skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing, if things had happened as the OP said, the reaction from any of the human beings I know would of being proportionately extreme. Something is just a bit surreal here.
I'm a non-confrontational person myself actually. It took me over 35 years to learn being that direct is actually less stressful in certain circumstances. Quite arguably, I'm still learning it. We get it in our heads that we owe the asshole an explanation. That's a trap. The explanation becomes it's own source of stress. Odds are strong, the asshole knows they're being an asshole. No, explanation is required.
> And I think the best way that would be achieved is if they learn proper English at school, full stop.

Of course you're entitled to an opinion, but this is not the opinion of, among many notable others, the Oakland school board since 1996.

I entreat you to consider that they (and I) might have a good reason that extends beyond "feelings". Perhaps a good reason elaborated upon at length in the article linked at the top of this very page?
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Sure you can. You are dodging.
If that's the case, then why wasn't the RSA patent revoked due to prior art?
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Another thing is that this needs a properly trained interviewer, and it's not based on the Kinect's measurements alone but also on the questions asked (and the reaction is then measured). The behaviour of the interviewer is a great confounding factor in this.

Reminds me of a certain someone asking another certain someone why he flipped a tortoise in the desert...
Whether you treat it seriously (as in, call the police) depends on the level of implied threat. But are you really just saying ignore it? Think about the spam you get. It's a little annoying. Now think if all of that was threats directed at you.

It's not just about whether you take them all seriously, it's whether this constant drumbeat of abuse gets to you. Would you still love your dream job after a year of that? Would you just want the relief of bowing out of any kind of public life?

Women deserve better. Telling them to toughen up doesn't help, it's blaming the victim. Try speaking out instead.
2. Email the investor. Get the hosting co's OK to quote them and then state simply what occurred and that they took responsibility. Don't point the finger of blame, just apologize for the inconvenience and ask them to take another look if they have not already. Obviously you can mention that you are reviewing your hosting options.
"People just starting out."

Ha, you give them too much credit.

This code is from a 10-year veteran "consultant," probably charging over $200/hour, brought on by the Global Services company hired by the Consulting Agency that Comcast brought in to assist in completing the critical time-sensitive project as quickly as possible.

It was also deemed a great success, and presentations were made about how effective it was, how smart the manager who hired the consulting agency is, and how skilled the global services contractors were who implemented it were, all only 2 weeks behind schedule—a new record for a project of this scope.

That manager got a promotion and is now VP of something or other. He sleeps like a baby and makes 100 times more than you.
As an alternative to all of the above, consider UDPCast. It's point is that it can multicast; but it is also great for point-to-point copies. I adds its own reliability layer, so don't be scared of UDP in the name. It can rate limit, if you want. I've used it to great effect to shuffle a lot of GB to a bunch of servers at the time.

Way down at a low level, the network hardware/firmware knows how to send data 1:N. Using that is a single easy command away, but hardly anyone knows it.

http://kylecordes.com/2008/multicast-your-db-backups-with-ud...
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The set of rules you internalize to be "normal behaviour" is influenced by your environment. A boy growing up in an isolated household in the woods will have a different model of normalcy, and so when he goes in to town he'll seem "off" to everyone else.

My favourite pop culture example of this is Mose Shrute (Dwight's brother) from The Office (US). He doesn't try to be weird, he just is, because he's grown up in family with weird norms. Similarly the offensive guy in this story probably isn't deliberately pushing aside his common sense, he is just being who he is all the time: someone who is poorly socialized.

It's easy to try to bush incidents like this aside by saying "he knew it was wrong and did it anyway, because he is a jerk" but that deflects from the underlying issue. Socializing makes a lot of devs uncomfortable, so they dont do it. They develop their norms in isolation, and then "go in to town" to conferences like GDC and then set off firestorms. Reacting to these situations in person, you start out trying to convince someone that their comment is rude and wrong. However you end up trying to convince them that their whole model of society is wrong. That is what makes me truly tired.
That would be assault, and you could be jailed for it. Plus, then you look like the troglodyte for raising the problem from the verbal domain to the physical domain.
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Well I don't recommend doing drugs but this is what I did and it absolutely worked. Take ecstasy. I am absolutely clinically unable to do any type of interview, phone or in person. I have a hard time even remembering my own name during an interview. I flew to an a high level interview in person and for an engineering position and I taped ecstasy to my crotch. About an hour before the interview I popped that sucker and let the magic happen. I got the job. Everyone is different and I don't recommend abusing drugs and do not do this unless you know how it affects you. But for me it absolutely works.
And what happens when your 6 year old kid gets all the notifications? Or your neighbor who is using your Wi-Fi?
Depends on your definition of "a motorcycle", "a car" and "much lower" of course...

