skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most sexual assault are generally, in any country that publish statistics, committed by people who know the people they would assault, they are "friends", relatives or coworkers.

Now I believe you're saying it's fine for a woman to feel threatened about sexual assault in the middle of a crowd because of dick jokes.

Well then maybe it's fine to believe that every man is a potential rapist, there was a girl who made this exact argument in a blog and called her rape paranoia Schrödinger rapist.

Here's the catch of my argument, I have many black male friends and some of them do actually said that sometimes people cross the road to the other sidewalk just to not cross with them in the middle of Manhattan in a crowded street at lunch time.

If you think safety über ales is a fine philosophy then as I said good for you, I call this paranoia, know that's an irrational behavior and just say that both are not fine.

Good night
A company that makes a product that users care substantially about? Yeah, what a shit use of effort that would be.
Now already has an option to update you on a story that you read earlier. I don't see why Reader couldn't play into this.
I recognize that it was a typo, but solders of giants is so much more appropriate, somehow. Even if it doesn't really rhyme. :D
I know right..?! C'mon man, from the url it looks like some kind of library...but in actual, its got a bunch of urls...the resources are pretty useful, but whats the point..? You have many places for that.
> The reality is that Google is the new "Old Yahoo".

Wow, this is the first time I've seen anyone put it that way, and it's completely true. I remember trying to rally around Yahoo Briefcase. Then Yahoo Photos. Then Yahoo 360. Or how about Microsoft?

But I guess it just comes back to companies being growth-oriented. If a service is launched, is not the company's core business, then stops growing, it's on the chopping block immediately. So ultimately it's much, much better as a user to go with a company that's dedicated to that task and lives and dies by it.

Viva Dropbox, Box, Evernote, etc..
Probably short for "something". See definition #1 here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sth
If a start up does not pivot it potentially dies, but google with its multi billion dollar revenue and infrastructure can keep it alive . They won't do it, because they don't get it.

G+ is a failure, as was wave and so many others from google stable. But G+ is important to this one guy, he is willing to sacrifice everything for this one.
I'm not scorning you, whatsoever. I was just discussing why I came to the conclusion that being a contractor makes one no more or less "free" than being salaried, in practical terms anyway.
The OP said,

>A ring she can easily get appraised?

right before he talked about how hard it is to fake.

You can't fake a diamond that will fool an appraiser just as easily as a bank statement. It's much easier to covertly verify the value of diamond than the validity of a bank statement.
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Many thanks - the site is only showing a single entry for me, and endlessly timing out :|
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Good news! You also can police conversations. Even when you're not a member of a protected group. That's especially true when the conference has a clear policy on the sorts of topics allowed.

For example, it turns out white people don't have to just sit there when somebody's being racist. They can speak up just as much as a black person can.
Apparently he wasn't involved. Did Adria Richards falsely accuse Alex Reid of misconduct and post his personally identifying information online?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5404193
I recommend downloading with youtube-dl etc. and watching in VLC at 1.5x etc. Only way to get thru so many great videos in a reasonable time.
Seems practically a given that Apple iCal and iOS will be whitelisted by Google as clients.

Even Windows Phone 8 has that confirmed: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/15/google-caldav-support-sti...
Hi, thank you for the reply. I'll try to answer things properly.

I did try various antidepressants, over a period of about 5 years. I also had a few types of therapy, in total for 7 years. The therapy was the only thing that helped, except it never cured the underlying feeling. It was like relieving the pressure on a kettle each week, without turning off the fire underneath it..
It's hardly a PR disaster or a mess needs cleaning. It's just some pissy folks that are taking a little longer to get over it. It'll pass I'm just tired of hearing about it.
Yes you are probably correct. However it was Doug that explained to me the reason why this law holds. It is because of Moore's law that the technology level grows exponentially but the human mind seems incapable of grokking the exponential curve and thus predicts on a linear basis. The linear line stays above the exponential curve until they inevitably cross. Thus ""We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run"
Some of the reporting on Suntech by other news organizations is quite interesting. From "China’s Solar Billionaire Undone as Banks Push Suntech to Brink"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-20/china-s-solar-billi...

comes this striking summary of the market: "'Being in the solar manufacturing industry over the past eight years has been an excellent way to turn a big fortune into a small one,' said Jenny Chase, lead solar analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance in Zurich."

The Australian press has especially good reporting because of the connections between Suntech and Australia through Shi Zhengrong, the founder of Suntech who moved to Australia after completing higher education degrees in China. The story "Suntech's failure forces Beijing policy rethink" from the newspaper The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/suntechs-...

reports,

"In substantial part, Suntech -- whose board first kicked Shi out of the chief executive's position last August, then a fortnight ago removed him as chairman -- is the victim of state industrial policy.

