skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When do we take the people who do this and put them in jail?

Uhh... never. In the western world and America especially, modulo certain exceptions[1] it is within your right to make stupid, offensive, degrading movies. This is true even if people in other countries riot in the streets and call for your death.

1. Such as directly inciting violence or yelling fire in a crowded theater.
A 'Business Bull' or 'Overheard in the Elevator' app - a tongue-in-cheek buzzword generator for business folk. Here's your data: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/06/19/89-busine...
on another note (also on todays HN homepage!)

"Russia reveals secret diamond field containing 'trillions of carats'" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534468
Interesting, and a step in the right direction, but one has to wonder, if they were to make more detailed information available, how much money could they save by armchair analysts offering pricing and purchasing suggestions.
Ankit Fadia is as much of a hacker as Poonam Pandey is an astrophysicist.
What else where you thinking?

>>then this is a painful reminder how far you can go on zero skills and 100% chutzpah.

Nearly 99.99% of Top/Middle management layers in Indian IT are taking big sum salaries back home all because of the mad rush for promotions and multiples of 10 digit hikes during 90's. Most would not last a day if they were to join the industry as programmers today.

They are all Ankit Fadia's with different names.

The actual and real hardworking ones rarely make it big.
I'm about to say something shameful, something no software developer should ever proclaim. In my personal time, whenever software crashes or errors out, I am often given a prompt (varies depending on the OS/application): Report the error, or ignore.

As an engineer who has spent invaluable hours combing over end user bug reports through services like Windows Error Reporting and the like, I am incredibly thankful for each and every user that took the time to click 'Report'. And I owe my firstborn to the benevolent few who choose to write detailed comments to accompany their reports.

But alone, in the dark, ready to edit a photo or browse Reddit- I click 'Ignore'. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. My rage at uncaught exceptions bubbles up into my brain and the stack reports, "you shall not get any info out of me." This is clearly wrong, but it's my impulse. That's all.
I agree with most of your comment, but calling Manning a traitor is an example of the worst argument in the world: http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world/
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Your statement goes in the right direction of the truth, but misses pretty badly on context.

First, yes, Iranians are skeptical of the US and UK for good reason.

The UK was the major imperial power in the middle east. The collapse of the Ottoman and British Empires, World War II and the rise of the Soviet Union as a superpower transformed the region from British control to being a proxy front for the Cold War. US policy for the majority of the Cold War was generally unabashed toppling of left-leaning governments to maintain dominance vis a vis the Soviet Union. That, combined with strengthening of political Zionism post-Holocaust, the large amount of oil in the region and the expressly anti-Western Islamic Revolution have continued to make the region a hotbed.

However, I'm not sure why you pulled Iran into this discussion. The Shi'as in Iran don't particularly like the predominantly Sunni Arabs, where the majority of these protests have been going on. Their war against each other was far bloodier than any conflict they've had with the west, though the west (and the US especially) did help to intensify it.

The current protests are happening primarily in the northern African "Arab Spring" countries, where the US did come down on the side of the populist movements, if somewhat late. Most of the problems in that region at present are somewhat less connected to the US's Cold War neo-colonialism and are more related to general demographic pressure and instability following the recent regime changes. The bits of anti-American sentiment in northern Africa are more connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than to neo-colonialism or direct American military action.

Basically what I'm saying is that there isn't one "Muslim" opinion; Islam is spread across a wide range of countries (Hint: most Muslims aren't even in the Middle East; Indonesia has more than all of the Middle East combined.) and lumping in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, Qatar and Morocco into one bag is fallacious.
Most developers can't write a CV for shit. Part of the problem is that because they know recruiters are so heavily involved in the process, they cram it with technology acronyms that they barely touched once, just to get through the filters.

A github profile is far more useful to me than a CV.

I've seen CVs that were absolutely dire, and so I was about to pass before I saw the github URL, I checked out their work and it was solid, so I wanted to talk to them.

If you don't want to share what you're doing, that's fine. You're just not going to get a job with me. You're not going to get a job at a lot of startups, as it happens.

That's your choice. I'm not forcing you into it, but I think you and your career would benefit if we moved as an industry to CV-less employment - github, HN, Twitter, whatever, are all far more helpful than knowing what grades you got at University, and 4 bullet-points covering several years of what you did working for a previous employer, for example.
Now I just need an Alfred extension that talks to the backend URLs
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Surprising not to see Rackspace or Amazon on the list!
What's pretty much hacker news to me is that this post shines some light on the whole story. Up to now, I didn't know it was a fraud, even in hindsight it is pretts obvious.

Where all that turns hacker news is that quite often it's "hackers" (read anonymous etc.) that are dragging truth out. Up to now, the story behind this video was never in news I read or watched. All we've got over here in Germany are some pseudo discussions about freedom of speech and art with some undertones of general freedom in the internet.

