skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do people think of this? I feel like it's already made defunct by other options such as the SwiftKey Flow Beta. Not to mention the need to learn a whole new style of writing.
I didn't write it, but I've been trying Prettify and Rainbow. Going to use Rainbow for now and see how it goes.
TL;DR is not merely about summarizing. It's a way, especially in the Reddit community, to add something extra. TL;DR can be a summary, but it can also be a tool for sarcasm, smugness, or getting a certain tone across. Sure you can summarize yourself in the opening line, but you can also make a calculated choice to use TL;DR for some other motive. I often find TL;DR to be a cynical view of your readership because it's as if you're stating, "I know what I wrote is long, and you readers aren't taking the time my writing deserves! So I'm just going to put this summary at the end to shut you up."
You know you've chosen the right side of an argument when everyone one the other side links to a single quack website backed up by anecdotes from "An Internet User".
That is not what I meant. I am not against porn. If it is good for you then that is fine. It is not good for me and just because you may not have a problem with something doesn't mean other people do not. I have no problem drinking a beer but I understand that some people do have a problem drinking.

> I remember reading that addicts don't enjoy their addiction anymore; they do it because they have to keep doing it.

Yes, I can relate to this. At the beginning it may not have been an addiction but it did morph into one over several years.
I couldn't help but think by reading this that the polymath bar to becoming a renaissance man is being lowered.
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This post is poorly argued in my opinion. The author fails to provide an example of the "tools to summarize and communicate your thoughts" which he speaks of. As a result, the specifics of his argument are left to conjecture of the readers, producing an unfocused discussion.

My take on 'TLDR'. It isn't typically equivalent to a well structured opening paragraph. As others have mentioned, it's more akin to an abstract, as used in academic writing.

It denotes that the author will most likely use brief text to summarise and, for the sake of efficiency, it may be in a completely different writing style to the rest of the text.

TLDR is a useful tool for allowing readers to make a rapid decision as to whether the following content is relevant to them. In some ways I see it as a courtesy to the reader.
Easy, write a mobile operating system that uses Java for all the apps- then license that to hardware OEMs until you've got a stranglehold on mobile OS, like the Microsoft model on desktop.

I am saddened that Google didn't buy Sun. Maybe they'll buy Oracle and the optical barrier over the valley will dissolve and reveal it is actually a portal into Hell.
How many such petitions have there been that have been popular enough to warrant a response? 100? Of those, how many have led to actual changes in policy? Has there been any example of a successful whitehouse.gov petition?

Why do people keep doing these? They're worse than useless. Send letters, don't shout into the void.
This is new in the last few months. I think you can do what you want with the opinions, but you can't build it on top of their servers.
Agree with the sentiment.

It seems like sliders are there for gratuitous sex and violence (to paraphrase a line from Never Say Never). In other words, on commercial sites that don't have much to say, but they just want something even remotely flashy, they go with a slider.

Seems like if you're really into content marketing, you've got something to say, and a slider wastes way too much space versus say something more like the home page of a blog (albeit often laid out in multiple columns).

If you don't have much to say, I'd do something more along the lines of 37Signals and just pitch your products and vector them off to the appropriate one.

By comparison, sliders seem to be wasting the viewers time. FWIW, both of the two I looked at from links here, mobelux and infomedia were awesomely slow to load the pages too.
No, the government would hire a non-independent investigator to write a whitewashed report.
They move _their_ own family out of china as much as possible. I assume that those elites (like the elites in other countries) would also not care about the wellbeing of others, especially if it costs them money and gains them no profit. It's just the way the world is.
Only 6% of scientists identify themselves as Republicans
| Not to mention that he intended to distribute
| the articles for free, turning this into a
| billion dollar case

No where does it mention this in their case against him. Calling it a 'billion dollar case' is over-stating the fact. Especially since JSTOR withdrew their complaint against him and recommended that the US government back off.

The people that he supposedly hurt said that they don't care, and to leave him alone. Attempting to use the 'harm' to them as justification makes no sense.
Paul's walk is going to take 7 years in total, but he's going to take time off during that time. It could take 20 years in total. Not only that but, it's completely different.

1 is a life-streaming walk of social media madness, and 1 is retracing the steps of man.
I understand the 12 step programs are not perfect. No program is perfect. I don't understand your point. Are you trying to say that I'm not addicted? It took me many years to realise that this is an addiction for me but it did help me to admit that. I do believe in that part of the program that it needs to be considered a problem before a person can work on improving it.

Edit: I can't respond to your comment below but thanks for your follow up.
I'm not sure what your relationship or proximity to these designers is, but the best thing you can do to cure this is educate. It can be frustrating, sure, but making an effort to teach and explain what's wrong can make all the difference.

Just because someone isn't top of the line doesn't mean they should be dismissed or frowned upon.

