skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have spent the majority of my 30 years working directly with people (probably 20 of my 30, as I grew up working at my father's small retail establishment and I currently work in the hospitality industry while finishing up a law degree. The number of times that I have been shocked by people's behavior towards my coworkers and myself is ghastly.

One thing I find interesting is how the actors in these situations tend to have the idea that such behavior is always going to end with their desired result. Or, to put it another way, the actions have gotten them what they want in the past so they continue to act in said manner because they believe it will deliver repeat results and it usually does.

I have been lucky to work for employers that have, I feel I can say, trusted and respected my decisions and abilities. And, with that preface, I offer you this... Challenge these actors whenever possible. Once I reached the emotional maturity where I was able to not allow such the actors actions to impact me emotionally, I decided that I was no longer going to allow myself to be attacked for trying to help or serve their needs. Instead, I put a smile on my face and refuse to help them unless addressed or treated in a respectful nature.

I have challenged these actors in many different types of situations and some of the results are what you would expect, dissatisfied and angry patrons/customers. But, that is exactly what they were before, right?? Many, though, upon realizing they weren't going to get what they wanted began to change their ways. At first, begrudgingly, but on the second or third visit/encounter with particular customers I could see that their actions were becoming more polite and sincere. It sounds weird, but it is almost like they developed a sort of respect for me standing up to them.

Of course, I understand this doesn't apply to every situation and is not going to be possible for a lot of people. But, it is food for thought. Maybe sometimes it is good to take the stance that the customer is NOT always right.
The time honored solution to this is not how you propose- Its called double-stepping and its annoying from a UI perspective.

Step 1:
Enter your username and click "go"

Step 2: you are presented with a image you have chosen before- If the image matches, you enter your password and click continue

USBank.com does this, try it by typing in a random name, like cstevens - Notice how it doesnt accept a user + pass on the same screen
But you can't use them to transmit information at FTL speeds without violating causality.
One of my major wishlist items for Storm is an end-to-end tutorial on how to get it working for a non-JVM language. I'm not a JVM coder, nor do I know much about it, and the documentation on how to get it working for Python is hard to follow at best, IMHO.
Iran designing its own version of the Internet
Alternatively, since we're drawing arbitrary amounts of time from the air, $500 / (10 hrs/week * 1 wk) = $50/hr. Meanwhile I'm paying two months of rent with the money I saved not buying a Macbook.

How much time/money do you save when you don't have to wait for your code to compile before you can leave, or when you don't have to worry about making sure you save before your battery dies? I can spend $1000 on a laptop and work on it with the same constraints as any workstation, or I can put that $500 to several years of Linode and have money left over to type "go build massive_project" then meet my girl for a coffee while it chugs away in the background without a worry.
Yeah, the premise about user behavior in this post feels wrong. I never browse the app store by searching. I search for a specific thing by name and it's normally a top result.

I browse by category.
Due diligence, man!

Before investing in his crack heroin distribution scheme, you should get documentation detailing his supply chain, his on-hand inventory, his distribution intents, and so forth. Written documentation, pictures if possible, with names and addresses for all of his business associates.
I'm sure it's all Apple's fault; it's not like Apple seeds the operating system in advance to developers or anything. Oh wait: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/23/apple-seeds-first-develo...
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Re: IBM patents,
IBM has an interesting, and quite unique strategy regarding IP. About 20-25% of IBM patents are software patents, and IBM uses this patent portfolio to protect open source projects, especially Linux (http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/7034/1). Also, IBM historically abandons a large portion of its issued patents (http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2012/03/ibms-patent-abandonm...), and the abandoned patents become prior art, protecting everybody.
Google announces a meta keywords tag just for news articles
I wish they would spend resources on being as fast as they used to be. Pushing and pulling has become slower and slower over the past couple of years.
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Eh, do you stop your car at an intersection, or do you pause it?
Orion most definitely is still an action/reaction rocket. It works via radiation and particle pressure against the pusher plate. While its thrust is high, its overall efficiency is low because the majority of the fission energy result is not contained enough to influence forward motion of the spacecraft. High thrust is pointless for interstellar travel. High isp is essential. This is why fission or antimatter powered ion drives beat Orion. Orion is great for interplanetary however.

If you read the through the material on that site you will see they are familiar with Orion. While the public oriented site glosses over details, the companion site will provide you with papers with rigorous detail.

There is no escaping it: for practical interstellar travel, we must develop massless drive or some form of spacetime manipulation that changes the mass requirements.
Guess all that VC money came with a hefty pricetag for the community.
In what way does it show ineffectiveness of surveys ? not challennging the assertion, trying to understand why you think so.