Not one word about the fact that some terrorists used an apparently made-up movie to stage attacks at western embassies and causing civil unrest. Which is, by the way, also helping all the western "islam is evil EVIL" sayers. As always the radicals on both sides of the line are profiting and mainstream media is playing the game along the whole way down.

So yes, upvoted the post to promote a different view and new bit of information about this whole mess.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a SaaS Service for Simple Customer Relatoins
In the last few years, we have built and used some simple tools that we found very useful in keeping in touch with our mobile customers.
On the following post, link below, I write a bit more about it.

What do you think about it? Would you use it?

http://blog.bitongo.com/index.php/2012/09/our-customer-communication-tools/
Very interesting concept, and it looks like she's taking readers opinions as well, allowing anyone to actually influence the content of the book.
Codeplane is also a nice alternative. They offer 2gb for just U$9/month.

https://codeplane.com/
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It works for me on a non-Virgin IP. It may be Virgin Media (home broadband), or Virgin Mobile (mobile internet) that blocks it.
We're not applying SR to an observer who warps, just to two observers in inertial frames of reference.

Suppose we have guy A and guy B who have clocks. They're on spaceships which are both drifting away from each other (i.e. provide inertial frames) at speed c/root 2; at time t=0 they were in the same place. From SR it should be clear that in A's frame, his clock reads 100 at the same time as B's frame reads 50, while in B's frame, when his clock reads 50 A's clock reads 25. All this should be basic and obvious.

So suppose an event happens on A's ship at time tA=100, and he transmits this instantly (or sends a courier C on a warpship) to B at time tA=102, when B's clock reads tB=51.

From B's perspective, he's just received a message from A at time tB=51 (which is simultaneous with tA=25.5), which A is not going to send until tA=102 i.e. tB=404. Thus, B perceives a violation of causality.

(This becomes very obvious if B can send an insta-message back to A with the same technology; B sends it at time tB=54 which is simultaneous with tA=26, A receives it at tA=26, well before he sent the original message at tA=102)
>Yes, you're right, the likes of EDS, IBM, Accenture, etc. are easily charging the upwards of $1k/day.

I said $1k PER HOUR, not per day.

I'd like to know of software consultancies that charge that much money per hour, excepting the typical fleecing when your deals are built on backroom backscratches like you'd find with the public companies served by EDS et al.

Percona has over fifty employees and they charge $350/hr for standard services and $450/hr for premium service. You only go to Percona if you have a very, very specific MySQL problem that needs to be resolved, and the staff at Percona is populated with as many major MySQL players as are willing. They definitely represent the big guns, when you really, really need your MySQL stuff fixed ASAP and can't fiddle around with people who aren't core MySQL developers, the people who invented the system. They are the top of the line in their niche, and they charge as much as a fresh-from-college lawyer.

A normal, generic consultancy will charge between $100/hr-$200/hr and often their employees aren't anything to sneeze at either, they're just less specialized and therefore have a less compelling case for such high rates. I know of no one in the realm of standard or even most niche commercial software consultancy that rakes in $1000/hr+.

If you know such a company, I'd like to learn their strategy so that I can start charging that much.
And if you wish to be trained and certified: http://relianceworld.in/afcs.htm
That's one thing the article should have taught you: a large search space is worthless when, given the chance, customers restrict themselves to tiny parts of it.
I built similar tool for myself last weekend, published it in GitHub https://github.com/Harri/Printico/
You're talking shit. As another poster has pointed out, you will refuse to let me deny what I actually meant, because you will insist I had no reason to obfuscate unless my intention was perverse and bigoted, but I needed to disguise the fact.

"barbaric rituals" was a flippant and throw-away comment inspired by the fact that quite a few developers really, really like emacs. That's enough barbaric ritual for me.

I had no thought or concept of religion in mind when using either that phrase, or penguin-murdering. I was being deliberately dramatic in an attempt at humour. I was pointing out the irony of how there's actually nothing to be ashamed of by talking to your potential employer in terms of who you actually are, so why do recruiters try and hide it?

You have cynically twisted my words, in as insulting and degrading a manner as possible. You're wrong, you know nothing about me, and the Jews and Muslims I've hired in the past would happily correct your interpretation of my character if given the chance.

You're also within a whisker of libelling me, so, you know, please turn it down a bit.
The tone of that rant tells me all I need to know about the Coffeescript community and developers. And yes, that means I'll stay clear of it.
Why should these studies be taken seriously when - from what I can tell - they do not take digital sales into account? CDs seems like a dubious metric. Wouldn't they have been hurt by digital purchases as well?
How is any scholarship not discrimination?

