skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you might want to consider why the customer said fuck you here. You're "can't replicate it" response is terrible customer service, and it seems commons sense to expect that they'd be frustrated. Your response of "can't replicate it" feels like a fuck you, if not in so many words.

Also, giving advice based on a single experience rather than several repeated successful outcomes seems like a bad practice for helping other entrepreneurs, and they might not read all the way to the bottom to discover that data point.
But suicide never stops being a problem. So your plan is to.. lie to people forever? In security research terms, let them keep buying onity locks, because we don't want people to know how to break onity locks and steal/hurt?

It's not the only factor but as jlgreco said it's the "sack of bricks that broke the camels back"
I'll usually try the unsubscribe button first, if I recognize the name of the sender. But if it is difficult to unsubscribe, or doesn't work effectively, then the SPAM button it is.
Doesn't work very well with Ghostery, http://i.imgur.com/tsXZh.png
The story of Life Beginner
Files get a "quarantine flag" set on them as metadata when downloaded on OS X. Gatekeeper uses this (along with the developer signature) to check if an app is "safe" to open or not. Not sure where this sqlite database fits in, but it's very likely related to that.

See also https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3662
This. Whoever reads this, please put it up on your wall/fridge wherever.
While I agree with some of his ideas (despite being something of a prescriptivist when it comes to my own writing), they're not exactly "ill-founded" as much as "the author disagrees with them."

"language is not a logical system"
-_communication_ is not a logical system, but language is.
Mkultra, project mocking bird, Tonkin affair, and many many more
How does descriptivism deal with people who are just plain wrong? To pick one example among many, a recent trend I've noticed is people who use "equivocate" when they really mean "equate". Should they be corrected, or should we simply accept that because a lot of people are doing it and we can understand from context what they really mean, it's now an appropriate usage? Where exactly is that line drawn?
I don't use Safari and it has all my downloads from Google Chrome.
Post author here.

Your first paragraph is, bluntly, incorrect. Cassandra guarantees that data will always become consistent. This is automatic [1] for normal operation, including in the face of temporary failures. Permanent failures require running a "repair" process to rebuild the failed machine from other replicas [2].

I think you've also misunderstood how quorum works; it is a quorum of the replica count, which tends to stay constant over cluster lifetime, not machine count.

You are right that the current counters are an afterthought. I linked in my concluding paragraph, where I talk about improvements for Cassandra, "A new design for distributed counters." [3]

[1] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/modern-hinted-handoff
[2] http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/operations/node_repair
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4775
Artists Komar and Melamid created a 1995 project called "Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings" paintings (and, in another project, songs) based on their surveys of artistic preferences vary from different countries.

Their paintings "reflect the artists' interpretation of a professional market research survey about aesthetic preferences and taste in painting. Intending to discover what a true "people's art" would look like, the artists ... expanded their market research to more than a dozen countries around the globe and in turn, created Most Wanted and Least Wanted paintings for each country."

Curiously, Holland's most and least wanted preferences are nearly the reverse of the other countries!

* The paintings: http://awp.diaart.org/km/painting.html (The United States' Most Wanted Painting's thumbnail is broken, but the linked picture works.)

* The survey data: http://awp.diaart.org/km/surveyresults.html
Happy Internet Freedom Day!

[Void where prohibited by law.]
And that's exactly how we lost declensions and gained a bunch of Latinate vocabulary. There's no Académie Anglais.
Lawrence Lessig is an amazing person, and this piece underscores that. I really hope he will find that a time-out will help to heal these wounds and will begin to close the gap. Of all the words written about Aaron's plight these hit closest to home for me and I am halfway torn between following his example of tuning out and re-connecting with those around me (who I've been somewhat neglecting in the last week) and switching into 'action' mode from idle.

If there is one thing that all this has done it is that it has shocked me like not much has done in the last couple of years and I thought I was pretty tough. Lessig is a giant, imagine how much it would take to hurt a man of such stature that he needs to recover incommunicado and contrast that with the piece written by Mrs. Ortiz.

Worlds apart.
Is spending 60% of your take home pay on an apartment commonplace in New York? I realize the cost of housing in NYC is very high but I guess I assumed most of the people living in the city were making more than 90k.
It does now:

$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV* 'select LSQuarantineAgentName from LSQuarantineEvent'|grep 'Google Chrome'|wc -l
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Various NPR shows (On Point and Talk of the Nation come immediately to mind) have covered this.