Further, if it's something mission critical, just politely ask them if you can work on it to ensure its quality.
I have tried to quit porn before. In high school I tried very hard, for religious reasons. I never succeeded. In college I got to the point where 2 30-90 minute sessions daily was the norm.

I then tried to quit again. I went 5 days, and then 4 days, and then gave up on the idea, resigning myself to immense sexual activity. Every month or so, I'll go on a complete rampage with as many as 10 orgasms a day for 2-3 days, rarely coming out of my room. Sometimes it even interferes with food.

My sexual tastes have grown increasingly complex, sometimes illegal, sometimes not outwardly sexual at all (example, the thought of loneliness in a girl). It has changed how I look at nearly everything, but I'm not ready to conclude that it has been for the worse.

I had sex for the first time this week. I didn't climax. My parter had no issues but I was completely uninterested, which is interesting because I had been looking forward (greatly) to the encounter for more than a week. But when it finally happened... complete disinterest. I did my best to think of porn and at least play along, but part of me felt that was more rude than just failing to climax so I sat back and let my partner enjoy her share. ED was no issue.

It's worth adding that I had never met the girl before, seen pics and talked via phone but never met in person. I had little (if any) emotional attraction to the girl, and for this reason specifically I'm not very worried. It just caught my attention because I would never have guessed that a 19yo boy would go through 40 minutes of sex with an attractive girl and not climax.

Since then I've been more motivated to quit, but I'm still not ready to conclude that porn has been a negative or bad experience. It has consistently given me a lot to think about, especially watching my interests and needs shift over the past few years. I've noticed a better control over my need for porn but it's only been a few days.
It's getting harder and harder to get brand-able .com domains. I think that it's a nice to have from an seo point of view but from a branding standpoint I prefer the shortest possible variation. If the TLD lends itself to that why not. You just need to be smart about how you market it and do whatever you can to reinforce the domain's unique TLD at every stop. I have AppLa.bz and Zi.lk both of which I would prefer for their shortness over the .com equivalent. Sure it's a bit of a fad, but I foresee noncom domains becoming more and more valuable in.
I found this paper by Rolf Dobelli to be very insightful. It was a TED talk a long time ago, back when that meant a little more.

http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Par...
I'm rather disappointed to see that Ubuntu's stuck at openjdk-7-jdk:amd64 7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1 currently.
JSTOR was directly involved as the target of Aaron's actions.

MIT was involved collaterally as the scene of the crime, and ceased to be involved after JSTOR and the Feds took over.
Spare us your sarcasm. What you want is already available via http://bulk.resource.org There is no copyright on judicial or legislative proceedings, nor any restrictions upon their distribution.
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I certainly resonate with this line of reasoning. When working for Intel (putatively as a hardware engineer) I got criticized during a review period for 'sandbagging'[1] with the justification that the assembler I wrote I said would take 3 months (which it did) but I spend two months goofing off and one month writing it. I realized two things, one that hardware engineering had lots of great milestones, and two that software development sounded a lot like 'art' to people who aren't familiar with it.

The salient clue was the Michelangelo quote "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." Where a programmer might say every megabyte of memory has a program inside it and is is the task of the programmer to discover it. There aren't as many really crisp milestones you can say "we are here" and point to the place on the schedule where you are 'n' weeks away from completion.

[1] sandbagging - creating an estimate for the time it will take to do something far in excess of the time it will really take in order to facilitate goofing off while not getting behind in your schedule commitments.
well, that's one way to do it i suppose
"There is voting, of course, but to become an informed voter all one needs to do is read a short guide about the candidates and issues before the election."

For one thing this places enormous trust in the guide-writers. For another it enormously oversimplifies the topics on which the guides would touch.
Ask HN: Rooms for engineers in the Bay Area?
I just moved to the Bay Area, recently started a company, and would love to live with great roommates from Hacker News. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants smart, ambitious, and curious roommates, so maybe we can get a list of available hacker housing here, from hacker hostels to homes with an empty room anywhere from SF to Palo Alto. Here are the hacker hostels I know of: Stonehenge - https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/137518 Chez JJ - https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/267638 HackerHome - https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/583680 Any others, or more long-term arrangements? Also, can anyone give feedback on the quality of the places above?
You are pretty comfortable slinging unfounded accusations into the inner workings of people you have never met.
What is your basis for saying MIT never changes?
So while we're on the topic of jury nullification, could you please enlighten us how this subject is usually handled by defense attorneys for the times it would be advantageous to pursue?

A. Fully advocate for their client by informing the jury of their right to nullify in open court, especially if that nullification would involve disregarding mere administrative law in favor of a no-frills reading of constitutional law.