Athletes, young mothers, honor students, mcdonalds employees, etc.
The thing is that literate and educated muslims know that the film was made with evil intent ,it was dubbed over and that the characters did not know anything about what this project was actually about.
But the problem is that these literate and educated muslims don't go out and protest like madmen and savages.They will try to clear the misconception and show that Islam is the religion of peace.

The majority of the people who will be protesting violently out there are the ones who don't look for the facts. These are mostly brainwashed people who don't act on logic, they would not care if the actors knew anything about the movie or not. They would most probably just protest until the guy who made the movie is caught. But some of the people would actually want the whole cast taken down. And anyone who would try to reason with them (that they din't know anything about the movie) would get publicly humiliated and will be called a Zionist-agent.
We've been working on something along those lines: https://www.lettingcheck.com/

There's a long awaited, universal, update coming soon too.
Agreed,This seems like a more reddit type post.
You aren't going to fix that problem by hiding their real names, because the moment they turn up for interview the bigoted response is still going to be there.

So let's have some transparency, and deal with the actual root cause of the problem: racism, anti-Christian or anti-atheist sentiments, and wholesale bigotry in general.

Obfuscating names and past-times and religions might allow people to game it as far as first interview, but how does that help anybody, compared to actually dealing with the root cause issues?
I have never seen a UI from the seventies, but I imagine them being more DOS-y. Yes, the design has not received any major upgrades for 5 years now, but this also makes users "feel at home". I once switched from my iPhone 1 to an HTC Desire because I wanted a fresh look - but boy did I wish my iPhone back after some weeks.

I'm now both an iOS & Android dev and designer (and owning quite some devices from both sides), but I'll choose an iPhone anytime over iOS. There is no Android experience. There is only a Galaxy Nexus experience, an S3 experience,... But there IS an iPhone experience, and I know that my phone won't restart on me when I want to show my ticket to the train conductor.
Unsurprisingly this is entirely missing operating costs...
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Thanks, twas very hard to see HSL differences due to the high contrast between the linework and the black background. B-side was better.
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> and the anti-culture trend I can feel on HN

What do you mean by anti-culture trend?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture

Of all the definitions listed here, what on earth would anti-culture mean? This is the 20th century definition:

In the 20th century, "culture" emerged as a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of human phenomena that cannot be attributed to genetic inheritance. Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: (1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and (2) the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively.

If by culture, you mean the practices which have been followed for some time(won't that be tradition?), count me in as anti culture and tradition. "Something exists for a long time, hence it is useful" is bullshit. Culture and traditions are mostly dynamic, and people who think of a them as a static rather than ever changing snapshot of current human behavior are some of the biggest, bigoted assholes I have ever seen.

> culture, classic books, and so on, are the only way to build a better world.

Do you have anything other than your personal opinion to back up culture(whatever that means) or classic books building better world?
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Yes, I meant it in a flippant and off-the-cuff manner.

I have no interest in a person's religion. In fact if anything, I find religious diversity in the workplace a bonus. I've worked with Catholics, Protestants, Pagans, Muslims, Jews, Satanists (they're fun!), Atheists, Agnostics and I think one Scientologist/Freezoner who didn't want it widely known. So be it. Diversity and different viewpoints on the World and different ways of thinking are good.

So yes, there are other meanings. Plenty of other meanings, especially in a sentence that is clearly flippant.

I accept your apology in advance.
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> I take your point, but there books that are hundreds or thousands of years old that still help to illuminate the human condition and that people can learn from - Shakespeare, Plutarch, Herodotus etc.

I don't know what you are responding to. I didn't claim there aren't old books which are useful. I am taking exception to the unfounded claim about old classics being the real books. Personally, I find Shakespeare trash. I would rather re-read "Lord of the flies" or "To kill a mockinbird" than subjecting myself to the Shakespearean torture.

> I'd take those over some buzzword laden piece of Gladwell-lite that will be irrelevant in five years.

Tell me how Bill Gates reading about college students not getting much out of education(and actually acting on it) is not better by eons to Bill Gates reading Hamlet. How does it matter no one will remember about "state of education in the 21st century" 100 years down the road?
Reading this I think the CEO is only half of the problem - the board / ownership decided to give him a pay cut, then take pay from him entirely.

Come on. If you don't trust someone enough that you cut their pay, then really you should just fire them and get someone else in - the mixed signals are what killed this place.
I know it is best to use a full uniform distribution for assiging PINs, but I do not know whether any bank does it. Would they really dare send out '0000' to 1 in 10000 of their customers?
But it can lead to the loss of the trademark if it becomes a common word. Anyone can brand their product with it.