On the media also did a report: http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jan/13/dr-martin-luther-king-...

transcript: http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/jan/14/dr-martin-luther-king-...
Why would that "wow" you. I'm confused by you. Many, many, people live in real poverty, live barely paycheck to paycheck, can only afford basically what is on the dollar menu. These people effect the average dramatically, and you think
"doubling" that average is like some amazing number that someone would be crazy to think is not enough? ... Kind of a "wow" for me too. :)
The last time I saw this story it included the detail that the study authors specifically noted that this figure held in NY and other high cost areas. Their theory as to why that was true was that NY provided more of what was required for happiness (people, variety) for free.
Kind of brilliant, actually. Not the fix or the tracking method...just that I knew subconsciously that if OSX could know to warn me that I'm trying to open up a file downloaded from the internet (and which webpage it came from), then it must have some way of tracking it that supersedes the standard browser wipe. But I just never thought to look around for it.
But language _is_ an arbitrary construct subject wholly to societal agreement. That's why language evolves over time, why different dialects of a given language develop, etc.

Edit: Spelling
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? I wasn't putting anyone in their place, I was just saying that the natural progression in such situations is to first make contributions and 'earn' ones place as a maintainer meritocrally (if that's a word).
My question is, what are you doing 'enjoy[ing] things that you can buy with money'? Hasn't it been well enough established that things don't make you happy? The Greeks figured that out two thousand years ago, guy!

Let me tell you, I bought a used car just this year and I appreciate it way more because I didn't bankrupt myself to do so.
At the end of the post, the author mentions using Automator to run a script to delete this frequently. Alternatively, you can use launchd to run scripts on a Mac. http://nb.nathanamy.org/2012/07/schedule-jobs-using-launchd/
I understand why he is saying that.

I for example, "re-invented" a atkins or paleo diet of sorts (ie: I on my own drifted to that sort of died before knowing those terms or news on that).

And it is working...

But it is working not because I avoid carbs. But because I avoid non-meaningful calories, I avoid carbs, and most of the fat.

The difference is: When I think I need meat, cheese, etc... to reach a certain protein goal, I don't freak out because there are fat on it.

But I don't go around using mayo, huge cheese-only sandwiches, bacon like if there was no tomorrow...

I eat bacon? Yes... ALso eggs! In fact frequently I eat bacon+egg sandwich. But I do that keeping track of the fat I am eating and not eating too much fat (and keeping carbs very low as I can).

So, the study the guy cites work in theory? Yes, because it is tighly controlled, in real life people understand "you can eat fat" as "fat make you thin".

You know, like those people that buy dieting shakes, and drown themselves in shakes and manage to consume 1000+ calories in a day only in shakes, thinking that drinking the shake that will make them lose weight.
To quote Tim Ferriss, "It's OK to want [a motorbike] because it makes you feel like a cool dude.".

If something makes a person happier, it makes them happier.
weird.. i assumed this would have been flagged if the same article was posted
Fair point - should have added more context there: the exchange referenced as a small part of a longer multi-part conversation during which we'd been really responsive (conversations lasting hours sometimes). We eventually fixed the problem - my contention is merely that a "f*ck you" was neither necessary nor productive towards solving Jon's problem (which we eventually did despite the comment).
No landlord is going to rent you a 3k/mo apartment on a 90k salary. Most require your gross annual income to be at minimum 40x the monthly rent, ie $120,000.

The whole point of living in a top-tier city like New York is to experience it and enjoy it. Living like an austere hermit isn't the way to do that in NYC, where so much of the scene revolves around putting expensive things in your mouth in front of other people. Maybe on the West Coast, where people can ride bikes without being ground to paste by ten ton trucks running red lights and walk down elegant boulevards that aren't carpeted with human waste, you can live frugally and experience a good life in the city. But not here.
Reshoring manufacturing
It is about extremely accomplished "young white men" deciding that unjust restrictions (not even rules, but terms of use of a website) should not be obeyed.
This is excellent, but it it important to see it as more than something that enables you to print your own case.

