skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Naturally it should be pointed out that I'm sure the majority of gay people do not behave in such a way."

They most assuredly do not. I am a gay engineer. I've never known anyone so blatantly deceptive, but if any of my acquaintances even thought about doing something like that, I would give them a dressing down that would make a drill sergeant cry.

Gay people are like any population sample. 95% of them are normal, decent human beings; 5% are wackos.
I live in Vancouver. Have you ever actually lived in Canada?

>Vancouver, BC has barely any tech industry

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

Let's just ignore the fact that MS has a development centre in Vancouver, specifically because its easier to hire game developers here. Halo is being written here.

> British Columbia has one of the highest tax rate in Canada.

You may want to tell that to BC: http://www.bcjobsplan.ca/?facts=b-c-lowest-personal-taxes

>One of my Canadian friends told me that the 50% marginal tax rate started around $65k, although I haven't double-checked this for accuracy.

Your friend is either an idiot, or hasn't lived here in a long, long time.

http://www.knv.com/cms-assets/documents/40364-256654.bcperso...

>You can't compete between Washington State, with no state income tax, and Vancouver, BC

How's your health care? How much does that cost your employer?

There are many great things about WA. I love it. However if the state is going to retroactively go after companies, BC starts to become very, very attractive. We are not that different, tax wise. We obviously need to stay competitive.
The solution some sites seem to use is just to look at the user agent. I often his software sites now and if there is a Linux version with an Ubuntu package it just gives me a big button that says "Download for Ubuntu", this either adds a repo or gives me a .deb which is as easy to install as a .msi.
Petition to fire accomplice Steve Heymann still needs 22k more: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...
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And HN reverts to the "man up"/"suck it up buttercup"/"you made your bed, now sleep in it" passive-aggressive back-stabbing everyone-for himself sentiments. None of us asks to be born into our lives and circumstances. It doesn't make someone less deserving of empathy to choose what they consider a moral battle. You are basically saying he wasn't jaded enough for your liking, and as a result, deserved to feel as hopeless as he did. I consider myself anti-religous... Still: "If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner." (Brando)
Only after doing things such as threatening to cut 300 million from education unless folks raised taxes (retroactively as well).

If your method of balancing the budget is always asking for more money, you haven't really balanced the budget.

What are you going to do in a few years when those tax hikes expire, and you suddenly lose the same amount of revenue?
I look forward to a few years when we begin to hear the claim in that we need to make the temporary hikes permanent, because we are running out of money again.

(This is, btw, fairly similar as to how the federal income tax was created. It was originally temporary)

As for the surplus claims: Of course the guy who supported the ballot initiative is going to say it's going to run a surplus.

However, even the ballot initiative booklet mentioned the surplus claims are possibly false, as the kind of revenue they are depending on is very transient and hard to predict.
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$100 for a MTA pass for a privilege of riding in a metro train with communists and all types of other trash?

Thanks, I stick to my car. Isolated from you criminals, communists, etc. yankees.
I think it makes sense that women are built from an evolutionary perspective to be picky, misleading, tough to successfully engage with, test out a guy and dump him later, etc.. Evolution is all about the people who have the most or most successful children being the templates for future generations.

For guys it is viable to be easy to get with and spread your genes about. For women, each child represents a huge resources cost. Therefore very high levels of pickiness and making men go through trials and tests and rejections is the best method for them to make the best choice. Evolution doesn't care about your feelings. If a woman has to throw a dozen good men into the friend zone along with another hundred just to get one good one, then that is the best method from an evolution standpoint, and that's what will become the genetically preferred behavior.

If I throw out any peanut that looks even slightly funny, the odds that I'll get a good peanut are a lot higher than if I only try to figure out exactly if each peanut is good inside the shell or not. In other words, don't take it personally. :)
I'd assume he's referencing the "apt-add-repository" with ppm support, which automatically takes care of editing sources, adding GPG keys to sign the downloads, and rebuilding the repo list, in one shot. It's not dramatically different than Fedora, but it's different enough you do appreciate it after awhile.
How about the US Supreme Court:

See Carpenter v. Pennsylvania, 58 U.S. 456 (1854):

"The debates in the federal convention upon the Constitution show that the terms "ex post facto laws" were understood in a restricted sense, relating to criminal cases only, and that the description of Blackstone of such laws was referred to for their meaning. 3 Mad.Pap. 1399, 1450, 1579.

