skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I live (Sweden), its common to move bullied kids to new schools, because its an political impossibility to do action against bullying kids while they still are attending school. It much easier to "ask" the parent of a bullied kid to move the kid to a new school. In the extreme edges, where clear physical evidence can be collected from several years of bullying, there is sometimes a court case. Those cases is always after the kid has left the school, several, often 10+ years later.

A problem is that physical evidence is extremely hard to collect from children. As the video show, kids do get bruised by accident, and when they fight, it rarely end up in obvious fighting type damage like an bruised eye or broken jaw. If one compare it to a brawl at a bar, school yard bullying do not have a bunch of reliable third-party witnesses (yes, drunk people at the bar is more trusted in this case).

However, what about Justice which one takes by violence? It might work sometimes, but I would warn about gangs. Kids like adults have a tendency to form groups. Groups get group mentality, which can get very ugly very fast. One has to be very fast, quick and lucky to survive going up against a bullying gang leader. Sticks and Stones hurt.

For the people who made this video, thank you. I hope this will remind people, and maybe get some tools invented to start combating bullying. Being a security interested person, I can think of several ideas but I am worried about which ones might actually have an effect and which ones will only make us feel like we are doing something. Cameras and microphones is popular in schools now, and each kid tend to have a smart-phone, and yet I not heard of a reduction in bullying. Small classes is an other solution proposed by people, but I have yet to see a case where that have made a difference. Even when a teacher has time to do something, they seems perplexed on how to deal with it. Maybe if tested tools and procedures is invented, small classes will start to have an effect on bullying.
It's certainly true that the American media has a pretty big bias towards rebels in non-democratic states, but that doesn't mean that they're being controlled.
I'm not sure I agree -- from my perspective, the US left seems as crazy as the US right.

As a Swede, I follow NY Times and BBC to compare with the Swedish daily media, for the laughs -- it is like laughing at mongloids doing pratfalls. :-( I think I could do the same with most other countries' media.
Badass Catholic Ninja/Rockstar Evangelist Needed (Pope JD:Startup Edition)
I did a single Octane run on each for my own amusement. Totally unscientific methodology but the results are good enough for me. Chromium is v. 27.0.1424.0 rev 184630 (probably the latest build) from a zipfile (Google makes it practically impossible to download zips of anything else).

IE still has to do a lot to catch up and the Windows 7 desktop version's GUI is same old IE9 without any changes.

http://ompldr.org/vaGxnZQ/browsers.png
I totally don't see why it is important to have absurdly high resolutions, when sometimes what matters is something else.

For example, I want a machine that is reliable (both in software and hardware), fast enough for my purposes and with good usability.

The only point where the Pixel scores in that is their 3:2 screen, that make much more sense than those crazy widescreens.
A New Reference Architecture That Will Speed Knowledge & Dev. of Cloud Apps
Dead Ends in iOS and a Proposed Solution
Explanation: It seems that since they made embedded PDF renderer (via PDF.js), which is awesome step otherwise, they add the URL to the print (but not PDF preview) as they do when you print webpages. example: http://cdn.arosoftware.com/files/IMG.pdf

The problem is, I don't see a way to disable that, so it seems 100s of users of hypothetical webapp that needs PDF-s to look exactly as they were generated (imagine some contracts, reports, invoices, ...) and use FF, have a problem. Do you noww have to require them to fiddle with settings, download and print all invoices or switch to another browser. Which is all bad, I want that it just works and that they keep using what they want.

The page says the fix (with moznomarginboxes, which if I understand would have to be added to the HTML behing PDF.js rendeder) will come in v 22. But what until then?
and why not something more reasonable, like [], which doesn't require the shift key at least on US keyboards

The OP is assuming the current US keyboard layout. C was developed on the PDP-11 which would likely have used a DECwriter II for the keyboard/output.

On that keyboard [ ] are on the same key (non-shift is [, shift is ]). Thus [ ] were not 'easier' on it. Similarly, { } were on the same key with non-shift being { and shift being }.

