skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to put this in all caps because you are not paying my day rate: YOU ARE AN ABUSE SURVIVOR.

Find professional help (NOW) to starting approaching it and dealing with it.

Find professional help (NOW) to help manage your mental disorder (depression) which carries an enormous and present risk of self-harm.

Get whatever the fuck is wrong with your foot fixed, and start walking out the door on the regular.

You appear to be bright, talented, and a capable writer. Resume applying those gifts to the people around you instead of yourself. You are the best person in your own life, now be the best person in other people's lives.
As a B-tier school student looking for a silicon valley internship, this is extremely comforting to hear.
Dude I don't care what you think, but Google is the greatest technology organization ever existed. The "How It Feels" video literally made me in tears because the vision is so great, so compelling. The way we interact will change fundamentally, but that isn't a bad thing. People are always terrified by progress because progress means difference, and people feel comfort in falling back to the same thing. But, again, I don't care. The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed. We will all be living in an age of augmented reality.
just tried it on a large PDF. Chrome takes about 1 second to load while FF takes 10, and the visual result in FF is nearly unreadable (while in Chrome it looks just like it does in Acrobat). i'd love to have nice open-source native PDF support, but this surely doesn't cut it for release.
Mercurial is really nice, IMO. I always preferred it over Git due to the well thought out CLI. Unfortunately, it's usage hasn't seemed to catch on outside of a few (Sun/Java).

Git keeps getting better, and I'd be hesitant to put anything new on Mercurial at this point. The tooling just doesn't seem to be keeping up any more.
Oracle ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), one of the major business software products that Oracle sells to corporations that they do IT consulting for, is fully Applet-based. They're not going to dump Applets because Applets are the framework of their core product.
If Professor Mann would ever share any real information on how to make your own Eyetap, or share any of his software, or really tell anybody anything except, "Yeah, I claim I'm doing all this cool stuff, too bad you can't try it ner ner ner", I'd care more about what he's done.
I agree -- but having transparency and access would allow us to see the multitude of the laws, and perhaps press the legislature for repealing some of them.
It's become such an important part of the gameplay that it's funny to think it was just a fix.
Since I'm blind Firefox wins every time over Google Chrome. I tried out the link you had in your comment and I can at least read some of the text in Firefox with my screen reading software. I assume this is because Firefox turns it into some form of HTML that is then accessible through the normal function of assistive technology. Google Chrome uses some kind of plugin that doesn’t provide any accessibility support so I get a blank page without any text. Even if the performance isn’t as good I’d much rather deal with things that are rendered to HTML and JavaScript.
"L.A. is about to become the first major city in the world to synchronize all of its traffic signals."

For such an obvious way to improve traffic, safety and reduce pollution, it seems very odd that this hasn't been done before in other forward looking cities.
Off by default is a good step to take today. I can't see eliminating them, but this makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, but your standard costs for not crazy huge amounts of data aren't as competitive as I've been able to find. We're storing on a competitor for about half what you guys charge and they provide rsync/ssh access.
I'm confused as to why you think what he wrote indicates an expectation that Titan should receive the duties. I didn't read that into it at all.
Costco has them for $20 off right now, so $159.
There has never been a successful society of an serious complexity that had law that could be codified in a form where one person could understand them all.

Even if, for the sake of argument, we take that as true... the fact that something hasn't been done yet does not necessarily prove that it's impossible. If everyone simply accepted the status quo as inevitable, we would never make any progress at all.
That's not true, the Code of Hammurabi had 282 laws which really was it. Now most people could not read but the average person had a much better understanding of what to avoid doing. The issue is the separation between well understood laws with fuzzy edge cases and laws that people simply don't know about.
It doesn't take much for someone to appreciate the humor in the HN crowd trying to predict what is or isn't going to become fashionable.
Because it involves force to implement and removes my control. At least that's my reason for hating socialized anything.
HP Cloud Approaching Feature Parity with AWS
Indeed, I got to the first set of footnotes and assumed I was done reading until I saw this comment!
I really wish more lawyers would think this way. Every bill passed in Congress nowadays is hundreds or even thousands of pages long, and filled with incomprehensible legal language.

It's as if the text itself is intended to obscure the meaning, rather than explain it.
I used to be just like you. I spent almost an year without leaving my apartment. Only going out for food (too hard to find 24/7 delivery in Brazil).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_N.H.K.
You're probably familiar with this animated series.

One thing that helped me a lot was doing some Vipassana meditation. Acknowledging that everything as an end. All the pleasures, all the pain. If you wait long enough you'll fell better.

Other important point is Nutrition. It makes a WHOLE LOT of difference on your mental habits. And after some time it will make you a new person.