This signification was adopted in this Court shortly after its organization in opinions carefully prepared, and has been repeatedly announced since that time. Calder v. Bull, 3 Dall. 386; Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch 87; 33 U. S. 8 Pet. 88; 36 U. S. 11 Pet. 421."
The corporate tax rate is actually lower than it is in the US though.
Why you would do this, instead of putting your node server behind a more battle tested proxy, like Varnish or HAProxy, and limiting the number of simultaneous connections.
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Well, sure, once you start passing retroactive taxes.
Makes sense, I would probably rate an app 1-star also if I had to use Facebook auth to use it - as I don't even have a Facebook account. I've noticed apps that require a Google login seem to do fine on Android though, probably because you need to have a Google account to use Android (or close to).

Did you re-launch the app under a new name to get new ratings after removing Facebook auth? Seems like the sensible thing to do...

I put up a small visual traceroute app up on Google Play recently - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rc.vtrace2 - and it was selling decently (7 sales within the first few hours), but then someone put a 2 star rating and, of course, nobody has touched it since. It's pretty interesting how much impact the first few reviews actually have on an app.
Usually there's a few tiers of packages, with the first tier packages being extensively tested and maintained, and the second tier packages mostly just provided as a convenience. I believe Debian calls the first-tier "main" and the second-tier "contrib" (and Ubuntu calls them "main" and "universe").
Do you have a link for that? I've only seen them say "if you need to support IE8, you need to use jQuery 1.9". No mention of a plugin.
Oh, so I guess there would be no recourse should NY pass a law outlawing newspapers, or barring the assembly of more than two people at any time? The Constitution absolutely does limit federal and state (and county, and municipal, and every) government. It clearly limits the federal government more but to say the second amendment isn't limiting states (either via text or SCOTUS case law) is not true.
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> Period, end of story.

Despite flailing politicians on both sides of the aisle, the Constitution is not as clear-cut as that.
Facebook is announcing a (supposedly) context and privacy aware search feature right now, livetweet from ars: http://live.arstechnica.com/facebook-january-event-liveblog-...
> Overall, there is a feeling that Aaron Swartz’ death has to mark the beginning of a change. This petition could be a ticket and an opportunity for the administration to begin such a change, if nothing else, just by firing an overreaching prosecutor. That would be a symbolic action that would still send a message, albeit a weak one, but it would go a long way for many. In contrast, a nonaction from the administration would be a signal that vigilante justice is the only remaining option, which would be unfortunate on many levels.

This is a silly article. There are actually steps that happen before the firing of an official, most notably an investigation. But this article reads as: "We got 25,000 signatures, if the President doesn't ax her then people will resort to armed revolt"

(I'll skip the debate on whether it's good for a government to be directed by the popularity of an online petition, unless people favor the country renamed to 'The United States of Bieber')

The main point is that action in government is slow. And for good reason. If people want to hold onto the fantasy that when a bunch of people get angry, the government will take drastic action...then fine...but people who really want to see change should be prepared to accept that the original problem (the case against Swartz) may not be satisfactory dealt with, but that attitudes change and reform can eventually happen, as long as the people who care continue to speak up and apply pressure.
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I got excited thinking that Twilio finally supported sending images... but all this article describes is sending a link to an image via SMS.
I've actually have been working on a site that does this exact same thing for the past few months. I could definitely use some help from developers - feel free to drop me a line if anyone wants to talk.

I personally feel that calculator software should be open source and easy to modify, it not only allows people to learn the background processes by inspecting the code, but it has numerous other educational benefits.
You are wrong; -t does not change the ctime. It changes the atime and mtime. You cannot change the ctime using touch.
Yes, the comparison is relative, it may as well be 10000x better (in orders of magnitude)

You're even playing nice against the 6502, you're using a simple add, now compare with SIMD instructions
shouldn't that be "we take more money" ?
> Nobody should gain monetarily from someone being sentenced to prison.

I agree with your sentiment, but... are you aware of the fact that a large part of the US prison system is run by private corporations that have clear profit motives, and even seek contractually guaranteed occupancy levels?

Edit, link: http://annarbor.com/news/opinion/passing-house-bill-will-wor...

Money quote: "In 2012, [the Corrections Corporations of America] sent a letter to 'prison officials in 48 states offering to buy prisons from these states in exchange for a 20-year management contract and a guaranteed occupancy rate of 90%.'"
But how do you really feel? ;)
"Some people say..." openings can be problematic, because they can get the reader wondering, who? Who says that? Which pulls them away from the point you're trying to make. Better to start with a specific example of someone saying it: "John Smith thought men couldn't get breast cancer. On April 5, he found out he was wrong."

