skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If inflammatory comments are even possibly leading to death threats (and it seemed to me like they might be), it's probably a good idea to not post inflammatory comments.

That's 'victim blaming' and fairly inflammatory. That's not your intent. It's no different then telling women not to wear provocative clothing if they don't want to be raped (And before people suggest it, I'm not equating rape to anything here).

Basically, your intent is sound (how not to receive death threats), but your approach is insulting. The result is, the persons you are talking to are more likely to dismiss what you say because, in effect, you are blaming them for the death threats.

You seem to actually care about helping. I wish I could offer some direct advice about how to approach this different, but I can't think of any at the moment. I just know that this approach is confrontational, and completely in the opposite direction of which you seem to want to go.
2009 http://gadgetopia.com/post/6794
Why 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays don’t occur every 823 years
Don’t handicapped and retarded me pretty much the same thing? Why does one offend and you use the other freely?
That's a very refreshing use of a link bait title for a change ;)
I know of at least three incidents. The CouchDB talk at a Ruby conference in 2009 had soft porn pictures [1]. Another Ruby conference in 2008 offered a 'daycare' where attendees could leave their 'spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend' if they weren't interested in the conference itself. They called it a 'girlfriend daycare' which generated some controversy on a mailing list named DevChix. [2] These aren't the most objective and reliable sources, its just to give you an idea of that drama.

Also BritRuby was cancelled because the speaker list consisted entirely of white males, which is somehow a bad thing. [3]

[1] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/CouchDB_talk

[2] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/RubyFringe_offers_girlfri...

[3] http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/18/britruby-conference-felled...
Also, psychologically I would personally find it hard to accept the idea of my $400k property being worth 26k BTC in say Dec (@15) and 5k (@70) in March. We're not in the 10k BTC pizza days anymore, but still...
Show of hands: How many here recall Microsoft's "Palm-size PC"? It began with a "3D" interface. It flopped and MS redid it as "Pocket PC" with a flat UI. (They also moved Start down to the lower left corner, like the PC Windows.) The more things change...
angular.js

This series of quotes from a dev I work with captures a common visceral experience of working with angular.js for the first time:
"I've never been so frustrated with code before"
..an hour later..
"You stare at something broken for 20mins, then the fix occurs to you and the truth of it is just so beautiful."
We switched from backbone.js to angular.js about 8 months ago, and the team is generally very happy.
As member of the programming community, I hereby welcome Python and Ruby to the ranks of technologies that people uniquely associate their identity to!
-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess (Clang and GCC 4.8) is the only sizeof-related warning I know of, which warns about some cases where both pointer and size are immediately passed to a handful of builtin functions (in GCC, some among mem…, str…, s…printf). C's typing is much too weak for -Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess to be generally useful.

Without getting into typing, a simple

warning: arithmetic inside sizeof

would catch this. I don't think it would catch much noise, I don't see any useful uses of pointer arithmetic immediately inside a sizeof. It's a bit specific though, are there more functions that would benefit as well?
So you are one of the few people who have a proper answer to the question "What?" when people see you wearing that shirt :)
Did you mean to use the word "illegal"?
Interesting Google redirect...
If you search for 'music:' you get http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Seems like some parsing keyword...
Still don't like it. Maybe we'll be the ones that people laugh at in the future, like we do now with the ones that said that Internet was just a fad.
But consider, doesn't this mean that many people will let computerized glasses do all the thinking for them? It has been very much debated how now we don't memorize so many information anymore, as we can easily just solve an argument with a simple search on our phones. But this Google Glass is just taking it to another level..
Lotto Fever:  What Would You Do?
Nice! I really need an environment to test asm.js.
Go back to 4chan or reddit please. The law isn't your personal playground to arrest people you don't like. Accessing a public URL isn't a crime. Nor is being an asshole (of which you should be very glad!).
> As far as I know, Scala newbies are coming back to Java. With Play! and Scooter, Java is more Ruby than Scala.

From what I've seen it's been a one-way street from Java -> Scala. I've yet to meet anyone who wants to go back to Java after Scala. Play! is written in Scala by the way...
This is what I do. Please feel free to contact me (details in my profile).
Why not mono?

For not using .Net I can understand the his detailed reasons, Java because it's a grumpy old man, Haskell because it's a paradigm shift etc...
No, in the latest update it's really gone. I sort of miss it.
The phone line would be a method of accessing the machine, with weak physical protection. It can be accessed out of sight of surveillance.
I really hope I don't have to deal with something like this in my life.

The initial joke was racist. It seems to have been told out of ignorance and not hatred, which is a huge difference.

The authors reactions are understandable. He/she is angry, however some self constraint would be appreciated, especially as people actually suffering from Asperger's could be offended. If you have written an angry email to someone, you might understand the authors rash words.