I suggest you watch the movies "Food Matters" and "Fork over Knives". They're great movies (with some flaws) that can be a kind of "wake up call".

As someone that was on the same boat I wish you all the peace and happiness in the world.
I think it's because of the way the unit works. The carrier itself doesn't actually attack anything. It produces and spawns interceptors which are independent and targetable(but not capable of taking orders) units, which then go out and attack the carrier's target.

The unit, by itself, is closer to a building than an actual unit, because the player has to manually queue up interceptor production, which has a resource cost and takes time.

Since it does spawn the interceptors to attack, there are a lot of behaviors that it shows that other units don't. For one, the maximum range to a target where it can start to attack is fixed, like most units. At that range or lower, the carrier will launch it's interceptors, which will attack the target. However, there is also a longer "leash" range, where the carrier can move away from the target, after the interceptors have been launched, and they will keep attacking the target until the carrier goes out of the range, at which point the interceptors will go back to the carrier that spawned it. An explanation of this behavior can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rqx8s2qKXM

Also, when the carrier dies, all interceptors that it has launched die.
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Okay, fair points. I had no idea my one little comment would get so much attention. I'm really not trying to be as critical of Mayer as everything seems to have taken it. I saw a quote, it stood out as being supremely hollow and so I pointed it out. I'm not the typical HN cynic that picks things apart where there's no need. I understand the context. I just thought that quote was funny enough to point out.
The pdf.js repository contains a Chrome/Chromium plugin, which works for me. YMMV.
I like rebase for this rather than merging the changes. But it's kind of strange to think of it as a problem that you'd need to acknowledge the other developers' work before committing...
I believe he's hoping the whole legal system would be forced to become less ponderous - sad and not terribly admirable hope. Those people who supported absurdity on the principle that "no one would let such absurdity stand" are a sad footnote in the advance of bureaucratic complexity. The best you can say is they probably haven't done as much damage as the simply greedy.
Yes, feature gaps can be closed quickly. Unfortunately, Square's app has been lacking such basic functionality (as modifiers) for so long, that it raises some legitimate concerns.
This isn't really comparable. Clearly there are hundreds of uses for a always-available video or photo recorder.
"I can attest that nobody uses applets anymore"

http://danielrapp.github.com/mcstats-analysis/

Minecraft disagrees - you know, one of the best selling games of the last year or two... 9.4m copies sold. And according to this analysis 33% of people play it in an applet. To me this sounds absolutely insane. But we should never underestimate the insanity of the general populous.
It functioned in a significantly different way from other units. They had to include the unit building mechanisms from factory buildings (for producing interceptors), and instead of having its own direct attacks it controlled a small fleet of child units with their own weapons.

The engine wouldn't have been particularly flexible about that kind of thing, as almost every other unit has either a direct "shoot guns at the target" attack or no attack at all. The two exceptions to this were the Protoss carrier (air) and reaver (ground). Reavers would have been a bit simpler because their projectiles just find a path to the target and blow up; there's no need for swarming behavior, returning to the carrier to recharge, etc.
When you say "other forward looking cities" I say "every city in existence".

Seriously, why isn't EVERYONE doing this?
Once most of the cars on the road are self-driving, even more opportunities for traffic optimization arise.
This blog post is doesn't quantify why they have been able to recruit well written by non-employee fan of Stripe. It is a puff piece that's fun to read, sort of like the content you'd read in People Magazine. For example, the author provides a chart the breaks down like this:

1) we hire mostlty through referrals, which includes intense stalking

2) we've had reasonable luck w/ people who approach us

3) most people we contact via LinkedIn don't get back to us

4) once we hired someone through a recruiter

Points one through four are unique to Stripe. If they were an unsexy company in the boonies, point one would be "we hire mostly through recruiters". Point for would be "we once literally found someone under a rock".

This article reminded of an analysis on Tyra Bank's tips for becoming a model -- (mildy NSFW, bikinis) http://www.cracked.com/funny-2185-americas-next-to/funny-218...
MrBool reaches the milestone of 1,000 free videos posted
You could make your own. Take the bills (which are free) and compile them yourself. Boom, your own copy of the DC Code. You can then release it under a permissive license or whatever.

The hard part is compiling the bills. From the blog,

Each bill is then downloaded by an employee of the
company that wins the contract for maintaining the bill.
This person must hold a law degree from an ABA accredited
law school, and they cannot be a subcontractor.

(http://macwright.org/2013/02/13/the-code-compiled.html)

This is why the code can be copyrighted. Like a cookbook which extends a recipe with "substantial literary expression", the code extends the bills with creative expression.
Show HN: Start accepting Stripe payments easily
Something that puzzled me when I came to the US was that traffic lights (including a majority of pedestrian lights) just cycles through a certain schedule. Where I come from, traffic lights have sensors in the ground that manages the traffic. Also, all pedestrian crossings have very responsive buttons that truly work. The crossing light won't come on unless someone presses the button. In the US, I can rarely tell if the buttons are just props or if they actually do anything.