Think, instead, about the number of times you need some kind of mounting bracket or adapter to connect two pieces of consumer goods to each other. Think about mounting a phone on a car dashboard, or on a bike or motorcycle.

If there are N of the first and M of the second, there's no practical way for any manufacturer to support all MN combinations. As soon as some more companies follow Nokia's lead here, you should be able to combine two models, apply any final tweaks or customizations, and print your own adapter, perhaps even iterating over time as you add subtle new features.

This is the future, and you'd better be ready for it!
In general you can find accepted and common usage in a dictionary. I doubt you will find this meaning of "equivocate" in any dictionary today.

Prescriptivists usually go beyond the dictionary to enforce ideas of language that they got using the problematic methods described in the linked article.
As others have said, sounds like newsletters by themselves aren't the problem. But those who misuse them? I'm right there with the author. Hateful.

The key with any marketing is relevance. If you're getting messaging at any time that's not relevant to you, then someone on the marketing team is doing a crappy job.

(And if there's no way to successfully opt-out...that just makes my blood boil. The brands doing that are wasting their time and, more importantly, yours. The really good marketers should occasionally send out a 'list cleaning' email to be sure that people want to receive their newsletter.)

But as for newsletters as a whole, I agree with the others. Hate the player - not the game.
This is not too far from my own salary in a rural-ish area, my wife making half that as a teacher. We budget and manage our money carefully, and are indeed happy; we never disagree about money. When I was in major debt, I found I was constantly stressed and on the edge. Once it got paid off, I felt free. I have a mortgage and student loans (and a year left on a car note), but it's just a monthly payment with low interest. Even with a second child on the way, I don't feel worried; it won't be easy, but it's definitely manageable.

One of the biggest mistakes I make is seeing people save for their kids to go to college. Not only can you barely beat inflation (if not for the tax benefits), what happens when your child wants to major in Psychology? I treat college like an investment; for some careers it's appropriate, others not. If it's appropriate, then you should be able to take out loans that can be repaid in 5-6 years. If the career they want does not allow for that, then some better decisions need to be made. Nothing wrong with skilled trade these days.

My only worry (and it doesn't keep me up at night) is with retirement. I save probably 10% toward that, with 11% returns the past few years (I know, right?), but even at that rate I won't really be able to retire until my late 60s if I want any sort of decent life. I'm working now on trying to save more so that maybe I can retire earlier.

In the end, I believe unhappiness with money has more to do with debt than income. I'd imagine the results are skewed because people making $75k may also tend towards less debt. I imagine those making half that amount would be plenty happy if they had no debt to worry with.
"He was arrested, indicted twice on multiple counts of fraud and, at a trial that was to have begun in April, faced 50 years in federal prison and a $1 million fine."

This is wrong. He faced UP TO 35 years in prison and UP TO $1 million fine. It wasn't an all or nothing. He was also charged with 13 felonies. Which means that the following:

"Swartz was facing more prison time than he would have if he'd committed a serious physical crime, such as assault, burglary, grand theft larceny or involuntary manslaughter."

Doesn't hold true either. Yes, his 13 felonies could have netted him more time than if he had committed the crimes the article listed. But if you committed those crimes 13 times then, it would be a different story.

It amazes me that with all of the stories floating around, that people would still not have their facts straight.

Link for proof: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120917/17393320412/us-gov...
He didn't attack arguments based on usage, just outdated usage. The point of syntax is to be understood, not to prove you are educated. I'd hope you know what I mean when I say 'different than'. Language is going to change no matter what; being a prescriptivist means leading a significantly more annoyed life.
Somebody's been reading David Copperfield.