I really like the idea of jumping straight into a scenario (or anecdote), I remember having been suggested by my teachers in middle school to do so.

Yeah, this is an effective technique that's nearly as old as storytelling itself. It's called in medias res:

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

The name is Latin for "into the middle of things," which describes the idea: throw the reader into the middle of the story first, revealing earlier events later on where necessary. This lets you open on a dramatic note right away, which grabs the reader's attention, while setting up little enigmas -- who is this person? Why is she doing what she's doing? What does she want? -- for the reader to solve, which keeps them involved.
Ooh, weirdly the earlier torrent available of JSTOR data was JSTOR's free-access stuff older than 1923 - which is just about the same size.

How coincidental!
I am just surprised that in 2013 we are still having this discussion.

There are several ways "to make money with OS"; Service-based models (like support), Dual-licensing models (think Qt, MySQL, etc), Community vs "Enterprise" packaging, Extensions to popular packages, Consulting, Platform ownership, etc etc etc. Why such big surprise?!?
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"regular online dating is completely broken" - hogwash! Facebook is the dating site of choice. Women use it to get a feel for guys they hear about/meet through their friends. By checking their social interactions, their friends, their education etc they can get a good idea of the person. People are as good at this as they are picking out a face in a crowd, several million years of evolution has ensured this.

the women under 28 don't bother with any of this because they are typically in social situations (like college) where they meet people all the time and getting dates is trivial. Their only concern is their appearance and safety. They want to appear to their peer group to be dating well and with guys that add to their status, which is where facebook comes in.

It may not be workig for you, but online dating is not broken at all...
Cool. I was reading an article on Cracked about this very subject.
http://www.cracked.com/article_20214_5-so-called-signs-geniu...

There's a link to a youtube video which features the "Sherlock" television show. It shows the first encounter between Watson and Holmes where he deduces whether or not he was involved in the Afghanistan war.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYlVBhwfvL4

Its cool that that encounter happened in the book as well. I love how even though the time period is different, the subjects are still relevant.

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Now about this article, some of these things are of course based of a fictional character. But, I don't think that's the point of the article. Its more about how to open your mind and observe closely what's in front of you. Perhaps, learning and applying the lessons from the fictional Holmes will actually expand ones horizons. Being that this is Hacker News , and the article was posted on Fast Company, I see how this may benefit a developer or an entrepreneur. You may be able to solve problems just by sitting back and not moving too fast. By simply being mindful and patient, maybe the solution will not only come to you but even compel you to act on it.

At least that's what I got out of it...
Sorry - I was just informed that you can not install and run your own kernel. Apologies.
It's worth worrying about outages, because these "cloud hosting" providers are a single point of failure for their hosted sites.

Worrying about a complete shutdown is less reasonable. Sure, it's possible that a company might suddenly decide to shutter a profitable and massively popular service, but what are the chances? It's like worrying that Amazon will stop selling physical books.
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I think that when you try lots of things and thinking critically about them as you work with them, you're bound to form strong opinions about what you like and what you don't like. That's why being able to intelligently discuss your favorite language/framework/whatever is much more important that what that pet technology is.
I'm not going to get into the fair price discussion, cuz I think the MBAs are generally more expensive. but I see sooo many people say the MBA is not as good, cuz abc ultrabook has an i7 in it.

A.) Who really needs to do serious crunching on their ultra book these days. Unless you are compiling very sizable programs, you're never gonna notice processor speed.

B.) Think about how that "superior" processor eats power like it's going outta style. Now combine that with a super thin computer that's light on volume to hold batteries. Is that extra fast processor worth 2hrs less battery life?

C.) Given A and B, I'd rather have the slower processor.
The future is now, apparently.
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Exactly. I don't ever plan on living someplace I need kidnapping insurance.
A personal dialect of XML? Wouldn't you be better off making your own grammar from scratch?
well said, it's amazing how little some people on hn know about the real world!
This sort of paranoid attitude can't be helping your prospects. You make this out to be way more adversarial than is healthy.

Have you ever considered that sometimes the reason a girl passively rejects a guy is because she doesn't want to hurt his feelings but hopes he will take the hint without her having to be more direct? I.e., she doesn't want to make things more awkward herself, and doesn't have perfect social skills either (most people don't!). What makes that super awkward is when the guy won't take the hint, or has seen too many "a dude just won't give up and finally wins the girl over" movies. It's a low probability outcome, better to just move on. Be friends if you want to be, or don't if you don't.

