skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think everybody has a right to complain. E.g., the recent rich people complaining that their tax rates might become almost as high as their secretaries? They're totally within their legal right to complain.

But I have the legal right to say that they're whiny idiots when they appear unable to notice or acknowledge the context of their complaint. If you're going to cry, "have sympathy for meeeeeee", you really should make sure you've demonstrated some sympathy for others.
In a world of commoditized storage isn't latency always the issue (rather than capacity)? In a traditional setup it surely harder to tune the latency requirements for a particular app.
Until we, as a society, can stop blaming women for their rapes (she was so sloshed, what did she think would happen when she got into bed with him?) women are going to be EXTREMELY conservative about these kinds of things.

When it's your fault if he rapes you, you put "creepy" on a hair trigger.
As established by arethuza, hot fusion has been accomplished for some time, relatively easily, outside of thermonuclear weapons and stars. That was the claim in dispute. Nowhere in this thread was there a claim about power generation.
Original article: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-sec...
Honestly, I don't think that this is particularly sexist at all. My only issue is the massive double standard in the media and culture that takes a pass on this but would raise hell if someone released the same exact app with the genders reversed.
Slight tangent: What are the benefits/reasons for a company to be so public about raising investment? Is just a good opportunity for name recognition boosting PR?

For some reason, this seems strange https://dl.dropbox.com/u/131615/screenshots/Screen%20shot%20...
Engineers have a tendency to view everything as an engineering problem, when most of the "really hard" problems are about people, interactions and relationships. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail - and we have an entire culture of hammer designers churning out the most effective hammers in history.
Exactly! So do real world fair benchmarks that show 4x improvement, not unfair benchmarks that literally show 3000x improvement over BDB.
That's always been true. Scrip has existed forever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip Any private party can issue a form of currency. Its value is limited by trust in that private party to keep the supply stable and uncounterfeitable (not double spendable), and the expectation that merchants will accept it for goods and services.

What Bitcoin introduces is a money supply with that question of trust removed, with enforcement by mathematical means. This only became possible recently of course, with the advent of enormous computational processing power and interconnectivity. The latter part of adoption by merchants seems to have very recently reached critical mass by way of networking effects. So Bitcoin could indeed be on the rise to become the world's monetary system.

At this point, Bitcoin's biggest danger is not obscurity and oblivion or a free market crash, it's regulation or illegalization from governments that may be hostile to the existence and usage of a currency system they don't and can't control. The US and EU governments are the entities with possible power to kill Bitcoin, because they possess legalized force outside of the Bitcoin protocol and ecosystem.
I just recently completed a survey with Google about my premier apps account. They mentioned my dedicated account rep...I had to clean my keyboard so much Pepsi came out of my nose.

Google needs to better support its paid services. If its free, support could be charged per case. But for the love of everything PLEASE let us at least talk to someone.
I prefer Select2 over Chosen

http://ivaynberg.github.io/select2/
How do you feel about Google Fiber if this is how you feel Google treats its customers? When it comes to Google Fiber it seems like the whole community is incredibly excited, but many people also seem to hold the opinion that Google couldn't care less about its customers. I'm expecting Google Fiber to be an incredibly wonderful service, but do those who hold the opinion that Google "has total contempt" for its customers expect Google Fiber to be an awful service as well? Wouldn't that essentially defeat the purpose of Google Fiber?

I think Google devotes proportional resource to the products which give them value, and I think that's probably why Groups is being negelected. It is unfortunate for Groups users, but Google does have to make money.
Refereeing papers is an odious chore that you only do to get your back scratched in return in the future. (They call it "giving back to the community", but it's really a protection racket.) You can't replace this with a voluntary system.
I'd say roughly the normal rate for dementia is about 6 in 100 at around age 70. Clearly there are some unusual things going on with those unlucky 6 and you don't think sleep disorder is a possible risk?
>This isn't true no matter how you slice it

Yes, it is. Your views on historic gender roles do not reflect reality. Men were restricted by gender roles too, and their role was largely "go risk death to get a chance to provide for a woman and children".

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
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This statement: "Newly disclosed documents prepared by IRS lawyers says that Americans enjoy 'generally no privacy' in their e-mail, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and similar online communications" is entirely consistent with the existence of Warshack. Warshack covers the Sixth Circuit, which includes the following states: Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. The IRS is bound by this precedent in those states and nowhere else. Other circuits might find this precedent persuasive and agree in future cases, and that is something the IRS will have to deal with in future prosecutions, but for a Handbook on the law as it stands now, this statement is absolutely accurate.