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
"Nuclear option"? I think it is more the Applebee's / lame tech support option. It was taught to the whole industry and now is used by everyone to a counterproductive end. I subscribe much more to the ways described by Gary Vaynerchuk in the The Thank You Economy where someone swore to his face and that person is now, years later, one of his VPs after Gary got to the bottom of the problem.
I remember when the JVM was tailored to the Java language and people declared it too hard to have other languages compile to it.
Microsoft uses gamification for training - e.g. Visual Studio Achievements and Ribbon Hero.
But firefox doesn't seem to be in the list, though I am using the Firefox Nightly so that has something to do with it. I have Adium (lot of sparkle update checks), Chrome (just used for testing), iChat and a couple other random one-offs.
Pretty sure most email services support this as the syntax is part of RFC 822. The problem is when certain websites ignorant of this standard, choosing not to validate email addresses with a "+" character.
I strongly suspect it isn't "bullshit" but it is overdiagnosed. It may be a very good thing that you weren't labelled and many may be mislabelled but that doesn't mean there aren't people with real neuropysiological/chemical differences that really do affect behaviour and can be counterbalanced by drugs.
If you can't learn to make better coffee than a Starbucks brew at home (where "better" is defined as "with more complex, refined tastes and less harsh, burned notes") you're doing something badly wrong. Decent beans, a set of digital scales, a cheap hand grinder and a French Press or Aeropress will do the job.
The phrase "verbal appearance" is genius and really summarizes my feelings on grammar. One shouldn't dismiss a person because of his appearance, but one would be wise to consider that he's more likely to be taken seriously if his appearance is up to par. The idea applies just as well to grammar.
'Cloud' used to mean hill.
Or if you get the entire editorial board to resign, and start a new journal.

This happened with the board of Topology (http://www.ams.org/notices/200705/comm-toped-web.pdf), who then set up the Journal of Topology. The new journal isn't open access, but it is cheaper. Then the editors of K-theory resigned to set up the Journal of K-theory, which was less than half the price of its predecessor.
Before you start considering treatment options, I'd strongly recommend making sure you get some objective testing done. I don't know what form of "tested by a neurobehavioral specialist" you've already gone through, but objective tests exist for attention disorders. I can personally recommend the T.O.V.A. Company's test; it's a simple reaction-time test that detects a pile of different attention disorders very accurately and objectively, without regard to any subjective evaluations of behavior. Several brilliant friends of mine run that company, and they know their stuff.

Also, congratulations on having a kid who has problems in school because they're far ahead; as problems go, that's a pretty good one to have. :)
hahaha, good ole' Schmidt. What a gem.
Taxing companies which don't have open APIs
Shylock banking malware spreads via Skype - Hacking News
Nice, very nice. I have them bookmarked for a long time but I have yet to fulfill this desire to one day just get to it.
What the author says is that "usage from years past" does not form some sort of authority. That is a different thing from today's usage, as described in dictionaries.
Chrome does integrate with this functionality.

Also, some apps doesn't even need to integrate, as the OS will override and auto-apply files for some blacklisted apps, see /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exceptions.plist for LSFileQuarantineEnabled
Xamarin opens beta to unknown new product
Firefox seems to be "blacklisted" by Apple, see /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exceptions.plist :

<key>org.mozilla.firefox</key>
<dict>
<key>LSFileQuarantineEnabled</key>
<true/>
This is a massively irresponsible piece, and the author should be ashamed for having written it.

A) The drugs work in the short term, and in the absence of data, the null hypothesis is that they continue to work in the long term. Making a strong claim like "ADD drugs don't work in the long term" without strong evidence is nothing short of scientific malpractice.

B) The author claims there was "a well-controlled study" that showed "very clear" results that "medication" (which medication?) was ineffective after 8 years. Thankfully, we won't be burdened with analyzing this study for ourselves, because the author does not give a citation or any other way of tracking the study down.

C) The author says that you can't fix all of the problems caused by ADHD with drugs. That's true, and any good doctor will tell you as much. Drugs are part of managing ADHD. They are not an entire solution.

D) The author claims that these drugs are habit forming. This is simply false at the dosages used to treat ADHD. For many ADHD drugs (e.g. atomoxetine), it is false at any dosage.

There's a more thorough destruction of the piece here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-harold-koplewicz/ritalin-go...
I would say the change dates to Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Each of these men did not care about the limits of Presidential power. Both Roosevelt's thought the Constitution was just a guideline.

If you think GWB abused power, then the things FDR did would shock you. Other than trying to pack the Supreme Court, he violated the rights of many of his "enemies" in various ways only a government can get away with.

If the courts had ruled another way when these people were in power, the USA could be a much better place. Heck, Nixon had price controls (voted to him by a Democratic Congress). GWB is vilified far more than he deserves compared to other Presidents.
The author does not cite a single study. S/he talks about studies, but does not give us any idea how to find them and read them ourselves.