skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in a house where abundant praise was given for completion of the most mundane of tasks. Failures were justified and assigned an appropriate cause that absolved me of any wrongdoing.

Exactly the opposite of my experience. My father never praised us. Ever. My mother rarely did. We were routinely punished for anything less than perfection: homework, grades, even washing the dishes (Do them again! Not clean enough!)

And yet they must have been doing something else so subtly that none of us ever noticed. Everything about the way they treated us led each of us to believe that we could accomplish anything, as long as we worked hard enough and didn't expect anything given to us. We were special but not entitled.

I sometimes felt angry about how we were treated until one day I realized that they made a great parental sacrifice, exchanging their own popularity for our potential.

There both gone now and I think about them every day. Even more so after posts like this one. Thank you, OP.
Wish this worked through Google Voice.

EDIT: http://brettterpstra.com/2010/11/19/sms-from-the-command-lin...
I would expect that serving huge static files is a best use case for CDNs and that is where you could score major performance gain.

Moreover, IMO dealing 100 ms latency for ability to survive HN/reddit traffic is a good trade-off.
Not relevant in a sense, though what would be at the top of the subreddits would in fact be the articles with the most points. While you couldn't vote yourself, you would essentially be reading top voted content.
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> The smaller subreddits generally have limited traffic, resulting in very slow discussion. Email mailing lists are far superior for discussions with this size of a community.

Not true. There are several smaller subreddits with excellent communities and excellent moderation. The major issue is discovery - it took me years before I (accidentally) stumbled across these subreddits.
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The problem with many Americans, and wealthy people more generally, is that they're spoiled rotten to the extent that they are brainwashed into believing that how much monopoly money they take home and how much respect a bunch of other spoiled rotten people give them indicate success or failure in life.

Meanwhile people are starving and dying in wars all over the world. There's no such thing as success or failure in a wealthy country. It's all meaningless. There are just a bunch of people who are well taken care of and given an addictive, stressful game to play so they don't rock the boat.
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Your solution to the games being not very productive, is to glorify and promote destruction? OK....
I built a proof-of-concept that I put in the chrome store a year and a half ago that looks just like this. I was just playing with angular and I didn't realize 1000+ users would use it so it's been ignored since then.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-reader/hjee...

https://github.com/dotjosh/redditreader
MonoGame with F#, platonics and subdivision
Are you sure that wasn't lines per minute?
> Conversely, abusive relationships and unhappy marriages also provide negative environments for children to grow up in. A future in which relationships are more fluid could reduce the number of children growing up in these environments.

Maybe in the completely imaginary world where the parents who have stable long term relationships are the ones most likely to be abused and unhappy.

In the real world, parents who have "fluid" romantic attachments with people who "come and go" are the ones more likely to be raising their children in negative and abusive environments.
The goals may change, but lots of people leave their spouse even after having kids, so it's not a perfect guarantee. Not saying that is right, or desirable, but it's definitely something that happens.
my friend was showing me his galaxy nexus with facial unlocking, so I pulled up his Facebook profile picture on my phone and unlocked it ;)
I'm guessing this doesn't work for Canadian numbers.
No. Shit happens.
That's true in both online and offline dating. My suggestion if you want a far easier time hooking up is to simply get into very good shape. Height, weight, completion, and dress are all vary important in first impressions. But surprisingly weight / fitness is by far the most important.
Stab Language (like C#) for the JVM
You're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You believe you lack pre-requisites women require. Truth is, there are loads of short guys, ugly guys or otherwise challenged guys that get what they want out of dating, whether it's lots of random sleeping around, or a committed relationship, and everything in between.

Please don't talk about giving up on relationships. Online dating might actually not be the best choice for you. It creates the illusion of control and comfort from your living room. As you saw, it's tough work and you don't really learn much from it, not as much as you could learn if you spent the same amount of time outside meeting women.

Try to meet women in your day-to-day activities. Join classes. Get active. Go to bars and parties. I don't know where you're coming from, but if you're shy and lack confidence, make a point to talk to other people, and that includes attractive women. Also, you need to have a mindset of abundance, not of scarcity. There are plenty of women that'd like to be with you, if you go out to meet them and show them your true self and get your act together.

You'll get vastly better over time. But it does take time, so don't give up after 1 week :-)
With the appreciation of C# as a language and the JVM as a platform, this seems like that it should have generated some interest. I can't find much info on it though...

Source at Google Code: http://stab-language.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/.

Seems to be available on Github now as well:
https://github.com/eropple.
And this is interesting why?

echo 'hello world' | mail -s "message" <number>@cingularme.com
Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute zero
I understand and appreciate your concern with regards to the canvas, but that is properly also the single most complex new element.