The nation-wide precedent is they can access anything older than 180 days without a warrant, which for IRS's purposes is basically anything that would be relevant to a criminal tax prosecution (there is no statute of limitations on willful tax evasion or fraud).

Should we have privacy rights in our e-mails and personal messages? I think so. But the Constitution doesn't protect that, any more than it protects "one's papers" if those papers are left on the premises of a third party.[1] Not everything that is a good idea must be necessitated by the Constitution.

[1] Wikipedia's article on "expectation of privacy" is pretty good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy ("In general, one cannot have a reasonable expectation of privacy in things held out to the public."). If you understand how SMTP works, it's hard to argue that it's a private means of communication. You send a clear-text message to a publically-accessible service that is empowered to forward the message to other publically-accessible servers if necessary.
> Achieving fusion in a tokamak or with lasers has been a solved problem for a couple of decades.

I should have been more clear -- I mean sustained fusion generation, meaning a net energy gain over that required to start the reaction in the first place. That hasn't been achieved.

> There is no such problem here as I understand it; the system isn't supposed to sustain itself from fusion ...

Not according to the NASA documents (see below). If that were true, there would be no point in using the system. If the fusion reaction produces less power than it requires, the designers would be better off using the source electrical power to drive an ion thruster.

The claim being made is that the fusion scheme creates more power than is required to start it -- by using electrical power to initiate a fusion reaction that produces more power than it requires. If this were not true, the amount of converted solar energy described in the project (i.e. 200 KW) is not enough to propel the relatively massive spacecraft to Mars in 30 days using other methods.

Here's the evidence:

Link: http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2012_phaseII...

Title: "The Fusion Driven Rocket: Nuclear Propulsion through Direct Conversion of Fusion Energy"

Quote: "an in-depth analysis of the rocket design and spacecraft integration as well as mission architectures enabled by the FDR need to be performed. Fulfilling these three elements form the major tasks to be completed in the proposed Phase II study. A subscale, laboratory liner compression test facility will be assembled with sufficient liner kinetic energy (~ 0.5 MJ) to reach fusion breakeven conditions." [emphasis added]

Which brings us back to square one. If this project were to succeed, it would instantly replace the existing approaches (i.e. tokamak and laser inertial confinement) as the most promising candidate for large-scale fusion power generation.

As I said before, something is rotten in Denmark -- why isn't this project being described as a candidate for earthly fusion power generation, given that it must achieve break-even to accomplish its mission?
My God you're unpleasant. You've completely restructured what I'm saying just so you can dump on it, and in the process you're doing a good job of convincing me I won't be able to formalize my argument sufficiently to please you. And I still care, for reasons I can't explain, to keep coming back for more. This will have to be the last one.

The Linode comparison doesn't hold at all. Linode have actual numbers to support their position. They are in a position to estimate the support costs, because they have other services they already have to support. Moreover, their product costs money and people expect that when they pay for something there will be support.

Google offers support for exactly one product (adwords). They have no basis for estimating the cost of support for a product like Google Groups. The argument that it will be expensive that you and others are putting forth is "Golly, support sure is expensive! You have to hire people and everything!" There's certainly reasons to expect that offering support might be expensive. But my entire point, which you seem intent on missing, is that they have been successful so far without offering any support at all, so why is it reasonable to expect that the demand for it will be so excessive that it would be financially untenable? Especially when people like the OP have suggested they would happily pay for it?

The other prong of your argument is that if it were tenable they would be doing it. I would argue that companies make good and bad decisions all the time. Looking to what they are currently doing with the assumption that it is the only right thing is a bit myopic. Companies miss opportunities and make mistakes all the time. That they're not doing it now is not evidence that it would be a mistake.
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These crypto-currencies serve a purpose, but there is no need for them to trade at $230 per coin.

Would you feel better about the price if we use mBTC instead? mBTC are only $0.23 right now. You should be looking at market capitalization, not price.

As for crytpcurrencies being scarce, there are network effects that come with one system having the majority of the market share. Good luck convincing people HollowayCoin is worth accepting.

Now, if some other decentralized payment system (that works with any currency and isn't a currency too) like Ripple gains adoption that could eliminate Bitcoin's network effect advantage. I believe this is one of the biggest threats to Bitcoin.
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Am I the only one tempted to make an app called Ulul..?
Recurring billing fears of customers.
During the hey days of the British Empire, the interest rate was stable, held at 5% for over a 100 years.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/13/interest...