There's way more traffic in the US though, so not sure if this would work since there are so many traffic lights, and almost always someone waiting in each direction. Something that frustrates me to no end though are traffic lights (especially for left turns) that were obviously programmed with the belief that not many cars would be waiting, but is in fact heavily used. This results in having to wait 2-3 light cycles just to get through the intersection.
I am surprised that it wasn't already done but it makes me happy that the traffic in LA can get a little better (I live north of LA).

The sync will probably also discourage speeding as the sync works well at the speed-limit.
There were all kinds of discoveries like that. I remember when the reaver drop was invented by someone out of MIT. Can't remember his handle but he was one of the top players pre-brood war.

Edit: Found him, Zileas aka Tom Cadwell. Brings back the memories.
How Heineken hires new people
More worried about the lack of ECC. Have you done tests on (normally) undetected errors?
A small amount of money for a few months, followed by a demo day in the end, etc.

It's not as established, though, and I haven't read or heard much about the startups which come out of it, though, which I why I posted the question.
If they never use it, then a better solution is for browsers to ship with applets disabled. Or without an applet plugin at all -- if you need it, go install it at your own risk.
Chinese Hackers and Security Malware Theater (Part I)
>>I'm confused as to why he thinks those taxes should go to Titan.

He could be a stereotypical welfare queen. You know, the type who think they are entitled to "free stuff" at taxpayer expense.
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TrustEgg (YC W11) Launches, Lets Anyone Create Trust Accounts For Their Kids
How about an "altruist black-hat" in China scrape the site then post a torrent? This sort of thing has as much a potential for good as it has for mischief. Someone could organize this.
>Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.

I've heard this assertion so many times, and after thinking about it, I don't think it's actually true. I agree with the sentiment of your comment, but I don't think I'm actually breaking multiple laws every day. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Edit: Could anyone at least provide me with an example of some laws that many people, and perhaps I, break every day unknowingly? That would be a start.
You are correct. It probably would, from my perspective. I actually talk to people, properly, deeply.

My memes are not limited to 140 characters...
Interesting. It came off much more casual and dashed-off to me.
I think it's more sad to expect others to divine the solution to your problems when they have no point of reference

I didn't get any sense that the author was expecting others to divine the solution to his problems; I think he was just irritated because they were besieging him with "concern" without actually helping any.

I think it's sad when expressions of love and concern are rebuffed with a dismissive, "But you don't understand."

An expression of love and concern like "Hey, it seems like you're going through a rough time, I hope things work out for you, let me know if there's anything I can do to help" is one thing. That should be met with thanks, yes.

An "expression of love and concern" like "I think you should do X" or "Have you tried Y?" is quite another. It is not really aimed at helping or comforting the person who is having a rough time; it is aimed at easing the emotions of the person who thinks they are being comforting. That is the sort of thing that might (and should) get met with "But you don't understand".

Of course poor Aunt Sharon doesn't understand.

Indeed. And therefore she should not presume to tell the person she doesn't understand how they should "fix" things. The issue isn't really that she doesn't understand; it's that she doesn't even know that she doesn't understand.

it may take some effort on your part to frame your emotions to her experience.

This is true, but Aunt Sharon has to be willing to meet you halfway. Many Aunt Sharons are not.
I don't think that's right: I use Chromium on Arch Linux and it does not seem to have a PDF viewer. It always offers to download PDFs and open them with a separate program, often warning me first that PDFs from unknown sources can be dangerous.
Why is something as basic as the description and distribution of public law not treated the same across all US states? Surely, this is one area where Federal statute must apply...

I mean I've heard of "jurisdictional arbitrage" but even for the US, this is starting to be insane when it applies to the actual letters of the law!
> How can someone tell me what I will find beautiful or intuitive?

Let's be honest here. Yahoo doesn't really care what you think. Clearly if you are someone who gets worked up because a company calls a new product, "beautiful" or "intuitive" then you really aren't their desired demographic.

Especially since you know. You are a Google employee and all.

The fact is that Yahoo is simply trying to make this launch sound exciting. Like companies have been doing for hundreds of years. And the language they are using is far less hyperbolic than most.

> The result is corporate speak.