C's predecessor BCPL used { } although it was developed on a machine without a keyboard and so typing those characters was just as easy as any other character. The developer might have had access to an IBM card punch with a keyboard but the keyboards on those were odd (IBM layout) with no [] or {} and $( was used in place of {.
Custom Keys for your Mechanical Keyboard
I realized I probably write more curly braces than accented characters during the day and switched to using an US-International style keyboard layout that puts the diacritic characters under the Alt Gr key.
Didn´t know that! You made me a happier person :-)
Effortless deployment and scaling of Openshift on Amazon EC2 and Openstack
Maybe It Was Apple
In this instance, the alternative is brutal oppression. They're better off rebelling than not.

ETA: Of course it'd be better if both sides went about things peacefully and democratically. To parent's point (now better understood hence ETA), the situation is the consequence of governmental leadership viewing socioeconomy as "zero-sum", and the oppressed taking extreme & desperate steps to eliminate the "zero-sum" restriction.
https://plus.google.com/110625673290805573805/posts/Nmc8LuwF...
The Relationship Between Margins and Acquisition Prices
IE9 has a way to put it into IE8 compatibility mode. Do these kinds of sites not work in Compatibility Mode? Press F12 to switch the mode. It's a good option for using a better version of IE while still supporting older sites.
1080p at 11" is still low density when you consider all the 4-5" smartphones that have 1080p displays.
...at least until the technology becomes small enough. Though I'm not sure it would be good to keep a GPS/GSM/3G/LTE antenna blaring next to your skull the whole day.
How in any way would this benefit the economy as a whole?
Then you're thinking too small. Solve non-computing problems you're having! :)
Reframing Goals
How did this end with so many votes? It has nothing to do with the puck, but with money. Pay up and they'll add a 42 inch screen to your Windows 8 laptop, battery hour 36 seconds :). They are many tradeoffs, that's all.
Note, however, that this is not the same as the real browser engine - there are key areas which still perform like the native version. As an example, IE8 in IE7 compatibility mode will throw JavaScript exceptions if you try to set invalid styles on a DOM element but real IE7 silently ignores the error.
Bluetooth headsets are effectively a punchline

They're a tool used by people who favor function over form. I have never met anyone yet who has a coherent argument against them that doesn't boil down to "I am jealous and must try to change the world to believe that those people deserve mockery". It is a rather sad form of bullying.

And for what it's worth, I don't and have never used a bluetooth headset simply because I don't like talking on the phone. But if I did talk on the phone a lot, I wouldn't be so desperately concerned what random nobodies think about it.
As a parent, bullying -- or any type of oppressive actions on my children -- is something that terrifies me. Not because I want to shield my children from the world and its negative impacts -- because I want them to learn that the world is not perfect, and to be able to cope with an imperfect society.

But because of the fact that these afflictions are often permanent and irreversible.

I think the best hope a child has against bullying is to have a parent that cares, and is educated of the impacts of bullying and how to minimize the risks of their child being subject to bullying.

Of course, this doesn't address the root issue -- the bully. And while we as a society can work towards educating others to help prevent their child from turning into a bully, there's obviously little I can do, as a parent, to change the behavior of a bully.

I feel that best way I can help my child not be the bully is to show them unconditional love, the best I know how, and to help them to love others. I also try to equip them with empathy so that they understand that their actions have a real impact on others, but this is hard sometimes -- especially with younger children.

However, I will honestly say that I don't feel equipped, as a parent, to help my child deal with bullying appropriately and effectively. Looking through this thread, I see a couple links, but does the hacker community have other good resources to equipping parents on how to help their child handle bullying?
I'm happy with Sublime Text 2.
I was fortunate enough that the public elementary school I went to, had a full computer lab (in 1985); the public middle school and high school also did. And this was in a very poor part of the country. There's little question every school in America should have that; if my poor public schools were able to make it happen, anybody can.