To me it seemed to be an indication of what was stated in the article, that people are less committed to their views than they imagine.

I would go one step further and conjecture that we have a tendency to defend a position, when confronted with "evidence" that we have endorsed that view before. I expect this to work on moral positions on which our convictions are not solid.

@pyre My confusion was not about whether surveys can be manipulated. I can well imagine that they can be. My question was more in the lines of: where in linked post is it demonstrated. Sometimes I dont read between the lines enough and thought I must have missed something. And yes, who in their right mind would want to leave any children behind ! Its mostly semantic gymanstics
I agree its great tobe able to print our parts, but I don't see many uses. I've owned a few bikes (cbr and supermotos) and not many platic parts fit in a 3d printer, let alone items that would break often
> As long as he has competent SSH, and a suite of basic apps, he's good to go.

Totally agreed. There's a nice little conversation going on here about a Macbook Air vs. an iPad, but shouldn't this raise the point that a $300 netbook can do all this and more?

If all you're using is SSH and a web browser, why spring for the high-end (and high-priced) Apple hardware?
No, they outsourced funding.
Thank you. An unlucky person would have won the lottery. I, on the other hand, got my parents. Lucky, indeed. :)
...how about some privacy controls? I'd really prefer not to advertise which users and projects I'm following or starring. Now I have Facebook trying to own and broadcast my personal life and GitHub trying to own and broadcast my professional one. Ugh.
There's about a 9 page chapter in the new storm book (more of a large pamphlet really) on that. http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Storm-Jonathan-Leibius...
My understanding is that:

Payroll taxes are FICA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICA). It's 6.2% income up to $102,000 and then you pay nothing after that. It pays for Medicare and Social Security.

Income tax is a separate graduated tax on wages. Due to various credits, it doesn't seem like you pay anything until you make it to almost median income. When people talk about rolling back the Bush tax cuts on the rich, it's this one.

Capital Gains taxes are yet a third form of tax. Right now, long-term gains are taxed at a lower rate (15%).
Problems with Skitch 2.0
They got access to the server through some other undisclosed means, the hash was there.
VirtualBox broken on Ivy Bridge Macbooks after 10.8.2 and Firmware Update
You mean screenshot(singluar) and no comments.
World is trying to get connected in every possible manner and here are some, want to isolate and have their own world.
Or perhaps we've spent the past few weeks furiously improving performance so we can ship this genpop, and we chose to ship during downtraffic times to give extra insurance the feature would improve speed rather than degrade it.

No deploy is on accident.
The article makes an interesting point

"There's an important difference here: Writing to a TTY which is stopped due to flow control, or due to lack of kernel buffer space, will block your process, whereas writing to a TTY from a background job will cause a SIGTTOU to suspend the entire process group. I don't know why the designers of UNIX had to go all the way to invent SIGTTOU and SIGTTIN instead of relying on blocking I/O, but my best guess is that the TTY driver, being in charge of job control, was designed to monitor and manipulate whole jobs; never the individual processes within them."

Can anyone provide any more insight about this?
They already have all of this for GAFYD (Google Apps For Your Domain) users, which has a free version that I've been using for ~5 years:

https://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html

You can set a custom image and apply some simple style tweaks to the sign-in box on the login page. Here's mine:

http://i.imgur.com/xReSS.png
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Storm supports transactional topologies that can provide durability. They are dependent on a spout that is repeatable- where you can request the failed input again.
https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Transactional-topol...
I don't buy it, users will probably click into each app anyway because they will want to see more than one screenshot and the comments.
time to reform the patent review process. there is so much energy wasted fighting patent trolls. furthermore, this produces nothing, it just leaches on the wealth creation efforts of others.
How much anonymity does this scheme buy you? If the server is discovered presumably traffic can be traced back to its operators, no?
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> In what way does it show ineffectiveness of surveys?

Surveys are often manipulated. IIRC, there was a 'survey' a while back with regards to whether or not people wanted Congress to force ala carte pricing on cable providers. The question was something like "Would you like your cable provider to provide you with a better, wider selection of channels?" The majority answered yes. This was touted as, "Survey says that taxpayers don't want ala carte cable," by vested interests.

Take this with a grain of salt, because my memory on this is a little fuzzy, but even as a parable, I think it conveys the point I'm trying to make.
>due to the 'for(var i=0...' failing even with -vars enabled

That's because `for(var i=0...` is completely bogus. What if you have two of those loops? Are you going to put `var` in the first one, but not in the second one? Are you going to use 'i' in the first one and 'k' in the second one?