"As Carl Walter and Fraser Howie, American bankers with decades of experience living and working in China, point out in their important book Red Capitalism, China's party leaders have believed in recent years that 'they are better positioned than any market to value and price risk'."

The New York Times reports in "Chinese Solar Panel Maker Falters as Prices Plunge"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/business/energy-environmen...

"Ocean Yuan, the president of Grape Solar, an importer of solar panels based in Eugene, Ore., said he foresaw a series of bankruptcies by big Chinese solar panel manufacturers, some of which, like Suntech, have very high debt. Chinese manufacturers lost as much as $1 for every $3 of sales last year as they struggled to keep factories open despite falling prices.

"'They are bleeding every day,' Mr. Yuan wrote in an e-mail. 'The more they sell, the more they lose money.'"
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Is it GoPro's lawyer? Seems to me it might well be the CEO's fault for hiring marketing people who would send out such a takedown notice without running it by a lawyer.
This might just be the missing link I've been searching for to justify spending my ad dollars on facebook.
The issue at hand is whether Google will later determine that the value gained from this new service is worth the cost. Google Reader allowed Google to collect a lot of incremental info on its users (what they were interested in reading) but wasn't worth the maintenance. Google likes to throw spaghetti on the wall and see if it sticks, despite how this strategy can negatively impact is users.
Question I would ask: How would you feel if Google acquired Feedly tomorrow?

Reason I ask: Google scrapped Notebook (http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html) a while back, and has now released Google Keep. To me, this is a tear down and rebranding. I can't speak to the reason of it, but I would guess Google Keep already has more users than Notebook did. I can't speak for Google, but I certainly know their goal is not to lose 500k users to Feedly. My guess being, they likely want to take the smoothest, but also cheapest, way out of a product that they can no longer maintain.
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First impression: Keep needs drag and drop photo uploading.
you're not pathetic - you're reaching out for some help/advice support and that's actually awesome.

please take cjbprime's advice and work with a doctor to find meds that work for you. then, when you're feeling WAY better than you are now, try some lifehacking stuff to see what else can keep you in the best possible mental shape.

best of luck.
I got interested in Mindfulness not long ago. I think it can definitely help to make life better. I know I need to be in a better frame of mind first to be able to learn it though. And then once learnt perhaps I can apply it when I'm feeling low. I will look this up for sure.
Yeah I dunno. I get your point about relating the offense and the action. Maybe try rephrasing your argument with a less "charged" example?

Aside: Does anybody know the actual joke in question? More than it just referencing a "big dongle".
For what its worth I think you're creating a false dichotomy here. I literally studied Econ in undergrad and quickly landed at a telco as a dev. My 'on the side' self education of programming landed me a software engineer role because the analytics that came with my non-traditional developer skills made for good problem solving cred. 8 years later, I'm wearing architecture/analysis/developer hats on a daily basis with a senior title.

The point is this comment serves as a microcosm of this thread; a faceoff between stereotypes of a boring, big company with benefits and sexy startup with lottery ticket potential. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between. There really is work, even outside of the Valley, that solves real (fun!) problems with real compensation. To assume only two paths to whatever personal definition of success in this field is limiting your options.
Iron Man 3
http://www.ostwarez.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11215&p=...
Alternatively, what happens when someone graduates, changes ISPs, a domain name expires, or they get a new job, and someone later takes control of their email address? As concrete example, if you attend UCSB, you can easily get them to give you saurik@ right now on various of their servers I used to use for vaguely-official UCSB uses.

The problem with Persona is that they simply don't seem to understand that for real people, email addresses are just a convenience, not a canonical way to maintain identity. They also fail to see that even people like myself, who have carefully tended an email address for well over a decade, are not immune to this problem.

I have previously commented on this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4233391
This is one of many vim plugins for Sublime. I really don't understand posts like this (although it's quite hilarious). Every major IDE and text editor worth consideration has a VIM keys plugin. Other than that, one can find at least two or three IDEs or text editors for any major language that will do what vim does and more. Using the best tools for the jobs is a mantra much repeated but hardly practiced.

Asking a new engineer to work on vim (or emacs or any antiquated editor) would indeed be stupid and I would question any engineer's sanity who would suggest such.
The same could be said when they started Google - at the time Altavista was dominant in search. If you're that easily dissuaded, you shouldn't be in startups. There's almost always an existing solution to the problem you're trying to solve.
I think, in the best case (the right people are all together, and the right raw materials are readily available), you could probably get a modern computer built in 10 years, and a relatively basic microprocessor built in a few years less. If we don't have to reinvent a global communications system to get experts talking to each other, build mines and refineries to produce chip-grade silicon or rebuild airplanes to get materials from around the world, this task is a lot simpler.