That is why I was commenting on css properties -- because it really doesn't matter whether you write it as background: linear-gradient(...) or background: gradient(linear, ...) really doesn't matter; the most important thing is to make it work in as many browsers as possible.
> This is meant to prevent forks that break compatibility. Like that chinese company that made their "own" phone OS. That was just a fork of Android, but not perfectly compatible with the Android SDK.

I don't see a distinction between what Aliyun is doing and what Amazon, OPhone, and Cyanogen are doing. Aliyun was, after all, accused of making Android apps available for Aliyun without the developers' OK. So Aliyun is as compatible as Kindle Fire.

There might be some reason Aliyun is different, but, so far, nobody has actually shown such a difference.

What's bad about this is that Google is putting a fence around code they have made available under the Apache license.
You're right. It is responsive and not exactly elastic. But even without changing your browser's width and just zooming in, the layout goes from 3 columns to 1 column and doesn't just make everything bigger. So you could say it is elastic too in some way.

I used to experiment in elastic designs (using em for all widths) but it was clearly difficult to maintain. But the main reason why I quit doing it is because nowadays most browsers' zoom in function isn't only increasing the font size but increasing all widths accordingly too. It's a complete zoom rather than a simple font increase.
I remember hearing recently (I think it was from the book Outliers) that children whose parents tell them their achievements are due to natural ability fair far worse in life than children whose parents tell them their achievements are the result of hard work.
My site is wildly faster with CloudFlare. As with everything, YMMV.
Yeah, the thing is, after that many messages sent, done thick-skinnedly, in a big pool, with a friend who also is short, though slightly taller (5'7"), with him doing significantly better, and after lots of previous attempts AND lots of attempts in real life, I am at the end of my tether with the inevitable emotional pain involved.

There has to come a time when you think the cost of an activity exceeds any possible benefit, and the EV of this is starting to look pretty bad.
Towards core.matrix for Clojure?
Not all carriers offer an email to sms gateway. As far as I know here in the UK none do.

That is why this is interesting.
Continue pursuing the degree part time until you are at a point where you can go full time. Especially look for courses that compliment what you are learning in the work place. There will be a point where you realize that continuing school part time will take another 5 years but if you enroll full time, you can graduate that year.

If you go to college, then run up the stairs as Paul Graham writes. If you take the hard courses, i.e. the ones that make you work and think, then you are better off regardless. If you enroll in classes to get grades then you are wasting your time.

College should prepare you for thinking critically and finding answers on your own once you are out in the 'real' world. The biggest issue is that you won't learn business skills that are useful, i.e. ones that help you work for yourself rather than an employer.
I'm a long time C programmer, and in the embedded space, which is a burgeoning development area, C is indispensable. No libraries or external linkages, just raw close to the metal power.

News of C's demise are premature.
If you want to abstract and equivocate enough, you can say anything. I'm just speaking plainly.
| the girls I date tend to be models that have appeared
| in magazines starting with the letter P

Like Pyramid[1]? Did you paint the models before you dated them? Did any of them leave you for a Space Marine? </sarcasm>

Please leave this chest-beating off of HN.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_(magazine)
This is not about patents in general, it's just about patents that they don't own.
Wouldn't that be banned if it became somewhat popular?
exciting if you're still a Java developer, right?

Java getting lambdas is cool, I'd be excited if I still was a Java Developer... but it's like at least 3 years I'm using lambda functions everywhere else, almost all the other reasons sound like old news too... "Java now is 'cloud'!", really?
A consultancy usually starts by nucleating around the contacts and first few engagements brought in by the principals. Given a few starting engagements for a few different customers, one of them is likely to turn into recurring revenue, and another is likely to provide a referral.

Then, if your delivery establishes any kind of track record at all and you're working in a "hot" area (Rails in 2008-2009, iOS in the last 3 years, &c) you can start picking up cold inbounds just by putting your name out there (on a website, with a blog, posting on message boards).

Things snowball after that.

Most small consultancies I'm acquainted with never advertise and don't have salespeople.

One thing you really need to understand is that successful consultancies don't treat clients the way HN tends to think about customers. If the process of extracting recurring engagements and referrals from customers is mysterious to you, it's because you're thinking too transactionally. You see this all the time on HN on threads about people's time tracking and invoicing techniques. The people on those threads often sound like they can't wait to get away from their customers. Of course they have trouble finding new ones. Their business processes are client-aversive.
You might be into corpus linguistics...
Sure, there's no escaping C, but that's mainly because of the investments we've put into it. Same goes for C++, but it's far more manageable from security point of view. Today we have modern languages which are only a tad slower than C, yet which guarantee safety and control. See Ada2012 for example. Also optional unsafe/unmanaged code blocks can really help with maintaining performance in critical parts while keeping the non-critical parts safe/managed. This goes as far as optional garbage collecting for certain objects and manual for others. Flexibility, none of which C provides and which makes C a horrible language in todays world.