I learned basic programming in middle school (turbo pascal!) and high school courtesy of those opportunities. I plan to give back throughout the rest of my life, to the education system I came from. If even one or two people per school did that, it would make a huge difference.
Aaron downloaded many research papers which, individually, he had every right to do. I remember it and at the time it was quite clear that the reason he needed so many papers was because he was doing statistical research on them - establishing how many were publicly funded.

However, we now know that he was a target for a political trial, so it was clearly imperative that some 'bad intent' be found to boost the charges to 14 counts with the total of 50 years in prison that had driven him to suicide. Having laws that make an intent alone (to make publicly funded work available to the public) into a crime has made this possible, of course.

Anyone trying to justify this, while making a living off the technological revolution made possible by free exchange of scientific knowledge which Aaron was trying to defend, is a shill in my book.
That's hardly the point of the post.
I can't imagine a less rewarding product to build than a text editor for programmers. Selling programming tools is an ice-cubes-to-Inuits proposition to begin with. But new text editors demographically appeal to the most entitled, pickiest segment of the programmer market.
Unfortunately, where I am at our corporate standard says that we "fully support" IE 7. We've decided instead to make sure that the site functions in IE 7, but it doesn't have to render exactly the same. Our customer support group is still stuck on IE 7 for unknown reasons and since they use our product internally also, we can't break it completely. It's stupid that we have to stupport a 6+ year old browser.
Just a quick check on komplett.no, a leading online dealer in Norway for computer equipment.

- Laptops with ssds start at 6000 nok (1057 USD).

- Laptops with IPS screen start at 6000 nok (1057 USD).

- Small screen (11.7") laptop with IPS & full hd (189 dpi) & SSD starts at 9795 nok (1718 usd).

- Macbook retina 13" starts at 11490 nok (2015 usd).

A year ago there were hardly any laptops with IPS screens or cheap laptops with SSDs. A lot has changed. I still love my retina macbook pro 15".
Metered Paywalls
http://blog.parsely.com/post/44063458493/unlimited-rides-subscriptions-and-the-meter
True enough. I was still impressed though.
Codenvy Raises $9M to Bring Desktop Development to Cloud
As others have noted, Beamr's "magical" technology simply seems to be using x264, the state-of-the-art in H.264 encoders, which also happens to be free and open source software. Looking at their site, beamrvideo.com, the bitrates they list for the originals are what you'll typically find on Blu-ray discs, not on online streams. Anyone who knows a thing or two about video encoding and x264 will know that you can re-encode these to a much smaller size while retaining most of the visual quality. As such, claiming that they can reduce the bitrate to half with no notable loss in quality is like claiming that you can reduce the bit depth and sampling rate of a 24-bit 192 kHz audio file to 16-bit 48 kHz with no notable loss in quality - it's certainly true, but you hardly needed the 24-bit 192 kHz quality to begin with.

They don't seem to have done anything new or substantial by themselves, and as such, this thing is basically nothing but pure marketing bullshit. If you want to do high quality H.264 encodes, just use x264 directly.
Most likely. Note that I also said "the other side". If both sides went about things peacefully and democratically, they'd all be better off on average.
Macbook Pro (retina): 2560x1600 at 227 pixels per inch.

1080p: 1920x1080 (assuming 16:9)

Really can't compare. I do not mean I have seen all, but no display I have seen (on notebooks) gets near Apple's "retina display." None. Google is trying with the Pixel.
The search term "win&win riser" breaks it. Looks like you're not url-escaping the search term?

EDIT - also it looks like you're submitting it to ebay badly, the results for "win&win" are same as for "win".
I was unpleasantly surprised by this news as well. I had noticed the relative inactivity of updates on st2 for a while. I probably won't buy 3 because I have zero confidence that the same thing won't happen in a year with st3. Maybe if the plugin ecosystem was close to parity with either a full featured ide or emacs. But neither of those are true :(
Well, thanks -- that's good input. :)

I didn't mean to be misleading. I agree with you; the strong opinion I developed was that those animals are clearly food. And that some of the excessive compassion spent on them would be better spent on people, who might actually appreciate it.
When Cell Phones Were Hideous
I agree with this. I should not have to pay $100 to have the right to develop on their platform.
The mass market for which Sony, Asus etc are producing is not really interested in super high resolution displays. However, they all offer 1080p displays in their top the line laptops which i find more than enough on a Laptop.