And neither men nor women are perfect at knowing when someone's interested, for that matter. Women are better at it, as far as I've seen, but it's not 100%, and then there are also creepy guys who hide that they're interested for weeks or longer, and then complain about "friendzoning" after springing it awkwardly out of nowhere. Don't be that guy!
Because that is a lot of work, and this is a drop-in solution for any node application?
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See Calder v. Bull (1798).

Unfortunately our law is not only the constitution, but also hundreds of years of decisions surrounding it. Makes it hard for any layperson to actually know what the law is!
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I don'y know about that... the handful of blind dates I've been on setup by friends, the only thing I seem to have in common with the women in question is that we are both over-weight.
I don't think it's a huge surprise, I just think that there is a lack of understanding for a lot of people. Articles that may encourage more open source are always welcome in my books :)
Ironically, just like for the American plea bargaining, the risk of the German system is hardest for those actually innocent. The differential between falsely confessing and not might not be as much as in the American system, but in the end it has the same effect. The innocent face even longer imprisonment if they insist on their innocence, in Germany it just works over the rehabilitation angle. The prison system will judge the refusal to show remorse and not trying to make amends as sign of lack of rehabilitation which will lead to a full imprisonment without early release, as opposed to the guilty case who is probable to get out after I think 60% of his time.
> Some things about the US still surprise me. In "socialist Sweden" (as it's sometimes called) retroactive taxation is unconstitutional.

The difference between the US and postage-stamp-sized European countries like Sweden is that there is great political and cultural variation between different parts of the US. California is chock full of socialists/liberals.
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This also.
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IIRC, when I closed my account in 2010 after meeting someone off-line, one of the options for "why are you leaving" was "in a relationship with someone I met on OKCupid" and I think it had an option for selecting who.

So between that and knowing if you're still messaging new people after messaging someone else for a while, I think they pick up a lot of it.
It's only balanced based on projections. Check back in a year to see how realistic those projections were.

I'll be proud of California if it works out, but I have my doubts.
There's a Seattle startup doing this with your facebook graph: http://likebright.com/
The Court gets things wrong occasionally. They got this wrong. Legislative intent does not trump the clear unambiguous wording of the law. This is why, for example, minting the trillion dollar coin would be legal despite the fact that this was clearly not the intent of the legislation.
I visit plenty of sites that have an organized library of content, using one CMS or another, and also have a "latest updates" RSS feed.

Even a generic WordPress blog is better than Facebook in this regard, since posts tagged and sorted by tag.
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Do you have Adblock Plus installed? It frequently removes the illegitimate download links since it (rightly) classifies many of them as ads.
Honestly it depends. Personally, I don't engage with people who want children because thats just an inevitable nail in the coffin. Everyone has their own red flags, there's no science to it really.

I only get roughly 1 response for every 7 messages I send, so clearly I'm not the only picky one, and its not just the ladies holding out ;)
There's a big difference between the iOS app store and the Android app store. One is mandatory, the other is a convenient default.
Vancouver has horrible housing affordability ratios (housing price : income), income is lower at the entry level for software by almost double compared to WA (MS can change that), cost of goods is about %15-%30 more expensive across the board. Housing prices are just now reversing because of stricter mortgage requirements. Interest rates are really low and an interest rate hike is just waiting to happen.

The reason why Vancouver is so bad for housing is because wealthy foreign investors see Vancouver as a stable store of value for their money. It's a complicated bank account for large sums of money.

Alberta is the money making place to be in Canada, since the resource industry & banking drives over %50 of the TSX. Rent is also a lot better in Alberta. But Canada is not a country right now to be a techie compared to the USA. It's a great place to be in the oil industry although.
Am I the only one that finds these petitions pointless? They marginalize any real activism down to just some signatures by loosely-connected individuals and really just provide a forum for speaking to your elected officials - something they're supposed to be there for anyway - in a format that has none of the financial "umph" that lobbyists bring.
Our problem is the the number of simultaneous connections we can support isn't static, it varies depending on the type of traffic bursts (i.e. New vs. Returning users).

But agree that a higher level proxy is useful - because this way your overloaded application doesn't even need to deal with traffic (we hope to use toobusy to have applications instruct the routing layer to temporarily block / reroute traffic in times of load).
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Great tips. Need more articles like this. Thanks.
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If the government thinks they need to tell you how big a drink you can have, and the citizens agree with it, there's something seriously wrong with both. OTOH, we have plastic bag ban in California and lightbulb ban federally, if I remember correctly, so it's not that easy nowdays to find a place to live where there's not something seriously wrong with it.
It's just a wrapper overtop.

That said, it likely is more intuitive :)