Meanwhile, today's 0.5% interest rate is unprecedented, a record low never seen before in the entire history of the Bank of England stretching back to 1694.
Looks nice and good that you can now build a full app. Two things, you have a bug as it's 73 degrees F where I am and the site says 0. Also, keep in mind that a large part of coding is the quality of the source itself. To that end, there are many books on the subject such as Clean Code.
There must be a bit more to it than that; I flag pretty aggressively (though admittedly only articles that I think are inappropriate rather than simply bad) and the link is still there.
Everyday life, done better
I decided to use AngularJS on a side project of mine, after considering Backbone and EmberJS. I am not a JS expert, but I am pretty sure AngularJS will be an industry standard in a few years.
I love archery for stress relief, too. The concentration to aim and fire properly, the satisfaction when you nail the target... it feels great. Shooting things in general, really.
so now a socially awkward attempt to start a conversation with a woman means you're a rapist...
Fun approach to sharing Seattle Startups. Really like the interview format, lots of interesting non-traditional detail comes out of it.
>Let's talk about the gender ratio today in Congress, or among Fortune 500 CEOs

Sure. But lets also talk about the gender ratio of prisoners, the homeless, suicides, workplace deaths, etc. It is fallacious to look only at the top 0.0001% of men and declare that men as a group have things better as a result. Men have a much greater variance in virtually every measurable aspect. Look at the entire spectrum.

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
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gold and silver are historical commodities that still have common uses even today.

"Fiat" currency is usually backed by the gold standard until such a point as the reputation of the state has matured to the point where borrowers can trust the state.

Bitcoin has neither.
You're enforcing the stereotypical gender role of men: "Don't whine, that's unmanly, don't complain, deal with your own problems". That's pretty offending to me.

I want people to treat other people as individuals, not representative of their gender. I don't care about my own gender role. I don't want people to say "man up" to men if I face some injustice. And I don't want (the reverse I guess) it happen to women either.

Your path doesn't lead to equality, it just slows down progress.
Awesome tool! I had the impression it was less than that, but our mind can play these tricks. It seems a bit steep though, I'll compare it with other stories and see if I can find a correlation.
Not at all. I forgive people their errors all the time without accepting them as good or normal.

For example, if somebody is tired and cranky and says something mean, I don't have to get upset at it. I can let it go, and treat them compassionately. I think that is precisely the road to getting rid of meanness.
Indeed. If you decide to stop dating someone because of an application on their phone, you are the mature one and they are the child.
That's true, but really only in a specious way. If you want to argue that sort of logic, then people were building machines "like this" back in the 60's when the "rack" was a big card cage into which you could plug (sometimes) arbitrary amounts of application-specific CPU/memory/storage/IO resources.

But what's actually happening is that Intel is building a fabric interconnect which can serve data at DRAM-bandwidth-or-higher speeds. And that's certainly something that hasn't been done in the modern world. The headline might lead you to believe it's the architectural idea that's the new thing here, but it's really the pure technology that's the interesting bit.
For what its worth, for those in SF there's an archery range in Golden Gate Park. Its at the Ocean Beach end, so not the most convenient for most, but biking to an archery range could be a good way to get a fun workout.
I've had the same experience in trying to pick up go. The lack of some FP paradigms that I enjoy (iterators, namely) combined with most of the naming conventions just puts me off. I realize the goal is to be very paired down and easy to pick up, but it goes to far in limiting language constructs IMO.

Rust has several features that I find compelling: optional memory management or GC, first class functions that maintain memory separation, and shared nothing concurrency. All with performance that is increasingly comparable to straight C.

Truthfully I am mostly excited about the work Mozilla is doing lately and want to support their efforts where I can.
Okay, let's put it another way. The Dekalb company is 100 years old. They are in the business of crossbreeding, attempting to produce better traits each year in the same way famers did thousands of years ago. Do you feel that they do so with love?

If you answer no, at what point did agriculture lose that love, if more than 100 years ago?

> Have you seen a goat or sheep eating its way through a field of weed?

I have never seen a field of weed with or without animals in it. Such a field would be illegal in my country. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)
Anyone thinking they made a mistake using Backbone, please read this: I've been using backbone for about 1 month, refactoring a huge jQuery spaghetti project, and I have few observations:

1) If you have a new project, I would go with Angular (or even Ember if you are from a Rails stack)

2) If you want to refactor an existing one, check Backbone, it might be a bit less causing a rewrite rather than a refactor

My tips if you still choose backbone:

- learn it first inside and out, spend at least 2 days doing any tutorial out there, even if it's a few dollars (code school, peepcode, tutsplus etc)

- make sure you learn 1.0, older examples might be confusing

- read the backbonejs.org documentation from start to end, and read the annotated source, especially read the FAQs and also read the github issues, jashkenas (the author) is sometimes responding himself

- I tried to avoid any plugins at first (no Marionette, deep model, BB-relational etc) if you see you need too many plugins, just ask youself if it's worth it, you might want to give Angular (or even Ember) a chance. I found out that for anything that looks hard, there is a way to do it in Backbone the "backbone way"

- Last: remember that Backbone is simply helping you get code from the form of document on load God function with tons of event listeners, that trigger ajax calls, that trigger dom manipulation, to about the same code, but in models and views, so you can make sense of all of it, that's all.