Most people are fine with their 24inch display sporting 1920x1200 resolution but then suddenly on a 13" notebook or even a smartphone 1080p isnt enough ? Its ridiculous!

I have used a Macbook Retina and to me it was not much of a revelation. Yep, the display is nice, text is super sharp and everything is crystal clear but i didnt have the feeling that i would absolutely need this, and i would consider myself a hardware geek and pro user.
LG Buys webOS From HP
Mass Effect "lore" tries to justify graphical rule of cool (displays projected into thin air with a few shades of orange as their only colors etc.). I wouldn't take it seriously as something exploring the practicality of such things.
Yeah I thought that was interesting as-well...personally I'm waiting for results from the solitaire benchmark
By the same token, Chromebook Pixel is low density compared to the 4.7" 1080p HTC One phone or the 9.6" new iPad with retina.
FOr me the reasoning is simple:

* reading and writing code is basic literacy for the information age

* One generation hence, any company that is literate (almost all employees write code, the use of code runs through all its processes) will have enormous competitve advantages. Or rather any company that is illiterate will have enormous competitive disadvantages

* So Software will eat the world.

* but in the process from here to there, developers will take over more and more - moving from the "typing pool" into
all of the company.

* this is unlikely to be a fixed supply of coders getting more % of revenue, and more like everyone learns to code and then usual political fighting resumes.
Shockingly short-sighted post. Apple does not make it's profits from feeds & speeds (e.g. Retina display). It makes its profits, and delights its customers through its vertical integration; its excellence at every point of the customer experience from design, to supply chain management, to manufacturing, to distribution, to marketing, to advertising, to retail, to sales, to post-sales, to support, to software, to services.

To assert that, from a business perspective, that the "puck" that Google (or Apple) worry about is ludicrous. These two companies do not even compete on the same rink. Their competition is asymmetric. Apple's profits come from 'high margins at retail, paid up front'. Google's profits come from 'the consumer is the product, the advertiser is the customer'.

It is fun to try to compare the micro-actions of these companies, but it is not business or strategy analysis.
Kontext: A context-shift transition
Microsoft are really holding back higher resolution displays.

I mean 125% on Windows has now essentially become a requirement to use Windows on any monitor made in the last few years, and we're almost up to the point where 150% is required. However the problem is that 150% seems to break MANY Windows applications (both third and first party).

I'm really hopefully that when displays become just slightly higher resolution we will see some third party software which can "scale" Windows up so that it works the same as Retina displays on the Macbooks do (i.e. real resolution and relative resolution aren't locked together).
TechStars run a NYC batch. Probably the best accelerator you will find in NYC.
I had a really hard time figuring out their value proposition, too. In fact I'm still not exactly sure what it is. I've given up and moved on.
Yes, because the civil war in Syria was caused by Assad's violation of the Second Amendment.
Blog posts like these are interesting but do they really belong on Hacker News? The author's complaints are half-hearted and even contradictory (beta software doesn't have proper upgrade path for prior stable versions? how is that surprising?).

Furthermore the sense of entitlement is a little obscene, especially since it's clear the author knows that he paid for a license but he doesn't acknowledge that there is no SLA or any guarantee of software maintenance.
An overview about Javascript Functions and Events
To boil this down to its salient points: tough it up, get over it?
It is strange that all the new ideas seem to stem only from you instead of your users. I don't think that you would have found a better product interating only with yourself. For example, in the land page, it would be better to see a discussion of a very well-know music, and invite to see other songs that I like.
Roofing Repairs: 6 Steps to Chimney Flashing Replacement | LGC Roofing Blog
I love calc, but there's also a webkit bug that causes transitions applied to elements with calc'd dimensions to crash the browser that I don't believe has been fixed yet. The crash is particularly rough for Safari (closes with no warning), but just stops the other browsers from loading the page once it hits that element.
And you're on lifehacker : http://lifehacker.com/5986983/market-price-calculates-what-y...