If you compare a brand new entry level 250 cc japanese motorbike to a brand new entry level korean hatchback,over say 5 years, the motorbike TCO will be less than half, with the most of the difference accounted for by lower depreciation and finance costs. Assuming - and this is very important - no medical bills from motorbike accidents.
True. I have somehow never liked how desktop applications written in Java turn out. I don't know whether it is because they don't use a native windowing toolkit or something else.
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"Later on" being what? 1777 is year 2 of 8. All of the sources that I've been able to find give the number of foreign-supplied arms as being significantly greater than those of US manufacture. For example, the first shipment of French rifles was equal in number to more than half of the Kentucky Long Rifles ever produced, and I believe also greater than the number of rifles that the Continental Army possessed at the time. Perhaps you can supply some better numbers.

Few if any of the supplied ships were warships, fewer answered directly to the Continental Navy, and none were Ships of the Line, which meant their combat utility was, shall we say, limited. What I read here[0] about the supply of cannon is pretty dismal and does not really support your claim. It is rather abundantly clear that, to the degree that arms and equipment were contributed freely by private citizens, this happened very early in the war, and had no effect on the outcome. You may feel free to show otherwise.

[0] http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/risch/chpt-12.htm
Sort of. Unless you can show that they make higher than the prevailing wage. This being regardless of what the H1B applicant could make if they transferred companies (something that's not typically in their best interest until they have a green card, at least from those I've talked to. Being a US citizen, I may be wrong). The prevailing wage, for many people, is not a competitive wage.
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Well, this answers 1) as well: this doc requires that "The	Vehicle is financed	through	Tesla’s direct	vehicle	financing	program".
Did you read the patent?
> They attributed this with a depressed person's desire to figure out what is wrong with themselves and internalize the failure, where as the happy people would avoid internalizing the failure.

I've also read that depressed people tend to have a more accurate picture of reality. Basically, happy people are walking Dunning-Kruger cases waiting to happen?
While I'm not going to argue against empathy in general, registering some blunt disapproval is less of a bullying behavior than saying nothing and passive-aggressively excluding someone, which seems to be the runner-up suggestion in the thread.

Drawing moral equivalence between participating in hostility against women and hostility against the rude and ignorant is a bit of a stretch, too.
Does your comment suggests that you're using Java for more complex stuff than you would ever use C++?
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A punch to the face, in a public setting, to someone that you don't really know is (in America at least) a great way to get arrested and sued. Nothing about that escalated situation would be mild.

It is not the wild west anymore.
I use GNOME. How would one go about switching out Swing for GTK while running a JetBrains IDE (or another application)?
No, they are competitors. A16Z is just indexing.
What about correlations with patterns in MRI scans?
To me, it seems like a lot of these light-weight Non-IDE text editors, are basically IDEs anyway. You just said sublime and Vim have most of the features of an IDE.

I personally use RubyMine, and while I don't use the debugging a whole lot, it comes in handy with some really confusing issues. Other than that, it is just a fancy text editor that I have become used to for Ruby work.
What you're doing is subsidizing the technology. Without these incentives, it is more difficult for the Teslas of the world (of which there is really only one) to become viable and advance this technology. If Tesla wins here, we all win. It's just that the well off get to play with it first. That's not so bad to me. I've got a long list of areas that my tax dollars don't belong before this is a concern.
As with Joyent and TextDrive's lifetime hosting, this company going out of business is a valid solution to what they claim is an unsustainable promise they made.

Reneging on their promises is not.

P.C. Hodgell - "That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."

In these cases I doubt that faithfully keeping the promises they made would destroy either company. They just feel they can get away with it, and so they break their promises to save some money.
If someone is going around causing issues sufficiently that they're a repeat offender, I don't see why they should be given additional chances. Let them have their ever shrinking circle of misogynists, just don't let them into conferences. Access is a privilege, not a right.

The argument that because in these two cases (of the damn near uncountable issues of people having to put up with similar comments, criticisms or slurs) the person in question wasn't in any danger doesn't mean that in every instance the person was neither in danger nor felt in danger. And what's more, these comments, jokes etc. actively contribute to an environment where it is insinuated that these words and by extension these actions are okay.