Might want to check a dictionary because I don't think you understand what that term means.
Is edtech in a bubble?
Ubuntu Voice Recognition
Every company thinks they have one of the best engineering teams. Especially in the Silicon Valley.
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That's a good summary, thanks. I know that with myself, I have a side interest in analyzing communication patterns (and argument patterns) in others - communities in particular. So I start getting analytical and looking at things in terms of rationality and bias. But I find that it might be making me slow down in my personal life - meaning, I start to arrive at things methodically and analytically that could be arrived at much quicker through intuition and common sense. It's frustrating. So I'm not sure it's just ironic - it might even be causal.
Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs are huge JavaScript web apps that run in all modern browsers and have enormous user bases. They form a huge part of Google's business. Additionally, Google develops, maintains, and promotes popular JavaScript developer tools like Closure Compiler, AngularJS, and the Chrome dev tools.

Are you implying that everyone should just shut down all R&D in web technologies that compete with or don't use JavaScript?
While I'm not wild about all the eggs being in one basket, I find myself getting frustrated when code isn't on github, because I can't star/watch/track it from one central place. I use the star feature on github all the time to mark potentially useful/interesting libraries, and every now and then will browse through them to see which ones took off and which fizzled.
No, if I remember correctly it was somewhere on http://emacswiki.org which is a great resource by the way.
Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze. I also liked what James Hamilton (VP in Amazon Web Services) had to say: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/09/03/SuccessfullyChal...
You can see this when the workers run out of minerals and boom they expand all over the place. Awesome read and makes me feel great about some of my own git-r-dun hacks :-)
this car is only for enthusiasts / first-adopters at this stage

This is so totally correct, and I don't get why Tesla isn't OK with that message. Even though it absolutely isn't right for everyone or every situation, they are still selling them as fast as they can make them. Mainstream problems are for mainstream products. They don't apply here.
The people who are running clean systems.

They are important, because they tend to be the people who fix the things the "Look, shiny!" people bork.
Thomson Reuters, the parent company of Westlaw (the contractor who presently has the contract in DC)
Safe to read if you don't subscribe to utilitarianism. :-)
Would you prefer that the guy puts on a fake smile and pretends to not be an ass? I wouldn't.
I just checked out GoPago vs. Square's Register page (https://squareup.com/register or https://squareup.com/register/hardware/) - GoPago is beautiful and crisp, but Square does a better job getting instant engagement (free card reader or "Shop Now" / just leave email offer on LP etc).

Since the start one of Square's major advantages is their deceptively simple user interface - their conversion rate of getting interested merchant's email / info is likely many multiples over competitor's contact rate.

Unsolicited free advice is worth what you paid for it, but feel free to drop me a line via my profile if you'd like some actionable recommendations for closing that gap . . .
Marksy is both an online service (http://marksy.arc90.com) and a Chrome Extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/marksy/glncdocnokp...) which lets you quickly convert between different markup languages.

The full writeup is here: http://lab.arc90.com/2013/02/20/marksy/
I wouldn't call ancient Babylon a "seriously complex" society. Pre-industrial societies have limited complexity. When everyone is mostly a self-sufficient farmer on his own land minding his own business, the need for law is dramatically lessened than industrial societies where all the necessities of sustaining one life may be the product of the labor of thousands of different people all interacting with each other.

Also: Babylon was essentially a dictatorship. You don't need law when one person is empowered to call all the shots.
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I think this is sometimes indeed the purpose. I haven't verified this, but I remember reading that there was one part of the Affordable Care Act that was intended to be some pork for Nevada. However, the act didn't read that way. It was written as a sort of benefit to states which met something on the order of two pages' worth of qualifications. In the end, it ruled out every state but Nevada.
Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today
You might be uniquely suited for the job, then. :-)
I think it is productive - a polite refusal would leave the minister with less information about the opinion of business leaders towards French policies. This way, he knows of a few specific issues that the CEO has with the idea of operating in France.
It's pretty cool to see the source of this. Back when I used to play Starcraft I primarily played UMS maps (custom game modes) and several of them were based on using "bugs" in the game engine to surmount situations that appeared impossible.

Moving a harvester unit past an invincible wall of enemies was one of these, which was accomplished by right clicking on a further mineral field. It's interesting to see that this was an intentional design decision.

Other tricks in those maps were definitely bugs, like the ability to infinitely cloak burrowing units by using an arbiter and other ones I can't remember. I think they fixed that bug though (although it would be unlikely to occur in real play).

Now that I think about it, there was one other trick in those maps that likely was a similar hack to fix a bug. You could destroy a siege tank if you tried to siege a tank in the location a terran building was landing in. It seems like it was a quick fix to two immovable units taking up the same position.

Reading these blog posts is always a treat.
It's very ironic that XMPP which was invented as an open standard to combat the various proprietary IM networks only really got traction as part of new equally proprietary IM networks that go great lengths at making their XMPP implementations incompatible to any other XMPP implementation.

I'm looking at you, WhatsApp, iMessage and all others.