a decent salary, and although I have some equity in the company, I feel like I don't really have much of a say (I have tried voicing my opinions but they've often gone ignored). I usually can't get a word in edge-wise anyhow even if I wanted to
Evasive eccentric old guy, elaborate secrecy theatre, amateur beats chemists by tinkering: sounds exactly like a hoax.
I'm not discounting Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at all. I haven't tried it myself, but I can see why it would help, since it deals with thoughts, which can create new emotions. As I wrote in reply to ZenPsycho, I really missed an important point in my post above, which is that unconscious thought activity creating new emotions is definitely a part of the condition.

Another way to explain the process I outlined above is to say that as a person becomes aware of his own thoughts, unconscious thought patterns are broken up and dissolved, and the emotions that were held back by these thought patterns are released/experienced. This is another, just as valid, perspective on the same process. So you are completely right to say that emotional release isn't the chief cause of the relief of symptoms; it's simply a part of the process that unfolds as we become more conscious of our thoughts.
I'd like to see the statistics backing some of his points, but what about those of us that fail on purpose? Isn't the only way to improve the remaining racial divide to ignore race altogether? That's what I attempt to do and I refuse to a) apologize for it and b) refuse to believe that I'm an idiot because one person says so.
You are assuming that the person being shot deserves it. UK police shot about 5 people a year. I can think of at least 3 instances where this was totally unnecessary. I.e. drunk man with table leg in his backpack which was mistaken for a sawn off shot gun. Mentally ill teenager with a toy gun. Ditto but with a gun shaped lighter. All with highly trained firearms officers present. It seems highly likely to me that less well trained 'general purpose' US police officers are shooting a lot of people unnecessarily.
Ah, that's exactly what I meant! :)
Why we don't need to ditch the term 'gamer'
I don't see the need to tip either as I live in a country with a decent minimum wage. I worked in a bar as a student and tips were rare. As a result I see tipping as some kind of failure by businesses. If employees are paid fairly and the service is always good why should customers tip? (Honest question)
It's more copying a company, its business model, idea, everything down to the fine details that bothers me. Not so much copying a business model or an idea.
I hope LightTable has really good keyboard based controls. The reason I prefer terminal environments more is just being able to not have to constantly mode switch between keyboarding and mouse pointer.
Facebook is killing text messaging
Are you cold-emailing folks? In a close work group, I'd have guess replies would be near 100%.
I'd guess this impetus for this post came about after this meeting at pycon

http://kennethreitz.com/the-future-of-python-http.html
Radioactive man? Milford resident pulled over by state police
Given how Russian internet is structured it may actually work. I mean the small number might become not so small. You can relatively easy (given the appropriate administrative support) break the download for 1M people at once (a whole city) from a single server.

The upside of this is that you can easily get 20-30Mbit for $20-30/mo from 3-4 competing ISPs in a relatively large city.
Yeah that's the whole point and problem; seems US police (and other gun bearers) seems to think their lives are threatened far too easily. That's the only stories we hear in the EU; obviously there will be plenty of cases were deadly force is needed. But if you feel your life is being threatened by unarmed people running away from a scene... ...

And the martial arts wow depends on the case; I have only been in knife fights were the knife was pulled by a drunk guy. No problem taking that away. I would imagine this is often the case; depending on the drug it would not be hard, especially with a baton in hand. No guns needed.

The stories I read here today, in the article and generally in the EU press about US shootings just show shoddy police work though. But that's because it's press; they don't really want to publish things that go well; only things that go bad.

> trying to hit anything other than the torso under these conditions (especially if the target is moving, or any real distance away) while your heart is pounding and your hands are shaking is very very difficult.

Real distance away? Talking about someone coming at you with a knife in hand...

Moving => yes but towards you and I would like to bet most (by far) people will run at you in a straight line when attacking.

But yes, of course, if you fear for your or someone else's life, you would shoot to kill. My whole point is that in the US it seems (i'm being careful here not to go with all public opinion :) police is far to trigger happy also in cases were it makes no sense at all.

Edit: also if you read 'ajuc' his comment about Poland (and it's the same in NL and DE and probably the rest of EU); you have to shoot at the legs first. It's how we are raised to think and when there are police shootings here often (mostly) people are just wounded.
How much crime in America is caused by gangs? Without this fact, this claim sounds non-sensical.
I read the article referenced by esr. One of the few times I get to do this again, but [citation needed].
This is really a rationality test, not an intelligence test.

And I 'failed', because I answered Yes to question 4. By the common usage of the word 'racist', John Derbyshire is pretty clearly a racist. Though that of course has no bearing on the truth or falsehood of the statements in this article.
Yup yup yup! Respect the $EDITOR if possible please!

Maybe do something like use Ctrl-B as a way to issue keyboard commands to Light Table or break out of an editor window.
Code is here: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/badideas
NY Twitter Decision Fails to Require a Warrant
Yeah, my point exactly. But if you did draw, you can still shoot at the legs (as is normal in the EU for police).
I wasn't suggesting Russia didn't have laws against cyber crime. I'm just not familiar with them. It'll be interesting what the legal ramifications will be be if this service gets more traction and customers.
Sure, temperance has never been a majority view. But that is not the issue: the issue is that the culture is conducive to viewing alcohol consumption as something that will inevitably lead to the breakdown of social order. This is something that Mediterranean countries tend not to have.
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Tipping creates an incentive for service staff to do a good job. If you do a great job of keeping customers happy, you get paid more money.

It's a much tighter feedback loop than "if you suck, maybe your manager eventually notices, then complains to you, then fires you."
Secret I believe to be true:

A good deal of experimental research is a cartel on resources and data. The "open access" movement in biology is not what programmers would think of as open; you can get access to many "open" data sets only by application, and you pretty much need to be an academic biologist to be granted an application. Science would be much stronger if there was a norm of truly sharing data. But restricting access is in the interest of each individual researcher who wants to maintain his/her relative prestige advantage.
No No No!

(function () {
'use strict';
The IT Department welcome's you to eBay, Inc.;
}());
To be clear, the Japanese face 'extinction'. The lumps of rock called Japan will still exist and though they may no longer be called Japan in one thousand years.

Does anyone really care about these things? Granted there is the tipping point where there aren't enough young to pay for/ look after the old (usually natural immigration can fix this). Other than that does it really matter? The useful genes that reside in the Japanese population will have made it out by then anyway.

I seem to remember that the Europeans have ~500 years. As a European I don't feel threatened or moved by this.
There's no contradiction between wanting to use Gnome and wanting to use XMonad. Personally, I think I slightly prefer the default Unity experience over Gnome 2, Windows 7, or Max OS - but its hard to customize in the ways I want. However, with a simple

sudo aptitude install xmonad suckless-tools gnome-session-fallback
sudo vim /usr/share/gnome-sessions/gnome-classic.session

and change the window manger to xmonad I'm happy as a clam.