If only someone would start re-writing de-facto low-level infrastructure such as kernels(say Linux) and userspace tools and programs(servers such as apache, implementations such as for Python and Ruby, libraries, ...) in something like Rust or equivalent which guarantees both type and memory safety and has strong emphasis on concurrency and encourages immutable state etc.

Maybe one day we simply don't have to care so much about what's "secure" and what's "vulnerable". Because the concept of software vulnerability is destructive. Yes, it employs people, but these people create no real value, they just fight the destructiveness of vulnerable software. They are worthless in ideal world.
(i'm not certain what aspect you are trying to discuss but i'm assuming braces-- as that seems the primary point in the article)

My personal solution (again for JS) would be to use a new line with no braces to split up an if-statement, but to never nest a braced statement as part a pseudo-one-liner, nor to nest many levels of one-liners - as these situations could lead to confusion.

Eg for the above;

while ((len = getline(line, MAXLINE)) > 0){
if (len > max) {
max = len;
copy(longest, line);
}
}
if (max > 0)
printf("%s", longest);

This is a personal preference- i find it adequately splits up a one-line `if(max > 0) printf("%s", longest);` statement to be clearly identifiable as an if (while/for/etc) block, without the verboseness of the extra line/2 for braces, which i personally find makes code harder to read.
You can use the browser's debugger to attach to a nodejs process:

https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector
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Yet another advantage for aviation diesels (like the Thielert, Delta Hawk, etc.), largely developed due to the military drone program. They can run on Jet-A/JP8/diesel, and getting clean diesel is a whole lot easier than clean gasoline.
Great post. Being a short yet confident man is way much more appealing to a woman than to be the 6' average joe.
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Businesses are rational. If they need what you're selling, and buying it from you is more cost-effective (inclusive of risk) than building up an internal process to deliver it themselves, they'll buy it.

This apart from the fact that transforming an employee to a contractor is often a net financial win for a company. Not just because of benefits, but also because when the contractor finishes, you don't have to find a way to fire them.
Yes, but you will need a time machine
Becker-Posner Blog: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/

David (son of Milton) Friedman: http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
The design goals are insufficient for creating a new language. Java fulfills the goals perfectly.
Let's pretend I wasn't happily married and the women I dated tended to be models.

Somehow I can't see myself using dating sites on and off several times over the years, trying to get the attention of women I thought were ugly.
If you are fronting a heroku-based app on their cedar platform and have rails (or whatever) serving up static resources CloudFlare is a no brainer: you free up your dyno's to handle the dynamic stuff, and it's a few config-clicks to get it going, with no crazy asset deployment steps.

Additionally, for the cost of just Heroku's SSL endpoint per month, CloudFlare will effectively issue you a wild-card SSL cert (hundreds of dollars a year) and provide SSL service.

Add on top of that the CDN and the DDOS-mitigation features... Well, suffice to say, I love CloudFlare.
I believe this culture arose in 90's as a reaction to the 70's where in the US, the education system mainstreamed almost everyone and praise was nonexistent.

Today's 40-50 y/o so-called rocket scientist sat through exactly the same coursework, at the same pace, as the lowest passable student. Some schools even placed everyone in the same large room regardless of age.

To make things worse, grading was heavily weighted on rote assignments being completed; boredom could turn a 99th percentile tester into a C student and nothing was done.

Somehow though college admission was surprisingly objective. You could get into a respected public engineering school with any GPA if your SAT score was high enough.

The opposite is true now, where GPA is who you are "intellectually," and "honors" courses that allow you to get a 5.0 on a 4.0 scale almost ensure that the valedictorian will have more than a 4.0/4.0 GPA. Compliant, hard workers can grow up thinking they're also PhD material.

There is some validation in real life for the old system however. "Success" in real life is mostly just showing up consistently and having social skills to keep your customers (or bosses) happy.

Like ideas, raw intellectual horsepower doesn't go far without execution.
As is the case here in New Zealand and many other countries.
My point about Gmail is that it is uniquely difficult and risky to spoof, because Chrome has Google's real certificates pinned.
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No, I'm not. Anybody who's tried in real life as well as online, knows what an impact these factors have, especially height, irritatingly given its arbitrariness in western society.

I spent months trying online, have tried in real life, parties, bars, you name it for years. I am actually pretty good socially. Believe me, this is not for want of trying.

I am not willing to join random clubs to try to meet women, as my prior probability is so low, based on previous experience, that it seems an enormous effort for a tiny probability of success.