Congratulations!
First, this is about resolution and not the size of the screen. Second, Apple has managed to give Retina Macbook Pro a 7-hour battery life despite it's screen. Third, the article states that "Sony, Asus, and Lenovo all have notebooks at similar prices".
The light-touch manufacturer
Yes, it is easier to switch ownership of companies than it is to move between countries. But that does not change the fact that the closest thing to citizens a company has is its owners.

And as pointed out in another reply a huge difference between companies and most governments is that countries tend to get the vast majority of their funds from taxes while companies hopefully should get their money from customers. But there are exceptions to this rule, some countries do not have any taxes.
Seems to me like that's entirely the point of the post.

I bought a piece of software that I expected to at least receive bug fixes, maybe even some minor improvements here and there, and it is now becoming clear that this isn’t going to happen.

If ST2 is stable and feature complete (and honestly, I use it and believe that it is) then there's nothing to complain about. The author's complaint is that it's being abandoned for version 3 too early.
It seems like the author's beef is with the fact that ST2 hasn't really seen any incremental updates, not that ST3 will be a paid upgrade. Honestly, I haven't really had anything to complain about with ST2, but I do understand those hoping for some small updates over time. The biggest concern I have with ST3 is the breaking api changes. These changes will lead to one or more of the following:

1. packages won't be upgraded and will go stale

2. packages will be upgraded and users will be forced to buy ST3

3. package devs will have to maintain separate versions for ST2 and ST3

None of these are very attractive results of the breaking changes coming.
> The positioning of his voice to tell you what he is doing while you don't see him is pure genius.

I'm told that this is pure accident based on using a stereo mic and having the input-side equipment be on the left and the output on the right, but I thought it was a nice touch too. :)
Between this and your other posts, you seem awfully interested in agitating against Western governments.
Nasty local Linux kernel vulnerability
On German (and I think also Dutch) keyboards, {} are on AltGr-7 and 0, which is a pain to type (and the reason why I switch every computer to US keyboard). I wonder if that's why Python uses indentation and not braces for blocks...
Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go
How Not to Get a Job at Apple
Tweet is probably https://twitter.com/sempf/status/220185961080946689
Right. And that's why it's not confusing or complicated for App.net to target both users and developers. Both are their "real customers."
Or compare the public reaction of the death of Steve Jobs vs. the death of David Ritchie
What Most Schools Don't Teach
Really great video. He goes things quite fast but he does nearly every explanation with a demo! I can't think of many of my uni lectures in this topic like that. I hope they release more. Is there any planned?
Don't they include a Citrix/RDP client? I thought that was one of their main features when they pitched ChromeOS to the enterprise. With that and VNC, I'm sure it would be possible to roll your own virtualization. I think there are just too many variables for them to deploy a generic system.

unless you want Google to host the VMs as well. That could be interesting.
Doesn't putting the browser in IE8 compatibility mode work? I guess it sucks for an end user to need to use a developer feature like this but could be the best option.

All the owners of the site would need to do is add this line to their HTML and it throws IE9 and later into IE8 compatibility mode:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

I was surprised to notice that the BBC website does this. I noticed because a bookmarklet I wrote which requires IE9 won't work on the BBC site, which was quite disappointing.
New IE10 Commercial
OS-Agnostic Kernel Level Anti-Virus for Embedded Devices
Did you expect Sublime Text X to work perfectly when it was first released, too?
When you are discussing "chucking grenades around" in your own neighborhood, it seems that cameras are the least of the worries for peaceful, law-abiding civilians in your area (not to mention police who are just doing their jobs).

Why it is publicly acceptable to talk like Timothy McVey?
Show HN: Learn how to code with Beginner.org
I heart comment chains like these. Thanks for the wonderful side trip of interesting but unrelated facts!