So an asshat making a sexist joke will hopefully never rape someone, but they're certainly making it a more fertile environment for the bastard who then goes on to rape someone. Under this understanding of the issue, yes it makes sense to actively exclude those people making sexist (or for that matter homophobic, racist etc., the "rape culture" argument extends just fine to other examples) jokes.
Responding to your edit: no, the rules of AAVE nearly all originate in non-standard dialects of British and Irish (Hirberno-) English. They aren't something that spontaneously arose from a deprived economic climate or a dysfunctional society. There are only a very tiny number of differences between AAVE and American Standard English that can be explained by an element of weak creolization (such as the dropping of to be in statements of identity and optional inversion in forming questions); the rest find exact parallels in dialects on the ground throughout Britain and Ireland. In fact, most Newfoundlanders would have little trouble with the grammar (though not necessarily the slang) of AAVE, since their native dialect derives from a very similar mixture of British and Irish dialects. While it can probably be fairly stated that the colour bar has been responsible for the isolation of the black vernacular grammar (and its failure to transition to something closer to American Standard English), it is not dissimilar to the native English dialects of the people who were once working alongside them as indentured servants rather than as slaves.

The idea that diglossia (or triglossia) does not exist in the mouths of educated, and even privileged speakers of English (wherever they may live) is preposterous outside of a relatively small part of the American socioeconomic strata (and by American, I mean North American — much of Canada is weirdly homogeneous as well). Most native speakers of English speak two or more "Englishes", each with its own grammar and vocabulary. AAVE is not a "lesser" dialect; despite its speakers often being disadvantaged, the language itself is no less legitimate. However, like most of us, in order to move outside of their dialectical grouping, speakers of AAVE must also have command of the prevailing standard — just like Jeff Foxworthy's redneck brain surgeon.
Hey, hey, now. I did include people who never moved on from copy-and-paste too.
I know the likely hood of it working is slim, but what about a site that let owners of electronics link the devices serial number to their contact info?

Device Owner:
Go to [URL] and create an account,
Register a device to your account by Device + Serial Number

Device Finder:
Find a device,
Go to [URL] and search the serial number,
Find owners contact info,
Call/Email/Contact owner and return device

You would probably want to have some small, unobtrusive stickers for people to stick on the device with the URL as a hint to anyone that finds it.
For some reason this strikes me as the rule "it's better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission." If I'm being pessimistic, I would assume they decided to automatically opt users in, charge them, and create this hubbub and just apologize about it later. However, the good person in me decides to believe that they are sincerely apologizing for a bug.
As long as you're already injecting something, why not go all the way?
I found an iPod mini once. No contact info. On a whim I connected it to iTunes, which prompted me to log in as account "xxxxxxxx@yahoo.com". Emailed that person and they got it from me the next day.

There is always a way to return a device even without the most obvious of contact methods for even the most tech illiterate (eg android and iOS lock screen messages). Leaving your device unlocked just in hopes of getting it returned seems pretty stupid to do.
For me it was their really low bandwidth caps. Acanac ftw!
I've leased through Chase Bank instead of VW Credit before because of a better money factor (residual was the same).
They could leave their accounts dormant until the users next signed in then ask them to either accept the charges or deactivate their account. That would be a lot more ethical than just going ahead and charging them and expecting them to opt out if they don't agree to the charges.
Sorry, but you're just wrong - not "I disagree with you" - but your facts are wrong. There are many rules, as other posters have said, and people who speak AAVE regularly would absolutely be able to pick out grammatical errors. If I said "I didn't tell him anything about anybody," it would be grammatically correct English. If I said "I ain't tell him nothing about nobody," it would be gramatically correct AAVE. If I said "I ain't tell him nothing about anybody," or "I ain't tell him anything about nobody," AAVE speakers would certainly recognize it as incorrect. Most AAVE speakers I know would probably make fun of you for mixing dialects.

Your four examples of valid AAVE prove absolutely nothing. Most statements in English can be formed correctly in many different ways without drastically changing meaning. Here are the English corollaries to your AAVE examples:

I didn't tell anybody anything about any sushi. I didn't tell anyone a thing about any sushi. I didn't tell anyone about any sushi. I didn't tell anybody about sushi.
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We've got a couple of positions open in our Boston area office (actually in Somerville, one block from the Davis Square T stop).

We build tools for progressives - Obama, the DNC, major labor unions, and liberal non-profits. Our tools are heavily used by everyone from volunteers down to primary campaign staff (and often the candidates themselves). We mostly focus on field organizing, fundraising, and online organizing, but if you've got a good idea about how to effect progressive change through technology, we have pretty solid market penetration for scaling it.

Our biggest apps are in .NET (one webforms/ADO, one MVC/EF, both up to date framework-wise), but we also work on Drupal sites, our iOS and Android apps, newer node.js services, and js clients that keep getting thicker, but in a good way.