The biggest problem isn't that modern computers depend on some piece of technology or process that is lost to us. It's that all the people who understand every step in that chain, from survivalist blacksmiths who can smelt ore to make tools to industrial chemists who can fashion substances that nature doesn't readily provide to electrical engineers and developers who will actually program the damn computer in year 9, are currently widely dispersed. Put them together and give them what they need and I think they could get the job done more quickly than you think.

Of course, it's more likely that everything and everyone you need will be scattered around the world when this instant occurs, and if that's the case, I'd honestly bet it would take hundreds of years to independently reinvent a modern computer because you'd need to reinvent most of modern society to gather the people and the materials to do that.
This is a really sweet reply, and I appreciate it a lot. Unfortunately in my current circumstances I can't buy a plant, as I am abroad and not in my home. When I return I will do so. I like how you look at life - always being able to start again.
What was solved 50 years ago? Just because we can make synthetic diamonds does not mean we can make synthetic diamonds of any arbitrary size or quality. In fact, it becomes exponentially more expensive in proportion to the volume of the produced diamond. Most artificial diamond companies limit mass to 2-300mg per diamond because it gets much more expensive after that. Of course, we are speaking of optical-quality monocrystaline diamonds here. Polycrystaline diamonds are less expensive, but unsuitable for optical equipment (e.g. cell phone screens).

That's not to say the problem is hopeless; in fact, there has been some very interesting research done in recent years on low-pressure microwave-based diamond synthesis that could allow for very large, kilocarat-scale diamonds. But for now, it is not feasible (as far as I know) to produce diamonds in the shape and size needed for cell phone screens, and certainly not at low cost.
This has probably been said 100 times already on 100 other HN threads, but so what? Quit the whining. I have been using Reader for years, and I'm mildly disappointing that they're closing it. I know perfectly well that there will be a dozen solid replacements that probably have more features before Reader actually dies. That's the way the tech world works - services close all the time for any number of reasons. None of them is all that special, though - if the service genuinely added value for lots of people, then there will be replacements, and if there isn't one, then make one yourself and bask in the profitability.

If you're that upset about it, then what do you really want from the tech world? A world where no service is ever killed or changed in a way that makes it less useful to you? We wouldn't have all of the awesome stuff that we have now if thousands of companies weren't willing to kill or change stuff that was unprofitable and take a chance on something new. At least Google is being pretty nice about it - we have months of notice and easy ways to get our feed lists out of Reader. They could have just up and pulled the plug without telling anyone or giving anyone a chance to get data out. Lots of services have been killed in just that way before.

Personally, I'm waiting a few weeks for all of the other services to settle down and get used to the massive traffic influx. After that, I expect I'll find something better than Reader and get used to that. And then that will be killed someday too, and I'll have to find yet another thing. Life goes on.
Sapphire has been used for watch crystals (and increasingly for case backs) for quite a while now. My "precious" digital camera has a sapphire cover on the LCD.

It's interesting what they're doing in terms of shapes beyond sheets and simple "lens" type constructions. I made a foolish watch purchase because the sapphire case back was especially compelling. (This isn't my video, but it's the same watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxNgAXDDTgo)

I've wanted a camera lens made of sapphire front and rear elements, but the refraction index would require more custom engineering than it would be worth. Definitely more expensive than a few $10 UV filters. :-)
Evernote isn't exactly an angel. They butchered Skitch into a buggy piece of software that barely works.
Are you from debeers or did are you someone who bought a huge rock for their wife?

> What differentiates "superficial" respect from genuine respect?

This question is quite telling.
Thank you for the advice. Point 1 is so difficult. In fact it's why I don't tell anyone how I feel anymore (in real life, not the internet). It's so easy for someone to say yea but what about that kid in Africa who doesn't even have enough water for today. I don't know what to say to that.

I am trying 3 right now. It does help to get you through the day, that is for sure.

On point 4, my opinion is so weak and changeable that I'm not even sure what I want. Perhaps I need to build confidence first somehow.
Show HN: I just launched Gift Card Drainer.
He injected the DNA of an extinct frog into the egg of a living frog.

I wonder if Jurassic Park is the next step.
As a KnockoutJS fan, this is completely awesome to hear. It's nice to see my technology of choice pushed to the limit. You guys have really delivered some phenomenal work.
its a terrible shorthand for "something". I always read it as "sith".
> Which means you really want to watch what you say.