Yes, you need to clean up your listeners, and when using the 1.0 listenTo and stopListening (which are automatically called when you remove a view or destroy a model) then you are going to be ok with the zombies.

Backbone taught me a lot of JavaScript, it was more perhaps harder than Angular but the code is readable to anyone without even learning backbone, it just makes sense

so don't expect Backbone to do any magic, it doesn't, but it is still a very relevant and valuable utility library, and I think it's a must have step in any front end developer's life to do at least one BB app before moving to Ember or Angular (just my humble opinion)
Should have been titled A Non-Negotiator's Guide to Negotiating: Become a Negotiator
Why? I haven't used either yet so it'd be interesting to hear your reasoning.
This is great, but there are already many sites that teach ruby through clean slides, animations and gamification. Most notably (with respect to ruby) is code school.

I'm all for more resources, but I don't see how this is filling a market gap.
No. Go programs currently require a one-line instruction to tell them how many cores to use. Without that one line, they will only use one core.

The go program in question was written without that instruction; therefore, it's only allowed to use one core.
Because all of the dictionary domain names went a decade ago.
This is one example, taken from the Food, Inc. documentary.

The parent topic asks, Monsanto made the roundup-ready soybeans, which took millions to develop. If the farmer doesn't want to be sued, he could use non-roundup-ready soybeans.

In the documentary, they profile a farmer who got sued by Monsanto for not paying their license. The farmer claimed he was not using Monsanto seeds. However, Monsanto's argument amounted to "We are the largest seller of these seeds in the world, therefor, it must be our seed. Even though you can prove it isn't, you must have "washed" the seed to make it seem like it isn't ours, or maybe some of your neighbor's Monsanto seed blew into your land and you owe us for that too."

The judge sided with Monsanto.

Yes, this shows our legal system is evil for letting them get away with this, but the fact that Monsanto is driving around & actively looking for farmers who aren't using their seed, extorting them for not & dragging them into a court battle they know will bankrupt them is evil too.

For further viewing, check the Monsanto Food Inc. clips. They are on YouTube. Mansanto has also responded on their website.
>The problem is that most projects make (possibly their only) hosting provider decision from a position of being unprofitable.

Being unprofitable and not being able to spend $240 / year is a different issue.

The first is about the project being unprofitable. The second is about you being broke or not believing on it to spend even 1/150 of your income (I'm speaking of course for US/EU citizens/wages).

There are however other vendors that have even $5/month plans for VPS (and even offer SSD drives). Try Digital Ocean.
Interesting, still doesn't show up for me ... I wondered if the fact that I'd flagged it then subsequently hid it from me, but that's not what's happening, I simply don't see the item listed in pcratio's submissions.

Very odd. <fx: shrug /> HN oddities.
I like your analogy with the "empty calories". It's easy to make the association with the empty shopping malls or cities in China.
I liked BibDesk better myself, and some of my non-Mac colleagues had success with JabRef.
I think there's some flagging-ring detection, I heavily flagged a group of spam accounts over and over again until I lost the ability which might look suspicious without examining the targeted accounts.

It never comes back either.
If bitcoin plays out like the enthusiasts envision, then some laws get passed and people get thrown in jail and there's your kibosh. This should be obvious but the enthusiasts will still be surprised.
You've discovered Marxism! Marxism views the world through the lens of class conflict. In Marxist thought, racism and sexism can only be committed by dominant groups. So blatant discrimination and double standards against them are okay.
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The Rumbleroller looks medieval! :)

A similar tool I swear by is the "MA Roller". It's a wooden roller that gives a very deep massage for your back and neck.

http://amzn.com/dp/B000KK0AHS

http://www.themaroller.com/howtouse.html
"Creepy" means "he made me feel threatened and unsafe". It's valuable information for women to share within their social group so that they can avoid uncomfortable situations.

Though it is not at all appropriate to share such information on a public online forum.
Check out Linda Babcock's work at CMU. She's got a couple books out. Overview here: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133599768/ask-for-a-raise-most...
Yeah, I had done exactly that at 128-134. Then I put the other half in with a sell order if it hit 200, thinking it never would get that high. Imagine my surprise. I already regret it. I still think we're in a giant bubble, we have to be. The rise is crazy. But I am not an investor, I just thought Bitcoin was cool at the time, and got really lucky.