Did the company handle this well?

Sitting in a room to face your accuser may be an effective method, however be careful not to put people on the defensive. I remember having written an angry email once, and I was put in a room alone with two people accusing me of doing wrong. Without someone on my side I felt their actions were essentially bullying me into their view of the situation.

Writing about all this online in a blog post? Seems a bit evil to those two telling the joke, as their mistake is now broadcasted to the world. After all their intentions were not evil, they did wrong and were told off and made to grasp the possible consequences of their actions while probably being very careful in the future to not make a similar mistake.

All in all. Interesting read about real world human interactions.
Except that .NET is not a language...
The language Anders invented is called C# and v1.0 looked extremely similar to Java (later versions diverged significantly from Java).
Talking will maybe become more philosophical?
Everybody will know facts but we will think about how to interpret and use them in a way with more foresight and impact on the whole univers
Well said. I'm an American in China, and I find that Chinese people who hate me for crazy reasons are pure gold for improving relations between our two societies, because onlookers get to compare what is being said with how I'm acting, and can see for themselves that the two don't match up.

If the author had been cool about it, he might have succeeded in changing their minds. It seems impossible that shaming and scolding and scaring them could be as effective.
No kidding. The awkwardness never really let up.
jquery.

fancy frameworks introduce complexity, bloat, bunch of magic that works behind the scenes.
for small stuff you don't care about it might be nice, for anything serious i would run my own code.
Ok, now I think what you're talking about boils down to representative democracy vs direct democracy. I do think that's where the breakdown occurs, especially given the money in our representative democracy and our two-party system.

Because voting in a direct democracy would not be ceding power, it would be directly expressing it. Now whether we would "do the right thing" remains to be seen, particularly given the massive degree to which many are misinformed or misled.

Of course, once our will is expressed, thereafter comes the execution. That may involve similar apparatus to what we have now (DOJ, FBI, etc.). Not sure that wouldn't lead us right back to where we are now, with abuses, etc.

Maybe it's just a function of human nature.
This question reminds me of one morning when I went to work, I saw an ATM in this condition at the subway station:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Distributeur_billets_...

So no, they're not always secure.
The point is not be technically proficient, but to create a good business. The best business is not always the best technically. (This point is often painful for programmers with a limited world view).
Men can have their repos forked too.
Absolutely amazing guys. Most innovative, genuinely useful, and usable web app I've come across. Just... awestruck.
There's a few good Alastair Reynolds short stories where characters have a Glass-like assistant called an 'Aide Memoire' which they use to process the amount of information they get due to networks. A good side effect is also that as the characters age they still have recall of the facts stored.
Italian, "la forchetta" - feminine.
When I was working in San Fran (I'm British - live in The Netherlands), the amount of times my colleagues told me, "Sam you're not very PC!" when I made a random funny comment, I always told them, "I know, I'm more of a Mac guy". They weren't offended by my comments I think, but maybe more shocked?

I remember an incident whilst we were walking to lunch, a guy came out of a parking lot with squealing tires... which made me say my most crude comment while I was working there: "Someone is on their period". Sure, I generalised women with that joke, but I didn't mean anything by saying it (just that he was probably cranky..) - it's a joke, the girl I was with could of equally said, "I'm sure that dude has a small penis." I have a regular non-12" cock (I'm not ashamed to admit that) and I wouldn't of been offended. But her comment was, "SAMMM! That's not very PC!". The guy I was with commented, "Ahh, dude, not PC man". All said and done, they were fun people to work with and didn't make a big deal out of it besides commenting, not pc.

Comedians always generalise, and making jokes that are in context with a current situation isn't weird. Come on, loosen up, life is boring when you are forced to only say serious things... We spend most of our lives working. Why should we be forced to spend most of our lives being boring whilst hiding our personality?

This is actually one of the top reasons I'd be afraid of working in the USA again. I don't want to get fired or sued over "sexual harassment" due to a comment like the one I mentioned earlier. That, and the fact that if I'd get fired, I'd have to leave the country within a week...

I do agree, that making a joke specifically about a person you work with, or are in a room with is a big no-no - well, if it's harsh. A meaningless non degrading joke is fine which isn't meant in a serious way. But don't make jokes about people you're with regarding their sex life. People are touchy about that and I can understand. General sex jokes that don't degrade a certain sex? Fine!

In my books, although I find it funny and mean nothing by it, I wouldnt say the following in a work environment:
"I have an appointment to get a facial, I'll be back later."
- "Lol! Tell him not to get some in your eye!"
She wants the D:/
It's like an equivalent for Muphry's law[1] for ignorance: “If you write anything criticizing ignorance, there will be ignorance of some kind in what you have written.”