What if you need some refactoring and those two loops switch places?

It's fine if you like Java, but JavaScript is different. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I also wish there would be block scope, but merely pretending there is doesn't make it so.

It's better if you declare all of your variables at the very top of the innermost function, because that's where they effectively are (thanks to hoisting). It's better if your code reflects how it's actually working, because that will always make it easier to comprehend.

Once there is `let`, you should switch to Java's "declare on first use" rule and never use `var` again.
This comment is a little problematic. Despite the INAL qualifier, you seem to be offering legal advice or strategy. Secondly the logic is stretched,... viz: "enough to cause problems for the [entire] HN community?" Clearly for all of the non-infringing HN readers, and those for whom Ignorance is [not] bliss, here might be some interest in it. That being said, the point is a fair issue to raise. But a better note might be: check with counsel.
We will have a hard time coming https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10965
Its not the concept of blocking passwords that is patented, but specific approaches to block common passwords is.
Can you give an example where you would star something you find embarrassing?
Given this sentiment, I'm not sure why you even bothered to click on this thread and engage in the comments.

I hadn't ever heard this story before, and only faintly knew Greenspan's name, so I thought it was a somewhat interesting story. It's seems like he should definitely move on at this point.
Are you saying the last one was not an accident either?

Only reason I thought this was an accident is because there was no blog post about it. Usually Github introduces it's every single improvement[1] on it's blog. Compared to them this definitely deserves an introduction.

[1] https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines
It is a little bit out of date, in that it doesn't cover anything in 8.0, but most of the basic stuff didn't change, it was more of new features being added.
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That's an excuse if I've ever heard one. You would be so lucky to get sued. "I'd be a famous musician, but I'm worried about the publicity."
Such is the history of authoritarian regimes. If North Korea weren't so backwards, I imagine they'd be trying to do much the same thing.
Expanded Tweet support is such an over-ask on Twitter's part. Even FB doesn't force extraneous metadata onto sites using their commenting facility.
It's probably tough to measure. I imagine most of the bottlenecking comes from communicating with external entities, which may not scale well by adding more Stripers to the task. I would be surprised if they could just pull a developer aside and say "Joe, you're off feature X. Go call up Canada and make things happen!"

While they probably don't feel external pressure due to lack of competition, I doubt they're hotdoggin' it because they are leaving money on the table.
The researchers had 3,177 respondents complete an online mate preference survey

I suspect this is an area where revealed preferences are very different from stated preferences.
I started using this after you posted this. I'm Australian (WA) and working over SSH to servers in the US with 230-260ms this tool has changed everything. Very, very nice.
it seems to work for me now. Maybe it was a caching issue with my browser.
Double stepping is fundamentally weaker from a security perspective. The phisher can present you the username screen, use it to fetch your correct image from Google, and present the image to you.

This proposal is better in the sense that the correct image is cached locally and protected by the browser's local storage origin policy.
I am not sure the conclusions are particularly revelatory. The political system in the US appears to rely on using tribal association - Democrat/Republican, Conservative/Liberal - to get people to group themselves (by branding each tribe) then the political class just inserts whatever policies suit their goals and the masses fill in the blanks of justification. From the last decade alone there are countless examples of Bush policies opposed by D voters and supported by R voters yet when the same policies are enacted by the Obama administration people take the opposite positions. We all know it happens and see it every day.
Thanks for bothering to make it work with pinch to zoom on my tablet! Impressive!
what you don't realize since you are just starting is that Apple just changed the search results to weight time on store and number of downloads more heavily. That means your SEO isn't going to put you in the front right away. this change is going to have the effect of less total apps seen which is going to make it even harder for new apps. I just had an app that got covered by several major blogs, good reviews, and had hundreds of downloads for the first few days. After a month I'm now getting between 0-2 downloads a day, and I'm 8 for the search of my app name.
Our team made Batt Signal https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/pennapps-fall-2012/h...

Allows you to notify your friends when your battery drops low.

We got Zynga’s award for Bay Area Favorite :)
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These frivolous software patents are actually a blessing in disguise and will ultimately be their own undoing. As more and more "patents" are filed and trolls do their best to sue people into compensation, the media song & dance will get stronger and policy makers will sit up and take note. Then it's just a matter of time until blanket reforms are made.
it's 12.4% not 6.2%. Typically the employer pays the the other 6.2%, so you never see that money directly, but it's paid. Self-employed people pay both halves.

It used to be ... 7.7% I think - 15.4% total, IIRC, up until a couple years ago. It was lowered for 1 year, and I doubt it'll go up again any time soon.

