skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However simplistic, it’s hard to deny that in the public understanding of German political history, that’s the generally accepted explanation for political stagnation and crisis in the Weimar Republic.

Similarly, the German public understands hyperinflation as leading to the rise of Hitler and the Second World War. There was a genuine and severe hyperinflation crisis in the years after World War I, but the main economic reason for the Nazi ascendance to power in the early 1930s was actually a period of _deflation_ and mass unemployment. The Nazi rise to power coincided with an inflationary policy (Germany exited the gold standard in 1931), in part supported by the Nazis, that decreased unemployment and increased economic growth.

This is why it’s kind of funny when the current inflation aversion of German policymakers is attributed to a national trauma about hyperinflation. It’s true that the hyperinflationary period 1919-1923 was deeply painful for Germans and you can understand that they don’t want to repeat that, but surely the consequences of the deflationary period leading to the rise of National Socialism were worse.

(That doesn’t mean that Keynes was wrong, but a story that sees hyperinflation leading to WWII is probably too simplistic. It’s more like hyperinflation → gold standard → Great Depression → deflation → Nazis gain more seats → leave gold standard → Nazis gain absolute power.)

See http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2010/06/30/197736/austerit...
Although Linus is from Finland, he comes from the Swedish-speaking minority population there and his native language is Swedish. Sweden itself is pretty PC, but I don't know if that goes for the Finnish-Swedish as well, or if it is just Linux being Linus
Except this thingy can't do any of those things. You've got a single ball levitating, kept in place by a complicated mechanical system below the deck which adjusts the position of a bunch of other magnets in real time. You might be able to scale it up to a couple of magnets, but not to many magnets.
In 1956 there was such a thing as "the compiler business". Companies bought compilers.

Now, most programmers only speculate what a compiler does. They are so focused on language details.

Few want to write compilers. Many want to write yet another new language.
Put a handle on it. Also, make sure it fits in the overhead bins.
I know about all of that. That's exactly why I don't think she's a good example of someone who had excessive empathy for others, because she didn't seem to have much empathy at all.
It's not. The reasons that one might use `plumbum` are similar to the reasons that one might use `fabric` instead of just running local/remote shell scripts, i.e.

- Ability to leverage the richness of Python to pre/post-process the inputs/outputs from other shell commands.

- Easier to parameterise and maintain.

- Familiarity with Python over the likes of bash, zsh, etc.
How are Siri commands going to distinguish apps? For example, if I have a weather app and someone asks what the temperature is... Well Siri is just going to pull up the default Apple weather app...
Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right (2009)
That is why God invented abstracts...
What you can do is teach him rational thinking and explain social and moral rules in terms of how they create an environment that is safer and more pleasant for everyone to live in, and how breaking the rules for personal gain tends to be risky. Then try to make him risk-averse.
I agree, and take it further. Psychopathy is a label looking for a definition. It's defined as the opposite of any of the qualities that we associate with the root "human".

They're normal people except that they can't be humane, they can't show any humanity, they completely lack compassion and normal human emotion. They don't share our motivations, their motives are alien and disruptive. They are "other". How do we diagnose them? Each of us decides what is morally repugnant to us, then when other people don't find it repugnant, we label it as sick and speculate whether it's genetically irredeemable. Did they have a mutation in their morality gene? Or are they just the descendants of Cain?

It's 100% culturally bound. Some people think that profit is morally repugnant - does that mean we live in a world of psychopaths? If they were the majority it would.

It's an ugly, dehumanizing term, and reveals a lot of psychology as a moral system rather than a scientific one - being its equivalent of evil. Labeling a 9-year old a psychopath is part of the same cultural process that causes children to be tortured and killed as witches in Nigeria.

btw: support http://steppingstonesnigeria.org :)

btw2: this doesn't mean I believe in Xenu.
Children such as the one portrayed in the article are the reason I believe that the age at which abortion can be performed should be extended to 18 years.
Then again Red Hat's value add is the support. Red Hat's business model is not to rely on its customers' altruism. There are various reasons to dislike such a model, especially for an IDE, not the least of which is that the point of a well-designed IDE like LightTable is that it's easy to use and does not require a support contract. Being a support company creates the conflicting incentive that the software should not be too easy to use. Furthermore, support is not fun; you need to be a big company to earn a significant amount of money, because revenue is directly tied to man hours. Making new and exciting IDEs is fun, and revenue can be more directly tied to the value you produce, rather than the hours you put in.
Some panhandlers really need money, and some don't. There's no way to know for sure which is which, and I can't afford to give money to everyone who asks for it. So the only "rational" solution is to not give money to panhandlers at all.