This is what makes politics a comedy central. There's no honesty anymore and everyone's words are calculated as if you're walking on eggs, lest someone feel offended. There is nothing offensive in what I've read so far (dongles, forking) and, seriously, these complaints are beginning to sound like religious zealots complaining about how atheists are offending them by making religious jokes.
I'm checking out the link right now. Thank you.
Completely agree - but it does bring up an interesting point: bidding on projects at a fixed rate can lead to higher hourly rates (although definitely not always, especially for someone just starting).
To me it's not a given since AFAICT Apple software doesn't sync with Google Calendar over CalDav by default. Particularly on iOS you have to go out of your way to enable it—viz. you have to select 'Exchange account' instead of 'Google account'.

In any case, if they're committed to preserving this feature then why are they implementing screening?
Even with massive government subsidies the price doesn't make sense yet for the average homeowner.
They are doing an update of NetNewsWire, check the website.
The way they export your favorites / shares is just a json API that isn't standard. Services will rapidly pick up importing from that format, but besides the feed xml file none of what they give you is that portable.
For common uses of "shatter" and "crack", yes, sapphire can.

I've scratched the crap out of my 4s and 5 glass by forgetting "left pocket phone, right pocket keys" on too many occasions.
Reader generated a disproportionate media outcry because it was such a great service for news junkies - and reporters in general tend to be news junkies. The response was greatly disproportionate when compared to say, the shutdown of Posterous or even other Google service shutdowns over the years... I suspect because of human nature, where reporters assume that everyone else is like them and reads 100 publications a day.

Open sourcing it sounds great, but folks are saying that with zero knowledge of what the service actually looks like under the hood. I can only think they're assuming it looks like a common web service stack like LAMP or rails or something that would actually make sense to anyone if they got the code.
>Edit: and to actually get to will_brown's point: it would therefore technically not be improper to serve a takedown notice on something that would be covered by fair use, as technically fair use is infringement (otherwise you wouldn't need a "fair use" of it).

No that is NOT my point, in fact I specifically said: "it would still be improper to try to enforce a CR when the 'alleged' infringement is obviously permissible under the Fair Use Doctrine". Although I think you knew that and did not intent to include the word "not" in the above statement, in which case, yes, it is improper to send out a DMCA Notice when you know the alleged CR is being used permissibly under Fair Use.

The same logic follows for all CR law, and law in general as a lawyer may not bring a case they know is frivolous or state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Improper behavior of this kind can open the door to Bar complaints against the lawyer; potential causes of action or sanctions against their client; and the awarding of attorney's fees against both the client and attorney personally.

>GoPro could then sue DigitalRev and/or Softlayer, who could then use fair use as a defense, but it would proceed as in any copyright infringement suit.

>If the complaining party then filed suit (against the poster, not the hoster), they would have to demonstrate infringement and the poster would have to demonstrate fair use (or the judge could throw it out if it was obvious).

Yes, Fair Use is a defense that would come into play in Court. However, keep in mind a Judge can award attorneys fees and if any set of facts supports awarding fees it is where: 1.) GoPro is improperly trying to use the DMCA Notice to enforce TM (assume there are valid CR also), 2. I am sure DigitalRev will respond to the DMCA Notice and the record will reflect DigitalRev explained to GoPro why this is Fair Use before any lawsuit was filed and 3.) any reasonable attorney should have known using a CR in a product review is Fair Use.

Thus, Fair Use can be very powerful in the case of a DMCA, even before the case is filed, at least a case with these facts, because it creates a record that the party knew or should have known the case was frivolous before filing. Attorney's know this and must advise their clients accordingly - a party will be less likely to file a CR infringement case if your attorney told is telling you the alleged violation is permissible under Fair Use and as such you are going to be exposed to paying the other parties fees? Moreover, what attorney would expose themselves to sanctions and paying attorney's fees, which they would do their client has nothing but frivolous arguments (not supported by fact or law) why this is not Fair Use? See how powerful alleging Fair Use can be on a DMCA matter before a case is even filed?
Bad for the industry, but good for the customers (and the power grid). As Warren Buffett said multiple times, there are many industries that have the potential to change the world and benefit society tremendously, but that won't make anyone any money.

The airline industry is a good example. Since the Wright brothers, that industry has probably destroyed capital in the aggregate, yet it's changed the world and flying is incredibly cheap and convenient now.

Solar could be the same, and only solar installers like SolarCity and the owners of solar farms are likely to make money (they actually benefit from lower solar panel prices).
I prefer mercy to "justice", as if the latter ever happens, as if we'd recognize it if it did. I don't want anyone to be fired for her speech, but I realize that in this world it's going to happen occasionally. I'm sure you'll misunderstand this comment, because you have systematically misunderstood every comment in this thread so far, but I mean it when say that I would have preferred that none of the parties involved be fired as a result of this incident.