This happened (or at least went to court) with Hoover in the UK I think. Hoover had become the generic term for a Vacuum Cleaner and so any company could make and sell products described as Hoovers (or at least it was an open legal question).

This means it is far from crazy to defend a trademark from generic use.
Under SR, for two events (an event is a point in 4D space, i.e. a space and a time) with spacelike separation (i.e. outside each other's light-cones), neither comes objectively before or after the other. Different observers travelling at different speeds have different "surfaces of simultaneity", which say which events happen simultaneously. It's a theorem (or intuitively obvious) that for any two events with spacelike separation, there is a frame (i.e. a velocity at which you could be travelling) for which those two events are simultaneous.

So consider the events A=point 1, time 0; B=point 2, time 0; C= point 1, time 1 hour. As long as points 1 and 2 are more than 1 light-hour apart, it is legitimate to say that A is simultaneous with B, or that C is simultaneous with B. And so if you have a device that lets you travel from point 2 to point 1 in less than an hour (i.e. faster than light), you leave at B and arrive after A but before C. Then from the perspective of some observers (and the point of relativity is that all observers are equally legitimate), you arrived before you left.

The collapse of quantum entanglement can be confusing, which is part of why I prefer to follow many-worlds (i.e. no collapse postulate). You can construct quantum wavefunctions such that they're consistent with SR; for two entangled but spatially separated particles, you simply have a wavefunction that's a superposition of two states. When you as an observer observe one of those particles, you entangle yourself and your own state becomes part of the superposition. Of course "from the inside" it feels like you measured the particle and got one result or the other, but the actual wavefunction is just an ordinary superposition. From this perspective it's obvious no data was transmitted - you just became entangled with this distant particle without communicating with it, which is kind of odd, but no danger of violating causality.
I would easily pay for premium if TripIt could make the app like this. I smell a disruption brewing...
"Navigating the UK legal system is wholly unlike doing it in Italy"

Especially as there isn't really a single UK legal system.
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Further to my reply to sibling-reply finnw, here's the pattern of digits, further showing his 10 * 9, etc., breakdown.

$ pins |
> sed -r '
> :a; s/^([0-9])(.*)\1/\1\2a/; ta; s/[0-9]/a/
> :b; s/a([0-9])(.*)\1/a\1\2b/; tb; s/[0-9]/b/
> s/([0-9])\1/cc/; s/[0-9]/c/
> s/[0-9]/d/
> ' |
> sort | uniq -c | sort -n
10 aaaa
90 aaab
90 aaba
90 aabb
90 abaa
90 abab
90 abba
90 abbb
720 aabc
720 abac
720 abbc
720 abca
720 abcb
720 abcc
5040 abcd
$
Trademark erosion/dilution can apparently render the trademark invalid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark#Trademark_er...
Something remotely related I found out recently:

http://www.inquisitr.com/333944/some-libyans-tried-to-save-a...
This movie would not have reached the millions it did without Youtube or the Internet.
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Too many people have put too much stock in the fact Facebook was mentioned.

Let me rephrase it: I want to see HN, github, blogs, twitter feeds where they talk about tech and work and so on.

I'm not going to demand access to Facebook. I'm going to look at their public profile. If they add me on Google+ I'd expect to be in a circle for bosses/peers, and to see stuff that's pertinent, not pictures of their goldfish or what they had for dinner last night.

Is that still open to prejudice? Sure. Am I going to exclude people who are competent but I might not get on with? Possibly. But isn't that actually a good idea? Would it not be crueller for me to hire a waterfall tech who hates agile and who really wants to work in Enterprise IT rather than startup development, and for both us to be really miserable than for me to just realise early on that despite his CV scoring high on the startup development bullshit-bingo cards, they are simply not going to be a great fit?

I have never - and will never - hire/fire or select interview candidates based on religion, creed, gender or even necessarily experience. It's about ability, mindset and evidence of performance. Every time.
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Tab Mix Plus, an addon for Firefox allows multi line tab lists and is very customizable.I have been using it for years.
They're among the most expensive Android devices and that's why I assumed they mostly owned by passionate users. My geek friends who are not on the Apple side of things have Nexus and S2/3 and the rest of the people I know who just wanted a not so expensive smartphone settled with Desire or Magic and so on.
Great feature - I really like it. My only request is that the suggestions be clickable links so that you can open one in a new tab.
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You can brute-force everything, and since usernames are public and passwords often guessable, I bet you can hack some accounts on most websites. Also I'd be surprised if they didn't ratelimit you in a way that make such bruteforce attacks infeasible.

If we'd start to report all such vulnerabilities, we can fill up three pages of news with it every day...
I'm intrigued as to why you think there would be a speed difference. If your language of choice can't iterate around a loop faster than your network card can push out a couple of network packets then I think you have some issues.