Of course, I don't follow that rule perfectly because saying no or ignoring somebody makes me feel like a dick. But I'm not going to pretend that giving money to a panhandler is ever a rational act.
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Explosion of text message spam creates space for Cloudmark
The reason languages want threading as part of the language is for the memory model. The Boehm paper covers this in-depth. Libraries also need to be thread-aware to some degree, for example reentrant functions and thread-local storage issues.
As a python guy, I don't want python support. That would be one more reason for lazy me to go there and learn/play with some Clojure :)
There is no way in hell this isn't satire.
Apple sells premium products, they just have the sales volume and operational chops to sell them at reasonable prices.
"But we should keep in mind that while Apple products are on the pricey side, they are firmly within the reach of the common man."

Just so. With the caveat that it's more like "the common middle-to-upper-middle class (hu)man." There is something for nearly every level of consumer buying power within the Apple line, but the "fat middle" of the curve is within products that are slightly premium priced.

So, where would an Apple HDTV ideally be placed? At a price point where they can have mass market, premium appeal. (I'm utterly unfamiliar with TV set prices, so can't speculate upon a number.)

They'll want to create the "BMW 3-Series of TVs", not the Audi R8 or Bugatti Veyron. So the Retina quality 85inch screen is a non-starter.
It is DMCA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Not DCMA
It's definitely not, until you need to access the stdout of that command programmatically. Plumbum replaces the subprocess module (and os.system etc.), not shell scripts, despite their motto. It might displace shell scripts, because once you can use lists, maps, functions with actual arguments, etc. why would you go back? But it's not going to replace shell one-liners any time soon.
Except that's how this is usually done. Federal loans can be deferred and payments scale to income. The counterargument to the high cost of college is that she, or her parents, should have looked at how much it would all cost and chose a cheaper school. More aggressively, it really sounds like "by good fit" she meant "incredibly expensive facilities" or even "fits how I view myself as a high status person".

There are college where in-state tuition runs far cheaper and many states give free rides if you get a good SAT score. So it's incredibly hard for me to have much pity.
I think GP is using "organized" to mean the same thing you're using "forced" to mean - given by a governing body from its tax revenue. Funny how we tend to choose the adjective that puts our personal views in the best possible light. :P
Actually, people should vote on ideas, not people. Which is
why I support more flexible concepts of decision making, such
as the Liquid Democracy model the German PP uses internally.

We're ultimately going to converge against a leaderless system,
without parties, politicians and all that other nonsense. Technology
will eventually enable functioning anarchy, and we're just seeing
the start of it.
If this is true (and it might be), it would be only because most adults are completely oblivious when it comes to children. Adults in our society are notoriously good at seeing only what they want to see (I'm not talking about the HN type of person, I'm talking about your general population adult), and often this means overlooking certain characteristics in children. Or only seeing aspects of ADHD, or bipolar. Or not seeing that a parent is a really awful parent, etc.

Kids generally do not have as many biases as adults, and as a result they have less expectations. They don't see their peer as some angel, because they don't expect him to be an angel. They don't expect anything at all, so their perceptions aren't clouded.

But in general adults are much better at picking up on things like social cues and odd behavior.
I don't know much about psychopathy, but is it generally accurate to say that psychopaths don't "understand" the ethical rules of society or the motivation for having said rules? I thought it was more that they didn't feel any sense of personal moral obligation to follow these rules or any sense of guilt when they don't follow them (while they still might completely understand the rules and their philosophical justifications, and may even be completely in favor of these rules existing and everyone else following them).

(Like I said though, I know very little about the disorder and am mostly conjecturing based on superficial familiarity)
Done. :)

It'll go out before the kickstarter is done. I'm trying to finish it up in the next 10ish days.
Mads Christensen is the best. World renowned expert at increasing hysteria by at least 50% each quarter! A++. Would buy again.
He is not a comedian, more like a fashion, lifestyle and relationship expert. When he says that men should learn to say "shut up, bitch" it is not intended as a joke but as legitimate relationship advice. His viewpoints are well known, and Dell got exactly what they could expect. What is surprising is that Dell thinks this kind of relationship-advice is appropriate entertainment for a business conference.
I often flag or downvote question-titles and "X ways you're..." self-helpy magazine headlines. As you say, it's an almost perfect indicator of bad writing.
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Some really clever tricks here. I particularly like the __getitem__ one. I'm simultaneously excited and filled with horror. =)
What you've wrote is great! Add another post for the prerequisite of the AWS instance and link it there too.

Later, include more content on what you want to become an expert and surely the end result will be nothing more than satisfactory! Go ahead.
> 1. The applet to inhibit screen sleeping went away. Without it, I often look up from working on a hard problem to discover that my screens have been blanked out.