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
Citation please? Cannot seems like an unreasonably strong claim.

Given the way older iOS devices are often sluggish on newer OS releases, it seems entirely possible that the animations on the switched-from device were slower and less smooth than the animations on the switched-to device.
> If you send a sufficiently vulnerable server a specially crafted request, you can get it to come back with "200 OK" and a list of everybody's credit card numbers.

If, if, if, if. What Weev did was spoof what kind of client he was using. That's it. What you're suger coating here is using exploits to break into a secure system. That is, you encounter a secured system and find a way to circumvent that security. For the data Weev encountered was there any possible way to get a 401 response for the URLs?
Hi there powdahound, what is the main benefit of hipchat versus using Skype? I see on the home page "persistant chat rooms" but I use that feature in skype (I create a chat with several people and then favourite it). I'm not understanding the potential benefit. We have a team of more than 40 people all working virtually.
Hahaha. I have on many occasions told people I speak danish by putting a potato down my throat.

I will try to not say that anymore.

However, we hold grudges against those that invaded us. That goes for swedes, danes and sometimes germans.

But we love going to your countries to enjoy your culture, your landscape and your refreshing alcohol prices.
Please tell me you're not in any powerful political position. You sound exactly like the kind of evil people in charge who are finding new ways to arrest people for things that weren't illegal before hand.
Why are you keen on filling your own memory with things that can be readily accessible these days?
Because metro is flat design done poorly. Android does flat better.
Why Eric Schmidt Should Meet P Chidambaram
I would be surprised if there were many left in the Python community who would disagree with you.
"the kind of people who wouldn't think twice of throwing you out of a bar, physically if necessary"

How is this type of reaction any better than saying something anti-feminist, anti-gay, racist or sexist? Sorry but people need to get over the idea that they have the right not to be offended. If you're offended then you can say "I'm offended", you can leave, you can ask the person to leave, you can offer a rebuttal, etc. But physically man-handling someone or reacting in a way that suggests that they have someone violated your "right not to be offended" is wrong because you have/should have no such right.
I like this post.

Business sociopathy is a complex topic but the essence of it can be summed up in 6 words: Heads, I win. Tails, you lose.
That's exactly why I like Glass so much. Humans aren't the only things that have memories, as demonstrated by dolphins, chimpanzees, elephants, and dogs. Humans aren't the only things that can process data, as demonstrated by computers. The thing that is unique to humans is the ability to think, to make high-level abstract decisions. By doing all of the menial labor for me - memorization and basic number crunching and mechanical information retrieval - tools like Google Glass let me concentrate on that decisionmaking. They let me concentrate on being human.
Bitcoin as a currency is way to unstable to be used in real transactions at the moment. The price rose from 14 bucks to 60 recently, this means, that if you bought something when bitcoin was 14 bucks and want to sell it now with bitcoins you will lose 1/4 of transaction. The bitcoin is nice idea to toy around with, but not the currency for real things.
> Why not mono?

Surely you jest?
This seems to me a very inaccurate and unfair characterization, especially the insinuation that he's dishonestly suppressing his newfound belief in D-Wave because he's a "professional skeptic".

Aaronson is clearly still unconvinced that D-Wave's machine actually does anything "sufficiently quantum" to get any speedup over what you can do classically. He says:

D-Wave does have something today that’s more computationally-useful than a roast-beef sandwich; the question is “merely” whether it’s ever more useful than your laptop.

and:

It remains true, as I’ve reiterated here for years, that we have no direct evidence that quantum coherence is playing a role in the observed speedup, or indeed that entanglement between qubits is ever present in the system.

On the other hand, he is willing to say that D-Wave have indeed made a machine that does Something Interesting, namely giving approximate solutions to a particular mathematical problem.

So it looks to me as if he (1) has changed his mind about the things he's been given actual evidence for, (2) is perfectly willing to say so despite his role "as a professional skeptic", and (3) hasn't so far been convinced that D-Wave have an actual useful quantum computer doing quantum-computer things that you couldn't do just as well with a classical machine. Which is approximately the exact opposite of what you say.
Great way to sell something, get it in the news.
I did sell my motorcycle back in a days for bitcoins. I posted that ad for two reasons: it was fun and my ad was getting more attention. I converted immediately to dollars, since I was looking for new bike. But still, transaction itself happened with a bitcoins, laptops running linux and console on 'em. :)
Change log: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0beta1/NEWS
The UK response seemed to be "this isn't good, lets get some bureaucrats in, maybe it will go away" and the authors handling of the situation was quite frankly cold and a little vicious. Yeah the offenders were idiots (c'mon they're actors), but surely the more admirably thing would be to tell them as much and walk away. Calling the director / your agent / your Mum and Dad on them seems a little weasly...
Surprised it has not been mentioned but almost everything I build not matter the higher level framework, starts with require.js. Require alone goes a long way to cleaning up code structure and overall architecture. I like Dojo for really big corporate apps where I am basically replacing a desktop app with a web based equivalent. It's popularity has faded in the past few years which is a shame, because it and Ext are really the only two frameworks around that are targeting enterprise apps.