If we need to increase revenue, raising the cap from $102k to... something like $110k or $150k would capture a moderate amount of money with almost no real pain to most people. $102k is rather arbitrary, and hasn't been changed in years. Likewise the ridiculously low $600 1099 reporting requirements.
An api wrapper for RedTube.

https://github.com/dcrec1/redtube
North Korea has their own Country Intranet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)
I think you could be right to a point for people that have quality apps that are already ranking, but I think this is going to make fewer total apps seen and therefore make it even harder for new apps to gain traction. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid any app outside the top 5 search results will have sales go to 0.
Check under the reviews tab. It's under the FB section of this page: http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/#facebook-gallery-like
What's the Toronto scene like? I'm finishing up a PhD at NYU this year and was planning on breaking in to the field after graduating. NYC is obviously a great place to be but for relationship reasons I was thinking of moving to Toronto (which is honestly a nicer city anyway much as I love NY), but a cursory inspection suggests a lot less demand for data-loving jobs. I would love to be mistaken though; am I?
>>I want you to be able to say whatever you'd like no matter how horrible without fear of government censorship; however, I will not let you use my printing press, blog, etc to do it.

That sounds too much like the number one cited reason against net neutrality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality#Arguments_ag...
Oh man, that headline made me laugh.
As a very occasional visitor to the site, with no account, I've found the changes discourage my casual exploration of the service. Mnay actions lead to a sign-up / registration page. Much like G+ on Android.
Users were basically unaffected by the changes. Now when they're mucking with the clients (like the iPad app), its different.
The modern Berlin wall.
That is what I am hoping!
Not entirely. They should have the word Picasa in their title. If that is what it is, why not name the app, Picasa Web Albums?
Bionic Eyes: EEG to turn human brain into surveillance filter
Sorry, I believe being in a day job is patented also.
It's weird that it doesn't distinguish between your commits and others'.

I have one forked repo that I forked to fix a line in their docs, and it looks to all the world like I spent a time of time on it.
1. How many people might notice, but think that the mistake was theirs, and even argue for the opposite of their position in order to save face?

2. How many of these people hold staunch views on the questions asked? E.g. would this have the same effect on a extremist skinhead as it would on the average college student?
ABS prints fine with a heated glass build platform.
How much of this is them "isolating" themselves and how much is it simply in response to the fact that they're cut off from doing commerce with much of the U.S. (and other countries?) due to trade sanctions, etc?

serious question I would like to know the answer to
I don't need to. What I choose to pay attention to should be private by default.

And it's not about personal embarrassment, it's also about security. If I star code I rely on to watch for updates, I'd be publicly advertising the attack surface for my app. That really sucks.
Well, some of the target market. A lot of the Reprap guys don't like him, for various boring reasons.

Then again, they all build their own printers, so they wouldn't be buying from him anyway.
I wonder how willing they'd be to host dissident content for first-world nations. I wonder how cooperative the Iranian cybercommand or equivalent would be with US DMCA takedowns.
Here's hoping for online voting soon, as well.
Did you mean repositories? There's a slightly different icon for forked repos, but it's not very obvious.
Agree about the options. When I have "hacked" one of my friends Facebook accounts when they left their phone around, I definitely had different thoughts on what to write. And maybe that is where my disconnect is, I can't imagine wanting to write what I would put on someone else's account as a joke on my own account. The idea is much funnier to me when used on someone else's account (their original idea I guess).
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Because Skype also works perfectly fine on an iPad. An additional device is not a replacement for multitasking.
I'm starting to think the same thing.

For serious systems-based access, it's been key-based auth for most of the past decade. Even embedded systems (switches, routers, load balancers, DD-WRT-based WiFi routers) offer SSH key-based auth.

Key management presents its own set of problems, but most are vastly preferably to using poorly-selected passwords on a myriad of sites.
so i assume the app could be used in a similar method to your previous concept, but with all of the backlash (especially from Facebook) you had to make it seem like you would want to hack yourself?
Actually this could be bad advice in the new model. You see the App Store search is still at its core just a Lucene index. In which case the weightings are likely to be similar:

titlePhrase 9 /
authorPhrase 9 /
subjectPhrase 9 /
genrePhrase 9 /
titleWords 3 /
authorWords 3 /
subjectWords 3 /
genreWords 3 /
titleExact 20 /
authorExact 18

As you could see just stuffing keywords will guarantee you appear in lots of different searches but not necessarily ranked highly in any of them. Really depends on the type of app you sell.
Because its nicer to work on and use than a cramped and cheap net book.

But, if that works for you it would be fine. Me? I'm going with the nicer hardware even if I'm just using vi and terminal.