The Presentation Mode shell extension fixes this - adds an option to the drop-down menu on the power meter to turn on presentation mode, disabling screen blanking & locking.

> 4. About half of the GNOME configuration has moved to gconf to dconf, but there's no rhyme or reason as to which half. When I discovered the new settings applet, I tried to change stuff with gconf/dconf, except I have no idea how to figure out which applications use what settings storage backend.

I think finishing this migration is a work-in-progress.

Don't have immediate solutions for the rest of your gripes. Gnome 3 seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it thing; I find it to be great (modulo a few bugs and quirks, but it isn't everyone's cup of tea.
I question whether articles without conclusions are necessary at all, and the situation you describe is one of poor writing. Say something, then create a headline based on that. If you aren't saying anything, then a bad headline is all that's possible.
> Both of these gentlemen are legends who are attractive to any entrepreneur.

Really? Suppose a successful 45 year old with a net worth of $750k decides to ditch his chief engineer job for a startup. If he decides YC could help him not lose perspective, is PG going to turn him down cold? If his self-funded proof of concept gets traction, is Khosla going to have a secretary blow him off?

Probably not. The college kids only mentality is public relations, not an actual policy.
Laziness. Just point to the homepage for all the "Desktop" links. Done!

The correct behavior would need them to write some logic (even if it's just: s/mobile\.//) to point to the correct desktop URL based on the mobile site URL, and then maintain this logic in future. That's extra work!
As Apple's iTV doesn't support 24Hz output, I suspect that they are unlikely to change this aspect of the TV industry.
My favorite part of this post is a quote from Gingras describing how the monopoly ad-rate pricing that characterized the golden-era of newspapers came into place. It was the rise of television that caused a huge contraction in the newspaper industry. Only one or two newspapers survived in cities that once supported five or six dailies.
Interesting and cold.
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Easily make any directory a website running at localhost.
I simply have to commend your choice of project title here.
He did get into trouble for saying that "some negroes do look like monkeys" on national radio. But generally he is more known for controversial relationship advice and armchair heroics.
You may also wish to add -C2qTnN[1]. At least -C2 for compression.

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So, I think it is a perfectly valid apology if basically the only thing you regretted about your actions was that it made someone upset

This is what makes it a non-apology.
I don't work at google, but my team is in the same boat because of this bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue10394

Moving to python3 wouldn't be too hard, except we have some really complicated cheetah templates, and cheetah apparently has no plans for supporting python3 any time soon.
I doubt your devs number as many as the kernel contributors nor are they working as independently. Perhaps "esoteric specifications" exist for a reason on a massive project which has seen and tried many things in the past 20 years.

If your devs commit bad code its probably pretty easy for you to find them and possibly fire them. If you can't tell who a kernel patch is from or even if it is actually from the person specified it calls into question the security of the kernel.
The electronics are generally very reliable. I have only had difficulty replacing electronics once, on a 1972 Mercedes, and that could have been worked around if the car had been worth saving.

Which is the real point. When a once-popular model becomes hard to repair, it is much more economical to buy a 10 year old used car than to keep the "antique" running. Driving a car older than you are is only for broke teenagers and rich hobbyists.
Not apologizing at all is seen as callous and only incites the mob against you. A non-apology apology is still enough to settle the mob but not enough to open one up to liability.

Historically, I'd agree, but my observation (and opinion) is that real time mass communications and an ever dropping attention span mean that half-hearted apologies (or even sincere ones!) merely fan the flames, whereas radio silence lets the storm clouds pass because people's attention spans are so short.
Check this out, Chamboo:
- http://www.quora.com/Career-Advice/Im-about-to-quit-my-job-t... and http://www.quora.com/In-Mircea-Goias-journey-from-coal-minin...

You are in a better situation today than me 10-12 years ago.
You know jemalloc was originally written for FreeBSD?
This is an excellent marketing case study. He found a segment that is passionate about the issue and launched a product, with simple messaging, that he was uniquely positioned to build, that played directly into that passion. All the little touches, like the "I am a human" are perfect to re-enforce his value prop. Boards like this provide him the virality he eneds to get the word out. This is really startup 101 stuff.
The page claims to be a "guide". It reads like an article. That is to say, walloftext. If you aim to teach people how to do something with their computer, it is generally good to cut down on the text and include some helpful pictures, information on alternatives, and briefly address common problems.

It isn't a bad post, but I don't know that I'd call it a guide.
No it doesn't. As far as I know, the opposite thing happens: politically motivated research that doesn't deserve to be called scientific gets published over and over again. I'm specifically thinking about a few "scientific" articles sponsored by oil companies that happen to explain away global climate change, for instance. Or the many papers in which the Cato foundation, earnestly and with the best of intentions no doubt, tries to establish the inferiority of public healthcare. Or the Genesis Foundation defense of creationism.