For consumers facing stuff I generally use a combination of Backbone, jQuery, underscore and some other libs added in as needed. That is probably the most common stack you will see out there.
IOS easy layout framework
I would argue that without a foundation of basic knowledge and facts you will be unable to do advanced abstract thinking. Knowing something and being able to look it up are not the same thing.
The Virtues of Vertical Media Queries
Android has won: now what?
No specific immediate need. In general I prefer to use things that won't go away when the proprietor does, or that can be implemented and sold by anyone, like email. Anyone can lose interest; Google killed Reader for example.
I just got done filling for my first patent. It's a great feeling (when your finally done) and I wish you the best of luck. My patent lawyer told me to use http://scholar.google.com/ she said its what the patent office is now using to search for prior art.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that the lesson learnt recently is "If people get offended at anything it's their fault". If you think that's the case then I've got a Westboro Baptist Church to sell you...
> Also BritRuby was cancelled because the speaker list consisted entirely of white males, which is somehow a bad thing.

The dismissive tone is unnecessary, the matter was more complex than it seems. See here for a previous discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399848
Microsoft details global police data requests
> From what I've seen it's been a one-way street from Java -> Scala.

Those users may be core Java developers who don't use any frameworks. If you ask me, Scooter is quite is easy to port any Ruby code easily than any other Scala frameworks out there. Scala adoption is killing Play community (2 times it got forked due to the difference) and that's why they now market it for both Scala and Play. As someone mentioned in Play forum long time ago, Scala is not suitable for team due to its readability. Heck I myself (and our team) used Scala and moved back to Java Play.
> Me too because hypocrisy is clearly a form of intellectual dishonesty in itself and I don't want to lose time with intellectually dishonest people. As simple as that.

I think I understand where you are coming from, but personally, by your definition, I don't know anyone who's not a hypocrite.

It's just a simple fact that the conscious mind is not in 100% control of an individual for every minute of their life, and furthermore, that even if it was in control, that it would never make a decision that was contrary to some position they've espoused in the past.

Point is, maybe ease up on people a little. Hypocrisy should be limited to people who espouse one thing publicly, and espouse the opposite thing privately. Not merely laps in the application of an honestly held belief.
I think the WBC is amusing. I'm deeply saddened by the fact that the top-supported petition on whitehouse.gov is a request for their free speech rights to be curtailed.
Java and .net/c# are not really that similar any more. Just to pick one example, Java doesn't have an equivalent of LINQ
She at least said she was sorry to hear he got let go, and hoped they brought him back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399047
There is precious little exposure of Oberon.

What you need to do is make a decent 'unwrapping' video and then talk about how the object system worked e.g. widgets.

That'd get some attention here.
Malicious intent only satisfies one half of the definition of a crime -- the mens rea component. You also need an actus reus -- a guilty act. That's where this case falls down.
China to create home-grown operating system
If twitter isn't suited for "nuanced arguments", well then you shouldn't be using twitter in the first place! Write a blog post and only share the link (and title). It's that simple. It doesn't matter how good something sounds in your head if you can't voice it correctly.
The parens were not unbalanced, that would very likely not even compile. They were misplaced, a much more subtle mistake.
Well, he didn't call them out by name or post pictures of them or anything at least.
The most boring presentation ever. He is like, so i created google, so i don't have to make an effort to show excitement in my new product, that's for the marketing and sales.

No onstage demo, jizuz i always present my stuff live ! that's where the emotions are.
Check out Crystal.
That's an excellent point, they're probably referring to server-side, always-on-even-if-you're-not logging.
Yeah, that condescending tone of superiority struck me as at least as bad as the original (unfunny) joke.
No.. should I be worried? What exactly happened to your account and are you certain it had something to do with the article? (that website)
Sergey is an interesting character. He's so brutally honest and unrefined. There's no trace of corporate bullshit, no fear of saying anything wrong about Google (although he did correct himself over eBay).

He's awkward. Says "er" a lot. Makes jokes about competitors. Admits that Glass hasn't succeeded yet. Criticises mobile phones (I assume it's a Nexus 4). Says his wife slaps him.

No CEO would do any of this. It's refreshing to see a company spokesperson so "normal".
Oh here we go. Didn't realize there was a "Men's rights" section on HN.

"People just don't understand how hard it is to be a white male!"
Using Python to Code by Voice (PyCon 2013 video)