B. Refrain from informing the jury to avoid risking their relationship with the court or bar, but inform their client of this conflict of interest so that the client may interject partial self-representation if prudent.

C. Avoid informing the client of their rights or this major conflict of interest, but pretend they're still being fully represented.
I would appreciate it if people stopped making up or repeating ridiculous pseudo-scientific explanations for whatever it is they want to believe.
+1 looks legit.
Appears they're still on 7u10 though: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/java

Unfortunate that they're dragging their feet on this.
Perhaps filtering on both #pdftribute and the word paper / papers gives better results.
I am willing to take my chances with the security record and response of the Chrome team over Adobe or Oracle's.
You are replying to a known troll.
To be fair, people aren't being killed, one guy in particular killed himself. While a tragedy, don't turn it into something it isn't.
> Air pollution control tends to be extremely cost effective. The benefits from reducing childhood asthma and friends tend to more than pay for remediation technology.

that is only true if it is taxpayers who foot the bill for the technology/equipment. If you were a plant operator, you wouldnt want to install expensive air scrubbers to reduce polution, but which won't actually net you any extra profit.

The gov't has to create incentive schemes - otherwise, the rational actor will use the path of least resistance to profit, and i suspect that path won't include pollution reduction measures.
JSTOR was directly involved as the target of Aaron's actions.

Yes, this is understood. They could have been drawn into the case to that extent only, without pressing any charges.

MIT was involved collaterally as the scene of the crime, and ceased to be involved after JSTOR and the Feds took over.

So JSTOR had a case to withdraw. Their involvement was not limited to being the target of Swartz's actions--they played an active role, only to withdraw later.

But I could be mistaken and my reading of Lessig could be wrong. How did JSTOR take over? How did it come to pass that JSTOR dropped its case? What was its case? Could filing such a case count as "being drawn in" to a case?
Not many people waive the fee currently. If a lot of people did, it would be a huge problem for publishers like PLoS and they would have to change their practices.

Assuming that won't happen, then if all publications were open access, there would be a lot more grant money that would have to be spent on publishing fees rather than research. That was the point the guy we originally replied to was making http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052476 so citing PLoS as an example isn't really meaningful. It's just an example of precisely the issue he was raising, not a rebuttal.
Yikes! Are you still getting that? What were you doing when you got the error?
Of course. I mean snopes also thinks the moon landings were real. ~scoff~
This looks interesting, particularly when the current field of Java profilers is mostly taken up by "enterprise" (read: hugely expensive) and open source projects that were abandoned at least a year or two ago.

I'm most interested on what kind of use this is getting -- @alvins, are you using it on production? If so, do you have any measurements on the performance penalty of running the profiler with a particular config (e.g., with all public methods profiled)?

And/or: a general roadmap and summary of status/stability...
What a pointless article, especially since his conclusion negates pretty much everything he wrote:

> I don't think designers are going to replace most engineers.

In other words, some designers will develop skills to do some web development (but probably won't get a job at Google), just like some engineers can do some graphic design (but probably won't design font page for the next Coca Cola campaign). Nothing new here.
I remember using this when Swype was just new. It is very unwieldy and I tried it for a week or two of heavy frustration.

The Gesture swiping built into 4.2 is hard to beat. Between the fast two handed operation with good correction and the freaky fast voice transcription, it's hard to want to deviate from the stock keyboard.

Honestly, the demo video makes it look painfully slow, even when he's doing a full demo sentence compared to what I'm used to.
It's just not going to happen. People are not going to one day wake up and be thankful to the person who built their car or computer or web service. At some level, barring any deep introspection, they are biological machines that only know that a car or a computer gives them power. Whoever made that car or computer has an advantage over them. That's all that matters.
No matter how concise and elegant your writing is, chances are it won't fit into a single sentence. TL;DR still has a purpose.
This is interesting but complicated. They might have more commercial success by copyrighting their keyboard layout and licensing it. The most confusing aspect is the number of turns needed to indicate amplitude.
Although I am deeply saddened by Aaron taking his life, I feel that part of the article is intellectually dishonest.

I.e., it recites synopses of the charges and then states that the charges are not true because:

- "MIT runs an open network" But this is irrelevant, if Aaron used my public Wifi it wouldn't be my job to police his actions even if I had the resources for that.

- "MIT could have locked the network down, but didn't." This is a poor excuse as well. "I could have locked my car doors, but I didn't, so I guess it's my fault." Or better yet, "I could have worn my hijab, but I didn't, so I suppose it's my fault I was punished in a Sharia court".

- "MIT doesn't specifically tell its users not to do dickwad things to its network." This is the same logic that gets those "stupid warning labels" put on everything!

- "JSTOR didn't have technical facilities in place to stop people like Aaron." But the only reason such technical facilities would be needed is if Aaron's behavior on the network were unacceptable in the first place.