There's no suppression. Just bullshit addition.
> the military essentially screens for them in order to make the most of the mounted 50 calibers

Citation needed, not calling bullshit necessarily but I can't imagine selecting for pyschopaths in the military does wonders for unit cohesion / morale.
I suppose it varies between office/department but when I interviewed there 2 years ago I saw nothing but MacBooks.
Maybe but most of target audience of such story doesn't have first hand experience of working in mostly female environment and while reading about it they would imagine happyland of pure bliss with a bit of thrill.

I think straight men have similar level of uneasiness about gay men as women about straight men. Mostly safe despite all the silly stuff but...
I know someone who wrote GPL software and sold alternate non-GPL licenses - apparently (at the time, at least) some organizations had very paranoid lawyers who won't allow any GPL software to be used. He called it the "Sap" license. Those particular companies tended to have deep pockets, so this worked out.
Google can only index 200 documents per API call?
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But that's exactly what they're sorry for. It's not like Dell's going to say "We're sorry we hired a jerk." That implies that they meant to hire a jerk. "We're sorry you're offended" means "We didn't do this out of malice, but we recognize that it was hurtful regardless, and that's why we're sorry."

I always get the feeling that what they're really supposed to do is grovel--to admit that it wasn't an honest mistake, but that they really were being evil, and that they've finally been caught and forced to own up. I don't think people are comfortable with diversity when it means that some people think it's totally okay to do something that other people would find horribly offensive.

I'm sorry if that's offensive. But that's all I'm sorry for.
Python is the next language targeted for support at this point.
So you're saying it's never necessary to consider open questions at all? What if the question was written as a conjecture, then the name of the conjecture was used as the title, would that be somehow better? That makes no sense.
Loewe has a superb engineering team, and has been working for ages between TV technology and design. Employees are no more than 1,000, and these guys know how to market high-end, design oriented TVs. This is a talent acquisition.
No, but I still have extra sleeves. They're reclose-able and fairly compact, but not so small that I'll lose them.
Hiring people on objective criteria only is really, really hard to do: if you're sure that's what you do, you almost certainly don't. We---all of us---judge people on a whole host of superficial qualities, many of them linked to gender. You don't have to hate women to subconsciously picture brilliance as male. If that's you, and in our culture it's most of us, you're going to miss great coders because they don't look or act like you expect.
Yesterday, as a last resort after a day and a half of unproductive frustration, I printed out a bunch of code from five or six different (too tightly coupled!) files that I was trying to refactor, spread them around my desk to get some sort of handle on it, and attacked them with a red pen.

Needless to say, I'm in for $50.
8 lines of scala code?

Really?

I suppose I can't flaw it...
the part where variables turn into literal values for a specific test case - that's something I haven't seen an editor do - is that a mode for IDEs that I don't know about?

I just imagined all the time I'll save by never stepping through with a debugger again.
He is not a comedian but kind of a pundit and lifestyle expert. He sincerely believes women are getting stronger and more successful than men, and men have to fight back. For the sake of entertainment he presents his viewpoints in an over-the-top and exaggerated manner, so it is hard to say how much is serious and how much is hyperbole.
Facebook's Eduardo Saverin may have tax tip for Zuckerberg - latimes.com
Yes, but they're often used for "mere" interpolation, especially in languages where, rightly or wrongly, string concatenation is believed to be inefficient. I personally do this nine times out of ten, if only out of habit.

For my part, I've never personally liked the use of "+", in particular, to denote concatenation, for the (admittedly silly) reason that string concatenation is not commutative. If nothing else, it's a bit of a slippery slope to even more dubious operator overloads, though not nearly so much as C++'s bloody I/O "operators"!
Very cool! Far far better than getting people to enter their email address twice which is a terrible solution to a problem in my opinion.
There was also that controversy last year when he said Breivik would've killed fewer people if Scandinavians weren't so passive, and were more willing to fight like Americans. I'm surprised that after that kind of press, corporations wouldn't steer clear...
When this happened to me at an urgent care clinic, I just didn't sign that form. Handed back the clipboard with the rest of the forms filled out. Either no one noticed, or they didn't care.
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> The fact that the military essentially screens for them

No, no they don't. What makes you think that they do?
:-(

I think you can relate better to victims of similar assaults. Most of them are women.

Point of the story would be to help reader to understand how unsafe can someone feel at work when people pass sexual remarks like it's nothing. OP's post doesn't really achieve that.
That link says Glenn Beck didn't sue for libel.
"We're sorry. We made a mistake." == taking responsibility for what they did.

"We're sorry you feel that way." == passing the responsibility back onto the other person.