What this comes down to is the 'spark' of attraction - women's genetic design means it incorporates certain factors, including those listed above, so if they like you + you don't fulfil the prerequisites you'll end up being their friend, they just 'won't see you that way', etc.
I see where you are coming from but there's only so much confidence/boldness can make up for physical attributes.

You say there are loads of short/ugly/challenged guys who get what they want and yet, what I see on my Facebook/streets of SF/NY are totally different. I've only seen a handful of shorter guys get taller women. Most women prefer taller guys and guys of certain races (interracial stats and surveys definitely show Caucasian guys have a significant advantage over say Asian guys). It's nice to say you can make up for shortcomings but the reality is that it's extremely rare to meet a woman who looks past certain physical attributes that are glamorized in culture.
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Well, the main distinction of note would be whether or not they're cryptographically secure, which (despite being much slower) Linux /dev/urandom isn't?
Great comments I will pass this along.
In order to exercise any control whatsoever over radio noise, the attacker would have to have exceptional control over your surrounding environment. And if you're sampling at a high enough frequency, the attacker isn't going to be able to control the noise unless broadcasting it very near you. And even under those circumstances, there will always be some outside noise that they couldn't eliminate.
In more juvenile terms, I'd put it as "Oh, I'm sorry, let me call the WAAAAAAAAHmbulance".

So far I have met very, very few people who didn't have some sort of mental breakdown during their 20s. Attributing it to "youthful idealism", or what have you, sounds rather disingenuous. Also, there are definite problems with the reverse idea of "you're not special, you're just a cog in a machine" -- namely that once you think that way about yourself, you also start thinking that way about other people and then you're thinking of people as things.

Besides, you are special. You're just not more special than the guy next to you.
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Citation required? Women might say this, but in my experience it's simply not true. Like the whole 'love yourself so others can love you' line. Which is just B.S. in my experience.

Having said that, I agree confidence makes a huge difference. However, the kind of confidence women like is in my opinion an unpleasant cocky kind. And should I attempt to completely change who I am, become somebody I dislike just to fulfil that? Would that lead to a relationship that would work? I don't even think it's feasible to be honest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofIJhUMhqvE#t=2m02s
I made a version for viewing in w3m (and other console-based browsers) and my phone: http://ja.cob.xxx/r/ (to get subreddits use urls like reddit. The default is http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming+truereddit+literature )

The font is big to make the stories easier to click on the phone. It is missing basically every feature of reddit other than links and comment reading because I do not use them (I do not have an account.)

Example comment page: http://ja.cob.xxx/r/programming/comments/15ye3l/scala_2100_n...

The source code is available at https://github.com/j3parker/minimal-reddit
>> In fact, I'm disappointed that Zed let this project drop. Seemed neat.

I suppose it's not very interesting to bash someone good work. I think that most important he said in "An overall critique".
Particularly in the case of an application that interacts with users external to the entity/organization that "owns" the app, you can look at communication between the app and the user as communication between the application's owner and the user that has been automated: if you had a live person representing the company and a client asked for something policy didn't allow you to provide them, the usual practice and common courtesy would be to initially respond with something along the lines of "I'm sorry, I can't provide that information to you." The fact that the communication comes through a computer system shouldn't change the message the company wants to convey.
It's exactly how I read it, and it seems others too.

It makes no sense to assert "there absolutely was an effect; we just don't know what it is". Unless you're a trader dealing in long straddles.
I understand that, I'm just pointing out that its not obvious.
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I think it's a matter of prerequisites. Women will look at you as a friend instead of a potential partner if you don't fit them. That's when all the nice-guy stuff of kindness, etc. that many women claim to be what they're looking for (and they are being truthful, only missing a rather vital predicate) is unimportant if you can't fulfil the pre-reqs.

My experience on the street is exactly the same. I've basically never seen contradictions, after years living in London, a city of 7M people.

I think people wish these things to be true. But they're not.
Ah, thank god brother! I 'm so snowed under catching up with letters A-O here, i don't think i have time for P now.
Here's a bit of code from page 10:

#include "ourhdr.h"

int
main(void)
{
printf("hello world from process ID %d\n", getpid());
exit(0);
}

Ch 7 is the environment of a unix process.
7.2:
"argc is the number of command line arguments and argv is an array of pointers to the arguments. We describe these in Section 7.4." exit codes are discussed in section 7.3, where he also talks about 0 in exit.

Granted, he does not discuss the syntax or NULL...

Looking through it.. I'll agree it isn't a beginner book. Intermediate at worst though.
It is recyclable. The clients would put the plastic in a special recycling bag. I love my planet too much to damage it like that. Even so, that I stopped driving my truck and now cycle everywhere.
Good. Honor is a social construct used to enforce control on the weak, and shame those who choose not to conform.