- "Aaron did not 'hack' the JSTOR website for all reasonable definitions of 'hack'". But this is kind of a strawman, go back and read the article's own description of the charges if you don't believe me, they claim only generic things like "unauthorized access" or "deceptively appearing as if he were from MIT".

- "He didn't try to hide his behavior". Who CARES? If I steal something in broad daylight in the real world people would say I was an idiot, not that I was "innocent".

- "Other people use fake identities too". Which is the same argument every parent of a 5-year-old has heard and taken care of...

- "If JSTOR had properly responded to the DoS/unauthorized access it wouldn't have been such a big deal". See above about victim blaming.

- "But he wasn't trespassing!". And in the next sentence, "the Federal government isn't charging him with such". Uh, OK?

Now, did he deserve even the possibility of 35 years in prison? No. Is it right to prevent him (as Lessig claims) from forming a proper legal defense fund? Absolutely not.

In fact, that would be an area that needs to be properly "witch hunted" over because it's obvious from the outpouring of support now that Aaron's dead that he could have found help if he were able to ask... so why wasn't he able? What did the district court judge order that led Aaron to kill himself rather than risking the ire of a district judge?

I wonder also why Aaron was so worried about being termed a 'felon'. I've worked with a felon, it was a similarly stupid charge (let's just say he later married his "victim"), and absolutely no one cared. Roman Polanski is still making movies; Aaron would have been just fine. But that was his choice to make. :(

But I worry about articles like this that have popped up in the aftermath, especially when they are so full of inaccuracies as this.
>w/ 2 sockets per faceplate (and a cheap switch to aggregate it all).

Oh—we just run it along baseboards and tape the cords in place.
No need to reply in a public forum, but if you are watching porn all day after masturbating, then you may be addicted. If you are watching porn and not masturbating, you may be misunderstanding the purpose of the material.
Chances of being found not guilty
It would be really sweet if you meant that as a nice meal, a glass of wine, a laptop, and a towel.
I signed this petition when it surfaced originally.

It's amazing that the public has to pay for it all initially and then it's handed over to corporations and the same public has to pay ridiculous prices again just to see the findings they originally funded. The same principle applies to all other walks of life whether it's roads or communications infrastructure.

Of course if the banks fails we all get to fund the deficit and if they earn huge profits it's "free market capitalism."
3down needs an update. it is borderline useless in situations like these.
I dunno, as someone that lacks formal education in either field yet is trying to learn them both on my own, it certainly feels like I'm at a disadvantage at times, that I'll never be quite as good as the BSc's and BA's.
I thought the idea with Turing's pardon was that pardoning him implies that he did something wrong which is clearly not the case. What do you think about this argument?
> easier than ever to learn to build industrial-strength products

Well, ok, it might be "easier than ever", but it is still very hard. Just see how relatively niche applications like github are struggling and how out-of-the-box tools like RoR or Mongo have frequent issues.

I would compare building web apps to driving boats: doing a simple prototype is sailing a dinghy in good weather at sight from the coast. It is easy, but scale it to "industrial-strength" and you are lost in nowhere under heavy storm: you'd better have a better boat, which means a bigger one, those that have more momentum, and then you cannot jibe anymore, you have to do proper by-the-book tacking, which is slower, safer, less cool, old fashioned, and all that.
Check out Errol Morris' documentary The Thin Blue Line. It really makes evident the "career" climbers in the justice system and how they can spoil freedom for those who they target.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Thin_Blue_Line/6003493...
Probably it is the congress. ( At least I heard a few times that the congress should be more technical.) But on the other hand, the CCC becomes more and more visible in German politics. ( As the default experts for anything computer and 'cyber' related.) So I believe it is only logical that the congress also becomes more political.
I tried it with an open mind for about a week when it first came out a while ago. That was the end of it for me.
No need to attack the person, especially when they responded with grace.
You sound like millions of other hormonally charged teens. You will be fine.

Porning all day is over doing it, but still is far better than syphilis and herpes and AIDS and surprise pregnancy jealousy and heartbreak and all the jazz that comes with immature sex outside of a committed relationship.
I read something on Twitter the other day which reminds me of you.

"I'm a content creator. My content is criticizing other people's content."

https://twitter.com/VectorBelly/status/289489202742181888
It's a good question. I expect that the Office of Science and Technology is working on it to some extent, but I am not aware of how deep their efforts are.
I gave up main stream news 4 years ago and I pretty much only read tech news. However, I find that important news still bubble up to me quickly through other channels such as word of mouth and through the tech news feeds. And I find that none of my time is wasted by worthless news, such as partison bickering, the latest traffic accident on I-35 or celebrity gossip. You should try it.
Seems that there are a few comments getting killed by an automatic process reacting to keywords or possibly links?