More info at http://www.ngpvan.com/about/jobs/senior-developers - I know this has a jobs@ngpvan.com email, but I swear real people including me read everything that comes in.
But I don't understand ... if he's personally guaranteeing the put, why is the partnership with the two huge banks necessary? Aren't they just an interchangeable loan provider in this?
Congrats guys! It feels amazing when you build something people want, they pay you for it, and you can build a real business from it. Best of luck going forward!
Thanks, it's up and running now, should I still tell the investor it was down? I'm thinking of tomorrow emailing the investor to tell them our hosting had some issues but they are resolved now.
It sounds bad that even before the investor responds they get an email telling them that we had a problem. A big red flag it seems.
Is that naive?
What about smart refactoring? Being able to rename just about anything (methods, classes, variables, etc...) and knowing that your IDE will do all the right stuff.

What about instantly knowing who calls that method or uses that class or that variable, with much more flexibility than just grepping through the code?

Those are the features I use the most in any IDE.
I love ST3, but there is no true completion, debugger, refactoring, a way to run tests, Git integration...

Even the build system is quite simple...
So are you using Shared hosting? Well if your a startup, you shouldn't really be on shared hosting to begin with.

I would recommend you look into getting a VPS or even a dedicated server if you can.

There could of been a chance that your current server was getting DDOS'd, but there's not much you can do about that unless you get DDOS protected hosting. You can also look at setting up CloudFlare, which will cache your site if the main server decides to go down.
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Sounds like a [] deal to me.

== insert word here, and its true. or not.
Not knowing everything about the OP's situation and/or the company he keeps and/or the relation to everyone else at the table, I'm just saying that if nothing else, leaving out of protest is an option. I don't mean, leave because your stomach isn't feeling well. Leave because the offender is intolerable and make that clear. In certain situations, having a big scene may not be possible...but leaving, and possibly convincing others to join, is far better than just letting things slide.
I've setup up: "<my name> | EMERGENCY CONTACT: <wife's name> @ <wife's number>"

A side-effect of having a long string like the above is that the OS will scroll the text side-to-side (marquee style) to display the whole thing.. thus catching the attention of whoever is looking at the lock screen.
Most Java apps nowadays use the native windowing toolkit. SWT for example (the major gui framework for Java) uses GTK on Linux, Cocoa on OSX and Win32 API on Windows
Do you think the entire rest of the table will follow you? (Answer: No.)

It can happen. It takes some guts and if you don't have the social capital with this group you may not be able to pull it off. Everyone goes to a new table but leaves the dickhead sitting there.
Got it, I haven't been in contact with them before, is it better to just hope they didn't see the email yet? (that kind of email turnaround seems pretty abnormal to me)

I just don't want them to open up the email tomorrow and see that I had hosting problems. To me as a first impression, any problem a red flag.

Or is that just me being naive?
A few years ago I lost my phone while hiking, at about 10,000 feet in elevation, which I didn't discover until back down the mountain. It was raining and so I figured it was ruined. The next day, just as I was about to have my employer call in and transfer the service to a new SIM, a friend IMed and said that someone had found it and had sent a text message to the most recent person I had messaged.

It was an old nokia phone, so the value was maybe $50, but it was still amazing to get it back.
Does nobody think that working in the same building as coworkers actually improves social dynamics? I find it odd that no one has bothered to mention it
The cynic in me wonders if companies choose opt-out models because they think that a subset of their customers are not going to be bothered opting out.

A while back there was a lawsuit over one of the Canadian cable companies doing an opt out (negative option billing) and in general its not really considered a good business practice.
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This is awesome. AeroFS does everything I want in a file sharing system -- I can either run it entirely on my own machines on LAN and potentially VPN, or at a company on a network also not connected to the Internet, or I can use it as a direct Dropbox alternative (although it lacks some mobile clients and API support).

I've been using it for ~a year or two in beta, as well as all the other alternatives. I still use Dropbox for interoperating with other people who use Dropbox, and for a couple mobile devices which don't support anything else, and I use iCloud for mainly Apple app sync (although it seems to suck for most non-Apple apps) between OSX and iOS, but AeroFS is my preferred option for general file sharing use.

The only downside I've found is dealing with Java on certain OSes (OSX and Windows 7 at times), but generally OS-level Java is fine, it's browser Java which sucks.
Show HN: Degrees of Separation
Link: https://apps.facebook.com/degreesapp/

We built this for fun to see how people are connected to one another and to help people connect/network. We're starting it as a Facebook App and will be adding more search features soon, ie by Work, Education, as well as the ability to import email/phone contacts as a Web/Phone App, but wanted to see what the feedback was for the basic search. We do have the chicken and the egg problem in that the more users we have, the shorter the paths will be, but we have to start somewhere right?

There used to be something like this on FB, but it seems to have shutdown.

Thanks in advance for looking and the feedback.